I went to Oriole Cafe for Sunday brunch today.
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This is not a post on my freight forwarder preference. It is about relationship preference in the TV shoes I watch, and books I read. The term shipping is commonly used in fandom to refer to relationship between two characters. If you need explanation on what fandom is, perhaps you should stop reading this entry….
No, this is not a post on relationships. Go somewhere else if you are expecting to read about enslavement. I am talking about professing commitment to something. For example, professing you are a reader, a runner, a doctor, an intellectual, pro-choice, anti-war, anti-government … something. Do you really know what you are committing to? Are…
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This autobiography lends a sneak peek into Winterson’s childhood and psyche. Through her lyrical prose she recollects the specific incidents in her past that befuddled her, killed her, and rebirthed her. Even though these incidents are piteous, she…
The Help by Kathryn Stockett My rating: 5 of 5 stars Set in Jackson, Mississippi in the 1960s, the tale is told through the perspective of 3 people- Aibileen, Minny and Skeeter. Aibileen and Minny are black domestic helps to rich white women, while Skeeter is an unmarried white woman living with her mother. Skeeter…
A small update of my New Year’s Resolution. Based on my Nike+GPS running app, I have ran 19.12 km so far in 2012.
In bidding 2011 goodbye today, we welcome a new year. 2011 has been an interesting and exciting year of changes for me. I finally left school and started working. I landed a job that makes me happy by allowing me to pursue what I love- books and reading. All in all, my life is pretty…
I visited the Logos Hope Floating Book Fair with some of my colleagues over the Christmas break.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky My rating: 5 of 5 stars After reading this book, I understand why it’s almost permanently on hold at the library. This novel is written in letters told from Charlie’s point of view of his one year in high school. It’s more than just a coming-of-age…
Coming-of-age road-trip movies are always fun to watch, especially when it involves dork boys trying to become men (think American Pie) . In The Inbetweeners, the 4 main characters Will, Simon, Jay, and Neil spend two weeks in Malia, Crete after their A Levels. Their trip was not without hiccups – plane delays, paltry accommodation…
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