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One More Month

By daryl ⋅ October 19, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Time Flies Like A…

One more month. One more month before the reading week and the thing we know as the exams. Things really move fast. Yet, looking ahead, in the month ahead, I’ve got three lab reports to put together, one project, one individual report, a few random assignments, some tutorials, and two presentations. And if I was to be strict with my work, I’ve got lots of editing to do and one more short story to complete. And I don’t yet have any idea about the short story.

But you know, it’s going to be over in a month. Some things just have the ability to be good and bad at the same time.

BooksActually Has Moved

Yes, they’ve shifted to No. 86 Club Street and put up some photos. [via flickr] I need to make it a point to go down one day. First, I need to drag someone along with me. No, first, I need to trick someone to drag along with me.

Beatles Boost

On a bright note, my Beatles Stereo Box should arrive this week. I think that’ll give me something of a boost in the days to come.

Writers Festival

Here are the events I’m registered for the Singapore Writers Festival:

24 Oct 2009, 11:00 am
Meet the Author: Wena Poon

24 Oct 2009, 1:30 pm
Meet the Author: O Thiam Chin

28 Oct 2009, 7:00 pm
Discovering New Writers, Finding New Readers: An International Perspective

31 Oct 2009, 2:00 pm
Point of View: New Singapore Writing

01 Nov 2009, 3:00 pm
Evolution: The Curious Case of Books

01 Nov 2009, 5:00 pm
Dissecting the Merlion

I get the feeling I won’t be attending all of them because… well, there’s just too much to do and things like to crop up when you don’t want them to. But I’ll try.

d

Things We Bought Today

By daryl ⋅ September 26, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Disappointing

I went a little late to collect my tickets for the Neil Gaiman events at the Singapore Writers Festival. I missed out by five people.

Buying Things

I bought many things after the disappointing morning excursion. For instance, I bought two T-shirts featuring the work of Tan Swie Hian from the museum shops. The first is this one with a poem that he wrote.

The other one has a giant Lu Xun on it.

Also from a museum shop, a bookmark with calligraphy by Pan Shou.

Then there’s these things from the museum shop too. Well, actually only the books is mine, and the hanger came along with it. Sam the Samsui Woman is there because she is cute, but I was helping my sister to get it.

The book is actually a book about a local wayang troupe. Has lots of photos. I suppose it’s something of a photography book. It comes in nice binding and is a limited edition of 500. It’s number 210.

Inside the book:

Apart from the museum shops, I also bought two second-hand George Eliot books. Silas Marner and The Mill On The Floss.

Next up… I didn’t buy these today, but they came in through the mail to complete my day. It’s the Mythical Creatures stamp set from the Royal Mail, with art by Dave McKean and text by Neil Gaiman. I have four of these, but I’m only keeping one. Again, I was helping people to get them too.