感受

也不知为什么
最近总是头痛
难道以前的毛病又回来了吗？
这几天真的很想家
也不是真的在这很不开心
但是总觉得很难永远保持开朗的心态
昨天S 发 msn给我
说我俩真的要和他人换份工作
人人都觉得我们蛮幸运的
总是飞来飞去，有机会看到不同的地方
其实一个人旅行真的有它的不好之处
有烦恼时， 没人诉苦
有欢乐时，没人分享
跟家人通话时，也要装着开心
已不让他们担心
吃得好，住得好，何乐而不为
多一个星期要放假了
其实很想留在新加坡
但是已答应了好友一起去玩
又觉得不能辜负他们的期待
是不是自寻烦恼？

Being Friends

This being a dreamy post that I am typing early in the morning, after thinking about it just as I fell into dreamland last night, is going to be in my usual rambling prose.

Anyways, was fooling around Facebook over the weekend, and there has been this craze where everyone posts 25 things about themselves on their wall. Well, I happened to notice this one little post “I am friends with my ex, who is getting married” or something along those lines. Coincidentally, I was also having this conversation with someone else on how difficult/painful it is to remain contact with the guy after the breakup, and there was this rather cute statement “It’s easier to just have a big fight, break up and not talk to each other”.

Such differing opinions, just in the space of a day.

Got this off MT's Facebook... and thought it would be quite interesting to see how I fare:

The BBC came up with this list of 100 books. Apparently the average number of books from this list that people have read is 6.
Instructions:
1) Look at the list and put an 'X' after those you have read.
2) Add a '+' to the ones you LOVE.
3) Tally your total at the bottom.

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen X (I read all her books for Lit in JC... so... )
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien X
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte X
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling X
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee X (this was mei's lit book)
6 The Bible - X (again, something I did when I was bored in JC)
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte X(the lit paper was comparison of Jane Austen with other female authors)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (I just bought this book!)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (I have never heard of this book)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens X (How can I forget this book? We used to exchange letters quoting from the book, I still have them...)
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott X (I re-read this quite a few times)
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (never read it, but it has been on the bookshelf)
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (has anyone ever finished this?)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk (another book that I have not heard of)
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger X
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy (this book has been on my bookshelf for a year... still waiting for that someone to read it with me)
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams X
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck X
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll X
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens X
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis X
34 Emma - Jane Austen X
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen X
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis X (isn't this repeating no 33? I thot that meant all 7 books)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hussein X (I cried reading this)
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden X
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown X
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery X (I read this... and the entire series many many times)
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy X
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen X
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens X
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon X
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez X
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt X (This is a really good "thriller")
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold X
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding X (I even read the sequel to this)
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens X
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett X
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce (I gave up after chapter 3)
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom X
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle X (again, I think I know every single story)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton X
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery X
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare X (My JC lit text... I could quote from it)
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo X

39 books in all... not that many actually... offhand I can think of a few peeps who would have read more than me!