If I were a cartoon character, I might well look something like this:

An ecologist (in the broadest sense), an environmentalist (I try), a post-postgraduate trying to embark on the next phase of life, a nature guide, photographer, volunteer, Scout, and philosopher of sorts. A nomad, a wanderer… but a dogged one at that. Born in Hong Kong, raised in Singapore, schooled in Sydney, and based in London for the past handful of years.

If one asks, I might say that I am a Singaporean for ease of convenience, a Hong Konger for that is what my heart tells me I am, but above all, I consider myself a global citizen, for the the world is my playground.

All people… need to learn from life and re-imagine the world from bottom up, based on first principles of justice and ecology. Ecological restoration is extraordinarily simple: You remove whatever prevents the system from healing itself. Social restoration is no different. We have the heart, knowledge, money, and sense to optimize our social and ecological fabric. It is time for all that is harmful to leave. One million escorts are here to transform the nightmares of empire and the disgrace of war on people and place. We are the transgressors and we are the forgivers. “We” means all of us, everyone. ~ Paul Hawken in Blessed Unrest

I like to believe… that I am a part of the revolution in the remaking of the world. I am fighting for sustainability, humanity, our own survival and that of every other living thing on this planet. We are all interlinked; we are an ecological entity. We and nature are one. The desire to help us realise this and learn to love (and thus act, and justly and lovingly so) - that is what drives me in life.

As for my personality, what the future holds and all…

Who I am, who I can become, what and how I should do it are all given to me as questions which I am continuously in the process of answering throughout my life. ~ Martin Heidegger, German philosopher

This blog is my constant companion throughout these journeys of self-discovery.

To all who have helped me along, however much or however little, in becoming who I am or who I will be, I remain deeply grateful.

Thank you for being there… thank you for being here.

talfryn (Welsh)… from the top end of the hill. Let the beauty we love be what we do.