I've left this blog for half a month. (I was busy with homework and my own blog.) Now I'm back with my favourite author.

Everyone knows I read (this is past tense) a lot of Agatha Christie's books. And people have some strange opinions about detective stories, so they have strange opinions about my reading taste. This is a little Q&A.

Q1: How it all started?
A1: It started in Form 2, I believe. I think I've told this story to some people, but now I'm typing it up. At that time I was a Harry Potter fanatic. I read some theories online about Trelawney and something about 13 people dining in a table, one must die. So one day when I wandered in the school library, and saw a book called "Thirteen At Dinner", I borrowed it. It was so interesting I started to read all other of her books.

Q2: Why do you like the strange little man, Poirot?
A2: Because he's clever, I guess. But more because he's funny. He's so weird, proud of himself, sometimes pretends to be very foreign (he can act very British in fact), talks about "order and method", "little grey cells". And he and Hastings together is the funniest.

Q3: How many of her books have you read actually?
A3: I don't know myself. Sometimes I pick up a book and find the title/cover very familiar, but I'm just not sure whether I've read it. I'll have to be told about the plot. I'll count the total if I can, but many months ago I thought it was fifty-something.

Q4: Why don't you read her books now?
A4: Mainly because I'm too attached to the computer. I've no time for other things. And then I've nearly read every book I can borrow from the libraries. But yesterday I borrowed Poirot's Early Cases and I've started reading it. So I am still reading her books.

Q5: So you read detective stories from some other authors, right?
A5: Yeah, a number of others, from different genres of mystery/detective books. But no one of them is the same as Agatha Christie. Christie is still my favourite.

Q6: Aren't you crazy? Nobody wants to read those kind of bloody books.
A6: Well, I'm kinda numb about those things. Yeah, a body, or more often, bodies, very bloody and all that, but those things don't get to my mind. I'm quite unimaginative, you know.

That's all the Q&A. If you have any more questions, ask me.

Following Janice's post, I'm posting my list. Looking back at 2005...

1. Westlife - That's Where You Find Love
Same as Janice's. I really love this song. It's one of my favourites on the album.

2. Coldplay - Fix You
I bought this album (X&Y), so I have to choose something from it. Really a moving song.

3. The Veronicas - Nobody Wins
It's not the best from the album, I guess, but it sometimes comes into my mind, so it's good.

4. Kelly Clarkson - Because of You
I really love this. It says 2004, but it was a single in 2005, so it counts.

5. Anna Nalick - Breathe (2AM)
I don't really love this song, but I like it. I really want to know more about this artist, but I can't steal music.

6. Destiny's Child - Girl
It's a very cute song. The best of DC.

7. Westlife - Maybe Tomorrow
Can I have one more Westlife song? They're so good.

I have looked at everything in my library whose year is 2005. I don't have many 2005 songs. Now I have to look somewhere else.

8. Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
I don't even know what this song is about. But I like it all the same. Actually I usually don't pay attention to the lyrics when I listen to a song.

I can't go on. If that song is good I would remember it. So this is my list. Not 10 songs, I know.

Lastly, one special mention: Hilary Duff - Beat of My Heart
It's the worst song I've heard recently. Totally overrated. I hate the chorus.

A Pillow Case of Mystery. Wonder what it is? It's 施公奇案, according to TVB.com. Why do I want to blog a Chinese TV show? Because it has to do with Monk.

I watched it today, and the story was that a "monk" (I'm talking about the real kind of monk) stole some gold and he hid it in some books. They stole the idea from Monk! I can't find the episode at the moment, I'll add it here if I ever find it. In that episode, there was a man who stole some gold (here, copied) and he wanted to hide them. He melt the gold and mixed them in ink. He began to write a lot of nonsence books just to use up the ink, so people won't be able to find where he hid the gold (copied again, as you must have noticed). I didn't pay much attention about the books, so I didn't know what happened exactly, but I think it's almost the same.

How come, TVB, I've always known you're bad, but copy an idea from my favourite show? No way. You're so lame. Think of an original idea next time.

(It's the first post that isn't about music. That's good. We have a change.)

UPDATE: Janice said she's seen this idea for many many times. Well, I don't know. One thing's still true. TVB is lame.