Trying something a little different this year. I try to come up with a soundtrack for the year that's just passed (haven't done it for two years already), but this time around I felt there are some thoughts and experiences that even music can't explain. As a result, on this wet New Year's Eve, I'm going to list 23 things that made 2013 worth ( Read more... )

I've been steadfastly abstaining myself from LJ-ing because I simply have too much work to do. But now that things have finished and settled down, I can return to the quiet luxury of maintaining a blog.

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About work: the Singapore government has designated one part of the institute that I work for as the country's third school of law. This, in ( Read more... )

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I'm equal parts puzzled and amused by this thing called fanfiction ( Read more... )

1.Being Asian is living in a neighbourhood full of bigger kids. It's impossible to control what they do and how they want to do it. Case in point - and every Indonesian, Malaysian and Singaporean will probably understand - the ridiculous haze that we've just come out of. Indonesians in some far-flung province burn down some forest, the smoke ( Read more... )

I haven't been updating because I've been polishing up photos of my Canada trip. And trying to escape the terrible haze that's enveloped Singapore. And thinking about life ( Read more... )

I was at Hong Lim park for the Free My Internet protest. As protests go, turnout wasn't huge and the sun was a killer. But the mood of the crowd and the sheer amount of props made up for it. If there's any indication that Singaporeans are getting more creative in making their voices heard, this is it:


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After getting a smartphone last March, I've realised that for years I've been missing out on the ease of taking photographs using a handphone camera. So on this recent trip, I utilised my trusty Nokia phone to take as many pictures as I could when it seemed too inconvenient to whip out the larger camera I normally use for posed or static images ( Read more... )

I'll be leaving in a few hours for Vancouver. After what will be a crazy 18-hour flight, I'll be in the place where Jit Tian, my cousin Alvin and a huge host of distant aunts, uncles and relatives call home ( Read more... )

"This is the track my life is setting on,
spacious the spanless way I wend..."
- This is the Track, by Wilfred Owen ( Read more... )