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The Beauty of Death was written by Lebanese-American writer, Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931). It's presented here in a three-part series, read for dear friends who have departed our realm. We think of them and treasure the memories they leave behind. Read the full text here: https://listenbyheart.webprojx.com/2023/08/09/special-the-beauty-of-death/ . --- The Beauty of Death by Kahlil Gibran   Part One -...

AFT Podcasts presents, Listen by Heart: Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Hosted by Jasmine H. Low, here is an interview with Malayland (2024) author Dina Zaman. Kuala Lumpur-based, Dina Zaman is a writer and researcher. She is a co-founder of IMAN Research, a think tank focusing on socio-political and security matters, and a founding member of the Southeast Asian Women Peacebuilders. Din...

AFT Podcasts presents, Listen by Heart: Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Hosted by Jasmine H. Low, here is an interview with Malayland (2024) author Dina Zaman. Kuala Lumpur-based, Dina Zaman is a writer and researcher. She is a co-founder of IMAN Research, a think tank focusing on socio-political and security matters, and a founding member of the Southeast Asian Women Peacebuilders. Din...

He Huang is a Chinese comedian from ChongQing based out of Australia. Her YouTube profile promises that as a stand-up comedian, she'll be serving up sarcasm, dark humor, and existential crises—disguised as jokes. She rose to fame following a debut on the Australian Got Talent TV show. Jasmine H. Low speaks to He Huang on this edition of AFT Podcasts: Listen by Heart Podcasts. Learn more about...

Welcome to the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea hosted by Jasmine H. Low. This episode features Sheena Yap Chan, The Wall Street Journal Bestselling author, keynote speaker, consultant and award-winning podcaster on leadership and self-confidence. She is also the founder and host of the award-winning podcast called The Tao of Self-Confidence where...

Welcome to the Listen by Heart Podcast , where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. I’m Jasmine Low and today, I will be joined by Che Puan Sarimah Ibrahim , a woman with many talents. I remember watching her present MTV music videos, emceeing events on television, she even had her own talk show. In her IMDb profile , she is an Actor, TV Host, Model, Voice Over, Emcee, Singer, Pre...

Originally released on Feb 2, 2024: AFT Podcasts present the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Presenter Jasmine Low speaks with Amanda Nell Eu, a Malaysian film director and scriptwriter known for her recent body horror film Tiger Stripes - set in a Malaysian jungle in which a girl experiences a strange metamorphosis as she comes of age. The film...

Australian journalist Su-Lin Tan spent her youth cross country commuting from the southernmost city in Malaysia, Johor Bahru to Singapore for a better education,  just like Crazy Rich Asians actor Ronnie Chieng. Su-Lin speaks about her early life in Malaysia and Singapore and recalls family life including her Ah Ma (Grandma) who gifted her with stories from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. She is a qua...

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A short story by Jasmine H. Low, Dancing to the gongs of the South China Sea is an unfinished piece that’s a work-in-progress, a culmination of works explored in an 8-week creative writing class with Sharon Bakar’s Words on Fire to “Finding the Flow”. Jasmine describes this writing process as going with the flow, and she’s putting this out there even if it’s a draft and incomplete with some flaws....

Welcome to Season Five of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. I’m Jasmine Low and today, I will be joined by Shivani Sivagurunathan, an author and educator. Head of School, Assistant Professor; Research Director; Director of Postgraduate Studies; Senior Tutor, Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia and has an interest in post-...

Welcome to Season Five of the Listen by Heart Podcast , where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea . I’m Jasmine Low and today, I will be joined by Shivani Sivagurunathan , an author and educator. Head of School, Assistant Professor; Research Director; Director of Postgraduate Studies; Senior Tutor, Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham, Malaysia and has an interest in po...

Welcome to Season Four of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. I am your host, Jasmine Low and on this audio journey, we welcome Karina Robles Bahrin , a Malaysian author and hotelier who has picked up the 2022 Epigram Book’s Fiction Prize.

And here we are, the fifth and final episode. "It's not about me," reminds the author, Guat. Writing Echoes of Silence, she wanted to explore that emotion of how she, like many others felt lost at one time, as the children of colonialism, an establishment that left behind their orphaned children as Malaya gained its independence. The author indulges listeners in a very personal manner, where she n...

May the fourth conversation with Dr. Chuah Guat Eng guide you. A teacher, Mr. V. K. Arumugam was one such man who opened the windows of her mind. Guat shares her experience about being a woman in a man's world, and her opinion on gender equality. She believes that everyone deserves equal opportunities yet we should never strive to be equal because we are not born equal. Not letting fate be the dec...

In this third episode, Dr. Chuah Guat Eng details her PhD Thesis: A Zen Approach to Reading Fiction is a reading procedure originally proposed as her Masters thesis proposal submitted to the National University of Malaysia (Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia). She cites an example of how many literary critics have approached the works by Joseph Conrad. In multi-ethnic Malaysia, Guat wanted to explore...

In this second episode, Chuah Guat Eng shares about competitiveness, her mother Wee Siew Lan and how one can tell from surnames of the Nanyang Chinese, if they are from Singapore or the northern states of Perlis, Kedah or Penang in Malaysia, the naming of Guat Eng and her sisters, finding her cultural identity inspired by an old school teacher, Mr. V. K. Arumugam, who passed her a copy of Lin YuTa...

Welcome to Season Three of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from Women of the South China Sea. Host Jasmine Low will be joined by Dr. Chuah Guat Eng, a Malaysian fiction writer who read English Literature at University of Malaya Kuala Lumpur, German Literature at Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, and she has a PhD from the National University of Malaysia (Univer...

Welcome to a special edition of Listen by Heart, narrated by Jasmine H. Low.   🖤 On August 9th 2021, International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples themed ‘Leaving No One Behind’ left me thinking of our future, and of the concept of freedom.  💛 It's August 30th, Malaysia's Merdeka Day. A quick dip into historical events would show the timeline from when the British East India Company made a...

Written and narrated by Dr. Ann Lee, this story was published amongst 16 others in Malaysian Folk Tales: Retold & Remixed , edited by Daphne Lee, published by ZI Publications (2011). Su and her natural love for swimming is based on the folktale about a girl who was kidnapped by an orangutan. The irony is that her abductor reveals its bubbly and very loving character. About the Listen by Heart...

Welcome to Season Two of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from the Women of the South China Sea. In episode five, podcast host Jasmine Low speaks to Dr. Ann Lee about gender and sexuality and if her grandmother may have known anyone who was queer. Ann talks about her university days in London, attending a writer’s workshop with Hanif Kureishi and being around “people like us”....

Welcome to Season Two of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from the Women of the South China Sea. It's episode four and podcast host Jasmine Low speaks to Dr. Ann Lee about her family. Born of mixed parentage, Dr. Ann recalls stories of her family: her maternal side in North Borneo and Sabah, Malaysia, as well as her paternal side from Salford, Manchester in England. For exampl...

Welcome to Season Two of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from the Women of the South China Seas. Podcast host Jasmine Low has a conversation with Dr. Ann Lee about BOH Cameronian award-winning play Tarap Man featured in Southeast Asian Plays (Aurora Metro) , plays and their mobility.  Keyword mentions: Tarap Man, Kadazan, Telegu, Hakka, Hang Li Poh, Mahi Ramakrishnan (fi...

Welcome to Season Two of the Listen by Heart Podcast, where we feature Stories from the Women of the South China Seas. In this episode, podcast host Jasmine Low has a conversation with Dr. Ann Lee, and we establish that it was in September 1994 when Kuali Works, an all-women arts company specialising in theatre, TV and publications in Malaysia was founded. Ann Lee, Karen Quah, Goh Soon Siew, Anita...

Welcome to Season Two of the Listen by Heart Podcast , where we feature Stories from the Women of the South China Sea . Podcast host Jasmine Low introduces Dr. Ann Lee in this first episode. Ann speaks about her career including national news reader to an MC of the Closing Ceremony of the 1998 Kuala Lumpur Commonwealth Games. She has also had a career in advertising and public relations, the pinna...