“…You can sit in a beautiful field all you like – but like your environment, inspiration must be natural and uncontrived.”
[Post about the methods and routines of my writing process.]
Category Archive: Lazy Daze: personal info
Mar 16 2012
How I write
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2012/03/how-i-write/
Feb 17 2012
What Keira did this week…
“…Played a game with myself [that sounds sketchy]…”
[Self-indulgent post about my antics this week. Lots of material today but somehow this seemed really important...]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2012/02/what-keira-did-this-week/
Oct 21 2011
Searching for my ego…
“…In an age where faces were replaced by books, and now books are replaced by Facebook, cries of privacy are louder than ever…I recently checked the ‘back end’ of my Google Analytics to see what drives traffic to my website/blog.”
[Post about the ego-crashing search terms that lead ppl to my blog.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/10/searching-for-my-ego/
Jul 01 2011
It’s great to be foreign!
“…it appeases my split personalities to be undertaking such subversive roles. I have a [paid] excuse to be random and act like a different person. Dream role indeed.”
[Post about how the personal advantages of being a foreign correspondent, and a preview of my first article in this role.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/07/its-great-to-be-foreign/
May 13 2011
Lost in translation?
“…I do acknowledge that perhaps the two above situations are less of what they think about Australians as a whole and more about of what they think I am capable.”
[Drunken outburst on how I am *not* ridding any Australian stereotypes.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/lost-in-translation/
May 11 2011
How to instantly feel younger? Realise your childhood dreams!
“…I resisted the urge to chest-bump my manager for making my ‘dream job title’ come true – instead I pumped my fist in the air and said, “Woo! I like being foreign!””
[Giddy outburst about being offered a foreign correspondent gig for a Canadian publication, reporting on Australian issues.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/how-to-instantly-feel-younger-realise-your-childhood-dreams/
May 06 2011
Here comes the sun snob, lil darling.
“…I proceeded to eff up my credibility though when I tried to explain the angle changes from a concentrated front-on position to more obtuse “as the sun moves around Earth”.”
[Sunburnt outburst and p*ssing competition about the country where the sun is hottest (Oztrayah of course! Pft!)]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/05/here-comes-the-sun-lil-darling-and-youre-a-snob/
Apr 22 2011
A young girl’s strange, exotic journey from Sydney to Scarborough…
“…the distances we walk is limited by the flip-flops on our feet – we can only walk so far and so fast. We call them “thongs” btw. That was an interesting conversation with my friend’s older uncle to find out *that* difference in terminology.”
[Article submitted to the magazine "Current" in the 'Global Perspectives' section outlining my experience as an Australian in Canada, and the cultural differences.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/04/a-young-girl%e2%80%99s-strange-exotic-journey-from-sydney-to-scarborough%e2%80%a6/
Jan 21 2011
True Blue in T Dot.
“…It’s no bloody wonder we milk the buggery out of being Ostrayan, mate!”
[Snap post about my first impressions of my experience as an Australian moving to Toronto.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2011/01/true-blue-in-t-dot/
Dec 04 2010
The Money and the Honey
“…This article highlighted the 2 aspects of my city, as a born and bred Sydney gal, that really get my goat: the living expense of Sydney; the attitude of Sydneysiders at the expense of my dating life.”
[Post on an SMH news article on how Sydney-siders spend money...and relate to how they date their honey.]
Permanent link to this article: http://keirawong.com/blog/2010/12/the-money-and-the-honey/
