Thursday, February 26, 2009
manchesterunited 11:52 PM
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Wednesday, February 25, 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 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 (x ) The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (the book's still better than the movie, not that the movie sucked, but still.)
3 () Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 (x) Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5 (X) To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee (i have this!)
6 (X) The Bible (don't really dare to say i've finished it tho.)
7 ( ) Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 () Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 () His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 ( ) Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
Pitstop Count: 4
11 ( ) Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 ( ) Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 ( ) Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 ( ) Complete Works of Shakespeare [erm. is this possible?!]
15 () Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 (x ) The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 ( ) Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 ( ) Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger - failed to complete it
19 () The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 ( ) Middlemarch - George Eliot
Pitstop Count: 5
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 (x) Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
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 (x) Persuasion - Jane Austen - A lvl lit text
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:11
41 (X) Animal Farm - George Orwell (but some are more equal than others. sec sch classic.)
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 () The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 () Lord of the Flies - William Golding- Incomplete
50 () Atonement - Ian McEwaN
Pitstop Count: 13
51 (x) Life of Pi - Yann Martel (have it, good read.)
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 (x) The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (very, very good. even the chapter numbers have literary significance.)
60 () Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez (I love this)
Pitstop Count: 15
61 ( ) Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 ( ) Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov - Incomplete
63 () The Secret History - Donna Tart
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 (x) Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding (i still don't know what possessed me to buy it.)
69 (x) Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie (lit text haha)
70 () Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Pitstop Count: 17
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
Pitstop Count: 17
81 () A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 () Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 () The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 (x) The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro (another lit text)
85 () Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 () A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 (X) Charlotte’s Web - EB White (oink.)
88 (x) The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 (x) Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (right after i'm done with enid blyton)
90 () The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (not sure if i did so better not.)
Pitstop Count: 21
91 (x) 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 - Neil Shute
97 () The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 (x) Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 (X) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl
100 (x) Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Pitstop Count: 25
not putting the stars, dont wanna make empty promises haha. and oh tania you've won! haha. i need to be working harder. or i could go all sour grapes and state that your list is in no way authoritative haha.
manchesterunited 10:28 PM
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Friday, February 20, 2009
and so i realise today that i've been spelling it wrongly for the longest time, it's "gaNbatte" instead of "gaMbatte". thanks eeli! haha.
manchesterunited 12:35 AM
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Tuesday, February 17, 2009
from whose line:
colin: hey, if Sting (from the band Police) retires, will he change his name to Stung?
hahahha.
manchesterunited 11:35 PM
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Some are dead; you must rouse them. Some are troubled; you must comfort them. Others are burdened; you must point them to the burden-bearer. Still more are puzzled; you must enlighten them. Still others are careless and indifferent; you must warn and woo them.
Spurgeon, C. H.
manchesterunited 10:59 PM
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serious earworm. sang it with zou as we're walking back home, but i just cant rmb the lyrics! keeping it on loop now =P
Nighttime sharpens, heightens each sensation
Darkness stirs and wakes imagination
Silently the senses abandon their defenses
(Helpless to resist the notes I write)
(For I compose the music of the night)
Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour
Grasp it, sense it, tremulous and tender
Turn your face away from the garish light of day
Turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light
And listen to the music of the night
Close you eyes and surrender to your darkest dreams
purge your thoughts of the life you knew before
Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar
And you'll live as you've never lived before
Softly, deftly, music shall caress you
Hear it, feel it, secretly posess you
Open up your mind,
Let your fantasies unwind
In this darkness that you know you cannot fight
The darkness of the music of the night
Let your mind start a journey through a strange, new world
Leave all thoughts of the life you knew before
Let your soul take you where you long to be!
Only then can you belong to me
Floating, falling, sweet intoxication
Touch me, trust me, savour each sensation
Let the dream begin, let your darker side give in
To the power of the music that I write
The power of the music of the night
You alone can make my song take flight
Help me make the music of the night
manchesterunited 10:49 PM
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Sin is the dare of God's justice, the rape of His mercy, the jeer of His patience, the slight of His power, and the contempt of His love.
Bunyan, John
manchesterunited 9:45 PM
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Thursday, February 12, 2009
The upright soul is constant in his profession, and changes not his behaviour according to his companions. Oh, that I might never through shame or fear disown Him who has already acknowledged me!
Swinnock, George
manchesterunited 10:31 PM
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Abba Father,
thank You for the breath of life i have today, to be living once again in Your love and care.
thank You for giving me the chance to serve You in the Love Movement today. thank You for the encouraging responses that i have had, be it from fellow Befrienders, friends whom i've met, or even strangers who come forward to look at the posters. forgive me of my moments when i'm lazy or careless or just not proactive enough in engaging people who walk past me in the central forum today. grant me Your grace and Your strength, Father, to better share your love to the people that You will allow me to meet tomorrow, and may it be that by Your strength and power that i will be truly a fitting testimony for you.
thank You for the lunch with our SM3 kids today. thank You, Lord, for sister janelle's efforts in organising this gathering, which hasn't been easy for her. and also Lord forgive me in my moments of weakness and laziness, when i've treated this group of people lightly and have not exercised my responsibility in loving them, when i know that they are much loved by You and are valuable in Your eyes. i pray that we'll have a lot more future gatherings, that janelle and i will be able to better reach out to them and establish deeper friendships with them, and that they will be able to see You in us.
thank You for CG today, which has been a very illuminating time for me. thank You for using brother shen kiat so powerfully, to remind myself that yes, indeed, we were once, as gentiles, aliens to Your kingdom and salvation, but by Christ we're able to partake of Your mercy and love. Lord, help me to not forget this lesson, and to always learn to see Your face in every person that i come across, to love my neighbour as myself, and to be doing things for the least of people as though i'm doing them for You.
thank You for supper today, which was an edifying experience, of frank and honest sharing, where as brothers-and-sisters-in-Christ we're able to remind each other that You and only You are our anchor in life, my rock, my refuge, my cornerstone. help us to always fix our eyes upon You, oh Lord. thank You for the hope that i have in You, that although i know not what awaits me tomorrow, i do know Who holds my hand.
i give thanks and pray all these in the most precious and blessed Name of my Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ;
Amen.
manchesterunited 12:21 AM
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