by Soo-Inn Tan | Aug 18, 2022 | 2022, Books, Remembrance
This is how Frederick Buechner begins his book Speak What We Feel: It is Red Smith who is reported to have said that it’s really very easy to be a writer — all you have to do is sit down at the typewriter and open a vein. (Speak What We Feel [New York, NY:...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 28, 2022 | 2022, Articles, Jesus' Death, Media, Movies & Television
[Spoilers ahead: What, you haven’t watched Spider-man: No Way Home yet?] Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) is not a perfect movie. As Paris Marx reminds us, a Peter Parker with the patronage of Tony Stark and now Stark Enterprises is not the poor boy from a...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jun 21, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Books, God, God's Word, Media
It was 1974. I was a first-year student in the Faculty of Dentistry in the then University of Singapore. My residential hall, KE Hall, had a small library and I was there trying to study for upcoming exams. In a moment of boredom, I decided to check out the collection...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Apr 12, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Movies & Television, Soo-Inn Tan
Goose the Cat | Marvel Studios Went with family to watch Captain Marvel (2019) a few weeks ago. I enjoyed it. It was a fun movie with a few interesting twists. My favourite character was the “cat”. But it wasn’t a movie that had the gravitas of, for example,...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 16, 2018 | 2018, Articles, Books, Media, Movies & Television
One shouldn’t be surprised when one hears that a 95-year-old man has passed away, but there are certain bigger-than-life persons whose death will always surprise you. I was surprised to hear about the death of Stan Lee, one of the founders of Marvel comics and...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 28, 2017 | 2017, Articles, Books, Jesus, Jesus' Death, Life Issues, Meaning & Purpose
At a recent camp, I took along a novel to read as my evening leisure pursuit. The campsite was rustic, with just the bare amenities and no entertainment except the surrounding forest which was gorgeous. The novel was Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolas Obregon (UK: Penguin...
