1. What did you do in 2003 that you’d never done before? Absolutely nothing.

2. Did you keep your new years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year? Sad to say I don't even remember what they are anymore. Yes, I will make more resolutions but they'll be guidelines rather than fixed goals.

3. Did anyone close to you give birth? My cousin did. :)

4. Did anyone close to you die? No.

5. What countries did you visit? Malaysia.

6. What would you like to have in 2004 that you lacked in 2003? Zest. I think I've been quite lethargic this year and I don't quite know why.

7. What date from 2003 will remain etched upon your memory, and why? I can't pick one. Everything strung together, I guess. It's a bit hazy now, and it's only been a month since school let out!

8. What was your biggest achievement of the year? Writing the Commonwealth Essay. Not so much the fact that I wrote is as what I wrote in it. It was one of the most honest things I have ever written, and I didn't mince my words at all.

9. What was your biggest failure? See Q1.

10. Did you suffer illness or injury? No injury, but quite a few periods of illness.

11. What was the best thing you bought? ... This is impossible to answer.

12. Whose behavior merited celebration? My sister. I think I've become closer to her this year. Not by much, but it's a start.

13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed? My own.

14. Where did most of your money go? Books, movies, clothes.

15. What did you get really, really, really excited about? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

16. What song will always remind you of 2003? Souriez.

17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
i. happier or sadder? Sadder.
ii. thinner or fatter? Sad to say, fatter. I binged during the O's. It was the stress, you see.
iii. richer or poorer? Poorer. Gosh, I spent a lot of money this year.

18. What do you wish you’d done more of? Having fun.

19. What do you wish you’d done less of? Procrastinating.

20. How will you be spending Christmas? With my loved ones.

21. Did you fall in love in 2003? Nope.

22. How many one-night stands? None.

23. What was your favorite TV program? Friends. Then, when it ended, Survivor.

24. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year? Nah, hate is a strong word, I wouldn't use it to describe dislike.

25. What was the best book you read? The Hours.

26. What was your greatest musical discovery? Tori Amos.

27. What did you want and get? I got over something that had been bothering me for quite a while.

28. What did you want and not get? An identity.

29. What was your favorite film this year? The Matrix Revolutions & RotK.

30. What did you do on your birthday? ... I stayed at home studying. AMath and Physics, I believe. And then guess who popped by?

31. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying? A life.

32. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2003? More feminine than usual. I started wearing skirts.

33. What kept you sane? Tea, chocolate, friends.

34. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most? Rupert Grint.

35. What political issue stirred you the most? ... Huh? Sorry, I've stopped reading the papers.

36. Who did you miss? No-one.

37. Who was the best new person you met? Lots of church ppl. :)

38. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2003: "I feel my fate in what I cannot fear." -Theodore Roethke, "The Waking"

Really, I wouldn't mind smelling like orange peel. It's quite nice.

A fool I was to sleep at noon,
And wake when night is chilly
Beneath the comfortless cold moon;
A fool to pluck my rose too soon,
A fool to snap my lily.

My garden-plot I have not kept;
Faded and all-forsaken,
I weep as I have never wept:
Oh it was summer when I slept,
It's winter now I waken.

Talk what you please of future spring
And sun-warm'd sweet to-morrow:—
Stripp'd bare of hope and everything,
No more to laugh, no more to sing,
I sit alone with sorrow.

-Christina Rossetti, A Daughter of Eve

It's over, it's over, it's over. If I'm pessimistic then that would probably have been the last time I see my whole class together like that, not counting results-day. It was lovely and sad and quite heartbreaking. Especially when we sang, which was quite a few times. I always feel a sort of comradeship with people I sing with.

Okay, must think positive now. Remember the past, live the present, don't ever turn into Abraham. The party was excellent. Great food, fun games, people decked out in colourful, thrift-store-bought retro gear. It was, in retro-speak, groovy, baby!

I went tanning today and I got baked.

I am fire-engine red now (except for the parts covered by my shorts and spag) and my skin is very hot despite the fact that I got out of the sun about 8 hours ago. Ouch.

I have seen Return of the King. My life is complete.

It's brilliant. I adore it. (Though in fact I only liked the war-Aragorn-Legolas-Faramir parts and cringed at all the Smeagol parts.) I think I shall go look for some LotR fanfiction. Really.

And I want to read the books!

Hoho. I'm really going for the Eowyn/Faramir thing. Even though I only saw them together on screen for about two seconds. And they were only standing together. But they were smiling! That has to count for something! Eowyn is nice. She isn't beautiful or anything like Arwen, but she's brave and nice to Merry and it's not her fault she likes Aragorn because, really, who wouldn't! Ahem. -pout- I just don't understand why some people *glares at beekglenjy* can't stand her.

One True Pairing Ship: Ron/Hermione. The Good Ship. Lovely lovely, I shall be all cooey now.

Canon Ship: Ron/Hermione, Harry/Ginny. *Tut* It's so obvious!

"If this happens I'll stab my eyes out with a spork" Ship: Harry/Hermione. (No offence, eeling!)

"You are one sick bastard" Ship: Anything student/teacher ships. Just because. Eeew. Also, anything involving hippogriffs, the giant squid, Hedwig or Crookshanks.

"I dabble a little" Ship: Fred/Angelina, Lucius/Narcissa, Oliver/Katie, Snape/Sinistra.

"It's like a car crash" Ship: ... What does this mean? Crash makes me think of Neville. "I dabble a little" Ship:

"Tickles my fancy but not sold quite yet" Ship: Remus/Tonks, Sirius/Remus.

"Makes no canon sense but why the hell not" Ship: Snape/Sinistra. Starry-eyed twit and dungeon-dwelling moron. :)

"Everyone else loves it but I just don't feel it" Ship: Draco/Hermione, H/Hr.

"Hmm, I seem to read quite a lot of this" Ship: R/Hr, H/G, D/G.

"When all is said and done" Ship: Ron/Hermione. Because, you know, despite the fact that I love H/G, I cannot let go of D/G.

Christmas as a commercial holiday is seriously overrated. There are so many things to do, presents to buy, fundraisers to organise. I just want to sleep through it.

Pics: before/after the wedding at Four Seasons


Ooh, like this one. Don't like the background though.


This is better, though supremely pixellated. A cutout of the previous. Boo. And can still see the bicycle!


My family! Love 'em. Why does my dad look so shocked? Hoho. I adore wedding chocs.

Recently I've begun to notice a curious coincidence, a trend more like, linking most ExT shippers.

More often than not, these ExT shippers read Harry Potter as well, and it seems that nearly every single one of them is a D/G shipper, on board the SS Fire & Ice. On a sidenote, they're aboard the Good Ship R/Hr as well, but then again most people are. The interesting thing is the D/G factor. Very curious indeed.

Hmm, am I weird? I ought to have better things to blog about.

Went shopping with glen&dee today. (Hoho, their names look better without caps. Deal with it!) Am v.v. proud of my self-control. I wanted three/four things (depending on whether the grey makeup application set is counted- $4.50, not $5.90!) but only bought ONE. Hoho.

The black PROJECTSHOPBLOODBROS sort-of spag was really really pretty! I liked it a lot! But it cost forty. :( Why do nice things always have to be so darn ex? For a tiny scrap of material which glenda insists is not indecent. So of course I whined the rest of the day. Sorry, dee&glen, for having to put up with my random outbursts of 'I want MMYYYY SHHIIIIIRRRT!!!'

Also I skipped out on getting the Mona Lisa Smile soundtrack, which I want because there are a couple of Tori Amos songs on it and because I'm going to watch the movie and I'm sure I'll like the soundtrack.

So I guess these are two more things to be added to my want need list. On the up side, I bought Emma (the book) today. I've been wanting it for ages, after I saw the movie which, by the way, is v. funny.

Just now I counted all the books I bought this year and got quite a shock. 32, just for this year. Gosh. I need help, really. I'm turning into Becky Bloomwood, only I'm buying books instead of clothes/shoes/luggages/household items.

I have no life. Really.

My shopping list: Things I want need to get this December

1. Shoes. (Do they allow Sketchers in jc? I've always liked those.)
2. A new bag. The backpack sort.
3. The U2 cd.
4. A(nother) denim skirt.
5. A new calender! (Oh yay. The very prospect excites me. A lot.)
6. Grad presents for everyone.
7. Tons of books.
8. And vcds/dvds.
9. A notebook for jc. (I wanted to get the Jordi Labanda one, but so many people have it already.)
10. A new blog template. (Self-made, for once. I must learn.)
11. Christmas presents!
12. An outfit for the retro Christmas party.
13. A swimsuit.
14. ...

Okay I think I'm done. But I'll def think of more things later. Whoo.

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