Pride and Prejudice

I forgot how much I loved reading when I was younger, much much younger, during my primary school days.

Somehow reading became a chore over the years. I stopped reading the newspapers daily, I only read off from Yahoo News, I can't remember the last time I held a book besides Twilight. I'm glad we don't have textbooks in school, just notes, because I won't read it.

But I have the time now, and it's time to catch up on the classics. Reading Pride & Prejudice now, and Sense and Sensibility. *beams*


The books I read before this seems so trashy now (think Twilight, 50 shades of grey etc...) Ok, no. Twilight is awesome. And since 50 shades of grey is inspired from Twilight it makes sense it is equally awesome. #twilightfanforever!!


So anyway.. I figured out that I have to install an ebook reader app so I could read using my iPad mini. (I totally thought I had to live off iBooks before this and so regretted not getting a Kindle or a Nexus 7). And so I installed this app called Kobo.

You have to set up a free account and OK it is not all  free, but the classics are all free.

Tried out this app to see if it's good, thinking it'd better be cos' I really hate setting up accounts. It is such a hassle!


Started out with reading the Midnight Sun by Stephanie Meyer. It is not the incomplete draft from a few years back, I found the completed one, although the authenticity of this is pretty suspicious, but it is still very exciting to read from Edward's POV!


And then I read the Hunger Games Series.
SO GOOD.
I'm waiting for the movie now.


Then The Little Prince.
Such an innocent book.
Yes, it is a children's book.

Then some others.
And.. that's how it started.


Kobo app approved.



Anyway, so I am trying to read the Classics now. But it is really really difficult and it's super cheeem for me at this stage. I'm at 20% of Pride & Prejudice and I just couldn't follow who said what and who's talking and where they are.


So I went to watch the movie version first.  The 2005 movie starring Kiera Knightly. I remember liking her a lot during Secondary school days.

HAHA, cheating.

Ahh...... now I understand.


Although the guy in the movie is quite different from what I have read so far, character-wise.


And the movie is really GOOD actually!
I recommend it.
My kind of movie. :D
And I'm guessing that the book is going to be better since it almost always worked out this way.

I like this part of the movie, her in the swing. :)

Can't believe how much have not changed since 1813, that's exactly 200 years ago since this book was published, and it surprises me how aptly this movie still applies in our current society.

Yes, so much pride and prejudice.


Hope to finish the book soon!

I'm really enjoying reading now. 
It's just so peaceful to immerse in a book as the clock ticks on around you.

:)

it's thursday already!

Finally. dreadful week will be over soon. Just one more day to go through and then it will be Good Friday! I'll pray hard that kiong gets to come out tomorrow and my week will be salvaged hopefully~ :D Otherwise, I'll re-read my entire series of twilight all over again to make myself happy.

have you ever been so pek cek over somebody that you wanna cry and scream? i can't describe the pek-cekness, every single time i describe the whole event and everything else top below left right, the more pek cek I felt. Doubled leh! And it's alll the time! repeatedly over the past year. Over. And over. and over again. many times!! Okok. Stop. chill chill. I should read my twilight books agian.


After my Angels & Demons. Not bad so far! :) Maybe just abit.. like the davinci code, on religion and symbology. But interesting still.. suspense. :) not a bad book.

and after eragon. Not bad also :P


Finished watching 一切完美1 a few weeks ago, not bad loh.. i think, shixinhui looks nicer in short hair right! 实力派哦！

用内涵弥补一切缺陷.. 内在的美迷住每个人的眼

my favourite line!! cause it's so true. It's really hard to find people who really appreciates inner beauty. I think kind people, no matter how plain they look, they just have the... glowing smile radiating right! haha. drama drama. :P

anyway, waiting for part 2 dvd to come out! so i can watch haha. i actually missed the whole 2 season on tv. Heard that part 2 won't be that nice though, but.. ok lah. :)



Hmm.. alright, maybe i should head for bed now. I must have accumulated alot of bad karma in the past that's why i'm having such a bad life now. :( i wanna sleep!

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What a drastic transition between Stephenie Meyer and Cecelia Ahern. One that is outright thrilling, while the other is so hard to read.

Heh heh.. and now I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one that has re-read the twilight saga over and over again. :) maybe i should re-read it one more time, and I hope I'm able to pay more attention to book 2 and 3. I so tempted to skip and read book 4, again. hahaha.


It's Friday already! SO SO SO weird. I don't know what I did the whole week so far, seriously :( I don't even know if I have been productive or have I just wasted another week of my life.


was looking at the list of course to study, and nothing interesting still :( Wanted to apply for specialist course but, it's evening course. :/ Maybe it's a sign for me to change job! haha. And yes, local degree is so tempting because it's so cheap. Of course my life and sanity will be at stake.. but sigh.. cheaper right? :/ Tho I very very very much wanna go abroad to study, just to get away from this sickening society for a bit.

I still have probably 1 year to make my decision right? One year more to endure snide remarks as well. Sigh sigh. But life seem so...almost perfect right now.

morning of christmas eve

后来终于在眼泪中明白
有些东西，一旦错过就不在
i wonder if it will ever be back...
maybe, years...?
and i wonder if it was even anybody's fault at all in the first place?


it was a great morning i thought, when i opened my eyes. nice cool weather.. to sleep in. haha.

and... i saw the mess on my table. no smses on my phone (very sad). thought of the things i have to do later. Realised i missed my time to train my Tamimi. Realised it's a wet weather today.. =(

Happy thoughts! happy thoughts!

And i realised after very long, it's christmas eve today!! and i sort of became happier. and also because i'll get to see kiong soon =X haha. i like christmas. the preparing and wrapping of presents made me tired. but happy, but a bit lame too. spending so much effort on a very simple gift.

And, I have this mixed feeling bout reading New moon. Cos i still havent got my Eclipse yet, and i'm afraid if i read too fast i will be very pissed off if I don't have eclipse on my hand yet! :( And.. i hope i'll get tt book later at Times.


Am I a freak to buy Frankenstein??? I bought that book, haven't read it though. I just thought, I should read this infamous novel in my lifetime. I'v read dracula before! oh man. hahaha. hello, i'm mad.


Merrry christmas everyone! But somehow, something is still.. not right yet. Hmm.... :/


p.s: this doesn't fit in anywhere, so... here. Relationship with colleagues improved lately! maybe becos of the holiday season, everyone's mood was up. except mine.. Feel like I can't speak sometimes, even when i'm speaking to someone. sometimes, i wonder if anyone would notice at all when i'm in trouble.

merry christmas! take care everyone.
shall not blog..anytime soon.
haha. bye!

Of books and movies

I hate myself sometimes, for lazing around at home.
Not that I ENJOY lazing around, especially with you nagging at me every single minute enough to make sure I feel like trash. So stop blaming and asking why am I always not at home or such.


And I don't exactly LAZE around, I got my stuffs to do too.
Just because I didn't do them before (when I was so much busier), I got to do them now since I'm free. It's almost as if you're waiting for me to get busy with work and then nag at why I didn't do them earlier.


Stop coming into my room just "checking" and giving me that dirty look whenever you find me tired and sleeping in my bed. While, I'm tired.


And it's not as if I am the only one that "laze around" at home.
What's wrong with talking to your wife on the phone. Taking the effort to bring the phone all the way to me and asking me to pick up the phone because you don't want to speak to her, isn't pressing that button easier? Just pick up that phone la, it's ringing!

It does seem as if you're the woman now with your pms and everything, and that your wife is the man.


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It's weird that I started off in mind that I am going to talk about Harry Potter and 金田一 in this entry and it turns out...

Anyway! I am trying to re-watch all the whole Harry Potter series. yes, all over again. He was just such a small small thing when he first started out, look!

It's like Transformers.



And after the movies I'm going to head for the books, LOL. I suddenly got back my love for reading, this hobby is so fantastic. I initially wanted to re-read my whole comic series of 流星花园 but I had trouble digging them out and so I am reading my 金田一 collection first , which is at the outer part so it is easier to take out, and then go dig deeper for my 流星花园 books.

And after that, hopefully I would have started work by then, I will try and keep up this hobby and go buy some books often to read.


:)


There are so many things that I wanted to do. Of course I don't read the whole day, so there's so many things that I wanted to do before. I wanted to learn to play the guitar (now I can only follow badly at the tabs :(), learn the piano (I have been memorising the keys all along, lol), the violin.. travel around the world for heavens sake.


But yea. i think i need to differentiate my wants and needs.

A book.

Yakuza Moon, Memoirs of a Gangster's Daughter.
Here's a nice picture of the book, together with the author.

I just finished reading this book, Thomas' recommendation.


And when I finished, I was so soooo shocked that I actually pushed the book for mum to read first cause' I was busy with my work. And HENG HENG, fortunately, she didn't want. Don't think she can handle the stuffs inside. Violence, abuse, hostesses, love hotels, drugs...


Everything inside was in rather simple terms, her thoughts, the jobs she took, the house, the places... But I just have this feeling that those ermm.. *ahem ahem* parts were really explicitly described, so much so that I felt quite uncomfortable reading. I mean, maybe it was intentionally done by the author, I don't know anyway. Haha. Simple book I say! :)



And now I understand the look that was imprinted on my bro's face when I pushed the book to mum to read. I think she would freak out knowing her kids are reading this book haha.