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.
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