Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Child of the media age

As a child of the media age, as a citizen of a global kampung, I hereby blame the media for skewing my expectations, ruining my perceptions and nearly destroying everything I have hereby worked towards. I sue the supposed information blitzers for filling my heads with improbable ideas, unsustainable desires and unachievable life & relationship goals.

Everywhere you look, everything you read shows and talks about impossible demands made and miraculously and selflessly fulfilled by partners, friends and parents under the guise of , " if you love me.....". Do they really want us to believe that we are as fabulous as these career and home wizards inhabiting Danielle Steele's world, or as happening and hot as those babes in the movie, or anyone can love us with the starry eyed determination of Jacob or Stefan?

What is love, really?? Is it getting lovely bunches of flowers and presents for the one you love? Planning surprise vacations and get aways?High expectations & high maintenance. Or is it giving someone a nice home, cooking for them, cleaning for them, spending a few warm moments and expecting nothing in return?

Are we still in an era where a woman has to be glad to have "landed" a man or is marriage now an equal partnership?

Is it wrong to expect something from your partner or wrong to have them expect something from you?

Can one really be one of those grippingly intense couples in a Nora Robert book? Who gives authors right to make us imagine? Who actors the right to make us dream? is there really a Rahul for every Simran? Or are we all living in a world of pretend.

Do we really need someone to be with us, to reassure us ,to hold us, to pamper us? Do we really need someone to dote on, to smother in our love as we are lead to believe by all books and movies or are we simply better off alone?

Why does a woman have to follow her man, give everything up, build new lives and never recieve appreciation? Why is that the man does so little yes recieves all the appreciation!! ?? What makes them superior?


I think the best advice I have ever recieved was...." Snap Out of the Movies Nazeen- Free Flix is over!" But then again.. was it?




Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Book Sale

Hi!

Dirt Cheap Books! Get books for as cheap as RM 1 and as expesnive as RM 12!! Good Qualitybooks, paper backs hard covers !!

A friend left some for me to sell and I added a few of my own. All of the proceeds will go towards the education of a couple of girls.

Please mail me at nkoonda@gmail.com or call me if you have my number.

Here is the list

TITLE

AUTHOR

RM

Mr. God this is Anna

Fynn

1

The Inheritors

William Golding

1

The Clairvoyant

Marian Thurm

1

I am an artichoke

Lucy Frank

1

Chain Letter

Christopher Pike

1

Night without end

Alistair Maclean

1

A nyonya in Texas

Lee Su Kim

2

Plain tales from the raj

Charles allen

2

the life and loves of a she devil

fay weldon

2

the woman who married a bear

john straley

2

the shadow guest

hillary waugh

2

second sight

amanda quick

2

jaded

lucy hawking

2

Scared to death

Alan Gibbons

2

Jewel

Bret Lott

2

Married but available

Abhijit Bhaduri

2

Gift of wings

Richard Bach

2

Science Fiction Stories

various

2

Men and other mammals

Jim Keeble

2

three legged horse

ann hood

2

The heart is a lonely hunter

carson Mc Cullers

2

An offer you cant refuse

Jill Mansell

2

The touch Typist

Helen Sandler

2

Me Times Three

Alex Witchel

2

The Penguin who knew too much

Donna Andrews

2

Pave weavers

Julia Jarman

2

Ten Gothis Tales

Various

2

Nature Girl

Carl Hiaasen

3

Bliss

O Z Livaneli

3

The deep end of the ocean

jacquelyn Mitchard

3

The veil of a thousand tears

Eric van Lustbader

3

voice of the heart

barbara taylor Bradford

3

Carrie

stephen king

3

Fuit of the lemon

Andrea Levy

3

lie by moonlight

amanda quick

3

Drama queen

susan conley

3

born tobe wild

patti berg

3

Where you belong

barbara taylor Bradford

3

Congo

Michael Crichton

3

fried green tomatoes at the whistle stop café

Fannie Flagg

3

Why we buy

paco underhill

3

The Senitel

Arthur C Clarke

3

The word and other places

Jeannete winterson

3

Pigs in heaven

kingsolver

3

The last town on earth

Thomas Mullen

3

The wizard of lonleiness

John Nichols

3

Politika

Tom Clancy

3

The fortune Catcher

Susan Pari

3

ow to kill your husband and other household tips

kathy lette

3

Are you in the mood

Stephanie Lehmann

3

M is for Malice

Sue Grafton

3

Swallowing Grandma

Kate Long

3

Our little secret

Duncan Fairhurst

3

K is for Killer

Sue Grafton

3

The girl most likely to…

Susan Donovan

3

Love you madly

Alex George

3

Madness of Modern Families

Annie Ashworth

3

Memories

Bennett Davlin

3

Safelty

Tegan Bennett Daylight

3

Requiem for the east

Andrei Makine

3

Heaven Sent

Christina Jones

3

Housewife on Top

Alison Penton Harper

3

God Emperor of Dune

Frank Herbert

3

Committed

Dan Matthewws

3

looking for laura

judith arnold

4

Chikara

Robert Skimin

4

Crime

Irvine Walsh

4

The devils teardrop

jeffery deaver

4

the drowning people

richard mason

4

Bloodsucking Fiends

Christopher Moore

4

The quickie

James Patterson

4

Lone Eagle

Danielle Steel

4

The reluctant fundamentalist

Mohsin Hamid

4

Saint

Mark Bailey

4

Wilt in Nowhere

Tom Sharpe

4

The sisters O'Donnell

Lyn Andrews

4

Bitter Sweet

Danielle Steel

5

From Buick 8

stephen king

5

special topics in calamity physics

marisha pessl

5

The eyes of a child

Richard North Patterson

5

Fault Lines

Anne Rivers Siddon

5

Summer Land

michael chabon

5

the loner

josephine cox

5

Three Girls and their brother

theresa rebeck

5

If god qas a banker

ravi subramanian

5

The 3 mistakes of my life

chetan Bhagat

5

The marketing code

stephen brown

5

A falcon flies

wilbur smith

5

The sound of thunder

wilbur smith

5

Thanks for the memories

cecelia ahern

5

Fractured

Karin Slaughter

5

dark angel

Sally Beauman

5

The monk who sold his ferrari

robin Sharma

5

Lucky

Alice Sebold

5

You can win

Shiv Khera

5

Ask and its given

Esther and Gerry Hicks

5

Cell

Stephen King

5

When the lion feeds

Wilbur SMith

5

The memory keepers daughter

Kim edwards

5

Shattered Icon

Bill Napier

5

Wilbur Smith

The Quest

5

Monkey God

Translated by Arthur Waley

5

Jennie

Douglas Preston

5

The wheel of darkness

douglas preston & lincoln child

5

Crow Stone

Jenni Mills

5

Killing Time

Linda Howard

5

Bad Luck and Trouble

Lee Child

5

The school for husbands

wendy holden

5

The frida night knitting club

Kate Jacobs

5

Say Good Bye

Lisa Gardener

5

Prisoner of Tehran

Marina Nemat

5

Sail

James Patterson

5

California Club

Belinda Jones

5

The woman next door

Barbara Delinsky

5

Duma Key

stephen king

5

Play Dirty

Sandra Brown

5

The last Gospel

David Gibbins

5

Wrath of God's Children

Bryant King Bennet

5

Growing pains of a hapless house husband

sam holden

5

Disclosure

Michael Crichton

5

The Matarese Circle

Robert Ludlum

5

The Lazarus Vendetta

Robert Ludlum

5

The many conditions of love

farhad zama

5

Gypsy Masala

Preethi Nair

5

The other hand

Chris Cleave

5

Brida

Paulo Coelhi

5

How big isour brain

Ian Livingstone and Jamie Thomson

5

Love life and All that jazz

Almed Faiyaz

5

Love, Lust, Life

Azhan Ahsan

5

If I am missing ordead

Janine Latus

5

Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Stephen King

5

Don’t lose our mind, lose your weight

Rujata Diwekar

5

The brief histor of the dead

Kevin Brockmeier

5

A house for Mr. Biswas

V S Naipul

5

One son is enough

Pegg woodford

5

S is for silence

Sue Grafton

5

Wirld wide adventures in love

louise werner

5

A perfect mess

Eric Abrahamson/ DavidH Freedman

5

honor thyself

Danielle Steel

7

The invible road

elizabeth knox

7

The time travellers life

audrey niffenegger

7

Rage

Wilbur Smith

7

Eclipse

Richard North Patterson

7

Pandoras' daughter

Iris Johansen

7

guily sins & guilty as sins (Double bill)

Tami Hoag

10

The hour I first believed

wally lamb

10

Tha nation

Terr Pratchett

10

Love rules & Home truths (Double)

Freya North

10

Blind Eye

Stuart Mc. Bride

10

The judas strain

james rollins

12