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2. Even this Sonny Liew’s book won 3 Eisners (the comics equivalent of an Oscar), the National Arts Council in Singapore didn’t name the book when they congratulated him on Facebook, triggering a local backlash.
For more details: www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
For more details: www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
September 16, 2025 at 11:44 AM
2. Even this Sonny Liew’s book won 3 Eisners (the comics equivalent of an Oscar), the National Arts Council in Singapore didn’t name the book when they congratulated him on Facebook, triggering a local backlash.
For more details: www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
For more details: www.straitstimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
Also, I remember being super fascinated with Kakak a while back and proceeded to dig up an academic paper from Harvard Divinity by a Malaysian scholar.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Also, I remember being super fascinated with Kakak a while back and proceeded to dig up an academic paper from Harvard Divinity by a Malaysian scholar.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
September 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Also discovered @hirokoyoda.bsky.social soon to be released new book from the Substack.
Very exciting!
I remember my girlfriend telling me about “Yaoyorozu no kami” (8 million spiritual beings) in Shinto and I absolutely love the homage to the concept.
Congratulations on your new book!
Very exciting!
I remember my girlfriend telling me about “Yaoyorozu no kami” (8 million spiritual beings) in Shinto and I absolutely love the homage to the concept.
Congratulations on your new book!
September 10, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Also discovered @hirokoyoda.bsky.social soon to be released new book from the Substack.
Very exciting!
I remember my girlfriend telling me about “Yaoyorozu no kami” (8 million spiritual beings) in Shinto and I absolutely love the homage to the concept.
Congratulations on your new book!
Very exciting!
I remember my girlfriend telling me about “Yaoyorozu no kami” (8 million spiritual beings) in Shinto and I absolutely love the homage to the concept.
Congratulations on your new book!
When the joss sticks offered is 3/4 burnt, you can eat the food.
Cos that’s about 45 minutes.
A human probably would hate finished their meal by then, much much less a hungry ghost.
Cos that’s about 45 minutes.
A human probably would hate finished their meal by then, much much less a hungry ghost.
September 1, 2025 at 1:41 PM
When the joss sticks offered is 3/4 burnt, you can eat the food.
Cos that’s about 45 minutes.
A human probably would hate finished their meal by then, much much less a hungry ghost.
Cos that’s about 45 minutes.
A human probably would hate finished their meal by then, much much less a hungry ghost.
The main reason we don’t eat food offered to ghosts in the 7th month is not superstition, it’s actually food hygiene.
Food left outside for a long time will turn bad. If one wishes to eat it, one should reheat it instead of falling ill & blaming ghosts.
Very logical. I am educated!
Food left outside for a long time will turn bad. If one wishes to eat it, one should reheat it instead of falling ill & blaming ghosts.
Very logical. I am educated!
September 1, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The main reason we don’t eat food offered to ghosts in the 7th month is not superstition, it’s actually food hygiene.
Food left outside for a long time will turn bad. If one wishes to eat it, one should reheat it instead of falling ill & blaming ghosts.
Very logical. I am educated!
Food left outside for a long time will turn bad. If one wishes to eat it, one should reheat it instead of falling ill & blaming ghosts.
Very logical. I am educated!
Separately, another content creator @ heyladtour did a post on whether we can eat food offered to ghosts during the 7th month.
(I’ve been to his tour where his brings us to see spirit mediums in 🇸🇬 temples. Very educational & enlightening too. He’s a STB (Singapore Tourism Board) approved guide.)
(I’ve been to his tour where his brings us to see spirit mediums in 🇸🇬 temples. Very educational & enlightening too. He’s a STB (Singapore Tourism Board) approved guide.)
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Separately, another content creator @ heyladtour did a post on whether we can eat food offered to ghosts during the 7th month.
(I’ve been to his tour where his brings us to see spirit mediums in 🇸🇬 temples. Very educational & enlightening too. He’s a STB (Singapore Tourism Board) approved guide.)
(I’ve been to his tour where his brings us to see spirit mediums in 🇸🇬 temples. Very educational & enlightening too. He’s a STB (Singapore Tourism Board) approved guide.)
In this video, ordained Taoist priest of the Quan Zhen sect in Singapore talks about offerings to deities & to ghosts in an interview.
There are bilingual Chinese & English subtitles so I do invite you to watch the little clip.
There are bilingual Chinese & English subtitles so I do invite you to watch the little clip.
September 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
In this video, ordained Taoist priest of the Quan Zhen sect in Singapore talks about offerings to deities & to ghosts in an interview.
There are bilingual Chinese & English subtitles so I do invite you to watch the little clip.
There are bilingual Chinese & English subtitles so I do invite you to watch the little clip.
Okay cool found an English one.
When “energy changes” as one season transitions into another, there is a shift in qi (energy), according to the video in the OP.
The Taoist priest explains that if the human body cannot tolerate the change in energy, they will either fall sick or die.
When “energy changes” as one season transitions into another, there is a shift in qi (energy), according to the video in the OP.
The Taoist priest explains that if the human body cannot tolerate the change in energy, they will either fall sick or die.
September 1, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Okay cool found an English one.
When “energy changes” as one season transitions into another, there is a shift in qi (energy), according to the video in the OP.
The Taoist priest explains that if the human body cannot tolerate the change in energy, they will either fall sick or die.
When “energy changes” as one season transitions into another, there is a shift in qi (energy), according to the video in the OP.
The Taoist priest explains that if the human body cannot tolerate the change in energy, they will either fall sick or die.
I think my friend @edwardw2.bsky.social posted somewhere about this but here is a little picture (source in alt text), of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese calendar.
立春 (lì chūn) is when Chinese New Year “officially” starts & so on.
立春 (lì chūn) is when Chinese New Year “officially” starts & so on.
September 1, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I think my friend @edwardw2.bsky.social posted somewhere about this but here is a little picture (source in alt text), of the 24 solar terms in the Chinese calendar.
立春 (lì chūn) is when Chinese New Year “officially” starts & so on.
立春 (lì chūn) is when Chinese New Year “officially” starts & so on.
Thought to post more videos about the 7th lunar month.
This is an except from the podcast called “Hellbank” and the full interview can be found on YouTube I believe.
Here they talk about how as energy changes, people die. Hence the increased number of deaths in 七月, during CNY & Winter Solstice.
This is an except from the podcast called “Hellbank” and the full interview can be found on YouTube I believe.
Here they talk about how as energy changes, people die. Hence the increased number of deaths in 七月, during CNY & Winter Solstice.
September 1, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Thought to post more videos about the 7th lunar month.
This is an except from the podcast called “Hellbank” and the full interview can be found on YouTube I believe.
Here they talk about how as energy changes, people die. Hence the increased number of deaths in 七月, during CNY & Winter Solstice.
This is an except from the podcast called “Hellbank” and the full interview can be found on YouTube I believe.
Here they talk about how as energy changes, people die. Hence the increased number of deaths in 七月, during CNY & Winter Solstice.
It’s titled the “SG Edition” cos he writes his divination lots in Singlish.
If you need help with translation, feel free to either check out the linked website or comment below and I can help you translate from Singlish to English for free.
Singlish can be difficult so I’m happy to help.
If you need help with translation, feel free to either check out the linked website or comment below and I can help you translate from Singlish to English for free.
Singlish can be difficult so I’m happy to help.
August 29, 2025 at 11:56 AM
It’s titled the “SG Edition” cos he writes his divination lots in Singlish.
If you need help with translation, feel free to either check out the linked website or comment below and I can help you translate from Singlish to English for free.
Singlish can be difficult so I’m happy to help.
If you need help with translation, feel free to either check out the linked website or comment below and I can help you translate from Singlish to English for free.
Singlish can be difficult so I’m happy to help.
This was my qian (qian) or divination lot by pressing a screenshot on the previous video.
I asked in his comments if this is modern divination cos it parallels a qian I got from the Waterloo Guan Yin Temple when I went there recently.
Quite amazing really.
I asked in his comments if this is modern divination cos it parallels a qian I got from the Waterloo Guan Yin Temple when I went there recently.
Quite amazing really.
August 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This was my qian (qian) or divination lot by pressing a screenshot on the previous video.
I asked in his comments if this is modern divination cos it parallels a qian I got from the Waterloo Guan Yin Temple when I went there recently.
Quite amazing really.
I asked in his comments if this is modern divination cos it parallels a qian I got from the Waterloo Guan Yin Temple when I went there recently.
Quite amazing really.
This is a little video made by ordained Taoist Priest Chee Tong, from the Instagram account @ qztaoism for Qi Xi.
七夕 is the Double Seventh Festival or the Chinese Valentine’s Day.
It’s a celebration of the legend of the human cowherd & heavenly weaver girl’s eternal love.
七夕 is the Double Seventh Festival or the Chinese Valentine’s Day.
It’s a celebration of the legend of the human cowherd & heavenly weaver girl’s eternal love.
August 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This is a little video made by ordained Taoist Priest Chee Tong, from the Instagram account @ qztaoism for Qi Xi.
七夕 is the Double Seventh Festival or the Chinese Valentine’s Day.
It’s a celebration of the legend of the human cowherd & heavenly weaver girl’s eternal love.
七夕 is the Double Seventh Festival or the Chinese Valentine’s Day.
It’s a celebration of the legend of the human cowherd & heavenly weaver girl’s eternal love.
Saw a hornbill eating berries near Changi Beach.
November 23, 2024 at 10:52 AM
Saw a hornbill eating berries near Changi Beach.
I’d like to think if they were all gathered that they’d be having a good time, spreading love and kindness and not fighting. :)
December 24, 2023 at 11:49 PM
I’d like to think if they were all gathered that they’d be having a good time, spreading love and kindness and not fighting. :)
Very pleased to have finished crocheting all my Christmas gifts to distribute at church tomorrow :)
December 23, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Very pleased to have finished crocheting all my Christmas gifts to distribute at church tomorrow :)
Me struggling to keep my eyes open after two nights of sleeping too little due to the eclipse & work-stress.
October 29, 2023 at 6:53 AM
Me struggling to keep my eyes open after two nights of sleeping too little due to the eclipse & work-stress.
3 storey Christmas tree under construction.
October 28, 2023 at 3:36 AM
3 storey Christmas tree under construction.
Bee Hoon Soto + Begedil for lunch today :)
August 5, 2023 at 6:29 AM
Bee Hoon Soto + Begedil for lunch today :)
S$2 holy, healthy & yummy temple food for lunch at 光明山 - it’ll be easy to be vegetarian if I live here.
Except I probably can’t keep the precept on celibacy so I guess I can’t be a nun.
🤗🤗🤗
Except I probably can’t keep the precept on celibacy so I guess I can’t be a nun.
🤗🤗🤗
August 4, 2023 at 3:51 AM
S$2 holy, healthy & yummy temple food for lunch at 光明山 - it’ll be easy to be vegetarian if I live here.
Except I probably can’t keep the precept on celibacy so I guess I can’t be a nun.
🤗🤗🤗
Except I probably can’t keep the precept on celibacy so I guess I can’t be a nun.
🤗🤗🤗
My morning read :)
August 2, 2023 at 1:30 AM
My morning read :)