New Ways of Seeing

Eight more days of transit, and I can't wait to arrive. The importance of journeying notwithstanding, a combination of stability and unc...

There are other 'things' that need to go. Perhaps an online garage sale is the answer. Dangling earrings that I will not wear any m...

The first phase of packing up has been exhausting, but I was surprised to discover a $100 Dymocks bookstore voucher amongst the contents of...

I have successfully avoided moving houses for four and a half years. This is not because of any spiritual attachment to my current place, b...

I journeyed to Canada to interview filmmaker Deepa Mehta. I stayed with my cousin sister, her husband, and their four-year old son. I also s...

I'm reading renowned hybrid cultural theorist Ien Ang's On not speaking Chinese , and wondering about my own ambivalent relationshi...

I'm rummaging through forgotten drawers and discovering old wealth. What is this treasure? Gifts and cards. Music and soul food. Silver ...

And then there is the unconscious, almost fetishistic Japanese consumption at the moment. I'm reading Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wo...

This has also been a week without my Motorola mobile phone whose charging port broke down. I am currently using my old spearmint Nokia which...

It has been been five days, and I am missing updating my status on Facebook (besides having my friends and family contacts at my fingertips)...