• Exit Through the Gift Shop

    On 2nd December, 2009, I posted these Banksy images on my previous blog: Responses: [Click image to enlarge] Recently, I watched Exit Through the Gift Shop. It’s a reasonably enjoyable film, and one of the highlights, for me, is this counterfeited tenner: –

  • Lyn Lifshin’s Ballroom

    – BallroomA new Book by Lyn Lifshin Price: $9.00 Paperback: 286 pages Language: English ISBN-10: 1596611421 ISBN-13: 978-1596611429 Product Dimensions: 7.4 x 4.9 x 0.9 inches Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces Publisher: March Street Press 3413 Wilshire Dr Greensboro NC 27408 Learn…

  • Eddie Tay reads at Kubrick, Sunday 26 December 2010

    –From the Kubrick Poetry website: 時間 Time：2010/12/26 (Sun) 5:00pm-6:00pm 地點 Venue: 油麻地 Kubrick (next to Broadway Cinemathèque, 3 Public Square St.) 主持 Moderators：Polly Ho, Adam Cheung, Florence Ng, Wong Wai Yim 詩人來賓 Guest Poet：Eddie Tay Born in Singapore, Eddie Tay…

  • My scarf visited its foster home

    This post was originally written on 15th February, 2009. 妹妹說我的頭像雞蛋 My favourite scarf is long, long enough to be an afternoon blanket for two babies, and the remaining length draping all over the floor. I only wear it when I…

  • Are you that bird? Am I that bird? Perhaps one day?

    I love this picture taken by the graphomaniac bookworm; it is so serene, so mysterious. “Some street in Belfast. I don’t know the name. I just know that it was during the Easter break, in 2004, and that I was…

  • Nowhere Boy

    Aaron Johnson is handsome (and young!). We watched Sam Taylor-Wood’s Nowhere Boy, a film about the young John Lennon, played rather convincingly, I must say, by Aaron Johnson. However, he is certainly not as good as Kristin Scott Thomas, who…

  • I guessed it right, after two tries

    Langham Place The translator sent me this picture – I like how the daylight comes through the squared windows. ––

  • CHA — Call for Submissions — Fourth Anniversary Issue

    – Cha: An Asian Literary Journal is now calling for submissions for its November 2011 issue (Issue #15). Please send in (preferably Asian-themed) poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews, photography & art for consideration. Submission guidelines can be found here. Deadline: 15 September, 2011.…

  • Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong

    UPDATED in January 2011: Measurements: Sketches from Hong Kong is now available from Paddyfield.  –– Measurements: Sketches from Hong KongEds. Melanie Ho & Simon OvertonHong Kong Writers Circle – We are very happy to say that Hong Kong Writers Circle‘s…

  • What is gossip?

    The answer can be found in Doubt, the 2008 film adaptation of the John Patrick Shanley’s stage play Doubt: A Parable, which won a Pulitzer Prize: A woman was gossiping with her friend about a man whom they hardly knew…