Got To Be Good Looking Cause You're So Hard To See.

Okay hi so I decided I shall stop dota-ing for just this one brief moment in time to blog since I realize I haven't done so in ages. No particular reason for this, and a lack of free time definitely isn't the culprit this time, as I have more on my hands than I can be counted upon to handle. Cue DotA and... No, that's just it. Almost nothing else at all, except for work ofc but surely no one wants to hear about something as boring as that.

I must express here my heartfelt gratitude to one Zili for accompanying me to my comms ball, and enduring my most ungentlemanly behavior! I can all too clearly imagine myself instead date-less and most desperate, having to undergo excruciating humiliation and social embarrassment as I canvass my phone contacts/facebook/friendster for someone to ask.

Quite a bit has happened the past few weeks, and it would be unwise for me to try to type them all out especially given the time now and also the time I am supposed to wake up. I wouldn't want to miss breakfast/touch!

So. Lately I've watched Your Highness, Harry Potter 7-2, and Let Me In. In wildly different circumstances. HP7 in Gold Class which was rather too grand (read: expensive) to do often. Your Highness in the tiniest cinema and on the tiniest screen eva, at Lido, which I thought had just renovated no? And still the screen size.. Let Me In was on Funshion on HD which would be brilliant if my laptop had a screen 42 inches wide, but sadly no.

I had to watch Your Highness if only because it features both Natalie Portman and Zooey Deschanel, and since I'm fanboi92 I can't really help myself and my fierce loyalty. I expected the show to be silly and boy was I right! It's pretty funny and the show wasn't bad, but some of the jokes were cringeworthy indeed.

Let Me In I watched because of Cloe Grace Moretz, the girl who put the kickass in Kick-Ass as Hit Girl. It was quite good I think, but perhaps the pacing could have been a little faster. It raises some interesting questions about the nature of evil, comparing her with the bullies.

I watched the trailers for Captain America and it looks good doesn't it! Also Brighton Rock, which seems at least somewhat interesting. I also wanted to watch Elegy but haven't had the chance to do so yet. Sir Ben Kingsley and Penelope Cruz, hopefully in HD on funshion!

Anw I have discovered recently just how disappointing I am. Not disappointed, no, just disappointing. Every time there are those who expect so much more from me, but I fail them at every turn. It is quite sobering. My indifference might shield me from disappointment, but it certainly does not lessen the effect it has on those who care. A whole life of almosts, and I don't seem to care. Sigh.

So. I'm on Bleak House right now, but unfortunately it is not the kind of book you'd sit yourself down into your chair to read for hours on end. It is quite a good read, just not terribly absorbing. Although nothing for sure can beat How Late It Was, How Late in terms of sheer difficultness. I think I spent more than a month on that book, even with the "luxury" or weekends in camp to attempt to finish it.

Charles Dickens is pretty good though, the book being not at all what I expected. Here's a line "(He had) such a delicate sentiment for what was beautiful or tender that (he could have won my heart)" Something along those lines, with the stuff in brackets being probably wrong as I cannot recall with precision what the exact line was. Maybe I will attack Great Expectations and et cetera with more gusto now that I have a bit of experience with him.

Which brings to mind, as I am speaking of a famous writer, of the book I bought at Litteredwithbooks, which is the most delightful of bookshops you could ever expect to find, which is by Ernest Hemingway. I shall read it and then decide on whether I should read the others by him, most significantly For Whom The Bell Tolls, which is famous enough for word of it to have reached my ears.

And before that was Truman Capote with his excellent short stories, so I will probably seek out more books of his. I always find it is so much easier to hunt for reads according to authors. I am always stymied when people ask me how I know what books to read cause I really don't know. I think it's just little nuggets of information that get stuck in your head like when you read of a certain author, or of certain books that are deemed to be "Dazzling", "Wonderful", "The best novel of the 20th century" etc etc. And I have no idea, too, what genres of books I read.

Oh yes I forgot to mention Never Let Me Go. I can't imagine how a movie can be made of the book, whatwith all the unspoken emotion and silent sadness of it all. I can imagine Carey Mulligan in it though, and I assume Keira Knightley was Ruth. It'd be way weird if it were the other way around wouldn't it! I will also read his other books, like Nocturnes and Remains of the Day, if I could only finish the stack I already have. Close to 30 unread books sitting on my shelf now, plizz someone stop me from teh dota.

Okay I have nothing much else I wish to add, and I do really need to sleep so have a good to-night!

Crumpled Letters To Lovers Non-Existent.

Why hellooo. I'm just home from a whole friday afternoon out, so that must indicate to you my overwhelming glee. Whoever heard of a friday afternoon spent not in camp! Fabulous. I finally made my suit (I'd better look damned charming in it HAHA) and I shall assess the result next week. Watched Transformers 3 quite by accident, apparently my friend wanted me to buy X-Men instead but whoops!

This is one of the rare times I've watched a movie without having seen its prequels, cause I really hate doing that. Like with the upcoming HP7-2. Simplay can't stand not having things done sequentially haha! But since I've broken my duck perhaps I shan't be such a prude anymore. Wall Street 2 etc beckon. Stuff like Kung Fu Panda 2 (too. lousy pun)

Okay the next thing to note of my day was that I stepped into PageOne. Mistake leh srsly. At the first display, I spotted 3 books that seemed worthy of note, and I was quite itching to whip out my wallet there and then. If I hadn't paid the deposit for the suit I'd probably have done it too, but my poverty stayed my hand. Butttt, I saw Breakfast At Tiffany's and since my sister only just mentioned last week that she was thinking of buying it, I did. Seems like a steal, since it comes with 3 other stories too! But so potentially upsetting, because of the paradox of choice. They offered 3/4 different covers and I had to pick whichever of them I thought my sister would like the best. Maybe I should have picked the one which actually had Audrey Hepburn on the cover sigh.

Anyway I've alr begun reading it cause I surely hope to finish it before giving it to my sister! Haha quite cheapo actually, but I'm sure she'd understand. Anw it is literarily quite good, no wonder Capote is so famous. Maybe I shall buy In Cold Blood, I think it's one of those cheapcheap slim small Penguin Modern Classics. I must say that Miss Holiday isn't at all what I expected, probably cause I expected sth conventional from a classic story/film while her charm lies in the completely opposite direction.

"It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural."

While we're on the topic of books, I also wish to add, quite happily, that most of my other books have arrived too! I'm not sure what I'm short of actually, I think they might be 2 or 3 books by Milan Kundera. So I didn't know I was expecting another 3 by Murakami, I thought the first wave brought most of them. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - Underground. That makes a total of 11 books by him that I ordered. Sometimes I can't believe myself. But I am quite happy with myself.

Milan Kundera's Immortality, Jonathan Safran-Foer's Everything Is Illuminated at long last, and Ian McEwan's Amsterdam and Solar. I read about him in a story about some guy who didn't like fiction until he read Ian McEwan or sth like that, and somehow that stuck with me so I decided to give it a shot. The Elegance of the Hedgehog and Sarah's Key I bought rather whimsically, just because I read the blurbs. Then there's Crime and Punishment and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes which were about US$3 apiece, so I thought what the heck right?

Also my uncle also gave me a book titled A Civil Action (which starred John Travolta in the movie adaptation) as a gift. I'm really quite surprised and deeply appreciative of the support my relatives have shown me. So okay I'm done with harping about my books, which incidentally would now take abt 5 lifetimes to complete instead of only 2.

Today also I went to Commonwealth for dinner, quite by accident. I'd wanted to check out litteredwithbooks but I took the MRT from outram the wrong direction, so I decided not to switch trains and got off at Commonwealth for a lookabout. I don't think I've ever been there, at least not for any substantial length of time. Had curry rice which was nice (not initially intended to rhyme) so it was quite pleasant. Wanted to try some gourmet pastry or sth but I had no more money left in my wallet so I had to forsake it. Seemed terribly interesting, or just very gimmicky.

You know how people always say "Don't look back", today I learnt the folly of those ways. I walked through a market (you know those double sided stalls) and following that adage, I didn't look back, so it was only on my return journey that I saw the tauhuey stall, and it looked good. Triple sigh. Nothing can beat a good tauhuey srsly.

I wanted to donate blood tmr but I remembered that I was coughing. They'd ask me if I was unwell/taken medicine recently and I couldn't lie to them, it'd be heinous. Imagine inheriting a cough from a donor you don't even know, you'd have no one to blame. And since you're receiving blood transfusion you're probably already in a weakened state and the cough might just be the trigger and you'd die, and then you wouldn't be able to blame anyone or anything at all cause you'd be dead. Hexasigh.

I'll probably go check out litteredwithbooks tmr, or booksactually, since I've got nothing on in the morning. RWS after, which is quite the exciting event, esp since I've never even gone near the place! In fact, today was the first time I took a halfway decent look at it, from the roof of Vivocity haha. The only other time was while on a bus on some highway, and I only saw the roof of some colourful castle or sth. Unbelievable, given the number of times we've seen the other side of sentosa from the sea.

I think my memory is failing me leh. I keep half-thinking things and forgetting where they're from. Like I'm thinking of this desciption of a guy as "papier mache" which isn't common at all, but I forgot where it was from. I just remembered it though haha, and it's from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. I shall have to try reading it sometime, along with Lord of the Flies, William Golding I think? And that one by the japanese author about some schoolkids or sth, if I could only remember what it was called.

Okay so I have still yet to watch X-men, which I can hopefully remedy soon, and hopefully I can also catch Your Highness in the cinemas. I think I might watch Garden State for my next movie, or maybe The Social Network or it wouldn't be fair to that poor movie haha.

Should I try reading The Complete Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe? My sister bought that a few years back but none of us have ever hazarded an attempt haha. The plastic covering is still intact actually. I know he wrote "Blackbird" or sth of that ilk, which sounded pretty interesting, but I'm not sure how prepared I am for poetry haha!

Actually I've wanted to watch Chicago for a very long time now, because everytime I think about it I wonder why exactly I haven't so far. If I could only make time to watch shows instead of DotA!

Heh not to worry actually, I will theoretically have loads of free time very soon! What an agonizing wait srsly and the agony is real. My poor aching arm! Never knew parade was such a pain :'(

If you should ever look back, walk on. We all look back, don't we? But we cannot stop.

Hmmmmmmm okay fine I shall end here. Ta.