Hollywood has no original ideas
Shi Min Xie 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,…
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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…
Thoughts On That Viral Article About Why Students Aren’t Taking Lit
One of my writer friends and a former student shared this article as to why Singaporean students aren’t taking Literature as an O level subject. You know, this one. There…
So I Had This Great Idea To Make A Book Trailer
and I didn’t realise what I was getting into. I was enamoured of all the book trailers of the Young Adult books that I’d seen on YouTube, and I wanted…
Don’t haphazardly like or share posts on social media, kthx
Facebook is an echo chamber. Whatever you like and share is tracked, and, in turn, the social media network shows you more stuff you may like. You may end up…
Shu Ping Was Originally Supposed To Be A Malay Girl…
Before Shu Ping was Shu Ping, she was supposed to be Aisyah, this Malay girl. This was a conscious decision I made because I wanted to have a little more…
How Dragonhearted came to be called, well, Dragonhearted
For the longest time, my book had no name. In fact, I went through most of the first draft without knowing what it was going to be called. Xin Long…
Pet Peeve: No! Don’t Tell Me The Spoilers!
In recent years, the term “Spoiler Alert” can be found in nearly every single review or recap of any episode, and for a while, it drove me insane. I didn’t…
Why Sailor Moon Is Important To Me, And Should Be For You, Too
When I was a young girl, my dad tried to get me into comics. He bought Daredevil, Spider-Man, and tried to introduce me to the rest. There was also X-Men,…
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,…