*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.)

>< accidentally closed the window on an unsaved post. tried to blogsurf for tt practice schedules to look for them but came up with nothing.
I don't really have anything to say, except it's been exactly a week since I've used the internet and since the last post. oh jeez I hope they don't lock me in.

It's been a month. or more than that. I never did nanowrimo. not even a word. I am supposed to be at home doing_ but I am procrastinating. I could do it here ( I'm at school) and email it back but my computer at home is still internet-less, so it wouldn't help much. and I can't use my grandaunt's computer because I cost her $98 for singtel dial-up since I started using her computer (about a month) my grandaunt uses it for an hour a week, maximum. She expects me to follow suit. My parents are procrastinating over the internet bill because it costs more to start up when there is a break in service because my mum forgot. My dad claims that she forgot to pay the bill and he doesn't want to pay the extra startup fees. Mum says that he uses the computer a lot and she hardly uses it, so it isn't fair for her to pay. they are both currently too busy to go to a singtel outlet anyway/ too jetlagged.
I don't know what to do at school. Everyone's on holiday but I came here for the internet access, since I am really really bored at home and my sister watches cartoons 24/7. It's 3 o'clock now. the classrooms are going to be locked at 4, and according to inet, some classrooms at dblock 2nd floor are open till 5, so maybe I'll go. But I won't need to use the computer that long, I think. This is getting nowhere and is nowhere near exciting soap opera material.
ooh I didn't mention where I went on holiday did I? I'm frankly fairly embarrassed of where I went, because people will think__. but I should forget about what other people think, shouldn't I? I wonder what people are doing now. I went blogsurfing and everyone seems to be, well, bored. [holiday destination] is around 13 hours behind singapore time, plus daylight savings, and it took 25 hours to get there, excluding transit time. you might be able to work out where I went. I bought presents! for people(: and heh more for myself ><
I'm supposed to be at home doing assesments and whatnot. oh and does anyone know what was studied for sec 3 lit this year? or at least the shakespeare drama. so I can read up on that, but I have a feeling crystal knows. There is nothing to dooo. except __ and_. they don't seem very appealing. I could go out, but I don't like going in school uniform, and I don't like spending money on my own ( I tend to be a little out of control) I sound irritating. Actually my room really needs a clean-up. And I havent put up christmas decorations yet. so I guess I can go home and do that. I could write a editorial!
Currently rereading eragon, so I don't get lost when I watch it. When I saw the magnet (that I bought from an esplanade movie shop), eragon looked very american and fake. so did the other characters. my dad thinks it is not worth watching since it's just like dungeons and dragons >:( he said this after watching the trailer.
I think I'll update soon, the next timeI come to school, or do a quickie on my grandaunt's computer.

I read the procrastinator's handbook, and it says it is important to know the reason of your procrastination. therefore I will have the following conversation with myself.
me: why do you not study hard?
me2: because I don't like to.
me: why do you not like to?
me2: I find doing my homework an unpleasant task. and overwhelming.
I have to have plans! a timetable! a goal! noble aspirations! right so plans: I plan to uh. I PLAN. to. read 5 zuowen a day, do my tuition teacher's homework every day. read a chapter of phys/bio/chem alternating with math practice, and make a dent in my nanowrimo thing. rewards! I am allowed to have an hour of goingout time for every hour I clock, provided I spend the full hour focusing and not thinking about funny things. (ie christmas! eragon! coraline!)

this has to be rushed. (again) I hate using the windows 98 computer and my parents still haven't paid the internet bills, so I'm at school!
The Virgin suicides is more of something that you can read once through without missing anything or having to reread it. I started on friday morning and finished by the time school ended, which helped me ease the distress caused by my um results. geeru currently has posession of the book, which is funny because it really isn't her type of thing, but she was desperate for something to read, so. and she has been absent from school for two days running, so I don't think I can lend it to anyone): unless the person offers to return it to the library by the 15th of november. I'll try to get the movie (even if it is rated) through the library- it is available for loan! It has fairly dark and mature themes though, even though it seems very trash, or rather a "provocative bestseller".
I feel like having a tea party! a proper one, the kind that laura would like. With sugar biscuits, cupcakes, scones with apricot preserve, and maybe finger sandwiches. And of course tea! fruit teas or english breakfast or earl grey but not green tea. I have to have paper doilies and pretty teapots and teacups. And we would have a theory discussion! haha or um fanfiction reccs. or snarry! <3 does anyone want to come? XD

thevirginsuicides it's very very cult. (not many people will warm up to it) and a little trashy, but not all the time, and very different from neverwhere/ things I've been reading lately. I stumbled upon it while doing my philo summative- the one on euthanasia, and went on wiki to look for the definition of suicide, which linked to the virgin suicides, a r-rated movie with kirsten dunst and josh harnett. So it turned out that the movie was based on a book, and I went to look for it. It's about four sisters aged 13-17, who are eventually driven to suicide. The book is taken from the point of view of neighbouring adolescent boys who are intrigued by the girls and their seclusion. It is the type of thing that adults say will "give you ideas", since the first sister kills herself at the age of 13 over a boy. 0_0 and the rest kill themselves partly because of the grief and partly because their parents have been overprotective. The author sets the story in the 70s, (I like things like that; see summer of the swans and dancing in the cadillac light) with the boys being middle-aged men recounting their experiences. It it a social commentary of suicides and the emotional/ psychological turmoil that teens undergo, and might not be appropriate for younger readers, and may not appeal to a lot of people.
more tomorrow.

inconsistency right so after kino crystal and I went window shopping, while geeru and michele were enjoying their purchases at coffee bean, and charisse mooched in kino for more reading. We discovered that prices in takashimaya decrease as you descend; the shops on the same level as kino were practically empty and had really really nice things with crazy prices and we looked pretty strange walking in uniform. So down we went, to moderately-priced stores- warehouse! and looking at shopfronts but stood out very nicely in a bridal fair which had a grey floor that was supposed to match the white on the dresses, I think. back to coffeebean and got a pink lemonade! which was surprisingly sour. well, just for me, because crystal finished half fairly quickly. and then off to hmv with michele, where I gawked at the prices (again), at austin powers goldmember, and at a $7.95 spirited away vcd. I finished off with a brisk walk back to the library at orchard to look for the virgin suicides/ a book to keep me sane, but instead met matthewchan and andrea/ laura/ mel(anie), though not in the same group. hightailed to bishan for my german results, but got to sleep in a darkened auditorium with __ in the background and no results. Mostly Martha was a very slow german movie (with subtitles) that I could sleep and still follow the plotline- my legs were killing me by now and sleep was excusable (.") and that was the end of end of eoys.

grr. emo rants up ahead. I smell like cheese. being a geek today, I went to the central lending library to look for the virgin suicides and spent 1/2 an hour sitting on the plush seats looking at the illustrated version of mirrormask, which came in a heavy books and art by dave mckean, with whom neil gaiman collaborated. It's just the story boards of every single frame, but it came with a foreword by you know who and email records of first drafts and everything. The footlong hardcover was too heavy to bring home, so I sat and read, which was nice to do when it was all quiet at ten in the morning. I went to search for the virgin suicides, and it turned out all copies not on loan were in the library at esplanade. all copies of anansi boys not on loan were there too. >:( so much for running all over for a single book. will probably go to the esplanade on wednesday to get that and anansi boys to keep me sane from rereading everything I have. left the library with sirthursday and neverwhere, and a reading of wolves in the walls, which is a picturebook for young children and could be lovely reading aloud. It took a lot of me not to sit one of the running kids in the library down and start reading, complete with sound effects. It must have looked pretty funny for a person my age to look at the section for junior readers for wolves in the walls and sirthursday. Actually it would be tons easier if I just bought everything I wanted in kino on friday with my christmas vouchers, but I wasn't sure if the virgin suicides and anansi boys were worth spending money on.

I feel fairly bored after eoys, and I must sound like that, but I have to catch up on tcamp, cap application and next year's stuff, because mum doesn't want me to fumble like I did this year and the year before that. Still keeping biochemphysicslit- will be a huge challenge to keep up. I have lots to catch up in terms of german and chinese><" which I cannot mess or I would be dead as a doorknob. starting off with the procrastinator's handbook, but neverwhere is a thousand times more appealing.

note to self: radishii [story], http://inkstain.inkquill.net/isf/archive/28/pariah.html ,
nanowrimo.org and I think I'll talk about thevirginsuicides, which turns most people off at first (haha me.)

Let me tell you all about friday! even though it's 1230(am) and I should be sleeping early for once. but this will be quick. <15 minutes.
I am typing on my grandaunt's windows 98 computer and it's very fun actually, with its supersized font and elderly- friendly giant mouse. Only fun when a report isn't due. The internet connection on the other computer doesn't work right now because my mum forgot to pay the internet bill --" or just another effective way of getting me and my sister off the computer for extended periods of time.
Friday was when the eoys ended! so after the drama at jblock, crystal charisse michele geeru and I went to subway, where we were promptly greeted by a whole bunch of rgs people. Which was good because the fastfood place beside subways was empty :D the fast food industry is a highly lucrative business and you don't know exactly what's in that burger so go underdogs! and places which still care about the health of the customer. But subways is in a way a fast food place, at least it has veggies that you can taste. after that we went to kinokuniya[sp?]! to browse and browse but at least michele and I got fragile things! by neil gaiman. Crystal and I went to look in the art section, and concluded that kino was where one could spend one's entire afternoon in.
>< eek this is pretty brief but will continue later.

I messed up geog. very badly. but I won't have to look geog in the face for the rest of my life! Actually 2 years of studying geog isn't very long, but I alwaysalways do badly in geog because I fail to memorise the diagrams properly and actually study, so it's all my fault. But geog would be pretty useful if I ever decided to work at greenpeace, for example, which I have considered doing. Because working at greenpeace without a geog alevel is pretty useless, because its all humanitarian issues and stuff. (. .) I don't even know what exactly is it they do [I am useless!], but they dabble in all kinds of things, especially environmental issues so obviously someone has to use geog. And my entire point of this is that I will never ever ever get a job involving environmental conservation because I am not continuing it for the rest of my secondary school life- and if you don't do geog in sec3 and 4, you can't do it in JC right? so yes, no more geog, unless I take humanitarian studies 101 or something in university. Butbut my gpa is much more important! and I don't really like geog, to be honest. You might ask, how can someone who is so into conservation not like geog?! honestly! but conservation is a weenie bit of geog and I find the rest of it boring): (sorry andrea and joyce) Though it is fairly easy to do the essay questions and mcq in geog, I always flunk the structured questions! the ones you actually have to study for -_-' at least there are no structured questions in history, which I initially decided on doing, instead of physics.
But I think I will adopt the very inconvenient method of trying to juggle tripscience lit for a month or two to see how I manage, and then switch to history if I suffocate. Mum firmly believes that I will have no life/ job /future if I don't do triple science, and what can I do, work in the ura? look at all the a*star people! they all major in biochemistry, biotechnology, [insert variant] No one majors in english literature or history! To which I go: "All those smiley people in the paper will become research assistants and have less of a life unless they take their major to the phd level, which takes a ridiculous amount of funding and time! I don't want to be a college student forever trying to pay for tuition and pass my finals!" you get the point. Although I obviously will not have the ability to go that far, much less get a scholarship from a*star, and I am thinking in extremes- I could stop somewhere in the course of getting my phd, get a job, and then continue.
>< its 1230 already and this teacher keeps on coming in to see what I am doing (I'm in 210) so wish me luck for math! and congruence and similarity and the crazy proofs and ratios.

I'm in school! and chinese is over. ovarrr for the rest of the year xD though my tuition teacher wants me to work on it during the holidays, so): will attempt to construct this post in 10 minutes. and speed-type. but usually hurried posts aren't that good. and are usually made of crap. I am being/ writing like my sec one self because I just wrote a very childish essay on the protagonist being sad with not being able to work with her best friend and then blaming the teacher for not participating herself, because the teacher rearranged the pt groups in class. Everybody is having hiatuses now because of the eoys, but I am not! well this is rather a semi-hiatus because I don't update as frequently, and my posts are much much shorter and shrink in comparison to charisses'. What's the plural form of hiatus? hiatuses or hiatri? horcrux/ horcri XD
I don't think I'll be applying for cap, even though I really want to, and even though i'm going to write the application samples anyway. Because I am too much of a wimp to ask ms ng for a teacher review. maybe I'll just tag on to somebody else's application and she can do it at the same time as that person and I don't have to go look for her! but with her review I dont think I'm going to get in anyway. I would like to do a cap RS on harrypotter and do a theory analysis- type thing. and write an editorial of my own! I'm not even sure that comes under cap rs but that's the least overwhelming thing; as compared to fps. seeing crystal rush her reading/ writing every tuesday has influenced my desicion to a great extent. or I can not apply for everything (and not go for the cap cluster activities) and just do rs on my own- on harrypotter editorials. a paring-theory editorial! lol
okay I've exceeded my tenminutes time limit- its 15 minutes now and I have to rush off home to mug for history and lit- will write more on friday.

hello. it is 4 am. I am rushing RS. It is a very unwise desicion to rush RS. I don't want to go to school tomorrow. I am driven to my very extreme and am going to resort to cheap coffee to stay awake in school (and sleep in assesmbly). I hate windows 98 and my grandaunts' computer with big elderly-friendly font and funny layout and tempremental disposition. Though I'm using the normal computer now, which eases the stress just a little. I hope my printer dosn't bail out on me. If it does, tomorrow (or today, rather) I will be down with a serious case of sleep deprivation, and I will faint if I go to school. Or I will stab the printer in a fit of blind fury. With my pen. The last time it happened, I flooded it with praises of adoration in a bid for it to take pity on me and actually start working. The printer, as of today, is a living thing with moodswings.

I notice during math, while everyone is having those wavy square-ish chips, I am having my apple crisp granola bar. (very loserish, I know.) Which is one of the nicest granola bars there are- it's not crumbly, it fills you up nicely, and it smells very genuinely of apples and cinnamon. Unlike the atkins diet smores bars lying at the bottom of my fridge which do not remotely taste like smores; rather mashed cardboard with the barest hint of sugar. Why I do not eat crisps like everyone else: firstly, I tend to get broke quite often, and would rather spend my money on something more permanent, i.e. books/ cds etc. Secondly, crisps aren't exactly vegan with everything else added, and since I am in the transition stage of becoming vegan (more of that later), I do not partake of crisps. Although sometimes my human instincts get the better of me and I end up stealing laura's food.

lalala. Okay in reference to the last post, hardcore potter fans seem like a fairly small group of people. Those who fancy being hardcore, I have a couple of PotterPackages for your enjoyment.

The OxyCore(kol!) PotterPackage:
1. 3 episodes of Mugglecast/ Pottercast for your listening pleasure
2. 5 fiction links provided by crystal, sihui, geeru, charisse, and siling
3. A Harry and the Potters link for study breaks
4. a Spinner's End and The Underground Lake editorial
5. The Harry Potter series books 1 through 6 for supplementary reading

The Hardcore Potter Package: (for those who prefer a crash course in all things harry)
1. Jay Tryfanstone link
2. Episode 50 of Mugglecast
3. An editorial of choice (preferably on snape/hocrus theories)
4. The Harry Potter movies one through four for a summarised version of the Harry Potter series

PotterPackages provided (free!) upon request. I appreciate feedback on what should be taken out of/put in these packs.

I feel materialistic! Which is not a very admirable trait. But I have a inane desire to own certain things, i.e. 40s peeptoe heels of reasonable height, skinny jeans, tunic-ish top to layer with, and a dress. All these things require money, a holiday job might help. Anyone wants to hire an able-bodied youth with um 8 years of formal education? Or I might take a WEP, but not the 8am-5pm, 20th nov to 31 dec ones, even though the pay is enviable. I might just give tuition/ babysitting/ admin services/ I can even walk your dog for you! or sweep the floor, wash dishes etc. Anything that comes with a salary! Part-time preferably because of ttskit and other stuff. I feel awful, money-faced, and greedy. or thinking in extremes. I have not been acting very responsibly lately. And forgetting things. and I find my enthusiasm for anything waning, being lethargic for no reason at all. sm does not help and the prints won't go awayyy. I have devised a system where 1 hour of study time can be exchanged for 1 hour of going- out time, in a valiant attempt to cajole myself to study properly and NOT FAIL. Any study strategies proven helpful are welcome. I don't know what to talk about. I am just wasting space. and I have to come up with things for my cap application that ms ng probably won't recc. though nothing has been inspirational of late and my vocabulary is decreasing so I'd better hurry off and do those vocab mcq books that we used to do in p6 but I personally find reading more effective in increasing one's vocabulary.
ohoh you have to see the official OotP stills on mugglenet- umbridge resembles a certain Josephine Queen. haha immature me. and there is no one particularly drool-worthy, unlike GoF ): dan looks horrible and is at his worst- I really hope his acting skills haven't disappeared with his locks.

Hello. I'm just blogging for the sake of doing so. German Oral on thursday was not very nice. the end. I really hope I pass the written test and babelfish has been very helpful in my revision :D I really should stop sleeping in class. I sm because of that, and because of other things and I really shouldn't wallow like a hippopotamus. I like sm-ing. It helps with anger management and keeps me from wallowing too much and hopefully will give me a reasonable gpa that I won't get killed for. But I'll sm myself to death first and so it'll be a death of honour and I'll die with dignity. I sm and it doesn't show! Icing it helps, to all sm-ers out there. I would like to know if you know what sm is! (I didn't leave a typo- it's not sms)

Since mugglecast has all these live stuff like Lumos2006 and live in vegas that I never get to go to, I was thinking of having a hp hardcore gathering in singapore! We could have a book reading like what mugglecast did- everyone brings their copy of a hp book and gets their chance to read an excerpt, complete with voices and sound effects. Or we could have a theory discussion(!) on topics like snape and horcruxes. Or even a movie marathon and critique after- I'll bring chips and salsa and crudites. And because of a high turnout (in a turquoise moon), we could hold it at the national library as part of literature awareness x) Though I don't yet know of any hardcore people who would come- except crystal, geeru, etc. I could look for mugglecast listeners in singapore though. But it wouldn't be as much fun if the people who would come didn't/wouldn't talk/ backed up theories properly.

eoys in three weeks. and after that, lightningonthewave! and yearouting hopefully(:

ohoh before I forget: a veryvery belated happy birthday to ceiling, sihui, jiaying and cherie((: Feel free to do anything you want to me if I've forgotten anyone.

I've just finished American Gods. This is about Shadow, an ex-convict, who meets Wednesday on a plane heading home. Wednesday strangely knows all about him, perhaps more than Shadow does himself.
It was a pretty long stretch of 3 or so weeks- I started on the monday of the school holidays, and today is monday of week 2. I'm writing this late, so it will turn up as tuesday on the post heading. Getting to savour the book really slowly made me appreciate it more in its entirety and the vast depth that Neil Gaiman went into, and the magnitude of the story. This also applies to its themes of gods and belief, which are very universal, despite the title of American Gods. It is seemingly disconnected when you first start, but in the end all the knots get tied quite neatly, so you have to read the uninteresting parts first before you can understand what happens next. It is slightly haunting, but he brings in a more fantastical, yet philosophical side into his writing that is not seen in things like Coraline or Smoke and Mirrors. Like all other Neil Gaiman books, this is best enjoyed on a comfy sofa on a rainy afternoon, or in a toasty bed in the wee hours of the night. This is what Neil Gaiman has to say about his novel- be sure to check the reseach section- I found several drool-worthy diners on the Roadfood link. What if American Gods were used as literary text? See what a lit teacher says. I would never ever sleep in a lit lesson again if the teacher did this.

I've recently been on a book-movie spree: Coraline, Ootp, Eragon and Artemis Fowl are all coming out soon! I know for sure Ootp is out in the states July 13 2007. Coraline is going to be voiced by Dakota Fanning yay but the release date isn't confirmed. OH stardust is out on march 9th 2007. His dark materials: the golden compass on Nov16 07. Spiderwick Chronicles on christmas day 07 (children's fantasy not unlike others; for younger readers) Hairspray on dec21'07 (musical on broadway) I need funding/ a job- I won't stick watching Ootp late on dvd):

The break between new posts are getting longer and longer): and will be getting longer as exams are imminent. Please bear with me as I attempt to rush my revision in 5 weeks- if I fail, many many people will be after my blood, skin, bones and flesh. Deadlines are horrible things. They tug at the corners of your mind; always there to remind you that you haven't done your homework. A deadline is the slimy monster in your dreams that you manage to escape from- only to find that it is waiting for you the next day. Escapism is only temporary and stalls the problem instead of solving it; the deadline will always be there; lurking in the the depths of your conciousness; permeating every dream and haunting your waking hours. I sound very dramatic. mwahaha. beware the deadline!

It's late. I should go to sleep soon. I will type really quickly! And mooch a little till I find something to talk about.

The reason why I don't really talk much about what happened today etcetc and more about "ooh mugglecast!" is because I don't really want other people to know stuff. Like the angsty stuff people moan about- "I hate you" "today sucked" etcetera. Not that I have anything against them, but these people have the courage to rant openly, and I respect that. I don't have that kind of courage, because I am eternally reminded that my blog is for everyone to see, and that means everyone. For example, if I said " you%#@*" someone else may read it and think it is him/her, and will therefore result in a misunderstanding. Secondly, I believe in a polite policy and that also means no words that rhyme with witch. (I have never found a need to call anyone that anyway) And also I have met loads of flamers on forums who talk like it's the only word they know, as well as fics written by people who have a very limited vocabulary, so you don't have to see another person like that here. I know someone who is supposed to be a role model (noodle for short) and noodle goes **** left right and centre on noodles' blog, and I don't know what kind of image noodle's showing to people who don't know noodle in person.
Back to angst. The feelings I feel that make me mad occur because of either rgsrcy-related problems, family problems, or school problems, all of which I feel are too personal to be put here. Firstly, I am very aware that many sagas can happen, have happened, or are happening right now because of things people have said on their blogs. I am also aware that inter-unit spats can happen because of what people say, and are best to avoid. And school problems are entirely my fault.

I think I said too much. And I feel like barfing because of the comp. I can't/don't want to sleep today because it's so late that it doesn't matter if I sleep or not. I have problems keeping on track, and I keep digressing. I felt oddly lonely today and yesterday and the day before and flat. I need a shrink. Or a yearmate. Or my blue nicole teddy that I just can't find. Everyone seems to be ranting. This technically isn't ranting because of the fact that it is so randomised. I think the only think I am good at is being random and longwinded and fibbing and making up stuff. Which aren't usefull skills unless you work in the advertising industry, or the government. Can someone call me? I need a lovely long telephone conversation. Oh and it would be cool if you haven't called before. Maybe I should call someone. But everyone else is doing something. And I am doing nothing. I wonder how this might look to somebody else. I am not trying to be funny or anything on purpose. I have the right to post this on my blog because this blog is mine and you don't have to read through all this crap because I have a feeling ( and you should too) that everything from this sentence on is pure and utter nonsense. I absolutely cannot write a personal exposition keeping on topic and on point and making it have unity and coherence. I am trying to make this as vague as possible so that a therapist won't think I need to have a pill anything or that I've been shooting up or anything, but this is so incoherent that I probably have. This is exactly how I'm feeling right now and you can probably guess. You know how Sally in Peanuts offers therapy for 5 cents? I wish somebody else did.