I sat on the banks of the flow of time, its incredibly calm waves – bordering on the unnatural – smoothly moving forwards in its own one way agenda. If one were to float atop it, you would be carried to the limitless horizon ad infinitum, and there would one stay until one decides to [...]

Two months ago I submitted an essay for TheCicak’s ‘Heroes’ competition, forgotten all about it, and close to three months later I got shortlisted! :D Didn’t quite expect the honour to be among the shortlisted 11, and there’s also a voting movement going on up till October 10 for the People’s Choice Award worth RM500. [...]

“Anyone wants more ice-creams?” Ray held out several cones of a variety of flavours: there were cookies and cream, chocolate chip, good traditional vanilla, and tangerine orange. He grinned widely as the children gathered around, each jumping for the prized food, screaming and shouting in noisy excitement, hands outstretched, as Ray held the dripping ice-creams [...]

You are there, I see, tangible, a moss of fluffy clouds and pink bunnies and a rabid annoyance that is the pimple on your dimple. Haha, it rhymes. If only, and if only you’d get up. Lying there on the immortalised white bedsheet with a splinter of sorrow etched on your face, you are a [...]

The horizon has always been beautiful - a meeting point between heaven and earth, sky and everything that’s on terra firma. I stared at the crimson hues painted by a disabled across the sky, because at that moment, after degenerating alone for many years, immersing myself in nature’s grandeur was the only thing I could [...]