The Diseases

I have been tagged, you know who you are...


1. Is that your natural hair colour?
Nope. It was shocking pink at first. But SMSM decided that I must try to blend in.

2. Where was your profile pic taken?
You mean Facebook right? Even I don't know...must be at Jo's house...

3. What's your middle name?
Carol

4. Your current relationship status?
Single

5. Honestly, does your crush like you back?
I have a crush?

6. What is your current mood?
Thirsty

7. What colour underwear are you wearing?
Such a creepy question...

8. What makes you happy?
Chocolate, new books

9. Are you musically inclined?
yup yup yup

10. If you could go back in time and change something what would it be?
The discovery of nuclear boms

11. If you MUST be an animal for ONE day, what would you be?
um...a phoenix

12. Ever had a near death experience?
Yeah. Today's race. With a car...

13. Some things you do a lot?
Reading, piano, H20

14. What's the name of the song stuck in your head right now?
Right Round

15. Who did you copy and paste this from?
Alya, even though she didn't tag me. I felt the telepathic waves.

16. Name someone with the same b-day as you?
Hahaha. 12.12 is a special date. I have not yet found someone else.

17. When was the last time you cried?
very long long time ago. Oh yeah. When the doctor decide it was time to poke my eye with a needle.

18. Have you ever sang in front of a large audience?
Nope, never ever sang in public. Speaking, yes.

19. If you could have one super power what would it be?
To control the elements. Then I can grow trees.

20. What do you notice first off in a guy/girl?
Eyes

21. What do you usually order from Starbucks?
Either Caramel Machiato or Vanilla

22. What's your biggest secret?
Hahaha. No way.

23. What's your favorite color?
PURPLE

24. When was the last time you lied?
Not very long ago.

25. Do you still watch kiddy movies or TV shows?
Hahaha both.

26. Do you have braces?
Used to

27. If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
sigh...my height.

28. What are you eating or drinking?
Water. LOL

29. Do you speak any other language?
BM and French. But I can understand cantonese

30. What's your favorite smell?
The smell of new books

Being Grimm

So one of the new books I bought is :

The Complete Fairy Tales

by

Brothers Grimm

If you think fairy tales are all about happy and fun and happy ever afters, don't ever open it. EVER!

But if you are cool with it, go ahead. I am not lending.

It's not like there isn't happy endings, but they are just twisted.

In The Brave Little Tailor after, killing seven flies, he decides to make a belt that says Seven in one blow.

This scared a giant, a king, and all sorts.

And he gets to marry a princess he has never met. But of course, he will marry her. She is pretty.

....

Most of the stories are like that.

Its either...

1. Prince sees poor girl who was abused/poor/kind but misunderstood/hot but poor falls in love with her like that and brings her back to his big castle to live happy ever after
2. Random lucky guy/prince who wants to see the world travels to this exotic land, sees one hot princess and marries her. Of course, before that he must prove his worth by killing some random giant/giving a smart princess a difficult riddle to solve/capture some giant who was terrorizing the people.
3. There were things and animals like sausages roosters and the likes

But overall an enjoyable series which I will finish....soon.

My english teacher still refuses to change my marks

Bah!

Firstly, the good news.

a) I got an 'A' in my FCE examination. (First Certificate in English)
b) I passed my French exam with a lot of guesswork.
c) I have gotten an extra 2 new books.
d) I got an 'A' in science
The bad news

a) I got a 60 for add maths.
b) My whole add maths project is wrong a.k.a do everything again
c) My english teacher gave me a 'C' in English because she didn't understand the style I wrote my essay in. And after I gone over everything with her, she still wouldn't change the mark.


.....

I shall not care about bad news (c) cause I got an A in FCE..

I really am starting to hate graphs and the likes.

I haven't seen Alya for ages...

Bookeria

The BBC allegedly believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.How do your reading habits stack up? [bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish]

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

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

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

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

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 The 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





31 books. That's not so bad...



So how do you guys read?

Morality is annoying sometimes

So...do 8 essays on a variety of topics given.

Example,

What is the aim of the Women's Act in Malaysia?
How far do you think the status of a woman should be with a man.

Normally, I could answer this question with research and language but in Moral education, one must use words like:

a) Tolerating one another. (translated from Malay)
The want to tolerate, be patient and controlling oneselve to avoid confrontation amd misunderstanding for the sake of a good life.

b) Rasional
The capability to think depending on available and logical excuse and proof given and the ability to take action after a reasonable amount of thought.

c) Honouring women's rights.
Protecting and officiating women as an individual who can contribute in the growth of a family, community and nation.

d) Open mindedness
To be ready to give and take opinions, renewals and criticism parallel with the factual truth with the norm of a Malaysian community

I refuse to write it.

Just the fact that I will fail Moral in my SPM if I don't write it.....

=-=

President Obama

If you haven't watch it here is the link.

Clickify it

=)

Finish already?

So...I stayed up until one in the morning hooked on Change of Heart. And this was after I told myself that I would pace it out and read it slowly. Never happened. But it was a fantastic book. And I only felt sorry for two characters, Amelia and Piper.

And I shall not tell you why. Go read it yourself.

Charlotte in that book sounds like a biatch.

and that is all I am going to say.

I also watched Race to Witch Mountain yesterday. It's quite a good movie. I actually wanted to watch a lot of movies. There was just the problem that it was all 18 PL which was basically for violence.

Which means I have yet to watch The Watchmen. Which I really want to watch.

And I also saw the trailer for Angels and Demons. They cut out most of the scenes. I should know. And I was so pumped up to watch and then...

18PL. Again. Damnit.

And I like my age.

Since growing older means I have to take on more responsibilities blah blah.

Not to mention the fact that if anything happens, it was my responsibility.

...

And I should get back to my homework

Comment allez-vous?

And the correct answer to that is....

Bien

Now, I have a weird problem going on.

I am doing research for a Malay paper.
I am also studying for my French test.
I have come to the terms that I will never be good at grammar in any language.

My speaking...good
My writing...passable (with all my teachers points of view. My french essay is hilarious though)
My grammar...let us not talk about it.

French grammar, once I get the hang of it, I might be able to do.
But for now, let me waddle neck-deep with my etre, avoir, s'appeler, aimer and the likes.

Watching French shows does not help. I have to burn my eyes afterwards.

Time flies during the holidays...whether you like it or not.

So...my predictions for my first terms....





nearly all passes.





I couldn't say the same for computer. Why did they wedge it in between moral and sejarah I don't know. No one could remember who Tok Janggut was and also 36 nilai for moral on the same day.





*grumble*





So my computer paper was nearly blank.





And I don't think i will get an 'A' in English. What with my biatchy teacher and all.





(becks, alya, I ranted about her to you already)





And now I would like to introduce to you my new reading material.

Very nice book, from what I have read so far. And Alya can stop gloating about how she read that book already.

Becky, your phone hates me!

To Alya:

Me and Becks made a deal. We shall update.

Now, to my update.

Holidays in form five sucks. I have this humongous load of work to finish. And get this, it's only for a week. Because, apparently, all that info will spill out of our heads in a week.

Somehow I have to suck it up, stop laughing and attempt to do the *completely unhelpful* Moral project which will supposedly help me in life. The fact that they are trying to educate us to not runaround the streets killing everyone we see, I get.

What I don't get is the fact that we have to memorize the crazy long definition for a 'nilai'.

And my exams finished today. Things should be looking upwards.

And I have been completely high on Stardust. Been watching it everyday while *studying*

And since Alya will be reading this, I shall do the 16 tag thing. I am suppose to mention 16 random things about myself.

1. I would be sixteen for a very loooooonnnggg time.

2. I get annoyed by two-faced people.

3. While my favourite subject is English, I have never had a good English teacher.

4. I am a Britney fan, always have and always will be.

5. When I see couples with a large age gap, I immediately think back. (like my aunt and uncle who is nine years apart. So it's like my aunt was a baby when my uncle was in Primary School)

6. Long hair is nice, but I shall never ever have it again.

7. My dream wedding involves purple-ness. So bridesmaids beware.

8. I plan on visiting everywhere before I die.

9. I think I may be that person with the gazillion cats.

10. People think I am one of those girls who listen to pop. Then, they look at my playlist. (Hardcore rock)

11. I dislike needles. It is just plain too pointy

12. I dislike it when people decide to squish my dreams, just because they can.

13. I don't like it when the have tryouts and they already know who they want on the team. (Yes, I am still pissed at this.)

14. I use to dream that one day Borders or Kinokuniya would give me a free pass to take whatever I want for free in under an hour.

15. I never like soap operas. It seems like one big happy sleepabout family.

16. I like Heroes. It's the only show where sex is the farthest thing to be played out.

Eat You Up

Nice song...nice dance moves. I recommend the vid to anyone.

So...debate tryouts tomorrow. My topic:

"This house will sanction countries with child labour"

I am the government team.

2nd speaker.

And very stressed out.

This topic is not actually on child labour. It's more on the sanctions itself.
So I must be like Kai Syuen and meditate.

"Sanctions are good...sanctions are good...."

I have to win this somehow.

Yup...I am so going to thrash the opposition.

I have to stop giving myself pep talks like this

Kill the lights

So....Alya has disappeared from out midst.

She will be on the plane for fourteen hours which has the end results of a painful butt.

And then, she will suffer from jetlag and the lack of sleep.

And she has to learn French.

And we shall babble together in French.

The fact is I still don't know when she is leaving.....

And am still waiting to know when she is leaving.

And I think we should all get Skype now. My mom will kill me if I call London daily.

And on to a somewhat more happier post.

I went for the ISKL's IASAS yesterday with Jo and Pez. (free ticket)

It was good, really good. Even though the drama was a tad bit disturbing.

But still...I had fun.

Spin spin spin

I watched an awesome show last night.


Try to guess what it was.

Yup, Slumdog Millionaire. I recommend anyone who has not watch it to get your lazy ass off and watch it. Now.

But i shall insert trailer link here, so I command you to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIzbwV7on6Q

Now go forth and be educated.

Jessie, le chien

French class sometimes annoys me. Alright, not the french class but some of my classmates.

So I had to skip class last week because of my cross-country and this was the convo that happen with me and one of the students.

Me, Person

Hi

Hello

So what happen last week? *smiles*

*smiles back* Oh we did a lot.

*continues smiling and waiting for explanation*

*stares back in confusion*

So what happened last week? *smile became slightly strained*

*smiles back* Oh we did a lot.

*Smile holds up barely* So what did we do last week?

I have some notes.

Yes, what could have been done in five seconds took that long to be answered.

and yes I know that there may be a lot covered. You don't have to repeat it so many times....

*grumbles and tries to understand french conjugations*

Running to nowhere.

My mom decided I should lift my unhealthy butt of the chair and exercise.

So off we go to.....the GYM.

And here's the thing about gyms. I get the weight lifting and the push up thing and the monkey bar thing.

I even get why there are those auto cycling thinng which do not at all equates into a bike= try riding it in town, one would be instant roadkill.

And I get the row thing=drowning ourselves in the lake is more than likely.

What I don't get it the running thing. I mean, the club I go to it nestled-in-a-hollow-of-mountain type of club. So , scenery is gorgeus. And that's why I don't get the people on the running machine. They could have gotten fresh air but they want to smell sweat instead.

Logic sometimes is a funny thing.

But I did go to the gym. And am one step away from...uh...being healthier?

A fact on heels

Never ever wear heels if you were on a marathon earlier in the morning.

So, I went for the annual cross-country thing yesterday. It was waaaaayyyy longer than last year's run.

You see, last year, upper-sec only has to run the big round and lower-sec runs the small round twice. Piece of cake.

Now, they think it's too short for the dubiously active seniors, sooooo... lets add more to the run. So our round now is:

One small round , the original big round, and another small round.

Ouch....stamina is one thing but the pool and ground is a different thing altogether.

Owies.

And to cap it all off my confirmation was this evening.

I was looking forward to it until I discovered the itinery for the morning.

And because of my want to look tall for once, I just had to put on those heels.

Newness but still old

So I have apparently started a blog here. But the one at livejournal is still there. And shall always be there. Since I'm to lazy to delete it.

So for my livejournal blog, it's here

So, it will still be a living, breathing, computer thingie, where I blog on randomness and stuff.

But I need to get down to something first.

NUR ALYA IMAN HOW DARE YOU MOVE TO LONDON WITHOUT MY APPROVAL!!!!!! =(

Yeah, the rest of the convo is by phone.

I should think Alya is deaf now.

And Becky shall go on the conquest of kidnapping her.

next topic.

I have a cross country to go to. 14km of it. My legs are jellifying accordingly now. Great.

But here's the good thing. Alongside the route is an all too innocent Carl's Junior.

Mwuahahahahahaha. My motivation is complete.

And I am not done with you yet Alya