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J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement from Harvard Magazine on Vimeo.

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It’s one week since CNY, can you believe that?

I celebrated my first non-Medan CNY this year (since I moved overseas almost 10 years ago I had never missed any CNY with the family). Spent the weekend over at S. Hills with aunt, cousins and nephew. When I got back home on Monday eve, I was dead tired, for whatever reason. I felt I could just crash right there.

It’s a sunny Saturday (got cloudy in the afternoon) and I am staying home. Why? Cos I’m sick. I think I have what we call “masuk angin” in Indonesian. It’s alright now, all good. I’m lazing around watching episodes and episodes of Cougar Town LOL, but yikes, I hate it when I don’t feel good and it’s hot outside, grrr…

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And happy Valentiney Chinese New Year… to all happy couples out there (and here)

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Hot, hot, hot. It’s so freakin’ hot here in the summer, geesh. It’s “supposed to be” the last month of summer now? and man is it HOT. It’s simply too much for me, can’t stand it.

Anyways… work was busy last week but in the end productive. Still keeping to not letting work get in the way of my personal time. I would stay 15 mins later if I have to, and start an hour or 2 earlier to get things done. But my evening and weekend time are untouchable. It’s very important I set aside time to do my other stuff which is just as important, if not more, than work.

Friday morning I started out around 7 in the morning. It was raining. It was rather dark still and coffee shops were just opening. I could see a few people in there with their morning paper and cuppas. Rainy Friday morning around downtown… reminds me of the time I was in Vancouver.

Saturday… went shopping around for dresses. Finally got the red dress I was looking for. Caught me when I walked past the store, and fit me perfectly. The material is not stretchable and is designed for petite waist so you either fit well in it or not at all. Bought the smallest size, and another 60′s-influenced dress together with that.

Went to Borders and picked up 3 books — The Starbucks Experience, Web Copy That Sells, and The 4-Hour Work-Week. I have enough coupons to buy another book to get the next one at $25 off so am gonna do that one of these evenings. I already know what books to get – something about online marketing for small businesses and small business entrepreneurship. Also needed to get an Australian taxation reference book for small business and investments.

I personally think there is a huge problem with bookstores in “developed” countries – same here, same in Canada. The first thing you see when you walk into a bookstore is FICTION section, followed by overwhelming range of novels, cookbooks, travel books, gifts and stationery. Business, finance, political science, and self-development books are hidden towards the back corners, where big business titles are hard to spot, and the volumes so limited. Of course, it’s all about salesmanship. It is obvious then why the current “reading generation” is dominated by readers of Twilight, Lovely Bones, Harry Potter, and so on. Don’t get me wrong, nothing’s wrong with these books but the balance of availability has become quite ridiculous. Like Zin said when we were shopping around Chapters (the major bookstore chain in Canada), “There is a bigger section for How To Lose 10 lbs in 2 Days than one for The Real Issues With Our Economy and The World”. Very true.

Enough said. Last evening we talked on Skype and bounced around a business idea. Very early still, just something that popped in my head on Friday night.

Woke up past 8 this morning, and spent the morning semi-relaxing… made Yukgaejang (Korean spicy beef and vegetables soup). It’s one of my favorites and never realized it’s so easy to make. Got the ingredients from the Korean grocery yesterday.

Zin is out checking out the Winter Olympics thingy in town. What an irony Vancouver doesn’t have snow this year when the winter olympics is going on, haha, whereas other cities in the States that don’t normally snow are getting snowed in still (and it’s February!). Talk about global warming.

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