Ng Kum Hoon 吳錦漢, born and reared in Singapore, teaches translation and Chinese history/literature at the National University of Singapore. Apart from over 100 movie reviews, he has published more than 200 original articles, short stories, poems and translations in English and Chinese, scattered across Parabola, Lianhe Zaobao and various other publications from Singapore, China, USA, and elsewhere. He has also humbly received a number of literary prizes and awards from different countries, including Singapore's national-level Golden Point Award (twice). He is perennially spread too thin over an ever-growing sprawl of scholarly and aesthetic interests from Japanese animation to Sufi mysticism. [Auditory Cortex]