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Findings, vol. 2
Stories old and new & some of life's good things.
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Emily Ding
Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?
On revisiting Nusa Penida, now that it's become a popular destination for crowds of daytrippers from mainland Bali. (Really an essay about rethinking…
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Emily Ding
August 2023
Photodrop: Glimpses of KL, 2015-
Some of these places you won't ever see this way again.
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Homing pigeon
A personal journey through the Chinatowns of Kolkata, London, and Guatemala City.
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Emily Ding
July 2023
Landmarkings #17
Notes & readings on how we “see” the world and tell its stories.
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June 2023
Landmarkings #16
Notes and links on how we “see” the world & tell its stories. (I'm changing up this series a bit.)
May 2023
Findings, vol. 1 (though it's not really vol. 1)
Stories old and new & some of life's good things.
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Emily Ding
Introducing Substack Notes
So, Substack as social network?
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Eating with other people's families
Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.
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Emily Ding
March 2023
Rebecca Chew: "I think being an outsider, or having that perspective, helps"
Q&A: An art director on moving from Malaysia to the U.S. for a dream job at the start of the pandemic, the differences in being a creative here and…
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Remembering Sanmao, the Taiwanese travel writer who lived in the desert
She was born some eighty years ago today.
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Mabel Ho: “I still flirt with the idea of leaving. But that dream plays to a different tune now.”
Guest essay: After years imagining what her exit plan would look like, A Malaysian finally comes to terms with her choice to remain.
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