Saturday, September 29, 2007

Anyone notice I've been blogging on a daily basis all week?

Wonder why? It's an awful habit of mine whenever I've a big writing job due. I chain myself to the computer nightafternightafternight. And aside from necessary supper and toilet breaks, I tend to distract myself with every online resource possible - webcomics, aggregators, Youtube, pornography, blogs.

This week, my big job was finishing the first draft of the opening chapters of a book for my old secondary school, ACS (Independent). As part of the deal, I've been interviewing old boys and administrators, including...

DR LEE SUAN YEW.


Actually hor, he's very nice and easygoing - he's the baby brother of LKY, a family medicine practitioner still going strong at the tender age of 74. He bought us (me and English teacher Ms Kavita) tau sar biah and Coca-Cola and met us at the Pyramid Club near Goodwood and told us a whole bunch of stories, printable and unprintable, about his Chairmanship of the Board of Management and the Building Committee and whatnot.

Candid shot! (Actually, just before I took the real shot. I like imperfect poses.)

And what the hell, one more:


He gave us a lift to the main road in his car too. Having been put in touch with me via the school, he only had a vague inkling of my other work - he knew he'd seen me in the papers before, but had no idea why. He's a big Methodist, and I didn't want to alienate him before the interview, so I politely suggested it might be because I won the 24-Hour Playwriting Competition ten years ago.

Yeah, I know some of you'll say I should have queered it up in front of him and demanded he lean on his gor-gor and nephew to repeal 377A, but 1) I don't think he's of that much political influence and 2) as a paid professional copywriter, I shouldn't sabotage the book project. Maybe at the book launch at next year's Founder's Day dinner I'll jump on his back and give him a copy of SQ21. Yeah. That'd work.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

As a fellow ACS boy and indeed in the drama club with you, maybe you would achive more if you could finagle a speakign thing at Founder's Day and let rip some intense homoerotic fantasy about Ong Teck Chin. Respectfully of course.

Just saying

It's Eugene by the way.

Anonymous said...

While chained to my computer, I distract myself with every online resource possible too! But unlike you, I tend to stay distracted, haha...
- Ash

Ng Yi-Sheng said...

Hi Eugene!!! Can e-mail me or not? We should meet up - I wanna see your shows.

And aiyah, it'd certainly leave more of an impact, but AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF THE OPENLY GAY INTELLECTUAL COMMUNITY, I MUST STRIVE TO FOMENT POSITIVE CHANGE!!! etc.

Readymade said...

Man, you got to go inside the Pyramid Club? :p

Ng Yi-Sheng said...

Heheh yep. Why, is it legendary? I was looking for the sarcophagi but I didn't see any.