The Chase is On! --

My J and I couldn't resist it -- we ended up getting our books today instead of tomorrow (when Podium goes on sale -- I asked the lady at National if they are participating and they said they are -- 20% off on foreign titles).

We spent the afternoon in our jammies, reading -- he his copy of Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell and me my copy of Chasing Vermeer. (hehehehe -- just realized how badly written this part is ^_^;; -- apologies for the grammar)

I'm really enjoying the book and it has a lot of very memorable lines -- (am up to Chapter 11 pa lang)

Some really neat lines/ideas:

"Ask a question that doesn't have an answer."

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For one of their school exercises, they were asked to answer the question "What makes an object a piece of art?" by "choosing an item at home that feels like a work of art... Describe this object... without saying what it is."

One of the main characters wrote this:
"This object is hard on the outside and bendable on the inside. It is the color of an unripe raspberry, and it weighs about as much as a pair of blue jeans. It smells like a closet in an old house, and it is an ancient shape. It holds things that are hard to believe. There are living creatures falling like rain and objects that float by themselves. People vanish and reappear.

It is made of substances that once grew, that once bent in the wind and felt the night air. It is older than trips to the moon or computers or stereo systems or television. Our grandparents might have seen it new when they were young."

<-- guesses peeps? ^_^

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"We shall pick up an existence by its frogs." <-- this is for my bro

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"This was a calm, deliberate world, a world where dreams were real and each syllable held the light like a pearl. It was a writer's world --"

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Be Cool! --

We watched this today at Podium and we were the only people in the theater. Hurrah! I thought it was a really funny movie and am curious to see Get Shorty.

Every Monday and Tuesday, Podium sells their movie tickets for PhP80 from 10 until 3.