tikoy and books
Happy Chinese New Year everyone! :D It feels weird having done nothing especially Chinese today, other than eating yummy tikoy courtesy of the amazing Tin (who, by the way, would make a totally awesome sophomore Executive Officer for SOSE)! I remember last year, Kong Hua School (my alma mater) went all-out for Chinese New Year. There were free dumplings, egg rolls, and tikoy! Red-and-gold banners were hung from end to end in the Gym, and the entire student populace went to class wearing red.
Ahh, high school. I heard they just made Mandarin classes a requirement this school year. Phew. I graduated just in time then.
This week has been really lazy, even if we did have a long test in Chemistry (which I studied really hard for!). Fencing was cancelled yesterday, and so was Chem. This morning we had a pretty awesome time in the lab, testing for anions and such, and then for Filipino we watched this extremely boring documentary about "representation". We went to Manang's afterwards to jam - Rap brought Jules's beautiful beautiful guitar along, and I got to bring her home! So beautiful. ಥ_ಥ
Tomorrow we're watching a movie for English and Lit. Yay! Chemistry's cancelled for tomorrow too, double yay!
On a side note, a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a note in Facebook saying, "Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here." I read the list, and it turns out I've read only FOUR of the titles listed. I felt so ashamed of myself.
Because of that, I was inspired to rekindle my romance with reading. I've finished "To Kill a Mockingbird" (I bought a new book for Mike, the original owner of the book, because I wanted so badly to keep the copy I perused). I loved it. It's going up on My List of Favorite Books. (Currently reading: "The Time Traveler's Wife," by Audrey Niffenegger.)
After consulting that list again, I realized that I do not have enough willpower to actually read every single title on the list (I don't wanna have to read the entire works of Shakespeare!). So, I dissected that list, and came up with a few books I'd like to read just as soon as I'm done with my current novel:
Ahh, high school. I heard they just made Mandarin classes a requirement this school year. Phew. I graduated just in time then.
This week has been really lazy, even if we did have a long test in Chemistry (which I studied really hard for!). Fencing was cancelled yesterday, and so was Chem. This morning we had a pretty awesome time in the lab, testing for anions and such, and then for Filipino we watched this extremely boring documentary about "representation". We went to Manang's afterwards to jam - Rap brought Jules's beautiful beautiful guitar along, and I got to bring her home! So beautiful. ಥ_ಥ
Tomorrow we're watching a movie for English and Lit. Yay! Chemistry's cancelled for tomorrow too, double yay!
On a side note, a few weeks ago I stumbled upon a note in Facebook saying, "Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here." I read the list, and it turns out I've read only FOUR of the titles listed. I felt so ashamed of myself.
Because of that, I was inspired to rekindle my romance with reading. I've finished "To Kill a Mockingbird" (I bought a new book for Mike, the original owner of the book, because I wanted so badly to keep the copy I perused). I loved it. It's going up on My List of Favorite Books. (Currently reading: "The Time Traveler's Wife," by Audrey Niffenegger.)
After consulting that list again, I realized that I do not have enough willpower to actually read every single title on the list (I don't wanna have to read the entire works of Shakespeare!). So, I dissected that list, and came up with a few books I'd like to read just as soon as I'm done with my current novel:
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
- Life of Pi - Yann Martel
- Lord of the Flies - William Golding
- Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
- The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
Everything there can be found in the Zeitgeist or LitSoc book sales in Ateneo, so yayz~.
Oh, and in case you were curious, then here's that list allegedly made by BBC. The instructions, as relayed in the Facebook note: Bold those books you've read in their entirety, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish or read an excerpt.
Game.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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
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
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
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 - CS Lewis
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 - A.A. 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 Inferno - Dante
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 - E.B. 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
Looks like I've met the six-book quota that proves I am an average person. Woohoo. :|
(Edit: Feb 7. I've finished The Time Traveler's Wife today, so that means I've read seven on this list. Now I'm slightly above average. :|)
(Edit: Feb 7. I've finished The Time Traveler's Wife today, so that means I've read seven on this list. Now I'm slightly above average. :|)
Look like I've read 3 of them, and the others look really familiar... hehe
ReplyDeleteI might try borrowing Animal Farm from a friend. Good times.
Yeah! Animal Farm! Hello, Ken. :D
ReplyDeleteAHIHIHIHIHI <3
ReplyDeleteI have "The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-time"!!! I love that book, I'll lend it to you!!!!!
ReplyDeleteTin: Hihihihihihii <3
ReplyDeleteAlessi: THANK YOUUUUU! I checked the Zeigeist sale yesterday and they didn't have it. ._. THANKS! <3
read a lot of these na around 15? cant believe they didnt include brothers karamazov here yet included 2-3 tolstoy books! dostoyevsky is the equal or the superior of tolstoy and he should be appreciated as much :|
ReplyDeleteWow. You, my anoynmous friend, are one well-read person. Of course you've probably figured that out by now.:))
ReplyDeletewell this is appeasement anonymous who reads ur blog a lot... does that make me well read? :))
ReplyDeleteOMG. That is so sweet ;_;
ReplyDelete... it is??? Happy Blated Valentines lol
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