Saturday, August 15, 2009

row and rows and rows and rows...

Well, for our Literature research, we have to look for critiques and information before we decide on the thesis we would write. Five of us went to the UM library - from left, me, Chiah, Jan, Elisa and surprisingly Jia Yu was not on any photos for once.

At first: After looking up for a long list of titles we wanted from the online catalogue, Elisa and I went on a look out for them on the second floor and imagine our surprise when we saw...

...that there were only a few racks of books. Ad we found nothing of what we wanted.

So we decided to look for Jia Yu, who said she'll be by the computers.

And we walked down the corridor, reached a large opening, looked to the left and imagine our surprise when we saw...

...ROWS and ROWS and ROWS and ROWS and FLOORS of books!!

We felt very much as if we were entering one of those libraries you see on movies, with never ending books. The pages mostly yellowish and fragile, with the musty smell that sticks to your hand after a while.

The three of us decided to embark our tiresome search for the books...

...and this is where it got tiresome.

We've always wanted to take a photo like the ones you see in film shows, where they peek through the bookshelf. And that was exactly what we did.

No doubt we paid attention to our research. This was the end result, our messy table in a huge library, the ceaseless sound of the photocopying machine, the flipping of the fragile pages, the tap-tap-taps on the computer keyboards, while a thunderstorm roared outside.

What a curious comforting feeling.

2 comments:

  1. yeah it's kinda nice to be in book stores alone.

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  2. =) haha for some queer reason, it does.

    ps. it was a library, not a bookstore.

    pps. do I happen to know who you are?

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