I am a book junkie, hear me gush

I've been tidying up my room recently (Yes it's the ritualistic yearly purge) and I hereby declare this shelf my favourite spot in the room. You cannot dispute that the rocking chair totally adds to the whole bookish zen. I got it from Daiso wayyy back when I was a kiddo (lending Mel's term here). I love how things fall into place so nicely, after so many years of redundancy (which is why I couldn't bear to throw out stuff like Ben and Jerry's ice cream tubs which had been a good source of packaging, but I did anyway, albeit with a heavy heart)

Below the rocking chair, my beloved though ageing Moleskine. Its years are few with the few leaves that it has left. Below the Moleskine- a Muji book with random thoughts on the road. At the bottom, notepad that Mel got me from artbox which has naughty kittens on them running about ("I think the kittens are special. They make me laugh and they remind me of what the both of us want to do: to screw the world and its expectations and run all over the place with feet coated in paint.") It contains beautiful quotes, or at least quotes I find beautiful like

"A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself, turn its beginnings into myth; so I don't want to assert that it was love; but I have no doubt there was a kind of clairvoyance at work: I immediately felt, sensed, grasped the essence of Lucie's being or, to be more precise, the essence of what she was later to become for me; Lucie has revealed herself to me the way religious truth reveals itself."

-pg 66 The Joke, Milan Kundera

On the right is the card that the debators made for me. Nope they did not rip out pages from Where The Wild Things Are (the very thought of it makes me cringe), they (or Yi Ting, artistic director of debate) used the fraying cover of the hardcover to make it. Lovely, ain't it?

Haha I have no idea why I just catalogued that but I'm pretty happy I did it. It's my slight obsession with rooms and what they say about the people who make them their habitats.