I feel like taking cello lessons! And I'm getting very excited about it. I wrote to this place called Tanglewood and I'm going to go for a trial lesson before I decide. I've wanted to take cello for ages but no time, no money etc. Although i'm going to england in November (to stay with CANDY! Hooray!), and if I do get into it I don't know how I'd take my cello there to practice. Cello's are also very expensive, but oh well, we shall see. When I searched for "Cello" on Yahoo! Auctions, I got this picture of a roll of masking tape, with the enthusiastic caption, "CELLO TAPE! VERY GOOD CONDITION!" Gosh, I have bought quite a few used things off auction but it's a bit much to buy used sello tape, even without the spelling error.
Today was a bit of an odd day. First in the bus, I was sitting next to this suspicious character. He had twitchy eyes and an odd smell. After a while, when the bus was sailing past Kembangan MRT, he started ticking ala Captain Hook's crocodile. It was very ominous to be sitting next to a suspicious ticking character, and I suddenly felt very afraid that he would blow up and I would die! Two days into my diet, I would die. The injustice! He didn't explode in the end, however, he did continue ticking away until I reached my stop, while I became increasingly panicked and began telling myself that modern terrorists don't use alarm clocks tied to bombs anymore. A mystery.
The second odd thing was that my boy tuition student was quite merry today. He kept giggling at unexplainable things that I don't think he would have thought funny otherwise. And I'd laugh along, but I was never sure if I was laughing at the right thing, or if he'd just put pencil lead in my milo and was being pleased with himself. As punishment for making me uncertain of the object of my laughter, I made him practice pronounciation by saying "Pirates of the Carribean" over and over, faster and faster until it became "Carrots of the Carribean"
The third odd thing happened when I was swimming. To my horror, there was some kind of family reunion happening at the big swimming pool when I arrived there, but my desire to burn fat overpowered my desire to run for it, so I stayed and swam. To my second horror, there was this fattish kind of man who kept giving me the thumbs up when I swam to the end where the people were, and then saying "WAHHH YOU SWIM SO FAST" when I swam away. He didn't seem to get tired of saying it either, and after a while it got stuck in my head and i was chanting it to myself unconsciously as I did my laps. Irritating! I think he was not quite right, because his words were slurred and he had a goose expression on his face. Odd!
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haha! that thing about how something gets into your head and you start chanting it to yourself as you exercise is so true. (not that i'd know from recent personal experience, of course.)
i've finished reading I Capture the Castle. it's nice! it's very readable and i had to stop myself from flipping to the back of the book to find out what happens in the end. that doesn't happen very often.
i liked Cassandra's narration. it was so well written! JK Rowling happens to agree. she says, "one of the most charismatic narrators i've met." the plot itself was just okay, i felt..but it definitely surprised me by its unconventional-ness.
the problem was, the book was one of the "Now a Major Motion Picture" types and had a picture of the actress playing Cassandra on the cover so i always felt when people saw me reading it, they thought i was reading chick lit or something equally self-diminishing. ah well.
i hope we can get together soon! have a good week.
HEE-LARIOUS
the wicked songs are so funny and nice! i wish i had watched it. are they coming to singapore?
Mel: Yeah I borrowed that one too! I tried to hide the front cover by laying it flat on my lap when I was reading in the train, but then I got a neck ache. So I decided to not be afraid of hiding the true me! (Thanks to the Hallmark Channel) But then I got stare-scoffed at so I just read it when I was at home. I am weak!
XJ: Yeah I know! Hooray.. I watched hairspray today! I kept thinking about you, especially at the Welcome to the Sixties song. I don't think Wicked will come to singapore though, I think they only bring the very famous-famous ones to singapore, like Phantom and the Sound of Music. I heard Wicked was the most expensive musical EVER to produce because of the sets, so I doubt they'll come cos Singaporeans probably won't buy enough tickets to justify doing a long run. Anyway, i'm done with my very long comment now.
Interesting to know.
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