Month: May 2016

Throughout the play, there are various themes that the characters bring out. Lawrence and Lee wrote this play this almost thirty years after the Scoped Monkey trials. Although the play is a work of fiction, the play is based on the Scoped trials. Lee and Lawrence, through the course of the play use dramatic conventions…

Stories come from strange and unexpected places. Mine came from another boy’s life. I didn’t know it then. I only know, in hindsight, how his story somehow became mine. A boy was born and he became himself. I still remember seeing this little boy sitting all alone, playing all by himself while I was springing…

Youth and Time is what I have, it is something so precious that millions would kill for. Alas what good is a treasure if not in proper use. To know that something is precious and valuable but not know how to obtain its value, is a terrible burden. To know that something has to be…

Last Saturday, I went to Zoo Atlanta for my 21st birthday. I saw some giraffes, a red panda, bought a churro—all according to plan. About midday, I predicted that I was going to be hungry very soon, so I took one of my friends with me into one of the indoor eateries so that I…

It was the most tense moment of my life. I was playing my final tennis tournament of the 2012 Asian Tennis season in Manila, Philippines. Being unseeded, I played the top two seeds of the tournament and beat them in the early rounds. However, those matches did not have much significance. The match, which impacted…

  Who is this? Why is he hear? Where did he come from? He is so small!  They tell me to love him unconditionally but he does not look like much. Plus I’m still not sure what that even means. Maybe we will learn it together. So many questions run through my mind. Will I…