Articles by Daniel Yeow
What in the World Rhymes With “Freedom”?
This poem was sent to the members of the cuai-board email listserv as a christmas card and may have been influenced by the alcohol that inevitably accompanies christmas [more...]
Some Final (Silly) Words
This poem was emailed to all the students in W4400 Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change in the fall of 2007 during a particularly frustrating late night of [more...]
A Week in the Life
Photo Essay. A typical week in the life a a Columbia University graduate student. Let’s take a look at what life is like through the eye of my camera… in invite [more...]
UN Conference
Yes… there was another reason I came to Columbia University – because it is in New York. The United Nations also happens to be in New York. What a happy [more...]
Long-Awaited Update
I finally have some time to update all of my beloved fans of my progress. Actually, I’m siting in class right now and I’m very bored. The class is on probability. [more...]
Unpolished Gem by Alice Pung
A story told with a captivating wit that draws the reader into her world, Unpolished Gem is a polished work of the storyteller’s art. A simple story about growing up [more...]
The 5th Melbourne International Chamber Music Competition
I’ve been listening this on the radio for a little while, so I thought it would be good to go along. So over the last weekend, I attended some of the aforementioned [more...]
End of an act…
Dear All, As many of you have figured out by now, both Nick and I made it home safely to Melbourne from our last stop of Santiago, Chile. After my harrowing defeat at the [more...]
Post-Liminaries
What we ended up actually doing… As you can see… we made one or two little deviations from the original plan. The most major of these was a trip to the US of A to [more...]
Airport Security Rant
I’m sitting in transit in Auckland International Airport (can anyone think of another city that ends in “land”?). I just had my toothpaste confiscated. Now, [more...]
Signs of Life
A collection of some of the more interesting signs… some spanglish, some are inglespanol… some are just silly. Most of the jokes are lewd and tasteless, so if [more...]
Why? Because it is there.
A moment of good visibility… This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first [more...]
Iguazu Falls to the End of the World
A feeble attempt at capturing the enormity of the Iguazu Falls This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through [more...]