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BY Karen Tsui

Welcome to Where My Heart Leads, an online zine of musings and life stories.

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Chat with Matt Knights

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An entrepreneur’s journey Karen Tsui   Thank you so much for coming on for this interview with Where My Heart Leads. I’m really excited to learn more about how you...

February 25, 2021
On the Radar
Dandelion and spores flying across blue skies | Where my Heart Leads

A Film Festival fosters inclusivity

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In a breezy corner of a mall-slash-hall, 20-30 seat-long rows arched before the stage. Neighborhood folks came in their homewear, kids and sometimes grandparents in tow. When they advertised...

January 29, 2020
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Photo portrait of Isamu Noguchi by Mimi Jacobs 1977 | Where My Heart Leads

Meet Noguchi: Design & Art for a better world

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Prologue Twenty years ago, I first saw Noguchi’s work at his museum in New York. I assumed he was Japanese or Japanese-American by the name. The Japanese aesthetics infused...

September 26, 2019
On the Radar
Looking up into the open sky from a well

What shocked me about the world as I knew it

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It was like a revelation. A shocker – my life as I had known it has been like a frog living at the bottom of the well. The revelation...

September 5, 2019
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The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

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Tea Life

Cultivation of one self and Chinese Tea DrinkingChinese tea drinking is simply about the taste of teas, I was once told....November 21, 2019

Tea lessons: let go of controlTea Practice is a bit like a world of its own. It’s somewhat of...October 3, 2019

Can we experience Harmony in everyday life?Japan stepped into a new era – Reiwa (Enabling Harmony) – when Crown Prince...June 12, 2019

Journeys

Kefir in a bottle
August 27, 2020

Relationship with food and our wellbeing

Four or five of us gathered around some chocolates. No labels on the chocolate. We have no idea what...

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A couple holding hands on beach | Where My Heart Leads
June 18, 2020

Secret to Happy. Piano Four Hands.

My friend Yee sends over Whatsapp:  The song always reminds me of high school. I didn’t realise she plays...

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Exterior of Paranakan Museum Singapore | Where My Heart Leads
March 12, 2020

WMHL explores Merlion city (plus Bonus trivia!)

I used to visit Singapore often as a kid as we visited my Aunt who lived here. I had...

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KOUBA 2019 Tsubame Sanjo | Where My Heart Leads
March 5, 2020

Contemporising heritage and culture: Tsubame-Sanjo

Making history, local stories and communities relevant again.

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Grow growing grown

Woman in sports gear training up hill
October 7, 2020

Mindsets: Tortoise and Hare in Practice

A modern day real life Tortoise and Hare story of persistence, growth, and strategy to achieve where you've set...

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Bouquet of Pink and white flowers against light grey background
April 2, 2020

Grace at the Oyster Bar

It wasn’t until a chance encounter at City ‘super that I felt the power of grace. Standing at the...

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Triangle |Where my heart leads
February 5, 2020

Mystery Triangles

You’d be surprised to find TOTO toilets in wooden shacks. TOTO toilets are swanky Japanese toilets complete with customisable...

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Two heads of giraffes looking opposite directions | Where My Heart Leads
January 22, 2020

Focus Which Way

My friend Karen went to a retreat in Bali to learn surfing. She was very annoyed that the random...

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I am Karen, curator-in-chief of Where My Heart Leads. Here is where you will find experiences and stories that may seem unusual at first, yet might be inspiring in some way. Get in touch with us at [email protected] And don’t forget to connect on social!

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