World Youth Day, here I come!

Well, this is it, off I go to attend my very first World Youth Day (WYD). I don’t feel youth-y anymore, not since 2004. I feel like an old man. I’m glad seeing the pope will put my age into perspective.
I never blogged about WYD, so some of you might be hearing this for the [...]

Press photographers can be so rude! - True or false?

Attending a high-level event like the funeral Mass of Archbishop Emeritus Gregory Yong really shows the difference between a church photographer and one from the secular media.
It’s not that the church photographers are less professional (actually I think they’re more professional). It’s that church photographers are usually more polite. It also helps that we know [...]

Over 400 copies of Befriending Jesus sold in 1 weekend!

I was at Church of Sts. Peter and Paul last Thursday 26 June, and on the weekend of 28-29 June to sell Befriending Jesus to the parishioners. Thanks to the generosity of former parish priest Fr. Thomas Lim, OCD (who just stepped down) and the parishioners and visitors to the parish, 440 copies of Befriending [...]

Lelong sale!

Carrefour is having this “Lelong Sale” at the entrance of Plaza Singapura. There’s lots of goodies there to pick up. This is what I got for Nutella:

Guess how much this 80cm standing bear cost?
Go check out the “Lelong Sale” (until Jun 22) and find out for yourself!

I met Joe Augustin today

I was at CANA The Catholic Centre today because there was a children’s workshop there. The workshop was coincidentally titled “Will You Be My Friend?” so when I heard about it, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to sell Befriending Jesus there.
So while I was there, I presented my book to the children [...]

Finding Christ in the liturgy

I was sitting on my chair, waiting for the priest, Carmelite Father Thomas Lim, to come celebrate Mass. The congregation was small, a handful of elderly folk. I glanced around to the back, where a lady in red was anxiously awaiting the arrival of the celebrant.
Lily was her name, and she worked in the Society [...]

Jogging in the buff

I just read an article about a priest who was convicted for jogging in the buff at 4.30am. While I think he meant no harm, this is a dude with some serious psychological issues. Thank goodness candidates for the seminary now have to be screened psychologically to determine whether they are of sound mind to [...]

Why I am a writer, not an artist

A few nights ago, I could not get to sleep, and amidst my daydreaming (or is it nightdreaming?) while trying to fall asleep, I found myself thinking of a question that KH asked me.
KH is the main illustrator for my Skyva’s Story series of fantasy novels… of which only one has been published so far. [...]

Bestselling Befriending Jesus… in Mandarin?

I met with a couple of Nutella’s friends on Thursday evening. They are Methodists and having read my new book Befriending Jesus “cover to cover twice”, as one of them put it, they prayed about it and decided that God was calling them to translate the book to Mandarin!
Now this is truly ironical, especially if [...]

Providentially…

Last week, while I was having a chat with King Kong in his office, he mentioned that he had just purchased some new bookshelves for his home and was looking to give away two wooden bookshelves. Now I have been looking for a wooden bookshelf to replace my 20-year-old one (the one that the back [...]