Ponytail Journal

Although the Vietnam war ended over 46 years ago, the events that happened aren’t long forgotten, having been so influential and impacting the lives of many. I’ve had many lessons on this momentous war yet only recently I’ve come to learn about a group of American women who should not be written out…

By no means is this a light read, but the beauty of this book is that it continues an important discussion about the great mystery of the Universe. Author Sean Carroll takes us through the prerequisites of understanding how the conversation about the laws of the Universe, and how they have evolved, to give us the rightful tools that every human being deserves.

Hey, how’s it going? I recently watched Aaron Chen’s ‘A Life In Questions: Wisdom School’ and throughout the 11 minutes and 34 seconds of the video, several questions arise. I’d recommend you to watch it just to take your mind off things, but if we’re being serious here, I did have some takeaways...…

I had always admired the work by Naoki Hayashi who creates beautiful life-size stamps of dead fish using the Gyotaku method. His waste-not values,“ catch it, print it, and eat it.” His work that resonated with the overfishing crisis in his hometown of Hawaii got me looking deeper into the world of G…

For this installment of Ponytail Culture Club, I’d like to point your attention to the best quarantine monologue on the internet, 'The Madness' by Chris Enss. She poured her heart out about life in lockdown, from the dark depths of her closet. It's honesty at its comedic best, and the video brou..…

Cannabis, The Importance of Forgetting, and the Botany of Desire November 12, 2002 UC Berkeley Let this be a little amuse-bouche to wet your appetite for the writings of Michael Pollan, whom you may of heard of for his method approach to journalism, articles for the New York Times Magazine, or...

It’s important to have heroes. Heroes nurture our souls with their wisdom and bravery, and provide clarity in an overly complicated world.

Whether you are a diver or non-diver alike, it’s hard not to be spellbound by Jacques Cousteau’s film - The Silent World (1956). This YouTube video brings you straight there, to the first underwater documentary that brings us to the mysterious depths of the ocean in rich colors. Over the period o..…

Back in the 90s, Dr. Masaru Emoto conducted experiments by exposing water samples to different spoken words. He recorded his result by taking photos of the frozen water through a microscope. Little did he anticipate that the series of photographic data would be a work of art that continues to mesmer…

The story of our world history as we know it has always hinged itself on political bias. It has seen men and women pitched against each other, in competition to be the first-to, like during the Cold War where America and Russia were in an arms race to be the world's superpower. This has meant that…

This week on Ponytail Culture Club, I’d like to introduce you to someone who has the power to persuade the most unlikely folk to pick up a paintbrush and give landscape painting a try. Bob Ross, who was born in Florida in 1942, spent his early days helping his father who was a carpenter by trade, a…

Over the last century as most of Hong Kong blossomed into a dependably concrete city, a small district called Wong Chuk Hang, anchored on the southernmost portion of the island, remained out of sight and out of reach. It was rural farmland for most of the last century, transitioning briefly into an.…