Friday, February 03, 2006
quickie
okay, been a long time since i last posted..so here's a brief summary of what i've been doing the past week or so..left for melaka on saturday then headed on to jb for CNY celebrations...the usual stuff, loud talking and laughing, eating cookies, playing with fireworks, eating more CNY tid-bits, gambling a lil' just for fun..nothing i don't usually do during CNY..well, the only difference was i managed not to lose any money while gambling this time..=p and my pretty lil' niece is now 3 years old and getting prettier by the day..forgot to bring my cam down so didnt take any pics...GAH..
finally finished catcher in the rye. supposed to be quite good but i didn't really enjoy it..the narrator in the story, Holden Caufield's a cynical hypocrite and half the story is about him discovering new "phonies" at every corner..the plot, IMHO heads nowhere but at least his blog-like narration makes it less boring.
"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." - J.D. Salinger, from The Catcher In The Rye.
a lil' quote from the book...makes you reconsider how you wanna live life, huh?.
btw, if you're wondering why the book is named so, the title appears notably once only throughout the entire book..Holden says he's always dreamt of being in a big field of rye and there are little children running about, and he has to make sure they don't fall off a cliff, thus "The Catcher In The Rye". if you like reading people's blogs about their daily lifes, this book might interest you.
on to football, transfer window's just concluded, with Liverpool's major signings being Jan Kromkamp, Daniel Agger, and Robbie Fowler, of which the latter's homecoming dominated headlines all over Merseyside.
dissapointing draw with birmingham. if benitez has a bogey team, its gotta be them, with 2 draws and 2 losses to them in the past 2 seasons. anyway, it wasnt that bad with chelski, the mancs, spurs and arsenal-the goners all dropping points..the devils remain consistently inconsistent, losing to blackburn (again) which means we're now only 3 pts behind them with 2 games in hand. =] next up, chelski. but more on that later..gotta start on h/w, been procrastinating way too much..
