Sherlock.

There's another show I think you should watch (it seems like I have an awful lot of opinions when it comes to Shows I Think More People Should Watch). It's called Sherlock, and it's a 21st century reboot of the classical Sherlock Holmes stories (which are quite brilliant too).

It's watching an extraordinarily smart man being very quick and smart on the telly. It also has the advantage of being a very smart detective drama - none of those Hong Kong drama rubbish, even I know who the killer is the first episode. And none of those Midsummer Murders stuff laden with cliches that manages to both bore and irritate me (or maybe it's bore, thus irritate me). This show has lovely, well-crafted crimes.
Sherlock Holmes' thinking process fascinates me.
It's also very aesthetically pleasing - they either have a very good budget or a very good designer (what do you call those people? Definitely not designers, but it'll have to do).
So it's a show with good cases, Sherlock Holmes fascinates me, and it's quite pleasing on the eye. Good reasons to love a show.

Update: a myriad of sources to watch Sherlock.
Alternatively, if you have AXN Beyond, watch out for it, because a while back, little snippets of cute animations that appear on the left hand side of your tv screen while you're watching normal AXN, taunted me with the fact that Sherlock is airing on their special channel.

To-Buy list, #1.

I should probably write a To-Buy list, but I'm never comfortable with writing a physical one (I don't like unproductive, arbitrary rules; or timetables either. Or writing a real journal. It's one of those things).

I should really remember to buy:
- one of those short nylon stocking thingies, to wear with the Oxford Shoes.
(huh, I realised I made my Oxford Shoes a special sort of noun. You know, instead of my oxford shoes, it's now the Oxford Shoes, capitals and all. But it really is something.)

I most definitely have more things I really should be buying, but I forgot what they are. See why I need a to-buy list?

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[This is after a period of a few hours] I remember what I wanted to remind myself to remember to buy/check out: Alain de Botton/Wodehouse's books in Kinokuniya.
Lovely.

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[This is after a period of few days] Get a set of coloured pens too.

Today I:

Did laundry!
Messed with the Bill Bryson book a bit.
Spent hours playing with the Tony Buzan memory thing.
Went to the night market (although it's a lie when they call it a night market - we went at 8 and most of the shops are packing up?)
Stumbled upon the US' Foreign Service Department's language manuals uploaded onto the internet, and started learning Arabic.
Watched a lot of Qi in between. And being a Chinese drill sargent for my brother by asking him what Chinese characters mean randomly throughout the day.

(why Arabic? Because a light of enthusiasm sparked in me when I saw an Learn Arabic book a while back. Because it's more unorthodoxed than fucking French, which I refuse to learn because all those mushy shallow types gush on about how romantic it is. Because I'm intrigued by the Middle East. It's also practical, but I'm also motivated by people's potential reaction when I tell them I'm picking up Arabic.

Next up - German and Japanese. I know, Japanese is as typical, but about half of the characters are Chinese characters, which I know anyway, so I assume I'll be able to cut steps.)

Today I:

Read on and spent 3 timeless hours reading/studying Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything.
Did a bit of work on the CSS3.
Prevaricated quite considerably (as in waste time, not as in lied.)
Watched a most interesting documentary on Afghanistan.
Watched a most interesting Anthony Bourdain episode on Saudi Arabia.
Watched a most interesting documentary about...salt.

(Middle Eastern countries now top my to-go list, although it would be difficult.)

From: Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything.

'[Atoms] are also fantastically durable. Because they are so long-lived, atoms really get around. Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you. We are each so atomically numerous and so vigorously recycled at death that a significant number of our atoms - up to a bllion for each of us, it has been suggested - probably once belonged to Shakespeare. A billion more each came from Buddha and Genghis Khan and Beethoven, and any other historical figure you care to name. (The personages have to be historical, apparently, as it takes the atoms some decades to become throughly redistributed; however much you may wish it, you are not yet one with Elvis Presley.)

So we are all reincarnations - though short-lived ones. When we die, our atoms will disassemble and move off to find new uses elsewhere - as part of a leaf or other human being or drop of dew.'

There you have it - the poetry that is life.
You do not have to believe in the divine to know that the world, is an amazing place.

(and although this is not as apparent out of context, but this thing that seems like soapy poetry, is true and does make sense)

What I did today #2:

Yesterday I:

Finished watching Wonderfalls.
Started learning CSS.
Resumed watching Qi.

Today I:

Watched Stuart Little (how could I missed Hugh Laurie after watching Stuart Little repeatedly when I was little? No connection at all to that man who acts in House. I was shocked when I spotted him in it. As one of the leads.)
Went out for dinner (Yes, a 600-ringgit dinner no one was really satisfied with. Food was very Chinese-posh, but not very nice.)
Went shopping and bought a bunch of...stationaries.

What I did today #1

Today I:

Learnt what's XHTML.
Started watching Wonderfalls.
Watched Gregory House crash a car into an ex-lover's house, and emphatised, besides completely understanding why.