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

About half a century has elapsed since I last read an Agatha Christie novel.  I was in Form One or Form Two at Kai Chung Middle School in Binatang when I read my first Agatha Christie novel. After such a long lapse, I did not know what to expect when I first started reading Death in the Clouds. According to ...

Thirst for Love by Yukio Mishima is the first book that I have read in 2022. It is a relatively thin book at about 200 pages. It is the second Mishima book that I have read, the first being The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea. Yukio Mishima 三島 由紀夫 (1925-1970) is one of the most important Japanese authors of the ...

Don’t cry because 2021 is over, smile because 2022 is about to happen. It’s the end of 2021 and 2021 will be gone in six hours’ time. Though 2021 has not been a good year for me, I still salute to the experiences I have in the year. I welcome 2022 with great hope, joy and anticipation. Before I say ...

A great boon to happiness is to have passion – whether it is reading, video games, photography, stamp collecting, singing, investing, or whatever. Your passion in life is an affirmation of your values, reminding you what’s most important to you outside of your other obligations. It allows you to enjoy something that’s all yours, recharges your life, and instills a deeper sense of meaning to your ...

Election fever is in the air, everywhere I look around Election fever is in the air, every sight and every sound But I don’t know why there’re so many candidates Some of them will lose their deposits as a matter of fact They’re there to make up the numbers Caught up in the more-the-merrier fever   Election fever is in the air, ...

Qiu Xiaolong’s debut novel “Death of a Red Heroine” introduces Chief Inspector Chen Cao of the Shanghai Police and won the Anthony Award for best first novel in 2011. This is my first taste of a crime novel written in English by a Chinese author. I must say it is quite different from those written by Western authors. There is ...

Disgrace by J. M. Coetzee is a grim book that focuses on the darker side of life with themes about the powerful and powerless. Published in 1999, it won the Booker Prize and the author was also awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2003, four years after its publication.  A 2006 poll of “literary luminaries” by The Observer newspaper  named the book as the “greatest novel ...

The seahorse is Miri’s official mascot. It is little wonder that you can see seahorse mascots all over the city. The biggest seahorse in Miri is the iconic 25 metre tall seahorse lighthouse located at Coco Cabana. It is one of the top favourite photography spots in the city. Another very popular seahorse is the one located at Miri Waterfront. ...

A breed of dogs is enjoying worldwide popularity thanks to hot meme cryptocurrencies. I am talking about Shiba Inu dogs. In 2013 the crypto world was introduced to Shiba Inus when Dogecoin, created by IBM software engineer Billy Markus and Adobe software engineer Jackson Palmer as a joke in response to other cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, picked the breed as its mascot. The viral meme,  called ...

Under the revised MCO 3.0, outdoor photography is not allowed. As an avid photographer,  I feel like my wings have been clipped. I am going to miss “shooting” my avian models. I am going to miss my outings to Piasau Boat Club, Piasau Nature Reserve, Kuala Baram Wetlands, Miri Central Park and Coco Cabana. It is very frustrating not being allowed ...