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While in Singapore over the Gawai holidays, I dropped in to Kinokuniya at Ngee Ann City, spending an hour or so browsing inside the huge bookstore. I did not find any books that really piqued my interest and was about to leave the store when I chanced upon “The Devotion of Suspect X” by Keigo Higashino (translated by Alexander O. ...

Xia Xue is right now trending at the top of Google Singapore. Out of curiousity, I decided to check out what the buzz is all about. Now that I know what it is all about, I have this to say: “Bravo, Xiaxue!” If you want to know what this is all about, go to Xia Xue’s blog. And if you ...

First it was Whitney Houston…..then Donna Summer…. and now Robin Gibb. Three of my favourite singers have passed away this year. “Words” can’t describe my “Emotion” at the latest “Tragedy”. “To love somebody” like Robin is easy. To all the fans of Bee Gees, “Don’t forget to remember” Robin in your prayers. Bee Gees legend Robin Hugh Gibb died aged ...

S.H.E.’s Ella Chen and her Malaysian husband, Alvin Lai held their lavish wedding reception at the Equatorial Hotel Malacca last night amidst tight security with a dozen RELA members and 10 bodyguards just to keep pressmen and fans at bay. Their ivory white-themed wedding banquet at the extravagantly decorated Dewan Melaka was attended by around 800 close family members and ...

There is an Irish proverb that goes like this : “Ni ceart go cur le cheile” which translates into “There is no strength without unity.” The proverb tells us that “united we stand, divided we fall”. Unity refers to the condition or state of being one. Unity is powerful.  A strand of string is easily broken. A rope is strong ...

It is a fact that most passengers do not pay any heed to flight security announcements and I personally am guilty of that. But that may soon change if flight attendants follow the example of AirAsia’s Quinton Dinesh Thomas. Tired of passengers not heeding the security announcements, Quinton decided to inject some humour into his routine security announcements. And he ...

31-year-old Taiwanese pop singer Ella Chen Chia-Hwa (陳嘉樺), a member of the girl group S.H.E., tied the knot yesterday at Le Méridien Taipei with her 36-year-old sweetheart Alvin Lai (賴斯翔 a.k.a 尔文赖) from Malaysia in a star-studded ceremony. The two have been dating for one and a half years.

When actress-host Vivian Lai, 36, kissed actress Kate Pang, 29, on the lips for one second when she was announced as one of the Top 10 Most Popular Female Artistes during Sunday’s live telecast of the Star Awards Show 2, she never expected that it would spark such a furore among Singaporeans. Apparently, many viewers find the kiss offensive. Many ...

I just got back to Miri this afternoon after spending the last two days in Kuching, savouring Kuching’s good food and meeting up with a few old friends whom I have not seen for decades. My eldest brother Tian and I flew to Kuching on Friday afternoon by Air Asia and we put up at the house of my second ...

This has just hit the news and droves of people are flocking to the Miri campus of Curtin University today hoping to catch a view of the Curtin monster. The buzz started at about 7.00 am today when a few students saw a weird looking monster in the lake within the campus. The students were walking near the lake when ...