Mood: Worried...(THAT I'LL GET CAUGHT!!)
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I'm supposed to be doing my homework now...but I decided to sneak a blog post, since I have the chance and I haven't blogged for so long...so Shhhh everyone (unless you're one of my parents, then the secret is out...)
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Black Magician Trilogy
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Okay. I just finished reading the Black Magician Trilogy at 3.50 am on 13th September 2008. ARGH!!! You may be wondering why I was up that late. I simply could not stop thinking about the story!!! I stopped at the point when Akkarin adn Sonea had been exiled, and they were currently travelling. I was really so excited and anxious about the fate of Kyralia, I couldn't sleep, and decided to sneak down into the kitchen to read!
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(It's the only room in the house where I can turn on the light and no one can see it)
So. OH MY GOODNESS the ending was...AWESOME!!!!!! It was amazing. Everything tied up, and not too rushed, like many reviewers say. The battle of Imardin is the best battle scene I've everrrr read. It was so excited that I didn't feel sleepy at all, though it was way past midnight!!!
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But there were some things about it that I didn't really like. For one, there were too many...ERMHERM scenes. Yeah, the author made it so obvious I knew what she was talking about. Makes me want to puke. The waterfall scene was the WORST.
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And besides, I don't like the pairing AkkarinxSonea...I really think DorrienxSonea was sooooooo much better. He's nicer, more cheerful and less commanding--GAH why did it have to be like that!!??! Yeah, the second thing I didn't like. But I think the ending implies that Sonea got together with Dorrien again--otherwise, why didn't he go back to his village at South Pass? Ah, what a relief.
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And Akkarin died! Somehow, it didn't move me too much. Maybe because I don't like him.
Overall, YOU MUST READ THE SERIES! Sorry for the spoilers. I had too many spoilers, maybe that spoilt it a little for me (they're not called spoilers for nothing, you know). Overall, favourite book was The Novice (not too dark like The High Lord, and not too slow like The Magician's Guild), and favourite characters were Dorrien, Rothen and Tayend (argh but they ruined him by making him gayyyyy but I still like his personality and the fact that he's a scholar)
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Other stuff--I watched WALL•E!!! Yay THE ANIMATION WAS AMAZING, so detailed...and the story plot was really shockingly GOOD! I didn't think Disney Pixar could keep up the standard (after Finding Nemo and Ratatouille!), but they did! Ahaha, Eve was such a nice robot, even though she was a robot. All the robots had such nice, unrobotic personalities...simply amazed me. The beginning scene really scared me. All that rubbish...I think the message was very obvious and very true. I loved the impact it made on me :D-
And today was quote recitation!!! Everyone in class chose gold. I decided to choose gold too! It's the same as Azura's, and I didn't do as well--she got 20/20, I only got 18/20. But I'm still very happy! Here it is:
"I have possess'd your Grace of what I purpose,
And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn
To have the due and forfeit of my bond.
If you deny it, let the danger light
Upon your charter and your city's freedom.
You'll ask me, why I rather choose to have
A weight of carrion flesh, than to receive
Three thousand ducats; I'll not answer that,
But, say, 'It is my humour'; is it answered?
What if my house be troubled by a rat,
And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats
To have it baned? What, are you answer'd yet?
Some men there are love not a gaping pig
Some, that are mad if they behold a cat,
And others, when the bagpipe sings i'th'nose,
Cannot contain their urine, for affection,
Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood
Of what it likes or loathes. Now for your answer;
As there is no firm reason to be rendered,
Why he cannot abide a gaping pig,
Why he, a harmless necessary cat,
Why he, a woolen bagpipe, but of force
Must yield to such inevitable shame
As to offend, himself being offended.
So can I give no reason, nor I will not.
More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing
I bear Antonio, that I follow thus
A losing suit against him. Are you answered?"
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Ah. There. I recited the whole thing in front of the class, and screwed up only one bit--I said "have" instead of "receive" (7th line). Hooray!!! :D
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Yeah. That's it. My MEP practical is this thursday! I'm scared scared scared. Arabesque I by Debussy is a piece I've been learning since APRIL LAST YEAR (With many major lapses in practice, of course). I perfected it in December last year, but...completely (or half) washed it away by not practicing it. Well, it's a really amazing piano piece, and I think I can get the emotion right! It's just the pedalling...my pedalling is all blurrrrry and bad... ...
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Ah yeah! I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!!!! Why did I forget to mention this? I RANKED 6TH IN THE LEVEL FOR THE AUSTRALIAN MATH COMPETITION!!!!! With a score of 104/135.
I really don't get it. I hate math. I think I do. My math is HORRIBLE. I failed both the 1st term and the midyears. I fall asleep during class. SO WHY DID I RANK SO HIGH? HOWWWWWWW TELL ME
Zhang Aidi topped us all with a perfect score, as expected. AF beat me at 3rd position (which is expected too). BUT ME, SIXTH???!?!?!??!? Sometimes, I wonder if this is just a waking dream! IT'S IMPOSSIBLE!!!
*gasps repeatedly*
[as an after-note, i feel so stupid, cos i forgot to fill in my year of birth in the amc personal particulars form.]
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That was a good shout.
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I just got found out. WHICH ONE OF YOU ALERTED MY PARENTS?!
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so...back to work again. Ooh, it's "tomorrow" already. 12.13 am. Okay. really gotta go then. And a random piece of art I did on Paint (yeah, the Microsoft one) out of boredom during computer studies:
