Well, today's the last day of 2008. What a boring day. All I did today were eating, sleeping, watched a couple of movies in channel 411 and 413, read some novels and surfing the web(right now). No New Year Eve buffet dinner for me...>.<...Horrible. Tomorrow's a brand new year - 2009. SPM YEAR!!! Ohh...I do hope I get good results so that I can go to a good university for further studies. My dream is to get... definitely 11A1s!!! WOW!!! Tough dream to be fulfilled... For my future's sake I must be more hardworking, less watching TV and less dreaming about delicious food and hunks, and be able to control myself to study. It's for my own good.

My target for Year 2009:
- Study more to get the best results(11A1s)
- Lose weight(I have to do it for my health)

You Are Peaceful and Content

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are very charming... dangerously so. You have the potential to break a lot of hearts. You know how what you want, how to get it, and that you will get it. You have the power to rule the world. Let's hope you're a benevolent dictator! You are very open. You communicate well, and you connect with other people easily. You are a naturally creative person. Ideas just flow from your mind. A true chameleon, you are many things at different points in your life. You are very adaptable. You are truly an original person. You have amazing ideas, and the power to carry them out. Success comes rather easily for you... especially in business and academia. Some people find you to be selfish and a bit overbearing. You're a strong person. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs.

Barack Obama goes shirtless as he and his family vacation at a beachside compound in Kailua, Hawaii.


The book of this joyful month is 'The Deep End of the Ocean', a lovely novel by Jacquelyn Mitchard. The novel was released in 1996 and was selling like hot cakes. The novel was named in 2007 as one of the ten most influential books of the past 25 years. The novel was even chosen as an Oprah Book Club selection in September 1996.



The plot starts with Wisconsin photographer and housewife Beth Cappadora leaves her youngest son, Ben, alone with his older brother for a brief moment in a crowded Chicago hotel lobby, while attending her high school reunion. The older son lets go of Ben's hand and Ben vanishes without a trace. Beth goes into an extended mental breakdown and it is left to her husband and owner of a restaurant, Pat, to force his wife to robotically care for their remaining two children, 7-year-old Vincent and an infant daughter Kerry.

Nine years pass, and the Cappadora family is still together and has moved to Chicago. On the outside, they seem to have gotten over their grief. Yet, one day a young boy named Sam asks Beth if she needs the lawn mowed.

Beth suspects that this boy who lives with his "father" two blocks away is in fact her lost son, and while Sam mows the lawn, she takes photographs of him to show to her husband and teenage son, who then says that he suspected Sam was Ben all along. The parents contact Detective Candy Bliss who pops in to offer wise, albeit often cryptic and conflicting, advice to Beth. It is learned that at the reunion in Chicago, the celebrity alumna Cecile Lockhart kidnapped Ben, renamed him Sam, and raised him as her own child until she was committed to a mental hospital (in the movie Cecile committed suicide) and left Sam to be raised by the sensitive and intellectual George Karras.

Ben was raised by a Greek-American father for nine years, while his biological parents are Italian-American. Ben is a polite and intellectual American boy who takes great pride in participating in Greek cultural rituals, much to the frustration of Pat who wants to pretend that Ben was never really abducted and thus can be the son that he wants him to be if only he uses enough discipline. Ben is faced with the ethnic identity that he grew up with, and the ethnic identity he would have known had he not been kidnapped.

Ben's adoptive father agrees to move away, not telling anyone where he is going. Torn between two worlds and having lost both of the parents that he knew, Ben expresses suicidal feelings to Beth.

Ben's only memory of his biological family is one of brother Vincent and thus over a one-on-one basketball game he absolves his brother of any responsibility for his abduction, and agrees to stop running away in order to build upon his memories with his older brother. Inside the house Pat and Beth see these events and reconcile.

At the end of the novel, many conflicts remain unresolved. Pat still has problems loving his sons; Ben because he can not relate to his personality and Vincent because he does not connect his teenager rebellion and cynicism to nine years of bad parenting. Beth has regained her position in the family as an equal parent, however Ben and Vincent's emotional scars may require years of intense therapy. The friendship that she made with Candy Bliss erodes to the point where the family seems to reject the friendship or support of any outsiders, be they friends, family, social workers, or police.

What a graet literature...
'The Deep End of the Ocean' is a wonderfully written story of ordinary people caught in a disaster. Get everything that you need to do done, because once you start reading this book, you won't put it down. Really!! It's so true!! This book shows dramatic emotions of a family after a loss of their three-year old child. Beth Cappadora is in a hotel lobby in Chicago one day with her two sons Vincent and Ben, when suddenly, a mother's worst fear, when her three-year old son disappears into a crowd of people, seemingly with a trace.

Jacquelyn Mitchard did an excellent job in describing what ONE MOTHER did, how she felt, and how all her world changed in 10 minutes.

This is one of those rare stories which I will never forget.

Great novel adapted into great film...
This novel was adapted into a film in 1999, which stars Michelle Pfeiffer as the the main protagonist Beth Cappadora, Treat Williams as Pat Cappadora, Whoopi Goldberg as Detective Candy Bliss, Ryan Merriman as Ben Cappadora in his first feature film role.


Ben and Beth Cappadora





Totally, Mr Tortoise!!!


I came back from KL yesterday. It was a great trip. We bought a lot of stuffs-clothings, books, bags, accessories etc. There were a lot of sales over there, 50% off, 70% off. Bloody cheap.




This time, it's a girl. Zahara Jolie-Pitt, adopted daughter of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie flashes a middle finger in front of the cameras.


Well, I'm off to KL later around 3 pm and I have not even finished packing my luggage yet.





Cruz Beckham, youngest son of David Beckham and Victoria Beckham may be just three years and two months, but the cute baby is already showing a rebellious streak.


Can you guys believe it? I passed my drving law test with happiness, joyfulness, and other nouns that are related with happy. I am so thrilled and high right now!!! Oh my gosh.... I got 45/50. And oh my GOD!!! Another good friend of mine managed to score 50/50!!!! What the hell!!! I bet a million dollars that she studied the law book everyday, every minute, and every second. Do you know that the law book has at least 500 questions and 50 questions will be picked randomly from the bloody law book? Anyway, victory to me for passing the test.




Next task, I must pick a day to go to the 'bengkel' to change tyres...TYRES!!!


English:
Which of the following snake is the slowest of all?

A. Snake A
B. Snake B
C. Snake C
D. Snake D




Answer: Snake C because snake C in Cantonese is Sheh Si, right? Sheh Si Man. Snake C slow. You know, Charmaine Sheh? The hottest TVB actress in Hong Kong? Get it?




Chinese:
以下哪一只蛇是最慢的?

A.　蛇A
B.　蛇B
C.　蛇C
D.　蛇D



答案　:　蛇C因为蛇C慢(佘诗曼)，知道吗?