frivolity and superficiality are underrated

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:12:58 GMT

Hi again!

Sorry I'm kinda spamming the board a little.
I realize that I would also appreciate if people in CWRU or who have been to CWRU could recommend which hostel to apply for please.

Thank you!

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:26:36 GMT

i've been up since 330am (thanks! nat and robin!)
and all i can say is that
OMG I WANT A CTRL+F FUNCTION FOR BOOKS.

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:52:49 GMT

I am struggling like mad to churn out a ts/lit essay and honestly, omg i really need to start reading again.
I no longer have the ability to write essays. something that i've taken pride in being able to do rather easily, especially lit ones.
but now, it's just omg.

resolution: after my exams, read a book a day or every 2 days.

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:17:05 GMT

omg i want to go out.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:50:23 GMT

omgomgOmgOmg ok so i'm supposed to be doing work
but i got watching the mentalist instead which i now pretty much love cause it's so improbable
but my mom came home and she asked me what i was doing so you know, i lied heh(: and said i was watching a show for a module i have and so i decided to make that lie into a half truth and go on youtube and actually search out films that i'm supposed to watch. WHAT HAPPENED INSTEAD WAS THIS FANTASTIC SURPRISE

ok so i'm not much of a youtube-r and this was the first time i clicked on those featured videos thingamajig and

OMG I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS!!!!!!!
THEY ARE AWESOME
and
SO CUTE
and
AWESOME!
plus their name is just beyond FUN! to say!

please go youtube POMPLAMOOSEMUSIC!
i would totally put like every video i've watched so far up here cept i dont even know how to put one up but yeah
so far i've listened to single ladies, la vie en rose(LOVELOVELOVE), favourite things and hail mary
it's SO CUTE!
omg i am happy(:

ok back to the mentalist(:
which i think i'm only loving cause the guy's semi weird and quirky like the guy in LIFE (which they scrapped and i am SAD about that but oh well) and like well HOUSE! (which i have stopped liking) and BONES!(whom i still love) oh and PSYCH (the show i always somehow or other come back to just cause it's funny)

and after mentalist i SWEAR i'll do work

hello EN3242 and TS2239 and oh right TS3235 too.
and i have to go shop for ship's present tomorrow. like ALONE. sigh
oh well my own fault. ladeedum
BUDDY IF YOU READ THIS TELL ME WHAT YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY!
and SIIIIIIIGH NRSCC or MSRCC or whatever the place is is FAR AWAY!

annnnd that's about it(:

OH AND DEE HOW'RE YOU GOING??? you didnt reply my sms!!!
CHARIS is ship really picking you up from sim?

hmmmm i wonder if y'all will even read this in time. hmmm i shld msg y''all
ah mentalist first, everything else later(:

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:51:35 GMT

I have NEVER ever wanted a pair of nike shoes.
but OMG I WANT THESE!!!

Edward Scissorhands by YoaKustoms

omg i am in love.

in other news, i LOVELOVELOVE stephi and nat even though they're mean and conspire against me(:

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:59:00 GMT

ok complainy post
omg i only just finished my essay on religion. a mere 1500-2000 word essay took me like eons and eons apart from prior research, i literally spent like 10pm-4am just writing and then i got so stuck i stopped and slept till like 7 and snoozed my alarm for like ever before waking up and doing the damn thing again and i'm not even sure what it is i've handed up. i cant believe i was stumped by religion. it's like so easy to talk about but so damn difficult to write a proper paper on cause there's like crap evidence and one has to read SOfuckingmuch omg. i'm damn tired and i need to read plays. omgkillmenow I DONT WANT TO GO TO SCHOOL. tired. tired tired tired
i want friday to end now so i can just meet nat and stephi tonight AHHHHH
and so i can go out on sat
and i so wanna be able to go out on sun but i cantttt raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
i wanna club:(
i want recess week to be a proper break but it wont be:(
hello godot i know you're waiting for me
hello 3235 i'll deal with you too.
sheesh school work sucks.

ok i will stop procrastinating
i mean look where that got me.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
i hope the meeting gets cancelled but i doubt it SIIGHHHH

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:24:06 GMT

http://www.humanclock.com/
cute site

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:43:29 GMT

omg parents and technology DO NOT WORK.

what happened ...

my dad has an iphone and since he has the unlimited data plan, i used his phone to check my email while we were out.
me being me then just you know pressed the home button without logging out of gmail after i was done
next thing i know, a few hrs later my dad is exploring his iphone functions and while on safari, saw that it was my gmail and so he tried to get rid of the page, not knowing how, he then proceeded to start DELETING ALL MY MAIL (LIKE WTF??) cause he didnt want to have all my info there. SHEESH. so i had to zoom to my com and undelete all that he deleted. my dad is like fantastic.

sheesh.

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 12:47:12 GMT

so i commented on pee's blog with this

we will get high on US air, candy, alcohol, hot(hopefully) guys, yucky motels, crazy ass speeds on the highways, getting lost together, DISNEYLAND,fried chicken and corn bread(please read this part with a fake down south accent), SHOPPING!!! (nat you'll totally have to fall in love with shopping while there!), etc etc etc.

and she posted bout how i'd said that
and seeing it again just suddenly made me go OMG I WANNA BE IN THE STATES LIKE NOW!

so.
CWRU hurry on up and reply me with a yes.

Sun, 30 Aug 2009 14:47:01 GMT

I have to read three sisters by anton chekov
I started it already
but
IT'S SO BORING!!! omg i want to die.
so i've been doing EVERYTHING to avoid it.
watched leverage! yay! omg is it me or is eliot like getting hotter?
and then i site hopped
and then i like walked arnd my room
checked my email
i need to reply the ps1101e tutor cause i was so brilliant and FORGOT that i had tutorial. sheesh.
i have to watch a 1920s film and do a writeup on it and then do my part in the report on this guy called Ernst Lubitsch. sad name ah? i'll bet you that in s'pore he'd have been called you bitch.
i have to read the damn readings
i have to do alot of things
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

on a way more awesome note,
WE CELEBRATED NAT'S BIRTHDAY!
and all went well! yay! our surprise totally worked out!!!

ok so yar
I still have to read three sisters

oh oh oh!!!
and i know that the fact that my dad has to keep flying all over is shitty BUT it means like (at least) monthly duty free for me! and yeah i got stuff! hahahah yay(:

ok three sisters
i will now come and tackle you
*pervy nod

ok i am like so going off now
mmmhmmm i am
ok gone.

NAT HAPPY BIRTHDAY AGAIN!
omg i think i've said/written/iced happy birthday at least 10 times man
i ish a lubs choo beyonds belief

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:33:41 GMT

sometimes i wish i was a kooky old man.
like him

oh and this pic is taken off the sartorialist website

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 15:38:48 GMT

doors open at 6
some dj from butter plays at 7
gaga is supposed to come on at 8
so what time should we go???
goodness knows.

anyhoo first day of school
can i just say that i made it to the lecture theatre at EXACTLY 2:00PM on my phone but the stupid LT's clock showed 2:03PM prft.
but whatev i'm just super happy i wasnt beyond late and that ifinally took the damn public bus 165 then 95. not to knock our transport system but daaaayum having to wait for 2 buses just aint my cup of tea. especially coupled with my kind of luck. which for today was actually pretty darn good so all's well!

vannie i hope you werent too late! hahahahaha
though if you're lecture was anything like mine than i hope that you were at least half an hour late!
i mean sheesh man the guy managed to babble on about admin stuff for an hour! a whole freaking hour man! there aint enough admin to fill that time and he repeated himself so many times i wanted to stab him!

on a good note, i finally met kish!!!!!! and kish with anna! so it's like good old times
I SUPER MISS PGP CAN! omgomgomg i miss pgp so much it aint funny! argh.

oh and i met gloryglory quite contrary too! yayness
and RAH her okto show is only coming out in january!!! when (if all goes well) i'll be in the states! darnnn so wanted to catch her on okto hahaha

hope my cousin gets well enough by tomorrow to go for ladygaga!
the silly woman went to bali and got so sunburnt she got a fever. MORON. hahahah
if she aint well then does anyone know of anyone who wants to go watch ladygaga?

hols in 10mins

Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:00:06 GMT

HELLO HELLO

here's my hols condensed so that i can come back to it and read it and be reminded of what went on (somewhat)

Singapore Street Festival Emcee
Short and Sweet Singapore 09
ermm and all the meetups hahahaha
vannie's birthday!
spn sleepover (btw nat i watched spn with my 2 sisters and my dad joined in hahahaha)

erm
ok i'm done
yeah i suck at posting
but i just needed something to do cause damnit school's starting and just ARGH

cant wait to watch gaga on wed even though i'm not digging her anymore cause she literally has gone gaga i mean goodness she really is insane now no? the kermit the frog outfit? like EEEEWWW the attitude? sheesh and of course her claiming that she's a hermaphrodite? goodness, speechless man.

RESTLESS

Sun, 10 May 2009 16:00:22 GMT

daaamn it's been 12 weeks since i last posted here. OOPS hahaha

anyway, I'M FREE!!!!

and i'm RESTLESS

i should technically go to sleep cause i amafter all sleepy but im just waaaaay to restless to do so. ARGH. RESTLESS.
i moved back from pgp today but ALL my stuff's in the living room. argh i need to purge my room and reorganise everything so that my stuff from pgp can fit into here without squeezing me out.

This week is moving week man like majorly so. today i moved back from pgp, tomorrow i'll be going back to pgp to help kish and nana as well if she needs me to and then on wed i'm gonna help my grandparents paint the new place and move too. MOOOOVING week y'all.

priority no 2, DRIVING sheesh.

on another note, i wanna go out and get high!!!!!! so date me out! though i doubt that anyone actually reads my lj anymore given how i've completely fallen off the face of the earth(:

ok i'm gonna get off my ass now and try to convince my dad to send me to pgp tomorrow morn.

bye loves!
all you people who still read this(:

WATCH THIS please.

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:55:12 GMT

hey all
i realise that it's been a month since i've written and honestly i wouldnt have come to blog had it not been for this www.youtube.com/user/CourageCampaign .

I hope that on this Valentine's Day eve y'all will take the time out to open your minds and spread the word.

Love,
christine

p.s. will be in shanghai from the 21st to 27th of feb.

and i do so love resolutions that are easy to keep

Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:48:25 GMT

so see i'm here again! totally on the way to fulfilling at least one of my resolutions[the totally redundant one]
so i semi cleared my room today and i'm super super super proud of that fact cause yes though my room always seems to have a semblance of tidiness, underneath it all is a black hole's worth of junk junk and more junk. so purging commenced. and it paused with me giving my study table to my baby sis and now i have a space in my room that's just odd. ahahaha.
what brought this on then? well, i'm moving back to pgp on sunday I CANT WAIT TO SEE THE GIRLS! but i sooooo do not want school to start. RAH.
anyway i'm gonna be insane and go check in clean my room at 8am[cause i'm a spoilt brat who needs the help of her maid. yes i am that bad BUT hey i totally do stuff too k plus you cant expect me to do it all by myself i had ade and godma the last time! my immediate family members are even more hopeless that me i mean the last time my mom dropped of the cleaning agents with zilch rags and such to clean with. so yes 8am. I WILL WAKE UP] i still have more stuff to pack up though so SIGH procrastination is bad for one's health. i've gotta meet ellie thanes nit and ash tomorrow at 11. wth have i gotten myself into? 11am eh! and then it's on to kenneth's! for guitar hero and pizza! so cannot wait(: unfortunately i might just have to leave like SUPER early cause i have to go for sat evening mass[sob] then it's back home to pack again and get ready for pgp the next day.

I WATCHED IP MAN TODAY! yes this is actually the main point of this post. OMG it's fantastic! i miss watching these gongfu type shows!!! my dad loves them so i basically grew up with jet li, jackie chan, sammo hung etc movies. bruce lee is a tad too old for me so havent actually watched his shows. but hello ip man is totally worth the cash man GO CATCH IT NOW!!!! the fight scenes were AWESOME! the stupid jackie chan and jet li collaboration is NOTHING compared to this. NOTHING. ip man was really good. i mean the guy's acting was a tad weird but still his wife is really pretty! and the storyline is just such a classic and is made all the better by it being based on his real life. ah i do love the wellmade chinese gongfu movies!

so for now GOOD NIGHT all!

oh my goodness gracious me is that who i think it is?

Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:24:53 GMT

yes it's me!!!! ahahahah [gosh i do think i'm hilarious dont you?]

anyhoo, here i am, back again after like an entire semester but hey who's counting eh? OBVIOUSLY i cannot keep resolutions since at the begining of the lj i had said that i would update at least every fortnight. but oh well i'm gonna try again(: on top of that i'm making new year resolutions!

1. go for EVERY lecture[yes even that 8am englit one]
2. increase my total lack of stamina [how the hell am i gonna do my voice mod] [which btw i think only has 2 first year students in a class of 22] [im screwed]
3. just cause i like odd numbers, SAVE money! omg like MAJORLY need to do this. and try to find a job. anyone know of any good ones? NOT tuition[though i just may succumb]

ok so enough of that. on to more exciting things i have discovered a LOVE LOVE LOVE for josh groban not so much for his music though he does has a great voice but because he's DAMN FUNNY! i LOVE youtube-ing him! yes after like eons and eons and eons, i have finally become a youtube-er! applause please. and it all started cause of a british game show my sis introduce to me "nevermind the buzzcocks" if you do watch it, start from season 22 and go backwards cause season 22 will be the most relevant of an already not so relevant show since we in s'pore do seem to get almost only US entertainment. which is such a shame cause brits are hilarious! you wont know most of the ppl on there but they are funny so do check it out if you've got the time[which now that school's started/starting i'm sure ya'll do] and also from that show, i've learnt of "cage the elephant" i like like like! their happy sounding rock!

ok that's enough for now
till i blog again, i leave you with a book rec [like i haven't recommended enough stuff] "goodnight mister tom" by michelle magorian. it's actually a children's book but hey i loved it anyway(: and at least i'm reading again! everybody say yay!

peace out! waahahahah hippie style yo(:

pajamas

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:40:40 GMT

i have soci tomorrow
mtt
and i've got nm to do
i should be sleeping to wake up early tomorrow to study.
instead i'm waiting for my pink nails to dry(:

cause i'm secretly a bookworm(:

Sat, 20 Sep 2008 16:44:58 GMT

heh
cause i'm bored
and i wanna show off that i'm above average. heh.
of course this is probably above the average american adult and honestly from what i'm learning now that aint anything to really but proud of. but hey it is fun to think that you're above average ahahahah

The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read (uh, I took this to include books that I've read halfway, too).
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) (self-insert) Strike the books you've given up on ever finishing.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

Big Read

1. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
7. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
10. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks [i just finished the girl at lion d or and loved it]
14. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
18. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières
20. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J. K. Rowling
23. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling
24. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling
25. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien
26. Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch by George Eliot
28. A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
29. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
31. The Story of Tracy Beaker by Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
35. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice by Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion by Jane Austen
39. Dune by Frank Herbert
40. Emma by Jane Austen
41. Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
42. Watership Down by Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm by George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
48. Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom by Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
53. The Stand by Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
56. The BFG by Roald Dahl
57. Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer
60. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
61. Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
63. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough
65. Mort by Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton
67. The Magus by John Fowles
68. Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
69. Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett
70. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
71. Perfume by Patrick Süskind[love love love love love!]
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists by Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch by Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda by Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History by Donna Tartt
77. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses by James Joyce
79. Bleak House by Charles Dickens
80. Double Act by Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits by Roald Dahl
82. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
83. Holes by Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
85. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy [LOVE!]
86. Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
89. Magician by Raymond E. Feist
90. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather by Mario Puzo
92. The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel
93. The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine by Anya Seton
96. Kane and Abel by Jeffrey Archer
97. Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls in Love by Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie

34/100 read, 14/66 left waiting for their turn.

101. Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods by Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach by Alex Garland
104. Dracula by Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
109. The Day of the Jackal by Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum by Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾ by Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
115. The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game by Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls by Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
119. Shōgun by James Clavell
120. The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose by Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy
124. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs, and Full-Frontal Snogging by Louise Rennison
128. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession: A Romance by A. S. Byatt
130. The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
132. Danny, the Champion of the World by Roald Dahl
133. East of Eden by John Steinbeck
134. George's Marvellous Medicine by Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters by Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
137. Hogfather by Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-nine Steps by John Buchan
139. Girls in Tears by Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind the Scenes at the Museum by Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
144. It by Stephen King
145. James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile by Stephen King
147. Papillon by Henri Charrière
148. Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett
149. Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian
150. Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music by Terry Pratchett
152. Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant by Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement by Ian McEwan
155. Secrets by Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
158. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
159. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch by Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby-Dick by Herman Melville
162. River God by Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song by Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News by E. Annie Proulx
165. The World According to Garp by John Irving
166. Lorna Doone by R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late by Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions by M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches by Roald Dahl
170. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
171. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
172. They Used to Play on Grass by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby by Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
178. Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
181. The Suitcase Kid by Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens
183. The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner by George Eliot
185. American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
186. Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith
187. Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps by R. L. Stine
189. Heidi by Johanna Spyri
~~190. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence~~
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
192. Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
193. The Truth by Terry Pratchett
194. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett
198. The Once and Future King by T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
200. Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews

18/100 for this batch, with just 4/82 waiting in my book pile.

Type your cut contents here.

SSA LECT 4

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 06:29:45 GMT

because i'm bored during ssa lect and cause wanqian is stoning her life away and cause i still like striking things through, here's an update on my readings. i just know ya'll are all dying to know(:

READINGS

TS1101e
~~3rd week's~~ DONE!
~~4th week's~~ DONE!

SC1101e
~~1st week's~~ DONE!
2nd week's
3rd week's
4th week's

SSA1203
~~1st week's~~ DONE!
~~3rd week's~~ DONE!

NM1101e
still not done. wahahahhaah

daaaamn everytime i do this i realise that i didnt study as much as i thought. raaaah. depressing.

WAN QIAN IS NOT LOOKING AT MY LAPTOP. random. i'm bored and she's paying attention. hi ools. i know you're looking and laughing.

not only is the world not what it seems to be, it might also be different from what it is

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:19:57 GMT

just cause it makes me feel like i've done work
and
just cause it's fun to strike things out and write the word done(:

READINGS

TS1101e
~~3rd week's~~ DONE!
4th weeks's

SC1101e
~~1st week's~~ DONE!
2nd week's
3rd week's
4th week's

SSA1203
~~1st week's~~ DONE!
2nd week's
3rd week's
4th week's

NM1101e
not done al alllll wahahahahahah

so yes i feel like i've done work but the reality of just how little i've done has come crashing down. wahahaha. TERRIBLE! i'm gonna READ and READ and READ tomorrow and i WILL complete TS1101e's 4th week readings, SC1101e's 4th week's readings and SSA1203's readings! i will i will i will i will.

apart from all that, i shall put up a proper update soon(:
LOVE!

grow grow grow. STRESS

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:15:33 GMT

oh my how my hair has grown. ahahahahah

one

goodness this was taken on the day i shaved my hair. as you can see from the shawl my neck was DAMN COLD!!!!

two

this was i think a few weeks after. ahahah the pic with the 'lovely looking girl'.

three

and this was taken a few days back. more than a mth after shaving all my hair off!!
it's grownnnn but hasnt grown enough!!!!

ok that's the end(: just wanted to catalogue the progress!

happiness(:

Fri, 22 Aug 2008 20:25:50 GMT

ladeedum(:

am online now cause i'm pretty awake after showering. dumdeeeeeedum. shall go sleep soon though. it's amusing how people do not recognise me AT ALL without hair. it's both interesting to be practically anonymous and yet it makes one feel somewhat out of place. hmmmmm anyhoo night ya'll. love!

something to chew on

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:31:09 GMT

i have a TON of things to update but i've got a cluster meeting soon and i'm just plain lazy. heh.

Life and How to Survive It

Below is a speech to the graduating class of 2008 at NTU convocation ceremony last week by Adrian Tan, a litigation lawyer and the author of The Teenage Textbook. Read it! It's hilarious but very meaningful.

I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.

My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.

On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.

Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.

And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.

Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.

The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.

You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.

The good news is that they’re wrong.

The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.

I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.

You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.

Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.

Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.

That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.

If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.

What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.

Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.

What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.

Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.

The most important is this: do not work.

Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.

Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.

There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan "Arbeit macht frei" was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.

Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.

So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.

Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.

In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.

I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.

It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.

One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.

The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.

I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.

Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.

Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.

Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

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