books, read, write

been waiting to write about this for a while. but under certain circumstances, selalu je xde masa. bila bersemangat dan ada masa nak tulis, blogger tengah under service pulak, cet! but, well, here we go...
i love to read. u might have read about that particular passion of mine here ...
heh! i can't help it. books are my staple diet. forget rice, forget junk food, forget fast food, even forget rocky road or double dutch, give me an interesting book, and u'll find me the most well-mannered girl u ever met. i can have my nose buried in those sweet-smelling pages the whole day, really. i guess being born to parents who were teachers and who value books among anything else kinda prompted me to be like that. as the following pictures will tell u... :)

ha! itu la padahnya bila dah bertahun-tahun tak pergi pesta buku. sekali pergi, hampir tercabut soket bahu menggalas beg berisi buku2 di atas tu, yang hampir penuh katil. ish! ish! ish! hehehe... notice that they are all malay books... hm.. interesting.. what have gotten into me???

so, to tune down my sudden appetite for malay novels for a bit, on my way back home, i bought these three english menus..heh!
and these actually are adding up to the following books i haven't yet read, sitting comfortably here at home..uhuh....
ngee!!! quite a load, don't u think??? hehehe... adding all up, that pretty much sums to 19 books i haven't yet read...my... my! tu belum nak campur buku yang dah lama zaman berkirun dulu beli tapi tak baca2 lagi tu... Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion, kisah khalifah Umar al-Khatab dengan Ali bin Abu Talib, kisah Siti Aisyah isteri kesayangan Rasulullah, Qur'an Saintifik yang tak betul-betul habis lagi baca, la-Tahzan, Jodi Picoult's Change of Heart my sister lent to me looooooooong time ago.... just to name a few... kihkihkih... that equals to almost 30 books i have to read! yeehaa!!

and here's to share the books i have already found the time to read, thank God...

my malay collections... :)

yet, another portion of my malay's...
my collection of sweet valley high's. there are almost 50 of them, which colored my teen years... hehe...

my random collections... well, i have a variety of tastes when it comes to books... :)

my mixed of classics and moderns...

my mixed of chick-flicks and romances, once upon a time.... ngee...
my harry potter's!!! all seven of them. as harry matures up in the fifth book, the version of his books i collected also changed to the adult, hard-cover version.. simbolik gitu... hehe...
and of course, my ilmiah books... takkan nak lupa gitu je buku yang diguna for five years, ye idak?? (ada jugak terselit anchee min's dengan my fav philippa greggory's, the constant princess kat situ... hehehe.. seeing all that (please pardon the blurry images of some of the above photos), u know now how much i love to read. well, not so much on the ilmiah part, but the rest, yes. heh. if u still don't believe me, i'll tell u a secret. i even read when i'm in the toilet. something i inherited from my eldest sister. heh!
those are a LOT of books. like my ex-lecturer-pensioner-cum-writer/novelist/author father had pointed out one day, all these books should have made me a writer like him. he said he only had to read a couple or three books and he could already write a novel! the way he said it that time hurt me a little (isk!). sedey...
don't get me wrong. i love to write. i told u that in this entry a long, long time ago. his blood does run in my veins, anyway, so i do have the interest, you may even call it passion, to write. but i don't have that talent to spin what's in my mind into an interesting story. at least not yet. i don't have the talent, nor the time...
I have an 8 to 5 (sometimes 6) job which hammers down on my left brain thunderously during the day, plus 2 hours of traveling to and from work, so it should be understood that it’s going to be a tad difficult for me to automatically switch to right brain during the night. Most nights, i don’t switch at all. so flat out and tired, all i do is switching off all activities and watch movies without seeing and then watch the back of my eyelids. Writing is not my primary job, however i want it to, so badly. Please, try to understand that...
no matter how much i read, how many books i have, the ideas to write still pretty much scattered. till i find the time to gather it all together, then maybe i can put up a good book for you to read. and i mean a good book. i don't want to merely write books with nothing you can learn from. i want to write books that mean something to someone. that can teach something about life and the afterlife. because i appreciate that kind of books, so it's only natural that is what i want to come from me too. till then, thank you for reading. :)