This year, I followed Fionna and her mum to Penang to visit her relatives (her dad’s side). Met her grandma, aunties and uncles and experienced a really old-school, traditional way of living that I had only seen before in movies. Her cousin, a-pin, was most helpful driving us around Penang and to all the different [...]

This year has been an eventful year for me. In July 2009, I began a new chapter of life in Shanghai. Leaving Singapore then was both a little scary and I had some apprehensions. It was a new place (although I had been here on a 1 year internship before, this was for real) and [...]

Shanghai is still the same old Shanghai. Yet it is different in many ways, as the entire city gears up towards the Shanghai Expo 2010. Loads of refurbishment, construction and repair works are undergoing throughout the city. Have found a beautiful apartment in the middle of Shanghai city, on Fumin Road, which has loads of [...]