Chinese whispers
Posted: January 11, 2012 Filed under: TRAVEL, WORKS | Tags: china, chinatown, chinese culture, chinese food, feature, jetstar magazine, Sydney, travel Leave a comment »Jetstar Magazine
We go in search of Sydney’s secret tastes of China.
Where the wild things are
Posted: December 13, 2011 Filed under: TRAVEL, WORKS | Tags: feature, monsters, ninemsn, supernatural travel, travel Leave a comment »ninemsn
It’s time to whip out the hunting hat, a pair of binoculars and a healthy lack of skepticism as we trot across the globe in search of some of the fabled creatures rumoured to grace our lands. Cynical, logic-loving non-believers may throw debunkings and “scientific fact” in your face, but we ask who doesn’t want to the indulge in the little piece of magic these places are offering?
A reluctant biker’s letter of love to her bicycle
Posted: November 10, 2011 Filed under: ARTS, BLOG, WORKS | Tags: bicycle, bikes, cycling, getting back on the bike, overcoming your fears, Persephone Magazine, riding 3 Comments »Persephone Magazine
Blinging out the beloved bike, Christmas 2011.
A couple of years ago I had a bicycle accident that left me on the ground with my foot cut open like a knife had sliced right through it. I started screaming at the sight of my pink muscle peeking through and yellow skin curling at the edges. I had the accident because at the time, I couldn’t ride a bicycle but had tried anyway, and consequently ended up having a little ‘disagreement’ with a huge semi-trailer hurtling down the highway.
Hey America, life sucks? Welcome to the real world.
Posted: October 21, 2011 Filed under: ARTS, BLOG, WORKS | Tags: America, occupy wall street, Persephone Magazine, recession, united states 4 Comments »Persephone Magazine
Noreen Malone, in writing for New York magazine, has a wonderful image in describing the post-recession world our generation find ourselves in:
“A majority of Americans say, for the first time ever, that this generation will not be better off than its parents. And so we find ourselves living among the scattered ashes and spilled red wine and broken glass from a party we watched in our pajamas, peering down the stairs at the grown-ups. This is not a morning after we are prepared for … “
She paints a picture that is bleak: young people without stable or high-salaried jobs, no disposable incomes, no safety nets. It is a feeling also captured in the Occupy Wall Street related tumblr We Are the 99%, where there are posts like this: “Went to college for my last two years of high school and worked my ass off to graduate college at the age of 18 with TWO degrees. Graduated into a flooded market and never got a single call back or interview. Work at a shitty job living paycheck to paycheck, and usually have to borrow money for food”. There is a loaded implication in these statements. “It shouldn’t be like this.” This isn’t fair. It isn’t just.
Reasons why 18 people walked past a severely injured toddler and did nothing
Posted: October 20, 2011 Filed under: ARTS, BLOG, WORKS | Tags: china, good samaritan, hit and run accident, Persephone Magazine, yue yue 3 Comments »Persephone Magazine
An American friend – one who has the habit of defending China against uninformed accusations made by friends back at home – told me today, that in the case of the recent Yue Yue hit-and-run story he had nothing. The news of a 2-year-old girl in Foshan who was run over – not once, but twice, by two separate vehicles, and then ignored by up to 18 passers-by, could not be explained away with his usual arguments of rural poverty or historical contexts. This was plain evil, and there must be something seriously fucked up with this country.
