The Polar Bear Strikes Back

Saturday, January 05, 2008

The list

How many of them in the list that you already read?

"1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die"

(Taken from http://www.listology.com/content_show.cfm/content_id.22845/Books)

2000s (time)

Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro
Saturday – Ian McEwan
On Beauty – Zadie Smith
Slow Man – J.M. Coetzee
Adjunct: An Undigest – Peter Manson
The Sea – John Banville
The Red Queen – Margaret Drabble
The Plot Against America – Philip Roth
The Master – Colm Tóibín
Vanishing Point – David Markson
The Lambs of London – Peter Ackroyd
Dining on Stones – Iain Sinclair
Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
Drop City – T. Coraghessan Boyle
The Colour – Rose Tremain
Thursbitch – Alan Garner
The Light of Day – Graham Swift
What I Loved – Siri Hustvedt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
Islands – Dan Sleigh
Elizabeth Costello – J.M. Coetzee
London Orbital – Iain Sinclair
Family Matters – Rohinton Mistry
Fingersmith – Sarah Waters
The Double – José Saramago
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Unless – Carol Shields
Kafka on the Shore – Haruki Murakami
The Story of Lucy Gault – William Trevor
That They May Face the Rising Sun – John McGahern
In the Forest – Edna O’Brien
Shroud – John Banville
Middlesex – Jeffrey Eugenides
Youth – J.M. Coetzee
Dead Air – Iain Banks
Nowhere Man – Aleksandar Hemon
The Book of Illusions – Paul Auster
Gabriel’s Gift – Hanif Kureishi
Austerlitz – W.G. Sebald
Platform – Michael Houellebecq
Schooling – Heather McGowan
Atonement – Ian McEwan
The Corrections – Jonathan Franzen
Don’t Move – Margaret Mazzantini
The Body Artist – Don DeLillo
Fury – Salman Rushdie
At Swim, Two Boys – Jamie O’Neill
Choke – Chuck Palahniuk
Life of Pi – Yann Martel
The Feast of the Goat – Mario Vargos Llosa
An Obedient Father – Akhil Sharma
The Devil and Miss Prym – Paulo Coelho
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost – Ismail Kadare
White Teeth – Zadie Smith
The Heart of Redness – Zakes Mda
Under the Skin – Michel Faber
Ignorance – Milan Kundera
Nineteen Seventy Seven – David Peace
Celestial Harmonies – Péter Esterházy
City of God – E.L. Doctorow
How the Dead Live – Will Self
The Human Stain – Philip Roth
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
After the Quake – Haruki Murakami
Small Remedies – Shashi Deshpande
Super-Cannes – J.G. Ballard
House of Leaves – Mark Z. Danielewski
Blonde – Joyce Carol Oates
Pastoralia – George Saunders
1900s
Timbuktu – Paul Auster
The Romantics – Pankaj Mishra
Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
As If I Am Not There – Slavenka Drakuli?
Everything You Need – A.L. Kennedy
Fear and Trembling – Amélie Nothomb
The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
Disgrace – J.M. Coetzee
Sputnik Sweetheart – Haruki Murakami
Elementary Particles – Michel Houellebecq
Intimacy – Hanif Kureishi
Amsterdam – Ian McEwan
Cloudsplitter – Russell Banks
All Souls Day – Cees Nooteboom
The Talk of the Town – Ardal O’Hanlon
Tipping the Velvet – Sarah Waters
The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
Glamorama – Bret Easton Ellis
Another World – Pat Barker
The Hours – Michael Cunningham
Veronika Decides to Die – Paulo Coelho
Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon
The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Great Apes – Will Self
Enduring Love – Ian McEwan
Underworld – Don DeLillo
Jack Maggs – Peter Carey
The Life of Insects – Victor Pelevin
American Pastoral – Philip Roth
The Untouchable – John Banville
Silk – Alessandro Baricco
Cocaine Nights – J.G. Ballard
Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
Fugitive Pieces – Anne Michaels
The Ghost Road – Pat Barker
Forever a Stranger – Hella Haasse
Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
The Clay Machine-Gun – Victor Pelevin
Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood
The Unconsoled – Kazuo Ishiguro
Morvern Callar – Alan Warner
The Information – Martin Amis
The Moor’s Last Sigh – Salman Rushdie
Sabbath’s Theater – Philip Roth
The Rings of Saturn – W.G. Sebald
The Reader – Bernhard Schlink
A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
Love’s Work – Gillian Rose
The End of the Story – Lydia Davis
Mr. Vertigo – Paul Auster
The Folding Star – Alan Hollinghurst
Whatever – Michel Houellebecq
Land – Park Kyong-ni
The Master of Petersburg – J.M. Coetzee
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Pereira Declares: A Testimony – Antonio Tabucchi
City Sister Silver – Jàchym Topol
How Late It Was, How Late – James Kelman
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres
Felicia’s Journey – William Trevor
Disappearance – David Dabydeen
The Invention of Curried Sausage – Uwe Timm
The Shipping News – E. Annie Proulx
Trainspotting – Irvine Welsh
Birdsong – Sebastian Faulks
Looking for the Possible Dance – A.L. Kennedy
Operation Shylock – Philip Roth
Complicity – Iain Banks
On Love – Alain de Botton
What a Carve Up! – Jonathan Coe
A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth
The Stone Diaries – Carol Shields
The Virgin Suicides – Jeffrey Eugenides
The House of Doctor Dee – Peter Ackroyd
The Robber Bride – Margaret Atwood
The Emigrants – W.G. Sebald
The Secret History – Donna Tartt
Life is a Caravanserai – Emine Özdamar
The Discovery of Heaven – Harry Mulisch
A Heart So White – Javier Marias
Possessing the Secret of Joy – Alice Walker
Indigo – Marina Warner
The Crow Road – Iain Banks
Written on the Body – Jeanette Winterson
Jazz – Toni Morrison
The English Patient – Michael Ondaatje
Smilla’s Sense of Snow – Peter Høeg
The Butcher Boy – Patrick McCabe
Black Water – Joyce Carol Oates
The Heather Blazing – Colm Tóibín
Asphodel – H.D. (Hilda Doolittle)
Black Dogs – Ian McEwan
Hideous Kinky – Esther Freud
Arcadia – Jim Crace
Wild Swans – Jung Chang
American Psycho – Bret Easton Ellis
Time’s Arrow – Martin Amis
Mao II – Don DeLillo
Typical – Padgett Powell
Regeneration – Pat Barker
Downriver – Iain Sinclair
Señor Vivo and the Coca Lord – Louis de Bernieres
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Get Shorty – Elmore Leonard
Amongst Women – John McGahern
Vineland – Thomas Pynchon
Vertigo – W.G. Sebald
Stone Junction – Jim Dodge
The Music of Chance – Paul Auster
The Things They Carried – Tim O’Brien
A Home at the End of the World – Michael Cunningham
Like Life – Lorrie Moore
Possession – A.S. Byatt
The Buddha of Suburbia – Hanif Kureishi
The Midnight Examiner – William Kotzwinkle
A Disaffection – James Kelman
Sexing the Cherry – Jeanette Winterson
Moon Palace – Paul Auster
Billy Bathgate – E.L. Doctorow
Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
The Melancholy of Resistance – László Krasznahorkai
The Temple of My Familiar – Alice Walker
The Trick is to Keep Breathing – Janice Galloway
The History of the Siege of Lisbon – José Saramago
Like Water for Chocolate – Laura Esquivel
A Prayer for Owen Meany – John Irving
London Fields – Martin Amis
The Book of Evidence – John Banville
Cat’s Eye – Margaret Atwood
Foucault’s Pendulum – Umberto Eco
The Beautiful Room is Empty – Edmund White
Wittgenstein’s Mistress – David Markson
The Satanic Verses – Salman Rushdie
The Swimming-Pool Library – Alan Hollinghurst
Oscar and Lucinda – Peter Carey
Libra – Don DeLillo
The Player of Games – Iain M. Banks
Nervous Conditions – Tsitsi Dangarembga
The Long Dark Teatime of the Soul – Douglas Adams
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams
The Radiant Way – Margaret Drabble
The Afternoon of a Writer – Peter Handke
The Black Dahlia – James Ellroy
The Passion – Jeanette Winterson
The Pigeon – Patrick Süskind
The Child in Time – Ian McEwan
Cigarettes – Harry Mathews
The Bonfire of the Vanities – Tom Wolfe
The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
World’s End – T. Coraghessan Boyle
Enigma of Arrival – V.S. Naipaul
The Taebek Mountains – Jo Jung-rae
Beloved – Toni Morrison
Anagrams – Lorrie Moore
Matigari – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Marya – Joyce Carol Oates
Watchmen – Alan Moore & David Gibbons
The Old Devils – Kingsley Amis
Lost Language of Cranes – David Leavitt
An Artist of the Floating World – Kazuo Ishiguro
Extinction – Thomas Bernhard
Foe – J.M. Coetzee
The Drowned and the Saved – Primo Levi
Reasons to Live – Amy Hempel
The Parable of the Blind – Gert Hofmann
Love in the Time of Cholera – Gabriel García Márquez
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson
The Cider House Rules – John Irving
A Maggot – John Fowles
Less Than Zero – Bret Easton Ellis
Contact – Carl Sagan
The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
Perfume – Patrick Süskind
Old Masters – Thomas Bernhard
White Noise – Don DeLillo
Queer – William Burroughs
Hawksmoor – Peter Ackroyd
Legend – David Gemmell
Dictionary of the Khazars – Milorad Pavi?
The Bus Conductor Hines – James Kelman
The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis – José Saramago
The Lover – Marguerite Duras
Empire of the Sun – J.G. Ballard
The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
Nights at the Circus – Angela Carter
The Unbearable Lightness of Being – Milan Kundera
Blood and Guts in High School – Kathy Acker
Neuromancer – William Gibson
Flaubert’s Parrot – Julian Barnes
Money: A Suicide Note – Martin Amis
Shame – Salman Rushdie
Worstward Ho – Samuel Beckett
Fools of Fortune – William Trevor
La Brava – Elmore Leonard
Waterland – Graham Swift
The Life and Times of Michael K – J.M. Coetzee
The Diary of Jane Somers – Doris Lessing
The Piano Teacher – Elfriede Jelinek
The Sorrow of Belgium – Hugo Claus
If Not Now, When? – Primo Levi
A Boy’s Own Story – Edmund White
The Color Purple – Alice Walker
Wittgenstein’s Nephew – Thomas Bernhard
A Pale View of Hills – Kazuo Ishiguro
Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
The House of the Spirits – Isabel Allende
The Newton Letter – John Banville
On the Black Hill – Bruce Chatwin
Concrete – Thomas Bernhard
The Names – Don DeLillo
Rabbit is Rich – John Updike
Lanark: A Life in Four Books – Alasdair Gray
The Comfort of Strangers – Ian McEwan
July’s People – Nadine Gordimer
Summer in Baden-Baden – Leonid Tsypkin
Broken April – Ismail Kadare
Waiting for the Barbarians – J.M. Coetzee
Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
Rites of Passage – William Golding
Rituals – Cees Nooteboom
Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
City Primeval – Elmore Leonard
The Name of the Rose – Umberto Eco
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting – Milan Kundera
Smiley’s People – John Le Carré
Shikasta – Doris Lessing
A Bend in the River – V.S. Naipaul
Burger’s Daughter - Nadine Gordimer
The Safety Net – Heinrich Böll
If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler – Italo Calvino
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
The Cement Garden – Ian McEwan
The World According to Garp – John Irving
Life: A User’s Manual – Georges Perec
The Sea, The Sea – Iris Murdoch
The Singapore Grip – J.G. Farrell
Yes – Thomas Bernhard
The Virgin in the Garden – A.S. Byatt
In the Heart of the Country – J.M. Coetzee
The Passion of New Eve – Angela Carter
Delta of Venus – Anaïs Nin
The Shining – Stephen King
Dispatches – Michael Herr
Petals of Blood – Ngugi Wa Thiong’o
Song of Solomon – Toni Morrison
The Hour of the Star – Clarice Lispector
The Left-Handed Woman – Peter Handke
Ratner’s Star – Don DeLillo
The Public Burning – Robert Coover
Interview With the Vampire – Anne Rice
Cutter and Bone – Newton Thornburg
Amateurs – Donald Barthelme
Patterns of Childhood – Christa Wolf
Autumn of the Patriarch – Gabriel García Márquez
W, or the Memory of Childhood – Georges Perec
A Dance to the Music of Time – Anthony Powell
Grimus – Salman Rushdie
The Dead Father – Donald Barthelme
Fateless – Imre Kertész
Willard and His Bowling Trophies – Richard Brautigan
High Rise – J.G. Ballard
Humboldt’s Gift – Saul Bellow
Dead Babies – Martin Amis
Correction – Thomas Bernhard
Ragtime – E.L. Doctorow
The Fan Man – William Kotzwinkle
Dusklands – J.M. Coetzee
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum – Heinrich Böll
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – John Le Carré
Breakfast of Champions – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Fear of Flying – Erica Jong
A Question of Power – Bessie Head
The Siege of Krishnapur – J.G. Farrell
The Castle of Crossed Destinies – Italo Calvino
Crash – J.G. Ballard
The Honorary Consul – Graham Greene
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
The Black Prince – Iris Murdoch
Sula – Toni Morrison
Invisible Cities – Italo Calvino
The Breast – Philip Roth
The Summer Book – Tove Jansson
G – John Berger
Surfacing – Margaret Atwood
House Mother Normal – B.S. Johnson
In A Free State – V.S. Naipaul
The Book of Daniel – E.L. Doctorow
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – Hunter S. Thompson
Group Portrait With Lady – Heinrich Böll
The Wild Boys – William Burroughs
Rabbit Redux – John Updike
The Sea of Fertility – Yukio Mishima
The Driver’s Seat – Muriel Spark
The Ogre – Michael Tournier
The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick – Peter Handke
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Angelou
Mercier et Camier – Samuel Beckett
Troubles – J.G. Farrell
Jahrestage – Uwe Johnson
The Atrocity Exhibition – J.G. Ballard
Tent of Miracles – Jorge Amado
Pricksongs and Descants – Robert Coover
Blind Man With a Pistol – Chester Hines
Slaughterhouse-five – Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
The French Lieutenant’s Woman – John Fowles
The Green Man – Kingsley Amis
Portnoy’s Complaint – Philip Roth
The Godfather – Mario Puzo
Ada – Vladimir Nabokov
Them – Joyce Carol Oates
A Void/Avoid – Georges Perec
Eva Trout – Elizabeth Bowen
Myra Breckinridge – Gore Vidal
The Nice and the Good – Iris Murdoch
Belle du Seigneur – Albert Cohen
Cancer Ward – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The First Circle – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
2001: A Space Odyssey – Arthur C. Clarke
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? – Philip K. Dick
Dark as the Grave Wherein My Friend is Laid – Malcolm Lowry
The German Lesson – Siegfried Lenz
In Watermelon Sugar – Richard Brautigan
A Kestrel for a Knave – Barry Hines
The Quest for Christa T. – Christa Wolf
Chocky – John Wyndham
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test – Tom Wolfe
The Cubs and Other Stories – Mario Vargas Llosa
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel García Márquez
The Master and Margarita – Mikhail Bulgakov
Pilgrimage – Dorothy Richardson
The Joke – Milan Kundera
No Laughing Matter – Angus Wilson
The Third Policeman – Flann O’Brien
A Man Asleep – Georges Perec
The Birds Fall Down – Rebecca West
Trawl – B.S. Johnson
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
The Magus – John Fowles
The Vice-Consul – Marguerite Duras
Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys
Giles Goat-Boy – John Barth
The Crying of Lot 49 – Thomas Pynchon
Things – Georges Perec
The River Between – Ngugi wa Thiong’o
August is a Wicked Month – Edna O’Brien
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater – Kurt Vonnegut
Everything That Rises Must Converge – Flannery O’Connor
The Passion According to G.H. – Clarice Lispector
Sometimes a Great Notion – Ken Kesey
Come Back, Dr. Caligari – Donald Bartholme
Albert Angelo – B.S. Johnson
Arrow of God – Chinua Achebe
The Ravishing of Lol V. Stein – Marguerite Duras
Herzog – Saul Bellow
V. – Thomas Pynchon
Cat’s Cradle – Kurt Vonnegut
The Graduate – Charles Webb
Manon des Sources – Marcel Pagnol
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – John Le Carré
The Girls of Slender Means – Muriel Spark
Inside Mr. Enderby – Anthony Burgess
The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich – Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
The Collector – John Fowles
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – Ken Kesey
A Clockwork Orange – Anthony Burgess
Pale Fire – Vladimir Nabokov
The Drowned World – J.G. Ballard
The Golden Notebook – Doris Lessing
Labyrinths – Jorg Luis Borges
Girl With Green Eyes – Edna O’Brien
The Garden of the Finzi-Continis – Giorgio Bassani
Stranger in a Strange Land – Robert Heinlein
Franny and Zooey – J.D. Salinger
A Severed Head – Iris Murdoch
Faces in the Water – Janet Frame
Solaris – Stanislaw Lem
Cat and Mouse – Günter Grass
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie – Muriel Spark
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
The Violent Bear it Away – Flannery O’Connor
How It Is – Samuel Beckett
Our Ancestors – Italo Calvino
The Country Girls – Edna O’Brien
To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
Rabbit, Run – John Updike
Promise at Dawn – Romain Gary
Cider With Rosie – Laurie Lee
Billy Liar – Keith Waterhouse
Naked Lunch – William Burroughs
The Tin Drum – Günter Grass
Absolute Beginners – Colin MacInnes
Henderson the Rain King – Saul Bellow
Memento Mori – Muriel Spark
Billiards at Half-Past Nine – Heinrich Böll
Breakfast at Tiffany’s – Truman Capote
The Leopard – Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
Pluck the Bud and Destroy the Offspring – Kenzaburo Oe
A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
The Bitter Glass – Eilís Dillon
Things Fall Apart – Chinua Achebe
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning – Alan Sillitoe
Mrs. ‘Arris Goes to Paris – Paul Gallico
Borstal Boy – Brendan Behan
The End of the Road – John Barth
The Once and Future King – T.H. White
The Bell – Iris Murdoch
Jealousy – Alain Robbe-Grillet
Voss – Patrick White
The Midwich Cuckoos – John Wyndham
Blue Noon – Georges Bataille
Homo Faber – Max Frisch
On the Road – Jack Kerouac
Pnin – Vladimir Nabokov
Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak
The Wonderful “O” – James Thurber
Justine – Lawrence Durrell
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin
The Lonely Londoners – Sam Selvon
The Roots of Heaven – Romain Gary
Seize the Day – Saul Bellow
The Floating Opera – John Barth
The Lord of the Rings – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Talented Mr. Ripley – Patricia Highsmith
Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
A World of Love – Elizabeth Bowen
The Trusting and the Maimed – James Plunkett
The Quiet American – Graham Greene
The Last Temptation of Christ – Nikos Kazantzákis
The Recognitions – William Gaddis
The Ragazzi – Pier Paulo Pasolini
Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan
I’m Not Stiller – Max Frisch
Self Condemned – Wyndham Lewis
The Story of O – Pauline Réage
A Ghost at Noon – Alberto Moravia
Lord of the Flies – William Golding
Under the Net – Iris Murdoch
The Go-Between – L.P. Hartley
The Long Goodbye – Raymond Chandler
The Unnamable – Samuel Beckett
Watt – Samuel Beckett
Lucky Jim – Kingsley Amis
Junkie – William Burroughs
The Adventures of Augie March – Saul Bellow
Go Tell It on the Mountain – James Baldwin
Casino Royale – Ian Fleming
The Judge and His Hangman – Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Invisible Man – Ralph Ellison
The Old Man and the Sea – Ernest Hemingway
Wise Blood – Flannery O’Connor
The Killer Inside Me – Jim Thompson
Memoirs of Hadrian – Marguerite Yourcenar
Malone Dies – Samuel Beckett
Day of the Triffids – John Wyndham
Foundation – Isaac Asimov
The Opposing Shore – Julien Gracq
The Catcher in the Rye – J.D. Salinger
The Rebel – Albert Camus
Molloy – Samuel Beckett
The End of the Affair – Graham Greene
The Abbot C – Georges Bataille
The Labyrinth of Solitude – Octavio Paz
The Third Man – Graham Greene
The 13 Clocks – James Thurber
Gormenghast – Mervyn Peake
The Grass is Singing – Doris Lessing
I, Robot – Isaac Asimov
The Moon and the Bonfires – Cesare Pavese
The Garden Where the Brass Band Played – Simon Vestdijk
Love in a Cold Climate – Nancy Mitford
The Case of Comrade Tulayev – Victor Serge
The Heat of the Day – Elizabeth Bowen
Kingdom of This World – Alejo Carpentier
The Man With the Golden Arm – Nelson Algren
Nineteen Eighty-Four – George Orwell
All About H. Hatterr – G.V. Desani
Disobedience – Alberto Moravia
Death Sentence – Maurice Blanchot
The Heart of the Matter – Graham Greene
Cry, the Beloved Country – Alan Paton
Doctor Faustus – Thomas Mann
The Victim – Saul Bellow
Exercises in Style – Raymond Queneau
If This Is a Man – Primo Levi
Under the Volcano – Malcolm Lowry
The Path to the Nest of Spiders – Italo Calvino
The Plague – Albert Camus
Back – Henry Green
Titus Groan – Mervyn Peake
The Bridge on the Drina – Ivo Andri?
Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
Animal Farm – George Orwell
Cannery Row – John Steinbeck
The Pursuit of Love – Nancy Mitford
Loving – Henry Green
Arcanum 17 – André Breton
Christ Stopped at Eboli – Carlo Levi
The Razor’s Edge – William Somerset Maugham
Transit – Anna Seghers
Ficciones – Jorge Luis Borges
Dangling Man – Saul Bellow
The Little Prince – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Caught – Henry Green
The Glass Bead Game – Herman Hesse
Embers – Sandor Marai
Go Down, Moses – William Faulkner
The Outsider – Albert Camus
In Sicily – Elio Vittorini
The Poor Mouth – Flann O’Brien
The Living and the Dead – Patrick White
Hangover Square – Patrick Hamilton
Between the Acts – Virginia Woolf
The Hamlet – William Faulkner
Farewell My Lovely – Raymond Chandler
For Whom the Bell Tolls – Ernest Hemingway
Native Son – Richard Wright
The Power and the Glory – Graham Greene
The Tartar Steppe – Dino Buzzati
Party Going – Henry Green
The Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
Finnegans Wake – James Joyce
At Swim-Two-Birds – Flann O’Brien
Coming Up for Air – George Orwell
Goodbye to Berlin – Christopher Isherwood
Tropic of Capricorn – Henry Miller
Good Morning, Midnight – Jean Rhys
The Big Sleep – Raymond Chandler
After the Death of Don Juan – Sylvie Townsend Warner
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day – Winifred Watson
Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre
Rebecca – Daphne du Maurier
Cause for Alarm – Eric Ambler
Brighton Rock – Graham Greene
U.S.A. – John Dos Passos
Murphy – Samuel Beckett
Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston
The Hobbit – J.R.R. Tolkien
The Years – Virginia Woolf
In Parenthesis – David Jones
The Revenge for Love – Wyndham Lewis
Out of Africa – Isak Dineson (Karen Blixen)
To Have and Have Not – Ernest Hemingway
Summer Will Show – Sylvia Townsend Warner
Eyeless in Gaza – Aldous Huxley
The Thinking Reed – Rebecca West
Gone With the Wind – Margaret Mitchell
Keep the Aspidistra Flying – George Orwell
Wild Harbour – Ian MacPherson
Absalom, Absalom! – William Faulkner
At the Mountains of Madness – H.P. Lovecraft
Nightwood – Djuna Barnes
Independent People – Halldór Laxness
Auto-da-Fé – Elias Canetti
The Last of Mr. Norris – Christopher Isherwood
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? – Horace McCoy
The House in Paris – Elizabeth Bowen
England Made Me – Graham Greene
Burmese Days – George Orwell
The Nine Tailors – Dorothy L. Sayers
Threepenny Novel – Bertolt Brecht
Novel With Cocaine – M. Ageyev
The Postman Always Rings Twice – James M. Cain
Tropic of Cancer – Henry Miller
A Handful of Dust – Evelyn Waugh
Tender is the Night – F. Scott Fitzgerald
Thank You, Jeeves – P.G. Wodehouse
Call it Sleep – Henry Roth
Miss Lonelyhearts – Nathanael West
Murder Must Advertise – Dorothy L. Sayers
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas – Gertrude Stein
Testament of Youth – Vera Brittain
A Day Off – Storm Jameson
The Man Without Qualities – Robert Musil
A Scots Quair (Sunset Song) – Lewis Grassic Gibbon
Journey to the End of the Night – Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
To the North – Elizabeth Bowen
The Thin Man – Dashiell Hammett
The Radetzky March – Joseph Roth
The Waves – Virginia Woolf
The Glass Key – Dashiell Hammett
Cakes and Ale – W. Somerset Maugham
The Apes of God – Wyndham Lewis
Her Privates We – Frederic Manning
Vile Bodies – Evelyn Waugh
The Maltese Falcon – Dashiell Hammett
Hebdomeros – Giorgio de Chirico
Passing – Nella Larsen
A Farewell to Arms – Ernest Hemingway
Red Harvest – Dashiell Hammett
Living – Henry Green
The Time of Indifference – Alberto Moravia
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
Berlin Alexanderplatz – Alfred Döblin
The Last September – Elizabeth Bowen
Harriet Hume – Rebecca West
The Sound and the Fury – William Faulkner
Les Enfants Terribles – Jean Cocteau
Look Homeward, Angel – Thomas Wolfe
Story of the Eye – Georges Bataille
Orlando – Virginia Woolf
Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H. Lawrence
The Well of Loneliness – Radclyffe Hall
The Childermass – Wyndham Lewis
Quartet – Jean Rhys
Decline and Fall – Evelyn Waugh
Quicksand – Nella Larsen
Parade’s End – Ford Madox Ford
Nadja – André Breton
Steppenwolf – Herman Hesse
Remembrance of Things Past – Marcel Proust
To The Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf
Tarka the Otter – Henry Williamson
Amerika – Franz Kafka
The Sun Also Rises – Ernest Hemingway
Blindness – Henry Green
The Castle – Franz Kafka
The Good Soldier Švejk – Jaroslav Hašek
The Plumed Serpent – D.H. Lawrence
One, None and a Hundred Thousand – Luigi Pirandello
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd – Agatha Christie
The Making of Americans – Gertrude Stein
Manhattan Transfer – John Dos Passos
Mrs. Dalloway – Virginia Woolf
The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Counterfeiters – André Gide
The Trial – Franz Kafka
The Artamonov Business – Maxim Gorky
The Professor’s House – Willa Cather
Billy Budd, Foretopman – Herman Melville
The Green Hat – Michael Arlen
The Magic Mountain – Thomas Mann
We – Yevgeny Zamyatin
A Passage to India – E.M. Forster
The Devil in the Flesh – Raymond Radiguet
Zeno’s Conscience – Italo Svevo
Cane – Jean Toomer
Antic Hay – Aldous Huxley
Amok – Stefan Zweig
The Garden Party – Katherine Mansfield
The Enormous Room – E.E. Cummings
Jacob’s Room – Virginia Woolf
Siddhartha – Herman Hesse
The Glimpses of the Moon – Edith Wharton
Life and Death of Harriett Frean – May Sinclair
The Last Days of Humanity – Karl Kraus
Aaron’s Rod – D.H. Lawrence
Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Ulysses – James Joyce
The Fox – D.H. Lawrence
Crome Yellow – Aldous Huxley
The Age of Innocence – Edith Wharton
Main Street – Sinclair Lewis
Women in Love – D.H. Lawrence
Night and Day – Virginia Woolf
Tarr – Wyndham Lewis
The Return of the Soldier – Rebecca West
The Shadow Line – Joseph Conrad
Summer – Edith Wharton
Growth of the Soil – Knut Hamsen
Bunner Sisters – Edith Wharton
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man – James Joyce
Under Fire – Henri Barbusse
Rashomon – Akutagawa Ryunosuke
The Good Soldier – Ford Madox Ford
The Voyage Out – Virginia Woolf
Of Human Bondage – William Somerset Maugham
The Rainbow – D.H. Lawrence
The Thirty-Nine Steps – John Buchan
Kokoro – Natsume Soseki
Locus Solus – Raymond Roussel
Rosshalde – Herman Hesse
Tarzan of the Apes – Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists – Robert Tressell
Sons and Lovers – D.H. Lawrence
Death in Venice – Thomas Mann
The Charwoman’s Daughter – James Stephens
Ethan Frome – Edith Wharton
Fantômas – Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre
Howards End – E.M. Forster
Impressions of Africa – Raymond Roussel
Three Lives – Gertrude Stein
Martin Eden – Jack London
Strait is the Gate – André Gide
Tono-Bungay – H.G. Wells
The Inferno – Henri Barbusse
A Room With a View – E.M. Forster
The Iron Heel – Jack London
The Old Wives’ Tale – Arnold Bennett
The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Mother – Maxim Gorky
The Secret Agent – Joseph Conrad
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
Young Törless – Robert Musil
The Forsyte Sage – John Galsworthy
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Professor Unrat – Heinrich Mann
Where Angels Fear to Tread – E.M. Forster
Nostromo – Joseph Conrad
Hadrian the Seventh – Frederick Rolfe
The Golden Bowl – Henry James
The Ambassadors – Henry James
The Riddle of the Sands – Erskine Childers
The Immoralist – André Gide
The Wings of the Dove – Henry James
Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
The Hound of the Baskervilles – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Buddenbrooks – Thomas Mann
Kim – Rudyard Kipling
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Lord Jim – Joseph Conrad
1800s
Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. – Somerville and Ross
The Stechlin – Theodore Fontane
The Awakening – Kate Chopin
The Turn of the Screw – Henry James
The War of the Worlds – H.G. Wells
The Invisible Man – H.G. Wells
What Maisie Knew – Henry James
Fruits of the Earth – André Gide
Dracula – Bram Stoker
Quo Vadis – Henryk Sienkiewicz
The Island of Dr. Moreau – H.G. Wells
The Time Machine – H.G. Wells
Effi Briest – Theodore Fontane
Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
The Real Charlotte – Somerville and Ross
The Yellow Wallpaper – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born in Exile – George Gissing
Diary of a Nobody – George & Weedon Grossmith
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
News from Nowhere – William Morris
New Grub Street – George Gissing
Gösta Berling’s Saga – Selma Lagerlöf
Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
The Picture of Dorian Gray – Oscar Wilde
The Kreutzer Sonata – Leo Tolstoy
La Bête Humaine – Émile Zola
By the Open Sea – August Strindberg
Hunger – Knut Hamsun
The Master of Ballantrae – Robert Louis Stevenson
Pierre and Jean – Guy de Maupassant
Fortunata and Jacinta – Benito Pérez Galdés
The People of Hemsö – August Strindberg
The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
She – H. Rider Haggard
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – Robert Louis Stevenson
The Mayor of Casterbridge – Thomas Hardy
Kidnapped – Robert Louis Stevenson
King Solomon’s Mines – H. Rider Haggard
Germinal – Émile Zola
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn – Mark Twain
Bel-Ami – Guy de Maupassant
Marius the Epicurean – Walter Pater
Against the Grain – Joris-Karl Huysmans
The Death of Ivan Ilyich – Leo Tolstoy
A Woman’s Life – Guy de Maupassant
Treasure Island – Robert Louis Stevenson
The House by the Medlar Tree – Giovanni Verga
The Portrait of a Lady – Henry James
Bouvard and Pécuchet – Gustave Flaubert
Ben-Hur – Lew Wallace
Nana – Émile Zola
The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Red Room – August Strindberg
Return of the Native – Thomas Hardy
Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
Drunkard – Émile Zola
Virgin Soil – Ivan Turgenev
Daniel Deronda – George Eliot
The Hand of Ethelberta – Thomas Hardy
The Temptation of Saint Anthony – Gustave Flaubert
Far from the Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
The Enchanted Wanderer – Nicolai Leskov
Around the World in Eighty Days – Jules Verne
In a Glass Darkly – Sheridan Le Fanu
The Devils – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Spring Torrents – Ivan Turgenev
Middlemarch – George Eliot
Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There – Lewis Carroll
King Lear of the Steppes – Ivan Turgenev
He Knew He Was Right – Anthony Trollope
War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
Sentimental Education – Gustave Flaubert
Phineas Finn – Anthony Trollope
Maldoror – Comte de Lautréaumont
The Idiot – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Moonstone – Wilkie Collins
Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Thérèse Raquin – Émile Zola
The Last Chronicle of Barset – Anthony Trollope
Journey to the Centre of the Earth – Jules Verne
Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoevsky
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens
Uncle Silas – Sheridan Le Fanu
Notes from the Underground – Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Water-Babies – Charles Kingsley
Les Misérables – Victor Hugo
Fathers and Sons – Ivan Turgenev
Silas Marner – George Eliot
Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
On the Eve – Ivan Turgenev
Castle Richmond – Anthony Trollope
The Mill on the Floss – George Eliot
The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
The Marble Faun – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Max Havelaar – Multatuli
A Tale of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
Oblomovka – Ivan Goncharov
Adam Bede – George Eliot
Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
North and South – Elizabeth Gaskell
Hard Times – Charles Dickens
Walden – Henry David Thoreau
Bleak House – Charles Dickens
Villette – Charlotte Brontë
Cranford – Elizabeth Gaskell
Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life Among the Lonely – Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Blithedale Romance – Nathaniel Hawthorne
The House of the Seven Gables – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Moby-Dick – Herman Melville
The Scarlet Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne
David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
Shirley – Charlotte Brontë
Mary Barton – Elizabeth Gaskell
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall – Anne Brontë
Wuthering Heights – Emily Brontë
Agnes Grey – Anne Brontë
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Brontë
Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
The Count of Monte-Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
La Reine Margot – Alexandre Dumas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
The Purloined Letter – Edgar Allan Poe
Martin Chuzzlewit – Charles Dickens
The Pit and the Pendulum – Edgar Allan Poe
Lost Illusions – Honoré de Balzac
A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
Dead Souls – Nikolay Gogol
The Charterhouse of Parma – Stendhal
The Fall of the House of Usher – Edgar Allan Poe
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby – Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
The Nose – Nikolay Gogol
Le Père Goriot – Honoré de Balzac
Eugénie Grandet – Honoré de Balzac
The Hunchback of Notre Dame – Victor Hugo
The Red and the Black – Stendhal
The Betrothed – Alessandro Manzoni
Last of the Mohicans – James Fenimore Cooper
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner – James Hogg
The Albigenses – Charles Robert Maturin
Melmoth the Wanderer – Charles Robert Maturin
The Monastery – Sir Walter Scott
Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
Frankenstein – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Northanger Abbey – Jane Austen
Persuasion – Jane Austen
Ormond – Maria Edgeworth
Rob Roy – Sir Walter Scott
Emma – Jane Austen
Mansfield Park – Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
The Absentee – Maria Edgeworth
Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
Elective Affinities – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Castle Rackrent – Maria Edgeworth
1700s
Hyperion – Friedrich Hölderlin
The Nun – Denis Diderot
Camilla – Fanny Burney
The Monk – M.G. Lewis
Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The Mysteries of Udolpho – Ann Radcliffe
The Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
The Adventures of Caleb Williams – William Godwin
Justine – Marquis de Sade
Vathek – William Beckford
The 120 Days of Sodom – Marquis de Sade
Cecilia – Fanny Burney
Confessions – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Dangerous Liaisons – Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
Reveries of a Solitary Walker – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evelina – Fanny Burney
The Sorrows of Young Werther – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Humphrey Clinker – Tobias George Smollett
The Man of Feeling – Henry Mackenzie
A Sentimental Journey – Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy – Laurence Sterne
The Vicar of Wakefield – Oliver Goldsmith
The Castle of Otranto – Horace Walpole
Émile; or, On Education – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rameau’s Nephew – Denis Diderot
Julie; or, the New Eloise – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Rasselas – Samuel Johnson
Candide – Voltaire
The Female Quixote – Charlotte Lennox
Amelia – Henry Fielding
Peregrine Pickle – Tobias George Smollett
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
Tom Jones – Henry Fielding
Roderick Random – Tobias George Smollett
Clarissa – Samuel Richardson
Pamela – Samuel Richardson
Jacques the Fatalist – Denis Diderot
Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus – J. Arbuthnot, J. Gay, T. Parnell, A. Pope, J. Swift
Joseph Andrews – Henry Fielding
A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Gulliver’s Travels – Jonathan Swift
Roxana – Daniel Defoe
Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe
Love in Excess – Eliza Haywood
Robinson Crusoe – Daniel Defoe
A Tale of a Tub – Jonathan Swift
Pre-1700
Oroonoko – Aphra Behn
The Princess of Clèves – Marie-Madelaine Pioche de Lavergne, Comtesse de La Fayette
The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan
Don Quixote – Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The Unfortunate Traveller – Thomas Nashe
Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit – John Lyly
Gargantua and Pantagruel – Françoise Rabelais
The Thousand and One Nights – Anonymous
The Golden Ass – Lucius Apuleius
Aithiopika – Heliodorus
Chaireas and Kallirhoe – Chariton
Metamorphoses – Ovid
Aesop’s Fables – Aesopus

Well, started this weekend with more works on hand... tiring...

There were some problems earlier at the work place... but it was sorted out fast enough.

Second, my S/S wall rack for books is not ready yet... I was thinking of rearranging my books later according to the Dewey System... but it seemed that I have to cancel my plan for tonight and have to prepare for tomorrow's presentation. Yes, I work on Sundays... not a big surprise for my family...

Third, I just found a list regarding 1001 books that you should read... so which books that you have read?

2008 Contract

I just been awarded a contract from JP... funny French Guy... but it is pretty meaningful

2008 Contract

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After serious & cautious consideration.....your contract of friendship has been renewed for the New Year 2008 !

It was a very hard decision to make. So try not to MESS it up!!!

My Wish for You in 2008

May peace break into your house and may thieves come to steal your debts. May the pockets of your jeans become a magnet of $100 bills. May love stick to your face like Vaseline and may laughter assault your lips! May your clothes smell of success like smoking tires and may happiness slap you across the face and may your tears be that of joy. May the problems you had forget your home address! In simple words ............

May 2008 be the best year of your life!!!

Monday, December 31, 2007

My bureau table...

Remember from the old movie, where the old English man like to write on a compartmental table? I meant where they can lock the table after pulling down the slide or such? I have one on my hand last Friday... hehe it is the best, because it was designed with the precision and everything is in place...the painting on the table was dated back to the 19th century, it is an antique... cool huh? I will take the photos later... I still need to clean it up and putting some personnel on it...

New Year Resolution for 2008

Revision of 2007 NYR...

1. Cut down in drinking (It is still a serious matter)
2. EXERCISE more a.k.a getting better in golf
3. Loose at least 25kg (no thanks to mom's cooking and eating outside with Dad)
4. Read more books this year (yes, I do read, I will read about 30 books in 2008)- A.K.A. management and business books
5. Listen to more classical music and Jazz
6. Get myself well versed with business tools, moreeeee.....
7. Learn to be a better boss in management and businesses
8. Expand my company to two times of the current size by this year, I did and have more companies now... will form a group of companies after the injection of Vitamin M.
9. Build a new house or layout the plan, will not... I will renovate my current condos to my taste... I have more antiques in my house now
10. Write out some new business proposals... two every month.... not too much to ask.
11. Be a better son
12. Be a better brother
13. Be a better man by being happy
14. Will tried to look for the other half, and stop flirting around...hehehe...
15. Learn a few more cooking methods by collecting more cooking recipes, will set up a blog on cooking.
16. Will attend CS's wedding... although I wished not too... but that will go against my new principles
17. Will be more open minded
18. Will open a Facebook account
19. Will be in the USA for the end of the year
20. Will tried to forget and forgive some old nemesis
21. Will makesure my condo in order
22. Will cut down my personal expenses... too much spending...
23. Will keep my promises... tried hard in the past, but too many obligations on hand

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

My kitchen

Up to date:

My kitchen is almost complete with my usual accessories except a deep fryer and steamer. I still needed a cast iron pan, which is the best to cook meat, and a big food processor...

I have been shopping or 'borrowing' my kitchen appliances such as a slow cooker, an espresso maker, a stove with oven, and more...

I am looking for more food party next year... I really hope I won't be blacklisted for poisoning my guests ...hehehe!

Looking forward for it...

The X'mas

First of all, I did not received coal for x'mas... I am the nice guy what...phew, lucky.

Second, I was drinking on x'mas eve with my dad, and after that I went to a local pub which is owned by my dad's friend (I didn't know that, I swear) and was drinking there until 2am and went to karaoke with my dad's friend's crew to a karaoke until 5am...poor me...well have to get some x'mas atmosphere and I met some interesting people there...

Third, woke up at 7am, and went back to bed and wake up at 8:45am because needed to go to KL for food with my dad at 9:30am. Reach Pavilion at 10:20am where there are many patrons already. So, did some window shopping because the thing over there is ridiculously expensive. Have some food at Jogoya restaurant at 11am although our reservation is 11:30am, but because they have turkey so I think it is a good deal. Have some sashimi, chinese food, tempura, turkey, cheese cake, mochi cake, Haagen Diaz ice cream and etc. which is very good, but compared to their track record, they can do better. Then return to Pavilion to shop for food, but my fresh lobster is not there, they sell frozen lobster, but I wanted something fresh... so I did not buy it. Bought some chocolates and a bottle of champagne for new year. My brother called me to have dinner where he is going to cook (the scary tunes started to play in my mind)... he asked me to get him some luncheon meat/ spam...hmmm... fried rice.

Fourth and lastly, the clock shows 7:15pm, I was at the old house... my brother showed me the ingredients of what he is going to prepare that day... hmm... broccoli, baby carrots, badly marinated chicken, frozen potatoes wedges, 2 boxes of left over rice, hot dogs and mayonnaise.
I was observing him cutting the broccoli, and frying the fries...it was scary... I told him, I will do the cooking... so I cut the broccoli and the baby carrot, mixed them up and put some hot water on them and quickly put them on ice water. I saw him frying the fries... wrong method again. I do it by myself again... and finally I shooed him off the kitchen and I cook the fries, cook the hot dogs, fried the chicken, make a tom yum soup and finally fried rice. And I make some cocktails and open up a champagne... a invited dinner becoming my own dinner party...hahaha, funny huh? Went to bed at 12:30 midnight.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Have I fulfilled my New Year Resolutions?

1. Cut down in drinking (It is still a serious matter) Failed
2. EXERCISE more a.k.a getting better in golf Failed
3. Lose at least 30kg (no thanks to mom's cooking and eating outside with Dad) Failed
4. Read more books this year (yes, I do read and I did read about 15 of them this year)- A.K.A. management and business books Passed
5. Listen to more classical music a.k.a. going to KLCC's MPO Passed
6. Get myself well versed with business tools Passed
7. Learn to be a better boss in management and business Passed
8. Expand my company to two times of the current size by this year Passed
9. Build a new house or layout the plan Passed
10. Write out some new business proposals to build a new company by end of this year Passed
11. Be a better son Passed
12. Be a better brother Passed
13. Be a better man by being a Machiavellian in business and a bushido man Passed
14. Be a better lover Failed
15. Learn a few more cooking methods by collecting more cooking recipes Passed

Hmmm... I guess not too bad, I have 11/15 passes...

Appreciate the people besides you (in Chinese)

----- 珍惜身邊人 -----

一頓歷時89分鐘，價值274元的晚餐。一對男女戀人步出餐廳。男的吃這頓飯吃得好辛苦，因他85分鐘都用了來想著公司的那份計劃書該怎樣做，幸好女的一點也不發覺他心不在焉。女的對男的說：「現在不算太晚，你不用送我了，我自己回家吧。」明天就要交計劃書的男友，「立刻」答：「好呀!那你小心點了，回家致電給我吧。再見。」
男的飛快回家，去埋首他的工作，他不停的做直致電話響起。他看看鐘原來已經半夜三時許，是誰這麼夜來電？他接過電話，原來是他的未來外母：「我女兒現在還沒回家，你不是和她去了吃飯嗎？她怎樣了，我好怕…」男的才記起女的說回到家後會致電他報平安，{在已經夜半二、三時她為什麼還不回家。男的心亂如麻，最後還是報警求助。
去到警局，警員問他：「她失蹤時的衣著是？」
男的：「這…她…想不起來…」
警員：「不打緊，你先放鬆一下，那衣服的顏色總會記得吧？藍色？紅色？」
男的：「我…我只想著份計劃書，吃飯也低下頭…我不曾看過她的…」
警員：「她的髮型呢？長髮？短髮？」
男的：「我跟她一起很多年了…我所以…怎麼她的東西我一點也想不起…」
警員：「你說她是你女友，你們最近很少見面嗎？怎會連髮型也不知道，那她有帶首飾，手袋嗎？」
男的也是無言以對。
離開警局，男的覺得很驚訝，驚訝他對女友的「不上心」。多年來他已把愛情的感覺當成一種習慣，就連對他的女友也「習以為常」，已經不把她放在心上了。已過了三天，女的還是音訊全無，這三天男的除了擔心女友的安危，就是不停的想：「她的髮型、她的衣著，我怎會不知道的！我一定要記起來！」
這夜，男的經過一條幽黑、灰暗的長街，竟看見女的就站在長街的盡頭。男的高興得跑向她，想緊緊的擁抱她。但走到女友的面前他就改變了主意，他雙手按著女友的肩膊，說：「等一下，先不要動。讓我看清楚你，你的頭髮、你的衣著，我要好好的記著。回想起那晚，其實是你發現我還有工作在身，想我早點回家工作而叫我不用送你的。一直以來只有你還關心我的感受，而我卻不理會你。但不要緊，我已知道應怎樣去愛你、珍惜你。相信我，你的一切一切今後都會常在我心中的。」
女的：「你終於都懂得理會我的感受，懂得珍惜我了…可惜已經太遲…」男的忽然醒過來，原來剛才的是一場夢。夢醒後男的努力去想，夢中女友的衣著、髮型，但還是記不起來…
隔天，男的終於再見回他的女友，就是在警員帶他到殮房認屍的時候…
望著躺在停屍間的女友，男的哭著說：「我終於知道你的髮型，衣著，我現在才真正的看真你。我會記著的，永遠都會記著的…我剛想到要珍惜你…你醒醒呀…不要就這樣離開我好嗎……」
男的剛學會珍惜，卻已後悔莫及。現在他除了哭泣，就什麼都做不了

Tong Yuen Nite

Today is the winter celebration, where Chinese usually emphasized more on today compared to Chinese New Year. It is a day where they are sending the deities back to heaven.

Also today is the day where all the family members returned from everywhere to home to have tong yuen. Hmm... What is tong yuen? Tong Yuen is a dessert made from gluttonous rice powder to made a ball (size: 0.5inches to 1inch dia. ) and it will later cook with some sweet base soup. Not bad huh?

I am having my dinner at home tonite.

Are you A Player?

This morning I heard a very funny psychology question:

Your friend told you that he/she met a very beautiful nurse( can be man/woman)

What will be on your mind:

1. The nurse is a very beautiful/handsome

2. The nurse has a pretty/charming eyes and pretty white

3. The nurse is good hearted / inner beauty and good looking

4. The nurse has a normal look but have a hot body

Which will you choose?

The explanation:

1. You are a player. But be careful because player usually get burned.

2. You are a good hearted person. A player, but you never do anything to hurt the person.

3. A good hearted person, an average player. Will emphasize more on inner beauty and not the look.

4. A person who thought he/ she is a player, where he/she is not... sorry you will usually get hurt badly.

Sunday, December 16, 2007

My True Love...

Well you most probably thinking I found a gal, nope... think again...

I was fetching my god sister's friends from Jaya Jusco and imagine what pulled me to the bargain counter? It has a perfect built body, very bad temper, but always give me the best result??? Tada: A coffee expresso maker for half price... I am in heaven. It is a DeLonghi coffee maker... I was out of breath when I saw it... I went to talk to the sales and check with it... and it have a milk tray for cappuccino. It is perfect... perfect with the Illy coffee powder that I bought earlier that week...I paid for it and I make my first cup of coffee when I reach home...It is the best cup of brewed coffee I ever have...

The House Party

Hmmm... the unforeseen house party happened this week...why?

Well, my god Sis, Jess came in from JB on Friday's nite to attend a wedding dinner on Saturday... well she was college mate/close friend that I have from Inti College. I invited her and her friends to stay at my place because I have rooms to spare.

She came to Seremban first, where we went to have some fine dinner in KL and I bump into a 'bump'/ Mr. Sean Lai because he seemed to be to busy to meet up with old friends like me, but not with some beautiful office colleagues... man what a player. We ended to leave the restaurant at 1am and reach Seremban at 2am. It was a blast...

I have to go to work at 7am and I leave the house and came back to fetch her friends around 4pm... all of them are crazy bunch... and it was nice to have them.

We play TAI 'D' until 4am with drinking (I broke my vows not to drink for two months) and as we said it always happened...

The result: I will have more house parties next year because it seemed that I really enjoy it.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Wedding Ang Pow Issue

I been commented by my friend saying that I should put more money on Heng Tai's wedding ang pow. I was thinking what is the correct amount for a wedding ang pow? Because I was giving it out according to market rate and sometime more than that...can anyone comment me on this?

Sunday, November 25, 2007

Concert at the Soka, Kota Cheras

Yesterday, I was invited to attend to a music concert by my friend YL.The concert was average but the company was great.

For example, I felt that Mozart's piece should have a faster tempo or beat to it and so with Strauss's piece. But, it have to do with the wind and brass section where they need someone more experienced PERSON handling the group. The string section also needed more practices because at some point, they went out of notes several times... The Lord of The Ring's theme, man that does not do any justice to the piece and also Les Miserables' medley. So, overall I will give the performance a 6 out of 10...

The company which consist of YL and her husband, Tan, is great. I am happy that we have time to sit down together. However, I have to apologize for being late, there are no excuses for it... but I hope that the organizer should have updated their map because landmarks such as Makro and Leisure Mall are not no longer existed.

Anywhere, thanks YL for the x-mas present, and I will only opened it on X-mas. Okay?

Friday, November 23, 2007

Beauty of Mathematics

(Send by AB)

Give some time to look at these (below) wonders of Mathematics.
Look at the beauty, symmetry and revelation of Maths.

Beauty of Maths!

1 x 8 + 1 = 9
12 x 8 + 2 = 98
123 x 8 + 3 = 987
1234 x 8 + 4 = 9876
12345 x 8 + 5 = 98765
123456 x 8 + 6 = 987654
1234567 x 8 + 7 = 9876543
12345678 x 8 + 8 = 98765432
123456789 x 8 + 9 = 987654321

1 x 9 + 2 = 11
12 x 9 + 3 = 111
123 x 9 + 4 = 1111
1234 x 9 + 5 = 11111
12345 x 9 + 6 = 111111
123456 x 9 + 7 = 1111111
1234567 x 9 + 8 = 11111111
12345678 x 9 + 9 = 111111111
123456789 x 9 +10= 1111111111

9 x 9 + 7 = 88
98 x 9 + 6 = 888
987 x 9 + 5 = 8888
9876 x 9 + 4 = 88888
98765 x 9 + 3 = 888888
987654 x 9 + 2 = 8888888
9876543 x 9 + 1 = 88888888
98765432 x 9 + 0 = 888888888

Brilliant, isn't it?

And look at this symmetry:

1 x 1 = 1
11 x 11 = 121
111 x 111 = 12321
1111 x 1111 = 1234321
11111 x 11111 = 123454321
111111 x 111111 = 12345654321
1111111 x 1111111 = 1234567654321
11111111 x 11111111 = 123456787654321
111111111 x 111111111=123456789 87654321

Now, take a look at this...

101%

From a strictly mathematical viewpoint:

What Equals 100%? What does it mean to give MORE than 100%?

Ever wonder about those people who say they are giving more than 100%?

We have all been in situations where someone wants you to GIVE OVER 100%.

How about ACHIEVING 101%?

What equals 100% in life?

Here's a little mathematical formula that might help answer these
questions:

If:

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Is represented as:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26.

Then:

H-A-R-D-W-O- R- K is equal to

8+1+18+4+23 + 15+18+11 = 98%

And:

K-N-O-W-L-E- D-G-E is equal to

11+14+15+23+ 12+5+4+7+ 5 = 96%

But:

A-T-T-I-T-U- D-E is equal to

1+20+20+9+20+ 21+4+5 = 100%

THEN, look how far the love of God will take you:

L-O-V-E- O-F-G-O-D is equal to

12+15+22+5+15+ 6+7+15+4 = 101%

Therefore, one can conclude with mathematical certainty that:

While Hard Work and Knowledge will get you close, and Attitude will get you there, It's the Love of God that will put you over the top!

Have a nice day & God bless!!!

The Thanksgiving that is not..

Looking at this year Thanksgiving, it is some holiday that is not...

1) Kitty Hawk is barred from entering Hong Kong... it is ridiculous for not letting the people on the board to have some R&R...

2) Prices of oil almost touch USD 100

3) US economy is a mess

4) Malaysia's corruption rate is scary... it is like everyday there are corruption news on the paper... the question is why now?

5) CHAOS in Pakistan...and it is barred from commonwealth.

6) Proton ended the talk with VW... no VW slash Proton model...

7) The share market is having a roller coaster effect all downward...

8) I don't have any turkey to eat...(The biggest reason of all)

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Working on a report

I am working on a report today... and it is not that easy... it is a project that I have been working on one and half month... and I can hand it in on Monday...

It is my first week that I have not being drinking and I will be keeping a journal on this.

I have put my foot down on my partner and it seemed that my business partner understand that I mean business. He being dragging his 'rear' for some time and I need the business to be running ASAP.

FIN for today~

I will post this instead: The effect of cold water

For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow down the digestion. Once this "sludge" reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer. It is best to drink hot soup or warm water after a meal.
A serious note about heart attacks - You should know that not every heart attack symptom is going to be the left arm hurting. Be aware of intense pain in the jaw line.
You may never have the first chest pain during the course of a heart attack. Nausea and intense sweating are also common symptoms. 60% of people who have a heart attack while they are asleep do not wake up. Pain in the jaw can wake you from a sound sleep. Let's be careful and be aware. The more we know the better chance we could survive.
A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this message sends it to 10 people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one life. Read this & Send the link to a friend. It could save a life. So, please be a true friend and send this article to all your friends you care about.

Saturday, November 10, 2007

Jokes from YL

It is always said that good joke should be spread around... and I love these jokes from YL's blog...

#1
What is a Kiss?
Prof. of Computer Science: A kiss is a few bits of love compiled into a byte.
Prof. of Algebra: A kiss is two divided by nothing.
Prof. of Geometry: A kiss is the shortest distance between two straight lines.
Prof. of Physics: A kiss is the contraction of mouth due to the expansion of the heart.
Prof. of Zoology: A kiss is the interchange of unisexual salivary bacteria.
Prof. of Physiology: A kiss is the juxtaposition of two orbicular ors muscles in the state of contraction.
Prof. of Dentistry: A kiss is infectious and antiseptic.
Prof. of Accountancy: A kiss is a credit because it is profitable when returned.
Prof. of Economics: A kiss is that thing for which the demand is higher than the supply.
Prof. of Philosophy: A kiss is the persecution for the child, ecstasy for the youth and homage for the old.
Prof. of Engineering: Uh, What? I’m not familiar with that term.

#2
Male or Female?
FREEZER BAGS: Male, because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.
PHOTOCOPIERS: Female, because once turned off; it takes a while to warm them up again.
They are an effective reproductive device if the right buttons are pushed, but can also wreak havoc if you push the wrong buttons.
TIRES: Male, because they go bald easily and are often over inflated.
HOT AIR BALLOONS: Male, because to get them to go anywhere, you have to light a fire under their butt.
SPONGES: Female, because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.
WEB PAGES: Female, because they're constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.
TRAINS: Male, because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.
HOURGLASS: Female, because over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.
HAMMERS: Male, because in the last 5000 years, they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.
THE REMOTE CONTROL: Female. Ha! You probably thought it would be male, but consider this - it easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying

#3
Elementary Science
- One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second.
- The law of gravity says it's not fair jumping up without coming back down.
- Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction.
- Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime.
- A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go.
- Lime is a green-tasting rock.
- Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil.
- Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there.
- In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes.
- A blizzard is when it snows sideways.
- A monsoon is a French gentleman.
- It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places.

The most unorganized wedding

I am thinking of skipping a friend's wedding tomorrow due to its disorganization... it is the worst of the kind. I hate this kind of wedding.... and most probably I will skip it and watch movies at the home... what is the worst kind of wedding that you have attended?

My first OMEGA watch...

Hmm... I actually received the watch from my father about 6 months ago... it is my first OMEGA watch and is a beautiful piece of workmanship. Not kidding... but when I put it on my wrist, it is the same feeling that I have when I have my first Longines when I was in Form 4...

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Where have I been lately?

Hmm... it seemed that I did not blog for a while and I have to apologize for that because life is a bit busy... two of my friends were getting married last month, yeah today is the end of October...one is nicknamed the ant and another is Danny Tah...

Life is funny because sometime you have to know that when you are not wanted... it is hurt to find out about it... I asked Yee Lien about it and and she gave a pretty good comment. I think I will be shutting off for a while. I will be off from drinking starting today for two months and I hope that I will able to go thru the whole ordeal... I will update about my determination.

I was playing golf that day, and finally I knew what I have done wrong... I have lose my patience for a long time... I should start slowly and it is so obvious why the ball that I hit did not fly at 30 degrees upward... I have to slow down my life for a while...really...

Wow, in another 1/2 hour is November and time does fly...

Sunday, October 07, 2007

The meeting in Damansara

First of all, out of the blue, my friend KCK call me. He was asking me about the works that I am involved and see either I am interested to undertake some works... I agreed with him and said why don't we meet on Saturday at One Utama or the local will call it One-U. And I was there at 3:20pm and the parking search was a bad experience because it took me almost 40 minutes to find one. Come on, more parkings and please clamped those irresponsible drivers' cars because they always park at the place where if you have a truck passing thru, it will be a freak show.

Then, I met KCK and his family, a beautiful family, I must said. We sat down and discuss for almost 2 hours and the outcome was pretty positive. We then called CKC who is staying nearby to visit him. He is expecting his second kid, and I will be the kid's god father (GOD FATHER'S THEME MUSIC). We went to his place, after KCK drove his family back to his mother in law's house. We reach TM in 10 minutes time, and CKC invited us to his house for a steamboat's dinner and it was 'okay'. The steamboat dinner was lacked of food and I should got some more seafood for the dinner.

Lastly, we were sitting down at a coffee shop/mamak stall which is opposite a place called 'Live Music'. We chit chat for the next three hours about our well being and also some friend, and we were joined by JL. The meeting ended at 11:45pm and I have to send KCK back to his mother in law's house which was a terrible mistake because it was damn jam, yeah I mean traffic jam in midnight. I got home at 1:30am and went to the bed at 2am.

Seed of Darkness

Synopsis:

Seed of Darkness weaves a spooky tale of the life of a single mother by choice who decides to undergo the "in-vitro fertilization process" in Singapore to have a child of her own. 7 years later, she moves into a new apartment and her child begins to behave oddly, much to the bafflement of her young mother. Her fear begins to mount when she finds her child frequently talking to herself and insist that she can see her non-existent father.

At first I did not know that my fried, Oliver Lee was involved in this movie... he should tell all the buddies to get the movie going.

I sam trying to look for the DVD of this movie, anyone, please tell me if they found it...

Sunday, September 30, 2007

Nice quote

"Mawlana says - if the sky is not in love, then it will not be so clear. If the sun is not in love, then it will not be giving any light. If the river is not in love, then it will be in silence, it will not be moving. If the mountains, the earth are not in love, then there will be nothing growing."

From the article of BBC about RUMI

Strange Dream

I had a strange dream last night... it started like this:

A gal was having problem, she needed money to cure her mother... them she met two circus performers who is a pair of brother, unknown to her, they are youkai (mystical beings. They do some special performances to help the kid out...one thing led to the another, where self sacrifice of one of the youkai to save the world was seemed, it was pretty touching, and I woke up at that point... it was strange because I was not in the dream... why I have that dream? But, I have to say that the special effects in the dream was better than any of the movies that I have ever watch....

Friday, September 28, 2007

The busy week: Chaotic Week

Projects management are tough and it is not an easy thing to do... I know because I have been flying around and really it is killing me. I have not been in my house for more than 6 hours...Anywhere, I secretly pray that every week is the same because business is good.

Grandma still drives (Contributed by an Angel)

GRANDMA STILL DRIVES- She is eighty-eight years old and still drives
her own car. She writes:

Dear Grand-daughter:

The other day I went up to our local Christian book store and saw a Honk if you love Jesus bumper sticker.
I was feeling particularly sassy that day because I had just come from a thrilling choir performance, followed by a thunderous prayer meeting. So, I bought the sticker and put it on my bumper. Boy, am I glad I did, what an uplifting experience that followed. I was stopped at a red light at a busy intersection, just lost in thought about the Lord and how good he is, and I didn't notice that the light had changed. It is a good thing someone else loves Jesus because if he hadn't honked, I'd never have noticed. I found that lots of people love Jesus!

While I was sitting there, the guy behind started honking like crazy,And then he leaned out of his window and screamed, For the love of God! Go! Go! Go! Jesus Christ, GO! What an exuberant cheerleader he was for Jesus!

Everyone started honking! I just leaned out my window and started Waving and smiling at all those loving people. I even honked my horn a few times to share in the love! There must have been a man from Florida back there because I heard him yelling something about a sunny beach.I saw another guy waving in a funny way with only his middle Finger stuck up in the air. I asked my young teenage grandson in the back seat what that meant. He said it was probably a Hawaiian good luck sign or something. Well, I have never met anyone from Hawaii, so I leaned out the Window and gave him the good luck sign right back.

My grandson burst out laughing. Why even he was enjoying this religious experience!!
A couple of the people were so caught up in the joy of the moment that they got out of their cars and started walking towards me. I bet they wanted to pray or ask what church I attended, but this is when I noticed the light had changed. So, I waved at all my brothers and sisters grinning, and drove

On through the intersection. I noticed that I was the only car that Got through the intersection before the light changed again and felt kind of sad that I had to leave them after all the love we had shared. So I slowed the car down, leaned out the window and gave them all the Hawaiian good luck sign one last time as I drove away.

Praise the Lord for such wonderful folks!!

Will write again soon,
Love, Grandma

Saturday, September 22, 2007

Recipes on my blogs

From today onwards, I will be putting some recipes online. It is some recipe that has some twist and turn where I used to cook my food. I will be taking some photos of the food that did not kill me personally. Hahaha! So, heads up.

The mix feeling of meeting one of my life mentors

I dare to put it in words... Dr Lim a man who taught me about the importance of proper use of English and also the importance of a good research paper. Because without him, although I am still very bad in the command of my language, which make ashamed to say that I am Dr. Lim's student. I think YL will agreed with me in this.

YL has make a point to visit Dr. Lim back in July after she quit her job with Inti College back in July, and I agreed to be there because it has been more than two years I have seemed him personally due to time constraints. Well, I have said I been a dare devil that day because I drove around 180km/hr to reach Inti College from Bukit Raja to Nilai. It is pretty bad because the car that I was driving was a truck and again it is quite reckless but I have my own defense of doing it....

The first 1/2 hour of chat was pretty interesting because we are checking on each other well being and I was told that I been putting on a lot of weight.... damn, really have to cut down a lot of weight... so, on my way to PD, I came up with ideas to cut down my weight...

Then, when CS came in, actually I felt a bit awkward, well nothing... because it is just the dreadful feelings in my stomach ... and I really hate that dreaded feelings , it makes me felt pretty uneasy... and I really hated that.... damn again...

Finally I left the office at 3pm because of works... but my mind was somewhere else...

However, I really have to thanks Dr. Lim for 'molding' me. Thank you.

“How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else.”

Remember this when you have a cup of Java from your local Starbucks... press the title of this line and it will takes you to the link.

It is a story about a son of Privilige, who has everything and lose everything... and found his life again when he worked at Starbucks.

It is a very touching book and I think it is good book to read and learn about life.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

My nephew, Caiden Joseph Bearden

He is my new nephew, Caiden Joseph Bearden, who was born on 12/09/07. Hmmm... who does he looks like? Looking at him, he looks like Christy more than his father except the eyes.

Sunday, September 09, 2007

The 83rd Blog...

Hmmm.... when I started this blog, I never expected that I will able to go on this long... my previous blog was only able to reach 79th blogs and it went R.I.P.

What's going on now? Hmm... by looking at my New Year's Resolution, I am only able to achive some of the things that I set up... which I hope I am able to achieve more... but again look out, I may able to achieve more because there is another 3 months before we called it 2008...

I bet YL will laugh when she read this.... but I have to apologise to some readers who is Chinese because they may get hurt while reading the joke about Adam and Eve, but remember who is writing it, well I am not pure Chinese, but again I am Chinese... so joke on me.

Anywhere, I hope this blog will achieve 830th blogs.

Friday, September 07, 2007

Pavarotti... my favorite tenor...

Another great person gone...why? However, we know he is at a better place now...

Part of the article taken from NST on today's news...

"Legendary tenor Luciano Pavarotti died Thursday at his home in Italy aged 71, plunging the opera world into mourning for a singer whose crossover appeal made him a global superstar.

Hailed by many as the greatest tenor of his generation, Pavarotti died during the night at his villa near the northern city of Modena after a long battle with pancreatic cancer."

Tuesday, September 04, 2007

If Adam and Eve were Chinese... no offend I am Chinese

If Adam and Eve were Chinese, we would still be in paradise because they would have ignored the apple and eaten the snake.

(http://www.humnri.com/HumZ/Jokes/)

Kids... what can we do about them ???

(Taken from http://www.humnri.com/HumZ/Jokes/)

A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks. But nothing happened. Finally he decided to write a letter to God requesting for Rs.50.

When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, India, they decided to forward it to the Finance Minister of India as a joke.The Finance Minister was so amused, he instructed his secretary to send Rs.20 to the little boy. The Finance Minister thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy, and he did not want to spoil the kid by giving the whole amount he wished.

The little boy was delighted with Rs.20, and decided to write a thank you note to God, which read

"Dear God Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that you sent it through the Finance Minister in Delhi, and those donkeys deducted Rs.30 in taxes..."

(FYI :RS.= RUPEES)

Kids in grade school think fast
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TEACHER Why are you late?

WEBSTER Because of the sign.

TEACHER What sign?

WEBSTER The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow."

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TEACHER Cindy, why are you doing your math multiplication on the floor?

CINDY You told me to do it without using tables!

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TEACHER John, how do you spell "crocodile?"

JOHN K-R-O-K-O-D-A-I-L"

TEACHER No, that's wrong

JOHN Maybe it's wrong, but you asked me how I spell it!

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TEACHER What is the chemical formula for water?

SARAH H I J K L M N O!!

TEACHER What are you talking about?

SARAH Yesterday you said it's H to O!

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TEACHER George, go to the map and find North America.

GEORGE Here it is!

TEACHER Correct. Now class, who discovered America?

CLASS George!

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TEACHER Willie, name one important thing we have today that we didn't have ten years ago.

WILLIE Me!

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TEACHER: Tommy, why do you always get so dirty?

TOMMY: Well, I'm a lot closer to the ground than you are.

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TEACHER: Ellen, give me a sentence starting with "I."

ELLEN: I is...

TEACHER: No, Ellen..... Always say, "I am."

ELLEN: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."

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TEACHER: "Can anybody give an example of COINCIDENCE?"

JOHNNY: "Sir, my Mother and Father got married on the same day, same time."

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TEACHER: "George Washington not only chopped down his father's cherry tree, but also admitted doing it. Now do you know why his father didn't punish him?"

JOHNNY: "Because George still had the ax in his hand."

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TEACHER: Now, Sam, tell me frankly, do you say prayers before eating?

SAM: No sir, I don't have to, my Mom is a good cook.

(FOR YL)
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TEACHER: Desmond, your composition on "My Dog" is exactly the same as your brother's. Did you copy his?

DESMOND: No, teacher, it's the same dog!

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TEACHER: What do you call a person who keeps on talking when people are no longer interested?

PUPIL: A teacher.

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SILVIA: Dad, can you write in the dark?

FATHER: I think so. What do you want me to write?

SYLVIA: Your name on this report catd

Jokes for Monday Blues

(Love this joke, because like my friends will declared, proud to be gay...this joke is from YL.)
1st Joke: When fathers talk about their kids

Four friends, who hadn't seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a party. After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room.

Those who remained talked about their kids.

The first guy said, "My son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at the bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration and soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he's the president of the company. He became so rich that he gave his best friend a top of the line Mercedes for his birthday."

The second guy said, "Darn, that's terrific! My son is also my pride and joy. He started working for a big airline company, then went to flight school to become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he owns the majority of its assets. He's so rich that he gave his best friend a brand new jet for his birthday."

The third man said: "Well, that's terrific! My son studied in the best Universities and became an engineer. Then he started his own construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A 30,000 square foot mansion."

The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth returned from the restroom and asked: "What are all the congratulations for?"

One of the three said: "We were talking about the pride we feel for the Successes of our sons... What about your son?"

The fourth man replied: "My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a nightclub."

The three friends said: "What a shame...What a disappointment."

The fourth man replied: "No, I'm not ashamed. He's my son and I love him. And he hasn't done too bad either. His birthday was two weeks ago, and he received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and a top of the line Mercedes from his three boyfriends."

2nd Joke: The Three Sons

Three sons left home, went out on their own and prospered. Getting back together, they discussed the gifts they were able to give their elderly Mother.

The first said, "I built a big house for our Mother." The second said, "I sent her a Mercedes with a driver." The third smiled and said, "I've got you both beat. You remember how Mom enjoyed reading the Bible? And you know she can't see very well any more. I sent her a remarkable parrot that recites the entire Bible. It took Elders in the church 12 years to teach him. He's one of a kind. Mama just has to name the chapter and verse, and the parrot recites it."

Soon thereafter, Mom sent out her letters of thanks: "Milton," she wrote one son, "the house you built is so huge. I live in only one room, but I have to clean the whole house."

"Gerald," she wrote to another, "I am too old to travel any more. My eyesight isn't what it used to be. I stay most of the time at home, so I rarely use the Mercedes. And the driver is so rude!"

"Dearest Donald," she wrote to her third son, "you have the good sense to know what your Mother likes. The chicken was delicious!"

3rd Joke:Dear Mom (For YL and CKC, when their daughter are older)

A mother enters her daughter's bedroom and sees a letter on the wall over the bed.
With the worst premonition, she reads it, with trembling hands:"It is with great regret and sorrow that I'm telling you that I eloped
with my new boyfriend. I found real passion and he is so nice, with all his piercing and tattoos and his big motorcycle. But is not only that Mom, I'm pregnant and Ahmed said that we will very happy in his trailer in the woods. He wants to have
many more children with me and that's one of my dreams. I've learned that marijuana
doesn't hurt anyone and he'll be growing it for us and his friends, who are providing us with all the cocaine and ecstasy we may want. In the meantime, we'll pray for the science to
find the AIDS cure, for Ahmed to get better, he deserves it. Don't worry Mom, I'm 15 years old now
and I know how to take care of myself. Someday I'll visit for you to know your grandchildren.
Your daughter,
Judith
PS:
Mom, it's not true. I'm at the neighbor's house. I just wanted to show you that there are worst this in life than my report card that's in the desk drawer. "

Joke 4:The Sword Master

The Three Swordsmen

Once the Shogun gave a reception to honor the best swordsmen in Japan. All the top samurai were in attendance along with Court nobles and beautiful geisha. A geisha approached the third highest ranked swordsmen and asked; "Sir, can you demonstrate your sword skills for me?" At once, the samurai drew his sword a cut a hovering fly in half. "Very impressive", said the geisha. When she saw the samurai who was the second highest ranked swordsmen in Japan she asked him the same question. He immediately drew his sword and cut two pesky flys in half. "Most impressive", said the geisha. Then she spotted the samurai that was the highest ranked swordsmen in all of Japan. "Honorable Sir", she said "would you be so kind as to demonstrate your sword skill for me?". The samurai drew his sword and cut into the air in the direction of a nearby fly, but the fly buzzed away. "Oh, so sorry you missed", said the geisha. "But I didn't miss", said the samurai humbly "that fly will have no offspring."

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Even the Pope goes Green

Pope Benedict XVI speeches that truly touches us on environment... we need more leaders to stand out to talk about our environment...Thank you. This the partial speech taken from BBC.

"Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth," he said.

"We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible."

He focused on water, which he described as a "precious" resource and a potential source of tension and conflict.

(Taken from BBC website: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6974475.stm )

OPA's dinner

It is one of the most disappointing events that I have attended... yes it is a great place to meet old friends...but it did not stand up to the standard...

I just found out because of one ignorant friend, my friends in the same batch can't attend the event...he first told us about the event and asked us to SMS him whoever is going...and he did not follow up after that....then suddenly boom the event started... and I found out that our batch have only one table...how embrassing....

The second thing was the dinner turned to be a drinking event... where everyone is drinking themselves to a bunch of drunken and not the Paulians that I knew... they did not listen to what's going on...such as toast to the oldest Paulians and such....Paulians don't act that way... those are ruffians's act...damn....

I hope that the organizer of the OPA will take a note of this and have a better dinner next time...

Saturday, September 01, 2007

An inspiring Poem that I always love to read

I am not trying to be religious here, or something, but it is good that there is always someone 'catching' you when you fall...the first time I read this poem was back in 1999, in USA.

"Footprints In The Sand"

AUTHOR UNKNOWN

One night I dreamed I was walking along the beach with the Lord.

Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.

In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.

Sometimes there were two sets of footprints,

other times there was one only.

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This bothered me because I noticed that during the low periods of my life,

when I was suffering from anguish, sorrow, or defeat, I could see only one set of footprints,

so I said to the Lord,

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"You promised me Lord, that if I followed you, you would walk with me always.

But I have noticed that during the most trying periods of my life,

there has only been one set of footprints in the sand.

Why, when I needed you most, have you not been there for me?"

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The Lord replied,

"The years when you have seen only one set of footprints, my child,

is when I carried you."

Friday, August 31, 2007

The 50th Merdeka of Malaysia

50 years old...our country, Malaysia just turned 50.

Our country was born back, when our fore fathers were fighting to get the independence from The Great Britain...Malaya at the time, we have grew from a country that used to be famous for tin, gold, rubber estates and etc. to a country who is more industrial, more organized in algricultures and etc.

I won't write the history because you can find the history from Goggling it.... but as we do know, as Malaysian, we hope that our country will turned into a better place to live in.... HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MALAYSIA!

Thursday, August 30, 2007

Sometime things are better left unknown.....

Taken From Dilbert.com... it is so funny...

Monday, August 27, 2007

Would you kill Knut???

(Taken from http://www.channel4.com/blogs/page/newsroom?entry=the_truth_about_knut_the)

If you were watching Channel 4 News last week, you can't fail to have been charmed by Knut the polar bear cub. The adorable infant is so unbelievably cute that many people who saw that footage still haven't recovered their full composure.

He was seen playing with a life-size cuddly toy of a brown bear, listening to Elvis Presley songs, and walking unsteadily towards the camera with mournful little eyes - because animal rights activists are apparently calling for him to be put to death.

The argument, supposedly, is that since Knut is a zoo-born bear, and has been rejected by his mother (how COULD SHE!?!?!), he will never grow up to be real polar bear, gamboling on the ice floes, and should therefore start his career as a fur coat as early as possible.

When the news broke, pictures of Knut were flashed across the world's TV screens. The Chinese panda cubs, those shameless media tarts (and defending world champions of cute) had some new footage out that day, but editors didn't bat an eyelid. No-one wanted anything but Knut.

Well, sorry to tell you but the Knut dossier has been more than a little sexed up. Frank Albrecht, the German animal rights activist who was supposedly advocating Knuticide, was in fact arguing the opposite side of the case.

He was talking about a case in Leipzig zoo, where a brown bear cub, born in similar circumstances, had been put down. The zoo was taken to court, but justified the claim on the basis that it was cruel for a bear to be reared by humans. And they won.

Mr Albrecht merely pointed out that if you were to follow the same logic, it would mean death to Knut. And before you could say 'delightful little bundle of cuteness', someone at the Bild newspaper took a firm hold of the wrong end of the stick. Knut became a star, and Mr Albrecht became an evil bear-killer to TV viewers across the world.

And if those aren't enough (and let's face it, no-one could ever get enough Knut) he has own blog: Knut, das Eisbärbaby.

Now you could almost believe that all the media outlets that covered the Knut story weren't interested in the actual truth, and just wanted to run some pictures of an unfeasibly cute little cub. I'm sure that's not the case. But we're glad to be able to bring you the bear facts.

My new Photos

Don't kacau me!!! I am sleeping here!

This is how I look on Monday!!!

See, I am taking bath here, this is the living proof that I take bath...

Hey, I needed to exercise over here... so I won't have the tire's shape!

(Photos taken from http://www.pbase.com/erichmangl/polarbear)

Jokes on me!!! by YL

Good Joke

An Arctic explorer came face to face with a polar bear. Afraid of being eaten, he fell to his knees and started praying. When the polar bear knelt down beside him and started praying too, the man shouted, "It's a miracle!" The polar bear opened one eye and said "Don't talk while I'm saying grace."

Short Jokes
Q: What's a balanced diet for a polar bear?
A: A seal in each paw!

Q: What did the polar bear eat after the dentist fixed its tooth?
A: The dentist.

Q: What did the polar bears say when they saw tourists in sleeping bags?
A: "Sandwiches!"

Q: Why do polar bears have fur coats?
A: Because the seals laughed at them when they wore parkas!

Q: What do you get when you cross a polar bear with a seal?
A: A polar bear.

Q: What are polar bears called when they get caught in the rain?
A: Drizzly bears.

Q: What has four legs and a flipper?
A: A happy polar bear!

Q: How do you keep a polar bear from charging?
A: Insist that it pay cash!

Q: What did the Polar Bear say when it saw a seal on a skateboard?
A: "Meals on Wheels!"

Q: What is white and goes RRRRG! RRRRG!?
A: A polar bear walking backwards

Sunday, August 19, 2007

An African Proverb

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.

Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death.

It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

Author unknown.

Run FORREST, RUN!!! This is the thing I thought of when I was reading this proverb. In another word, no matter who YOU are, work !!!