At the end of 2010, I was interviewed by a magazine for its Leading Men of 2010 editorial and was asked what 2011 held for me. My reply was that it would be a year of learning. By then, I had known that I would be heading for Singapore where I would spend three months at Nanyang Technological...

This is the longer version of a guest post I had written for Social Media NZ. You can read that here. – I had been following the Singapore General Elections a little bit while I was based in Singapore over the past few months, and was able to keep up with it after I returned to KL due to...

In his editorial for Today yesterday (yes, that was intentional), journalism stalwart PN Balji asks: “Moving on, what kind of a society do we want?” Balji was obviously writing about the Singapore General Elections – Singaporeans go to the polls today. I foudn that question...

It was a little bit funny leaving Singapore on Saturday. In fact, I was quite surprised at how I felt in the last week. My Asia Journalism Fellowship research paper kept me busy until Wednesday so I didn’t have much time to think about leaving but the couple of days I had left was enough...

Okay, so who would have EVER thought that I’d end up in a Justin Bieber event? Well, I did. The truth is, as much as I mock the kid (usually just to get on my niece Sara’s nerves), I do enjoy a couple of his songs. Was I always a fan? Definitely not. Was I a Belieber?...