A Tale of Two Consoles

On Sunday I was out and about, and two of my stops were the Wii Sports Resort Carnival at Takashimaya and the Xbox Gaming Showdown at VivoCity.

Both were underwhelming, especially XGS. Maybe it was because I went at an off-hour, in the middle of the afternoon, so it wasn’t as exciting as it otherwise have [...]

The Proper Care of Foxes

This morning I was at The Arts House again, this time at Earshot cafe for the launch of Wena Poon’s The Proper Care of Foxes, her latest collection of short stories. I was joined by Sarah.

The Proper Care of Foxes has been out in stores for a bit now, but today was like the official [...]

Meet the Author: Mark Waid

One of the many panels at SWF 09 was Meet the Author: Mark Waid, held yesterday at the Chamber. His presence at SWF 09 is somewhat belated; he was supposed to join other comics writers Gail Simone and Kurt Busiek at the last SWF in 2007, but unfortunately he couldn’t make it at the very [...]

Meet the Author: Wena Poon

I spent the day at The Arts House at various panels, one of which was the Meet the Author: Wena Poon at the Blue Room! I was with Sarah, (the other) Raven and Nerwen.

A bit more on Wena from her profile on the SWF website:

Wena Poon (Singapore/United States)

Born and raised in [...]

Houston, We Have A Problem

I’m having some technical difficulties with the site. Well, that’s putting it mildly; I broke my blog and I don’t even know how.

Until I figure out what went wrong and how to fix it, the blog will be using the default theme. I know it looks very barebones, but please bear with me until I [...]

Singapore Writers Festival Opening

My feet are killing me, but I had a good time at the Singapore Writers Festival Opening!

I was invited because I’m one of the MLs for the Singapore chapter of Nanowrimo, so today I went down to The Arts House! Nanowrimo represent! Also, I got to feel all literary and posh.

[NaNoWriMo] Kick-Off and Book Launch

It’s that time of year again! This year, we’ll be merging the NaNoWriMo kickoff party with a book launch. :D

Happiness at the End of the World is a collection of short stories written by a few people who did NaNoWriMo last year, and will be on sale at the [...]