Gosh lately my posts are so few and far between and always related to books!

For my birthday on Sunday I got the following books:

The Boat

Nam Le

The Boat by Nam Le:
I got this from Neh, we always give eachother a list of books we want for our birthdays and then it's a surprise which one we actually get! I'm dying to start this one but I'm making myself finish Emma by Jane Austen first. This is a collection of short stories set around the world that has been getting rave reviews in the Australian media.

The Portrait of a Lady (Penguin Classics)

Henry James

Portrait of a Lady by Henry James:
I got this one from Phil along with some CK perfume :)

Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen:
I got lovely editions of these from my Grandma, but I can't find a pic of them anywhere. They have black (maybe) leather covers with different coloured handwriting for each title and illustrations in the front of the book. I think Jennifer posted some pics ages ago, they are just lovely!

A Geisha's Journey: My Life As a Kyoto Apprentice

Komomo

A Geisha's Journey: My Life as a Kyoto Apprentice:
I got this from my mum, it's a lovely hard cover book, an autobiography filled with large, beautiful photos.

In June I finished:

Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Peony in Love: A Novel

Lisa See

The Host

Stephenie Meyer

All of these as well as A Letter to D by Andre Gorz, which I couldn't find a cover for. A Letter to D was also the only one this month I wasn't absolutely enraptured with. All the other books I loved but A Letter to D I didn't get into. It was supposed to be a love letter to a man's dying wife, but to me it had too much about Gorz's career as a philosopher and writer and about French idea's I had no clue about.

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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'Be kinder than necessary, 'cause everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle!'

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What criteria do you feel makes a good QotD?
Submitted by stueykins.

I had to pass the QOTD on "How are you celebrating the 4th of July?" coz I'm not celebrating and I'm indonesian, I think QOTD should be GENERAL as in everyone can participate whether they are celebrating their independence day or not or any other festivals that only certain group of people celebrating it. If I were to suggest "How are you celebrating the 17th of Aug?" which is my independence day, do you think there are many people would participate and answer it? :)

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Show us why you get up in the morning.
Submitted by David.

My reasons to get up in the morning are as follows (and not in any particular order either).....

1. internet  2. my girly  3. my twins  4. my stepsons  5. my darling husband  6. chai latte  7. TEA!  8. silliness

Reasonstogetup

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Show us why you get up in the morning.
Submitted by David.

In the morning

Make Coffee for me and my husband and send him out to go to work. I took this pic yesterday morning when it's raining outside when my husband wanted to go to work.

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What criteria do you feel makes a good QotD?
Submitted by stueykins.

Simple and fun because it's simply for fun :)

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Quoted from Leila

Tamron 28-200mm nikon mount left at home with no body. So I told him "sell it to me please!!

 

Come to me instead Tammy hehe *evil laugh*

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Angie

My sister has been saying that she's going to visit me here in the UK, she lives in Netherlands with her husband and their daughter Angie but since she has trouble finding time with her job and all, she keeps delaying to come here, my niece in the other hand, she's having her summer holiday now and she has been asking her mom to let her come visit me by herself. I have been babysitting her since she was 3 months old so we're very close although now we're kind of lost in translation, thanks to her mom who's probably too lazy to speak to her in Indonesian and so I had to learn abit about dutch language, she knows some indonesian words coz when she was 5, she was still in Jakarta and went to local school, her indonesian was superb at that time, then my sister and her husband moved to Singapore, Philippines (which I tagged along) and then Netherlands, she's 14 now, grown up to be a beautiful girl and I'm told she's coming alone on the 18th and going to stay here for 2 weeks.

Time flies, without you realizing it and people change without they knowing it.

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Almost!!! I went to buy my ticket for Dreamworld tomorrow and wondered what the queue was for....OMG OMG OMG!!! Finally we have Krispy Kreme Doughnuts only 3 kms away from home!

Heaven

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Flamingo pair

The Flamingo Dancer phone rang at 1.30 this morning. Of course the first word out of my mouth was"oh shit" being the optimistic little lass that I am not. My mind flew to Mr FD's father who at 90 is at the top of the "God's waiting room" list. Not this time. It was the security firm informing Mr FD that an alarm had gone off in the warehouse. It was just one alarm so it was decided that if another alarm went off they would call back. Yep they did. So Mr FD drove over to the complex at 2 am to check things out. I hate him going over there solo, but solo he did. I worried about him and almost jumped out of my skin when the phone rang a 3 rd time - the security firm telling me multiple alarms were going off now. GREAT.

By this time the brave Mr FD was fighting a huge RAT. A large rat was having the time of its life in a warehouse full of seed and as it merrily tripped from bag to bag it was setting off alarms all over the place. Mr FD grabbed a shovel and started chasing the rat about the warehouse and managed to hit it but then the rat took revenge and raced back at  MR FD. Mr FD was man enough to admit that he may have uttered a girlie scream. To cut a long crime scene short, Mr FD won the battle and arrived home triumphant about 3am.

I was really thrilled when my alarm went off at 5.30. Twice while driving to work I had to really fight not to blink off to sleep. I had a coffee right up as my day unravelled.

MegaBoss likes to play with the boys and prove that she has more balls than they do. Hence she burns a lot of bridges behind her. Today one of the bridges happened to be the very one that I need to cross and is perhaps the most critical element required by the organisation to function. Not functioning and the usual bridge fixer is now alienated and so I am forced to call in a lesser bridge fixer who makes lots of noise and twirls in really lovely circles but never actually accomplishes anything. I sent Boss and MegaBoss a memo that said I need this fixed and if it isn't I will just go and lie in traffic for awhile. A flurry of emails went to inferior bridge fixer and fingers crossed also to superior bridge fixer who will be called in tomorrow. The whole thing happened because someone, MegaBoss, has an ego the size of a small planet, and because my department is low maintenance and just gets the job done, they forget we actually have procedures and need tools and made some very stupid decisions that erased the very tools critical to the business.

Remember the Peter Principle - the theory that everyone rises to the level of their incompetence? Alive and well at the "Basement of Our Discontent" [workplace].

I came home and fell asleep about 4 minutes into the 6pm television news. In old lady territory tonight. Tired and emotional.

Sigh...and tomorrow is another day.

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