5 down..and a little over 30 more to go..

Well so during the duration of my bumming around, I managed to finish the Divergent trilogy. It was a good read, at least for the first and second book, by the time I got to the 3rd book, I thought it was a bit too draggy, uprising after another uprising and it gets tiring....like get on with the story already!! But still, overall a good read =) with a very unexpected ending. In comparison with Hunger Games Trilogy? Well I would say it is totally different..apart from the uprising part. In terms of storyline, I like Hunger Games better, it kept me on the edge wanting to read on until i finish the book; nonetheless, Divergent Trilogy was also entertaining. Reading a book is like watching a whole movie..just that instead of watching a movie for 2 hours it like "watching" a movie for a whole day. Took me 4 days to finish the series.

I can't believe I have so much books that I have yet to read...it's like how on earth am I suppose to finish reading all 30+ books? That's what happens when you are a hoarder. I just like to hoard books. I blame BB1M vouchers and cheap books. With the rate at which I'm reading, I think I don't have to buy books for the next 5 years or so...but how? Big Bad Wolf book sales are just too tempting...irresistible to the point it kick starts my kiasu-ness -.-'' Like i just gotta get them all *pokemon* hee hee    

Nerd mode on!

My book loot for 2014! 19 books for the price of RM 250! (well maybe extra RM 15) thanks to BB1M basically it's RM 15 for 19 books :p not bad.. 

Bought a lot of series this time round and finally found the series I've been looking for for a long time now: A series of unfortunate events by Lemony Snicket. Bought it for like RM 10/ book *gasp*

So, this is my stash:

- 5 x a series of unfortunate events

- 4 x daughters of the moon

- 3 x Divergent (trilogy) *heard its something like hunger games so I thought might as well give it a go.*

- 2 x Agatha Christie's mystery books *read quite a lot about her in fictional books so when I saw it, I thought why not give it a try*

- Good self, Bad self (self-help book)

- leading on a limp (another self-help book)

- Leap! ( yet another self-help book heheh)

- body language (always wanted to learn about this)

- Tuesdays with Morrie (read reviews that it is a good motivational book)

- the Family Way by Tony Parsons 

I've got way too much books to read now :D from my last year's stash from BB1M 2013 + books from the Big Bad Wolf Sale 2013. I don't have to touch my drama stash for a while now. Just stay in bed and read away! B)

Baking

Baking has taught me about patience + love. You really need to bake out of love and patience to produce these sweet decadents. Why baking has taught me patience? Well because baking requires a lot of attention to details, and in order for the final product to come out looking decent enough, well we need to have patience in decorating it. Doing the first 2 layers of deco is simple enough, but the whole cake? Well THAT takes patience. What about love? Yea you can't just bake something hastily, it's not gonna come out tasty nor decent looking, so if u wanna bake something nice, bake it out of love. Committing ur time and dedication to creating a final product that is perfect. One more thing that baking has taught me... Perseverance. I have still yet to master the skill of making macaroons! I've failed 3 times already! But I'm still gonna try to make it, til I get it right. Just you wait! I'm gonna dedicate a post just for my macaroons! 

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Something to take off my bucket list ^^ Skytrex - checked! 

Next on my list:

Bungee jumping 

Skydiving 

Ball orbing 

To sum up the week

It has been another eventful week, and I'm surprised that even when I'm not working, time pass super fast as well. 

This week's highlights:

- Played badminton after such a long time and finally get to meet up with my good old high school friends :)

- Collected my RM 250 book voucher!

Yes!! I can go book shopping again!! Fees my cravings for books and now that I have the time to read.. It's a plus :)

- Went to the biggest ever clothes buffet in Malaysia :) the experience was great, but maybe coz I'm late the pieces that I got aren't so happening. Should have gone on Saturday! The pieces are so nice! And my goodness.. I missed the blowout sale -.- RM 10/pcs sia.. Anyway, too busy on Saturdays to go anywhere anyways haha 

This is how it works:

Pay RM 60 and whatever you can stuff into the bag, well it's practically yours, as long as you don't burst the bag. So I manage to stuff 7 pcs in my bag, which makes it aprox. < RM 10/pc .. Not bad la! I got a nice LBD summore. 

Mother's day is coming! And well look at what the kids are preparing for the upcoming Mother's day in church! So cute la.. But these balls of energy can sometimes be a handful.. Yell until sore throat already. But it's nice to see kids clinging unto you saying "teacher teacher sit with me!" and they quarrel to "own" you. Hahaha I feel so wanted :p 

It's a massive number of kids this year coz well.. CCC is huge too. So yea it's a challenge, but i believe they can pull through :)

Yup! So that basically sums up my week. Next on the list: Skytrex!

Nostalgia over reference books

Went to the bookshop today to look for teaching materials. Browsing through the rows and rows of SPM reference books brings me back to the memories of my high school days. Boy do I miss them. Taking up each book (chemistry, mathematics, history) reminds me of the times where I sit in school and mugged the subject. Looking through the books, I wondered why didn't I study harder last time, there were some things in there that I have yet to fully grasp the logic/meaning of it. Standing there, I found myself trying to solve the questions in the book. I actually fought the urge to buy those thick thick SPM reference books. I still remember last time our bags were so heavy solely because of the reference book we bring around. I always thought that having a few reference book of different subjects were cool. It's as if it portrays the image of intellectual intelligence (though sometimes it may not be that way lol) but yes I miss those days where reference book, note books and exercise books are sprawled all over the table. It's a beautiful mess.. Really! When I came to Uni, there were no such things as text books anymore. Everything were slides and print-out notes. We don't carry books anymore, and studying became a last minute affair. Pros and cons really, but I definitely miss those days where people would ponteng class to study and I would still faithfully come to class to study or meeting up at the TTDI library to "study" because do we really study? But most of the time I would study alone in the library, that's my way of studying ;) except for the 1 or 2 rendezvous with Houyi and the gang. Ah.. Good old times.. Or maybe I'm just unable to let go of the past :/ 

Simple things

One thing about working in a location such as KL Sentral is that I get the opportunity to witness the simple things in life through the life of others; and thats not all, I get all the opportunity to make a difference in the society. 

As we all know, KL sentral is a disabled friendly train station. Every once in a while I see people who are blind trying to get their way across the station and one random person would just go up to the person to offer their assistance. There's still hope in this world you know? ;) this act of kindness deserves a candid shot, that moment is really beautiful. 

Just yesterday, after work, I was waiting for my dad to pick me up from the other side of the station, and thats when I saw this couple, both blind finding their way across the station. It's literally the blind leading the blind, with the guy holding the hand of the lady and leading her across the station. Just a blind couple passing through right? No biggie! But what caught my attention was that though they were blind, they were happy. I admit stalking them for a bit coz I was a little afraid to approach them to guide them to their destination as I feared my dad would be arriving any time soon. So I just followed them behind to make sure they were ok. And there the guy was, chatting happily to the girl, leading the way as if he had sight. Their conversation was light and cheerful and I really admired them. It was like happiness doesn't have to come on the form of money nor having a fully able body, they were contented and happy with each other's company, and no disability could stop them. I finally got the guts to ask them if they needed help when they knocked into someone coming in the entrance. And the guy happily told me: " it's ok! We just have to walk straight and we will reach our destination" and continued to happily chat with the lady he was leading. A lesson learnt indeed :)

Oh and one thing about working in a location as such? I get braver and braver each day to approach a disabled person to offer my assistance when I get the opportunity. I get braver too to offer up my seat to deserving people on the LRT. I usually shy away or pretend not to see as I was so cowardly in the past. But I'm glad to say that it's different now, and I'm glad to see fellow Malaysians doing the same too. Though not many, but still, there is hope lol

Faith in humanity restored!

I just witness the most beautiful thing while I was out groceries shopping in my neighborhood grocers. A lady paid for a small carton of milk for a little boy in front of her. I think the story went a little along the lines of the mother couldn't pay for the milk therefore forgoing the milk at the counter. Then the lady who was next in line, paid for the milk and gave it to the boy without the mother realizing. The mother was so shock on how he got the milk and came back to the shop thinking the boy took it without paying and asked if the milk was paid for. Well it was fully paid, and the little boy was already in the midst of finishing the milk. 

That little scene there brought a smile to my face. That out of the robberies, rape and violence out there, there is still some kindness to be witness every day. It doesn't have to be a large sum of money nor a huge packet of something; all it takes was a humble box of 250ml milk carton to be a blessing, to put a smile on not only the little boy's face, but to his mother, the cashier, mine and everyone else who witnessed it. Am truly touched to be able to witness such occurrence. 

I've always wanted to do something like that, but I thought I would never be able to do it because I thought if I were to do something like that, I would have to go to a grocer where majority of the people are poverty stricken. But today just proves to me that we can be a blessing anywhere and everywhere we are.