🖋Author of Perempuan Paling Sunyi & Perempuan Nan Berlari. 24x marathoner. To 🏃🏻 FM in all 🇯🇵 prefectures (Current: 14/46). Literature is my magic shop ✨️
Putrajaya, MY
Joined January 2009
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Marathon No. 24 ✅️
14th marathon in Japan ✅️
(Only 32 more marathons to go 😂)
No double FM this time, esok banyak meeting 📝
#FuyuMarathon2024
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What better day to let the cat out of the bag than International Cat Day? This is my new translation of I AM A CAT by Natsume Sōseki for Vintage Classics, with a special translator's note and introduction. Comes out September 4th. Available to pre-order meow 😼😻🙀
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On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car.
ALT X post by @nobushiromasaki. JP text: カムチャッカ半島付近の大地震（M8.0）による津波、日本各地にも1m程度の津波が来るという注意報が出てる。侮らないで。1mは、ふつうに自動車が流されるレベルです。画像は拾い物だけど、これが本当だから。沿岸地域の方、特に気をつけて！
Anyone's here been to past Korea Open (badminton)? Do you mind sharing photos of the event site during the tournament? I.e., the booth, posters, camaraderie etc.
@theone_xyz can help getting this out? Thanks in advance!
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🔥 A finish for the history books! 🤩
Muhammad Sahrom 🇲🇾 left everyone at the edge of their seats with a powerful sprint to the win on the Men’s Keirin 🤯
#TrackCycling
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Ever wondered who hates who in Japan?
In a 2020 survey by J-Town, each prefecture was asked which prefecture they disliked the most:
Currently reading The Extinction of Irena Rey @jenniferlcroft!
I love prose written by poets and now I can say I adore original works written by translators! It is not just the way she "manipulates" the language but also the plot and the gist of the story. Mind-bending.
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With that said - I like Kokoro for the harsh life lessons (or wisdom) it imparts. Imagine rejecting the world to as a way to absolve your unproven guilt. What a burden to carry and I do wish Sensei reached out sooner instead of hokding everything in himself.
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...progresses gradually with long-winding sentences that seem to avoid the heart of the story. In a way, Kalbu is more similar to I Am a Cat, which I put on an indefinite break halfway into it. Yet, I couldn't help feeling Sensei is the matured, more tragic version of Cat's Owner
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Reading Kalbu (the Malay translation of Kokoro) by Natsume Soseki is a challenge in patience and focus. It is essentially a bildungsroman, similar to Sanshiro and Botchan, two Soseki's works that I enjoyed so much. Yet, while the other two are faster-paced, plot wise, Kalbu...
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This is the best Down syndrome awareness video I have ever seen
Amazing 👏👏👏
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Arif Junaidi/Yap Roy King 🇲🇾 won against Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan 🇮🇩
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It's for sure an honour for ArifKing to have a fight with the legends & to be their last opponent 🙏🏻
This is the last tournament for the daddies before they retire.
#IndonesiaMasters2025
Currently reading Tikus. A very very much easier entry into WNA's world. An alternative, futuristic "Malaysia" should Japan did not lose the WW2 and we remained colonized.
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the dark room with a single candle) and the questioning of existence - his signature.
But there is something in this novel that IMO was absent in his earlier works, which is we can opt for the non-ideal reality instead of continuing dreaming for the fantastical.
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brought to life through the art of storytelling.
Murakami weaved the story via what he does best - the innocence of teenage infatuation and the confusion of adulting. I love the literal plunge into the main character's subconsciousness (the deep pool, the subterranean room, 👇
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