This book review was surely unexpected. It started with a regular news feed browsing on Facebook. Happened to see a post about the persecuti...

I like Cobra Kai long before I watched the Karate Kid. But as someone from the 80s, even a boy from a place as remote as Pontianak had hea...

This story started in early January, when I saw a video about what 100 USD could do in Kuwait. That's when I found out about a guy named...

A friend of mine , the same one who went to Syria last year, is going to Afghanistan. When he told me that he had bought the tickets, I fou...

I read a similar book about the Beatles back in 2013. I remember it well because the book called Tune In by Mark Lewisohn was unusually thi...

I have heard of Jules Verne since I was a kid, probably from the Donald Duck comics that I read. Around the World in Eighty Days was not unh...

I don't read much this year. Apart from my regular Time magazine , I only read one book so far: the Rape of Nanking . Now that I looked ...

I can't remember when I first heard of the Nanjing Massacre, but it felt like I had known about it for the longest time. Must have read ...

I would categorise myself as an avid reader. There were times when I happened to read something unusual such as Hotel K and I still ended u...

I'm always a fan of Obama. Like the way he speaks. Smart, funny and eloquent. His life story was interesting, too. Read one from the tim...

While it's true that Pontianak is a small town that only had its first KFC outlet in year 2000 (and it still doesn't have McDonald...