Entries Tagged as 'Books'

May 7, 2008

In liberal doses

Many thoughts are going through in my mind that need to be consolidated. I have not been having good sleep for the past 4 days post fever and I am not quite sure why. I have been falling asleep at around 3 almost daily and have been having really tired days.
Today, after belly dancing class, [...]

May 3, 2008

Meine Samstag

They’ve finally opened near our place. It was full to the brim. The novelty of eating in a Forest Gump themed cafe is still going strong so we gave it a pass. We live 5 minutes drive from it so we have plenty of time to try it out. And yes, it will be one [...]

April 24, 2008

Good will watching

I really, really shouldn’t be blogging now because I have an editing deadline to meet by 4pm later. But my mind cannot focus on work and the harder I try, the harder it becomes.
We went to watch The Kite Runner just now. The book, which the film is based upon has been sitting quietly in [...]

April 5, 2008

Wirklich?

Now really. Is he popular because he is Angkasawan OR because he is a hunky Angkasawan? In any case, I was shoved and pushed and I almost fainted in the midst of maddening crowd, just because Astronaut Sheikh Muzaphar Shukor was barely 3 metres in front of me, and the best part of it, I [...]

April 4, 2008

Oh the THINKS you can think !

..says the title of Dr Seuss’s beginner’s reading book. And it tells about all the things that you can think about…
‘You can think up some birds. That’s what you can do. You can think about yellow or think about blue..’
‘Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can fifty elephants drink?’
I love this [...]

March 19, 2008

Cadbury Picnic chocolate bar..

…. has everything in it, all ingredients nicely consolidated into a rich and yummy energy fix. A bar of it always satiate my appetite for chocolate as it is, to put it simply– just nice.
That was how I felt just now after watching Dr Seuss’ HORTON HEARS A WHO.

I did Dr Seuss for my [...]

February 29, 2008

Awang Goneng and the Irish setting

March will be a month of romancing for me. The first would be with Awang Goneng, who romanced with his past growing up in Terengganu. What started out as a blog ,led to a book that many are talking about, and still talking about.
I love Terengganu. I could never get enough of it. The sea, [...]

February 20, 2008

February Books

In January I read Teacher Man by Frank Mc Court. Awesome read.
February is the month for

Liberating The Soul by Shaykh Nazim al Haqqani. I had actually read the volume 4 first before finding this volume 1. It’s a collection of all his lectures around the world.
And in the other end of the spectrum, I am [...]