Daniel
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- Petaling Jaya, Selangor, MY
- Last Login: 11/29/2008
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- Status: Swinger
- Here for: Networking, Dating, Friends
- Hometown: Petaling Jaya
- Ethnicity: Asian
- Religion: Christian - other
- Zodiac Sign: Taurus
- Children: No Answer
- Smoke / Drink: N/A / N/A
- Education: Grad / professional school
- Occupation: Writer & Researcher
- Income: No Answer
Schools
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University of Glamorgan
- Pontypridd, United Kingdom
- Graduated: 1996
- Student status: Alumni
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Major: Law
1993 to 1996
Blurbs
About me:
I'm a freelance writer, editor and legal/humanities researcher. While I'm happy to write about anything, my favourite areas are censorship, freedom of expresson, law in Malaysia, and other bits and bobs (including some fiction). Check out my blog, the Potted Plot.
Every third Wednesday of the month, I have a column on employment in the Sun newspaper. Some of my work is also available at at my Deviant Art project. Unfortunately, my Deviant Art has not been updated in awhile.
Recently, I was invited to contributed to Global Voices Advocacy, a project under Global Voices Online. I also have done two pieces for Index on Censorship.
My first book is out now. It's called "Fraser's Hill Haunts", part of the Get Spooked! series by Marshall Cavendish. I'm writing under the pseudonym 'Shadowtrails'. You can read more about it and/or purchase it here. Or just buy it from Amazon here.
My first piece of fiction was published online by Doorknobs & Bodypaint, a short short fiction website. It's in Issue #44, under Cairo Room, entitled "Breathing Safely".
Who I'd like to meet:
Looking to meet anyone who needs a researcher, especially a legal researcher. Anyone interested in hiring a writer or editor is also welcome to contact me.
Click here to go to my employment and labour rights community project. Contributors are welcome!
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Interests
General
Legal, business, social, political and historial research, writing, publishing (and related legal issues), reading, swimming, working out, RPM, Flow Yoga, my dogs, animals, travl, computers, technology and sleeping.
Also:
Music
Recent purchases:
- Sash! - The Best Of
- Katy Perry - One of the Boys
- Sugababes - Catfights & Spotlights
- The B-52s - Juliet of the Spirits (single)
- Bjork - Dull Flame of the Desire (single)
- Madonna - Give It To Me Remixes (single)
- Yazoo - Nobody's Diary Remixes (single)
- Yazoo - Only Yazoo
I like Pop Music, Bjork, Madonna, Bananarama, Depeche Mode, the Sugababes, Siobhan Fahey, the B-52's, the Voice of the Beehive and last but definitely not the least, Beethoven.
Movies
Recently watched....- Ghost House - Awful
- The Orphanage - Pretty Good
- Pulse 2 - Awful
- Max Payne - Oh. so. disapointing.
- Prom Night - Oh. so. slow. moving.
- Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian - Enjoyed it! Much better than the first one!
- Mama Mia - definitely worth watching & singing along to. Pierce Brosnan and Meryl Streep can't sing though!
- Journey to the Center of the Earth - alright in a kiddy adventure way
- Get Smart - pretty entertaining!
- Indiana Jones & the Crystal Skull - entertaining in the same vein as its forebears.
- Midnight Meat Train - Intense! One of the better horror movies in recent years.
- Mirrors - Pretty good, but where is God in this movie?
- Hellboy II: the Golden Army - Entertaining, like a fairy story!
- The Dark Knight - Excellent!
- Mummy 3: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor - Dis-Ap-Point-Ing
- Wanted - Alright in a style-over-substance movie
- You Don't Mess With Zohan - Nonsensical fun, loved the kicks!
- The Ruins - intense & gross, if you like that kind of thing.
- The X-Files: I Want To Believe - Good movie, and quiet follow-up to the over-the-top first one. I enjoyed this.
- Sex & The City - Darker than the series, but less breadth. Alright in terms of catching up with the ladies, but aside from that...
- Doomsday - Entertaining, esp if you're into blood & splatter
- The Oxford Murders - Very Good!
- Superhero Movie - Enjoyable, better than Meet The Spartans
- Forbidden Kingdom - Not bad, in a cartoony way
- Shutter (Hollywood) - Not as bad as critics make out
- Water Horse - Alright
- The Other Boleyn Girl - Loved it!
- Beowolf - Amazing! Am astounded by Neil Gaiman's genius!
- Wind Chill - watched through sleepy eyes, good premise, reasonable scares
- Iron Man - awesome, highly recommended!
- Sweeney Todd, Demon Barber of Fleet Street - cool but the blood was So Fake!
- Meet The Spartans - Fun, in a silly way
- Latter Days - Good movie! Don't usually like love stories but this was excellent!
- Shutter (Thailand) - not too bad
- One Missed Call (Hollywood)- the ending saved it
- P2 - Excellent excellent excellent!
- The Eye - let's put it this way, Hollywood shouldn't have done this remake
- Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam - let's put it this way, Hollywood won't be in a rush to remake this movie
- The Deaths of Ian Stone - slightly disappointed, but better than the usual fare
- The Mist - Above average, but draggy in parts
- Enchanted - Enjoyable
- Another Gay Movie - Good fun! But prepared to be grossed out with the 'Belgian Cholocate' part!
- Skinwalkers - Oh So Disappointing, but for the eye candy...
- The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising - What in the world did they do to the plot???!!?
- Invisible Target - Would have been an excellent but it was overly long and in need of a lot of editing
- Perfect Stranger - Above average
- The Simpsons Movie - Good Fun!!
- Confessions of Pain - Excellent!!
- I Am Legend - disappointing
- Rob Zombie's Halloween - Excellent!
- Shoot 'Em Up - Good Fun
- AVP:R - lousy story, better than AVP, cool hybrid alien
- Stardust - excellent
- Dragon Wars - bitter disappointment
- Transformers - good
- 30 Days of Night - excellent
Television
Watched in 2008....- Sex & the City (Seasons 1-6) - rewatch, excellent!
- Supernatural (Seasons 1-3) - overall very entertaining!
- Damages - cannot not watch this!
Books
Current reading list
Non-Fiction..
- General Principles of the Malaysian Legal System - Rau & Kumar
- Malaysian Company Law - Chan & Koh
- The 10-Day MBA - Steven Silbiger
- Your Rights & The Law - Teo Say Eng
- The Secret Teachings of Jesus - Marvin W Meyer
- ..Debt Recovery - Fairweather & Border..
- ..The Corporate Blogging Book - Debbie Weil..
- ..Where is God when it hurts? - Philip Yancey..
- ..How To Write A Business Plan - Brian Finch..
- ..Handbook for Bloggers & Cyber Dissidents - Reporters Without Borders..
- ..How To Be Useful - Megan Hustad..
- ..Blogging & the Democratization of Malaysia - Jun-E Tan & Zawawi Ibrahim ..
- ..Instant Expert: The Malaysian Media - Sonia Randhawa..
- ..The Art of Column Writing - Suzette Martinez Standring..
Fiction..
- MirrorMask - Neil Gaiman & Dave McKean
- Ludmila's Broken English - DBC Pierre
- Fanny Hill or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - John Cleland
- ..30 Days of Night - Steve Niles & Ben Templeshmith..
- ..The ABC Murders - Agatha Christie..
- ..The MouseTrap & Other Plays - Agatha Christie..
- ..Necroscope - Brian Lumley (re-read)..
- ..Necroscope II: Wamphyri - Brian Lumley (re-read)..
- ..Necroscope III: The Source - Brian Lumley (re-read)..
- ..Necroscope IV: Deadspeak - Brian Lumley (re-read)..
- ..Necroscope V: Deadspawn - Brian Lumley (re-read)..
- ..Blood Lines - Tanya Huff..
- ..Necroscope : The Touch - Brian Lumley..
- ..Father Brown Stories - GK Chesterton..
- ..Blood Pact - Tanya Huff..
- ..100 Ghastly Ghost Stories - Various..
- ..Interworld - Neil Gaiman & Michael Reaves..
Latest Blog Entries
- Fri, Nov 14 14:37P Grumpy & I don’t know why
- Fri, Nov 07 07:08A Bad Bad Naughty Daniel
- Sun, Nov 02 00:15A Mama Mia!
- Sun, Oct 26 14:20P Catfights and Spotlights? Really?
- Sun, Oct 12 19:57P Depressed animals
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