Comments Round-Up

Today, I’d like to share some highlights from comments that were posted on Fusion View in the few weeks before Xmas.

First, thanks to jennifer for her Christmas wishes. Happy New Year to you, jennifer - and also to all Fusion View readers and visitors.

Thanks also to everyone who added comments and emailed me following the feature in StarMag about this blog, in particular to julie yee, say lee, senghooi, lmsell and bibliobibuli. Bibliobibuli discussed the question of reading habits in Malaysia, prompted by my Book Lovers Poll - the current results of the poll show that of 47 people who voted, the majority (46.8%) read more than 40 books a year. 23.4% read between 2 and 10 books a year. The remaining number of voters read between 10-40 books a year. The poll isn’t very scientific of course but I like to infer from it that Fusion View readers are generally pretty literate, genuine book lovers!

We also got a query from sonia , another British resident in France who is keen to make malt loaf and doesn’t know where to get malt extract. Can anyone help? Sonia, I wonder if you might have to get it by mail order eg from Fortnum & Mason or one of those stores that deliver overseas.

Returning to the literary theme, pey and burhanuddin have added some more background information on Yiyun Li, the award-winning short story writer from mainland China. Silvia shares her experiences of writing in numerous languages and how German helps her hide her emotions and how she finds herself expressing her thoughts naturally in three different languages!

On mind and body matters, frank fernandis picked up on my post on painful feet awhile back and notes the lack of support for women with bound feet while andrew and tera ponder on how we can learn from water, in response to the film of a bursting water ballon.

And there is always the subject of food on Fusion View - yeeton advises us to to boycott bad restaurants in response to my post on the concept of “heong”.