Spamming the world with this, its the reason one should not watch MSN videos just before bed.

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The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well, let's see.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling LOVE LOVE Read it in an hour the first time
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

 

I'm an English Literature major. I did both my BA and MA in Literature. But I've mostly gone against the grain as some of the so-called great books on this list I only read because I had to in school, while others I read for me. I'm surprised that Kafka"s Metamorphosis isn't on here though. As aren't any of Shakespeare's works, but they were plays. Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night,  Henry IV, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice and Richard III are just a few of the one's I really enjoyed.

 

Bizarre Foods is on and its about Trinidad and Tobago!!!! Go Watch people.

EDIT:-

Okay so there was eating of some pretty unique dishes. Here's what made teh cut.

1. Curried Iguana with dumplings
2. Cow Skin and Cow Heel soup
3. Dhalpurie roti
4. Doubles
5. Shark and Bake
6. Sea Conch

Now the Tourism board only kept the guy up north dread. If he had come down south he could have had the following:-

1. OilDown
2. Roadside Oyster
3. Chip Chip

*Sigh*

Oh well maybe he'll come back for Carnival and come down for a visit.  All in all it was a nice look at our cuisine. His attempts to pronounce some of our words though had me rolling with laughter. LOL
Its not Car-nay-vale its Car-Neee-Val
Its not Tri-nay its Tri-neee
But thats all semantics...I saw po-tay-toe you say po-tah-to...In the end it means the same thing.

Because bothtalonsage  and orehime  did it.

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I can hardly believe that its the first of June already. It signifies the beginning of the crunch period and scary stress period that is Admissions. I think that I'm mostly on top of things this time around but dread you can never predict what will happen next. I have so many things to do and I really hope that I will get the kind of help that I really need. I may have to work late for the next few weeks as I have an important meeting to plan for and dread its gonna be a doozy.

I have been asked my plans for the future regarding my job. Well some of you may know that the whole reason I took my current job was to have something to do that paid while I wrote my Masters Thesis and waited on word of my graduation prospects. Well I've handed the final revised thesis up and now the next notification should be an aye or a nay...I'm desperately hoping that its the former. Anyway I've been asked if I'm willing to stay on for another year long period and frankly being as that:-

a. Job-hunting sucks
b. Trinidad really doesn't have things  that I am interested in
c. I'm good at what I do even though I hate it
d. Its close to home and familiar

I've indicated that yes I'm willing to stay on for at least a year again, but this time I've made sure to state that I will be leaving in April or so of 2009 because I intend to apply to JET this year and god should my application be accepted I will be leaving the country in July 2009.

I really really really need something new in my life as I've fallen into a real rut. I've been on my own for 7 years. 7 years where the high times have been out weighed by the lows. I've experienced really terrible bouts of depression and frankly I think that I'd like to go somewhere new where I can make a fresh start and where no-one knows me and my bad habits. Its really difficult to make a fresh start when all around you are reminders of how poorly you've done some things. I've let people get too close and its starting to get to me especially when people feel they have the right to tell me things just to see the reaction that they know I'll give. I don't like being predictable and that's how I feel I've become.

I want something new, different and worthwhile.

I have a friend who's embraced being a hermit in the truest sense of the word.
Another has found religion.....

I don't understand either but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt.

I think that its my turn next to find something to devote myself too. Something that brings me happiness. Something that is mine and is untainted by the  world.....

On a more serious or lighter note depending how you look at it...I wish that those fully functional androids would hurry up and be created. I could use one of those in my life right about now, and when I say fully functional I mean that in the truest sense of the word. Give me programming and internal power source over messy human relationships anyday.

Originally linked as a lol post by sheafrotherdon I found myself browsing through the site and my attention was immediately caught by this.....

The Dress I'd wear if..........with the black option of course.....but yeah.....


*sigh*  *tick tick tick*

Edited to add

the one for the reception.

My brain has been taken over by this video. It is a really beautiful representation of China and the singers are all beautiful people. I'm hoping my first attempt at embedding it works. It was made to mark the 100-day countdown to the Beijing Olympics.

Here's a link to a translation and the 100 or so persons who sang in the video.