Category Archives: Books

The Two-year Mountain

Posted on August 13, 2018 by jipp

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 … Continue reading →

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My Journey to The Middle Earth

Posted on March 11, 2017 by jipp

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 … Continue reading →

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Across Many Mountains

Posted on November 22, 2015 by jipp

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 … Continue reading →

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People of The Land

Posted on November 20, 2015 by jipp

I’ve always been an avid reader of Air Asia’s in-flight magazine Travel 3Sixty. This article they featured on November 2015 issue is one of the best so far – narrating the experience of the magazine’s editorial visit to Tebedu near … Continue reading →

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Across Many Mountains

Posted on October 4, 2015 by jipp

It was winter of 1959, the same year the Dalai Lama went into exile and the prophecy made by Padmasambhava, the founder of Tibetan Buddhism, was being fulfilled in a terrible way. This ostensibly 1,200-year-old prophecy says: “When the iron … Continue reading →

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