Getting up early, train rides, and Ethan
19/03/2004
Survivor Update
The latest casualty in the real-est reality show was Ethan Zohn, Mr Survivor Africa. I am upset that he got voted out, he was fun to watch because he was usually 2 steps behind. Nonetheless, he sucked it up like a man when he knew it was him, and left gracefully.
Waking up is hard to do
Am in surprisingly good spirits even though I slept like maybe 5.5 hours last night and got up too freaking early! It was a nice train ride to the office, given it was rush hour (or perhaps remnants of it). I am beginning to enjoy the morning commute, I think it’s because of the MP3 player, and feeling like I’m back in school again. It’s been 6 weeks since I gave up the cab routine and so far it’s been fabulous. Even that time when I stupidly took the wrong train and only noticed 3 stops down, and the ride in the right direction kept stopping every 5 minutes.
New Loot!
I couldn’t resist, and opened my new loot today! Couple of days back I went shopping with Sharks and this is what I got:
Make a Difference Skin Rejuvenating Treatment (aka moisturiser)
I *really* like this one. The texture of this is like Clinique’s Moisture Surge. It’s kind of gel like and light. Unlike Moisture Surge, it doesn’t leave your skin sticky. It leaves a fantastic satiny feeling like A Perfect World White Tea Guardian does. I like it so far, will report how it feels in the morning.
20 March 04, 11am or thereabouts: Nice feeling still on skin. Not sticky or oily. Feels soft and well rested.
Night-a-mins Moisture Lotion (aka moisturiser)
I haven’t found anything I like better than the smell of Night-a-mins before bed. It’s really relaxing, and it helps me end the work day.
Well, I’m getting off the internet now
To get back to wood pulp and glue. My reading backlog has now burgeoned to
· Neverwhere – Neil Gaiman. Which came first – the movie or the book? In this case, the movie (the script to be precise). Both are good.
· The Ultimate Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams. Supposed to contain answers.
· Unfinished Tales- The Lost Lore of Middle-earth – J.R.R. Tolkien. In a bid to make sense of everything.
· One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Apparently highly comic, and deeply tragic at the same time. My kind of thing.
· The King of Elfland’s Daughter – Lord Dunsany. Fantasy probably began here.
· The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. It got a little sappy, and I stopped, but I’ll get to it!
· The Rape of Nanking – Iris Chang. Nothing like a little Chinese History.
- while I take my time to savour Good Omens again.
The Gaimans on the way:
· The Day I Swapped My Dad for 2 Goldfish
· Angels and Visitations
In my wishlist:
· Signal to Noise – Gaiman and Dave McKean! Should be awesome.
· Coraline – this should be the last Gaiman for now
· 1984 – George Orwell. Looked good in the Apple Ad.
· The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie .
I really need to read everything before a fire breaks out or something…
We’re after the same rainbow’s end
19/03/2004
Lunch adventure
No curry in a hurry for me today, I went to a curry place and had a salad. It looked good:
V’s salad
It was nice, they leave the dressing separate. I’d prefer to have romaine lettuce in my salads, though. I’m not much of an iceberg fan. It’s tasteless and fibreless. Maybe I should’ve gotten a caesar. But I don’t like the dressing.
The place was generally pleasant, although I preferred the Moon River half to the Curry Favor half where we were. I also would’ve gone with something other than sentimental piano pops, but we can’t have it all, can we?
V & YW – just like starting over
So here’s V and his buddy from way back, YW. V felt this need to help make small talk between YW and I, which was nice. I don’t like to have to eat, think and phrase. I like watching it happen, and those 2 just keep going. If it was for my benefit, thanks that was mighty sweet of you.
I’d put my bets on them both being like a couple in a previous life. But since there’s no real way to verify that, I’m also betting they will deny it.
Dinner adventure
Dinner with Annie and SL x2. We ate at Sketches, which is Annie’s default place. I didn’t enjoy my meal enough to want to take pictures of it, the pasta was sticky and soggy. I’m not going back.
We got Annie this for her birthday pressie:
It smells really pleasant, clean-linen with a hint of honey, not floral, or heavy, or too saccharine sweet. It was a light, almost there, totally natural scent that I couldn’t resist – it was really quite Annie. The only thing that was a little weird about it was the packaging. The whimsical ice cream tub thing was so un-L’Occitane. Also picked up a Linden Honey Hexagonal Soap to go along. It smelled totally like the gentle water, so that was cool.
I love the stuff at L’Occitane – I just can’t figure out how to pronounce that name. Do I pronounce it like it reads in English (thereby giving you a very unglamourous “ler-or-ki-tane”)? Whatever it is, the next chance I get I’m going to get something from the Verbena range of products. The cologne smells fantastic, not like lemon, where you get a citrusy but oily sweet rich smell. Verbena is crisper, more refreshing and less sweet. That scent magically transports you to a better place in your head. Where the grass is greener, the spaces are wider, the life is freer and the days are worryless.
