My heartfelt thanks to a very dear friend, Maristella Tagliaferro, for bringing SANDOKAN to my attention. The legendary author Emilio Salgari never set foot in Malaysia, but he’s written an awesome series about the fictional character Sandokan through sheer research that became very famous in Italy.

Rise at 5 AM. Spend that first hour on fitness, gratitude and reading. Here is the list of actions what I will be doing between 5 AM and 8 AM: […]

I started reading INSURGENT (Book 2) by Veronica Roth yesterday the moment I finished DIVERGENT. The second book of the dystopian Divergent series was great and just like the first book, it was hard to put down.

I’m glad the book picks up exactly where DIVERGENT ended […]

It has been a while I last read a novel within two days and DIVERGENT by Veronica Roth was hard to put down. I like the vulnerable yet strong Beatrice (Tris) and the intriguing Four of Dauntless. The plot is exciting and in the face of circumstances surrounding the protagonists, the choices one has to make is […]

I found a very useful article on Italki.com about using mind-mapping to improve one’s vocabulary and I immediately plan to put it to work for my Italian language self-learning.

Mind maps are not new to me, but the concept of using it to improve my vocabulary is new and interesting.