If you are a classical guitarist, you will definitely know the John Willaims’ song, “Cavatina” written by Stanley Myers and featured in the Oscar award-winning movie, “The Deer Hunter”. Later, somebody decided to put words to the haunting theme song and I thought it was very well done. The lyrics are as beautiful as the [...]
It never rains here either! It pours…man, it pours!!! Sigh! Just when I thought that happy days are here again…with blue skies and everything nice, it has started to rain once more and on Wednesday night, it was like somebody up there pouring huge buckets of water down. At around 9 something, I went out [...]
Yesterday, I was rummaging through my cabinets and I came across this… …and I could remember 36 years ago when I received it on my 21st birthday. It was 1973 in Singapore. I did not have a grand birthday bash, just a few people for dinner at an Indonesian restaurant located at the Golden Mile [...]
It’s Ash Wednesday today – the first day of Lent and it’s a day of fasting and abstinence. On this day, ashes are blessed, mixed with either holy oil or water and imposed on the head with the sign of the cross. The ashes are made from burning palm branches blessed the previous year on [...]
We did not have much to choose from when I was young. If we wanted to eat at the coffee shops, it was either kampua noodles or pian sip (something like kiaw or wantan) or we can have loti-kiap – two pieces of charcoal-toasted bread with margarine and kaya (coconut jam) sandwiched together – and [...]
Yes, I did. I saw her standing there… I got an sms from her a couple of days earlier saying that she’ll be dropping by in Sibu this weekend, but I did not get to hear from her on Saturday so I guessed she must have cancelled her plans or something. As usual, on Sunday [...]
I first came across this picture in one of the TESL (Teaching of English as a Second Language) methodology books. It has been included as a possible teaching aid that may be used to generate discussion and thus, encourage the use of language. If you look at it from one angle, you may see a [...]
A friend of mine gave me this fridge magnet sometime ago… That is supposed to be Miss Piggy in the unmistakable Jane Fonda aerobics pose and the caption on the belly reads: “Square meals make round people.” Well, despite the warning, I have always had the habit of eating 3 square meals a day – [...]
The debate on whether Science and Mathematics should be taught in English or not has been dragging on and on for so long now that it does not look as if it is ever going to end. Well, I am not going to dwell on that in this post as personally, I feel it is [...]
…some things change, others remain the same. This is the Masland Methodist Church along Island Road here in Sibu… It used to be a small, wooden church, but it underwent a facelift and ended up looking very different from before. Right now, they are carrying out further construction around the place but I guess the [...]
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