The Birth of A New Book

The House of Little Sisters, published by Penguin Random House SEA A lot has happened since my last blog post. You’re reading this post in my new website. I finally handed the job of creating a website to a web-magician. His name is Jared Lim. You’re...

A Community of Saints

  Cima da Conegliano (Giovanni Battista Cima),  Polyptych,  C. 1486-88,  Tempera on panel. Parish Church of St. Bartolomeo, Olera (Bergamo), Italy Behold this nine-panelled polyptych with the Virgin and Child taking the top panel, presiding over...

The Sporting Spirit

Roman mosaic of two bikini-clad woman playing ball (close up) I love mosaics. Just look at this one from Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily, a UNESCO World Heritage site.  The villa can be traced back to 320-350 A.D, so we’re talking 4th Century, A.D. The villa...

Synergy of Humanity and the Multiplicity of Conflict

I am mesmerised by this image of a red cliff face and a row of women, backs bent, ferrying baskets trudging up a fenced mountain path. I see steam billowing from below joining the plumes of clouds at the mountain top. The women are all dressed alike—forming a line of...

Celebrating All Kinds of Love

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, illustrated by Henry Cole My garden is a soft blanket of snow. It had been snowing all day yesterday and all night too. As I snuggled down to sleep last night, I thought of Pingu.  Remember Pingu? He’s...