WHEE EDIT EDIT!
with 10 photos taken @ the jinyong stand @ expo! SQUEALS. of course, very few other people are interested. the first photo is a pic of jinyong's own handwritten " fei-xue-lian-tian-she-bai-lu, xiao-shu-shen-xia-yi-bi-yuan" so its really kool. & the next 9 are pics of the various versions. its all really really kool. but only to me of course lol. =D
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happy birthday mum!
today was so far quite a family-ish day. as in i spent the entire day with the family instead of going around doing my own stuff. & i harth having such a fantastic family so thanks God!
whee. so today i went to EXPO! im sure my dad burned lots of petrol driving all the way but it was all fun because the book fair ROCKED. & never underestimate my powers of estimation, because i said in the shopping list that splurging @ expo would be above 60, and LO AND BEHOLD i spent $62.20! whee! im broke. but ma subsidized a bit of it.
i got two sets of gulong - wu3 lin2 wai1 shi3 and bian1 cheng2 lang4 zi3. well the first set i've always wanted, and the second i've always heard a lot about the main characters so whee. & i also got a cai lan book because there's much gushing in taiwan about her too. oh and i got cd pockets and a cd file thingum. pa was nice & bought me a stamp thingum, as well as lovely lovely ink cartridges for e ever-dying printer! -hugs- and my mum got a chinese-english Bible and some Bible thingums for my sis. all quite kool.
AND MY GOSH there was this stand that SPECIALISED in jinyong. they had all the prettiful covers and they were positively droolable and aahhhh. so i asked the lady who was standing there looking over everything with a hawks eye harbouring a malicious glint (okay, so i am exaggerating, she was actually very teh nice) whether i could take photos of some of the jinyong book covers. and she looked very surprised but she said yes.
so i have 4 or 5 photos of nice covers stored away in my handphone! am planning to have them printed out nice and big so i can stick them all over my room. i think my mum would have objections though. ohh well!
afterwards we went to take a look @ e civil service club which is a 15 mins walk fr our house! (we're members) and its very funkeh indeed! cant wait for the tennis courts to be up. the bowling alleys are nice, they've 24! and of course the wave pool, the general pool is nice. plus although the layout is darnnit confusing, its also darnnit pretty because everythings like wood and rustic-ky.
speaking of tennis i managed to watch a bit of the pacific live open today, before going to expo! the match between baghdatis & rafael nadal, tis the quarter finals? & yesh. nadal really rawks larh his strength is incomparable and if one observes his arm muscles theyre so well defined its scary. has that vein thing. i dont know the outcome of the match, but surprisingly baghdatis was proving quite a worthy opponent. ohh well hopes nadal wins, he's amazing! =D and he likes orange, doesnt he. everytime i watch him play he's wearing orange.
yay dinner time! i da-baoed a nice big portion of indian rojak from our market. =D heh. then i'll go drool over my new books. and oh yes. i still havent done any homework due monday, or some of the homework thats overdue from before obs. doom.
- alena.
i was green-ed at 7:22 pm