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Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
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0052hrs..
Every moment mattered. 

"They took up too much space. That was the problem with men. It wasn't just the leg sprawl and the clumping down the stairs. It was the constant demand for attention. Sit in a room with another woman and you could think. Men had that little flashing light on top of their heads. Hello. It's me. I'm still here."
From a book I read a long time ago, and I can't remember which book that was.

haha True, not true?

0122hrs..
I am so bored, I am facebook stalking my brother's girlfriend/ girl- friend. During dinner, I happened to see this weird baby picture on his phone wallpaper, and when I accidentally pressed a button, it went to his sms inbox, and every msg was from the same girl. Anyway, she is boring.

Speaking of which, some of my colleagues have been facebook stalking me, all in good fun. These two guys, a German and a Sri Lankan, were evidently very bored (like me tonight), so they decided to search me on FB. They came in the next day, giving me really cheerful high-fives, bought me a cake and said it is my birthday. Eventually, everyone else thought that it was my birthday. It was all part of their bid to do a random thing a day. Their next plan is to send hair product samples to my botak boss. haha can't wait for that.

I am currently trying to finish Anna Karenin by Leo Tolstoy. But it seems impossible. It has been at least 6 months since I started and I am currently only at chapter 7. That's only about 50 out of maybe 500 pages.

She is Anna Karenin, but up till where I have left off in the book, she still has not been mentioned, I still don't know who she is.

After which, I plan to finish War and Peace, also by Tolstoy. No idea what the book is about, but it sounds like one of those long ambitious books that you have to read at least once in your life. It probably falls under the category which also houses Homer's Iliad. Maybe I should read Iliad too, I am always so confused about Greek and Roman myths and history. I am not sure which character is Roman or Greek and if they were actually factual characters. People of that era seem to look alike and all wear the same thing.

I want to go on a holiday. I want to just get on a plane and fly to wherever that is cold. Humidity really ruins my skin.

1645hrs..
Rules:
* Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
* Turn to page 57.
* Find the fifth sentence.
* Post that sentence along with these instructions in a note to your wall, and post your sentence in a comment here as well. Include the title of book and author.


My book:

"In the same vein, our casual judgments are based on the extent to which an event is representative of the process that generated it."

from Social Cognition by Ziva Kunda

0104hr

She's got a new haircut. It looks like moss on stone, yet she still managed to pull it off. And that's Cruz trying to be the dark knight. Cute, but I would never allow my kid to go out in any ridiculous looking costume, unless its Halloween. Who does he think he is, Bruce Wayne? And she is totally using her son as an accessory, look at the colour combi. haha

Then again, I won't be having any children. The child birth video I watched in Laura's lecture was traumatizing enough, I can't imagine the real thing.

Anyway, I recently found out that German actually sounds like Yiddish. Its a Jewish language. But its written in Hebrew. Like for example, "What is your name" in German is "Wie heiβt du", and in Yiddish, its "Vi heystu". And "How old are you" is "Wie alt bist du" in German and "Vi alt bistu" in Yiddish!

Like how ironic right. Imagine during Hitler's time, and all the Jews probably thought if they speak their Yiddish, the Germans wouldn't understand what they are saying, when in fact they probably did, which could possibly have led to many of them getting captured earlier than if they had just kept quiet.

But the language originated from the German mountains, so I dunno.

I lost track of my thoughts.

2339hrs..

this has got to be the first book, other than textbook, i finished in a while. so i've decided to do a review for fun.

anyway, its about one of the seven deadly sins of course. but this book offers a different view to sloth. haha it tells you to embrace sloth and the benefits that comes with being slothful. it is almost like a book that teaches you how to sloth. there is also a interesting story on how sloth became one of the deadly sins. of course i wont type the whole thing when i have a camera. click to read.


and to make things appear MORE credible, the author included an Appendix. haha its like i insert an Appendix page in my assignment when i feel that i should have this piece of info somewhere in my essay, yet i dont quite know where it fits in. its like a "oh btw this looks like quite useful information too, so here you go". But i think Appendix usually have pretty random info.


read it. its inspirational. i find myself sleeping more now. its life changing as it promises to be.

Wasserstein, Wendy. Sloth: The Seven Deadly Sins. 1. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Neither Wendy nor Oxford can sue me now.

2157hrs..
"i'll kill you.and i'll kill your sons and i'll kill your mother and father and i'll kill your wife. i'll kill your f**king dog and your fu**king goldfish and i'll burn your house down and when it's stopped burning i'll come and shit on the rubble."

haha thats from the book i just finished. i think its the funniest line ever.

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