It's my off day today. Thought of sleeping late, but woke up before 8 anyway. Surfed the net for a while, check some mails, half way reading an on line novel while listening to Jay Chou when the line got cut off. Yeah, I forgot to pay my bills. Lazy actually. So, got myself off the bed, showered and went out.
Settled some banking stuffs and the bill, and I was off to shop! Destination number one: book store number one. Destination number two: book store number two. Destination number three: book store number three. Haha! It was such a great day! Told myself that I'm gonna splurge on books today, and today only. Screw the budgets and savings, forget about the trees and the earth, just for one day. Oh, and the book stores were, in sequence, BookXcess, Kinokuniya and MPH.
So, books that I bought today are: Today Matters by John C. Maxwell (The irony is, at the back of the book cover, there is this one line: 'Manage your money- every day, instead of letting it manage you'. Well, I was thinking, 'if I bought you, my dear book, I'm letting the money to manage me'. And I bought it anyway.), Thinking for A Change by John C. Maxwell (Because of the title of another book, What Got You Here Won't Get You There. Or something like that. So, it's simple isn't it. You've got to change! And I like John C. Maxwell. But seriously, I don't know him at all, other than the fact that he is a bestselling author of like a million books. And Shona likes him too.), Everyday Greatness by Reader's Digest and Covey (I just love Stephen Covey, him and his 7 habits), Eragon by Christopher Paolini (I've been meaning to buy this for ages!! Read it back in high school. It was a library book. Got the second and third book, Eldest and Brisingr, but never got around to collect the first book as well. Finally!), The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (It has great reviews.), Life is Like a Sailboat by John Grogan (One of my favourite authors! It's actually a collection of his articles. See, he wrote for the newspapers previously.), Your Money and Your Brain by Jason Zweig (Simply want to understand my money and my brain.), The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern (Plan to buy this for a long long time! It's on The List. And hard cover no less!), The Power by Rhonda Byrne (I've been eyeing it even before it was out in the market! Bless the MPH for it's Christmas Pick! 30% off!), Blink, The Tipping Point and Outliers by Malcom Gladwell (It was for these three books that I went all the way to Kinokuniya. Vaguely remembered that they had value pack for these three books, but I guess it's either I remembered wrongly, or they no longer have it. Got them in MPH in the end.) So, these are all the books that I bought today!
I'm getting better at utilizing the public transport. Got around the whole day by bus and LRT. Totally proud of myself.
Love Kinokuniya so so much! Love the vast collection of books, the unparalleled variety, the soft lighting, the wooden floor, the soothing classical music, the pullover sweaters and the aprons on the nerdy staffs, everything. Had a sudden urge to work there, seriously. Since I couldn't find the books that I was after, I went round the store. Wondered into areas that I've never been to before (because they never tempted me to) like Performing Arts and Comic. Saw a bunch of Japanese school kids in their light blue uniforms and knee-high black stockings, chattering away in Japanese. For a split second I wanted to learn Japanese. Then I decided that I'm gonna head home and write a blog.
It was raining on my way back. A Korean girl sat beside me in the bus. The sky was palely grey. The colours were muted through the curtain of rain. People were having either their handphones or their MP3 players in their hands. I had my book. =)
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