My XRP Dream

XRP to the moon

If you go to Youtube and search for Cryptocurrency, you will be bombarded by a plethora of bullish headlines about XRP such as: XRP Millionaires in the Making! XRP Moon Ripple XRP: Be Ready For What Is About To Happen Next! XRP Price Analysis Points To Potential 2,400% Surge To $18 Based On Historical Patterns XRP Is Going To EXPLODE! ...

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The Miracles of the Namiya General Store By Keigo Higashino

The Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino

In this fantasy novel, three young guys seek a temporary hideout in an abandoned general  when their car breaks down after they have committed a robbery at a rich woman’s house. Atsuya, Kohei, and Shota are planning to hide in the general store for the night. An envelope suddenly slides through the store’s mail slot, addressed to the Namiya General Store. The letter ...

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The Nowhere Child By Christian White

The Nowhere Child by Christian White

Winner of the 2017 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award, The Nowhere Child by Christian White is an engrossing and compelling read. The Australian writer spins a bizarre yarn of a two-year-old girl spirited away from her home in a small US Kentucky town in 1990 and raised to young adulthood halfway around the globe in  Australia.  The thriller’s narrative switches back between the now and ...

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Kayla Dearest

She came. She conquered. My wife, my son Leslie and I easily surrender to her irresistible charm and fall hopelessly in love with her. I am talking about you, our dearest Kayla. Your daddy, your mummy and you visited us in Miri on May 7 and stayed with us till May 19. A couple of months earlier, your daddy informed ...

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Heaven On Earth

There’s a heaven on earth but we are so caught up with our busyness that we fail to experience it. It has been said that the heaven on earth map is in our soul and the road is in our mind. It is when we choose not to focus on what is missing in our lives but are grateful for ...

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Bitten By The Reading Bug Again

The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker

After reading The Man Who Watched Women by Hjorth & Rosenfeldt in the middle of this month, I seemed to have been bitten by the reading bug again. In the last two weeks, I managed to read 4 more books: Merciless by Mary Burton, A Wicked Snow by Gregg Olsen, The Colour of Law by Mark Gimenez and The Fourth Monkey by J.D. Barker. Merciless by Mary ...

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The Man Who Watched Women By Hjorth & Rosenfeldt

The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt

Though I love reading, I have put reading on the back burner for more than seven months. I picked up The Man Who Watched Women by Michael Hjorth and Hans Rosenfeldt a couple of days ago and was so engrossed by it that I was able to finish the 500 over pages book within a couple of days. It has ...

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Goodbye 2022 Hello 2023!

Goodbye 2022 Hello 2023!

It is New Year Eve again. 2022 seemed to have passed so quickly. As we ceremoniously say goodbye to 2022 and hello to 2023, we pay homage to the New Year Eve rite with thoughts of the year gone by and hopes for the year to come. As 2022 comes to an end, I marvel at how it went by in a ...

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Happy Ruby Anniversary!

Our wedding photo

Today is Christmas but it is more than just Christmas to me. It is a very special day for me and my wife for it is our Ruby Wedding Anniversary. Four decades spent together is a very special milestone in its own right. To my dearest wife I dedicate this poem: The year of 1982 was a very special year We ...

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Kuala Baram Wetlands – Bird Sanctuary?

Kuala Baram Wetlands

The Kuala Baram Wetlands is my favourite place to go for bird photography in Miri. Located about 35 minutes’ drive from the city centre, the marshland has been hailed as a sanctuary for migrating birds from around the world. Kuala Baram Wetlands The wetlands’ total size is about 600 hectares consisting of mudflats, mangrove forests, salt pans, freshwater lakes and prawn and fish ponds. At the last ...

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