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Monday 23 November 2009

I'm embarking on a journey towards Adulthood

If

If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;

If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,

But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,

Or, being lied about, don't deal in lies.

Or, being hated, don't give way to hating,
And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise;
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 imposters 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 wornout 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 breath a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve 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 -
Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
And - which is more - you'll be a Man my son!

        - Rudyard Kipling-

I tend to make the same mistakes again and again. But I try my best to stand up again and again after constantly falling down. That's life.
Wish me luck!

Sunday 22 November 2009

Book List and Movie List

Sorry for the verrryy late update. I'm experiencing a heartbreak right now. So I couldn't update this blog as frequent as I used to. It's a very deep cut and takes time to heal. The wound isn't fully healed yet.And it has nothing to do with boys, guys or anyone from the opposite genders.
Ever since I resumed my last, final semester here in UIA, I had read lots of books (fictions) rather than aimlessly surfing the net searching for the latest gossip on Arashi and Matsumoto Jun.

Recapping:

1. Bridget Jones' Diary by Helen Fielding.        3 out of 5 stars

2. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini.   5 out of 5 stars

3. aA + bB by Hlovate.   3 half out of 5 stars

4. A Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult.   4 out of 5 stars

5. Goodnight, Beautiful by Dorothy Koomson.     3 out of 5 stars

6. Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella.     4 half out of 5 stars

7. Remember Me? by Sophie Kinsella.   4 out of 5 stars

8. A Little Magic by Nora Roberts.       2 half out of 5 stars

9. Jawapan yang Pasti by Eka Fahara.    2 out of 5 stars

10. Pelangi (Pelangi by Syud, Ked's Story by Hlovate, Rumah Kecil di Ujung Padang by Noor Suraya).                                            3 half out of 5 stars

11. Detective Conan by Gosho Aoyama.. 4 half out of 5.

Currently reading...
1. Bagaimana Akhirnya Saya Bertudung compiled by Ir.Endok Sempo Mohd. Tahir.
2. Tentang...Dhiya by Syud.
3. Soul Mountain by Gao Xingji.

Movie List
1. A Walk to Remember.
2. Enchanted.
3. The Proposal.
4. It's a Boy Girl Thing.
5. Geng: Pengembaraan Bermula.
6. Forrest Gump. Again.
7. Robots. The Malay subbed version.
8. 27 Dresses.

And I'm proud to say that I haven't watched a SINGLE Japanese Dramas here! And I'm proud to say again that I haven't watched any specific series on the TV till now! And 'Nur Kasih's included. Gonna watch the final episode at home next week. Ah, how I miss home. :(

So, the scholarship money's in. I don't know what to do with it. Buying books? Maybe. I have my eyes on
' The Time Traveler's Wife' by Audrey Niffenegger, 'Kafka on the Shore' by Haruki Murakami, '
The Gift' by Cecelia Ahern and other books. But maybe I need to wait just a little while for the upcoming MPH Book Fair and other book fairs. Okay, book fairs, I will wait for 'you guys'! And the remarkable, awesome discounts that you're going to offer book enthusiasts like me!

Like, seriously, I could wait for MPH Book Fair just like other clothes-crazed people would wait for the Year End Sale or Mega Sale. I don't have that much interest in clothes, sad to say. :(
Notice that I love to read fictions. Books that I've read are mostly fictions. I hope I can grow up and read other mind-blowing stuffs. Motivational books are not included as I read far too much books about that. Andrew Matthews, Zig Ziegler, HM Tuah Iskandar. Ah, ramai la. I've read uncountable numbers of 'Chicken Soup for the Souls'.

Found a website about Haron Yahya. I can read his books online! Yes! First stop, 'Romanticism: Weapon of Satans'. Thanks to Hlovate for indirectly introducing Haron Yahya's works to me.
Gotta stop now. Gotta finish the Physics Exercises by this afternoon.
Till then, bubye :)