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April 28, 2015
Book Club: The Colour of Magic
Last night Catherine hosted our monthly book club and The late great Terry Pratchett's Disc World Novel The Colour of Magic was our book of the month. Felicia, was so effusive about it that we all thought it would be a fantastic read.
Guess what? It wasn't. Most of us couldn't get through it and some of us didn't even read it. Let me just say I found it a real page turner. I turned the pages and put it back down. I couldn't get in to it at all.
Since we didn't finish reading the book, we spent the evening catching up on things: travel, the chemical make up of Vicks vaporub, The Avengers: Age of Ultron - spoiler alert: there are a couple of deaths - and lots of other things. Ben just got back from an amazing trip to of all places -Iran! And he highly recommends it. Ken and Adan recently came back from the London Book Fair. I had originally planned to go to but I had to cancel at last minute! So I'm still majorly bummed about missing the trip.
Adan, Kenneth and some dude at the book fair. (Taken from Book Council FB Page)Before I sign off, I've got to welcome to our newest book club member, Claire Thamboo! I would say that we've got a pretty nice number of members to our little group now! Ben suggested our next book: The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
April 22, 2015
Letter from Prince Harry
Thank you, Prince Harry.
April 19, 2015
Tea with Peter Chiarelli
It's not every day that a big time Hollywood screenwriter pays you a visit. Hey, who am I kidding, it never happens, especially here in this neck of the woods.
So about two days ago, Mum told me that our friend Russel was going to be stopping by with Peter Chiarelli, screenwriter of one of my all-time favourite movies: "The Proposal". I mean I love the movie and I can't tell you how many times that I've watched it.
And there's nothing like watching a great comedy, especially when you're down in the dumps and, from personal experience, I can tell you that this movie will always manage to get you smiling no matter how low you feel. So I can't wait to watch the next movie that he writes.
Peter Chiarelli, Mum and MrSo before the visit, I ran around town getting things for tea: kueh lapis, ondeh ondeh, char siew pau, curry puffs, sausage rolls and Dad brought eclairs and cake from Island Club.
Peter's incredibly affable, so it's no wonder that he's able to come up with comedic gems. As for tea, he was pretty game to try the kueh lapis and curry puffs, having already sampled laksa and satay for his lunch. I tried to convince him that the coffee he was drinking was coffee luwak, a coffee that is brewed by beans taken from the droppings of a civet cat. That didn't deter from drinking it. Mum, as usual, was unable to let me tease and immediately told him that I was joking.
Anyway, we spent a good hour and a half chatting before Peter and Russel had to head off for another appointment. I, of course, had to shamelessly pass some of my books to Peter for his children and was definitely chuffed to get my copy of The Proposal DVD signed. I don't want to say too much about our visit because that's private but needless to say it was a thrill and pleasure to meet Peter. Thanks for coming by, Peter and thanks for bringing him over, Russel!
So about two days ago, Mum told me that our friend Russel was going to be stopping by with Peter Chiarelli, screenwriter of one of my all-time favourite movies: "The Proposal". I mean I love the movie and I can't tell you how many times that I've watched it.
And there's nothing like watching a great comedy, especially when you're down in the dumps and, from personal experience, I can tell you that this movie will always manage to get you smiling no matter how low you feel. So I can't wait to watch the next movie that he writes.
Peter Chiarelli, Mum and MrSo before the visit, I ran around town getting things for tea: kueh lapis, ondeh ondeh, char siew pau, curry puffs, sausage rolls and Dad brought eclairs and cake from Island Club.Peter's incredibly affable, so it's no wonder that he's able to come up with comedic gems. As for tea, he was pretty game to try the kueh lapis and curry puffs, having already sampled laksa and satay for his lunch. I tried to convince him that the coffee he was drinking was coffee luwak, a coffee that is brewed by beans taken from the droppings of a civet cat. That didn't deter from drinking it. Mum, as usual, was unable to let me tease and immediately told him that I was joking.
Anyway, we spent a good hour and a half chatting before Peter and Russel had to head off for another appointment. I, of course, had to shamelessly pass some of my books to Peter for his children and was definitely chuffed to get my copy of The Proposal DVD signed. I don't want to say too much about our visit because that's private but needless to say it was a thrill and pleasure to meet Peter. Thanks for coming by, Peter and thanks for bringing him over, Russel!
April 18, 2015
Thank you to TRH The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
Look what came in the mail! :)
April 16, 2015
Saturday Night Out Book Geeks: Shadow and Bone, The Grisha
Last month we discussed Leigh Bardugo's book, Shadow and Bone: The Grisha, the first book in her best-selling trilogy. Myra kindly obtained free copies of the book for all of us -Thanks, Myra - so it was only obvious that we head over to her place for our book discussion.
After our dinner of Filipino fare including chicken, barbecued squid, fried pork rinds as well as otah, pizza and more chicken, we began discussing our thoughts.
While most of us agreed that it was an easy read, some of us felt that the author had been 'lazy' with certain parts of the book. Nevertheless, we all agreed that we should continue with the series before coming up with a final opinion on the series as a whole.
With the discussion done, Adan, Amelia, Felicia, Catherine and Myra, Myka, Dave and Kenneth got down to the business of Karaoke. Every book club discussion should have a karaoke element to it, don't you think?
March 26, 2015
In Memory of Singapore's First Prime Minister
Sep 16, 1923 - March 23, 2015Germanwings
With my deepest sympathy to the families of the passengers and crew of Germanwings.
March 10, 2015
Blow A Kiss.
Post by Dave Seow.
Mum gave a copy of my book Blow a Kiss to HRH The Duchess of Cambridge when she visited Gardens by the Bay in Singapore in 2012. The book is no longer in print but I thought would share it here. Thank you to everyone for your support!
Mum hands the book to the Duchess
The Duchess accepts the book
