It’s been six years since my last post. And here I am, finding myself back to this blog again, drawn by wanting to write, read and share my useless thoughts about the world and around me.

I turn 39 last month. I was in Kuala Lumpur at the time. And I got sick. Fever, flu, cough. Miserable feeling being away from home and not being able to feel normal. You feel like you’re disappointing everybody because you can’t have fun with them. Horrid feeling. But I managed. It wasn’t COVID I think.

Wow, I can’t believe my last post six years ago things were normal in the world. Or what you can interpret as normal daily issues as Earth rotates and do it’s normal course of things. 2020 was the pivotal year that everything changed. The world changed. If that could even be possible. A disease changed the world. Makes you learn never to look down on scrappy things huh? “Even the smallest person can change the course of the future” – Galadriel.

Anyway, I decided to switch off social media for awhile. I’ve been doing that on and off. But, this time feels different. It feels like I can let it go and never look back. What motivated me was the whole beautiful collection of books that I adopted from my sister. Now it’s with me. Woohoo! And I realized that I don’t have time anymore to read because of social media. It just takes me out too much. I’m constantly browsing non stop! And reading feels like a chore now.

On top of that, I have several books that remains in their original wrappings, unread and dusty. I have bought them and left it unopened. Preposterous. I used to bring books to the toilet to just continue reading as if my life depended on it. Everywhere I go I had a book. But how things changed with technology. Social media is not beneficial for me. I hope I can do this. I need to do this.

So my mission now is to complete my halfway readings. Books that I’ve read a little and dumped them because I just had no time. And the first one at that is DUNE by Frank Herbert. Science fiction. Wow. Such a heavy book to start of with. Literally heavy too by the way.

So maybe my next post I can share my book updates, experience on going on a book sabbatical and making time to read! I can’t believe it’s so hard now to read… well till the next post. Hope it won’t be another six years time… adios for now.