Category: Blogroll
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In the course of 2013 I reviewed over 20 hotels, and out of the list below only Bayview Melaka and Alabama Hotel were paid for out of my own pocket (so blessed!). My favourite hotel of all would have to be Grande Centre Point in Bangkok – it has the solid substance of a well-designed…
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Over the course of 2013, I read 13 books in total. That is an average of 1.08 books a month. Interestingly, all 13 books were Christian in nature, (not so much The Hobbit though Tolkien himself was a Catholic). 1. The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien (Jan) 2. The Pilgrim’s Regress by CS Lewis (Feb) 3.…
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I recently went on a week long trip to Hong Kong, and during my time at The Peak, I thought about how similar my hometown in Penang was to Hong Kong – what with its furnicular trams, prestigious hillside residences and traces of colonial Britain. Here are some postcards I found at home of Penang…
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I am a Coffee Bean cup and I live in Singapore. I was born in Senai, Johor, a small industrial town in the fifth largest state in Malaysia. I lived close to the Senai Airport, where the low cost airline AirAsia drops off many of its passengers in this southern state of Malaysia and in…
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Every year I keep lists of movies I have watched, and my visit to the cinema always seems to be at a frequency of once a month. In 2012, the movie that took me by surprise most was The Hunger Games – you can read of more thoughts on the movie here. The movie I…
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In 2011 when I first arrived in Singapore, I read close to 30 novels thanks to my non-existent social life. I spent most of my Saturdays (rain or shine) holed up in my room in Queenstown devouring a fictional world. Paperback after paperback was purchased mostly from Sultana Book Store, my favourite second-hand bookstore in…
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With these hands I made you, and I made you well. Your hands were made for doing good.
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Here is the second part to my previous post ‘The Best of Georgetown’. No matter how many times I visit Georgetown, it’s still as charming as ever. Everytime I go into this historical part of town to run an errand, I can’t help but stop to take a few pictures – I really don’t think…
Wan Phing Lim 