neil gaiman!

... was UNREAL.
unexpected.

and AMAZING.

(thanks gecko! :DDDD for bestowing this once-in-a-lifetime chance upon me XD)

even though i can't call myself a true fan (i haven't read a lot of his stuff and don't own anything that is signable >< not like gecko ... after yesterday, and i'm also FAIL because I FORGOT TO BRING THE CAMERA T.T), neil gaiman is so cool!
everything he says comes out with style and is genuinely funny. and worthy to be put in a book or quoted and framed.

(NEIL GAIMAN at the signing session. sorry about the picture quality, i'm waiting for better photos.)

it felt really weird and surreal to sit there and see him, and think about his books. (somewhere in the recesses of my brain i was going nuts and going "is this really neil gaiman! it's really neil gaiman! omfgomfgomfgomfg!" and such.)

maybe it was surreal because it was so up close and ... down-to-earth and everything. (remember may'n? =.=)
he was just there and there were no mobs and at the signing his girlfriend was wandering around unharassed. so it was a very new experience to just run round the back to get a photo.
it was inspirational, though i don't exactly know how. but i enjoyed every single minute in vt!
(and i liked the crowd, it was a very civilised crowd.)

the signing queue was SO LONG (and misshalle was in it (!)) so i kind of gave up. 900 people! 2 hours for every 200! and i'd feel bad because people were toting their good omens and sandman around. but AHHH THE CHANCE SLIPPED THROUGH MY FINGERS TODAY! T.T


anyway this has made me determined to hunt down every single neil gaiman book in the libraries. (it's quite difficult, i've been trying for a long time.)


... everything i've said above does not do today justice.

i hope he comes back to singapore! and i hope such things happen more often. writers are such great people.

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by the way gecko got this for me. (and alot of class people too.) go see her post with the bit about the Poetry Proletariat Factory. this was from the word "jelly".


i like it a lot. the theme is interesting.
well, i actually understand it, for one. after experience with a lot of confusing and abstract poems in school.
i like poems with interesting spacing, for another. (haha i'm not a very literary person.)

poems should be used to delight and inspire, not to torture kids in school. /: that's how people lose interest in poems in the first place.

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Sunday, November 1, 2009 4:38 PM