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woohoo! bpal stuff finally came, and amazing/amusingly enough, it’s the one that I didn’t buy, the one that I got free, that I totally love. But now I can’t wait for the next spree! I’m a bpal buying addict. haha.
Sigh.
I want to buy stuff! I want to actually be able to buy stuff. I see stuff I like, I look at the price tag, I bemoan the price, I decide to buy it, I change my mind, I decide, ok DEFINITELY buying it, I go back, I look at it again, and something just seems—off. It’s suddenly not as perfect as I remember. I put it back. I come home and blog about my inability to shop.
RAR.
ok, ok, the one thing I really DO want to buy is BOOKS. plenty plenty books. I’ve finally finished that L.J. Smith book, (or rather, those three, since it’s 3-in-1), and now I’m re-addicted to L.J. Smith. I want to go back and buy the rest of the Night World books, I want to get the Secret Circle books too, and the Forbidden Game books. I even want the Vampire Diaries series, even though that one’s my least favourite series. And I also want to go to Amazon and buy ALL the individual ones, the old versions. oh god.
If this weird mood I’ve been in recently doesn’t pass soon, I’m going to end up blowing all my gahmen money and then some doing exactly that.
So we went for Maryam’s way-belated birthday-surprise high-tea yesterday at Carousel (Care-roo-sel, not Ker-roo-zel!). And while that was great fun, and great eating (and some way odd conversation topics…), it was the ‘after party’ that made me v.v. happy. Because, having nothing to do, we decided to go to Kino in Taka! I have to say, Kino is one of my favouritest places to go to in this country. I mean, in any country in particular, but in Singapore, where there’s often no where to go and nothing to do, I can happily spend three hours just browsing about, stocking up books in my imaginary library—the ‘if I had oodles of money to spend like water, I’d buy…” library.
But, as fate would have it, we discovered that Jasper has a Kino card! So of course for me that was the deciding factor in the ’should I buy books today despite my less-than-robust bank account balance?’ question. And the answer, of course, was a loud, cheerful YES. Make that a loud, cheerful YES!!
haha.
AND THEN! while I was in the kid’s section searching for the paperback version of Ink Exchange and Un Lun Dun, I found, to my intense and extreme delight, copies of LJ Smith books! and not just the Vampire Diaries, which are not really my favourites, but the Nightworld books!!! (yes, I know nobody else here really knows, or cares, what I’m talking about, but I’m just so happy!!) And they’ve been republished, so they’re all new and spiffy! Although I do feel a pang of regret that the old covers are no more (at least no more in bookstores, I think they’re still on Amazon), and that the books aren’t sold individually (they’re now in 3-in-1 s), I’m just really happy to have my hands on Nightworld books! muahahahaha. PLUS, it’s only $14.52 for three books!
Yes indeed. I am very happy with this. Happier yet because now I know where I can find my LJ Smith books. So really, if anyone is getting me Christmas presents, Kino vouchers are the way to go! Book vouchers always make very happy, cos then I don’t have to feel guilty about spending money on books. Am now waiting for the next Kino 20% sale, at which time I will drag Jasper (or, as he pointed out, his card) down to Kino and go nuts. TEEHEEHEE!
Oh yes. After reading pretty positive reviews of Un Lun Dun by my favourite LJ Smith fanfic writers, I also decided to get that. Although this was a little bit more expensive, $19.80, but I guess that’s what happens when the whole world starts giving the books rave reviews. Which is another reason I like kid’s fiction—no one really reads them ’seriously’, so books like Tamora Pierce and etc are always affordable. Not like the 27 over bucks ‘Classics’ or the 20plus bucks popular writers command.
So now all I have to do is brave the crowds of insane Sengkangians at Compasspoint and go to Popular and get a tube of plastic book-wrap. Or I could get it in school tomorrow…
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