If you’re getting a pet as a lifetime companion, then you should seriously consider ADOPTION. Coz animals who find themselves at animal shelters often don’t have a choice about it. Who’d want to be homeless and abandoned to boot?!
Check out the following links to adopt a kitty or a doggie friend (or any other animal pets) today! OR you can simply pass the links to your animal-loving friends. C’mon…you know you wanna help those poor souls! =D
Here’s a chance for you to recycle, reuse and reduce all in the name of the Green Spirit.
Book Exchange 2010
Give a book. Get a book. The infinite book exchange.
[Give A Book, Get A Book]
Give a book, get a book at the Book Exchange! Drop off your used books* at any Public Library from 10 to 23 April, 11.00am to 9.00pm and get a coupon for every book** accepted. Bring your coupon down to The Plaza, National Library Building, on 24 April to redeem for new reads.
Event details: Date: Sat, 24 April 2010 Time: 8.30am to 6.00pm Venue: The Plaza, National Library Building, 100 Victoria Street
*We accept children’s and adults’ fiction and non-fiction books (eg. Cookbooks, travel guides and romance novels) in any four official languages. Books in other languages will not be accepted. We also accept used library books bought from previous Library Book Sales. Textbooks, magazines and audio-visual materials are not accepted. Used books for exchange should be in relatively good physical condition.
**Each person can exchange up to a maximum of 30 used books.
For enquiries, please call NLB Helpdesk at 6332 3255 or email: helpdesk@nlb.gov.sg.
Whew…it’s gonna be a busy busy social month for me this April and coming May. Friend’s wedding, said friend’s hen party, various dates with different people, Book Exchange @ The National Library at Bugis, FREE Comic Day at Rochor Centre etc. Utterly jam-packed with stuff to do, places to go and people to see. Not that I’m complaining of course. Haha.
Went to watch Ju-on: White Ghost and Black Ghost with my bf last Tuesday @ Cineleisure, Orchard. It was a movie collection of 2 stories with the common theme of revenge.
The first movie begins with a man hanging in his last throes of life. A cassette tape recorder lies below him beside a bag and we are soon treated to the creepy sight of long (for once, I’ll like to see a short-haired ghost) hair spilling out of the bag. The story then brings the viewer back in time where we find out how and why the murder of an entire family took place. Throughout this story, we see a scary white female figure stalking anyone and everyone who was somehow linked to the murdered family. At first I thought the ghost was the little girl (whose head got lopped off by her crazy and suspiciously pervert uncle), then I discovered…that it was actually the little girl’s senile granny who wanted to play ball. =.= [highlight missing part to see spoiler]
The second story is about a twin that had been absorbed by her own twin during the mother’s pregnancy. The absorbed twin then seeks revenge on everyone who “refused” to give her a chance at life. A bit illogical. =x
Anyways…during the movie…everyone was so tensed up that they screamed at almost every scary scene and not so scary ones. Case in point: when a character was merely taking a deep breath in surprise, a girl screamed at the top of her lungs, presumably to prepare for the “scare” ahead. =x
Like seriously…if you’re so scared…DON’T WATCH SCARY MOVIES! =x Hehehehe.
Well, the movie was quite ok and quite unintentionally funny at times but it did good in building suspense and that scary sound the Ju-on ghosts seem to enjoy making. =x
So I was digging in my cupboard today and I realised, much to my horror, that I was hoarding entirely too many things. I had an entire cupboard full of Happy Meal toys, Star Wars and LOTR memorabilia, movie posters and postcards, miscellaneous stuff that I kept coz I wanted anything that had the Star Wars logo on it. It took me the better half of 2 hours just to get things sorted out and I ended up with a whole pile of movie posters/postcards I didn’t want. So I decided to give them away~for free. =D
If you want them, kindly refer to the link up there. =D
And now to sort of show off what I had been collecting back when I was a rabid Star Wars/LOTR fan. Hehehe.
got this from Golden Village Cinema...newly placed into card protectors =D
got these when I completed one of those sticker collection books for Star Wars...but they look they're flaking though. =xYes yes...I collected EVEN bottle labels. I was THAT obsessed. =xLeftover stickers from my attempts to complete a sticker collection during the Star Wars Prequels periodFrom KFC =DNo...I don't intend to use them any time soon~got them from NTUC heheheheNow I know why my cupboard was so packed...so many things! >.<They had this promo where we had to collect ring tabs to exchange for collectibles and I thought why don't I collect the cans as well? >.< All the cans with black images have been drank coz I had to collect ring tabs to exchange for goodies. The can with the character is >.< UNFORTUNATELY OPENED COZ MY mom thought it'll invite ants and drank from it to 'save' my room from an invasion of ants. ARRRRRRGH!the aforementioned sticker books where I had to complete each book and send in an application form to see if I'm lucky enough to win something. I won some Star Wars toys the first time but unfortunately...I opened the box so it's worthless now. =x
There are more stuff but my camera ran out of batt at the last minute. Heh…but after cleaning out my cupboard, I now have more space!
And look just what I found~! A black Spidey who looks like he’s shooting his web from *ahem* you know where. LOL!
Can you see exactly where Spidey is shooting his web from? =xa side view to make things clearer... =D
So I went to watch this movie called the Clash of the Titans with my bf recently. It was in a word…lousy. =x
There were quite a few inconsistencies and I’m not quite sure if the movie intends to sell itself as an serious epic movie or something that sprouts lame dialogue at whim.
Case in point:
Soldier plays a flute badly. Captain takes flute away from soldier and breaks it in half. Soldier takes out another flute with a deadpan expression. =x
Another thing I just can’t wrap my mind around is…just how they know Perseus would be the one to defeat the Gods? Why is this mysterious lady stalking Perseus since he was a baby? How in the world did she manage to ease into Perseus’ life as if it was an everyday occurrence? Why is it that when we first see Perseus’ mother in the huge box in which they were both locked into, she had dark hair and when we see her again in a flashback, she has blond hair???
Medusa was supposed to have been turned into the monster we all love to hate because she had seduced Poseidon in Athena’s temple according to one of the myths about her. In the movie however, it was said that Athena turned Medusa into a monster coz she sought refuge in her temple, got taken anyway by Poseidon and dared to ask for condolences from the Goddess. Like…WTH! Gotten raped, asked for condolences and STILL got turned into a monster?! Where’s the justice in that?! Sheesh.
AND…Pegasus was supposed to have sprang from Medusa’s fallen body as her offspring. Not anyhow fly in to make a dramatic appearance and claim that it’s a gift from the Gods. Plus it’s white. =.=
Oh and there were no Titans, Zeus and his gang are not technically considered Titans, who were their fathers.
I now know why this movie has such bad reviews. =x
If you ask me, the 1981 version might have been more interesting… =.=
This is freaking awesome~! Puzzle Quest 2 is gonna be out soon! I’m so excited about this~!
Ever since my bf introduced me to Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords, I’ve been hooked on it. I managed to complete all the levels but I couldn’t defeat the final boss no matter what I did. LOL. Sigh…but anyways, I way psyched about this new game! Woot!
In case you still have no idea about how to play this awesome game, it’s one of those puzzle games where you try to defeat your enemy and gain experience points to advance through the game which follows a story plot where your homeland is being threatened by all manner of fantastical creatures. You choose your character from 4 different classes that each has its own unique skills and characteristics. It’s really fun. You guys should try it! =D
A course for book design if you’re of the mind to design your own…
Date: 13-14 May 2010
Time: 9.30am – 5.30pm
Venue: Agatha Room, L3, Toa Payoh Public Library
Both editors and designers organise the material of a text in such a way that the message is clear to the reader. Good book design not only enables the reader; it can create a beautiful object in its own right. This two-day course is for editors, new designers, picture researchers, marketing staff who deal with freelancers, or anyone needing an overview.
Course Content
– Analysis of good and bad designs
– Elements of Cover Design and Book Construction
– The Financial Parameters
– Developing a Good Design, Artwork and Production Brief
– Designing Marekting Material
– Quality Control: Origination, Printing and Binding Faults
– Practical Matters: Digital Archiving
To register and for a more detailed outline of the workshop, please download brochure.
Registration is also available online at http://www.bookcouncil.sg
Special rate available for members of Singapore Book Publishers Association.
This workshop is organised by the National Book Development Council of Singapore in partnership with the Singapore Book Publishers Association.
Lilian Wu 