daohnelee

I’m an editor and writer. I love reading and music, art and films. A big fan of travel. Wish to see more of south-east and east Asia. Adore cats. Coffee is my friend. Yes to Cocktails, esp dirty martinis. I live in Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia and mail to the Western world takes a while to get there. Please be patient!

I listen to all kinds of genres, but music on repeat tends to be by: Bowie, Bach, Mozart, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Suede, The Beatles, Joni Mitchell, Epik High and BTS.

I love the books of Barbara Pym, Elizabeth Bowen, Elizabeth David, Noel Streatfeild and Rumer Godden; AS Byatt, Alice Munro, Hiromi Kawakami, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joan Didion, Chinua Achebe and Sefi Atta. I also like the poets John Keats, Elizabeth Bishop, Cummings, Li Bai, Basho, Christina Rossetti, Rilke and Carol Ann Duffy.

My all-time favourite books: Persuasion by Jane Austen; On Pilgrimage by Jennifer Lash; Possession by A.S. Byatt; The Mozart Season by Virginia Euwer Wolff; Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; Strange Weather in Tokyo by Hiromi Kawakami; Nonnonba by Mizuki Shigeru; Hexwood by Diana Wynne Jones; A Room with a View by EM Forster; A Degree of Mastery: A Journey Through Book Arts Apprenticeship by Annie Tremmel Wilcox; The Flambards Trilogy by KM Peyton; The Stolen Lake by Joan Aiken, etc

The Exorcist; Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967); The Women (1939); The Philadelphia Story; Mermaids; The Sound of Music; Gigi; The Insider; Arrival; The Long Day Closes; Wit; Stranger Than Fiction; When Harry Met Sally; Adam's Rib; Notorious; Indiscreet, Star Wars 4, 5, 6 (for sentimental reasons), etc

The West Wing; Olive Kitteridge; Newsroom; Romance is a Bonus Book; The Temperature of Love; Star Trek: Voyager; Star Trek: TNG; Star Trek: DS9; Babylon 5; 30 Rock; Seinfeld; Sex and the City (for nostalgia); Insecure; Fleabag; Brideshead Revisited (with Jeremy Irons) etc

I like to make collage art. And I am a very sloppy but enthusiastic miniaturist.

Raoul Dufy Matisse Walasse Ting Ibrahim Hussein Latiff Mohidin Yee I-Lann Hossein Enas Arthur S. Siowou David Hockney Yayoi Kusama Monica Barengo John William Waterhouse John Everett Millais Neil Curtis Laura Stoddart Mary Fedden

I like postcards with

famous art

cats

paintings of women

black and white photos of cities

black and white photo portraits

Japanese woodblock prints

still life, especially food illustrations