Iced Tea Day/Mourn For Your Money Day
2008-06-10 @ 10:18 p.m.

I thought I was going to be quite late getting to Kay Hwee's place, but I turned out to be only a few minutes late. Unlike Eugene, who conveniently overslept and arrived nearly an hour after the time we'd agreed upon. Terrible! Mahjong was fun, especially the round where I won $3.20 in chips from each of the rest. Then I went down to Wisma Atria to collect my tickets for The King Lear Project. I still can't believe I actually went ahead and decided to go for all three performances by myself. Then because Eugene didn't come shopping with me, I decided to give the GSS a miss (for now), and headed to Kinokuniya instead. I'm starting to think that I've bought pretty much most of the contemporary literature that I feel inclined to own at this point in time. Impulse buys today were novels by Alessandro Baricco, which I picked up because some of the blurbs mentioned him in the same breath as Italo Calvino, who has been one of my all-time favourite authors ever since I read If On A Winter's Night A Traveler, Invisible Cities and The Castle Of Crossed Destinies. Silly me forgot that I already have Edmund White's The Married Man, so I'm going to have to exchange that for something on Friday before meeting Chris and the rest for dinner. Will probably try to get Baricco's Silk, because Kinokuniya didn't have the Vintage International edition on the shelves, but the online catalogue says that it's stocked. Failing which, I'll pick up Tanizaki's The Makioka Sisters instead.