Having just settled back in Perth after our 9-months’ stint in Qingdao, China, I scrambled through the articles to catch some wind of some jazz news. Each time i do this, i find my other pair of fingers crossed. The last i checked, more jazz venues closed down. More live music venues closed down. Coming   Read More …

Monday is our day off, and hence my Sunday. Thus Tuesday begins our new week. With all the (bad) news that’s bombarding us from day to day, i thought i would share my own little good news to start the week. About 4 months ago, I felt a pain in my arm, near the line   Read More …

I had never celebrated Chinese New Year in China itself and was certainly looking forward to it. It doesn’t have the vibes nor the ‘noise’ of CNY in Singapore. I say noise since if you’re familiar with the Chinese tradition, you’d know the gong and the noise of celebration is to chase away the demon   Read More …

I hadn’t doodled for a while. It takes courage to scribble and doodle, for it requires one to dive into a moment and not have an agenda, an intention. But just be in a moment. I love it. This morning, unfortunately woken up and caught the news of the Kao-Hsiung earthquake. I thought for those   Read More …