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items of mirth:

a) thomson cc is making a 100m long popiah this weekend.


historical:

how exciting. and you thought the anglo-dutch treaty was some old piece of parchment you read about in the textbooks. it is there in the straits times with m'sia and indonesia grubbing over some islands and the indonesians citing the anglo-dutch treaty to establish sovereignity


things to be jolly about:

a) we have tickets to mammon inc!
b) in celebration of their 75th (or was it 25th) anniversary, kinokuniya printed vouchers in the straits times giving you 20% off any single book purchase meaning that i can now go and get myself a copy of mulisch. aha.
c) joel is coming home on monday bringing my new skirt with him!
d) i have red shoes from charles and keith! red!
e) patiently i have bided my time and now delia's is having a simply gianomous sale and what is more thanks to the english department's benevolence i can actually afford to buy them. they told me not to spend it all in one bookstore but they never said anything abt buying shoes.


things to be glum about

a) england beat argentina
b) safin is out of the french open
c) von once complained that nlb ordered only one set of a multiple-award-winning seven-book sci-fi series and put the seven books in seven different libraries. my annoyance is for quite the opposite reason. there are not one or two but seven copies of norton juster's the phantom tollbooth available, and where are they? in woodlands, woodlands, woodlands, woodlands, and woodlands.
d) the same goes for pratchett: chengsan library has 5 copies of fifth elephant, 4 of carpe jugulum, and *6* of the truth. and not a single other of his 35 or so titles. how many copies of the newest, the amazing maurice and his educated rodents, does the library own? one, in bukit batok or some ridiculously ulu place like that. qi2 you3 ci2 li3.


random:

100 year old pomegranate tree in chinese gardens getting spotlight this weekend


poll:

shall i cut my hair?


personal:

good things keep turning up in my letter box