I usually wrote "reading" as my hobby in my CV... sometimes I answered "playing computer games". Off course I wanted to write something more 'classy" than reading... for instance.. golfing... playing tennis... swimming... mount climbing... stamp collecting.... but I never play golf... never play tennis, don't swim... only climbed trees when I was in primary school... and never really be a philatelist since I only collected some stamps because it said that stamp collecting was cool... (but I never really enjoyed it...even though I tried to pretend to like it... then gave up and found that collecting mugs or letter paper were more enjoyable for me... ^_^ ).
The last collection things (aside from collecting some money I'm still doing that now... ^_^ ), was collecting snow globes when visiting cities in Europe... but then I found that bringing them home was troublesome...and I don't know when I will get opportunity to travel to Europe again... I would love to write "biking" as my hobby... but at the second thought... i only bike when i was in Holland and I don't think Dutch consider biking as hobby...., and here in Indonesia, it needs very big guts to ride on the street and if you see people bike, hardly do you find the people have biking as hobby except they can't afford motor vehicles OR the other way around they can afford expensive bikes that cost more than regular bikes (well... maybe it IS a hobby for people to show that they can afford pricy bikes ^_^ ). Anyway... in the end of the day, I still write reading as my hobby in my resume.
Back to the reading thing.... I liked reading very much, except reading text books... I could spend 20 hours reading novels when I was student (again I repeat: except text books...). My Mom yelled me a lot when I read while having my meals and could not do anything else but trying to finish some novels... However... these couple years, I found it is difficult to finish reading books, even they are some thin novels... i still have 3 new novels I bought a year ago, and they are still sealed in the plastic... I can't even finish reading Alistair MacLean "Where Eagles Dare" -- my favorite novel that I have read more than 5 times before --- and If I can't finish some entertaining books... you can imagine what I will do with serious books..it would take months to finish one book...
When millions of people said that Laskar Pelangi was good reading... I believe it... but really... I still can not read it.... ( I tried to make it up by watching the movie though... ^_^ ). My friend lent me some books recommended as good readings but then I just returned them without even finish reading them... I wonder if I do not have the capability to understand art or good reading.... or if i'm suffering some intelligence degradation... Whether my work has been decreasing my reading mood.. whether aging process has something to do with it...
I wonder if I write "facebooking" as hobby, that will impress people who read my CV... Naaaah... that won't happen....
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