TIMES the bookshop sale
yippee... it's the time of the year again where my baby and i won't hesistate to spend money... and i meant a lot of money on books. yesterday, our spending came up to RM200.
if you just read the amount.. RM200 ain't a lot... especially if you convert it to other currencies... it's after all, only USD 55 or around 25 pounds or SGD 86. To us Malaysians, it is a damn big amount on books.
To put it in practical terms, our dear beloved government allow each individual tax payer to deduct up to RM500 (or have they increase it to RM700) from the taxable income. Their idea is to encourage more Malaysians to read. However, sad to say, most of us Malaysians don't seem to utilise this. only a handful seems to buy books... and mostly the books they buy are schoolbooks for their kids.
so, did we buy a lot of books? there's 3 bags full of books sitting in the middle of my room currently. some of them are cook books (mmm... it's a pity i don't have a kitchen of my own.. but that's another story), travel books (our favourite hobby) and a lot of books.. baby is into fantasy and almost everything else, i'm only into chic lit, crime / legal and occassionally the boys lit (they are seriously funny.. so different from the gals).
Times' rival, MPH is also having a sale this weekend. will be going there later with baby.. i wonder if my credit card will burst anytime soon.
anyway, my bookshelf is already packed with books that we bought from the past 2 years. i think i read probably only 20-30% of them so far and that's not counting baby's books. lol. and we haven't use any of the recipes from our cookbook collection. and our tintin collection is still missing a few to make it a complete set. and we really need to travel to all the places that we intend to go. no point knowing where to go when you can't go right?
if you just read the amount.. RM200 ain't a lot... especially if you convert it to other currencies... it's after all, only USD 55 or around 25 pounds or SGD 86. To us Malaysians, it is a damn big amount on books.
To put it in practical terms, our dear beloved government allow each individual tax payer to deduct up to RM500 (or have they increase it to RM700) from the taxable income. Their idea is to encourage more Malaysians to read. However, sad to say, most of us Malaysians don't seem to utilise this. only a handful seems to buy books... and mostly the books they buy are schoolbooks for their kids.
so, did we buy a lot of books? there's 3 bags full of books sitting in the middle of my room currently. some of them are cook books (mmm... it's a pity i don't have a kitchen of my own.. but that's another story), travel books (our favourite hobby) and a lot of books.. baby is into fantasy and almost everything else, i'm only into chic lit, crime / legal and occassionally the boys lit (they are seriously funny.. so different from the gals).
Times' rival, MPH is also having a sale this weekend. will be going there later with baby.. i wonder if my credit card will burst anytime soon.
anyway, my bookshelf is already packed with books that we bought from the past 2 years. i think i read probably only 20-30% of them so far and that's not counting baby's books. lol. and we haven't use any of the recipes from our cookbook collection. and our tintin collection is still missing a few to make it a complete set. and we really need to travel to all the places that we intend to go. no point knowing where to go when you can't go right?
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