Almost everyday it was the same thing. Oh, you're not Thai? Your face... Yes, yes. I look Thai, I say. Yes, yes, our faces -- the resemblance is uncanny. How do people from other countries in Southeast Asia feel when they have conversation starters like this, I wondered.

I welcomed it… Read full post »

It was slow to develop. Insidious this enemy was. I wasn't sure how long it was brewing until it was ready to boil over. I was the cauldron and my lid was on too tight. Water was accumulating inside. My skin stretched to its limits. Exhausted, it gave in to scars.… Read full post »

Let's face it: Second-hand bookshops have it bad here in Bangkok.

With the advent and growing popularity of e-readers, second-hand shops in the developing metropolis that is Bangkok are hurting. This side of the world isn't immune to Amazon nor Barnes and Noble and its ilk. Perhaps it… Read full post »

I was spellbound almost immediately. Down the rabbit hole I went. It was like falling in love in the right place, at the right time, for all the beautifully imperfect reasons.

Every word nestled into my sternum, with no breath wasted but gasped from rapture. Metaphors were unfettered and I felt… Read full post »

Adjust the high key lighting. Set up the soft focus shot. Cue in the triumphant music. Apply fake tears of joy please. Action: This is your life. This is your life as it should have been.

Television raised me for over ten years of my life. I can't quite discern between its… Read full post »

Sudden pangs alight. Unwelcome, unsurprising.
In moments of idle with no devil but yourself to toy with.
Shame not, guilt not. Pleasure: yes. Of pain: absolutely.
Lessons past, assumed to be forgotten. Unrelenting yet inventing moments of idle with no devil nor angel to be coy with.
Please not, want not… Read full post »