August 30, 2017 Three Narratives and a Farewell I published this piece on my class blog as my “love letter” to them. I have held dear all of my students, and this…
August 30, 2017 First Week I arrived in Hong Kong on a stormy Sunday late afternoon. My secondary supervisor joked that I came “with the storm”. I do not…
August 20, 2017 Of Mice and Men A Philippine feminist poet wrote a poem on the country’s war on drugs. By using the rodent as an analogy, she describes the ever-recurring…
August 19, 2017 For Kian We are deeply saddened. Actually, not only saddened but enraged. A young life was taken away by this so-called war that devolved into what…
August 16, 2017 The Paradox of Animal Welfare There is an interesting article in the magazine Our Dumb Animals, published in 1931. The magazine was published by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention…
August 14, 2017 Resumption Welcome back. It is difficult to get into the groove of writing. I cannot count how many times I attempted to sit down just…
February 1, 2016 Struggling with the Other During the Faculty Day last Friday, multi-award winning professor and author Dr Queena Lee Chua spoke to the faculty concerning the growing students at…
December 28, 2015 Justice vs Mercy Everyone — and the members of the Court are no exception — deplores that tragedy that claimed so many unsuspecting victims in what has…
December 28, 2015 Team Bromokis Seven years ago, a group of six graduate students sat quietly in a history class. They came from different backgrounds, most were working as…
December 22, 2015 Ben Anderson Lest I be accused of riding with the flow of scholars, I cannot say that Ben Anderson, who recently passed away in Indonesia at…