hard-boiled wonderland and the end of the world

i've FINALLY finished murakami!!! it was really good. i'm so glad i borrowed it. it all started when i got very bored in orchard road and decided to go to the library instead. i wanted to borrow jodi picoult but her books were all gone. so were sophie kinsella's. (talk about extreme tastes, hehe). anyway, i'd heard quite a lot about murakami also so i decided to borrow this book. six weeks and probably $1 worth of renewal fees and overdue fines later, i'm a new murakami fan! :D he has a really brilliant mind. but not so for me... that's why i took six weeks to finish it. haha. i wish i didn't just read one chapter a night or worse, every few nights, because i forgot stuff and hence, lost a lot of "links". but anyway, i still had a good time reading it. now i need to quickly return the book before i chalk up more fines, sigh.

fines aside, i think libraries are wonderful places. cosy, lots of interesting books, and you don't have to think about how much this or that book costs at all. :)

speaking about libraries...
one chinese choir afternoon, our "principal" was sharing about how he'd met his wife at the university library 19 years ago. "when sarah was still in her diapers," he added. blah blah blah... we were all laughing at his story... and then, "oh, and now sarah is at the age where she should be going to the library more often right?" wah i think the very cute old uncles and aunties got quite excited, haha.