Reading

I've never gone this far in blogs before. I must confess that I have tried as many as three times to blog regularly - two of those times ended up deleted entirely; one of those times - this blog - has been left to rot for a little more than a year before it is revived. Hence, it is my great joy to declare that this is the 25th post of regular blogging!

Insanity aside, what I really wanted to write about here is my reading. I have taken up the task to fill my hours by going on the Internet reading manga, watching movies, writing my stories and reading books. It is then no wonder that my reading pace has dramatically slowed in recent times.

I used to marvel my reading speed, that I'd finish at the most two books in one week. Of course, those were books that I was really into then, the sort that the book-stores categorize as children's books. Anthony Horowitz, Garth Nix and Eoin Colfer are some of them. I do occasionally stray towards more promising best-sellers (Dan Brown should ring a bell) but these have, in my opinion, have few literary value to them.

Lately I've bought Kate Mosse's first two books, as well as Paulo Coelho's The Alchemist and Khaled Hosseini's celebrated books. I've only finished one of them and reading another, but I am doing so in hopes of prying myself from going backwards in my reading. I've read so few classics, both contemporary and old, that people would surely marvel at how my writing could ever reach such a level.

Then again, my writing isn't quite the bomb really, to use the contemporary colloquialism...

Anyway, I thought I should include a short note of my schedule, at least for today. I do actually have a couple of errands to run: I have to go down to the framework shop two collect the last two art-pieces for the new condo, as well as drop my application for the Diploma in Culinary Arts at KDU college. Before that, I'm hoping to go for a swim to get my aquatic stamina back, and maybe bake a fresh batch of Danish butter cookies for the extended family.

All's well will hopefully end well.