Category: Asia Pacific

  • New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’

    New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’

    I lift the ‘waddling gait’ from the best “Train to Busan” film review written IMHO by Maggie Lee, writer, film critic, film festival organiser and films made in Asia advocate. I find this phrase such a tickle, and Maggie Lee, an ingenue. Malaysia’s political scene has more dips and highs…

  • Fiction Writing: Shorts Stories 2023 (resulting from ‘Words on Fire’ Workshop with Sharon Bakar)

    Fiction Writing: Shorts Stories 2023 (resulting from ‘Words on Fire’ Workshop with Sharon Bakar)

    I attended Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire creative writing class of March – May 2023 titled, “Finding the Flow”. It’s been the most exhilarating ride made smooth by words, an amazing comradery with fellow writers and the kindest and most beautiful teacher. I highly recommend this workshop for it has…

  • Podcast: Listen by Heart Podcast

    Podcast: Listen by Heart Podcast

    In everything, once you have set your heart on a purpose, intentions will flow downstream through tributaries into the big blue sea. In this case, the South China Sea. Let’s begin with intentions. My family and I were emotionally hurtled down a cliff and we buckled in to the carebear…

  • In the news: An Interview by AirAsia on AFT Podcasts

    In the news: An Interview by AirAsia on AFT Podcasts

    I was invited by Kerry-Ann Augustin, Senior Writer at airasia to speak about my experience as a podcaster. View the published article on airasia’s website. Read on for the full unedited interview. Thank you for this opportunity to share my tale. Kerry-Ann Augustin: Tell us a bit about your professional…

  • Podcast: A Merdeka Story: from little things big things grow 🖤💛💙❤️

    I acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation and all the other Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live on and work when in Australia. I pay respect to them as First Nations people with a continuing connection to land, place, waters and community. To Aboriginal &…

  • Blog: Art collections

    Tales of an era are often expressed in various art forms. I believe these are cultural assets of our times, and I started collecting artworks from artists I personally know. Knowing the artist as a person humanises the art piece and gives so much more depth to the meaning of…

  • GO rebrands to GIG

    GO rebrands to GIG

    This May, we celebrate the 16th year of Go International Group, a creative agency established in 2005 by two ordinary women (we were young girls then) who wanted to make a positive change in the world. Read about our entrepreneurial journey here (11-minute read). This is us now! Inspired by…

  • Yellow Face 😀

    Yellow Face 😀

    Also published in Medium. BlueLotus invited me to the preview of a play – Yellow Face, she says. Neither of us read up on it, we were both busy but yearned for an evening out and with zero expectations, we met at 5:00pm on a crisp April evening for a…

  • Whose land is it anyway if it’s not your Motherland

    Whose land is it anyway if it’s not your Motherland

    Originally published in MEDIUM. In the next 12 minutes, we’ll head off the beaten track and traverse from Georgetown to Tasmania, hop across to LA for a minute then boomerang back to Sydney to witness how multiculturalism is a winning card for a country to achieve greatness. That, is my…