Sixteen years ago, living in Thailand, I didn’t really have any collection of books. What my dad had in the study room was what I read, albeit most books were political in nature (which is probably why I have been so keen in politics since).<\/p>\n
Fast forward to the late 90’s when I was an art student, I actually started to have a small collection of books — arts (of course) and many philosophical in nature (my “soul searching” days, like the kind my brother is experiencing right now).<\/p>\n
When I moved from New York City to the Golden State, I essentially ditched all those “soul searching” and literature arts stuff. Well, partially it was because I got married (what more is there to search for?), and another reason was that a totally different part of the brain took over — I started getting more interested in programming, web development and Linux server administration. And as a result, my book collections grew accordingly. You know you’ve met a geek when you see a shelf full of books with programming and other geeky goodies.<\/p>\n
Now, after four and half years, the pendulum has swung back to other hemisphere of the brain (the half that makes society civilized and bearable) — arts. So I’ve slowly started ditching and donating my tech books. In their place, the shelf is slowly being filled with books of arts related topics.<\/p>\n
Now if only I have the time to actually read through each and everyone of them from cover to cover like Brian seemingly to be able to do… then life would be all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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