AHH BOOKS ACTUALLY
May. 15th, 2006 10:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spiderpigUn friends-locked because Books Actually (125A Telok Ayer Street), is actually worth it! This is probably the best store in Singapore, and I'm not just saying that because I love books. The whole concept of the store is so endearing, and you sure as hell know that the store-owners know their stuff - and love it. Sure Books Actually is small, but here small is good. Shelves are chocked full with classics and obscure books that just send me into visual and literary orgams just looking through. I mean, wow. The attention paid to detail - the customer service!! - is impeccable. I mean, wow, the hordes of little toy soldiers around? You have to see it to understand what I mean. There's no doubt a healthy collection of Hughes and Nabokov, since both of the owners' favourite authors are those. I mean, wooooooooooooow. They're so friendly, and Kenny actually rememberd (albeit slightly wrongly) my name from the e-mail I sent asking whether they were open on Vesak Day! Kudos to great customer service.
I left there with my wallet $23 lighter - Joy Kogawa's Obasan, a cute little pin with a couple of my favourite writers on them, a Harry Potter bookmark (and by that I mean, it was made out of a page from a book!) and two book-cover matchboxes (Curious George and Tim Burton's Oyster Boy). Hell yeah, I am going to go ther at least once a month with Rachel and buy one book, and a whole lot of knick-knacks too! I think my next buy will be their kitschy postcards and maybe a moleskine notebook, in addition to whatever Random Read I find.
It was cute, the way I found Obasan. I'm probably going to go there for 26 consecutive times, each time trying to buy a book with an author of a different alphabet? <3
Hahah, Rachel and I became models for a day, posing for an art-exhibition. We got our portraits taken with This Side of Paradise (Rachel) and me with Lolita. We could pose with anything that represented us the most - I chose Lolita because haha, Nabokov's style is <3s and I am like Humbert Humbert. Though, no loli-con or shouta-con here!
They have a beautifully bound version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness for only $29!! I am so going to buy that and just slowly read it and enjoy the nice old papery smell.
EDIT:
OH HO. I FORGOT TO MENTION - Idiot Savant Tan strikes again? I got a 7/8 for my AQ. Hurrah? This bodes well for my SAT essay component. :D()()()
Unfortunately, I still have "tortured expression" for like, the short answer questions which I used to kick ass at. D: JTAAAAAAAAAN.
EDIT:
!!! Rachel reminded me! We boarded the wrong train 3 times! 2 Times on the same day! OMFG LAH. WE ARE RETARDS.
I left there with my wallet $23 lighter - Joy Kogawa's Obasan, a cute little pin with a couple of my favourite writers on them, a Harry Potter bookmark (and by that I mean, it was made out of a page from a book!) and two book-cover matchboxes (Curious George and Tim Burton's Oyster Boy). Hell yeah, I am going to go ther at least once a month with Rachel and buy one book, and a whole lot of knick-knacks too! I think my next buy will be their kitschy postcards and maybe a moleskine notebook, in addition to whatever Random Read I find.
It was cute, the way I found Obasan. I'm probably going to go there for 26 consecutive times, each time trying to buy a book with an author of a different alphabet? <3
Hahah, Rachel and I became models for a day, posing for an art-exhibition. We got our portraits taken with This Side of Paradise (Rachel) and me with Lolita. We could pose with anything that represented us the most - I chose Lolita because haha, Nabokov's style is <3s and I am like Humbert Humbert. Though, no loli-con or shouta-con here!
They have a beautifully bound version of Conrad's Heart of Darkness for only $29!! I am so going to buy that and just slowly read it and enjoy the nice old papery smell.
EDIT:
OH HO. I FORGOT TO MENTION - Idiot Savant Tan strikes again? I got a 7/8 for my AQ. Hurrah? This bodes well for my SAT essay component. :D()()()
Unfortunately, I still have "tortured expression" for like, the short answer questions which I used to kick ass at. D: JTAAAAAAAAAN.
EDIT:
!!! Rachel reminded me! We boarded the wrong train 3 times! 2 Times on the same day! OMFG LAH. WE ARE RETARDS.
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Date: 2006-05-16 02:55 pm (UTC)-rachel