*faints* did you see dan?! dan radcliffe, I mean. the effects could be disastrous if someone were to mistake him for another dan. Dan in the nuddy! well almost. As in all the bits you're not supposed to see aren't there, so it's safe. Not recommended for those with weak hearts. He's very buff though, abs and all. Here's a look. Go to mugglenet.com or DanRadcliffe.com for more. I mean, he is advertising for a play on west end- "Equus", and it is for literary and dramatic[?] purposes, but the pictures are teetering on the thin line of what is trash and what is not. Honestly, it looks a lot like a publicity stunt to me, and less of cultured art, but I suppose the bottom line is ticket sales and "Equus" will obviously have no problem with that. Thank goodness young harry potter viewers or their parents haven't seen these, or there will have to be a new harry for movies 6 and 7. Dan isn't harry at all in these pictures- he looks really really different from GoF, OotP even. And his stylist did something to his hair! Which makes him look older and not that immature. But I have a sneaky feeling that he is not mature enough for this role (it involves him being undressed on stage with another teenage female actor, also undressed), and dan is only 17, so I don't know how the tabloids are going to interpret this. Personally, I think they are faint/heart-attack inducing and clearly very drool-worthy.

It's been a fairly long while, with the internet backed up and all. I'll go bug my dad about it. 12 days since the last post!
Luna
Luna, by Julie Anne Peters, is a literary fiction novel for young adults. Regan, a fifteen-year old girl, has a transgender brother, Luna/Liam. Regan wrestles with the burden of protecting her brothers' secret and is the only one who fully understands who, and why, he is a girl on the inside. Liam is a seventeen year old senior in high school who takes honour papers in Physics, while Regan has trouble figuring out Chem I and her lab partner. When Liam meets another TG, or transgirl, over the internet, he decides it is time to transition. That is, to become a girl on the outside. Will Luna manage to emerge from her chrysalis and reveal herself to everyone who accepts her as a boy? Regan struggles with her brothers' decision and his overeliance on her to keep him protected, all the while juggling school and her personal life.
In my opinion, Luna is ideal for young people to understand and empathise (not sympathise) with transgenders and their personal conflicts. Usually transgenders are regarded as outcasts, ostracised and discriminated against. Young people, especially Singaporeans, need to be more aware of their needs, and it may inspire teens with similar conflicts to come to terms with themselves, or if they wish, transition. I recommend this book to all teens, or maybe even adults who wish to identify with Liam, as it is an enlightening read.

Oh jeez that sounded like a school report. Charisse might be interested in this kind of thing though. You can ask me for Luna if you want a read(: I'm trying to read a midsummer night's dream now, but it is a little difficult with shakespearean language even though they have annotations and trying to make myself finish it before I go to borrow xenocide or an orson scott card. I sound juvenile and unappreciative of proper literature by not wanting to read a midsummer nights' dream. But I didn't read anything good, or rather, anything at all during obs and its taking its toll.
But don't get me wrong- obs was really really fun with things like mawpee and other stupid jokes. ohoh and on the first night there was a moth on the wall, and eliza was like: what if the moth flies into your mouth? you get butterflies in your stomach! and if this is a _ what is this_ jokes. obs was different from training camp in the sense that it wasn't so rushed, and I gained a lot more personally than bonding as a group. Chu Ai (my instructor) was also very nice, explaining the purpose and objectives of every activity, and structuring what we gained and learnt; naming the things we felt- I can't say this- naming like in Madeline L'engle. So now I know exactly what I have been through and not this blurry mess of feelings right after. I miss my bunk and the people in my watch and trying really hard. So now I've got to put the things I am facing now into context- eg homework- and get as much out of it as I possibly can. (as much as I put in) Oh and I have to say thankyou very much to everyone who encouraged me like jan and andrea and meijia and bubbles and jiayi and fiona and wanting and aeva and yenlin and the rest of my watchmates. This sounds like the bleeding emmys.
Ahh I cant wait for december boys and stardust and coraline and ootp and ooh romeo and juliet the ballet!! next month yay and we must never forget phantom.
ps mum went to rain's concert last night. I wonder what bella would think.

I'm at an internet place with $1/hour (or half hour?) rates, much better than those who go $3.50/hour.

Anansi Boys! Crystal and geeru both say it isn't really good, and I think that's because it isn't at all like his any other works. Firstly ng is a lot like terry prachett in this one, putting in a degree of humor that is not seen, in say, smoke and mirrors. I suppose the humor is to lessen the blow of the conflict being so human and that so many people can relate to fat charlie's conflicts. But this has an adverse result and it tends to sound oddly like mitch albom, with it being fable-ish and emotionally moving at the end. Although it has the themes of gods like in american gods, it is still really the most different of his works with most of the novel centered around real-life problems as opposed to fantasy ones.

I hate change. I hated change (coins, not something different) so much that I would put them into little pill containers (my dad has a lot of those) until today I had a stack of 5-cent coins an inch high. I didn't know what to do with it. Vending machines don't use 5-cent coins. They make without the ickle things anyway. My sister is too old to be bribed by 5-cent coins. She would rather a 50-dollar note. So I decided to put them into the corridor, wait for the neighbours to take it, for the wind to blow it into tidy piles and whisk it away to a homeless person ( they don't like change either), or for the newspaper man's lucky day.

I'm in 315. I feel odd, but not any taller. I'm still doing 3ScL. Mum has decided that potential universities do not require physics for medicine, wants me to change to BCHL, and that would put me in 312, with michele, geeru, charisse, sydney, crystal and michelle, but no yearmates. I haven't emailed yet. I'm not even sure I want to change. I am being extremely difficult for the system, staff, and classmates. The thing is, I think not doing physics would not be challenging myself-mum's old argument. I think I could do physics if I tried- jeez who am I kidding? Myself, of course. I think I could pass properly if I tried really really really hard, but that would be one more subject to work really really really hard at, besides chem, math and chinese. I have a sneaky feeling many people will want to switch tomorrow, and I still havent decided, but I would like very much to change, considering the odds of doing well for physics. Andand anthropology at cambridge requires at least one essay-based subject-> history/lit, so if I did CBHL, I would have two! Medicine requires chemistry for most universities plus another science/math for Alevels, so chem bio would fit the description, but not exceed the requirement, and I would be compared with the tripscience people. I did my research for cambridge, oxford, bristol, edinburgh, boston, harvard, yale, johnshopkins(graduate) and found that it would be okay for me to do CBHL, but I wouldn't exceed their requirements. American universities, however, wade in the sea of vagueness by saying "we will consider on a case-by-case basis" and it seems that only the SATs and ACTs count. (english and math standardised tests- I don't even know how to take them)

For the holidays, after my trip, I read ender's game, lords and ladies (terryprachett), the mennyms-a reread, speaker of the dead, the enderverse and jacqueline wilson trash. I'm currently doing Anansi Boys, halfway through A Midsummer Night's Dream, and The 7 habits of highly effective teens is bathroom reading. I would like to review speaker, enderverse(prequel) and ender's game, and wax lyrical. Neil Gaiman is being very terry-prachetty in Anansi Boys, and not very Himself):

I take comfort in the fact that bubbles is doing 3ScL too, and gwen and jiaying will be in my class if I don't switch. ( I really shouldn't be making choices based on class arragements, or form teachers for that matter.)