Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest is the direct sequel to the highly imaginative Three Body Problem. Set directly after the event of the Three Body Problem, this book chronicles humanity’s effort in addressing the unfolding events at the conclusion of the first book.
Continue reading “Liu Cixin’s Dark Forest”Liu Cixin’s Three Body Problem
Cixin Liu’s Three Body Problem is a highly imaginative modern science fiction story that spans multiple generations (or civilizations, once you start to get into it). The story starts rather graphically during the Cultural Revolution, the violent youth revolutionary movement that swept through China during the waning years of Mao Zedong. There, the callous actions of a group of overzealous youths of the Red Guard planted a seed in the heart of Ye Wenjie that would eventually grow into a lifelong resentment of the barbaric nature of humanity.
Book Review: Billion Dollar Whale
Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World
** spoiler alert ** Wow. My brain is fried from reading this.
I’ve been following the 1MDB scandal closely ever since it was raised by Sarawak Report. And I have talked to innocent acquaintances who had worked there as well. But nothing could have prepared me for the scale and scope of the 1MDB scandal that has been vividly retold in this grippingly well researched book.
Continue reading “Book Review: Billion Dollar Whale”Happy 10th Birthday iPhone!
I still remember the thrill of holding that first iPhone box. It wasn’t my first smartphone (that was the Palm Treo). It wasn’t my first iPod (I probably had three by then). It wasn’t even my first PDA (shoutout to the Compaq iPAQ). But it was the first device that seamlessly blended all of them together—a perfect fusion of software and hardware.
Meet Chip
Chip is a friend. Chip is also what we Malaysians would affectionately call a “kiam siap Chinaman.” The term, while not a racial slur, is a blend of affection and mockery— half admiration for thriftiness, half exasperation at Scrooge-like tendencies. But Chip? He wears the label proudly.
Star Wars The Force Awakens
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away… Star Wars changed how movies were made, marketed and how they could fuel cultural discourse. Which is why it took me three months to pen my thoughts on The Force Awakens— so I could finally break free from the suffocating, inescapable hype Disney cranked into full force months before its release.