Then Again…
Thursday, May 4th, 2006 @ 16:12
… I should be happy. After all, Jun Wei bought me my first Billabong t-shirt. We were actually shopping for shirts for him when he spotted that shirt. Turns out that it was the last piece and it was one size too small for him. So he placed it on me and said, “Hey! It looks nice on you.”
So he got it for me and I was like a kid having my chocolate cake
I went back to Kinokuniya today hoping to exchange my BLEACH volume 12 for something else. Thank goodness they gave me the okay! I wanted to get Rurouni Kenshin volume 3 but there wasn’t any stock. So I went through the whole store at the Takashimaya outlet and finally decided to settle for Robert Frost: Selected Poems (after considering X-Men Ultimate Guide and Neil Gaiman’s novels).
I peeled off the plastic wrapping and removed the price tag before opening the book to the contents page.
The book did not contain Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. As a comfort, at least it had The Road Not Taken.
Oh, I like that, “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, too! Have you ever heard of Garrison Keillor? He had a funny version of this poem on his show once.
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
My little horse must think it queer
To stop without a farmhouse near
Between the woods and frozen lake
The darkest evening of the year.
He gives his harness bells a shake
To ask if there is some mistake.
The only other sound’s the sweep
Of easy wind and downy flake.
The woods are lovely, dark and deep.
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.