Yu-Mei Balasingamchow

Apr 19, 2024 | jom.media | Faris Joraimi |Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

In mid-March, about a hundred Harvard alumni and friends gathered at the Singapore Island Country Club (SICC). Smack in the middle of our city-state, SICC abuts some of Singapore’s only remaining virgin forest, offering exclusive views of the MacRitchie and Lower Pierce reservoirs, a time-travelling vista onto the tropical island that once was.

Apr 12, 2024 | jom.media | Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

In 1960, the Singaporean Malay public intellectual Harun Aminurrashid travelled to Jerusalem. It was a stop on his journey through Arab countries after a pilgrimage to Mecca. He wrote about his experiences in Meninjau ka-Negara Sham (Viewing the Levant). In Jerusalem, past and present forged tangled paths.

Apr 5, 2024 | jom.media | Tsen-Waye Tay |Lin Yanqin |Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee

The photographs circulating online of Yazan Kafarneh, a 10-year-old Palestinian boy on his deathbed in Rafah, southern Gaza, are meant to shock. Taken with his family’s permission, they show the “skeleton” his father said he’d turned into, of a human being seemingly without be-ing.

Mar 14, 2024 | jom.media | Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Unsu Lee

Note to readers: palawa kani, the only Aboriginal language to survive in Tasmania to this day only uses lowercase letters. Two cities await visitors to Hobart, Tasmania’s capital. One reflects its colonial past, with Georgian-era buildings and leafy squares flanking streets that run down to piers, where from the early 1800s ships bearing British convicts and settlers docked, and from which intrepid explorers departed for Antarctica.

Jan 4, 2024 | jom.media | Yu-Mei Balasingamchow |John Lee |Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh |Unsu Lee

Time is like water,and water is as cold and deepas consciousness. And time is like a reflectionmade partly by water,partly by me. Time and waterrush trackless to vanishinside my consciousness. - Stein Steinarr, Icelandic poetOk is the first Icelandic glacier to lose its status as glacier. In the next 200 years, all our main glaciers are expected to follow the same path. This monument is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it.