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Writing in Modern Times: A Love Letter to Evolution
There’s something beautifully overwhelming about being a writer in 2025. It’s like standing in the world’s largest candy store – so many delicious options that you’re not sure where to start, and you’re slightly worried you might get a stomachache from all the possibilities. The Great Expansion: When Stories Found New Homes Writers have grown so much, haven’t we? These days there are so many…
How ONE IDEA Changed My Life Who would have thought that I actually enjoy my favorite hobby over tea while sitting at my favorite desk, illuminated by small beams of sunlight from the side window? There is a saying that whatever is meant to happen at a certain time, then it will happen despite the circumstances. Read my Full Story here
Who would have thought that I actually enjoy my favorite hobby over tea while sitting at my favorite desk, illuminated by small beams of…
I discuss my writing journey from my humble beginnings on the playground to my bout with Wattpad and the querying process in my teen years and my goals to accomplish within the next year! #writing #blogging #writersofinstagram #writerjourney #teenwriters #writerscommunity https://www.instagram.com/p/BzL42VhHsGg/?igshid=hi5y5x2ltamo
On Monocle Issue 60: January
On Europe's Domination of Art Book Printing Companies
It was another issue to start up with January 2013. Another year of another unpredictable way to living. Grabbing up the latest Monocle issue, I started to find out more on creative ideas on how the people is coping and hope that I could really find something out there.
On some interesting facts due to art book producers in Berlin, Phaidon and Thames & Hudson in the UK, I always thought that the Köln-based Taschen is the dominator. But I am wrong about this. Germany, yes, Germany tends to dominate the art book market and simply part of German Bildungsburger to have good books.
They had individual businesses, in order to cultivate up the promotion of artistes having art installations, display of artifacts at art museums. The most important that I always thought about, was about the good quality of a good art book to start off with.
In all countries, including America (the so-called high production of quality and paper products.) are surprised at the quality of the paper that Germany produces. And the remark of "Wow, your paper! Your printing!" surprises me. Raw materials were said to be cheaper there as printing costs in Germany have halved in the past 10 years (as remarked at Monocle), making it a good time for the art of print. I am always in awe of EU's way of creativity in printing products, thus creating a lot of great companies that I had came across.
When I turned the page to another report, I read it twice. Because from a film business as big as FujiFilm turning to skincare, named Astalift. I have heard of beverage companies such as Meiji, putting up the idea of skincare products such as their collagen powders to boost up the beauty within. But not anyone could imagine this coming around the corner.
Boasting sales domination taken over Asian countries and Europe, Astalift had been launched last March, having sales in the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Russia. Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, Taiwan, Korea and Bangladesh had followed suit.
Fifteen years ago (15!), their main subject was not skincare definitely. Kodak had always been their main rival but as camera film sales dropped, I bet that FujiFilm had been finding all ways to having that back-up plan. And so, Kodak failed in that point, unable to match up to FujiFilm's out-of-the-box stance.
Astaxanthin is their element for their success, for their baffling nanoscience and of course, the high price tag. Now that I know that 50 per cent of film emulsion came from collagen. gasp. They do know how to experiment good looking skin as they had been studying light absorption and reflection on skin for years, as explained by their GM, Yojiro Yamashita.
Quite an achievement on having a break though in having selling Astalift in 2,000 shops within 6 months and also TV commercials!
Open Views on Britain's Optimism
Is Britain's slowly opening up to job-openings? As stated, Brits are always known for tolerance, generosity and sense of fair play, as so they claimed. I thought that they welcomed outsiders and generally better than Aussies. But as I read, over the past two decades, reputation had been gradually eroded. Attitudes towards migrants have hardened.
Brits had been lacking the drive from before and so far, the former editor of the Financial Times and ex-head of the Confederation of British Industry, Richard Lambert stated that: "Immigrants, almost by definition, are going to be ambitious and hard-working." Brits are leaving their home for a better prospect outside. Or are they going to experience just for once, before going back?
It's a little bit similar to Singapore. Bred locally myself, everyone tends to have that little bit of adventure in going out to experience something. It's like, we are just plain sick or bored of the government ways here. And we will know exactly on how they response and behave, much less to the culture here, which features more people complaining and not doing much on their lives, when this little island, is very much going to be aimed to a higher population of...6 million? (the government aims for that here)
Stating on their explanation of saying that 'Brits can seem cold, uninviting, and suspicious of outsiders.' It is sure, another great place to be exposed so as to diminish the racist remarks.
Night, Writer
