Category Archives: Hundred Day Diary

Day 25 of 100, Hannover, Germany Accidentally threw away the sheet of paper I’d originally written today’s post on, so this is a recollection, a couple of days late. What I remember of Saturday was squinting into the mid-afternoon glare downtown, as it bounced off glass and metal, strong enough to turn even paving stones…More

Day 24 of 100, Hannover, Germany I haven’t touched my laptop since leaving Singapore, a good rest which also explains the lack of blog posts being published during the week… and the deluge of them now. I have been writing these posts at the end of everyday though, faithfully on bits of paper, knowing that…More

Day 23 of 100, Hannover, Germany It was grey in Hannover at daybreak. It had rained when we arrived at my cousin’s the night before, and a bit of that was still hanging around. But Hannover is 10 degrees warmer than Copenhagen, for which my runny nose was thankful – the first thing I did…More

Day 22 of 100, Denmark to Germany on the train I’ve taken the train from Copenhagen to Hannover and back many times since 2013, and it’s something I always look forward to. I love the smooth, quiet rhythm of modern trains, their large, clear windows that open out onto the country rushing by, and the…More

Day 21 of 100, Copenhagen, Denmark The quiet. That’s always the first thing to hit whenever I land in in Copenhagen, from Singapore. The thick, enveloping quiet that leaves my ears ringing, a whiplash from where every potential aural break is hurriedly filled with some kind of noise: the daytime roar of the highway, vehicles…More

Day 20 of 100, Doha, Qatar We transited in Hamad International Airport, landing before the day broke. I hadn’t flown Qatar Airways since it had been completed, and getting to the mostly white-boarded terminal from the plane involved a 20 to 30 minute bus ride. The new airport is vast. Magnificent in its shiny newness,…More

Day 19 of 100, Singapore Three weeks after we were meant to have left, we found ourselves back at the airport again. With a different airline’s tickets in hand, not expecting a stuff up, but somewhat apprehensive regardless. Ours is a relationship forged in transit, nurtured in motion. Checking in at the airport is a…More

Day 18 of 100, Singapore What made me sign up for artist Nicola Anthony’s Ways of Seeing workshop last week, was the impression of a winding thread – a vein of spreading blue. It was a refresher on the possibilities of looking, extending away from the one I’ve come to regard as default. I learned,…More

Day 16 (ok, 17 part 1, since I forgot to post yesterday) of 100, Singapore I mentioned in one of the earlier posts that during my younger days, photography was the domain of the rich: people who had money to spend on the unnecessary (yes, I am aware of the problems with these definitions). I…More

Day 15 of 100, Singapore (above image from the Strange Nature project) Sun relentless on concrete. We know which will win, despite the bulwark of the other. “The monsoon is dying,” my mother said, perched at the window, facing the cloned block across the carpark. Late rains have come and gone, a reluctant wetting in…More

Day 14 of 100, Singapore I sent a friend a random flower sketch today, paper > phone camera > near-instant trans-continental delivery. We went to school together, and flower drawing was one of the many things the bunch of us did to make the boring classes less boring. This, only after it got too risky…More

Day 13 of 100, Singapore I re-read yesterday’s post this morning and groaned, wanting to revise immediately. Resisting the urge, I did correct a couple of vital spelling errors and removed a sentence. Everything else remains in its reluctant form. I don’t draft much, in this daily writing exercise. I bang these posts out on…More

Day 12 of 100, Singapore This daily writing thing is getting harder and harder, and I’m only at the 12% mark. The difficulty is not in a lack of things to say. It’s where to draw the line about what should be said and what shouldn’t. What needs to be said for a blog post…More

Day 11 of 100, Singapore Gave the front page a face lift today. This site, for the most part, is a blog and has been for as long as I’ve had it. And my blogging has traversed that line from candid memoir to desired identity, along with the role that photography played in my life.…More