Vacation from reality DOWNERS

You know I always say that fantasy is a vacation from reality?
Like, reading your favourite book when your mom's nagging you on the condition of your sad, messy room?
Or watching an awesome spy flick on the telly to soothe your anger after receiving your results for your first major exam?
Or better yet, listening to My Chemical Romance's I don't love you song at a formal function of your dad's when you know no one at all except all those old people - the kind who pinches your cheeks & croon on how much you've grown?

A ticket from reality.
But lately it seems that now fantasy isn't letting us escape from the harsh Real World anytime soon.
Or maybe it's just me.

#1 = Paradise Kiss
See, yesterday, I was totally glued to the MacBook bcoz I was uploading the whole series of that anime show, Paradise Kiss.
& the ending was not at all SATISFYING.

Seriously. It STINKED. In the end, Yukari didn't go with George but married Hiro.

Hiro. Gakk!
They said that it's better to read the manga then watch the anime.

So, you know what that means.
I've got a new collection to start obsessing over.

Believe me, my witnesses (or is the word "victims" more suitable?) have suffered enough over my constant protests against the unfair & short ending - it was just hanging in mid-air.
It's what my mom called an open-ending.
Where you get to just assume what happened in the end.

I hate that. Really. Stories which just leave you sitting at the edge of your chair.
I prefer more straight-forward endings. Not stupid "& they all live happily ever after".
But after what I've been through - not in life, of course. I mean the fantasy - it's waay better.


#2 - Princess Diaries After Eight
Yes, I've got the book. I'm sorry to say this, you know, on the Internet & all but...

WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE?????????????????????
Maybe I'm not used to Meg Cabot's stories to just be hanging in mid-air. Sure.
Or maybe I'm more happy when the heroine gets with her dream guy.

Either way, I can't find it acceptable to just say that Mia BROKE UP with SOMEONE - a day before he LEFT FOR JAPAN FOR A WHOLE FREAKING YEAR... OR MORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! - & went with JP!
JP - the guy who hates corn in his chilli.

& the fact that she had her first bite of MEAT in her 10 years!!!!!!!
& also that she actually put her "PRECIOUS GIFT" up for MICHAEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You can't leave me hanging here!!!!

I swear, when I get back to Kinokuniya, the bookstore, I'm gonna drive those salespeople until they'd have a strike of psycho-Meg Cabot fans terrorizing them or something.


This is withering my already-shrivelled up romantic of mine. Seriously.
Now I'm on Writer's Block for all three of my The Opposite Twins, The Teen Dillemma Story & most definitely The Egypt Affair.

Those sources of entertainment were supposed to inspire me! Like, Mia & Michael went for a walk in the park or another one of those Star Wars movie marathon $5 a movie thing.
Not a break-up & she left with her just-friend GUY friend!
GAKKKK!!!!!
Believe me, I'm having enough of THAT stuff on my plate in reality.

#3 - the last of the Harry Potter book
I know it's not fair to put the blame on JK Rowling just yet - the book hasn't even hit the shelves - but still. It's stressing me out that the dude's just gonna drop dead at the end - even if it's for "the greater good".
Future reminder : get 2 boxes of Kleenex by my side while I get my hands on this book.
Seriously.


There you have it. It's all off my chest now.
I feel better now - by 0.000001%

But don't think you'd heard the last from me. I'm still off to search for something that would not depress me or stress me, even.
Like I said, I've got enough of that in reality.