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Book review: Darkborn by Alison Sinclair

Geraldine — Wed, 02 May 2012 01:56:02 +0000

Darkborn is a fantasy novel that plays on the light-dark balance that most magical books touch on. It is, at heart, a story about the love triangle between the three main characters, Telmaine, Balthasar, and Ishmael.

In the city of Minhorne, an ancient curse has split society into two – the Darkborns and the Lightborns.

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Life after the Kindle

Geraldine — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 10:12:37 +0000

I realised I’ve been getting a lot of questions on my old post “Owning my first Kindle Touch in Singapore“, so I thought I’d do an update / mini-FAQ.

1. If I have to use one word to describe life after the Kindle, it would be…

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It’s a wrap!

Geraldine — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 17:11:01 +0000

April updates

Geraldine — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 16:17:56 +0000

I’ve been wanting to update since forever, but it takes such a long time to crank out a post that I give up and end up saving them as drafts for the future – which means it never gets published.

1. Preaching to Pooja

In any case, we’re almost on the last week of April. [...]

Sharpening Your Saw

Geraldine — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 17:49:26 +0000

I was scanning through Scott Dinsmore’s article on how to read non-fiction books quickly when I came across this:

Two lumberjacks were asked to each cut down a tree and the person who finished first got the following day off as a prize. The problem is they both had very old and dull saws. [...]

March updates

Geraldine — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:54:41 +0000

Hong Kong sucked up one whole chunk of March, in addition to the already tight timetable I had thanks to school projects.

Not complaining about the trip, though, but my running routine’s been thrown out of whack. It’s been 12 days since I’ve last run (I have DailyMile to remind me of that, thankfully) [...]

Flying back home

Geraldine — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 04:47:09 +0000

Took this on my flight home from Hong Kong with my trusty ol’ iPhone 3GS.

Saying goodbye again Back to the Kong

Back to the Kong

Geraldine — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 17:50:07 +0000

Time’s flown by in a whizz and it’s already the last day of my time in Hong Kong. This year’s trip has been really quite eventful and laid back at the same time, so it’s been bucket loads of fun. Except for a couple of downers, but it’s okay.

Shopped a lot this time [...]

Quick Takes: Big Bang’s Bad Boy

Geraldine — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:36:12 +0000

Okay. I have to admit. On first listen, I thought Big Bang‘s new song was terrible. Bad Boy‘s feel is like the total opposite end of Blue, and the difference was enough to be jarring.

Then I listened to it again.

And again.

And again… and the [...]

Somebody that I used to know

Geraldine — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:34:53 +0000

Found this video when someone shared it on Facebook, and thought it was really cool. Then I checked out the original music video for the song and felt utterly depressed. Seriously, there’s too much ANGST in that video that would totally suffocate me if I let it.

That heavy sigh, that empty gaze, that [...]