by nsoonhui | Jul 11, 2022 | book-review, Uncategorized
The book “Four Thousand Weeks” is an important read, especially for those who are poisoned by Self- help books, and those who are are harboring great ambitions for the future, and those who think that their happiness depends on what they can achieve in the...
by nsoonhui | Jun 6, 2022 | book-review, Uncategorized
Is “jumping to conclusion” a good thing? Not necessarily bad, according to Malcolm Gladwell’s book, Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. The book “Blink” is a fascinating because it shows how our snap judgement in the blink of...
by nsoonhui | Apr 29, 2021 | book-review
The 509 election 3 years ago was supposed to be a watershed moment for Malaysia and Malaysia politics. A lot of us had high hopes for the new government. With the end of the BN hegemony, we hoped that our country will enter into a new era: corruptions tampered if not...
by nsoonhui | Jan 23, 2021 | book-review
身为八十年代后,许多人应该对卫斯理小说不感到陌生吧! 卫斯理小说是香港作家倪匡所创造的系列小说,虽然题材主打科幻,但是更多是奇幻、冒险,由民间传说所构成的大杂烩。倪匡写作特点就是开局紧张刺激,很能吸引读者一直追看下去;他想象力特丰富,阅读的杂书特别多,所以题材多变,很适合少年阅读。 我也是(现在还是)卫斯理小说的粉丝。犹记得第一次接触卫斯理小说是在我还在念三年级的时候,那本书叫做《原子空间》。小时都已经对时间啊空间啊宇宙啊这些东西都很感兴趣,家乡图书馆书籍匮乏,卫斯理小说作为替代读物,正可以满足这方面的要求。...
by nsoonhui | Aug 8, 2020 | book-review
Richard Feynman was a legendary physicist last century. To the popular mass, he was ( and is still) famous for his science popularizer books such as “What do you care what other people think?”, “Surely you’re joking, Feynman!”, “The...
by nsoonhui | Apr 18, 2020 | book-review
During this Covid 19 lockdown period, if you feel like you have nothing to do, perhaps you can try to make more babies. What? Aren’t kids are nothing but trouble? Just imagine when they are babies, they cry at unholy hours and how sleep deprived you become. Just...