I wonder if I have matured. Hmm.

I used to feel really bad when I see people doing better than I am (about myself). So I used to avoid looking at their photos so that I won't remind myself that I suck.

But nowadays, whenever I see someone doing better than I am, I feel really pumped up.

Is that the Lord teaching me how to accept things?

Thank you Lord for teaching me to finally be accepting (of fate).

Exams are starting next week, on Monday, and I have about 8 more lectures to go. But I am not panicking or anything. I feel oddly calm. Maybe its because I know I would be able to make it. :D

I should make it a point to update my blog more often. Perhaps photos/week? Hmm.


(And Yes, I couldn't fulfil a few of my new year's resolutions)

And I am wondering if anyone is going for AFA in Singapore? I would be in Singapore by then, and I wonder I should go (No way I am going alone. Siao.)

2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

6 The Bible

7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare - read some, but not others…

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

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 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 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 Collins

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

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 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 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

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 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville

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.

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 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 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 - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Total: 30

I need to read more. MOREEEE. Especially alice walker. But hey! Why isn't Paulo Coehlo on the list? GRRRr.

So, I have been lurking around LJ, thinking whether I should post.

Meh.

I decided to.

These few weeks have been busy,  the first week of September was the mid-semesters. I had to do a 50%, 20% and a 10% paper. Thank God for the first one I got a D. As in Dist. (PHEW NO MORE D's). I am still awaiting the other results, but I can't really be worried if I just managed a pass, because I should just continue concentrating on my others. They are more important.

After finishing the exams, I went for a movie at Carousel. I watched 'The Soloist' with my housemates, which was totally... weird. I guess. Whilst in the main character's mind, colourful disco lights with concert music isn't what I would call as appropriate. I think something more soothing and smooth would suit it more.

Then I had my break. It was awesome I had no studying to do for the break, I was totally free. I spent Monday at Pim's house playing video games. And we exchanged NDS roms. And they got addicted to Mystery Case Files that I have on my computer. :3 So I am not the only one.

Tuesday was at the disappointing Perth Zoo. I guess it also had to do with the timing and the position of the African Savannah animals, because by the time we reached the tigers, cheetah and the lions, they were only concerned with sleeping and hiding from the sun. D: So we only got a staring cheetah and tiger in some corner of the enclosure, and lions sleeping with four legs in the air.

The kangaroos, on the other hand, were extremely restless. They jumped out of their enclosures and became walking with us. (Don't worry, they are allowed to) Unfortunately, it jumped directly into the path of really curious kids who then cornered it. I am pretty sure it's pissed off now. The other kangaroos just sat down on their imaginary chaise lounge and watched the commotion. (Yes, I am pretty sure they are mimicking the Grecians)

I guess the cutest thing in the zoo was the fairy penguins. They were so small and cute! Waddle waddle waddle~. Dark blue skinned/fur/feathered animals are always the most attractive. Like those dark blue snakes. Charming.

The other animals were a disappointment though, especially the famous marsupial bear. Pim's mum wanted to see koalas, but in the end only got tufts of fur up in trees sleeping. The Tasmanian devil was ecstatic though. It ran round and round and round and round and round. It somehow reminded me of a goldfish. =="

The other days were boring and ordinary, I think I spent them all at home. (I can't remember!)

Saturday, however, Pim came to my house, as she needed internet to complete her assignment and my help. We took about.... 5 hours to complete it. And then we walked to her house for Pim's birthday party. We had steamboat :D. (That week was steamboat week, my house had steamboat on the Sunday before) Haha. She invited her old school friends too, and they all were kinda funny. ( Like Oscar and Leo) The steamboat was funny because Leo was all for the shabu shabu meat. So he took the meat out and put one slice at a time into the steamboat. And then he got impatient. And he went "DIU!" and poured the whole thing in. HAHA. Pim's mum then hid one packet of the meat under tofu. It was well hidden, and no one knew that they missed one packet till after dinner. After dinner Pim's friends adjourned to the living room to play mahjong, and me, Pim's mum and David sat at the dining area and just talked.

As Pim wasn't officially 21 till after 12, we waited till 12 to cut the cake. Pim's friends got her Chanel loose powder... O_O and David gave her a Gucci wallet O_O and I gave her a notebook ==". But still, it was really funny. Everybody took photos with Pim and Oscar had to hold the balloons behind each photo. He was the lurker in every photo :O.

Then break ended. TnT. Shockingly, I was still in mugging mode. However, on Wednesday I went to mug and realised that I didn't bring the correct stuff. I blame it on the horrible lab session the day before, because darn Paul totally ignored me in the line, when it was rightfully my turn to measure the Florescence in the sample. URGH. I can't really help it if I don't really like talking to him. I mean, I totally don't agree with him views on life; smoking like a steam train is one of the things that I strongly detest and abhor.

On Thursday morning  (12 AM) Joel called me because he can't use excel. And get the error bars. DL It took about 1 hour ++ to teach him. And it dashed my plans to go to school early to study the next day. D:

Moral of the story: LEARN YOUR EXCEL!

HAHAH i kept on thinking where there was a blue lined box at the start of my lj.

Then i realised it was an advert! LOLL

HAHA shows the greatness of Ad-Block. :D

At school right now, quite tired. 8 am class with Biochem isn't what I would call a good morning. I still have like 40 50 minutes more till next lecture. I was panicking just now because I thought my next lecture was at 12 (Yup, I was panicking because I had so much time).  My mind is not working now. =="

The new science library is FAB. FABBBBB. HAHA. Its like nice and big and modern! AND COOLEST THING. There is a monitor at the front of the library telling you how many computers are being occupied. YES. I KNOW. WOAH. Thats like the most uber leet convienient thing, possibly in the whole of UWA. LOL.

Damn Webct isn't up though, it says I m still taking Chem1102. NO. WAY. LOL. I m so hungry right now its not funny. Didn't take breakfast, and its winter. Somehow winter is associated with eating more and sleeping more. But shouldn't it be the months leading up to winter you eat more so that you can store fat and be warmer in winter? And since vegetables apparently don't grow in winter................

Woah its 10 am, second day of the semester and theres already a demand for library comuters. I feel (slightly) bad sitting down here LJing. LOL . But I am not doing anything yet. XP.

Ok I am going to finish my prelab.

I guess most people realised that I only start my blog when I am inspired. :D Hence this lousy post.

Is there a relation? The proportion of posts to your blog is directly in sync with the amount of stress you have?
AYE.

I recently found an inspiration to write poems. Its really interesting how my mind steers me around in circles. Very soon I might have a whole study about me "Michelle: An Sociology and Psychology Study of a Girl". WAITAMINUTE. That's more like a movie title! But meh, I don't think people would want to spend 7-15 dollars just to watch me. Its rather boring you know.

Thats why fictional stories are one of the most best-selling movies/books in the current world. (Even though the Bible is the best selling book in the whole world, but other than that, what else?)

I have been having really bad mood swings nowadays. It's not really healthy, and I blame it on the thickening of my uterus lining. And I also can't practically do anything strenuous (eg, sweeping the leaves off the patio [ I KNOW.], scrubbing something) without feeling faint. You might say," HAHAR, Michelle is just giving excuses." But then you might not know I have both low blood pressure and anaemia. Its like a TRIPLE WHAMMY. ( Ok, I admit, that word still has a giggling effect on me XD)

Recently, I have been playing Ouendan! XD I realised now how fun it is, and why so many people are drawing them on Deviantart. Firstly, they look absolutely silly, with their cheer moves. Secondly, they have this sheer raw sincerity in their cheers. Its all so funny, but yet its taken in such seriousness. Even when you fail the level the cheer(guy?)person falls to the ground like he has let down his predecessors. OnO. Its really hard to play it, as compared to Taiko, because taiko you can just press two buttons all the way to the top. Ouendan...... three words: pre-cursor to carpel tunnel.

And from Ouendan I found SMAP's old song " BANG! BANG! バカンス！" The lyrics are such good fun! (If you sympathize with people alot, don't watch the MV, I felt so sad to watch it as, well you know, most of them are such a let down, with the korean speaking guy becoming jailed and so on....)

I am really rreally saddened by Christine's predicament. I really wanted her to go to NTU.... D: So that we could meet up during the holidays and well read FMA all the way/ do stuff/ talk/ etc. ......... D: And I need to bully siwon into studying. BULLYYYY. Bull's don't bully people, so why bull-y? Why not goose-y? Geese like to bully little kids >:( If it was changed to that, it would probably stop many bullies as the name sounds so sissy. "__________ is such a Goosey! Goosey!"

And I have finally started reading Margaret Atwood's books. I've got A Handmaid's Tale! YAYYYY. And her other book The Robber Bride. I started on the latter, which is a little weird, with the girl suddenly appearing out of no where.

Ok then, I have nothing much to say......... OH AND I SPENT 30 DOLLARS ON A PROPER UMBRELLA. WOAH.

Ok. So i m stuck home, alone, with a bowl of cold prawn mee with really spicy soup.

And the first thing I want to do is vomit.

MAN.

Its days like this I wish I didn't have exams.

weird time.

Its 5.5 hrs to my bioc exam and i cant seem to concentrate.

So I have something to say.

I REALLY REALLY WANT TO CUT MY HAIR. MY FREAKING ABOMINATION OF MY HAIR.

I WANT IT TIDIED RIGHT NOW THIS MOMENT!
 
okkk.

SO i managed to finish my BIOC spotting.

Now to MICR.

And the worst thing is that I dont have any past years to guide me.
So screwed, so screwed.

I m leaving bits of black fluff everywhere because I am wearing my black cashmere sweater to sleep. URGH.

I initially wanted to lead people onto a wild goose chase around the web, but then I can't be bothered to do this, because I don't simply have the patience to plan out a treasure hunt.

And also I like yamapi. :3 HAHAHAHAHAA

I m getting a disgust of sugar now, so today I bought lots of crumbed fish, only to find it to be icky too.

MANNNNN.

My boyfriend should be able to eat strawberry and lime and lemon jelly babies in the starburst packet.

Because i hate 'em.

LAWL.

Inspiration
Comes at night
Ever fleeting
Hesitation leads to lost
Caught it
My room bathes in a clear light.


Lol. Lousy poem. But it is so impromptu and so worth it.
As I sit down with dust irritation and a cup of tea's worth of energy, I type out of this entry.

I just got of msn with tanu. From her, I learnt a few facts.

1. My friend wasnt exaggerating ( 4 years ago)
2. Love. Is. Too. Tiring. For. Me. zzzzzz
3. Someone I knew changed.

I know, the last point shouldnt be a shock. But, I think I have been <s>s</s>mothering people so much that .... its funny to see others going astray.

Oh wells. Cheers for mother's all over the world. I guess I know now what you feel when you see someone going astray.

PS.  what... the mood pic ^ isnt sympathetic at all. =A=

I wonder.

Haha today I talked to my housemates about love --" Jonathan kept on talking about Michael. --" I don't get it.

I realised that I have been asked this question more than once. " Do you have ____ with Joel?" (insert "a thing", "something" or whatever that alludes to a relationship) The answer is no. I can't see myself commiting to a thing when I am not sure about the next week's cooking duty.

I guess maturity would soften my "indecisiveness" testa.

Its really interesting to see the chain mail that the kids get right now. Its so FREAKING lame. Really.

Eg. 1.    Title: HEY I M _____ (insert some random place, colour or object; most commonly colour)
              Body: Look for yourself on the list and then forward this email and rename it with your colour/object

They still have Tom/Dick//Harry/Jane/Mary emails, where they died after reading and not forwarding emails. I can't believe how these chain mails come out. And manage to stay in circulation.

How is it that we participated in this tomfoolery when we were young?

I remember while I was young, readily sending these bits of spam mail to everybody on my list just so as to pass it on. What was the incentive? I have no idea. At times though, I was really scared of chain mails. I remembering quickly sending a scary chain mail to everyone just because I was afraid whatever was mentioned in the mail was going to come after the family and me.

Really silly times... I also sent them onwards when I wanted to see the gimmick in the mail. --: That was another silly part of life. Because I thought that the snail would really move across the screen if I sent the chain mail to 20 other people.

So the question is," How does one come about?"
Really. Thats my question

What is the motive of the chain mailer when he writes the chain mail?

"HAY IMMA BOARD. ME THINKS SHLD WRITE CHAIN MAILZ. LAWL."

Is that the case? (I know, highly exaggerated, but life has often portrayed itself to be stranger than fiction)

Where does the inspiration come from too?

I wonder how the answers are going to come in.

STUPID STUPID STUPID


I let a stupid 15 year old get the better of me.

I really want him to stuff his words back up his ass.

RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhh

Swearing won't have a calming effect on me now, like it used to.

So I shall draw it.

现在觉得特别强！

因为现在我拥有的，是一个clean slate. 眼前的路只有期望，没有忧愁阻当我。心情好轻荡哦！好像可以飞似的。 哇~~~~~~！

Today is a day of celebration!

1. CONGRATS TANUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!! YAY CARNEGIE MELLON! WOAH. HAHA yayy! I'm proud of you!!! (: Go there and help me fufill my dreams too  (=D)

2. YAY exams are finished. And questions weren't that hard!

3.And tomorrow is Good Friday! We must remember that Jesus died on the cross for us! Because of that, we are forgiven! Another reason to rejoice!

Whee~!

Anyway, these few day I have been head hunting on facebook. For people I know/used to know. Its really interesting how after years of separation some people get together in the weirdest way!

Bad things though

<s>1. Siwon is moving back to SH in july! I can't spam her with my free smses anymore! And I wanted to ask her to get me some stuff from sydney and send over (HINT HINT).</s> (edit: Okay, now she says she didnt say so. Or was this afternoon's chat a LIE? MEMORY REPLACEMENT? Is there something supernatural? I dont know)

2. People seem to be breaking up all the time, especially on the weekends and monday. (Some kind of pheromone resistance sickness passing around?)

3. I have to cook tomorrow. NOOOO. I don't think I am very much up to par with my parent's cooking. They are going to be disappointed.

Oh by the way, NEWS' new song Koi no Oda.... its very Dame X isn't it? Host Club. Pleasing the girls. Cheesy dance moves. Similar, no?

(I love 絢香's 夢の味方に, light and thoughtful)

Siwon's new introduction ( from her new found love of taiwanese radio) LIFE－キマグレン is pleasing to the ear, but not really my type. But its still a nice summer song.

so its prosh.

and i'm skipping it for french restaurant outing! ^u^

haha. mum cooked a feast last night
mmm....

and everyone enjoyed it (:

Its SOOOO CUTEEEE >.< O_O :3 X3

I wouldnt eat it. I would want to carry it everyday and stroke it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AWWWW CAT LOVE

So basically theres a sudden change in weather. (Like always) From something really hot to something really ... spring like. Reminded of those 徐家汇 trips I took in early spring last year and the year before.

But, even though in this really drastic (and nice) change in weather, MILK'S ROOM STILL FEELS LIKE SUMMER. O_O. Furthermore its like some kind of hot house room.

@_@ *dies*

and my homestay aunty took out my clothes from the hangers when it wasnt dry properly yet. Now theres this really weird smell.

En Jia is in perth! :3 (But she keeps on asking me out at the really wrong times. Eg, today, when I was at IKEA --" or last tuesday, when I had labs that day... timing timing...)

Finding it now really bad that I dropped my old computer. As in, WHYYY I left all my nice photos in it! Of Inner Mongolia and Yunnan in it! And ACE last year! With Chris and his group dancing!!!! ): And random Siwon poses. And our tai ti moments. MAN. And the hard drive when extracted doesnt even work properly. (Hanged the technician's computer.)

Damn.

Its one anniversary of our soju-plasticine-drinking event!

(the video is posted on my FB profile)

要搬家咯！

要搬家咯！

要搬家咯！

要搬家咯！

觉得我除掉了负担！

而且，冬季要来咯！すげ～～～～！

雪！雪！雪でしょうね！！

好好了，我不会说白痴的话了。

4月是我的新的开始！がんばってね！

新家的隔壁有小树林， 好有浪漫味喔！

。。。哈哈，可能是我的幻想而已。

哎呀，忘了，这是Perth的美景！


湖水好平静喔！


大学湖畔边的景色


大学湖畔边的景色+pelican



每天早上，大学里的鸭子会从窝里入出，找食物吃，一群一群的在大学的草地上找食物吃。不知道它们吃的是什么鬼东西，但是小鸭子在两个星期内从小小个子长到大大只的。蛮吓人的。(其实，它们比较怕我才是的。）



还有，homestay阿姨也重了很多葡萄 （葡萄的品种是酿红酒的！），现在是特别的甜！好好吃啊！


好吧！再会！

ask me for translation if you dont understand chinese.