March’s read

March 31, 2009 at 11:46 am | In Brain Candy, Zippy Update | Leave a Comment

Title : Prey

Author : Michael Crichton

Country : United States

Language : English

Genre(s) : Science fiction, Techno-thriller

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication date: November 25, 2002

Media type: Print (Hardcover)

Pages : 320

ISBN : 0007153791

Well, this is another Crichton’s sci-fi that I managed to finish rightly after ‘Next’. Something worth to read if you are into nanotechnology and as usual Crichton’s style is always putting a great disaster after a groundbreaking innovation in the history of mankind. Woops, no spoiler here. Anyway go read it yourself to know more.

p/s : Michael Crichton died unexpectedly of throat cancer on November 4, 2008 at the age of 66 (yes, he was smoker). To think that I finished his last book ‘Next’ few days before his death, yeah how mysterious.

The Girl Who Wanted to be God ?

March 9, 2009 at 11:45 pm | In Copy & Paste, Ear Candy, Rojak Touché, Zippy Update | 2 Comments

Artiste : Manic Street Preachers

Title : The Girl Who Wanted to be God

There are no sunsets just silence
You could see that she was true and faithless
But see through the future and forget all the lies
Black out the words for the blind have eyes

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

There are times when you feel hopeless
Just for once for no-one else we are blameless
The dawn is still breaking its heaven is so high
She told the truth, told the truth and then she lied

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

Hold me she said love me to death

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God

I am the girl who wanted to be God
I am the girl who wanted to be God


I pulled something random again, I love randomness, lol. The song was inspired from the title of chapter one in Anne Stevenson’s, ‘Bitter Fame: A life of Sylivia Plath’. Sylvia Plath is a poet (author of the Ariel poems) who explored holocaust imagery. She committed suicide on February 11th, 1963. Anyway, only now I just realised this song may intended as indirect sarcasm to this controversial poet. FYI my sister bought Manics album which included this song 11 years ago, yeah I know I’m such a slow-mo.

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