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To Read

I unplug. No internet, no computers, no mobile phones. (We may not know it but we are allowed to go off the grid once in awhile.) No electricity. It’s day time and natural sunlight’s all I need. I grab a favourite book, an old paperback novel that’s almost battered beyond repair, and I head down …

April 17, 2012 – 12:00 am | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Life, Readings | Comments (16)

The Reader

Imagine you are sixteen and you have been reading books for as long as you can remember. Reading stories. Words were magic. Sentences were magic weaved into spells. And what kept you spellbound were stories, for hours at end. Your father used to take you to the state library every Saturday and you would borrow …

September 8, 2011 – 3:39 pm | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Books, Friends, Life, Malaysia, Poetry, Readings, Stories | Comments (37)

Why Did the Chicken Go For A Reading?

. Q: Why did the chicken go for a reading? A: To have its fortune told. . It’s like returning to Wonderland, if you were ever Alice, that is. It is not like returning home, for this is not home. Home is a place where I want to be alone, where I am a kingdom …

September 30, 2009 – 8:00 am | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Books, Friends, Malaysia, Readings | Comments (32)

This Used to be Happiness

. I have to find you. The morning has turned cold on us. Dark clouds, a shade of sorrow splashed across the heavens. Grey is a feeling, no? It will rain soon enough. Just enough time to drive out and buy breakfast. The warm slabs of chee cheong fun and a big bowl of tau …

June 9, 2008 – 8:00 am | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Books, Design, Friends, Life, Love, Readings, Stories | Comments (69)

Words

June 5, 2008 – 5:52 pm | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Food, Friends, Life, Poetry, Readings, Stories | Comments (44)

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 …

May 19, 2008 – 2:40 am | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Books, Readings, Stories | Comments (56)

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 …

December 31, 2007 – 12:00 am | By Kenny Mah | Posted in Bodybalance, Books, Food, Health & Fitness, Life, Love, My Favourites, Photography, Readings, the Family | Comments (42)