Haven't had the time to do anything since I came back from Bangkok much more blog about my repetitive life. Arrived home and immediately sat for my Highway Code Test with Rachel and then the next day I had a wake to attend, and a funeral after that and off to the Curve to meet Inessa after that.

So yeah, my cousin's mother just passed away. Said mother would be my father's brother's wife so you could say it wasn't a close relation and I had absolutely no feeling towards the situation. Does that sound a bit cruel? I think it does. It's amazing how I can watch a Japanese drama or read a romance novel and cry freaking buckets but all I can do at a relative's funeral is just shed ONE tear.

But I have my reasons. For one thing, said uncle is not my favourite. Said cousins are also not my favourite. In fact, they're a very pretentious lot and if you talked to my cousin you'd believe me. The other fact that he attends international school (ISKL, bloody hell) does not help the snobbery one bit. You can see where I'm coming from.

But at the end of the day, everyone comes together in this sad time of life so let's all have a moment of silence...
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Which brings me to the title of this post.

I LOVE ROMANCE NOVELS.

Okay everyone, if you had to read at LEAST one romance novel in your lifetime let it be How To Marry A Marquis by Julia Quinn. Why? Because it has the ability to make you feel excited, angry, sad and turned on all at the same time! I read this book from late afternoon straight up to 3 a.m. in the morning non-stop which shows just how good it is. There was one scene where I was practically bawling my eyes out for the hero and heroine but was still titilated well enough. WHO THE HELL CAN MAKE YOU CRY WHILE THE CHARACTERS ARE HAVING DRY SEX?

Julia Quinn can.
Hats off to her.
So what are you waiting for? It costs RM32.90 at all good bookstores in Malaysia.

And if that book has left you longing for more, more, MORE! Then have no fear, I am here. :) I suggest you check out Ms. Quinn's other titles especially the Bridgerton series. Romance gold right there. My particular favourite would be Romancing Mr. Bridgerton purely for the fact that Colin Bridgerton has always been my ideal guy.

I'm currently reading another of Julia Quinn's, which is Splendid. Alexander Ridgely the hero in the novel was decribed as "sexy and dangerous...sinfully handsome and sinfully rich..." (her words not mine) and it got me squealing to my toes. Romance novels have always been my guilty pleasure. Especially those with heroes who are rakes. The more roguish, devilish, handsome and rich the better. I like any man in these types of books to be the kind who can silence the heroine with just a stare. He has to be masculine, strong and the forceful type. The kind of guy who will bend the heroine to his every whim and fancy and will seduce and titilate her at every chance he gets until they do the deed and leaves her to perish at the mercy of Regency London's social cirlces.

You can see I am not a feminist.

Which lead me to wander: I want a rake. I want a playboy. I want a strong guy. What kind of books should I read to ensure that I'll forever get a hero like this?

I did a little research and found my answer:

PIRATE ROMANCE NOVELS.

HOLY CRAP.

I am in Heaven.





(all images thanks to our best friend, Google)

Seriously, think about it. Heroine is stranded on a desert island. Sexy buff rakish (playboy) pirate hero sails onto her island and takes heroine as his captive. The set scene: Heroine on big beautiful pirate ship of 30 men all whom have been at sea for a long time now and have not seen a woman since. And because this is my fantasy, all the 30 men (the crew) are handsome and ready to pounce. But of course, hero is the hottest, strongest and sexiest of them all. And not to mention, he's also the captain. ;)

So as how all romance novels go, hero keeps heroine as his own. He chains her up and uses her as his slave. But then, aha! We find a twist in this plot (o rly?) and in actual fact, heroine's family had ruined hero's family a long, long time ago which lead to his pracy. Hero is get angry and plots his revenge by taking heroine as his own (you know what I mean) to spite her. But of course not all goes to plan as heroine (tries to) fight back. Hero is shocked that there is someone on Earth who dares fight his sexiness. Hero then leaves her alone, but for the next few chapters we are treated to endless scenes of said tortured hero trying to seduce said petulant heroine.

And to add another twist in the plot, maybe we can put heroine's fiancee whom she lost when she was left stranded on the desert island suddenly come sailing across the horizon towards their ship. Hero is enraged and locks up heroine to show a sign that she is 'his'. Hero and Heroine's fiancee fight to death for heroine's love but finally hero prevails and heroine's fiancee falls overboard into the sea never to be heard again.

And I'm tired to go on so we all know how this story will end. Hero and Heroine fall in love, have explosive coitus and have beautiful swashbuckling children. TA DA!

I shall call this story Scandal on the High Seas.

Doesn't it have that sizzle in the title? Hell, if I didn't write out the plot I'd buy/borrow it anyway. So much sizzle, so much angst, so much drama, so much endless sensual scenes the possibilities are endless when you're at sea on a big boat.

Sweet dreams (i know I will).

Labels: bunch of nonsense, fangirling, random

So yeah as the title says. I've been using the August Hari Raya holidays to catch up on my (much needed) reading and I just so happened finally managed to borrow New Moon from Zoee. Everyone knows what I thought about the hype around these books and I've said it once, I'll type it out this time.

I've never read such utter garbage in my life.

Seriously? How could anyone go through the whole book? Because the whole time I was reading it the same questions kept repeating in my head...

"Okay, so he goes away...then what?" "Oh...so?" "Okay...what's the point?" "Who cares?" "Now what?"

And these would seem like really legitimate questions if I asked them in anticipation, but I'm not. I'm asking them in a deadpan sort of way. What is really the point of this book? It's not like Harry Potter where at least we know where Harry is going and what he's after so now we're reading the filler bits with a little bit of mystery and mayhem thrown in between, but with the Twilight series it's like, Okay, so she loves this boy, he goes away. Okay so he's gone, she meets another guy.....DO I REALLY CARE??? WHAT IS SHE AFTER???!?!?!?!?!

I don't really know the real reason why I'm even reading this series in the first or why I feel so compelled to finish it. All I know is that Inessa says when you hate something you have to know what it's about or what you're insulting before you can insult it - and that is quite utterly true.

Even so, I'm subjecting myself to torture for no reason. It's not like its the greatest love story I've read - Hell, you're talking to the Queen of Mills and Boon romances. The worst part is I went on Amazon and some reviewer said that this book was perfect for teaching teens about abstinence.

WHAT THE FUCK, NO WONDER THERE WAS NO LUST. and I don't mean bloodlust

Where's the sexual tension? Where's the teasing? Where's the sexual frustration? Yes, abstinence is good and all for we all don't want to end up like Jamie Lynn Spears but for Heaven's sake if I'm not allowed to have sex in real life at least let me live vicariously through fictional characters. If I can't have sex and get pregnant, then let Bella have sex and get pregnant! When I think about vampires, I think about hot Gods all sexually repressed ready to bite and do the next beautiful pale thing he sees like those fanfics one used to read in abundance on Quizilla.com OKAY!!!!!!!!!


Yes, I saw D working in One Utama today. I guess that's why I feel so emo. :(

On another (more positive) note: I think Robert Pattinson (R.Patzz!) is perfect for the role of Edward. I've seen several spoilers and on-set photos (Twilight Tuesday on ONTD ;D) and mama mia, does he look extremely sexy. Just the type of guy one can imagine to be a devastatingly handsome vampire WHO IS A WOMANIZER AND WANTS TO HAVE SEX WITH LOTS OF GIRLS

Labels: bunch of nonsense, random

Just taking a short study break here to post some random photos now that my Internet connection and Blogger are co-operating (for once)

Photos from the Merdeka Salsa Party (30 August) with Sammie and Han Liang

Yeah, my camera kinda hated Sammie, lol.


Random photo by Krystle taken during BM tuition with Michelle (August 8; omg, the shop! xD)
idk, i posted this because i think i look good. ;D
Some dim sum place at the Curve with my uncle. Piggy paos!!! OMG SO FREAKING CUTE RIGHT?!?!??!?!?!?!?

And last but not least...taken during Jubilee on the first day. Backstage with Krystle while Kanages puts on her *ahem* beard.

Labels: picspam, random