new link/weekend
advertising a new site/blog thing that i just found: Things We Heard (or Said). it's a page dedicated to insanely embarassing, weird, quirky and fun quotes from random people. damn wtflol.
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went traipsing around the place with zh yesterday; we started at borders, went to anatolia (cool turkish restaurant in far east plaza; their portions are decent but the tomato sauce just gets your appetite whirring. and lamb is one of my favourites, when i can get it) dropped by isetan's liquor section (where the guy there, on hearing that i wanted creme de cassis to make kir, kindly advised me to forget it and buy a bottle of ribena instead), went back to borders but didn't find anything exciting, mrted down to vivocity to page one, bought two books and then mrted back up to serangoon for adam's pre-BMT bash. as for today, i went to gramophone at parkway and picked up 2 cds. nothing really exciting or droolworthy.
i should have a restraining order preventing me from entering bookshops or cd stores; think i spend about $80-100 a month on going out and the same amount on books and cds each month. this month is worse, it's only the 6th and i've gone out and bought Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, Poulenc's complete chamber music and a cd of Sibelius' and Nielsen's violin concertos. Sure they're all good books and cool music but i certainly wouldn't die without them. and considering i'll be moving to the US next year... i should stop adding to my collection, or at least grow it at a slower rate. sure it's better than blowing money on drinks, expensive food and movies, but still... those-poulenc-recordings-are-pretty-good-especially-the-sextet-and-i've-never-heard-the-nielsen-violin-concerto-before-and-maxim-vengerov's-sibelius-is-probably-worth-a-listen-and-both-those-books-are-really-highly-recommended-and-i've-never-seen-an-edition-of-suite-francaise-under-40-bucks!
lol pathetic excuses for splurging.
and i got a borders card from my brother so there's more to come =) at least it's not going to bleed my bank account.
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i should really plug page one, at vivocity. it's got a good collection of literature, far better than borders or possibly kino imo (at least for its size). borders has lots of mainstream pulp fiction on its shelves; page one's collection is about the same size but much better quality. most of the authors i look out for are very well-represented - at least 10 of graham greene's immense oeuvre, all 4 of stephen fry's novels, lots of thomas pynchon - except they didn't have the edition of gravity's rainbow that i wanted - the series with the funky cover of which i already have V (haha yup i'm anal about that kinda stuff).
what i especially like is that they don't just stock famous authors' magna opera, like it's not just burgess' a clockwork orange, but they had the malayan trilogy and earthly powers too. nearly all the books are shrink-wrapped so there're some browsing copies but you can pick up brand-new undamaged ones, unlike at borders where some of the books are in quite a shocking condition.
saw some novels by an author i'd never heard of before, jose saramago. portuguese, translated. the first few pages of blindness were a fascinating read; it's not a stream of consciousness, it's a compelling quicksand that sucks you in. fascinatingly disorientating. should get into that and his other books when i have more time. i have an insane backlog of unread books though... better stop buying and start reading. my new bookcase is full already -.- crap.
i really need that walk-in bookcase. ;P
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went traipsing around the place with zh yesterday; we started at borders, went to anatolia (cool turkish restaurant in far east plaza; their portions are decent but the tomato sauce just gets your appetite whirring. and lamb is one of my favourites, when i can get it) dropped by isetan's liquor section (where the guy there, on hearing that i wanted creme de cassis to make kir, kindly advised me to forget it and buy a bottle of ribena instead), went back to borders but didn't find anything exciting, mrted down to vivocity to page one, bought two books and then mrted back up to serangoon for adam's pre-BMT bash. as for today, i went to gramophone at parkway and picked up 2 cds. nothing really exciting or droolworthy.
i should have a restraining order preventing me from entering bookshops or cd stores; think i spend about $80-100 a month on going out and the same amount on books and cds each month. this month is worse, it's only the 6th and i've gone out and bought Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky, Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby, Poulenc's complete chamber music and a cd of Sibelius' and Nielsen's violin concertos. Sure they're all good books and cool music but i certainly wouldn't die without them. and considering i'll be moving to the US next year... i should stop adding to my collection, or at least grow it at a slower rate. sure it's better than blowing money on drinks, expensive food and movies, but still... those-poulenc-recordings-are-pretty-good-especially-the-sextet-and-i've-never-heard-the-nielsen-violin-concerto-before-and-maxim-vengerov's-sibelius-is-probably-worth-a-listen-and-both-those-books-are-really-highly-recommended-and-i've-never-seen-an-edition-of-suite-francaise-under-40-bucks!
lol pathetic excuses for splurging.
and i got a borders card from my brother so there's more to come =) at least it's not going to bleed my bank account.
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i should really plug page one, at vivocity. it's got a good collection of literature, far better than borders or possibly kino imo (at least for its size). borders has lots of mainstream pulp fiction on its shelves; page one's collection is about the same size but much better quality. most of the authors i look out for are very well-represented - at least 10 of graham greene's immense oeuvre, all 4 of stephen fry's novels, lots of thomas pynchon - except they didn't have the edition of gravity's rainbow that i wanted - the series with the funky cover of which i already have V (haha yup i'm anal about that kinda stuff).
what i especially like is that they don't just stock famous authors' magna opera, like it's not just burgess' a clockwork orange, but they had the malayan trilogy and earthly powers too. nearly all the books are shrink-wrapped so there're some browsing copies but you can pick up brand-new undamaged ones, unlike at borders where some of the books are in quite a shocking condition.
saw some novels by an author i'd never heard of before, jose saramago. portuguese, translated. the first few pages of blindness were a fascinating read; it's not a stream of consciousness, it's a compelling quicksand that sucks you in. fascinatingly disorientating. should get into that and his other books when i have more time. i have an insane backlog of unread books though... better stop buying and start reading. my new bookcase is full already -.- crap.
i really need that walk-in bookcase. ;P
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11:08 am
1 Comments:
hullooo (: have you checked out overheard in new york? (i don't know if the html for links works in this so i won't make it one :P) it is hilarious in a wtflol way too.
(and congrats on yale btw! is totally awesome :D)
i blow money on movies x)
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