Sunday, October 1
Feeling kinda unhappy for the past few days. Yep. Returned to office on sat to finish off the engagement and when I thought I could go, some last minute thing happened and I had to finish it off before meeting my friends. Horribly late...
Today was good though. Couldn't wake up to go church though (i'm not one, but oh well...), but managed to pull off my music lesson somehow. Loving both my music lessons, coz music is like another dimension in the universe and brings me away from the world.
And then... I actually forgot to get my yanzi's cd, but bought 2 good books in Kino.
One of them:
SQ21 stands for Singapore Queers in the 21st Century, compiled by Ng Yi-Sheng. It's a collection of real-life stories of gays, lesbians and bisexuals in their coming out process... the difficulties they faced, the tribulations they encountered, and the love some of them got from their more understanding parents. One contribution was from a mother, who described how she dealt with the realisation that not one, but both of her sons, are gay. I love this book because the stories are just so real and not at all hypocritical. I applaud the authors for having the courage to depict their life stories under the scrutiny of the public eye, with their names and photos in the book too.
This book is not only written for the GLBTs (gays, les, bis, trans) in mind, but for anyone who has love. This book may not necessarily make SG a less homophobic place or have our garmen make SG to be more gay-friendly less gay-unfriendly, but at least, it's a first step.
Inspirational and touching book.
The other book is a life improvement book called Living the 80/20 Way by Richard Koch.
Sidetrack: I shouldn't have searched for this book... Walmart is selling it for roughly US$10 plus, and even with the shipping costs and everything, it's much cheaper still...
Basically... this book is about the 80/20 principle. Quoting from the book's website, "Living the 80/20 way – If we have the courage to go against conventional wisdom, we can work less, worry less, succeed more and make the people who matter in our lives hugely happy. " Motivating.
So yep. I haven't gotten to reading the book in-depth though, but my heart tells me that I didn't buy the wrong book. I trust my gut feeling in buying books. These 2 books make me feel better.
Anyway... I've got this plan in mind. It's sorta something that I've been wanting to do... and maybe I'll be doing it end of this year or next year. If I'm going for this plan, I dun think I will be staying for peak...
