English

The thing that I despise the most about the English language is the stress. It’s so fucking inconsistent and vague. How do I know when to stress this or when to stress that syllable? It’s soooooo disorganized! GAWD.

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Inspired by WeiYun-sama. (Completed.)

Goal: One ten-minute play. (Approximately 8 pages of writing.)
Sub-Goal 1: 2 pages on Thursday. (Completed.)
Sub-Goal 2: 2 pages on Friday. (Completed.)
Sub-Goal 3: 1 page on Saturday. (Completed in advance.)
Completion: 8 out of 8 pages
Rules:
1. I will write, without doing anything else, from
(a) 7:00 – 8:00 am (Reward: Watch The Nanny. If I break this rule, I [...]

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America, oh America

Motto of which is: Be homogenized, or be belched out into the squalling slums of isolation like an irritant stuck in the throat of America’s collective consciousness.
Culture shock? No, no, no… more like cultural abrasion, chafing and scraping at my skin silently, relentlessly, every single second of every single day I am in that infernal [...]

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New Life Goal. (After I accomplish all the other life goals, yes.)

Introduce psychology as a subject into Malaysian secondary schools, especially Form 4 and Form 5. It will probably be harder because the motherfucking idiots have decided to limit the number of subjects you can take for SPM, but whatever. Die motherfuckers, die.
If I go to graduate school, I could write the textbooks. Plan the curriculum. [...]

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Why I (and perhaps other people) like playing The Sims 3

It fulfills the need for creation without having to put in any of the hard work that comes with real creation.

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Reflection on The Escapist

Eurocentrism. Reaching out, like pseudopodia of amoeba. Colonizations. Pushing back the boundaries of your cute little eurocentric world. Taking things that are ours, warping into things that are theirs. Limited, disfigured, small. Blac-an-whit. In planning? Hope to god you never accomplish it. The Earth is not something that cannot be fitted into your cute little [...]

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雖然沒有發覺﹐已經以西遊記網頁踩出利用深遠的中國文化在英語媒體界刻畫出小小的一片天地。那麼﹐就這樣繼續下去?

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Challenge to self:

Write something involving a deep, meaningful relationship between two men WITHOUT it involving sex or romantic love in any way, shape, or form. Make them completely non-related for extra points.

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List of books

that I will buy over www.amazon.com after I go back to the good ol’ US of A.
1. Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell
2. A Song of Ice and Fire
3. Check out Guy Gavriel Kay’s books.
4. Carol Berg’s books.
5. Steven Brust’s Vlad series. Also, House of the Jhereg.
6. These.
7. Joanna Russ, To Write Like a Woman: [...]

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I despise life.

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