Friday, June 11, 2010
i love weekends! (: hehe which technically (in my case at least) starts from the time i finish bathing on fri evenings yayy (: and after that i have a whole weekend plus fri night to look forward to yayy (: if my weekdays are slack, then weekends are MEGA SLACK hehehe xD
i had a very enjoyable time rediscovering the joy of re-reading old novels hehe! (: i say "rediscovering" instead of "discovering" because i have always liked re-reading my old novels since i was young hehe but then for a period of time (i think it was in jc) i hardly read any new novels at all cos no time hehe, much less re-read the old stuff :/ so like i totally forgot how freaking therapeutic it feels to do so haha xD but anyway, YAYY the feeling totally rocks hehe ((: makes me super duper happy just doing so (:
hee so anyway, yupp back to the point (: i've been re-reading all these stuff during like breakfasts and lunches over the past week (: a wrinkle in time, the pact and my sister's keeper! (: hee and well it's amazing that the thoughts running through my head as i read all these again are pretty different from those i had the last time i read these books heh (: guess it's a way of showing how much one has changed in terms of the way one thinks? (:
hehe i shall be intellectual and blog about my reading experience (: not cause i have nth else better to blog about but cos i think it's sth worth remembering haha (: and also cos i realise that there are a great many other novels i've read over all these years but i can't rmbr what each and every one of them were about, which is pretty sad actually haha so i have decided that i will start blogging about books i have read hee (: then i'll be able to recall the content from the title of the book (: smart huh (: omg it sounds like i am doing a book review here hehehe but i am not kayy! (: book reviews are the stuff that your teachers make you do in school cos they wanna grade you blahblahblah but this, i'm doing out of my own free will hehehe so there (: although i did really enjoy doing book reviews in school last time hehe cos it gave me an excuse to get more novels to read heh (: stuff like, oh this book not suitable, i think i need to find another one that's nicer to write about :p and hehe it gave me an excuse to be reading when i ought to have been doing homework/sleeping too :D
anyway (: kayy shall blog about a wrinkle in time first (: hehe this was actually my P5 literature book whee (: so it was really quite fun reading this again, cos all my handwritten annotations at the side of the book were so funny gosh :p funny cos i have no idea why i wrote all those lolll they don't seem to be of critical importance to the plot analysis or character analysis whatsoever haha omg so either i heard the teacher wrongly and took down rubbish, or i was dreaming and anyhow wrote stuff hahahaha oops :p looking at those annotations also made me wonder how come i disliked lit so much in sec 1 and 2 haha :/ i mean like, from where i am now, i think lit is pretty fun actually haha, taking apart bits of the story and analyzing it haha (: but ah wells, something must have gone horribly wrong in sec sch anyway haha i don't rmbr why anymore haha or maybe it was just a particular phase i was going through :/ or maybe i just hated it cos i was total rubbish at it and i know i hated being lousy at subjects in school hahahaha okay i really have no idea ): come to think of it, i loved lit lessons in pri sch though! (: i still rmbr hehe we did charlotte's web in P4, a wrinkle in time in P5 and friedrich in P6 (: and i rmbr friedrich was the first holocaust book i read haha and it got me super crazy about reading other holocaust books after that hahahahah xD and and we fried potato pancakes in class because friedrich's mom also fried potato pancakes in the book hehehe gosh so fun please (((:
ah but i am sidetracking again gosh ): ok so anyway haha i found the concepts in the book superbly intriguing (: stuff about squaring time and space (: the tesseract (: wowwww haha :D i remember i was damn amazed by this concept back then too but then i forgot about it over the years haha and now, 8 years later i'm looking at this again with very much the same level of fascination as before lol (: it's interesting la really (: i wonder if i will live to see the discovery of an actual tesseract before i die haha (: and wow it'd be so cool if people actually find out how to wrinkle across time and space omg (: the implications of this are seriously gonna be damn cool (: i'm so impressed by the author though! (: i mean like, seriously a nice piece of fiction is hard enough to write already la you need really fresh ideas and a great imagination (: sci-fi for kids is even harder i think haha, you have to take the scientific concepts and drop them to a level that is easily comprehensible to kids (: wow it takes a lot a lot of skill i think (: hee and i love the characters in the book too hehe meg and calvin are so cute please omg ((: they are like so totally pei even though they are so young and all hehe (: and awwww especially the part where calvin told meg not to take off her specs cos he didn't want other people to see what lovely eyes she had hahaha AWWWW (((: selfishly sweet ahahaa :p
hee and then i went on a jodi picoult craze all over again hehehe xD shall blog about my sister's keeper first! (: this brought back a lot of memories haha (: maybe cos i'm especially damn proud of myself everytime i think of this book cos i wrote a book review on this that got published in the straits times! :D that playbox column or whatever it's called haha :D hehehe ego-boosting session again oops but yayy i am still keeping that article yayy i just can't remember where i last left it zzz ): it has been a long time man omg haha i wrote that review in sec 2 and after that i don't think i ever picked up the book to read again hehe until recently la :D hehe but yayy i really love this book ((: i just really love the way it's written haha it's really pretty and everything (: the way all the little random tidbits of information are all interspersed with the storyline and everything just blends nicely (: very artistic (: and i love how the ethical issues are brought out in the book haha (: and wowww omg the way jodi picoult writes really makes me fall in love with all the characters in the book hahahaha xD and the amazing thing i learnt from this round of reading the book, is that people somehow always have good reasons for doing what they do, just that you can't really see it very clearly unless you put yourself in their shoes! (: things may seem very unethical and unfair from one end but really justifiable from another end (: wow haha xD i didn't manage to pick this out from the previous reading haha oh wells (: i think the prob with me is that everytime i read sth the first time i don't read it like completely cos i'm speed reading and rushing to get to the end so i'll know the whole story oops (: bad habit cos i tend to miss out on the little interesting snippets of things in between! (: like how i missed all the stuff about stars and constellations and omg they are really really very prettily linked in with the rest of the story haha it's so cool i wonder why i never noticed all these before! (: and i think it's really cool that anna was named after a star omg (: there's apparently a constellation andromeda haha (: quite a nice way to choose names for your kids right (: the ending was super sad though omg i totally forgot that the story had such a sad ending cos all i remembered was that they won the lawsuit and all omg so i was totally unprepared for the ending when it came my way ): sadddddd omg )): it's so bad of me haha but i keep wishing that kate had died instead of anna zzzz )): wth it's like so unfair and so ironic haha you win the rights to your own body but you still die in some stupid car crash that's out of your control anw ): omg so sad right sighhh D:
i realise something omg, i wanted to watch my sister's keeper but i still haven't got round to watching it yet! :O as in the movie la omg -whines- ): i wanna watch i wanna watch!!! (: one day i shall go download hehe (: cameron diaz is in the movie omg i love cameron diaz :D :D apparently julia is not featured in the movie sighhh what kinda rubbish is that omgggg how can they not have julia omg i am angry haha ): was looking forward to julia and campbell scenes hehe sighhhh but nvm i'm sure the whole thing rocked overall la ahhh omg must watch! (:
haha ok nvm (: on to the pact now! :D i feel sad everytime i read this haha it's just damn freaking tragic cos chris and emily together are just too good to be true omg i can't believe there was all that unhappiness there sigh and the whole story is just so sad omg ))): i think this is the 3rd time i'm reading it haha but i never seem to get sick of the whole thing haha i am such a soppy tragedy-story lover haha oops :p hey but then they say it's common for ppl to enjoy reading tragic stories cos of the sense of catharsis you get after that hehe well i dunno if that's true for me haha i know i like happy endings but i like reading about tragic stories haha ok oops does that make sense haha i dunno oops maybe it doesn't ): anw! from this round of reading, i picked out a lot more things to chew on as compared to the last round! (: amazing huh haha, but well, this just proves that experiences you draw on during different phases of your life can greatly alter the way you perceive things around you (:
anyway omg the first time i read it i rmbr thinking that chris was such a jerk and emily was so poorthing omg being forced to do things that she doesn't wanna do :/ but this time round i totally adore chris man omg he's like omg so darn sweet srsly :O like, where on earth would you find someone like that gosh he's willing to endure jail and all the heartbreak of losing someone and all the emotional trauma blahblah, all for emily's sake omg! i am starting to think emily sucks also omg just because she is depressed she has to beg chris to kill her goshhhh ): the worst thing is: he really shot her cos he only wanted her to be happy! :O and like he ended up being locked in jail for months after that while awaiting trial omg what kinda guy would do that for a girl right omg amazing omg simply too good to be true omgggggggg it's damn sweet in a bittersweet way haha (: ok my short rambling here doesn't do chris justice haha you have to read the whole book to find out just how wonderful he is hahahha but yeahh (: uh this is it in summarised form haha xD which is why one of the taglines for the book is "how far would you go for someone you love" omgggg it's a very tough question to answer especially if you're talking abt killing that very same loved one to make them happy )): a totally atypical sort of mercy killing gosh ):
also omg, i only just realised that emily had always only loved chris like a brother and not like the romantic sort of way! ): omg wth and they have been dating for so long omggggg i feel like slapping her for letting this thing drag on for so long omg zzzz stupid girl :O it's like, so stupid cos they both end up wanting different things from the relationship oh goshh it's killing me to read about them ): and it's so ironic cos they are supposed to know everything abt each other and they are the kind of couple who have like conjoined minds and souls kinda thing, yet they can't tell that they have a different kinda love for each other oh goshhhhhh faints )))):
and i think the epilogue is sooooooooo freaking sad omg omg omg ))): chris found this note in the can-and-pulley system that he and emily used to use for passing messages to each other when they were young, and he unfolds the note only to find that it's a blank piece of paper ): goshhhhhh heartbreaking ): it would have been so nice if it had emily's writing on it or sth sigh then he could keep it for memory ): the creepy thing abt this though, is that it's prob meant to represent life coming full circle haha i dunno gosh i had never really understood what "coming full circle" meant, until now haha! cos the opening sentence of the book was "there was nothing left to say" and shortly after that, emily gets shot ): so omg maybe that blank piece of paper signifies that there was nth more to be said between chris and emily ): ah so sad so sad gosh ): though omg in the process of being such a total literary freak (i can't believe i have been subconsciously dissecting all these symbolic things in the story) i have discovered the beauty of literary devices! (: woww (: it is pretty smart actually, and like, really impactful haha (: makes me keep thinking of the story goshhhh even though i'm done with this round of reading alr hahah faints! obsessive me haha :p but well that's the thing abt jodi picoult aha her characters are so real you feel like you've actually known them personally for a long time or what omg (: such magical writing right gosh :O but it also makes me super sad at the end of each book haha it's as if i'll miss the people in the book omg it sounds darn stupid i know hahhahaa but well go read it and experience for yourself man haha (:
i wanna read the rest of her books too! ahhh i'm into the craze all over again hehe (: plus i love courtroom novels and all her books have legal dramas in them haha rocks (: and just nice omg borders is having clearance sale and mph is having some sale too omg i need to check them out omg i wanna get some more books to read omg yayy (((: the kind that are worth re-reading yayy (:
hehe omg so late alr haha i can't believe i spent this long obsessing over people who don't actually even exist in real life hahahhaa madness omg :p but yayy anw, back to the point, this is why i love re-reading books haha (: you see things you didn't see the first time (: haha i think maybe i'm the kinda person who likes to keep thinking back on things and reviewing things and all omg (: sentimental old sod hahaha :p
anyway yayy besides this great literary experience i had, i also tried some cool stuff over the past few days yayy (: like kfc cheesy bbq meltz haha! :D i love it omggggg (((: crap i'm so unhealthy hahha but it's really yummy gosh ((: and i tried xinwang taiwanese food ytd haha (: their service is darn slow omg :O but the food is interesting la haha one day must go back again and try the rest haha (: oh i ate oyster meesua haha it's not as nice as shihlin one though ): i wanna go taiwan one day omg! (: and maybe when i'm brave enough i'll try smelly tofu :D
i can't wait for next week omg joyce and xuyan lunch ((: happiness omg i haven't talked to both of you for so long haha this is gonna be exciting man (:
ducky says yoshi is selling smiley-faced fries omg omg i'm so excited omg i wanna try tooooooooooooo :D :D so cute please ((((((((((((:
