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

GE14 is now history but it will be etched in Malaysian history as the watershed of Malaysian politics.  Malaysians united in a show of people power and overthrew a corrupt regime. For me, this election was the most emotionally intense election. My emotion was taken on a bumpy roller coaster ride, with intermittent surges of hope, worries, fears and elation. ...

Silence (沈黙 Chinmoku) by Shusaku Endo is regarded as one of the finest novels of our time. The Guardian hailed it as a compelling historical fiction, a potent distillation of the paradoxes and ambiguities of faith and, from a Christian author, a daring challenge to religious orthodoxy. It is an amazing novel contemplating the age old question: “Why in times ...

Malaysia Airlines Bhd replaced AirAsia Bhd to emerge as the top contributor of consumer complaints filed with the Malaysian Aviation Commission (Mavcom) last year. The commission said it received in 2017 the most number of complaints about Malaysia Airlines at 44.8%; followed by AirAsia at 21.4% and Malindo Air at 20.2%. Judging from the recent experience of my niece, I ...

Crazy Rich Asians, the hotly anticipated big screen adaptation of Kevin Kwan’s best-selling novel of the same name, is set to hit the screen on Aug. 17, 2018, about five years after the book was first published.  I thoroughly enjoyed that book as well as its two sequels China Rich Girlfriends and Rich People Problems so I look forward to ...

It is strange but I have not heard of The Seeker Cafe & Bistro in Miri though the restaurant has been in business for over one and a half years and has been receiving good reviews. It was only a couple of days ago that my sister-in-law Angela Ngieng told us about it. Last night we had our dinner there ...

Maria Weston wants to be friends with you on Facebook. But you know Maria has been dead for more than 25 years. What would you do? That is what Louise Williams is faced with in the opening chapter of Friend Request by Laura Marshall. With that simple Facebook friend request, Lousie’s life is irrevocably changed. She is tortured by her ...

Seventeen bills itself as “an investigative thriller” but in my opinion, it is not. It is more of an intriguing story of a local Japanese newspaper, the North Kanto Times, using the backdrop of the real air crash of Japan Airlines (JAL) Flight 123 in 1985 to present a fascinating insight into the workings of a daily newspaper, laying bare ...

Lately I have been reading novels by Japanese authors. Quite a number of the novels have been dark and twisted tales but I award the crown for the darkest revenge novel to The Confessions by Kanae Minato. Confessions is a literary phenomenon in Japan. Published in 2008 to critical acclaim, it became a runaway hit and won a slew of ...

I devoured The Name of the Game is a Kidnapping by Keigo Higashino in a day as it was an engrossing read. Compared to the other books by Higashino, this novel is shorter at 238 pages. It is definitely not Higashino’s best but I still thoroughly enjoyed it. When it comes to twists, Keigo Higashino is second to none. It ...

The Dry, the critically acclaimed debut novel by Jane Harper, has garnered so much rave reviews that I just could not resist buying it. It has become a runaway bestseller and Reese Witherspoon’s production company has optioned the film rights. The Dry opens with an apparent open-shut case of murder-suicide in Kiewarra: Luke Hadler snaps after being tortured by years ...