Michelle Liew
Bio
Hi, i am an English Language teacher cum freelance writer with a taste for pets, prose and poetry. When I'm not writing my heart out, I'm playing with my three dogs, Zorra, Cloudy and Snowball.
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Synched Speech Bubbles
If you've been on this Earth for some time, you'll know that ill-timed speech can cause relationships tsunamis. You'll understand its importance for building trust, resolving conflicts, connecting emotionally and managing expectations.
By Michelle Liewabout 14 hours ago in Poets
Bright red beet
The famous faux pas. Everyone makes one, and baulks afterwards. Of course, it leaves one at the height of discomfort. We do what humans do - make a myriad of mistakes. Admittedly, we can't avoid them, but we can make up for them with sincere apologies. We try to learn from these errors and move forward.
By Michelle Liew3 days ago in Poets
Dumpling Love
Grandma Ng Swee Ling pottered around in the too-hot kitchen of her Jurong HDB residence, tucked away in the western region of Sunny Singapore. As usual, her well-worn hands were busy melding together rice dumplings filled with tender chunks of roasted meat for Duan Wu Jie, or the Dumpling Festival, celebrated by the Chinese each time the summer solstice set in.
By Michelle Liew8 days ago in Fiction
Broken blade of a swordsman
My little dog, Snowball, made her way to the vet for a review of her hip. The young puppy suffered from a vascular necrosis, a condition predisposing her to hip dysplasia (when the ball of the bone, the femur, does not fit into the joint socket).
By Michelle Liew11 days ago in Poets
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