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proud to have proofread the latest issue of the Mekong Review, southeast asia's finest journal of the arts, literature, politics, the...

happy to share that i'm coproducing and script consulting 杨修华 (Chris) Yeo Siew Hua's upcoming feature film, Stranger Eyes《默视录》! the...

singapore turns 58 today. it's where i was born and am based, currently. here's how i've been feeling about it recently (and visually),...

Boey Kim Cheng. Clear Brightness. another poet (our finest), teacher, father, and son of singapore we’ve lost to another country and...

i've been house/catsitting for a dear friend, waking up early every day at his remote, nature-ensconced place that has little divide...

oh, to be outspoken about injustice, loud in one's beliefs; to be soft and vulnerable outwardly, too; to always be questing, searching...

after growing up reading his incisive, pithy reviews of "world cinema" in the Guardian then the Evening Standard, i met Derek Malcolm at...

while others had gods, saints, myths, i had art, literature, and music. they had jesus, mary, icarus, but i always had and have joni. on...

today's 718 days – nearly two years – since migrant-worker dormitories were gazetted as “isolation areas”. around 300,000 men are still...

honoured to have had written the album notes to maverick musician Xhin's landmark new album The Images Within. as we all pretend to...