More night reading
One of the nicest things about Kinokuniya – the Japanese bookstore chain – in Singapore is the store’s Privilege Card membership. Now, books aren’t very cheap in Singapore as a rule (though they’re still cheaper than what I saw in
Category: Books
The Otaktu Encylopedia
I was checking out the Kinokuniya web site and saw that they had an interesting book on sale: “The Otaku Encylopedia”. I think Matt would love this sort of thing. Me, I just may pick it up for laughs.:) Book
A Company of Heroes
I don’t as a rule follow authors, preferring instead to read selected works after having first checked them out first if they’re any good. There’s a few however whose books I’ll pick up without hesitation. There’s Colleen McCullough who wrote
Temperamental Theory
One of the reasons why our family home at Lentor had a sizable library of books was because my elder brother and myself were avid book buyers and readers. Funnily though, for myself I wasn’t in the habit of re-reading
On the 25th of September my true love gave to me…
One dozen roses One digital photo frame One Starbucks coffee mug One digital compact camera One coffee table photo album with 4 years of photos taken together My darling’s so sweet and thoughtful.:) Each present was carefully selected with me
Tak chek time
That quite literally means “Study books time”.:) But seriously, the last two of three books I’ve put on my photography reading list finally arrived from Amazon.com several days ago. I’ve ordered stuff from Amazon.com before, and they’ve typically arrived in
No Questions Asked
I remarked in an earlier post the other day about how there were two printing blemishes in the photobook I did for Ling. It’s a sort of inch long ink smear on one of the last couple of pages in
*B(l)urb…!*
There’re dates every year I dread. One is Ling’s birthday, and the other is Valentine’s Day. OK, I should clarify that; I dread not the day itself, but the run-up to it and specifically what I should buy her for
Photoshop CS3 for dummies (like me)
I was having a fun MSN conversation with a colleague several months ago, and it started off when I saw she had marvelous wallpaper on her notebook. Me: “Wow – Star Wars: Clone Wars wallpaper!!!” Friend: “nice anot… i compose
Up up and away
I was checking through the blog archives here and I realized something quite strange; I’ve not written an entry on comic books even though at one point in my life, I was a big fan of these things. It’s not
Alea jacta est (continued)
(This one’s continued from the last entry.) I didn’t find McCullough’s subsequent books as refreshing as the first, so aside from computer city-building games based on the Roman empire, over the last decade I didn’t find similarly engaging material to
Alea jacta est
This one’s a long post, so I’ll need to break it into two posts. Two of the most powerful non-fictional books I’ve ever read are Citizen Solders by the late Stephen Ambrose – the book was incidentally one of the
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