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you think you're chocolate

when you're chewing gum

2006-02-27

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Listening to SENS's Aphrodite on a night such as this soothes my nerves:) I have thus decided that sometimes, it's good to listen to music without words, as much as I love words words words. The world gets too noisy sometimes, you just have to sit down, and listen to some pure unadulterated music and be very very quiet.

These few days have been pretty good, even though it feels like a dark cloud is looming over my head. Haha. One thing's for sure, it didn't rain. And I thank God for that! Simple pleasures like browsing second-hand bookstores, trying hard to spend ten dollars, going on a suburbian tour and eating food that you've been craving for, made up my days. I'm SO over durian ice-kachang. Haha:) Being a bit crazy, coming up with silly games, just laughing and smiling at nothing at all.

How I wish time could stand still. If only my life could keep extending in this pretty direction.

I'm finished with The Girl With The Pearl Earrings by Tracy Chevalier! Yeps, it's quite amazing how much I can accomplish with one day in the office. Haha. I know that the idea for the novel comes from the painting by Vermeer himself, but I just had to go and made sure for myself that it's true. Yeah, stubborn ass. So here it is, for those interested. I really liked this painting, the eyes, that glance.

It's a good read, something I enjoyed because it's well written. An easy read as well. No lengthy prose, no details after details, no cheem words to make me stumble. It was terse, subtle, elegant. The Girl is believable as a dutch maid because of the language. I can just imagine her telling it to me, in awkward sounding english. Yet in a way, I think we're never meant to FEEL for her, to like her, distanced because of the language etc. I kind of like it that way, so I'll never get blinded by misled emotions, makes you SEE and think and analyze instead. And it still feels so real, the depiction of relationships, and human behaviour- everything hanging in some sort of tense, unspoken realm, every desire and emotion-

Ah okay enough book talk!

Many things I wanna do. Will have to wait until after-

Yux chewed at 10:10 p.m.

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