In 2025, I experienced significant highs and lows, marked by professional challenges and personal struggles. Key lessons include the importance of recognizing problems without fixation, the impact of compromises on boundaries, financial realities, trusting processes while remaining cautious, and the decisive role of leadership. After all these sensations, I remain hopeful for future growth through 2026.
Category: Workplace
3 months in the same community, with 3 different lessons
After completing the “Let’s Document Cambodia” project in 2022, Sunflower Film Organization returned last April to conduct an investigation workshop in Kampong Thom province. Six indigenous youth produced two documentaries, showcasing their skills despite limited resources, while emphasizing the importance of community engagement and local identities.
Sri Lanka — Three Local Specials
As you have followed my blog (or personal website now down for a while!), half of my posts would be to review the last place or country I traveled. This time around, explore Sri Lanka or Colombo, to be exact, with me through “our” accelerated workshop of Asia Peace Innovators Forum (APIF). Which I attended…… Continue reading Sri Lanka — Three Local Specials
Rewinding 2024 for Four Perspectives
2024 was obviously overloading for me, but rich in experiences and perspectives. Four of which, I’d like to share with you here, after my long hiatus, due to some technical calibration! Last year, I seemed to take on more than I could “chew”, but manage to make them through. Besides my regular mission with SFA…… Continue reading Rewinding 2024 for Four Perspectives
How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
Although I have heard a lot about this wide concept of “community arts”, little did I know my practices had anything to do with such disciplines. Yet, I applied for Mekong Cultural Hub’s call for “Community Collaboration Experiment” in last April. You got it right: an “experiment”, not a “project”, as I have “implemented in…… Continue reading How Much Do You Know about “Community Arts”?
