The Bangsar Boy: Don’t waste time waiting, pull out a good book instead

Okay, so I have just arrived back in KL from my wonderful holiday in Langkawi and am squeezing in some blogging time before I head off to Kajang for the BRATs workshop.

Will be posting up pictures from the trip soon, but just wanted to bring your attention to another article I wrote published today in StarMetro (in line with my, “If I don’t plug myself, who will” philosophy).

This week, The Bangsar Boy (that’s moi) talks about reading while waiting. Yes, I do plug other people too. I talk about why I feel people should read more, why I support this project and why I feel everyone should too.

Of course, the numbers say it all. I remember back in the 1980s when a survey showed that Malaysians only read an average of two pages a year. Of course, that’s in the past and the number has gone up to two books a year (a Government survey in 2005) and five books a year (a corporate survey in 2006).

Whichever is more accurate, the numbers are scary.

Click here to read the article.

Oh, and while I’m in the process of plugging, watch the video below. It’s from this online TV show called The Fairly Current show, featuring my friends Fahmi Fadzil as host, and Mark Teh as creative producer. Oh, and this is the current (yes, pun intended) episode featuring Zain HD who talks about RWP (excuse his mistaking tax exeption for EPF ok folks?).

5.30pm Malaysian time (+8 GMT)

Tags: fahmi fadzil, mark teh, reading, RWP, The Bangsar Boy, the fairly current show, The Star, zain hd