The Silent Room

I have just returned from my short vacation, after spending over 12 hours on the road and in the air. I spent five wonderful days in the fascinating Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam and, as promised, I shall share with you all about it in the next series of travelogues: The Saigon Tourist. Now, if [...]

I’ll be going away on a 5-day trip for a short vacation. I won’t disclose the location yet, but I can tell you that it’s somewhere abroad. It sounds like a promising trip, and yes, I will compile a photography travelogue for this one upon my return. See ya when I get home ;) Small [...]

So, she and I were walking around Times Square, chatting while we wait for the cinema to open up its seats. Her: So where do you usually hang out? Around here in Bukit Bintang or elsewhere? Me: At my local mamak with my drinking buddies. I don’t usually go to malls unless I’m looking for [...]

Now comes the part where I talk about titles that I placed marking pins on. I’ve been eyeballing some shows the moment the list of shows for Fall 2007 came out on the intarweb. I marked them because I was definitely not going to miss them and because I had certain expectations for them. Minami-ke [...]

And so another year has come to an end. Quite a number of things have happened over the past 12 months, and I must say, it was one hell of a ride. Early in 2007, I was taking the reins of a society that was very close to dying a quiet, unknown death. Around that [...]