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, [...]
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 [...]
08.Nov.2009 Bookish Movie Mini-Reviews: Dracula and Mao’s Last Dancer + Holiday Swap
Dracula (1992)
I told you earlier when I reviewed Dracula that I was going to watch its movie soon. So I did.
It’s directed by Francis Ford Coppola and has a line of stars: Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Winona Ryder, and Keanu Reeves. The movie is definitely more sexual (sometimes unnecessarily I thought). The main, huge, difference [...]
05.Oct.2009 Sunday Salon: Events Galore!
Somehow there are LOTS of things going on at the moment and I can’t resist to join!
1) Japanese Literature Read-along, hosted by Tanabata. The first book is I Am Cat by Natsume Soseki, which I’ve been meaning to read for the longest time. So this is a great push for me!
Schedule: Volume 1 – Nov [...]
01.Oct.2009 ALA Banned Books Week 2009
I should mention it. September 26 to October 3, 2009 is ALA Banned Books week. I soo soo love the poster above. I tried to order the shirt, but they only do US shipping :(
Freedom to read is something that I surely take for granted for time to time, since I am now living in [...]
27.Sep.2009 The State of Sydney – 23 Sep 2009
On Wednesday last week I woke up in the morning to find all the windows in my house glowing red. I mean blood red. Not sunrise red. Later I went out into the orange wilderness, dust and wind. The streets looked deserted and there weren’t many people around. I went to work anyway. Good old [...]
17.May.2009 Sunday Salon: Bookish Thingies
I started Purple Hibiscus yesterday, because next week is the Sydney Writers’ Festival weekend which I’m going to, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria) will be there. So I’m hoping to finish this book beforehand. There are a few other authors that I’m interested in, like Tash Aw (Malaysia) whose book The Harmony Silk Factory I [...]
02.Dec.2008 Bye Dewey
Just read a shocking news from Dewey’s website: The Hidden Side of Leaf. She passed away. The husband wrote. Apparently she’s been unwell for a while.
I just realized that this is the first time that I experienced a blogger’s death that affected me. As in, I’m truly sad to hear it, and in shock. I [...]
