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Domestic Discoveries

Posted in Art/Culture, Home/Garden, Life, Nature/Animals, tagged Art, cats, cats art, cats at home, cats illustrations, pets, vintage cats art, vintage cats paintings on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »

cats at home vintage paintings

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Sunlit Animals

Posted in Art/Culture, Health/Spirit, Inspiration, Nature/Animals, tagged animal and sun illustration, animal illustration, animals and sun collage, crab, crab illustration, lamb, lamb illustration, sun illustration on August 27, 2022| Leave a Comment »

animal and sun illustration

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Colors

Posted in Art/Culture, Life, tagged Art, gift bag, illustration, peacock, peacock art, peacock illustration, wedding, wedding gift bag on August 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

peacock wedding gift bag

A lovely wedding gift bag.

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Blue and White

Posted in Art/Culture, Inspiration, tagged aesthetics, blue and white, blue and white collage, blue and white teacup, colors, sea, ship, teacup on May 27, 2022| 4 Comments »

blue and white collage

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The Pineapple Trail

Posted in Art/Culture, Film/Books, Malay, Malaysia, tagged book, fiction, Malaysia, Malaysia novel, multicultural fiction, novel, Sharifah novel, the pineapple trail, The Pineapple Trail Sharifah Hamzah, writing on February 28, 2022| 7 Comments »

the pineapple trail sharifah

Recently, I published my novel The Pineapple Trail on Amazon. I feel pleased and grateful that I have achieved this long-held dream.

This blog has been an important part of the journey towards this goal. So thank you to all my blogger friends, fellow bloggers and readers for being part of that journey. ( Thanks also to Goodreads friends for sharing their reading recommendations and insights.)

Here’s a description of the novel:

Two sisters, Safia and Nora, grow up in a town in Malaysia where the pineapple is king, where the fruit’s factory and plantation provide livelihood for the residents. As young women, they start their adulthood at the factory.

Nora is happy to stay in her hometown with all that it offers. Charming and bubbly, Nora has many suitors. Will she make the right choice?

For Safia, the older sister, a chance encounter with a glamorous woman unveils a side of her that she never knew existed. She leaves home to follow the lure of a bigger dream. Alone in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur, through her timidity, Safia loses the drive to seek her goal. Then she meets an ambitious young man who revives that dream. At a time when the city is brimming with new opportunities and new wealth, can they pool their yearnings and achieve all that they want?

The sisters tread life’s journey through expectations, unfulfilled dreams, joys and resolve. This is the story of their pineapple trail.

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Cat’s Day

Posted in Art/Culture, Health/Spirit, Home/Garden, Nature/Animals, tagged cat, feline, National Cat Day, pet, retro cats illustrations, victorian cats collage on October 29, 2021| Leave a Comment »

antique cat collage

Today is National Cat Day. In celebration of the animal that is both lovable – babyish in its charm; also mysterious – having preserved some of the instincts of its wild big cat ancestry.

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