Another Meme, folks

Mainly because I have nothing interesting to talk about.

1. Name: Sayiu :P
2. Birthday: 18/ 04/ 89
3. Where do you live: In your consciousness. Also Whitters
4: What are you studying/What are you working as: I study Creative Writing/ English. I've never had a job (for many reasons)
5. What makes you happy: *Shrugs* Food and anime, in any order.
6. What are you listening to now/have listened to last: Errrr.... I think it was 'Before the Dawn' By Evanescence (Very beautiful song BTW)
7. What is particularly good/bad about my blog: Good-wise, it contains most of my writing. Bad wise, it can occasionally be very candid, more than it is meant to be.
8. An interesting fact about you: Other than the fact I have never been in employment? Err...I used to play the bass guitar.
9. Are you in love/have a crush at the moment: Maybe
10. Favorite place to be: Whitters Wood
11. Favorite lyric: I have so many, among my favourites are:

I've been looking in a mirror for so long
That I've come to believe my soul's on the other side.
All the little pieces falling, shatter
Shards of me too sharp to put back together;
Too small to matter,
But big enough to cut me into so many little pieces
If I try to touch her

'Breathe no more' by Evanescence

We used to swim the same moonlight waters
Oceans away from the wakeful day
My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I will bleed forever

Scent of the sea before the waking of the world
Brings me to thee
Into the blue memory

My fall will be for you
My love will be in you
If you be the one to cut me
I will bleed forever

'Ghost love score' By Nightwish

Is it true what they say,
Are we too blind to find a way?
Fear of the unknown cloud our hearts today.
Come into my world,
See through my eyes.
Try to understand,
Don't want to lose what we have

We've been dreaming
But who can deny,
It's the best way of living
Between the truth and the lies

See who I am,
Break through the surface.
Reach for my hand,
Let's show them that we can
Free our minds and find a way.
The world is in our hands,
This is not the end.

'See who I am' by Within Temptation

12. Best time of the year: Halloween
13. Weirdest food you like: People always look at me funny when I say I like sushi o_o

RECOMMEND
1. A film: Pan's Labyrinth ^^b
2. A book: The Immortal Rain Manga XD
3. A song: Ghost Love Score by nightwish
Ghost Love Score - Nightwish

4: A band: Within Temptation, Ikimono Gakari, Evanescence and Nightwish. That was Four, I know, but I couldn't choose.

Random meme

HAVE YOU EVER---------
* Ever been so drunk you blacked out:

No

* Put a body part on fire for amusement:

Toenails :D DANCE DANCE

* Been in a car accident:

Almost D8

* Been hurt emotionally:

Is there anyone who hasn't?

* Had an imaginary friend:

XDDDDDDDD, His name was Buster ^^

* Cried during a movie:

Nope

* Had a crush on a teacher:

D8 No

* Ever thought an animated character was hot?:

I'm an anime fan, it goes without saying

* Had a New Kids On the Block tape:

Nope

* Been on stage:

Yup, singing and dancing [Bet that's a shocker]

* Cut your hair:

What, myself????

-----------------FAVORITES-------------
* Shampoo:

Dove moisturising shampoo

* Color:
Depends on the mood.

* Day/Night:

Depends on the mood.

* Summer/Winter:

Winter, though not when it's slippy ¬¬

* Lace or satin:

Satin, lace is itchy DX

* Cartoon Characters:

L, Tamaki, kyouya, Kaiba, [blathers on for hours with other random anime chars]

* Food:

pizza, sushi, ice cream, chocolate, cheesecake, berries[blathers on again]

* Fave Movie:

Spirited Away

* Fave Ice Cream:

Bohemian Raspberry

* Fave Subject:

Creative Writing and Dream Study

* Fave Drink:

Cola prolly


------------------RIGHT NOW------------
* Wearing:

Clothes

* Eating:

Megabytes

* Drinking:

I wish

* Thinking about:

What i'm going to be doing later

* Listening to:

Librarians

* Talking to:

Myself

* Watching:

A computer screen

---------IN THE LAST 24 HRS--------
* Cried:

Me? you lieeeeeeee

* Worn a skirt:

For bed maybe

* Met someone new:

In Whitters?

* Cleaned your room:

AHAHAHAHAHAHA, now i know you're lying.

* Done laundry:

Mother did. She believes my skills outshine hers.

* Drove a car:

I have a bus pass, there's not much point.


----DO YOU BELIEVE IN------
* Yourself:

Of course, perception is reality.

* Friends:

What a loaded question O.O

* Santa Claus:

Nope.

* Destiny/Fate:

Yup.

* Angels:

Nope.

* Ghosts:

My Daddy has seen one *nod nod*

* UFO's:

Nope
------LOVE----------
* Bf/gf:

Not at the moment, had one last year though

* Ever been in love:

Yarrr, some say too easily.

* Cheated on anyone:

O.O I'd never do that. [had it done on me ¬¬]

* Ever done a "drunken stupid mistake":

Can't get drunk.

* Ever had a lesbian/gay experience:

Define experience

-----TELL THE TRUTH!!-----------
Would you ever:
* Pay for sex:

No

* Strip for money:

I have standards

* Play strip poker:

If i knew the rules

* Work in McDonalds:

No

* Lie:

Everybody lies.

* Bitch about someone:

Everybody bitches. I'm human.

* What's the best feeling in the world:

Ignorance

Coffee shop, where art thou?

I received some wonderful news recently that made me jump for joy - Starbucks, the megalomaniac coffee chain is finally disappearing from our high streets. I cannot express how happy this made me - particularly since McDonalds is taking their customers.

It goes without saying that coffee shops are so far reachingly middle class nowadays. As a hot chocolate fan myself, yes, I am more than a little biased on this matter, but it's always baffled me why even our smallest towns need more than one in a short radius.

My local town is a historic one, with a medieval market and lots of shops where my Dad went when he was a school boy. There's a miniature sweet shop on the corner, where we used to call on our journeys to and from college. There was only one shop we never explored - the one coffee shop in town, which day in, day out, was filled with what we called disapprovings, sipping their coffee.

All of a sudden, the historic shops began to disappear - a music shop that had survived since the 50s, in which my Dad bought his first CDs, disappeared in favour of a Costa Coffee - just three shops up from the 'disapprovings'. A couple of months later, they demolished the pizza hut in favour of another one. The final blow came at the end of my college year when a book shop fell victim to the foul stench of coffee.

There was a book shop in town - the kind where you can be lost for hours in winding bookshelves, in the midst of titles you have never seen before and will never seen again. It seems odd to me they reduced this shop to a meagre coffee shop; particularly since it had a tea shop on the premises in the first place.

Coffee shops have always been of great confusion to me, possibly because my folks live on the stuff and so biased I may be, but I can't help but confess that the news of Starbucks' imminent decline brought a very large smile to my face.

It's a Weird World

It's a strange world we live in.

In a bid to persuade my father to cut out the coupons for the classic costume drama DVDs free this past few weeks, there's been a lot of newspapers lying around. And since they were lying around, of course I had to read them.

I am disgusted by so called 'feminists' all but legalising murder, at the expense of the percentage of women genuinely abused. They paint a queer picture of women - victims, of evil men, who seek to use and abuse us. These women, though true in their original intentions are NOT feminists. Truth be told, they are the bottom of the feminist barrel. What kind of feminist would paint woman as inferior to men, when the point of the movement was to prove otherwise?

And otherwise, in our society, is so often the solemn truth. Though men are usually envisioned the violent sex, it is women nowadays who commit violent crimes. I read recently of a young woman, jailed for several years, who held down a woman her own age while her [male] friends sexually abused her. I'll never forget the time my aunt [several times beaten by her drunken husband] admitted to threatening to stab him whenever he was too violent.

My views on the matter are thus - one sex should never be greater than the other. We were created equal, and that is how we were intended to remain. All this talk of a female entirely cabinet is folly, it always was going to be - the point of the cabinet was to have a range of views from different stations (or at least it was supposed to be). A female entirely cabinet, though romantic, is completely irrational and unfounded. Women in modern day society ARE more violent than they were before, through alcohol and the 'ladette' culture.

It is true that women are becoming more boyish - to the point where it is affecting our personal lives. Now we women have the right to work alongside men, we have laid aside our femininity for the sake of a [lesser] wage. While we become more and more masculine, pushing off having children, getting married later and later in our lives, the higher ups have the brainwave to bring out cosmetics and [?] tights for men.

Am I the only one thinking huh?

Declined??? WTF

Has everybody else received their reading list? I checked mine recently and was depressed (on an economic level) to see how many books were on it, mostly books I've never even heard of (which isn't so rare, since most of the books I read are pretty well known). Anyway, I scoured Amazon shortly after, picking up every book I find (in the end I got all of them, minus 2-3, for about 30£). I even managed to get a copy of the Great Gatsby for 1p, which I thought was some pretty darn good shopping.

Anyway, I got an email through this morning saying that all payments have been DECLINED, much to my utter gobsmackification. At first I was just confused, but about ten minutes later I realised why. The card I registered on Amazon is about four months expired and I needed to register the new one. It's all sorted now, thank goodness, I think I'd cry if after all the time I'd spent comparing sites was wasted.

Speaking of shopping, I went to Tesco with my Dad this morning and was taken aback by just how meticulously organised our list making skills have become. We started making lists in the back when, when my mother came shopping with us and got so distracted the offers on show that she forgot what we were supposed to be buying. Now our lists have numbered items, in the order we'll find them on the shelves o_0. I wasn't sure whether to think it was amazing or extremely sad.

Reading meme

I've been reading a lot this summer (Has anyone read The Memory Keeper's Daughter? - my mother and I have been arguing over it all week) - hence why this meme seems all the more poignant. Basically, bolden the ones you've read, underline the ones you love, italicise the ones you want to read.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (Read it for English, I didn't like it that much though ¬¬)
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (We are the Deeeeeeead)
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (I've read some of them)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
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 (A friend at home has read it three times, it's always intrigued me)
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (WHY THE HELL DIDN'T THEY START THE FILMS AT THE BEGINNING WITH THE GUINEA PIGS AND THE POOLS AND THE MAGIC RINGS?)
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (Why is the Lion, the Witch and the Wrdrobe lower on the list than the complete works?)
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres (I've met the author and seen the film - twas rubbish - havent read the book though)
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell (Four legs good, Two legs baad)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
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
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (I was ten, it made me cry)
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
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 (lol we all end up the Remains of the day)
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White OMFG I loved this when i was little - had to skip the first chapter though :'<
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad (aDidn't read it when I was supposed to, now i think it's pretty good)
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
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
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

36/100 \o/ I'm better read than I thought ^^

D8 BuT tEh RaBbIt!

Let it be known, that I now believe in the power of the lucky rabbits foot. On the way here, my Dad almost flattened one, and it miraculously survived! Thinking about it, most of the wildlife in Whitters seems to be quite lacking in brain power at the moment. It was only yesterday that my mother was telling about the pheasant that ambushed her while she was trimming the grass in our garden. Flew up into her face, all because it was frightened to death of the carrier bag she uses to scare off the wood pigeons. ¬¬. We're not even sure why it was there; in Whitters, the pheasants live on the side of the village. I can't help but think it was lost. Mother asked grandad - he was a farmer in his youth - and he says they're probably roosting. So great - more pheasants, on completely the wrong side of Whitters, smack in the middle of Fox territory ^^b.

It's not only the pheasants that ambushed my mother of late. You all have them, don't you? Weird neighbours; the kind you see on Escape to the country, who're dead set on retiring to the midlands and setting up a vegetable patch? Enter Chicken George. For years he's been stealing land, getting rid of the horses at the top of our garden and of late we wondered why. Well, it all became clear when i was summoned awake on Sunday morning by my mother's screams. Peeking through my mum and Dad's window, I was much amused to spot four and twenty chickens flapping round the garden - my mum flapping with them, spade in hand, yelling 'GAREEEEEEE'. It was like chicken run - only funnier.

Seems Chicken George moved to the midlands and stole all that land - for a chicken coop.