English books, i.e. paperback novels, are a little scarce here in the dessert so whenever I’d get a chance to be in a bookstore (where most people would buy gadgets instead of actual books, see previous post), the first thing I do is approach someone who have access to the database to search for whatever Haruki Murakami tittle is on the shelves. So far I bought three titles, the last one being 1Q84 which, according to the bookstore staff, was already reserved by someone else which explains the reason it was hidden on a drawer but the fact that the hr actually showed it to me, I knew he’ll be willing to give it to me if I would insist enough. So there. There are also two other titles I got when a colleague went back from the his annual vacation in the Philippines.
I’m hoarding Haruki Murakami books and I hope more titles will be available soon.
I need a lamp shade. BTW, I’m writing this entry on an Android app so pardon the typod, if any. Now
where’s the publish button?
Aside from work, the weather and everything else, this should explain the hiatus.
Above photos are supposed to be my artistic version of the black water dragon origami but the shoplifted camera I used just won’t give them justice (my old Sony Ericsson K790c camphone has just given up on me). This coming Chinese New Year is going to be the year of the Black Water Dragon so I thought you’d be looking up dragon origami folding instructions. Here’s a youtube video to help you out. It’s just a simple dragon origami because I myself had been bleeding my brains to death trying to do a decent Satoshi Kamiya dragon.
On a completely different note, I still have a LOTR trilogy reading backlog which my day job keep getting on the way so I haven’t even gotten past the second chapter of book one and one of my colleagues whom I asked to smuggle at least three 3 Haruki Murakami books from the Philippines is coming in two days and coincidentally, the Charles Dickens Great Expectations Tagalog Translation Project has just officially started. Please congratulate me for having just written the longest single sentence on this blog. My high school English teacher, if he’s still alive and I’m hoping that he still is, would probably call that a run-on sentence — red ballpoint pen galore!
I’m supposed to experience my first dessert rain today but the weather forecast may have came from PAGASA. Sayang lang ang pagpapauwi ng maaga!
