Scalable ambitions, that is where I set out to be – to create and indulge in topics and activities that render the stimulations we crave. Yet, often falling into the routine of inconsistency, or rather falling out of a routine altogether. I don’t proclaim myself to be a perfectionist, but I will admit to my… Read More [Re]Build; keep the archive moving
(Happy) International Women’s Day! As much as Facebook’s “On This Day” function gives me anxiety with flashes of mistakes from yesteryears, what popped up on 8 March was but heart-warming and reassuring. 2 years ago in 2016 was my first encounter with Gender History academically; and essentially one of the few reasons I extended my… Read More International Women’s Day – it’s not a gender war, it’s not a sex war
It’s 2018 – we’re into the second month and not exactly a new year; precisely this timeline appropriate for a retrospection. How was 2017? A question that has put off, and sometimes haunted me. Ploughing through the year was not any easier than recounting it on hindsight. Whenever I attempted to reason my choices,… Read More How do you count your year; 2017 or 2018?
With an appetite for anything historical, a visit to the Ancient World – birth of philosophy, as some will have it – is a mere pre-requisite to the ranks of ‘cultural traveller’; or ‘cultured traveller’ for that matter. Mentions of Athens would conjure images of ancient ruins and Classical monuments; it is no doubt a… Read More Blue; the colours of Athens, Greece
Two quarters after my graduation in May, I found myself prancing around galleries. National Gallery to be exact. National Gallery Singapore is home to 8,000 works that chronicle the trajectories of art history of Singapore and the region from 19th century to the present day. It feels almost synonymous to museums; and museums can be… Read More Making Sense(s) of National Gallery
On the 15th day of the 7th lunar month, it is believed that yang (good energy) is at its lowest. As the working day draws to an end, my boss came into our office: she lit the ends of the sage bundle and waved, diffusing smoke into our work spaces. I smiled, as I struggled… Read More Is death the end of life or the beginning of a new one?
Death is only an escape; an option To another kind of living. For to truly die, is to be deadened. Deadened, in the state of un- Unknowing, unfeeling, unwanting. Unknowing the drag of the lull, Unfeeling the ghost that lives within, Unwanting.
The late afternoon sun shines a little too brightly as I struggle with branding and marketing tactics for our new client. I am desk-bound, but I am not lackadaisical. Analysing food trends, wellness habits, and health products are my elixir; and to be able to do it for work has made me look forward to… Read More Are you what you eat?
// Isaac returned to his office at the UN headquarter in New York where he was summarily reprimanded for bringing back a story instead of pictures. That his job was to take photographs, to tell a story with images, was made very explicitly clear to him. “I never take any picture that would take… Read More We don’t only take pictures, we make them.
Oscillating within the tripartite of work, failed relationship with administrative matters (rejected visa application in March) and familial obligations (wedding bells), air travel has lost its novelty on me. Not quite to the extent of knowing the various airports’ abbreviations by heart, but flight time would garner nonchalance and turbulences warrant an abyss of annoyance.… Read More Seeing is not believing; you are only seeing refracted visions.
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