books.. isaac.. & bunga paha

the times’ books warehouse sale over the weekend was disappointing. i didnt get my hands on the asimov books i wanted (more of that later). but it wasnt a complete washout cos i did get myself david mitchell's number 9 dream. was pretty captivated by his cloud atlas, so lets hope this one's as captivating


was told that i'm a completist cos i'm obsessed wif reading the complete collection in isaac asimov's robot, empire and foundation series. not sure the word even exists, but since honey n fh are the experts when it comes to the english language, i'll take their word for it.

but yes, i am obsessed. i am totally hooked on asimov, n i'm upset that i've yet to get my hands on 3 books in the empire series. i hv to know what happened! my craze started one day last year when i chanced upon the first 3 foundation novels at an mph warehouse sales (yes i was introduced to asimov n his works rather late in my reading life, but better late than never!)

since the books were going for cheap, i thot i shd give them a try. n boy was i hooked. started lapping up all the books in the foundation series, thanks to the national library which keeps a great asimov collection by the way (but no empire series!). thats when i found out that there's a robot series that preludes the foundation ones. so i lapped those up. n then i found out that the empire series continues the story where the robot series ended. The empire series fill the chronological gap between the robot series n the foundation series, all of which intertwine together to form a very long and convulated fictional universe (which I totally like cos the plots are all so clever, not only by themselves but also as cleverly-disguised commentaries on the actual state of affairs back in asimov’s times)

but i've yet to get my hands on them! granted, reviews of the books are nothing to shout abt. n even asimov himself had said that those books were not his proudest achievements. but i hv to know what happened!

in other news..

was persuaded by mum to accompany her to check out the wedding stuffs at ayer hitam. it was a learning journey of sorts. for instance, mum was going on n on abt the stuffs for the bunga paha. n i don’t even know what bunga paha is till i saw it. oohhhhh itu rupanya bunga paha... mesti nak ada bunga paha ke ma? eh mestilah.... kalau tak pelamin nampak kosong gitu. oohhhhh ok.