My second guest blogpost for my friends over at English Trackers – the amazing editing and translation services company – who for reasons best known to themselves have committed to posting 100 blogposts in 100 days. Good luck!
Entries Tagged as 'Uncategorized'
Sketches
June 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
My most interesting life drawing results from the last six months. Work has prevented me from doing any drawing of late but I hope to be back at it next week.
Tags:art·creative·life drawing
Family footsteps in Deolali
March 20th, 2011 · 6 Comments · Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
My trip to the artillery camp in Deolali, Maharashtra, where my mother was born during the Second World War and the final years of the British Raj in India.
Tags:British Raj·Deolali·family·India·Maharashtra·military·Nasik·Raj
Osho dynamic meditation
March 20th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
Dynamic meditation at the Osho ashram in Pune, India – an incredible way to start the day.
Manado revisited
March 8th, 2011 · 4 Comments · Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
I revisited Manado in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, last year – 15 years after I went there to teach English aged 18. In this piece I look at how the town has changed from my memory of it in 1994.
Tags:Christianity·development·Indonesia·Islam·Jalan·Manado·Minahasa·religion·STIBA·Sulawesi·teaching·travel
So dari dulu – traditional Manado song
March 6th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
Translation and audio recording of “So dari dulu” (“So long ago”), a traditional song from Manado in Indonesia’s North Sulawesi province. Recorded in STIBA Manado, sung by me and a STIBA class.
Tags:audio·Indonesia·Manado·multimedia·music·so dari dulu·Sulawesi·translation
Incitement to murder
December 7th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Journalism, Uncategorized
These people have all – directly or indirectly – called for Wikileaks Julian Assange to be murdered for building a platform that enables whistleblowers to release information without giving themselves away. They are mad.
Tags:Assange·cablegate·incitement·Journalism·Julian Assange·murder·Wikileaks
Guest blog at English Trackers
November 25th, 2010 · 2 Comments · China, Uncategorized
Guest post on writing simple English at the English Trackers blog.
Wikileaks puts ICC credibility on the line
November 15th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Middle East, Rest of Asia, Uncategorized
Is whistle-blowing website Wikileaks putting the international war crimes tribunal in an uncomfortable position? Its Afghanistan war logs provide information that the International Criminal Court could theoretically use to prosecute Americans.
Lauren Booth & other western Muslim converts
November 5th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Middle East, Uncategorized
Lauren Booth’s conversion and interviews with western converts to Islam in Damascus, Syria, from 2005.
Tags:Islam·islamophobia·lauren booth·middleeast·religion·syria



