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She is unpredictable, frequent moodswings. Sometimes she’s nice, and sometimes she’s not.
Her name is Yan Ying. 90% of the world can’t pronounce it properly, simple as it seems. But no one really cares so they just call her YY. She is not fond of people with the same name as her. She turns 14 on 6th September and she loves her birthday cause it is a sex symbol. She was from Yew Tee Primary and is still proud of her school. She will never forget the class of 6D’07, or the batch of P6’07. She is currently an idiot in Nanyang Girls High and it is a love-hate relationship. She belongs to 202’09 which she, to be honest, doesn’t feel much for. She is a Theatre Club girl and is more than proud to be one. She especially loves Emo Batch♥, and looks forward to devoting her next 3 years to TCN with much optimism. She does ballet with more than just passion but she can’t do a center split. She is trying her best and is currently aiming for a far-fetched distinction for Grade6. She loves hiphop just as much though she’s pretty new at it. Her favourite sport is swimming and she occasionally plays basketball as a form of stress-relief. She likes to be tan and loves her swimming tan line. The piano, is yet another love-hate relationship. Like most teenagers, her hobbies include MSNing, blogging, and youtubing and facebooking. She loves shopping and doing random stuff like gaying people, jumping over railings, walking in the rain, and having completely irregular sleeping hours. Unlike most teenagers, she thinks that rap music is trash. She also thinks that she is getting old cause she hates the songs the average listens to these days. She can’t explain her love for oldies, country music, ballads, and sentimentals. Nostalgic songs are the best. Her favourite bands are Michael Learns to Rock, The Beatles and Westlife. She loves too many singers to name them all. “Forevers” are bullshit as of now. The night speaks to her the way no one else can. Her favourite thing to do is to curl up with a book on a rainy afternoon in her room, where she feels safest in. Her favourite flower is a black rose, but on the contrary, she likes rainbows and hugs too. She is always torn between two. But she is determined when she sets her mind on something, so she wants the world to shut up and believe in her. Just watch.Tag
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Thursday, October 16, 2008, 9:37 PM
change of heart.
Completed "Change of Heart" by Jodi Picoult a minute ago. It was good, but it also had a few flaws. Starting off, you know the kind of book where you had to stop reading once in awhile just to let everything sink in perfectly and then think about what you would do in that situation, or even trying to put yourself into the feelings of the character. My sympathy for the deathrow inmate can't be put into words although he wasn't completely innocent, but he's a good guy, very good guy. Confusing? It's okay.The first thing I thought of after finishing the book, that is after the emotions finally got tamed, was "oh that must have been a damn hard book to write." I'm sure alot of research had to be put into this - the death penalty & murder stuff, the gnostic gospels, and the stuff about heart transplants. On top of it all you had to dig deep into the thoughts and feelings of each and every character, the victims' mother/wife, the lawyer, the spiritual advisor/priest, and the neighbouring inmate. And somehow through that you still had to portray Shay Bourne's emotions too - not an easy task because none of it was written in first person from his perspective.
Most of my favourite parts in the book were from the viewpoints of Lucius DuFresne because it talks about the life in prison, or i-tier the one they are at. Yes not the lawsuit part. I like it when he talks about their everyday lives, the things they do, the things that happen. I just found it quite sad you know, their condemned lives, although most of them, you know, deserved it.
447 pages is obviously too much for a mother to decide whether to use the heart of the man who murdered her daughter and second husband, to save her second daughter eleven years after the drama (which what Shay requested). Thus plot was complicated by the "Death Row Messiah" thing:
"...complicated by the miraculous powers of the condemned man. He is a 33-year-old carpenter who sounds stunningly familiar. He cures the sick, turns water into wine, feeds the hungry (albeit with bubble gum) and revives a dead baby bird. His name is Isaiah M. Bourne, which can be shortened to I. M. Bourne, which can be read as “I am born” in bold-face type in a book blessed with the subtlety of a jackhammer. Isaiah is known as Shay, but he also acquires a nickname: “the Death Row Messiah.”"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/books/24masl.html
And also that he carved out an exact same tattoo on his palm as Lucius in the next cell even though he couldn't see him, and that he revived a warden/officer after being killed by a new inmate and proclaimed dead.
Sad to say I did skip two or three pages occasionally, cause they were just droning on and on about religious facts. I kinda consider them as being redundant cause there isn't any difference in reading those parts and not reading them. And I couldn't understand it anyway cause it was so cheem like profound. LOL.
Neither did I think Maggie Bloom's (the lawyer) family life has got anything to do with the original plot. So what's with the talk of her relations with her mum or that her dad was heavily Jewish? I mean like there was no need to elaborate much on that, so yeah. I wasn't very impressed by the lawsuit thing either, cause some of the parts got pretty draggy and the emotions were just wiped off.
Epilogue was pretty disappointing and I would have expected better. The idea that Claire Nealon (the second daughter) held her dead dog in her arm after the heart transplant and he actually revived again was good. But I still think the conclusion Nineteen Minutes was better (it actually brought tears)! And nineteen minutes was more heartwrenching and emotion-filled, and that one was obviously more appealing to me cause the main characters are teenagers (and their school life) and their parents.
If you are still reading on (which would be really surprising), I'll tell you why I feel sympathy towards Shay Bourne (spoiler, dudes). He worked as a carpenter and was hired by June Nealon (she was pregnant with Claire) 11 years ago, and he was especially fond of her daughter Elizabeth. So it happened this fateful day where he left his tools back in their house, so he went back to retrieve them. Nobody answered the door but he went in anyway, and saw the girl's stepfather sexually abusing her. Girl was crying but smiled when she saw Shay cause she believed he would rescue her.
So he did. He picked her up and ran to the third storey and locked them in a room, but Kurt Nealon was a police officer (talk about irony) and he shot the door down.
[oh wait i just received a call from someone and now im like WOW what a coincidence but i shall not tell you what :D]
And so Shay Bourne and him were fighting over the gun cause Shay didn't want him to hurt Elizabeth and somehow the gun went off and Elizabeth got shot anyway. So Shay went out of his mind and shot Kurt. And then the police came and try and figure who was more likely to be the paedophile - a respected policeman or an eff-ed up carpenter? Well DNA wasn't invented yet or something so the semen sample (-.-) couldn't be tested.
He wasn't completely innocent but the murder charges were wrong. And guess what, he only confessed the truth to the priest two weeks before the execution. Before that he took the blame for everything okay, and guess why? Because he thinks June Nealon is a very nice woman and wanted her to remember her husband with pride, not hate him for molesting her daughter, and he wanted her to savour the memories. Like wth where got people so nice right?!?!?!
And he previously got sent to a juvenile delinquent place or something cause he set a fire in his foster home, but fact was that his sister did it and he took the blame. LIKE WHERE GOT PEOPLE SO NICE LOL.
Ok byebye. I shall go bathe and finish watching the last five episodes of Coffee Prince! :D & lastly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAPHNEEEEEEE! :D