“How’d it go? Tell me everything. Do you want a smoke?”, Jialing asks rapid fire as she pulls a cigarette out from her pack of Nanjing Reds and tosses it at Rachel.
Rachel and Jialing are sitting on an old...
“… the bright sun was extinguish’d, and the stars did wander darkling in the eternal space”
“......明亮的太阳熄灭了，星星确实在永恒的空间中徘徊在黑暗中”
So begins “Darkness” by Lord Byron, a Romantic era poem that takes a lyric wandering through an end-of-days scenario where all light and colour...
Whether you’re an artist working on a painting, or a songwriter trying to create the perfect album cover, or a popular local magazine using it as the theme of one of their monthly issues, colour lies near the centre...
Our emotions are colour coded. Love is red, so is anger. Envy is green, so is generosity. Sadness is blue, so is tranquility. As is the case with so much in life, the paradoxical is often the most comfortable...
Most of us see it every day. Maybe several times a day. Fluttering high over government buildings, large-scale institutions, tourist spots, the list goes on. The red and yellow is also nigh-on inescapable around each National Day. But what...
Mariel had been told that she’d been born white as wedding-cake frosting, but she wasn’t white anymore.
Mariel被告知，她出生时是白色的，就像婚礼蛋糕糖霜一样，但她不再是白人了。
She looked down at her hands and saw the yellow collected on her fingers like she had been playing with corn flour. It...
Have you ever realised the significance of the role that gestures have and continue to play throughout our lives?
你有没有意识到手势在我们一生中发挥和继续发挥的作用的重要性？
The word by definition means, “a movement of part of the body, to express an idea or meaning”. As infants, when...
Robin had read a while ago that most of a conversation is conveyed without words.
不久前，Robin读到过，大多数对话都是不用语言传达的。
She’d dismissed it at the time, citing her own drastic inability to guess at people’s words and meanings without being explicitly told, and when the...
