Berita terkini. Kepada 4 orang pembaca blog ini, sekiranya anda berkira-kira hendak belikan Embak buku Teacher Man karangan Frank McCourt, Embak nak maklumkan, Saya dah beli.
Semalam, Embak pergi ke MPH, nak cuba dapatkan diskaun 15% sempena besday Embak(salah satu manafat keahlian MPH Readers' Circle) walaupun besday Embak dah 3 minggu berlalu. Petugas di MPH berkata Maaf Puan, diskaun 15% tu hanya untuk tempoh seminggu dari tarikh lahir. Tapi berita baik Puan, esok kami akan adakan Sale, yang diskaunnya 20%. Woopee!
Maka Embak datang balik hari ni dan membelanjakan diri Embak dengan 3 buku. Jualan murah MPH akan berakhir 1 April. Jika anda bukan ahli MPH Readers' Circle, diskaun 15% sahaja. Pergilah beli buku, nanti boleh dapat potongan dari cukai pendapatan.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Wajah
Semalam Embak berjumpa dengan kawan Embak di kliniknya, yang juga menawarkan perkhidmatan kecantikan. Di ruang menunggu, Embak lihat dua orang wanita yang bertudung, yang sorang tu teramatlah putih bersih kulitnya, dan dalam kategori jelita. Dari perbualan mereka, Embak dapati yang mereka ini tidak asing dengan suntikan kolagen, vitamin-C, botox dan seumpanya. Terkejutlah Embak. Selama ini Embak ingat yang mengamalkan bantuan-bantuan kecantikan begini adalah dari kalangan artis-artis dan orang-orang yang, iyalah, trendy, sofisticated, fashion-conscious, glamour-seeking rich tai-tais.
Rupa-rupanya, semua lapisan dah mengamalkan gaya hidup suntikan ini. Patutlah klinik kawan Embak ni berdaya maju gayanya. Embak di sana atas urusan kerja, tak tahulah esok-esok pulak. Minta-minta kat Allah, tulang pipi Embak yang orang selalu kata tiruan ni, maintain. Takutnya hari ni kata tak nak, esok-esok bila dah kendur, pucat, kata nak pulak!
Rupa-rupanya, semua lapisan dah mengamalkan gaya hidup suntikan ini. Patutlah klinik kawan Embak ni berdaya maju gayanya. Embak di sana atas urusan kerja, tak tahulah esok-esok pulak. Minta-minta kat Allah, tulang pipi Embak yang orang selalu kata tiruan ni, maintain. Takutnya hari ni kata tak nak, esok-esok bila dah kendur, pucat, kata nak pulak!
Monday, March 19, 2007
A reminder for me
This is one of Angela McCourts's favourite songs, and one of two songs sung by her sons and grandsons at her funeral:
A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam,
Keep her while she's living,
You'll miss her when she's gone.
A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam,
Keep her while she's living,
You'll miss her when she's gone.
Frank McCourt - My new favourite writer
I have seen his book,“Angela’s Ashes” many times at MPH warehouse sales, but because the cover is a dreary photo of a dirty boy, I never had the incentive to pick it up. I saw the book again at PayLess Books warehouse sale, a hardcover selling for RM8. Upclose, I read that the book is a Pulitzer prize winner. Because it was so cheap and apparently good enough to merit a Pulitzer, I bought it. It is about Frank McCourt’s stories of growing up in Brooklyn, and then Ireland.
I only got around to reading it last month; the book overwhelms me with images of hardcore poverty and hopelessness. I have never understood what being poor means before; it's so well written, that TV3’s Bersama Mu pales in comparison. To Frank and his brothers, an egg was a luxury, jam jars served as cups, and most of the time their once a day meal consisted of cold, weak tea. Their mother survived on beggary because the father was a hopeless drunkard. But the book is not all about despair; there are many places in the book where I laugh hard. McCourt managed to find hilarity amidst his family's misery. Truly deserving the Pulitzer.
Soon after I finished "Angela’s Ashes", I found “‘Tis”, the sequel to “Angela’s Ashes”, at the Big Bookshop warehouse sale (yes, I am fond of books warehouse sales!), which is still going on at Atria until 24th March. Very lucky find indeed as it was the only copy left. I finished this book too.
I am now looking for “Teacher Man”, which is the last of the memoir trilogy. Not too late to get me one as a belated birthday present. Hint, hint.
I only got around to reading it last month; the book overwhelms me with images of hardcore poverty and hopelessness. I have never understood what being poor means before; it's so well written, that TV3’s Bersama Mu pales in comparison. To Frank and his brothers, an egg was a luxury, jam jars served as cups, and most of the time their once a day meal consisted of cold, weak tea. Their mother survived on beggary because the father was a hopeless drunkard. But the book is not all about despair; there are many places in the book where I laugh hard. McCourt managed to find hilarity amidst his family's misery. Truly deserving the Pulitzer.
Soon after I finished "Angela’s Ashes", I found “‘Tis”, the sequel to “Angela’s Ashes”, at the Big Bookshop warehouse sale (yes, I am fond of books warehouse sales!), which is still going on at Atria until 24th March. Very lucky find indeed as it was the only copy left. I finished this book too.
I am now looking for “Teacher Man”, which is the last of the memoir trilogy. Not too late to get me one as a belated birthday present. Hint, hint.
Sunday, March 04, 2007
Nohara Sinchan
Embak dan Maisara berebut patung Sinchan semalam. Mak dia belikan sebagai hadiah harijadi Embak, tapi dah dipeluk-peluknya si Mai, Embak pun mengalah. Hari ni Embak masuk bilik, tengok Sinchan dah ada atas katil Embak, hee hee. My first stuffed toy ever!
Dulu-dulu, Embak tak faham betul kenapalah adik Embak suka sangat tengok katun Jepun nih. Sekarang, Embak pulak dah tersangkut. Walhal, anak-anak menakan Embak ramai yang tak dapat tengok program ni - dah di "ban" oleh emak bapak mereka.
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