Messy Situation

Okay, confession time - I'm ridiculously sentimental and a pack rat too. Not a good combination. No no no no no!

I seem to think that if you hold on to something long enough, it'll become valuable - antiques are nothing more than glorified junk that's now defunct, aye? :P

So 1 corner (or 2, or 3) of my room always looks like a mini tornado swept through it. Always. And although this will sound weird, I actually really do hate clutter.

I just practise selective vision and filter out what I don't want to see.

When I do 'look', this is how I look...

And then you'll see me start stuffing things in drawers, taking stuff out of paper/plastic bags, hanging up my accessories, etc, like a xiao zha bo (mad woman).

True story :P

Hello Seattle

Gorgeous pic of Seattle's skyline.

Anyone knows where it's from so I can credit?

I've never fancied visiting Seattle...until I heard Owl City's Hello Seattle. Just like that, Seattle suddenly seems so beautiful.

Just realised today that there's 2 versions of the song. Me thinks the older version from Of June (EP) is so much prettier than the one in Ocean Eyes (Album).

What about you? :)

I especially love, love, love this part in Of June's version:

Take me above your light

Carry me through the night

Hold me secure in flight

Sing me to sleep tonight

Of June version

Ocean Eyes version

Pix Spam

Food ^^

One of the best ramen ever. Menya Musashi @ Isetan 1U

Very awesome raw egg dipping sauce. Suki-Ya @ Pavilion

Cotton candy! ♥ The BIG B.I.G. Weekend @ Publika

I'm paid peanuts but I have a cool job (true story :P)

Free coffee came to us on San Francisco Coffee's 15th anniversary

I don't get to keep the merch but that's such a pretty bag aye? Love the quirky little tag 

Strip voucher for a Brazilian. I survived the experience! ;) muahaha

The Scorpio Races

I've struck another book off my to-read list (YAY!! *humour me? :P )

Did Maggie Stiefvater's The Scorpio Races over the weekend. By now you'll know I suck at summarising books, so I won't. La-di-da...

I like the UK cover on the left :P

Let's just say there's a teenage boy and girl living on an island ("He was a boy, she was a girl, can I make it any more obvious?"), flesh-eating water horses, and every year there's a race on said horses which ends in a bloodbath.

If that's your kind of thing, then that's your kind of thing. Although, I kinda like the action bits more, which there wasn't really enough of. Ohh, words can't say enough how I hate those 100-page 'oh woe is us' sort of narratives.

I won't touch Ms Stiefvater's other books - Lament, Ballad, Shiver, Linger, Forever - but what really made me really wanna read Scorpio Races was this:

ISN'T THAT SO AWESOME? DOESN'T IT MAKE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE BOOK?!!

Hehe. The artwork and music is by the author herself! *respect*

... But the yellow-ish orange colouring gave me the (wrong) impression that the book was set in a desert >,<

And I thought the characters were Mongolian/Asian....

I Am Titanium

"You shoot me down, but I won't fall, I am titanium."

Simple words that carry so much meaning!

The Smirking Conundrum

I've been told I tend to smirk in photos.

It's unintentional!

I swear I was trying to look friendly. Why do I turn out looking so smug instead? T.T

Somehow one corner of my mouth will curve up more than the other, and I can't seem to catch this imbalance when I'm smiling to correct the flaw before the camera's shutters go off.

So I tried a wide, dazzling smile that shows off my not-so-perfect pearly whites.

Honey and the "bee". Who's honey and who's bee? :D

What do you think? Any better or does my teeth totally ruin the picture? :P

The Space Between

The warm fuzzy feeling that you have when you've read a book which you really enjoyed? I don't really get that often.

Sure, there are plenty of books I had fun reading; books that made me laugh, cry and think really hard about my world view.

(Can you tell these are the sort of stories which I like the most? ^^ )

So I'm really glad I had enough sense not to pay attention to first impressions with Brenna Yovanoff's The Space Between.

Pandemonium, otherwise known as hell, is a city of steel and metal.

"Daphne is the half-demon, half-fallen angel daughter of Lucifer and Lilith. Life for her is an endless expanse of time, until her brother Obie is kidnapped—and Daphne realizes she may be partially responsible.

Determined to find him, Daphne travels from her home in Pandemonium to the vast streets of Earth, where everything is colder and more terrifying. With the help of the human boy she believes was the last person to see her brother alive, Daphne glimpses into his dreams, discovering clues to Obie’s whereabouts. 

As she delves deeper into her demonic powers, she must navigate the jealousies and alliances of the violent archangels who stand in her way"


Everything about it just didn't appeal to me - the cover (which I now find really awesome XD ), the storyline, even the characters - though I was rather impressed with Brenna's debut, The Replacements.

The eerily haunting image everyone was talking about.

There's just so many YA novels out there about girl goes on quest, meets love of her life, external parties interfere, yada, yada, yada. What's the diff, right?

I was so wrong.

The difference is in the quality of prose, immaculate pacing, well fleshed out and lovable characters whom you accept flaws and all, and - dare I say it - the humanising of demons so much so that you actually feel a sliver of sympathy for what we traditionally think of as the bad guys.

I only wish Truman's name wasn't Truman. Okay, I admit I'm shallow but Truman, seriously? He's supposed to be some skinny, tragic, self-destructive kid and all I can think of is Truman Capote. The old one. Yeah, not sexy, at all. :P

Hmm..