“You are students?” She peered at our matric cards. “Art students?”

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A. was going to say something, but I quickly squeezed her arm under the counter. “Yes,” I simply said.

The counter lady gave our cards back to us. “Entrance to the main exhibit, the garden and the special exhibitions are free for Arts students.” She took two dark blue stickers – reserved for students of ART (you know, drawing, painting, sculpturing) – and gave it to us.

Off we went!

“A: So let me get this straight. You’re saying that we’re all living on a rock spinning in space?

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B: Well, sure, when you put it like that, it just sounds crazy.”

“…it means [Thio] wants state policies to be based on some consensus or on the lowest common denominator of popular views, including religious ones.

I’m not sure you can call such a state a truly secular state anymore. Rather than being discerning about what is secular or not, such a state would uncritically average various popular views, however religiously they may be based”.

“They say that madness is hereditary.

My grandaunt, my grandmother’s sister, was mad. They locked her in the house, allowed her to linger within the compound in a sleeveless girly thin white dress down to her ankles. One day she escaped and jumped headlong into a well in our garden. She was nearly 18. I have a photograph of my seven year old self leaning against the sealed well.” – Read on. I think this is a true account, but the way it’s written gives me the vibe that it has the potential to be great fiction.

“There must be a little boy in me that never really grew up, because I still really lurrrve monsters and such.” – RAWR!

I consider myself a dog person too! But only because my mum had a disdain for cats, and I inherited the same disdain without knowing why. But I started liking cats too from high school onwards thanks to the combined wisdom of Coral, Ziliang and Melvin Sim. But that’s another story for another time… Read this story first!

“To trigger sex appeal, being unafraid isn’t limited to physical risks. Rock stars and business executives perform in front of crowds and risk only embarrassment and financial consequences. My hypothesis is that any man who has a high tolerance for risk of any sort is naturally attractive to women.”

This is freaky.