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Se7en

Seven…such a magical number. Below are my whimsical rantings on seven…. Se7en Things I Plan To Do ….with immediate effect 1. Clean up my room 2. Smile and encourage/compliment someone 3. Start sleeping earlier and stop skipping meals…especially my dinner. 4. Challenge myself more physically…it’s high time I add more weights for my BodyPump class…Sue, if you’re reading this, I know I know…and stop laughing!!! 5. Throw away all the “white elephants” in my room…dunno why I am such a collector of “rubbish” as my father would say. 6. Practice my piano AND violin more often….I’m trying to aim at 2 hours a day…hmmm, with my schedule, I’m more like aiming to fail! 7. Stop procrastinating so much…haha…what an oxymoron… ….not so immediate 1. Finish my Grade 8 or diploma or higher for my piano and violin…ha! Getting really ambitious… 2. Get an apartment/house of my own…too tired of renting rooms and shifting house 3. Go bungee jumping or parachuting. 4. Learn how to do break dancing…my inspiratio

Shameless or Purposeless...

I’m not much of a book reviewer but I just finished reading this book called Shameless by Paul Burston and I kinda have lots of mixed feelings about the whole story. With my busy schedule, it’s not easy for me to squeeze much time to read fictional works but after reading the synopsis of this book my curiosity was piqued so I dived in. Also part of the reason was because one of the supporting characters share my name too…not that she is anything like me in particular! The synopsis read like this… “Martin is kind, decent and good-looking. And look where it's got him. His boyfriend of four years has run off with a male prostitute. His friends John and Caroline are no help-John prefers infamy to sympathy and Caroline is too busy trying to work out if her wonderful, sensitive boyfriend is a closet case. And to top it all, Martin's hippie father turns up to stay, wearing his "Proud to be an Embarrassing Parent" badge. And so Martin jumps head first into hedonism, throwing