Having read a few of the books by the Nobel Price winner in literature, Doris Lessing, I am curious about her another genre that is not popularly accepted by the critics – science fiction. So I picked up “Mara and Dann” (year 1999, 407 pages) from our National Library. I have not read all of her [...]
Entries from April 11th, 2008
Mara And Dann By Doris Lessing – An Adventure Of A Sister And A Brother During The Next Ice Age
April 11th, 2008 14 Comments
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Photos From My Petaling Jaya Road Trip – Of PJ Hilton, The Curve, And More
April 9th, 2008 11 Comments
After my rather unexpected encounter with the Malaysian Custom, my next challenge was to locate “PJ Hilton”. I had no clue how exactly to get there. It’s been donkey years since I worked in Petaling Jaya and how the whole place has changed! There are new flyovers, streets turned one-way, new shops spawned from nowhere, [...]
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HAARP – Muse Live Tour – Full Of Light And Sound
April 8th, 2008 1 Comment
We have watched the Muse concert at Fort Canning Singapore back in January last year and that, has blown our minds. Can HAARP – a CD and DVD collection recorded at Wembley UK on June 16 and 17 respectively - blow our minds too? The answer is a definite yes. I won’t go through much of the [...]
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The Other Boleyn Girl – How Accurate I Wonder
April 7th, 2008 8 Comments
Knowing that I was about to recover from my flu, Cynthia tapped onto the Sunday morning paper and said, “I want to watch number 1, 2, and 3.” “What’s number 1?” I asked. She said something and I replied, “Huh? What boleh girl?” (‘Boleh’ in Malay means ‘can’, which ironically is not too far from [...]
Tags: Natalie Portman · Scarlett Johansson
Remember Me By Sophie Kinsella – A Calculated Risk That May Or May Not Work For Some
April 4th, 2008 9 Comments
Fanboi talk aside – as I do have read all eight of her novels – “Remember Me” is an interestingly subtle departure from her time proven success with the Shopaholic formula. First, let’s recap. Be it as Becky Bloodwood of the Shopaholic series (5 books), Samantha of “The Undomestic Goddess”, Emma of “Can You Keep A Secret”, or Lexi of “Remember [...]
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My Doctor Prescribed Nanotechnology Enabled Medicine For My Jaw
April 2nd, 2008 7 Comments
I couldn’t open my jaw. OK. I could. But not without the strange bone cracking sound from within my skull, and the pain. It started when I was in Malaysia and it didn’t bother much till I realized that I couldn’t really sing without being able to open my mouth wide. And I couldn’t yawn properly during my rather [...]
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BoA – The Face – And The Conquest Continues
April 1st, 2008 11 Comments
To tell you the truth, I am more thrilled by BoA’s phenomenal success in the music industry at the age of 21 than her music itself. Straddled between the Korean and Japanese markets, her 11th studio album is a Japanese release that attained the number 1 position in the Oricon chart the 6th consecutive time [...]
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