And you're saying....?

So today was the first day Neil Gaiman gets to Singapore and the first thing he does is go to Mediacorp for 2 interviews, one with Primetime Morning and another with Hamish Brown on Gold 90.5.

And we'd all been waiting for this moment to arrive, partly because it means the festival is finally coming to an end, but mainly because we've all been so excited to have Gaiman come to Singapore. A lot of preparations have been made, a lot of people were looking forward to this and I am one of them.

Meeting Gaiman is everything they make it out to be, he is funny, witty, lovely and charming. He is everything you want in a writer. He is funny. But we all already know that. I remember reading Good Omens (by Neil Gaiman & Terry Prechett) and thinking: 'These are really funny men!'

Anyways, I am glad that I got to meet Mr Gaiman at least once in my lifetime. It has been a great experience and he signed American Gods for me! Another reason to spend money on books: The award winning writer is RIGHT HERE, and if I bought a book, he'll sign it and I will have an autographed copy!!

Of course, that is the reason everyone else buy books - right right right??

You sign my book, yes?

At the risk of being seen as 'unprofessional' I bought a copy of The Proper Care of Foxes by Wena Poon, and very unabashedly ambushed Wena and asked her to sign my book. Which she did. :)

I mean I bought this, instead of Lions in Winter because Wena said Foxes is a book for fighters. When she first met me and after I shared with her my story about bigtallwhiteguyIusedtoworkwithatthebar she said, 'You are a fighter, and fighters must write.' Which is probably the largest inspiration to me all year. (And we are already in October, so you know how much this means to me..)

And incidentally, one of the stories in the book was set in Palo Alto, and its about an lesbian Asian barista. How can one not love it.

The Proper Care of Foxes, you have to read it.