Jack Booked

It's another year's end and another beginning. Jack not too excited, he wasn't around last New Year so there's not much 'reflect & renew' for him.

One common recurring theme of 2005 is that Jack gets lugged to frequent book-shopping trips. He's been to a number of various outlets of MPH, Popular, Borders and Times. Here's a list of books I've consumed for 2005.

--January-- Tuesdays With Morrie [Mitch Albom] Memoirs of a Geisha [Arthur Golden] The Dilbert Principle [Scott Adams]

--February-- Eats, Shoots & Leaves [Lynne Truss] Number Ten [Sue Townsend] The Amulat of Samarkand [Jonathan Stroub] The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time [Mark Haddon] The Rules of Work [Richard Templar] Diary - A Novel [Chuck Palahniuk]
--March-- Angela's Ashes [Frank McCourt] Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 [Sue Townsend] The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole [Sue Townsend] True Confessions of Adrian Albert Mole [Sue Townsend] Chinese Cinderella [Adeline Yen Mah]
Adrian Mole: The Wilderness Years [Sue Townsend]
The Magician's Nephew [C.S.Lewis]
Girl, Interrupted [Susanna Kaysen]
Confessions of a Shopaholic [Sophie Kinsella]
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [C.S.Lewis]

--April--
The Broken Bridge [Philip Pullman]
He's Just Not That Into You [Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo]
The Jane Austen Book Club [Karen Joy Fowler]

--May--
Life of Pi [Yann Martell]
Diary of a Young Girl [Anne Frank]
The Golem's Eye [Jonathan Stroub]
The Asti-Spumante Code [Toby Clements]

--June--
Darren Shan: Cirque de Freak [NA]
Bergodf Blondes [Plum Sykes]
Fever Pitch [Nick Hornby]

--July--
Mister God, This is Anna [Fynn]
The Sunday Philosophy Club [Alexander McCall Smith]
Sophie's World [Jostein Gaardner]
Cather in the Rye [J.D. Salinger]
The Alchemist [Paulo Coelho]

--August--
Lullaby [Chuck Palahniuk]
The Horse and His Boy [C.S.Lewis]
Charlie and The Chocolate Factory [Roald Dahl]
Nothing Ever Happens in Tiffany [Marian Keyes]

--September--
Rich Dad, Poor Dad [Richard Kiyosaki]
Veronika Decides To Die [Paulo Coelho]
Joy of Work - Dilbert [Scott Adam]
Harmony Silk Factory [Tash Aw]
Adrian Mole & the Weapons of Mass Destuction [Sue Townsend]

--October--
The Full Cupboard of Life [Alexander McCall Smith]
Last Chance Saloon [Marian Keyes]
White Teeh [Zadie Smith]
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies [Alexander McCall Smith]
The Rice Mother [Rani Manicka]
--November--
Oryx and Crake [Margaret Atwood]
Angels and Demons [Dan Brown]
2 1/2 Pillars of Wisdom [Alexander McCall Smith]
--December--
Wild Swans [Jung Chang]
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire [JK Rowling]
Sari & Sins [Nisha Minhas]



This list, hoever, does not represent the amount of actual book buying I did (and Jack carted) in 2005. To not scare myself and my wallet I refuse to list them down and put a value to them. Happy New Year!

Office Jack

Jack's been busy with some office functions lately:

1) Annual Dinner @ Sunway Hotel

















2) Christmas Gift Exchange





























3) Christmas BBQ @ WK's pretty place

Holiday Jack

Mileage : 23401 km

Jack's got a busy busy busy Christmas week, with multiple trips to KLIA (twice in a same day, even), countless countless trips to countless different malls and a gathering at home with beloved family members both from Sabah and around town.

I was going to chronicle Jack's journeys for the past week, but I've lost count of his travels. Jack would like to give an (obvious) advice though - DON'T ATTEMPT SHOPPPING MALLS ON PUBLIC HOLIDAYS.

Mileage Jack

Mileage : 22446 km

Just a milage update. Jack is racking up the mileage this holidays / engagment / wedding season.
Actually I'm testing out Jack's online mileage (sic hits) tracker. Take a look at the sidebar, below the mass of links.

Engaging Jack

Last night.

















Jack milling with the crowd outside my Uncle's place in Cheras.
Inside, car-man and me has just got engaged.

more photos...

Beer Jack

Mileage : 21428 km

Jack goes snuffling around the back alleys of Brickfields to get hold of some cheap beer and alcohol for the upcoming engagement. (legal? Illegal? No comment..)

An amusing outing, considering the way the guys at the doorway jumped nervously when my two favourites botaks approached the place. After much wary questions and furtive glances they finally led car-man and my bro to the 'shop' proper, with its stash of drinks and drunks. There were stacks of drinks and quite some drunks glazed out in the shop, so I'm told. I didn't get to see these as I was kept in Jack for safekeeping.

With a few RM70-a-crate Tigers and some other extras, Jack then heads home to Subang.

Jack Probed

Annoyed with the 'THACK' sound Jack does everytime you turn his steering full to the left (or right, I can't tell), car-man takes him apart to check what's wrong with in Jack.














































(no that's not our son)




Investigations didn't yield anything, unfortunately.
The annoying sound is still there.