That day,
during my year end break, I went to a hypermarket at my hometown to do some
groceries shopping, then like an intuition, my heart was just saying “it is not bad at all if I just dropped by a
moment to MPH”…a quick intention had made me found a book that I always wanted to have. Well, I am pretty choosy when it comes to
buying book, I wont buy any book without having strong recommendation from my friends or if I do not have what we
call instinct towards the books.
So I went
to the bookstore with Nisak, well, I always love going to bookstore, especially
MPH. The feeling of going to bookstore, to me , is like going to a candy shop,
where your eyes are wild with all the colorful candies that you are unable to
choose anything when there are so many
choices for you to make(a feeling that I shared with Kak Mar and Naz, surprisingly!).
You feel so dizzy with choices that you feel like you wish to have all the
candies, or books in my case. I love doing what I call book-window-shopping.
There, I will look through all the potential books that I think would be lovely
to have, then I would fantasize how nice if I could have the books. I would
make a mental note, next time, when I have enough money, I would go again and
proudly buy that book, hehheeh, such a girly of me right?
Talking about
MPH, I was first introduced to it by my brother, Bangri, that time I was 12,
and I bought my first MPH-stamped book, at Alpha Angle if I was not mistaken.
So, MPH is where I bought most of my precious books (well, other than that so
expensive bookstore, Kamal where I bought all my books during University time,
duhhh!).
Now talking
about that book, which I said I found at MPH, at my hometown, at an intuition,
remember? The book is “Life Is an Open Secret”. Do you know how I found it?
Well, I just browsed at the bookshelf, and then a white-green thin book caught
my eyes. Well, normally it was hard for me to have ‘love at the first sight’ to
a book, but that day, I just did not know why, I felt a sudden fascination to
it, that I opened the book, enthusiastically, and there, I felt, I must buy
that book, there and then. The book was wittily written, so casual, very light
to read, yet rich with hadith and verse from Holy Quran, plus it was not
expensive. I must be a heartless one, should I not but it. Told myself, I must
buy this book. However, I needed to have an approval, should this book is sound
to read, as the book contained the verses from Holy Quran and hadith.
Well, nowadays, you have to be careful on what you read righ? So that moment, I
just called Hajar, my friend who also loved reading, she was like a walking
library I rather called her for approval, heheheh. She said, she knew about the
book, and yes it was a must-have book. So everything checked, I flashed my MPH
card, and yeah cash (I do not have credit card, never would unless I have 5
digit wage) and the book was officially mine.
The book is
so great. The moment I read the first chapter about mother, I cried
shamelessly, well alone, in my room, could not let anyone saw me crying right?
The book is so deliciously written, that I read it slowly, enjoying every page,
likewise I enjoy a bar of Cadbury chocolate, or scoops of Vanilla ice-cream, or
hmm, cheese-cake at Secret Recipe, heheh, because the book, you need to slowly
read it to have the juice of wisdom words ‘seeped in’ so you could ‘taste’ it,
so that you could have it reached to your soul. I could feel it, even though I
have not completed reading it.
This book
is so motivating, for everyone who wishes for soul-searching, well I do, I
am. Life is indeed an open secret!!
So I do
promote this book to people that I know, people that I care, and people who
love books, and who enjoy reading as much as I do. Coz this book is a must-have
book, fully recommended!!
Well, gotta
go back reading, with a glass of sky juice, evening breeze and a nice cozy
pillow………..
