In the Mood for "Love", the quest for the "Ring"
borrowed three books today, cldn't resist borrowing Love in the Time of Cholera again. also laid my hands on Lord of the Rings (finally can see it on the shelf). started to do a mental count of the books i read last sem. sounds pathetic, but books gimme the most solace in times of loneliness, depression and boredom. at least it takes my mind away from my current predicament, however temporarily, transports me to another world.
some of the books i read during the last break:

One Man's Bible (Gao Xing Jian)
A Leap of Love (Catherine Lim)
Bitter Grounds
Kitchen (Banana Yashimoto)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

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watched a program featuring the sights and sounds of London. actually the emphasis was on the beer culture there (the program was commissioned by a beer manufactured by an animal with black skin with yellow stripes). Other than beer (which i hate, esp that brand), London looks like an interesting place. they also managed to film david blane in his little glass box above thames. (kinda reminds me of the Great Glass Elevator) maybe they feed him beer instead of water so he can survive so many days without food ha. one question that bothered me: why is a hen party called a hen party and a stag party called a stag party. sounds so crude :P can't it be something more elegant-sounding? woah when i think hen party i imagine a grp of loud raucous women. tsk tsk.

life without the internet is disconcerting to say the least. actually it's closer to DEVASTATING. I spent the last two hours trying to fix my faulty internet connection again. luckily i finally realised what setp i din take to reinstall the whole thing, or i ll really panic and be maniacally depressed. actually it's not like i use the internet a lot. it's just the thought of it beign there and i cannot use it, that DRIVES ME CRAZY. :(

SO...today i realised, furniture and home furnishings AND MOST human beans have something in common. Today a quick walk around Ikea after lunch revealed Rosalinda curtains, Nick folding chairs, Franklin bar stools, Jeremy cushion covers etc etc. and not forgetting my sofa at home is called Julie or Jasmine or some other name that starts with the letter J. should i refer to my sofa as she? okie okie i know they are brand names. but its kinda funny. dunno why they have such HUMAN brand names for furnitures and furnishings stuff, wonder who came up with the trend. imagine snippets of conversation like: "how do you like my new Julie?", "oh that's a nice Jeremy, where did you get that?" or "I'm bring Rosalinda to the laudromat, she badly needs a wash." hahaha. why? why? why? obviously you dun get people who have names like Canon, Panasonic, Burberrys and Polka? maybe you do, but that's another story :P

is it too early to talk abt this? last night i had a dream. this morning, i m decided. i want a Holga for my birthday present!

I m inspired by the numerous testimonies i read of people written by their frens. i think it is really quite difficult to write a testimony for a close fren. I m writing this about a jc classmate of mine whom i did not know very well at all.
despite the fact that i did not know much abt S, i would think that it is not very difficult for everyone to like this guy at first sight. cos he is always smiling when u see him, i dunno which normal person can take a look at him and not take an immediate liking. i rem a very rare incident when he tried to scare me with a dead cockcroach on the floor, and i actually was so shocked that i instinctively hit him very hard on the shoulder. Boy it must have hurt, cos even i felt the impact(my hand was stinging with pain). but he was still smiling and not looking the least bit annoyed. even when pple try to irritate him, he just pretends to look annoyed, which is not very convincing becos he still cannot wipe that smile off his face ha. i wonder if this guy has a temper.

i m not the only person who is impressed with S. I was reminded of him becos just the other day, PZ was telling me she met him in school and he was smiling so brightly as if he was extremely happy to see her. such is the feeling of running into S, you are left feeling very happy and cheerful after you meet this guy. He also gives me the feelign that he is very meticulous and considerate. while we were enjoying ourselves during CNY at our form teacher's house, he was the first person who took the initiative to help clean up.

hmmm...is there really such a perfect person? maybe it's cos i dunno him very well at all, that i have such a glowing evaluation of him. i m curious, what would his close frens say abt him?

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HK pop
help!!!! i m stuck at home, it always rains in the evening, at the time when i m most dying to go out. Argggh!!! and my kind neighbour treats me to earfuls of HK (read Hokkien) pop every now and then!!!!
arrrggh!

haiz why am i sooo stupid? i shld have said yes when he asked me if i wanted his email. why am i such a dunce??? yeah no one is as silly as me to give my number to someone who doesn't need it except to bug me (thankfully that person has got the hint and stopped) and who is more stupid than me to not obtain the email of another person so that i can send him the pictures that i took of him? why am i stooopid? haiz ryan chong kaili, where on earth are you?

came home to find the tank brimming with guppy fries again, what is new? compared to the initial excitement the first time i had baby guppies, the fervour is largely gone. i estimate i must have more than a hundred fries now, lost count liao. what do to with them if they all grow up (i doubt so since there are so many, some are bound to die along the way)

Fire!
as i m typing right now, i can see from my window, a fire occurring in the distance, complete with flames and billowing fumes. i can also hear the sounds of the fire engine. haiz~~ seems like the factories in the Sungei Kadut area are very fire-prone. i suppose it's cos they are mostly timbre factories. real terrible man. i ve witnessed more fires in my two years here than the rest of my life put together :(

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