and this is my preliminary draft. any resemblance to characters or situations dead or alive… is wholly intentional. this novel will be about my family. novels about dysfunctional families sell really well—see jonathan franzen’s “the corrections”, for example, in what seems like a thousand pages in a hefty tome about… well, families that don’t work, families that [...]

If anyone still cares about this site at all, the lowdown is I graduated from university three months ago. And how things have changed. If I knew before university what I know now, I would say: screw this education, the one I received in particular. I haven’t collected my transcripts, I’m not sure I’m going [...]

So I’m working on a couple of things at the moment. One of them involves some research through our nation’s archives. In the midst of my preliminary reading on Singapore’s legislative assembly debates of the 60s (this involves hours of sitting in a dark room squinting at microfilm), I became fixated by the list of [...]

I’ll be speaking at my alma mater next Saturday, on… (drum roll) photojournalism and… poverty in Asia, as part of a AIESEC-organized campaign to increase awareness of poverty on campus. I don’t know why exactly they think I’d be an expert on that, other than how much time I spend travelling around the poorer regions [...]

A short field report + the painless way of getting Ubuntu working I picked up the 8G version of the insanely popular Asus Eee PC while on holiday in Taipei last December, the same model that’s been in short supply everywhere else except Asus’ motherland. The Taiwanese version of the Eee PC comes in traditional Chinese [...]