Days of Delirium

Never had I thought my short stint in the FSTEP training a year ago would result in wonderful friendship with some of the fellow participants there - six of them, to be exact.  Day in day out, they became my go-to places for lamenting, cracking up jokes or simply as lunch companions. After a solid one year, we can proudly say that we had always been there for each other through thick and thin, and the bond that we shared could neither be defined nor replaced. Thus, it would only be natural for us to be there when one of us 'put the ring on it'. Aside from Min who couldn't make it when her car broke down on the night before, the remaining four of us were there in Kampung Pengantin, Jalan Genting Klang to celebrate the wonderful union of Ezzaty and Heqme sometime in late February. Decked in pale yellow ensemble, the pair looked regal and exquisite as they walked down the aisle to the dais. At that point of time, I still couldn't believe that our sweet, ro...

Book #3 for 2012: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon As the title suggests, it all started when Christopher John Francis Boone saw his neighbour's dog was killed on one night.  Christopher, a 15-year-old boy with Asperger's syndrome, embarked on a solo mission to find out who impaled Wellington, the dog, with a pitchfork - a mission that not only solved the mystery but changed the way he perceived the people around him as well.  The story is narrated by Christopher himself and his condition with Asperger's syndrome played a large part in the storytelling. He uses logic and calculations to make his every decision, and whenever he faced difficulties in explaining he would illustrate them, through diagrams or charts. I don't really know how to explain this book because, well, it is so simple and direct-to-the-point. There's nothing much to be discussed or explored but to read it yourself. While Google Books, Amazo...

This post is long overdue but heck, whatever. The bag that I used for work was in a relatively bad shape after years of going through thick and thin, rainy and sunny day together with me. That black messenger bag by Guess did me lots of good things for four years and it still does, occasionally, but I decided that it's a high time to get a new one. ...because that's how I give myself a kick to jumpstart my mood of going to work (since I ' love'  my job so much). One afternoon, during my lunch break, I made a pilgrimage to Pavilion KL and scouted for a decent bag for work to replace the old one. After much deliberation (about the price and durability), I decided to go for this shoulder bag from Coach. Made of grey leather with thick brown canvas shoulder strap, it's roomy enough for a weekend bag and very suitable for a day-to-day bag for work. I love how the bag slouched when I carry it to work, giving it a nice effortless look. As any other C...

Book #2 for 2012: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson I must have passed by this book a thousand times over the last 2, 3 years but it wasn't until I watched the heart-stopping trailer of its film adaptation that I decided to give this book a place on my bookshelf. Boy, disappointed I was not.  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the first book of the Millennium Trilogy (the other two will be discussed in the coming posts). It is about a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist who found himself in an unexpected assignment to uncover the disappearance mystery of a girl some forty years ago. The task took an unexpected turns as the deeper he dug into the disappearance of Harriet Vanger, the more he uncovered the unpleasant side of top Swedish echelons where corruption and power abuse were rampant.  Of course, to carry out the interesting task, he found himself a partner in the form of Lisbeth Salander, the tattooed genius and the femme fatale of the s...