A print journalist for nearly 30 years now, I've worked for publications such as Business Day, Manila Times, Manila Chronicle, Link magazine and Asiaweek. What do these papers all have in common? They’re all dead. But I had nothing to do with it, officer, I swear.

I’ve written for Time magazine, USA Today, Reader’s Digest and Asian Wall Street Journal, which all seem to have actually survived the experience.

I’ve been a business reporter, political journalist, special reports writer, investigative reporter, travel industry reporter, food writer, movie and book reviewer, computer columnist…practically every beat except sports.

I currently write for the South China Morning Post, and lecture at the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ / InWent) in Berlin.

I'm partial to the school of writing known as “laugh bitterly while trying to be funny and not particularly succeeding.”