In this classic Malaysian folktale, the beloved trickster Sang Kancil thinks she's the fastest animal in the forest. But then the mouse deer meets Snail who has a trick or two of his own up his sleeve ...
Written for early readers to enhance their vocabulary alongside their decoding skills.
Read this poem, and a second, A Moment in Poetry, which are both letters to versions of me at different times.
Selected as one of two jury favourites for PeaceVerse 2024, an initiative of Prajnya, a Chennai-based non-profit.
This poem was published in the anthology Imprint, with two other poems and two photographic art pieces.
The poem appeared alongside a second musing, Ching Ming in Sheung Wan.
My poem appeared in the January 2024 issue of the Hong Kong poetry print publication.
Included in this anthology are poems and musings.
A teenager grapples with the poignant aging of his grandfather. Will the sounds of Hong Kong heal them both?
Included in this anthology is a short story set in the time of the Covid pandemic about feeling trapped.
The poem appeared alongside a second musing, Ching Ming in Sheung Wan.
I write about a walk I took in the pre-dawn hours in a slowly, but surely, changing part of Hong Kong.
This literary article about a mamak eatery in Ipoh was published in Kyoto Journal, an award-winning,
quarterly magazine.
Two young booksellers in Hong Kong are brought together by their passion for community, connection, and books (illustrations by Erica Eng).
I submit regularly to this refreshingly eclectic and uplifting digital magazine edited across three time zones by three enterprising and tireless women.
My reflection written on 4 June 2023 was one of several similar submissions about Hong Kong from writers in various parts of the world.
Read my musings as a Malaysian writer, wandering the earth, listening to the universe and writing the stories behind my photographs.
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