The Weekend After
Sunday, June 25, 2006
The Weekend After
Somehow the 200th post special entry was like some sort of benchmark for me.Right after that post was typed out and published i felt relieved,for some reason.It felt good i guess,to type everything out the way i did.Im not saying that it is going to make anything better,or simpler,or change anything as a matter of fact.But i guess what is important,what was important,is that back then at that very moment i was happy.
So the rest of the weekend after that post was spent in a rather lazy manner.I stayed in the sofa half the day reading the rest of This Side of Paradise.Guess the retail therapy helped immensely,with myself being the official member of Kinokuniya.Now,i do not easily admit my stupidity,but when Kenneth Kwan asked why i hadnt got a membership card at Kinokuniya,being an avid fan of books,that sentence struck me as a wake up call of some sort.And right then,while i sat at the side of his bed after lights off,i felt genuinely stupid.
So with the newly acquired card i got myself "Life of Pi" by Martel Yann,"Middlesex" and "The Virgin Suicides" both by Jeffrey Eugenides.I can hardly wait to get through "Marry Me" by John Updike and "The Last Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald,really.Im really excited about the books i bought yesterday.And damn,im in this bookish heaven right now,i swear.Like a friend of mine used to say,how can anybody NOT like books??
Anyway,i can totally understand Amory's alcoholic obsession in This Side of Paradise.The way the book was written at that part,when Rosalind decided to leave Amory for somebody else,i thought of myself in his shoes,holding that glass of Bronx and losing track of time in the hotel he could hardly remember.The sense of being lost all of a sudden,after being guided for so long.I guess in a way everybody has their way of letting go of things,and for him it was alcohol and a brief brawl during a party swiftly afterwards.No,i dont think i'd ever consider any form of alcohol to dull my senses like that,and while his actions were condemned by me in every way,it was to a certain degree,absolutely understandable.
Okay,this is a totally random and to me,pointless entry.Guess the boredom is working up my spine again.Back to the books,back to the books.
Somehow the 200th post special entry was like some sort of benchmark for me.Right after that post was typed out and published i felt relieved,for some reason.It felt good i guess,to type everything out the way i did.Im not saying that it is going to make anything better,or simpler,or change anything as a matter of fact.But i guess what is important,what was important,is that back then at that very moment i was happy.
So the rest of the weekend after that post was spent in a rather lazy manner.I stayed in the sofa half the day reading the rest of This Side of Paradise.Guess the retail therapy helped immensely,with myself being the official member of Kinokuniya.Now,i do not easily admit my stupidity,but when Kenneth Kwan asked why i hadnt got a membership card at Kinokuniya,being an avid fan of books,that sentence struck me as a wake up call of some sort.And right then,while i sat at the side of his bed after lights off,i felt genuinely stupid.
So with the newly acquired card i got myself "Life of Pi" by Martel Yann,"Middlesex" and "The Virgin Suicides" both by Jeffrey Eugenides.I can hardly wait to get through "Marry Me" by John Updike and "The Last Tycoon" by F. Scott Fitzgerald,really.Im really excited about the books i bought yesterday.And damn,im in this bookish heaven right now,i swear.Like a friend of mine used to say,how can anybody NOT like books??
Anyway,i can totally understand Amory's alcoholic obsession in This Side of Paradise.The way the book was written at that part,when Rosalind decided to leave Amory for somebody else,i thought of myself in his shoes,holding that glass of Bronx and losing track of time in the hotel he could hardly remember.The sense of being lost all of a sudden,after being guided for so long.I guess in a way everybody has their way of letting go of things,and for him it was alcohol and a brief brawl during a party swiftly afterwards.No,i dont think i'd ever consider any form of alcohol to dull my senses like that,and while his actions were condemned by me in every way,it was to a certain degree,absolutely understandable.
Okay,this is a totally random and to me,pointless entry.Guess the boredom is working up my spine again.Back to the books,back to the books.
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