Sometimes, Wonderful Things Happen

Many days, life sucks.

But sometimes, things align, and wonderful things happen. Today is one of those days.

I scored Empires of the Ancient Near East (2nd Edition) for the cool price of SGD5.00. It was sitting on a shelf, alone. I didn't know what possessed me to take a look at it. I spun it around, saw the ``Cheap Item: $5.00'' label, tried to check online what it was about and failing due to no 4G network, asked my colleague to connect to the Wifi and search, found out that it was a decent book without caring about the price (because 5 bucks is a real steal no matter how one looks at it), and went ahead to purchase it with a stupid grin on my face after.

I could also score a linguistics text book for SGD1.00, but I refrained.

So I was holding my haul (sans bag, of course), and my other younger colleague approached me.

``What is this?''

``My people call them `books'! We read them, and sometimes use them for self defense too!''

``Oh, can I use them for self-defense?''

``Nope, because you didn't buy them!''

😅

It was indeed a nice day, shelf space be damned.

The books are in remarkably good condition considering that they hadn't been opened in twenty-five years, with only some minor issues of the plate pages sticking together. The material seems to be well researched too (according to the online reviews), and I am looking forward to reading them.

Friday is soon upon us, and then the long-ish weekend (I've already had approval to clear the off-in-lieu for the Saturday public holiday on Monday instead). I've pieces to work on for a couple of gigs that I'm involved in outside of my usual group(s), and it is exciting.

And I think that's about it. Till the next update then.