Journalist. Storyteller. Coffee drinker.
This year I fully understood that life isn't black and white. There are way more than fifty shades of grey we contend with every single day. Learning to live the questions, to look ahead and look up in spite of it all, is the challenge.
What a year it has been. We all get nostalgic towards the end of the year - recapping highlights, low moments, looking back at the lessons we've learnt and how we've grown. Along the way, I've often wondered if I made the right choice to stay - but I would not have traded this year for the world.
It's been a week filled with bad news. Working in the media sometimes means you're addicted to knowing what happens next. So there I was, on Thursday afternoon scrolling through my Facebook news feed when I saw a friend post a photo of a collapsed wall. If you live in Melbourne, you're more than likely …
I can't count how many times I've wanted to be some place other than Melbourne. Some days I dreamed of being on a white sandy beach in Bali, Phuket, or Krabi; other days I wish I was back home in Singapore. More often than not, I find myself missing people. At the beginning, I often …
Ah, summer. I have a love-hate relationship with summer. I love summer because I can wear dresses with Havaianas without (much) fear of freezing (I live in Melbourne after all). I don't like summer so much when it's 41 degrees out and I feel like a helpless piece of poultry in a fan-forced oven. But …
"It is a miracle if you can find true friends, and it is a miracle if you have enough food to eat, and it is a miracle if you get to spend your days and evenings doing whatever it is you like to do, and the holiday season — like all the other seasons — …
you know something's going to taste good when you can smell it from really far away, and it looks equally as tantalising up close. that's what i took away from this year's taste of melbourne. my three favourite dishes? 1. movida's chargrilled moorish lamb skewers. admittedly, this was the last dish my friends and i …
some people say graduation is a once-in-a-lifetime affair, and i have had the privilege of doing so twice. a little more than eighteen months ago, i was a fresh bachelor of arts (media and communications) graduate from the university of melbourne, sitting in her first official masters of journalism class at monash university. at the …
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in life, we all struggle with the question of significance. why am i here? what is my purpose in life? as someone who believes in God and the saving grace of Jesus Christ, the typical response i would give is: to bring glory to His name. but recently, i can't help but feel that the …
In recent years, Glen Eira’s population has seen an increase in overseas-born dwellers. In the 2006 Census Community Profile Series on the city of Glen Eira, it was reported that there was a 3.98% increase in population from 2001. Within this population increase, the number of overseas-born residents in Glen Eira has also grown. These …
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Diane Leow 