12.Jan.2011 A 2010 Wrap-up Meme
from Matt: The first book you read in 2010: Waiting by Ha Jin The last book you finished in 2010: Nine Parts of Desire by Geraldine Brooks Your favorite “classic” you read in 2010: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll The book series you read the most volumes of in 2010: Bone by Jeff [...]
08.Jan.2011 Can’t Let the New Year Go By Without A Set of Plans for 2011
QVB, Melbourne (Can never resist to take a jumping picture when met with big open field) As much as goals are meant to be abandoned, I can’t help setting myself a few reading plans for this year and see how far I will drift away at the end of the year. But first thing first, [...]
03.Jan.2011 I Spent My New Year in a Tow Truck (Plus 2010 In Review)
Yes I spent a good portion of my new year’s eve on the side of the road, in the middle of nowhere, about an hour from Melbourne. It was the hottest day of the summer of 39C and our car gave up (or blew up–I saw smoke). While waiting for the tow truck we were [...]
25.Dec.2010 Happy Christmas Y’all!
Annual Santa Fun Run – Sydney No snow for Sydneysiders ever, but the day started rather cool today in our glorious Christmas summer (that is, 20C-ish) and the sun is shining. Much better than the horrible 30C+ last year. Plan to bake a white chocolate cake today with Mr Mee and watch a Christmas movie [...]
30.Nov.2010 A Japan Meme
Hello Japan! November mini-challenge: a Japan meme (Talking about last minute!) My favourite Japanese food is sashimi because raw fish can be surprisingly YUMMY. The best Japanese book I’ve bought this year is Breaking into Japanese Literature: Seven Modern Classics in Parallel Text by Giles Murray. (I haven’t read it but I flipped through it [...]
25.Oct.2010 Medan-Padang Road Trip
You probably vaguely remember that I went away for a bit in late August. First for my brother’s wedding, but since we’ve paid the tickets all the way to Indonesia, thought we might as well have a trip there. And so we did, the six of us: me and hubby, my mom, my first younger [...]
29.Sep.2010 The Directors of Ghibli
When you hear about Studio Ghibli, the first that comes to mind for most people would be Hayao Miyazaki. You recognize his works from Spirited Away, Howl’s Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro, and many others. He’s THE Director of Ghibli, a personification of the biggest the most famous Japanese movie studio in the [...]
26.Sep.2010 Book Fairy Struck Again!
I haven’t done Book Acquisition post for about 4 months, and now I wonder why I didn’t. Perhaps I subconsciously tried to pretend that not that many books have come into my house. Really, how bad can it be right? Well it’s time to face reality and do a head-count. Even though I had it [...]
20.Aug.2010 Ta Ta For Now
I mentioned yesterday that I was going to put One Hundred Years of Solitude review up today, but I’m going back to Indonesia for my brother’s wedding tomorrow morning, it’s 12:20am, and I’m juggling far too many things right now, so I thought, why rush it? I’m gonna take my time writing later and I’ll [...]
18.Aug.2010 Claire’s Best Books Ever
Continuing my Best Books Project, this time it’s Claire‘s turn! (My project is a bit off schedule, but as long as I keep going, right?) At first glance Claire and I may seem very different from the way we represent ourselves on our blogs, but we actually have so much more in common than I [...]