The year of submitting dangerously
Shi Min Xie I want to say that this is the year of submitting dangerously, and when I think about it, it is. This year, I submitted my work a lot more and…
November 2018
The Dragon Prince — A Review
My idea of what dragon princes are come from old Chinese tv serials that I used to watch as a kid, so when this came out on Netflix and R…
Memorising ‘good phrases’ isn’t really the way to teach kids how to write
I get slightly exasperated when students’ parents ask me if there is a list of phrases that their child can memorise to get ready for their composition examinations. I don’t…
In many Asian stories, the women are either ghosts or wives
I just finished reading a comic book that was written by an Asian writer and I was sorely disappointed by its content. I don’t want to name names or even…
Halloween favourite: Paranorman
I must confess that I don’t like horror movies very much. Often, I cannot fall asleep after watching one and I can conjure up the ghost’s/demon’s/devil’s/serial killer’s image in my…