Month: January 2017

Crumbs

Published 22 Jan, 2017

Liars’ League HK posted another video of a piece I wrote for them. The theme this time was “Presence & Absence” (or “Presents & Absence,” in an early post), which I found rather difficult. In the end, I used some of my memories to tell something about loss and longing —…

Favourite albums of 2016

Published 15 Jan, 2017

I’ve always been skeptical about suggesting albums — in my experience, people’s tastes in music differ far more widely than for books or movies. While you can guess that a friend who likes thrillers will probably enjoy House of Cards, the fact that she likes Kraftwerk doesn’t mean that she will enjoy…

Wrecks from the past, cameras from the future

Published 04 Jan, 2017

It was during our last dive in Coron, in the Philippines. For three days, we had been descending on Japanese shipwrecks from WW2 — the Sangat gunboat, the Morazan Maru, the Akitsushima and its crane for lifting seaplanes out of the water, the 170m-long Okikawa Maru oil tanker — all sunk on the…