did anybody ever notice that DH Lawrence's initials are DHL? I just noticed.

and. drea de matteo, who won an emmy for best supporting actress, drama (the sopranos) is joey's big sister on Joey! i just realised today, when i saw her picture on the life section and she looked really familiar. she's got funky eyebrows and an even funkier accent. specking of which, something amazing, i am a very smart girl. (yes, believe me.) i was watching joey and she was talking and i thought "that girl's from queens". because she has a total queens accent, duh. and then today i saw her on the paper and the familiar face (ok now i'm progressing into next-door-neighbourness) and everything and i imdbed her, and that's when i realised she was on Joey and therefore the familiarity, and then! staring out pingpingping! Birthplace: queens, new york. am i amazing or what. first my dad and then me. ok actually it's not that amazing. it's just that when i get something right i get very excited because it's unusual. i'm like a dumb blonde who accepts that i'm a dumb blonde, except i'm not blond, and circumstances indicate that i'm not all that dumb. still, i occasionally surprise myself and it's nice.

you know what, actually i had this whole long and really funny post typed out earlier, and then something (ie, The Internet) happened and the whole thing got wiped out and i was really annoyed and i just shut the window and went back to work. and then i did a bit more work and for some reason started feeling guilty about the lack of post. so here i am. (i think it's more like i got sick of studying, again. but go with the flow.)

oh another really cool tidbit: when tony kushner, the guy who wrote Angels in America, the play that was adapted into an HBO mini-series which meryl streep looks really old in and won about a million emmys yesterday? anyway, tony kushner was one of the many people involved in that show to win an award, as the writer, and he said, very interestingly (oh that reminds me of shoojee asking batchelor today if interestingly is a word. it is, because i use it a lot.) he made an unusual acceptance speech by thanking his "husband" Mark saying, "One of these days we can get a legal marriage license and you can make an honest homosexual out of me." isn't that cute?

oh andandand gg!!!!!!! i finished watching season 1 and i've decided it has the happiest season finale of any show i've watched. seriously. probably because i watch a lot of depressing type-shows, but this is seriously happyjumpyhappy. the thousand yellow daisies, wow. although i could've wished for someone other than max to have been the romantic proposer. he's such an oily thing and he's got gross chest hair and he's a slime/sleazebag. although for bodily hair, jason digger stiles wins. that disgusting forest on his chin. truly evil. but he was much nicer than max. i think. except at the end. the writers are very good at making guys evil and annoying when we're supposed to stop liking them and thus help the gilmore girls to move on to better territory. which brings me to dean. i used to have the hugest crush on him the first time i watched season 1 which was -wow- 4 years ago. but then i was a different girl then, secondary one therefore between that me and this me are 4 years of lifechangingnesses. in fact, to digress a little, there are quite a few lifechangingnesses between secondary school me and today me. i'm much funnier and cuter now, for one. ok i did not just say that. ok to come back to gg, i'm not a tristan fan! i'm actually a little bit troryfied, which i never ever used to be. although still a Literati, if we could have the nice jess back. the early season 2 jess, because as usual they turned him into a right jerk when they wanted us to hate him. gah i'm digressing all over the place. the rory-dean kiss, i did not like at all this time. it's very animalish, like they're eating each other's faces, and they're all smushed against each other and it's terribly lustful which is not how that moment should be. i mean, she says "i love you you idiot" which by the way isn't as well-acted as it should have been, and the first thing he can think to do is smush his face against hers and eat her nose? yeah, so evidence much that opinions change? women like to change their minds.

oh i was thinking about the fact that almost every show's got some amazing cooking person. sookie, piper, monica, francie to a certain extent, and i can't thikn of any for buffy and the OC but if you have ideas tell me. but they seem to like appealing to our tummies. the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. the way to good ratings is through the stomach?

wow now that i'm blogging the second time round, things are turning out much longer. all the afterthoughts coming in. although i'd certainly have forgotten things that i said earlier, or meant to say. which is unfortunate. i should really go and bury myself in my books again. bury myself alive, asphyxiate myself. Girl Escapes Examinations by Asphyxiating Self With Schoolbooks, another headline to add to our list of tragedies this year. Russia, Indonesia, Iraq, blahblahblah. They're not really tragedies anymore. They're just, breaking news or something. and we're just a bit too tired to feel sorry for people we don't know. it's like the grieving thing, Home Burial. you -can- get practice at grieving. so much practice that you stop being so good at it. or however you define good or bad at grieving. it's depressing, the news nowadays. like that singaporean-in-paris-interesting-blogger said, "there are very few things in this world that people can't get over." it's so true. all these.. statistics.

and terrorism. and all this shit in the world. i was reading carmen bin ladin's expose on the family she married into (osama's her brother-in-law) and thinking that she's such a moron. the book is really quite annoying. but easy to read, so just because i paid for half of it i'll finish reading it. but she's got such a frivolous attitude, and it's so pro-west like everything's wrong with saudi arabia and america, land of the free, is where we should look to for the answer to all of life's problem. arrogance. and she's swiss for god's sakes. i don't know, i guess you're grateful to whichever place gives you a good life, and america was good to her but it's so naive to think that middle east is the seat of all evil.

but something i was wondering about - am i the only person who sometimes wishes i could be in the situation i'm reading about, no matter how bad it is, just to experience it for a bit? not that that's possible, to just experience a bit and come back to nice comfortable singaporean existence, but sometimes the enormity of some things makes you want to understand them better. ok i was thinking of some examples but i can't really remember them now. just dismiss this paragraph as aparna's 2am incoherence. if i figure it out i'll blog more (empty promises.)

hokay. so i'm really not getting the hang of this shutting up thing. it's like my conversation with daph earlier today, trying to shut up while she wrote her personal statement, but being unable to. and then feeling unhealthy with all the alias-squeeing and grinning wide across my face-ness. i need icecream and a good dose of coldplay. oh they used coldplay for the emmy nominations thingie. the scientist i think. background music while the presenter reads the nominees. oh and jennifer garner's dress was quite bad, i feel upset. i need to remind dad about haagen-dazs tomorrow. he's been forgetting since monday.

right. so now i'm really not going to say another word besides bye and night!