Making a case for the Ipad

Blogging can be quite tricky sometimes, especially if you're trying to be consistent.  My previous posts have mostly been on my personal impressions on the books I am reading as part of my goal for 2012.  The hard thing for me is that there are times that I am able to think of what I want to write about a particular book or thing but I am not able to do so because I am in the mall or whatever and then when I do get the chance to sit down and write, I find myself staring blankly and trying to squeeze out every word.

I guess that makes a good case for getting myself an Ipad.  Bwahaha. I was skeptical about this when it was first introduced (and the fact that the name tends to remind people of something else does not help) but thinking about it, it would certainly be more economical than getting a Kindle. 

The Ipad would have been especially useful last weekend.  Last Thursday, we suddenly decided to go to the province because of the declared holiday on Friday.  I have already finished The Age of Innocence and Their Eyes were Watching God and was supposed to blog about it over the weekend but our change of plans made it impossible to do so.  The lack of internet connection could account for that.  Flashes and glimpses of what I want to write about those two books haunted me during the long weekend.  Oh well, I guess that is the sacrifice one has to pay.  That and about a thousand bucks. hehehe  It was well worth it because I finally got the chance to get some rest and relaxation away from the distractions of the city.  Sometimes I get so caught up in the hustle and bustle of the Internet age that I just want to "disconnect" myself from everything.  No facebook, no twitter, no YM, no cable tv, no nothing.

I was also able to finish Sense and Sensibility during the trips to and from and the down times (somehow, there are a lot more of these when you are in the province..hehehe).  All that seafood (and well food in general) also goes a long way to make up for whatever inconvenience.  The only real downside is that the fact that I spent the whole three days doing practically nothing made the monday blues yesterday even more acute.  But as they say, all good things must come to an end.

Dream a little dream: my wish list for the next 2 years

In one of my earlier posts, I mentioned that I was able find most of the books in my to be read list online.  I am now posting the list of books that I have yet to find as part of my wish list (hint*hint*ahem*ahem)
Wish List

1. A Thousand Cranes by Yasunari Kawabata

2. Against the Day by Thomas  Pynchon

3. Atonement by Ian McEwan

4. Austerlitz  by W.G. Sebald

5. Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery

6. Empire of the Sun  by J.G. Ballard

7. Life of Pi  by Yann Martel

8. Nostromo  by Joseph Conrad

9. On the Edge of Reason by Miroslav Krleza

10. Remembrance of Things Past  by Marcel Proust

11. Requiem for a Dream by Hubert  Selby Jr.

12. The Accidental by Ali Smith

13. The Bell  by Iris Murdoch

14. The Book of Daniel  by E.L. Doctorow

15. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting  by Milan Kundera

16. The Grapes of Wrath  by John Steinbeck

17. The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

18. The Human Stain  by Philip Roth

19. The Melancholy of Resistance  by László Krasznahorkai

20. The Plague  by Albert Camus

21. The Portrait of a Lady  by Henry James

22. The Sea  by John Banville

23. The Sun Also Rises  by Ernest Hemingway

24. The Talented Mr. Ripley  by Patricia Highsmith

25. Vertigo  by W.G. Sebald

Of course my wish list would not be complete without some shooting for the stars entries:
26.  Kindle (or an Ipad...hehehe)
27. Asian tour for two (hint hint ahem ahem...hahaha)
28. Shopping trip in HK or Thailand (hehehe)
29. 24" (or higher) flat screen TV
30. Macbook or a pink Sony Vaio
31. Xperia X10

Ok ok, I know the last items in my list are pushing it but there's nothing wrong with dreaming big, right? It may be out there but I won't go as far as to say that it's out of the picture (hehehe)