Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
23 November 2007, 9:21 pm. 25 Comments. Filed under Literature.
Like many others, my sister and I got this famous book on the day it was released in bookstores. But while my sister finished it on the day, I only recently did (after leaving it in my bottom drawer cabinet for three months). Considering myself as a dedicated Harry-Potter-series lover, I am indeed a social failure. Though, better late than never!
I found it really exciting throughout. It's impressive how J.K. Rowling managed to link such a long story together from the first to the seventh book and resolve all the mysteries by the end of everything.
Contrary to popular distaste for the epilogue, I liked it. Well, I've always liked the "happily after scene" after a good story.
I have yet to make my Reading Log entry for this, and I'll write more thoughts for it when I do. Hopefully by the end of my summer holidays (until 3 March) I will have completed the entire Harry Potter series again.
For those who are not into Harry Potter: If a book series could be so popular that readers of all genders/sexual orientations/ages/sizes/blah across the globe are into it, it means it's definitely worth your time to have a try.
(... Did I just spend all that time manually upgrading WordPress and then remember I had the WordPress Automatic Upgrade plugin? Ahhh *swears*)
Good to be home
3 November 2007, 4:48 pm. 15 Comments. Filed under Holiday, Literature.
Finished my last exam today! It was generally good, I thought.
I remember I drew the new design for Appassionato on the back of my Statistics exam questions script and I definitely took it home. I found the questions paper, but the design is no where to be seen. Now where is it? I saw it only yesterday.
So, November—NaNoWriMo month! That means, no new design anytime soon. I recall my original novel idea, and I'm making changes. So far I like it, but I only just started half an hour ago and it's on 220 words. 
I see Skye is already on 3,160 words and Chapter Three. Stop intimidating me with your speed.
If anyone else doing NaNo wants to add me, I am, as always, wildx22. (Can people stop thinking that means I'm a wild 22-year-old wanting sex? Nuh-uh.)
Aussies are viciouzzzz
9 October 2007, 3:52 pm. 19 Comments. Filed under Literature, Miscellaneous.
They eat paper trees. They spit words like no tomorrow.
The Income Tax Assessment Act... now bulges at an unwanted world record of 5,000 pages. It has an unfriendly numbering system. Puzzle over the ponderous s 159ZZZZH.
5,000 pages? Like really, if it was Harry Potter I'd be fine with it. But Income Tax Assessment... Well, crazy Aussies certainly love their taxes. Try saying "s 159ZZZZH":
- section one five nine quadruple zed
eichhaych - section one five nine zed zed zed zed
eichhaych - section one five nine zzzzzzzzzzzz
eichhaych
Now imagine judges and politicians speaking with reference to that section in court or the parliament.
Try weighting the Corporations Act. It comes in at over 3 kgs... Compare that to the mere 300 gms of the Canadian statute.
For you Imperial people, 3 kg is approximately 6.61 pounds. I'm weak. I use 1.5 kg dumbbells. I could train myself buff with the Australian Corporations Act.
An Australian judge complained in the High Court of a sentence that went on for over 450 words of small print, spanning 25 lines. And it had no punctuation whatsoever to assist the reader.
*sigh* Aussies.
They are abusing the English language! The paper! The trees! At least we kiwis don't harm the environment so much for what they call "sheep-shagging" in New Zealand.
NZ FTW.
Quoted extracts from Corkery J, Starting Law.
