Author: yuling li
A Singapore-based writer and editor with ten years of experience in the creative industry.
Clownfish home
I’ve always been fascinated by the symbiotic relationship between the clownfish and the sea anemone. As a scuba diver, I am lucky to have many opportunities to observe these sea creatures upclose.
Yes, that’s a real word! My favourite 5 from dictionary.com’s latest additions
So Dictionary.com added more than 300 new entries into their word base yesterday, and I’m rather tickled by some. It’s about time too, since many are already in Urbandictionary.com. Here are my favourite five, with examples of how I’d use them. For the actual definitions and how to pronounce them, just click on the words – I’ve hyperlinked the official pages.
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Swedish Cities
Hello. It’s been a while! We’re on the road, making our way through Sweden from south to north, stopping at various cities. In response to today’s Daily Prompt, here’s my photo post of some Swedish cities I’ve visited on this trip. Continue reading “Swedish Cities”
The Good Ol’ Taste
In keeping my promise to post something once a week, I decided to use today’s daily prompt by WordPress since I don’t have a topic that I’m dying to write about.
Today’s word is Childhood (which explains the photo of Kermit, but this post is not about Sesame Street, okay?)
Was That Really Racist?
Racism and racial prejudice are hard topics to broach, whether you’re in multicultural Singapore or in Europe where the migrant crisis gets more complicated by the day.
Is Singapore a racist country? Quite recently, a foreign student living in Singapore answered this question in her blog, and her story went viral after being featured on Mothership, a local community news / content aggregating site. She talked about her experience with racial prejudice, and she’s right; it is often in details that make you wonder if you’re perhaps being a tad too sensitive.
But I’m not going to discuss race, racism and racial prejudice in Singapore right now. Instead I’ll be sharing about something that happened to me. For some time friends have encouraged me to write about this incident, and I’ve finally decided I shall.
It was the winter of 2012.
The Milk We’re Drinking in Singapore
What I found out when I looked up a brand of milk sold in Singapore: Cowhead.
As you probably know from reading my previous post, I have been poring over milk labels. A fortnight ago on our weekly grocery run, I chanced upon Cowhead milk, which had some seriously sexy claims on its package.
So, the label read (verbatim):
Milk: To Drink Or Not To Drink?
Earlier this year, after watching a horrific video about the abuse of bobby calves at a New Zealand dairy farm (warning before you click: it’s very graphic), I started thinking more seriously about commercial farming practices, from both ethical and health perspectives.
Is cruelty-free dairy farming possible? It’s a question I’ve been pondering over. My vegan friends think not, obviously.
And, where does the dairy milk in Singapore come from?
Protected: The Black Hole (Or An Existential Crisis Of A Freelancer)
Is Rice Really Worse Than Soda?
Yesterday, the Straits Times (ST) ran an article titled Diabetes: The rice you eat is worse than sugary drinks which came up several times in my social media feed. I was disturbed by the headline. Were you?
Then, an editor I regularly work with e-mailed to ask if I’d like to pitch related stories. She got me thinking deeper, and this is an edited excerpt of my reply to her:
