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Beyond An HDB Flat.
Here is where I record my thoughts and experiences, most of which are from my time abroad and travels. Where I share and exchange insights on off-the-beaten-path destinations and translated literature. Where I discuss photography and societal observations.
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I recently read an essay “Darkness Visible” by William Styron that has the same title as his memoir in which he wrote about his struggle with depression (or ‘melancholia’ as he would prefer to call it) and how he emerged from it. I often find it hard to read a long article online as my…
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Last month, while waiting at the Bilbao airport for AB to arrive from Paris, I sat in a quiet corner reading Stefan Zweig’s Beware of Pity. The quietness was disrupted by a family with three small boys, probably between the ages of three and six. The eldest boy was amusing himself with jumping from one…
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In just a few days I’ll in Heidelberg, Germany to participate in a Magnum photography workshop led by Chang Chien-Chi. Am super excited about it but am also a little anxious as I’ve still not decided on a subject for my project. Ideally, the subject should be related to the trans-territories theme of the 5th Fotofestival…
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Some years back, I came across a photo of a tiny village in the mountains that was taken on a misty day and I was immediately captivated. The caption read “Asturias, Picos de Europa”. I cut the page from the magazine and put it into my folder for travel ideas. I was recently reminded of Asturias…
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Gerbrand Bakker’s “The Detour“, translated from Dutch into English by David Colmer: This is a story about a woman with a debilitating illness who has escaped from her former life in Amsterdam and retreated into a rural farmhouse, complete with an unused pigsty, geese and roaming sheep, in northern Wales. Narrated from a third-person perspective, the…
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