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Published: Trespass Mag: Opinion

Don’t Rain On My Parade The house I grew up in in Malaysia had a large forest just behind our backyard. In essence, our home was quite like a zoo; but only one animal, our dearly beloved Labrador (now deceased), Leo, was actually welcome there. We had a good sized garden – it housed a bunch of [ READ MORE ]

Published: Onya Mag: Opinion

where’s your happy place? In times of stress, WikiHow tells you to relax, breathe, close your eyes and then find your happy place. That’s all great advice except sometimes people make you so mad you feel like pelting the nearest object to you in their face. Whenever I feel like that, dreaming of frolicking in a [ READ MORE ]

Published: Trespass Magazine

Love: Sweet & Cheesy Beneath my cool, calm, steely exterior is a gaping hole where a soft spot lies for a mushy thing called…love poetry. Back in my more youthful days when my memory wasn’t as poor as it is today, I used to memorise my favourite poems, and then recite them to nobody – although, [ READ MORE ]

Published: FUCM: Feature Piece

How To Prepare & Live Through Festivals First published in FUCM Summertime is just around the corner, which means cut-off jean shorts and music festivals galore. Whilst Bermuda pants should never be worn, there are plenty of events of the musical kind to bounce along to. If you’re in Oz, there’s Big Day Out (good luck trying [ READ MORE ]

Published: Trespass Mag: Column

Little Big Things On the way home, the clouds looked like pink cotton candy.  They were stretched whimsically across the sky as if some child was in the midst of pulling at them, creating a fleeting horizon with luminous pink fibres that glowed bolder than the stooping sun.  I remembered thinking the sky looked good enough [ READ MORE ]

Published: Onya Mag: Column

What’s the Difference Between Me & You? Some dream of one day getting married, others hope that they will be allowed to, and then there are those who loathe the idea entirely. For same-sex couples dreaming is one thing, reality is another. To date, same-sex marriage is banned in Australia. You would think that the word, ‘ban’ commonly [ READ MORE ]

Published: Trespass Mag: Column

How to Get On Tv The ‘Balloon Boy’ spectacle would probably top my ‘ridiculous things people do to get on TV’ list. Not only did Richard Heene con an entire nation and beyond, he also wasted the valuable time of rescue workers. Furthermore, and even more grotesquely, he exploited his own children for fame and profit and [ READ MORE ]

Published: Onya Magazine

Ah, First Love My first love brought me to the moon and back. At times, the ecstasy of that relationship made me feel like we were frolicking in space, uninhibited, whilst being blissfully unaware of the existence of anyone but ourselves. We were a pair, seemingly indestructible. But alas, like most first relationships, our intergalactic journey [ READ MORE ]

Published: Onya Magazine

Can I Get A Witness? 1st Sep ‘09 I am perusing through my Facebook homepage for a daily dose of status updates. I see that one friend is baking cupcakes, another desperately wants to go on holiday (and desperately indeed, with not one but five exclamation marks to emphasise the pressing urgency), and one has sore nipples. [ READ MORE ]

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Lin Tan, Melbourne-based freelance writer, Editor of Trespass Magazine, features writer at Onya Mag, and weekly blog reviewer at Go. Other works can be found in Beat, Lost At E Minor, Acclaim, Express Media's Buzzcuts, LOTL, Fasterlouder, and some others she won't bore you with. (More About).

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