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...

Certain characters can be so iconic that you'll immediately think of the actors that played them. This is one of the cases. The moment I...

This book is thick! If you read the blog post called Reading: Not Just a Hobby that was published in March, you'd have noticed this boo...

Autism is often a thing you have heard before, but never really care about until you encounter it in the form of someone you love dearly. Au...