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Books & Literature

Vote for Your Favourite Story!

Dear Readers, It has been over a year since my first public reading at Seksan’s. Since then, I’ve been fortunate enough to have you accompany me through my many ups and downs, and more importantly, my recording of it all. Writers must, apparently, write. Come Saturday, I shall return to Seksan’s, that wonderfully Bohemian haven

Pretty Good Year

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

Season’s Readings

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

The Happy Prince

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

Dark City 2: Interview with Xeus

Finally, after months of waiting… the book is out! I recently interviewed the mastermind behind it all — Xeus. And yes, as a surprise to readers who thought I only did the cover, I did the inside illustrations too! :D KENNY: What was your original inspiration for Dark City? XEUS: Actually, I was interviewing 4

I’ve Got it Covered!

Lately I’ve been working on a cover for an upcoming collection of short stories by Wena Poon, titled (rather imaginatively, I felt) “Lions in Winter.” Briefly, these are stories about the Chinese diaspora, particularly Singaporean Chinese living in the States. What surprised me was the number of variations the editors and I could spin on

Eats, Reads & Leaves

Another month, another round of litty-itty events… :D 1. BC5 From the teaser: “The 5th MPH Breakfast Club for LitBloggers on Saturday, June 23, 2007, will feature Zhang Su Li, an award-winning copywriter who has just come out with her first travel book called A Backpack and a Bit of Luck. She will be introduced