Like funeral clothes discarded This crimson red misery Stained with tears and fears of a faltering hope. Eleven atheletes in disarray Pacing up and down, back and forth Kicking and flicking To patch together a win Perhaps a point. Red-faced over one who has ears only For Gallic style and ideals For the beautiful game […]
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It was my first ever Chinese New Year outside of Singapore. Considerable numbers have escaped hectic Singapore during this particular festive season for different reasons. My family flew to Bangkok on Air Asia on Thursday evening. We spent the extended weekend with my sister in law’s family. Normally they would come over to stay with […]
Near kinsman We were relatives but we hardly knew each other. She knew I was a pastor and I knew she was a missionary with Youth With A Mission (YWAM). We would greet each other when the Chee clan gathered for its annual Chinese New Year meeting. But we never talked at length before. That […]
Before the curtains fall And the sea is no more May my eyes behold the glory of the Lord Wash over the peoples of the earth And may the colors of his love Reveal the liberty of sons and daughters What a sight What a delight When earth is shaken And heaven’s perfections Restores the […]
The ice breakers were agonizing. One flat bonding activity after another. Immovable as a pew I stayed rooted to my seat. It was not the right attitude to have at the commencement dinner of the 2012 Love Singapore Pastors’ Prayer Summit. It was not because Ps Eugene Seow, the king of icebreakers, has handed his […]
Came across a book (Adam S. Hugh, Introverts in the Church, 1976, IVP Books, Downers Grove: Illinois) my son borrowed from the National Library. The book was quite interesting and I mostly had Amens and affirmations to the author’s many ideas and insights as I did a rapid read. Found a part that I thought […]