If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. — Sir Isaac Newton Whether you identify yourself as a student, a teacher, a young parent, a child, or whatever it is, know this: you are not alone. There have been those who have come before you, who have blazed trails […]
Hiring an English Major to Edit Your Book Is Cheating Yourself
tl;dr –> You get way more value for money when you hire an experienced editor. An inexperienced editor may not know what to do with your writing, even if they write well themselves!
6 Life Lessons You Can Learn From Writing – Tan Lili
Wow, USSR. We heard that acronym so often in primary school. I absolutely loved USSR when I was a little boy. No, I’m not in love with Soviet Russia (even though my one Russian friend is cooler than his country’s winter). Read on to find out what I’m rambling about!
Firebrands: a short tale of success, failure, and rebirth
Firebrands was a tiny little band from Singapore that went places. It was a band that managed to get people to pay for them to go to cities near and far — Hanoi, Chennai, Dubai — and yet failed to stay together after a short 5(ish) years together. Firebrands was my band, Firebrands my frehhh-nds (sorry, inside […]
Rainbows (a short story)
The boy looked at the girl and slowly, seriously, and deliberately said, “I wish I could take all your pain, swallow it, and poop rainbows.” The girl blinked once, and frowned. She blinked two more times, and stared at him. What he had just said started to filter down into the part of the brain […]
Short Update
I don’t know why it is, but here’s the truth: I only improve as a guitarist if I try to think like a “lead” guitarist (think Slash, Steve Vai, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, and gang). It really is parallel to the fact that I try to get my students to reach for beautiful sentences at […]
Why I love reading non-fiction (this one simple trick will add years to your life!)
(First off, apologies for the buzzfeed-y sub-title, but ever since I saw VisakanV make a joke out of it on his facebook, I’ve been doing it in my head as well. It’s entertaining, la!) I recently was reading (listening to) a book that talked about the wisdom of grandparents. If you have people around you […]
It’s Worse Than You Think: or why you should care about poverty, jobs and income inequality
Let’s get bored
I’ve got a draft in my computer that tries to say the same thing, but this blogger’s perspective does more than what I was/am trying to do with my own (draft, unpublished) post. There’s excellent writing to be found all over WordPress!
Write Better Reviews With This One Weird Trick
First time reblogging anything here, so let’s give this a go. This is an entertaining little piece on the value of following the rules. It also contains the acronym FML. Yeah… I give this 5 stars, FTW!