Posthumous Post Please enjoy another of my Chinese ink and colour landscape paintings inspired by a poem written by the famous Qing Dynasty poet and artist ''Yun Shouping''. In the poem, Yun describes a beautiful landscape painting of magnificent and precipitous mountains and deep valleys surrounded by clouds and mists as good artwork. This poem inspired several famous Chinese landscape…
The world has changed. I feel it in the water, in the earth, and smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none live now who remember it (Lord of the Rings). Nearly a quarter of the way into the 21st century, the cultural, political, and technological realities of the 20th century have been left behind…
Before you write this off, hear me out. Last Christmas, my children gifted me a large box containing over 2000 pieces to be assembled. No, it was not a jigsaw puzzle. When completed, it would be, in 3D- the legendary Airbus CONCORDE - yes, that supersonic marvel that reigned the skies from the 1970s until its forced retirement in 2003. …
Next Saturday, Professor Foo Keong Tatt will give a talk entitled “The…
One morning, the Master practised Qigong in the garden with his students.…
By Ling Sing LinWhat has been will be again, what has been…
I met such a traveller in 1968 during my hitch-hiking days in…
The Master and his students lived in a small town by the…
Posthumous Post Please enjoy these gorgeous Cockatoos, flamingos, and hummingbirds with beautiful…
One day, a student asked the Master: “Is the zebra a white…
The mid-autumn, 中秋节 also called the moon-cake festival, is joyously celebrated by…
The Chinese traditional belief is that to have a good and successful…
When we use a search engine like Google, we can be awed…
Yet another smell I remember from my Chinatown childhood days was that…
The other unforgettable smell from my childhood was swill. I sometimes thought…
Some of the most vivid memories of living in Trengganu Street and…
A sharing by Ling Sing Lin Orange Seahorses When biologists captured a pair of orange pygmy seahorses in the Philippines, they brought them back to the Californian Academy of Sciences. …
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