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上週末心癢癢的拜訪世界書展。沒有出乎意料，又花了一大筆錢, 不敢去計算到底多少，這個月應該是吃草算了。

想想看，我這5年來的閲讀量減少很多很多，甚至于1年閲讀不到2本新書 （雜誌應該不算吧）。

看著那一大袋（是金石堂的購物袋哦！）書展扛回來的書，我深怕這一生中想閲讀的書都看不完。看來我要把他或她當成榜樣，尤其是她1年完成12本書的決議。

。。。把PSP拿去冷藏 *哭*

正在慢慢享受《等一個人咖啡》，不捨得一次過把它拼完。可是不知爲什麽，終把阿拓的樣子想成刀桑的樣子。我腦袋真沒禮貌！哈哈哈！

Made good use of the 25% discount coupon that came with pre-ordering HP&TDH and quickly bought these 2 since it’s expiring tmrw. I haven’kept up with Douglas Coupland since I still haven’t finished reading Microserfs. The Popular guy wouldn’t let me use the $10 off coupon on the 3rd book though. No matter, coz they didn’t have The Alchemist, well they did but I’m not paying $50.80 for a hard-cover, even if it is Paulo Coelho.

Not as good a read as I expected, and a rather too-tame storyline to expect from a male author.  Maybe I’ll get his “二房客” series instead.

That’s the 3rd I’ve finished this month, including HP n the Deathly Hallows (but this was more of a speed, rather leisure, read).  Nothing to be proud of though.  Still wondering about Mr Nine-Knives tho, as shir has confirmed that he is an un-put-down-able read…crap.

looks like cannot go online these few days, coz apparently HP and TDH kena leaked.  Now i’m starting to see “Harry Potter Spoilers” everywhere.  nabehz.

I finally managed to finish one book. OK la, a bit embarassing since i’ve already watched the drama on vcd, ermm, 5 times?

But it’s been a long long time since I have actually read and finished a novel, much less in chinese. to think I used to devour at least 2 books a month. must buck up again!

Waiting eagerly for HP and the Deathly Hallows, 9 more days to go! There’s a fun Book FAQ over at The Leaky Cauldron, offering nuggets like “There will be no Quidditch.” (of course Harry might not be going back to Hogwarts), “There is yet more to Petunia than we know” and much much more about Harry and his family and friends, a lot of which were confirmed (?) by JK Rowling would be revealed in Book 7. It looks like Book 7 is going to be heavy enough to knock Hagrid senseless. I wonder if i have time to review Half-Blood Prince again.

Still waiting for a chance to pick up the Shopaholic series again. I stopped at Shopaholic Abroad coz I lost patience with Becky’s dithering and dathering after just 2 books . Also waiting for a chance to pick up several Paulo Coelhos, finish up the Alexander series, the concluding book Time Odyssey trilogy, the 2 Alexander Besher book MIR and CHI, and several other novels and series that I left hanging.

And that’s only the English portion. I’m still looking forward to returning to 成品 next year when we go back to Taipei. I wonder how many kilograms of books and magazines will come back with me

12 hours later – got back home and snuck a look at my bookshelves.  

Forgot to add the George R  Martin epic,  A Song of Fire and Ice, which I’ve only finished 1.5 books so far, each being abt 900+ pages long.  paperbacks only, please.  Book 3 is sitting there looking pissed because I have yet to start on him, Book 4 has been out in the shops for 2 years, and Books 5,6 and 7 are forthcoming, so says Mr Martin on his website.

The Alexander trilogy is by Valerio Massimo Manfredi, of which so far I’ve only finished the 1st book, 2 years ago, over a period of 10days in Taipei with the mafia.  It’s a fascinating read, esp for history buffs.

i realised that i have purposely forgotten abt my long-awaited 九把刀, because i have an extremely strong suspicion that his books are un-put-down-able, ergo I cannot pick it up now when I am already running short of hours and sleep everyday.

still others like a 250-page discourse on actor Stephen Chow and the 星爺 effect, Paradise Lost in chinese (still unwrapped), my lao da’s 風景 (yes it’s mainly photos, but his thoughts are penned down, and I’d like to savour them slowly, even if I get laughed at for savouring words from the biggest taike in taiwan), 康’s opium and milk, ryu murakami’s 69.   And these are only the ones on the front part of the shelves.

The Books Warehouse Sale

just found this off the HWZ forums.  just how many book fairs do TPTB* have to place in my zero-income way???  geez… oh well, it’s some place to go over the holiday weekend, i guess.

note to self: hide all credit cards and ATM cards

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I saw this being linked from Boingboing.  I like the little dig, especially since I’m so very anti-ebook.

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I almost met Colin Cheong.  I even saw him in the flesh, less than 50m from where I stood lurked.  He is so cool.

I came across ads for the Asia Media Festival sometime early this week and saw the there was actually a bookclub in Singapore, and they were actually having a discussion on ‘The Stolen Child’ on Friday.  That being my favourite book by my favourite Singaporean author, I of course decided to go take a look.  Of course, being lazy, I decided not to read the book (since I have read it at least 5 times before) and I also decided not to find out where the Earshot Cafe was until the last minute. 

Yesterday, 3 hours before the meeting actually started, I find out that it’s located at The Arts House at the Old Parliament House.  So after a whole week of being jobless and thus decaying at home (I already said I’m lazy), I made my way to City Hall and to the unbelivably posh posh posh Arts House.  I then proceeded to gawk my way past all the valet parking guys, security guards and expensive restaurants, i found the Earshot only to lose my nerve when I saw Colin Cheong standing inside exchanging small talk, and it seemed that everybody knew everybody. 

Hanging around outside the place trying to build up my nerve to wlk in, I then proceeded to lose even more of it when I saw somebody who must have been Teo Chee Hean make his way with security and escorts into the place.  Several minutes later, I totally lost it when I saw a couple who looked dressed up for dinner at a $500-a-head dinner walk into the cafe and Colin Cheong enjoying a glass of wine, and so I strolled back to the MRT station, beating myself up mentally at the same time.

I am so chicken.  I almost met Colin Cheong.

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Updating The Bookmark today, I remembered something that happened on Monday. I was at Jurong Point, and spotted a magazine that someone on #mayday had recommended, so decided to get it for myself and my friends. I wanted 3 copies, but there were only 2 on the shelf. So I took the 2 to the counter and asked the girl if she had another copy. I don’t remember being really rude in any way, but she gave me a really dirty STARE, not even a look and used her index finger to point, 3 TIMES, to a spot behind me, indicating that the magz were kept there.
The shop is called TITLEWAVE, and it’s located on the third floor of Jurong Point. I have no qualms publicizing this, as that girl does not know what is called service!!! What makes it worse is that, I’ve interviewd for a position in that shop before, and the lady boss told me one of the qualities she was looking for in her salesgirls was FRIENDLINESS!!! Friendliness…too bad I’m not some good-looking dude, eh. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t begrudge that job position, the hours are too long anyway, but having been both in sales and consumer positions, I know what I want, and I deserve to get it!