Goodbye, Yasmin!!

 By: ryan    3:31 PM  Clips, Tribute   No comments

On 25 July 2009, our beloved Malaysian critically-acclaimed multi-award winning film director, writer and scriptwriter have left us..

She is famous for her Petronas Raya, CNY, Deepavali and National Day ads, and several heartfelt award winning movies such as

• Rabun (2003)
  
• Sepet (2004)
  
• Gubra (2006)
  
• Mukhsin (2007)
  
• Muallaf (2008)
  
• Talentime (2009)

RIP Yasmin!!

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Urban Odysseys KL Stories

 By: ryan    9:49 PM  Non-Fiction   No comments

Title: Urban Odysseys KL Stories
Author: Various Author (MPH)
Publisher: MPH Publishing
ISBN: 9789675222061

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In this rich embroidery of stories set against the landscape of the Malaysian capital, the city of Kuala Lumpur is as much a character as any of the denizens. drifters and dreamers portrayed in the stories. These are potraits of the capital seen through the prism of stories written by an array of new literary voices.

Each writer's experience of or passage through the city is variegated, at some point in their lives, they have grown up in, stopped over in, moved into, or, lost and found themselves in the labyrinthine chaos of the city.

Here, eighteen writers present a sweeping literary portrait of the city as seen through their eyes, and in ways unexpected and mesmerising take on the challenge of capturing the exuberant madness and cultural diversity of the city and its enduring spirit.

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Change of Heart

 By: ryan    9:54 PM  Fiction - Jodi Picolt   No comments

Title: Change of Heart
Author: Jodi Picolt
Publisher: Hodder
ISBN: 9780340935842

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June has survived what no mother should face. Twelve years ago, her husband and young daughter were murdered. For the sake of her unborn child, she managed to carry a living.

But now she faces losing a second daughter. Claire has a heart defect, and unless they find a donor soon, she will die.

When a match is offered, it seems like a miracle. Until June learns that new heart will come from the man who killed Claire's sister. She thought she would do anything to keep her child alive. But how can she five her daughter the heart of a murderer?

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Little Hut of Leaping Fishes

 By: ryan    12:34 PM  Fiction - Chiew-Siah Tei   No comments

Title: Little Hut of Leaping Fishes
Author: Chiew-Siah Tei
Publisher: Picador Asia
ISBN: 9780330469708

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It is 1875 and at the Chai mansion, two babies are born just minutes apart. As the first grandson of Master Chai, Mingzhi's life is already mapped out, and he is destined to inherit great wealth and power. His younger brother, Mingyuan, is not so lucky, as second grandson, he will remain forever in his older brother's shadow.

As the two boys grow, so too do their differences. While Mingzhi seeks to escape the confines and corruption of the family mansion through learning and later, marriage. Mingyuan is seduced by the seedier side of life, by opium dens and gambling, and ultimately, the desire to depose his brother.

It's when the 'foreign devils' invade the brothers' homeland, however, that the true extent of Mingyuan's jealousy becomes clear and Mingzhi has to decide, once and for all, between past, and future, between family and love.

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Breaking Dawn

 By: ryan    10:18 AM  Young Adult - Stephenie Meyer   No comments

Title: Breaking Dawn
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316032148

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When you love the one who was killing you, it let you no options. If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you truly loved?

To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss, and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. her imminent choice to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes bangs.

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Eclipse

 By: ryan    9:13 PM  Young Adult - Stephenie Meyer   No comments

Title: Eclipse
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316032557

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In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me. It was never going to end, was it?

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New Moon

 By: ryan    10:07 PM  Young Adult - Stephenie Meyer   No comments

Title: New Moon
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Hachette Books
ISBN: 9780316024969

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I knew we were both in mortal danger,

Still, in that instant, I felt well. Whole.

I could feel my heart racing in my chest,
the blood pulsing hot and fast through my veins again.

My lungs filled deep with the sweet scent that came off his skin.

It was like there had never been any hole in my chest.

I was perfect, not healed, but as if there had never been a wound in the first place.

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Twilight

 By: ryan    8:27 PM  Young Adult - Stephenie Meyer   No comments

Title: Twilight
Author: Stephanie Meyer
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
ISBN: 9780316015844

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About three things I was absolutely positive.

First, Edward was a vampire.

Second, there was a part of him and I didn't know how dominant that part might be, that thirsted for my blood.

And third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with him.

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