None of the people working there look at it? Nobody is doing anything about it?

I don’t have time to drop by after work since it is always jam and I hate the idea of rushing like a mad woman before their closing time at 7pm. Since my mom goes quite often during day, I get her to help me sometimes. Without the access to the catalogue, I don’t get to read as much as I like.

When I go there on Sunday morning, I’ll have to waste time browsing from aisle to aisle. The online catalogue allows me to note down the call number then I can just go straight to the shelf and pick up a book.

The thing that got me started is when I saw someone looking for some not so popular books. So happen I have one of the books he is looking for. I forgot how much I bought the book for because I bought it second hand too. However, the book is still in good condition, so I offer the guy a good price.

After that another girl messaged me about a Sophie Kinsella book she is looking for. I had mentioned it on the forum I have two books by the author. So I sold it to her. The price is cheap for book in very good condition because I have only read it once.

For this exercise, I’ve compiled a booklist with pricing and I hope to clear off some books. I will only buy very good books like my hard cover Angels and Demons or Da Vinci Code. I borrow books from the library and am loving this because it does not create clutter in my room.

I also want to sell 12 issues of 2009 “Cheers“. It is a Taiwanese Magazine that is focusing on career and business. Sin Chew features their articles in their lifestyle pull-out every Monday. If you’re interested in this magazine, please take all at RM50.

It talks about lives in reality, especially for those of us… not so rich people living in the city. This does not only affect the very poor. Middle income earners are suffering too.

OK. Lets go to the story.

In this day and time, we have to pay for almost everything. The air is polluted, so we need to pay for purifiers for clean air. Water is polluted too, so we need to get water filters. Our food often contain insecticides or other chemicals, so we pay a lot more for organic food and the list goes on.

When do we need to pay for air that is free for everyone to breathe? Our water comes from natural sources too. We don’t manufacture water.

The rich can afford to pay more for better things. What about those who cannot afford? The liver has to work extra hard to filter off all the toxins. So we will get some kind of illness, spend all our savings on treatment, then continue to live poorer or we die faster.

This is the reality for people who are not the hardcore poor. We won’t die of poverty but we probably die after suffering a series of illnesses. Those that we love will suffer with us too. There is no need to talk about quality of life when one doesn’t fall into the “rich” bracket in society.

Book Description: In his fifties, Michael Gates Gill had it all: a mansion in the suburbs, a wife and loving children, a six-figure salary, and an Ivy League education. But in a few short years, he lost his job, got divorced, and was diagnosed with a brain tumor. With no money or health insurance, he was forced to get a job at Starbucks. Having gone from power lunches to scrubbing toilets, from being served to serving, Michael was a true fish out of water.

But fate brings an unexpected teacher into his life who opens his eyes to what living well really looks like. The two seem to have nothing in common: She is a young African American, the daughter of a drug addict; he is used to being the boss but reports to her now. For the first time in his life he experiences being a member of a minority trying hard to survive in a challenging new job. He learns the value of hard work and humility, as well as what it truly means to respect another person.

Behind the scenes at one of America’s most intriguing businesses, an inspiring friendship is born, a family begins to heal, and, thanks to his unlikely mentor, Michael Gill at last experiences a sense of self-worth and happiness he has never known before.

I feel like working in Starbucks after reading the book. The author had written in detail on the work culture of Starbucks where everyone is treated with respect. He is referring to Starbucks Coffee in U.S. Over here, our Starbucks are franchised to Bejaya Group of Companies. I am not sure how much of the original Starbucks work culture survived here.

Books are expensive in Malaysia. I stopped buying books but borrowed from the library instead. For those of you who is interested to purchase the book, you can get it from major bookstores. You can save some money by getting used book online. This can be found at Amazon.com. Click on the picture below for best deal.