Rebecca (Becky) Ilham

🖋Author of Perempuan Paling Sunyi & Perempuan Nan Berlari. 24x marathoner. To 🏃🏻 FM in all 🇯🇵 prefectures (Current: 14/46). Literature is my magic shop ✨️

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Marathon No. 24 ✅️
14th marathon in Japan ✅️
(Only 32 more marathons to go 😂)

No double FM this time, esok banyak meeting 📝

#FuyuMarathon2024

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Marathon No. 25 ✅️
1st marathon as a veteran ✅️
10 years since Marathon No. 1 ✅️
#KLSCM2025

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

@nasubijutsu Ohh I see!

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

@nasubijutsu this (book of) translation of yours is gorgeous 😍 Couldn't help comparing the thickness with the other translation 😅

[Nick Bradley @nasubijutsu]

What better day to let the cat out of the bag than International Cat Day? This is my new translation of I AM A CAT by Natsume Sōseki for Vintage Classics, with a special translator's note and introduction. Comes out September 4th. Available to pre-order meow 😼😻🙀

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

@nasubijutsu Nick! Congratulations! I never managed to finish one of the existing translations so I'm looking forward to yours. The cover is gorgeous! 😻

[Unseen Japan @UnseenJapanSite]

On X, Masaki Nobushiro posts a recurring (and useful) drawing about how people wrongly think a 1m tsunami is a cresting wave when it's actually a wall of water filled with dangerous and deadly debris that's strong enough to sweep up a car.

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Anyone's here been to past Korea Open (badminton)? Do you mind sharing photos of the event site during the tournament? I.e., the booth, posters, camaraderie etc.

@theone_xyz can help getting this out? Thanks in advance!

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

They said they were developing you but when you stepped up, they crushed you out.

[UCI Track Cycling @UCI_Track]

🔥 A finish for the history books! 🤩

Muhammad Sahrom 🇲🇾 left everyone at the edge of their seats with a powerful sprint to the win on the Men’s Keirin 🤯 

#TrackCycling

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

The right book will open for your at the right time.

[由仁アリン Arin Yuni @Arin_Yumi]

Ever wondered who hates who in Japan?

In a 2020 survey by J-Town, each prefecture was asked which prefecture they disliked the most:

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

I said translators because I was truly impressed by Towards Eternity by Anton Hur:

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Currently reading The Extinction of Irena Rey @jenniferlcroft!

I love prose written by poets and now I can say I adore original works written by translators! It is not just the way she "manipulates" the language but also the plot and the gist of the story. Mind-bending.

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

With that said - I like Kokoro for the harsh life lessons (or wisdom) it imparts. Imagine rejecting the world to as a way to absolve your unproven guilt. What a burden to carry and I do wish Sensei reached out sooner instead of hokding everything in himself.

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Reading Kalbu (the Malay translation of Kokoro) by Natsume Soseki is a challenge in patience and focus. It is essentially a bildungsroman, similar to Sanshiro and Botchan, two Soseki's works that I enjoyed so much. Yet, while the other two are faster-paced, plot wise, Kalbu...

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

...progresses gradually with long-winding sentences that seem to avoid the heart of the story. In a way, Kalbu is more similar to I Am a Cat, which I put on an indefinite break halfway into it. Yet, I couldn't help feeling Sensei is the matured, more tragic version of Cat's Owner

[The_Bearded_Dr_Sina @the_beardedsina]

This is the best Down syndrome awareness video I have ever seen

Amazing 👏👏👏

[Z 🇲🇾💎 @theone_xyz2]

Arif Junaidi/Yap Roy King 🇲🇾 won against Mohammad Ahsan/Hendra Setiawan 🇮🇩

21-13
21-14

It's for sure an honour for ArifKing to have a fight with the legends & to be their last opponent 🙏🏻

This is the last tournament for the daddies before they retire.

#IndonesiaMasters2025

[Rebecca (Becky) Ilham @beckyilham]

Currently reading Tikus. A very very much easier entry into WNA's world. An alternative, futuristic "Malaysia" should Japan did not lose the WW2 and we remained colonized.