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Back: The General, The Doctor, The Assistant Cartographer, The Machinist, The Cook, The Captain.
Middle: The Chief Cartographer & Expedition Financier.
Front: The Army Casulty, The Thug Who Got Lucky.
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On Halloween Friday, Faith and I took the money we raised for Habitat for Humanity and brought it to the Kuching affiliate office. 

The grand total you awesome people raised for my HfH Birthday Fund is a cool RM500. You know how much you all rock, right? You rock a lot! Thanks for your generous donations, and feel free to steal this idea for a good cause of your choice!

Like Faith, who stole this idea as a way of celebrating her boss’s birthday. She and her colleagues mustered up RM515.83 for HfH!

So that day, the HfH fund got richer by RM1,015.83!

That’s easily the best birthday month ever. :-D

 

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Rose Au, President of Habitat Malaysia’s National Board of Trustees, strolled into my office this morning with a visiting group in tow. While an editor briefed the group on how a newspaper works, she grabbed a chair and filled me in with a number of upcoming projects and what’s going on HfH-wise in West Malaysia.

 

This is where I have to announce that I’ve offered to reorganise the Kuching affiliate blog. It’s still a work in progress. I still have a bunch of information and photos to process, and I need to establish a system that allows some contributor or co-maintainer(s) action. 

The first thing I realised is that I’m gonna have to read up on HfH for real now, not just enough information to gloss through an article or tell friends about.

Anyway, there’s a lot of backlogged stuff and a lot of interesting upcoming stuff, so it’s probably a good time to add that blog to your RSS reader!

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Happy Nanowrimo to those of you who are playing!

James Heneghan - The Grave
 Madeleine L’Engle - A Wrinkle in Time
  Madeleine L’Engle - An Acceptable Time
John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
EL Konigsburg - The View from Saturday
Robert C. O’Brien - Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH

Yvonne Lee - Vanity Drive
Franchelle Ashton - NZ Customs & Etiquette
Graham McEune - Upcountry
Gurmit Singh KS* - Beyond Me & Mine
Paul Leslie Smith - Rainforest Tears - A Borneo Story

 The upper half is todays haul from Book Castle. The lower half are my review copies from Marshall Cavendish.

Surprisingly enough, I didn’t buy any more books since my last post. I was wading slowly through Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22″ and John Evangelist Walsh’s “Midnight Dreary - The Mysterious Death of Edgar Allen Poe”… doing the multi-booking thing I’ve heard about. As I suspected, it was hard for anything else to hold a candle to Garth Nix’s Abhorsen Trilogy.

Right now, I’ve abandoned Yossarian and Poe for “Vanity Drive” and “Upcountry”, both proving to be quite entertaining and hilarious.

What are you reading?

* Not the Pua Chu Kang Gurmit Singh.

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