Five Star Billionaire

Each message, if you care to listen, is different.

Every building has its own sparkle, its own identity. At night, their electric personalities flicker into life and they cast off their perfunctory daytime selves, reaching out to each other to form a new world of ever-changing colour.

Hide your brightness, remain in the shadows

Do not let lesser people drag you down. You are a star that shines brightly

people were so haughty, their dialect so harsh to her ears. If someone talked to her in their language she would feel attacked just by the sound of it.

You can only rely on yourself. There are no true friends in this world. If you place your trust in others you will open yourself to danger and hurtfulness.

Outside, the branches of the plane trees strained the bright mid-autumn sunlight, their shadows casting a pretty pattern on the pavement. There was a light wind, too, that made the leaves dance.

Every day tumbled into the next without meaning, as they had done for too long now.

Journal of Your Secret Self, in which you would write down all your black terrors, everything that made you fearful and weak, alongside everything you dream of. You must have more positive dreams than burdensome fears. Once you write something in this book it cannot harm you any more because the fears are conquered by the dreams on the opposite page. So when you are successful you can read this journal one last time before you

Cecil Lim Kee Huat – still compos mentis today at 101 –