Ohk - happiness/confusion.

I finally got the Amazon gift certificate from my uncle, and I thought to myself '$150 (USD, no less, hee!) of pure joy' but now I can't decide on anything! CDs or DVDs, which DVDs, books? $150 is still sort of limited, especially with the vast numbers of DVD box sets I desire.

Definitely getting:
Want Two, which I am seriously convinced is banned because it's got explicit lyrics and a song titled "Gay Messiah", something Singaporean powersthatbe would predictably find very offensive, but Nasty said 8Days reviewed it recently so maybe it will finally get imported, maybe censored but Amazon would not be censored so yay. I have been so disciplined about waiting till I get the cd, I haven't even sampled it on Amazon yet.
Garden State soundtrack, because it's currently 9.99 and it looks fantastic. Coldplay, Zero 7, Frou Frou, The Shins - gotta love it.
9 Objects of Desire, unless I find it nice and cheap somewhere in Singapore first.

I think I also might want the OC Mix4, but that's usually available pretty cheap here.

In any case, my mom's got this notion that I shouldn't spend the money just yet because anything I order from Amazon is bound to be distracting, and I have to study and all that jazz. She's right, unfortunately, so I might wait before spending. And my daddy's going to the US soon, I think, so perhaps he can procure Want Two and I can save the gift cert for DVDs :)

Actually I think I shouldn't waste an Amazon cert on things I can find here at a decent price, so I think a serious cd-hunting trip is in order. Hitting Sembawang, That CD Shop, HMV, Gramaphone, in that order. Something like that. Perhaps on Monday. Unfortunately it is a busy week.

I just discovered that Imogen Heap is half of Frou Frou! I never realised that Imogen was a -person-. Although I knew perfectly well that Imogen is a female name, it never occured to me that Heap is a last name.

I also just realised that Lata Mangeshkar is on the Eternal Sunshine soundtrack. The things you discover while trawling Amazon. I haven't been very enthusiastic about that soundtrack, but I've been getting quite attracted to it. And after sampling it just now, I think I'll have to add it to my list.

Ooh just bit into a chocolate and it is gorgeousnessss. Liquor flowing into mouth after first bite, rum I think, really good. And my maid's toasting me some funny potato&herb bread my dad buys at some bakery, which sounds suspicious but tastes fantastic. Gastronomically fulfilled.

Speaking of food, 3 places I want to try: Menotti at Raffles City, Toast at Taka, Corduroy&Finch at the Bukit Timah-6th Avenue corner.

I'm sitting here and making lists of things to buy, movies to watch, especially old movies, DVDs and books to buy, etc etc etc. Obviously an obsessive consumer.

Ugh I've developed blogging-averseness. I have things to blog but I cannot be bothered to blog them properly.

But, well. It's been a pretty good week. Skipped school on Monday, Vivien's lovely birthday gift (kama sutra and 13 going on 30 and a really pretty notebook in a really pretty box) on Tuesday and Bras Basah after school - 3 great books for $16, rehearsal and RP stuff on Wednesday which was fairly interesting, Samara (scary but not fantastic) on Thursday followed by Vivian Balakrishnan talk which was depressing but sparked off interesting discussion, Friday was the usual, Saturday was rehearsal and then the Pacifier with Kitson etc - amusing and pretty sweet, if silly - and then home and watched Rolly's Sideways DVD. Sad part was that Kitson left last night, right after demonstrating his adorableness by calling me up from the airport all excitedly telling me to guess who he just bumped into. unfortunately for him, i already knew that it was nasty because she'd messaged me minutes earlier that she just saw kitson at the airport. so he was cutely deflated that i wasn't surprised. today i went to the temple because it's my astrological birthday or something like that, and a strange person whom i haven't spoken to in years remembered my birthday, which was most odd. and had pre-lunch at this little restaurant called Ganga while my parents bought vegetables, because brother and I got hungry. and the guy's super nice cos he knows my dad so we had half the meal free, and extra stuff thrown in that we didn't even order but was very good. and then proper lunch at home, potatoes and spinach which i like very much. and i discovered the amazon gift cert in my mail, further happiness and, as explained earlier, confusion.

there you go. my week in a (relatively long) paragraph. not a fascinating week, i must say. but then i guess i really do do this for recording-my-life purposes. just so, in 20 years, i can still refer back and know what i was doing between the 11th and 17th of april 2005.

now i'm off to update my wishlist and finish homework.