Life Movements

Liu Kang, Life by the River, 1957, oil on canvas, 126 x 203 cm (National Gallery Singapore) When Liu Kang painted Life By the River in 1975, it had already been a little over 20 years since he discovered Bali’s charms and colours. He didn’t plan on starting an art...

On Life and Finding A Way

Life has a way to meander and lead you to places that you’ve never thought you’d go or imagine going. Life finds a Way, as the saying goes.  On Viruses and Finding a Way Around A virus is also a type of life form that finds a way, in my view, but according to...

A New Decade Awaits Us

Families are made up of many important ingredients, with love being the only ingredient that matters.” Eva Wong Nava The NAVA family began this decade with the entire family getting together to celebrate many things. The philosopher-princess is now a science...

Baby Wearing and Mirroring

Javanese Man wearing his daughter. Source: open source internet Mirroring is the behaviour in which one person unconsciously imitates the gesture, speech pattern, or attitude of another. Mirroring often occurs in social situations, particularly in the...

When the World is a Water-coloured palette

Watercolor is an alchemical medium – colors mixing with water, joining with it, being extended by it – creating new life where none had been before.”Joseph Raffael Lim Cheng Hoe’s water-colour depiction of the Singapore River is simply my most...

On Autism Awareness Month and Author Visits

The Daily English Newspaper in Bhutan We are now at the end of April. What a whirlwind month this has been. April is important for a couple of things: the two most important men in my life — the dad and the hubby — have birthdays in April, one day after the other, and...