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Today is the 200th birth anniversary of Charles Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870). Here are two of my favourite endings from his novels. David Copperfield O Agnes, O my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me,
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Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in his Chinese New Year message says: Ultimately we all want to make Singapore the best home in the world for ourselves, our families and our children. We all want ours to remain an inclusive, meritocratic society where every child has the chance to realise his dreams and aspirations.
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Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling (30 December 1865- 18 January 1936). Born in Bombay, now called Mumbai, he died in London. Calcutta, now called Kolkata, has come to be called the “city of the dreadful night”. Even newspapers in Calcutta use that phrase as a synonym for the city. However, Kipling’s short story,
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How will Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) be remembered? I just happened to pick up Hitch -22 and the last sentence in this passage may describe any established or aspiring writer. Describing his battle with cancer, he writes in his foreword:
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Flash floods hit Liat Towers and other parts of Orchard Road, reported AsiaOne, but PUB, whose tasks include flood prevention, begged to differ. No floods in Orchard Road, just “ponding”: Pub, said the headline in Today. “Flooding” did occur in a section of Cambridge Road/Owen Road, according to the PUB website, but not in the
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I have seldom read a more joyous paean to love – and the agony, too – than this passage from the novel Sunset Park by Paul Auster, set in America after the housing crisis. Ivy League dropout Miles Heller falls in love with Pilar Sanchez, a few months under 18, when they see each other
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Here’s a poem on elections which still holds true more than 150 years after it was written. It’s not past its sell-by date just because the elections are over and the People’s Action Party (PAP) returned to power with 60 per cent of the vote and 81 of the 87 elected seats in parliament in
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Paul Theroux turns 70 today. Happy birthday!
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William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770, reminds The Writer’s Almanac. He died on April 23, 1850. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) also died on April 23 —and that’s also believed to be his birthday. The philosopher Bertrand Russell summed up Wordsworth’s career this way: In his youth, Wordsworth sympathized with the French Revolution, went to
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I just came across this Singlish poem in an article that appeared in Salon way back in 2007. Wah! I heard we all now got big big debate.They said future of proper English is at stake. All because stupid Singlish spoil the market,want to change now donno whether too late. Aiyoh! Ang mo hear us
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