From India's Countryside

India

Photos from a 4.30 am trip to New Delhi's Azadpur Subzi Mandi. It's tough working on a farmer's schedule but so worth it when you do kick your own butt out of bed to witness people truck in vegetables and fruit from across the country to sell here.

Singapore

Snapshots from my recent reporting trip in Singapore-la!

Vietnam's Mekong Delta

A few snaps from the Mekong Delta.

The Syzygium Malaccense

I'm in Ho Chi Minh City on assignment for WSJ and will be traveling to Singapore and India for them. It's my last assignment in Asia, now that I've given up my position in Hong Kong, and I'm excited to be able to wrap up my tenure at this fine publication with a multimedia project on food inflation.

The switch from working full-time in an office to being a freelancer has been bizarre, but certainly pleasant. You go from being an integrated member of a corporate ecosystem to being a self-sufficient worker bee. I guess, the nicest thing is you get to be in charge of your own time. While that means you might work at odd hours, it also means you get to take random breaks to do random things, like plucking rose apples from a tree outside your auntie's house:

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Read our story here: http://on.wsj.com/oCxhVu

This Is Just To Say

This was a film shot on a cloudy Hong Kong morning and edited on the hot afternoon that followed right after. It illustrates what has become a favorite poem of mine with scenes from my neighborhood and my apartment.

Thanks to Yvonne Young and Allison Morrow for their time, their help and their company.

Music by Onra
Poetry by William Carlos Williams

This Is Just To Say


I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

And in Chinese (translated by the lovely Isabella Steger):

我剛吃了
李子
它們在
冰箱裏

也是你
很可能
留下
當早餐的

原諒我
它們很好吃
又甜
也很涼