Four of my poems have just been published in the Spring 2026 edition of The Awakenings Review, a bi-annual American literary journal based in Chicago. The award-winning print journal is entirely devoted to publishing works by artists, writers and poets with lived experience of mental illness. You can order it online and read a free sample here! (My poems are not part of the sample.) Thanks to editor-in-chef Robert Lundin for sparking my World Bipolar Day!
https://awakeningsproject.org 💛
Thanks to the SCMP for publishing this piece in which I attempt to explain bipolar disorder in their Health & Wellness section today! Also for reminding me that I founded Bipolar Hong Kong in 2014. That is TEN YEARS AGO!!!! A DECADE of support groups in Starbucks without any of us having bought a coffee! 🤣
It was the second chat I’ve had with journalist Anthea Rowan about bipolar and a pleasure reconnecting! Our first in 2021 can be found here.
My flight of fantasy with charming Agitated Air Stewardess Florence Wong just crash landed on VYP! You can hear other podcasts from this series here!
My podcast with Virtual Reality Dancer Eugenia Kim has just dropped on VYP! And by “just” I mean recently. And by “recently” I mean a few weeks ago. And by “weeks” I mean months. And by “months” I mean at some point last year. Enjoy!
A Bipolar Love Story is live on YouTube‘s VYP channel! I am rewarded for all my bad work with the once-in-a-lifetime exclusive opportunity to interview a living legend: JACKIE CHAN is on the podcast!!! No, I am not making this up!!!! She works in banking and has bipolar disorder!!!!! Oh.
Transference has officially ‘gone viral‘!!! It has now exceeded 17M views on YouTube. I am lucky to have had the opportunity to co-produce this indie film with Raff, Contro Vento Films and Mental Ideas! Stay tuned for more film and TV collaborations! #mentalhealthmatters #controventofilms #mentalideas
Really inspired attending HKU’s Bipolar Ambition Exhibition last week featuring the work of two Bipolar Hong Kong and Mental Ideas artists – the super-talented Coby Legans and Juliana Kung!!! Coby has been one of Bipolar HK’s longest and most giving members, although we did recently lose her to Perth, Australia, where she’s training to be a mental health counsellor, and Juliana has shared her artwork with Mental Ideas and designed Home Kong Kitchen‘s stunning emblem!
It takes a lot of courage putting yourself out there as a bipolar artist in order to raise awareness and fight the stigma associated with the condition and so hats off to Coby, Juliana, and all the other incredible artists who exhibited their artwork, some of whom we were lucky enough to hang out with! The sky at HKU was almost as memorable as the artwork, too, just as a typhoon came rolling in…
Transference has exceeded the mental milestone of 10M Views on YouTube! If you’ve not seen it, you can watch the full bipolar love story movie for free below!
There’s nothing I enjoy more in life than having a good rant! So thanks to the South China Morning Post for giving me an opportunity to have a cheeky ‘Bipolar Word’ in the ‘RANT’ section of Post Mag May 1st! This is the first opportunity the SCMP have given me to be anything other than a clown. I’m not suggesting ranting is bonafide journalism but it’s almost certainly the closest I’ll get to it.
Aiya – I have just heard from the editor that my rant has been bumped from May 1st for something more “time sensitive” (it better not be another u-turn on lifting Covid restrictions by Carrie Lam!!!) He’s promised me my rant will be published “very soon”, so hopefully the following Sunday, or the Sunday after that, or definitely before the end of 2047. Sorry!!
In the meantime, here are a couple of my old bipolar rants in SCMP articles I did not write myself…
