My first book was ADOI! (a collection of satirical essays and cartoons published by Times Books International, 1989), followed by MOTH BALLS (scatological and eschatological poems published by Magick River, 1994), and TWO CATFISH IN THE SAME HOLE (annotated and illustrated Malay sayings published by Times Books International, 2001).

Most recent work: TANAH TUJUH ~ Close Encounters with the Temuan Mythos (published in March 2007 by www.silverfishbooks.com, Kuala Lumpur).

Reviewed theatre and arts events for various national newspapers from 1984-1992 and have since written dance, music and book reviews and features for websites and magazines. My reviews are archived at http://www.kakiseni.com.

Essays and random musings at http://www.magickriver.net/wordfile.htm

For more detailed bio: http://www.magickriver.net/antaresbio.htm

My passion is ...

The Muse

I know too much about ...

The Matrix

My parents always told me ...

I should be a lawyer! Aaaaargh!

My childhood ambition ...

To be Santa Claus or Superman

My favorite memory ...

Frenchkissing Annie

Why I write ...

Better words than turds when one is full of __it!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

The River's Neverending Song

My first job ...

Hacking it in an ad agency

My best moment ...

NOW!

My inspiration ...

LIFE!

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Resubmit: GOOGLE'S A REAL GIGGLE (especially if you happen to be the 26th richest human on earth!)

Legend has it that the Google name itself was a misspelling of Googol (a nonsense word meaning 10 to the power of 100, coined in 1920 by 9-year-old Milton Sirotta, when asked by his mathematician uncle, Edward Kasner, to think of a way of expressing an unimaginably long series of zeroes after an integer).

Two computer science students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, became obsessed with the problem of trawling through rapidly increasing masses of documents to retrieve...

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