by Ovidia Yu | Jun 16, 2026 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.substack.com. I read Remy Lai’s Ghost Book last week and I loved it. It’s a graphic book that’s somehow funny, scary and tender all at once. Also, there are soup dumplings (which is always good. But they play...
by Ovidia Yu | Jun 2, 2026 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.substack.com. Here in Singapore we just had two public holidays close together: Hari Raya Haji last Wednesday and then Vesak Day on Sunday. At times like this, ordinary life gets interrupted in the best of...
by Ovidia Yu | May 19, 2026 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. I was excited (and a little apprehensive) to order our first ‘farmer’s box’ from Talula Farms last week. Till now I’ve shopped mainly in morning markets and supermarkets,...
by Ovidia Yu | May 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. I’ve been working on a piece about Singapore crime fiction for an encyclopedia of Global Crime Fiction and it’s driving home to me how little I know on the subject. Plus I have to admit that...
by Ovidia Yu | Apr 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. One of my bamboo plants was starting to look unwell. A few leaves here and there turning yellow and dropping–nothing dramatic, but enough to signal that something wasn’t right, because my...
