Lessons from a clowning class

Palestinian clowns entertain children, in Deir al-Balah town in the central Gaza Strip.

On April Fool’s Day, I was one of 12 people who climbed the stairs to the second storey of a shophouse in Desker Road to attend a class in clowning.

Among us were a software engineer, a dancer, an educator, a pharmaceutical executive, a trichologist, an A-level student from Brunei and an NSman.