Here is how my recently deceased holidays were spent.
Sleeping- 40%
Reading- 18%
Growing fat- 20%
Doing useful things- 5%
Did i mention sleeping?- 10%
Other miscellaneous activities- 7%

If you drew a pie chart, that's time well spent.
I love reading, so i'm going to tell you which are the books you absolutely must read in this lifetime!

1) Riptide Douglas preston & Lincoln child

This is one of the most awesome thrillers i've read. The plot and scientific explanations behind it are just mind-blowing. Riptide makes you think that the situation and mysteries surrounding Ragged island are truely supernatural before bashing you with a revelation that's not only believable but wildly fantastic.
No cookie-cutter plot here. It's so good it borders on being terrifying.

2) Killing Floor Lee Child

Gore. Blood. More gore. You can almost see the claret flying all over the place in this. The main character is really cool. Cooler than Alex Cross by a continent. Cooler than Neo or Justin Timberlake. Or any damn person you can think of.

3) Life of Pi Yann MartelKilling Floor is brutal and sadistic in a loud way while Life of Pi is brutal and sadistic in a way so subtle the only way you'd realise how sinister the plot is is after you've read to the last page and ruminated on it like a cow.
How can a book about a boy in a boat with a zebra, a hyena, an orang utan and a bengal tiger be any sinister?
It is. And it's a great book.

4) Road to Perdition Max Allen CollinsIt's a graphic novel. Nope, it doesn't have whiny teens with incredible eye-sizes, ridiculous outfits or hairdos bigger than Amy Winehouse's. Or robots shooting rockets out of their knees. This is a tale about a father, a son, a cute car and buckets of bloody revenge.
Moving, gritty, tragic and wonderfully good.

5) Assassin's Apprentice Robin Hobb
My favourite fantasy series. It's so humane it could almost be a history book. The book is brick thick and wordy and damnably hard to break into. Yet the pay-offs for perseverance are immense.
I've read a ton of fantasy books and this series is..... .... simply... ... the best. *chokes*. It's the best.

6) Vlad Taltos Series Steven BrustAssassin's Appentice is a soulful, heart-wrenching and philosophical whirlwind of emotions. The Vlad Taltos series is just great fun! Fantasy books aren't really fun in the first place. Moody and filled to the brim with old men in beards. This series manages to be eccentric and ridiculously entertaining.

Yup, go read these books now!
As you can see, I'm an exclusive fantasy and thriller reader. No other genre sully my eyes.
So, if you're the kind who loves romance or drama or, god-forbid, biographies, you might find these books utterly unattractive. So forget all that i've written and carry on reading your Nora Robert or whatever.

My windows com got wiped-out. Again.
I went out with my sis recently and "won" a stuffed Stitch toy from that coin-sucking, curse-inducing toy grabing machine in a sleazy arcade. Yeah, the kind with pincers so flexible you'd think they were screwed on with bluetac. And yet it still attracts hoards of dumb people willing to blow $20 trying to grab a furry pencil case when you can get the same thing for 7 baht in Thailand.

Anyway, that Stitch cost $10. And we didnt even really knock it down the gutter. It's bloody head was so big it got stuck.
Yeah, i think that's why they make them heads so huge. Like tweety bird or Doraemon. So that when you drop them down the hole, their nauseatingly cute mugs will clog up the hole and Lo'! stare back up at you with their gigantic eyes and impossibly smug grins. Taunting you to smash the tofu pincers in their synthetically stuffed faces while your wallet gets violated 5 times over.

Oh yeah, so its head got stuck and while we were considering tipping the machine over with the excuse of dropping our keys underneath, a really sour faced lady who was in a rush to do "maintenance", gave us godly sympathy, opened the glass casing and tossed our stuck friend to us.
What an adrenaline killer. But that's ok. My sis was happy enough. She loves Stitch.