Year: 2013
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A Word On The My First Skool Incident
I’m always struck by how much we delegate our personal lives to other people. The other day coming home on the Bintan Resorts Ferry, a family sat in the rows ahead of us. There were the parents, the two children and two foreign domestic workers. The younger of the two children was probably under two…
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A Week With The Big-Assed Sharan
I had a really good time with Volkswagen’s largest MPV, the 2-litre-engined Sharan. Being a station wagon owner myself, I am partial to large movers of people and sporting equipment. My first car was called a “sports car” by my friends because of the large number of sporting equipment stashed in the rear – not…
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StarHub Loves Every Football Loving Bro (And Chick)
I have often been frowned on by people when I refer to the sport as “soccer”. I never knew how much people here love football. And with these lovers of football, I have something special to share. But first, let me tell you why Americans and Australians sometimes call it soccer. When the game as…
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Arc Children’s Centre
We were very happy to support Arc Children’s Centre during the run of Hossan-Ah: Celebrating 20 Leong Years. If you didn’t manage to catch the show, Arc Children’s Centre provides a safe environment for children suffering from terminal illnesses and who cannot attend regular school or activities like other healthy kids. They have a 2000sf…
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#20LeongYears Later
Twenty years ago, when I was just starting my uni studies in Sydney, Hossan wrote me an aerogramme to tell me he had taken the leap and joined The Necessary Stage full time as an admin. assistant and actor for the princely wage of $400 per month. He said he wasn’t sure if he was…