clean linen

(Just to be clear that I've given all credits where they are due, let me state at the outset that this is the link where I copied this from:  http://www.singaporelawwatch.sg/slw/headlinesnews/25851-it-took-four-years-to-learn-im-no-lawyer.html?utm_source=email+subscription&utm_medium=email#.Ua1fu6el8Fw.email ) I really like this article, written by Oo Gin Lee, published in Straits Times yesterday (2/6/13): "My heart skipped a beat when my hand grasped air instead of wood. Then I realised that the next rung on the wooden ladder I was climbing to board a ship had given way. I was only 24, one year into my work as a lawyer, and facing a real prospect of tragedy at sea. I had come to arrest the ship which my client had a claim against, which meant making my way to the ship's bridge and sticking the court papers on its windscreen. To this day, I still believe that nothing short of divine intervention helped me to pull myself up and board the ship. Before I became...

Eugene's friend got us 2 free tickets to the Aerosmith concert because he was a SAFRA member, each ticket worth about $160.  I was excited about it because attending a concert like that was a completely new experience for me. At the same time, I wondered how much I would enjoy it because my idea of a concert like that is to stand up, wave your hands high up in the air, singing along very loudly with the band. But I only knew one song by Aerosmith, "I don't want to miss a thing", the theme song of the Armageddon movie. Even then, I only knew the tune but not the lyrics, so I could not have sung along with them. So I did entertain the silly thought of studying Aerosmith's songs so that at least I could be a more worthy concert-attendee. But I didn't do any studying. I just went. And it was still great! Thank God it didn't rain and the ground was dry. Eugene's friend also remembered to bring a groundsheet that was big enough to seat the group...