I almost forgot that I promised my colleagues I'm going to get them karipap for breakfast.
Good news is, there are lots of karipap.
Bad news, they're out of karipap sardine 😢
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Hi this is your colleague, I dont mind other types of karipap la thank you hahahahahah
We've finished the karipap kentang that inbought. Still good.
I love karipap oksigen. Energises the body, reinvigorates the soul and revitalises the member.
Just F.Y.I, we have Mandarin communities set up. Do participate if you would like to converse in Mandarin for a bit.
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Lost my wired earphones, gonna need to buy new earphones now. Cheek feeling hot talking on the phone for almost 50 mins. I miss the old sony 30 ringgit earphones. Think theyve discontinued it uhuk
Stephen King's "The Shining"
I'm only 40% through, and man it's such an uncomfortable read at certain parts. His stories have some expected horror stuff, but the most scary horrors are the problems in ourselves.
Alcholism, bad temper, accidentally hurting the child and immediately regretting, regrets for bad life choices, uncertainty in the future, job insecurity...
It's like many problems you read hits a bit personally because there's everyone has a bit these problems. And the fear in the reading is not "oh shit a severed head" but it's a really personal reflection "shit am I like that; will I be like that?"
@unhedged ah yes, and famously written during his addiction years too - it feels so personal because it was :(
Damn, no wonder he can articulate these dark thoughts so well.
@unhedged ya, a lot of people speculate (i think he also confirmed a bit), a lot of The Shining was him working out how he could see he was also being a destructive force on his family. I think the fact was picked up by Kubrick, but his rendition of that, King famously hated.
Why are you tagging imaginelizard?
I've read several of King's newer books and they seem to lack the oomph of his older stories. I wonder if his addiction-pickled brain writes better. Ya bad thought- maybe it's not correlated to addiction but it's age related.
@unhedged Alamak, it was auto-tagged on my end (as the creator of the thread). And lol, you're basically saying conventional wisdom about his output tbh. The sober era one i like most is really his non-fiction On Writing.
i like most is really his non-fiction On Writing.
Oh I'll have to get to that. I have the audiobook, but I've been avoiding most of his self-narrated books because he's not that good at reading haha. Not really bad at reading, just that his reading makes me sleepy. Which is very bad because my reading room is actually my car.
Which other fiction writers do you like? For now i'm in a rut of Stephen King and science fiction
@unhedged these days I'm in too much trying to catch up on nonfiction and longreads, so fiction dah lama not read anything current. That I even read King is a surprise because I'm a chicken with horror.
My choices quite common I think: Terry Pratchett for sure, but he's really a guy whose worldview really became nuanced the longer he went on that it's almost a crime to say start with the early books in discworld, but they're good to set the stage and also to see how the world developed (it's a very loose series so you can really dive in and out). The other one is CS Forester - he does the Horatio Hornblower books and it's really the worldview of a white British man who came of age before the British empire ended so it can be very rah-rah. But in the 1930s he's got a good gig writing for Hollywood so his novels really go very fast - the Crichton of his time lol. I want to get into contemporary science fiction but i get really impatient with what they think is important and what i think (lol) but that said, Ted Chiang and his short stories are sooooo berhantu - his high-concept stories always stick in my head.
Oh thanks for the recs!
On SF, you might like Arthur C Clarke's short stories. His novels are quite great, but his short stories are where the gems are. Best example is "The Star", which the full text is easily found online. This kind of goosebump-raising stories.
The guy that wrote The Martian had a new-ish book called Project Hail Mary. That is stupendously good. It's a bit movie like in the pacing, humour and concepts (perfect for an adaptation), but the plot is fantastic, level of detail is well balanced, twist is AMAZING, character development is quite good. His other one about the moon not as good though.
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I wasted my entire blood donation because I didn't eat enough beforehand and the nurse had to stop the donation halfway through. Felt like a total idiot and embarrassment in front of everyone who donated without a hitch
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Hihi. Not using my Leddit username here but going back and forth for now.
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Taylor Swift Eras Tour (Singapore) tickets sale registration opens today at noon till 28/6.
This is not the ticket sale; this is registration so you can log in to buy tickets on 7/7 noon.
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Double-checking for you guys on Lemmy: you can also see who upvoted right? It federates into a like on the microblog side.
I don't think we can see who upvote and downvote tho, else i'd love to see who's the serial downvoter lol if it happened here
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Queueing up to REGISTER to buy Taylor Swift concert tickets. This is just a taste of what's to come.
The bar is 350 pixels long. In 14 minutes, my progress was 18 minutes. Assuming linear progress on the bar, I expect to do it in...
350 px / 18px * 14 minutes = 272 minutes = 4.5 hours...
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