Category Archives: Literature & Philosophy

Resolution for 2017: Acts of Rebellion, Great and Small

Posted on December 27, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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This time last year, I made a resolution to Laugh More and Laugh Easily, because to laugh more is to be more thankful, to have clarity of purpose and to be able to let go. I must say that on the … Continue reading →

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Turning Points and Taking Flight

Posted on March 14, 2016 by Kennie Ting

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So it seems  have reached a turning point in my life again. In December 2014, I took stock of my year, and I made a 2015 resolution to secure a THIRD book deal in a genre I had not yet been … Continue reading →

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Resolution for 2016: Laugh More and Laugh Easily

Posted on December 30, 2015 by Kennie Ting

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So this is it… The year has almost ended and it is time, once again, to take stock and give account. I made many resolutions for 2015. In fact I had a matrix of resolutions, for various different aspects of … Continue reading →

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(In the spirit of Singapore50) 50 THINGS I Want To Do In Life that I Haven’t Done

Posted on August 11, 2015 by Kennie Ting

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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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Walking in the Lake District…or a post about Nothing Much At All

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Kennie Ting

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So in the last week, I’ve been in Ambleside, in the Lake District, scaling pike and fell, fording beck and ghyll, skirting tarn and pond, and generally clambering over a number of summits to take in stunning views of Lake Windermere and … Continue reading →

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Unexpected Pathways, or Finding My Purpose and Achieving (one of my) Dreams right here at Home

Posted on May 27, 2015 by Kennie Ting

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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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Summing Up 2014 and Resolutions for 2015

Posted on December 27, 2014 by Kennie Ting

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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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The Pleasures of Travelling Solo

Posted on November 4, 2014 by Kennie Ting

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It seems almost like an oversight that I haven’t already expounded at length on this topic – so integral to the entire experience of my entire Grand Tour of the Far East has this been. You see, I dislike travelling with people. … Continue reading →

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(Unhealthily) Obsessed with the Colonial

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Kennie Ting

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Last week I paid a visit to the venerable Hotel Des Indes in The Hague (the Netherlands) – the sister hotel to the late Hotel Des Indes in Batavia (today’s Jakarta), sadly demolished by Soeharto in the 1970s. It struck … Continue reading →

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History, Heritage and the Importance of Remembering

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Kennie Ting

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As is probably evident by now, I am fascinated by History and by Heritage, which are two different things, the former being a narration of a series of events regarded as significant by a person, a community or a nation, … Continue reading →

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