Born in Singapore and raised in the City of New York, I have always had one foot in the New and the other in the Old World.  With a Teo-chew mother, a Hainanese father, and Cantonese uncles and aunts, I lovingly embraced the various cultural differences of my family.  I never look at a subject or object in one specified way and always believe there are other explanations for them.

I love history, photography, video games, model trains and most of all traveling.  I live to travel and have had the privilege to visit 30 countries so far from the Gobi Deserts of Western China to the wondrous waterfall called Skógafoss in Iceland.  I love to capture the landscape and the people of the countries I visit, because I love the cultural variety of humanity.  Even though I consider myself a “man of the world”, and embrace globalism, I abhor the commercial aspects of it.  It always pains me to see a Starbucks or a McDonald’s in an old city center, and I try very hard to avoid the tourist areas.  I always ask the locals for the best places to eat and am always willing to try the local delicacies (up to a point--no insects).

I hope that you enjoy these photos that I have taken, and I hope that you will visit the places in these pictures.  Some people now-a-days don’t travel because they say they can watch it on TV, but the old saying still holds true, “Nothing of what you read in a book or see in a painting can compare to seeing it with your own eyes.”