SHANGHAI, CHINA (2019)

I started my first paint-by-numbers acrylic painting project about 3 weeks ago. For this, I’ve picked THE KISS by the Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt (1908). I LOVE this painting! I’ve given away my large […]

When I relocated to Sweden from Singapore slightly more than a year ago, my intention was to enjoy an early retirement. I am, afterall, 45 (soon—in September). I had in mind to do all the things I had wanted to do but didn’t because I was working a job I loved. It’s a job that took me more than a decade to shape and develop into exactly what I had envisioned it to be before I released it back to the gods for Sweden.

What I had in mind to do are […]

With The Beach Boys - In My Room

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM (2019)

Today’s text for my series of blackout poems is from TALES FROM THE PERILOUS REALM, by J. R. R. Tolkien.

Today’s text for my blackout poem is taken from THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING, the first of three volumes of J. R. R. Tolkien’s epic THE LORD OF THE RINGS.

It’s been a while since I last made a blackout poem (see a post in May 2020). I have created a few in-between but did not post them. They stayed in my notebooks. And then I sort of run out of energy (and materials) to physically black-out pages. Which is why… […]