29.Jan.2012 The Rite of Passage
I just went through the worst rite of passage as a blogger: losing my entire blog, years and years of content, and countless hours or nurturing. Scary. Or in my case, ALMOST losing my blog. By luck, I migrated host a few months ago so still have the database zip file from sometime last May [...]
12.Sep.2011 Kicking and Screaming into my 30
I survived my 30th birthday several days ago without too much agony. Phew. I hate birthdays (and I mean mine!). There’s so much pressure to be happy and social and get confirmations of love from people around you. And often the birthdays fall on work days, people ask whether you’d do anything special so you [...]
02.Sep.2011 Bookie Mee for Top 10 UK Literature Blogs. Really?
Yes that’s exactly my reaction when I got the email from Cision today. And look who else is on the list! Lil’ mee alongside Jackie, Kim, Claire, and Simon. NO WAY! Yes yes I know I never heard of Cision too, but at least their site looks half legitimate, they were able to dig my [...]
29.May.2011 And The Winner is…
There were actually only 7 of you that entered in the giveaway so the chances were pretty good. But random.org has spoken and it picked number 6. And that is… Claire of kiss a cloud for The Complete Maus! Congratulations Claire! Wish I could send you all a book because you’re all my favorite bloggers [...]
12.May.2011 Officially A London Based Blogger
Yes, as of yesterday the 10th of May 2011, I am officially a London based blogger. Surprise! A little bit of a flashback. I started to look around for new job opportunities in January/February. Adventurer at heart, it’s only natural that I looked overseas. All you UK bloggers always made me green with envy with [...]
13.Mar.2011 Incoming Non Fictions
In the midst of my non fiction binge, I succumbed to the world wide web and acquired these babies. I have since started on a new novel, so I may have passed that unusual phase. But really, I have all the intention to get to them in near future. My libraries don’t stock any of [...]
28.Feb.2011 We Have the Oscar Winners!
Oscar Live @ Fox Studios This afternoon we had the 83rd Academy Awards shown live at Fox Studios Australia. Simple lunch was provided, along with drinks, tables, chairs, couches, and picnic rugs. My colleagues and I strolled along and spent extended lunch watching the show. Imagine my delight when I heard Shaun Tan has won [...]
27.Feb.2011 Lovey Dovey
This year’s Valentine’s day was our 2nd wedding anniversary. Yes, we got married on Valentine’s Day. Totally coincidental. We went to the priest exactly one month before 14th of February and since you need a month notice in advance to get married here and 14th of February 2009 fell on Saturday, it all just worked [...]
27.Jan.2011 2011 Oscar Commentary
You know how I have a thing for Shaun Tan. So you can imagine how happy I am to find that The Lost Thing (which I posted about mid last year) has been nominated for Best Animated Short Film at the 83rd Academy Awards! Granted it is competing with Pixar’s Day & Night (if you [...]
16.Jan.2011 The Anticipated Movies of 2011
Movies based on books that I look forward to this year: (all books have yet to be read!) 1) Cloud Atlas (book by David Mitchell) There isn’t much information on this one yet apart from rumours of impressive cast. Imdb says it’s out in 2011, but knowing how imdb works, don’t really count on it. [...]