After months of lazy reading, I finally managed to make it to the final page of The Two-Year Mountain, a book that I bought at Kinokuniya of KLCC for RM53.95. To tell the truth, I find it quite difficult for me to stay reading – not only this book but other books too – and my mind will start going to somewhere else if I’ve been on a book for more than, say, 15 minutes. In fact the only time…
Back at those times when Air Asia was not even anywhere in the picture of our aviation industry (in my country Malaysia), New Zealand felt like far far away and beyond reach. I remember somebody told me how he had to fork out some MYR7000 (around USD1500 by current exchange rate, probably around USD2000 back then) when he went to New Zealand and that was on the flight tickets alone. I couldn’t imagine myself coming to this country because well…
So, I have finally finished reading Across Many Mountains – a book based on the true story of a Tibetan family who had to leave their peaceful lives at a beautiful monastery in Tibet to flee the oppression inflicted upon them and the people of Tibet by the Chinese regime. The first few chapters of the book narrate mostly about the early life of Kunsang – from the day she was born until she was left orphaned at a very…