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zara sale was great. plz go.

i shall do this...
1. Copy & paste.
2. Bold the ones you've read.
3. Add four recent reads to the end.
4. Tag!

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salingerdidn't like it
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
The Great Gatsby - F.Scott Fitzgeral (i read one of his book! cant recall the title..)
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Harry Potter 6) - J.K. Rowling
Life of Pi - Yann Martel
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story - George Orwell
Catch-22 - Joseph Heller
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (i've been wanting to get this book..can someone plz lend it to me?)
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (this too!)
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
1984 - George Orwell
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book 3) - J.K. Rowling
Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (i'm about to read this)
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Book 4) - J.K. Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter 5) - J.K. Rowling
Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut
Angels and Demons - Dan Brown
Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (Book 1) - J.K. Rowling
Neuromancer - William Gibson
Cryptonomicon - Neal Stephenson
The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Book 2) - J.K. Rowling
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
Ender's Game (The Ender Saga) - Orson Scott
CardSnow Crash - Neal Stephenson
A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis (does watching the movie count?)
Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides
Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien (note to en: my fren finished all of it.)
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
Good Omens - Terry Pratchett,Neil Gaiman
Atonement - Ian McEwan
The Shadow Of The Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
The Handmaid'ss Tale - Margaret AtwoodThe Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Unberable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
Hey Nostradamus! - Douglas Coupland
The Nature of Blood - Caryl Phillips
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules -Ed. David Sedaris.
Inheritance Trilogy Book I, Eragon - Christopher Paolini.
Inheritance Trilogy Book II, Eldest - Chritopher Paolini.
Bartimaeus Trilogy Book I, The Amulet of Samarkand - Jonathan Stroud.
Bartimaeus Trilogy Book II, The Golem's Eye - Jonathan Stroud
The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde
Lucky - Alice Sebold
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian - Marina Lewycka
Stardust - Neil Gaiman
Anansi Boys - Neil Gaiman
Faithless - Karin Slaughter
The Lone Drow - RA Salvatore
Brotherhood Of The Rose - David Morrell
Man And Boy - Tony Parsons
The Wheel Of Time - Robert Jordan
Dragon Wing - Margaret Weiss & Tracy Hickman
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell
Rameses: The Son of Light - Christain Jacq
Art: A New History - Paul Johnson
The Calvin and Hobbes 10th Anniversary Book - Bill Watterson
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Girl with a Pearl Earring - Tracy Chevalier (great for art lovers)
The Story of a Nobody - Anton Chekhov (intriguing!)
My Life as a Fake -Peter Carey (havent completed

okie as u can see..i'm not a fan of great books. i just pop into the library and get random books. speaking of which, i'm going down to the library to renew my books in 20 mins. so i shall get a few of the books in this list. maybe the time traveller's wife dat en has been talking about..and maybe something else.

go zara sale!! gogogo!!

i'm sorry. i feel very disgruntled towards certain individuals. bear with my frustrations. to all you pitiful beings out there....

1. i cant stand your haphazard organization. i never ever wanna work with u on another project. WHY did u make me do extra work for nothing??!!!

2. you are not honest with me. i'm sorry i found out.

3. you are hot and cold towards me, depending on ur menstrual cycle. i hate your moods. i hate it when u claim what not to be and refuse to listen out.

4. if only you talk to me about it, we wouldnt have to keep facing dat same barrier over and over again.

5. come on, be responsible! it's the least you could do. and not like you have lots to do.

if u think the above sounds like you, it may be or may not be. wat nonsense i'm typing!

up and above my anger for those individuals, i know they still have their credibility in other areas. especially for the one i'm so pissed off with, you are one talented person in one particular area that i truly respect you for that. i realize i wont stay angry for long cuz all of you are so lovable in other areas. we just need to avoid each other in the "sensitive" areas. thank you.

photos from last fri at wala-wala and holland v's nydc...


group pic...


nan zhong 2 hu, 1 lao su


i love this sparstic pic...

i'm back from BizAd FOC. it was damn fun. i was very impressed by the seniors and main comm's superb planning and organization. their execution of programme was so glitchless that whatever i've done for guides camp or church camps can never be comparable to what i witnessed at FOC.

anyway, our OG won the Best OG prize! thanks to everyone who were enthu and LAME, especially the seniors who were always friendly and helpful.

i shall not divulge any information on what kinda programmes we had cuz many of them are meant to be kept in the dark so that they will remain as surprises for the freshmen next year.

i must say, FOC was definitely fun and exciting. if u're going uni, do not miss your FOC cuz that's where you get to meet pple, network and have fun like a mad woman/ man. i promise you that the camp will be full of unexpected shockers and surprises.

my take on the golden rule of FOC - NEVER TRUST YOUR SENIORS. that aside, go and have fun!!

okie i know i haven been here for a long time. but rest assured, i'm still very much alive! had a really hectic week the last couple of days. i remember working for jesline on wed (intensive filing!!) and going shopping with elise and pan after dat (achievement: i didnt buy anything). gave piano lessons (make-up lessons & rose) on thurs and rushed finishing the church website and bulletin on fri. taught piano on sat and had worship practice in the evening. sunday was church and a long afternoon nap for my exhausted body.

the only exciting thing worth mentioning was the sleepover at elisee's house on friday night after i finished rushing everything. im sorry i was so late. was supposed to meet them at 6 or 7. in the end, i only turned up at 10 cuz there were really too much things to be done. plus i forgot dat i was to do bulletin while daniel's away. so the work got piled up and yes, i shouldnt have been late.

getting past that, when i got to elise's house, the girls (all 6 of them: elise, candy, enzie, pan, suzy, steph) were putting on make up. okie steph wasnt. i didnt see the point of putting make-up when we were just going for drinks. so i just rolled around in bed while they got ready. our initial intention was to go clubbing cuz elise really wanted to go. but dat silly girl couldnt get permission.

so in the end, we all trampled out of her house almost close to the stroke of midnight and went wala-wala at holland v. the real comic part comes when elise announced that she told her mum we would be back in an hour's time. ie, at 12 plus. so we couldnt be gone for long. anyway, the live band (the unexpected) at wala-wala was quite good. technically, they were glitch-less. but the songs in their 3rd set wont dat great. so we only had one round of drinks which is kind of weird, cuz usually we go 2 rounds.

at close to 2am, we went in search for food for my hungry stomach. nydc, swensen's and crystal jade were still open. at 2am!! imagine my shock. i had a chicken pie at nydc. it was satisfying. then we walked back to elise's house. washed up, talked till close to 5am and went to sleep. then at 8am, i had to get up to go teach piano. and u know wat? my 9am student didnt come cuz she forgot it was saturday. i had to get up so early for her la!!!!!

dats the highlight of the week. say goodbye to me and wish me great fun at nus bizad orientation camp (mon till thurs). will update again when im back.

p.s. PET!!! happy happy graduation!! have fun at your 1st day of work!

THE MAYONNAISE JAR AND COFFEE

When things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours
in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar... and the
coffee...

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in
front of him. When the class began, wordlessly, he picked up a very
large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls.
He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the
jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas
between the golf balls He then asked the students again if the jar was
full. They agreed it was.

~courtesy of huijie

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar.
Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the
jar was full. The students responded with a infamous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and
poured the entire contents into the jar, effectively filling the empty
space between the sand. The students laughed.

"Now," said the professor, as the laughter subsided, "I want you to
recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things. Your family, your children,
your faith, your health, your friends, and your favorite passions.
Things that if everything else was lost and only they remained, your
life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter. Your job, your house, and
your car. The sand is everything else. The small stuff. "If you put the
sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the
pebbles or the golf balls. The same goes for life. If you spend all your
time and energy on the small stuff, you will never have room for the
things that are important to you.

Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play
with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner
out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the
house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first, the
things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee
represented.

The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked. It just goes to show you that
no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple
of cups of coffee with a friend."

just got back from a relaxing church retreat at Desaru's Sebana Cove. it was quite an enriching and enjoyable experience. i've been fattened as a result of the 3 buffet meals and 2 tea breaks they have per day.

for the benefit of those who missed out on so much fun, i shall do a brief recount of the event. on the first day, on our way to the resort, we did a little shopping at kota tinggi's tiny shopping mall, had a seafood lunch and visited desaru's fruit farm. upon arrival at the resort, we checked into our rooms and relaxed till dinner time. wei and i went over to andy's room to play titee cuz we only had 3 players (not enough for bridge). after dinner, we attended a sermon by preacher luke.

on the 2nd day, after a heavy breakfast, we listened to a short sermon by rev phua, had a sharing session and then went for lunch! less than 3 hours between breakfast and lunch! i almost wanted to become bulimic immediately. after that was a games session (very happening!!) and then we (andy, mandy, wei, samuel, jixian, me) went canoeing. but we couldn't go too far out. the sea water was extremely salty! after dinner, we took a boat out to see fireflies. the kids were so excited. they kept trying to catch the fireflies which are extremely tiny. there were so many fireflies in the trees. it was very beautiful. nature's own christmas tree lighting. when we got back, it was Bridge Night! we played all the way till almost 3am and went back to sleep.

on our 3rd and last day, we attended a very interesting seminar-style sermon by preacher eng hoe and then we packed up and left. so it was a very interesting and fun-filled retreat. if only more of you (ie. jx, ks) could have come!!

dats all for now. anyway, plz vote for CHOY SIEW WOON. my geog pal on singapore idol!!!!! go, wooon!!!!