by Ovidia Yu | Oct 21, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. It’s Deepavali, the Festival of Lights, in Singapore. And tonight (or last night, by the time this comes out) I’ll be lighting my little sandlewood, spruce and lemon scented candles to...
by Ovidia Yu | Oct 7, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. The Mid-Autumn or the Mooncake Festival marks the end of the Hungry Ghost Month and the start of the last quarter of the year. But before saying goodbye to the ghosts, I want to share these...
by Ovidia Yu | Sep 23, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. We’ve been renovating our bedroom. At last. After sixty-plus years of ignoring interior décor and living like perennial grad students, we now have closets. Unfortunately it feels like...
by Ovidia Yu | Sep 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. I’ve kind of been struggling with books lately—not just the ones I’m writing, but the ones I’ve been living with. I have shelves and stacks and cupboards full of books. Some of them books I haven’t...
by Ovidia Yu | Aug 26, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. My office is a bookmess right now because I’ve decided I need glass doors on my bookcases (to keep off dust without hiding my books) and there will be some Drilling involved. I tried hanging...
by Ovidia Yu | Aug 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
This post was originally published on murderiseverywhere.blogspot.com. Singapore is 60 years old! I didn’t make it to watch the National Day Parade this year; this banner is from the park next door where we went to watch the Red Lions doing flybys over the...