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10:26 pm
8/23/08

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this looked fun
Instructions:
- Look at the list and bold those you have read
- Italicise the ones you want to read
- Underline the books you really loved and strikethrough the ones really didn't enjoy
- Reprint this list in your own journal if you want to... you know you want to.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible (on and off?)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (how about incomplete?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - isn't this the same as Chronicles?
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In A Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
 
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03:12 pm
5/8/06

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I HAVE MOVED!
HI I HAVE MOVED!!

http://www.prettyprissy.blogspot.com/

Pls read the disclaimer on the right before you accuse me of being thick-skinned:p
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01:47 am
5/6/06

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Today i thought my exam is OPEN book. i had ONE WEEK to study didn't do anything. Just print out all my notes and bring all my books.

Then i step into the classroom, aye how come everyone leave their bags at the side?

I sat down and saw the paper:

"This is a CLOSED BOOK examination."

hahhahahahha.

Can pass la at least i wrote sth rather valid i think:p

Met 2 of my sec school female friends today, one of which i didn't see or talk to for about 7 years! And how we could click and talk! And talk and talk and talk and 6 hours flew by talking about guys:p Guys or no guys sometimes somehow some girls sometimes somehow cannot live sometimes somehow without them.

Tried to put the $5 screen protector onto my new sony ericsson. I ended up destroying it and e screen is still bare:(
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10:52 pm
5/4/06

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Janice- Never Let You Go

The rain just never seems to bring
the joy I feel the same
everlasting pain of my loss remains

My heart can't seem to learn to part
the hold you left your mark
all that I dreamed of now it seems so stark
(Chorus)
Tho I told myself won't hold my breath
a part of me was dying
there is nothing left for me to do now but give in?
If you gave me one chance to tell you just how I was feeling
I would sing to you and tell you I won't
live my life without you
If you gave me one chance to tell you just how I was feeling
I would hold your hand and look in your eyes
and ya know I'd never let you go?

The way you left me on the train
I don't know what to say
I remember everything of that day

I can't believe we'd never dance
I just need one more chance
to share the sunset our one last romance
(repeat chorus)

The skies twinkle with color, but the earth's a barren land and the oceans are all polluted.
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02:40 am
5/4/06

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staying up late causes me to do the shittiest things.
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12:44 am
5/3/06

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Bought a new handphone-sony ericsson k750i-for $163!:) traded in my nokia phone for $40, upgraded my starhub line. I love my new phone now!!!:D:D:D The sound is so nice...The only thing is that i can't sms while listening to the radio:(

Last paper on friday afternoon. Like an appendix. Studying and not studying for it:p Mind is on everything now. Bought a new notebook and it has been another new companion for quite a while heh. What shall i type here? I'm leaving soon!!! *kisses goodbye to singapore for the next 3 months* First time I'm going *far* for a *longer* period of time without my family. I'd be more excited if i were leaving for a few years instead haha..3 months seem like..nothing..so must make e most out of it..

Went Kbox last week with 3 friends. Had a great time singing songs like "Man, i feel like a woman" and "I hate myself for loving you" haha girl power:p Though our singing went out of tune quite a bit but it was fun.

Went Great World City w mom and sis, long time since i went out w them. hope things will be fine at home when i'm away...need ideas for mother's day..
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03:43 pm
4/26/06

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Exam Blues
With many quotes and many lines
And complex themes but boring plots
I know I’ll not do very fine
Lord, help me with my mind that’s blocked

With many thoughts and many sights
Distraction seizes me all around
And sounds that come from interesting sites
Play in my mind that’s all but sound

For not in books I bury my head
But in the sights and sounds online
Where darlings on the msn date
And chat where friends could dine

Oh no my paper that’s tomorrow
Is a vile closed book examination
Quick, the quotes at once must flow
Or I’m doomed to eternal damnation
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05:12 pm
4/25/06

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Only the most intelligent can decode the hidden ideologies in this passage: *muahaha..*

A Room of His Own

The fifth time around things were different. He gave her instructions, he gave her the keys (including the little one) and rode off alone. Exactly four weeks later he reappeared. The house was dusted, the floors were polished and the door to the little room hadn't been opened. Bluebeard was stunned.
"But weren't you curious?" he asked his wife.
"No," she answered.
"But didn't you want to find out my innermost secrets?"
"Why?" said the woman.
"Well," said Bluebeard, "it's only natural--didn't you want to know who I really am?"
"You are Bluebeard and my husband."
"But the contents of the room. Didn't you want to see what is inside that room?"
"No," said the creature, "I think you're entitled to a room of your own."
This so incensed him that he killed her on the spot. At the trial he pleaded provocation and won the case.

Three cheers to the author of this text hahaha whoever she is. This was one of the questions in our exam today. It was quite fun reading it.
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04:19 pm
4/23/06

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Could have reached home in half an hour if the traffic was exceptionally smooth and if i didn't miss the bus. But I waited for about 25minutes before the bus came, and it simply went past me without stopping!! So i had to wait for another 20min..rrr..in the damn hot weather..and an exam tmr...rrr...Got home 1 1/2 hours later.

Coz i had to complain, upon stepping through the main door i started lamenting to my dad who sat looking very tired at the dining table, and i guess it was quite loud:p After i took my shower i complained that someone didn't clean the dining table and that the cloth wasn't washed so it attracted a lot of ants. After cleaning the table and washing the cloth, i searched for the phone, which was nowhere to be found, so i shouted again, someone used the phone but didn't put it back! And my bro said from his room, oh it's with me. And since i just had my shower i was in my pyjamas and erm, pyjamas yar, u get e idea..i opened the door of my bro's room and right in front of me was his male classmate urgh.. so he heard all the shouting and complaints and me in my pyjamas blueh. It's pretty embarrassing even if his fren were a young kid but his fren is a teenager.

Mom was sleeping on my sister's bed when i got home. Is she ok?, i asked my sis. She shook her head.

Found a little bear sitting on my table. haha...could squeeze it into pulp.. it's lke so cute..
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05:36 pm
4/21/06

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Colors of Dreams
I dreamt a dream of many dreams and in each dream lay thousands of daffodils, each opening to reveal a swirl of colors of browns and whites, balls of chocolate bites amongst the yellows, oranges and whites. I told myself that if I started eating one chocolate, one dream would come true. If I started eating two, two dreams would come true. If I ate a million, a million dreams would come true. I nudged at the petals that fluttered open at will and picked up a swirl of colors and placed it on my tongue. It melted into pools of browns and whites and dissolved on my taste buds, flavors of coffee, hazelnut and rum all bursting forth at once. I drowned in the flavors and made my first wish, but a daffodil opened up its petals and spoke to me, balls of chocolate bites rolling out as it spoke.

‘You do not make a wish on flavors and colors, you make a wish on paper’, it said, to which I replied, ‘But there is no paper here.’

‘Then you have to leave to wish, to another dream you must go.’

‘Tell me the way out’, I asked, ‘and to the dream where there is paper.’

‘There is only one way out, and to get out of us you must get us out of you.’
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