Second Honeymoon by Joanna Trollope

It's hard to leave your safety cocoon but coming back after you have left the very house that you've grown up in proves even harder in this book.

The title is kinda soapy. Misleading in a way.

This novel is about what happen to parents (mothers particularly) when their kids grew up and leave the house. Kids looking forward to it but found life is not always rosy and how coming back to the very place you grew up in, somehow doesnt give you the same comfort or peace you craving for. How life was so much simpler then.

Rosa the second child lose her job
p112 Losing a job through retrench(even if you hate the job), when you are faced with rejection, in whatever situation and however deserved or undeserved, it wasnt just your confidence that suffered, it was your faith in the future, your ability to see that any effort you might make could be a tiny investment in what would happen to you there after; how pointless daily life seems when you cant see where you're going

When Ben the youngest child has to sleep on his parent's sofa
p355 ... the strangeness of the sofa didnt belong to the actual sofa: it belonged to the situation

My favourite
p149 It's like presents - the way people give you what they want to give you. It's a sort of conditional generosity

It was an okay read for me. It wasnt what I expected from the cover title.

p166 'You've become responsible forever, for what you have tamed'. Hmm... something to think about.

Remember Me

It was the evening of hubby's 40th birthday. We had birthday lunch earlier at Madam Kwan's in KLCC. Dinner was a function hosted by hubby's company where I had too much caffein hence the sleepless condition and I took out this VCD. Cried buckets. I tend to agree with the quotes from the movie. Would like to make it my mantra, if possible.



Whatever you do in life will be
insignificant
but it is very
important that you do it
because

You can't know

You can't ever really know the
meaning of your life

And you don't need to
Just know that your life has a meaning

Every life has a meaning
whether it lasts one hundred years or
one hundred seconds

Every life and every death
changes the world in its own way

Ghandi knew this.

He knew his life would mean something to someone,somewhere, somehow.
And he knew with as much certainty that hecould never know that meaning

He understood that enjoying life
should be of much greater concern
then understanding it.

And so do I.

You can't know

So don't take it for granted
But don't take it too seriously

Don't postpone what you want
Don't leave anything misunderstood
Make sure the people you care about know
Make sure they know how you really feel

Because just like that

IT COULD END

Some things will never change

By posting this pic, I'm showing off and owning to my hard to kick off obssesion of buying books even though I still have many unread titles in my possession.

My family was on our return trip from our hometown where I managed to persuade hubby to make a stop (a detour is more like it) to my favourite bookstore which I can never seem to get the route. BookAccess (the name of the store) is having it's Christmas sale and tell me who in their right mind can just ignore all these great and affordable books?

Well, maybe someone who already has about 24 (yet to read) books lol ... but that someone is not me :D

And now my list has added up to 28 yet to be read books that I own. Yup this is a disease. One that make you lose all sense of reasoning, what-so-ever. Hmm ... I thought only shoes and handbags can do that to you.

Through the Fire by Chaka Khan

Today is the first day of 2011. It started with Yasmin and Hadi engagement ceremony. It was sweet and simple and everybody had a good time, not to mention good food. Yasmin is hubby's eldest niece.

To the new engaged couple Yasmin & Hadi 'congratulation' and may this day be a start to many, many happy and meaningful occassions.

This is a beautiful song by Chaka Khan, I think it makes a good couple song too. *hint* I'm dedicating it to everyone.

Happy 2011.

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