My Wonder Wall: Exasperation

Book List

2021
American Pastoral, Philip Roth
Post Corona, Scott Galloway
Range, David Epstein
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Yangtze Valley and Beyond, Isabella Bird
Lives of the Stoics, Ryan Holiday
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ulysses, James Joyce
Ikigai, Albert Liebermann & Hector Garcia
Essays, Michel de Montaigne
The Night Manager, John le Carre
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, John le Carre
A Small Town in Germany, John le Carre
1776, David McCullough
Our Towns, Deborah Fallows & James Fallows
2020
What You Are Getting Wrong about Appalachia, Elizabeth Catte
Henry James Collection: Novels 1877-1879
From our Own Correspondent, Polly Hope
1491, Charles C Mann
Inside Story, Martin Amis
Pompeii, Mary Beard
A Promised Land, Barack Obama
A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
These Truths, Jill Lepore
The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris
The Art of the Wasted Day, Patricia Hampl
Couples that Work, Jennifer Petriglieri
Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra
Great Cities Through Travelers' Eyes, Peter Furtado
Hard Times, Studs Terkel
A Death in the Family, Karl Ove Knausgaard
Stalingrad, Vasily Grossman
The Travels, Marco Polo
Working, Studs Terkel
The Uninhabitable Earth, David Wallace-Wells
The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa
The Pursuit of Art, Martin Gayford
Inland, Tea Obreht
2019
In Extremis, Lindsey Hilsum
The Old Drift, Namwali Serpell
Murder of a Lady, Anthony Wynne
Out of our Minds, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Spring, Ali Smith
Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
A Monk’s Guide to Happiness, Gelong Thubten
Walden, Henry David Thoreau
The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen
Japan Story, Christopher Harding
The Second Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
Arabs, Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Sea Monsters, Chloe Aridjis
Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
The Courage to be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Underground, Will Hunt
SPQR, Mary Beard
Ghost Wall, Sarah Moss
The Worst Journey in the World, Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Europe, Tim Flannery
A Long Island Story, Rick Gekoski
2018
Pachinko, Min Jin Lee
Books Do Furnish a Painting, Jamie Camplin & Maria Ranauro
The Story of Britain, Roy Strong
Transcription, Kate Atkinson
Why I Am a Hindu, Shashi Tharoor
Scraps of Wool, Bill Colegrave
Indian Instincts, Miniya Chatterji
Rather His Own Man, Geoffrey Robertson
The Mars Room, Rachel Kushner
The Overstory, Richard Powers
Fascism, Madeleine Albright
Elastic, Leonard Mlodinow
Coromandel, Charles Allen
Borne, Jeff VanderMeer
12 Rules for Life, Jordan Peterson
Reservoir 13, Jon McGregor
Thrive, Arianna Huffington
Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith
How to Have a Good Day, Caroline Webb
The CEO's Secret Weapon, Jan Jones
Leonardo da Vinci, Walter Isaacson
The Weather Experiment, Peter Moore
The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande
2017
4321, Paul Aster
Flash Boys, Michael Lewis
The Sleep Revolution, Arianna Huffington
BooksActually's Gold Standard 2016
Death's End, Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest, Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
The Omnivore's Dilemma, Michael Pollan
The World-Ending Fire, Wendell Berry
Let Go My Hand, Edward Docx
Age of Anger, Pankaj Mishra
The Six-Day War, Guy Laron
Hag-Seed, Margaret Atwood
The Undoing Project, Michael Lewis
The Fall Guy, James Lasdun
Mindfulness at Work, Maria Arpa
2016
Far & Away, Andrew Solomon
The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari
Barkskins, Annie Proulx
Ticklish Matters, Navneet Jagannathan
Infinite Ground, Martin MacInnes
It's What I Do, Lynsey Addario
Hillbilly Elegy, J D Vance
All That Man Is, David Szalay
The Course of Love, Alain de Botton
A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara
2015
The Martian, Andy Weir
Fall of Giants, Ken Follett
The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman
Brain Rules for Baby, John Medina
Gandhi before India, Ramachandra Guha
Mindfulness, Mark Williams & Danny Penman
2014
The Firm, Duff McDonald
Adventures on the Wine Route, Kermit Lynch
Reimagining India, McKinsey & Company
I am Malala, Malala Yousufzai
It Starts with One, Hal Gregersen & J Black
Persuasion, James Borg
The Trusted Advisor, Maister, Green & Galford
Working Identity, Herminia Ibarra
Under the Dome, Stephen King
Resource Revolution, Stefan Heck & Matt Rogers
The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
Profit from the Core, Chris Zook
The Diamond Sutra, Osho
Zoom, Iain Carson
Microtrends, Mark Penn
Nemesis, Jo Nesbo
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
The Longer Long Tail, Chris Anderson
Sweet Tooth, Ian McEwan
2013
Goodfellas, Nicholas Pileggi
The Missionary Position, Christopher Hitchens
Made in America, Bill Bryson
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
Arrow of God, Chinua Achebe
No Longer At Ease, Chinua Achebe
Things Fall Apart, Chinua Achebe
From Third World to First, Lee Kuan Yew
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be, Paul Arden
Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite, Paul Arden
The Singapore Story, Lee Kuan Yew
Red Dust, Ma Jian
The Racketeer, John Grisham
Family Wisdom, Robin Sharma
Fat, Forty and Fired, Nigel Marsh
A Clash of Kings, George R R Martin
The Art of Possibility, Rosamund Stone Zander
Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens
2012
The Last Lecture, Randy Pausch
The Greatness Guide, Robin Sharma
India, V S Naipaul
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Tao of Coaching, Max Landsberg
In an Antique Land, Amitav Ghosh
Evil Plans, Hugh MacLeod
The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs, Carmine Gallo
Slide:ology, Nancy Duarte
The Pyramid Principle, Barbara Minto
Perspective on McKinsey, Marvin Bower
Say it with Presentations, Gene Zelazny
Say it with Charts, Gene Zelazny
Megachange: the World in 2050, The Economist
Saturday, Ian McEwan
Kafka on the Shore, Haruki Murakami
A Game of Thrones, George R R Martin
The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
Dancing in the Glory of Monsters, Jason Stearns
Money and Power, William Cohan
The Origins of Political Order, Francis Fukuyama
The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson
Arguably, Christopher Hitchens
Management, Peter Drucker
Tamasha in Bandargaon, Navneet Jagannathan
2011
Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson
The Fall, Albert Camus
Stories to Get You Through the Night
The Quest, Daniel Yergin
The Invisible Gorilla, Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons
On China, Henry Kissinger
The Agony and the Ecstasy, D V Raman
The Big Short, Michael Lewis
The Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Investment in Singapore, Ismail Gafoor
Bringing Down the House, Ben Mezrich
A History of the World in 100 Objects, Neil MacGregor
Four Novels, R K Narayan
The Lay of the Land, Richard Ford
Our Iceberg is Melting, John Kotter
2010
The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins
What Color is Your Parachute?, Richard Bolles
The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton
The Photographer's Eye, Michael Freeman
Selected Stories, James Cain
Mildred Pierce, James Cain
The Art of Travel, Alain de Botton
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work, Alain de Botton
Double Indemnity, James Cain
The Postman Always Rings Twice, James Cain
The Plague, Albert Camus
Phantoms in the Brain, V S Ramachandran
The Best of Wodehouse, P G Wodehouse
Independence Day, Richard Ford
The Sportswriter, Richard Ford
American Gods, Neil Gaiman
Odd and the Frost Giants, Neil Gaiman
Rabbit at Rest, John Updike
The Greatest Show on Earth, Richard Dawkins
2009
Rabbit is Rich, John Updike
Rabbit Redux, John Updike
Tamerlane, Justin Marozzi
A Corner of a Foreign Field, Ramachandra Guha
Collapse, Jared Diamond
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J K Rowling
The Associate, John Grisham
Global Capitalism, Jeffry Frieden
Managing in the Next Society, Peter Drucker
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, J K Rowling
The New Penguin History of the World, J M Roberts
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville
Family Matters, Rohinton Mistry
A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini
Rabbit, Run, John Updike
Understanding Exposure, Bryan Peterson
Down Under, Bill Bryson
Istanbul, Orhan Pamuk
The Logic of Life, Tim Harford
Ultimatum, Matthew Glass
The Seventh Scroll, Wilbur Smith
River God, Wilbur Smith
I am America, Stephen Colbert
Imagining India, Nandan Nilekani
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Stieg Larsson
What Evolution Is, Ernst Mayr
The Jeeves Omnibus 1, P G Wodehouse
The Essential Drucker, Peter Drucker
The Pages..., Murray Bail
Other Colours, Orhan Pamuk
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The World without Us, Alan Weisman
The Origin of Wealth, Eric Beinhocker
Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
The First Rumpole Omnibus, John Mortimer
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky
Dreams from My Father, Barack Obama

I like

Adlerian pyschology
Nihongo
Enchroma
Edo
Johan
Our newer home
Model trains
Lego
Frederic Cassel
Arnold Bennett
Wine
Boost Mango Magic
Spotify
Breakfast
English
nextwatt
Gangnam style
Our new home
The Wire
Private Affairs at Boon Tat Street
Sunflower Bun at BreadTalk
Breaking Bad
Chiltern Park
Santi
East Africa
My rental Canon EF 100-400 mm L Lens
Adobe Lightroom 3
T2 Rooibos Tea
Margaret River
Fremantle
The Singapore Chinese Orchestra
Moscato
My bicycle
Ashwin 3.0
My iPad
Haagen Dazs Caramel Biscuit & Cream
My new job
My wardrobe-in-the-making
My career coach
My anniversary gift
My new MacBook Pro
Masala Tea
Grapes
Wine, cheese & crackers
Zubrowka
White chocolate
Dragon fruit
Borgata Trattoria Osteria
Scones
Test cricket
Max Brenner
Weekend siestas
Swimming
My double-sided SMU jacket
My friends
My wife's unstinting belief in my ability
Sleeping on the couch
My dream, masquerading as Plan B
Espanol
Breakfast at Escolta, Manila Peninsula
TED
My iPhone
Our first home
Bizu at Greenbelt
Grape and mango juice blend
Oatmeal with hot milk and honey
Our Wedding Photos
Cookies & Cream Icecream
Pepato Cibo Di at Greenbelt
My wife's cooking
El secreto de sus ojos
The Maldives
James Cameron's Avatar
Nerovivo at Jalan Ceylon, Kuala Lumpur
Mooncakes with pure lotus filling
Scuba diving
Our pre-nup photos
Chiang Mai
My FC Barcelona jacket
My dentist
Cerveza Sol
My new Canon EFS 18-200 mm Lens
The Southern Ridges Walk
My birthday gifts
The first comment I received on Flickr
Turkey
The same lady colleague (same bright smile, but raisin loaf this time)
The Economist audio edition
Taking baby steps
Twitter
My colleague's photo gallery
My Bose QC3 noise-cancelling headphones
Survival Aloo
My new Canon EOS500D DSLR
The chole that we cooked today
Walking
The Mango Peach Smoothie at Coffee Club
My newfound interest in cooking
My Italeri Aircraft Carrier Model Kit
A Japanese shave, haircut, shampoo & massage
The lady colleague who gave me Apple strudel with the brightest smile
A reasonable idea
A good story

My Wonder Wall

Wednesday 1 September 2010

Exasperation

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