{"author":"Jeremy Tiang","author_id":"Jeremy+Tiang","total_quotes":2,"quotes":[{"text":"I am writing this on a computer that I can’t imagine living without. This is an alarming thought, the extent to which I have organised my life around a metal box full of wires (and, via the Internet, to many other metal boxes full of wires). Someone told me most of the Internet is stored in a warehouse somewhere in North Carolina. I don’t know enough about technology to gauge if this is true, but it made me realise how little I actually understand about the world I inhabit. The world of Dr Wong’s childhood was significantly smaller than mine, but he understood every square inch of it.","author":"Jeremy Tiang","tags":["computer","internet","malaysia","singapore","technology","translation","wong-yoon-wah"],"id":37794,"author_id":"Jeremy+Tiang"},{"text":"She looked at me like I was stupid, the same look the girls in JC used to give me when I hadn’t heard of the latest boy band, or turned up at Zouk wearing unfashionable clothes.","author":"Jeremy Tiang","tags":["epigram-books","fiction","it-never-rains-on-national-day","jeremy-tiang","short-stories","singapore","zouk"],"id":421448,"author_id":"Jeremy+Tiang"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":2,"pages":1}}