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It is once again time for the Lee Clan to go on vacation. 19 of us — three brothers and our families — with kids ranging from 25 years old to the three-year-old twins. We go big or we stay home. As children, my brothers and I heard of families going to Lake Toba in [ ]
Thanks to the hard work of the Happiness Engineers at WordPress, decades of posts and photos — we are talking thousands of posts, images and links — have been successfully imported and relinked into this new home for mrbrown.com. I sigh with relief because I was not sure if it could be done. They had [ ]
Someone on Threads asked, “Men and Men ONLY: Post a beautifully captured, thoughtfully angled photo — taken by YOU — of the woman you are proud to love.” So I shared these photos. These photos are of my wife, with my firstborn, who has autism. The first two photos are 25 years apart. We had [ ]
Some of you may have noticed that mrbrown.com has been down for the last few months. My host of several decades, Typepad, shut their service down and gave us all just one month to leave, which was pretty impossible for many of us with thousands of posts to migrate. So I backed up the site, [ ]
This song was written way back in August 2008 for National Day 2008, by Marc Nair and myself, for the mrbrown show podcast. And then we were invited to perform our sketches and songs live at Singapore Day 2009, in London. Amazingly, many in the Singapore crowd who watched us at London, knew every word [ ]
Pa sat at his kitchen counter, sipping on the flat white he just made. As he read the article, his curiosity was piqued. Was it true? Is Gen Z unable or unwilling to read in Third-Person Omniscient anymore? Just then, his son, Isaac walked by. He looked at Pa curiously. “Morning, Bruh.” Pa said his [ ]
Don’t assume power never trips in Singapore. My block lost power earlier today, around 11.20am, just as I was about to make my second espresso of the day. Neighbours were out and about, checking with each other. I took the stairs to the first floor to check if other blocks were affected. Seems like the [ ]
Family watching Shang-Chi on free-to-air TV. Me: “This movie was carried by Leslie Cheung.” Brother-in-law: “I thought he died already. Tony Leung issit?” Me: “Oh ya. Tony Leung.” Halfway into the movie… Wife: “That’s King Bentley, right?” Me: “Who???” Wife: “King… Bentley?” Me: “…Ben Kingsley lah!” Wife: “Oh ya. Ben Kingsley. He is The Orange.” [ ]
I watched Director Chai Yee-Wei’s latest film, Wonderland, very early on, alone in his company’s mixing studio. By the end of the film, I sat there in the darkness, a tear in my eye, a lump in my throat, trying to process my feelings, and reflecting on my own family histories and stories. I have [ ]
Two years after we went to Japan at the tail end of the pandemic, I finally got around to developing and sharing my film photos from that trip with my wife. (Read the full post and see more photographs at https://brown.exposure.co/japan-all-to-ourselves or view the embedded version below.) Japan All to Ourselves by Kin Mun mrbrown [ ]