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Title:	Books!!!
Topics:	books, holidays, hunger games, suzanne collins, tamora pierce
Date:	2009-11-28 @ 09:25
Security:	public
Mood:	ecstatic

Strange how so many of my posts seem to revolve around this particular topic.... :D That said, I haven't posted in ages! I think it's been over 3 weeks since I put up the nominees for My Book Oscars (see below), so I think it's high time I posted again. Still talking about books though! (And you can still nominate/guess my book oscars!)

This post might be a bit boring for some people; it's only about the books I have read since I finished uni for the year. I love keeping track of the books I read :) Makes me feel like I've accomplished something!! And it's good to know that even though I can't read much for pleasure during term time, I can make up for it in the holidays :D

( Books I Have Read So Far )( Read more... )

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Title:	My Book Oscars
Topics:	books, entertainment, jk rowling, tamora pierce, wesley
Date:	2009-11-03 @ 23:01
Security:	public
Mood:	chipper

Presenting for your reading entertainment: My Book Oscars!

I started thinking about this before I posted about it two days ago and it has taken me until now (literally about 10 minutes ago) to think of the last nominee!! The two hardest categories (by a lot!) were Favourite Book and Favourite Male Character, for almost opposite reasons. It was hard for me to think of three books that I would count as my favourite, because although there are many that I love, it was hard to find ones that I love so so so much as to clearly set them above the rest. For Favourite Male Character, there problem wasn't thinking of three. The problem was cutting the list down to three, because I love them all equally, even if for different reasons!

So the idea is that people can read the list, comment on which are their favourites and guess (if they want) which are my favourites. In about a week (when I finish my exams, which I should have been studying for when I was making this list!) I'll post the 'winners', aka my faves. Each category (there are ten) has three nominees. They are listed in completely random order. And when I say random, I mean random! I chose the list order using a dice :) Go nerdy me.

And now, without further ado, the nominees!!

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Favourite Book

Clockwork by Philip Pullman

Remote Man by Elizabeth Honey

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Favourite Picture Book

Each Peach Pear Plum by Janet & Allan Ahlberg

The Elephant And The Bad Baby by Elfrida Vipont & Raymond Briggs

Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Favourite Children’s Book

Jocelyn Osgood in Ascent into Asgard by Geoffrey McSkimming

Midnight In The Dollhouse by Majorie Stover

Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda

Favourite Non-Fiction Book

Emergency Sex (and other desperate measures) by Kenneth Cain, Heidi Postlewait and Andrew Thompson

Wesley by Stacey O’Brien

Geisha of Gion by Mineko Iwasaki

Favourite Series

The Protector of the Small by Tamora Pierce

The Sally Lockhart Mysteries by Philip Pullman

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling

Favourite Female Character

Keladry of Mindelan from ‘The Protector of the Small’ series by Tamora Pierce

Trisana Chandler from ‘The Circle of Magic’ & ‘The Circle Opens’ series’ by Tamora Pierce

Alianne of Pirate’s Swoop from the ‘Trickster’ series by Tamora Pierce

Favourite Male Character

Atticus Finch from ‘To Kill A Mockingbird’ by Harper Lee

Edmund Pevensie from the ‘Chronicles of Narnia’ Series by C.S. Lewis

Nealan of Queenscove from ‘The Protector of the Small’ series by Tamora Pierce

Favourite Male Author

Philip Pullman

Garth Nix

John Marsden

Favourite Female Author

Isobelle Carmody

Tamora Pierce

Elizabeth Honey

Favourite Author

Tamora Pierce

Philip Pullman

Garth Nix

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Title:	My Great Idea!
Topics:	books, entertainment
Date:	2009-11-01 @ 21:38
Security:	public
Mood:	excited

Here is my awesome, super, fantabulous, great idea: I am going to have a 'Book Oscars'. OK, it's not going to be quite like the Oscars...there will be several (book appropriate) categories and there will be several nominees for each category, but the winners will not be chosen based on their objective quality. Instead, they will be chosen based on my totally un-objective, biased, personal opinion. So it will basically be the 'My Favourite Book Oscars' :)

However, to make it a bit more Oscar-esque, I will invite the 'Academy' to cast their vote. Read: I will put up the categories (there will be ten) and the nominees (three for each category) and anybody who wants can vote for their favourite in the comments. But the final say will be mine :) I'm just that dastardly wicked.

Now I just need to finish compiling the list of nominees. It's been a bit tough! I still need to think of the final nominees for Best Book and Best Male Character. There's too many to choose from!!!

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Title:	Note to self
Topics:	entertainment, food
Date:	2009-10-24 @ 21:22
Security:	public
Mood:	hungry

Make sure have food on hand when watching Iron Chef. It makes me so hungry seeing the dishes they prepare! I have got to get myself to Japan and hang around all the fancy restaurants. Unfortunately, need money for that...so Japan will have to be part 2 of my secret evil plan. Now, how to achieve part 1?? Any suggestions??

On a related note, I really really want to go to ARIA in Sydney, as by all accounts Matt Moran is a wonderful chef. However, I'm sure it will be very expensive with a very long wait time...I'm actually a little scared to find out! I guess that can be part 3 of my secret evil plan...

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Title:	Picture Post!
Topics:	chickens, photos
Date:	2009-10-11 @ 21:17
Security:	public
Mood:	restless

So my earlier picture post and my recent joining of the community color_theory has inspired me to post more pictures! Which basically translates to: I took this funny picture when I was taking some pics for color_theory and it's funny (well, I think it is) so I want to share!

So without further ado, a picture of a chicken trying to eat my pants:

Now that is national geographic quality, that is :)

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Title:	Slacker
Topics:	books, entertainment, holidays, movies, sarah rees brennan, writer's block
Date:	2009-10-03 @ 10:27
Security:	public
Mood:	happy

So I've been slacker than usual at posting here, especially considering that it's half way through my mid-semester holidays and I haven't even been busy doing important things like homework. I haven't written anything new in ages either - not even a very short poem. I did have the urge to the other day, but I couldn't think what to write and eventually that annoying thing called sleep claimed me (I'm only kidding baby, you know I love you!). So, the most exciting thing I have done recently is buy some books. I'm sure y'all don't really want to know about every book I buy/read, but I've got nothing else to post, so here is a list of the books I have bought:

The Eternal Kiss edited by Trisha Telep (collection of short stories about vampires. The one by Sarah is good, I'm up to the one by Holly Black and I haven't yet read Cassandra Clare's).
100 Australian Poems You Need To Know edited by Jamie Grant (it is full of prettiness. Prettiness, I tell you!).
The Constant Princess by Philippa Gregory (I know it's probably not going to be very factual but it's about Katherine of Aragon, so I had to buy it!)
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote (which I have read before but I quite like Capote and it has a nice silver spine to match my copy of In Cold Blood).

In other exciting news, I finally bought Miss Congeniality on DVD to replace my VHS copy!!

( And speaking of movies, I will now finally post the answers to my movie quote quiz from several posts ago! )

That's all folks!

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Title:	The Elusiveness of Books
Topics:	books, sarah rees brennan, writing
Date:	2009-09-23 @ 23:37
Security:	public
Mood:	tired

Many posts and a couple of months ago I posted an entry called something along the lines of: "A Robyn McKinley Novel I Can Not Remember The Name Of But Goes Something Like This".

Not a very descriptive title, I know...

Anyway, fast forward to this month (only a few days ago, in fact) and I still could not remember the name of the novel. I was discussing Robyn McKinley with my friend who works in a book store and the fact that Sarah recently discussed her books in a post about the fairytale genre (if you don't know who Sarah is, I suggest you look at one of my *slightly* more recent entries about author's LJ's as I can't be bothered finding that link too) and I mentioned the novel I couldn't remember the name of. She suggested I post a comment on Sarah's blog and ask her what the book was called. I was not so sure about this plan but she convinced me to go ahead to reap the possible reward of a reply from the auther herself.

Fast forward further to yesterday - and lo and behold, I had a reply to my comment! Said comment was the above linked post almost verbatim, so not really that exciting. But the reply was...in a fashion...in the sense that an actual published author and all round funny person responded to something I 'said'.

Apparently, the book which has been eluding my memory for a while, which was starting to annoy me, is called The Blue Sword.

So now we know.

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Title:	Soooo...
Topics:	photos, shiny, uni, wesley
Date:	2009-09-13 @ 12:32
Security:	public
Mood:	giggly

I haven't posted anything in a while. I had all these really great ideas for posts but unfortunately uni kept getting in my way. Now I have finished most of my assessment for the term...and I forgot most of my ideas :( Isn't that just typicial! But now I'm here, in between "studying" (which actually invloves read webcomics, currently the archives of Something*Positive by Randy Milholland, and painting my nails and adding shiny nail art), ready to make a post! A really exciting post! A super dooper awesome exciting post!!

...

My nail's are shiny!!! :D

OK, no, here is the actual post: my first ever attempt at a photo post to celebrate my shiny new camera! Yay!! Of course, never having done this before (or put any picture on the web besides my banner image for my website which is done thru Angelfire or on a ready made photo album) could make this rather interesting!

Here is a picture of Wesley and the Cupcakes! Yes, that's right, a photo representation of the name of my LJ!

Haha! Success!!!

That was a lot easier than I thought it would be! It's even easier than Angelfire! Man, I love that little clip art icon!!! Now I have to control the urge to go photo crazy! I will limit myself to two more.

This is a picture of the book Wesley by Stacey O'Brien that my Wesley is named after.

And lastly, for funnsies: the picture of the side of the Spicks & Specks board game I took the first day I had my new camera.

Now, wasn't that fun???

I was also going to put up the answers to the movie quotes quiz a few posts ago, but this is already such a long post that I can't be bothered. I'll do it next time.

I also can't be bothered using an LJ cut. It's more fun this way :)

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Title:	Names Suck
Topics:	livejournal, wesley, writing
Date:	2009-08-18 @ 19:24
Security:	public
Mood:	chipper

So apparently I have spelling issues. Which are, of course, not something a uni student wants to have. Although that said, at least Word has an automatic spell checker which only causes problems when it decides to set itself to American English and decides that I can't spell words properly. Which is what this post is about, but at least when I am fighting with the spell checker about u's and s', I know I am right :)

Anyway, the point here is actually that when I changed my journal name (with much excitement and fanfare) the other day, I misspelt it. For approximately two weeks the journal was known as Welsey and the Cupcakes. Which of course sounds completely und utterly stupid. Luckily one of my friends pointed it out to me and I was able to rectify it.

If only 'customise journal style' had a spell checker.

And was spelt properly everywhere else in LJ :P

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Title:	My Top Ten Movies
Topics:	entertainment, movies
Date:	2009-08-07 @ 18:08
Security:	public
Mood:	happy

So...here's the deal. I put up quotes from my favourite movies. You send me a private message with the name of the character and the movie. I will post in the comments your score out of twenty. Then, when an appropriate amount of time has elapsed, I will put up the answers.

Sounds fun, yes???

The Quotes!!

1. Police work is as much about preventing crime as it is about fighting crime. Most importantly, it is about procedural correctness in the execution of unquestionable moral authority.

2. What's with you, kid? You think the death of Sammy Davis left an opening in the Rat Pack?

3. He’s just cranky cos it’s his bedtime.

4. Whoopsidaisies. It's a disease I've got. It's a clinical thing. I'm taking pills and having injections. It won't last long.

5. I can't believe you just called me a butthead. I don't think anybody has called me a butthead since the 9th grade.

6. How can you read this? There's no pictures!

7. And what? Taken all the *really* big rocks? The SCOUNDREL!

8. Yes, I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door!

9. It takes a very secure man to walk like that.

10. I finally get a bouquet and it's a goodbye present. That's depressing.

***Please don't google the quotes, that will take away all the fun!***

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