ADICHIE

I have just finished Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a Sun At first it was reluctant reading having just finished the towering Wolf Hall but as I read on the book started to grip me with its terrifying and moving story about people involved with the Biafra war and hoping for its victory.
Its starting to rain but remains suffocatingly hot. Have not been out because I am just recovering from a cold and there is a lot of flem in the chest which slows one down
Sad news with JIng Quee in hospital and unable to walk

Second home

At a talk the other night I learnt to my astonishment that Chinese headed the list of second homers followed by Bangladeshis There some 19,000 here cf to Singapore's 100,000

Attraction

I marvel at the way some people are blessed with an attraction for children. Lay beckoned to the little boy the other day and he came rightaway and talked to her for a long time sucking the ice cubes she got for him (it was past midnight and there no more ice cream to be got) He is ill treated by his hawker father but never comes when we call to him to give him chocolate. I wonder whether it's her long black hair that attracts him. All my other friends have tried but he never comes to them.

Frogs

Frogs used to sing me to sleep every night - mostly the high notes ones. Now with this drought in its 3rd month accompanied by killing heat they have disappeared. I often wonder where they are now

Help

Thanks to Hooi Lin I ve got this blog going again!
More later!