Books Stash Update

As per usual , I will update my books buying habit here so I can track my books. Its easier to see this online. Maybe I should seriously consider an excel spreadsheet. Eh malas la. 

This time due to Covid, Big Bad Wolf Book Sale held their sale online instead. It was a bit of a disaster on the first few days tbh. The site was unstable with payment not going through and books list not updated appropriately. I am sure their IT Team was going through hellish week that week. 

Anyway I manage to buy some books mostly for the kids and a bit for me on the third day of the sale. I also bought a few more books by the end of the week mostly on school exercises book because those were cheaps. 

So below pics!

The Paws Patrol for the littlest one, the dinos books are for the second and the shark is for the eldest.

Buku latihan for the kids and extra-ish

And mine...

I had also realized trying to find last year posts that I didnt post my stash of last year. Huh, 

no matter so I am now updating it here. 

 

Graduated meself

 Let me update to the uninterested how my violin playing coming along. 

I try to record myself playing. It sounds bad. LOL. But I think its normal..  amateur with a cheap violin sounds like. Sometimes its good. Sometimes I wonder if I buy a violin worth thousands will it actually improve the sounds? I also do not want to find it out because I don't have loads of money to waste on a hobby. 

So I had finish relearning Book 1 of my Strictly Strings book and going to Book 2. Its quite ok la jugak learning using youtube ni. There's tonnes of stuffs out there people who taught the book using youtube, people giving simple tips and tricks in how to play the violin correctly. We don't have a lot of that 10 years ago. The downside is that there's no feedback how correctly I am playing it and I have to go by memory on what the teacher taught me how I should improve. There's also a few teachers offering online classes nowadays in these time and I am tempted, but I don't have much to spare. So youtube I guess is the way forward! 

Okla. Later.

Sigh

 Just feel like sighing. 

I had started another blog just for the point of reviewing because I feel this blog is too mushed up. Not sure whats gonna review. Probably more kdramas. I had been lagging on the kdrama review updated but more like I don't have energy of it. 

But I had also started to learn French and Arabic in Duolingo. The former is because I always wanted to learn that. And Spanish too ( I will learn Spanish next). Arabic because I am frustrated by the text books bahasa arab I have to understand to help my kids with their homework. I meant I get why it is in Arabic, but wouldn't it make sense to also include translated jawi into it so it is not just gibberish to the uniniated? I tried google translate but even that doesn't help me much. I had also kinda 'reprimand' the teacher for just giving vague instructions and expecting students to turn in perfect homework. I HATE vague instructions. This is not about spoonfeeding. It is about a clear precise instructions that you don't ended up wasting you and other people time. This is also the thing ALL people need to learn. 

Don't even let me get started on the kids textbooks nowadays? It is a lot of pictures with not much info. I think I know this is one way to reduce the heaviness of the books, but some of the information is not there??? I guess this is balanced out with the teacher instead teaching it (and have the infos in their guidebook???) but with this covid era where homeschooling is now the normal, they certainly did not expect that. 

Oklah ranting. Oh I provided my review on DuoLingo app there on the blog I mentioned earlier.