speaking of music, this year's range of new holiday season releases isn't particularly abundant...
sarah mclachlan has released WINTERSONG, a full christmas album that's nominated for a grammy (i was like what??!!)
on the american idol front:
Elliott Yamin remakes THIS CHRISTMAS, and the video of him in the recording studio is amazing...
Katharine McPhee redeems herself after the horrible first single off her yet-unreleased album, OPEN TOES, by doing a very good cover of Oh Come All Ye Faithful...

was at practice for SALVATION IS HERE last night and tonight, and its been really challenging, coz its hard to maintain the energy and intensity required...

met darius after 7 months today as he just came back from the states, and we went for lunch with cherry at taka's crystal jade la mian xiao long bao (i haven't been there in ages, so was craving the xlbs)
watched eragon after that at cine...
i was meant to catch it on boxing day with the 4/11 ppl, but i guess we'll have to watch another show... x)
its not bad all in all, but it lacks the poetry of LOTR and the appeal of harry potter...
the plot just jumps from one important event to the next with minimal character development...
but, as is very in vogue in hollywood, there's gonna be a sequel coz of john malkovich's really cool last scene where he reveals his own dragon...

lovers at a great divide,
jlc.