I Talk About
-
Recent Posts
- I Just Watched the Wham! Documentary
- I Worry I’ll Run Out of Stories
- When Was the First Time you Took a Flight?
- I Used To Have A Dream Job
- Something I Wrote on Medium. Hope you’ll read it there.
- Please Don’t Ask Me To Be Resilient
- Join Medium with my referral link – Shanti C K
- When I was diagnosed with cancer
- What a Trip to Siem Reap Taught Me
- Been Writing at Another Place but I’m still here too.
- My Niece Made Me So Happy Today
- Grateful for My Cousins
Copyright
Unless otherwise indicated, all photos featured on the blog were taken by me. All Rights Reserved Singapore Actually 2022Archives
Meta
Love Your Comments
- Janet on Plant Based: Who Knew it Could Be so Yummy
- bookjunkie on #18. Simple Joys: A Dragon Dance
- Uta Hannemann on #18. Simple Joys: A Dragon Dance
- bookjunkie on It’s Another New Year & I’m Feeling Hopeful
Tag Archives: writers
Best Books I’ve Read So Far in 2022
They are The Return by Hisham Matar, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie. I highly recommend all three. The first two have won the Pulitzer. These three books all happen to be memoirs or autobiographies. … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged authors, autobiographies, books, Frank McCourt, Hisham Matar, memoirs, Pulitzer, Salman Rushdie, writers
Leave a comment
Salman Rushdie’s Writing Routine & Mastery of the English Language
I’ve always been fascinated by the routines of people I admire. Especially what makes a writer tick. And since I’ve always been fascinated by the author Salman Rushdie I googled to find these gems. The great thing about the writing … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing, Books, Midlife Musings, Singapore Living
Tagged English, language, routine, Salman Rushdie, writers, writing
Leave a comment
Absolutely Transfixed by this Audiobook – Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
How I wished Salman Rushdie narrated the whole book and not just the prologue. I always desire to hear the story in the writer’s own voice. I am fascinated by his biography as I’m a great admirer of his genious. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing, Books
Tagged authors, biography, Joseph Anton, Life, Salman Rushdie, writers
Leave a comment
The Bravest Writer I’ve Met On WordPress – Janet
janetvdepression.com/ I’m so impressed at how Janet is so unafraid to unburden her heart and in doing so has helped me. She has made me count my own blessings. She has made me not feel so isolated in my own … Continue reading
Books I Love: Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt
I’m in the midst of the audio book brilliantly narrated by the author himself, but I long to read it as well, to really take it all in at leisure. No surprise that this is one of the best memoirs … Continue reading
Posted in Books
Tagged Angela’s ashes, authors, books, Life, Pulitzer, reading, writers
Leave a comment
Exercise & Writing Routines of Famous People
I am very keen on studying routines of famous successful and happy people and trying to emulate them. It’s so often that I start off the day with great intentions but end the day with the awful realization that I … Continue reading
The Perfect Day
At the end of the day, when I’m in bed and the lights are out, I realize once again, that I have not kept to good routines. For instance I haven’t exercised and was sedentary all day, didn’t touch a … Continue reading
Posted in Midlife Musings
Tagged book, day, exercise, floss, good, perfect day, read, routine, writers
3 Comments
Books Actually
When I named my other blog, I had no idea Books Actually existed. I named Singapore Actually after the movie Love Actually and the fact that Singaporeans love using that word – actually – usually slurred as act-cher-ly.Most importantly my … Continue reading
Posted in Singapore Living
Tagged Art, beautiful, beauty, blog, book shop, book store, books, Books Actually, culture, decor, design, Entertainment, hand crafted, happiness, Life, Living, local, name, personal, photography, photos, pretty, read, shops, Singapore, Singapore Actually, travel, vintage, writers, writing
8 Comments
My Favourite Writers and Books
Thanks so much to blogger whatsaysyou, who asked me about my favourite authors in the comments. I just loved the question and thought I’d put it in a post. Here’s what comes to mind right away: Yann Martel (The Life … Continue reading
Every Sunday
Every Sunday I tell myself that the next week will be different. I will start afresh on Monday. EVERY SUNDAY. Seriously. I feel like I am stuck in limbo and not moving forward. I have been stuck in limbo for … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged bad colleagues, bad people, blog, blogging, book, career, doormat, fear, habit, kindess, Life, Living, mean, mean coworkers, novel, office, perfectionist, personal, routine, self, self-pity, short story, story, Sunday, upset, wallow, work, writers, writing
13 Comments
Blog Tip of the Day: Key Words vs Clever Words
There was a time when I wondered what the heck SEO meant. I loathe technical jargon. It always puts me off. I’ve since found out it stands for Search Engine Optimization and it’s really important if you want more traffic … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged blog tip, blog tip of the day, blogging, clever title, clever words, creative, key words, learning, Search Engine Optimization, SEO, social media, techie, technical, traffic, WordPress, writers, writing
2 Comments
Writers’ Rooms
I felt like doing a post on the writers I am currently enthralled by, and I thought it would be fascinating to get a glimpse of the rooms where they produce their magic. A personal view of the rooms, where … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged authors, books, Charlotte Bronte, famous, home, inspiration, kurt vonnegut, Life, Paul Theroux, Peter Mayle, Rooms, V S Naipaul, writers, Writers' Rooms
6 Comments
Writing and Honesty
Lately I have become extremely self-conscious about blogging. It’s very hard to write honestly from the heart, because it leaves you feeling very exposed – almost naked. Sometimes I feel like deleting a whole post because it left me too … Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged authors, blogging, exposed, honesty, Paul Theroux, personal, travel, writers, writing
2 Comments
Do Writers Prefer Pen and Paper or a Laptop?
Salman Rushdie says he only started using the computer in 1995 but now mixes up long hand and editing on a computer. Do you work on a computer? Or in longhand? Well, I work on both. I do a lot … Continue reading
How Do Famous Writers Write?
Writing habits of Paul Theroux, Haruki Murakami, Salman Rushdie and Peter Mayle. Continue reading
Posted in Blogging & Writing
Tagged advice, authors, books, famous, Haruki Murakami, how to write, interview, Life, Paul Theroux, routine, writers, writing, writing style
Leave a comment