When I closed the door on my professional career, I didn't see an ending; I simply found a new canvas. Retirement, for me, was a call to return to a passion I’d put aside for decades. Through watercolours, I found my purpose. My journey with the brush started in earnest in 2018. I took the Basic, Intermediate, and then the Advanced Watercolour courses at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (NAFA) in Singapore.. I was 67 when I completed the course. For years before that, my focu

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A broken ankle in cast In Form 1, our classes were held in the afternoon. That meant most of us boys would gather on the SGI Primary...

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Ice Kacang This is the second of a 3-part series on the food memories of a schoolboy fromTaiping - of simple dishes in simple stalls, but...