Sprawled on the paper Chinese words appear out of  Calligrapher’s brush. 

Among the big crowd The clown looks so conspicious Is the joke on her?

After all these years ET is still not home yet Can our Mayor help?

Two butterflies mate Quietly on a blade of grass No intimate sounds.

Most crabs walk sideways Don’t teach a crab to walk straight Crabs are……well……crabby.

It starts with a noise Then the smell permeates the room What a smelly fart! 

Poor poor Miri residents Their lives turned upside down by the water disruption incidents A burst pipe is all it takes Creating havoc in its wake. Lots of Mirians are blaming LAKU It’s difficult for them to keep their cool Even taking bathe seems to have become a luxury Life has become such a misery. Toilets stink like hell Things ...

Set in modern China, February Flowers by Fan Wu is a coming of age story of two young women in a society torn between tradition and modernity, focusing on the bond between the two girls. Innocent seventeen-year-old Chen Ming and worldly and flashy twenty-four-year-old Miao Yan have very little in common other than studying at the same university. Ming lives in her own world ...

The Housekeeper and the Professor (博士の愛した数式) by Yoko Ogawa is a short read, mesmerising in its heart-warming story about unlikely friendships, mathematics and baseball. It has sold in excess of 4 million copies in Japan alone. This is a beautifully-written story about an old maths professor, his housekeeper and her young son. After a traffic accident in 1975, the professor’s memory post-1975 lasts only 80 minutes. ...

Dead Souls by Angela Marsons is a gripping, emotional and addictive novel that kept me captivated from start to finish. With a dark main theme, the author tackles racism and hate crimes in this thriller, challenging our perceptions and beliefs. The book opens with a disturbing scene in which a teenage boy commits suicide after writing a letter to his mother. Though it’s evident he’s ...