I have to say this: Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman was so good!

I savoured most parts of it. I was fascinated, captured and had a few good laughs.

I loved it. It was so good!

Just a few memorable quotes:

“She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they make love in their first year, and take a coin out for every time that they make love in the years that follow, the jar will never be emptied.”

OMG! Is this true? I hope not though. Haha.

“Fat Charlie has, on his first visit to Rosie’s mother’s place, taken a bite from one of the wax apples. He had been extremely nervous, nervous enough that he had picked up an apple – in his defence, an extremely realistic apple – and had bitten into it. Rosie (fiancée) had signed frantically. Fat Charlie spat out the lump of wax into his hand and thought about pretending that he liked waxed fruit, or that he’d known all along and had just done it to be funny; however, Rosie’s mother had raised an eyebrow, walked over, taken the remains of the apple into the bin. He sat on the sofa for the rest of the afternoon with his mouth tasting like the inside of a candle, while Rosie’s mother stared at him to ensure that he did not try to tae another bite out of her precious wax fruit or attempt to gnaw on the leg of a Chippendale chair.”

Then Rosie’s mother went to visit Charlie one inconvenient morning...

“Up the narrow stairs and into the kitchen. Rosie’s mother looked around and made a face as if to indicate that it did not meet her standards of hygiene, containing, as it did, edible foot stuffs. “Coffee? Water?” Don’t say wax fruit. “Wax fruit?” Damn.”

This made me laugh. =P

“Until now Spider had regarded women as more or less interchangeable. You didn’t give them a real name, or an address that would work for longer than a week, of course, or anything more than a disposable cell-phone number. Women are fun, and decorative, and terrific accessories, but there would always be more of them; like bowls of goulash coming along a conveyor belt, when you were done with one, you simply picked p the next, and spooned in you sour cream."

OMG! He is a bastard!

“HULLO,” said Daisy, with a smile. “Would you like a cup of tea?”

“You might as well not bother,” said Fat Charlie. “I’ve seen the telly. I know how it goes. This is that whole good-cop bad-cop thing isn’t it? You’ll give me a cup of tea and some Jaffa cakes, then some big hard-bitten bastard with a hair-trigger temper comes in and shouts at me and pours the tea away and starts eating my Jaffa cakes and then you stop him from physically attacking me, and make him give me my tea and Jaffa cakes back, and in my gratitude I tell you everything you wan to know."

Hm, she was just offering tea, but I like Charlie’s response. =) Nice!

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Random note
I love morning showers.

Enough! Back to English assignment. =(

Random

‘[He] was sitting at the table drinking milk.... He looked very small and vulnerable sitting there alone in the big old-fashioned kitchen, a blonde little boy in faded blue pyjamas, his feet swinging a good six inches above the floor.’

A Wrinkle in Time, Madeleine L'Engle

Aww, just imagine how adorable the boy is. =P

p/s: I love blue skies. =)

On being a Waitress

Customer:

May I get the b***?

Me:

Beer? Okay.

*walked away*

Me (to self):

Oh crap, what beer?

Boss:

It’s actually the bill.

Me:

*embarrassed* okay.

Customer:

May I get the ***l?

Me:

*confused* Huh?

Customer:

May I get the ***l?

Me:

Milk?

Customer:

****l

Me:

*confused* Milk?

Customer:

The b***?

Me:

*extremely confused then finally come to realize* Oh…Bill?

Customer:

Yes *Giggles*

Oh dear, this is so embarrassing, but I swear these people have such strange accent that they can’t say the word ‘bill’ properly.

I came across an article in an Asian Lifestyle Magazine.

Gift Ideas to Inspire You

For the Pisces
Pisceans are interested in everything that isn’t quite real – illusion and disillusionment, fantasy, drama, emotion, art and spirituality. The best gift for a Pisces is something that feeds these interests.

Woman: Floating candles, Scented bath oils, Dinner and a Show, Mood Ring, Bikini, A cruise, Pedicure

Well, I can’t deny that it is not true.
I do love floating candles and scented bath oils, but free spa trips are probably a better alternative.

Dinner and a Show can be polished to a romantic candle-lit dinner for two along with a bouquet of red roses, a beautiful waltz and romantic pleasant surprises.

I am not a big fan of mood rings, but I find it fascinating.
*Babe, remember how I use to linger a little longer in a particular shop where they sell mood rings? =)*

Oh yeah, definitely a bikini which suits me. For the time being, it’s time to cut the fat (Biggest Loser punch-line).

A cruise! Oh my goodness gracious! I think most of the people I know, knows that I love cruising! Even though I am not a big fan of small cruises, but the Yarra River cruise trip on my birthday was wonderful. Thanks darling! Personally I prefer big ships and I certainly can’t wait to board a cruise again. =)

Pedicure – see above. I would personally prefer full package free spa trips. Oh, in my dreams I guess.

Note: For more gift ideas - comment me, inform me horoscope, man or woman.



Something random
I realised I have never got any of my own surprise party, even though I have attended heaps of them. Sigh.

P/s: God, I am scared...I really am...