Saturday, July 16, 2005
Finally went to bed at................5am this morning.........and slept............mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, I like sleep.....
and all of a sudden this thundering Chopin music comes wafting into my room ><........
Nichan's way of waking me up....nice guy *wakes up sleepily*
Have I told you what a great shower I had last night. Wow. Hot. It was hot and just washed away the cold and the pain the feet and the sleepiness. It was hot.
Today had to be out of the apt by 11 to meet Gabbie to go to Continuum which was a sci fi convention with nichan's fav author Neil Gaiman and nechan's fav Robin Hobb; both of whose works I haven't read or in the case of Gaiman, reading American Gods and not really liking it..........
Stopped at A lil Greek Brasserie for breakfast. Ordered an almond in chocolate and then discovered it was rock hard. Wasn't brownies.........was rock hard chocolate.......................hmmmmmmmmmm............nichan had this oversweetened pastry........
Walked over and took the tram abit and arrived at the hotel where the Convention was. At first we didn't see much. Paid for tickets ($60 wow) and got our badges and then we went walking around and found the hall where Gaiman was to speak. Saw a woman with a full sleek hair of white in traily black lace dress *wow*......and then Gaiman come to the podium. He was actually cool. Funny. Did a bit of reading from his new book as his speech (his new book sounds great, even better than American Gods) and shown screenshots of the movie Mirrormask that was his graphic novel. I think.............
Kinnda sad when it finished, but nichan wanted to buy hard cover copies of American Gods and some of his graphic novels for the signings. So did Gabbie so we checked out the dealers area. ^^ books...........nice..........but none of the authors I know so..........got a couple of books including Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors. And we were rushing here and there trying to find the books these two and Steph wants, and then to stand in line.
Oh man.....this was taking freaking long time. Just standing there, being bored and tired with a headache. I was prostrate on my feet with aching numbing feelings...............holding the books for signing, all for other people, and with a heavy coat and being very tired..........so not happy........
After 45mins, we arrived to the front, dumped the books, stood for photo, which took some time cos the woman holding nichan's camera didn't know how to work it so it took some embarassing time, then finally we could go. Rather, we collapsed in a corner somewhere. Brief stops at the auction and at a panel forum and then time to go home........
*coooold* The wind is blowing. Harsh. Cold. Icy. Ow. Walked like a dead zombie all the way to the train station and then back to the apartment. Oh yeah, made a stop at Borders and bought copies of the new Harry Potter. Discovered that the purchase gave 30% discount for other books. The convention also gave gift bags that contained a 15% discount for books too. Way cool. On way back home we stopped at a stationary shop and I got this cute packet of pens and book. Made way too many purchases today. Im broke by now..............bad bad..........
Back home, yummy, more leftovers while waiting for pizza and pasta to be delivered. Oh man, pizza taste good. Pasta taste good.............wow............*drools*
Nichan fell asleep on the couch after cracking open Harry Potter while I play a teaching game with a beginner.Finished, and a 7k jumped in and showed some funky invasion moves. Way cool. Go is such a magnificent game. There's always something new and we are always learning and trying to get better.And when you do that one move that makes every perfect sense on the board, it's like wow........you feel invincible. You feel like everything has descended and that move just scored you the board...........wow.............happened last night in the game with nichan, it totally rocked especially since I was making weird moves and losing half the board. A feint and then I got back the half board............hehehe.....
Owww..........legs hurt way too much.............I'll log off for now, got to wake up tomorrow to meet Norman and see unimelb.........kk.....baibai....*limps off*
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