On my favourite mug, and why objects are so important to us
Shi Min Xie I just spent the last hour combing my house for my favourite mug. It is a mug that shows my sense of humor–it is black in colour, has the words…
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Please don’t pirate my book
When Dragonhearted came out, I was pretty sure that no one would want to pirate this book because it wasn’t from an international publisher or anything like that. But a…
My own nanowrimo pep talk
It is National Novel Writing Month, also known as Nanowrimo. I started doing this for two years as a teenager, coping with A levels and school during my first few…
On being enough
Recently, one of my favourite artists Grant Snider posted this comic: This got me thinking about writing, and why I write. I write for various reasons now–to see my race…
My hair is blue, my hair is blue, my hair is blue
I first started dyeing my hair blue after watching that Pacific Rim movie. It is a very silly and completely illogical movie, as far as movies go–or should I say…
Another reason why we need libraries, or, why I need help.
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…
#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:…