1,000 year of annoying the French

We had our annual Hong Kong bookfair over the weekend (july 24), an event I look forward to with much eagerness each year. So do 1,000,000 other HK people, judging from the armpit to armpit crowds each year. Thankfully we see as much books as we do people's armpits! Gross.

I bought enough books to bend double my husband's and my back, carrying them home. Not unlike ancient soldiers returning home from pillaging, ladened with battle spoils. One book that I never even knew about, let alone scheme to buy it, was this book called 1,000 years of annoying the French. Obviously written by an Englishman/ Stephen Clarke faithfully used up 600 over pages to minutely record the countless things that Britain has done to snub at the haughty French darlings. I am laughing all the way, because it is so entertainingly humourous. Anytime I would replace my Sejarah textbooks with this wicked book.

The other books in the sack are my usual thoroughfare of "How to....." this or that. I am not sure what really is my life long passion for How to books. Is it because subconsciously I feel like an unfinished masterpiece and therefore constantly reading up on "how to...." in an attempt to finish the unfinish myself. Or it is because my (work)life is enough of a drama/adventure/terror that all other fictions, including Harry Potter is bland in comparison, and therefore I only read "how to..." books to escape the humdrum of corporate life, and act like a messiah of change at work. Whatever is the cause, I have now a few dozen books that boast of its capability to "develop self confidence & Influence People", "Lead a new Generation (steve jobs)", Innovation Secrets (still Steve Jobs), the Richest Man in Babylon, Tuesdays with Morie, sun tzu the Art of War etc etc.

funny enough, the book I am reading most is the 1,000 year of annoying the French book. Bet this is annoying my subconscience!