It's still 2011

  Once, there was this motivational speaker who came to my school to, obviously, motivate us. He said that one of the perks of living in a dorm is that you'll have friends to motivate you, so he advised us not to hate it and to think of it as a blessing. His explanation made me stun and facepalm. (Yes, this is in some way related to my post, even if you don't think it is). 

  So you've got this big test coming up and you have to study hard for it or you'll flunk and get expelled and then can't find a job and become forever alone hobo and die in some alley, alone. Then you would probably tell your housemates about the test and stress on the fact that you're going to start studying an hour later. In that hour, you'll be procrastinating on the internet surfing soul sucking websites like knowyourmeme.com and for some people, facebook. And then you realize that it's been an hour, but it doesn't feel like it and you're too lazy to study for the test and try to convince yourself that you can waste another hour. According to said motivational speaker, this is where your housemates will notice that you're procrastinating and motivate you by saying, hey stupid, why aren't you studying, you got that big test coming, why you so lazy. (Exact words) 

  The point is, if you need to get something done, peer pressure will MAKE you get it done whether you like it or not. It's peer pressure, duh, one of the biggest pressures ever but not included in physics textbooks. So his advice was to tell people about our goals and we will not escape the wrath of our own words. And getting to the other point, it's New Year's Eve! Which means, New Year Resolutions! And writing them out for people to see will work to help you get them done. Pffft, I hope. (See, told you it relates to my post).

My resolution for 2012: 1360 x 768 

1280 x 768 is so 2011

  Sadly, I didn't exactly finish my resolutions for 2011, but for a procrastinator, it was good enough that I got at least three of them done, out of ten. Oh. I realize that's not  good thing after all. Which means I should make another better one for 2012.

2012 Resolutions:

1. Breathe more oxygen

2. Retrieve soul from 9gag.com

3. Change my calendars in the house

4. Send random texts to people screaming Happy New Year

5. Have dinner

6. Pack my luggage

7. Get on an airplane

8. Update blog with weird stuff

9. Get on knowyourmeme.com

10. Get off knowyourmeme.com

  Well, that's a better list. It's way more manageable than 2011 Resolutions where one of them was to stop procrastinating. 

  Gee, what a really long post to end a really long year. Haha, well, 2011 deserves a last post, because I don't want to go back and live it all over again so I have to close that chapter! Goodbye hardest year of my life. I will remember and miss you, not quite sure on the missing part though. 

Happy New Year's Eve everyone! 

It's still Eve by the way, tsk tsk, haha.

Out-With

It the Eve before New Year's Eve

And a winner is this: 

BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE BOY IN THE STRIPED PYJAMAS BY JOHN BOYNE

 Go read it. Tollay awesome book seen through the eyes of a nine year old. It even censors the bad stuff. But it's really awesome, way better than the movie which was too straightforward of some sort. Halfway through the book everything suddenly becomes clear, so clear I don't know what to feel. Stun. I feel like the nine year old protagonist in the book. Don't google about it or it ruins the stunness. Just go, go and buy that book at Times. Or Popular book fair which I doubt is still going on. 

The story of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is very difficult to describe. Usually we give some clues about the book on the cover, but in this case we think that would spoil the reading of the book. We think it is important that you start to read without knowing what it is about.

- Quoted from back cover of the book (Reminds me of Lemony Snicket)

So don't google it. And don't watch the movie.

  Oh and I found out what those stuff written at the back cover of books are called. They're blurbs. And that also applies to those stuff written at the back cover of CDs and DVDs. I've been wondering what they're called and Joshua said they're not called synopsis, which is understandable because synopsis is a summary. 

The Word of the Day is: Blurb (noun). B-L-U-R-B.  Definition: Not summaries. Plural: Blurbs. Example sentence: What's a blurb? 

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Merry Holidays

Happy Dong Zhi everyone! 

With compliments from Kilang Tang Yuan Joshua Chang :) 

Send me some tang yuan. I require. 

In conjunction, but not-so-in-conjunction, with Dong Zhi, 

Christmas is right around the corner! 

So, have yourself a Merry little Christmas :D 

Even if you have no Christmas tree, like me.

  Awhile back, 26th of August 2010 to be exact, I wrote about a book I was super extremely desipo to get - 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' after  I watched the movie and it turned out to be really awesome. Then last week, I went to Times bookstore in Suria and I saw the book! Long story short, I am a hobo with no money and wanted to borrow Joshua's Times membership card to get the book. And longer story shorter, Joshua gave me the book for Christmas. So, THANK YOU JOSHUA.  It's an awesome book about the holocaust, yes, the holocaust. Though reviews claim the book is way too fictional and not logical, I DON'T CARE. I owe you your pull-up bar. Haha, got the book after a year of hunting, yay. 

p.s. Now I want a travelling pillow because my neck hurts on the plane. 

p.p.s I was kidding. I'm gonna get that myself okay. 

p.p.p.s Or am I.

Anyway,

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!

Santa Claus did not die for anyone, REMEMBER THAT. 

(I will now be partying Christmas away till next week or until I regain conciousness or maybe not)

PARADISE

Woah, December is my least updated month. Now read this rambling post of an awesome movie.  

  After all these months of waiting, I finally watched Paradise Kiss the Movie! My life is now meaningful, haha. *dramatic metaphor* Lucky that I somehow magically found the DVD in a store, I didn't think they would have it.

And it was awesome! :D

  Mind blown. I never thought the movie would be so epicly awesome since it was made from anime series that actually had 12 episodes, which in turn was made from a manga series that has 5 books. Pretty impressive, or maybe I'm just being biased because Paradise Kiss is tollay awesome. 

  Well, the story pretty much stuck with the original anime series. I wish I read the manga, but I can't find it anywhere, copyrights and licensing prevents me from being a pirate and reading it online. Bsh. The movie's left out all those insecurities and jealousy parts, so it's pretty much just about Yukari being a model for George's team in a fashion show. Then she realizes stuff and more stuff. 

  Yukari, the main chara, is actually really pretty and her hair is really nice. So is her cellphone, LOL. Weird thing to notice in a movie eh. Haha. And Miwako also has nice hair, but I kinda think she's a little too tall, she's almost as tall as Yukari and she could have been the model in the first place, she's pretty. Everyone in the movie is pretty with exaggeratingly (this is not a legit word) nice hair , except Tokumori, who looks kinda yong soi. Sorry.

Paradise Kiss is tollay a movie of nice hair.

Hair like that just doesn't exist IRL. Nobody shows up to school looking like that. 

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Tis the season to be jolly

  And grateful, because there shall not be a season like this one ever again!!1!1! From my point of view, that's a little depressing and because of the lack of kaching in my pockets and bank accounts and secret stashes, I will be spending the next Christmas in perpetual summer at home. Without the strands, who will be having a possibly white Christmas over in the Northern Hemisphere. Oh well.

  And also tis the season to get over my computer addiction, which isn't that bad by the way though it does sound a little like it so I should give it the term, computer reliance, excessive. Surprisingly, computer reliance increases during the exam season and almost caused me to flunk and also completely flunk, every single time. My laptop somewhat broke down and it'll take three weeks to get fixed, RAGEEE! Sabina, tak boleh skype.

  There was this weird syndicate that kept texting me saying hi kawan, saya Linda and blah blah blah. Well, 'Linda', I am not your kawan and I don't want to text ON FELA to 66336 or 63663 or 66366 and etc. Haha. I wonder how do they send all those out?! 

  What happened in December anyway? Why's everyone writing songs about December, pfft. The next December song is gonna be about my report card and how it matches the decorations on Christmas trees with all the red stuff.