Me

I am a bowerbird – I don’t collect brightly coloured objects but I do collect books (discarded or otherwise), old newspapers, factoids, minutiae, whatever. I keep a notebook and a scrapbook, and am always scribbling down facts and random bits of wisdom found (and thrash too).

I am a guzzler of books (if we don't have a term for that, let's coin one, or should it be booknivore?), which means I read voraciously – seven or eight books at any one time, hopping from one chapter to another, and skipping many pages in-between.

I am a self-inflicted insomniac (well, kind-of). I could have been a perfect taxi driver or a morgue-keeper. But I chose to be a researcher, book editor, journalist, farmer, traveler, and I once led a media conglomerate.

I am a reader first, a writer second.

And I will continue to read and write.

I have been writing simple stuff and difficult ones as well (difficult? Let’s say, serious scholarly materials, some of which are published in obscure journals and magazines that are less read). I want to share with you some of these materials – stuff that few would enjoy or like, and even fewer will finish reading.  

But as they say, the quality of a piece of writing is inversely proportional to the number of people reading it… so it must be really heavy stuff.

I want to share these writings, some in English, others in Bahasa Malaysia… trusting that you will stay with me and endure the torture.