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?

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