Creative Meanderings

My ramblings and wanderings through life

  • Like a Choose Your Own Adventure story Every day has numerous possibilities. Sadly, we cannot bookmark a page in life And must make choices Without being able to go back to said point When we find we’ve come to a gruesome end. Instead, we must bravely and confidently choose our path Some with great cynical optimism and others in hopeful pessimism. Our saving grace is that every day begins anew, Allowing us the…

  • _Room_ by Emma Donoghue This was probably one of the most interesting fiction novels that I’ve read in a long time in terms of a unique story from an unfamiliar perspective. Donoghue writes the entire novel from the point-of-view of Jack, a curious five-year-old, who shortly after his fifth birthday has to learn to shoulder a great deal of responsibility and expand his mind beyond his own imagination. Not only is there an…

  • It feels like the past few months have been just a blur in my life. In fact, it’s like I’ve come out of a dream where I was sleep walking through my life. I think for the time-being the worst is over – so let me catch up. My post on depression was me peeking out into the “real” world again only to find that it was still too overwhelming to write, talk…

  • _Cross Fire_  by James Patterson Patterson continues to develop the character, Alex Cross, and his ongoing antagonist, Kyle Craig, in this novel. It has hints of being the last in the Cross series, but that’s just my own opinion. The story starts to get a bit predictable and too convenient from the clues of the crimes, intertwining of different cases, antagonizing between Cross and Craig, and Cross’s own family/love story. While I did…

  • _Under the Banner of Heaven:  A Story of Violent Faith_ by Jon Krakauer This book was a doozy of a tale of the foundations and progress of the Mormon religion. Jon Krakauer writes in an easy-to-read journalistic style telling the story of the beginnings, divisions and transformations of the Latter Day Saints centered around the story of the Lafferty brothers who are supposedly told by God to kill a number of people. They…

  • Okay, so this post is a little bit late, but that’s the way things have been going lately. So, at least this will be written within the first month of the year. 😛 We have survived to experience 1-1-11 not to be seen again for another hundred years. In another 11 years we can see 2-2-22 – that’ll make me in my mid-40’s. SCARY! 😀 Ever wonder why we have a fascination with…

  • Truth:  Everyone gets depressed at some point in their lives. Truth:  Living as an expat involves the regular culture-shock cycle which includes depression. Truth:  Someone with my history/background naturally would deal with depression. Truth:  There is nothing wrong with feelings of depression and it does not make me a mental case… I know these truths. Every intellectual cell in my brain and bone in my body understands that depression is natural/normal. Yet, I…

  •  _What the Dog Saw:  And Other Adventures_ by Malcom Gladwell is an interesting collection of his New Yorker articles over the years. Since I’ve not been able to keep up with all his articles (though I wish I could find the time to read the New Yorker regularly…), it was interesting to read his stories and takes on different events over the years. Gladwell writes on sociological phenomenons such as the use…

  • _The Postcard Killers_ by James Patterson and Liza Marklund is one of the better crime stories by Patterson lately. Marklund’s influence must have been strong in writing this story because I was on edge throughout most of the book. While the ending may have been a little too neat in terms of the love relationship between the two main protagonists, it still was interesting and somewhat unpredictable. The writing was descriptive and easy…

  • I’ve been delinquent in my postings. There are a number of reasons why – *been busy with work and life (the usual excuse) *not sure whom I’m writing for when I post on my blog or anywhere on the Internet for that matter (related to previous post) *feeling anti-social even from the world of the Net *dealing with some personal stuff that’s taking my time, motivation and attention So, I might start to…

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