Wednesday, September 8, 2010 12:05 PM
highly literary, with occasional grammar slips
$30 to killin a bookshop.
i absolutely refuse to believe that one year had gone by. i am one day shy of finishing up my 21st year and i am not happy. i can't, for the love of my socks, recall how this year went by. but i did remember a certain 4th sept when i spent 3 hours in mph buying up my $30 worth of vouchers Group5 bestowed unto me on my birthday last year.
and boy oh boy, it pretty much sums up what i have been doing all these while.
i wanted to get my money's worth by using the vouchers for my lit texts; but blame the bookshop (or my friends, for buying vouchers from MPH and not borders or kino, which would be so much BETTER hahaha) for its inadequacies and tadah, i have $30 to spend on books i WANT to read.
i looked and looked but to no avail. i have absolutely no idea what i want, not need, to read. well, that was until i stumbled upon their classic literature section. there, i saw a glimpse of the library collection in Heaven. no seriously, it was classics to the day God comes. There was Rudyard Kipling (darned racist i hate to love), William Shakespeare (hmm, 'nuff said) and lo and behold, all-time favourite Jane Austen (victorian nut head).
and then i realised, all those journalism shizz and those investigative writing style have been rubbish. what i truly love is darned literature and i'm not going to sacrifice that for bullshit news stories or covering events!
it's fun to be a journalist and all. but i truly want to find the perfect blend that i can have between the literary and the current affairs. perhaps 8days, rather than Straits Times, is a better choice for me.
hur hur.
