Dear readers
Many of you would have expected to be able to download
yesterday’s Lux Mundi Sunday Weekly (LMSW) edition but found no link to one. In fact
much of the website has not been updated for the past one week and to all of
that, our sincere apologies.
I have been completely caught off-guard with unexpected challenges
at home to deal with. Even so I thought I still had Saturday to work on it but
even so, I couldn’t find the time or opportunity. In the past days, I had
relatives come from Canada to visit. Then my newborn twins – now almost three
months old – have been as temperamental as Mount Krakatoa! I’m told that
because they are girls, their wailing is especially piercing and highly
amplified. I’m actually convinced that babies have a volume knob with only two positions - Off and Full Blast. With two in tow, the cries are as close to ear-deafening as you can
imagine. We just came back from the paediatrician who told us both of them have
colicky issues that won’t go off until they’re at least four months old.
On the same day, I had to send my aged father to the hospital
for an urgent blood transfusion that took up pretty much the whole day. And
because there was a kink in the IV line (and nobody noticed it), that meant the
first bag of blood took ages to finish before he could be switched to the
second pint. By the time all of these chores were over and we got home, it was
close to 10:00pm.
My deadline window was therefore shot and Issue 78/16 for
January 17 2016 is now history. Therefore the next issue will be Issue 79/16
earmarked for this Sunday, January 24.
I sincerely apologise for that.
Khen Lim
Editor-at-Large
