Intimidating

Yesterday while walking to the MRT station, I had to pass by the carpark. As I trudged past a particular black car with my heavy bag, I turned to glance at the front plate to see its logo, as is my habit.

What I saw thrilled me: it was a freakin' Alfa Romeo!

The funny thing was, it looked like an ordinary car from the outside, but when I peeked into it, I saw these really grand seats with the logo etched into the headrests. It was, like, wow.

The significance of an Alfa Romeo, for those who don't know, is that it's quite rare and expensive. The first time I heard about it was in Alex Rider. It was used by some rich bad guy or something.

So anyway. It was nice to see that in my own carpark.

The Host

I'm reviewing this book called The Host because it is literally the only thing I can think about nowadays.

And that's not a good thing with the Lit exam three days away.

My poor mother has had to deal with frequent outbursts of "I love Ian O'Shea!" for the past few days. Maybe if I let out my feelings by writing about it, I might be able to spare her the agony. So yes, yesterday, I squealed on cue, "I love Ian O'Shea!"
And my mother was like, "Who's that?"
I beamed at her and replied, "A character in a book."
She immediately lost interest and muttered something about raising lunatic children in her own home.

So anyways. Mothers aside, The Host is a fabulous book. I feel everybody should read it. Well, OK...not everybody. It does have a hint of Science Fiction, fine, a galleon of Sci Fi (which Millicent famously pronounces as 'skee-fee') which I am clearly not a fan of, but in a nice way. Stephenie Meyer says that it's Sci Fi for people who don't like Sci Fi. People like me. It's amazing, really.

The Host is not a book for people who put down Twilight when they realised the first page was 'cheem' for them. Because Twilight should be quite easy to read, and it is, compared to The Host. In the latter, their world is completely different from ours. I suppose it requires a certain level of, um, linguistic intelligence to actually understand what's going on (I had to read the first chapter twice to grasp what was happening).

But that shouldn't discourage you. Let me tell you, the first half of the book is something of a....an endurance test thing. Because the story goes uphill, more interesting from the second half of the book onwards. It's like a reward for being able to trawl through the first half.

Because that's where Ian O'Shea comes in.

Alright, I know I can be quite a fangirl, but this guy is...wow. It's not his looks, trust me. Stephenie Meyer doesn't describe him as overly hot or anything. Not like Edward. The impression you have of Edward is immediately good because it's his appearance that is described in detail when you first encounter him in Twilight. But the first good impression of Ian you have is his character. No, I'm serious. The guy's pure. And from there, you kinda start to 'infer' that he's freaking gorgeous.

Okay, fine, I'll admit it. The first good impression I had of him was his nose.

Yes, his nose.

I quote, "I noticed that his nose was perfect--straight, aquiline the kind of nose I'd seen in pictures of famous sculptures."

Needless to say, I wrote it in my phrase book. Along with "as gorgeous as Ian O'Shea" in the physical appearance section.

Call me crazy, but I swear my lunacy is legit.

Thanks to Sham, for lending me the book that time. I owe you. No, actually, I don't.

So guys, for those who have enough brain cells, attempt to read this book. You'll love it.

Favourite Fictional Characters of All Time

1. Nathaniel Sheridan (Nicola and the Viscount)
He is amazing. He has a teasing nature, looks divine and has brains. What more could a girl ask for? Since reading about him, I have loved the name Nathaniel. Sigh.

2. Paul Slater (Mediator)
Ultimate bad boy. And super hot, too. Has a massive, but sexy ego. Reading about him made me go through that phase where you think you only like bad boys because I fell for him (yes, a fictitious character).

3. Jacob Black (Twilight)
Team Jacob all the way! He is absolutely awesome because of his fun nature. He also has “teeth that gleam bright against his russet skin”. The protagonist envies his beautiful skin colour. (And I envy her.)

4. Edward Cullen (Twilight)
Perfect in every way. He is the reason why, I believe, that Twilight is an immense success. Everything’s great about him: looks, brains, skills, attitude. Except that stick up his ass, of course. He’s freaking uptight.

5. Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl)
Another bad boy. I quoth, “resident bad boy of Gossip Girl”. He is, however, more perverted than he is bad, but we all love him because he is the only character in the show who shows his true self. Famous for his quote, “I’m Chuck Bass”.

6. Matthias Water (The Colossi, The Unheard Song)
He is an awesome bad boy. He’s also a PRINCE. Hehehehe. A prince. High Prince Matthias Water, in fact. And he drowned out the Colossi gang by redirecting some river. If that ain’t cool, I dunno what is.

7. Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl)
This child prodigy is quite well known around the world. The thing about him that make girls swoon is not his looks, but his brains. He is such a genius. He’s so brilliant, that in our heads, we imagine him to be super hot.

8. Ron Weasley (Harry Potter)
You just have to love Ron. He’s the humorous one of the trio and I adore his joking nature. He’s so adorable, too. He reminds me of Dougie, from Travis.

9. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes Mysteries)
Do I really have to explain myself?

10. Denahi (Brother Bear)
I don’t know what exactly it was that made me like Denahi so much. Maybe it was the complete lack of hot guys in Brother Bear. He’s pretty cool, though, at the beginning. At the end, he gets all...murderous. But still love him.

11. Diego (Dora the Explorer)
He’s Spanish!

12. Tom Riddle (Harry Potter)
He’s described as “very handsome”. And he’s like the most cunning thing I’ve ever seen. Maybe when he turned green (read: evolved into Voldemort), he turned senile and lost his touch and that’s why kept getting kicked in the ass by retarded Harry Potter.

13. Draco Malfoy (Harry Potter)
Didn’t really like him in the last two books, but he has a personality of his own. We are united in our hatred (or intense dislike) for Harry. I also like him for his paleness.

14. Emmett Cullen (Twilight)
He’s big, strong and funny. Though what he sees in Rosalie is still a mystery to me.

15. Fred & George Weasley (Harry Potter)
They’re the funniest pair I’ve ever read about. When Fred died, I cried. It was so, so sad. I don’t know why, but I’ve always preferred Fred. Oh, must be that FanFic I read. Oops.

17. Bella Swan (Twilight)
The only female protaganist who doesn’t make me want to rip her throat out. Right on, Bells. And that’s because I don’t love Edward with as much passion as the average Twilighter does.

18. Carlisle Cullen (Twilight)
He’s so nice, that it’s sort of gay, but Carlisle is the hottest vampire doctor ever. (Call him Dr. McSparkly)

19. Alice Cullen (Twilight)
She’s cute, although sometimes she annoys the hell out of me. She’s super whiny about it when she wants something (like organising Bella’s wedding). But I like her because in Breaking Dawn, she shows a mutual likeness for Jacob, whom I simply adore.

20. Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Weird, funky, quirky and absolutely brilliant.

well...

I guess I'm done with English and Bangla. They were quite OK. Although I wrote a totally crap essay for English. Bangla was damn boring. We had, like, 1.5 hours to do Paper 2, which was simple, really. So we sat there, doing nothing, for like 45 minutes. And it got really dark cause it was 8pm by the time the exam ended. Went home seriously tired. The only good point was a bunch of eye-candy. Not like I'll ever see them again. So whatever.

Gosh, I really do detest some people. Would it kill them to be nice for once?

And I'm officially in love with Fade Together. It's such a...floaty song. Like it's so peaceful and stuff.

Lady Macbeth became a frightened, weak woman who cannot handle the remorse and horror in her mind. She is driven insane by it.

Sorry. Was transcripting the Lit teacher's words.

I think I might survive today. Reminder to self: Bring the Macbeth book home. You've got a hell lot of studying to do.

eh, what?

Well today was a hell lot worser than yesterday. Mainly because of my clown-ism during PE. But yeah, I've pretty much forgotten the mortification.

Let's fade together, let's fade forever. -Franz Ferdinand, "Fade Together"

oh well

Huh. I realised I keep trying to make everyone around me happy. Keep them happy. Why do I do that? It's pointless, really. Maybe I won't do that anymore. Who cares?

irony of it all

Doing a newspaper article summary titled "Wanted: Etiquette for Covert Surfing in the Office". Hmm. Surprisingly, I can relate to this. But it's OK now, cause it's my free period (Mother Tongue).

To illustrate my little bro's love for Science, here is a picture.

a cry of outrage

Jynn Chee says the Singapore newspaper wrote that Twilight's coming out 25th December. What kind of crap is that? I was so disappointed. I mean, it's great that it's actually coming out here, but so late? Sigh. And I was so hyped up that the release date had been changed to November. The people over there at the US get to watch it like 1 month before us. Somethings will never change.

Ah well. And the thing is I don't even know whether I'll be in Singapore on that date. I'll probably have to wait for the DVD to come out. Of course where I'm going might show it too.

Worst news I've had in days.

our wonderful choir

hahahha

Look what my Maths-riddled mind came up with: (male U female)'

Now what would be the answer to that?

the brilliance of Z

As I was telling Millicent and Adeline yesterday, my little brother, Z, seems to think babies are collected from the hospital just like Smoking Kills pamphlets. He doesn't really know, you know, the whole process (which we like to call Chapters 6 & 7). We are talking about a seven-year-old here. But he reads a lot of Science books, encyclopaedias, magazines...whatever he can get his hands on. He almost got a hold of my Sec 2 Science textbook, but I pounced upon him in the nick of time and swiped it away from him.

So anyway, I like to tease him and taunt him, as older sisters like to do their brothers, so I told him that he was adopted. He gave a cry of outrage before bursting out indignantly, “But we were ALL adopted, what are you TALKING about?”

I laughed until my stomach hurt. Though, yes, I’m sure he’s gonna find out pretty soon about Chapters 6 & 7. We all did, didn’t we?

CWO

Our class got CWO yesterday because of three class demerits—or was it two?—and we did weeding in the parade square and also reflections in the classroom. Our group of mates dug up (ruining our fingers in the process) 440g of weeds. Neat. And then we did the reflection, which was actually a letter. We were supposed to write it to someone we respected. I couldn’t think about anyone at the moment, so I wrote:

Dear Andre Shevchenko Rosicky Smith Alexus

And later I found out we were supposed to be writing to (Mr.) Keong. Hope I don’t get sluiced. XP

al-oo-ey

I changed the layout, as you can see. This is partly because I got sick of the last one and also to celebrate the 50th post. The layout is very me, isn't it? All Twilight-y.

I was re-reading Half-Blood Prince during the holidays to finagle some phrases for my aforementioned phrase book when I was once again struck by the extreme hotness of Tom Riddle. I suppose he is mean, but who cares?

I totally loved this excerpt:

He was plainly dressed in a black suit; his hair was a little longer than it had been at school and his cheeks were hollowed [me: freaking out], but all of this suited him: he looked more handsome than ever.
His greedy expression was curiously mirrored on Hepzibah's face, except that her tiny eyes were fixed upon Voldemort's handsome features.

I mean, he effortlessly gives us the impression that he is, like, the hottest person to have ever stepped into a Harry Potter book.


And then I had an emotional moment when Dumbledore said this:

The time is long gone when I could frighten you with a burning wardrobe and force you to make repayment for your crimes. But I wish I could, Tom...I wish I could...

Nice, very nice, J.K.

amazed by some people's creativity

Yan Yee just introduced me into the world of blogs of hilarious RI guys. You heard me right. RI guys. Their blogs are oh-so amusing. No, seriously. I'm not mocking them. They use the eff word so freely you think for a second that our wonderful nation does allow free speech. They are more vulgar than an episode of South Park. I'm not kidding.

But they're entertaining.

Well, basically, both Yan Yee's and my brothers are in the 'brotherhood', so we kind of know some things about them. I think.

I'd like to clarify that I'm not dissing anyone here. They're just creative, I suppose.

Can't believe I said that.

On a less embarrassing note, I found out that seemingly normal boys actually do read Twilight. I'm serious. In public, no less. Seeing that was really eye-opening for me for I staunchly believed that only girls would find an attraction to Twilight due to its physically prepossessing male leads.

But I was wrong.

Well, the man (boy, actually) in question isn't really what you call...manly.

But whatever. (this is Zine retracting from the topic before she disses someone)

Yan Yee sitting next to me surfing pictures of cute puppies. Right on, YY.


Signing off,
Zine

cars love

“Do you want to go for a ride?” he asked.

“Yes, please,” I breathed. That BMW convertible was all I cared about now. Because even if a kidnapper had appeared on my doorstep and asked me to get into such a gorgeous car, I fully would have.

My love for beautiful cars even shows through my writing. Not to mention the mini-freakout I had today regarding a Volvo parked in the carpark outside my house.

Some day...

Hyperventilating over automobiles (a.k.a inanimate objects),

Yours truly