For all the mums out there.

Belated Happy Mother's Day.

AJ Jacobs.

This man wrote a book called The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, in which he documented - yeah you guessed right - the year when he lived his life by following the Bible as literally as possible, including growing a messy beard and not wearing mixed fibre clothes.



And he is no nutcase. He has a good CV. He just happens to be a guy who likes to use himself as an experimental tool.

I came to know about him when I read his other book, The Know-It-All. In this book, he wrote about the year he spent on reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. The book - a bit like his journal and extremely funny and informative - is easily one of my favourites. I haven't read The Year of Living Biblically, but I will get a copy.

His new book, The Guinea Pig Diaries, is coming out September this year.

"Cassie, his heart will stop at the sight of you, or he doesn't deserve to live."

-- Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, Becoming Jane (2007)

I am back but too lazy to blog.

so instead of describing my awesome trip to London and my awesome experience at the Apollo Theatre in my awesome seats (yes - "seats" with the plural "s" - I saw it three times, but let's not get into it) seeing the awesomely awesome James McAvoy on stage for 2 hours x3, i thought i should post this:

glad to be back home too.  always nice to know that both human and feline missed me.  and honestly, the water in the UK is b.a.d. - something a life-long soft water user like me can never get used to.  (mental note - bring lots and lots of moisture masks and lotions next time)

i hope my happiness reserve will last me through next week, when a sh*tload of work is waiting for me in the office.