Meme: Gift Thingy

Got this off Eud:

The first five people to respond to this post will get something from me. It will be about or tailored to those five lucky "victims". The catch? Oh, the catch is that you have to put this in your journal as well, if you expect me to do something for you! (or facebook, or something.)

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:

1. I make no guarantees that you will like what I give you!

2. What I create will be just for you.

3. It'll be done this year.

4. You have no clue what it's going to be. It may be fic. It may be poetry. I may draw or paint something. I may bake you something and mail it to you. Who knows? Not you, that's for sure!

5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

Now post away! We love making presents, yes we do...

Meme: Books

Happy new month!

So I stole this meme from Eud's LJ... Anyway, the idea is to:

- look at the list and
- bold what you've read
- italicise what you're going to read
- underline what you love

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
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 (Only parts of it...)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell (Read about half, then skipped to the ending. Aheh...)
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 (I don't really like Hardy's books...)
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller (I've been searching for this for ages!)
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare (Read some of them.)
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien (The Lord of the Rings was so much better.)
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 (Saw parts of the movie.)
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (Also saw parts of the movie. Depressing story.)
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (Another book I badly want to read.)
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (I liked Through the Looking Glass better though.)
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (One of the first books I ever read. Loved it.)
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen (My mother loves this book too.)
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
37. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
38. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
39. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
40. Animal Farm - George Orwell (Depressingly truthful book.)
41. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
42. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
43. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
44. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
45. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
46. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
47. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
48. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
49. Atonement - Ian McEwan
50. Life of Pi - Yann Martel (Fascinating story.)
51. Dune - Frank Herbert
52. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
53. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
54. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
55. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
56. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
57. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
58. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
59. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
60. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck (Read parts of it.)
61. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
62. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
63. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
64. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
65. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
66. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
67. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
68. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
69. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
70. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
71. Dracula - Bram Stoker
72.The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
73. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
74. Ulysses - James Joyce
75. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
76. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
77. Germinal - Emile Zola
78. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
79. Possession - AS Byatt
80. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
81. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
82. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
84. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
85. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
86. Charlotte's Web - EB White
87. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
88. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've read every single Sherlock Holmes story and loved all of them.)
89. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton (Wow, that was...so long ago.)
90. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
91. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery (On ne voit bien qu'avec le cœur, l'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux...)
92. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
93. Watership Down - Richard Adams
94. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
95. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
96. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas (I liked the 1948 film better than the book, to be honest...It was so funny.)
97. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
98. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo (Only watched the 1935 movie.)

That's, what...36? 36 books? Agh, no wonder my eyes are as bad as they are. I also realise there's lots more books which I want to read and never got to... Probably should work on those sometime.

Meme: Favourite Post

From Zhang Yang. Since I've been tagged, I guess I should do it...

Link One must be about family.
Link Two must be about friends.
Link Three must be about yourself.
Link Four must be about something you love.
Link Five can be anything you choose.

Link One: This one mentions them.
Link Two: I don't seem to talk about them at all, so have a look at my blog links page.
Link Three: But...this is a blog! It's all about me!
...Very well. You may have this one.
Link Four: For those not paying attention, I love Bionicle. And cars. And my computers, all of which have names. And Tabasco sauce...
Link Five: ...Anything?
Anything!

I tag... Whoever is reading this and hasn't done it yet. You know who you are.

Meme: Marriage Age

I got tagged with this meme by Noel - put an X next to the items in the list which apply to you, tot up the frequency of Xs and that's the age that you'll get married. (What do you do if the total is 3 or something? Wait, don't answer that.) So let's see how this turns out...

[X] I know how to make a pot of coffee. (I can make my father's coffee. That's even harder!)
[X] I keep track of dates using a calendar. (...There's something else you can use?)
[ ] I own more than one credit card. (Ha! No.)
[ ] I know how to change the oil in a car. (Not with confidence, no.)
[X] I know how to do my own laundry. (Every Wednesday and Sunday, baby!)
[ ] I vote every election. (Not 21 yet, sorry.)
[X] I can cook for myself. (Definitely! Now, about cooking for others...)
[ ] I think politics are exciting. (Bleh. No.)
[ ] I balance my checkbook. (Don't have one, silly.)
[X] My parents have better things to say than my friends. ('Fraid they do. Age, wisdom, etc.)
Total: 5

[X] I show up for school/college/work every day early. (Touch wood!)
[X] I always carry a pen in my pocket/purse. (And scissors, and a pencil, and a ruler, and...)
[X] I've never gotten a detention. (Clean record here.)
[X] I have never smoked a cigarette. (Ew, no.)
[X] I have never gotten completely trashed. (Never drunk enough to.)
[ ] I have forgotten my own birthday at least once. (Bwahaha! No.)
[X] I like to take walks by myself. (Yeah... I miss Phoenix Park.)
[X] I've watched talk shows. (Never enjoyed them though.)
[X] I know what 'credibility' means without looking it up. (Ha! Yes.)
[ ] I drink coffee at least once a week. (No. Caffeine makes me drunk, remember?)
Total: 8

[X] I know how to do the dishes. (We don't have a dishwasher.)
[X] I can count to 10 in another language. (Two languages, actually.)
[X] When I say I'm going to do something I do it. (Even if I take a million years over it.)
[X] My parents trust me. (Thankfully.)
[ ] I can mow the lawn. (What lawn?)
[X] I can make adults laugh without being stupid. (Can do.)
[X] I remember to water the plants. (That doesn't mean they grow well...)
[X] I study when I have to. (And even when I don't.)
[X] I pay attention at school/college. (In RP, if you don't you're dead.)
[ ] I remember to feed my pets. (What pets?)
Total: 8

[X] I can spell 'experience' without looking it up. ('Cause it's right in front of me. :P Nah, I can. Really. It's "separation" I have a problem with.)
[ ] I work out on a regular basis. (Nah. I'm a slob.)
[X] I clean up my own mess. (Yes. Yes I do.)
[ ] The people at Starbucks know me by name. (No. Caffeine. Can't drink.)
[ ] My favorite kind of food is take out. (Hard call, but no.)
[X] I have gained weight since middle/high school. (2 kg. Nothing too bad.)
[ ] The first thing I do when I wake up is get caffeine. (CANNOT. TAKE. CAFFEINE.)
[X] I can go to the store without getting something I don't need. (Strangely, yes.)
[X] I understand political jokes the first time they are said. (Yeah... doesn't mean I enjoy them.)
[X] I can type quickly. (Sure.)
Total: 6

[ ] I have realized that the weather forecast changes every hour. (Considering I don't believe it anyway, I've never had a reason to know the frequency of forecast updates.)
[ ] My only friends are from my place of employment. (No.)
[ ] I have been to a Tupperware party. (A what?)
[ ] I have realized that no one will take you seriously unless you are over the age of 25 and have a job. (Lies. People take me seriously all the time.)
[ ] I have more bills than I can pay. (Nope.)
[ ] All (most) of my friends are older than I am. (Nope.)
[X] I can say no to staying out all night. (I've never stayed out all night.)
[X] I use the Internet every day. (Guilty as charged! Well, almost every day. There was that time Macx conked out...)
[ ] My wardrobe hasn't changed in a while. (I just stole a belt from my mother.)
[X] I can read a book and actually finish it. (You mean... I'm not supposed to? But...but...)
Total: 3

Grand Total: 30 years
(And that was without a single drop of -I mean, a calculator. Yeah, calculator.)

So... If you are responsible, dedicated to your work, a credit to your parents, politically aware, careful of your health, lax when it comes to paying bills and completely obsessed with caffeine, you'll marry later.

Man, that's depressing. I'm going to go mow someone else's lawn and get drunk on coffee.

...Three posts in a row referencing a Jack Sparrow quote! I'm on a roll!