SYNOPSIS :

First described as a political satire by the Singapore National Arts Council in 1991 and a merit prize winner at the Singapore National Short Story Writing Competition, this book uses the contrast between the dinosaur and the cockroach (both harking from similar prehistoric ages) to explain the survival of the fittest in our political landscape. Growing up in the 1980's, the wax and wane of politics was like the intermittent fevers that touches the young mind and body of an adolescent polity. Readers have asked : who is the dinosaur. Others have asked : who is the cockroach? But the real question is : who are the school bullies? Narrated from the point of view of a primary six school boy, this book brings you down memory lane to a childhood where school gangs, spiders and haunted houses ruled the earth.