Saturday March 20th

My mother has had all her hair cut off. She looks like one of Auntie Susan’s inmates. She doesn’t look a bit maternal any more. I don’t know whether to get her anything for Mother’s Day or not. She was going on about it last night, saying it was a commercial racket fed by gullible fools.

Brilliant. 1 down, 6 more to go.

THE SPOILS OF VICTORY!

Thank you NLB.

Date: Saturday, 22 Aug 2009 to Sunday, 23 Aug 2009
Time: 9.30am – 8pm
Venue: Singapore Expo Hall 6A
Free Admission

Select from a large collection of used library books at bargain prices at the 10th Library Book Sale!

Price of books:
Books in all four official languages will be on sale.

• English and Chinese books will cost $2 per copy;
• Malay and Tamil books will cost $1 per copy;
• English and Chinese magazines will cost $5 for a pack of 10 issues; and
• Malay and Tamil magazines will cost $5 for a pack of 20 issues.

Limit of purchase:
Each customer can buy up to a maximum of 60 items (a pack of 10 or 20 issues of magazines is considered as one item).

Categorisation of books:
The books are categorised under ‘Adults’, ‘Young People’ and ‘Children’. Under each group, they are sub-divided into ‘Fiction’ and ‘Non-Fiction’.

Magazines are categorised under the four official languages, ie English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil.

Payment:
Payment can only be made by Cash, Nets or CashCard.

Information on Singapore Expo:
For information on Singapore Expo, including directions, please visit their website at www.singaporeexpo.com.sg

Enquiries:
For enquiries on the 10th Library Book Sale, please contact us via: Tel: +65 6332 3255 (check www.pl.sg for operating hours) Email: helpdesk@nlb.gov.sg

60 items limit? LAWL! I guess that’s probably for those scheming 2nd-hand bookshop owners (not that I have anything against 2nd-hand bookshop owners).

Expect it to be pretty awesome! See you guys there!

Addendum: Just curious, any chance one can find the Bible at the sale or does the library strictly not stock up on religious literature?

http://artofmanliness.com/2008/05/14/100-must-read-books-the-essential-mans-library/

Awesome. The comments even more so. Now I just need to find my darn library card…

The last Calvin & Hobbes strip on 31 December 1995.

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/20/j-k-rowling-at-carnegie-hall-reveals-dumbledore-is-gay-neville-marries-hannah-abbott-and-scores-more

YARLY. No wonder he never got together with Professor McGonagall…

I recently finished reading ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ and it’s a superb book, no doubts about that. There was this particular quote that really inspired me;

“Do you know what I do? When someone wants to get ahead of me in traffic – when I used to be able to drive – I would raise my hand, as if I was going to make a negative gesture, and then I would wave and smile. Instead of giving them the finger, you let them go, and smile. You know what? Alot of times they smiled back.”

I tried that and everyone thought I was crazy. Grrr…