I passed by the Central Library while on the way to repair my luggage. As I needed to wait for an hour in the area before my item is ready for collection, I decided to pop by the library to search for a piece of writing by me published earlier this year. I was in London when it got on the paper so I did not manage to see it. I was told that the Central Library keeps microfilms of the local newspapers so I decided to give it a try.
And I managed to get it! I sent in my piece on 19 Mar 2015 and got a note on 9 May 2015 that it had been published. So the piece must be on paper between these two dates. I retrieved the tapes for those weeks and learnt how to mount the microfilms for reading from the librarian. As I pressed the forward button and watched the past newspaper pages flipped in front of you, it felt like going back in time. And here it is, my first piece published in Singaporean newspaper.
