UNTIL recently, if you were to ask me where paradise was, I would be unable to answer. Now I have a ready reply: It's in the Maldives.

I was in paradise last month, soaking up the sun in my villa's private pool at the Angsana Velavaru resort.

I was in paradise as I gazed under the resort's jetty and saw shoals of baby sharks swimming in some of the clearest water I've seen. And I was in paradise when I dined one night on the beach of an uninhabited island, with the waves lapping metres from me.

Read the Wong Ah Yoke's story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.