i shall do two quizes i just found on pammie's blog.
BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Copy this into your NOTES. Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read. Tag the number of people that is equal to the number of books you've read. Set the title of this post to be "Book Nerds"
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen [ ]
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien [ ]
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte [ ]
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling [x]
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee [ ]
6 The Bible [ ]
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte [ ]
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell [ ]
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman [ ]
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens [x]
Total: 2/10
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott [ ]
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy [ ]
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [ ]
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare [ ]
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier [ ]
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien [ ]
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk [ ]
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger [ ]
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger [ ]
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot [ ]
Total: 0/10
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell [ ]
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald [ ]
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens [ ]
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams [ ]
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh [ ]
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky [ ]
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck [ ]
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll [x]
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame [ ]
Total: 1/10
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy [ ]
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens [x]
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis [x]
34 Emma-Jane Austen [ ]
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen [ ]
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis [x]
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini [ ]
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres [ ]
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden [ ]
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne [x]
Total: 4/10
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell [ ]
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown [ ]
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving [ ]
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins [ ]
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery [ ]
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy [ ]
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood [ ]
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding [ ]
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan [ ]
Total: 0/10
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel [ ]
52 Dune - Frank Herbert [ ]
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons [ ]
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen [ ]
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth [ ]
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon [ ]
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens [x]
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley [ ]
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night - Mark Haddon [ ]
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez [ ]
Total: 1/10
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck [ ]
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov [ ]
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt [ ]
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold [ ]
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac [ ]
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy [ ]
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding [ ]
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie [ ]
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville [ ]
Total: 0/10
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens [x]
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker [ ]
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett [ ]
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson [ ]
75 Ulysses - James Joyce [ ]
76 The Inferno – Dante [ ]
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome [ ]
78 Germinal - Emile Zola [ ]
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray [ ]
Total: 1/10
80 Possession - AS Byatt [ ]
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens [x]
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell [ ]
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker [ ]
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro [ ]
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert [ ]
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry [ ]
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White [x]
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom [ ]
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ ]
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton [x]
Total: 3/10
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad [ ]
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery [ ]
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks [ ]
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams [ ]
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole [ ]
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute [ ]
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas [ ]
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare [x]
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl [x]
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo [ ]
Total 2/10
Grand total: 14/100 :D
If you have been tagged or you are reading this, you have the honor of copying all these goofy questions, writing your own response, and tagging 21 other victims. You have to tag me so really you just need 20 more people. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you - but not in a creepy stalker kind of way. To do this, go to “notes” under tabs on your profile page, paste these instructions in the body of the note, type your title as "Getting To Know Each Other!", tag 21 people including me (tagging is done in the right hand corner of the app) then click publish.
1. What time did you get up this morning?
ehs. 7am i think.
2. How do you like your steak?
i don't eat it.
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema and with who?
G-Force. with nicole (:
4. What is your favorite TV show?
no idea. some romance comedy or something.
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?
hm. no idea. o.o
6. What did you have for breakfast?
an energy bar.
7. What is your favorite cuisine?
chinese & japanese ba.
8. What foods do you dislike?
chilli [i know it's not a food]
9.Where is your favorite place to eat?
home sweet home.
10. Favorite dressing?
dressing as in clothing or food? nevermind i take it as clothing.
t-shirt & shorts.
11.What kind of vehicle do you drive?
i don't have one lol.
12. What are your favorite clothes?
refer to above.
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?
Hollywood, USA. XD
14. Cup half-empty or half-full?
?
15. Where would you want to retire?
singapore lo.
16. Favorite time of day?
morning? dunno leh.
17. Where were you born?
Singapore.
18. What is your favorite sport to watch?
BASKETBALL. XD
19. Who do you think will not tag you back?
dunno.
20. Person you expect to tag you back first?
dunno.
21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?
anybody?
22. Bird watcher?
LOL. no.
23. Are you a morning person or a night person?
afternoon.
24. Do you have any pets?
sadly, no.
25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share?
my one-inch & a half long bloody scar on my right leg is healing at an amazing rate though it still hurts.
26. What did you want to be when you were little?
a writer o.o
27. What is your best childhood memory?
exploring the garden outside & finding a lizard skull on the floor one day.
28. Are you a cat or dog person?
cat?
29. Are you married?
to dionne :D & my girlfriend is elaine LOL.
30. Always wear your seat belt?
never.
31. Been in a car accident?
nope.
32. Any pet peeves?
what does that mean.
33. Favorite pizza toppings?
oh, ham & cheese lol. i like hawaiian!
34. Favorite flower?
dunno. don't really like flowers.
35. Favorite ice cream?
mostly anything :DD i love ice-cream!
36. Favorite fast food restaurant?
Mac's (:
37. How many times did you fail your driver's test?
never even had one.
38. From whom did you get your last email?
Heymath o.o
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?
no credit card.
40. Do anything spontaneous lately?
not much. went around telling people i love them o.o
41. Like your job?
as a student? not really.
42. Broccoli?
sure.
43. What was your favorite vacation?
can't remember. maybe to gold coast (:
44. Last person you went out to dinner with?
forgot o.o
45. What are you listening to right now?
nothing?
46. What is your favorite colour?
black!
47. How many tattoos do you have?
none.
48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?
nobody hahah.
49. "49 was never there"
50. Do you drink coffee?
not regularly.
yay, there's investiture rehearsal tomorrow (:
& thanks to moi,
carmen, xuemin, andrew, daniel, caihao, kenneth, zhitao, huiwen & i
shall be meeting tomorrow morning to go up together. :DD
phuaygeok & sarah pangseh -.-
& HUIWEN SO EXTRA. -sticks out tongue- heh.
all the sectwos then you come extra extra. don't like you!
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