HP6

I have not felt so exhilarated since...well, since Taiwan, really. I now have Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince by my side, and it's a really cool feeling to have such a solid tome enclosed in your arms =) The title's a bit cheesy, at first impression, but it looks like the new HP book will provide weeks of fulfilling reading. And judging from how long it took to get this book out, I think I'll just savour every single word of it. To make it last, you know...

It's really quite a childish feeling, to get excited over this chunky storybook. I guess partly it's becuse HP really does appeal to my child-self, or whatever that alter-ego is called in psychiatric parlance. It appeal is remarkably fundamental. But the excitement was also due to watching BBC, which was showing the midnight opening of the London bookshops to cater to all the HP fans lining up to get the new book. Heh, if you think I'm off my rocker, you should see some of the lengths the Brit children go to =P And I guess it's also because this is the first brand new storybook I've bought since Oranges. The smell of the paper, woody and thick, is the best smell on the planet, I swear! In this instance, to make such solid and fragrant paper, I think sacrificing some trees was justified =P

Well then...shan't linger here too long. Been careful to clear all my work so I can peacefully dive into the book tonight and all day tomorrow. Been saving the book till I can get into bed, turn on the little reading lamp, recline and properly beginning. Heh, it occurs to me that I don't even read the Bible with such enthusiasm...and neither did I do so with the Lit S texts. Well, not with the same stomach-churning, delirious anticipation-type of enthusiasm at any rate. Was telling Kels that if Rowling's style has improved, maybe it'd be fun to do it for Lit S. I think I'll bring a HP book into the exam just for the heck of it =)

Okays, so I'll be off to read the new HP book now! I promise I shall not deliver any spoilers on this blog. Oh, and if anyone asks what the heck I put up on waystation today, it was something inspired by an anime show I'm watching now, Last Exile, whose love scenes are cloyingly sweet. My instinctual reaction was disgust, but after that, it turns out that the love portrayed in the anime isn't altogether sentimental crap =P And was trying to come up with something on the theme of love which fitted within 100 words. The results - a very fragmented prose piece with no plot, more like a persuasive essay with extended examples. Enjoy! Or even better, go get your own copy of HP6 and enjoy that! =D

pondered by phoenican @ 16.7.05