Unlike most people I know, I don’t decorate my home. Mostly because I don’t like clutter. After all, where does one draw the line between decoration and clutter? (The ever-growing piles of books in my apartment don’t count as the latter.) Ever since I moved to Brussels two and a half years ago, the only decorative item…
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My heater broke down yesterday. While waiting in my freezing apartment for the technician to arrive this morning, my thoughts drifted to warm sunny Bali where I visited for the first time in October. Nicknamed “Island of the Gods”, there are estimated to be over 20,000 temples on Bali. The island’s predominantly Hindu population practises a…
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Earlier today I was going through some photos of scanned negatives that had unfortunately deteriorated as they were not stored in air-tight conditions in humid Singapore. Most of the scanned images taken in the 1980s appear yellowed and/or with white streaks running all over. While browsing through them, I spotted a double-exposed image of me…
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Have you ever completed The Proust Questionnaire? Made famous by Marcel Proust, this was a common parlor game during the Belle Epoque and supposedly unveils the aspirations and thoughts of those answering it. There are two known sets of answers by Proust – the first was from the mid-1880s when he was around 13 and the…
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I was in London over the weekend and returned to Brussels with five new books in the suitcase. The only one that I had intended to get was Mo Yan’s “Life and Death are Wearing Me Out”, but it’s so difficult to resist the temptation of picking up more books once I was in the…
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Mong Kok is one of my favourite neighbourhoods in Hong Kong. Sure, it’s chaotic and crowded, perhaps a little gritty if you wander into one of the narrow dimly lit streets, but it’s always throbbing with energy and I love being amidst this never-ending mass of spindly towers squeezed in between one another while a sea…
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22 January 2013: It was the last day of my brief visit to Taipei. With just a few hours before my flight to Shanghai, I decided to get out of the hotel, take the metro two stops to Zhongxiao Dunhua and have lunch at a restaurant (Du Xiao Yue 度小月擔仔麵) that was recommended to me.…
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After 1.5 years of living in Brussels, I finally made my way to Café Belga at Place Flagey last weekend. 2 March, Saturday: A sunny cool day spent at a window seat with The Garlic Ballads by Mo Yan while sipping several cups of mint tea, mostly compliments of a server at the bar :…
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Angelina Hue 