yamanai ame da neeee

since we're on the topic
Sunday, May 31, 2009

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Judy Blume
Call It Sleep Henry Roth
Housekeeping Marilynne Robinson
A Dance to the Music of Time Anthony Powell
The Golden Notebook Doris Lessing
A House for Mr. Biswas V.S. Naipaul
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov
Lucky Jim Kingsley Amis
The Man Who Loved Children Christina Stead
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Ken Kesey
Pale Fire Vladimir Nabokov
The Spy Who Came From The Cold John le Carre
The Sot-Weed Factor John Barth
Play It as It Lays Joan Didion

hmmm. yeah i came up with a book list!
i'm reading Mao's Last Dancer now. good book. (and its non fic, the first non fic novel i'm reading, i think.) abittttttt didactic. or maybe its because it's been translated.. no idea.

haha that day i was talking to liz, we were saying we should start a book club. yeah between the 2 of us, the amount of books we read is enough to start one already i think. so fun. its so interesting to talk to someone who reads too...

12:01 PM

what we can all learn
Friday, May 29, 2009

yoko learned from maru that if you move around like crazy, you get lots of screentime XD

HAHA. maybe its the way enshinge translated it but its so funny. makes me wanna watch the countdown agn!

3:10 AM

list.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009

things i have been doing to squander away the family inheritance:

1. not working
2. watching numerous movies.
3. watching numerous concerts (deadly)
4. buying numerous books
5. buying a game
6. eating expensive food
7. going to kbox (poor people should only sing in their bathroom)
8. buying useless stuff, just cause i feel like spending
9. still thinking of going to taiwan (the mere thought of it makes my bank feel emptier)
10. making my friends go out with me.
11. using alot of electricity.
12. doing expensive sports, like kayaking

out of which 5, 8, 10 and 11 are all actually the result of 1.
well its kinda my money. but, its kinda not. you know.

ps sharon au talked abt sn on her blog. ok kinda. anw i feel so AW reading it. hope she continues to excel man she's damn pro. anw why does she speak kansai ben. hahahah she wrote honmani. ok i was convinced honmani is a kansai way of saying hontoni cause k8 keeps saying it? okashiii.
omg i said anyway twice. i lack vocabulary mannn i need help.

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omg im really bored, so im updating a tremendous number of times.
i think i need an entire collection of George Orwell books. how do i find more books about alternate realities? i'm glad i took lit in jc you know, i feel like i discovered a whole new realm there. but then, this interest is so difficult to feed, because so few writers write stuff about utopia/dystopia. and even if i do find them, i'm so afraid they are one of those modern writers who are into the idea of abstract thinking. less is more kind of line of thought. i want details, i want richness. not a book that pretends to talk about emptiness by being empty.

i'm beginning to feel like i have no direction in my reading. i spend hours browsing the shelves only to feel like i'm missing out on treasures simply because i don't know what i'm looking for at all. in the past, i actually went to bookshops with a rough idea of what i want to find.. hmm nowadays this changed and i have no idea why. maybe because the more i read, the more i start forming opinions like.. i don't like british authors HAHA. which closes off this entire branch of literature to me. oh wellll..... keep your mind open ng liting. to think i used to tick books off the booker price. haha the list is chock full of britishness my goodness.

10:04 PM

Sunday, May 24, 2009

the more i read news translations, the more i think news is really just
pi and ryo_________koyama tego shige massu.

hahaha. they cannot keep being like that lohhh. ok but not like they can help it.

ANW. shit ohkura rly sings damn well. esp lives.
omg listen to his mamoritai la wth. its like super nice live.
im srs. im marrying him already!!!

6:38 AM

Saturday, May 23, 2009

yah laaa xiao zhu you're good at everything laaaaaaaaaa.

hu die jie jie is damn funny. and i think she likes xiao gui more HEH HEH.
ok la im biased.

1:46 AM

honmaaa!! bukkiri!! eito's 47
Thursday, May 21, 2009

Today is the day kanjani 8 returns the energy you always give us!

ahhhh i adore maru too. hahah everyone in kanjani 8 is cute omg.
if i hear this for myself during their concerts i will burst and die of happiness on the spot. except, i won't be able to understand what they're saying anw. damn.

k8 concerts always give me this homely feeling. its like so sweet. because their smiles are so genuine. like they really fought hard to be here. so they're super appreciative. and they enjoy themselves so much. this is my 5th (not counting snippets of single songs) time watching the concert and i'm still not getting tired of it. and altho i dont like ryo's voice that much, but one of the favourite parts is when ryo came out and did an acoustic version of heavenly psycho. he said its his ichiban yay ryo i love that song too. its soooo nice and his version just made me like it so much more! omg so nice. its playing as i type. i love my ryo in k8 :) he shld just quit news (joudan). oh well. and it helps that he's so handsome. HAHA
oh hahah he asked the audience to sing as he plays and he's so cute. he went ahhh kimochi! lets do it one more time! and he was so happy. mannnnnnnnnn k8 rocks pls.
and i get goosebumps hearing the audience sing. the entireeeeeeeeee tokyo dome is filled up with singing people. reminds me of the mayday conc. haha ok entirely different scale we're talking about here i know. but still its the same feeling! camaradrie!

ohkura is just too handsome. i wanna marry him man. HAHA
im so superficial.
and i love the way he laughs omg its so manly pls. HUA HUA HUA. hahahahhaha i can replay tt scene 10 times and not get tired of it. shit. he's perfect la. ok la i will marry him ok. hahahahah im going mad. its 312am and im damn awake. must be k8's fault. and im hungry too!

oh btw went for the rovers chalet thing today. the ppl are nice hahaha.. it wasnt so bad. yup.

nb:my post has no flow because its been typed out in chunks. every chunk was added on with everytime i edit hahahah.. btw its 415 now. as i type this.

2:39 AM

omedetou!!
Wednesday, May 20, 2009

first japanese joke i understood without translations:
what fruit does papa dislike?
ans:papaya

HAHA omg i actually understood it!! im damn smart.
atama ga ii ne. hai hai.

btw i think ohno actually is more of a person in dramas than in real life.
haha srsly until now i still cannot understand how he can be so stoned everyday. does he even think about anything at all...????? wakarimasen. kedo, ohno kun daisuki! hoho.

4:13 AM

celebs :) ong tham lee loe lim yap and ngsss.
Monday, May 18, 2009

all eight of us!
celebs has been going out like crazy hahaha damn funny.
making up for the sem.
went timbre ytd. quite fun!
ok so its ecp next right.. yay.

2:16 PM

Saturday, May 16, 2009

nowadays most people employed in advertising and stuff have been uni/poly educated right... and personally, i have friends who can analyse adverts and tell me whats wrong with them and why.

it makes me wonder how bad adverts manage to get on tv.
like the new (i think its new) LG one. omg.
maybe theres some psychological thing behind the advert but haha its just weird.

10:44 PM

ohno can't smile...... AW.
neyo to omoimasu..... oyasumi!

3:55 AM

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

today i spent one whole day with matong
HAHA. lame. ok it was funnn! i guess we havent really talked for the entire sem. so this is considered catching up?
watched Revolutionary Road and oh man, its a film/book chocked full of lit stuff, and here i've been talking about lit for the past few posts, so its very appropriate.
damn depressing movie actually. while i was watching, a few lit texts (and books i read myself) i've done flashed past me. namely, Handmaid's Tale, Twelfth Night anddddd the book that i quoted on my previous post... and i few other random ones i can't really rmb.
the 'foolish wit' character particularly reminded me of a lit device. hahah..
mannn, THATS how lit it is la!
ok after that, we were in a very lowwwwwww mood. which is common for the movies that we watch (why is that so?) haha.. and then we went to eat ice cream PLS LA MATONG. i knew it you are the bane of my ban (omg i love how this sounds! alliteration ahah)

4:36 AM

Monday, May 11, 2009

Clara's hair is tied up, but a light breeze plays among the grey wisps at her temples. The strands are iridescent, for by now the clouds have all gone. It is a beautiful day.
'You know this is a dream,' Clara says.
'What do you mean?'
'You and me, together in New York?' She cuffs him playfully with the back of her hand. 'You must know I died long ago- a Jewish woman in Berlin in those days, married to a Jewish professor. In your heart you know that, yes? You know we're not really here, and it's only a dream?'
Ulrich says,
'Yes, I know.'
But he cannot leave it there,
'It's a dream, Clara, but it's not only a dream. There is far more to us than what we live.'
He speaks with unusual passion.
'Life happens in a certain place for a certain time. But there is a great surplus left over, and where will we stow it but in our dreams?' (own emphasis)
Clara stares into her lap. She says,
'Those children of yours are imaginary.'
'I have a real son, who is even more imaginary. These ones stay with me, and makes me proud.'
A butterfly alights for a time on Clara's floral dress, and then takes flight again.
'When I die,' says Ulrich, 'they will put me under the ground, when even those with eyes become blind like me. I will lie with an eternity of dreamers, breeding visions that will flicker on the surface - and the children of my daydreams will roam free.'

-Rana Dasgupta, Solo

8:56 PM

there's really nothing happening in my life now.
omg life has never been this aimless.

and i'm not even enjoying it.

btw.
i was rereading my lit text (yes, believe it maybe this proves how aimless im feeling)
and really, i can truly understand what rushdie was trying to say about the power of the audience. ok, i'm not gna write an essay out of this. but omg. it hit me today as i was reading, how lit and psychology are so close to each other. how interlinked everything is.
psychology's fancy terms. and lit's flowery language.
if you look pass all of it.. there's so much.
saleem feels like he needs the approval of padma in order to write, but he finds he can go on without her.. yet the story is just lacking when she's not around. that feeling. its very identifiable. how one person changes things.. maybe in very subtle ways to the reader. but in very immense ways to the writer. shit, lit is such a beautiful thing. but its a killer when examinable. haha. very unromantic, for something so romanticised. psychology on the other hand. hmmmmmmm i don't know. i guess, like all science subjects.. you have to know alot before you can do anything.

i notice. i always start out talking abt something and end up talking about something else. its a habit thats failing me in my academics. haha. ok even i feel tired reading that chunk of words.

side note:
i've been lying on my chin for the past 2 hours without moving (i don't know what i was doing)
and now. my jaw REALLY REALLY REALLY hurts. ok 3 reallys is really not enough.
i can't open my mouth. omg.

the morning birds are chirping already (its 457am now)

4:16 AM

i love lion king :)
Friday, May 08, 2009

12:00 AM