Sambal my red typewriter has been acting wonky ever since the move to Sweden. It’s jumping one keystroke every four characters. This is why you’re seeing “START WEIGHT” spelled strangely above. At first I was quite annoyed and saddened by it, but after a while I decided to just embrace its wonkiness.

This is also the period of the 2022 Parliamentary election in Sweden. […]

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 […]

For this reading, I have decided to kill two birds with one stone, i.e., not only is this helping me practice speak Swedish, it is also helping me write better in Swedish, because the material that I have chosen is a language tip taken from Språkkonsulterna. […]

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.