Before I start my vent+rant, first in reply to Liwen's comment: I am NOT a book-slave, I am only one when I'm lugging the books =] Otherwise I make my books work for me, which is why I usually have to browse and browse and pick and choose when I borrow books. Also, I would borrow 16 books given the chance; I used to have four cards (one for each member of my family) and my mother even had a Premium Membership subscription, which meant I could borrow a total of 20 books - which I did, most of the time. I borrowed as much as could then, but as I grew older I grew out of borrowing children's books (which could be finished in a couple of minutes) and began to venture into the adult borrowing section. The rest is history, with the number of books being borrowed diminishing as my tastes began to grow, change, and mutate.
Anyway -
MV IS LEAVING ALIAS?!?!?!??!?! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
This is bad, this is bad, this is bad. News has spread the Michael Vartan is leaving Alias and will be gone after a few episodes of Season 5. NO!!!!!!! Don't let him go!!!
I just don't understand what's the point of Alias without him. I don't want Vaughn to die because of the car crash, nor do I want him to turn evil, or just disappear, or maybe melt and mutate back into a page from one of Rambaldi's manuscripts. I want him to remain as who he is, regardless of whoever he may (spoiler: Season 4 finale), I DON'T WANT HIM TO GO!!! He and Sydney form the very heart and soul of "Alias" - without him "Alias" just doesn't seem right! ARR!!!
Ok, everyone, peace out, vent+rant's done.
Friday, July 29, 2005
Monday, July 25, 2005
An Idea.
I'm in German class right now in the language lab. It's break and I only have a couple more seconds (I s'pose) to type in my ideas for an "Alias" fic.
I was reading the Vaughn speculations for Season 5 on SD-1.net. I thought it'd be really cool if Season 5 could go back to some time during SD-6, but focusing on Vaughn instead. I mean, we might learn about Vaughn's real heritage, his real birth, his real family. Ooh.
Well, if Bill Vaughn isn't a descendant of Rambaldi, why can't his mother be instead? ^_^
I was reading the Vaughn speculations for Season 5 on SD-1.net. I thought it'd be really cool if Season 5 could go back to some time during SD-6, but focusing on Vaughn instead. I mean, we might learn about Vaughn's real heritage, his real birth, his real family. Ooh.
Well, if Bill Vaughn isn't a descendant of Rambaldi, why can't his mother be instead? ^_^
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Another Long List of Books.
I just came back from the library. Spent about an hour there, looking through and browsing the books as though I had not a care for the rest of world. I managed to borrow a large bag of books home - lugged it back like I was a book-slave or something.
Here's a list of what I got, complete with some specifications:
==============================================
Frommer's Germany 2004: with a guide to art & architecture
Specs.: Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince; 686 pgs; Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2004.
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Specs.: Gillian Butler & Freda McManus; 159 pgs; Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 2000.
Alpha Teach Yourself: Spanish in 24 hours, 2nd ed.
Specs.: Clark M. Zlotchew, Ph.D.; 452 pgs; Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2004.
Hugo's French in Three Months
Specs.: Ronald Overy and Jacqueline Lecanuet; 256 pgs; Hugo's Language Books, London, 1997.
Teach Yourself: Indonesian
Specs.: Christopher Byrnes and Eva Nyimas; 288 pgs; Hodder Headline, London, 2003.
Teach Yourself: Writing a Novel and Getting Published
Specs.: Nigel Watts; 173 pgs; Hodder Headline, London, 1996.
You Can Write A Novel
Specs.: James V. Smith, Jr.; 138 pgs; Writer's Digest Books, Ohio, 1998.
The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspiration for Writing
Specs.: Monica Wood; no. of pgs. unknown; Writer's Digest Books, Ohio, 2002.
Twelfth Night: Contemporary Critical Essays
Specs.: edited by R.S. White; 221 pgs; Macmillan Press Ltd., Hampshire/London, 1996.
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My my, that really was a very long list of books. I reckon I should do more than just read - though frankly speaking I hardly read what I borrow =$
Ok ok, enough about my weird and unnatural reading habits. It's time for me to type out my whole Common Test time-table - they're super-important and they're just round the corner. Time to type it out so that I can remind my conscious, subconscious, super-conscious, super-super conscious...about the tests so that I can get all psyched and geared up for the tests. Time to boil all the coffee and tea and the adrenaline-inducing chemicals!!! *prepares syringes and needles*
15/8, MON - English Language (0745 - 0925), Elementary Mathematics (1030 - 1130)
16/8, TUE - Chemistry (0745 - 0845), Social Studies (0855 - 0925)
17/8, WED - Higher Chinese (0745 - 0845), History Elective (0855 - 0925)
18/8, THU - Additional Mathematics (0745 - 0845), Biology (0855 - 0955)
19/8, FRI - Pure Literature (0855 - 0940)
Ok, that was for my Common Test time-table (shudders). Got to remember to study *sigh*
Oh by the way, do check out I Speak Dead Languages. I started this blog to write my musings on languages and related subjects.
Well, that had better be all for this blog entry, it seems a little long =] And I've added Ass' link =]
Have fun all! ^_^
Here's a list of what I got, complete with some specifications:
==============================================
Frommer's Germany 2004: with a guide to art & architecture
Specs.: Darwin Porter & Danforth Prince; 686 pgs; Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey, 2004.
Psychology: A Very Short Introduction
Specs.: Gillian Butler & Freda McManus; 159 pgs; Oxford University Press Inc., New York, 2000.
Alpha Teach Yourself: Spanish in 24 hours, 2nd ed.
Specs.: Clark M. Zlotchew, Ph.D.; 452 pgs; Alpha Books, Indianapolis, 2004.
Hugo's French in Three Months
Specs.: Ronald Overy and Jacqueline Lecanuet; 256 pgs; Hugo's Language Books, London, 1997.
Teach Yourself: Indonesian
Specs.: Christopher Byrnes and Eva Nyimas; 288 pgs; Hodder Headline, London, 2003.
Teach Yourself: Writing a Novel and Getting Published
Specs.: Nigel Watts; 173 pgs; Hodder Headline, London, 1996.
You Can Write A Novel
Specs.: James V. Smith, Jr.; 138 pgs; Writer's Digest Books, Ohio, 1998.
The Pocket Muse: Ideas and Inspiration for Writing
Specs.: Monica Wood; no. of pgs. unknown; Writer's Digest Books, Ohio, 2002.
Twelfth Night: Contemporary Critical Essays
Specs.: edited by R.S. White; 221 pgs; Macmillan Press Ltd., Hampshire/London, 1996.
==============================================
My my, that really was a very long list of books. I reckon I should do more than just read - though frankly speaking I hardly read what I borrow =$
Ok ok, enough about my weird and unnatural reading habits. It's time for me to type out my whole Common Test time-table - they're super-important and they're just round the corner. Time to type it out so that I can remind my conscious, subconscious, super-conscious, super-super conscious...about the tests so that I can get all psyched and geared up for the tests. Time to boil all the coffee and tea and the adrenaline-inducing chemicals!!! *prepares syringes and needles*
15/8, MON - English Language (0745 - 0925), Elementary Mathematics (1030 - 1130)
16/8, TUE - Chemistry (0745 - 0845), Social Studies (0855 - 0925)
17/8, WED - Higher Chinese (0745 - 0845), History Elective (0855 - 0925)
18/8, THU - Additional Mathematics (0745 - 0845), Biology (0855 - 0955)
19/8, FRI - Pure Literature (0855 - 0940)
Ok, that was for my Common Test time-table (shudders). Got to remember to study *sigh*
Oh by the way, do check out I Speak Dead Languages. I started this blog to write my musings on languages and related subjects.
Well, that had better be all for this blog entry, it seems a little long =] And I've added Ass' link =]
Have fun all! ^_^
Monday, July 18, 2005
A Quick Clarification and a Lot of Ranting.
Before I continue, this is a clarification addressed to Zis:
Sorry, it must've been one of my non-sequiturs again! By "coincidental" I was referring to the occurences of the number 47 in Nature and not the occurences of the number in "Alias".
Ok, clarification done.
It's the 18th of July, one day after my school's 88th Anniversary celebrations. I s'pose I did okay for the Heritage Walk section - I even got on TV! *claps*
Erm - yeah - I know I was blocked. Whatever.
So this morning school only lasted for like, two hours. We watched a dance depicting the interaction between the different races in Singapore and a performance by the Necessary Stage titled "What's the Difference?". After we were dismissed I kinda felt quite lost because all around in the canteen were unfamiliar people. Mom and Dad were at work and I had finished watching the finale of Alias S2 the day before, so I didn't know what else I could do. I ended up tagging along with Yihui to KFC and I had a Shrooms burger meal (frankly, I have zero idea what else I can eat in KFC). After finishing "lunch" (the burger was so TINY!) I just strolled around Clementi, browsing through the books in the Clementi Bookstore (which sold all sorts of expensive university textbook for subjects like mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics and computer science) and finally going to Big Bookshop to see what books they had there.
I was looking at some secondary school textbooks when suddenly I saw Amanda strolling around. Apparently everyone was there - from Pinky to June to Shida.
A while later, I was in the library with C. Yiting, C. H. M., T. H. M. and Pinky. I found Alias: Skin Deep at last!
I loitered in the library for almost two hours, browsing, borrowing, dumping, and generally tormenting the poor books. Finally I managed to get my hands on quite a number of books.
Well here I am at 1836 hrs tapping away at my computer, writing a blog entry.
I've still got loads to do. *sigh*
Sorry, it must've been one of my non-sequiturs again! By "coincidental" I was referring to the occurences of the number 47 in Nature and not the occurences of the number in "Alias".
Ok, clarification done.
It's the 18th of July, one day after my school's 88th Anniversary celebrations. I s'pose I did okay for the Heritage Walk section - I even got on TV! *claps*
Erm - yeah - I know I was blocked. Whatever.
So this morning school only lasted for like, two hours. We watched a dance depicting the interaction between the different races in Singapore and a performance by the Necessary Stage titled "What's the Difference?". After we were dismissed I kinda felt quite lost because all around in the canteen were unfamiliar people. Mom and Dad were at work and I had finished watching the finale of Alias S2 the day before, so I didn't know what else I could do. I ended up tagging along with Yihui to KFC and I had a Shrooms burger meal (frankly, I have zero idea what else I can eat in KFC). After finishing "lunch" (the burger was so TINY!) I just strolled around Clementi, browsing through the books in the Clementi Bookstore (which sold all sorts of expensive university textbook for subjects like mathematics, chemistry, biology, physics and computer science) and finally going to Big Bookshop to see what books they had there.
I was looking at some secondary school textbooks when suddenly I saw Amanda strolling around. Apparently everyone was there - from Pinky to June to Shida.
A while later, I was in the library with C. Yiting, C. H. M., T. H. M. and Pinky. I found Alias: Skin Deep at last!
I loitered in the library for almost two hours, browsing, borrowing, dumping, and generally tormenting the poor books. Finally I managed to get my hands on quite a number of books.
Well here I am at 1836 hrs tapping away at my computer, writing a blog entry.
I've still got loads to do. *sigh*
Thursday, July 14, 2005
The Mystery of 47.
"Scientists and mathematicians have not hesitated to take special note of those occasions when the number 47 arises from nature itself. The claims include these: It takes 47 divisions of one cell to produce the number of cells in the human body. There are 50,847,478 prime numbers less than one billion. The element with the highest conductivity is silver, whose atomic number is 47. A pint is 0.47 liters. The Pythagorean Theorem is Proposition 47 of Euclid's Elements. The tropics of Cancer and Capricorn are located 47 degrees apart."
-Excerpted from [ http://www.pomona.edu/Magazine/pcmfl00/1.shtml ]
I might have simply been watching too much "Alias", but the mystery of the number 47 (which appears countless times in the show) is too overt to be ignored. The examples given in the paragraph above are too coincidental - one might even be led to believe the world is designed under the number. Of course, there are other numbers which play bigger roles (like PHI, for example) but a totally unfamiliar number like 47 being special is too much to ignore.
I also read that Caesar uttered the famous phrase "Veni, vidi, vici" in 47 B.C. 47 is a very special prime numbers because a) It is the 15th prime number; b) It is supersingular (not sure what that means - check Wikipedia.com) and c) It is also a safe prime (meaning it is made from the formula 2p+1, where p is another prime number. Safe primes are used in safer encryptions).
Am working hard to find 47 in my everyday life. I'll post any spottings I might get =]
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