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My New Favourite Bookshop

"Where have you been my whole life?" That's what I said to myself when I found out about the instagram id @fatchickenbooks, the secondhand bookshop which sells 'pre-loved-posh condition books'. I'm finally at the point in my life where I can afford my quite expensive hobby, collecting books. Well, not always. My program is to buy books once every month, the quantity doesn't matter, as long as it's only once in a month (that's to prevent myself from starvation because I tend to...shop too many books). I usually buy my books from www.periplus.com (not endorsed), it was my first heaven. To me, none of the bookshops in town is good enough, because none of them sells any original and imported books I love. The problem is, because I have to import the book, it will also take quite a long time. Usually it's around a month long before all my books arrive. That's quite a long wait for an impatient prick like me. Moreover, the more books I bu...

Been too long.

Been years, hasn't it? I've grown a lot (bigger and older) since the last time. I guess I'll start telling you about my job because that's what's been occupying my mind and time recently. It's my second year of teaching. Who would've thought that I'd ended up becoming a teacher? I mean, I wouldn't. I used to think that teaching is not my thing. I'm not good around many people and I don't really have any fond memories from my school days. But, hey? Here I am spending my days with all those kids and I'm as happy as I can be. I guess I've finally found the place where I belong. My school isn't actually a big one, we had only 17 students on our first year. But I guess I have fallen in love with teaching when I met them. To be honest, I have fallen in love with them, being around them. It was never an easy start for me, I've never had any teaching practices at any school before. I used to cry a lot when I felt like I couldn...