Reading Material

I have always been fascinated by biography. I have read quite a few. But they were the obvious ones. Even Gary Neville's. A couple of months back, Robert Kuok's biography came into the market. But getting my hands on a copy was almost impossible.

Luckily one of my patients got one with him and after some coaxing agreed to loan it out for me to read. Looks like I would be getting my teeth into it in the coming weeks.

Truth be told, I am more of a digital guy. I listen to books rather than read them from paper. If I have a Kindle copy, I would rather have that as well. Easier to carry around and I always had a copy of them in the cloud somewhere. But once in a while, I wouldn't mind having a paper version. Let's see ...

New Collection

I have always been interested in books. No, I was not a bookworm, and I am used to the idea of having books around me. When I was a student, I had always wished that the books I had with me to read would be on subjects they won't be asking in exams.

Now that the demand on the kind of material I had to consume by reading had lessened - I tended to take in new journals on my iPad - I thought I would rekindle that interest.

I plan to start collecting books - of the coffee-table kind for the new apartment. I would also have a shelf housing all the books. These would be the kinds full of pictures and covers my passion and interest.

New York, San Francisco, Paris, skyscrapers and old Malay houses in kampungs had always fascinated me. And on top of this all would be the history of Kuala Lumpur, the city I have called my home and where I would be raising my children.

A lot of people always had this idea that Kuala Lumpur was just a concrete jungle. Well, that was true because the people living there let it to. There were plenty to discover about Kuala Lumpur, its rich history and how it had flourished over the years. Unfortunately, these rich history would be eroded with the foreign migrant coming into Malaysia, from which the large majority reside in this beautiful city.

To start off the collection, I bought a nice skyscraper book from KLCC yesterday, to add on a collection of New York photo essay I picked up last week. It's gonna get exciting!!!

Full Morning

It was back to business thisbmorning after the short break to Melaka. Today would be the boys' last day at home. School starts tomorrow for them.

This morning, Anita and I did what other parents did, sorting out the fees, books and school uniforms. Most of them were already ready apart from a few of the books. Some of the books would only come in later in the week. Next it was the stationary.

We managed to get most of the stuff's sorted out by lunchtime. That included a quick trip to KLCC for the school bags. Luckily Anita had a driver who took us around the place. Things were done much quicker that way. Should be lunch next....

No Kino?

Puan Anita asked me to follow her shopping this evening and I duly obliged. Destination was Suria as she had to buy some stuff for the upcoming trip to Kelantan. As you know, ladies took their time while shopping and I was practically left to my own devices for almost a couple of hours. So, I spent some time at Kinokuniya.

The place was not like it used to be where one was free to browse the books. I loved looking at travel and architecture books. But all of them were covered in plastic films. Yes, you could ask the salesperson to unwrap them for you, but you'd end up with a dirty look and after a couple of unwraps, you'd soon get enough.

I finally had it after half an hour or so, and decided to look at the magazines instead. I do realise that the place was not exactly a library, but the fact that the books were all wrapped just put me off from getting interested.

Maybe I was just getting old .....