This is insane. Potter fever seems to have got to me again.

What an insipid idea to put both the movie and the release of the book in the same and not give us a holiday to fully pour over everything and the END of one of the most accomplished series in the history of YA novels.

I shall get the "Call me if you feel traumatised over Fictional Characters" hot line ready(yes there is one in Britain),

Twinkle friends: Hello, my name is May, please hold while i steady myself
for another torrent of problems which has nothing to do with me what so ever and
attempt to solve them.

Me: Harry Potter has ended! My life feels like black void. There is no
point in living when I cannot see or read the words that have accompanied
me for the past 6 years-

Twinkle Friends: Poor dear, when did he break up with you?

Although methinks that the phone bill will give me a heart attack before anything else does.

The cover jackets are rather interesting. I'm not sure if they are by the same artist but it seems the US and the UK has a vastly different interpretation of how old the Golden trio is.

Harry hasn't aged a bit in the US edition but the UK edition seems to have taken to depicting him as an adult. A persona which doesn't really suit him much since Harry doesn't really have the time to enjoy a childhood. He grew up too fast and all he got was a few scattered moments of happiness.

Oh well, too bad for him. Truly, sometimes i wonder what really got him through the years. I guess raw determination and bull-headness can get you really far in life.

Let us dissect the covers!

US Cover:

I really liked this one. The colour and everything, the subtle messages that i don't have a clue to what they mean.

There is the locket on Harry's chest, presumably its the hoax locket he and Dumbledore found. Or not. Does anyone notice? The locket actually has a profile of a woman's face on it.

I wonder what's its significance. Didn't JK Rowling say we will learn something about Lily Potter? Was this her locket?

The thing that first hits you when you look at the cover is not the locket though. What are they reaching for? An item? or something less substantial? Notice harry's expression? To me it's saying something like "I've got to get it." rather then a "I'm dead" although that may be him acting all Noble again. Where is Hermione by the way and Ron?

The fact that Harry and Voldermort are alone in an arena and wandless suggests that something really unusual is happening, something that may be dated in the history books. A situation that has never occurred before.

Perhaps in the end, as much support and love Harry can draw from hermione and ron and maybe even ginny, he's on his own in the facedown.

UK edition:

Oh god, no offence or anything but this is really ugly. The trio's faces looked squashed up, the colour is really gaudy, fortunately we have a choice in purchasing the type of book covers

The only redeeming factor to the whole thing is that there are more details here.

Hark its the hogwarts castle! Perhaps there is one last trip to the Castle. I see dobby behind Harry holding a sword, maybe its Griffindor's sword, which means they definitely went back to take the sword. Or if it wasn't Dobby then it might have been kreacher. Maybe the veil transports him to the scene in the US edition.

All the shadowy figures in the US edition might be people who cannot take part in the whole showdown but are instead, bound to keep secrets forever.

The trio seems to have survived a battle and discovered a horde of gold. Now they are being sucked into a veil. If it really was kreacher holding the sword, Kreacher would most certainly want Harry to die thus dragging Harry down with him as the veil sucks them in.

There are certain symbols I'm not certain of, what does the circle within the triangle mean? (Its on the book spine). The patranous might be another indication of Harry's link to his Parent's past.

By the way, anyone noticed the awful robes Hermione and Ron are wearing?

Adult UK:

They always choose a single object to embody the whole story eg. A Goblet for Goblet of fire, a stone Phoenix for the Order of Phoenix and the Potions book in the Half Blood Prince.

All of these objects played an important part in the whole story so i imagine that the locket will do the same.

With this post i do declare:

I just listened to myself say the lines of Helena on playback.

they were right,i sound constipated. and a little dorky.

Of all roles, to do!

Impending doom.

It seems that Singaporeans have a really big issue with lizards.

I've just finished browsing through some of the blogs at Sgfriends and it seems that erm, people are afraid to squash lizards?

But find a very bizarre and satisfying desire to do so.

Which I could associate with I guess. A little black lizard wriggled out from god knows where into the middle of the walkway where I was waiting to be picked up.

Which is really stupid once you think about it.

Anyway, I decided that i could play god or something since I'm so much taller. I let it stay there and minutes later someone trampled on it.

For the next five minutes, i watched with some degree of morbid fascination of the lizard doing the Macarena with its tail.

Until of course,the next gaggle of girls stomped on it.

After which, it still wriggled but it looked more like a watered down version of William Hung's "She Bangs".

I saw the topic for the Pilot Pen "How I make a difference". Well, something to that effect.
Thinking about joining, although I'm considering if its worth the effort if it has to go through the school again.

I write for me, but when i write for a competition, i would at least like to know what the judges thought about it before being rejected. In which case, I hope that my commonwealth essay doesn't get used as scrape paper to print worksheets.

Anyhow, i know how i made a difference in the lizard's life today, standing by as an completely third party observer who has nothing to do with the subject at hand.

I let it die.

Weather is just not what it used to be.

The entertainment industry should come up with better names for their concerts.

On the gathering dark clouds and thunder-

Weng Jun deadpans: Rain is coming

Reference:



edit/ Stacy says Weng Jun sang it. I didn't hear her sing it. Now thinking of it makes me want to laugh all over again.

Ten things to do before i Die(which do not concern other people whatsoever.thus it's a rather conceited list): (in no particular order)

1)Shave my head. Dye streaks of purple with the remaining stumps of hair.

2) Keep my hair long.White highlights.

3) Go backpacking in Ireland. Search for fairies.

4)If the fairies don't kill me or anything, I'm going bungee jumping.

5)Andy Warhol once said: In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.
I'm going to find that 15 minutes.

6) Achieve self actualization. But first, i need to know how to go around doing that.

7)Meet any of my favourite authors. Tell them i love their work.

8) Have a conversation with a celebrity. I need to know how star struck i will be.

9)Fall in love i suppose. Got to do while i'm still alive.

10) Fill up a hundred balloons with helium. Test to see what's the heaviest weight it can carry up to the sky.

This is Beautiful:

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver
light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light
and
the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But
I, being
poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your
feet;
Tread softly because you tread upon my dreams. -W.B
Yeats

This is Pretty:

I've been living with a shadow overhead
I've been sleeping with a cloud
above my bed
I've been lonely for so long
Trapped in the past, I just
can't seem to move on

I've been hiding all my hopes and dreams away
Just in case I ever need `em again someday
I've been setting aside time
To clear a little space in the corners of my mind
-Way back
into love

Beautiful:

Pretty:

On the stretch of road between school and my bus stop, Vanessa and I somehow got into a conversation about pretty people in class.(names shall not be mentioned in the case of an inflated ego)

No idea why she asked but "What is your definition of pretty because sometimes your "pretty" is like...." -makes a, your sanity is definitely questionable face-

I don't have an answer to that actually, pretty is as pretty does. What reason can i give for something to be pretty?I think some flowers are pretty like a daffodil, some words are pretty too.

Ebullient,effervescent,catalyst.

Pretty words.

I guess i can draw a conclusion and say i associate pretty with really girly qualities. For example, alphabets for me have a gender.

A is a girl(because an apple is a really pretty fruit).
B is a boy(B for boy)
C is a girl(Cats are felines).

E is some sort of gender bender because it can appear really feminine or as a really immaculate boy.

I like the letter E. Its quite exquisite.

Some buttons are pretty. Glitter is pretty. Frills and lace are pretty.

How do i put this in words?

Words like pretty, beautiful , ugly just encompass too much that i don't even want to define them.

They should just get visual aids.

It has been a disturbing week. For various reasons.

First off, I've been having surreal dreams. Do you remember when you were 6 or 7 and read Enid Blyton books, even when the stories sounded the same? Do you remember the series called the Faraway Tree?

I've been having dreams about that. The dreams plays in full colour, but with loads of scratches. Somehow, i get pushed into this rubbish chute, you know the one that every HDB flat has,and end up in front of this yellow school bus. It brings me to the tree, and i climb. I meet all the nice people from the book, the Saucepan man,Moonface,Silky. We sit around and they all stare seriously at me. I probably wake up.

What does a bunch of book characters want with me? More importantly, why them?
If it wasn't a recurring dream (Thursday, Friday,Saturday), i wouldn't have given it much thought.

I have also suffered bouts of inadequacy, what with a 7 year old taking O level chemistry and passing and another math guy who got his PhD at 20, its no wonder everyone's been down. Hmph.

On the other hand, I found out something rather interesting. It seems that japan is developing some high end technology with liquid metal. The theory is that this type of metal will be paper thin and will be able to receive signals or Internet transmissions.

So imagine this.

You buy this liquid metal technology,news will no longer be printed on paper. Instead, the news will be transmitted on to your piece of liquid metal, enabling you to read it like a normal newspaper. The next day, the newspaper will again be transmitted on to your liquid metal.

How's that for saving the enviroment. I was shocked to discover that newspaper was NOT printed on recycled paper 2 years ago. The nerve.I will try and get the article on liquid metal.

The future is proving to be facinating.

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Featured: Hana Kimi

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To everyone who voted for me, i really appreciate it. Seriously.If i do win anything,i will be sure to split the loot.

Update: Hello! I've added one more new icon, its mostly just Xiuyi..hacking.
Also stills for the other icon because well, you can't play animated ones on msn.Oh and a cow plus a train.If the cow's not careful, we will have beef tonight.

I know this has been on here not long before.

Get this. Avril's singing in mandarin.

I have no idea when she started speaking the language. She is also singing in Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, French, German, Italian and Brazilian.

-shell shocked-

I'm really sorry,this isn't a substantive post.

BUT, i entered another one of those blogging competitions. I know, damn my curiosity for all things that have the word "blogging" and "prizes" in it.

Thus, i am going to persuade you guys to vote for me.






Dear fellow readers and bloggers,

I gather you here today to explain why you should click the button at the end of this post and cast a digital,java-script,technology enabled vote for me. The evidence shown below should be adequate in capturing your hearts.

Absolutely fabulous reviews from Very Important People:






TIME Magazine has an article about me! And we all know how vital TIME is.







It's not everyday your sock puppet praises you.
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Even my MOM who is ,of course ,the single most important person in life says:
Very nice, now move your chair, i need to mop the floor.


In addition to the above reviews, my neighbour's dog says "woof".


There is no reason why you shouldn't click the button.

This button will also be permanently relocated to the side-bar.

Now,click the voting button.

I know you want to.

I love supermarkets. Especially the frozen dairy section, its not just the ice cream but the whole full blast of cold air is so mind numbing. Sometimes, it even comes with its own personal mist.

One thing Supermarkets can do without is the elevator music but I suppose it adds to whole Supermarket ambience. Just finished doing grocery shopping, my sister asked me.
What’s your theme song to your life?

My brain sort of has an automated response to weird questions like that which is to throw any answer back.

So, the first thing out of mouth lips was “Am I getting my own movie?”. Followed by “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”

Yeah, I know, of all the songs to pick from I chose a nursery song which shares the same tune with “Baa Baa Black Sheep” and “ The Alphabet song”.

Writing this now, I think maybe it wasn’t such a bad choice afterall. Its simple yet effective. No one will ever forget the song. Its better then radio bubble-gum pop.

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star
How I wonder what you are
Up above the sky so high
Like a diamond in the sky
How I wonder what you are!

Although, do diamonds twinkle?

Well, I got my life’s theme song settled. Now I have to write my script.

Beverly:The Movie coming to a theater near you.

In the immortal words of.

Well,I don't think any immortal would spew any profanities but

WHAT THE HELL DOES AVRIL THINK SHE IS DOING?

If this is a show a maturity, Avril can stop growing up. In fact, she can start growing down.

The classy makeover was fine. You want to get married? Okay go ahead.Save the population crisis.But has this all addled her head?

Where do i even being?

The song itself being awful, like someone had found a bag of Britney Spear's old pop tricks and decided to turn it into something worse. Or maybe Avril hired Paris Hilton's lyricist. This song has Money's fingerprint all over it. Classic example of using sex appeal to conquer the masses.

Please take a moment to gasp with me.

Avril has proclaimed that she was never punk rock. She was always more pop rock. Her songs have also always been fully commercialised,you wouldn't call it alternative. It was pop, fair and square. She was considered one of the few people who salvaged the pop music industry alongside singers like Michelle Branch.

She was almost like a Heavenly Queen.

And now she has clearly fallen from grace.

Wait,perhaps this is a clever trick. Its a show of rebellion against people who thought she was punk and now she is just trying to show she can do whatever she wants.

Avril now you're like so whatever.

You can do so much better.

The Very Secret files which are not so secret anymore since you have already unceremoniously opened the Top-Secret Envelope allocated to Spy 3.1419 2635.

Well Done.Applause.Obviously illiteracy is a growing epidemic. Woe.

Fact Files:

1.The Sun's outer visible layer is called the photosphere and has a temperature of 6,000°C

I have never ever truly grasped the true meaning of the Sun's heat. However, it is safe to say that after a pointless walk that we had during the camp under the Sun's extra enthusiasm in roasting Human Beans, the fact will never escape my mind again. Unless of course,the sun enjoys roasting brain cells as well.

2. Mount Everest is the reigning Mountain with a height of 8,848 meters
The first people to successfully ascent the mountain: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

I don't know how the hell they got up there but geezes i get a little weak kneed when i 2 storeys off the ground preparing to abseil down a green wall.Vanessa still does it best though with her catwalk against gravity.

3. The largest use of household water is to flush the toilet, and after that, to take showers and baths

I helped save the environment. I showered for a mere three-five minutes for the last two days and didn't go to the toilet much therefore i didn't flush too much either. GO WATER CONSERVATION. (The amount of water used after the camp shall not be included in the pure and good karma wave of saving humanity's fate)

4.Volcano eruptions are one of the loudest sounds on Earth and are over 272 dB.

3 Truth might as well been been erupting time and time again. We had a rocking Class Cheer and the Class Cheer ICs should be given a Grammy. Myra should be given a Grammy too now that i think of it because of her seriously best rendition of A Whole New World ever.

5. Parasites in the mud

AS i crawled through the obstacle course with mud all over the place. I rememberd about those parasites that live in the mud and use mud as a transmission so that it can drive into a skin of an animal and infect them. Apparently this has happened in countries where the farmers walk bare-footed in mud. More alarmingly, parasites can alter your mind. It can make you more neurotic(emotionally unstable) . See article. Damnit. We should all get tested for parasites.

6.The total number of stars in the universe is roughly 100 billion x 100 billion.

That's 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 stars, 10 thousand, billion, billion. Properly known as 10 sextillion. And that's a very conservative estimate. So all the stars i managed to see wasn't much. Yes although there was talk about being away from civilisation, civilisattion still reached us. Light pollution much? On the other hand, Venus was shining bright and that's something you don't get to see a lot in the city.

It actually feels good to be sore from all the excercise you know you have been doing. If there is one thing i missed its the red cheeks i had while i was there. Its au natural blusher and now my cheeks are kinda yellow again. Bummer.

I have to sign out before i drip my salivia on my key board. I am that tired.

It's hard to believe it has only been one measly school term.It felt like someone had learnt how to compress time and managed to fit a year's long education into 3 months.

So,we have began our school year and left the class with our own little reputations.

How do you feel about it?
Did you have fun?

It is of course undeniable 3 Truth is absolute adoration




How could you not love us anyway?

I never mentioned that the HCI (Hwa Chong Instiuition) boys came. Truthfully, they were kinda like melded with the class so their presence didn't make the class any different. I suppose its part of the whole immersion.

In which case they should have dressed in the CHIJ uniform too to really experience the whole being in a Girls' school thing

Good times. Good times.

I have camp tomorrow, a gruelling camp that will dump in the middle of nowhere,stretch my limatations and...

Who am i kidding, I am currently packing like I am going on a budget 2 day trip to thailand.

So much for the dangerous wilderness.

But i will lose contact with the Internet for the next couple of days. I will have zero connections to any major newspaper publication or news network. So you guys can inform me if we have been invaded by martians or if global warming has taken it's toll and Singapore is officially having a temperate climate.

Before i say anything.Let me remind you about my feelings towards anything that markets itself on "Who cares what's inside as long as the packaging is fabulous?" and the millions of people who fall for that strategy.

Yes, the shelf life of this particular brand is short. Not to worry though because the head honcho of the company will milk the product for all it is worth in terms mediocre albums, interviews and the rest of the stuff that gets a little tiring after a while. Then the company produces new flavours. In short when the product gets old the process is this- Lather, rinse and repeat.

Of course while this is said, it means no offence to people who get addicted to the product. After all, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and perhaps insane people like me just can't see the nutritional value in it.

The last three paragraphs + picture can be dismissed because i just digressed on a topic i haven't started on. Recently(yesterday), i have taken to watching a a much raved about Taiwanese drama serial to see what all the fuss was about. (although it was convenient that my sister loves the show and i just happened to wonder it and sit beside her in front of the computer)

Surprisingly enough,i could actually feel myself being drawn into the whole torrent of events even though most of it was just pure fluff. The serial (Hana Kimi) plays on the whole Shakespeare Twelfth Night thing although it has been suitably sugared down to be set in an all-boys school consisting of a hardly believable cross-dressing girl who is there because of a guy whom she likes studies there and she is conveniently placed in the same room as him and the guy conveniently likes her back.

I know, its awfully convenient.

The plot sounds familiar too. She's the Man. Ring any bells? That must be it,i hear them chiming in your heads. I have a basis in comparing them.

While I throw away the fact that She's the Man is technically not a serial anything, I will silently contemplate on why a Drama Serial (aka a spring board for upcoming talents to venture into the media if they wish) should appeal so much more. Believe me, although i am not the first person you would normally come to when you have problems with your Chinese homework, i could tell that the script wasn't well crafted for Hana Kimi. So why the hell is it so endearing.

I have watched Hollywood romance stories, from the ones shown in Disney channel( High School Musical) and more recently Shakespeare in Love. However, i have never been caught up in its romance. It might be because of the distractions ( the singing and the tights) but Hana Kimi has it's fair share of distractions too ,usually involving some attempted plot manoeuvre which is ,at time, painful to watch.

Apart from Hana Kimi, other Asian Drama Serial's romance seem to be much better then those portrayed in Western media. Take for example, Princess Hours or pick any of the Hong Kong TV serials. Its just better somehow even if the romance goes bad.

Maybe its the eye-candy? Or just because its simply undiluted sweetness. I'm sure i will get to the bottom of this or else it will haunt me forever in my teens.

(Beverly in her state of temporary stupor shall probably wait for the last episode of Hana Kimi to air in Taiwan tonight and thereafter think up solutions to the problem while sleeping.Yes it IS a problem.)

Promised a pink frog.

Yes,i'm sure the frog won't be happy about it.