hello hello! this time i am here to recommend a book :D Iron Council by China Miéville!! Well this is a complete spoiler, but i suppose it will serve very well as a reference for anyone who wants or needs to do a book review on it. See. It's sooo good i want to voluntarily do a short review. WOW. and since when have i done such things? never mann. i dont read books, that's one thing. So maybe this wont be so accurate afterall... hahahahhaaa nvm. i am crapping arnd. read on.
Iron Council The setting is in the steam-age of the European revolution probably, although it wasn't stated. It may be possible that this is in the future. There is a diverse range of monsters and creatures in this book and the following, all sincerely and quoted from 'Iron Council' (shall do APA citation later... or i will get sued) introduces them...
Vodyanoi water bandits: These guys tried to rob Cutter on board the Akif, a boat which he and his comrades tried to steal. (haha. robber robbing the robber woots!)
Remade (for the Remade outlaws: fReemade): Criminals or simply innocent people terrorized by corruption who had their bodies remade with animal or machine parts in punishment factories. The imagery which Miéville uses is remarkable, although gruesome, "A man - or is it a woman? - whose flesh moves with tides, with eructations like an octopus. People with their faces relocated, bodies made of iron and rubber cables, and steam-engine arms, and animal arms, and arms that are body-length pistons on which the Remade walk, their legs replaced with monkey's paws so they reach out from below their own waists." Sweet. :)
Monks (who have lots of power XD): Monks who are of different Moments, or rather, sects which possess different powers. Such Moments include the Moment of Calculation, the Moment of Forgotten Snow and of Memory, and of course, the coolest of all, the Moment of the Hidden and Lost. These monks are able to do extraordinary things, like the following: "The price of the Moment's protection was something made lost, something hidden from the devotee, given to Vogu. 'I know monks who lost their eyes.......when i submitted to Vogu it was my sex went hidden." Cool huh!!!
Militia of the New Crobuzon: The brutal and merciless army of the New Crobuzon who pledge that they are on a holy mission, nonetheless excuses. They kill and spare no one. "I have no plans for yon stiltspear, but if their way intersects with mine then yes, my way will crush them down." BRUTAL. i hate you mann. i really do.
Not forgetting... the dead and the half-dead people!! "Planted scarecrow in the middle was a degraded corpse. A human man. He was naked, slumped, upheld by spikes that pinned him to a tree. Javelins pierced him. One emerged point-first from his sternum. It had been forced up his anus and through him. His scrotum was torn off. There was a scab of blood on his throat. He was leathered by sun and insects worked on him." way too cool man. wayyy too cool imagery.
there you have it! Miéville , China (2004). Iron Council. London: Pan Books.
the main character is this good ol' dude called Judah Low, a mage or golemnist, if you prefer... can make a golem out of sound, air, smoke, dust, dirt, oil. Basically everything that is matter and non-living. The concepts behind it are quite cool haha! Well the main thing to this book is that you need a good deal of imagination to read this book, because the imagery is pure awesome mann... it's almost like watching a movie haha! see yaa :D saturday's ACSI STOMP!
9:51 PM
Monday, June 18, 2007
HELLO world!!! Today we played ACS Barker Road!! and guess who won hhaha :D they won... but in SOCCER ZOMG :D :D :D
well this is what happened hahaa. I left the house at 11.45pm, walked to the coffee shop to eat, till about 12.20pm, took 151 all the way to outside SCGS and then apparently some of them like never see a guy b4 -.- transferred to 66 down to barker and i felt quite bad when i daoed one of the players that i saw on the bus :P i think he was quite pissed too whoops. Earned myself another new enemy sighh. yea so i reached there at about 1.15 pm and sat arnd... then suddenly this swimming teacher comes up to me and says: "Urm today no swimming lesson! uhh the pool closed, got case." HEH?? What case?? What you mean, nutcase?? Well apparently i found out later that some poor old guy drowned in the pool in the morning or sth... then there will be police coming, so our game got CANCELLED +.+ so i called marcus and kaiyu, but they didn't tell the rest of the team, then they all came! hahahahaha. before that i asked raul (the barker player) if we were still having the match, then he and his friends replied, "Huh? What match?"
wow. wow. wow. They didn't even know there was a match and now the pool is closed!! Then we all just sat in the cafe and i owned 3 games of dai di. :D :D :D Next timothy (barker driver i think.) told us, 'oi! let's go play soccer la!' we were all like HEHHHH... we came here for a polo friendly then suddenly changed to soccer friendly???!!
Yea oh well we still continued playing soccer hahahaha... i couldn't really run because i had two blisters that haven't recovered from the board chalet basketball. Quite fun :D and mr C, you would really enjoy it if you were here. hahahahahahaha nvm... i'll tell you what i mean.
OKAY now i am back and i need to finish my 6 page malay newsletter sighhh. bye!
5:24 PM
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
woaaaa hahah i am feeling quite weird now! really! like... weird. My uncle just came to visit us and he gave us two completely new motorola phones??!!! I was like HUHHH. Nvm he's working at motorola so i suppose he can get some free ones occasionally. SO! The good news is now i have a new V3i :D I think. is it called v3i? Not sure hmmm. And he gave my mom (his sister) a PDA-like phone which you can handwrite on haha. really cool having an uncle like that :P
i am gonna chiong my shu ping tonight before i go for the leadership challenge thing tomorrow and on friday! kay not many things happened these few days, except that we went to the gym on tuesday and still swam during training today :S ARGHH. so due to that, my arm and stomach still haven't quite gotten loosened up yet. It's like i can't even laugh or sneeze or cough properly man! soo mr c you better dont make me laugh too much okay! :D
yeaa so bye! gotta finish the stupid shu ping.
7:49 PM
Friday, June 08, 2007
okay! back from board chalet, and i came back early. Well, it was acceptable i guess, and super good compared to last year already, because we had it in some ulu place last time and had no facilities at all. So we reached there at about 2.30pm in the afternoon on 7th june, was quite lag for the first part, because everyone was not around except for a few of us. Yeaa so we played dai di!! Asshole dai di to be precise. The same old game :D
After we played 3 rounds people started streaming into the chalet... was left as the neutral. haha at least not an asshole :P
so here's what we did in order, i dont want to elaborate lol, it's quite self-explanatory: 1) street soccer + trips to the bowling alley cafe to buy drinks
2) ferocious basketball match made up by schoolteam basketball player who is so tall he doesnt need to jump to do a layout, rugby player (luwei) who seems to merge tackling with the ball, super excited cross-country ppl (sikai and matthias) who have weird spasms in sprinting thus owning everyone, and the polo player who can catch the ball with one hand :D wait wait.
3) went back to the chalet and mostly free time... played soul caliber 2 haha. Used RAPHAEL, VOLDO and MAXI. These 3 guys rock man. The fencer, the gay, and the super cool guy who can wield the................................................ URM. you know the two sticks. the one that looks like it's broken but attached in the middle? then you fling it all over :D yep. (darn i am bad with martial arts equip :P)
4) had pizza dinner and a couple of games at the pool table with isaac... Had some difficulty teaching him how to jab his stick right into the middle of the white ball so that it would move straight.
5) 12am: most people left by now, or have fallen asleep. After playing soul caliber 2 AGAIN XD, went to the masterbedroom hoping i can sleep for an hour or so in peace. BUT i ended up telling dillion and yan liang about the prestige hahaa
6) 1.30am: Watched the first and original version of 'the exorcist', better known as the 'exorcism of Emily Rose' or sth liddat. It's really comical hahahaaaa!! Well this one that i watched at least... The latest one must be pretty freeaky i guess. OH yeaaaa hahaha at this time someone else somewhere was watching horror movies too :) (the grudge series i think)
7) 3.30am: JOHN TUCKER MUST DIEEEEEE. hahahahah we decided to watch this since some ppl got freaked out by the exorcist (which i found really ridiculous actually). Well it's pretty much a girl show, so there you have it, all the things that girls think of guys and blah blah... BUT if you are reading, (yes. YOU in particular, if you know who i am talking about) not. all. guys. are. not. like. john. tucker!!!!! get it????
8) 5.30am or so: went to sleep on the floor till about 6.40am and woke up to play soul caliber AGAIN XD kind of crazy over it already
9) 9am: went to cycle with justin all the way from the chalet down to the macdonalds at east coast, where we met hoards of people from swiss cottage on some biking trip or sth. looked weird carrying a bag of coffee and iced milo while cycling. nyeah justin is an ass
10) when we reached the chalet we just continued playing the PS2 till i got bored and sian no one bought macs for me SIGHH. nvm. went to sleep for a while. Nothing much after this!!
SOOO as you can see i only got about an hour of sleep technically!! and therefore, if you still cannot tell, i am DYING of fatigue heree... Okay! no more no more! need to sleep :D
p.s granado espada is a really cool game!! my id:
a. riddick RIWP(fighter) b. pyro RIWP (elementalist) c. getmeifyoucan RIWP (scout)
all lvl 12 already!!! :D :D :D yeaaa finally found a substitute game for my long lost MU online
8:46 PM
Sunday, June 03, 2007
hahaha hiii my dead blog! lazy to talk about the trip from malaysia, i mean, no one really reads right! well, there's only one thing i have to blog about... v for vendetta! This is super cool okay! ENJOY!
"Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.."