2007-09-08 - 12:20 a.m.
this is not an emo entry.
generally i get really emo before i get my period and the good thing is that it has come. yay. i think i should eat more chocolates and go running everyday pre-period. for endorphins.
anyway believe it or not, it's been 3 hours since i started on tis entry and i've written only a couple of sentences cos i started checking out the blogs which my sister reads.. and i feel old. kids these days are so precocious. okay technically i'm a kid, but these girls my sister's age are clubbing like i did a couple of weeks ago, dining at places like the british club and indian restaurants@ holland village. holy shizz, when i was 17, i just discovered crystal jade but righttt i just remembered i'm a pretty late bloomer. i think i watched my first movie at orchard at 14 or 15. actually, i think it was 15. and i only started shopping in the middle of sec 4... and these girls have some sense of style, and they really do know how to live it. chocolate martinis at sheraton in the middle of the day. that reminds me of the white chocolate martini at loof which i hankered for, for a bazillion years but never got to try.
i went for the hall bash on thursday. i was actually surprised that i went, cos i know that jiam knows i'm supporting her in spirit.. but when i was talking to her, i just felt like i had to go. she looked spectacular in her dress, like sooo super sizzling hot. i feel so privileged that i am in the same block with all these beautifulll little things.
i have so many things to talk about randomly actually. after ranting about the friends in the last entry, things changed for the better practically overnight even though i don't think any of the people i talked about read my blog regularly. unfortunately, someone still managed to piss me off at the hall bash. the thing about this someone is that much as i love him dearly, he clearly either has a dick for a brain therefore explaining his complete lack of sensitivity (HAS happened many many times), or is basically a dickhead. i wouldn't like to believe in the latter, but damn, i am royally pissed.
i went for the australia talk and australia doesn't seem much like my kind of country at all. there is a five-pm rule... and i tend to enjoy going out in the dark. speaking of which, dee&ping (very cool, like dolce&gabbana, maybe they should be dolce&pabbana but that sounds retarded and is really long to type) said that they prefer hanging out in the afternoons. i love afternoons at coffee places, i'm such a caffeine addict but there is something very nice and bohemian to chill out at bars and al fresco places at night with the breeze in your face etc, and a lovely glass of chilean wine (hoho which i really like; angel we should go back to shiraz soon). but i will try to make the most out of australia, and hopefully my booty will really land down under. that sounds so wrong in so many ways hahaha.
but i still need to think twice about skydiving.
and i really need more clothes. have been wearing the same things again and again and again and again. i'd really like a pair of denim shorts (which i cannot believe i still do not have), new underwear (am totally rocking my "i'm with the band" undies hahah or so i like to think!) and more "normal clothes", as i like to put it. but i checked out topshop, pull&bear and the usual suspects but i didn't see much. except for this eightynine buckeroo dress which i have been wanting for a while but the sister thinks i shouldn't get it. and rahh the sister is rational, logical and mighty; i tremble in the path of her awesomeness.
some days i FEEL like strangling my sister because she is really damn grumpy sometimes, but most days i know i need her.
(:
okay enough of me being sweet. i need to start shoppping more. i'm beginning to resemble dung more closely these days - albeit a pile of dung that wears glasses. i walked around vivo for two hours on my own today and exercised such restraint that i am amazed.
and shopping luck recently has been bad as shit. ordered stuff from ASOS; spree got cancelled. ordered bikini from delias (which i really really like), went OOS. ordered the very same one a second time, organizer cancelled my order. wanted to order cute threadless tee, DBS website kept hanging on me.
yes i know it looks amah but i think i should try for a different look instead of the usual topshopwhore or taitaiwannabe or err dress-girl look. tho i have to qualify that i REALLY do look like dung these days, no thanks to the eye infection.
suff i think your tortoise-shell ahpek glasses are growing on me. plus i'm too broke to buy the chanel pair that i want.. it's basically just a black frame with the chanel logo by the side. sigh, since i don't have money, i should just go indie.
i'd like one of those fleece jacket things too, in cream. sigh, like jo's h&m jacket. if anyone's been wondering what happened to my much-beloved black thing which can be transformed into wrap-around, i left it at khon khaen university ):
and if you don't already know, i have a whole list of books i'd like for my birthday.
1. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
okay i hated his first book, but my sister loved it. so i guess i don't mind getting his second so that she can read it.
2. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah
3. Lolita by Vladimir Nabakov
I'd really love it if it were a pretty copy. It's such gorgeous prose it ought to be accompanied by a pretty picture, pretty binding.. you get my drift.
4. The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
which I am sure will make me a rather unpopular dining companion hurhurhur.
5. Middlesex: A Novel by Jeffrey Eugenides
because the Southeast Asian major is always interested in liminal sexual spaces.
6. The Perfect Hostage: A Life of Aung San Suu Kyi by Justin Wintle
because I'm trying to make a decision about her, even though ping thinks she's gone through enough... and i do agree but sometimes it's good to know what exactly she is fighting for, other than a democratic and free Burma, and what drives her to do what she does. am rambling already.
7. How to Walk in High Heels by Camilla Morton
because I LOOOVE this book! it's cute and classy, and extremely practical.
8.The Satanic Verses: A Novel by Salman Rushdie
if i haven't already mentioned how much i love prose that's rich with imagery, or if i haven't already mentioned how much i love indian writers, then i guess i have to mention it again.
9. anything by Kamila Shamsie, even though I prefer "Kartography" and "Broken Verses"
10. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
err I'll need a copy to stay with me through my retirement.
11. The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
12. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
it's probably a bit too famous but it isn't overrated.
13. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
someone recommended it, with a lot of praise.
14. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books by Azar Nafisi
okay, lisee didn't like this but i read a couple of pages and it looked fine.
15. The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L. Friedman
16. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
i can't think of any more. what a shameless wishlist i know (:
