Wow, you can read in the car?

People always find it amusing that I can read in cars, or ferry.

 

Curious friends: Wow, you can read in the car?

Me: yup.

Curious friends: won’t you get a headache from it?

Me: no wo. Got used to it I guess

KH (if he is present) : she’s always been like this. Very “piah” when reading a book :p

 

Well I guess it is a habit I instilled from very young age. Albeit unconsciously.

You see I used to take public transportation to school back in my schooling days.

And all of us are fairly used to the punctuality problems of public transportation.

So what I did to kill time, while waiting for bus, and while ON the bus ride, is to read.

I can go through a book fairly fast in a day or two, depending on the thickness or the complexity of the issues at hand.

There is not much to marvel at because this ability isn’t impressive enough. I wish I can teleport instead. :p

Hubby finds it amusing that I always read on the way to and back from my hometown. I find that fulfilling.

Rather that wasting time in the ride, I can finish up the newspaper or a few chapters of a book.

I finished the notebook on the ride to and back from Sitiawan.

And The Reader while on the way to Cameron.

Such satisfaction!

Give it a try. Probably you think you will get a headache. So you don’t read. But in actuality, you won’t get a headache.

Or if you ever got a headache from all the reading, maybe it is because you are so adamant that you will get a headache once you start reading that your body is just responding to it.

I think there is a scientific name for getting an illness by just thinking/convinced that you will get it, but I forgot the term.

You can ask House. He’s THE smart ass. :p