Creepy but cute

I'm a fan of all things cute and creepy. The best is probably a conglomerate of both. So, I've compiled a list of such things to be excited about, in honour of a new month!


Melanie Martinez's Cry Baby

I've always been a huge fan of Melanie Martinez ever since I saw her on The Voice some years ago. While I thought Dollhouse was pretty cool, I think her new album Cry Baby is just a kind of ecstasy.
My favourite tracks are 'Cry Baby', 'Carousel', 'Tag, You're It', 'Pity Party' and 'Mrs. Potato Head'.

Melanie even posted on her Insta that the physical album is actually a storybook!

A video posted by Melanie Martinez (@littlebodybigheart) on Aug 13, 2015 at 6:53pm PDT

As soon as this baby hits stores over here, you know I'll be there!



Ransom Riggs' Library of Souls 

Now this is a thing that's been on my 'THINGS TO BE PUMPED FOR' list for oooh - maybe a year and a half?
Library of Souls is the last book of the Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children series, and it is mind-numbing to know that you'll have to wait a year or two for a book to be published, and take just a couple of days to read through it before having to wait yet ANOTHER year for the next book.

I've done my time, and the book's scheduled to be released at the end of the coming month!

This is so exciting for me, next to the movie adaptation! Which brings us to the next point:

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - The movie 

As if the news of the book becoming a movie was not excitable enough, I also got wind that my favourite director is taking up the project! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, Tim Burton will be directing the movie! This is incredibly amazing, because as soon as I'd read the book, I knew he'd be perfect for a movie adaptation.

A photo posted by Ransom Riggs (@ransomriggs) on Jul 28, 2015 at 10:43am PDT

Ransom Riggs actually posts many sneak peeks at the movie, and posts vlogs with Tahereh Mafi about working with Tim Burton! If this photo alone, of a giant carrot doesn't peak your intrigue, I don't know what would.



A Series of Unfortunate Events - The TV series

So I was telling my bookish friend how I thought about re-reading Lemony Snicket's series, when she interrupted me in an almost unrecognizable squeaky pitch, "NETFLIX! IT'S GONNA BE A TV SHOW!"
Needless to say, I joined in the high-pitched squealing, because the Baudelaire children.

The trailer, though only fan-made, has got me jumping up and down!

Happy National Day!

In honour of Merdeka day, I'm posting a poem I wrote for cultural diversity for a school as a favour for a friend, sometime ago.

I isn't technically patriotic, but hey, national spirit and world cultural diversity go hand in hand, don't they?

A red hibiscus sprouts 
In scarlet glory in East Malaysia,
A cherry blossom blooms beautifully
In Japan's rooted trees,
A colourful collection of orchids grow in floral fantasia west of Hawaii,
A field of tulips flourish in rows on the countryside of Holland

Beautiful these flowers do grow,
Though different,
All are magnificent,
As they sway with the wind to and fro

People all across the oceans,
Are different in our notions,
And beliefs and cultures and motions,
But are all beautiful and unique creations

Like flowers, we differ
In the way each of our petals are arranged 
In the way our colours shine under the sun
In the way our leaves sway in the breeze

There is strength and wonder,
In our cultural diversity,
We should not be put asunder,
But instead band together to overcome adversity

We stand uniquely as different colours
But stand united as one
Meeting at an intersecting point 
An array of colours through a prism

The flash of a kimono's silk in the sun 
The billowing of a baju kurung and
The sanguine sway of the saree in the wind
The clanking of clogs near the windmill

Greetings are exchanged in every corner 
Each with a different lilt and intonation 
Konichiwa, howdy, how d'you do,
Bonjour, aloha, ahlan wasahlan

The swaying coconut trees of Hawaii welcome your stay
The sun kissed sand softens as you cross Saudi Arabia
The snowflakes of Switzerland land gently on your skin a surprise
The smell of croissant greet you as you arrive in France

Diversity extends its hand in all places
Malaysia is no exception
Its sundry and colourful collection of people 
Rejoicing in indifference at their differences

Diversity runs in its entirety in Malaysia 
Where one may find delicious dishes
In every turn
Nasi Lemak in one stall, muruku in another

The smells of Indian spices mix with the sleek aroma of Chinese delicacies
The Malay gerai serve national tastes influenced by
Hands of friends of mixed ethnicities

Cultural diversity lives where it is made allowed to
So hand in hand do we join 
Putting aside our differences and embrace our diversity 
In love and longevity.

She says she's a rebel but she's way too sentimental

So sometime in the last three months, I've inherited a lovely white bookshelf for my room the width of five people. Thus I'd taken the liberty of cleaning and organizing the said bookshelf, when I realised, "I have too much clutter, goshdarn it!"

I had so many other books I wanted to get, and yet I hadn't much space left to welcome them. I decided it was time to say goodbye to some of the books. Thanks to the influence of some of my more financially shrewd bookish friends, I started to open a Carousell account to sell off some of the books that I may not have enjoyed that much personally. *squints at Looking for Alaska*

You can find me here!

title; Crazy Beautiful by Andy Grammer ♥

Birthday Book Haul

So last month I turned nineteen years old, and this is when it hit me that I was an adult. Supposedly.
The slow and dreadful realisation that I had to start adulting when I couldn't adult was alarming.
So what did I do?
Escape, of course!

This year, I was gifted many books, and I also spent my birthday money on some more, so this is probably (haha definitely) my largest book haul to date.
I got a total of 16 books this month!

So the beautiful books I'm adding to my shelf are:

• Peter Pan by J M Barrie
• Cress by Marissa Meyer
• The Tell Tale Heart and other stories by Edgar Allan Poe
• The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson
• Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
• A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall
• A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
• The Rosie Project by Graeme C Simsion
• Landline by Rainbow Rowell
• City of Bones by Cassandra Clare 
• Half Wild by Sally Green
• The Ocean At The End of The Lane by Neil Gaiman
• Royal Wedding by Meg Cabot
• The Fangirl's Guide to The Galaxy by Sam Maggs
• Flowers in the Attic by Virginia Andrews
• The School For Good and Evil by Soman Chainani
• The Last Letter From Your Lover by Jojo Moyes

I've wanted these books for so long now, and am so excited to read them once my internship ends (soon, my little precious ones)! A lot of them are written by my faves; Poe, Rowell, Cabot, Meyer and Gaiman, but a lot of them are new authors who wrote highly acclaimed debuts, so I'm super pumped to find new loves this year.

In addition to these things of wonder, I also got non-bookish things too!