It's the last day of BEDA :O
[interruption] I want to go to berlin! It's so pretty and the museums are pretty and the signs are in a language that I can kind of understand. xD (even if I only know how to say "bustenhalter" and other useless things.)
haha it's only because of this: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/fbx/?set=a.429109752232.206832.220905087232 It's a facebook album of when troy chin went to Berlin as part of an art exhibition for The Resident Tourist. (TRT) TRT is a comic set in singapore; hits home in so many ways; is awesome.
Back to berlin! It's so much like amsterdam. The trains are like the ones in NL, the whole bike-riding thing is so dutch. (eh? eh? am I getting it right?) And according to shari, it's easier to find vegetarian food options. I could practice my german! There are even canals, like in NL. xD and if I went in the summer I could eat at outdoor cafes, and pretend I'm in Amelie. (yes Amelie is set in France, but it's kind of european and yes it is presumptuous of me to compare the two so I should just go to France anyway if I want to pretend I'm in Amelie but I can't speak French. However, I could pretend to be an american tourist with the full-blown accent, then it will be like Anna and the French Kiss, or like 13 Little Blue Envelopes... speaking of, I should check if the bookstore has The Last Little Blue Envelope because it is OUT and I'd love to read it, and maybe have maureen sign it in july, but that just means I have to bring more books to leakycon. I DIGRESS.)
There's a lot of "german food" in the album: bratwurst and bier, but I don't eat meat and I don't like bier. Hmm. I like sauerkraut, though! I could totes look for vegetarian sausages.
So yeah. I'm talking about TRT so much because I attended the book launch/ discussion of TRT 4 last night at booksactually, the local indie bookstore I've been going to for a few years. (and which I was surprised that a lot of people whom I got to know knew too. Does that make sense? I brought kimberly there, and you absolutely have to come when you visit sg.) Troy Chin talked a lot about his life and his creative process, and I'm done reading TRT 4, and the themes just hit home really hard. So now I'm going to write an extremely long, obsessive diatribe to him. #yay #fanmail
So that about ends BEDA! In 2009 I did some fancy schmancy stuff to celebrate the end, but nothing special has happened today. It's all humble. Keepin' it real.
I liked getting accustomed to trying to think about something to blog during the day. That was nice. And writing/ typing things out helped sometimes to organise my thoughts. Although I think in some cases I've overshared during BEDA. xD So to reiterate: the good stuff stays after a predetermined date-- I can't remember when-- it's may something, and the bad stuff gets taken down. #funfunfun
How did you find BEDA? Like it? Found it annoying?
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