books n magazines

my book of words of wisdom and poems is finally full..yep! im starting on another one. i cant remember exactly when i started the first book, but i know it was somewhere after i read "Blue" by Sue Mayfield. a very very good book, it is. you should read it. it's about a girl, Anna, whose self-esteem became very low.. she was bullied, mostly psychologically, by..cant remember her name..thus, her personality changed..it's a really touching story. Anna tried to kill herself, alright..slit her wrist, she did.. near to madness.. well, it’s like.. she had really gone far away.. kinda scary, I pity her though.

anyway, I picked up some good poems from that book, and since then, I collect quotes and poems that I found in books-mostly- and from tv. n I wrote a few poems n quotes myself.

the holidays are over soon..and frankly speaking, as always, I don’t think I’ve accomplished anything significant. I still haven’t khatam the Quran, n I haven’t taken up any courses or classes.. not to mention work! It’s pretty boring. But I do go out of course. Just 2 days ago, I went hiking/trekking at bukit timah nature reserve with my tahfiz friends..great day, it was.. well, I didn’t really enjoy walking up and down the path, climbing up the rocks, but overall, it was ok =)

to fill those boring days of December, I usually take refuge by reading, reading and reading. Good thing I’ve got two libraries; one in sembawang, another one in woodlands, and im in the middle. I would sit on my bed for hours, straining my eyes on every words.. really don’t care about eating, chores, or sometimes, bathing! Yeah, im like that. After finishing one book, I’d reach for another one. Sleep late. N start reading again right after I wake up.

I keep a list of fictional that I’ve read since 2002, I think. So the list is already quite long. Lots of good books too..say, "When We Were Saints" by Han Nolan n "Remember Me" by Laura Hendrie..i read them last week. Though the former is more to Christianity stuff, the message’s generally about religion, about your own beliefs.. n the latter, it's about a woman who's been treated 'indifferently' just because she was poor and her family was sort-of different from other families in the village. It’s about survival, I think.. yeah, kind of.

and talk about magazines, my favourite is National Geographic Magazine.. i've tried to start reading more heavy stuff, such as dewan agama dan falsafah..or newsweek, but to no avail.. it's either i didnt have much time or i wasnt in the mood.

ok, enough of my rantings. i've kind of diverted from my actual content that i intended to write, i.e about the hiking and other stuff. but i wish to stop now. it's really late. plus, i want to change my template. it's blue. n i need more space for the main entries, like kak halimah's n kak nadiah's current layouts.

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this is a synopsis of "Blue" by Sue Mayfield:

Anna Goldsmith has moved with her family from her posh school in London to a small Yorkshire town, and the local comprehensive. Straight away she knows she doesn't fit in - she's too brainy, and her accent sticks out a mile. Nobody bothers to make friends with her, except for Hayley Parkin; the most popular girl in Anna's year. Charismatic, charming and pretty, with a year-round tan, Hayley is perfect, and Anna finally relaxes. But Hayley is not all she seems, soon she's freezing Anna out - ignoring her, making nasty sarcastic remarks, then nice as pie - Anna is totally confused. And as the school year progresses, Hayley's behaviour gets more and more erratic - and Anna sinks lower and lower into depression and despair. Only Melanie, her other best friend, understands. But can she help Anna, before she goes and does something really silly . . .

another one:

Fifteen-year-old Anna Goldsmith lies in a coma after an attempted suicide. Through Anna's diary, and the accounts of her best friend, Mel, and her mother, Frances, we discover how the viscious, calculated bullying of Anna's schoolfriend, Hayley, drove Anna to want to end her life . . .

taken from madaboutbooks.com