Dominica Malcolm's Blog, page 10

Another Christmas Without My Mum

It’s been more than seven and a half years since my mum passed away from pancreatic cancer. They say it gets easier as time goes on, whoever “they” are. I’m not sure how true that is. Certainly the pain of not having her in my life any more often comes to the forefront of my [...]

Crowdfunding Campaigns Backed December 2012

I may update this page if I back more projects during the rest of the month, but I wanted to promote some now to pass on the information before their deadlines, in case anyone else might be interested in backing them too. These are ordered according to earliest deadlines. The View from Here is a [...]

How Does One Flirt With Women?

When I came out as bisexual a couple of weeks ago, it was in part because I wanted to be able to more publicly write about the issues I face and the way it directly affects my life. Now, more often than not, I don’t really consider my sexuality anyway – it just happens to [...]

Taiwan Apr 28-May 4 2012

Still going to be behind in this catch up travel blogging. I’m heading off to Thailand again tomorrow, and I still have to write about our trip to France after this post. Saturday 28th April, 2012 As I left the last travel entry, we flew from Incheon airport in South Korea to Taipei in Taiwan. [...]

Tired of Hiding

This is probably going to be the hardest public blog post I’ll ever write in my life. When fear consumes you and prevents you from being true to yourself – from telling the people who matter the most to you who you really are, because you’re afraid of how they’ll react – then you’re no [...]

Promoting Lesser Known Artists: Gangster Macha

I’ve decided to start using this blog as a way of occasionally promoting other lesser known creative types that I’ve enjoyed. Whether I’ve encountered them through social media, in person, or otherwise, I figure that it’s worth getting the word out about them. People like us don’t have multi-million dollar advertising budgets, so blogging and [...]

Jaclyn Rousseau visits TGI Friday’s

For those of you not familiar with Malaysia, here in Kuala Lumpur at least, we have a number of outlets of the US restaurant chain, TGI Friday’s. It just so happens to be one of the places I’m inclined to eat, so I like when they have special promotions on. For Mother’s Day earlier this [...]

South Korea 24-28 Apr 2012

I am really rather behind on writing about some of the travel I did this year, but now that I have a completed draft of my novel, I’m going to attempt to get these out of the way. We travelled to South Korea and Taiwan on the same holiday, but I’m going to separate them [...]

Video Blog: Talking about being a dual-National

Diversity in Storytelling: We’re Getting There

Whilst I’m not as big of a consumer of various media these days as I have been in the past, I have noticed there being a trend in the sorts of stories I enjoy. I’m not sure exactly when it started or why, but diversity is a part of the equation. Is it because when [...]