sometimes glass glitters

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zx. 20+. wants(1 gpa to stay abv 4.00 (2 big watsons dog/guitar lessons/tohoshinki cds/dvds/polaroid camera(on a whimsy)/new sandals/dresses!/skirts/tops/shorts... (3 summer holidays to come soon

more than diamonds

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goodbye


designer: eminence.
image: Sara Bareilles' Site
background: Photobucket quote: Terry Pratchett

Friday, February 27, 2009


Apparently the BBC reckons most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here.

Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'x' after in the brackets of those you have read.
2) Star (*) those you plan on reading.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.
4) Put in a note with your total in the subject

1 (*) Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 () The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 () Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 (X) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 (X) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 ( ) The Bible
7 ( ) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 (X ) Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 ( ) His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 ( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

Pitstop Count: 3

11 () Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 (X) 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

Pitstop Count: 4

21 () Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell <- I actually plan to watch this more than read this
22 (* ) The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 ( ) Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 ( ) War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 (X) 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 (X) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carrol
30 () The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

Pitstop Count: 6

31 ( ) Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 (X) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 (X) Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 ( ) Emma - Jane Austen
35 ( ) Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 (X) The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37 (*) The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 ( ) Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 (X) Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 (*) Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

Pitstop Count:10

41 (X) Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 (X) 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 Collin
46 ( ) Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 ( ) Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 (X) The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 (X) Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 ( ) Atonement - Ian McEwaN

Pitstop Count: 14

51 (X) 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 (X) Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 (X) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 ( ) Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pitstop Count: 17

61 (X) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 (*) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 ( ) The Secret History - Donna Tart
64 (X) 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's Dick - Herman Melville

Pitstop Count: 19

71 (X ) Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 (X) 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

Pitstop Count: 21

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 (X) Charlotte’s Web - EB White
88 (*) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 (X) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 (X) The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

Pitstop Count:24

91 ( ) Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 (X) The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint EXupery
93 (X) The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 ( ) Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 ( ) A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 ( ) A Town Like Alice - Neil Shute
97 (X) The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 (X) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 (X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
100 (*) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Pitstop Count:29


Thursday, February 26, 2009


doesn't like the very noisy motorcycles driving by the road outside her block me flats and hopes they get caught for illegal vehicle modifications.


Wednesday, February 25, 2009


after all this time, I'm still learning new boundaries.



to break the evil chain of notes on fb.

"I screwed up 33% of my teenage school life".

[ ] Gotten detention.
[ ] Gotten your phone taken away in class.
[ ] Gotten suspended.
[ ] Gotten caught chewing gum.
[ ] Gotten caught cheating on a test.

Total: 0

[ ] Arrived late to class more than 5 times.
[ ] Didn’t do homework over 5 times
[ ] Turned at least 3 projects in late
[ ] Missed school cause you felt like it.
[ ] Laughed so loud you got kicked out of class.

Total : 0

[ ] Got your mom / dad etc. to get you out of school.
[x] Texted people during class.
[x] Passed notes.
[ ] Threw stuff across the room.
[x] Laughed at the teacher.

Total : 3

[ ] Pulled down the Fire Alarm.
[ ] Went on Myspace , Facebook , Xanga , etc. on the computer at school.
[x] Took Pictures during school hours.
[x] Called someone during School hours.
[ ] Listened to an iPod , CD , etc... During class.

Total : 5

[ ] Threw something at the teacher
[ ] Went outside the classroom without permission.
[x] Broke the dress code. [duh everybody did..]
[x] Failed a class.
[x] Ate food during class.

Total : 8

[ ] Gotten a call from school.
[ ] Couldn’t go on a field trip cause you behaved badly.
[x] Didn’t take your stuff to school.
[ ] Gotten a detention and didn't go.
[ ] Stuck up your middle finger at a teacher when they were not looking
[ ] Cursed during class loud enough so the teacher could hear.

Total : 9

[ ] Faked your parents signature
[x] Slept in class.
[ ] Cursed at a teacher to their face.
[x] Copied homework

Total: 11


MULTIPLY BY THREE : 11 x 3 = 33%


Tag 10 of your friends.

Then Repost this & put the Title as "I screwed up __% of my teenage school life".

do it if you want to then tag on my tagboard. (=


Sunday, February 22, 2009


zhixuanology (this follows in the line of why some bacteria and proteins and molecules have funny names that don't make sense but helps you understand who discovered them (to make your life that much more miserable))

***********FOOD-OLOGY*****
**********

What is your salad dressing of choice?
something sour and vinaigrette-y, oh and must have little crunchy bits (like nuts or croutons)

What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
hmm, Lawry's was quite nice I guess, so was Absolute Haven...

What food could you eat for 2 weeks straight and not get sick of it?
toasted bread (with butter and sugar, with butter, with condensed milk, with cheese, with...)

What are your pizza toppings of choice?
pineapples, some mushrooms, ham!, cheeeeeeese

What do you like to put on your toast?
butter and sugar. ^^ mummy's french toast is yummiest though

**********TECHNOLOGY***************

How many television sets are in your house?
4...

what color of cell phone do you have?
black! there's a little crack on the top of it though.. )=

***************BIOLOGY******************

Are you right-handed or left-handed?
right

Have you ever had anything removed from your body?
don't think so? oh oh! blood!

What is the last heavy item you lifted?
school bag?

Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
nope.

************BULLCRAPOLOGY**************

If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?.
eh would be nice i guess. do things you want to do, settle your worldly affairs.. -floats-

If you could change your name, what would you change it to?
ooh i like my name, super easy to find on the register, just scroll all the way down to the bottom of the list.

Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
depends on how badly i need the money

************DUMBOLOGY******************

How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
3

Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
never!!! muahaha

Last person you talked to?
face to face? my grandma (=

Last person you hugged?
-thinks- wk

**************FAVORITOLOGY****************

Season?
autumnnn

Holiday?
cny! $$, food, gambling, family and friends. what's not to like?

Day of the week?
fridays

Month?
may may may! start of summer holidays and my birthday's in it!

***********CURRENTOLOGY*****************

Missing someone?
not really

Mood?
nonchalant

What are you listening to?
my grandma on the phone, someone ringing an ice cream (i think) bell downstairs, advertisement on tv

Watching?
胡歌 pout whenever he's trying to look blur/dumb/innocent

Worrying about?
not screwing up my 8AU module

***************RANDOMOLOGY*****************

First place you went this morning?
out of the house? would be the library

What's the last movie you saw in cinema?
benjamin button!

Do you smile often?
probably not

QUESTIONS

1) Do you always answer your phone?
only if i hear it and it's not during lesson time

2) It's four in the morning and you get a text message, who is it?
one of my ntu friends

3) If you could change your eye color what would it be?
ooh, green!blue!purple!

4) What flavor do you add to your drink at Sonic?
and the only sonic i know is the blue hedgehog with red shoes

5) Do you own a digital camera?
not my own

6) Have you ever had a pet fish?
guppies with pretty tails

7) Favorite Christmas song?
all i want for christmas is youuUUuuuUuU

8) What's on your wish list for your birthday?
a lot of things that probably no one will get for me

9) Can you do push ups?
2= more than 1, so yes.

10) Can you do a chin up?
nope. flabby arms cannot take the weight of even flabbier body

11) Does the future make you more nervous or excited?
the near future seems more exciting

12) Do you have any saved texts?
not in my current phone

13) Ever been in a car wreck?
nope

14) Do you have an accent?
singaporean

15) What is the last song to make you cry?
collin raye's love me ( a really really long time ago)

16) Plans tonight?
finish my graph drawings

17) Have you ever felt like you hit rock bottom?
yea

18) Name 3 things you bought in the last week
lunch, top up bus card, tea

19) Have you ever been given roses?
i...think...so?

20) Current worry?
that i haven't messed up 5AU module

21) Current hate right now?
heh

22) Met someone who changed your life?
mm

23) How did you bring in the New Year!
with my class at the top of mt faber, running around trying to catch fireworks

24) What song represents you?
happy in the meantime!

25) Name three people who might complete this?
don't tag, don't ask, don't know

26) What were you doing at 12 AM last night
plotting graphs )=

27) What was the first thing you thought of when you woke up?
what time is it and why hasn't my alarm rang yet


Thursday, February 19, 2009


have had a traumatic experience with presentations this morning. then again, no effort no reward yar? just going to watch my self esteem and ego plummet a little. a bit apologetic to random other ppl who did work and ended up having their results screwed cos of the presenter(s). =(


Friday, February 13, 2009


I'm limiting my computer time to 2 hours a day! If there's a need to do research online, all online messaging programmes and social websites/game websites will be shut! 好多东西做,要读书了...


Saturday, February 07, 2009


I fell in love with.. shoes today. And didn't buy either of them 'cos they were heartbreakingly expensive. )=


The sandals were in a gorgeous shade of purple and the flats were made of corduroy-like material and brown! Hai..