Project SG50+1
SG50+1: Consuming and Curating Singapore What are your most precious memories of SG50? How was your SG50+1? What will SG100 look like? Join us for an interactive exercise as we […]
Mr Lee Kuan Yew and the spectacle of death: The first twelve hours on social media
27Mar15 edit: My thoughts on the viral hate here. 24Mar15 0345hrs […]
Biracials speak out! The inside world of everyday chameleons.
This post was first published on PopAnth, 3 February 2015. […]
Photologuing affect.
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Grandmotherly Folklore
My grandmother is a woman of many stories. If you spend an afternoon with her negotiating Mandarin, Cantonese, Hokkien, Teochew, or Hakka, she might even go into what she was wearing […]
Photologuing Ingestion: Man vs. Nature
Photologuing Ingestion: Man vs. Nature The Avenue, Crawley, Western Australia December 2014
Singapura Musica: Popular Music in Singapore
This is a compilation of all my favourite things about music in Singapore. Inspired by an awkward 8-minute conversation I held with a senior Singaporean lady five mornings ago. (It turns […]
Photologuing Singapore, October 2014.
wishcrys spends seven days in Singapore recalling how to play Singaporean, pretending to fit in, overdosing on local fare, and negotiating the humidity (ermergerd pls send halp). 4 academic talks, 21 […]
Academica dramatica x the commerce of anthropology
Spotted: Purity & Danger ice cream in the ivory tower […]
Freckleface!
Had to slice this gold nugget out of a recent paper to make the word count, but am so happy it exists because somebody can relate to my freckleface :) […]
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Dedicated to all mixed heritage kids.
Found an old piece I wrote five years ago (2008) while clearing out my laptop this week. Reading this again today, I feel like I was such an angsty child/teen/adult […]
Uniquely Singaporean music?
Written in early 2008 for an undergraduate class on South East Asia. “I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, […]
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