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![[Book Review] Year of the Tiger by David Miller - Alvinology](https://alvinology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/9478394461_61ca166927_o.jpg "[Book Review] Year of the Tiger by David Miller")
[Book Review] Year of the Tiger by David Miller
David Miller is a former Straits Times journalist and I got to knew him while he was working…
![[Book Review] Uncle John's 24 Karat Gold Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers' Institute - Alvinology](https://alvinology.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/7050957667_db68abddfa.jpg "[Book Review] Uncle John's 24 Karat Gold Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers' Institute")
[Book Review] Uncle John’s 24 Karat Gold Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers’ Institute
I picked up this brilliantly titled book, Uncle John’s 24 Karat Gold Bathroom Reader by the Bathroom Readers’ Institute…
Lianhe Wanbao and omy.sg launch Fong Fei Fei commemorative multimedia e-book《告别凤飞飞》for free download worldwide
Plugging this for omy.sg and Lianhe Wanbao. The press releases in both English and Chinese are available below:…
高橋美起 (Takahashi Miki) 陪你來吃丼飯 Cookbook
Rachel and I bought this Chinese-translated Japanese cookbook,高橋美起陪你來吃丼飯 that boasts of many recipes for 30minutes, easy-to-cook, delicious meals.…
Alvinology Awards 2011
Hello 2012 and goodbye 2011! Following past years tradition in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010, my first blog post in 2012 will be…
Book Review: William Dalrymple’s Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India
William Dalrymple, is an multiple award winning historian and travel writer. He has lived in New Delhi, India…
Book Reviews: Tom Plate’s conversations with Lee Kuan Yew and Mahathir Mohamad
I just completed reading American Professor Tom Plate’s two books under his “Giants of Asia” series, Conversations with…
Alvinology in the Singapore Book of Records: First Wedding On Board An Airplane
I saw this a few weeks back at a local bookstore: Rachel and I got ourselves listed in…
Mahathir Mohamad vs Lee Kuan Yew (with Donald Rumsfeld in the middle)
Spotted at a bookstore in Singapore: Don’t the picture looks nice and world-peace-like with all them smiling so…
Bakuman。 (バクマン。)
Bakuman。 (バクマン。) is a a shōnen manga written by Tsugumi Ohba (大場 つぐみ) and illustrated by Takeshi Obata…