1 "Come, all you who are thirsty,I remember my literature teacher, Mr Edwards de Cruz, when I went back to RI for a visit, happen to see me holding my Bible. So he borrowed it and browsed through it, as though he were looking for something. Then he paused and grinned widely. He began booming aloud in cheerful cadence from Isaiah 55. And I remember his rich and deep golden voice, as he metered out the rhythms, reciting Isaiah as though he were Shakespeare incarnated in a different time and age. Wow.
come to the waters;
and you who have no money,
come, buy and eat!
Come, buy wine and milk
without money and without cost.
2 Why spend money on what is not bread,
and your labor on what does not satisfy?
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good,
and your soul will delight in the richest of fare.
Melissa Chen, the hardcore Singapore basher (Part I – Amos Yee)
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Melissa Chen, a Singapore national based in the United States, is a
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