Doing nothing

In my teens and twenties, I spent a lot of time listening to music, watching movies and TV series.

Watching stage plays, playing computer games, and most importantly, reading.

At that time I had nothing to do and had eyes that looked like I had nothing to do.

This is a book of "looking", a book of doing nothing.

Lin Weidi

A Malaysian Chinese, born in Penang, he graduated from Taipei Municipal Ren'ai Primary School, Bukit Mertajam Jit Sin Independent High School, Malaysia, International Medical University of Malaysia, Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manchester, UK, and obtained a postgraduate diploma in occupational medicine from the National University of Singapore.

He has won the Malaysia Huazong Literary Award for Newcomer Prose and Newcomer Poetry.

He has written collections of essays including Before the First Book, Arrogant (Malaysia’s You Ren Publishing House), So (Taiwan’s Xiu Wei Publishing House), Between Two Doctors (co-authored with Wu Meiyun), Real Doctor, Fake Literary Youth (Malaysia’s Da Jiang Publishing House), and the novel The Disappearance of Your and My Country (Malaysia’s San San Publishing House).

He currently works at Raffles Hospital in Singapore, and is also a director of Grassroots Book Room in Singapore and editor-in-chief of the Malaysian literary reading magazine "Monsoon Belt".

The column "Real Doctor, Fake Hipster" is published every Wednesday in Malaysia's China Press.