Zhen Yi – Sunway Echo Media

This Little Freedom of Mine

It was semester break. The apartment block was almost exclusively made up of university students who, like Dao Wen himself, were from abroad; everyone had gone home for the holidays.…

echo March 8, 2023

Creative Hall Lifestyle Love and Relationships

Chasing After You

Hong Biao’s roommates had forgotten to bring the drinks and container of soy-marinated eggs they promised for tonight’s potluck party. It’s only a fifteen-minute walk away so, in an attempt…

echo February 5, 2023

Creative Hall Lifestyle Love and Relationships

Us Throughout the Years

Year Zero, December Most of the time, the dead mall was what it was: a dead mall. The only redeeming qualities were (1) the banquet restaurant on the second floor…

echo January 4, 2023

Creative Hall Lifestyle Movies & TV

The Unexplored Consequences of Marvel’s Blip

Warning: The following article contains spoilers from the movies Avengers: Infinity Wars, Avengers: Endgame, and Spiderman: Far From Home. In light of the latest Marvel movie, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,…

echo November 30, 2022

Creative Hall Health Lifestyle

Here for the Long Run

It was a dreary day to hold a fund-raising charity run. Han Min supposed he should be grateful that the sun wasn’t out to add to the challenge, but if…

echo October 19, 2022

Creative Hall Lifestyle Love and Relationships

You’re Home to Me

It wasn’t too late to run away, Yin Wei kept telling himself; when he first heard the news, when he decided to look up the venue when he was driving…

echo September 23, 2022

Creative Hall Lifestyle Short Stories

Revel Me This

Shang Kai was late coming over and Ming Hui didn’t ask, merely going to the convenience store for dinner instead of the food court and eating fifty minutes later than…

echo August 10, 2022

Creative Hall Educational Lifestyle

What Is the Female Gaze in Media?

Imagine this – a camera shot panning up a woman’s slender legs, lingering on her pert buttocks before following the curve of her body up to her bountiful bosom, lingering there some more before finally reaching the seductive fullness of her lips and her well-framed face. Well, you don’t need to imagine this. After all, there are plentiful examples in movies and TV shows. Laura Mulvey, a feminist film theorist, coined the phrase the “male gaze”, which seeks to explain why women are depicted as passive sex objects in mainstream film narratives.

echo July 15, 2022

Creative Hall Educational Lifestyle

The Oceans We Reach Across

It was the kind of scorching day where Rou Han expected his skin to blister and crack open. Along with the blessing respite that the holidays brought, he was suddenly…

echo July 13, 2022