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 [...]
14.Aug.2010 Shaun Tan and Neil Gaiman at Sydney Opera House
Last week there was Graphics Festival at Sydney Opera House featuring a couple of graphic novels and movies folks. I was most excited about Shaun Tan and Neil Gaiman. Shaun Tan because, well, I adore his works beyond words. And Neil Gaiman, though none of his works have truly connected with me, he’s the type [...]
04.Aug.2010 Toys and Booker
With so many toys coming into Mee’s headquarter in the past few weeks (MacBook, XBox360, Wii), something gotta take the backseat. Reading doesn’t, but I guess blogging does. Coincidentally I’m reading One Hundred Years of Solitude which takes a while to read, while I only have one book review in the backlog. What can I [...]
24.Jul.2010 In Which Other People Talked About Books
This month of First Tuesday Book Club features One Day by David Nichols. Now the premise of this book intrigued me very much: “After graduation from university, Emma, with her youthful aspirations and good humour, shares a night of passion with the shallow and vain Dexter. In a series of annual updates spanning 20 years, [...]
18.May.2010 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards 2010
Sydney Writers’ Festival is coming again (15-23 May)! I went last year and I am going this weekend. Yay. One thing about the festival is New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards that are always announced at the beginning of the festival. Here are the shortlists this year for The Christina Stead Prize for Fiction, which [...]
12.Apr.2010 Did Someone Just Come Back?
I don’t know if you noticed, but I quietly took a blogging break last week. Went to sunny Cairns, driving through rainforest and flood, snorkeling, scuba diving, white water rafting–almost drowning in rapid creek, beaching, sunbathing, facing crocodiles and snakes, and just generally trying to do things I can’t do behind an office desk. I [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
