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Hello Netizens, Recently I had the opportunity to visit Cameron Highlands with my family, and spend a whole day away from the busy life of the city. I really enjoyed my short stay there, and I will miss the beautiful sceneries and cold weather of the highlands. The places that I have got to visit are Boh's tea factory & Farm, a Strawberry farm, the forest and the butterfly garden. I got to hike a little (for the first time), making me quite interested to go hiking. We will see what happens about that. I decided to make video, compiling all the places I have visited. It is a mini vlog of my trip to Cameron Highlands. ... Music JPB - High [NCS Release] https://youtu.be/Tv6WImqSuxA https://soundcloud.com/anis-jay https://www.facebook.com/jayprodbeatz https://twitter.com/gtaanis Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/R8ZRCXy5vhA

Hello Netizens,  Recently, I have come to realise some books take me longer to read than others. I have usually brushed it off, by assuming some books took me longer to finish, because I am not purposely going after finishing them. However, I find myself disagreeing with myself. Created by Snowing - Freepik.com Toward the end of the past year, I started reading again after sort of taking a break from reading. Now, I am reading more than how I used to, and because of that I have been exposing myself to all sort of books that bring with them different experiences.  With that, I started seeing the clear difference between fast and slow reads (as I didn't necessarily believe it is a thing). My experience with slow and fast reads feels a little too extreme with me. For instance, with fast reads, I could read a hundred pages without feeling like I have been reading that much at all (one-hundred pages in one setting is a lot of me). On the other hand, r...

Hello Netizens,  I have always wanted to try reading literature from other parts of the world, unfortunately, despite my wants I only speak Arabic and English (and a little of French), which pushes me to read translated works to explore different cultures and its literature. This leads me to this novel, 'I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While' by Taichi Yamada. Beautiful name for a book. The title caught my eyes across so many books and I managed to see it even though it lied at the lower shelves. Title:  I Haven't Dreamed of Flying for a While Author:  Taichi Yamada Genre:   Fiction, Speculative fiction Synopsis:   After accident, illness and the loss of his job and marriage, 48-year-old Taura meets Mutsuko, setting his already derailed life even further off course. Their first encounter is, unseen, in a hospital. It later transpires that the mysterious Mutsuko is in her late sixties, but when they next meet she is in her forties. Rat...

Hello Netizens,  Recently I have read the A.B.C Murders by Agatha Christie, as a way for me to see if Agatha's book are my cup of tea. I have read previously 'Murder on the Orient Express' and I wasn't pleased at all with the ending.  Let me first introduce you to the book. Title: The A.B.C. Murders  Author: Agatha Christie Genre: Crime/Mystery Synopsis:  When Alice Ascher is murdered in Andover, Hercule Poirot is already on to the clues. Alphabetically speaking, it's one down, twenty-five to go. Rating: (4/5) Stars Review:   This book is a crime mystery about a serial killer, that murders their victims alphabetically. The story is told from the perspective of Hasting, however, sometimes it would switch to an unknown narrator. I was a little confused at the beginning with narrative, because it didn't follow the same narrative style in 'Muder on the Orient Express.' The characters in this story are well fleshed, considering ...

Hello Netizens,  I wasn't tagged to do The TBR Tag , but it looked fun =u= I came across this tag in Maniacal Book Unicorn blog post here . Lets get started! How do you keep track of your TBR pile? Among the books I own, I have a note on Evernote that includes all the books I own in a To-Do list. So each time I read a book, I tick the box. However, most of the time I pick random books from the library that pique my interest and I end up borrowing them.   Is your TBR mostly print or e-book? T he majority of books I read are physical books. From time to time, I would pick an ebook or read ebooks because I received them in exchange for a review.  How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next? I have zero strategy, I just pick whatever book I am in the mood for.  A book that’s been on your TBR the longest. A World Without Princes (The School for Good and Evil #2)  by Soman Chainani is the fir...

Title: Looking For Alaska Author: John Green Genre: Young Adult/Contemporary Synopsis:  Before. Miles “Pudge” Halter is done with his safe life at home. His whole life has been one big non-event, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave “the Great Perhaps” even more (Francois Rabelais, poet). He heads off to the sometimes crazy and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young. She is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart. Then. . . . After. Nothing is ever the same. Rating: (3.5/5) Stars Review:   '"Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the li...

Title: Tough Things First Author:  Ray Zinn Genre: Non-Fiction Synopsis:  Silicon Valley pioneer Ray Zinn, CEO of top microchip company Micrel for 37 years, shows entrepreneurs and executives how to lead and succeed by tackling the Tough Things First In high school, Ray Zinn s track coach told him he was too short to run the hurdles. Ray took this as a challenge and, after months of hard training, became the fastest hurdler on the team. That drive and self-discipline is, to Zinn, the essence of the entrepreneurial spirit. It s what pushed him to achieve the impossible, founding a Silicon Valley microchip company without venture capital and turning it into a global empire with an enviable 37-year track record as CEO. Rating : (3/5) Stars  Review: It is actually an interesting read (or at least to me); however, I've lost interest in what the book is offering around page 120. After a while from reading this book, it becomes extremely repetitive a...