Now is the time for reflections, they say. An entire year’s worth, it seems, is now open to investigation and incisive analysis. Twelve months of folly and foibles, work and worries, play and penance, all coming under the penetrating glare of a single eye, a kind one, I pray.
Let’s sit down first, and get comfortable. Find …
December 31, 2007 – 12:00 am
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By Kenny Mah
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Posted in Bodybalance, Books, Food, Health & Fitness, Life, Love, My Favourites, Photography, Readings, the Family
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Norman Rockwell’s Family Dinner
T’was the season to make merry and to feast on the best (and the beasts, if you’re a carnivore like me), to spend the warm and soft hours with your loved ones and to be content and at peace. T’was the season for family dinners, joyous reunions not very unlike a …
Holidays. Year-end sales. Dinners and parties and turkeys and wine and pies. There’s only so much of this one can wallow in… Time for some simpler pleasures.
When was the last time you snuggled up in a comfy sofa chair with a really good book? Here are four from Malaysian authors, something different from the usual …
From time to time, my friends may ask me what my favourite story is. “After all,” they would add, “you do read so much.”
(Which I don’t, not really, not anymore. I have become one of them Adults I feared so of transforming into when I was a kid; an Adult who had More Important Things To …
KL Monorail, Kuala Lumpur: 5 months ago…
“Excuse me, do you speak English?”
Woken from my reverie on why public transport in the capital city was such an abysmal mess, I realised I was being addressed by a couple of tourists. A middle-aged couple, Americans, by their accent, perhaps even New York, though I couldn’t really be …
BodyBalancers: Ben, Rachel & me
Everyone’s been complaining lately that I’ve been turning down their invitations — to movies, wedding dinners, vacations, and of course, more Christmas parties than you can shake a snowglobe at. (Am I the local Scrooge? Am I so deprived of the jolly ol’ spirit of the season?)
So it surprised not a few …
Xmas @ Midvalley Megamall, KL
Resolutions.
You know it’s coming close to the end of the year when everyone starts drawing up lists. Lists of Christmas gifts yet to be bought (and hurry, while the sales are still on!), lists of friends and family to be invited to parties, lists of a year’s worth of achievements at work …
