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This is the best I can do with Windows Movie Maker on a 10-year old XP okay? Okay.

Book Haul

School is cancelled tomorrow because of flooding, so I opted for blogging instead of doing real work. (shrug)

Went to the annual Book Expo 2011 at the Queen Sirikit National Convention Center yesterday. Been going to these since I was a kid. They made me as excited as when Scholastic book deliveries came to our school. Heh.

Anyway, the three books on the left are what I got from the fair, and the five on the right are what I am currently reading/plan to read.

Favorite Movies

Haven't been updating because of school and work and all that. And been watching fewer movies too.

Let's see,  in one month I've only watched Captain America, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, and  Bride and Prejudice. Rise of Apes trumped the other two, not because they  were bad or anything (they were all pretty darn good actually), but because I had to hold and comfort two scared friends while watching apes take over the planet. APES TAKING OVER THE PLANET IS SO FREAKING SCARY, MAN. And at first you're all sympathizing with Caesar. And then Tom Felton is mean and has an American accent. And then I'm the only one laughing in the theatre when there's that circus orangutan. And then before I know it both G. and A. are whimpering and crying and I have to pat them comfortingly. Rise of the Planet of the Apes definitely makes one of my favorites. 

lol circus orangutan

All that made no sense. Okay whatever, here I go with my favorites, in descending order.

• Pope Joan
• Rise of the Planet of the Apes
• Super 8 (see Summer post)
• Sita Sings the Blues 
• Ip Man 1,2
• Tombstone
• ชั่วฟ้าดินสลาย
• มหา'ลัย เหมืองแร่
• Inglourious Basterds
• A Better Tomorrow 1,2,3

...

I just realized that a lot of these have the "Epic Line." You know, when at the climax there's this Epic Line. Like for Rise of Apes, it'd be SPOILER 

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Picture-heavy after the jump.

Favorite Books. And by favorite I mean "inducing giddy obsession"

Pink llama is there to add balance. I bought these classics at one book fair sale for <100B each, which is why they're all the same Wordsworth editions. 8D

In order of favorite to most favorite.Won't repeat Brontë/Austen stuff. 

Future Posts

• Favorites
• Contemporary
• Friends vs. HIMYM
• Things That Made Me Cry
• Things I Laughed At
• Khaled Hosseini
• Thai edition
• Chinese edition

Aroi wa.

Clockwise from top left: Coconut pie, ขนมตาล, ขนมกล้วย, ขนมฟักทอง

Brontë vs. Austen

Haven't done a books post yet, so here I go.



I've read one of each by the three sisters: Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights, Charlotte's Jane Eyre, and Anne's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. And two by Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (I felt like it was almost required of me) and Emma.

For me (but not for most people, according to asking around) Brontë trumps Austen. Wishy-washy acoustic coffee-shop music is not enough for me, but something with lots of bass and strong vocals is. In the same way,  Austen, while pleasant, isn't enough, but Brontë's dark gothic plots are. I'm not sure if that made sense. Okay lemme try again:

The worst thing that can happen in an Austen book is an uncomfy social situation, but in a Brontë it's eternal damnation/lifelong unhappiness/doom spanning generations. For me, the latter's just more entertaining. When I express these views to Jane Austen girls they give me this look of disgust and say that I'm "sadistic." Which I am okay with. 

The one on the far left reminds me of that hobbit. Merry, I think.