Elijah's Life Experiences

" A sad twist to an incident in the MRT train " was an essay I submitted recently in school.             I started to cry.             Recently, my grades had dropped from As to Cs due to my conceit and addiction to playing online games. My parents were totally devastated by the drop in my academic grades. Being uneducated food hawkers, all they could do was try to counsel me but to no avail. To make matters worse, I recently failed my Mathematics exam; and Mathematics had always been my strongest suit. That was the final straw. My attitude in class deteriorated. I was also coerced by Joe and his cool gang into taking up smoking. Several weeks after my first puff, I was addicted. Every puff was like a lifeline – offering me temporary relief from my current predicament.             My addiction soon came to ...

Exams are over and I'm back posting more essays. My next one "Nasty Encounter with a Snatch Thief" for your reading pleasure ...    As the saying goes ‘Low crime doesn’t mean no crime’. The police are always reminding citizens to be vigilant and observant of their surroundings. Criminals spring up at the most unexpected times and might take advantage of them. It is mostly the women who are likely to fall prey to these criminals. Here is a story of a theft that had occurred to a middle-aged lady. “A few more metres and I will reach the bus stop!” convincing herself as Mrs Gan took another stride. She had just finished her shopping and was walking to the bus-stop to catch a bus back home. Mrs Gan almond shaped eyes scanned her surroundings and inched her way towards the bus-stop she was heading to. At that juncture, a black motorcycle with two men whizzed out from nowhere and sped towards a panic-stricken Mrs Gan. As audacious as the day, the pillion rider lu...