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Weekend Tales #8: My favourite things of 2024

My experience going paid in 2024

Homeless in Melbourne

It’s probably impossible to be neutral about China

Life changes on you

Weekend Tales #7: Year ends and bodice rippers in the desert

Learning Chinese by being a subtitler

I love Malaysia. I also resent it.

5 more reads from Asia

Malaysians stunned by Kuala Lumpur sinkhole

Culture Chronicles #5

That time when I lived in a haunted house

Weekend Tales #6: The Paris Olympics fried my brain

Yes, true, Malaysians watch news in many languages

The West is no longer the best

Learning Chinese vocabulary as a headless chicken

I once tolerated Kuala Lumpur. Now, I love it

The cold war in Chinese fandom spaces

Culture Chronicles #4

The tricky art of learning Chinese characters

Substack round-up: Six newsletters from Asia

The words that changed my life

So I'm learning Mandarin

Weekend Tales #5 My ambition is to have an unextraordinary life

3 Body Problem is a bit of a problem

3 Body Problem vs Three-Body

Culture Chronicles #3

Sweeping tombs, eating food and waving at the dead

Have you enjoyed some Chinese propaganda lately? I did.

Culture Chronicles #2

I speak four languages. That's just being Malaysian.

Sad Stories of Asian People

Hello from a banana

Culture Chronicles #1

My yearly negotiations with Mummy about Chinese New Year cooking

Chinese New Year auntie uncle time

Tai Tales will now tell tales about Chinese and Malaysian culture

Weekend Tales #4: My focus in 2024 is 'beauty'

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