* Travel * Writing * Singing * Politics * 19th/20th Century History * Books * Culture and Interpretation * Animals * Water * Music * People ( I like meeting them) * Galleries, gigs, readings, events etc
* All time favorites - Nina Simone * Jeff Buckley * Ryan Adams * Sheila On 7 * Iwan Fals * Chet Baker * Bill Evans * S M Salim * Keith Jarret - now listening to Malay ballads * J-Pop * andThe Maccabees - I like to keep it eclectic.
* City of God * Midnight Express * Brazil * M Butterfly * Harvey * Spirited Away * Educating Rita * Wrestling Ernest Hemingway * Paris When It Sizzles * Oldboy * 9 Naga * Sympathy for Mr Vengeance
* Orwell's Down & Out In Paris and London * Ishiguro's Remains of the Day * Graham Greene's The End Of The Affair * Burnt-Out Case * The Heart Of The Matter * Burgess' Earthly Powers * Kierkegaard's Prose * JTHM * Berendt's Midnight In The Garden of Good & Evil * Bukowski's Prose * Shakespeare's Hamlet * Czeslaw Milosz's Poetry * Wind in the Willows. Currently reading Anouar Majid and looking for books on Malaysian history.