have i earned it.
Tipong if you can't handle the pressure you can leave nyahaha.
The more realistic outlook is actually you're going to the Batizado not to prove anything. You're there to learn, to experience. After all that's what you're paying for, right?
I'm pushing myself in all the wrong directions. I realized that if I chill enjoy and focus on actually learning something, I might even be able to apply it. I'm at the mindset that... di lalayo ang capoeira sa akin.
And I think belt or no belt.. it's just THERE.
It's set in na di sha aalis. It's the attitude, the outlook in life, the philosophy you're living, the learning and the comings and goings.
Whatever I do it's probably a capoeira moment.
I attribute things to capoeira, it's more permanent than a tattoo kasi it's burned into a mindset I'm living in.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
Littlepig
Zip Up and Hide Inside
Shamani found her curled up cushy under a rock, literally.
"You realize that even if you don't answer back I'm still capable of tracking you down by regular means." Rive mumbled back something and stayed curled. The mushy grass underneath seemed comfortable enough for a cozy siesta. But that was beside the point right now.
"Stomach ache, emo moment? what?"
"I don't want to go back. I wanna stay here." Emo moment.
Shammy gave her the exasperated 'tsk' with matching hands on hips. Kicking the prone body in smoky, slightly ripped up clothes would help dust off her friend.
"Look, ok. You can't stay. We agreed on this. Everyone else is home already, and I have more cases to deal with tomorrow, I have an early meeting and other things." Saturating her with real life was really not a good idea at the moment but Shamani was touching the fringes of frustration. There better be a good reason for this.
"I'm all out of cute." Rive mumbled so contritely she didn't know what to make out of it. She didn't look like she was going to be moving either. She was just there. "I'm safer here, I don't want to go back."
"Ok" Shamani bit down. "What happened." She didn't want to point out this minute about how many bugs her friend could have in her hair now. Looking at the area she was in, the bugs probably got dusted off along with the rest of the vicinity. Rive was that easy to find since the rock she was under was the only patch of green in the middle of desolation.
"It took a lot of self level heading to handle last night," Rive began. "I was more nervous and annoyed than anything. But I realize that giving the nice couple 1000 for scratching their car and dealing with them was a better alternative than having to deal with the swearing Indian dude. I thought he hit me. I didn't notice I hit the other car. I was trying to skivvy off from paying 1000, come on. Buffering is just... what? 300? Then I'm thinking that it's better to have dealt with them instead, giving them that amount rather than the mysterious other leg of what could have happened if I would have had to deal with the other guy."
Shamani nodded encouragingly.
"She gave me back 200 cause she felt sorry for me. It was taking all my cute to talk my way out of the whole thing. At least for 800 they wouldn't feel so bad, right? At least they have enough for a carwash and wax too right."
Shamani mmm-hmm'd appropriately in the normal tandem of understanding the story.
"So why are you still feeling so bad?" she asked. Get this over with.
"I'm not sure. Shell-shocked as always, wondering how far cute and charming gets you. How it's easier to understand logic, explain logic rather than understand vibe the ebb you emanate... that you can't really explain." Rive was mumbo-jumbo-ing.
"Well, you're ok now."
"I guess. Still feel bad and weird and let-down."
"That you used cute and it only got so far as 200 bucks instead of, what 500?"
"If it was the other way around, it might seem rather fair."
"Yes."
"And I do wish that if their kids got in the same situation, I suppose karma dictates that other people would be as kind as they were to me, right?"
"Right."
Rive stood up and Shamani took them home, for now.
Shamani found her curled up cushy under a rock, literally.
"You realize that even if you don't answer back I'm still capable of tracking you down by regular means." Rive mumbled back something and stayed curled. The mushy grass underneath seemed comfortable enough for a cozy siesta. But that was beside the point right now.
"Stomach ache, emo moment? what?"
"I don't want to go back. I wanna stay here." Emo moment.
Shammy gave her the exasperated 'tsk' with matching hands on hips. Kicking the prone body in smoky, slightly ripped up clothes would help dust off her friend.
"Look, ok. You can't stay. We agreed on this. Everyone else is home already, and I have more cases to deal with tomorrow, I have an early meeting and other things." Saturating her with real life was really not a good idea at the moment but Shamani was touching the fringes of frustration. There better be a good reason for this.
"I'm all out of cute." Rive mumbled so contritely she didn't know what to make out of it. She didn't look like she was going to be moving either. She was just there. "I'm safer here, I don't want to go back."
"Ok" Shamani bit down. "What happened." She didn't want to point out this minute about how many bugs her friend could have in her hair now. Looking at the area she was in, the bugs probably got dusted off along with the rest of the vicinity. Rive was that easy to find since the rock she was under was the only patch of green in the middle of desolation.
"It took a lot of self level heading to handle last night," Rive began. "I was more nervous and annoyed than anything. But I realize that giving the nice couple 1000 for scratching their car and dealing with them was a better alternative than having to deal with the swearing Indian dude. I thought he hit me. I didn't notice I hit the other car. I was trying to skivvy off from paying 1000, come on. Buffering is just... what? 300? Then I'm thinking that it's better to have dealt with them instead, giving them that amount rather than the mysterious other leg of what could have happened if I would have had to deal with the other guy."
Shamani nodded encouragingly.
"She gave me back 200 cause she felt sorry for me. It was taking all my cute to talk my way out of the whole thing. At least for 800 they wouldn't feel so bad, right? At least they have enough for a carwash and wax too right."
Shamani mmm-hmm'd appropriately in the normal tandem of understanding the story.
"So why are you still feeling so bad?" she asked. Get this over with.
"I'm not sure. Shell-shocked as always, wondering how far cute and charming gets you. How it's easier to understand logic, explain logic rather than understand vibe the ebb you emanate... that you can't really explain." Rive was mumbo-jumbo-ing.
"Well, you're ok now."
"I guess. Still feel bad and weird and let-down."
"That you used cute and it only got so far as 200 bucks instead of, what 500?"
"If it was the other way around, it might seem rather fair."
"Yes."
"And I do wish that if their kids got in the same situation, I suppose karma dictates that other people would be as kind as they were to me, right?"
"Right."
Rive stood up and Shamani took them home, for now.
Monday, January 10, 2011
Eeet iz aaaaht
What do you see?
I had this picture for a while now thinking of why I had this picture of my coffee in a mug... with coffee dregs in it. I slapped something on it and now it's evocative.
I wanted to say something about how an artist views the mundane and unnoticed and thinks hey, it's God-given, creative and natural. It's art, to one, to another. To me, it was just my coffee dregs in a cup. Here's how the artful BS would go:
"The swills around my leftover cup of coffee describes the last dregs of energy I'm getting from it." I would insert some laments and coffee-and-energy related phrases but I think you get the idea...
No...? Well. Just because someone tells you their unerring belief in anything, it's an opinion that you don't have to share. The Louvre features a smorgasborg of art, generally accepted art... but it's not like you love each and every bit of all of them by all the artists featured. At one point, you'll back off from a disturbing piece that another would rave about.
How does art make you feel? What emotions are stirred? How do you see yourself in art? Why is it art?
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Stereo Mood
dot com
Love the site and love the selections.
Then this song reminded me of another song, bang bang.
I think it's the clarity and the lyrics that got me. I just had to put this down... why? Beats me. :)
Artist(Band): CIBELLE
Song: Green Grass
Album: The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves
Release: 2006-5-2
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Come closer don't be shy
Stand beneath a rainy sky
The moon is over the rise
Think of me as a train goes by
Clear the thistles and brambles
Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble'
Now there's a bubble of me
And it's floating in thee
Stand in the shade of me
Things are now made of me
The weather vane will say
It smells like rain today
God took the stars and he tossed them
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms
You'll never be free of me
He'll make a tree from me
Don't say good bye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls, mark my words
We'll catch mocking birds
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me
Love the site and love the selections.
Then this song reminded me of another song, bang bang.
I think it's the clarity and the lyrics that got me. I just had to put this down... why? Beats me. :)
Artist(Band): CIBELLE
Song: Green Grass
Album: The Shine Of Dried Electric Leaves
Release: 2006-5-2
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Come closer don't be shy
Stand beneath a rainy sky
The moon is over the rise
Think of me as a train goes by
Clear the thistles and brambles
Whistle 'Didn't He Ramble'
Now there's a bubble of me
And it's floating in thee
Stand in the shade of me
Things are now made of me
The weather vane will say
It smells like rain today
God took the stars and he tossed them
Can't tell the birds from the blossoms
You'll never be free of me
He'll make a tree from me
Don't say good bye to me
Describe the sky to me
And if the sky falls, mark my words
We'll catch mocking birds
Lay your head where my heart used to be
Hold the earth above me
Lay down in the green grass
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me
Remember when you loved me
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Idle Time
Following a comment from prof on our interesting talks haha... It left me to think about how I come in everyday to work and do the things I do.
Even in a lull between projects, the team is not idle in so far as just sitting around doing nothing. We are all actively stimulated in the form of internet browsing, chatting, playing yes (yes, facebook and the like). Always learning, always developing new concepts and different innovations in a small scale.
There is always something new out there, something to learn from. Don't waste your day with an idle mind... that's a sure fire recipe to burn yourself out. I'm a fan of routine with its guise of certainty and reliability. We all need that. is there such a thing as a varying routine? haha
Anyway... just to share the things I was surprised to learn today:
Trend--
I credit this link to Joem as it was shown to him by a friend of his. It's a good watch, if you don't mind too much romping scenes.
"We All Want to Be Young"
Quoting the site: "The movie "We All Want to Be Young" is the outcome of several studies developed by BOX1824 in the past 5 years. BOX1824 is a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends.
This movie has an open license by Creative Commons.
Written and directed by Lena Maciel, Lucas Liedke and Rony Rodrigues.
Zeppelin Films
box1824.com.br
I like that it targets the future trends in the way that the older 40 and up people have been just trying to grasp the idea of information sharing. Something as facebook and twitter now would never have been a jargon that I would describe to my yaya. Nevertheless, I do talk to her about people I haven't seen for a long time and just reconnected through facebook. I get my sister to show her pictures, video and such about my dog Yoji. It's interesting to see that all this information is just accepted without having to know how, why this kind of info is suddenly available through computers. Another item of appliance that can't be described, really, and going back further, the TV and so on.
From the video you can see where things are headed for the kid demography of today. Now to develop that idea to toys and concepts that go beyond yoyo's.
Angola Essay by Contra Mestre Pererê
A Primer for beginner students
I found this one from the Capoeira forum. Actually the intro in the forum just wanted some traffic to their site... check it out and learn a little bit more of Angola. To be honest with you it's a long read with that font and background color. Just sayin'. I haven't finished reading it myself. This is partly why I decided to post this here, as I've since decided to stuff things like this in one place.
Inspiration:
A few weeks ago someone tagged this lady's art: Cristina María Gandaia Fazzito, I just had to add her just to hit the LIKE button. Here's her work with Capoeira Art.
Amazing. Stuff I only wish I had the time and materials to do. Pure capture, I really love the details she put with minute details as gestures, and the expression on the body. As such, with great respect to her drawings as well :) I will always find it a happier art world with more girls who draw rather than the surprising stereotype that only guys can draw and make it to the professional art world. I've seen girls draw, and it's a privilege to draw really well.
An ongoing facebook experiment is going long with having your childhood's favorite cartoon character as your profile picture. This led to someone showing a picture of the cartoon "Fire and Ice". I know I've seen this... but for the life of me I can't remember what the story was, what happened, who the characters are and whatnot. Oh yes, will do download of course haha. It's just fun to know that one of the artists involved in the production is a favorite: Frank Frazetta. :)
Another thing I learned today, random: my 100 peso Divisoria ruffle scarfie looks good on the trenchcoat hahaha. I'm using it like a necktie :P
Even in a lull between projects, the team is not idle in so far as just sitting around doing nothing. We are all actively stimulated in the form of internet browsing, chatting, playing yes (yes, facebook and the like). Always learning, always developing new concepts and different innovations in a small scale.
There is always something new out there, something to learn from. Don't waste your day with an idle mind... that's a sure fire recipe to burn yourself out. I'm a fan of routine with its guise of certainty and reliability. We all need that. is there such a thing as a varying routine? haha
Anyway... just to share the things I was surprised to learn today:
Trend--
I credit this link to Joem as it was shown to him by a friend of his. It's a good watch, if you don't mind too much romping scenes.
"We All Want to Be Young"
Quoting the site: "The movie "We All Want to Be Young" is the outcome of several studies developed by BOX1824 in the past 5 years. BOX1824 is a Brazilian research company specialized in behavioral sciences and consumer trends.
This movie has an open license by Creative Commons.
Written and directed by Lena Maciel, Lucas Liedke and Rony Rodrigues.
Zeppelin Films
box1824.com.br
I like that it targets the future trends in the way that the older 40 and up people have been just trying to grasp the idea of information sharing. Something as facebook and twitter now would never have been a jargon that I would describe to my yaya. Nevertheless, I do talk to her about people I haven't seen for a long time and just reconnected through facebook. I get my sister to show her pictures, video and such about my dog Yoji. It's interesting to see that all this information is just accepted without having to know how, why this kind of info is suddenly available through computers. Another item of appliance that can't be described, really, and going back further, the TV and so on.
From the video you can see where things are headed for the kid demography of today. Now to develop that idea to toys and concepts that go beyond yoyo's.
Angola Essay by Contra Mestre Pererê
A Primer for beginner students
I found this one from the Capoeira forum. Actually the intro in the forum just wanted some traffic to their site... check it out and learn a little bit more of Angola. To be honest with you it's a long read with that font and background color. Just sayin'. I haven't finished reading it myself. This is partly why I decided to post this here, as I've since decided to stuff things like this in one place.
Inspiration:
A few weeks ago someone tagged this lady's art: Cristina María Gandaia Fazzito, I just had to add her just to hit the LIKE button. Here's her work with Capoeira Art.
Amazing. Stuff I only wish I had the time and materials to do. Pure capture, I really love the details she put with minute details as gestures, and the expression on the body. As such, with great respect to her drawings as well :) I will always find it a happier art world with more girls who draw rather than the surprising stereotype that only guys can draw and make it to the professional art world. I've seen girls draw, and it's a privilege to draw really well.
An ongoing facebook experiment is going long with having your childhood's favorite cartoon character as your profile picture. This led to someone showing a picture of the cartoon "Fire and Ice". I know I've seen this... but for the life of me I can't remember what the story was, what happened, who the characters are and whatnot. Oh yes, will do download of course haha. It's just fun to know that one of the artists involved in the production is a favorite: Frank Frazetta. :)
Another thing I learned today, random: my 100 peso Divisoria ruffle scarfie looks good on the trenchcoat hahaha. I'm using it like a necktie :P
Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Hit List
BBC Book list
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
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
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
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [currently reading]
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
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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 - A.A. Milne
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
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
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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 - E.B. White
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (except psalms. Those were reserved for CLE class or mass. zzz)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Others from the list I flipped through:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (zzz)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (hello, cribnotes)
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (my brother had the audiobook to this. I can't seem to enjoy audiobooks. zzz)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (it was so screwy I put it down)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (first 3 paragraphs zzz)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (simply never finished it cause I just borrowed it, and it doesn't mean that I'll be spending money on the book just to finish it.)
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (have the books, flipped through it and liked the name Rhyndweir for my imaginary Husky)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
... remembering most of it is the thing hahaha. Perhaps BBC believes this for their region only. Interesting list however someone begs to argue that this wasn't the correct list. Still, it was entertaining to find a higher number in the demography of 6 our of 100. Where's Madeline L'engle? Why is that the Enid Blyton book? I suppose that if you list The Hardy Boys, it would have been too easy?
Have you read more than 6 of these books? The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books listed here.
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
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
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller [currently reading]
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
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
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 - A.A. Milne
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
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
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
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
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
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 - E.B. White
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
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
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
The Bible (except psalms. Those were reserved for CLE class or mass. zzz)
His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Winnie the Pooh - A.A. Milne
The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
Lord of the Flies - William Golding
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
Charlotte’s Web - E.B. White
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Hamlet - William Shakespeare
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
Others from the list I flipped through:
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte (zzz)
Complete Works of Shakespeare (hello, cribnotes)
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams (my brother had the audiobook to this. I can't seem to enjoy audiobooks. zzz)
Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (it was so screwy I put it down)
Life of Pi - Yann Martel (first 3 paragraphs zzz)
The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame (simply never finished it cause I just borrowed it, and it doesn't mean that I'll be spending money on the book just to finish it.)
Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (have the books, flipped through it and liked the name Rhyndweir for my imaginary Husky)
The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis
... remembering most of it is the thing hahaha. Perhaps BBC believes this for their region only. Interesting list however someone begs to argue that this wasn't the correct list. Still, it was entertaining to find a higher number in the demography of 6 our of 100. Where's Madeline L'engle? Why is that the Enid Blyton book? I suppose that if you list The Hardy Boys, it would have been too easy?
Monday, November 22, 2010
I keep on forgetting to rewrite what Mestre Roxinho said as per translated by Andorinha. :)
Here:
Look for you to describe Capoeira Angola, not necessarily to say it is slow because in truth, the movements of Capoeira Angola are used in accordance of need in the game and is also necessary to keep pace with the bateria. So at some point the game can be slow and not another. Otherwise it is easy to describe Capoeira Angola and only say that it is the tradition of Capoeira as ancient/old. Game he can be the whole time low as may also be on top. (I hope I answered your questions and feel free to question what you have doubts.)
Here:
Look for you to describe Capoeira Angola, not necessarily to say it is slow because in truth, the movements of Capoeira Angola are used in accordance of need in the game and is also necessary to keep pace with the bateria. So at some point the game can be slow and not another. Otherwise it is easy to describe Capoeira Angola and only say that it is the tradition of Capoeira as ancient/old. Game he can be the whole time low as may also be on top. (I hope I answered your questions and feel free to question what you have doubts.)
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