Category: Personal Stories

  The Vajra Buddhist Centre in Singapore is at the top of a narrow wooden staircase, the entry to which is through an unassuming doorway on the busy corner of Geylang and Lorong 40.  At the side of the doorway is a Chinese vegetarian restaurant, a rarity in this city of gastronomic diversity.  I’m here…

A High Tech Flood Many of us are finding the digital revolution to be overwhelming. Some of us are in agreement with the novelist Jonathon Franzen when he calls Twitter “unspeakably irritating…” and describes Facebook as “all one big endless loop…” Still we flood the world with our texts and tweets – in Scandinavia more…

  Twitter is funny, kind of strange.  And trying to explain it to someone who has never used it is equally strange: ‘ So, you write short passages of text, no more than 140 characters, about anything you want (you can add pictures too) and post it for mainly strangers to see.  And people follow…