| A question for the Londish + people who know stuff about literature |
[Nov. 25th, 2008|10:13 pm] |
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I'm going to begin English Language and Culture at university in september and I want to prepare a bit for the kind of literature I will need to read when I'm studying that. It's been a while since I've read proper English books.
Does anyone have a suggestion of what I can read that is actually an interesting story but still proper literature? |
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[Jul. 27th, 2008|02:48 pm] |
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so i broke my arm :( |
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[May. 3rd, 2008|09:28 pm] |
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COME ON ALI! |
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| Snooker again :P |
[May. 2nd, 2008|04:10 pm] |
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It doesn't seem so long ago that I was sad that Ali lost to Selby last year at the Crucible and now he's in the semi-finals winning against Perry, I'M SO HAPPY!
Or did I just jinx it, I certainly hope not! :(
Also, I'm happy that I don't feel like I'm the only Ali Carter fan anymore. ^^ |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|06:56 am] |
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I still find that ‘what makes a book a classic’ stuff bullshit. Why put a sticker on a book and call it a classic, you could put that sticker on a shitty book and suddenly everyone should read it in secondary school because it’s a classic. Classic is such a relative word, how do you define ‘classic’? Everyone likes different books, and WHO exactly gives books that sticker, ‘classic’? Also, all Dutch ‘classic’ adult books seem to be focused on the many ways people can have sex. Some people might remember my rants about the so called classic book I had to read in my literature class a few years ago about a boy having sex with a Canadian soldier in the second world war. Now, English classics and how my teacher at uni thinks it’s so great to read these to children. For a few weeks now, we Dutch girls have been having a discussion on why read old classics to children in primary school. This guy tells us that he encourages his students to read Shakespeare and Jane Eyre to children in primary school. SHAKESPEARE. JANE EYRE. Why the hell would I do that? These books are old, the language is horrible and lastly, it’s not even written for children! So we told him that we would not use those books for reading to children. The teacher looks really offended and said: “So you would not read Pride and Predjudice to your year 4 class?” No fkn way. In what age is this guy living? Why is Shakespeare, Jane Eyre etc allowed when you can't fucking read Harry Potter books (which are so much better to use in the classroom due to language, imagination and values) because it might offend the church?
Classics. Meh. |
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[Apr. 30th, 2008|01:49 am] |
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OMG CAN'T SPEAK
147 ALI CARTER
*DANCES* |
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[Apr. 28th, 2008|11:38 pm] |
I am going to Equus tomorrow and I have seats very near the stage, which is awesome. Due to me being a full-time student here I got tickets with a 50% discount so the tickets weren't even that expensive. It's a very serious play, and not at all what I'm used to with the lovely musicals I go to here, but I love theatre so it should all work out.
Also, my sleep cycle has now completely been turned over due to too much late nights going out and working on essays. I've been trying to get it to normal but it's so easy getting into a different sleep cycle, but getting out of it it harder than I thought! |
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[Feb. 6th, 2008|03:22 pm] |
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Since someone pointed out to me I've only posted once in 11 months, I decided to write up something. :P
Anyway, lots has happened since I seriously posted in here the last time. My current living place is Bradford, UK. I'm studying here for a few months, and so far I'm really enjoying it. The college here is extremely easy though, and that annoys me to no end. Everything I learn here I know already, and the classes I really enjoy is ART <3 and academic geography (which is about the annoying subject of global warming, but I enjoy it anyway.
When I came here I didn't have lots of stuff and clothes with me, and that's sad. :( Since I went by plane I couldn't take lots with me. I'm slowly buying more clothes and such to fill that gap though, haha.
I was thinking about going to Equus, it's playing here in a few months. I'm trying to get a friend to go with me, but I might have to go alone, hee hee. |
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[Dec. 31st, 2007|04:51 pm] |
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Also, http://www.xmaspodding.com/download.php?FILENAME=MarkRonson-Ep3RecordShopping-Podcast.m4v&DOWNLOAD=1
1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?
Went to a weekend long festival (Lowlands) and discovered tons of new and good music.
2. Did you keep your New Years’ resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I don't think I did New Years' resolutions this year, and I don't think I'll be making them this year. With things like that, I think they only work when you are 100% behind them and I can't be 100% for stuff I said because 'well it's new years so I'll have to get resolutions!'
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
Yep, one of my friends had a baby boy, Matthew this year, he's so cute. <3
4. Did anyone close to you die?
Thank God no.
5. What countries did you visit?
Uhm, England, Belgium, Germany, France, nothing too fancy.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?
I didn't really lack anything in 2007 cause I'm happy as I am now, but I'd like to have fun in England. And I'd like to fall in love.
7. What date from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory?
My birthday. It was the most awesome day of this year, cause I had my family around me, and all my awesome friends.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Making the decision to go study in England for 6 months.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Continuing studying which I didn't even like to begin with. tongue.gif
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
The flu, ordinary colds. And I kinda broke my arm. tongue.gif
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Tickets for a ice skating show for my mum's birthday.
12. Whose behaviour merited celebration?
My mum, who stopped smoking this year!
And my sister who finally sees me as a 20 year old.
13. Whose behaviour made you appalled and depressed?
Can't remember that. I try not to get such things get to me.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Clothes. And CD's. My England fund.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Hearing that all the people I wanted to come visit me in England are actually coming. That there are lots of concerts and stuff around my place to be this next 6 months. And of course that I'm going to Lowlands yet again with my best friend.
16. What song/album will always remind you of 2007?
Version by Mark Ronson.
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
a. happier or sadder?
b. thinner or fatter?
c. richer or poorer?
Happier
Thinner
Richer (both financially and emotionally)
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Studying instead of procastinating. And sleeping.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Thinking about useless things while I should've been sleeping.
20. How did you spend Christmas?
With the people I love.
21. Who did you spend the most time on the phone with?
My best friends en ze ex-boyfriend.
22. Did you fall in love in 2007?
No. But I'd like to experience that in 2008.
23. How many one night stands in this last year?
None, I don't believe in that shit.
24. What was your favourite TV programme?
Never Mind the Buzzcocks.
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
I don't hate anyone.
26. What was the best book(s) you read?
I rediscovered Lord of the Rings this year.
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Mark Ronson.
28. What did you want and get?
An IPod Nano.
29. What did you want and not get?
I dunno.
30. What were your favourite films of this year?
I liked Harry Potter 5, The Simpsons. I can't remember any more from this year. Oh right, I like the Bourne Supremacy, was it? Number 3, I know it was number 3. tongue.gif
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 20 this year, and I had a dinner with my family, and went partying with my friends.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
I had a nice year, I wouldn't change it, I learned too much about myself.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?
I got more fashionable this year. There were clothes I liked in the fashion stuff this year, so I went with the times, haha.
Red and black.
34. What kept you sane?
My awesome mum.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
I really liked Patrick Wolf (lol) and Mark Ronson, but that's mostly because their talent with music. I can't fancy people I don't know personally. smile.gif
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
I guess the Natalie Holloway stuff, or Maddie McCann, since we were bombarded by that in the newspapers and on TV.
37. Who did you miss?
I dunno.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
A guy who's not gay and is cool that goes to my college, I can't believe it.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.
Think of my own happiness first, then about others.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year?
I'll need to think about that. |
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[Mar. 15th, 2007|11:41 pm] |
OMF mia in mafia!
Ulysses zegt:
Someone who is so innocent and nice that they could be stood over a dead body, with a bloody knife in their hands and people would ask them 'where did the killer go?'
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| Hee hee, Darth Vader |
[Nov. 1st, 2006|03:46 pm] |
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So I have a superb day today :p
First, I wake up waaaaaaay too early and I can't sleep, then I go to uni at 7.45am and I find out that the final I have today was moved to 11.30am. aargh :( My final went well enough, I suppose. The reason my whole day was not boring as hell (thank you MT, webs :P) I annoyed some people on msn for
a short while, and the rest of my time was spent listening to:
Click here for episodes and info; click here to subscribe via iTunes, and click here to use this player on your space and win prizes!
My way of spending time when I am late (or super early) for stuff and I have to wait for hoooouuuurs. *loves* |
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[Sep. 16th, 2006|06:16 pm] |
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| Apparently, I'm younger than 17? |
[Aug. 9th, 2006|08:31 pm] |
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You aren't even a teenager yet! | Your hearing rules! You're either quite young or you've looked after your ears. The highest pitched ultrasonic mosquito ringtone that I can hear is 19.9kHz | | Find out which ringtones you can hear! |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2006|12:54 pm] |
"What is a light box?"
A lightbox is a device that every artist should have access to. It might just save your life. Like when my green marker threw up on the picture I was working on yesterday, if I had had to start over completely from scratch, I would have killed myself. Thankfully my classroom had a light box to save me from that fate!
It has a bright light behind a glass surface. You place the image you want to trace and the paper you want to trace onto on the glass surface. The light shines through both papers and lets you see the original image through the paper you're tracing onto, even thick paper like bristol board.
So all I had to do was put a fresh sheet of paper over my green-blotched picture and re-trace the lineart. From there I was able to re-ink it and color it as if the accident had never happened. I did lose some time, but not nearly as much as if I had had to start from scratch.
yethat |
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[Jul. 3rd, 2006|12:50 pm] |
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I want a light box.
People, get me a light box!!!! Cuz Mia does not have money (poor student!mia ;_;) |
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