Your love; it's soul captivating <3

25.2.07
Pulpy Girls and Party Scenes

No time to update properly, so here're 2000 words in the form of 2 cool ads (think a picture=1000 words):

I love the subtlety :)

Apparently this is done by a Singaporean company! Woots! See, not everyone is as dumb as Mr/Ms One-Less-Reason-to-Diet :)

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23.2.07
Kiddie Quicksand

Read this Noogler's Noogle 101, Google employees seem to have the most job satisfaction :D

Ahh.. hands up those who'd like a large vat of brightly-colored plastic balls at the basement of block H! imagine the bliss as you dive into it from level 1m :}

Labels: cool beans :)

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11:35 PM
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20.2.07

ooooohdrat bad timing BAD TIMING i'm hooked on Hana Kimi!
eeelllp! :S
disciplined i must be.

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19.2.07
hohum, would you like some gum?

ayyee! chinese new year break be badly spent. cant concentrate even if i'm suddenly inspired to get some work done cos it's sooo noisy! rahh andand the 肉干s are soooo tempting. eeellp!

OH FAINTS. i am sooo whiny :{

ah well. since math is too taxing, i'll do some lit instead :)

She could think of nothing more to say; but if he wished to converse with her, he might have better success. He stood by her, however, for some minutes, in silence; and, at last, he walked away.
...
‘Because you were grave and silent, and gave me no encouragement.’
‘But I was embarrassed.’
‘And so was I.’
‘You might have talked to me more when you came to dinner.’
‘A man who had felt less, might.’

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

P&P is the ultimate angst book. bahh. but it's the easiest thing to read when u're trying to hold on to ur sanity admist the incessant chatter of ur parents and their friends. :D (sorry elisa, The Unbearable Lightness of Being doesn't really cut it as light-reading.. looks like u wont be getting it back soonish :})
or alternatively, u could make more collages on photoshop :)

anyhow, looks like we're gonna have a family reunion at the end of this year in china! i'll be done with my A's, victor (cousin) will be done with his O's and his sister, PSLE. another cousin who's been in canada all this while will be back in hongkong then too :) lovely!

if i hear another 'you're so black!' comment i might.. uh.. 气得脸黑黑.

and yes, i do note the distinct lack of 'you've grown taller!' comments. hurumph. such brutal honesty.

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17.2.07
take, take, take it all!

<3 elisa to bits! :) babe u did a great job yah? despite the "fats (WAIT, WHAT FATS??) ahd tne murder ih tne swimmihg pool" ;) the 3k route was pretty.. exciting? haha! especially the botanical gardens leg. and ohmy the uphill was some killer. kept telling myself 'this must end somewhere, there's gonna be a downhill somewhere!' :) soo yup,

loves all around! :) and omggxx elisa your arms are humunginormous!!! and is that mr hippening-math-tutor i see in the bg?

anyways after take 5 (i took a week to figure out why 5.. :}) we went into town! had subway (crap i just rmbed that the cookie's still in my bag! :D) at lido before making our way to far east. havent been there in like 132242318 years! haha cos now when i'm orchard i usually head for wheelock or taka only. ahhh i really miss those times.. before tennis club starts on wednesdays, we used to go to far east for chicken rice, kfc, neoprints, window shopping, &c :) it was v v crowded today and the atmosphere's sort of changed. but the distinct stale air remains, they really should get better ventilators. :S ah well, one of the shops we visited was Crest, and i think we spent like a good 1hour in there? just plonked ourselves on the floor and started reading random books on dating and stuff. my book (Dateable?) was hilarious! ask, or go away :D elisa was very eager to get her manly hands on it, tsktsk! :}

hmm nice long break ahead! can catch up on sleep, music videos on youtube, uh.. and do more of that uh.. whatchamacalit? oh right school work.. yayyy! :)

I..
Why do you think we should suffer in silence?

[edit] oh yes! SAT results! :) 2070, 700+ for both critical reading and math, gg-ed for writing.. but i still wanna thank God :) for the first time, i could spot the careless mistakes before it was too late! haha. have a couple of months more to decide if i wanna take it again to improve the score for the writing component. hmmm.[/edit]

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16.2.07
it's a cool place and they say it gets colder

et- from the Lord my strength says:
nana, I doh't really care already so hvm
yangster; t-one-d! says:
yannn!! tnat's the spirit womah! wneeeee!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
wanana!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
I snall nide witn nahhan tomorrow! muanana!
yangster; t-one-d! says:
*lno* nahhan!!
yangster; t-one-d! says:
pihks
et- from the Lord my strength says:
lol we souhd like we nave a blocked hose!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
*cnoked pipe*
yangster; t-one-d! says:
nana! tnis is very fuh!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
yes! but nopefully I doh't really get a blocked hose or I drowh ahd die
yangster; t-one-d! says:
ennn! doh't ahynow say!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
on yarn norn. cnoi cnoi. lol you'll nave your 3km dasn ahd I'll nave my 100 metre dasn to tne toilet
et- from the Lord my strength says:
gggggggg wnat if we become dyslexic after tnis?
yangster; t-one-d! says:
we woht lan! dyslexics read nahhan as nahhan!
et- from the Lord my strength says:
really arn. but I still a bit scared. if hot very cohfused ahd start writihg my ns as hs and my hs as ns
et- from the Lord my strength says:
*ahd
et- from the Lord my strength says:
how I'm cohfused
yangster; t-one-d! says:
onmygoodhess this is fohcusing
et- from the Lord my strength says:
O.o I'm feelihg so lost how all your fault
yangster; t-one-d! says:
u started it lan! doht come ahd ahynow blame a rahdom 'scaped goat
yangster; t-one-d! says:
in case u diht get it, i meaht scape goat
et- from the Lord my strength says:
nanana on fihe

ihside joke. :D
and because i'm feeling both mean and honest,

[: jolene says:
talk rubbish
yangster; t-one-d! says:
i dont loh, i'm not anal retentive like elisa k
yangster; t-one-d! says:
she's full of crap
[: jolene says:
HAHAHA YESSSSS
[: jolene says:
agreed

van is officially the only person i can discuss music with in the team! :D cos this morning, out of the blue, A Little Respect/Wheatus sneak attacked me and got stuck in my head. unfortunately i couldn't recall the title of the song so i went around humming it to random people and they were all none the wiser.. until van came along. she recognised it and we went on to belt out the song with much gusto and angst :D andand she knows Breakfast at Tiffany's/Deep Blue Something (or Matchbox 20, if you prefer)! which is like my fave song 2432142947 years ago when i was in primary 5/6? :D along with Closing Time/Greenday, All Star/Smash Mouth &c.. ahh.. those simple days :]

I tried to discover a little something to make me sweeter
Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart

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14.2.07
'cause God is writing my love story

i am temporarily swearing off sweet treats cos i've had sooo much chocolate today i am actually sick of that stuff!! (umm i did say sweet treats for a reason, u're still welcome to offer me dark chocolates and i will still gobble them up like i did to the bar tt the C-sters offered to the girls! :})

anyhow let me blog in point form cos i have to make this quick. (RAP, 'nuff said.)

lurrve is indeed in the air. yesterday when i was giving these 2 bpss girls tuition for cip, they showed me this list they've made of all the guys they crush and there're like 10 names on the list??!! *does a hannah, FAINTS* :D and they'd inked, proudly, in red zig, across the top of the paper, "<3s of our lives" :D WOW i wish i had their emotional honesty :D
i made vday cards for the canoobs and 1b! and for pea too! :D
the canoobs made roses and elisa baked cookies for the guys team!
the guys team treated us to SINFUL chocolate fondue and gave us little flower/fragrance/bottle thingies. the chocolate totally knocked me out, fell asleep (not kidding!!) while rowing and uh.. DID NOT cap. jo reported similar experience. elisa philosophised, "have u ever had a dream that was so real u thot it was reality? i'm experiencing the opposite of that now, i feel like i'm in a dream." HMMM deep thought of the day, indeed. voiced by the girl who had previously pigged out, and i DO mean PIGGED OUT, on chocolate fondue. i found the whole idea too absurd for words: uncivilised woman philosophising?? oooookayy.. did not attempt to point that observation out to her cos she might CLUB me to death or sth. and going to places with loud techno music and sweaty jerking bodies is just not my thing. it has the potential to mess up your mind to the point of no return if it were already wondering off to zzzland like mine was. it's ok if u dint understand that entire chunk of bs, i dont either. OK FESS UP, WHAT WAS IN THAT CHOCOLATE??? haha nah it was actually really sweet of them :) and ky sang Collide for shawna as a belated bday present. if someone sings me Love You Lately for my birthday i'd melt into a pile of goo.. but seeing that it's on the day of the finals for nationals, i think i'd melt anyway, song or no song, cos i'd better be so tired after giving my all i cant walk. :D
for the first time in my life, i got an ORANGE rose!!! yayyy!! loves jingyi <3<3
RAP sucks
RAP sucks
RAP sucks
RAP sucks
RAP sucks
RAP SUXXORRSS MY SOCKSOORRSS.

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11.2.07

just had a good chat with mr mah :D ever the ~~cynic~~ insightful mahster!

anyhoo, i did this yesternight:
ripped from elisa's blog :)

Bold those you've read. Italicize those you haven't finished. Underline those you own.
(& Oranged those that i loved/still love.)

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. 1984, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller <3!!
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corellis Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Sorcerers Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald <3!!
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Susskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones’s Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot (ahem yah i enjoyed this, so?)
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie
101. Three Men In A Boat, Jerome K. Jerome
102. Small Gods, Terry Pratchett
103. The Beach, Alex Garland
104. Dracula, Bram Stoker
105. Point Blanc, Anthony Horowitz
106. The Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens
107. Stormbreaker, Anthony Horowitz
108. The Wasp Factory, Iain Banks
109. The Day Of The Jackal, Frederick Forsyth
110. The Illustrated Mum, Jacqueline Wilson
111. Jude The Obscure, Thomas Hardy
112. The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 1/2, Sue Townsend
113. The Cruel Sea, Nicholas Monsarrat
114. Les Miserables, Victor Hugo (I have this in chinese! :D)
115. The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Thomas Hardy
116. The Dare Game, Jacqueline Wilson
117. Bad Girls, Jacqueline Wilson
118. The Picture Of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
119. Shogun, James Clavell
120. The Day Of The Triffids, John Wyndham
121. Lola Rose, Jacqueline Wilson
122. Vanity Fair, William Makepeace Thackeray
123. The Forsyte Saga, John Galsworthy
124. House Of Leaves, Mark Z. Danielewski
125. The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
126. Reaper Man, Terry Pratchett
127. Angus, Thongs And Full-Frontal Snogging, Louise Rennison
128. The Hound Of The Baskervilles, Arthur Conan Doyle
129. Possession, A. S. Byatt
130. The Master And Margarita, Mikhail Bulgakov
131. The Handmaids Tale, Margaret Atwood
132. Danny The Champion Of The World, Roald Dahl
133. East Of Eden, John Steinbeck
134. Georges Marvellous Medicine, Roald Dahl
135. Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
136. The Color Purple, Alice Walker
137. Hogfather, Terry Pratchett
138. The Thirty-Nine Steps, John Buchan
139. Girls In Tears, Jacqueline Wilson
140. Sleepovers, Jacqueline Wilson
141. All Quiet On The Western Front, Erich Maria Remarque
142. Behind The Scenes At The Museum, Kate Atkinson
143. High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
144. It, Stephen King
145. James And The Giant Peach, Roald Dahl
146. The Green Mile, Stephen King
147. Papillon, Henri Charriere
148. Men At Arms, Terry Pratchett
149. Master And Commander, Patrick OBrian
150. Skeleton Key, Anthony Horowitz
151. Soul Music, Terry Pratchett
152. Thief Of Time, Terry Pratchett
153. The Fifth Elephant, Terry Pratchett
154. Atonement, Ian McEwan
155. Secrets, Jacqueline Wilson
156. The Silver Sword, Ian Serraillier
157. One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, Ken Kesey
158. Heart Of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
159. Kim, Rudyard Kipling
160. Cross Stitch, Diana Gabaldon
161. Moby Dick, Herman Melville
162. River God, Wilbur Smith
163. Sunset Song, Lewis Grassic Gibbon
164. The Shipping News, Annie Proulx
165. The World According To Garp, John Irving
166. Lorna Doone, R. D. Blackmore
167. Girls Out Late, Jacqueline Wilson
168. The Far Pavilions, M. M. Kaye
169. The Witches, Roald Dahl
170. Charlottes Web, E. B. White
171. Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
172. They Used To Play On Grass, Terry Venables and Gordon Williams
173. The Old Man And The Sea, Ernest Hemingway
174. The Name Of The Rose, Umberto Eco
175. Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder
176. Dustbin Baby, Jacqueline Wilson
177. Fantastic Mr. Fox, Roald Dahl
178. Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
179. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull, Richard Bach
180. The Little Prince, Antoine De Saint-Exupery
181. The Suitcase Kid, Jacqueline Wilson
182. Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
183. The Power Of One, Bryce Courtenay
184. Silas Marner, George Eliot
185. American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis
186. The Diary Of A Nobody, George and Weedon Gross-mith
187. Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh
188. Goosebumps, R. L. Stine
189. Heidi, Johanna Spyri
190. Sons And Lovers, D. H. Lawrence
191. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera (THANKS ET!)
192. Man And Boy, Tony Parsons
193. The Truth, Terry Pratchett
194. The War Of The Worlds, H. G. Wells
195. The Horse Whisperer, Nicholas Evans
196. A Fine Balance, Rohinton Mistry
197. Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
198. The Once And Future King, T. H. White
199. The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Eric Carle
200. Flowers In The Attic, Virginia Andrews
201. The Silmarillion, J.R.R. Tolkien AHHHH
202. The Eye of the World, Robert Jordan
203. The Great Hunt, Robert Jordan
204. The Dragon Reborn, Robert Jordan
205. Fires of Heaven, Robert Jordan
206. Lord of Chaos, Robert Jordan
207. Winters Heart, Robert Jordan
208. A Crown of Swords, Robert Jordan
209. Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
210. A Path of Daggers, Robert Jordan
211. As Nature Made Him, John Colapinto
212. Microserfs, Douglas Coupland
213. The Married Man, Edmund White
214. Winters Tale, Mark Helprin
215. The History of Sexuality, Michel Foucault
216. Cry to Heaven, Anne Rice
217. Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe, John Boswell
218. Equus, Peter Shaffer
219. The Man Who Ate Everything, Jeffrey Steingarten
220. Letters To A Young Poet, Rainer Maria Rilke
221. Ella Minnow Pea, Mark Dunn
222. The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice
223. Anthem, Ayn Rand
224. The Bridge To Terabithia, Katherine Paterson
225. Tartuffe, Moliere
226. The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
227. The Crucible, Arthur Miller
228. The Trial, Franz Kafka
229. Oedipus Rex, Sophocles
230. Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles
231. Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther
232. A Dolls House, Henrik Ibsen
233. Hedda Gabler, Henrik Ibsen
234. Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton
235. A Raisin In The Sun, Lorraine Hansberry
236. ALIVE!, Piers Paul Read
237. Grapefruit, Yoko Ono
238. Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde
240. The Mists of Avalon, Marion Zimmer Bradley
241. Chronicles of Thomas Convenant, Unbeliever, Stephen Donaldson
242. Lord of Light, Roger Zelazny
242. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, Michael Chabon
243. Summerland, Michael Chabon
244. A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
245. Candide, Voltaire
246. The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar and Six More, Roald Dahl
247. Ringworld, Larry Niven
248. The King Must Die, Mary Renault
249. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert Heinlein
250. A Wrinkle in Time, Madeline L’Engle
251. The Eyre Affair, Jasper Fforde
252. The House Of The Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
253. The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne
254. The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan
255. The Great Gilly Hopkins, Katherine Paterson
256. Chocolate Fever, Robert Kimmel Smith
257. Xanth: The Quest for Magic, Piers Anthony
258. The Lost Princess of Oz, L. Frank Baum
259. Wonder Boys, Michael Chabon
260. Lost In A Good Book, Jasper Fforde
261. Well Of Lost Plots, Jasper Fforde
261. Life Of Pi, Yann Martel
263. The Bean Trees, Barbara Kingsolver
264. A Yellow Raft In Blue Water, Michael Dorris
265. Little House on the Prairie, Laura Ingalls Wilder
267. Where The Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
268. Griffin & Sabine, Nick Bantock
269. Witch of Blackbird Pond, Joyce Friedland
270. Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, Robert C. O’Brien
271. Tuck Everlasting, Natalie Babbitt
272. The Cay, Theodore Taylor
273. From The Mixed-Up Files Of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, E.L. Konigsburg
274. The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
275. The Westing Game, Ellen Raskin
276. The Kitchen God's Wife, Amy Tan
277. The Bone Setters Daughter, Amy Tan
278. Relic, Duglas Preston & Lincolon Child
279. Wicked, Gregory Maguire
280. American Gods, Neil Gaiman
281. Misty of Chincoteague, Marguerite Henry
282. The Girl Next Door, Jack Ketchum
283. Haunted, Judith St. George
284. Singularity, William Sleator
285. A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
286. Different Seasons, Stephen King
287. Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
288. About a Boy, Nick Hornby
289. The Bookmans Wake, John Dunning
290. The Church of Dead Girls, Stephen Dobyns
291. Illusions, Richard Bach
292. Magics Pawn, Mercedes Lackey
293. Magics Promise, Mercedes Lackey
294. Magics Price, Mercedes Lackey
295. The Dancing Wu Li Masters, Gary Zukav
296. Spirits of Flux and Anchor, Jack L. Chalker
297. Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice
298. The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices, Brenda Love
299. Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
300. The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
301. The Cider House Rules, John Irving
302. Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
303. Girlfriend in a Coma, Douglas Coupland
304. The Lions Game, Nelson Demille
305. The Sun, The Moon, and the Stars, Stephen Brust
306. Cyteen, C. J. Cherryh
307. Foucaults Pendulum, Umberto Eco
308. Cryptonomicon, Neal Stephenson
309. Invisible Monsters, Chuck Palahniuk
310. Camber of Culdi, Kathryn Kurtz
311. The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
312. War and Rememberance, Herman Wouk
313. The Art of War, Sun Tzu
314. The Giver, Lois Lowry
315. The Telling, Ursula Le Guin
316. Xenogenesis (or Liliths Brood), Octavia Butler
317. A Civil Campaign, Lois McMaster Bujold
318. The Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold
319. The Aeneid, Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil)
320. Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill
321. The Princess Bride, S. Morganstern (or William Goldman)
322. Beowulf, Anonymous
323. The Sparrow, Maria Doria Russell
324. Deerskin, Robin McKinley (urgh creepy book.)
325. Dragonsong, Anne McCaffrey
326. Passage, Connie Willis
327. Otherland, Tad Williams
328. Tigana, Guy Gavriel Kay
329. Number the Stars, Lois Lowry
330. Beloved, Toni Morrison
331. Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christs Childhood Pal, Christopher Moore
332. The mysterious disappearance of Leon, I mean Noel, Ellen Raskin
333. Summer Sisters, Judy Blume
334. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo
335. The Island on Bird Street, URI Orlev
336. Midnight in the Dollhouse, Marjorie Filley Stover
337. The Miracle Worker, William Gibson
338. The Genesis Code, John Case
339. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Robert Louis Stevensen
340. Paradise Lost, John Milton
341. Phantom, Susan Kay
342. The Mummy or Ramses the Damned, Anne Rice
343. Anno Dracula, Kim Newman
344: The Dresden Files: Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
345: Tokyo Suckerpunch, Issac Adamson
346: The Winter of Magics Return, Pamela Service
347: The Oddkins, Dean R. Koontz
348. My Name is Asher Lev, Chaim Potok
349. The Last Goodbye, Raymond Chandler
350. At Swim, Two Boys, Jaime ONeill
351. Othello, by William Shakespeare
352. The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
353. The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats
354. Sati, Christopher Pike
355. The Inferno, Dante
356. The Apology, Plato
357. The Small Rain, Madeline L’Engle
358. The Man Who Tasted Shapes, Richard E Cytowick
359. 5 Novels, Daniel Pinkwater
360. The Sevenwaters Trilogy, Juliet Marillier
361. Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier
362. To the Lighthouse, Virginia Woolf
363. Our Town, Thorton Wilder
364. Green Grass Running Water, Thomas King
335. The Interpreter, Suzanne Glass
336. The Moors Last Sigh, Salman Rushdie
337. The Mother Tongue, Bill Bryson
338. A Passage to India, E.M. Forster
339. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky
340. The Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux
341. Pages for You, Sylvia Brownrigg
342. The Changeover, Margaret Mahy
343. Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
344. Angels and Demons, Dan Brown
345. Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo
346. Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer
347. Travels With Charley, John Steinbeck
348. The Diving-bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
349. The Lunatic at Large by J. Storer Clouston
350. Time for Bed by David Baddiel
351. Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold
352. Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
353. The Bloody Sun by Marion Zimmer Bradley
354. Sewer, Gas, and Eletric by Matt Ruff
355. Jhereg by Steven Brust
356. So You Want To Be A Wizard by Diane Duane
357. Perdido Street Station, China Mieville
358. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
359. Road-side Dog, Czeslaw Milosz
360. The English Patient, Michael Ondaatje
361. Neuromancer, William Gibson
362. The Epistemology of the Closet, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
363. A Canticle for Liebowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr
364. The Mask of Apollo, Mary Renault
365. The Gunslinger, Stephen King
366. Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
367. Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
368. A Season of Mists, Neil Gaiman
369. Ivanhoe, Walter Scott
370. The God Boy, Ian Cross
371. The Beekeeper's Apprentice, Laurie R. King
372. Finn Family Moomintroll, Tove Jansson
373. Misery, Stephen King
374. Tipping the Velvet, Sarah Waters
375. Hood, Emma Donoghue
376. The Land of Spices, Kate O’Brien
377. The Diary of Anne Frank
378. Regeneration, Pat Barker
379. Tender is the Night, F. Scott Fitzgerald
380. Dreaming in Cuban, Cristina Garcia
381. A Farewell to Arms, Ernest Hemingway
382. The View from Saturday, E.L. Konigsburg
383. Dealing with Dragons, Patricia Wrede
384. Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Lynne Truss
385. A Severed Wasp - Madeleine LEngle
386. Here Be Dragons - Sharon Kay Penman
387. The Mabinogion (Ancient Welsh Tales) - translated by Lady Charlotte E. Guest
388. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
389. Desire of the Everlasting Hills - Thomas Cahill
390. The Cloister Walk - Kathleen Norris
391. The Things We Carried, Tim O’Brien
392. I Know This Much Is True, Wally Lamb
393. Choke, Chuck Palahniuk
394. Enders Shadow, Orson Scott Card
395. The Memory of Earth, Orson Scott Card
396. The Iron Tower, Dennis L. McKiernen
397. Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
398. A Ring of Endless Light, Madeline L’Engle
399. Lords of Discipline, Pat Conroy
400. Hyperion, Dan Simmons
401. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor
402. The Bridge, Iain Banks
403. How to Be Good, Nick Hornby
404. The Stone Diaries, Carol Shields
405. A Map of the World, Jane Hamilton
406. Eragon, Christopher Paolini
407. A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
408. I'm a Stranger Here Myself, Bill Bryson
409. The Neverending Story, Michael Ende
410. The Shining, Stephen King
411. The Alien Chronicles, Deborah Chester
412. Redwall, Brian Jacques
413. Mossflower, Brian Jacques
414. The Iliad, Homer
415. Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes
416. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
417. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
418. The Odyessy, Homer

just to make this list more complete, 2 more books that i love:
419. Closing Time, Joseph Heller
420. The Last Tycoon, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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still torn.. should i go trim my hair? or should i keep it for that french braid that i miss? hmm.

and i'm pointedly not blogging about a certain tchr who has gained much disrespect from the bi-cultural scholars. hurumph. that.. POSH, she's messed up my revision schedule!! :C

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9.2.07
sway my way

more malapropisms! (courtesy of mr p.)
"heat is transferred by conviction."
"they slept in houses that had no beds, and there were rough mating on the floor."

:D
but my favourite is still "she suffered from unrequired love." :}

retail therapy with mummy today! apparently she felt guilty for having gone cny shopping at orchard with just dad during his lunch break.. :D i cant believe she got me pink stuff! (>.<) pink nike shirt pink nike canvas shoes pink ahem sports bra. wahler?? haha at least i managed some damage control when i went out with her.. now i've got nice orange socks and tartan shorts amongst other stuff that i actually want! yayy! :)

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7.2.07
love of the loveless

elisa, no prizes for guessing where that came from! :}

yayyy! happy training day!!:) it helps to sing Afterglow/INXS as you row, haha!

and thank you thank you thank you Lord! <3

be strong, ray! i wont be so presumptuous as to say i know exactly how u felt today but i think i'd come close to that before. this too shall pass, aiight? it's just the exhaustion, and u're only human, so it's all natural! anyhoo, ur strokes dont suck! they pull! seriously, it's improved tremendously :)
chin up k? rmb, chocolate quota up to 5 packets this week, doubleplusgood or what? compared to our rations before, it's a tripleplusplenty! :)

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5.2.07
twelve; we're ourselves.

first canoob birthday of the year! ready, steady yourself for an onslaught of
PIIINNNKK!! and hannah. >.<

her birthday card, halfway done :)
11 hearts! and that is so not my vectors revision languishing beneath the card :}
the celebration itself was a Hannah Scream Fest. :D and i loved loved loved the cake elisa baked! so sweet!! ;) i think the sugar high helped tide everyone thru monster sets later :}

one year ago, we took this picture:

a year later, we're back at the same spot in the canteen (i think) and look at us now!

same same (ray still looking in some other direction, hannah's chicken tail still intact, jolene's eyes still very small, &c) but different (i cut my hair, no funny guy behind scratching his head, jolene's bottle is there but not in the pic, THE SIZE OF OUR ARMS!!)
haha!

Here I am,
Lost in the ashes of time,
But who wants tomorrow.

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11:33 PM
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4.2.07
adversity, we get around it

allowing myself a tiny break after working all morning. feels good to strike things off a list and know that u're on task. :)

aiight just keep moving and i'll be fine. she will have NO reason to make me drop canoeing. 2 months later i'll look back on the night i cried and pleaded like a baby and laugh at the absurdity of it all. did i really think i am alone in this? how silly of me.

i welcome any challenges :)
12:05 huh? i'll give you 11:30. just watch.

ELISA!! you've got me hooked on Afterglow/INXS!

Bathed in blue, the walls of my memory divide the thorns from the roses
It's you and the roses

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3.2.07
Drop all I have and go with You

I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
And I don't know what I'm diving into
Just hanging by a moment here with you.

i've fallen in love with running all over again :) 10.8k! have decided the best time to run is in the early morning before school starts. it's like a time of worship; pick a song and sing it as you go.. if you find the idea of running round and round on a rubber track boring, look up! there's the moon, the clouds, the silhouettes of the trees.. bliss.

yes it's time to drop all my worries and cares and walk away from it all with God.
this is my Great Escape.

humans party now, i hope everyone has a good time :)

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2.2.07
love is the movement

looking back at yesterday.. it was a rupture waiting to happen. the urges to rebel, the frustration, the exhaustion, the disappointment.. i couldn't keep it together any longer. and physical pain was just the last spadeful of coal that sent the flames blazing.

but i've got to sweep up the pieces and keep going. a deal's a deal, i'm not going to give in without a good fight. and hopefully, at the end of the day, she'll be able to see it's been God's love at work.

i never thought it'll be this tough.

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1.2.07
everything

there was no excuse for my behaviour at training today. particularly the swearing. i am disappointed in myself but i know i have disappointed God more. i am sorry. when i was too tired to bear the weight of the burden, i forgot about how much broader Your shoulders are. when i was disappointed at how weak i've become, i forgot about drawing on Your strength. when i was dwelling in self-pity, You waited patiently for me to pick myself up from the floor where i was lying, to run into Your waiting arms.
You have been everything and faithful to me.. Thank You.

You see everything, you see every part
You see all my light and you love my dark
You dig everything of which I'm ashamed
There's not anything to which you can’t relate
And you’re still here

and i see you standing there
wanting more from me
all i can do is
try

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Et toutes mes peines

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