Dominica Malcolm's Blog, page 11
September 18, 2012
Let’s Talk Pirates
As today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, I thought it would be the perfect time for me to write about the novel I’ve been working on for the last… let’s say 19 months. It started out in February 2011 as a short film screenplay that I’d intended to film with a friend in [...]
September 10, 2012
Trip to Japan, Aug 31-Sept 3, 2012
I am really rather behind on my travel blog posts. There is a trip to Korea and Taiwan from April/May I’ve not yet written about, as well as a trip to France in June. I went back to my home town in August, but I generally don’t blog about those trips. All of these posts [...]
July 15, 2012
A Great Community of Writers
As I’ve been working on my first novel, Adrift, I’ve been looking for ways to connect with other writers. Through Facebook, I added an expat writer recommended to me by a woman I know in Malaysia, as she had told me he led a writing group. Well, that had been defunct by the time I [...]
June 19, 2012
Small Talk
When I’m exercising, I find it’s easier for me to pass the time while reading. Not just anything, either – it tends to be non-fiction books. So when I was getting back into a bit of exercise this week, I decided to pick up a book called “The Fine Art of Small Talk” by Debra [...]
June 16, 2012
The Latest Update
If you know me, you might be aware that I was in Seoul, South Korea, and Taipei, Taiwan in April & May this year. I’ve not yet blogged about this, and I am about to head to France, so I am a little behind on the travel blogging. The main reason for this is because [...]
March 24, 2012
USA, February 16-27 2012
When I initially booked this trip, it was because I had frequent flier points I wanted to use, but didn’t know what I wanted to use them for. So, since I’d enjoyed working with Oil in the Alley in Honolulu in November 2010 so much, back in April 2011, I’d discussed with Sean and R [...]
February 15, 2012
Bangkok, Jan 3-7, 2012
We booked the flights for this trip well in advance during some AirAsia sale, and it’s probably been the shortest trip (that included flights to the destination) that we’ve had for a long time. Not that that’s a bad thing. Since Bangkok didn’t have any specific sights I was desperate to see, and I hadn’t [...]
January 18, 2012
Bali, Nov 29-Dec 3, 2011
This trip is a new instalment of my “spend my birthday in another country” routine that is now in its 5th year. We started out the trip with a late afternoon flight to Denpasar airport on the 28th of November, which is the day before my birthday. The flight from Kuala Lumpur was 3 hours [...]
November 17, 2011
Langkawi, Nov 1-7, 2011
Monday October 31st, 2011 Our flight to Langkawi, an island in the north of Malaysia, close to Thailand, was due to depart in the evening. It lasted all of an hour. What interested me most about the process was the fact that our ID was never checked. I supposed that it was because it was [...]
October 2, 2011
Eastern USA + 12 hours in London, Sept 10-22, 2011
To understand the significance of this trip for me, you first need to know about a little thing called LJ Idol. LJ Idol has played a major role in my life over the last two years, to bring me to where I am today. Some people see it as a writing competition. Some people think [...]
