Wherever I am, the world comes after me.
It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it.
Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far
and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.
"The Old Poets of China" by Mary Oliver

▼ ESSAYS

Essays

2020. “Covid-19 and Popular Culture in Southeast Asia” CSEAS Newsletter 78.

2014. "Educational Komiks: Shifting Perspectives." Kyoto Review of Southeast Asia, 16.