365 days ago, I would've been about $1700 richer. Perhaps it could be said that I'm also over a hundred books richer, of which 22 of them are signed by their respective authors, and many more of them first editions. All of these would be under the category of 'pleasure reading', or, at least, I didn't buy it because it was required for school or ( Read more... )

There are times when I regret not training my mind to understand the structure of music, so that I can create it. Nowadays, I cannot practice on the piano by virtue of muscle memorization and sight-reading, and I'm left merely with an appreciation of music. I do wish that I've paid more focus to music though, because the World Music genre has ( Read more... )

But how can I ignore such Chapters promotion?

To go against doing so would be fundamentally unadvantageous to myself in the unstable marketplace...! Mockingly, "hurry, limited time only, while quantities last."

...Balls to my 'money saving plan'. And here I was hoping to purchase an authentic Eames chair. What bullocks.

Alas, I have no qualms about spending money on books. Shame, that.

Eye on visiting Book City sometime, even though I'm so mainstream when it comes to Chapter conveniences and the centralisation of the best-selling. And who could resist free internet shipping over $39! But then I discovered overstocks at Book City such as Microcosm, Norman Davies ( Read more... )

On a completely different note, I feel so reluctant to spend on anything with a label. In fact, I've flirted with the idea of removing all tags and certainly not make a purchase out of an item that displays its images of agency which in fact only makes me an advertising sign. Rather surreal to think that less than a year ago I was scouting Louis ( Read more... )

May purchase one of the following:

• one-year automatic payment to Livejournal, paid account
  
• website, domain name with ftp, mysql; for personal work and community art challenges
  
• Eve Online account, good for one month
  
• National Geographic subscription for a year

If anyone has National Geographics or architectural magazines (i.e. Architectural Digest) ( Read more... )