How Much of Xin Long’s Chinese New Year Mirrors My Own?
Shi Min Xie One very common question I get is whether Xin Long is based on me. The short answer is no. We’re very different people. However, since Dragonhearted is based on Chinese…
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The best Christmas present, ever.
It is the new year and this post is long overdue. For me Christmas doesn’t have that much meaning since I don’t quite celebrate it the so-called Christian way, but…
Hollywood has no original ideas
As the holidays are coming up, I’ve seen many movie trailers that are re-tellings of stories that we know and love. The Beauty and the Beast trailer came out yesterday,…
I Don’t Want to Write as a Girl! and Other Gender Related Problems at Work
said all the boys I teach. I teach young children to write picture compositions, and sometimes, the image shows that the main character is a girl. I always ask them…
Kubo and the Two Strings is such a beautiful movie!
I recently had the pleasure of watching Kubo and the Two Strings in a quiet movie theatre, and boy, was I blown away. When I watched the trailer (it wasn’t…
Why is everyone in Dragonhearted Chinese?
My dear, lovely editor, Daphne, who is always pushing me to write better, asked me this question: “Why is everyone in Dragonhearted Chinese?” I almost wanted to answer I don’t…
I have a book. Everything’s different, but still the same.
I had sushi (yay!) with a friend and he asked me how the book launches went. The best I could muster up was, “Ok lor.” “Really ah? Just okay lor?”…
Singapore is too loud!
and it’s driving me crazy. Everywhere I go, the volume is turned up to the max. In the trains (or subway, as my US friends refer to it) it’s an…
Finding Dory Review
I watched Finding Nemo when it first came out, and thought it was pretty okay. I didn’t particularly like it, but I didn’t particularly hate it. But oh boy. Finding…
What I don’t understand about Pokemon
I am playing Pokemon Sun. I would like to write that this is the fist time I’ve touched the franchise since the 90’s, but that’s not true. I played Pokemmo,…