Su Dongpo got owned by a fart joke once, and it’s really funny.
Shi Min Xie There’s this post on Tumblr that details what happened. Anyway, Su Dongpo the writer had his own pretensions and wrote this poem to his monk friend, which looked like this:…
May 2018
Holding Dragonhearted for the first time
Holding your first book in your hands for the first time is a strange and wondrous feeling. I remember rushing to the pop up store at the National Library that…
You don’t need to train as a “journalist” to be a writer
I wish I had known that when I was younger. Some of my readers and friends may know that I used to be a so-called digital journalist, but I don’t…
Bookish Worlds I’d Never Want to Live In
A few weeks ago, my colleague asked me which fictional world I would live in, and my response was none of them. In recent years, dystopias have been very popular,…
Writing is a privilege
A few years ago, I was at the Singapore Writers Festival at a panel of writers. If I get into anymore specifics, I will easily reveal the identity of these…
I don’t like the question, “What inspires you?”
Sometimes, when I’m interviewed, I get this question. I actually get it a lot. I don’t blame the interviewer. As a writer who is relatively unknown, there isn’t that much…