holiday bits

it is the holidays and you do not know what date or what day of the week it is.
i have to make myself check the calendar a few times a day to make sure i know what day it is.
well, sitting at home ain't that bad. i have been doing come cleaning.
my sis asked me, 'why must you do spring cleaning every holiday?' my answer to her, "well, i think it is good for the soul and i am lighter after decluttering." agree?
i just like to see some space in the house.

so project billy bookcase started a few days ago when i found a few empty boxes to put the books from the old bookcase. there was a bit of wiping because the books are covered with dust. right now, the project is nearing completion. i am just waiting for the electric drill so i can put the nuts and bolts together and get billy up.

these did not look much eh....so i think billy will still have a lot of space for more books. and oh, the box on the left....that will go to the dump. all those magazines featuring ruby lin, wang lee hom and sammi cheng. yup, i am even throwing those but of course i kept some of those nice nice ones lah. sayonara. mills and boons and silhoutte romance are also in that box.

going through all the novels made me realised that i actually have short term memory. can you remember the plot and characters of every novel you have read vividly? boy, i can't. i even had to ask myself if i had read some of the books on the rack. gosh...not an early sign of dementia i hope.

next, i can start packing for my trip to krabi tomorrow. i haven't done any packing at all except charging the batteries of the camera and buying my train ticket.yup, on friday, i am taking the morning train, 6.12a.m. and will be reaching kl sentral at 7.35a.m. yawn. i bought second class ticket and paid rm14. expensive hor? economy class is half the price and when i checked online, i noticed all the seats were almost taken already. so i dun think i want the crowd lah. so from kl sentral, i am taking the putra lrt to wangsa maju where i will meet sookhua for breakfast and then someone will send us to the airport. flight to krabi is at 1.30p.m.

last but not least...this postcard of aurora borealis or the northern lights that i got from finland. sooo beautiful and it is actually one of the things i wanna see before i die. i thought you can only see it in canada, so now i have another option. but ....when will i go?

oh, i've been catching up on some movies too....that is my hobby in the holidays.

julie and julia....really yummy offering. love meryl streep in her high pitched voice and amy adams. i think amy adams is the new renee zellweger. she has that kind of quality when renee first became famous but unfortunately, i think renee has lost a bit of her shine. amy is really a breath of fresh air to every character she takes. makes me wanna take up french cooking now.

i love you, beth cooper...just watch it for silly stuff. no comment. makes me not like hayden panetteire more.

my sister's keeper...finally cameron diaz has got a good role and she really excels in it. girl, you should experiment more instead of being the pretty face in the movie. abigail breslin as usual is lovable and so articulate. watch it with a box of tissue next to you. well, i cried reading the book, and i know the parts in the movie, and i still cried.

500 days of summer...well, a different kind of love story. and it is kinda hard to take the boy whom everyone watched on third rock from the sun all grown up. sorry, can't think of his name now. i dunno whether to still call him a boy or a man. he still has his baby face. like the twist at the ending.

the brothers bloom...a big con story and it is a good one. love the cast especially rachel weisz, she has been dabbling in a lot of different roles. like adrien brody's depressed look too.

whatever works...woody allen's work so expect some quirkiness. but glad that i found this piece about a retired physicist marrying a homeless young woman, the mother of the young woman who settled down with 2 men at the same time, and the father of the young woman who realised he was gay after all these years. well, whatever works.

and not forgetting my gossip girl, greys anatomy, ugly betty and amazing race.

so no wonder my eyes are so dry. can't wait to leave the computer for 4 days and replace the screen with view of the beach and sea.