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Eileen Chang's "Half a Lifelong Romance"

Just received this today. This novel has already been adapted thrice into a movie and two TV series. The one I'm familiar with is Ruby Lin's version (I've known it as "Ban Sheng Yuan" [半生緣] but apparently her version is also called "Affair of Half a Lifetime") which... I never watched before... LOL. It's weird that I want to read this because I haven't watch it, right? I had this phase before: Any movies or TV shows/series that I'm interested in that is based on books, I want to read them! Doesn't matter if it's before and after - I don't really care about that now as long as I have access to whichever first. 

Not reading it yet. I'm going to have to finish some of the books I'm currently reading now first. That's what I decided to do.

"Old" and expectations

Last night, I watched this movie with my sister (chose it on random). I thought it was very interesting. Then I saw some comments on reddit that said it's one of M. Night Shyamalan's worst movie... which I don't really get why...? Yes, I understand that different people will have different preferences... but I honestly think people just put too much expectations on things they watch/read. It's better to go in without any nice expectations... or maybe no/low expectations. Maybe you'll enjoy stuff better that way.

"The Tenants Downstairs"

Saw this movie on TV few days ago. I was ready to accept the main character is another mean and sadistic person... then it reached the ending. Didn't like the character but loved the ending. 

"Scarlet Heart"

I'm finally watching this Chinese drama! It's in the same time slot with "Palace" on 8TV. Loving it so far. Also noticed some similarities with "Palace" (or rather, it should be the other way round?). Feels a bit weird seeing an opposite situation to "Palace". I'm growing to like Fourth Prince. Got excited whenever Fourteenth Prince appears (LIN GENGXIN!). I've read most of the spoilers online (although I don't trust my memory.. so it's okay lol), I think I'm ready for anything tragic!

"The Legendary Life of Queen Lau"

Another Chinese drama I'm currently binge-watching on watching! Kind of have a silly, crazy plot (but still plausible, to some extent)... it's quite like watching one of those TVB period dramas with crazy storylines (Can't help thinking it's like a homage to that since there's "Queen Lau" in the official title...)

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"The Bathhouse"

Saw three playthroughs on Youtube so far. The first I saw was PockySweet's, then Gab's. Latest was John's... enjoyed all of them but I laughed too much with John's commentaries lol

Trying this again today. Coffee at night.

Reading updates: Slow reading week.

Sometimes mood is like this song... LOL

Sharing is not always caring

Because I always got my stuff taken by someone else when I was little, I'm not a fan of sharing things. Yes, I can share when needed and within logic but most of the time that's the first thing I'll consider whenever I have to deal with people. If I love it very much, I don't want to share. 

↑↑ Just something I've been thinking about recently

Been playing this more often lately. Used to play a different brain game but I can't find that app anymore (probably no longer updated) so now I'm stuck with this. Loved the challenges. This app made me realised that I remember stuff more than I think (or maybe that's just the app doing its work lol). 

Didn't last long lol. Keeping it on makes my room warmer when I wake up in the morning so I stop after two nights. Thief dreams be damned!

Uniquely yours

Random thing I noticed on Spotify. I don't know why my Spotify-generated Your Top Songs 2020 playlist is stuck here:

(Now I'm listening to the whole playlist. Maybe it will go away after that?) 

I made it to 13, yay! Took me four hours to get them all. Some of these are unexpectedly long XD