--Ooh. I do miss reading an F. Scott Fitzgerald short story. I do have that thick book of his... 

Hmm. Reading. I started two books recently. One is "Before We Say Goodbye". The other is a manga ("Bahang Kafe Cinta"). The manga is one of the 13 books I mentioned in this post. Unfortunately, I can't find the manga on Goodreads so I won't be able to add that to my read books later. It's not really a problem but I need to remember that because I might get confused when I compare my the data between Goodreads and LibraryThing...

The two books I'm hoping to finish reading this week are "Before We Say Goodbye" and "The Mill House Murders". Well, it still depends on my mood though lol

Anyway... time to pick a new book from the jar! Of course, not finished with "Mr Darcy's Bite" but I'll take the risk :P... also, if I get another short story collection, I'm going to pick a new book. I'll read those short stories in my own time but I won't make it a part of the jar. 

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OOOH I got Fitzgerald's "This Side of Paradise"!

I hope this week will be a good one~!

The Malay translation of "Persuasion"~

Same translator with "Angkuh & Prasangka". I love the fact that they started with my two most favourite Jane Austen novels XD... Don't know if they'll continue with her other novels but I most probably will try to get them all.

Purchased via their Shopee shop.

Oh yeah.. They also have the Malay translation for Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" [Tuan Gatsby].

Also, just knew today that they have a [physical] shop in KK, Sabah (@BiblioKK on Twitter). Haven't been in Alamesra for so long so I have no idea where they're located lol but I might want to go check them out later.

Here's another thing that I haven't done in a while: writing in my diary. 

Ah.. this book.. "Samurai Revolution"... I'm still pretty much at the beginning since that post lol. BUT I'm currently replaying Katsu Kaishu's route in BakuTen for another ending, so I'm expecting the return of curiosity later. Hopefully that will be enough to fuel my reading progress for this book.

Yeah so after this incident, J&T has gone to the bottom (to the negative numbers range even) of my ranking for best courier services in KK, Sabah. I actually reached out to Shopee so that I can pay for those cancelled orders (done!)... it clearly stated "delivered" in the order status thingy, I wouldn't be surprised if J&T put the blame on me later if I just keep quiet about it... so I took the initiative, before it gets troublesome. 

Big mouse pointer is back in action!!! I did change it back to normal size before the old computer died. Now I'm using the big one again on the new computer.

Funny thing. I installed both Evernote apps again and this time I logged into the legacy version. It took too long to sync and it also kept bringing up the new Evernote app back to front (like it kept focusing on it even when I'm on other apps).. eventually I uninstalled the legacy one. I really hope I don't need it in the future...

...it case you haven't figured it out: It's skype spelt backwards XD

Currently I'm still limiting my access to Twitter & Tumblr. The "rebound" activity I have on Reddit is pretty bad. Some nights I just scroll through Reddit endlessly...

So... that was such a weird, brief Stephen Chow phase I had there lol... I'll still watch them later if I'm in the mood because currently I'm in Ryan Reynolds' phase XD

Confirmed. The lamp works with long reading session... it's pretty bright actually so I usually adjusted the brightness on the lowest or second lowest setting.  

...and the phone camera is back lol. I think it's pretty recent. Just realised it yesterday.

Also looked at Google News (briefly!) and found a 3-months-old article about Haruki Murakami translating Fitzgerald's unfinished novel "The Last Tycoon" to Japanese. So that's my TIL [for today] XD... Didn't really see a list on the English wiki (maybe I just didn't look hard enough). Found  a list of what he has translated in the Japanese wiki. Other authors listed there (that I'm familiar with) are Truman Capote and J. D. Salinger. Interesting.

This was a roller-coaster ride. Very engaging story. I guessed correctly some of the plot twists (including a major one), so when it got confirmed I was smiling and screaming "I knew it!" inside lol

...also cried a bit because why can't they be friends??? (T_T)

Anyway. Phew. I think this is what people meant when they say a book is plot-driven? It felt really, heavily plot-driven. Interesting storytelling.


This arrived today!

It's the Malay translation of "Pride and Prejudice"! I just randomly found it while searching for Jane Austen on Shopee. Just got released in February (unfortunately I couldn't get the bookmark anymore - I think that was for those who pre-ordered last month? Oh well~)

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Today, a cousin came to "upgrade" the electrical panel (I think that's what it's called?) at home. So I think we were without electricity for at least an hour...?

Oh yes, I already went past the two novels (that I said earlier on that I'll skip). I just need less than an hour to finish what's left.

At least I don't have to keep renewing my loan (we only get a week here *sigh*) anymore after I finish this...

A local mobile phone number called me around 10.30am and I freaked out a bit (only a bit lol) because I don't expect any deliveries today. First thing I checked was Shopee (haven't arrived yet), then outside the house (no unknown vehicle waiting).

Haaaah... I really don't like answering calls from unknown numbers~~~ 

BTW, finally finished watching "The Great Gatsby". I still think it's as melancholic as the book, but ooooh I like the movie... I love everyone's performance there.

Oh yeah, I actually found somewhere(!!!) to watch for the version with Toby Stephens so I guess I'm watching a "The Great Gatsby" movie again lol.. [Saw a bit of it and so far I noticed that it has a different vibe from the 2013 version *I'm excited!*] 

Been organising the thousands of screenshots again. Still a good distraction btw but I feel like I'm running away from something XD

At night (or early morning), instead of reaching out to the books I'm currently reading, I browse reddit or go window-shopping on Shopee... 

It seems like I'm still in lazy mode... or just unmotivated.

Oh yeah.. currently watching "The Great Gatsby" (the one with DiCaprio) on TV. Haven't finished it yet, of course. But I saw on wikipedia that there was another adaptation with Toby Stephens and Mira Sorvino (year 2000's) - I happen to like these two -... ahhhh now I wanna watch that version too~~~

So, last month's big goal and small goal... as expected, I only started doing them near the end of month :P I mentioned about playing "Murdered: Soul Suspect" on Feb 24th in the next-day post. Finished the game on March 1st... I didn't make this clear in earlier posts but yes, if I complete the goals by 1st-5th of next month, they still count! (lol/partly mentioning this for self-reminder).

Finished painting the bookmark yesterday. It doesn't look much like my dear Tsugaru XD but it will do. Might do more in the future for other favourite characters.

This month's:

Finish that FSF megapack e-book borrowed from the library

Yeah~ this is going to be an FSF month! Just decided that minutes ago haha Going to finish that e-book (that Libby estimated I would finish in 6-7 years lol) this month. If possible, I'll read the physical books too (mentioned in this post), but those aren't part of the goal. [No need to worry, future-me, if you couldn't finish them. Only focus on the e-book please]

Re-organise my bookshelf

...I think I'm going to regret this one later haha. But I really need to do this *sigh*

Look, Libby's estimated time for me to finish this e-book is 6 years (LOL). The last time I read this book was 31st January. 

Anyway. Now I can go on and read the ones not available physically and hope that I'll finish this soon.

*shakes*

*pulls out a folded paper*

"Tender is the Night" by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Mentioned in a post last April.

O. M. G.

I was just thinking "Maybe I'll get Fitzgerald today"...

LOOOL 

Anyway.. I'm thinking- no. I decided to not pick new books from the jar at the end of the month. The last two weeks of January that is. Just thought that I should help myself achieve the big goal. Next week's will depend on this week.

I still have a crush on his style. Almost can't wait to pick out one of his books again from the jar. 

Also finished "Dubliners" early this week. Didn't talk about it on that day's post. Don't really have much to talk about though. Liked some of the stories. I kind of liked the writing style so I don't mind reading Joyce's other works in the future. 

Might reread a book from one of my favourite authors. I don't know...  I feel like getting back to familiar writing styles since I've been reading new ones these past few weeks. 

Of course, as an update here, I haven't finish the two Sci-Fi books from the jar. But I will still pick a new book tomorrow.

Vanity Fair ♛ I actually have another copy but I couldn't not get this Macmillan Collector's Library edition (perfect size for my hands lol). It's RM10! This is almost RM50 at Popular (aka normal bookstores) so yeah, I got it in the end. There's probably no reason not to read this now, huh.

Tender is the Night & F. Scott Fitzgerald (Pocket Essentials) ♛ Hmmm.. yeah... so how to explain these :P.. I borrowed "The Great Gatsby" online few weeks ago. Only read until Chapter 2 but I like what I read so far so I bought a physical book to continue reading. Found his other books on Shopee (and they get sold out pretty fast) and this one book about the author (it's like studying literature in school again, so much fun!). I'm still exploring and/or experimenting (how do you even experiment-read something lol) so... that's all I'll say for now. I'm totally not fangirling, I assure you.

Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones's Diary: A Reader's Guide ♛ I like books like these (thank you school for introducing literature study to me). And I'm going to read the book some time later this year (I hope) so having this as a companion book might enhance the reading experience.

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Something amusing happened today. So, I randomly selected a horror movie to watch with my sister this afternoon. It was "The Turning". When I checked its Wikipedia, I realised that it's based on a novella ("A Turn of the Screw")... which I purchased randomly this year (it was cheap, enough said). What a coincidence! No plans to read it yet though.