They say the original clown wore an inverted smile. He entertained, but at his own expense. These days, the clown wears a smile on his face. A painted smile? A forced mask? Or an evolved clown? The clown no longer wears an inverted smile. Maybe, the clown has learnt to smile. And really smile. The evolved clown. [...]
“Elvin is known more for his brawn than his brain — in fact, sometimes, he’s downright blur. He still speaks as if he’s got a lump of chwee kueh in his mouth and looks a little wooden on TV. After a string of goody-goody roles, he recently played Zoe’s villainous brother on The Ultimatum to [...]
Forever is not a timeline. Forever is a feeling. Forever is not reality. Forever is an ideal scenario. A figment of our imagination. A concept we cling on to. It exists though, not as an entity on its own, but a subset of the subject. Yes, not “happiness”. But “moments of happiness”. Not knowing how [...]
I posed the question: “Can one person change the world?” The answer was: “For evil, yes it’s easier; for good, no it’s hard.” The rationale was: “If you throw a pebble into water, ten thousand others throw it with you; if you pick up a pebble, you have to pick up ten thousand others yourself.” Yes, [...]
He sat at the cafe, watching the people in front of him, pass him by. He saw people who looked happy and he wondered to himself, “Why do they look so happy?” He saw people who looked sad and he wondered to himself, “Why do they look so sad?” Then, he made up stories of their pasts [...]
“We have decided the bullet must have been going very fast” to have killed the man. The. Some things are so obvious you don’t have to say it. Some things are so obvious you assume so much you don’t realise it.