Chuang’s artworks is one of hundreds currently on display at “The International Surrealism Now Exhibition” until 11 July 2021 at the Center of Arts and Spectacle (CAE) in the city of Figueira da Foz in Portugal.

BlueLotus invited me to the preview of a play — Yellow Face, she says. We didn’t read up on it as we had both been busy but yearned for an evening out and with zero expectations, we met at 5:00pm on a crisp April evening for a 12,000km meander from…

Life is a series of ironic twists and turns. It’s how we react and deal with situations as they come. Unexpected and like a thief in the night, the coronavirus crept into our virtual chimneys, threatened to infect and maim us with a flu so sticky it would drown our…

Two everyday women meet with sports, fitness & wellness personalities from Asia and the Pacific region to unravel lesser-told life stories – those about people living with non-communicable diseases like diabetes, chronic kidney disease or Alzheimer’s, what some call Type III. I’m one of those everyday women and also a…

Retired athlete Nicol David joins AsiaFitnessToday duo, Nikki Yeo and Jasmine Low in “The Kurang Manis (Sugar, Less) Podcast”. Nikki Yeo, lab scientist Dr. Desmond Menon and I had the immense honour of meeting Nicol David virtually just three days after she was voted as The World Games G.O.A.T. —…

Thanks for doing this, Al Jazeera. When the ‘THEY’ becomes ‘US’, people in Asia will start to stand up and speak out. For decades, ask any, many Asian immigrants to first world countries, our relatives, our friends, our parents if they have quietly accepted abuse, threats at work or…

Who’s a Spike Lee fan here? In the 1980s, a film of the title above was released by one of America’s most revered film directors. In my research, I was quite surprised to read that they actually produced the film for a budget of US$6 million! That’s quite a hefty…

I once scoffed over my cup of tea and scones reading about the existence of a Kindness Association in Singapore. Wouldn’t kindness be a default of being human, I thought. Does everything need instruction? Why do people need to be reminded to be kind? Then there’s the “for-purpose company”, which would set one on a trajectory — does a company exist as an instrument to deliver solutions for the greater common good of humanity? Or are they solely for-profit to reward shareholders?