Yes, the title is correct, I need your help! For the very important ISU(an assignment) given by Ms Ford, my Eng4U teacher, I need you guys to help me choose a book(I have never read any one of the books before) to read by the 13th of August. If any of you have read any of the books below, please leave a comment or send me a note, about the story and what you guys think about it.

Stranger in the Forest, Eric Hansen
World of Wonders, Robertson Davies
Fifth Business, Robertson Davies
The MAnticore, Robertson Davies
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Gregory Maguire
Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
Frankenstein, Mary Shelly
The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison
Life of Pi, Yann Martel
Haroun and the Sea of Stories, Salmon Rushdie
The Poisonwood Bible, Barbara Kingsolver
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami
Waiting for Snow in Havana, Carlos Eire
The Stranger Albert Camus
Siddartha, Herman Hesse
The Trial, Franz Kafka

I can choose a book which is not on the list(stictly NO Harry Potter, Stephen King, or Dan Brown) and it has to explore the differences of illusion, reality and the modern world. I've talked to renaye yesterday and she did suggest a book which I've forgotten the title but I have no idea what it is about. The good news is that she has one of the book, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, but I don't know if I can borrow it from her to do this assignment as she just bought it somewhere this week and I don't think so I can afford another book after buying Harry Potter and Eclipse(which is going to cost me about RM200, thanks to me not wanting to wait for 2 months for it). Though that is totally out of the topic...

And as I excepted, I really am in the "calm before the storm" situation as I'm quite busy this weekend thanks to assignments, presentations, tests and ...more assignments which are all due by Wednesday.

Thanks for reading and really thank you for those who're planning to help me with the book titles.

Hugs To: alexsedotcx, ikimashokie, lazypuppy, invisible, and crz4manga.

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In less than a month, I’ve learnt that with every small bit of freedom, it comes with a great amount of responsibility. There’s still so much more for me to learn.. either the easy or the hard way.. I’m going to maybe cut juices out of my grocery list, as I started buying them when Mum suggested me to drink them as I was showing signs of dehydration. I think it’s time for me to be more responsible of myself, furthermore, the amount of money left in my account is seriously scaring me. I don’t know how I could’ve withdrew so much money and I almost have no idea where the money went to... It should be the side effect of not going to the market with Mum and Grandma but only know how to eat whatever’s on the table. Yes, I’m sounding weird am I? I think it’s the side effect of spending sometime at Uncle Aundrey’s. I didn’t actually want to leave his place, it just felt so... Nice to be there... And I get to watch Ghost Whisperer for half an hour or so.. I even bumped into Zoey and Estrella-chan in front of Carrefour, while waiting for the bus back to the hostel because I asked Uncle Aundrey to leave me there so that I can withdraw some money. My jovial mood lasted for less than 5 minutes as I sank back into the bottomless pit of sadness as I watch the person who’d make me forget my troubles walk further away from me and then disappeared with a blink of an eye like they’ve disapperated!

Anyway, apart from the normal perception that my classmates in both my Accounts and MDM class have of me, I am definitely, NOT clever. They think I’m this whiz kid because I can answer most of the questions that the teacher asked and just so happen to score full marks for my accounting quiz. In the small and cold classroom, I think the best way to not fall asleep is to talk and since talking to the person sitting beside you is forbidden while the teacher is talking, I talk to the teacher so that I don’t fall asleep.. What’s wrong with doing that?? Though, that doesn’t happen during English class because English class is fun and it so happen to be the only class I don’t really feel cold and sleepy in... And in the case of MDM and Accounting, I just so happen to be able to remember whatever I’ve learnt back in Secondary School, which made things easier for me. Not to forget that I rather not procrastinate as I’ve learnt a lesson from procrastinating in the last few weeks of Secondary School. I rather plan my time wisely than having something similar to the erm.. I think in this context, it’s a situation, the calm before the storm. Not only that, you won’t know when something really big comes up and you won’t be able to do any last minute work at all. Call me pushy, call me crazy, whatever.

There are some people, who are so damn free to be trying to hack into someone else’s computer.. Maybe that’s the side effect of staying in a place where TV is not available. All weekend I’ve been getting these alerts saying “an attempt has been blocked” at least 10 times a day and now, the connection is crazy! I can’t get on MSN or even to open pages no matter how many times I’ve reconnected. *rolls eyes*

Hugs to: lyndeep, bing bean, Dilated, This-Muffin-Man, alexsedotcx, LostSoul13, and Katrina.

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Yes folks, you got it right, I've watched Simpsons - the Movie! I went and watched it with Ivan. For someone who don't always watch Simpsons because it's only available on cable and I don't have any cable.. That movie is ridiculously funny! Though I yawned twice while watching the movie(same thing happened when I was watching Pirates of the Caribbean), I am definately recommending it because laughter is the best medicine, especially if you really need a laugh. Though I have no idea why this movie is rated as suitable for all viewers because there are scenes in this movie, which is really not suitable for kids to watch. Those people who rate the movies usually rate movies with one or two innocent kissing scenes as 18, and now.... Even Ivan agrees that kids shouldn't be watching this movie! Oh whatever, kids in Malaysia needs some sex education anyway.

So.. what else did I do today..? Trying to google out some extra information about ethical standards of management accountants which I need to do a presentation and report on and is due on the 9th.. which came me with absolutely nothing at all which is apart from the information available in the textbook. I then turned to Anita for help and she's borrowing her friend's textbook which should have some ethical standards for me. I hope to be able to return it to her asap because they're going to have a test in two weeks time. Oh right!! I've been wanting to ask you guys, how to change the name of my page? Instead of it saying "Nuttz's Weblog Site - Nutang.com", I would like to change it to something else but I don't know how..

Hugs To: jolenesiah, ikimashokie, -highonlife, and alexsedotcx.

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I went ice skating today with estrella-chan and her sister. It was fun. Though, I kind of fell twice, not on my butt, on my knees. I spent an hour and a half or so in there learning how to skate. Well, I sure did a good job not falling on my butt for a first timer. The thing is that I went there just to look at estrella-chan skate, then Zoey, her sis, doesn't want to skate anymore and since all our feet are of the same size, Zoey gave me her skates and I gave her my shoes, for an hour and a half.. Estrella-chan can skate very well, mostly due to the fact that she used to roller blade.

Estrella-chan commented about my eyebrows.. She doesn't like the idea of me drawing my eyebrows.. she said it looks weird on me. Well, the next time I go out with her, I'll just not draw my eyebrows.. Though I've now felt that I look weird if I don't draw my eyebrows.. HAHA! It doesn't matter, I shall see how things are the next time we hang out. Eng Wei, don't be jealous, I'll hang out with you when the time is right.. You have Saturday classes and are quite faraway from me.

By the way, I think I'll be able to go back home for a week, the last week of August, there's a term break and if Ivan is not in Sabah at that time, I'll invite him over or something since he had been saying that he wants to visit Taiping again. Too bad the week I'm off is the week my family comes back from Langkawi, or else I'd be able to follow them there.. Though I'll be able to go home to a fridge well stocked with chocolates! XD

Hugs To: renaye, Xboyz, ranor, kkama67, alexsedotcx, Le_Jes, and bing bean.

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Sorry for the slight technical problem just now, I accidentally pressed enter.

My days are mundane, school, hostel, online, - homework, chatting, listening to songs, reading manga. Well, I joined a few clubs.. I’ll just ditch them when I’m busy.. I think I’ll be able to learn a thing or two. Though, looking at Buddhi, who’s taking CIMP too, it’s scary.. she’s busy almost all the time. Well, I shall cross the bridge when I come to it. I’m pretty homesick right now.. It’s raining almost everyday, like back in Taiping, and I got drenched in rain again on Sunday.. Maxie asked, why am I homesick while I dreaded home just a few weeks ago.. It’s because I miss Grandma’s cooking, not needing to worry that I’ve overspent, doing laundry, and going to buy groceries.. My groceries list is always: fruits, milk, juice, bread and another item or two which I think I want to eat or I need. Hey Ben.. did you happen to buy some chewing gum and it went missing when you guys brought me here? There’s a packet of chewing gum in my place.

Though it’s nice staying here, I don’t know when I’ll be able to go back, even though it’s just 4 hours away. Let’s get homesick together! LOL! And talking about home.. Guess what? My Harry Potter, will be going home without me... Just waiting for my mother to show up and take it away... along with the stupid owl... Oh wait... not stupid owl.. the Hedwig plushie. And in 2 weeks time.. my Eclipse will arrive.. I might just spend the weekend at Uncle Aundrey’s as I’m sure I won’t let go of the book once I start reading it. Oh my Edward... I just can’t wait to read what Bella says when you ask her that question... I wonder would she get so angry and just slap him.. but on a second thought.. Who’d have the heart to slap dear Edward... except Jacob and his gang, Mike, and Charlie, I guess. I’ve been reading XXXholic lately, it’s pretty interesting.

Well, that issue with my roomie, I’ve told her in a way that she won’t suspect that I’ve overheard her and her friend: “Hey.. If I’ve done something that you don’t like or offended you, please tell me because I like to do weird stuff and I sometimes won’t notice that I’ve offended someone.” And she said “Oh! No, we’re roommates, we’re supposed to tolerate each other.” =_=” Well, whatever, I’ve warned her and if she doesn’t want to listen to me, it doesn’t matter. By the way, I dropped my phone the other day and now it’s crazy, it switches off whenever it likes and I’ve so many bottles with me right now, thanks to buying yogurt drinks, I’m going to dump them in the recycle bin in school. Too bad, there’s no recycle bins in the hostel.

There's this cultural thing going on tonight and all my housemates, except my roomie, of course, are going.. but I'm yet to decide if I want to go or not.. Or I could call up Ivan and ask him if he want to spend sometime with me. =/ not sure.. I want to watch Licence to Wed.. though.. I don't know when will it be out in Malaysia.

Hugs to: bing bean, ikimashokie, alexsedotcx, renaye, and jolenesiah.

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So.. I didn't sleep like for 40 hours... Doesn't matter, let me share the interesting things which happens when thing doesn't go according to plan.

I can't sleep at all after I typed the previous, so I texted Gabriella and we decided to go out in 10 minutes.. And that happened to be 3.30AM. We met up on the ground floor of our hostel and we didn't know if we could go out then as the gate was closed and we don't see any taxis outside.. I spotted one.. but.. we decided that we should wait a while before we head out. We sat by the pool and talked.. Books, hoodies, clubs, teachers... High School...

It was 4.30AM and we decided that we really don't know how crazy the fans here are, so we decided to head out. We went to the main gate, and we asked the guard

Me: Hey.. Can we go out right now?
Guard: No.
Me: Why not?
*Guard hands me a piece of paper*
*I read*
Me: This doesn't say anything about going out.. it just says that we can't come back after 3AM.
----No reply----
Me: Hey.. excuse me..
Guard: If you want to go out, I'll take hostel card.
Me: What? Why??
--- Continued to be ignored----
*Me and Gabriella walked away while commenting loudly that he was rude*
Me: Let's try the back gate.
Gabriella: OKay...

Well, the guard at the back gate was SOOOOOO much better than the one at the front gate. He explained why we can't go out at this time and we can only go out after 6AM and stuff like that.. So we hung around at the benches.. then Gabriella's bro came back... and he was like "You people are crazy! OMG! My sister is crazy! bla bla bla" Part of their conversation in Indon is still stuck in my head right now. So, we ended up like only going at 6.30AM and the line wasn't really that long but long enough for us to only get the book at around 7.45, which is 45 minutes after the store opens. I heard these reporters saying that those people in front, came as early as 4AM.. So.. it does mean that IF me and Gabriella were able to get out of that place when we want to, we could've got the extra discounts and a free book.. And I ended up with the stupid owl instead..

I came back and lodged a complaint about the guard.. I'm here for like 3 weeks? I've been down to the office quite a number of time.. Doesn't matter.. I'm not going to tolerate with people who are rude. And the guy at the office told me that it is written in the book that we can't go out before 6AM and after midnight.. No.. I've read about the late night passes and there's nothing mentioned about being locked in this place from midnight to 6AM.

Anyway, enough about that... it's not like I'm ever going to go out in the wee hours of the dawn again, because I'm going to get my Eclipse through mail.

The Book
Interesting, don't ask for spoilers, I'm not going to give anything away, go read it yourself. The ending is quite confusing though.. Too many names overlapping.. Happy reading!! I know I got the book earlier than you guys in the US.

Hugs to: bing bean, Xboyz, Katrina, The-Muffin-Man, and invisible.

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