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Kathleen Ong
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December 2023
"This garden is no metaphor-"
Initially, I was drawn to gardening in part for its figurative potential. In the hour before dusk, just before my child arrived home from school, I…
Dec 29, 2023
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Kathleen Ong
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May 2023
I tell my child stories of Peter Pan
All children, except one, grow up. I can't recall the first time I read Peter Pan. The Disney version may have come first. But I remember being a…
May 12, 2023
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February 2023
Red Earth & Citrus Streets
It begins the moment I step off the bus, pocket my earphones, whip out a book, and read while walking home. I am not in any hurry. My feet move…
Feb 27, 2023
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July 2022
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In the passenger seat, T. thumbs her Spotify. “Which album?” “Whichever,” I say, eyes on the road, distracted by one of Ireland’s many tricky…
Jul 14, 2022
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June 2022
Singapore Dreaming
A common complaint against Singapore’s built heritage is that despite the architectural awards we keep collecting, the city has no visual identity; no…
Jun 24, 2022
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May 2022
"Let Us Go Then, You and I-"
When the pandemic made it necessary to silo ourselves at home, I easily withdrew into the necessary conditions of solitude. The restrictions kept…
May 30, 2022
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April 2022
Ordinary Days
Postpartum depression & new motherhood
Apr 17, 2022
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The Undeadness of Haw Par Villa
“They’re so... non-interactive,” Beng mused, staring at a statue of Madam White Snake breaking free from a pagoda. Near us, life-sized monuments of sumo…
Apr 1, 2022
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February 2022
"Ready? Okay!"
Afraid of nostalgia, I hardly check social media, and was, for a good decade or so free from those errant reminders on Facebook about what I had been up…
Feb 5, 2022
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January 2022
"The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House"
In Singapore, the youngest female politican from the opposition party lied in Parliament, claiming that she had accompanied a sexual assault victim to…
Jan 10, 2022
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October 2021
depression & its fragments
— and a voice, drifting from far away, across walls and rooms and fog, helpless— “Baby, we need to fix you.” Singapore: The psychiatrist with degrees in…
Oct 31, 2021
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