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Finished the first two books of the Sookie Stakehouse vampire series. i would sum it up by saying its an adult version of twilight. Entertaining, bloody, nothing inspiring though. The drama series "True Blood" wasn't that great either, it loosely follows the original storyline, too much nudity, am surprised they even allow it to be aired on HBO.

i think i will stick with the book rather than the drama series at the moment. Anyway, my hand is itching to buy the entire series now. Amazon offered it at the price of 34.99 for the collection of 8 books, quite an amazing bargain i must say. Anyone bought anything from Amazon before? would need some advice here.

Am hooked with "The Host" for the past 3 nights. The book is much much better compare to the twilight series. The only flaw of the book is that the story flows at stephenie meyer's pace, if you know what i'm saying. Will come out with a proper review once i finished the book, another quarter to go.

Other than that, i am still a bit homesick i think. All i did since i came back from Kuching trip was just lying on the bed and reading, non stop....

which justify why i should buy more books. ;)

At home

The moment the plane touched down LCCT yesterday, my heart was in the state of tug of war. On one hand i'm glad to come back to the place which i've slowly grew attached to for the past 4 years; on another hand, i doubt that my heart will ever register this city as a place i can call my home.

It was easy to walk along the old and rugged shops at the street of Kuching's 7th mile and smile from my heart in reminiscence of old schooling days; it was easy to walk hand in hand with my mom, aimlessly in the neighborhood, just to enjoy the sunset and the presence of each other; it was easy to laugh at the silly act of my 29 years old sister and 22 years old brother, running away from the attack of God-knows-what flying insect; it was easy to lie on my bed, while listened to the cooking sound and nagging voice of my mom in the kitchen and felt nothing but contentment in my heart.

It was so easy to feel at home.

Ironically, it was easy to look at the sky scrappers which i've seen more than a million times and still felt totally foreign about it; it was easy to surround by people of different colors in a small cramp lift and suffocated by loneliness; it was easy to feel vulnerable and hurt when the only person i can call my family in this foreign land showed no sign of joy at the sight of me; it was easy to lie on the bed, in the room which i've inhabited for the past one year, and wondering what am i doing here.

It was so easy to feel not at home.

Movie review: Inception

Peter, Chui and I watched "Inception" on last Saturday midnight. I don't really like to watch midnight shows but i managed to buckle up myself and stayed conscious until 10pm, and that's when a good dose of Hazelnut old town white coffee have to kick in.

At first i thought that it will be pretty dreadful to try to stay awake for the 150 mins movie. BOY, how WRONG am I. The movie was ridiculously GOOD! At 230am, we left the cinema with our mind totally blown away, while craving for more!

The movie is very intelligently designed, from the idea, concept, storyline, all the way to its characters and graphics, it was simply a class of its own. Many might think that the movie is a bit to hard to comprehend with its complicated plots, however, i would say a good movie involves two way interaction. If you are looking for a movie which congest all your senses and turn your brain off with special effects and superhuman stunts, well, there are many of those movie out there which are able to provide you a adrenaline pumping vegetative ride. However, the moment you stepped out of the cinema, you'll remember nothing.

Inception is the total opposite. There are not only a lot to take in and digest, its even more to imagine and to think. And that is what hold our breath and kept us riveted for the 2 and half hours. As the movie tag line goes "your mind is the scene of the crime", the whole movie is all about our mind, how we perceive, think and react towards what the visual is trying to tell us.

I wont talk much about the storyline, cuz i think words do not do any justification to the movie itself. So go and watch the movie, i can assure you that you'd never seen anything like Inception before.