Sunday, January 30, 2011

Playing For Pizza

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John Grisham, 2007

My second book of the year. Glad that I finished it by end of this month which fulfilled my resolution, "at least 2 books a month" (自己満足:)
306 pages and a-good-light-read..if I were to compare with the previous book that I had read.

The novel is about an itinerant American football player who can no longer get work in the National Football League and whose agent, as a last resort, signs a deal for him to play for the Parma Panthers, in Parma, Italy.

However, I did skip some pages. Those pages about the strategies they use in playing American Football. It is written in detail that I bet those who are in love with this sport would easily relate themselves to the game. They might feel like they were watching the game in a stadium? (haha) . Unfortunately... not for me. I couldn't understand the "beauty" of the American football!!! I could enjoy Sumo and I know about baseball and find it very interesting ( I even had my fav team back then)...but I found it is hard to understand the American Football! Sorry.



However I did enjoy the novel (minus the game)
★★★
:)

my 2nd book, 2011

Sunday, January 23, 2011

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle

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Haruki Murakami, 2003
(translated by Jay Rubin)


Finally managed to finish this 607 pages book (Thank you Iman chan :). 607 pages! and it took me months! (actually I completed 2 other books within the period :)


It is about a low-key unemployed man, Toru Okada, whose cat runs away (and also his wife). A chain of events follow that prove that his seemingly mundane boring life is much more complicated than it appears.


Several characters appear in this book and each one has their own story (Okada is the listener to all the stories). So many stories that sometimes makes me wonder "do these stories related to each other?"....you know, that kind of feeling.....And I found some of the story "boring" (so i skipped a few pages :) ..but I do like the stories about war..WW2..war stories relating Japan- Russia- Mongolia- China. The war stories featured in this book might be fiction but I suppose they are based on some real event happened during the World War II. 


Ok, overall it is too long and complicated and heavy. 
I still have faith in "Haruki Murakami" though :D and the Japanese version of another Haruki Murakami novel -"Norwegian Wood" (Akiko lent me) is on my desk..waiting for me to explore him (or her :) ..but I think I would read something lighter first. My brain needs some rest! hehe


★★★


My 1st book, 2011

Saturday, January 8, 2011

気分はしばらく「わくわく」

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第2回「わくわく日本語デー」が終わりました!
実は、今は、とてもともてとても疲れています。

でも、まだ「わくわく」気分がおさまっていないので、
休むことができません!(笑)

今日も、去年同様、とてもとても楽しかったです。
まあ、時間がだいぶオーバーしてしまいましたけどね。
「とても元気」な学生たちを扱うのは簡単ではないな…
って改めて感じました。


でも、その「元気」が、今日のイベントを成功させたのです。
だから、それでよかったのです。
それが、よかったのです。

さて、みなさんは、どう思いますか。
バンダナとバッチはどうでしたか。
ゲームはどうでしたか。
プレゼントはどうでしたか。
よかったら、感想を聞かせてくださいね。:)



ムスさん、アスマさん、ファイズルさん、ニザムさん、スハイラさん、ファハミさん、アディバさんをはじめ、TAさんたちを入れて、60人以上もいる「わくわく」作業部のみなさん、いろいろ大変でしたが、
お疲れ様でした!:)

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

愛の歌

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引っこ抜かれて、あなただけについて行く 
今日も運ぶ、戦う、増える、そして食べられる 
ほったかされて、また会って、投げられて 
でも私たちあなたに従い尽くします 

そろそろ遊んじゃおうかな 
そっと出かけてみようかなーんて 
嗚呼 嗚呼 
あの空に 恋とか、しながら 

いろんな生命が生きているこの☆で 
今日も運ぶ、戦う、増える、そして食べられる 
引っこ抜かれて、集まって、飛ばされて 
でも私たち愛してくれとは言わないよ 

そろそろ遊んじゃおうかな 
そっと出かけてみようかなーんて 
嗚呼 嗚呼 
あの空に 恋とか、しながら 

力合わせて、戦って、食べられて 
でも私たちあなたに従い尽くします

 立ち向かってって、黙って、ついてって 
でも私たち愛してくれとは言わないよ 


とても切ない…


ジョイは元気にしているのかな…


Saturday, January 1, 2011

勝手にランキングを :)

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 以下は、私が2010年に読んだ本のランキング;


 1 A Day Late and a Dollar Short;  Terry Mc Millan, 2001
(African American ordinary family conflict)


 2 チルドレン; 伊坂幸太郎, 2007
(「陣内」を中心としたいくつかの奇妙、ヒューマーもある物語)


 3 The Girl Who Played With Fire;   Stieg Larsson, 2009
(A world class computer hacker fights for her own life)


 4 The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest;   Stieg Larsson, 2009
(A world class computer hacker fights for her own life) final version


 5 My Sister's Keeper;   Jodi Picoult, 2004
(13 year old Anna, who sues her parents for medical emancipation when she is expected to donate a kidney to her sister, who is dying from leukemia)


 6 Lasykar Pelangi;   Andrea Hirata,2009
(A tough life of several malay children in pursuing their education)


 7 Sang Pemimpi;   Andrea Hirata 2009
(The survival story of the "Laskar Pelangi" children)  


 8 Twenties Girl;   Sophie Kinsella, 2009
(A very funny story of a young girl who meets a ghost of her late grandmother)


 9 幸福ロケット; 山本幸久、2005
(小学生のとてもかわいい恋愛物語)


 10 アヒルと鴨のコインロッカー; 伊坂幸太郎、2003
(日本の大学生と留学生の奇妙な出会い、不思議な物語)


これは、トップ10でした。
やはり、A Day Late and a Dollar Shortは印象的でした。
そして、次は、11から26までのランキング;


 11 Cinta Sufi;   Ramlee Awang Murshid, 2010
 12 Imam Syafie;   Abdul Latip Talib, 2010
 13 Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman;   Haruki Murakami, 2007
 14 Ford County;   John Grisham, 2009
 15 悪夢のエレベーター; 木下半太、2007


 16 日本人の知らない日本語; 蛇蔵&海野凪子、2009 (マンガですが)
 17 Mini Shopaholic;   Sophie Kinsella, 2010
 18 SIFU;   Khoo Kheng-Hor, 2009
 19 チチ、カエル; 西田俊也,2008
 20 The Japanese Lover;   Rani Manicka, 2010


 21 イニシエーション・ラブ; 乾くるみ、2007
 22 Getting Mad, Getting Even;   Annie Sanders,2009
 23 Girls' Night Out;   Kathy Lette, Sophie Kinsella etc., 2001
 24 The Trader's Wife;   Thomas Weldon, 1997
 25 Ranggau;   Ramlee Awang Murshid,1999
 26 スイッチを押すとき; 山田悠介、2005


*Buku yang ditulis dalam Bahasa Malaysia - 5 buah
*Books written in English - 13 books
*日本語で書かれた本 - 8冊




今年も読書三昧ができるように。


ハッピーニューイヤー!
:)

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