I returned to my mom’s hometown to celebrate the biggest festival of the Chinese culture – the Lunar New Year. My mother was born in a modest family in a town named Bukit Mertajam, which is located at the foot of a mountain. After graduating from secondary school she traveled south of the Malaysian capital [...]
After contemplating for ages, I finally decided to get a Tumblr account and start a Tumblelog. I have to admit that I was partially driven by John Grogan’s comment in his best selling book Marley & Me, that how keeping a daily log of his life actually helped a lot in recalling things that he [...]
I remember that it was a balmy Friday night. I walked out of my room and headed for the letterbox located down the hallway. Stepping into the dark corridors with flickering lights, I probed the letterbox with my skinny hand sticking right though the hole. I felt something – ah, it’s the monthly bank and [...]
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Leave Me is a four-minute short film produced by Daros Films, a Tulsa-based independent film company founded by Ryan Dunlap (@dunlap).
Who says shorts are, well, too short to evoke any emotional attachment among the audience? Leave Me is a perfect example of a short done perfectly, artistically, beautifully and soulfully. Leave Me tells a sad tale of a widower finally finding solace in photos found in his wife’s (Amy’s) camera.
To the brave firemen of FDNY.
To the courageous police officers of NYPD.
To the undaunted passengers on the doomed flights.
To the selfless unnamed heroes.
To the friends and families who lost someone to the attacks.
To the soldiers and comrades, pawns of the ignorant, selfish and cowardly government but yet still continue to fight on.
To every American out [...]
Every single year, the tiny town of Taiji, Japan speaks volume by shocking the world of what they do. And it reeks of dolphin blood.
Taiji is a sleepy harbour town at the top of the Kii peninsula south of Kyoto. Tucked beyond narrow roads winding through the untouched Japanese wilderness, the town and it’s gruesome [...]
Title: Candle in the Wind
Artist: Elton John
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Goodbye England’s rose, may you ever grow in our hearts; you were the grace that placed itself, where lives were torn apart.
- taken from the first four lines of the lyrics to the song Candle in the Wind 1997 by Elton John, performed [...]