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Beowulf has gone live. I wonder how I'd cope without the likes of Gaiman, Pratchett, McKean..in fact I was contemplating Stardust esp since c'mon I admit it the paperback is cheap.
Potter books going for 20k pounds, anyone? Tea, and scones included? Wow that's some hard buying man, don't think my potter paperbacks from '97 are going to fetch such a swanky price. :) Still, I'm glad that I found the book (or should I say the Mother found it for me!) before it hit mainstream. And I still can remember thinking it's bloody brilliant the first time I read it, little knowing how big the series would become.
Well, too many choices can be quite a headache. Uncertainty isn't always so fab at times hehe. :) Still, what's life without a little flutter from time to time innit!
Labels: beowulf, flutter, gaiman, harry potter, stardust, terry pratchett, the 20k pound hardback
harle on 5:51 pm
When I'm old I shall wear midnight
Eh, don't use my name, anyhow, leh.
Warning
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph
When I am an old woman I shall wear purple
With a red hat which doesn't go, and doesn't suit me.
And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves
And satin sandals, and say we've no money for butter.
I shall sit down on the pavement when I'm tired
And gobble up samples in shops and press alarm bells
And run my stick along the public railings
And make up for the sobriety of my youth.
I shall go out in my slippers in the rain
And pick flowers in other people's gardens
And learn to spit.
You can wear terrible shirts and grow more fat
And eat three pounds of sausages at a go
Or only bread and pickle for a week
And hoard pens and pencils and beermats and things in boxes.
But now we must have clothes that keep us dry
And pay our rent and not swear in the street
And set a good example for the children.
We must have friends to dinner and read the papers.
But maybe I ought to practice a little now?
So people who know me are not too shocked and surprised
When suddenly I am old, and start to wear purple.
Jenny Joseph
Labels: jenny joseph, permission (or the lack of), poems, terry pratchett
harle on 7:26 pm
The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. - h.p.lovecraft
Nightwatch is really up there, like Sandman, The Dark Knight Returns...etc. Unfortunately I'm not like the bros, and I only read the big names. (I'm lousy I know!) I think it's really the internet. If I count the amount of time I wasted (yes wasted) on the 'net, I probably could have time to finish all the Sandman Companion books (yes the official and unofficial ones), the whole X Men Series from its inception to the current ___ edition, and everything from Marvel & DC.
It's pretty interesting observing (albeit superficially,) the characters from DC and Marvel. I gotta admit that Gaiman's getting me into the whole comics fest. Though, I spent a fair amount of time on manga, rather than comics. Jeez, I rather ruefully recall the first comic I read...I'm not going to say what it is because it's shoujo ACK! Then I got addicted to the shonen ones and my world CHANGED. るろうに剣心 is still one of my all time favourites! I mean, it's gotta to be darn good for me to still want to read it 7 years on....! Even the bro liked it! Ha and well at the very least, manga helped me learn my 繁体字! :D
LOL those were the good ol' days, but reading the Sandman Companion serves to affirm that I won't grow out of comics or manga, for sure.
I have chucked one of my notebooks somewhere. My room has its own weirdness probably from me.
I think that's such a useful skill to know!
And mah family rocks I tell you! I have the bestest family! Although a dog would make it complete~*
How man I just have so much to do I don't ever want to stop being in _now_.
Now is just about right. Couldn't time stop just for a while? I think it's the effect of Summer. 夏!!!! :) hahahaha I'm thinking of L'arc's 夏の憂鬱 song although I'm feelin' far from it! Still, it's such a song to bring back memories of L'arc. I love L'arc and what their name represents! Glad that they're cleaner nowadays, I'm rather far from the Visual Kei days of yore.
Argh I can't believe I'm actually liking We Can Make it!. AH well. HAPPY SUMMER MUSIC CHU~*!
Ha, I realise I do so appreciate the Redemption storylines.
Oh and Veni, Vedi, Vetinari never fails to crack me up.
All around me darkness gathers,
Fading is the sun that shone;
We must speak of other matters:
You can be me when I'm gone.
- Neil Gaiman
Fading is the sun that shone;
We must speak of other matters:
You can be me when I'm gone.
- Neil Gaiman
Labels: arashi-嵐, comics, etc, family, gaiman, l'arc, terry pratchett, time, 夏夏夏
harle on 11:09 pm
hop, skip, run
Q: Are you a purple or a green blood?
End --->
End --->
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The thing is that a leopard doesn't change its spots, or maybe a leopard is one big spot. That meaning if you use a spot remover, the whole leopard will disappear since the leopard is more like a mass of spots than anything else. Which also means that I'm getting too much pratchett again. When you have tons of books and the ability to borrow 16 library books at a shot...What gives?
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Mhhhmmmmm Kame actually reminds me of Keita Tachibana from some angles. I love the andro look :):):) So if you look like Kame, Yamapi or *Matsujun* (draws stars) you can be my friend, or Hannah's, or June's for that matter. Although I am still hopelessly devoted to TakuKimu and Hyde. :) Don't worry, I just collect, but I pay my dues to those who were there at the very beginning! Whee-ness for such celebrities! They are motivation!- Surprisingly, but it's true.
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And now the Brother (the elder) has started texting me in Japanese. You hold me in great esteem when I'm completely befuddled at times.
Classes are going amazingly well, the classmates have been swell, especially the three teenage girls, ah youth! And interestingly enough, three young fellas taking it are my age, waiting to ord from army I think! Lucky lucky!
And my pretty teacher is so young! Ah what will I be doing at her age..?
And now I'm wondering whether I should take a different path! :) This new path, if I keep at it for at least another 5 more years, may open up new opportunities!
Thing is, I really don't wanna move, but I've got a feeling that I'll be evicted (ok that's being melodramatic) in less than a year. Dearme.
Oh and wonderful thing is that, it's all MINE MINE MINE for one week.
Now to ferret for the green tea pocky, unless the Ghost of the Breakfast Solvers has decided to pay an unprecedented visit across the seas.
Labels: books, breakfast is solved, freedom, jap stuff, japanese class, leopard, library, spots, terry pratchett
harle on 11:49 pm