The Real Singapore Conversations
I posted this on Facebook the night of the incident. Re-posting this here for posterity. Projects like Culture Kitchen — and a few more up my sleeve — began with the uneasy realisation that something...
View ArticleLittle India Urban Renewal Plan
I believe an urban renewal and community reorganization of the Little India precinct can achieve the following: (a) the creation of public spaces to be shared by Singaporeans, residents, tourists and...
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I Follow Cities
When I think of the 1980s, I think of the news. In English and Mandarin, both brought to you by Raymond Weil. When I think of the 1990s, I think of Michael Stipe’s sonic-drenched wailing about his...
View ArticleDon’t Lugi Be Happy
In peninsular Southeast Asia there is a word of Malay origin, bastardized by Chinese pronunciation that perhaps best describes the prevalent mindset of the middle class in everything from career to...
View ArticleThe Geography of Hope
At 18 I certainly believed I knew everything. I did not know just how much it’d hurt this boy’s heart if I told him the inevitable: that I was in love with someone he could never be—a woman. We went to...
View ArticleCulture Kitchen 2: Little Myanmar
If you are anything like me, you’ve walked by Peninsula Plaza all the time and perhaps even entered it when you’ve needed to buy cameras and stuff. You’ve probably also wondered about all the wondrous...
View ArticleAn Open Letter
On February 21, I wrote an open letter to the Health Minister, CC-ing the Prime Minister and the Law Minister. This was prompted by the Feminist Mentor’s own open letter. I found LoveSingapore’s...
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Sitrep
I got a Battlestar Galactica tattoo I’m pretty pleased about that It’s one half of the pair of wings and Caprica constellation that Starbuck gets when she marries Anders Within a couple of hours of...
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The Freedom to Love
Ten years ago the Internet was a different place. Singapore was a different place. While it wasn’t exactly the sort of pitchfork-wielding, gay-vilifying environment you would imagine, you certainly did...
View ArticleSingapore’s So-Called Moral Majority
Call it what you will — if there are some among us in Singapore who fashion ourselves the conservative majority, the silent majority, the moral majority — that line, and its consequent political...
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