Something’s Got To Give
A biographical narrative on Marilyn Monroe to go with the imaginative piece about her, from few days ago.
What if?
I've always wondered what would have happened if just one thing had gone differently.
Reality TV and the real world
This was a piece I wrote in 2003. Although some of the shows mentioned may not be around, many still are, and I think this is still very relevant today.
The Hidden Scars All Refugees Carry- written by Viet Thanh Nguyen
This was an opinion piece written by Pulitzer prize winning author, Viet Thanh Nguyen and was published on Sept 3 2016 in the New York Times.
To a Flowering Gum Tree
I loved your graceful, awkward limbs, the red and yellow powder puffs, bright,in the soft dawn of those sizzling summer daysthat give no quarter beneath…
Wasteland
Artwork by: Carlos Azanedo This prison of the soul,our showpiece of humanity- our city.This jewelled concrete wasteland filled with beingsthe conditioned delusions, twisted personalitiesand the…
City Bus Stop
Snakelike and silentwary of unbidden recognition,anonymous segments of a long tailhalf protected by a flimsy canopyof a plastic sky.Eyelids hooded against the winterFurtive mourners sidle…
The Swan
Swan River, Perth, Western Australia This is a place of many dimensionswhere history clashes with modern progression.Where once stood buildings of wood and white stonenow…
I love these Singapores
I still love these Singapores. The one I grew up with, the one that's not there anymore. The vast field full of moths ants grasshoppers…
A Song of Singapore
I'm not some high-born poet, hatchet-holding. I'm not some Woken Writer, justice-fighting. I'm not some Prodigy, groomed and gelded by Expectation. Who am I to…
Ramblings & Random Rants 