Make Love in a Canoe

Recently I explained to a good friend of mine why I consider erotic love a basic human necessity, and why I dare to say that without it, life is incomplete. While one could argue with me by undoing the notion of love with a genealogy or archaeology of the concept, I say, in the widest … Continue reading →

Young at Heart

It was a simple dish. Roasted baby corn in husks, with salt and pepper on the side for dipping. I had this dish in a small seafood restaurant tucked away between two residential buildings in an alley off Yanji Street in Taipei’s East District. That evening my friends, partner, and I had far more tastier … Continue reading →

Voix

During this long absence, I finally got my act together. I discuss a lot of things in my dissertation, but one of those, and by far the most satisfactory one, remains my critical engagement with this Franco-Vietnamese novelist Linda Lê’s work entitled Voix. In French phonetics, la voix is indistinguishable from la voie. The two … Continue reading →

Un petit homme et son grand voyage

Il est venu. —Je suis actuellement au Station Morse! —Alors, je vais te chercher tout de suite! On avait échangé quelques messages vagues et Rich m’a dit qu’il est français, et pas très organisé, après tout. Mais on s’est finalement rencontrés et il s’est bien installé chez moi, Tylay, mon premier hôte de couchsufing. Rich … Continue reading →

La Place des grands hommes

Ça fait si longtemps que je n’avais pas écrit en français, et je dois dire que ma mode d’expression et façon de pensée restent fondamentalement anglaises. Ici, il s’agit de mes anciens camarades de classe au lycée à Hong-Kong, et mes commentaires, parfois, ne sont pas du tout flatteurs. Et puisqu’ils ne comprennent pas le … Continue reading →

Mais stranger things have happened, non?

Yes, please click the above photo or link to play the picture show! Around this time last year, I had the privilege to share Alice and Jeff’s matrimonial joy, in my capacity of friend, witness, Best Man, self-appointed back up photographer… Such arrangement can be quite confusing, and hence the following comments from my friend … Continue reading →