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

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 ...

The Murder Road By Stephen Booth When Mac Kelsey finds his lorry wedged under a low country bridge while on a delivery run of animal feed, he never expects that his life would be over soon. His lorry blocks the narrrow lane in and out of the village of Shawhead. A local woman on her way home reports the stranded lorry to ...

Marc Solie is on the run. His family never recovers after the death of his younger sister from leukemia two years ago. After the divorce of his parents, his dad leaves him in the custody of his deeply depressed mother. Since then Marc’s been running from himself — from the pain of loss and loneliness. He suddenly loses touch with his father, and before ...

Guy Lafleur succumbed to lung cancer yesterday in palliative care in a suburb of Montreal. He was 70. Lafleur was someone I have a great admiration for. I was studying in Montreal when Lafleur was playing for the Montreal Canadiens and I had watched many of his games in the National Hockey League (NHL) on television. On nights when Lafleur ...

Chronicle of a Death Foretold, a novella by Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, tells through the eyes of an unnamed narrator the events that lead to the murder of Santiago Nasar by the two Vicario twin brothers Pablo and Pedro. Hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents as she was not ...