Sit Back And Relax Day/Independence Day (India)
2005-08-15 @ 8:29 p.m.

Wrote a second 100-word entry for my LJ, which is a sequel to the piece I entered for the competition. Don't think it's as good, so I might junk it eventually. Probably should just merge the two entries together and extend the whole thing into a proper short story, but I have more pressing things on my mind at the moment, like Mr Kwok's essay test tomorrow, which I intend to study for during GP, and perhaps Civics, if I find out it is an utterly useless session in the hall. Have finished Edenborn, and I can't wait for Everfree to complete the trilogy. I think the pacing of the book needs evening out, because too much happens toward the end to be fully convincing, but enough clues have been planted to make it just believable enough. Am seriously thinking of going back to Kinokuniya and asking them to trade Edenborn for The Battle Of Corrin, assuming the latter costs more, because I want to hunt for the Bantam Press hardcover edition of Edenborn. Either that, or give away my Idlewild hardcover as a present, and buy the paperback edition, which is considerably more convenient. (Damn, I am such a hopeless spendthrift and impulse buyer at times!) I want to read the book I bought yesterday, Language Of Fiction by David Lodge, but work comes first. Admittedly, I could convince myself that reading that will help broaden my horizons when it comes to literature in general, but I digress. Hello, Albee, Barnes, Conrad, Cunningham, Eliot, Frost, Gunn, Hardy, Larkin, Prantera and Shakespeare! End of Cold War be damned.

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