Category: Asia Pacific
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New Malaysia pivots with ‘waddling gait’
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I lift the ‘waddling gait’ from the best “Train to Busan” film review written IMHO by Maggie Lee, writer, film critic, film festival organiser and films made in Asia advocate. I find this phrase such a tickle, and Maggie Lee, an ingenue. Malaysia’s political scene has more dips and highs…
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Fiction Writing: Shorts Stories 2023 (resulting from ‘Words on Fire’ Workshop with Sharon Bakar)
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I attended Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire creative writing class of March – May 2023 titled, “Finding the Flow”. It’s been the most exhilarating ride made smooth by words, an amazing comradery with fellow writers and the kindest and most beautiful teacher. I highly recommend this workshop for it has…
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Podcast: Listen by Heart Podcast
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In everything, once you have set your heart on a purpose, intentions will flow downstream through tributaries into the big blue sea. In this case, the South China Sea. Let’s begin with intentions. My family and I were emotionally hurtled down a cliff and we buckled in to the carebear…
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In the news: An Interview by AirAsia on AFT Podcasts
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I was invited by Kerry-Ann Augustin, Senior Writer at airasia to speak about my experience as a podcaster. View the published article on airasia’s website. Read on for the full unedited interview. Thank you for this opportunity to share my tale. Kerry-Ann Augustin: Tell us a bit about your professional…
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Podcast: A Merdeka Story: from little things big things grow 🖤💛💙❤️
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Warning: To Aboriginal & Torres Straits Islander readers, the following article contains images and voices of people who have passed away. Also streaming via Spotify | Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | iHeartRadio | RSS On August 9th 2021, International Day of the World’s Indigenous^ Peoples themed ‘Leaving No One…
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Blog: Art collections
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Tales of an era are often expressed in various art forms. I believe these are cultural assets of our times, and I started collecting artworks from artists I personally know. Knowing the artist as a person humanises the art piece and gives so much more depth to the meaning of…
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GO rebrands to GIG
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This May, we celebrate the 16th year of Go International Group, a creative agency established in 2005 by two ordinary women (we were young girls then) who wanted to make a positive change in the world. Read about our entrepreneurial journey here (11-minute read). This is us now! Inspired by…
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Yellow Face 😀
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Also published in Medium. BlueLotus invited me to the preview of a play – Yellow Face, she says. Neither of us read up on it, we were both busy but yearned for an evening out and with zero expectations, we met at 5:00pm on a crisp April evening for a…
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Whose land is it anyway if it’s not your Motherland
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Originally published in MEDIUM. In the next 12 minutes, we’ll head off the beaten track and traverse from Georgetown to Tasmania, hop across to LA for a minute then boomerang back to Sydney to witness how multiculturalism is a winning card for a country to achieve greatness. That, is my…
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Self. Less.
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Sephora, Sephora, Sephora! According to Wikipedia, Sephora is owned by luxury conglomerate LVMH as of 1997. The Sephora logo is a white “S”-shaped flame against a black background. The name comes from the Greek spelling of Zipporah (Greek: Σεπφώρα, Sepphōra), wife of Moses. In November 2018, Sephora and Google released and shared this case…