MY NATIONALITY ON MY TAB

I was used to seeing the table number, the name of the cashier or waiter, the date and other pertinent details on receipts wherever I dined out. In the hotels I stayed in, it’d be my name on the receipt and my name would also appear on the reservation book. And so the feeling went [...]

DID YOU GET IT?

That someone liked my comment on someone’s Facebook status was cause for disconcertion.  It wasn’t the fact that I didn’t know the fellow who pressed the like button (he’s a friend of a friend though) as much as my comment was not something to “like”. It wasn’t like a wish for Robert Pattinson to materialise [...]

FOOLISH THOUGHTS

It all started with a burnt kettle, a whistling kettle that, oddly, never whistled at all. I didn’t burn that one. It was the little white sauce pan I was boiling water in for my green tea later in the week, making the kitchen reek of burnt copper for several days. My torched sauce pan [...]

BREAKFAST IS SERVED

The new lunar year of the dragon ushers in a new chapter in my life-novel. I now have a newfound relationship with breakfast. For years I struggled against eating normally and not eating at all for fear of putting on weight, which, on hindsight, was tied in with the emotional coaster ride I had unwittingly [...]

TEACHER THERAPY

This was a former student’s Facebook status when I browsed through my profile page tonight. She wrote: “Happiness in a Teacher: Students who constantly surprise you with their rich insights. An exchange of energies that leave both parties the richer. A broadening of views that creates new perspectives.” I clicked on the like button. It’s [...]