Encouraging reading (Vietnam) August 29, 2025 I often hear about people not being interested in books or reading. I feel one reason for the decline in interest in books is that we rarely Traveling with the Daylight DC-1 (Japan) August 17, 2025 I spent a few days traveling with the Daylight DC 1. Mostly I read and I wrote. Previously I read on the base model Kindle. The Daylight is more No, you won’t be kidnapped in Phnom Penh (Cambodia) August 15, 2025 Notes from a 15 minutes sharing about Phnom Penh as a weekend destination for a mostly Singapore audience. Locals often use PP as an abbreviation Testing luggage trackers (Vietnam) June 5, 2025 I am testing the popular luggage trackers across multiple cities. In terms of accuracy, the ranking so far is: 1. Apple AirTag, 2. Samsung A single unruly lock of hair (Singapore) May 16, 2025 A bevy of Korean tourists sat across from me—impeccably dressed, perfectly mannered. But one stood out, thanks to a single unruly lock of hair. She The bookstore in Ginza (Japan) April 4, 2025 In the 2000s, I used to loiter around Sichuan University. I was a yóu xué shēng—a wayfaring student—someone who enjoyed joining classes without The dancer (Singapore) March 5, 2025 I was heading to my neighbourhood juice shop when I saw a woman, waiting for her drink, suddenly break into a dance. Curious about the music, I Bad decisions (Vietnam) February 26, 2025 In my travels, often people contact me for “love advices” or travel queries. One of my favourite places to meet for such consultations is Ơi cafe in Love is far away (Vietnam) January 5, 2025 The young chef in Hanoi’s Japanese area spoke good Japanese. She said she had lived in Tokyo previously. I asked her what neighborhood. With a Collecting Nostalgia and Tofu Nwe (Cambodia) November 27, 2024 A colorful alley in Hong Kong reminds me of a similar alley in Yangon. Missing Yangon, I buy a new book of short stories set in the city to read on