Bala Takes the Plunge
This is a fun novel written by debut writer Melvin Durai – a humorist and now a writer. The book is about Bala –…
7.5 Thank you, John Sandford
I ended last week with a disastrous visit to the physiotherapist (for my RSI). Something went very wrong with the therapy, and I ended…
The Girl who Played with Fire
I am convinced this book is wrongly named. Lisbeth Salander the protagonist is definitely not the girl who plays with fire – she is…
Gulliver’s Travels: A Classic Tale Revisited
I am still on the classics kick, as you can see! After the mammoth Bleak House, I thought the relatively slim Gulliver’s Travels would…
A Bad Case of RSI
My blog posts have decreased in frequency of late…and there are a couple of reasons for that. Tons of work to complete, combined with…
I heart Windows 7
Eh!! What’s a techie piece doing on my blog? But what can I say, when I love something this much, I have to spread…
Fooling Around with Retro Camera
Been playing around with Retro Camera – a fun app that allows me to take old-fashioned, sepia tone pictures. Here are a few shots…
War of the Worlds – Book vs Movie
Yesterday, I watched War of the Worlds, the Steven Spielberg-directed Tom Cruise-starring movie based on H.G. Wells’s excellent sci-fi thriller. The book was one of…
A Passage from Bleak House
I have been so tied up with work and life in general that reading is taking a bit of a backseat…however, I had marked…