☼ The Dreamer's Diary ☼

Yeah~ I'm finally here again... I thought I'll never touch this blog ever again due to busyness in workplace which I hope it has been a good business so far... I don't know if anyone still reads my blog and if you do, welcome back! Okay, now the ranting begins:

So where the hell have I been? Well, I have finally found my job as a salesman selling educational kits and books for kids since January. The last place my company sent me was Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair starting March 19th to March 28th (P/S: Calvin, I don't know if you were there but I guess so because I know you are such a lovely book lover). It was more cramped with Arabic books compared to last year's so there were hell lots of chance to see so many hot Arab men that I didn't have much time to take their photos (*smirk).

Of course it will be totally weird if you don't happen to buy any books during book fairs. So these are the books I bought for some light reading:

Disclaimer: Believe it or not, all these books I bought are as shiny as pearl and definitely NOT used books. And of course, I bought them all during the final day~ (*grin)

Title: The Taliban: War, Religion and the New Order in Afghanistan
Author: Peter Marsden
Price: RM 5 (Normal price from Amazon: USD 23.95) - shocking, I know!

Title: Human Rights: Social Justice in the Age of the Market
Author: Koen De Feyter
Price: RM 5 (Normal Price from Amazon: USD 20.95) - I'm such a cheapass... but books on politics and Human Rights are my favorite genres. Hurray for me! Hehehehehe~


Title: Helen Keller (Rebel Lives Series)
Author: Helen Keller (Editor: John Davis)
Price: RM 5 (Normal Price from Amazon: USD 9.95) - This is the first book I have finished reading in just 3 hours after buying from book fair. The cover for US version seems weird though... so I bought the UK version instead.

What kind of books do you look for during book fairs?

Do you have the curiosity about strange happenings that are reported in the newspapers instead of the Guinness Book of Records? Then this book is highly recommended for you.

Edited by Tim Healey, this book covers about articles of unusual yet bizarre news that shocked the world between the 19^th Century to 1980s. From handicapped monkeys that mugged mountain men to the haunting stories of cannibalism, these featured articles were published and had attracted the attention of the readers as frequent as the political news.

In my opinion, I personally find this book pretty funny. I've found that this book is quite easy to read and it's really devoting me to read every single chapter to finish it. If you are really interested to know more, why not buying one to read it?

It was really funny to see everyone scrambling out of the hall to go home just like what the chickens did in the movie "Chicken Run" when the exam ended at 4pm...LOL... I headed to MPH store alone at M.V. after having some tea and snacks with Yoke Fung at 5pm.

I thought I can actually buy a book to kill my time for this semester break once I reach there but the prices of most books are too expensive. Most of the language books there are priced highly are Mandarin, Japanese and Thai. I do understand that the language books for Mandarin and Japanese are being priced at higher cost because they are gaining popularity to be spoken worldwide but THAI???

Here is the title of the book with its prices in Baht and our currency, Dollar below:


"Thai for Intermediate Learners - by Benjawan Poomsan Becker" at only 299 Baht in Thailand but $57 here!!!

I still can't believe my eyes that a book for learning Thai can be that expensive in the country I live. It is not even logical for high pricing a book imported from Thailand as the country is our neighboring country. I think local people would really have to rush into Krungthep as a trip for buying it... LOL

Anyways, I really don't have an exact idea how to spend my holidays. What are your suggestions? What are your plans then?

School days have now become richer and more essential for me and I'm happy with it just because I have got good friends to study with. In the new tutorial class, I've somehow adapted well at lessons and done school homework in time. Besides, lecture notes and tutorial worksheets have become more organized than before. Maybe it was the subject Management Studies that has taught me a lesson for being organized at studies at the moment... I like the subject very much and the way of being organized for now. It's a whole new experience for me.

But there is always a subject that is always bothering me. Sociology!!! It gives me headache these days just because the lecturer does not have good command in English. Well, I'll have to think of a way to overcome the confusions in this subject... (*sigh~)... Marketing? Memorizing facts have become easier for me because there are quite a lot of abbreviations in the lecture notes. I really enjoy both Marketing and Management for studies.