by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 29, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose, Media, Movies & Television
Bernice and I caught a sneak preview of the movie, No Country for Old Men, last week. I had not read the book and therefore was all set up for the sucker punch ending. When the final credits rolled, my immediate reaction was, “Hey, who stole the last reel?...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 22, 2008 | 2008, Aging, Articles, Life Issues
Dad passed away in 2003. I miss him. I especially miss him during Lunar New Year eve family reunion dinners. That was when he would regale us with the stories of his life. And he was a consummate story teller. A particular favourite of his was the story of the time he...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 31, 2008 | 2008, Articles, Communication, Life Issues, Relationships
“The government only takes care of the Malays. No one really bothers about the Indian poor.” “Or the Chinese,” he added diplomatically. I was on the way to the airport and did what I normally do to get a feel of the pulse of the nation. I was talking to my cab driver....
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 10, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Life Issues, Suffering
Reports of killings in the U.S. seem to receive so much more prominence in the media than killings elsewhere. Still, the recent mall killings and suicide in Omaha qualifies as a terrible tragedy by any measure. Here is the Guardian’s report: “The teenage...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 5, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Christian Living, Life Issues, Rest & Busyness, Work & Vocation
The meeting had to be rescheduled because I had to make an urgent trip back to Kuala Lumpur. But the four members of my mentoring cohort and I managed to agree on a new date to meet. As usual the meeting would begin with dinner at 7.30 pm. A day before the meeting...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Oct 18, 2007 | 2007, Articles, Life Issues, Work & Vocation
Once in awhile you read something that sounds really right. It makes you want to put it in a piece but you are not quite sure how. I caught the following passage from Will Hutton’s The World We’re In some time ago: [A good business is much more than a...
