Latest Blog Posts for Selina Pan

• Celestial ballet
  on Mar 16, 2012
  This week we have been witnessing a stunning celestial occurrence literally out of this world: Jupiter and Venus twinkling majestically in the sky. Sometimes we forget how small we really are and no matter how collosal our problems may seem, they are...
• Chinese New Year
  on Jan 27, 2012
  Gung Hei Fat Choi or 'Happy New Year' to everyone! We now enter the year of the fiery dragon (in exact terms it's the year 4710). What we need to consider is that the Chinese lunarsolar calendar starts later as opposed to the 'common' gregorian one w...
• Studio Ghibli
  on Sep 9, 2011
  Are you in the mood for a good old cartoon? No, they're not called that anymore, you're quite right. Today's boundless selection of children's animations ranges from the pioneer toy story to the latest cars 2. Whether you like it or not, you're left...
• Japanese Design
  on Aug 19, 2011
  Muji insight into Japanese design, Minimalist appoach - kept to a bare minimum, less is more environmental concerns, to create product that will be widely used  bento boxes Japanese poster design Packaging  Web design kimono Studio Ghibli h...
• The beauty doctrine
  on Aug 3, 2011
  We are facing an ever increasing pandemic obsession with beauty. What exactly makes someone beautiful? Is it 'a combination of qualities, such as shape, colour, or form, that pleases the aesthetic senses' (Oxford Dictionary definition)? Why do w...
• To boycott or not to boycott?
  on Jul 9, 2011
  The talking point du jour sends tweets buzzing around the virtual world. Why is every newspaper in the world reporting about a certain British tabloid, and not about the usual going-ons? Sadly, this marks a rather condemning milestone of today's medi...
• Happiness
  on Jun 19, 2011
  What makes you happy?  I bet you're putting your thinking cap on right now and asking yourself the same question... All of us are in constant pursuit of happiness but why do we need to spend £60 million on self-help books to emerge from our mun...
• Act of kindness
  on May 26, 2011
  Ever wondered why a stranger would voluntarily go out of their way to help you without actually wanting a date or your phone number in return? It seems almost unusual in our ultra-modern society but a random act of kindness is sometimes hard to come...
• Illusion of reality
  on May 19, 2011
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• Haruki Murakami
  on May 19, 2011
  This is bookworm pan's special recommendation: Haruki Murakami. You may have never heard of him but according to the Times he is 'quite possibly the most successful and influential cult author in the world today' and the Guardian rates him 'amon...

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