by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 13, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
I was chatting with a dentist over the weekend. We were at a church camp where I was one of the speakers. I guess it’s not everyday that you discover that your camp speaker is also a dentist, albeit one who last touched a pair of forceps in 1981. She asked me...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 6, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
It was really embarrassing. When we came out of the movie theatre after watching ‘Schindler’s List’, my date showed me her hand. It was the hand I held throughout the movie. And it was all red, swollen from the pressure I had put on it....
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 28, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
I was a singer in a rock and roll band. We were called the Keviians and we were the resident band of the King Edward 7th Residential College, University of Singapore. We played at the College hops but I suspect we were all in the band because we liked what we were...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 21, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Media, Movies & Television
Pop quiz. The movie ‘Van Helsing’ is: 1. A horror movie. 2. An action movie. 3. A metaphorical examination of evil. 4. A comedy. 5. None of the above. All those who put down ”5”, “None of the above”, expect your no-prize in your...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 17, 2004 | 2004, Articles, Battling Sin, Christian Living
There must be a dead mouse in my bedroom. The stink was unmistakable. And we had caught two live ones there just a few weeks earlier. But a search of the room turned up no mouse, dead or alive. It finally hit me. The rotten stink was coming from my own nose. There was...