The new toy has arrived. Review soon to follow. Although in a nutshell I can tell you one thing, I'm never going to read books on an LCD screen ever again because this is a whole new level of wow. So stay tuned.

It's never been an easy task, living this relationship every single day. Most days, it's much simpler to believe that I literally am single, alone in a world that pays no attention to the things I accomplish in it. However, regardless of what lies I tell myself to get through the worst days, the truth is still that I have someone waiting for me. Even if she's several hundred thousand miles away, it still doesn't warrant a relationships status as being single. It doesn't even warrant a Facebook relationship status as "It's Complicated".

That's because regardless of how hard it is to make a relationship work in life, the bottom line for love and relationships are that they are never complicated. They are always simple and straightforward. They always give is options and paths that we need to walk. If anything, the whole deal with love is that it is like lifting an engine block out of a car.

The mechanics of it is simple enough, you need a winch strong enough to take the weight of the engine. It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out how to operate the winch or attach it to the engine. It is simple and straighforward enough. However, to commit to actually lifting the engine out of the car is a different story. You might not have enough strength to pull up the engine. You might not be able to reach around to chain the winch around the engine block. It's not an easy thing to do if you have limited experience, but it's still pretty straightforward.

So much like being in a relationship.

What's there to be complicated about love to begin with? You accept and embrace the person you love for who they are, for better and for worse. You complement their actions, or at least work on complementing the facades in which they run their daily lives with you. To which you should be able to find security and comfort in a relationship, your fears and doubt washed away in the words and actions that your partner offers in your weakest moments.

That's what relationships between two people in love should be about. You don't have to wrack your brains to figure out what's what. It's simple enough to understand what exactly to do when you're in one.

Of course, whether you're willing to make those choices and some sacrifices, whether you have the strength to see through the hardest of moments; or whether you are willing to spend the rest of your life with a person who probably has the same kind of doubts and fears about the relationship as you do, all of it, is another story altogether. And in those hard choices to make in love, not everyone has the wisdom or experience to see it as it really is, let alone to see it until the end.

Ultimately, love is a simple thing in life. You give and you take. You share and you embrace. You live with it and you live through it. It has never been complicated and I doubt it ever will. That at least is something to keep in mind through the hardest parts of it all. Take that wisdom from me at least. You'll feel better about the choices you're about to make with your own relationships and that's a whole lot better than the alternative.

You know it's true.

1. Waking up in the morning to realise that the dream you so vividly remember when you were half awake is now all but forgotten may quite often be a blessing in disguise.
2. The only solution against the mind numbing repetition at work is the ability to love what you do. Passion is its own rose coloured glasses.
3. Love is not easy, but it is never complicated. Like trying to lift an engine block out of a car, you really need to put your back into it, but it definitely isn't something that requires you to be a rocket scientist to accomplish.
4. Solitude a heavy burden to bear, but what's sadder still is when the only place left to turn to for comfort are the inorganic machines in your life and the fictional worlds in which they hold.
5. You have all the reason in the world to fear a future you can't understand or see, but you have more reason to fear a future you aren't willing to step up to and face. Our destinies are shaped not by the fates that befall us, but the actions of what we're willing to do to overcome them.

Doing a "Chickybabe" refers to doing a list of random thoughts and is named in honour of ChickyBabe who awed me with her style of writing, especially when she did her set of random thoughts which this is named after.

"I may not understand the darkness that you live in but I do understand where I stand in your life."

"And where do you stand in my life?"

"I am the warm morning sun to your cool night air."

"So we can't exist without the other?"

"No. It means this is why I wake up early in the morning and you sleep so damn late at night."

Sometimes even the most complex of opposites can defy its own logic. After all, when you share a world together in such a way, sometimes and just sometimes you make more sense of it together than you could ever make alone. That's all the reason in the world to keep being the person you have always been, no matter what people say about you in any way.

Based on top 100 books to read released by BBC back in April 2009, I found this on Tine's blog as she put down what she has read within the really long list. I've seen similar book memes like this going around, but I've never gone around and done them until now. So why not anyway? Any self respecting bookworm should at least find out how much they have actually gone through over the years. Here is what I've been reading in my spare time.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman (Forget the horrible Hollywood adaptation. I think this is one of the best trilogies of all time)
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (I proclaim this book as dreary only because I had to read it for my English Literature exam)
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell (A cult classic. If you think you live in an oppressive nation, definitely read this book)
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll (If you liked this, also read "Alice Though The Looking Glass" which is darker)
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer (Apparently this is was better than Harry Potter)
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles (I've been trying to get my hands on this book)
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley (The antitheses to Nineteen Eighty Four. The world is controlled by apathy and the search for pleasure)
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho (Another book I've been trying to get my hands on)
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

There we go, a good 39 out of a 100 books. Not too bad too if it is to be believed that the average person would have only read 6 books from that list, and it is hard to believe that an average person wouldn't have read more than that. Then again, when you think about people today and their immersion into technology, you can see how people would prefer to read blogs rather than an actual page turning book. I don't blame them either. Book reading hasn't reached a state where the majority of people can be comfortable with digital copies of their favourite books

Personally, I don't draw any distinctions between the two. Whether it be a nice paperback or words scrolling across the screen, I found that you can do both while under a warm blanket with hot chocolate by your side, or under a tree in the warming springtime at a park. So to me, it doesn't really matter what medium those books are being delivered, as long as I can lose myself in them all the same. That's just as well too, because I really don't have enough space at home to fit in all the books I have read and have yet to read. Sometimes digital has its advantages, if only to see if I can increase the amount of books I've read on meme lists like this.

Talk about a competition.