Books

I was in Manila a week ago for a much needed vacation. Aside from missing home cooked meals and bumming around, I realized I also missed reading.

A buddy told me she was lost for words in one of her power meetings. Her boss quipped she needed to start reading books again. And that she has to read books of different kinds. Somehow, it stuck on me.

Back in my youth, people were impressed with the way I crafted my essays. I was asked to be a contributor in our newsletter, friends requested me to do write-ups for our yearbook. Heck, I was even asked to pen my friend’s wedding vow. (Funny because the groom was teary-eyed after hearing it. He probably thought the bride did it all by herself! Hello?!! That was my “vow” to my one true great love, who by the way, gave his vow to someone else!)

I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m having challenges flirting with words now. It was a walk in the park before as (I think) I have a wide vocabulary. Now drafting one can be such a pain in the ass. It’s high time I get to know other authors other than John Grisham and James Patterson and Sidney Sheldon. Goodbye bloody murder stories and say hello to more cerebral literature and lame self-help books. Hahaha.

I just bought Blink by Malcolm Gladwell. This was a bestseller years ago, colleagues highly recommended it but I ignored them all. Now this book got me hooked. Got to end my blogging now and hopefully I’ll finish it this weekend.