Archive for October, 2009

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Allah help us all! – This is just wrong …

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Oozing with experience!

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I hoard books.

More books than can reasonably fit into the room I’m renting in the city.

The following list consist of books I am taking with me from home. (i’ve got a larger hoard in my studio)

Thin light potent books on Christianity, with out all the fluff that people fight about:

1. Conforming to His Image (Oswald Chambers)
2. Searching for God knows what (Donald Miller)
3. The Hour that changes the world (Dick Eastman)
4. No easy road (Dick Eastman)
5. Celebration of Dicipline (Richard Foster)
6. Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis)

Books by contemporary British writers:

1. High fidelity (nick hornby)
2. Yoga for people who can’t be bothered to do it (geoff dyre)

Books on Writing:
1. Story (Robert McKee)
2. On Writing (Stephen King)

Epics that is to say books that are thicker than the bible:

1. East of Eden (John Steinbeck)
2. The Gormenghast Trilogy ( Mervyn Peake)
3. The Quincunx (Charles Palliser)
4. The Lord of the Rings 2&3 (J.R.R Tolkien)

Books I haven’t read (or haven’t compleated) – some of them on lone:

1. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
2. The Pilgrimage – Paulo Coelho
3. The travels of Marco Polo
4. Once while travelling – Tony and Maureen Wheeler
5. Sophie’s World – Jostein Gaarder
6. The Sheild of Achillis – Philip Bobbitt
7. The Road to Middle Earth – T.A. Shipley
8. The Mother Tongue – Bill Bryson

Books on comics:
1. The Language of Comics (Mario Saraceni)
2. Drawing Words and Writing Pictures (Abel & Madden)

Comic Books:
1. Persepolis
2. Liquid City
3. Flight vol. 5
4. Acme novelty library 16&19
5. Veils
6. How to be an artist
7. Nausicaa
8. Asterix and the Normans
9. Wonderland
10. Snoopy Treasury
11. Modesty Blaise -bad suki
12. 300

The rest of the books in my room will be donated to the library.

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Some of you might know, that I live in a house that faces the sea on the lovely Penang island in Malaysia.

Well, I’m moving.

I’m moving to the city of Kuala Lumpur, to colaborate with the awesomely talented people I know there on various projects.

I welcome your prayers, advice, well wishes and blessing.

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I always thought of this story as a footnote. Till last Sunday, when the pastor expounded the related text, and really brought the story to life, using drama, music and art as part of his sermon.

It is a story of how Jesus chooses to walk alongside us, and listen to us, in a manner so unassuming that we might not realize it’s him.

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The first blog post I ever read was by the busblog guy, remember him?

No? Anyway, it was called ‘how to blog’ , it was a top 10 list and enavitably became a book.

A couple of items on the list which I thought were expert advice at the time, started to bother me today.

They are (paraphrasing from memory)
1. Don’t blog about your pets
2. Don’t put poems in your blog

I think advice like this has messed up blogging for a bunch of us.

1. Write what you love, seems a better guide, even if what we love happens to be our pets.

And

2. Poetry, come on, that’s like picking on people in high school, haven’t we grown out of that? If you want to write poetry, write poetry infact, so a podcast, or a video! It’s your Internet as much as anyones!

Speaking of poetry, do you know of any good poetry blogs? I’d like to visit them:)

Also do YOU have a blog? What’s it about?

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What do you think? Wanted to get YOUR thoughts before I send it off to the printers =)

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