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Designing Brick History
2021-12-21 18:00:00 UTC
THE ZOOM CALL THAT SPARKED IT ALL
It was 11am on a Sunday and I was standing in front of the metal gates leading to the construction site in the Royal Docks, behind Tate & Lyle Sugars Factory in Newham. I had just cycled seven miles and woven through perhaps…
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One Wandered, One Wondered.
2019-12-04 10:05:00 UTC
“…the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take place between them, conversations, surprises, caresses, bites. But no one greets anyone; eyes lock for a second, then dart away, seeking other eyes, never stopping…something…
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Limoncello
2019-10-06 10:46:45 UTC
An account of how to respond in a case of artwork emergency at the Venice Biennale
Gallery Interns Sai Wing (left) and Annie Lye (right) amending artwork ‘Negotiated Differences’ by Shirley Tse. © 2019 Hong Kong Pavilion, 58th Venice Biennale
serves 3 for a respectable period of gaiety
1 pair…
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Where-else if not Elsewhere?
2015-01-30 07:32:00 UTC
This is,to remind myself,
- of my muse,whom I may never be good enough for
Still searching for solaceamidst the silence of recollections.
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Wan Chai Wetmarket
2015-01-30 07:11:00 UTC
“Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory,…
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Farewell, Fear
2014-10-09 22:30:00 UTC
What do we fear the most? I know what I fear. I fear bidding permanent farewell to my loved-ones
On Independence day July 4th 2014, my family and I wished our final farewell to 梁陳慕貞, the woman whom I affectionately call 婆婆. Every winter break my mother and I travel…
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Mid-Autumn
2014-09-11 13:15:44 UTC
Murky grey is her face
swirling the way milk glides through coffee.
Ever so gently,
pushing past the next molecule.
The path, void of predictability:
down it plunges;
up it rises,
now skating sideways before curling upon itself.
Overhead and far from touch.
Hide and seek she plays,
one moment…
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Cantonese love their fried dough
2014-06-26 04:07:05 UTC
留哥 makes up to 400 pieces of 油炸鬼 every morning
There is no limit to what you can pair this golden-goodness with. You could go with the usual congee x 油炸鬼, or ask to have it rolled up (thus softened) in rice-noodle roll which is another delicacy by itself, called…
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