Sung Yee Poon's Blog

For the past few weeks, I stopped all posting to review my original goals on social media to explore how we can have a free easy mind of peace amidst conflicts, loss, migration, injustice in the world and try to make a difference with the individual’s efforts. Not only has US been battling with interest […]

The election campaign in US really makes everyone wonder about choice and destiny of the candidates as well as the voters.The outcome can have far and wide impact around the world, even the small island of Taiwan because it could mean “break or make” depending on the stand of the next president of US in […]

The following video is based on a Buddhist parable that many have heard or read before.(Shared from Paul Chen’s facebook page). He wrote in Chinese “Treat others well first, then you yourself can be well.” It makes me think about the situation in Europe with migrants and Brexit. It is a delicate balance and a […]

“Proper sayings may sound contrary.” Lao Tzu. “Things are Topsy Turvy in Taiwan” Reuter’s English subtitle for a clip of an upside down house on exhibition in Taipei. With the newly elected legislators in the Legislature in Taiwan, there are serious talks about hauling the statues of the founding father of Republic of China which […]

One of my favorite French writers, Muriel Barbery, gave a talk at Taipei Book Fair last Saturday on her new book,”The Life of Elves”. I could not put her first novel “The Elegance of the Hedgehog down reading in Chinese, English or French version even after seeing the movie. The second novel “Gourmet Rhapsody” was […]

Food carts carrying yellow fishballs are icons of Hong Kong’s streets and to some they represent the working class, the values of entrepreneurship, capitalism and liberal democracy.They were the catalyst for a riot started on the first day of Chinese New Year that began with a poorly timed government crackdown on illegal hawkers harmlessly trying […]

The international cover of Bloomberg Business Week in a January issue featured the story on profits from refugees while the domestic cover was Bernie Sanders and his interview on income inequality with signature line “the rich are screwing you.” He suggested that Americans should learn from the Scandinavian countries particularly when it comes to government […]

New York Times/CBS polling in 1995 showed only 15 percent of whites believed the criminal justice system was biased against blacks, compared to 51 percent of blacks. By 2015, that number had risen to 44 percent of whites and 77 percent of blacks. The painting below was one of the first European portraits that contrasted […]

A former CNN anchor cried out for the rights of aborigines on Australia’s National Day, he is half-aborigine. Ironically the first National Day marked the end of aboriginal rights to their homeland. The British migrated to Australia, some were convicts while the aborigines were innocent people living on their own land. Watch Rabbit Proof Fence […]

Originally posted on Creative by Nature:
I sometimes feel like an alien creature for which there is no earthly explanation Sure I have human form walking erect and opposing digits, but my mind is upside down. I feel like a run-on sentence in a punctuation crazy world. and I see the world around me like a mad collective dream. An endless stream of people move…