whee. nice extra long quizzy thingy from PJ's blog:
1) Last dream: can't remember very much of it, but i believe it involved apricot jam. erm. yea.
2) Last car ride: i can't remember having one since i came back from australia, so that would mean my bro's car on the way to brisbane airport
3) Last kiss: *grin* my cousin, one of the many, during new years. if we're talking romantically, nick. some time back.
4) Last good cry: last night. i cry a lot recently.
5) Last Missing Library Book: The Bishop at Sea - Andrew Greeley. Luckily it was recently found and an excuse made. :p Especially since it was on Kane's library card!
6) Last movie seen: Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (last two movies seen actually :p)
7) Last Book Read: Blessed are the oppressed - Andrew Greeley
8) Last cuss word uttered: fucking bitch. or sth like that. after a while they all seem to just meld together.
9) Last beverage drank: Sprite
10) Last Food consumed: Rice
12) Last phone call: to Kane regarding some class stuff
13) Last TV show watched: Space Jam (yes i know it's technically a movie, but it was on tv!)
14) Last Item Bought: the aforementioned sprite.
15) Last time showered: this morning
16) Last shoes worn: URS heels for the scholarship presentation earlier
17) Last CD played: "Stripped" - Christina Aguilera
18) Last downloaded: lotr screensaver feat. legolas.
19) Last annoyance: at someone for cutting the queue for the refreshments just now. just because you have a little kid, woman, does not make you above the rules of basic courtesy. and the kid was a brat.
20) Last disappointment: that i do not qualify to "register as an australian citizen by descent" since my father was a permanent resident at the time of my birth rather than an australian citizen. nevermind the fact that he eventually became an australian citizen. *rolls eyes* pathetic.
21) Last soda drank: yet again, the sprite.
22) Last thing written: "waxy tracing paper and glitter" don't ask.
23) Last key used: my letterbox key, today.
24) Last word spoken: "dishes"
25) Last trip to the bathroom: just now? jeez.
26) Last sleep: last night from 12am to 11am this morning. i am not a pig, i am conserving sleep for when school reopens. *nod me*
27) Last IM: Sarah on ICQ and Limin on msn just now.
28) Last sexual fantasy: have only told that to one person so far, and it is going to remain that way.
30) Last weird encounter: i'm going to reinterpret the weird. spotting lee and simon from Blue shopping at Far East level 1 last week sometime. very surreal.
31) Last Store Shopped at: topshop.
32) Last ice cream eaten: mcdonalds soft serve. pinched a bit of my mum's this afternoon.
33) Last time amused: at bryan's law in his virtual nation that married couples must call each other 'darling' or risk a fine.
34) Last time wanting to die: i've never wanted to.
35) Last time in love: am not saying anything!
36) Last time hugged: I can't remember honestly, either kane or my cousins over new years.
37) Last time scolded: Two minutes ago by mum. Don't know what it was about, wasn't listening.
38) Last time resentful: Tonight. Mother again.
39) Last chair sat in: Chair in front of the computer with the water pillow.
40) Last lipstick used: Hard Candy lip gloss for the scholarship presentation just now.
41) Last underwear worn: blue leopard print netting. no, really. *innocent*
42) Last bra worn: black CK bra
43) Last shirt worn: black shirt i bought in australia for the funeral.
44) Last class attended: i can't remember! back in october. either drug discovery or cGMP I guess.
45) Last Final taken: Drug Discovery & Development.
46) Last time dancing: last night. alone. i was hyper, what can i say?
47) Last poster looked at: an old TVHits one of Ben a1
48) Last concert attended: lol. that, is a very good question. can i use a showcase instead? cos in that case it was this short performance by a1 for a Blue Peter event in some isolated place in Scotland. Surrounded by scottish fans in sparkly top hats and whistles. if not, then the mtvasia awards back in jan last year. or february. unless the blue showcase was after that. hmm. i haven't a clue really. *grin*
49) Last webpage visited: Tiffany & Co.

jumped at 7:45 AM

the new timetable is, very confusing, incredibly spaced out and time wasting, (though i have to be nice here and state that for us doing our project in ngee ann itself it's convenient cos we can run back to the lab and rush through an experiment, though for those in NUS it's going to be a royal pain in the arse), and best of all, still littered with 'to be announced' stickers everywhere. what's more, we have 8 subjects next semester! Haven't had that many since i entered poly! *sigh*

the first half of next year's going to be so much fun. *cough* though, the second half might be even worse, so i should quit complaining. *sparkle*

jumped at 5:35 AM

Finally, something to answer people with when they ask my religion. I am an atheistic agnostic. Also, I've some way to answer the 3 people in the last week who've asked me why I stopped going to church, though, since he does it so well, and I'm lazy, I'm going to use someone else's 'testimonial':

"I quit because I came to believe that what is preached in the churches is mainly untrue and unimportant, tiresome, hostile to genuine progress, and in general not worth while. As for the necessity of paying homage to the deity, I began to feel that I did not know enough about God to pay him set compliments on set days. As for the God who is preached in the churches, I ceased to worship him because I could no longer believe in him or respect what is alleged of him.

[.....] I do not believe in a Santa Claus for grown-ups, and I do not believe that the vast number of church-people are doing the world any good by promulgating false ideas and false ideals.

[.....] According to the Bible, God was ignorant, a ruthless liar and cheat; he broke his pledges, changed his mind so often that he grew weary of repenting. He was a murderer of children, ordered his people to slay, rape, steal, and lie and commit every foul and filthy abomination in human power. In fact, the more I read the Bible the less I find in it that is either credible or admirable.

[.....] This god writes his laws on pieces of stone and gives them to Moses to govern the people for whom God has destroyed numberless Egyptians after annoying them with the most cruel plagues, and all in vain. These children whom he brought through a divided ocean, go back to heathen worship in spite of all the miracles they have seen, and Moses is so angry that be spitefully breaks the stone book he has received in God's own autograph!

When I realize that I once accepted this, and that millions still say they accept it and are horrified if it is spoken of with doubt, I am tempted to think that in this silly world only the impossible can win belief.

Liberal clergymen and believers protest against a literal reading of the Bible and speak of the sublimity of Christ's wisdom and the glorious model of his life.

But what is that model? Shall each of us forbear to marry, hate his family, gain a reputation as a wine-bibber, deny the value of industry, neither toil nor spin nor save, and utter alternately protestations of lowliness and boasts of equality with God? Yet that was exactly "the Christ-life.""
~ Rupert Hughes.

And Christ is of the seed of David, through Joseph, not Mary, but then, Mary was a virgin! How does that somehow correlate? As far as I know, to be considered descended from someone, you have to have been assisted in your conception by either a sperm or an ovum from that lineage? and that's not even pondering whether or not it would have been a good thing to have been descended from david, the filthy little bugger, an adulterer and a murderer.

Some interesting sites to check out:

• the easter challenge


• richard dawkins on sept 11th


• Guardian article


• the death of christ

jumped at 3:13 AM