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This past weekend, Singapore celebrated its 50th year of Independence on 9th August. It was a time of reflection as well as of dreaming…in the sense of imagining and aspiring towards more to achieve in the future. I thought…since in … Continue reading
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So it’s hard to believe that I’ve only been back home in Singapore 2 years and 9 months. I moved home officially from New York City in October 2012, and in three months time, I commemorate three years of homecoming. It doesn’t … Continue reading
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So its been almost three years now since I stopped this business of trying to discover myself through travelling all over the world, visiting old friends and exploring new vistas. [I officially stopped in August 2012.] At the time, I … Continue reading
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Last week, I popped into the Museum to admire the whale bone in its natural history galleries, dropped by a streetside stall to have a cup of teh tarik (pulled tea) and – it being the Chinese Lunar New Year – also visited the … Continue reading
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I don’t believe for one moment that Home is just one city. At least, it has never been that way for me. And I suspect that for many people – be it migrants, refugees, frequent travellers or even armchair travellers, … Continue reading
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What a year! What a dream! I’ve done so much… and seen so much! I don’t just have one book being published – The Romance of the Grand Tour: Fabled Port Cities from Rangoon to Hong Kong – coming to … Continue reading
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Shanghai is one of those epic cities that once you get to know, you will find impossible to forget. It lingers on in the mind like an ex-lover, suggesting drama and romance. It is also one of the six cities … Continue reading
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A couple of months ago, in my post “The Grass is Green enough Here, wherever Here is,” I introduced the idea that a whole generation of my friends, including myself, belonged to “the Ariel Generation”, “Ariel referring to the name … Continue reading
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The irony about the concept of (one’s) ROOTS is that while it refers to something static and unchanging – i.e. just as tree roots anchor the tree to the ground, one’s (familial and cultural) roots are thought to be rigid … Continue reading
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I suppose an account, or at the very least, an explanation is in order. It has been a full eight months since my last post – which had a rather definitive tone to it, I might add. I hadn’t a … Continue reading
Dream Of A City 