Read

When I first started on this post I was somewhere just past halfway through Inheritance. I finished the book last week on Thursday, finally. It took me a long time to finish Inheritance, though at 860 pages it was a brick.

Inheritance was supposed to be my twelfth book for 2011 but now it is my first for 2012. I was quite upset to miss my twelve books target, which means that I have to make up for it with thirteen books this year. Afi said that eleven books was all right because I have Omar to look after. True, between Omar, cooking and other housework I could usually manage only a few pages each day before bedtime.

Back to Inheritance, it was three long years since Brisingr so I was worried that I had forgotten about the most of the characters and events in the previous books. However, thankfully, they all came back as soon as I started reading the book. As usual, I couldn’t wait to find out how the story ends and didn’t mind spoilers so I read it up on Wikipedia. :P

Overall, I liked the book and think Paolini did manage to tie up all lose ends that matter. I really liked the character Roran, our dragon-rider hero Eragon’s ordinary (as in not a magician or having any special powers) cousin. The way Eragon defeats Galbatorix was cool. The romance between Eragon and Arya ends just the way it should be. However, I would love to read more about the mysterious herbalist Angela. Hopefully Paolini will write more about her.

I guess now I can finally read Harry Potter. :D

All my books are now somewhere between here and home so I will not be doing much reading till I finally get them. It’s not that I have a lot of time to read in the first place. Still, in the mean time, I have Evolution.

SOPA/PIPA

Watch this Khan Academy video explaining SOPA/PIPA if you are wondering what they are all about, and why many websites went dark on 18 January. If you go, “Huh?” watch it anyway.

Yesterday

Afi and I were having lunch in the living room yesterday when we heard a bump followed by a cry. We raced into the bedroom. Omar fell off the bed. He is not comfortable in the Moses basket anymore so we have been letting him sleep on the bed, fenced with pillows. It was the first time he fell, and he was all right. After some consoling he went back to sleep.

Then, last night, Omar finished a whole banana, also for the first time. We plan to weigh him this Friday. He should be nearing 8kg now, full of character.

We have slowly started packing. So far we have packed three boxes full of books. Hopefully we have enough boxes for our stuff. Still, there will be a lot that we will simply give away or otherwise dispose of.

As we get closer to leaving, we cannot help talking about things we think we will miss. Little things like Kebab Kid and online shopping. We love shopping online, especially for grocery. I will definitely miss the latter. We will also miss not having to deal with flies, mosquitoes and cockroaches.

Still, overall, we cannot wait to go home.

Welcome, 2012.