i'm a little teapot

Gakked from vikkir:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them.

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 - 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
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
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 Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

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Now, on to prerparing myself for school...

WTF? What is freaking wrong with Windows Vista? I just turned on my laptop and already the physical memory usage is right up to 780 MB! No wonder the thing's so freaking slow. *shakes head*

Social networking sites are EATING UP MY LIFE.

...Oh, Heidegger, how I fucking hate you.

The reason why I absolutely loathe using Wikipedia as a resource for school papers is not because it's unreliable -- rather, it's because I get distracted. Everytime I see a hyperlink, I go, "Oooh, shiny!" and start clicking, and before I know it, I have more than ten tabs open and the paper I'm supposed to be working on is woefully neglected.

Like right now. I was supposed to do research on the culture of Papua New Guinea for my SA21 class, and right now I have the following tabs open:

1. Papua New Guinea
2. Pacific Ring of Fire
3. Austronesian people
4. President Suharto of Indonesia
5. Oakwood Mutiny
6. EDSA
7. Jueteng
8. Sports betting
9. 1997 Asian Financial Crisis
10. Mount Pinatubo
11. Joseph Estrada

God, how I hate my curiosity during times like this. -________-;;

Today was the first day of school. Yay?

First class was PSY105.1, which is Experimental Psychology, Lecture. 'Twas nice. Our teacher reminds me of Maan, my prof for PSY103 last year. I hope she'll be as nice as Maan was. :D

Second class was SA21, Introduction to Sociology and Anthropology. The teacher is out of the country so we watched a short documentary and assigned to write a paper (!), due Monday next week. Woe.

The rest of the day was spent standing in line to get signatures and stuff. I are tired. *slumps down*

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While I was asking the secretary for the Department of Sociology and Anthropology this morning about SA21 classes that are still available, she was all, "Oh, you could be in this class, the teacher is out of town so I could sign it for you...by the way, you don't mind doing my job for me, will you? Just distribute these papers, blab about how the prof is out of town, etc., etc., and you'll be fine. :D" And I was all "NO DO NOT WANT Oh, sure, I'll do your job for you! :D *plastic*"

So I did what she asked me to do. And was consequently called "Ma'am" five times by five different students. And I was all, "Um...NO I AM YOUR CLASSMATE DAMN IT NOT YOUR TEACHER CAN'T YOU SEE MY ID CARD LOOKS JUST LIKE YOURS?" Seriously. Do I really look that old? Those sophomores are all probably older than me!

But! I only got, like, 3 out of 8 signatures needed to make my load revision complete. o.O The ADAA sucks. Why couldn't I just get them signed within the hour and not wait 24 hours later to get my papers back?

In any case, this is now my final schedule:


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Because Cheska tsubeebo asked me to. :D

Just watched Battle Royale. By myself. It's like Lord of the Flies, only with machine guns (and a pot lid, ha). I'm sort of proud that I finished it without closing my eyes, though it did come close in one particular instance, and that scene wasn't even gory.

I first heard about the film way back in first year when Paul showed me the 'let's throw a knife at a student to get our point across!' scene during Zoology lab. While it shocked me, it wasn't even the scariest moment in the movie. What creeped me out the most is the fact that the characters are all fifteen year olds, with the exception of the two 'transfer' students. (One of which, Kawada, was played by Yamamoto Taro, who portrayed Harada Sanosuke in Shinsengumi!, a factoid that made me squee with glee.)

Battle Royale isn't for the faint of heart. If blood, flying random body parts, and/or screaming Japanese schoolgirls squick you, then it's definitely not for you. But if it doesn't, it's a film that makes you think. Can you really kill your best friend?

Watch the film to find out. ;p

ETA: Why did I not notice that the actor who played the lead boy in Battle Royale is the same one who played Okita in Shinsengumi!? Granted, the weird samurai topknot would render a lot of people unrecognizeable, but Okita didn't sport that haircut during the start of the series, so I should have been able to recognize him in Battle Royale...

Yay, a meme! Gakked from Dea's Multiply. :)

( ateneo meme :) )