The worth of a book

It hasn't been long since I started enjoy reading. After a few books I found my interest in the historical fiction genre. Stories adapted from real historical events but novelised for the extra oomph.

Three series have fascinated me to the extent that I would reserve their newest book from the library, pretty amazing for someone who hardly read anything other than textbooks just a few years ago.

1. Simon Scarrow's Eagle series: One of the first novel series I picked up. Story on Rome and its conquest fascinated me even more after I started playing Rome: Total War.

2. Simon Scarrow's Revolution series: While I was waiting for the next book in the Eagle series, I took a read on the Revolution series that got me hooked. Very interesting to find out more on Napoleon and Wellington's march against each other.

3. Conn Iggulden's Conqueror series: I first saw this book in a San bookstore in PS. It was the cover of the Lords of the Bow that etched in my mind. I then started reading right from the start. Story tells of the history of Genghis Khan. Book 3 ended with Genghis death and I recently realised they are publishing a book 4. Can't wait to read that.

The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. ~James Bryce

The Selfless miser

A book I am currently reading talks about how selfless a miser is. This may sound strange but do continue to read on to find out.

A miser is classified as selfless simply because of the miserly way of life. The miser choose to lead a spartan life even if he could afford otherwise. However his spartan life has unexpectedly benefit the rest of the world. Yes, you and me and everyone else out there. The miser's insistence to consume the resources at the bare minimal has in turn allocated the rest of us more resources at our disposal. By choosing to eat less, buy less and take less, we are able to eat more, buy more and take more. Its effectively a supply and demand theory, the miser lowers the demand and resources which in turn increased the supply we can have.

In fact the miser is so selfless that a philanthropist pales in comparison. A philanthropist's charitable act would benefit few at the most, the orphans at the orphanage receiving the donation or the needy in need of some subsidies to get by. The miser on the other hand benefits every single one of us out there, including the orphans and needy. By simply consuming less, demand decreases and so does the price that goes along with it.

The moral of the story: The true philanthropist is the miser!

Autistic Teen Finds Inner Voice

Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody

The waiting game

There's so many things I am waiting for right now.

1. My transcript from Germany which I have been waiting since September, finally on its way now (hopefully)...

2. My 1/4 car which I bought for the purpose of my FYP. 3 weeks and counting...

3. Meeting with the therapists at SGH regarding the FYP as well, supposedly having a meeting last week but still waiting for the date...

4. My parcel from HK that contains some gadgets for my own purpose. Turned out that the postman came over on Sat but I was not in, so I can only collect it from the post office on Monday.



The waiting continues....

Breaking out

If you can choose one superpower, what would it be?

I desire the ability to fly, much like how Nathan Petrelli from Heroes, or even Superman does it.

I would be able to get to any place in the world, from US, Europe, Russia or just plain wilderness out of nowhere, I could reach it in no time. Best of all its all free!

When I am down and out and just want to spend time alone thinking over things, I could just fly myself up to the clouds.

I could bid traffic jams and crowded public transport goodbye and take a scenic route to where I desire.


Maybe I just desire freedom in its purest form.

Being too optimistic

Everyone knows its good to be optimistic, but sometimes you should not be too optimistic as can be seen below.

The scenario is based on the pre-enlistment conversation of 3 Singapore Poly students (2 guys and 1 girl) who were sitting beside me on the train.

Guy A: How many camps are there in Singapore?
Guy B: Don't know
Guy A: But no matter what, we will have to be in Tekong for the first 3 months right?
Guy B: Yeah... hopefully we can all be in the same unit after that.
Guy A: Hope so... I wonder how the training is like?
Guy B: I heard you only train for 4 hours a day.
Guy A: Really?
Guy B: Ya la... who can train the whole day? No man will be able to take it.
Guy A: Ya hor... now very slack, since last year got quite a few people died
Girl: Die??
Guy B: Ya, last year got some died while running
Girl: Oh...
Guy A: So if you just cough a bit, they will probably ask you to fall out... They all scared liao.
Guy B: Should be quite slack one la, how tough can it get?


Hopefully they do not get the shock of their life on enlistment day.