The Best Moments Of 2010
It’s the day before New Year’s Eve. 2010 is coming to an end. It has been a challenging and rewarding year. If 2010 was a personal movie, what were my best moments this year? March – July. Setting up and securing funding for Homerun Asia …
White House, White Christmas
Today is the third day of Christmas. This year, the theme of my Christmas decoration is white, with black and silver. This colour scheme is integral to how I have re-decorated my house recently. It has been an unusually cold and white Christmas in many …
A New Space At Home
We all need some distractions, however focused we are on what needs to be accomplished. This being the start-up year for Homerun Asia, I have been thinking, eating, sleeping the business. There is progress, but it is of course not fast enough for me. Yet, …
Tea With Mr. Lee
There is yet another art exhibition on Lee Kuan Yew. On its opening night on Thursday, almost all the paintings were sold. The painter, May Oon was a journalist in Singapore and Hong Kong. This is her second solo show. Her first solo exhibition was …
From The Outside Looking In
Siti, our helper, told me today, our contractor who built our house on Thomson Hill, someone who knows me for over a decade, spoke unkindly about the way I live with my mother. Last year, we had to put a wire mesh around my mother’s …
Seeing Lee Kuan Yew Through Art
The watercolor shows a gaming table with three playing cards, each depicting a different portrait of Lee Kuan Yew. Small figures kneel at the corners pleading, ‘Papa, can you help me not be frightened?’ and ‘Papa, don’t you know I have no choice?’ These are …
Tsui Hark’s Detective Dee Raises Cinematic Hope!
Can ‘Detective Dee’ be the comeback of Tsui Hark? Some of us have been waiting for over a decade! The younger generation may not know this – Tsui Hark is the foremost father of Modern Chinese Cinema. Many who grew up watching Chinese movies hail …
Mrs Lee Kuan Yew – The Lady By His Side, A Pioneer In Her Own Right
For most of us who had never met her, she was the lady by the side of the most influential and powerful man in Singapore. Little by little, over the years, we know a little more, and a little more about her. With her existence, …
Zhang Yimou’s Under The Hawthorn Tree Casts A Simple, Innocent Spell
I made a special effort to watch Zhang Yimou’s latest film. Bill Kong arranged for the screening. It had to be in Hong Kong. So I had to fly to watch Under The Hawthorn Tree. It was worth the effort on several counts. So the …
My Mother Has Wheels!
Today is a happy day! The 18th of September. My mother can get in and see the Botanic Gardens. She has wheels! I couldn’t decide. She couldn’t accept. This week I decided and she accepted. The fact that she will be on a wheelchair when …