Jee’s Life

Since childhood I was nurtured into the habit of reading, my mother was a teacher and my father was a book collector. My house in Ipoh once had a collection of over 1000 books, but decided to donate it to libraries and orphanage after my father passed away.

I read all kind of books.. fiction, classic, science, business, finance, management, engineering, self-enrichment blah blah..

I preferred reading Chinese books during childhood, it’s only until university days that I really started to appreciate English literature. The only Malay book that I happily read was Dilemma Melayu.

I am able to speed read in Chinese, can easily finish 2000 pages of novel in a day. Don’t know how I built this ‘talent’, but it never works in English.. I need something like a week to finish 500 pages of English readings.

I had forced myself into ‘buy one book a month’ policy since university, only recently stopped after figuring out that some books are actually worth to re-read again.

My favorite book is “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking, currently reading it as well, for the 5th time.