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Friday, February 27, 2009

Random stuff I took off Loo's and Sofia's blog..

OK. This is gonna be tough because I don't think I know many things that start with R

1. What is your name : Rachel

2.A four Letter Word : rude, rape, rake, rile, reap, roar

3. A boy's Name : Richard, Rudolph, Rafael/Raphael, Russell, Randell, Rian, Ryan, Rudy

4. A girl's Name : Rachel, Raine, Rebecca, Reagan, Regina, Roxanne, Rose, Rowena

5. An occupation : Road Sweeper...grim Reaper, Racer (thanks to Tina for this idea)

6. A color : RED

7. Something you'll wear : Running shoes? (does this count?)

Where's no. 8??

9. A food : radish? Ravioli!

10. Something found in the bathroom: Rolls of toilet paper (I'm such a cheat)

11. A place : Redhill, Redang, Republic of China (Taiwan), Republic of Singapore (cheating a bit here..)

12. A reason for being late : having the RUNS

13. Something you'd shout : RUN! RATS!

14. A movie title : Resident Evil

15. Something you drink : Root Beer

16. A musical group : Rise Against, Red Hot Chili Peppers

17. An animal : Rooster? kangaROO (ok. Nvm)

18. A street name : Rochor Road

19. A type of car : Roadster!

20. The title of a song : a Rush of Blood to The Head (aahahaa)

And from Loo's blog... BBC says that this is a list of MUST READS (and I seem to have read very little)

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (X) Lit text!!
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (X)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte ( )
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (X)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )
6 The Bible - ( ) Does reading parts of it count?
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte( )
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (X)
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 ( )
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ( )
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ()
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ( )
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger (X) AWESOME
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 ( )
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( ) uh. Watched it...
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 ( )
34 Emma - Jane Austen ()
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ( )
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis ( )
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini ( )
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden (X) Not a must read lah. Wasn't impressive.
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (X) BORING as compared to Angels & Demons
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - 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 ( ) I want to read this!
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( ) This too!
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ( ) This three!
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 ( )
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon ( ) I never completed this book. I have no clue why.
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’s Diary - Helen Fielding (X) CHICK LIT! ok lah. Is this really a must read?
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie ( ) I WANNA READ THIS
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 Inferno - Dante ( )
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 - EB White (X) Primary school book... XD
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 (X) I LOVE THIS SERIES!!
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ( ) To Loo: I missed this out!
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 (X) Gotta love Roald Dahl!
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )

Ok. Have not read much of what's in this list. But most of it is not stuff I usually read anyway! There are only a handful of Fantasy books in that list! And where's Haruki Murakami? And Neil Gaiman? I realise what I've known all along.. I don't read many classics and I actually don't plan on reading most of them.. (save for stuff like 1984)

Rachel typed at 9:11 pm