Today’s Reads (Apr 22)

• Politics Of A Different Hue

  from SCN @ The Star

• Time to move up the ladder

  from Hear ye! Hear ye!

• MR4 Benchmark – Is Retaining Talents in the Civil Service the only reason?

  from Singapore Angle

• In Defence of Our Education System

  from Stressed Teacher

• Fiscal Finagling or Journalistic Bollocking?

  from Perspective Unlimited

• Gobsmacking days

  from Yawning Bread Sampler

• Interesting news report

  from Hear ye! Hear ye!

• The Unnecessary Pains of Learning

  from Mr Wang Says So

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The Reason Why You Write…..

Have ever asked yourself why you write?

These thoughts clung to me like seaweed throughout the course of the morning when I woke up earlier than usual to ride my bike in Bukit Timah. It was quiet, dark and a slight mist hung over the jungle – then it came again – the question – this time in whispering rush,

“Have you ever asked yourself, why do you write the things you do?”

I brushed the question off, clipped into the pedals, felt the tug. The chain settled over the sprockets; soon the familiar feel of the meshing, followed by the forward glide – man and machine barreled into darkness, spokes cutting against the wind, the give of crushed leaves, a rattle and shake – then it came again:

“Why do you write the things you do?” The jungle whispered.