Jul 29, 2009

Weekend ramblings..

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Since my computer had crashed, boom, bang on me last week.. it's been a quiet week indeed.. i may be a close-but-not-quite an internet-junkie, but i do still get that feeling of out-of-touch-ness.. :(

Good thing for me i've got new supplies of books to keep me entertained.. I dropped by the Pesta Buku Selangor on my way to the computer store. Managed to get hold of a couple of interesting books. However, didn't manage to get the book my mum was looking for - Mengenal Tuhan by Bey Ariffin. Seems that since it's an old book, it's not quite that easy to get hold of.

I also managed to catch the new Harry Porter movie over the weekend.. (btw, i'm giving you the spoiler alert, so better stop here if you don't want to know)..

overall-wise, the movie was not bad.. didn't follow the book much but still it works. However, a few items which as a Harry Porter fan, i just don't agree with. My major complain would be about the ending.. why cant they show Dumbledore's funeral? just a scene with Harry, Hermione and Ron? and where's Ginny in that conversation? It doesn't have the same impact as that grand funeral, attended by all the big names in the wizarding community. And i was also disappointed that they didn't show the war between the DAs and the Death Eater at Hogwarts, instead just a show-down between Dumbledore & Malfoy/Snape.. plus, in the book, Harry was body-binded by Dumbledore & stuck under his invisibility cloak which explains a lot as to why he could not help Dumbledore, unlike the movie where he was in hiding.. sigh... and that my friend, just what made the movie only a could-have-been-great instead of a great one..

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Jul 24, 2009

Preferences...

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Which do you prefer? (Quick answers–we’ll do more detail at some later date)

Reading something frivolous? Or something serious? something frivolous, i guess.. well, as long as it's not thaaaat frivolous maybe, nor the heavy serious type either.. am i making sense?
Paperbacks? Or hardcovers? Paperbacks.. but hardcovers do have their appeal..
Fiction? Or Nonfiction? Fiction
Poetry? Or Prose? Poetry
Biographies? Or Autobiographies? Biographies, i think..
History? Or Historical Fiction? Historical Fiction
Series? Or Stand-alones? Both, although these days, i've got a thing for Series..
Classics? Or best-sellers? best-sellers
Lurid, fruity prose? Or straight-forward, basic prose? straight-forward
Plots? Or Stream-of-Consciousness? Plots
Long books? Or Short? Long
Illustrated? Or Non-illustrated? Illustrated, but i havent read any in quite a while.. so i think i better stick to Non-illustrated then..
Borrowed? Or Owned? Owned
New? Or Used? New, but i dont mind either one as long as i can read them..

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Jul 20, 2009

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Damn it... adulthood is soooooo damn hard sometimes.. no wonder MJ created Neverland.. sigh...



Jul 7, 2009

How well can you measure life?

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They say we leave this world just the way we came into it ---- naked and
alone.So, if we do leave with nothing, What then, is a measure of a life ? Is it
defined by the people we choose to love ?Or is life simply measured by our
accomplishments ?And what if we fail ? or are never truly loved ? What then ?
Can we ever measure up ?Or will the quiet desperation of a life gone wanting,
Drive us mad ?

~One Tree Hill

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Albert Camus once wrote, "Blessed are the hearts that can bend. They shall never be broken." But I wonder.... If there's no breaking, then there's no healing. And if there's no healing, then there is no learning. And if there's no learning, then there's no struggle. But the struggle is a part of life, So must all hearts be broken ?

-Lucas Scott

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