Super Sunday!
woke up today feeling great! maybe i have found a way to spend it alone. it's been difficult for months. have been too used to spending sundays lazing around without a purpose. today - something different.

i have been tasked to write a ST supplement news report to be due on first wk of September. no, i'm not a journalist. ain't a reporter. but it excites me a lot when the webmaster broke the news to me on Friday: "gracie, i need you to write me an article featuring the upcoming Singapore Biennale 2006 and it will be featured on ST." "Straits Times?!?" i exclaimed. mr. webmaster teased as he continued, "yes...gracie you'll be famous overnight!?" "Right~!?" i chuckled.

well, knowing this makes me nervous, yet excited. mixed feelings. it's fulfilling my long forgotten childhood dream. have always borne the hopes of becoming a journalist one day when i was much younger, but the flames of hopes died off over time. never an opportunity to develop the skill of writing, even tho' gifted with the passion to express. now, a chance for me to conduct formal interviews and write an interesting (i hope) article. but, how to write? the first line is always hard to start.

wanted to get inspirations and ideas from magazines at the Orchard Library. i haven't been there for the longest time. i remembered reading books and listening to jazz music at one corner of the library during my holidays after A levels...and since then, i have never stepped in there again till today. perhaps i have lost interest in reading. today, as i returned to this place, i felt i have a new-found hobby! a renewed passion to sit down and get myself comfy in the serenity and spend some quiet time with my best companion - books.

anyway, ravaged through magazine shelves to look at how other writers position themselves when reporting events. admired at how journalists and writers flavoured their articles with humour and wit. i'd say writing magazines and reporting the news are quite different from writing a blog entry. i wished it could be as simple as blogging. i guess knowing that it's going to reach a wider group of audience means that the content and presentation have to be more attractive and captivating. i must say i had a lot of fun reading the magazines like Teenage & Female & Her World. the mags did capture my attention for the longest time. of cos, i spent the rest of my time browsing through travel guides and fictions. borrowed a load of them back...*smile*

indeed, i have a super sunday today! even though i spent it alone, for once i felt that singlehood isn't that bad afterall! ;)