Read While Waiting

Living in Kuala Lumpur, i'm one of the many Malaysians who takes public transport each day. A daily routine it is. Waiting by the road, under the sun, looking leftrightupdown, listening to the noise of passing by vehicles.

Waiting to reach a destination in a train/bus, with/without the aircond, looking at the people around you, overheard some conversations, thinks that the person beside you is smelly, listening to MP3 and etc.

Sometimes, the time spent in such a way seems endless, conversations around become blur, you see everything moving slowly, time is, everyone seems to vanish in front of you. Your brain goes blank wandering elsewhere.

These are the time wasted. Wasted doing nothing at all. Being an unproductive waste at that specific moment of time.

Have you ever thought of doing something better while waiting than having those unproductive time?

Something better like reading?

Maybe some newspaper

or perhaps a magazine/book??

Gone are the times where people use to read REAL much. Holding a book and concentrate on the reading. Even if its a comic book, even if its an e-book, its on an electronic device. Its still reading. That's what many people seldom do already. Wasting their time while waiting that is.

I still find it interesting - holding on to a book, reading the contents the whole day when i'm free especially when i'm in the midst of waiting for something, some event, some person, or some other stuffs.

and i'm doing it each day. =)

This is what we should do in our generation that don't fancy reading, we should promote reading more.

and this Saturday 23th of August, there'll be a project by RandomAlphabets.com. The same group which organize the KL FREEZE 4 months back.

The Read While Waiting Project

Saturday 23th August 2008 3pm
KL Sentral with a book, mag or newspaper
The area infront of
1. KFC
2. Dunkin Donuts
3. KTM Komuter entrance

Objective :

- To see more people reading (any form of literature) whenever they wait
- To make people more conscious of whenever they are about to go somewhere and know that some waiting will be involved, then bring something to read

To have a better understanding on this movement/project. View the videos below. There are 3 versions made. I find this quite a meaningful project and i'm definitely going to support it. I'm already doing it each day reading books while i'm waiting, so i do hope that you support this project too. Thanks. =)

Version 1 - Joyce Wong @ Kinky Blue Fairy, Farish Noor, Sharon Bakar, Emmett Butterfingers, Prem & Jules & Fahmi Fadzil


Version 2 - Su Ann Lim @ Pink Pau, Prem & Jules, Sazzy Falak, Sharifah Aleysha & Aryana, Jazeman Jaafar & Ida Nerina


Version 3 - Farihin Abdul Fattah, Chef Ismail, Ida Nerina, Sazzy Falak, Sharifah Aleysha & Aryana, Emmett Butterfingers & Shaz Mukhtar

I'm currently reading this book above. Check it out here.

Do Visit RandomAlphabets for more information on the project! See You this Sat.

Links :
Read While Waiting Project