What's been happening:
Shoots. These are both school-related though. More on that in some other post, but let me give a shout out to Jam and Alex who made time for this despite busy schedules and all (Jam especially 'cause I got so stressed out during the weekend of her shoot.) Thanks you guys!
Under the guidance of Marga Bee I finally, FINALLY have my own copy of Battle Royale!!! (Thank you again, Marga!) This conquest of mine has been going on for more than half a year, and gosh, never have I worked this hard for a book before HAHA! Oh the satisfaction. Re-reading it still gets me bothered...
While I just got a new book, what I actually read first was The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. Long story short, I lost interest in wanting to read the trilogy, but my cousin forced me to read it anyway (hence the "READ IT!!!" memo), even if all I really wanna do is re-read the entire Harry Potter series. /Post-Potter Depression /I may never actually recover
Now, and this is all bias aside for the Japanese culture, THG is a bit eh next to BR. The latter gripped me from the start and had be reading with a heavy heart from beginning to end (no joke). THG only began to become interesting towards halfway into the book. Whereas BR was straight to the point with the manslaughter, THG droned on and on about these ceremonies and what not before getting to the actual 'games', and even then the killings weren't as gruesome than as depicted in BR. Not that the gore is the basis or anything, but with THG it's like things build up but fall flat in the end anyway. While I do find THG interesting, it's does end up rather blah compared to BR. The latter gave insight to the characters being killed (or those on the killing spree), while THG focuses on just one protagonist. You can feel the urgency for survival in BR.
Seriously, I got so bothered and paranoid by the end of BR that it got me thinking about people's motives and whatnot. It was all very psychological to me. But hey, to each his own. What do you think about the Battle Royale vs. The Hunger Games debate?
Tofu has gotten much better now, compared to when we first picked him up, skin and bones and all. He's super patay gutom, but I guess that's to be expected from a street critter, haha.
I've been so busy with school, hence the sporadic blog updates. Prelims is just around the corner and I have been drowning in school work. I've some happy news to share with the blog, but that'll be set aside for another post instead (oh, backlog.) Thank goodness LJ is back up again, I went crazy when it was all wonkers. Anyway, I'll have that happynews!post up by tomorrow or Tuesday, if not tonight, depending on my laziness. OHOHOHO.