Performing the Arts to Excel in Life

By Julia Tan

August 2018 FEATURE
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Last year's Find Your Light performance.
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The last time I chatted with Soonufat Supramaniam, or Soon, was in 2014. He was preparing for a (dark but candid) performing arts piece for George Town Festival, titled Nine Deaths One Life, which explored death and celebrated its inevitability.Soonufat Supramaniam.Now he’s moved on to something that couldn’t be any more different: Soon is a Teach for Malaysia alumnus and is currently an English teacher at SMK Lubok Buntar, Kedah. He is in the middle of producing a play on bullying...

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Julia Tan

went to primary and secondary school at Convent Pulau Tikus before continuing sixth form at St. Xavier’s Institution; any other school was out of the question. She misses the fried rice at the school canteen, and laments the passing of the wan tan mee lady.

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