Like gold, silver and blue fairy lights blinking among the shadows, floating around gently and lazily in the air. Preferably set in the woods or above a lake.
That's the image I want my nick to be associated with. Think its gonna be hard tho, ppl who noe me most likely wont come up with such at image, cas I dun think I remind ppl of a scene so pretty.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Romeo no Aoi Sora
Just finished watching this anime. Sigh, despite all the work I need to do, I still keep doing other stuff. Loved the anime, makes me want to read the book. However, it apparently it has no English translation. Such a pity.
The original title is Fratelli Neri, which means 'black brothers'. Its a story set in Milan, Italy, about the lives of boys who had to work as chimney sweeps. Apparently, they had a system there where boys from poor villages were bought to work as chimney sweeps in Milan for a year. The story follows one such boy, Romeo, from his village till he returns. The focus is how all the chimney sweeps that year grouped themselves together into the 'black brothers' and work together to help each other to survive the year. They were known as the 'black brothers' because due to the nature of the jobs, they spend most of their time blacken by soot.
Wish I can read the novel. Sigh.
The original title is Fratelli Neri, which means 'black brothers'. Its a story set in Milan, Italy, about the lives of boys who had to work as chimney sweeps. Apparently, they had a system there where boys from poor villages were bought to work as chimney sweeps in Milan for a year. The story follows one such boy, Romeo, from his village till he returns. The focus is how all the chimney sweeps that year grouped themselves together into the 'black brothers' and work together to help each other to survive the year. They were known as the 'black brothers' because due to the nature of the jobs, they spend most of their time blacken by soot.
Wish I can read the novel. Sigh.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Singapore Garden Festival
Tho its kinda late, I took lots of photos, seems a waste not to display them. :P
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
An unexpected find
I usually go on crunchyroll to look for anime to watch. I know there are tv dramas and a lot of other things available, tho I seldom bother to search for then or try to look for other things that interest me, say movie, musicals and such.
Today, was trying to search for the drama or movie for 《红楼梦》, since I have to read the text and watching helps understanding it better if nothing else. Since the search there cant read chinese, am having a hard time searching using english (got lots of rubbish and nothing close). But surprisingly, among the rubbish I found a bookworm group page with some great reading recommendations!
My list of new to find:
1) Tamora Pierce books - another fantasy author to take note of. I read some of her books before I think, but not too sure.
2)Frances Hodgson Burnett books - author of the secret garden. Never thot of searching to see if she wrote others, the review for "the little princess" interested me.
3) Jane Austen's Emma - I already read (and own) pride and prejudice as well as sense and sensibility.
In case you were wondering: Nope, I didn't find Dream of the Red Chamber (or Mansion). The only thing even remotely related is a song based on one of the characters, and I can't understand a word of it. Don't know any dialect and there are no subtitles. Think is in Cantonese. Its called 黛玉笑了。
Today, was trying to search for the drama or movie for 《红楼梦》, since I have to read the text and watching helps understanding it better if nothing else. Since the search there cant read chinese, am having a hard time searching using english (got lots of rubbish and nothing close). But surprisingly, among the rubbish I found a bookworm group page with some great reading recommendations!
My list of new to find:
1) Tamora Pierce books - another fantasy author to take note of. I read some of her books before I think, but not too sure.
2)Frances Hodgson Burnett books - author of the secret garden. Never thot of searching to see if she wrote others, the review for "the little princess" interested me.
3) Jane Austen's Emma - I already read (and own) pride and prejudice as well as sense and sensibility.
In case you were wondering: Nope, I didn't find Dream of the Red Chamber (or Mansion). The only thing even remotely related is a song based on one of the characters, and I can't understand a word of it. Don't know any dialect and there are no subtitles. Think is in Cantonese. Its called 黛玉笑了。
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Inter Block Games
My hostel is having out bi-annual inter block games again. My team is invovled today. We organised the inter block game for the game we are playing (othello), and use it as a chance to scout for new ppl.
Didn't see anyone who is particularly good, or has great potential, not like last year. But there are a few likely candidates. :) Its already better than the year before. Hopefully, this year we can keep a few more ppl. And I really hope we can train up a few more strong newbies to take over the team next year.
Sadly, our stupid rec sec decided to ban team one members, so my blk only got 2nd, since most of our players live in the same blk. Then he himself go play for his blk *roll eyes* (they got first, btw, so its like totally unfair >.<). Oh well.
Didn't see anyone who is particularly good, or has great potential, not like last year. But there are a few likely candidates. :) Its already better than the year before. Hopefully, this year we can keep a few more ppl. And I really hope we can train up a few more strong newbies to take over the team next year.
Sadly, our stupid rec sec decided to ban team one members, so my blk only got 2nd, since most of our players live in the same blk. Then he himself go play for his blk *roll eyes* (they got first, btw, so its like totally unfair >.<). Oh well.
Friday, August 15, 2008
bookworm, bookwyrm
Should have known better than to let a bookworm like me go study in the library alone. Like I can resist the bookshelves. Especially when I left home in such a bad mood. Books, especially my favourite fantasy novels with romance thrown in, are like a tranquilizer for me. So I picked are a novel and WHAM that's it, I ended up borrowing it home and not doing anything til i finish reading. Worse, its a book that I already read before and I still couldn't help myself.
Love Mercedes Lackey's novels. They are the absolute best. The Five Hundred Kingdoms is a relatively new series to me, and I have only read A Good Knight. Still, I love the story. It sastifies a lot of girlish notions and preferences. :P The bookwyrm bit entertained me quite a bit. Imagine a dragon that loves to read, is peace loving and consider books as a great treasure. And the idea of the dragon having a library...... Well, I believe I need not elaborate on that.
If there is a way to turn into one, I probably wouldn't have minded that much. Except my boyfriend would never agree to join me. Sadly, he doesnt like books as much as I do. And he is too down to earth to enjoy fantasy and fantasizing. Really, Andie and Peri are just too lucky. But then again, storybook heros and heroine always get their perfect ending. Especially in a novel like this which is modelled after a fairytale.
Ohh... I really want to get my hands on the first book in the series but I don't have the time to hunt through libraries. I really don't want to start collecting another series until I finish collecting the Elemental Master series as well. Most importantly, there is no place for me to keep my books at home anymore. :( When I get my own house, I would really like to have a study that looks like a mini library (filled with shelves :P). Don't I wish.
Love Mercedes Lackey's novels. They are the absolute best. The Five Hundred Kingdoms is a relatively new series to me, and I have only read A Good Knight. Still, I love the story. It sastifies a lot of girlish notions and preferences. :P The bookwyrm bit entertained me quite a bit. Imagine a dragon that loves to read, is peace loving and consider books as a great treasure. And the idea of the dragon having a library...... Well, I believe I need not elaborate on that.
If there is a way to turn into one, I probably wouldn't have minded that much. Except my boyfriend would never agree to join me. Sadly, he doesnt like books as much as I do. And he is too down to earth to enjoy fantasy and fantasizing. Really, Andie and Peri are just too lucky. But then again, storybook heros and heroine always get their perfect ending. Especially in a novel like this which is modelled after a fairytale.
Ohh... I really want to get my hands on the first book in the series but I don't have the time to hunt through libraries. I really don't want to start collecting another series until I finish collecting the Elemental Master series as well. Most importantly, there is no place for me to keep my books at home anymore. :( When I get my own house, I would really like to have a study that looks like a mini library (filled with shelves :P). Don't I wish.
a break
At home, slacking like nobody's business. Shd really put more effort and work harder. But I did finish reading 《镜花缘》yesterday, the simplified version anyway, so hopefully it aint so bad.
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