April 01, 2005

Print to Screen

" I decided to give Grace's body to Rosa Leightman - even down to her smallest, most idiosyncratic features, including the childhood scar on her kneecap, her slighly crooked left incisor, and the beauty mark on the right side of her jaw."

Oracle Night by Paul Aster

If I hadn't known better, I swear the author was describing me. heh.

I got the scar on my kneecap when I was thrown off my bicycle and landed on dried dog shit. Those hard dried things scraped the skin off my kneecap and I had to boldly cut the dangly bits off with a pair of scissors. (eeew factor = 8!). As for the slightly crooked left incisor, it's all the result of having no space in my mouth. Those who know me would know that the whole front top teeth are kinda 'pushed in' ala Billy Corgan. So it's no surprise that the incisors aren't exactly straight either. And the beauty mark, aka tahi lalat. It's a mole lah! MOLE! I wouldn't call it a beauty mark cos it's at the jaw, and it can hardly be seen. Unless of course I pull up the skin from my jaw and then the beauty mark will be at my right cheek. heh.

Kay kay, print to screen moment.

Hallmark's gonna show The Five People You Meet in Heaven! I watched the snippets last night, and it's really how I imagined it to be. Everything. I remember when I was reading it I'd imagined how everything would look like. Even his wife. Even the fairground that he worked at. And it looked exactly the same in the show (the snippets, lah).

Anyway, I first came across Mitch Albom's work when I watched the screen version of Tuesdays with Morrie, starring Hank Azaria and the late Jack Lemmon (excellent choice of cast, I might add).

I cried. Like nobody's business.

I wasn't even intending to watch the show, I was channel surfing when I kept going back to that channel and it took me away. I mean I'm a sucker for this kinda shows. Y'know, human goodness and stuff like that. And it's a true story somemore so yah lah I cried. Back then, I didn't even know it was originally a book. Then, like years later, I went to a bookstore and I saw a book with the title Tuesdays with Morrie and I was like is that the same show I watched? Bought it, bought Five People as well. And lemme tell u something...the book made me cry too. Cos it's just so heartwarming.

Have you read a good book lately?

Recommend me some..I've run out of books to read. I'm one of those who get attracted to nice covers. I might just be missing out on really good books with not-so-nice covers. Yah, I'm shallow that way.

luv, tash 10:34 AM