Opinion

  • 2025, reading wrapped

    2025, reading wrapped

    Another year of gobbling fiction as one of my favourite tonics to life.

  • “Let’s dress cute and go outside!” Lessons on spontaneity, intuition, and fun (from my 10-year-old students)

    “Let’s dress cute and go outside!” Lessons on spontaneity, intuition, and fun (from my 10-year-old students)

    Taking twelve young children nine hours across the world, from Hong Kong to Australia, taught me many things  — never let them pack their own suitcase (No, one pair of socks for nine days was not enough), do NOT take your eyes off them before they put fifty pounds of their parents’ money into the…

  • Ratings and reviews

    Ratings and reviews

    Three years of studying English, and force-feeding my brain to read three books a week, led to a near total expulsion of the habit from my life. To climb out of my wordless hole, I challenged myself to read 20 books in a year (Which, I’m aware, to some may sound pathetic, and to others…