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Krystal: Er, I donno when I'm flying off again somewhere, ( though I always hope it's the next day ) but it'll prob be around late Nov/Early Dec? Won't be as long as the Europe trip though. This something I might enjoy... Does it have an alcoholic content? Hahaha... Which leads onto...

Slayer: No, I didn't drink anything stronger than a Tiramisu latte on ND itself. The rant was pretty much what I felt about Singapore and Singaporeans all along. Just that this time the occassion was ripe for it.

Candle: I was gonna remind about that course this Sunday. :D Cya then! You wanna meet for lunch before that or just go for the class?

But I did go for one heck of a spending spree on ND though. Bought VCDs for Jeux D'Enfants, [love that show!] and Falling Windows. Then went to a pirated CD shop 2 doors down and bought a CD with Photoshop, Illustrator CS and Dreamweaver, Flash and Fireworks MX!!! Yee-hah! I feel the geek in me rejoice!

Though the Photoshop program required a password of some kind, and I apparently installed a 30 trial version... bloody hell... then again, getting Dreamweaver and Flash for $10 is more than worth it. Long live the pirates.

Last night I also finished reading the DaVinci Code. Whoa. Whoa whoa whoa. If you haven't read the book already, go and read it ALREADY! It's bloody GOOD! Especially if you're a Christian, 'cos the claims in that book concerning the Church... well, the underlying idea seems to be that they're a bunch of "lyin' bastards".

[And I don't use that term lightly. There's a reason why I used it. Go read the book and find out.]

But the disturbing thing is that there are tons of historical research surfacing to defend the ideas that Dan Brown has presented in this book. While some are well-known already, [the tendency of the Church at that time to incorporate pagan images and rituals into Christianity, the supposed birthday of Christ being one] others.... if true, will blow the minds of Christians everywhere. It's that explosive, or so I think.

It's not exactly a stunning work of literature, but the action carries well from page to page, and the ciphers and riddles will be enuff to keep you hooked. Please. Read it already.

Today: Movie marathon of sorts. Discovered father had bought pirated DVD for Spiderman2 while in Johor, and so finally caught this movie. [thank goodness I didn't catch it in the cinemas yet] The show's ok lah, kinda predictable [from watching the trailer] so nothing much new, or engaging.

Then Jeux D'Enfants, for the 2nd time. Loving it all over again, like the French version of RnJ.

Then Goodbye Lenin, which Jubilee finally managed to lend me. This one is certainly intriguing. Alexander's mother falls into a coma just months before East Berlin unites with West Berlin. The doctor warns him that if she suffers another shock, she will certainly die, so Alexander does all he can to reconstruct a Communist Berlin in his little flat, while outside, modernity and capitalism marches on the streets. The methods which he employs are outrageous, including getting a fren to dress up as a TV newscaster to fake news programs to show to his mother.

Eventually, though, his mother does wander out, and he has to 'broadcast' even more sensational news to explain the sweeping social changes outside. The interesting part is that the Socialist Berlin that he uses in his news increasingly become the Socialist Berlin he might have wished for. He begins to broadcast his former hopes and dreams for the former Socialist government, against the bleak backdrop of the modern capitalist state they are in. It is like the voice of the grumpy old man, who is unable to catch up with the present, and can only ramble about, grumbling about the good old days.

Watching it now... I wonder, why didn't I catch it before? Sigh...