- Stephen J Hall is Director, Language and Compulsory Studies, Sunway University College, Malaysia.
- “Being preoccupied with sounds and music tends to get in the way of cooking and the study of fermented grape juice for a Kiwi bibliophile. Academically the presenter has no musical training, although a few tricks of musical and linguistic humour are found to be vital for sanity, especially when facing yet more e mails and requests for catchy biodata. Maybe it is ‘catch no ball’ sometimes as they say in Singlish, as Dr Stephen J Hall may have permanent head damage which you do get after thousands of words”.
- “There has been lots of Singlish and Manglish to work through too with observing many a teacher-fronted classroom. Added to that, he has written, talked and played for thrice times ten years in English language teaching in the Asia Pacific. He knows that humour is under rated and irony a dying art but gets enough of both by reading the local dailies occasionally.”
