this is so saddening...
i've just discovered that a writer i always thought was pretty good has started to recycle her work...

when i first read Mistress of Spices some years ago i thought it was very well done...
and now i read another book of hers and quite disappointingly... it seems like i'm reading the same book with different names and places but with the same themes...

like Mistress of Spices and Queen of Dreams.

go figure...

but i shall not be blindly angry and just slam her...
i still think she's quite good... maybe i'll go pick up something else of her's and see if she's really recycling her stuff...

and i do realise that i haven't been updating these past few weeks...
mainly it's cos i've been watching dvds of a certain very popular Korean serial like a desperate auntie...

so sad right my no-life...

but then and again not to worry since i've successfully plowed through the entire serial already and to ensure that i do not watch it over again i will return the dvd to it's rightful owner...

...

i have minor surgery on the 4th of may for excision biopsy to remove a lump of flesh on my lip...

i know it all sounds terribly dramatic but it's really just a minor irritation that has been hanging around irritating me to no end since...

lemme see now...
january?

as a friend of mine pointed out when i said that surgery was scheduled for may when i visited the doctor in january, "if it's nothing it will have gone away by itself by then, and if it's something you'll be dead by then!"

then of course by now it has very irritatingly not gone off by itself, but i'm not dead yet too...

so err yar.

ah whatever. as long as it's not a) cancerous, b) insect larvae in my lip or c) an alien gestating in my lip i guess i shall not be worried...