Birthday dinner (and book-binge part 2)
Birthday dinner with Sicheng, Joyce, Yechao, Grace and Gerri at Sketches, a pasta place, in Parco Bugis. Met at Bugis MRT then adjourned to aforementioned Sketches. Feeling greedy, so ordered calamari (shared), garlic bread (shared), cream of corn soup, and pasta (duh). Wow, the design-you-own-pasta thing was so cool! So cool I got lost at the first line. Joyce had to help me out and answer my retarded questions, like “what is fettuccini? What is chizro?” and very heartlander-like remarks like “so it’s just like mee pok, lah!” In short, typical Sheesh!-like dinner. Was well and truly stuffed by the food, and begged not to have dessert.
After dinner, got my prezzie, which was…a huge stuffed pig! Like a huge pink pillow with a really big butt. Can’t describe it, may put a photo up someday. Was highly amused, and then when I realized I had to carry it around, highly mortified. Basically we just traipsed around Parco and “happened” somehow into Kinokuniya, where bumped into Xinghui. And apparently the book-bingeing bug was still not satiated by Tuesday’s bookfest, thus I walked out with 2 purchases. Now my consolidated reading list (of books bought or borrowed this week) stands as follows:
The Volcano Lover, Where the Stress Falls and I, etcetera (all 3 by Susan Sontag), Farewell Waltz (Milan Kundera), Still Building (Haresh Sharma), Interlogue Volumes 2 & 4 (poetry & interviews respectively), Governing Singapore (Raj Vasil), God of Small Things (Roy), To the Lighthouse (V. Woolf), Postmodern Singapore, Middlemarch (Eliot), Selected Poems by Robert Burns, Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde; got it admittedly in the wake of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen craze).
Now, staring at the stack of books cluttering my floor gives me a kind of happy self-righteous feel, like “I may not be in college now, but, by golly! I’m gonna read or bust!” Probably bust. =)
Small note: Tried to reserve Governance in Singapore at the National Library (since obviously cannot BUY it for $181.) Found I was number 11 in the reservations queue. (!!!) Obviously a highly sought-after book. Or probably just because all the poor starving academics can’t afford to buy it either.
Birthday dinner with Sicheng, Joyce, Yechao, Grace and Gerri at Sketches, a pasta place, in Parco Bugis. Met at Bugis MRT then adjourned to aforementioned Sketches. Feeling greedy, so ordered calamari (shared), garlic bread (shared), cream of corn soup, and pasta (duh). Wow, the design-you-own-pasta thing was so cool! So cool I got lost at the first line. Joyce had to help me out and answer my retarded questions, like “what is fettuccini? What is chizro?” and very heartlander-like remarks like “so it’s just like mee pok, lah!” In short, typical Sheesh!-like dinner. Was well and truly stuffed by the food, and begged not to have dessert.
After dinner, got my prezzie, which was…a huge stuffed pig! Like a huge pink pillow with a really big butt. Can’t describe it, may put a photo up someday. Was highly amused, and then when I realized I had to carry it around, highly mortified. Basically we just traipsed around Parco and “happened” somehow into Kinokuniya, where bumped into Xinghui. And apparently the book-bingeing bug was still not satiated by Tuesday’s bookfest, thus I walked out with 2 purchases. Now my consolidated reading list (of books bought or borrowed this week) stands as follows:
The Volcano Lover, Where the Stress Falls and I, etcetera (all 3 by Susan Sontag), Farewell Waltz (Milan Kundera), Still Building (Haresh Sharma), Interlogue Volumes 2 & 4 (poetry & interviews respectively), Governing Singapore (Raj Vasil), God of Small Things (Roy), To the Lighthouse (V. Woolf), Postmodern Singapore, Middlemarch (Eliot), Selected Poems by Robert Burns, Regeneration Trilogy (Pat Barker) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde; got it admittedly in the wake of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen craze).
Now, staring at the stack of books cluttering my floor gives me a kind of happy self-righteous feel, like “I may not be in college now, but, by golly! I’m gonna read or bust!” Probably bust. =)
Small note: Tried to reserve Governance in Singapore at the National Library (since obviously cannot BUY it for $181.) Found I was number 11 in the reservations queue. (!!!) Obviously a highly sought-after book. Or probably just because all the poor starving academics can’t afford to buy it either.
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