Tom Cho

About fifteen months ago, I became determined to realise a dream I had – to be a guest star on The Muppet Show. I had already spent a few years watching The Muppet Show and fantasising that I was the person being surrounded by Muppets and singing with them. Now I wanted to see if I could actually appear on The Muppet Show. So I set about contacting the producers of the show and thus entered into a protracted series of secret negotiations with them.

For a moment, the scholar looked at the blank sheets of paper from where his writings had now disappeared. He had written some serviceable prose to theorise about the rhyming patterns in a volume of classic Confucian poetry, but Wu’s beauty was better formed and more persuasive. The scholar put down his brush and walked over to Wu, who smiled and raised his head to meet the scholar’s kiss.

Today my Auntie Lien and I are appearing on the television show of the famed psychologist Dr Phil. The Dr Phil episode we are appearing in is titled ‘What are you really mad at?’ and Dr Phil is asking Auntie Lien and me about how we deal with anger.