The cry of my heart has long been, "Here am I, send me!" That call to serve the brokenhearted first stirred in 1982 when I was only 12. It gained clarity during my years at the National University of Singapore in 1992. Finally the call became a physical reality on Valentine's Day's 2001. That day, Jacqueline and I, together with our two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Grace, relocated to Hanoi. Today, 14/12/26, we reached our quarter of a century mark. We arrived in Hanoi with a promise. In...

A reflection by “A Transient Star”, an originative 18 years old. In a sense, everyone has some kind of visual frame or “essence” of each...

What do you see? I asked one of my clients. A “xích lô”, she replied. “Xích lô” was invented by a French gentleman from Charente in...