fine, so maybe a shout of 'liberazione!' cannot be counted as actual liberazione per se, but well, at least holidays give you the liberty to stay up much later than usual without having to worry about the rather embarrassing prospect of being late for school the next morning, to take the occassional break, and of course, to structure your time the way you want it. i don't know, but somehow the knowledge that i can decide when exactly i want to have my lunch, when exactly i want to do my homework, and when exactly i want to read my philosophy notes, gives me a sense of empowerment. hahaha, talk about weird. :D

anyhow, i wish we had a longer break though; one week is hardly enough time for you to catch up on stuff and give yourself a little breather. two weeks would at least be decent, i guess, but well, no complaining. at any rate, i'd much rather make do with what we have now, in case on one fateful day it is decided that there will no longer be one-week breaks since we find them useless anyway. (then again, i daresay it won't ever happen. i mean, that would be downright, inhumane!) but yay i like the feeling of being at home. (: somehow on weekends / holidays i don't particularly fancy the idea of going out. i'd much rather laze at home, and usually, there's so much to do at home that there's really not much of a point venturing out of it. heh, my home is self-sufficient. xD (okay no, i shouldn't have typed the word 'self-sufficient'. now i feel guilty about abandoning my geog article response. oh blah.)

okay random rambling regarding reclusive behaviours aside, i conclude that a visit to the bookstore is good for you! and of course, i have also concluded that i need to cure myself of the habit of playing silly puns on words, doing nonsensical alliterations and spouting nonsense, but that's beside the point. all the same, i'd have preferred kinokuniya / borders or even times to popular, but well, some money ought to be spent, so spend it i will! i know it probably doesn't make sense for me to recount a visit to a bookstore (i mean, how queer can that get?!), but okay, certain things caught my attention, and i'm bored, so bear with me.

#1: apparently they came up with a new shelf of books called 'women's reads'. so i happily went over in the hope that the books there are literally, women's reads (think feminist literature - sorry, blame it on the influences of rs), and guess what i found? it was just one wicked, devious ploy to make the genre of chick lit sound more profound and appealing. uh, thanks but no thanks. T_T

#2: book synopses seem to be going to the dogs; i can hardly decide whether i want a book by virtue of the synopsis alone - they are all so, so generic! ): eventually i bought 'the world is flat' and something by haruki murakami by virtue of the fact that i've heard stuff about the books / authors. the blurbs didn't help, either. (although for half a moment i was tempted to buy the whole bundled set of uh, 'the world is flat', 'the undercover economist' and 'confessions of an economic hit man' because i wanted 'the world is flat' and 'the undercover economist' had this little quotation from the freakonomics authors. and then i realized that the edition of 'the world is flat' ain't the latest one, so i just gave it up. which is good considering now that i know what 'confessions of an economic hit man' is about, i don't exactly intend to read it. and i never really intended to read 'spin-offs' from freakonomics either. i mean, some things can only be so good - uh i hope no one sues me for this - and anyway i like original stuff. yeah. :D)

#3: i think i sound stupid / retarded, talking about random economics books. well, imagine how much more stupid i would have seemed when i was contemplating whether to buy the bundled set at this shelf labelled 'business'. like phwoar, little twit kid trying to act smart by reading up on business! again, thanks but no thanks. really, economics isn't that interesting unless it's freakonomics-style (to me, that is), and hello, who would ever have thought that something on globalisation would end up at a business shelf?!

#4: it would seem that i'm veering more towards non-fiction now, which is quite sad considering there's so much interesting stuff in thrillers and fantasy and science fiction and yeah-you-get-the-idea. but somehow, thrillers, despite thier widely varying plots and authors, give me the impression that they're going to be resolved in a somewhat similar fashion, and the premises are usually quite pessimistic / morbid, so yeah, perhaps not for me.

#5: i buy too many books! and i don't have the time to read. ):

surprisingly, i do have the time to blog though. hahaha, right.

(will post about teachers' day some day; that was really an experience in itself. but yes, rgs and rgp and peichun are much, much love! :D)

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wants the world to be filled with peace, joy and love, and also wants (perhaps a little more selfishly) to be happy, plus lead a life of purpose. that would be more than enough. (:

oh, and she likes embarking on her own 'free hugs!' campaigns after exams and the like; not really sure why. D: (at any rate, you can tell that she's random enough.)

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