Ted Mahsun

Tunku Halim has an intriguing post which starts with the sentence: "On 26 April 1994, in an elaborate ceremony at the Istana Negara, Tuanku Simon Mackay was appointed as Malaysia’s 10th Yang DiPertuan Agong"  What follows is the best speculative writing I've read this year. Tunku Halim, I want more!

A review I wrote ages ago finally got published in The Star . Well, that review had a crazy journey from my keyboard to print, but I shall not dwell on the matter. This review was published in The Star on 28 August 2009 . Marathon chronicles Review by TED MAHSUN What I Talk About When I Talk About Running Author: Haruki Murakami Publisher: Harvill Secker, 180 pages PEOPLE don’t usually associate running marathons with writing novels. Not Haruki Murakami. For this award-winning Japanese author, the act of training and eventually taking part in a marathon is no different from the arduous task of writing a novel. What I Talk About When I Talk About Running is Murakami’s attempt to coagulate and combine his thoughts on these two seemingly unrelated activities into one book. As a result, this book ends up being a memoir as much as it is about running and writing. The book is divided into chapters that are essentially journal entries, chronicling Murakami’s progress as he ...

Just a small update for you. I've just had the craziest week... and signs are pointing that the weeks to come are just going to get crazier. Probably not as crazy as winning RM50,000 though, which I (along with my fellow team members, Ash and Lina) did. A couple of months ago, me, Ash and Lina decided to take part in a little competition . All we had to do was send in a proposal to design a computer game. No problem. Except that I was doing (and am still doing) the CELTA course , an intensive English teacher training course. I ended up having to accomodate sleepless nights just to get the presentation for the game proposal, my lesson plan for a class the day before the game presentation AND an assignment done in time. So! The lesson here: burn the midnight oil if you want to end up holding a mock cheque like this: Hurray!