The Story of John's Life Mission - Part 4 :This part of the story tells of the beginning of my charity  work in Cambodia.

After my first meeting with Isabelle in Phnom Penh, the only question I had in my mind was how to raise money for my life mission.  Yes m...

For your information a more concise version of this article also appears in Textiles Asia January 2017, Volume 8, Issue 3

Journey to lesser known museums of Southeast Asia - visiting the Folklore Museum and a private museum in Songkhla.

The Southern states of Thailand,...

The Story of John's Life Mission - Part 3

In 1956, King Norodom Sihanouk commissioned several sets of paper rubbings of the beautiful carvings on the stone walls of Angkor Wat's third gallery. This was done to preserve and record the intricate details of these ma...

The Story of John's Life Mission - Part 2

In summer of 2007, while practicing Ashtanga yoga, I accidentally fell on my head, and had to be rushed to a hospital where I received thirteen stitches on my forehead. The attending doctor said my injury was a small matter com...

The Story of John's Life Mission - Part 1

Since I was a teenager, I was always fascinated with Cambodian art which I often saw in antique galleries in Singapore. In the 1970s, during the Vietnam War and the Khmer Rouge period, many amazing Khmer sculptures were smuggle...