Disaster films are apparently the new trend. There is “The Day the Earth stood still”, “The Day after tomorrow” and the newer breed such as 2012 that is still currently playing at the cinema. Before I went to Indonesia, I swore I didn’t know a...

After reading the Laskar Pelangi series, this book feels like an itch on the corner of my eyes. I shut it down after 55 pages and refused to go on further. This is the second book authored by young Indonesians that I have dumped unceremoniously so...

Never have I felt so moved by a film before like this one. It climbed up the rank of my favourite films of all time in a zap after I finished watching it on TV few seconds ago. The story is simple but the actors were brilliant and the film brought so...

So this is Gayle’s legendary first novel. I was probably expecting too much from it after hearing so much about how wonderful this book is. Well, it wasn’t bad for a start but it wasn’t really like something I had imagined before either. I must admit...

Unfortunately, this time I cannot come up with a similar praise like I threw with the other two books that I have read. Although the writing style did not bug me the least, it was still excellent – I got easily distracted by this and that, it was the...