Connie writes about the topics close to her heart, such as music, literature, ideas, people, life, and her undying love for learning.
There is a good ending to the story of lift-up-grading. A few months later, after complaints and protests to the local MP, another vote was taken. This time one of the...
There is a tub of honey sittting on my kitchen table. It comes from China - the first time I was buying Chinese honey as all other brands of honey...
Let me tell you a story, no two stories. Recently we had an upgrading exercise in my block of flat. Residents were required to vote to put in a lift...
Let me interest you to two books that explore the current preoccupation with questions of identity and culture. The first one Pico Ayer’s “The Global Soul: Jet-lag, shopping malls and the...
The other day there was a letter from a reader, Wee Hung Lih ( see Today 9th Nov. 2006) who confidently stated that , and I quote, “I can see...