Trip to a bookstore

Books are akin to a safe abound with a wealth of knowledge and information...yet it was only during these couple of months that I had come to relished the joy of reading novels bought from a bookstore rather than the library. I actually BOUGHT my first book a 3 months ago...Dan Brown's The Da vinci's code.....and ever since then...I've never looked back. The second investment promptly followed in the form of another DB's multi-genre series...part thriller-conspiracies ladened-romantic and thought invoking....However..It seems that my recent costly obsession had gotten to my head as I seem unable to rein in on my urge...instead my hunger for more drove me further on...in desperate search to quench my dying thirst for a good read.

Alas...I walked purposefully into a Popular bookstore in Toa Payoh...determined to add to my paltry collection. It was then that I was attracted to a book of rather relatively simple cover design as compared to its more colourful and illustrious labels around. Upon reading through the blurb...i decided that maybe books can be judged by its cover....It was Mitch albion's 5 people you meet in heaven.....Simple plot it may be...yet i believe that a truly enlightening lesson awaits to be uncovered. Anyway....a boorish man approached me whilst I was browsing through...enquiring me on the content of a couple of books he had picked...possibly for his son or daughter.

Anyway..on hindsight...the above post was done in the spur of the moment..and add to the fact that I had too many a vampire related movies during the weekend..thus it had been largely exaggerated and written as if I was driven for blood...though the encounter with the man was perfectly authentic. There are many silly moments in our lives...I guess this is just another one......hehe

FDC memories

Platoon 3 section 1....

The start of yet another chapter of my army stint...

Time passes by swiftly...with a blink of an eye...yet another 3 months has passed me by ever so silently and quickly. The end of my FDC course should be a joyous occasion..filled with cries of relief and shouts of euphoria...yet the mood has somewhat been muted by the sombre misfiring incident that happened to me last wednesday. The fear of not knowing what lies ahead hovers above me throughout the past fews days...dealing me with a sense of anxiety and pain that borders on excrutiating propotions. The pain is not entirely derived from having to accept the fact that the incident had occured on me.....rather it is the wait that pains me...

Anyway....to keep my mind away from the constant pondering of the matter......I went to the AMK library yesterday. To escape from reality perhaps...Read a book by Rich Wallace.."Wrestling Sturbridge". It was a good book...as is the rest of the series...with the underlying moral of the story being to move on and not remain obstinate about a specific aspect of life. Many a times in one's obsession to achieve something...one often neglects the other more essential beings and surroundings of life. This might just be the lesson taught to me in the most unexpected and astonishing manner.

There was also a subplot that seemed rather interesting...in the course of courting the girl of his dreams...the protagonist pondered over a rather thought inducing statement...."Have I fallen in love with her or was I merely in love with the IDEA of having a girlfriend ?" There was never a doubt that there were flashes of infatuation in my life...yet pondering upon it...more questions rather than answers seemed to surface. Do I pine for someone who understands and fathom my feelings or do I pine to be understood and accepted ?...