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When we told our friends that we have watched “The Ides of March” on November fifth, the most common response would be, “The what?”. Ides! Then we added, “T …
The paperback version of “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle” is more than 600 pages long. It sat inside my bookshelf for a long time because I was not sure if I have the patience to …
Today is Deepavali. We will never forget last year’s Deepavali when we started our trip stuck behind four and half hours of traffic jam crawling from Singapore to Malaysia. I put m …
After I have finished reading Thrall in Hong Kong, I said to Cynthia, “Drop everything you are reading now and start to read this!” It is that good. Rewind to the day when we …
I enjoy reading Paulo Coelho’s novels. They are always inspirational. Or simply put – food for the soul. To be frank, I enjoy reading some of his earlier works better than h …
“In fire I burn, and what keeps me going is the distinct memory of Alicia whom I love and miss so much.” Alicia and I had chosen Forrestville to settle down, temporarily, becau …
I don’t think it has anything to do with aging (I hope). It was a pretty hectic week at work. In some instances, you can almost measure how overloaded one is by observing the numbe …
How many of us end up spending the rest of our lives with our school day sweethearts? Do you remember the time when love was so awkward, so childish? We kept on reading and sending the s …
There are so many words I want to write. So many ideas stuck inside that my head figuratively exploded in my bathroom this evening, while I was showering. Instead of putting shampoo onto …
The barrier of our imagination is often defined by our experience. If you have not seen a Japanese concert by Ayumi Hamasaki before, it is hard to describe what you have missed. Let me s …
Lately, I have started to enjoy writing in Spanish, thanks to our replacement teacher Gloria. Three years and more, our class has ground through our weekly Tuesday class. That is two hou …
It is rather amazing that the six of us are still studying Spanish at Las Lilas School in Singapore. The minimum class size is five for us to continue indefinitely. So far, there is no s …
Out of the blue, my sister called me at work yesterday. Everyone at the bench area turned to me as I was speaking in Cantonese. Yes, I am bilingual. If you are to count my half baked Sp …
For some strange reasons, my public life as you can see here is so full of movies these days. I can assure you that my passion lies in a sea of ocean, including tracking that lost penguin …
As we left the Shaw Lido cinema after the omy.com movie premiere event, I have spotted a huge poster that I could not take my eyes away from. It is a Spanish movie. What a coincidence. …
Cynthia was pretty hyped up about “Crazy, Stupid, Love”. TK went along with the romance comedy wagon. I am a huge fan of romance comedy films. Except, I think, “Crazy, …
Eight years have passed since we last watched the English comedian Rowan Atkinson played as a secret agent in the 2003 film “Johnny English”. I am a big fan of his comedy work as “Mr. Bea …
What a coincidence. Those who have read my manuscript submitted for the Golden Point Award writing competition would be in awe by the similarity of how my story begins and the recent medi …
Does a dog has a soul? Tak Tak was ten years old. And he passed away yesterday’s morning in Hong Kong, in the loving arms of my parents. The news has darkened my day, no doubt. Bu …
Art house type of movies is not for everyone. So I watched “IncendiesR 21; alone while Cynthia was having a haircut. I only had a vague idea of what this movie is about when I b …
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