Update and memes
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tarigwaemirBlair Hall Apts., on the Feast of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus
I've caught up on my friends list, starting from skip=260, and am I overwhelmed! But I did read through everything and even attempted to comment.
As for me, what I've done these past few days while in New York:
1. Unpacked my bags so I can repack for my return to Cambridge in a couple of days.
2. Watched Korean movies and drama, as usual: the movies were 비천무 (a wu xia ripoff) and 천년호 (which I thought would be a martial arts film but turned out to be a classic Korean horror 전설, or "legend"), the drama is 슬픈연가 (three videos left to go, and I still have mixed feelings about the drama, about which I'll probably write a long review later)
3. Read the pile of books I brought home with me: Five Hundred Years After finished spectacularly (spoiler reaction: Aliera and Mario?! I never would have guessed it!), The Fairy Godmother (eh...interesting but very typical Lackey), and currently The Deer and the Cauldron (spoiler reaction: I'm at the moment when Trinket's sparring partner and friend turns out to be Emperor Kang Xi, and can I say that I adore this book to pieces? Trinket is hilarious and foul-mouthed.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tryogeru would be impressed.)
4. Went to karaoke withaetherangelette, where to my surprise I managed to get 100s on three songs (no, I'm not actually all that good at singing; I think the machine just liked me or something)
5. Repaired and reassembled my shinai, which to my relief was not as splintered as I had imagined
I'm not bringing my desktop to Cambridge, so I need to figure out what I want to transfer to the iBook. The iBook has about the same amount of free space, but no CD burner, so I'll have to be careful about how much I download this summer. ::sighs::
tryogeru tagged me again for the book meme, but I'm too lazy to fill it out again. The only things that have changed since the last time is:
2) The last book you bought was:
Well, the last book I bought is still The Book of Jhereg, but the last books I've borrowed from the library are Yi Munyeol's 삼국지 (Korean translation of The Three Kingdoms, although judging by the first chapter, it's more of a paraphrase than a translation, or perhaps a translation with Yi Munyeol's personal rants thrown in) and Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron.
3) What was the last book you read before reading this message?
Last book finished was The Fairy Godmother, by Mercedes Lackey (utter fluff). Currently reading the first volume of the abovementioned The Deer and the Cauldron, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (clever, but the cleverness is growing tiresome), and Mathematics With Love by Mary Stopes Roe. I also started The Lord of Castle Black, but decided that I wanted to read The Paths of the Dead first because I want to know how Zerika got the Orb.
5) Who are you going to pass the stick to (to three people) and why?
schwimmerin and klio911 because they like memes, and fadedcliche because I'm curious.
I thinklazulisong did it first, along with a lot of other people on the friends list. I've been meaning to do it myself, but since I have a horrible memory for exact quotes, I didn't get the chance until I got home, since I needed to, well, look up the lines myself. I'm, um, doing eighteen so you can have plenty of fun guessing away. These definitely rank among my favorite books, although they aren't always at the top of the list. Anyway, some of the first lines are complete giveaways, so go on and guess.
1. Choosefive to ten eighteen of your all time favorite books.
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.
1) "The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of midday, and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect that, as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently proper it should have."
2)"These two very old people are the father and mother of Mr. Bucket." guessed by issen4
3) "My name is Tommy Stubbins, son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; I was nine and the half years old."
4)"The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day--a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage, and forgotten with haste." guessed by issen4
5)"Once there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy." guessed by fadedcliche and ladydaera
6) "This inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally this was only the way it looked if you were inside the dimly lit shop, looking out at the street through the plateglass door."
7) "Long and long ago, when Oberon was king of the fairies, there reigned over the fair country of Phantasmorania a monarch who had six beautiful daughters."
8)"When Mary Lennox was sent to Misselthwaite Manor to live with her uncle everybody said she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. guessed by ladydaera
9)"Mrs. Rachel Lynde lived just where the Avonlea main road dipped down into a little hollow, fringed with alders and ladies' eardrops and traversed by a brook that had its source away back in the woods of the old Cuthbert place." guessed by ladydaera
10)"In the year 1878 I took my degree of Doctor of Medicine of the University of London, and proceeded to Netley to go through the course prescribed for surgeons in the Army." guessed by ramble_corner
11) "On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world."
12)"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afteroon when his father took him to discover ice." guessed by fadedcliche and ladydaera
13)"On January 6, 1482, the people of Paris were awakened by the tumultous clanging of all the bells in the city." guessed by klio911
14) "I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back."
15)"On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge." guessed by tryogeru
16) "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before."
17)"Morgon of Hed met the High One's harpist one autumn day when the tradeships docked at Tol for the season's exchange of goods." guessed by ladydaera
18)"My father's father was a Methodist minister." guessed by tryogeru
Will return to writing once I get back to Cambridge. Also, does anyone have advice about international phone cards/cell phones?
Yours &c.
Post-script: I'm very amused that today's the feastday of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus because I read Einhard's book on the theft and relocation (more euphemistically called "translation") of their relics for section in the Charlemagne course.
I've caught up on my friends list, starting from skip=260, and am I overwhelmed! But I did read through everything and even attempted to comment.
As for me, what I've done these past few days while in New York:
1. Unpacked my bags so I can repack for my return to Cambridge in a couple of days.
2. Watched Korean movies and drama, as usual: the movies were 비천무 (a wu xia ripoff) and 천년호 (which I thought would be a martial arts film but turned out to be a classic Korean horror 전설, or "legend"), the drama is 슬픈연가 (three videos left to go, and I still have mixed feelings about the drama, about which I'll probably write a long review later)
3. Read the pile of books I brought home with me: Five Hundred Years After finished spectacularly (spoiler reaction: Aliera and Mario?! I never would have guessed it!), The Fairy Godmother (eh...interesting but very typical Lackey), and currently The Deer and the Cauldron (spoiler reaction: I'm at the moment when Trinket's sparring partner and friend turns out to be Emperor Kang Xi, and can I say that I adore this book to pieces? Trinket is hilarious and foul-mouthed.
tryogeru would be impressed.)4. Went to karaoke with
aetherangelette, where to my surprise I managed to get 100s on three songs (no, I'm not actually all that good at singing; I think the machine just liked me or something)5. Repaired and reassembled my shinai, which to my relief was not as splintered as I had imagined
I'm not bringing my desktop to Cambridge, so I need to figure out what I want to transfer to the iBook. The iBook has about the same amount of free space, but no CD burner, so I'll have to be careful about how much I download this summer. ::sighs::
tryogeru tagged me again for the book meme, but I'm too lazy to fill it out again. The only things that have changed since the last time is:2) The last book you bought was:
Well, the last book I bought is still The Book of Jhereg, but the last books I've borrowed from the library are Yi Munyeol's 삼국지 (Korean translation of The Three Kingdoms, although judging by the first chapter, it's more of a paraphrase than a translation, or perhaps a translation with Yi Munyeol's personal rants thrown in) and Jin Yong's The Deer and the Cauldron.
3) What was the last book you read before reading this message?
Last book finished was The Fairy Godmother, by Mercedes Lackey (utter fluff). Currently reading the first volume of the abovementioned The Deer and the Cauldron, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde (clever, but the cleverness is growing tiresome), and Mathematics With Love by Mary Stopes Roe. I also started The Lord of Castle Black, but decided that I wanted to read The Paths of the Dead first because I want to know how Zerika got the Orb.
5) Who are you going to pass the stick to (to three people) and why?
schwimmerin and klio911 because they like memes, and fadedcliche because I'm curious.I think
lazulisong did it first, along with a lot of other people on the friends list. I've been meaning to do it myself, but since I have a horrible memory for exact quotes, I didn't get the chance until I got home, since I needed to, well, look up the lines myself. I'm, um, doing eighteen so you can have plenty of fun guessing away. These definitely rank among my favorite books, although they aren't always at the top of the list. Anyway, some of the first lines are complete giveaways, so go on and guess.1. Choose
2. Take the first sentence of the first chapter and make a list in your journal.
3. Don't reveal the author or the title of the book.
4. Now everyone try and guess! Cross them off as they're guessed correctly.
1) "The little old kitchen had quieted down from the bustle and confusion of midday, and now, with its afternoon manners on, presented a holiday aspect that, as the principal room in the brown house, it was eminently proper it should have."
2)
issen43) "My name is Tommy Stubbins, son of Jacob Stubbins, the cobbler of Puddleby-on-the-Marsh; I was nine and the half years old."
4)
issen45)
fadedcliche and ladydaera6) "This inscription could be seen on the glass door of a small shop, but naturally this was only the way it looked if you were inside the dimly lit shop, looking out at the street through the plateglass door."
7) "Long and long ago, when Oberon was king of the fairies, there reigned over the fair country of Phantasmorania a monarch who had six beautiful daughters."
8)
ladydaera9)
ladydaera10)
ramble_corner11) "On the last day of January 1915, under the sign of the Water Bearer, in a year of a great war, and down in the shadow of some French mountains on the borders of Spain, I came into the world."
12)
fadedcliche and ladydaera13)
klio91114) "I cannot tell my story without reaching a long way back."
15)
tryogeru16) "His name was Gaal Dornick and he was just a country boy who had never seen Trantor before."
17)
ladydaera18)
tryogeruWill return to writing once I get back to Cambridge. Also, does anyone have advice about international phone cards/cell phones?
Yours &c.
Post-script: I'm very amused that today's the feastday of Sts. Peter and Marcellinus because I read Einhard's book on the theft and relocation (more euphemistically called "translation") of their relics for section in the Charlemagne course.
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Yay a means of procrastination!
Date: 2005-06-02 11:15 pm (UTC)Also...
5. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (OMG NARNIA!!!)
12. One Hundred Years of Solitude (I never finished it though... bugger)
=)
Re: Yay a means of procrastination!
Date: 2005-06-03 01:36 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-03 02:40 am (UTC)8. the secret garden <-- haven't read it, but you said mary lennox
9. this sounds familiar. anne of green gables, or something thereof?
12. one hundred years of solitude
17. the riddlemaster of head. *sigh* i love this trilogy too. but my favorie of her works is still the forgotten beasts of eld. that was one of the few books i've ever read that made me cry
what is 7? it sounds fascinating
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Date: 2005-06-03 10:25 pm (UTC)Forget it then, I don't want to go with you guys anymore anyway.
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Date: 2005-06-04 02:55 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2005-06-04 10:38 pm (UTC)my random-ass guess for #13 is the hunchback of notre dame? i am fairly sure that i'm wrong. paris...bells....worth a shot.
re phone cards etc: whenever i go to japan (or when we call my sister in spain), my dad procures toll-free numbers for me that get charged to his credit card or something. he does it through http://www.acculinq.com/. i think the rates are reasonable, but i haven't done much comparing.
:)
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Date: 2005-06-05 12:26 am (UTC)Thanks so much for the link; I'll definitely check it out.
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Date: 2005-06-17 02:32 am (UTC)6. ermmm *stare off into space8 i've known i seen this before but just cn't recall it
7. Midsummer Night's Dream (??) - Shakespeare
10. Sherlock Holmes - Conan Doyle ??
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Date: 2005-06-17 02:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-17 02:47 am (UTC)anyway am snagging this meme.. seems like fun ^^
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Date: 2005-06-17 02:42 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-17 06:51 am (UTC)#4: Daddy-Long-Legs
#3 is oddly familiar... can't remember. Oh well.
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Date: 2005-06-17 12:58 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-18 12:07 am (UTC)This was from that book you made me read, and I started it but never finished it because I had to go back to school. I remember thinking it would be about samurai, then not liking the narrator very much.. "The Last Samurai"?
15) "On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge."
I think this is Russian. Seems like Mr. D, but I do not know which book.
I just noticed your thing about calling cards. Onesuite.com (http://onesuite.com/) is pretty good I think. Flushing's calling cards are probably cheaper, but onesuite is fast and pretty dependable.
O.o
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Date: 2005-06-18 12:10 am (UTC)I did tell you it wasn't about samurai. ::shrugs::
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Date: 2005-06-18 12:27 am (UTC)Garg! I know I read 15. Or at least started it. >_<## Hm...It is not Notes from Underground, not the Idiot..have not read the Bros K...Crime and Punishment? I think? It's been a really long time...>_>
Morays are really really funny looking.
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Date: 2005-06-18 12:30 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-06-18 12:33 am (UTC)Yes, Regis, that is my final answer. I figure I won't lose any money or anything for guessing wrong...
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Date: 2005-06-18 02:32 pm (UTC)And yes, you're correct. Congrats! ^_~
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