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My husband is a much more intelligent person than I am. Not only does he have a string of letters after his name, but he has also been, at differing times, a University Vice-Chancellor/Rector, the head of two large research … Continue reading
Glenda Larke
Here. A remote valley inside Kinabalu Park, accessible only by 4WD or intrepid mini Kancil drivers with a death wish. 1000m up, no hot water and generator power only 6 hours, at night. And this was the view from the … Continue reading
On the entry for Sept 2nd, I wrote about people wanting to strangle one of my characters. So today I thought I’d write about strangling a tree. (Ok, give me a good reason why not.) If you look at the … Continue reading
I love Sabahan names. People tend to be very creative in naming their children, for example. And they don’t worry about whether they mix up languages one with another – and they have quite a few local tongues to call … Continue reading
The information in today’s blog (and the pix!) comes from here, (look at the index) – an excellent blog on literary matters by Sharon Bakar, with a heavy bias to things Malaysian. The opinions expressed here are mine, though I … Continue reading
Here’s a montage of photos of my daughter taken while in Sabah. Ready to climb (at the entrance gate) At the beach… Dinner by the sea Weightlifting? Fresh coconut on the beach Getting a massage after coming down from Mount … Continue reading
We spent five days snorkelling last week on islands off the Sabah coast. The worst thing that happened was that we stung by the tiny jellyfish called stingers. More a nuisance than anything else. We did see one small shark … Continue reading
There’s an island out there in the South China Sea. A tiny piece of land with a patch of rainforest that seems too small to survive a tropical storm. It’s called Snake Island… And there are snakes. Lots of them. … Continue reading
On another forum, there has been a discussion about characters you would like to strangle. And two people mentioned Ligea from my Heart of the Mirage. I created Ligea as a tough woman of 28 who was deliberately raised to … Continue reading
My changes to the proofs of The Shadow of Tyr have been sent off. Now it’s back to doing a line edit of Book 3, Song of the Shiver Barrens – that is, going through the manuscript line by line … Continue reading