Finished with "To Kill a Mockingbird" last friday.
I shan't rave about this book the way I rave madly about Sex and the City.
Rather..this book, in all its simplicity, frankness and innocence...simply wows me.
There are no thrilling scenes. No ghosts, no mysteries, no murders and no psychopaths to keep you enthralled.
Instead, everything is written the way the situations in the book unfold. It is written just as it is.
Simple everyday scenes from going to school, to playing with your mates, to arguing with your dad...
Yet, each incident or circumstance..has an underlying meaning and perhaps profound lesson to be learnt.
Morals and values are questioned.
Harsh facts of life are presented.
Different facets of conventions and societal norms are explored.
The way the characters are written, makes you question yourself and the people around you.
You can see a little of each of the characters in either yourself or that somebody next to you.
As you read, you can find yourself feeling like how they would.
Little wonder the book was used as a Literature text.
Not too sure if it's still used now though.
A good read. Couldn't peel my eyes off it for long.
Funny thing is...Enigma bought the same book! Coincidence...
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Have embarked on the book Ah Lian lent me.
Probably the only story book she's gotten for a long long time. haha...
Said she was inspired by me...and decided to get one.
"Empress Orchid" by Anchee Min.
A tale, told in 1st person.
Of a girl's life...from poverty...to being chosen as a concubine..to finally being an Empress and ruling China.
The intricate narratives and descriptions of the court officials, eunuchs, the Forbidden City itself...
Of the Majesties, of the mythologies, and of life in China in the 19th century...
Paints an interesting scene in your mind.
You can almost picture yourself as a spectator on the bylines, watching a scene unfolding before you.
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Chee Kam called today...
Surprise surprise... haha...he found my blog...!!
He asked me about it and I went like "Har? How you know??"
Nah, lemme rephrease that...it was like..."Har? How you know???????????????????"
Hahaa...guess the Internet ain't such a vast porous space afterall. =p
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It is dumb to hold a briefing at 7pm, after working hours. I had to trudge down to OMB from work.
It is dumber to arrange refreshments and let people eat and only start the briefing at 715pm.
It is downright dumb to arrange a briefing at 7pm.., I repeat, after working hours...when the briefing is only 15mins long!!!!!!!
And it is outrageously stupid of me...to have gone there at all.
Should have just gotten the self-explanatory slides from them.
Argh.
The gargantuan frustrations of the working world.
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