Funny!

Stick humour! Please note, this is totally not of my own creation. Would just like to share with everyone the intelligent humour. Hahahaha. Enjoy! For more, go to http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_feb2007/StickHumour.htm.

And to those fighting for something worth fighting for, for those thinking of giving up, for those finding it hard to strive strong, here's something that I really like.

From the Outside

Haha. Here is an interesting, amusing point of view I've been thinking about for quite some time.

So picture yourself sitting in the passenger seat of your car, stopped at a traffic light junction, and a song you know so well and love so much comes on the radio (eg. Bohemian Rhapsody) and you start singing along. And your favourite part, the peak of the whole song arrives and you sing your heart out with hand gestures and the works. Then out of the corner of your eye you see the driver of the car beside you peering at you.

So, the driver looking in at you from the outside, what is running through his mind as he stares at this weird girl singing along oh-so-dramatically to a song he can't hear? Will he be scrutinizing your facial features? 'Oh no! Look at her nose!' ' What's wrong with her face?' 'Her teeth are so crooked, she needs braces!' 'Hey look! She HAS braces!' Of course it could be positive too. Hahaha (pessimist! KELLY!). Or could he be wondering what song this girl is singing along to, so passionately. 'Hmm, maybe it could be a song I like too.' 'Hmm, could it be Bohemian Rhapsody?' 'Hmm, could it be the F.U.N. Song by Spongebob Squarepants?' (Check it out guys, it's cool.) Or maybe he could be a hu-

SIGH. I stopped there and did something else that lasted for a few hours, and now I totally don't know what I wanted to say with that sentence. Hahahahahaha..........

OH! Or maybe he could be a humourous guy and think it was totally funny. Picture it guys, it IS funny!

I seriously lost my train of thought. So, on to the next section!

So imgaine, if you were in the car yawning or trying to pick your nose, and someone caught you by looking in from the outside. How funny would that be. Or you were argueing with someone else in the car, or you were doing your hair. I think it's a very funny perspective, looking in from the outside. Of course, some people would think that would be a very lonely thing, if you're seriously looking in from the outside at your friends or family, wihtout you being a part of it. It is a sad thing. But for me, I just try to watch and stay open-minded. That's why you can see me smiling for no reason quite often. Hahaha.

Oh well. This is a hasty end to a post I started with my head still on my shoulders. So yup, bye!

I Know!

Here are some books I missed out. I don't remember whether I've posted about this book before, but oh well, you can just skip this post anyway.

Ways To Live Forever- Sally Nicholls

My name is Sam. I am eleven years old. I collect stories and fantastic facts. By the time you read this, I will probably be dead.

Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukaemia, he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody answers- all of them.

Ways to Live Forever is the first novel from an extraordinarily talented young writer. Funny and honest, it is the most powerful and uplifting book you will ever read.

For a first book, it is a very good one. Angela lent me this book to read, and I think it is written very well. It really shows everything in the views of a young child, a young child who knows his time is limited. It's just really straightforward. It's kind of sad, in a good way, yet funny and amusing. Really gives you something to think about. it's so true and realistic. Yes! Recommended! A 5/5 for me! =D

Currently reading:

Keeping Faith- Jodi Picoult

When Mariah White catches her husband with another woman, her life starts to fall apart. And when her daughter, Faith, begins to confide in an imaginary friend, her own brush with insanity starts to take on a darker meaning.

Then Faith appears to start performing miracles, and all at once this situation is spiralling out of Mariah's control. Is Faith truly seeing God? Or is she just a troubled little girl seeking refuge from her parent's divorce?

When it comes to matters of faith, it's hard to know who to believe.

I got the one on the left, but I want the one on the right. Or something like that. It's been republished many times, so I don't know which is the original cover. I'm reaching the end and it's totally awesome! It is written with a seriously open mind, with views from so many different points, and that takes lots of research and brain-storming. It questions alot of things about religion, and truth be told, it has got me thinking too. I even had this seriously weird dream about some confession thing at school after reading it before bed. Haha. It's a really good story, and very well-written. But I think you would have to be quite familiar with different types of religion. There's alot of different ones mentioned in the book and some I have never even heard of. BUT!!! I have a horrible feeling that the daughter is going to die! NO!!!!! I'm going to read the end soon! And on that note, 5/5! =D

It's that time again!

Today's Dilbert is so funny! The pointy-haired boss tells Ted,

'Ted, your new responsibility is to keep the pidgeons from defiling our ledges.'
'Are you hoping this awful assignment will cause me to quit?'
'Not at all.'
'Are you hoping I'll fall out a window?'
'Maybe you should stop guessing now.'

Haha! Anyway. Yes! It's that time again where I update YOU on the books I'VE read! Hehe. Yes, which also means you can just skip this post. And of course, the pictures, the books, the sypnosis, I do not own.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- J.K.Rowling

It is the middle of the summer, but there is an unseasonal mist pressing against the windowpanes. Harry Potter is waiting nervously in his bedroom at the Dursleys' house in Privet Drive for a visit from Professor Dumbledore himself. One of the last times he saw the Headmaster was in a fierce one-to-one duel with Lord Voldermort, and Harry can't quite believe that Professor Dumbledore will actually appear at the Dursleys' of all places. Why is the Professor coming to visit him now? What is it that cannot wait until Harry retuns to Hogwarts in a few weeks' time? Harry's sixth year at Hogwarts has already got off to an unusual start, as the worlds of Muggle and magic start to intertwine...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows- J.K. Rowling

Harry has been burdened with a dark, dangerous and seemingly impossible task: that of locating and destroying Voldemort's remaining Horcruxes. Never has Harry felt so alone, or faced a future so full of shardows. But Harry must somehow find wintin himself the strength to complete the task he has been given. He must leave the warmth, safety and companionship of The Burrow and follow without fear or hesitation the inexorable path laid out for him...

I reread the 6th book for the movie that came out I-forgot-when this year, and couldn't stop myself from then rereading the 7th book as well. The Harry Potter Series is undoubtedly a fantastic, inventive series. Whenever I put down a HP book, I always feel like I'm living amongst so many unknown things, that I'm actually living in a world where wizards and magic really exists. Haha. I always have to stop myself short and tell myself I'm living in reality (same goes with all fantasy books I read) and these things do not exist. Although I am sure of myself that I would not mind at all if it turns out that they actually do. Haha. The plot is so amazing and definitely unpredictable (sort of). I am so amazed, seriously, by how J.K. Rowling can think of a plot so imaginative, sourcing from nothing but her thoughts and ideas, starting from scratch, creating an entirely different world! From the 6th book onwards, I thought that everything became much more serious, especially in the 7th book with so much conflict going on. But it's really awesome. For the movie, I think that the movies for this series were done reasonably well, but the 6th was kind of disappointing for me. It was 3 hours long, but I felt that everything was just so rushed. Every scene had no proper introduction and ending, it just kept changing from scene to scene. And I didn't like the castle they 'used', I still think they one they 'used' in the 1st movie was the best, I guess, maybe because it was the first image of the castle given. Hmm. But the 6th was also disappointing because they cut out really good parts that I was anticipating to watch on screen, or because they didn't do those parts well. I don't really blame them, with them rushing on like they did and still taking 3 hours, I can't imagine how long the movie would have taken if they took their time on certain scenes. I was really looking forward to these scenes: of course, the big fight in Hogwarts towards the end, when Harry used Sectumsempra for the first time, when Katy Bell touched the cursed necklace, and of course the part in the lake in the cave, the Inferi. They didn't do these parts up to my expectations. When I read the book, I was seriously creeped out by some of these scenes, but in the movie it wasn't so. But oh well. I still say the best movie they did was Order of the Phoenix. Haha. Awaiting the Deathly Hallows movie. Another neverending applause for J.K. Rowling for how she put together the puzzle pieces so perfectly together, even pieces from the first book fall together in the 7th book. Clap clap clap! Need I say? 5/5 for me! Hehe, some cooly pics I like, some I've only just seen just now when searching. I guess I just really like those taglines they put on the top/bottom of the pics! I like Malfoy! Love Bellatrix!

LOOK AT BELLATRIX!!!!!!!

I know! I'm crazy! I'm a geek!

Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief- Rick Riordan

Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood. I never asked to be the son of a Greek God. I was just a normal kid, going to school, playing basketball, skateboarding. The usual. Until I accidentally vaporized my maths teacher. That's when things started really going wrong. Now I spend my time fighting with swords, battling monsters with my friends, and generally trying to stay alive. This is the one where Zeus, God of the Sky, thinks I've stolen his lightning bolt - and making Zeus angry is a very bad idea. Can Percy find the lightning bolt before a fully-fledged war of the Gods erupts?

This book is based on Greek Mythology in modern day. I really, really like this book, as I do with all books that talk about super powers and stuff. Haha. And OMGosh OMGosh!!! I just found out the movie is in the making! Coming out next year in Feb! AAAAHHHH!! And guess when? My BIRTHDAY! I can't wait. Seriously, this book has made me interested in taking Greek Mythology (an empty wish I'm sure, one that would not be). This book is all adventures and discovery, and very interesting even to someone who doesn't know anything about Greek Mythology, only that Herculus and the flying unicorn (what's its name?) and Hades and Zeus and I-can't-remember-who-else were all in a cartoon in Astro. Hmm. But it does get confusing sometimes, because I don't know the story behind the gods, so I sometimes have to take time to figure out what was going on. There are five books and I've only read the first! I read the hard-cover book I borrowed from my friend. The pics (from left) are, I presume, the original book (I think, it's the one in the site), the hardcover I read, and the republished one (I think!). Hmm, which one should I get? 5/5!

Trailer! Wow, director of HP 1 and 2! I think those movies are not bad, really! My birthday, 2010! Can't wait!!!

Random Memories- Love Bug!

Haha. No, I haven't caught it yet (fortunately? unfortunately?).

This is one of those moments that when I think of it, I just smile to myself, smile at that sweet memory which is slowly slipping from my mind!

LoveBug by The Jonas Brothers just started getting popular in M'sia. And it was so catchy! Everyone who listened to English radios were humming it. It was so catchy because of its beat, that makes you just snap your fingers and bob your head along with it.

So we were in twos, jogging around the basketball courts and volleyball courts as warm up for P.E., and I was like, hey let's sing a song everyone knows! And me and LeePei and Shelia and others, we just started snapping our fingers to the beat and sang 'Now I'm speechless, over the edge and just breathless...'. It was so funny. Because we were huffing and puffing from jogging, and laughing and just totally out of breath. It was seriously a laugh out loud moment!

Miss those times. We hardly warm up now. Haha.

One other random memory is when 6 of us Chius, before anyone started leaving to study, drove up to Kundasang for a holiday. It was so totally fun! With the weather so cool and nice, it just boosted up everyone's mood and happiness. And I was young (youngER) and did not get car sick easily. So I always was the one in the boot, with blankets and pillows, and our luggage and my story books. I just laid there reading books when I wasn't crammed up with everyone else. There was once when we were going on a steady uphill, it was cool and we had so much junkfood. The car was dirty with koropok wrappings and tissues and plastic bags. We stopped by to get some fruits sold on the road side and we were eating bananas. There was a plastic bag hung on one of the handles on the top side of the car, used to throw rubbish into. So we were all laughing and eating those bananas, and we tried to throw the peels into that plastic bag. And we were like, Strike 1/2/3 for everytime you missed. And there was another time, on the same trip I think, we were quite high and were driving amongst clouds, and Kev opened the sun roof and stood up so that his head sticked out and was like, woah it's so cool and fresh! Awesome! And then we drove by loads of piles of cow dung! It stank! He immediately sat down and closed the sun roof, coughing and expressing his disbelief of how bad cow dung could smell.

Haha. Badly composed post, I know. =S

But memories, I will always cherish! =D

Basics

Since there is so much, so much to catch up on, so much I have not blogged about, I just figured that it would be better to take it one memory at a time, but of course there's the risk of it not becoming a memory, because we forget easily. Edward Cullen "The human's memories are like a sieve." HAHAHAHA! Just some random part that got stuck in my memory.

Dance Delight by Synergy Dance Studio KK. 4.7.09 at Foo Chow Association at 7.30pm. Lee Pei gave me the ticket without asking, RM25. And without question, me, Steph and Shelia went to watch Lee Pei perform. We also watched Liau perform (wolf whistle!). It was quite an enjoyable performance, there were some very impressive dancers. The choreography for some dances were awesome! And then after we went for yam cha at 88. Haha. We cheered out loud for Liau during her break dancing, and lots of times for Lee Pei throughout.

What struck me was how some people could have so many friends, know so many people, but then don't have any close friends, those you can really call friends, those that come and support you and cheer for you and care for you. So I consider myself really lucky and blessed that I have loads of acquaintances, have many friends, and a handful of people who I can really call friends.

Sigh, it's so sad that some people just don't appreciate the friends they have, or have hundreds of them, but none that you can trust and lean on.

So much to think of, so complicated, when it's not.

Ok. I'm going to tell you tomorrow.

Let's brace ourselves. Breathe in!

Wrapping Tonight

This is how much of a geek I am! As you know, we study literature in school. And these are exerts of some short poems that I really, really like. Some which I want to learn from.

If - Rudyard Kipling

If you can dream- and not make dreams your master;
If you can think- and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and never and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings- nor lose the common touch;
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you;
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
WIth sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
Yous is the Earth and everything that's in it,
And- which is more- you'll be a Man, my son!

Aku Menjadi Lebih Berani- Latifah Haji Shebli

Kali ini
kau berbaju biru
dan bajuku ungu.
Sayang, hanya aku tahu
hatimu
tidak setulus hatiku
yang berbaju ungu.

Bila begini,
sebilah pisaumu aku tidak gentar
sepatah kata
bisa,
aku merasa.

Hati dan rasa mengajarku
aku menjadi lebih berani.

Don't act surprise. I think too much.