A Daring Rescue It was a seven-story building that had caught fire. The lower floors were used for offices and shops. On the three upper floors, people were living with their families. There were several families living in the flats. The fire started in a...
A Daring Robbery The pilgrims never dreamt that it would happen. They were hopefully thinking of reaching the place of worship before the day dawned. As the place of worship was about 75 kilometers from their homes they had left at 2.00 a.m. in the...
A Day in The Life of A Waiter Life as a waiter has multiple advantages. Not that it is all pleasure and no drudgery. Its greatest advantage is the crowd of people one meets. As a waiter does not meet them at a social level,...
A Great Inventor It is surprising what a man can achieve with imagination and hard work put together. Yet how few of us achieve it. It is futile to say that some are too poor and others too rich to put in the required amount...
A Hairbreadth Escape Ahmed and Ah Chua were known as ‘mischief makers’, not because they were really wicked, but because they weren’t. It was just that they liked fun and adventure. “Whatever can we do with them ?” their parents used to say, “they are...
A Happy Day at School It was a most trying period. Things at home were getting from bad to worse. Dad’s alcoholism had become worse, especially after his retrenchment. Mum was always temperamental as she could not make ends meet with her meager income as...
A Heated Argument The crashing sounds of wine glasses followed soon after the shattering of the expensive Ming vase. Emily crouched even further into her corner, willing her mind to stop taking in the sounds of her parents arguing again. She could not remember exactly...
A popular person in your own age group James Yap is a popular person not only in our class. The hut also throughout the school. James is the kind of person who is talented as well as outgoing. Most students in the school know him...
A Scene during Recess The school bell goes off to signal the start of the twenty-minute recess period. All the pupils get up from their seats, and with the permission of the teacher make their way to the school canteen. The school canteen has many...
A stitch in time saves nine Lim had always been lazy. He worked on a rubber plantation and it was his job to empty the tins of latex hanging round the trees that his father had tapped and to fill the buckets with the strong...
