Another reason why we need libraries, or, why I need help.
Shi Min Xie I was doing research for a personal project recently about the Red Butterfly Gang in Singapore. Information has been hard to find, to be honest. A cursory Google search has…
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#PigsyChallenge 2: Reunion Dinner
Zhu Bajie looked up and saw his older brother, Sun Wu Kong, staring at him. “What are you doing here?” Bajie asked. “You don’t have the address to my office!”…
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…
My Award Speech
I received a few emails when I was told that I was shortlisted for the award. One of them said to make a one-minute speech, in the event I won.…
Su Dongpo got owned by a fart joke once, and it’s really funny.
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:…
I review KFC’s Mozzarella Burger
Every once in a while, our fast food chains come up with some decadent menu item to make everyone in this food crazed nation go insane. But wait–Shi Min, this…
I’m not doing Nanowrimo this year.
Nanowrimo. The very competition that got me into writing my first full length novel. And it was full of rubbish. Not Nanowrimo. My novel, I mean. Back in 2006, when…
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…
10 Of My Favourite Bad-Ass Women In Chinese History Part I
Some of you know I run a blog about Chinese culture, and over the years, I have gotten round to writing about my favourite bad-ass women. From pirates to poets…
The first thing I ever wrote
was a composition about a cat. I was six years old and in Primary One. I had no idea what the story we had read was about — I think…