http://www.meexia.com/hungry hungry to eat. hungry to see. hungry to live. Sun, 28 Oct 2007 08:54:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I had 2 new blogs set up! Thought I should mention it here, although they're linked from the main page of meexia.com. One is a full-blown book blog. Finally! I've been wanting to have this for the longest time. One is my Japanese playing ground. I may put down notes, books, translations, ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/10/new-places/ This book is my first bookring that I got. It had 10 journalers and 26 journals before I got it. A well traveled book :). You can see it here and join the ring if you want. I'm sending this book to the next person in Australia. Got it from: followdream, ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/10/the-secret-life-of-bees-by-sue-monk-kidd/ This book is now on a ray. Look at it go! It'll travel to India and Iran among many! Greece, France, Netherland, and Canada too. What a lucky book! =P Got it from: Popular Singapore, with voucher from NLB, which I got from a selected book review I submitted to their ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/10/out-by-natsuo-kirino/ I'm running bookrings for this book. 1 copy in Singapore 1 copy goes around the world (currently traveling to Europe) If you're in Singapore I will gladly lend you my copy (I can easily send it by mail). If you're somewhere else, you can join the ring :) Got this from: Borders Singapore Rating: 4.5 ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/10/the-wind-up-bird-chronicle-by-haruki-murakami/ As I have so many books on hand right now, I'm joining callapidderdays's challenge, because it has cute image to come with it ;). The deadline is 21st of December (starting 23rd of September). So my list is: 1 book for thereadinglounge.com Out by Natsuo Kirino done 09/10/07 The Discussion NLB Book of the Month ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/10/fall-into-reading-2007/ Very busy bookcrossing. Still spending a ridiculous amount of time hovering on the forum and the site. I thought that rather than fighting the addiction, I would just let it flow. I'm sure it will pass eventually. I mean I would still be around, just would not spend enormous amount ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/09/still-busy/ I forgot what I did in the past week. Time went by like POOF! These days I've been spending a huge portion of my time at bookcrossing.com. EVIL! Well, for bookworms like me anyway. Since I joined the community, the books I've got surmount more than ever (although I'm talking only ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/09/poof-and-bookcrossing/ This post is the second part of my second day at Siem Reap. See first part here, first day here. Food experience first day here. Angkor Thom is one of the largest Khmer cities ever built. The total area of 900 hectares is now mostly forest but originally a considerable city.Gate ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/08/siem-reap-day-2-angkor-thom-and-beyond/ This post is part of my Siem Reap series. See day 1 here. Eaters go here. On second day, we departed from the hostel around 8:30am with our lovely tuktuk driver, to the majestic Angkor Wat, the biggest temple of them all. It's just in front of Ta Promh Kei that ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/08/siem-reap-day-2-angkor-wat/ I compiled my "1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die" list, based on the published book of that title. Doesn't mean I'll go around immediately eager to finish off the books in the list. Some of them are classics that I'm kinda reluctant to start (as they're often sadly ... http://www.meexia.com/hungry/2007/08/1001-books-journey/