​AUDREY CHIN 

As promised, here’s more on Taiwan. Yilan “theme park” shop Street markets, especially night markets. have been part of Chinese culture...

IT MAKES YOUR BLOOD BOIL DOESN’T IT? The number of university spaces we’re giving to foreign students from South East Asia? The fact...

Photo Credit: http://www.etsy.com WE DIDN’T INVITE THEM   I’ve heard them practicing in the park from my study.  I’ve passed them on my...

SILENCE! Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com Dani Batz’s photostream I’ve just returned from my 3rd retreat. When I first started...

So I’m on a silent retreat for the next 7 days in beautiful Chiang Mai, Thailand. It’s meant to be a detoxing of the spirit before...

Photo Credit: Sarah Monagle Well, the mid-Autumn festivities have come and gone.  The moon’s shrinking ing again.As it goes away, I’d...

Moonlight over Clementi Rail Bridge Finally, 15th day of the 8th moon – Mid-Autumn Festival.  The moon a beautiful yellow orb. The moon...

Photo Credit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/camyluna 13th day of the 9th moon of the year of the water dragon.It’s raining again. Unless...

Full moon through stained glass Photo Credit: http://www.wilandra.com 12th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon … and what...

11th day of the 8th moon in the year of the water dragon. Photo Credit: John Garozze http://www.jagwah.blogspot.com Tonight it was...

10th day of the 8th month of the dragon year – a busy buzzy sort of day running around delivering Mid-Autumn gifts to friends and...

Photo Credit: http://www.michaelyamashita.com For a wonderful pictorial accompaniment to the poem go to Yamashita’s website, and click on...

8th day of the 8th moon of the year of the Dragon. We start with the verses of the most unaccomplished – mine. Photo Credit:...

We all need mirrors to see ourselves. Without reflection, we are just unconsidered action and reaction.  It’s only when we sit and stare,...

.I wrote a post the other day about how a diagnostic profiling tool called Emergenetics could help improve communications dramatically....

This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside).  When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around.  And...

Photocredit: dogsintouch.com My father has decided to say Grace after 50 years of not doing so.  The reason he’s started again is a video...

It’s the end of the old year. A time to throw away old grudges and forgotten grievances, a time to make room for what will come in the...

Credit: Photo by Forest and Kim http://www.desert-tropicals.com Including me! One of my readers, Joe Bunting asked me to do a guest post...

Like any other big city, you can’t ever find a taxi at rush-hour in my city. And of course the buses don’t move when there’s gridlock....