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Hong Kong, view from Victoria’s Peak, 830am, 14 Jul 2010. The clouds played nice as the sun beat down mercilessly, and I decided BnW was the best way to go for this image. Hong Kong will always have a special place in my heart, because every time I visit this chaotic city, it has been for significant milestone events in [....] Continue reading Hong Kong and my milestones in life
I had an interesting online conversation with a journo today who’s thinking of finding a new job but believes he is “mono-skilled”. That causes him to believe that it’s hard for him to write his CV, or find interested recruiters. Thankfully, that’s not true at all, even as many journos continue to subscribe to that belief. Those who don’t, have [....] Continue reading On being mono-skilled Sometimes, people tell me that I write well. I disagree, because I will never be as good as Roger Ebert or Stephen King. Do read Ebert’s loving tribute to his dad here. I wish I could write a similar piece for my late mum, but I think it’ll be many, many years before I can muster the strength and bravery [....] Continue reading A loving tribute How did you feel when you first saw this image from the Haiti earthquake? Picture from AFP. Singaporeans have been grumbling online about the $50,000 that the Singapore government contributed to the Haiti relief efforts. I first found out about the grumbling from Mr Brown’s site. What surprised me was that the Straits Times’ Political Desk actually put forth a commentary [....] Continue reading What price pragmatism? Update 11 Jan 2010: Real artists painting over the “vandalized” postboxes. Picture from ST. Looks like SingPost did a nice turnaround by getting real (ie. talented) artists to paint over the “vandalized” postboxes (actually I should remove the apostrophes as I do consider the postboxes vandalized). From what the press says, this repaint is being managed by a different agency [....] Continue reading SingPost fiasco: where was the creativity? Some of you might remember Darren’s story which I wrote the night after he got married in Sep 2006. When I was a journo I asked Darren if I could write the newspaper story on him, but he was too shy. He’s not so shy now, and my dear ex-colleague Wan Ching finally did the deed a few days ago [....] Continue reading Darren’s Story Part II This is the third chapter of my upcoming book “50 Things I Wish Someone Had Told Me Earlier”. This chapter deals with the harsh realities of being a critic, officially or not. In the army, I earned several nicknames. “King Kong” for being beefy right out of dragonboat training the year before. “Lt. Smallbutt” for having a skinny derriere under the [....] Continue reading Chapter 3: It’s not easy being a critic The Second Coming Of Digicams? Surely I jest. As my faithful readers would know, I’ve been a big fan of the Olympus E-P1 Pen camera since it was first released in Singapore early last month. It’s an amazing camera for what it is, and for its target market (which most people will never figure out, and more on [....] Continue reading Will the real photographers please stand up? |
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