Five Years! and our Year in Review: 2014

2014 has been an overall quiet year for Suburban KID, largely due to the increased busyness of the entire team. Gregory, Matthew and yours truly have entered colleges/universities, while Siangling is due to join very soon. This simply meant a much busier year for all of us, myself especially (given that I've entered college from the start of this year), and even less time than before to squeeze out time for articles.

We've been so busy, in fact, that we even forgot this site's anniversary, which was yesterday! Then again, it hasn't been the first time, so admittedly we may just be bad at dates in general. At the very least, I am.

To be honest, I'm slightly surprised that SK is alive and well after 5 years in existence. Many commercial websites don't even last that long, but here we are still posting, albeit less frequently than last year. I do hope that we can keep it this way, if for nothing else, then at least for all of you who have been faithfully following this blog (and there's quite a number, if our stats indicate anything).

For a mini celebration, we'd like to continue doing our Year in Review as we have done last year, and bring you a selection of our best works of the year. There's a smaller pool to choose from this time round, but in my opinion, no where less great.



Oneiric Cognition

Gregory's fictional mini-series, which happens to be the first work(s) of fiction to be published on Suburban KID, has been relatively popular amongst our readers. It follows the life of Gio, a cross between a cyborg and human, with a similarly - and literally - conflicted brain. You can read the first chapter here, while the title link shows the full series.

The Sun Sets: How Jit Sin's Book Throwing Marks the End of an Era

All four of us on the SK team come from the same alma mater: Jit Sin High School of Bukit Mertajam. This year, something that we consider outrageous occurred in the school grounds under instructions of the school authorities; if dystopian novels have book burning, Jit Sin brings us book throwing. The online backlash that followed our highlighting of the incident meant that this has become SK's most popular post of the year.

Long Live Nolan: Why Inception Is The Best Movie of All Time / Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Interstellar Review

In an unexpected turn of events, I had the pleasure of reviewing two Nolan films back-to-back: first a look-back to Inception, my personal pick for the best film of all time, and the recently-released Interstellar. I won't spoil your read by giving details, but they are without doubt excellent films. If you haven't watched either one, or both, please do.


Our team wishes all readers a very merry Christmas, and a happy 2015 ahead.