Catcher In the Rye Author passed away

I don't care if it's sad good- by or a bad good good-by, but when I leave place I'd like to know I'm leaving it. If you don't, you feel even worse~ Holden Caufield, Catcher In the Rye

J.D Salinger died yesterday, age 91 in N.H. He's the man who articulated so much in an intimate way the voice of the angst driven youth.

Weird. Two days ago, I just felt like reading his famous book, Catcher in the Rye for the gazillion times already . So I read it past 12 midnight, then last night, I saw a news ticker that the author passed away. Well, the man who started the angst driven alienated teen, died a recluse and has never allowed his famous book to become a movie. Now that he's dead, I wonder if see we'll one.

If you haven't read Catcher in the Rye... you probably don't like to read or you weren't forced to read it or you've never had an English paper to submit. I guess. It's still my favorite book...along with so many others but.. Catcher n the Rye is the one I always read and read and read just re read it. Kinda like To Kill a Mocking Bird which I always read a lot too (but somebody borrowed it before from school some years ago and never returned it).

Back to J.D Salinger. I don't know anything about him. He is a literary icon. A recluse who guarded his privacy to the very end. He gave something to think about and ponder with the books he wrote. The characters in which we immersed ourselves. His books will always remind us what a great author he was.

Bill Gates 2.0. and our 'Windows' to his.. life

Hello World... Hello Bill Gates. Microsoft founder just joined the Twitterati Twitterverse (@billgates). Woah and when tweeps found out immediately.. in just a several hours the number followng has grown to is 281,651 and counting. He returned to Facebook(.com/billgates) too.

Well.. I guess he's worth.. blogging. He created the OS that majority of people still use.

And speaking of joining, on this day five years ago January 01, 2005.. I signed up with web 2.0. pioneer Flickr.

Friendster was the one who (correct me if I'm wrong) pioneered and elevate what is social networking now. I remember everybody was crazy about that site so much so that in our school some years ago, it was banned and we couldn't go to the internet lab and browse through the site.

I remember Napster too. Who doesn't? and the fall from grace. And going back further.. back in the late 90's.. ICQ and YM msnger was the way to keep up and chat with friends.

Reminiscing..he he...yeah, I'm ancient already =)

Kraft and Cadbury in a deal.....

All you confectioners and cheese lovers... Kraft's taking over Cadbury for £11.5bn.

Of course the British chocolate maker.. workers are not happy. They're hurt that an American company took over their National Pride. Can't fault them.. it's a bloody English chocolate It's a national brand.

So can we expect more cheese in our chocolates? Cheese and choco fondue perhaps? How about chocolate cheesecake? Ha ha. All I can say, I love cheese and chocolates.