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A Wonderful Surprise

November 18, 07 //
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Making Money - cover

What’s better than getting a book by Terry Pratchett as a very early surprise Christmas present?

Being given a book by Terry Pratchett that the author signed him self as a very early surprise Christmas present.

Making Money - inside

I don’t have my name on it, but by golly gee, Pterry held this same book in his hand so he could sign it! I’m holding the same thing he held!!! And considering the circumstances on how this came to be (I’m guessing my copy is pre-signed), I’m just completely and sincerely happy.

[ETA] – as per Lynn, the book was signed by Pterry himself in front of her sister! So yey! Really really happy!! smiley

I’d like to thank Lynn and her sister for helping The Beloved out.

And I whole-heartedly want to thank The Beloved for this wonderful early Christmas present. smiley (So this is the reason you don’t want me to buy the book when we saw it at Fully Booked Serendra!)

Now, I should really start reading Going Postal before I could read this. *huggles book*

Sister Date

July 29, 07 //
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It’s very rare that I get to treat my little sister out for movies and food and shopping. Because it involves planning and budgeting haha. I love treating her out, and I tend to overspend.

I’m lucky to have a sister like her– smart, loving and laughs at my cheesy jokes. I guess it’s really so easy to fall in love with her. I’m actually afraid when the time comes that boys come-a-courting. They will have to go though me first.

Hold on. My dad first, then me. LOL.

So seeing this opportunity of quality time out with my sister, I jumped at the chance that we’d watch Ratatouille together once it comes out. We’re both huge Pixar fans, and this will be a great time to share.

Ratatouille

The Movie Date

Ratatouille turned out to be a perfect movie to watch together. It’s a great movie– an ambitious concept, a great story line, and wonderful characters you can relate to. And the ending is not your typical children’s book ending, as typical of all the Pixar movies (I can’t say much about Cars though, as I have yet to see it, so don’t take my opinion as a general– well, opinion).

The concept of a rat in the kitchen– cooking food!– is actually ambitious concept since, how will you be able to make your audience relate to a creature we are so used to shriek at/ run from/ kill1 when seen? In the kitchen at that, cooking food!2 But Brad Bird, the same writer and director for The Incredibles (another Pixar fave, and Oscar winner at that)3

And the running moral of the story is of profound truth: True, not anyone can do anything, but if you have the talent and the will, your nurture and environment shouldn’t hold you down.

Anyone remotely interested should watch this movie. It’s a wonderful movie young and old people will love and relate to. The batch of audience we were with today were clapping when the movie ended (we joined of course).

Cut for length, click for more smiley


  1. Not necessarily in that order. ↩
  2. This really should be macro-ed, LOL ↩
  3. TRIVIA! He was also asked to actually direct for The Simpsons movie but turned it down because he was already committed to Ratatouille. ↩

Another Burst of Randomness

October 8, 06 //
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Blue has a new set of eyes!!!

Uhm… monitor. Blue has a new monitor. Yeah. ^^;

smiley

Yey! Back to work/play!!!

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New Pinkys!!!

I finally got myself a cople of new pinkys!!!

Tamae (PK003) & Moe(PK004)~ Hee! smiley Thank you Nina for the info! smiley

This is because my Pinky Prize from winning the Pinky-Street.com competition is still in transit.

And the yukatas? Still on their way~

And I needed my pinky dosage!!!

You will only be able to see pics, once I get my own camera or borrow Lowell’s camera again~ Whichever comes first smiley

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New books!

I got myself the next 2 books in the Tiffany Aching stories (Discworld’s youngest witch… sort of) A Hatful of Sky and the newest book (fresh off the press… also sort of) Wintersmith.

Ahhh~

Books.

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babbles from a stressed-out 9AM-10PM paper pusher.

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