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in appreciation of 楊德昌 Edward Yang who, over seven and a quarter films i experienced during a solitary and angry youth, taught me that:...

i'm happy to embark on the inaugural ArtsEquator Fellowship for mid-career (!) arts critics-journalists, a decade after my first writing...

i must admit i wasn't fully convinced by Yeule, the SG-born, UK-based artist, when their previous album Glitch Princess (2022) brought...

in the dark year of 2020, a dear friend's wife wanted to learn more about singapore. she asked me for a list of local books, and i shared...

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...