A b e d ’ s Ga r d e n T i m o t h y O n g
“Shen Yang is here — Nadir, please turn on your camera — Timo, please mute yourself — Excuse me, who is HotMess21?! — Farah, we can hear your dad singing ABBA in the background.” The class burst out in giggles, followed by a spray of questions: “Cikgu, who is ABBA? Farah can you sing too? Sing for us! Who is the Dancing Queen?” So here I am holed up in my room, in my blouse-and- sweatpants combo trying to control 30 Standard 6 students. And of course, our government-mandated-video-conferencing-app needs updating. Again.
They told us that things would return to normalcy after the clinical trials for the vaccine were over in 2021. The only things becoming normal were fast-fashion PPE, Social Media Detox programs, and the unpredictable interruptions to banal routines. My trip to the dentist, our family’s annual visit to popo’s grave
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