how many books you read every month?

If you can read Chinese, strongly recommend for www.blogchina.com not for the blogging there but if you are looking for review or in-depth report on current issues, sometimes it helps quite a lot.

anyway, was reading a post there about a recent survey on the reading habit of Chinese people, and 51% of us read at least 1 book per momth, the review says this number is going down but I still found it quite comforting if this is really an average number which was conducted in a wide scale. I know that people before graduating from university read a lot of books but most of them are very practical - in a Chinese tranditional (state-own) book store you can see heaps of shelves of reference books for subjects that students are putting all their effort in. I believe that makes up a huge part of the survey result. I remember the time when I used to have 2 desks filled with reference books for my last year in high school while preparing for National Entrance Exam for University (that's such a memory you can ask any Chinese student who survived out of it!!) I am not sure whether I can live up to this statistic since I am reading much slower now in a world of non-native languages. But I am glad that I am still doing so! : ) What book are you reading at the moment?

my recent list in a random order:
Elfriede Jelinek "the Piano Teacher" (love the movie and soundtrack!!!)
Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln "Holy Blood Holy Grail"
Paulo Coelho "the Prigrimage"
and quite a bunch of good good Chinese books brought back from China : )

btw, love the new look of my blog!

Happy reading and blogging!

wow,never got that many comments before in other blogs!

so I was just dropping by and accidentally came to my first post here while happily browsing others and then I caught sight that I even got 5 comments for my first post!! a very nice surprise and motivation. People who have been reading my previous blog know that I am really lazy when it comes to posting. I feel ashame - cuz I really enjoy reading the others...and always feel so glad that I get to know how my friends' going with life but I am too laid back to do the same. :( bad habbit, will try to improve, and Maria - I will be led by example of yours ;)

yeah, life goes great here. I was told before the darkness in Copenhagen will "kill" people in winter for its significant endlessness - esp from Jan to March - it is just been too long and after Christmas and New Year - no more excuse to actually light up the whole city for all day long to comfort the desire of light from the bottom of everyone's heart (well of course there are exceptinonals). anyway, on the way from home back to Denmark - I was depressed already on the plane for the "promissing" future of another 3 months without sunlight - but you know what - it is not THAT bad at all! For the 4 days I've been back, they have all been sunny and today when I went for a trip with trainees to the coast upnorth - It is even so sunny that I seriously thought of where are my sun glasses!!!! Beautiful beautiful ocean blue just flashing around everywhere. With an old and magnificant castle as background with the deep blue just a few feet in front... What can I ask for more? mm, maybe a little bit warmer so I can actually embrace the water?! ;)

oh, just as adviced I need to do a bit of self-intro. My name's Wing as you can see and it comes from my cantonese name not a any random english name though it has a nice meaning in this universal language! (sometimes I hate explaining people about this when they could not possibly accpet that is my name - as simple but different like that), what I will never hate is to introduce where I come from - a southen city of China - Foshan - the homeland of Kongfu and Products of china! my aiesec life in contrast is not as significant as my lovely hometown (which btw has the best food in the world) - was in AIESEC China and now working in AIESEC Denmark struggling with those business-oriented ppl. :)

goodie, here I sigh off and will see how my motivation goes. may you all sound and frequent posting.

back to Copenhagen

this is a long and very nice holiday back home and I realized how much I missed home and those I love - for the first time - I actually couldnt control my tear when saying goodbye to my mom on the way to the airport... and starring into each of the tree, buidling, people in my hometown - not something extrodinary but definitely important to me.

the trip back to China was extremely comfortable with SAS promoting me to economy flex with a reason unknown to me - maybe because I was the few ppl actually using the self-service check-in machine! ; )

the 3 whole weeks were full of good food(mainly cantonese food plus some other random stuff), wine everyday(even in China, yes, I mean wine!), home-made cookies and Christmas chocolate - sounds like very european isn't it? ; )

to be continued with my pictures....