I had to took some time off my work today,
SPECIFICALLY, NOW.
So the past week and this week, I am assigned
for a job that goes by the tagline ‘The job with no tomorrow’ in my office.
And, we all know what to expect when your job is locked it since last year. It
means someone high above is looking into this engagement since god-knows when.
And I’m with this A2, which is actually a
really nice person. Though I have memper-stereotype-kan her to
what-i-though-she-would-be. Sorry, I never should have.
And these are not the point. NO.
The reason why I keen-desperately need to
write something down is because of the book I accidentally got addicted.
Story start with me tagging along the cousin
family to send off the cousin to Koalaland.
It was a whole bunch of people from the family
and the awkward element kicks in pretty hard
I reason with the washroom and leave them
bunch talking to each other
One of my book-cousin(like book friend, but
cousin) tagged along as I shy away from family social
We went to this bookstore in the airport and
randomly looking through the shelves
A normal people would not want to buy anything
from the airport unless you have to
So i had fun flipping through zodiac signs,
horoscope signs kind of books
I hardly read any of these books in english
before, so why not?
So piles of this zodiac and horoscope books, i
done flipping in like one minute?
I was going to lose interest and want to head
over to the children section to look for good old memories
I have this final glance over the pile of
current trending books,
And at the very last row of them, a real
virtually-dusty corner,
You can probably tell how many people have
overlooked that last row, i’d say like 70% of them?
There lies this three books, ‘The Tipping
Point’, ‘Blink’, ‘Outliners’.
There is absolutely nothin fancy about the
cover.
I know I have been the sight-kind-of-person
where i LITERALLY judge a book by its cover INITIALLY. But then, these 3 books,
i just randomly stick my hand out and grab’the tipping point’.
The book cover is boring, white and with
words. So I grabbed the book, read through the comments and the usual paragraph
behind every books. It sounds like 40% interesting from what was on the back of
the cover. I looked around and saw my book cousin all ostrich-ing in the
fiction shelf, so I thought I’d read something, anything, for she, as per
always, takes wayyyyyy longer than average to decide.
I started with the introduction, having no
clue on what to expect
Aaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnddd,
BAM.
*********************************************
HOW MUCH I MISSED SUCH BAM?!!!
Oh i missed out, the bam is the bam of stumble
upon
Like you look across the menu and BAM you saw
the love of your tummy
Tha kind of BAM..
The last time i had it, was with JiuBaDao when
I read ‘Na Xie Nian wo men yi qi zhui de nv hai’ for the first time..
And that is probably wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy back when
i was 18 or 19
The BAM!! The BAM!!
Not to say I have not met other OH-MY-GOD-BESTnyaaaa
book, but after JiuBaDao, I have been pretty active in searching for new books
to read. I know I wont be satisfy by JiuBaDao only, so I have been searching
and searching.
Like EnZuo, Like Han Han, Like Guo JingMing,
Like LaoTzu, Like GuiGuZi, Like LiBiHua, Like YanGeLing, Like
LinXi............. don’t get me started
So other than JiuBaDao, all these writers, I
know them before I buy their books. I must have read about them on the internet
and grew interests on them and ran off to the bookstore.
But this time, its totally out of the blue.
Its like I read the first page and forgot to
stop since.
I told my book cousin that I might have found
my favourite english writer.
I started googling about this guy and turn
out, his birthday is on 3rd September.
SWEET. BABY. JESUS.
Instead of stumble upon his work, I have a
feeling that I actually FOUND his works.
Much like when I first read a book about mind
reading back then
I got that book from a bookfair in penang whom
I attended with book friend
It was on the hit and so I grab one to try
I thought it will be filled with silly mathematics
tricks
And turn out it was exactly how I thought
things would have been.
BAM!
Okay so I correct myself, the second BAM being
the mind reading book, this is the third bam!
And still its the mighty precious BAM, i am
still overwhelmed!
For a reader to find their own BAM, is like a
lion from the zoo who finally get to taste human flesh.
I know right, its none other than a
MEGA BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!
Only, better.
***********************************
So the book name is ‘The Tipping Point’ by
Malcolm Gladwell.
I was really fascinated by the first few pages
of examples
And I had to swear I will buy the books to
make myself put the books down
And then i did, I went to the mall the next
day, eagerly and got a total of 4 malcolm gladwell.
I did some research after, and realize there
have been 2 extreme review over the books.
I’m the least kind of person who would really
believe in reviews when it comes to my books,
So I am still very happy to have found The
Tipping Point.
I wished I could have a good holiday where I
curl up under a cozy weather and just read off the time.
Ya, I wished right,...
Okay so that is the BAM, the tipping point
where I can’t get rid of until I start reading about it
And I have been slacking through my deary Monday
And if the work turns out to be too fucking
rush at the end of the week, its totally karma being sucha bitch getting back
to me. OH DAMN FUCK.
