CY@CY Says Welcome to my dreamscape. Where a Lim is also a Ling.

As The Drowning Man by Michael Robotham opens,  DI Vincent Ruiz is clinging to a buoy in the River Thames with gunshot wounds. He has no recollection of the shooting or how he ended up in the river. Many of his colleagues believe he is faking amnesia to cover for being a bent cop. Ruiz has to retrace his steps to find out ...

Detective Joe Ashworth is on his way home with his daughter Jess when, due to very heavy snowfall, the Metro they are travelling on stops at Mardle, outside of Newcastle. The passengers  are asked to disembark and catch a bus. As the other passengers fade into the swirling snow, Jessie notices that an elderly woman hasn’t left the train. Thinking that the woman has fallen asleep, ...

ROBERT BRYNDZA deserves to join the heavy hitters of the thriller genre. I have just finished reading his DCI Erika Foster book #2, The Night Stalker. I really enjoyed it as it is a very fast-paced thriller. I have not read The Girl In The Ice, the first book in the series. I hope I can find the first book and the other books ...

Don’t Make a Sound by David Jackson truly held me in its grip from the opening pages and I finished it in a single day, staying up till midnight to finish it. The author sends his readers running for cover in this extraordinarily creepy, disturbing and tense outing. The Benson’s seem to be a normal happy little family. There’s mum Harriet, Dad Malcolm and 10 year old Daisy. ...

Heat Lightning is the second book in John Sandford’s series featuring Virgil Flowers, an investigator with the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. Virgil is an unconventional detective, who wears his blond hair down to his shoulders and dresses in tee shirts bearing the names of often-obscure rock bands. A gunman shoots Bobby Sanderson as he is walking his dog one night in Stillwater, Minnesota, then ...

Mags has not seen her brother Abe for years, having left their family home when she was a teenager. Out of the blue, she receives a phone call informing her that her brother Abe is in a coma in hospital and nobody knows what happened to him. Mags flies half way around the world to be at his side. She meets Abe’s fiancé ...

The stork-billed kingfisher (Pelargopsis capensis) is a large tree kingfisher which has a large distribution that covers the vast majority of Asia.  This kingfisher is resident throughout its range, living in a variety of lowland forests near lakes, rivers, or coasts. I have encountered this kingfisher at Kuala Baram Wetlands on several ocassions. They are larger in size than collared kingfisher. Stork-billed kingfisher seen at Kuala Bartam ...

Bird watching and photography is a great source of happiness for me. The joy of photographing a bird that I have never photographed before gives me a sense of thrill and joyful glee. On my January 1 2022 trip to the Kuala Baram Wetlands, I was able to capture sharp images of a lesser adjutant and a stork-billed kingfisher.  The ...

It was on the January 1 of this year that I encountered a lesser adjutant (秃鹳 in Chinese or Burung-Botak Kecil in Malay) for the first time in my life at Kuala Baram Wetlands. I viewed that as a great start to 2022! The Lesser Adjutants (Leptoptilos javanicus) are large wading birds in the stork family Ciconiidae that are found in South and South-east Asia. They ...

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukio Mishima is a coming-of-age story told from the perspectives of the story’s three main characters: Ryuji Tsukazaki, a sailor; the widow Fusako Kuroda, an importer of European finery; and her misfit son Noboru, a boy poised on the tenuous cusp between childhood and adolescence. In a Yokohama suburb during the postwar ...