the lucky ones
All these people around us, the people we call our friends, they're gonna have more money than us, and have nicer houses than us and have prettier clothes than us. And they'll seem like they have it all together. But you and me, we're going to have crazy adventures. We'll have interesting and surprising lives and it's going to be beautiful and challenging and exhilarating. And as for those other people, they may never know what that's like while they sit in their pretty house
An NS story
This is a post I've been thinking about writing for a long while, but hesitated about for a really long while. BMT For the sake of chronology, I will start at the beginning: the day G enlisted for National Service. I remember we had a silent lunch at the Manhattan Fish Market outlet at some mall in Pasir Ris. If the men in Singapore can be classified into a simple binary-- those who are enthusiastic about NS because it represents machoness, bravado and all things manly and th
