Stay Home With Your Kids Day
2008-08-18 @ 8:31 p.m.

I've decided not to go hiking with the MOE people tomorrow. Partly because I'm still very tired, partly because I have stacks of books to read. Speaking of books, I told my dad to buy me a couple of Houellebecq novels from the Kinokuniya at Suria KLCC, since he's headed to KL on a business trip. I hope he understands the instructions I sent via SMS. If he buys the wrong books, I'm not paying him back! I returned a stack of unread books at the Sembawang library on Sunday, only to grab a thinner stack of local literature. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with local writing. I think a lot of it is like marshmallows, which Mr Purvis said one of his former students described as "mouthfuls of empty" or something along those lines. At the same time, someone obviously thought the writing was worth publishing, and since I've never had a collection featuring solely my writing published, I should probably shut up. That said, there are some local writers whom I greatly admire, for various reasons that I'm too zoned out to elaborate here. So I borrowed A History Of Amnesia, for the third time since secondary school. I should probably just buy it from Kinokuniya, along with a bunch of other stuff from Ethos Books.