

Shopping is Like Eating Chocolate
I was seven or eight when I went to Center Point Sabah for the first time with my two elder sisters. It was December; the mall was packed...


A Writer's Lament & Coming Back Home
I have broken my covenant of writing and posting a blog every week here. It felt as though falling into a rabbit hole—one hole after...


A Purple Gem of Inspiration
I was re-writing a short story that I had written last year, and then I took a short break. I walked outside (I was in my parents' house,...


Sitting on a Timber Chair
Sandakan before WWII is a significant setting for the novel I've been working on for about two and a half years now. Last year, I had a...


The Walls of Mosses
“What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well.” –Lord Perceval One thing Alma Whitaker and I share is our fascination towards...