I will be leaving for Hong Kong tonight at 7pm. If you want me to send you Christmas cards and other joyous Christmas-sy things, please send me your address at mongibellobay(at)gmail! If you want my address, just email me as well. I have already plotted nefarious things to send certain people, mwaha. *rubs hands in glee*

My mum's offering to get me stuff from Amazon.com for my Christmas present. Clearly I get my imaginative side from her. So:

What are some good DVDs and books you would recommend?

I have since recovered from last night's heartbreak, so I can post coherently about the O Levels being OVER al;sdkfjasl;dkfj Well apparently, not entirely coherently. Still, I am so insanely happy. After the Chief Presiding Examiner (this man who resembled a stick insect wearing a Charlie Brown shirt) said, "Time is up, pens down" during the ( Read more... )

My O Levels will be over today. I still need to study for Chemistry though because I have not studied at ALL. But... THEY WILL BE OVER TODAY ( Read more... )

I randomly surfed upon this book excerpt on the story of Bluebeard.

The Bluebeard plot, in its standard folkloric form, features a sinister figure whose wealth wins him the hand of two sisters, each of whom mysteriously disappears. The third and youngest in the trio of young women reluctantly marries Bluebeard, who arranges a test of her fidelity ( Read more... )

That Biology O Level paper totally raped me. Fresh with optimism after the relatively easy multiple-choice section, I opened the Paper 2 and saw a floating water plant.Whereupon the exam paper developed a mouth and said, "I'm-a gonna do you up the ass, bitch, I'm-a gonna rip you a new one". Then it just went downhill from there ( Read more... )

Almost through with O Levels! It's sad that this also heralds Stage 5 of Exam Emotional Disorder. Stage 1 is denial ("Exams? What? There's still lots of time!"); Stage 2 is hysteria ("Oh my god; what the hell was I thinking, playing Sims2 all day and googling Ian Thorpe gay?"). Stage 3(a) is depressed acceptance ("Hello, lifetime of flipping Burger ( Read more... )

Just came back from the entrance exams. They were okay, except for the History paper, which asked me (seriously) about the sixth-century French Merovingian king Philo-something-or-other. They gave me two sources and expect me to assess his literary skills, when the only thing I know about Merovingians is that they were in the Da Vinci Code and that ( Read more... )

Tomorrow at 8 AM I will be taking the Westminster School written entrance exams. Like, FIVE of them - History, Religious Studies, English Literature, Theatre Studies, and Government and Politics. WHAT WAS I THINKING SIGNING UP FOR THIS MANY HUMANITIES SUBJECTS?? THREE OF WHICH I HAVE NEVER TAKEN COURSES IN ( Read more... )

This article on the religious convictions of President Bush terrifies the hell out of me. There's nothing wrong with being religious, or having faith - but there is something wrong when you allow that faith to blind you, to allow that faith to give you an unquestionable mandate. Religion cannot, essentially, be proven right or wrong (though all the ( Read more... )