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Reckoning with my Asian-ness: In Dialogue with de Beauvoir and Deneuve
Close to half a year ago, the Me Too movement, originally coined by African-American activist Tarana Burke, became a hashtag, on Twitter. The rest- tell-all exposés and counter-movements by third-wave feminists- is history. But how many people remember that it began with a woman of colour, largely ignored by white feminists, until now? Narratives ( Read more... ) -
For Athens and Austerity
This January, I spent a week in Greece, first in Athens, and then Santorini. It was my first time traveling without family, to a non-English speaking country. The balmy waters and pretty-as-a-postcard views won us over, when we were planning where to go, to wait out the winter ( Read more... ) -
Fun times
Some of my friends prefer an audience, but I could never write confessionally without the illusion of doing so under anonymity ( Read more... ) -
FOMO
Back in Singapore for a week, and I've been more restless than I'd bargained for. I change the water, air myself, feed at regular intervals- just like the monthly Carrefour bunch sitting pretty next to the TV. Shedding the shyness of its youth, with only hard brittleness left intact, the peonies have more in common with me, in second death than in ( Read more... ) -
Solstice
Be careful when you postpone happiness that it doesn't disappear into the horizon. Some things are so bright and beautiful they only surface once in a blue moon.
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A certain home sickness
Afternoons in Menton ( Read more... ) -
Menton
Palm-tree flecked, ray splashed city ( Read more... ) -
The fight
You've got me turning ( Read more... ) -
Amsterdam
Nos regards se sont croisés
You make me feel like a croissant,
my name melts in your mouth and I am buttery with smiles and
freshly radiant in summer sunshine
All thought evaporates
with you.
I'll want to have dinner with you someday. The wind chimes overhead
announce your laughter and they know how it feels like to be reaching,
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Doppelgangers
So junior college has really commenced and I'm abysmal at many things, like math and being on time. I really like my new class and I want to be so much closer to them ( Read more... )