Not sure how widely-known this is in Singapore, but I finally watched this video after being linked to it, like, 10,000 times, and it's one of the most strangely touching things I've watched. It's the video that kick-started the It Gets Better project, which tries to prevent suicide among LGBT teens by spreading the message that it gets better. And ( Read more... )

So, I've always thought that the saying "have your cake and eat it too" is meaningless since you need to have your cake to eat it. But someone recently pointed out to me that the saying makes much more sense when you reverse it. ie. "eat your cake and have it too". Yay!

Are non-Harry/Ginny fans bitter? Oh yes, they are.

My personal favorite:
Harry and Luna talk about too many depressing things like acceptance of death as opposed to Harry and Ginny who talk about being how possessed by Voldemort feels like.

Ich bin sehr traurig, weil mein Computer kaputt sein aussieht. Na ja, nicht wirklich, aber er ist sehr, sehr langsam. Es ist ganz ärgerlich )=

Warum???

College rankings might be the most amusing example of the observer effect =p

Ich bin wieder krank )= Ich habe Halsschmerzen, Kopfschmerzen und huste viel. Ich will jetzt schlafen aber ich muss dennoch meine Hausaufgaben machen. Ja, sie sind deutsche Hausaufgaben. 

Life suddenly became so much more interesting after I went to Tahoe. It's kind of weird...

Because it was raining when I went to sleep last night and was still raining when I got up this morning...


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This kind of thing draws the Grammar Nazi out of me the most:

"Being my favourite book, I've seen a heck of a lot of adaptations of Jane Eyre."

Okay, I get what you mean. Except there's a 0.000001% that you actually are your favorite book. And then where would we be?

Omg my life is now complete. This is the most amazing thing I've ever read. In retrospect, perhaps it wasn't a good decision to read it at the mrt station while waiting for my friend. I was wracked with a fit of uncontrollable laughter and tears were streaming down my face :O