Eat, Pray, Love

The problem of watching such movie is the aftermath. I am now wondering what I am doing with my life. Is this what I really want to do? etc. You get the drift. But when the bill factors come in, the hope/questions quickly dashed away as if I never consider it before. *sigh*

One of the line I really like from the movie is when Elizabeth (played by Julia Roberts) narrated a story about this poor man who religiously prayed to a saint asking that his wish to win a lottery is being answered. He tirelessly pray everyday without fail until one day the saint appeared upon him and said 'My poor man - why don't you buy a ticket'? Ha!ha! How can you wish to win a lottery if you never buy any ticket? Classic.

And now ... I must go and get the book. Typical me.

Big Bad Wolf 2010

Last October's Big Bad Wolf (book sale) had me picking up books from my to read list which made me super duper happy. Nothing made me more happy than able to spend on my most favourite thing in this world b.o.o.k.s

I love Big Bad Wolf sale. Compare to last year, this time around the place was not too crowded because it was held in a huge space and the air con works! So you have room to browse and breathe. This time around I went alone and luckily I know how to get to the place. So no time curfew since no one was waiting for me. I bought a total of 16 books and spent only RM 126. Huge, huge savings! *grin*

The after math - my arms ached for about 3 days due to carrying all my precious cargo whilst browsing rows and rows of books but it was so worth it!

Now, if I only have the time and space to read and store all these books ...

Hey Soul Sister by Train

I'm enjoying this at the moment. If I hear the song on the way to the office, then half of the day colleagues will see or hear me humming the tune. Typical me. Too bad for them. But this is such a catchy tune. Enjoy!

Train - Hey, Soul Sister (Official Music Video). Watch more top selected videos about: How You Love Me Now, Hey Monday

Latest addition

Our short 4 days 3 nights getaway to Singapore brought about these additional magnets. I saw this pretty pink 'Kebaya' (traditional nyonya/malay outfit) magnet at KLIA just before boarding the plane. The magnet freak in me can't resist so I bought it.








This Betty Boo magnet was from Universal Studio Singapore. She's so cute and sexy. I had a tough time choosing this one many of her other versions. So these 2 made up the total of 112 on my over crowded fridge wall ^_^

Digital Fortress by Dan Brown

'Forgiveness was the only path to enlightenment'

Did Buddha said that? Anyways I got it from page 51 of the said book. The start of the book was promising. So I reached 50 over pages with no problem.

p55 Bergofsky Principle - every code is breakable

One of the reason I like reading DB's novel is when he mixed his fictions with facts and I get to learn something that makes me go wow or ooh I see or really??
Like this phrase "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" from Satires of Jurenal which literally translates to "Who will guard the guards" p169

Like this cute one from page 180; The world's 1st computer in Harvard Uni. had a moth landed on one of its circuit boards caused it to short out. Ever since that computer glitches is refer to as 'bugs'. See, now you know ^_^.

And on page 407, I learned about the origin of orange marmalade - how it came to be produce, quite unintentionally I might add.

Somewhere along the line on p300 or so I lose my patience towards the hopeless David Becker (a lead character). I found myself throwing my hands up in the air in exasperation.

Having read 2 of Dan Brown's more famous books, I sort of know whom my prime suspects are ie. who dun it but what kept me going was the reason it was done. The story has a good plot like how many times you read an explosive news in the paper or on the net and brushed it off as just rumours especially when there is no follow up on the story and in this book it turned out to be true and there was a cover up involve. Almost like the WikiLeaks ha!ha! Unfortunately, the main characters were too weak to my liking. They don't live up to their character profiles. But I enjoyed the story.
Without wax; me

Fly to the Sky vol. 4

I wrote about this group quite some time ago (say a year back) and the only song I knew then was Poison Ivy. I finally got hold of the album 9 days ago from Yes Asia. Needless to say that this is an old album. But I love every single tracks in it!

Still my favourite is PI so enjoy track number 4 -Poison Ivy.

Cuban Heels by Emily Barr

I read this book so soon after I was badly scarred by the previous book. Hoping to heal the wound but needless to say the wound is too deep or maybe this book was not strong enough.
It's single, white female type of story. You know, the kind that stole other's identity (even spouse) etc but chic...ly done. But my interest was not there. I didnt even take down any note which at one point made me feel guilty. Like punishing this book for mistake done by other book and not giving it a fair chance. But it's too late now to undo any of it.
Again like the previous book I struggled to finish this but thanks to a short weekend getaway to Penang, I finally able speed up my reading and the few final chapters were finished below a shady canopy overlooking the pool at Bayview Hotel, Penang.

Breakout by Swing Out Sister

When I switched the stereo this morning, this tune came on air. Oh how I love it.
It really perks up my Saturday morning. Oh I'm so stuck in 80s ^_^

Remember by Oh Hyun Ran

My interest in Korean drama started from this drama called Memories in Bali. That was three years ago. Yes, this is an old drama. I recently bumped into the drama whilst browsing the new HD channels and the haunting soundtrack came to haunt me again, like it did beforw. I love Oh Hyun Ran's vocal in this song and it match the love triangle storyline very well. The story was rather depressing actually and I hate the ending. But the song is good. Enjoy.

The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold

I bought the book because the author wrote Lovely Bones, which I haven't read but it was suppose to be good. She was likened to the female Edgar Allan Poe. The character killed her mom on the first page. So what went wrong?

It was a slow start for me and it stayed ... slow. Took me almost 2 months to finish. *deep deep sigh*

If there was any book that kill off my reading interest, this would be the ONE.

At the end, readers were suppose to come out with their own conclusion - I dont have any and I dont care!

Airplane by B.o.B

I'm enjoying this at the moment. So let's share the joy of music. Enjoy and have a good week ahead.

Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs

Shocking, twisted, gross, funny and full of bizarre characters. Too strange.

Everybody in the book was nuTs; to the the T!

I kept turning to the back page of the book to look at the author's picture (the book is labelled as memoir). But I cannot picture him as the real protagonist in the story. I had Kurt (the character from TV series Glee) came to the picture which to me fits the bill.

p174 - toilet bowl reading episode was eeww ... gross!
p191 - phlegm episode ... yucks!

The story was disturbing especially when you consider it was suppose to be based on a true account. Most of the time I can't make up my mind on whether to sympathise (usually my first impression) or to laugh out loud (mostly due to the way it was written)at their misfortune or turn of events. To be honest, I'm not prepared to consider any of the events stated in this book as true - some were just too strange and I dare say sick!
Nevertheless from time to time this saying kept creeping to my mind - fact is stranger than fiction. The fact that the book was totally weird and strange, it prompt me to consider that it may not be fiction too. This brought a stream of critiques from my book read group. Unbeknownst to me, there was already a heated debate out there on the said book and the possibility that the story was fabricated. Not to mention a law suit from people potrayed (I quote) harshly in the book.

Anyways I enjoyed the book ... fabricated or otherwise.

An everlasting love by Andy Gibb

My office is under renovation. So my team and I are cramped into this sound proof room which used to be an edit room. We will be here for the next two months or so. While everyone else is moved to another building, another 15 minutes away by car from our current location. Sometime when it is too cold we would shut the vault-like door to our room and the room would be dead silent except for our breathing. So we took turn to play whatever songs in our playlist to kill the silence. When I exhausted my 80 songs playlist, I turned to the radio and this song came up. I can't pull it off from my head ever since.

Long live the disco ^_^ Enjoy!

Private View by Jean McNeil

At the start of this book there were various cliche lines ie. a world of good, get a life to name a few. It was a very slow start for me which was expected.

'A life is what you accept to live. A life can be something very small, something very strange. A life can be anything' so says the book.

I had a tough time understanding the pronoun 'she' in this book. She who? Alex - Erica - Rachel? Who? And is Alex a girl or a guy? That's how confusing the writing is. There was no significant storyline so what am I suppose to look forward to? What? Urrgghh ... it was so frustrating!

Fortunately the pace seemed to pick up by page 157. Not the storyline but me, the reader.

On page 173, I found out about diagnoseyourself.com. It reminds me of a similar sympthom on my face - tingling, twiching just below my eyes, on my cheek = stress; but I found out about it in Merck's Manual.

p174, categories of love in Greek Thought:

agape - altruistic love

pragma - understanding that exists between a long established married couple

ludes - playful affection of children and between casual lover

storge - the love between siblings or people who have gone thru much together

eros - sexual passion

mania - obsession

This is a so-called intellectual book which I hate so much. My agony finally ended on June 22 and it took me 2 months later to blog about it.

From Europe to Turkey

My sisters in-law went to several places for vacation recently. And I got pretty neat collection of fridge magnets from them.

K Lin followed hubby on a self drive travel to several Europe countries and got me these










Whilst K Long went with a friend to Turkey and I got this one from her:



So its 110 and counting ...

The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve

This book ponders the question of how well can we ever really know another person, even our own spouse.

p141 "It was why Mattie slept so long, Kathryn thought, to postpone that awful moment of knowing".

I finished reading this book quite sometime ago, 2 months ago on June 8 to be exact. Some lines in this book did strike a chord especially about married couples.

p147 "We passed out of being in love to just loving"

p226 "If you never suspected someone, you never thought to suspect"

I had high expectation for this book which usually not a good sign; have I not learn from past mistakes? Sigh! Alas, the book doesnt deliver. I so wanted it to be more but it just didnt gave me the oommph that I thought it would. It started okay for me but the pace quickly died. Reading from some of the quotes placed here, I think you would more or less guess what's the book is all about. Anyways, you can read the book synopsis here.

Hats Off

I know, I know it's been ages since I write anything in my poor blog. Mean, mean me!
A lot has been happening, mostly work related -- boring! Not to mention hectic which left me too tired to on my superfast internet connection and ancient laptop without falling asleep first. So here I am about 3 weeks later.

My company had an annual dinner last Friday nite after a 3.5 hours of townhall and brainstorming session; nothing comes for free nowadays. We suppose to come with a hat. I had no time to dress up from the office and I grabbed a chef hat from the wardobe department since it matches my white blouse - yeah how creative. Anyways I was called Ratatouille the whole nite except once when someone mistaken me for a nurse! I took that as a compliment. I got plenty of orders as well since I was wearing a chef hat. Anyways it was a good fun. I didnt bring any camera with me except my phone so these were the only pics in it. Other interesting pics were in my colleague's camera. I cant wait to see the rest of the pics.

I sincerely hope I will be able to write more often. Have a good week everyone.

Thank you for the music - Amanda Seyfried

I remember singing this song with a group of friends during our pre-graduation concert. Like a pro, we were all over the place (pitch wise)lol. I like the way Amy Seyfried sang this. Enjoy.

Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Image via Wikipedia

This is an ebook which I had in my iphone. So I read it only when I dont have a physical book with me. Usually while waiting for food to arrive at the table during eat out.

The Tarzan version that I have has always been the Hollywood's. The 'book' has a more raw, wilder and self sacrificing Tarzan in it. Surprising a sad ending.

Taking Chance

I cried my eyes out watching this. It was so touching. It's about how a senior marine took an assignment to escort a fallen marine back to his home. True to the tagline of the trailer that this is a journey many don't see and I guess wouldn't want to witness.
But in a way I'm so glad they do this, I mean the respect, honor and the dignity thay gave to a fallen comrade. I even cried when searching and watching the trailer again.
This is so moving, pls do watch this movie starring Kevin Bacon it if you have the chance.

Eclipse

So the movie is finally out here in KL, 1 week later than it's opening in the States. And I happened to be on leave on a Friday. Ha!Ha! No honestly, I took the day off so I can go and collect my boys school report card which happened in the morning and I have the rest of the afternoon. Thinking the rest of movie goers are at school or at work, I dragged my boys to watch the movie with me. And boy, was I wrong. We were lucky to get good seats for three bcos the theatre was packed at 2:30 in the afternoon on a week day!

Would you believe it that people were actually clapping especially after certain anticipated scenes? My boys were baffled but I totally got it especially if you are a fan of the book ^_^ Jacob (wolf boy) is much cuter than Edward (vampire) in this but Edward has the bestest lines to woo Bella and of cos' the female audiences who went awww...
My favourite scene surprisingly was ... the graduation speech by Jessica which I thought was well said.

This is my favourite book of the saga and I'm very happy of the outcome and having said that I'm sure everyone knows that I'm bias with everything that has to do with Twilight. Oh well ..
Studio's had given the green light for the 4th book to be made into a movie or maybe two since the last book is quite thick. Meanwhile I'm ready for my second dose of the movie (ha!ha! only fans are mad enough like this) and this time with hubby.

Konnichiwa

Two weeks ago, hubby returned from the land of the rising sun - Japan, to visit the their car manufacturing plant. So I got these wonderful magnets ^_^ Arigato gozaimas hubby san. My favourite will have to be the sumo guys and the kimono girls. Beautiful.

105 and counting.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham

'Can't you stop going on about yourself for even a minute?'

Exactly how I felt about the main character. I know the story is about her but still ...

The book belongs to a colleague who lent it to another colleague and then to me whilst she herself hasn't read it yet.

It's about a 16 years old Tessa whom is dying and she has a list of things she wanted to do before she dies.

Echoing my earlier sentiment was Zoey (her best friend) on page 179: 'You go on and on about yourself, like you are the only one in the world with anything wrong. We're all in the same boat you know. We're born, we eat, we shit, we die. That's it.' Yup my sentiment exactly.
But of cos' Zoey said this to her best friend when she was high on progesterone hormone that caused her to be emotional without a cause.
'I'm pregnant', Zoey confessed on page 180 which I already suspected earlier. So that left me (alone) with my mean sentiment towards Tessa.

Fortunately, the book felt okay to me when Adam (Tessa soon to be boyfriend) appeared. I laughed at his antics towards her which to me was awww... sweet.

When her health starting to spiral down quickly, Tessa started leaving instructions to people around her in a form of writing. I know she's a teenager but why must her last instructions to her best friend, brother and boyfriend most of it was asking them to do the bad stuffs? What's wrong with doing good stuffs when you are alive? Won't you feel equally deprived of not being able to do good or great things in this world like others who had the chance to do so? Maybe its a teen thingy. Nevertheless the one to her dad made me cry.

P. 302 Instructions for Dad:


I dont want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's.
I want you to keep me at home until the funeral.
Pls can someone sit with me in case I get lonely?
I promise not to scare you.

If that got me to cry, her last mental note to her dad had me wailing.


'Dad, you played rounders with me even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collection bcos I wanted to know.
For hours, you sat in hospital and never not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should.
You gave up work for me, friends for me, 4 years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever.
You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said 'That's enough. Stop now'.


To me this is her wisen up. To finally acknowledged her dad. Her parent's were divorced. Her mother sort of ran away but she was around at the end but still couldn't take the pressure of dealing with a dying child. But I dont think the father knew bcos that was just a mental note from her. It would be nice if he knows she actually thought that way.

And I, finally warming up to her .

Still, what's wrong with doing right or good or say I love you when you still have the chance or time to do so? Especially to the one mattered most?

Seductive Poisons by Deborah Layton

Image via Wikipedia

A Jonestown Survivor's Story of Life and Death in the People's Temple.

This was a page turner for me. Started the book at about 9pm and finished it around 1am in the morning. It's a non fiction but the book is a classic example of how truth is often stranger than fiction. I can't believe how ignorant I was about the subject and am very glad I read the book.

At first I just couldn't understand how one can be so naive as to believe the power that the leader claimed he has but again this naive author/survivor was not the only one. Hundreds were already influenced by Reverend Jim Jones. And they were not a teenager like her. Many were scholars and educated people. I remembered how I got all jittery and nervous as Layton planned her escape and almost didnt make it. Unfortunately 918 others didn't, including her mother.

The Day Diana Died by Christopher P. Andersen

It was 11:57pm on Apr 14 and I heard Candle in the Wind by Sir Elton John on the radio. My thoughts automatically went to Princess Diana and a book which I happened to have but never read. So I went to rummage by precious book cupboard and found it. That's how I ended up reading the book.

I remembered the fateful night when I first heard the news. I was attending a farewell dinner for my unit's supervisor. It was just so surreal. I for one didnt want the news to be real. It completely changed the mood of the party I was attending.

I was in my teens when Diana became famous. Almost every girl in my circle of friends wanted to be her. Well at least, to have the same haircut as her. I did, for several years ^_^

Some of the information in the book were quite shocking and rather sad but was quite an eye opener for me. All I can say is 'gone too soon'. As a mother, I wished she had the chance to see her sons grew up.

Friends, Lovers & Chocolate by Alexander McCall Smith

Read this book in April but didnt get to write about it till now.

The story is about Isabel Dalhousie who is a philosopher and a part-time general editor of the Review of Applied Ethics - and this statement is repeated over & over again through out 277 pages!


I was intrigued to read more of the book not because of the moral and ethics struggle (not to mention lengthy elaboration) suffered by Isabel but mainly bcos she happened to fall 'in like' (in love would be unethical word for her to admit) with a younger man whom was an ex-boyfriend to her niece. She was in her early forties whilst he's in mid twenties.

I so wanted her to tackle that issue head on. Alas it didnt happen. So much for wishful thinking. All thru out the book I can't connect with the character and her feelings' issue until I realised that the author is a guy. Don't get me wrong. I'm not trying to be a gender-ist here. It's just my justification on why I can't understand Isabel's stand on her emotional issue. But I do understand that Mc Call has several books under the woman detective series. Maybe it's just me.

I wonder what's the chocolate in the title was all about bcos there were only a few lines about it. Cheese would have been a better choice.

Dear John - the movie

OMG. I was crying buckets and smiling silly as I watched this. It is so heart wrenching and sweet, all at the same time. Remind hubby and me of our three years long distance relationship. He in Tucson, Arizona and I'm in KL. Time when internet are things you found in IT labs, and I dont own any PC. Notebook was the thing for the rich people. LOL those were the days. So we rely on ... yes letters!!Hand written letters.

Ending was not really to my liking. Im not too sure about the ending in the book bcos I have not read it. But again I'm a sucker for romantics so the movie was quite alright for me. As of Channing Tatum in this movie ... I shall not say anything .. okay maybe just two words ..too cute :)

Fridge magnet - Buenos Aires & Brasil

Several of hubby's colleagues went to South America for company's incentive trip. And I got these from them which made it to number 99 and counting on my fridge. Arent they beautiful?

Movie week

It started last weekend.

Saturday - I decided to watch New Moon again so I bought the DVD with several other titles. Guess bcos I'm eagerly anticipating the 3rd movie from the Twilight saga - Eclipse, which will be out in theater somewhere in early July. Sigh, still a long way to go.
Verdict: I'm always bias when it come to anything Twilight, but to be fair the book New Moon is my least favourite in the series (no surprises there) but I enjoyed the movie more. Below is the trailer of my next must watch movie from the book -Eclipse


Sunday - The kids and I went to watched Iron Man 2 in theatre. Hubby bought us the tickets but we went on our own bcos he has to go outstation. My 8 year old boy last for about 35 minutes (well, until his popcorn finished) before he got restless. The movie felt longer that it really was. But I enjoyed watching Robert Downey Jr. He makes the Iron Man suit looks sexy ;)
Verdict: I like this better than Transformer 2. My 12 yr old son like the scenes whenever Iron Man has his partner to fight against or with. I gave it 3 out 5 stars.



Wednesday - I received 2 free passes for the premier of Letters to Juliet. Went to see it with hubby. My colleague predicted that my hubby will sleep halfway thru the movie but I assured her no bcos hubby only sleeps when it's an action (ie. James Bond), robot fighting (ie. Transformer), epic fiction (ie. LOTR) movies lol - go figure. And true enough, he didnt.
Verdict: Nothing spectacular about the movie but it was sweet (Hallmark channel kinda feel) and thanks to the italian fiance chef, the movie become quite funny with his trademark exclaimation 'win-win'. I'm actually looking forward to watch Amy Seyfried in Dear John (I have the dvd, yeah). I gave it 2.5 out 5 stars.



Friday - Again hubby is away. So we got the TV to ourselves. The kids and I decided to watch Avatar. Yup, we are the last people in the galaxy that hadnt watch it yet. I only wish we had caught it on 3D in theatre. My boys would have love it.
Verdict: Awesome. Enjoyed the whole 3 hours, with many pausing in between ie. to make hot drinks for my son and I, on the air-con in the kids room, tuck my sleepy youngest son to bed. 4/5 stars.



Now if only I can persuade hubby to watch it too.

Servant of the Bones by Anne Rice

PROLOGUE
I'm re-writing this. I cant believe what I wrote earlier vanished as soon as I wrote the end. As if some invisible force is angry at me for not having positive feedback of the book?? Okay, I'm being paranoid.

Azriel the main character doesnt convince me at all. I dont feel anything towards him except maybe a little when earlier he was burned in the boiling couldron .. and I'm already on page 208.

Lord knows how many times I want to quit, give up, raise the white flag .. when I read this book. It was such an agony. Everytime when I picked the book to continue where I left, it felt like a chore. A heavy one.

21 out of 26 chapters were about Azriel the ghost/spirit transforming himself into human like form over and over again. And everytime he does, there is this lengthy narration which seems to go on forever on every chapter. I just cant take it anymore!! And how this powerful spirit Azriel breezed thru his 21st century knowledge and surroundings, to me it felt like a cheap attempt by the author to trick her readers.

I'm desperate for the book to end. Ever since I picked up the book, I had finished two other books in between. That's how difficult it is for me to finish this one. I was praying for a small excitement in the plot to help me put a closure to this book. The excitement came in the last 3 chapters. Amen.

The moment I close the final page, it felt like a huge burden has finally been lift out of me. Such an agonizing journey and I lived to tell the tale.

T.H.E E.N.D

Retail Therapy 2 @ Book Xcess

Sometime ago I wrote about persuading hubby to visit this unknown bookstore (to me then) that I just found out about. Well, as you can see from the pic that I got him to drive me there, purchased several books and this store has now become my favourite bookstore in the entire country. All books are cheaper than anywhere plus these are all new books (not used) not did I mind before. How fabulous!! If not for the fact that I've gone to another book sale earleir (and feeling guilty of not reading them yet) I would have a shopping spree day. But the beauty of it, I dont have to wait for booksale and these books are going to remain cheap at all time, isnt it? So I can come back any time later. Gosh, I'm salivating just thinking about the store and all the books in it. Place is call Book Xcess at Amcorp Mall, PJ. I bragged about it in the office and 2 colleagues checked it out and agreed with me.

Now, if only I can get myself to drive there on my own.

Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson

This book is a typical case of me judging the book by its cover. Yes, I confess. I fell for the cover ...

So I'm being punished. The lead character Jane is so disappointing!!

Page 78 - I sooo want Jane to say/shout/scream 'GET OUT Hugh, get out of this room, get out out from my life ... or better still slap him ... for being a big a** jerk. Alas it didnt happen. She let him kissed her. Urgghhh!!! I have to stop reading just to calm myself. So I braced myself to face another assault.

But wait, in the next paragraph 'Jane suddenly remembered that Hugh was an actor. He's only acting that he still cares for her'. YESss!! That's me shouting. She finally wakes up. There's a light at the end of the tunnel for readers like me, who's hoping for a miracle to hopeless main character like Jane.

I'm already at chapter 29 - I don't understand on how a bright, independent, rich, young woman can waste hours and hours of precious time and tears being treated badly over and over again by a useless man - is beyond my comprehension.

Finally on page 165, Jane retaliate against her over-controlling mother. Hooray, double, triple hooray. I have to read the sentences out aloud just to convince myself she actually said those words. Now if she can keep the high spirit and use it against Hugh too.

So morale of the story. Yeah, you've guessed it. Dont judge the book by its cover or suffer the consequences like I did. And she's not even dark haired ...

The 13th year

Image by ladybugbkt via Flickr

Yesterday was our 13th wedding anniversary. We celebrated at this restaurant called Ozeki Tokyo Cuisine, right smack in the heart of KL. As the name suggest, it was a Japanese restaurant which was recommended by my husband former boss and friend. I was prepared to devour into the food and the lovely ambience when 15 minutes after we entered the restaurant we were joined by the place's frequent patron, my hubby's ex-boss and his wife. Or rather, they've asked us to join them. Since we had company so I didnt take any food picture, like I normally do, so there's none to show here. But eat I did.
It was a splendid lunch and we had a wonderful time. I also learnt several fancy dishes (to order, hopefully again) from these wonderful couple. And since they were VIPs so we received the same treatment as well ... lucky us ^_^

I received a handmade card from my youngest son which said 'Selamat Ulangtahun Perkawanan' (suppose to be spell Perkahwinan = Wedding). The wrong spelling has turned the greetings to Happy Friendship Anniversary instead which was quite appropriate for us actually. Both hubby and me were high school sweethearts and we met over 27 years ago. Gulp! gosh, we sounded ancient!! LOL

So here's to another 13 and more.

Is this love ...

It's 0830 am. It's raining and best of all, it's a Saturrdayyy!! I already had my morning coffee and Lisa Stansfield is playing on the radio. Can't get any better than this. Bliss.

Where have I been? No where. I just didnt log into my blog that just it. I've been sleeping early on week nites or reading or sleep while trying to read. And it goes without saying that weekends are just too short. For all you know, its already Sunday evening and I have to tune myself for work the next day. But one thing for sure, time does flies.

I've been dying to visit this bookstore I just found out about but trouble with me is that I'm bad in directions. Hubby got me a GPS but the KL map is so unreliable. It said turn right ... turn right ... and you are in the middle of a bridge highway. What right turn?? You want me to slam the car over the railing is it?? So I dont trust myself even with GPS. And I hate the calculating ... calculating message. Yeah, go ahead calculate! So I'm stuck unless hubby drives me there. Maybe I can try that this afternoon. The hubby persuasion ^_^

Tomorrow is our wedding anniversary. Hubby is taking me to this Japanese restaurant where I havent been before. Well for now the menu is japanese food unless we change our preference tomorrow. So we'll see.

So you are wondering, what's my post title all about eh? Bcos for now, I'm leaving you with .... are yoy ready for this? Is This Love by Whitesnake LOL. Ooohhh this is so 80's!! But they are the bestest. Dont hate me, I'm full of love today :D Have a good weekend everyone. Ta da

Download Free Full Songs!---------------------

Web of Deceit by Glenn Meade

This was a page turner for me. I started reading it at 8pm and would have finish it around 1:30am if not for the fact that I have to go to work the next morning. So I saved it for the day after.

This is my second spy genre in a row. Funny thing is, I don't fancy any of its characters which was pretty weird for me. The plot was intriguing at the beginning but began to wear off as the story reaches its end. When you already know who is who and which side they support (reminds me of the Bourne saga or X Files *gulp*), so that's when the story lose its appeal. But its quite alright since I already enjoyed the journey. It was a lot of twist that didnt make sense in the beginning as I was reading it bcos I kept questioning who was that? why etc and later decided to let it go and enjoy the story, which I did.

I'm actually in the midst of reading another thick novel which still doesnt show any sign of reaching its end, but I'm determine to finish it. So I'm going one chapter at a time ...

You Found Me by The Fray

Image via Wikipedia

This song 'found me'. It's not new but I'm only paying attention to it now and can't seem to get over it yet. It's been playing in my mind for several days now. I hate to suffer alone so I'm sharing the misery for all to share lol. Very intriguing lyrics. Do have a listen to it and dont say I didn't warn you ^_^

The Fray - You Found Me download at emp3

I found God on the corner of 1st and Amistad
Where the West was all but won
All alone, smoking his last cigarette
I said, "Where you been?" He said, "Ask anything"

Where were you when everything was falling apart?
All my days were spent by the telephone that never rang
And all I needed was a call that never came
To the corner of 1st and Amistad

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me

But in the end everyone ends up alone
Losing her, the only one who's ever known
Who I am, who I'm not and who I wanna be
No way to know how long she will be next to me

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me!

The early morning, the city breaks
And I've been calling for years and years and years and years
And you never left me no messages
You never sent me no letters
You got some kind of nerve taking all I want!

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor, where were you? Where were you?

Lost and insecure, you found me, you found me
Lying on the floor surrounded, surrounded
Why'd you have to wait? Where were you? Where were you?
Just a little late, you found me, you found me!

Why'd you have to wait to find me, to find me?