I received this email yesterday.
dear lydia
here’s a 17yr old Gothic, slightly weird(but who’s to say whats normal), slightly rebellious and a total book-worm with a tragic and ironic sense of humor dropping by to say that i love ur book, as much as i love cats, and b’lieve me, thats a LOT! Continue reading
Here’s your chance to appear in the newspapers. YellowPost is seeking feedback on your experience in 2006 and your aspirations for 2007.
A note from the editor, Aida Abdul Razak : Continue reading
Honk! will be appearing on RTM1 tomorrow, Saturday 23/12/2006 at 8.30 a.m. I will be interviewed by Sayed Munawar in Resensi Sabtu, the book review segment which falls under the Selamat Pagi Malaysia program. If you’re up and about at that time, please tune in to the show. My slot is about 20 minutes.
My VCR is spoilt and I can’t record the program. Can anyone please help record it for me?
The book launch for Honk! If You’re Malaysian at Crowne Plaza Mutiara Hotel went very well today. (For pictures, please hop over to my media gallery.) Continue reading
You know what they say, if you don’t blow your own trumpet, nobody will do it for you. Well, Aneeta Sundararaj, author of Banana Leaf Men and Snapshots, has given me the opportunity to do so at her website. Thank you, Aneeta.
If you don’t mind listening to some trumpet blowing, please click here. The volume isn’t too loud, I hope.
Honk! If You’re Malaysian will be launched next week. Please treat this as a personal invitation to come for the launch.
Date : Saturday, 16 December 2006
Venue : Crowne Plaza Mutiara Kuala Lumpur, Grand Nirwana Ballroom
Program :
1.45 p.m. Arrival of guests and media
2.15 p.m. Welcome address by Dato’ Ng Tieh Chuan
2.25 p.m. Launch of book
2.30 p.m. Short speech and Q&A session by Lydia Teh
The book launch will coincide with MPH’s Share-A-Gift charity carnival happening at the same venue from 10.00 a.m. to 4.00 p.m. For more details, please check out this link :
http://www.mph.com.my/promotions/sag06.cfm
There’ll be honkers to greet you with the roti-man’s horn. See you at the launch.
Postscript : This is an opportunity for you to meet up with other writers. Those confirmed coming are :
1. Eric Forbes, MPH Editor
2. Sharon Bakar, writer-editor
3. Xeus, author of Dark City
4. Xandria Ooi, Journalist-Emcee-VJ for Hitz.tv and her manager-mother, Susan
5. Yvonne Foong, author of I’m Not Sick, Just a Bit Unwell.
6. Ted Mahsun, up and coming writer.
7. Syafique, varsity student/blogger.
8. Argus Lou, writer
9. Ilene Ong, blogger friend
10. Friends (Thanks, Connie who’s trying to arrange a carful of ladies).
11. My kids and nieces as honkers.
Those who will try to go are Aneeta Sundararaj, my bro-in-law and some others.
In the book, He Said, She Said : Candid Conversations about the Making of a Great Marriage, Bill & Anabel Gillham listed the top twenty ways women finish this statement:
I wish my husband woud love me by … Continue reading
One day while having lunch in Shah Alam, I saw an obese boy being bullied by his schoolmates. They poured canned drinks over his head, pelted him with eggs and threw what looked like curry powder on his shirt. They teased him but he didn’t look angry. In fact, he was grinning and running back and forth. After laughing their hearts off, the bullies dispersed. The boy coolly picked up his satchel and walked away quietly. Continue reading
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