Re : Stacks

"I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again."
— Charles Bukowski

"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
— Oscar Wilde

I'm not one for being mushy and sentimental and stuff (one of the reasons why I deleted my old entries, I felt it was a bit too personal) but allow me the rare occasions where I can relapse into my old self, yeah? I also hate the thought of people being able to read me like an open book, you know because I think once you're with someone, you're not the "mysterious" girl anymore, which is also why I think I'm still unlucky in the dating department...but let's not delve deeper into that.

So I'm on tumblr too if anyone cares to look me up on that site. I'm also on twitter, but let's save that for another day shall we?

1. Photo by breathoflife 2. Photo/scan by unknown.

Creature fear

1. Had a pretty much sleepless slumber last night. Before I go to bed, I always make it a habit of washing my feet (a Malay custom, sort of to ward off bad dreams), but I didn't last night because the water was too cold. I also watched the sequel to Rec last night which was awesome by the way. Don't get why it received sub par ratings on imdb, as there were a lot of unforeseen twists in the movie. Anyways, back to the point, I kept waking up in the middle of the night a couple of times, and whenever I closed back my eyes it was only to be sent back into a jumbled up nightmare consisting of scenes from Rec and Rec 2. Gotta love my subconscious mind for that.

2. Almost nearing the end of spring break. Of course I spend it being cooped up in my room. The whole week I only went out was only just now, to take out the trash and run some errands. I watched a lot of movies, played countless games of Zuma (which I find sort of therapeutic for the time being, don't judge) and (still) reading A Clash of of Kings. My favorite characters are Tyrion Lannister so far, and Renly Baratheon because he's so handsome, albeit being a bit too full of himself at times.

3. Speaking of A Game of Thrones, whenever I watch the HBO adaptation on my small screen, I always find myself thinking, "Please don't have sex, please don't have sex." But who am I kidding? It's HBO, so it's sort of inevitable for them to have raunchy sex scenes in their shows. (True Blood, hello?)

4. Next week it's back to school for me, which I'm not particularly looking forward to.I've stopped looking forward to my birthdays seven years ago, so the only thing I look forward to is going back home, but it's still months away. So for the time being, I guess all I have going for me are good movies and a chance of encounter with Kiki, a neighborhood stray cat which my sister and I are really fond of. Also the rare getaways to Alexandria or Cairo.

Lately #2

1. Watched Trollhunter a couple of days ago. It's a "mockumentary" Norwegian movie, about a group of students investigating a mysterious bear killings, but in the end captured more than they bargained for. Being a mockumentary I expected the camera work to be a bit shaky, but surprisingly it wasn't. Nothing much to say about this movie except I thought it was really clever and well done, with its unique storyline (come on, how many movies out there are about hunting down trolls?) although it did received mixed reviews. I have to say though, I never knew how big and enormous trolls really are until I saw this movie. (Theoratically speaking of course, there's no such things as trolls. Mermaids on the other hand, is something the little kid inside of me wants to believe exist)

2. Another Earth is a stunning film, all the way from its acting down to the soundtrack and engaging storyline that really absorbed me right from the moment I hit the button play. From imdb, this film tells the story of an ambitious young student and an accomplished composer crosses paths in a tragic accident on the night of the discovery of a duplicate planet in the solar system. Britt Marling's character truly embodies a young woman feeling detached from society, and about ten to fifteen minutes into the story I was already intrigued by the haunting vibe it gave off. Not in a scary sense, but sort of melancholic. The soundtrack of this film really compliments the storyline, and when weaved together all of it it's a lovely little gem of a movie, and thought provoking too.

3. Not pictured here, but I also (finally) watched REC. I've been putting it off actually, seeing as I already saw the American remake, Quarantine. But a friend recommended I watch it, so I did, and let me say the remake has nothing on it. (I mean duh, obviously) It truly surpasses the remake, about ten times better (of course, being the original) and I wasn't disappointed. Suspenseful, and scary (at times) I really enjoyed it.

1. A poster of the movie Trollhunter 2. A still from Another Earth.