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16 October 2009 @ 11:39 pm
Reading for Recreation  

I'm so eager for vacation mode na... too bad there are still lots of things to do. And a whole damn lot more when Sem Break is over.

But for now I've compiled a list of books/ stories I wanna read.... dahil WALA LANG. :) Just for the fun of it... it's been a long time since I've wanted to read, so I'm succumbing to choices out of sheer impulse and wonder. (e-book reads just doesn't count, really, sorry Dan Brown, you were the last novel I read.)

Alice in Wonderland (2010) Box Art

Lewis Caroll's
Alice in Wonderland


Because Gaiman's Coraline is being compared to it and, of course because of the Tim Burton film.

But sue me, I hated the animated film. Let's see if reading it can make me change my mind.
 




 

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Neil Gaiman's
Coraline

I had wanted to buy this book the first time I saw this cover, except that it just screamed "horror," was on hardbound, and so definitely cost more than my budget... I ended up buying Anansi Boys instead. That was my first ever encounter with Neil Gaiman, although I hated Anansi, I loved Stardust (the movie), and Coraline (the movie).
I guess it's about time to get a copy of this... almost-impulse-buy.
 
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Sense and Sensibiliy
by Jane Austen

I figured I've never really read anything 'classic' without being forced to, save for Sherlock Holmes... so why not give this a try? 
....
OKAY, it's the cover that got me. And it's incredibly cheap. I'LL BUY ONE when sembreak starts. :)

And why not Pride and Prejudice? It's another illogical reason... I just preferred reading a book with my name on it. LOL.
Nah, I've watched the movie... I might not get the 'thrill' of discovery.
 
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Her Fearful Symmetry
by Audrey Niffenegger


I just found the summary interesting, and haunting, and... I'm not really sure what to expect But it gives me the feeling that I should read this.

My sad answer to that is: "When it becomes cheaper." teeehee~

Which reminds me, I haven't watched The Time Traveller's Wife yet, and I had wanted to watch when I get the time.... on second thought, have I bought a "CD" yet? I can't seem to find it.




 
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Roald Dahl's
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory


Maybe some part of me just want to read out on all the children's stories I missed out my entire childhood that's why I want to read this. The fantasy world inside the Wonka factory is something I would have loved to imagine as a child... and even at this age, I still kind of like the idea of a yummy wonderland.

But still, there exists in my mind something that doubts whether I'll enjoy a Dahl creation outside the film adaptations. :-/
 
 
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Obama's
Dreams from My Father

Had been wanting to read it since early this year when Obama was fresh in his office.

I'm just afraid it would bore me... which would lead it to be stuck in a corner pile along with The Alchemist. (I'm serious about the 'Alchemist' I just read 6 pages and forgot about it altogether, I don't even know where the book is anymore. tsk tsk)






 


So there, my supposed reading list that would last until December... but honestly, out of these 6, the only books that I know I would really be able to read are Sense and Sensibility, because I would have gotten it last Monday if I hadn't known I wouldn't be able to control myself, and Coraline, or maybe Dreams. I want to read Dreams terribly but I just know I wouldn't buy because of the 'how much' factor. HAHAHAHA.. After all, it might come straight from my allowance.

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marsian 헤겨
13 September 2009 @ 09:50 pm
10:29 pm: Start of another day.  
It's 10:06 pm and I've just started to begin an academic weekend day!

Things that should happen this week:
  1. History PLAYBILL! --> I hope I won't fail this time.
  2. Be a registered voter!
  3. Stat LT 3. SH*T.
  4. Edit that commission. ^_^
  5. Gossip girl. I miss you Chuck Bass! ♥
  6. Buy the Fil book: Ginto sa Makiling, hopefully it would be interesting. I really need the grade.
  7. Manila International Book Fair: I am so going to buy Dan Brown's new book: The Lost Symbol because I had not read a book for entertainment for months now. T.T I hope, hope, hope NSTP would be on Saturday morning because that would be the only day I'm free.
  8. SJGM Mooncake festival on Sunday. ^_^ Hopes to win big this year.
  9. My car! Please, please, please let the damage on that car be minimal. WAH! It just totally FAILED on me on top of a bridge. T.T One week na, no news pa rin. T.T
Yun lang. Ciao.
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09 September 2009 @ 12:01 am
(no subject)  
The Church loses its power to the scientists and is pushed into a dark corner. Without the threat of death hanging over their heads, many Christian scholars begin to publish countless books exhibiting detailed examples of contradicting verses and evidence of modification and tampering with the text of the Bible. The ancient manuscripts of the Christian society are studied in detail and slowly, the previous picture begins to come together. Countless excuses are made by the Church and those who's livelihood and power depend on these established beliefs. They now begin to give practically every single verse of the Bible "abstract" meanings. They tell their flock to have blind faith. They convince their flock that they can not understand the Bible without the interpretation and holy inspiration of the Church. They tell their flock that Jesus (pbuh) never means what he says and that every reference he makes to following the religion of Moses (pbuh) is not meant to be taken "literally" but was meant by Jesus (pbuh) to have "hidden" meanings totally in opposition to the obvious measnings. Only they can tell you what these hidden meanings of Jesus (pbuh) were.

Source: [link]

um.. can I just say... I find this easier to believe rather than the 13 years worth of Catholic education I got. I mean... seriously, when my HS teacher started saying that everything Jesus did or said, or whatever Adam and Eve did was a metaphor or something... it began to become really crazy. Like fiction. Haha! I mean, if God wanted us to get the message, I don't think He should go through with all the troubles of creating vague passages with metaphors you can't be sure about, I'd think He would get straight to the point. But... what the hell.
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marsian 헤겨
23 August 2009 @ 09:05 pm
Deviant Art gallery and scraps  
This afternoon while I was figuring out which pieces of my digital art to submit for my portfolio requirements for MISA ([info]azurite04  wouldn't let me bypass the system, booo~), I browsed through my DevArt gallery and was dismayed at the lack of presentable stuff. I mean, half the things there were from my experimenting years, though I believe I'm still experimenting now... but that's besides the point.

I just feel weird that while applying to AMA, my DevArt works are the ones they could see from, you know, "stalking" me. So now, I've decided to clear all my stuff and move all those unappealing stuff to scraps (just couldn't bring myself to delete them, even if they're ugly to me right now, they're still part of my growing up stage.)

Meh, must add some more stuff... like my ads I guess? zOMG. I think I haven't really done a lot of things for myself... almost all of those stuff left are for orgs, orgs, orgs!! 

Anyway, flood!

Fairy-catcher!
Fairy-catcher!
Fairy-catcher!
Fairy-catcher!

Hopefully, this gallery is more presentable for my org applications, (yes, I'm applying to become a slave, again, and I enjoy it. Masochist!)

Toodles!

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marsian 헤겨
22 August 2009 @ 10:44 pm
Live Journal Privacy settings  
The online world is such an unsafe place. No, nothing bad has happened to me over the net. Yet. And no, none of the people I know has something happened to them because of something over the net. But these days, I have just come to realize how big the world wide web really is, and how rapidly technology is changing the way we communicate. Yes, whatever I'm writing is already overrated... but it's just became clearer when I realized it.

Maybe it was when somebody mentioned something about being able to find people from the net. And no, I'm not talking about Facebook either. (God bless Facebook for its customizable Privacy settings!) I'm talking about being able to find people's criminal records, bankruptcies, aliases, neighbors, lawsuits! It was a scary feeling to hear about it! The name of the website has already escaped me, but googling the web for the same kind of service proved easy enough: People Finder. This one is applicable to the US for now.. but who knows, tomorrow, maybe even the Third World would be searchable!

Throughout the years, I know I've posted a lot of all too private details over the net because I like the millions and billions out there thought that I'm but a speck of dust in the world wide web... but no, not anymore. I just shudder to think that the whole world might be able to see all my stupid 'emo' posts when I was younger when they so will to see it.

So, damn Live Journal for not giving me those Mass Privacy settings for free. I seriously cannot be bothered with manually privatizing all my entries here... for all I know, I've already written hundreds of stupid entries without realizing it. And the process of privatizing in itself is hard. I have to open up every entry and edit the privacy settings, and then go to the next entry to do it all over again. Worse comes to worst, when I really have become very, very paranoid, maybe I should just delete the whole blog and make a new one, a more meaningful blog.

Haha! I don't really wanna let go of this marsian_swings, as a name... if only I could delete it and resurrect it again. Hayz. T.T

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19 August 2009 @ 12:59 am
Identity vs Intimacy  
Some magnificent question from Psych this afternoon has still got me on its tenterhooks, so here goes the poem I found that relates to it:

Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold.
New-made friendships, like new wine,
Age will mellow and refine.
Friendships that have stood the test--
Time and change--are surely best;
Brow may wrinkle, hair grow gray,
Friendship never knows decay.
For 'mid old friends, tried and true,
Once more we our youth renew.
But old friends, alas!  may die,
New friends must their place supply.
Cherish friendship in your breast--
New is good, but old is best;
Make new friends, but keep the old;
Those are silver, these are gold. 


and, this poem snippet that I can never cease to quote:



  It was not foes to conquer,
    Nor sweethearts to be kind,
But it was friends to die for
    That I would seek and find.

I sought them far and found them,
    The sure, the straight, the brave,
The hearts I lost my own to,
    The souls I could not save.
They braced their belts about them,
    They crossed in ships the sea,
They sought and found six feet of ground,
    And there they died for me.


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marsian 헤겨
25 July 2009 @ 12:46 am
Gratitude post.  
This is my crazy gratitude post.

I wanna thank Jan for helping get started with stupid Statistics, wanna thank Pam and Kyle and Mark for lending me their notes, wanna thank Han for always noticing and for giving me her food, was ever so hungry awhile ago. I wanna thank Marianne and Shai and all the AdComm managers for making the Trainstation work a while ago even though I had a lot of things that I didn't do that I should have done, wanna thank Kiko for doing his best to make the small technical details work. I wanna thank the guy who left his seat for me in the LRT, for this crazy week of 3 hour sleeps, that means a lot to me. I wanna thank Jackie and Rasia and Nikki and Pam (again) for watching HP6 with me, like that was the best after-movie rant ever! I wanna thank Jerinae for her crazy yaoi fantasy which got me relaxed in the Long Test hours ago.Last, wanna thank you guys for reading this, mahirap mag-thanks sa Twitter with only the 160 character thing. :D

Explain tomorrow.

I just wanna shell this out tonight. The LRT guy has been bugging my thoughts for days.
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08 July 2009 @ 12:57 am
Internet access should be censored/ limited!  
Crap. I hate the net! Seriously. I should get me one of those internet censoring programs, that way I wouldn't be sitting in front of this radioactive screen wasting my time doing nothing. I fail like that. Hay. T.T
 
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05 June 2009 @ 09:14 pm
semi-otaku moment  
Oh geeesh.
( Naruto Spoiler )

That said. I MISS SASUKE! HAHA!

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16 May 2009 @ 11:29 pm
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Oh gosh.. I've just realized how much fun and excitement I've been missing since I've stopped swimming... *Dreamy eyes*

Just too excited for the camping trip next weekend. :D

Somehow I can't imagine how we're going to have that team meeting on Tuesday. I feel that I've attended too many formal meetings that I have to loosen up again.
 
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25 April 2009 @ 01:38 am
HP6  
Can't wait for July 15! HP & the HBP would be the best HP movie ever!!! 


Click here for the trailer!
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23 April 2009 @ 11:24 pm
Shameless Plug  

Hm.. was supposed to put in a really long entry here, but it's so messy, so what the heck!


I'm just here to plug my Multiply coz I finally got to it and changed the layout, well sort of. Yeah, yeah, I'm vain and being too vain doesn't really do any good to my privacy but I just had to do it. Maybe I'll change my LJ soon too.


fairy-catcher
fairy-catcher
fairy-catcher
fairy-catcher
fairy-catcher

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marsian 헤겨
04 April 2009 @ 04:54 pm
Summer Vacation  
I think SOM should reevaluate their secretaries. One told me that you don't need advisements to enlist for summer, but guess what? Hay..

That said, I guess it's good too that this happened. It's like a big sign from God telling me to enjoy my last summer vacation. Right. Now I'm stuck in the office for good. I actually don't know what to feel, I like to and don't like to. ^_^ I'll just indulge myself with photography this summer (hopefully).
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04 April 2009 @ 01:51 am
Goong-X  
Just finished Goong Vol. 8. Felt blah after reading it, maybe because I was reading in Chinese and can't fully understand what they're saying that I really can't feel this volume. It just felt stupid because the plot has really gone down the drain damnit.

I should like to read it in English, but I'd be a real nerd to translate it for me and for others. Sigh. What a waste.

Shin and Chaegyung should go back together!!! Grrr! Hope Park So-Hee hurries it up with the 19th volume, and hope that the Chinese scans become better next time. It's very small too. Hay.
 

Off to fix my summer class scheds.
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01 April 2009 @ 11:40 pm
Lazy Summer Days. Right.  
It's summer and... I'm not really lovin' it. :(

Yeah, been forced to work again, and we all know that I'm a damn lazy ass. And I guess the work is o-kay, it's something I get to stare at the computer for long hours for with some artwork, company logos and all that stuff. Huhuhu~

What I wanted to do was to post my long list of wanna-dos but never-dos here:
  1. Get that Obama book "Dreams from My Father." It's been a damned long time since I had wanted a book this bad. I confess Lady, I've been only half done with "The Catcher in the Rye" after almost 3 months! :(
  2. Buy some trinkets. This I definitely wanna do... 168/Divisoria trip anyone?
  3. Sleep. As in engage in 12 hour sleeps! HAHA Right.
  4. Watch Naruto Shippuuden! 
  5. Devour everything that Edward (Chua) has recommended: Code Geass, Bleach, Chuck Palanhuik books, etc. 
  6. Learn Photography. I'm itching for an SLR cam. Lolz
  7. Laze around. Go to Starbucks.. (oh crap, they shutdown SB San Fernando na nga pala)
And so, so much more. But knowing me dot dot dot...

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marsian 헤겨
24 March 2009 @ 10:51 pm
Who are you?  

Who are you?

Here and there I look for you,
and here and there are traces of you.
But traces, oh! They are but glimpses of you.
To see you, the real you;
to hear you, the unbounded you...
Would I ever get that chance?
That chance to be the only one to truly know you.
Where are you?

Who are you?
...
 ?



Well, okay. In the tradition of old, emotional (?) and poetical (?) status messages... I just suddenly had the urge to write to that unknown person again... and it doesn't fit what Y! messenger allows for a measly status message. So here it is, laid to rest.

Tamang tama, LIT ako bukas. Hahaha!

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19 March 2009 @ 10:08 pm
Racism and "Asian" Movies  
I happened to stumble by this blog by mistake: Angry Asian Man.

It's kind of hilarious in a way because he's complaining about everything that is racist, albeit a really minor slur, to me anyway, in his blog.

But what really caught my attention was these two posts:
  1. Student fights idiotic english language exam
  2. Avatar: The Last Airbender Movie
1. It's like, "Hey! The girls speaks better English than the average American damnit! " Yeah, trust me, I've read too many Fiction Press stories, and some American teenagers are not as good as the foreigners in their grammar, spelling etc. Bothersome really.
Anyway Go Lori Phanachone!

Plug: Student rejects 'demeaning' test, is suspended

2. My first reaction was: "SHET!" I love Avatar and there's no way Caucasians should play the characters' parts! It would totally destroy the fictional world! I mean come on, this is just the first time Americans made a cartoon series that largely follows the Japanese anime style and with Asian characters to boot and THEY JUST HAVE TO GO AHEAD AND RUIN THE DAMNED series! That is seriously wrong.
And, to add to that, what the hell is with the whole Japanese anime getting Hollywood films fad? It could be OKAY with me if they had casted Asian actors to play the roles, but no, they have westerners play the roles instead.

Plug: </a></b></a>[info]aang_aint_white, Race Bending

List of "Asian" movies that just flops:
  1. The Forbidden Kingdom--this I think much sums up the whole concept. An American who watched kung-fu movies all his life wants to learn kung fu. Yeah, now we see Hollywood as the American kid who watched too much anime, and wanted to make money out of them.
  2. Dragon Ball-the trailer just feels too wrong already!
  3. The Mummy Returns 3-- they were so riding in with the 2008 Beijing Olympics high... this installment totally destryoed The Mummy franchise.
  4. Balls of Fury -- my bros love thought this movie was really funny, but I thought otherwise, haven't watched the movie in full because whenever I watch 2 minutes of it, I can't help but walk out. Haha!
  5. Kung Fu Panda-- is a good movie, but I think they have not truly researched the Chinese culture that well... it lacks in the traditional aspects.
As for Street Fighter Legend of Chun Li, I haven't really seen the movie but all I can say is, and this has nothing to do with the whole racist thing that I've been ranting about, all I can say is: Don't they have the budget to make a better poster? Seriously! I judge books by their cover, and I judge movies by their posters... and Street Fighter really has the worst action movie poster award from me. Eww.

Can't find the B&W posters I saw from the newspaper. All I see is this one, and it's a wee bit better than the one in Phil Star! Oh well, maybe it just doesn't look good at all in black and white.

Um, I didn't make lots of sense but basically: Leave the Asian movies to the Asians to make! (Even if the world has still to wait on this part of the world to develop their own superb computer generated effects!)

And can I just make this statement: I hope the Philippines would make historical movies too! Hahaha! It would be a real breath of fresh air from the not-so-kakakilig "romantic" films being produced here! I mean, can't you say movie and history lesson in one? -->Baler<-- but they said it wasn't a good film. Hope they'd make more of those kinds of films, better ones too!

-->Yes, Red Cliff 赤壁, has had a big influence on the above remark. Damn the movie is just an absolute delight! Takeshi Kaneshiro is sooooooooo ♥



*End Blabbering
*Start reflection paper.

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marsian 헤겨
19 March 2009 @ 12:40 am
Oh bothersome fool! A bullcrapped day.  

I've been browsing on my dusty Fiction Press account and when I read the poems I wrote 3-4 years ago, I just had to wonder if I really was the one who wrote them… I can't remember even writing them!
 

 

Yeah, just got the thought after reading a whole copyright infringed xerox copy of a book of poems by Louis Gluck, Ararat. It just reminded me of who I was before I became what I am today, some kind of a normal person. Before, I was an emo-writing girl, so high in melancholic thoughts, and today I just like to Photoshop, deprived of any deep feelings.

 

I can't really say what I like better. I feel free now, more comfortable with myself, but I can't be attuned with that burning passion like before. I feel so… so… oh I don't know. It's like I lost a part of myself. Somedays, I wish I was still that lost child, then maybe I can feel others better.
 

 

Just wanna share two poems that I really like from that amateur collection of mine. The first one that actually sums up the me of today. And the second one, oh, reminiscence, it just kind of reflects today.

 

Happiness

Happiness is reading a book,

writing a poem from heart's bottom,

Drawing from imagination,

Engaging in a long novel.

 

It is swimming in the mind's pool,

with the friends I sought here and there.

Playing, talking, being a fool,

with no pretences everywhere.

 

It is being free with myself,

doing the things that I love most,

being with those who make me smile,

In good, in bad, in troubled times.

 

I found it in nature's recluse,

from the wind's soft spoken song.

I find it in unusual things,

Fascinating and ethereal.

 

 

Irritation

Bump, bump, bother, bother,

Would you care to stop?

Bother, bump, bother, bump,

just stop! Okay?

 

Bother, bother, bother.

You're starting to irritate me.

Bump, bump, bump, bump!

WHAT DO YOU WANT?

 

Slump! I hit a nerve.

Bummer, what did I do?

I only wanted

to be left alone.

 

You irritated me,

why did you?

Bother, bump, bump,

What do you want?

 

 

 

 

 

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10 March 2009 @ 10:53 pm
Procrastination and Tibet  
I've finally gotten to it to see what the hype about Pet Society was all about, and I found that I wasted 2 hours of my time visiting 40+ pets to earn 20++ gold each, and I don't see the point in the end. Hahaha! I mean, I didn't even learn anything new. I just got my self too sleepy to do anything now.

I'm now one pre-writing behind schedule. Add to that my parents' favor (which has been sitting on my desk for 1 month now)... Egad. My time is always used up on nonsense and I can't help it. I'm just so good at procrastinating really, sometimes I wonder, what's even the point of trying to change? I always end up a victim to whims anyway.

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Today's the 50th anniversary since the Dalai Lama's been exiled... so I finally figured out why they keep doing these exclusives on Tibet and the Dalai Lama in 民視. Gosh, I wanna read a translated/subbed copy of their exclusives... I can only understand tidbits of what they commenting about, at least the Tibetans, to spite the Chinese, don't speak Mandarin, and instead talk in English.

I once shouted at the Great Wall of China "FREE TIBET!" In all honesty, I didn't even understand that topic then. Hahaha! I had this vague idea that Tibet really belongs to China, that's what they teach in Grade 5 地理... Tibet is a part of China as 西藏自治區 (Xizang Autonomous Region). But now, I don't know...

To begin, Tibet has had that same circumstance as Korea, belonging on and off to China, so truly, the boundaries and the claim is hard to verify. But aside from that, the Tibetans are of a much different ethnic bacground than those of the other Chinese ethnic tribes. Or rather, a different kind of ruling system, which really, shouldn't be undermined by the Chinese officials.
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02 March 2009 @ 09:23 pm
MEME.  
Wala lang... Paminsan-minsan lang to so just grant me this.  ^__^


1. The love of my life:
2. Where you and I met:
3. Take a stab at my middle name:
4. How long you've known me:
5. The last time that we saw each other:
6. Would I ever go sky diving?
7. Your first impression of me upon meeting me/seeing me:
8. Am I funny?
9. My favorite type of music:
10. Can I sing?
11. The best feature about me:
12. What do I want to do more than anything?
13. What is one thing that you think I should do?
14. Do I have any special talents? If so, what are they?
15. Would you call me preppy, average, sporty, punk, hippie, glam, nerdy, snobby, or something else?
16. Have you ever hugged me?
17. My favorite food:
18. Have you ever had a crush on me?
19. If there was one good nickname for me, it would be:
20. Your favorite memory of me:
21. If you and I were stranded on a desert island, I would bring:
22. Do I believe in God?
23. Who is my best friend?
24. Weirdest thing I've ever said:
25. Something only you & I would get:
26. What's the best thing about me?
27. What's the worst thing about me?
28. Will you repost this so I can fill this out for you?


Edit: Might just answer some of this stuff after. Hahaha! I'm amused I guess.
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