bookworm for a moment.

Like most people, there are certain types of books which interest me. It's like, when you are in a big book store like Borders or Kinokuniya, you're almost naturally drawn to those particular shelves where you can find your 'kind' of books. This is what I recently discovered for myself (in no order of ranking):

Top 5 words in the title of a (non-fiction) book which attacts me

1. Mathematics
2. Mechanical (Engineering)
3. (Human) Anatomy
4. Islam
5. Running

The author would like to remind his readers that the above information is accurate at the time of publishing and is subjected to changes, years, weeks or even days down the road due to the simple reason that personal interests may vary with time.

-_-"'

Topic: Coordinate Geometry

Question: "What is the shape of the quadrilateral ABCD? [1]"

Funny Answer #1: "In my opinion and according to my recent statistics, I can conclude from the basic fundamentals of shapes that ABCD is most probably a trapezium."

Funny Answer #2: "It is a trapezium because when you join all sides together it forms a trapezium."

driving, a different perspective.

I just hate to rush when I drive, especially when I'm driving to send someone on time. It's not only the pressure of getting that person there on time but also to do so safely.

Today I had to send my sister to her school at Stirling Road, Queenstown by 3 pm and she's adamant about entering the exam hall at the very last minute to avoid any peer pressure. By 2.29 pm, we were only just about to leave our house to be on the move. I knew I shouldn't, but I was speeding most of the journey. And I didn't want to. I'm not the sort who holds so much ego like many young drivers do these days. On a normal occasion, I would never speed. But this afternoon wasn't a normal occasion. I hate to do that. And I was going through words of prayers to God in my head to keep this journey smooth and safe. Alhamdulilah, it was.

These days, I've been thinking about the reality of driving in Singapore. With fuel prices in a seemingly uncontrollable upsurge, exorbitant parking fees and the introduction of new ERP gantries, it all boils down to money talk. I'm starting to feel the pinch, hard. Besides, I can't even start to imagine what the cost would be like should something happen to the car. Come to think of it, it would be so so much affordable if one chooses public transport instead.

These reflections made me feel a tinge of slight regret having spent so much on getting that Class 3 license, albeit its many other advantages.

obsolete is gold, in my own little way.

How many people you know of still uses Sony Playstation One, the bigger version? Haha, you will know at least one. That's me.

It was actually bought after my PSLE and so subsequently I was given the green light to play only during school holidays. It was the 'in-thing' back in those days, and having one was like having an object of superiority over others. Then came the smaller PS 1, PS2 and now PSP and PS3. There's even XBox 370. =P And my PS 1 became obsolete.

For these 7 years or so, it was kept, or rather hidden, in a quiet corner of my mum's cabinet, untouched. Not until a few days back, when I felt an impulse to retrieve it and try using it. To my disappointment, the audio-visual and AC power cord cables were missing. So I spend a couple of days searching everywhere for these 2 cables and I finally got them at Sim Lim Square, for an 'antique' price of $40.

Back home, I could not wait to start using it, and when I turned the power on, the loading music somehow seemed to time-travel me back to those days when I was so fanatical about Playstation. As I was playing my then favourite game, FIFA 2000, I was like 'ewww the graphics so damn jialat', but at the same time thinking 'aiyah what the heck, I'm enjoying myself in a way unique to me.'

So whoever said obsolete is bad?

just for laugh.