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A Year of Creative Endeavors

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Published: January 5, 2024 23:17

In 2023, I got to explore a whole year of creativity, namely in film photography, photographic darkroom printing, piano and saxophone-playing, and drawing Film photography felt like an old friend I was coming back to: I was already shooting film 20 years…

Interview Waiver Experience for H1-B1 Visa

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Published: October 3, 2023 14:43

I’ve learned a few new things since I last posted about how other Singaporeans can apply for, and receive, the H1-B1 visa. In renewing my visa in Singapore this September, I opted for the new-ish interview waiver process (available since 2021). Although I…

Merantau Cino

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Published: September 27, 2023 14:54

Tretes, Indonesia (link to some photos I took) I have been struggling with my feelings on and about immigration. Some time in mid 2023, a woman at a bus stop in San Francisco pointed a blow torch flame at me and threatened, I’m going to burn you, because…

Applying for Singapore Visa for your Friend

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Published: September 7, 2023 23:05

Citizens of some countries need a visa to enter Singapore. If you have friends or family that belong to those countries, you can do them a huge favor by applying as a local contact. As long as you are a Singapore citizen or Singapore PR with SingPass, or…

How to get a H1-B1 Visa for Singaporeans

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Published: September 6, 2023 21:41

An updated, updated guide to the H1-B1 visa process for Singaporeans. Singaporean citizens (and Chileans) are eligible for the H1-B1, a unique work visa of the US that was negotiated as part of a free trade agreement in 2004. There are 5400 visas set aside…

How to add a Chinese dictionary to Calibre

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Published: August 4, 2023 21:41

I am trying to read more Chinese books. My Mandarin school teachers are probably having the last laugh, but I am genuinely interested in some of the fiction in the Sinosphere these days. Unfortunately my school-time Mandarin class experience was so poor…

Making the Yamaha P-125 digital piano sound better

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Published: July 29, 2023 21:00

Early pandemic, I decided to reconnect with a part of my life that was very important to me: music. I played music, specifically piano, clarinet, trumpet, and other orchestral instruments, for most of my life. Then I stopped. Startup brain worms got to me.…

What Pride Means to Me

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Published: June 9, 2023 02:11

With my wife Sabrena in the Paris metro in 2022 1993: I am 8 years old. I am a scared little autistic girl who felt in my bones that there was something strange about me. Was it my obsessive, hyper-fixation on the things that interested me? My intense…

Wives and Lives

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Published: April 25, 2023 19:51

Some thoughts on being a gaysian immigrant to California Two weeks ago, I helped to plan and organize a Lunar New Year dinner for 120 queer and trans Asian people. It’s a tradition that has been around for as long as I’ve been alive: the annual APIQWTC…

I Now Have an Attention Span

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Published: February 24, 2023 00:00

Various things in the last few years have alerted me to the terrifying fact: I don’t think I had an attention span at all until, well, now. That I was able to graduate from college, get married, hold down jobs… privilege, and opportunity. Most of the time,…