Release of newly updated Books
I have republished, edited and updated my memoirs, under a new title:
Happiness Is a Way Of Living: How I Escaped the Straitjacket of Serious Mental Illness, My Story
It is available as a paperback in full colour, printed on premium white paper to allow for the best reproduction of the B&W and Colour photographs. For those who would like to read it on their phones, tablets or computers, they will still be able to enjoy good reproductions,…..
I submitted the second edition of this book to my publishers last week. It will have photographs, a new cover and will be selling at a more reasonable price. I’ll be announcing the date it is available, on this blog as well as in the social media. Thank you for your patience. The book has many humorous stories as well as its dramatic and serious side.
Today I held a Book Signing Event at the University’s Turner Sims Concert Hall’s Foyer. A friend of mine, Angie, came to support me. It was very good of her to give of her time.
I spoke to a couple of students who’d misunderstood the time it started. They didn’t use the opportunity to page through the books, instead, as soon as I told them when it started they left to do other things.
It was a waste of time……
4. The most beautiful eyes I have ever seen
One day while on the bus to the University I started a conversation with a Chinese man, Ken, after noticing an unusual electronic gadget on his iPhone. He asked me if I knew where he could buy flowers for his young lady friend, Frances, the pianist who was going to perform that afternoon. At our destination, the University Highfield Interchange, we alighted from the bus in search of a…..
Saturday 18th July 2015
Last night I was eating a large supper with Hiển, when my music theory teacher, Roger Hansford, phoned me with the news that I’d passed my grade 6 music theory exam. The pass mark is 66%, I achieved 70%, he was pleased, although I had hoped to get more, at least a merit, i.e., over 80%. A merit would have meant double the points I’ll need for my application to enter University one day.
…..
Roger, my teacher, delivered my certificates to me today.
When he phoned I was busy getting breakfast. It was noon. I told him I wasn’t dressed. Then I thought to ask, “Where are you?”, thinking he expected my to fetch my certificates from his home.
“I’m downstairs.”
I thought he meant he was waiting in his car in the yard. I was too excited to wait and dress, so I rushed down in my gown, opened the door and:
“AHH!” we both…..
22nd July 2015, Wednesday.
I caught the 9:30am bus to Southampton University for Hoa’s graduation.
I reached the Turner Sims at the start of her ceremony. I had no ticket to enter, nonetheless I spoke to the doorlady kindly, she let me in, as I noticed there was a single empty seat. I was pleased to be sitting beside a table were I could rest my iPad to video the large screen showing the proceedings taking place inside the auditorium. Some…..
On Saturday the 20th June I wrote my Grade 6 Music Theory exam. I had to wait 6 weeks before the full results were published, though I received my initial results after a month from my teacher, Dr Roger Hansford.
I liked the paper, I thought the questions were fair, no tricky ones. I used the full time allowed, including an extra hour, given to me because I suffer from dyslexia. I would have been lost without that extra hour! I started reading through…..
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