There are many other things you don’t know
I find the above tagline rather intriguing.
So I'm presenting it to you.
I find it quite amusing that… well… I'm not sure what I find amusing about. But just these days, I sometimes sit down to a mug of good old Green Tea (by now you should already have figured out that minishorts is addicted to Green Tea, no, not the Japanese variety), and for no reason at all, I begin to smile smugly. Not that I'm aware that I'm smiling, but Mum sometimes walk past me, sipping my hot, hot tea, staring into space with that idiotic look on my face, and she'll just go, 'What are you smiling at?'
'I'm not smiling.'
'You did. You look like a nut smiling there.'
'Okay.'
And then I'll go back to Dan Brown and try to finish the pages before she bugs me to go to bed. After a while, I get distracted again, stare at Tiesto talking about his latest music on MTV and listen to soft beats of house music, and Mum will walk down the stairs and see me again, 'I thought you were trying to finish the book.'
'I am.'
'Then why are you staring at the TV screen blankly, and smiling like that.'
'I wasn't smiling.'
'Go and sleep.'
But I'm trying to finish Digital Fortress… she wouldn't understand.
So frantically I'll nod my head again and flip to the next page.
Maybe its the recent book binge. I've been gulping down page after page by the minute. I've finished three Dan Brown novels in 4 days, if I had the money I'd probably buy Deception Point tomorrow, and continue on this endless pursuit of lost time. What happened?
Catching up on the real me. That's what happening.
I think that's the other thing most people didn't know about me. Heck, even I didn't know that much about myself.
So I'm back to square one, more or less. The last time I was really myself, I was 17, and oblivious to other problems. It was just me and whatever there was in my life. Maybe that's why I'm smiling smugly these days. This return to myself kind of thing is kind of addictive. I don't ever want it to end.
November 21st, 2004 at 11:13 pm
Cool… so now you know all the cryptology thing…but try not to encrypt your blog, k?
November 21st, 2004 at 11:42 pm
I have not read a SINGLE Dan Brown book, even though every one has been urging me to. should probably get to it soon though.
November 21st, 2004 at 11:51 pm
hey michael!! welcome back.
eh should chat on msn one of these days. what’s your ID? mail me at the office. wait… i think i owe you an e-mail at the office.
will talk tomorrow.
and Digital Fortress was.. errr…. i didn’t quite like it.
anyway… till tomorrow. tata.
November 21st, 2004 at 11:58 pm
I don’t usually use IM lar.
November 22nd, 2004 at 3:17 am
Chooks…I’ve got all 4 books. If you’re willing to wait for me to get back…I’ll loan ‘em to you. Btw, Digital Fortress sucked. ‘Da Vinci Code’ and ‘Angels & Demon’ are the ones to read..
November 22nd, 2004 at 8:17 am
elaine. you won’t believe this. but your brother has taken my copies of the Langdon series from me.
i’ll get my own copy of deception point, thank you.
for now i’ll settle with foucault’s pendulum.
November 22nd, 2004 at 3:36 pm
ED??? ED READS??? I mean…he’s reading something besides manga and fantasy fic???????????? Amazing. I thought only my eldest bro and I were total bookworms…oh yeah, Chooks…Tom Clancy is good. Well, I liked ‘em anyway. Just make sure you read them in order. Don’t be like me….jump straight into Patriot Games, then to Without Remorse, then to Hunt For The Red October etc. Bahaha…in the end I re-read them all over again. Oh, I like Rainbow Six a lot too.
November 22nd, 2004 at 3:55 pm
Never really liked Tom Clancy. A bit too pompous with his military descriptions for me. not to mention the time he spent a whole chapter describing a character, only to kill him off in the next one
November 22nd, 2004 at 4:35 pm
elaine: remember? my stupid ex stole all my books before i could say, ‘return them to me.’
we haven’t spoken to each other for over 2 years.
and i don’t have interest in warring fare anyway. so what the heck. maybe i was born to be a charitable organization.
yeah. ed got sick of me and teck liet babbling about mona lisa and the knights templar over steven’s corner, so he decided to read. he also hijacked my harry potter series for a few months.
November 23rd, 2004 at 3:57 am
Hehehe… I’m in a whole Dan Brown frenzy myself… ^_^
My friends thought I was crazy when I finished “The Da Vinci’s Code” in one sittin…
(I didn’t mind “Deception Point”, though.)
November 23rd, 2004 at 3:29 pm
………………. Harry Potter too eh? *snicker*. He’s sooo gonna get a good ribbing from me when I get back. Maybe i’ll offer him some of my romance books too..you’ll never know..maybe he’ll like ‘em too. Hee hee! Em em…if Ed still has the Harry Potter books with him…mind if I read ‘em before passing back to you? I’ll finish ‘em quick…like in a day or so..just wanna re-read them. Btw, ever read Louise Bagshawe? Pretty nice, specially ‘The Movie’ and ‘ The Devil You Know’.
November 23rd, 2004 at 7:23 pm
ET: yeah no prob. they’re with me now… but will pass the whole stack to you once you’re back.