September 2018 - You Write

Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar

September 18, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

I could not help marveling at the spectacle. Even from a distance, the golden Pagoda, with its surrounding smaller, also golden pagodas, looks stunning. How could the Government and her people keep such monuments so clean, so fresh, so golden, for such a long time (over two thousand years, we were told), I wondered? My recent visit to the Shwedagon Pagoda, Myanmar, brought back the memory of an obscure past event when I was still at School - Outram Primary School in Singapore. I was around eleven or twelve years old at the time, perhaps in the early months of the […]

Rich Crazy Asians

September 3, 2018 FLAI40 Leave a comment

The title should have been ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ a film currently screening in the local cinemas. The film, ‘Crazy Rich Asians’, is based on a story from the book with the same name written by Kelvin Kwan. The first two words in the title here are transposed just to attract your attention. The beauty of the Singapore City’s life is amply illustrated in this film by sharply defined high-definition photography and this is a credit to the film crew. The film has made headlines in the Hollywood circle and the film industry. Firstly, it is a film with an all Asian cast. […]