Book Day

I haven't read these books yet. I just thought I'll list them here

so I can go back to this post and see which would be next in

my 'to read' list.

The 'summary' below each book cover was gleaned from

browsing through them during my lunch hour :-)

The author seeks to 'annoy' the French by generally splitting hairs.

He starts by writing that it is true that Normandy is in France

and that the Normans kicked the collective butts of the English in

one Battle of Hastings in 1066. However, he points out that 

the Normans at that time were not really French!

They were descendants of the North Men (Vikings?) hence

the contraction Norman. 

This book should be an interesting read.

Out of the 100 mistakes, I only managed to browse one!

I'm not sure if a lot of people knows about this particular mistake.

The Aztecs mistook the Spanish Conquistadors for their

god who promised to return to their lands.

We all know how costly that mistake was.

Do I really need to write a 'summary' here?

The title says it all. You can't go wrong with zombies.

This was a surprise! I didn't know that the John Wayne

classic (this is the only film that bagged him an Oscar)

was from a book?!

Anyway, I just listed it here. I'm not sure if I would like

reading this. I mean how do you put in words John Wayne

swaggering and drawing his gun and showing the villains

the wrath of the righteous?

This book get's a 'whoa' from me.

I listed it here because the plot looks promising.

The blurb at the back says something like when you die,

you go to the afterlife and there your whole life is explained

to you by five people who somehow made a big effect on 

your life whether you knew about it or not.



Back in 1928, Henry Ford of Model-T fame had a bright idea.

Rubber is needed not just for tires but a lot of other things.

So why not grow your own rubber trees and manufacture your

own rubber? This will make him an even more affluent man

and there is also the fact that he will no longer be relying on

rubber from other sources.

So he got a very big space in Brazil. He put up everything

that his workers would need. It seems he created a whole village

out of the forest... However, from the photos in the book,

this project was doomed to failure ...



New Year's Day 2011

I didn't do any bike stuff and it was raining so all I have are these pics from NTUC :-P

It's the first day of 2011. I think I may have to wax lyrical

about life in general and my hobbies in particular... uhhh that will be

boring ;-)

So today, me and my family went out to Orchard Road (yay!).

It has been quite some time since we last went there... and

guess what? The Christmas lights are already gone!

It was raining quite heavily today... So all the people were

all cooped up in the malls. Good thing that in Singapore,

the mall 'network' is such that you may spend as little

time as possible out of the sun (or in this case, the rain) and
still get from one mall to another.

We were able to make our pilgrimage from ION to Takashimaya.

Speaking of Takashimaya, I went to Books Kinokuniya to browse

for a while and look what I found!

All households need one... really.

I browsed the above book and it, indeed, teaches the reader

what to do in the event that the world gets run over by zombies! 

This means I can write a book about totally bogus stuff

and pass it for the genuine article? Something like :

10 Rules to Survive a Martian Attack.

Apparently, the book is a best seller ... which

means the author is now rich ?!?!

Sigh, some guys have all the luck...

Anyway, I was rummaging thru my backup CDs and found

a clip of me (in blue singlet) climbing a rockwall @Climb Asia near

RaceCourse Rd.

Now, that is one thing that I miss. Rock Climbing is a fantastic

workout. I used to do that as a cross training for my

dragonboat training. The logic was it helps me stretch all

those muscles that are heavily used in dragonboat

paddling. However, the exercise is very bad for the wallet

as one session costs 8SGD! ... maybe I'll do it again

and limit myself to 1 session per week ?

Ok, enough rumbling from me. Happy New Year, people.

Tomorrow, hopefully, I'll be able to ride with my buddies.