Tony's Little Logbook

I make this list to help me make sense of the information that is swimming in my mind.

1. Boon Lay – Service-crewwoman Cai Yan
2. Chinese Gardens – Barista Samantha
3. Commonwealth – Barista Grace

I list both the positive and negative attributes that other people have noticed in me.

(I have heard these with my own ears, over the past few years, especially after COVID occurred.)

1. Resourceful
2. Kind
3. Generous

Trigger warning: this article contains scenes of violence and childhood trauma.

Growing up through childhood trauma, TONY had always wanted to escape from his family. This trauma would follow him through the years as he slipped into depression and alcohol addiction during university.

But as Tony wandered and lay aimlessly in Chinatown in the middle of the night… God reached out to him. This was the start of Tony’s road to recovery, as he discovered the love he had longed for all this time was to be found in Jesus.

I am a victim of child abuse.

Growing up, I experienced physical and emotional abuse from my parents, who were always very strict with me.

While I recognise that some of these rules and restrictions were for my good, I found that my parents’ reactions and way of implementing these rules were often out of hand.

I recount the people who have left my life.

Let me recount recent deaths:

• Yuki Onishi, dead at 43 years old. (Acute heart failure). Famous for starting a chain of eateries, known as Tsuta Ramen.

You call my art Degenerate And say you don't exagerrate

Hey now, mister You sure seem sinister

The Central Public Library has been undergoing renovations for a year, and counting.

It can be tempting to spiral into pessimism, but I make effort to look for encouraging signs of new growth, and for the caresses of the breezes of Spring.

1. Slayer Cold and heartless, she kills the one who supports her.

2. Thief Steals from her husband.

I have been pondering the cosmopolitan nature of street-names, or place-names, in Singapore recently.

For example:

During a durable durian season Tourists carefully took a taste Oh! Wheezing and sneezing Some abstained