07.Mar.2010 Movie Mini-Reviews: Always, The Road, and Bright Star
Coming back since last week, I feel like I haven’t even got close to catching up with life. Why does life have always to be hasty? I don’t missed my hometown much, but I do now miss my 2 weeks time off when I didn’t have to fix my eyes to every hour that passes, [...]
13.Feb.2010 Here’s to the Year of The Tiger
What happens if you’re Chinese raised Catholic in a Muslim country?
In my case, we either have family gathering on Christmas, Chinese New Year, or Lebaran. (oh, and New Year)
I’m going back to Indonesia for Chinese New Year so I’ll be offline for 2 weeks. I’ll see you all in March!
Image from Sydney CNY
Gong xi fat chai, [...]
11.Feb.2010 Invitation for The Good Earth
A new venture has begun. A new book group has been formed. My partners in crime are David of Absorbed in Words, Michelle of su[shu], and Claire of kiss of cloud. We are going to pick a book every quarter on Asian literature–books set in Asia or by Asians. Hence the name: The Asian Book [...]
08.Feb.2010 Mailbox Monday – 3 Months Acquisition
You can relax, because I didn’t acquire that many books in 3 months :)
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off: Love Quarrels from Anton Chekhov to ZZ Packer, Selected by Kasia Boddy, Ali Smith, and Sarah Wood — from Basement Books for $9.95. Isn’t the cover the cutest?! I first saw it at Paperback Reader, and [...]
31.Jan.2010 Calling Pride and Prejudice First Timers
Are you one of the few people left who have NOT read Pride and Prejudice?
I’m going to read it in the month of February (what with Valentine and all), with David and uncertainprinciples, and I thought I extend the invitation, just in case there are some of you who feel like you always want [...]
26.Jan.2010 Happy Australia Day 2010
Spending Australia Day in the office with a giant cube of Lamington
23.Jan.2010 Did Something Change?
A Better Place, by Mee
Something did! I changed the theme AND my blog title! If you forget, my blog title used to be Books of Mee, but after some consideration, I’ve decided to change it to something more mee (sorry, couldn’t resist :).
I would change my header image every once in a while. Figured my [...]
17.Jan.2010 Plan for 2010
More than half a month has passed into 2010, and I haven’t shared my reading plan for 2010 to you! Well, really it’s mostly for me, so I can look back on my plan at the end of the year and see how much has changed between now and then, and how far I have [...]
16.Jan.2010 Hello Japan: My YA J-Pop
This month’s of Hello Japan is about Japanese music. I’m going over the top by being awfully nostalgic in the past week. I haven’t listened to Japanese songs regularly for many years, but it used to be my staple day and night.
It was in the late 90s and I was all alone. At 17 years [...]
10.Jan.2010 2009 In Review
Finally I managed to finish my review of 2009. Silly me and my numbers. That just took forever!
My Favorite Books in 2009
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
One novel, one graphic novel, and one nonfiction. Perfect :).
I would love to also mention The Woman in White as Best Classic and Corduroy [...]
