• Reading List to finish before Autumn begins (hopefully):
• Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
• High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
• Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
• About a Boy by Nick Hornby
• The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Attwood
• The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
• The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
• The Waves by Virginia Woolf
• The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
• The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
• The Mys...

• No breakfast

People who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.

• Overeating

It causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.

• Smoking

It causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.

• High sugar consumption

Too much sugar will interrupt t...

• private numbers who call and don't talk, then end up hanging up (it freaks me out!)
• people who leave voicemails that are just themselves breathing (it's costing me!)
• 5c coins

• Olafur Eliasson exhibition @ MCA
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs @ Hordern Pavillion
• Festival First Night
• Grizzly Bear @ City Recital Hall
• Big Day Out
• Powerhouse Museum
• Shoot the player @ Carriageworks
• Moonlight Cinemas
• Generation Next @ MCA
• Melbourne? ... hopefully

(need to add more)

• splendid
• voluptuous
• belligerent
• twat
• antebellum
• chignon
• chivalry
• clavicle
• eloquence
• flaxen
• guild
• guillotine
• hellenistic
• ethereal
• rustic
• tulle
• velveteen
• retaliate
• meniscus
• decapitated
• ectoplasm
• phantasmagoria
• spifflicated
• goop
• spool
• unconscionable
• contraption
• tincture
• flamboyant
• ephemeral
• quintessence
• rhetoric

1. Canon Legria HFS11 video camera (dream on….)
2. new external hardrive
3. Ray Ban ‘clubmasters' (bought Le Specs: The Tuxedo instead)
4. Arrested Development boxset
5. The Mighty Boosh : Future Sailors Tour dvd
6. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
7. Elliott Smith’s ‘Either/Or’ on vinyl
8. Elliott Smith's ‘Figure 8’ on vinyl
9. Nikon 10-24mm f/3.5-4.5 G ED AF-S DX lens (which costs more than my camera body itself!...

• When people don't start text messages with a 'hi' or nice greeting
• Work giving me ridiculous hours
• Overloading of mental notes and organising
• Tom Waits
• Gym junkies/People who brag about going to the gym
• Tacky sunglasses
• Fast food
• Gloria Jeans' coffee
• Bogans
• Fake Wayfarers
• People who disobey road rules
• Bring me the horizon
• Cardboard injuries
• Generic messages in any greeting cards

• Snail mail
• The fact that I've finished high school forever
• Sleep
• Praying Mantis'
• Tall Asian people (they're not common :p)
• Doctor's offices
• Cool breezes
• The satisfaction of crossing something off my to-do list

• A Serious Man
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Being John Malkovich
• Synecdoche: New York

• Arcade Fire
• Spoon
• Angus and Julia Stone
• Motion City Soundtrack
• Los Campesinos
• Vampire Weekend
• John Butler Trio
• Interpol
• Patrick Wolf

• Scarlett
• Brigitte
• Anja
• Eleanora
• Annika
• Harriet
• Adriana
• Irina
• Chloe
• Ingrid
• Violet
• Amelia

• Elliott
• Felix
• Oscar
• Chester
• Sebastian
• Lawrence
• Alexander
• Alek
• Kenneth
• Dominic
• William
• Xavier

• Carey Mulligan
• Julia Frakes
• Katie Fogarty
• The girl who works at the Alannah Hill store in the Strand Arcade, Sydney
• Michael Cera (because i probably could)
• Anja Rubik
• Chloe Sevigny
• Myf Shepperd
• Abigail Breslin
• Karen O
• Emma Watson
• Natalie Portman
• Emily Haines
• Daniel Radcliffe
• Matt Tong (Bloc Party)
• Patrick Wolf
• Mitch Hewer
• Chloe Sevigny
• Laura Marling
• Alison "VV" Mosshart : The Kills
• Cory Kennedy
• Hannah Murray
• Kaya Scode...

1. Socks: buy ten pairs of black cotton socks and ten woollen; and stick to black for the rest of your life, saving hundreds of hours trying to match odd socks.
2. Knots: these tend to tighten under tension: compression can loosen them; so to unpick, push rather than pull apart, first stiffening up the cord by twisting with (not counter to) the cord’s existing twist.
3. Shaving: except when the stubble is ...

• Finish Lolita
• Crime and Punishment
• Trainspotting
• Stargirl
• The Lovely Bones
• Love in the time of Cholera
• Chantaram
• Looking for Alaska
• On the Road
• Count of Monte Cristo
• Vanity Fair
• The Age of Reason
• Some Non-Fiction
• Some Germaine Greer
• Some Simone de Beauvoir
• Some Neil Gaiman
• Brideshead Revisited

• Star Wars
• Foreign Films
• Woody Allen
• Alfred Hitchcock - Psycho, Vertigo, Birds, etc.
• Stanley Kubrick - Dr. Strangelove, 2001, The Shining, Lolita
• Lars Von Trier - Dancer in the Dark, Dogville, Europa
• Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine, Science of Sleep, Be Kind Rewind, Human Nature
• Clint Eastwood
• Lord of the Rings
• James Bond
• Cannes
• Steven Spielberg
• Quentin Tarantino
• Tim Burton
• Coen Brothers
• Michael Haneke
• Ingmar Ber...

• Star Wars Marathon
• Where the Wild Things Are
• The Dreamers
• Whip It
• Moon
• Trainspotting
• An Education
• Be Kind Rewind
• Adaptation
• Grindhouse
• Gone With the Wind
• Annie Hall
• New York, I love you
• Paris, Je taime
• Lord of the Rings marathon
• Human Nature
• High Fidelity
• Beetlejuice
• Dead Poet's Society
• Death At A Funeral
• Magnolia
• Love me if you dare (jeux d'enfants)
• Pretty In Pink
• Some Kind of Wonderful
• Boys Don't Cry
• Prosaic Nation
• Rushm...

via

1. Bake a tray of double chocolate chip cookies and eat them while they’re still warm. Or even cupcakes, everyone loves cupcakes.
2. Get into some DIY fashion, stud your boots, rip up a t-shirt, learn to tie-dye turn a piece of your clothing into something totally different.
3. Get out all your make-up and experiment with some new looks. Watch youtube tutorials, and copy. There is some amazing tutorial...

• Antichrist
• Gingersnaps
• Freddy Vs. Jason
• Paranormal Activity
• Kids
• Nightmare on Elm St.
• Jeepers Creepers
• The Blair Witch Project
• Quarantine
• Queen of the damned
• Boogie Nights
• Cabin Fever
• Hostel I and II
• OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE
• Silent Hill

• The Handsome Suit
• The Chef of the South Pole
• The Homeless Student
• The Blue Bird
• Gravity's Clowns
• All Around Us
• Kamogawa Horumo: Battle League in Kyoto
• Oppai Volleyball
• Detroit Metal City
• Ponyo
• Happy Family Plan
• Summer Days With Coo
• Yunagi City, Sakura Country
• The Kiss
• School Days With A Pig
• Penguins in the Sky - Asahiyama Zoo
• Kamui

a few people wanted to know what my list consisted of, so here's part of it:

· Work and earn moneyz

· Spring cleaning

· Pick up reading speed again

· Get into my daily-run routine again

· Formal-stuff shopping

· Sort out trust fund money for uni/what to do next year

· Master chess, poker, and jenga

· Experiment with stop motion

· Star gazing

· House hunting

· Re-read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

· F...

so, throughout the HSC year, i was living under a rock, and had no idea of any new music/films, etc. etc. things that were going on, etc. etc., events in sydney, etc. etc. i just went through liveguide and these are some gigs i found which i would go to if i was a millionaire, and if a majority of them weren't over 18s.

• Maximo Park (13th November): Nay. Brings back too many bad memories.
• Vampire Wee...

• An Education
• Moon
• Up
• Antichrist (won't be 18, so might have to stream this instead)
• Where the Wild Things Are
• Away We Go
• French Kissers
• Capitalism: A Love Story
• Whatever Works
• The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
• Brothers
• The Lovely Bones
• Avatar
• The Invention of Lying
• New Moon (to see what the hype is about)
• 2012
• A Serious Man
• Amelia
• Inception
• Fantastic Mr Fox
• Cold Souls
• Nowhere Boy
• The Lovely Bones
• The Informant
• In The L...

• play monopoly
• watch 10 Things I Hate about You
• daydream
• explore flickr
• dance in the rain
• midnight walks

• Matilda
• Mean Girls
• Finding Nemo
• Jumanji
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Garden State
• 10 Things I Hate About You
• Toy Story
• Amelie

• study
• study
• study
• study
• hsc exams from October 10 - November 11
• catch up on sleep
• work
• work
• work
• sleep some more
• save moneys
• complete my post-hsc to do list
• get results from hsc -> hopefully get into uni
• work
• go house hunting
• save moneys
• hopefully move out
• be happy
• be a creative-cool-awesome-multi-lingual-intellectual giant
• ...the list continues... as a new chapter of life begins ...

1. It takes your food seven seconds to get from your mouth to your stomach.
2. One human hair can support 3 kg (6 lb).
3. The average man’s penis is three times the length of his thumb.
4. Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.
5. A woman’s heart beats faster than a man’s.
6. There are about one trillion bacteria on each of your feet.
7. Women blink twice as often as men.
8. The average person’s skin weighs twice ...

At the start of the new millennium the Dalai Lama apparently issued eighteen rules for living. Since word travels slowly in the digital age these have only just reached me. Here they are.

1. Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.
2. When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.
3. Follow the three Rs:
1. Respect for self
2. Respect for others
3. Responsibility for all your actions.
4. Remember...

1. people who feel obliged to compliment people about their appearance
2. girls who constantly say "i'm so fat" to their friends before the formal
3. girls who complain about other girls being so skinny, and wishing they were like them
4. girls who say they will be "anorexic" for the day and night of the formal
5. that disgusting tone some girls use when they fake compliment someone's appearance
6. the same music they p...

• Swedish
• German
• French
• Japanese
• Finnish
• Learn to read & write Chinese (since I can only speak it)

• All Social Networks (Facebook, Myspace, etc.)
• Tumblr
• Just about all Web 2.0 sites I'm a member of
• Coffee
• Being lazy
• Over sleeping
• Over eating
• Over spending
• Pettiness
• Leaving things to the last minute
• Over complaining
• Procrastinating
• Over cleaning/organising which leads to wasting time

• Skins (series 1-2)
• Freaks & Geeks
• Pulp Fiction
• The Young Ones
• Nevermind the Buzzcocks
• Balls of Steel
• IT Crowd 3
• Brak Show
• Chowder
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force

• Michel Gondry
• Gus Van Sant
• Wes Anderson
• David Fincher
• Baz Luhrmann
• Danny Boyle
• Clint Eastwood
• Sofia Coppola
• Steven Spielburg
• Seth Rogen
• Quinten Tarentino
• Stanley Kubrick
• Alfred Hitchcock
• Spike Jonze

• The Catcher In The Rye by JD Salinger
• Choke by Chuck Palahnuik
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

1. rubicks cube
2. hannah montana guitar
3. magic 8 ball
4. baku-gun
5. ben 10 watch

• stop comparing myself to other people
• accept that my family dysfunction will never be resolved
• not take life so seriously
• not take things to heart
• be more focused and see that the HSC is extremely important
• control myself
• ignore the opinions of my arrogant family members, not accept it
• stop wasting time
• stop creating lists that won't benefit life
• look at life in a different perspective
• get out of where i am...

1. finishing preliminary hsc
2. closer friendships with a few people
3. Come Together Festival
4. Bloc Party (absolutely loved it)
5. getting my car license (to learn how to drive)
6. meeting people that are my good friends now
7. getting a Macbook
8. discovering Tumblr and Listography
9. spending three months of pay on my well-earned Nikon D80
10. making plans for 2009 (cause 2008 was a really shite year for me)

• Eucalyptus
• Marc Jacobs : Daisy
• Lavender
• Rose Incense
• Strawberries
• Peppermint
• Chloe perfume
• the new Ed Hardy
• Permanent marker
• Vera Wang : Princess
• Passion fruit body butter by the Body Shop
• Strawberry body butter by the Body Shop
• Incense (of all kinds)
• Fire
• Ocean
• Rain
• Chanel : Mademoiselle
• Artificial pineapple flavour

• JD Salinger
• Sylvia Plath
• Ernest Hemingway
• Charles Dickens
• Herman Melville
• William Faulkner
• Sigmund Freud
• Leo Tolstoy
• Anton Chekhov
• Anne Rice
• Oscar Wilde
• E.E. Cummings
• Henry Rollins
• Simone de Beauvoir
• Germaine Greer
• Fritz Lang

• Piano
• Guitar
• Bass guitar
• Clarinet
• Violin
• Recorder

• 80% of the juniors at my school
• people who type 'lyk dis'
• people spitting in public
• fluoro logo shirts
• spam mail/email
• those hiptop mobile things shit me
• when my tags are deleted on Facebook
• people who take up the whole path when walking
• extremely slow walkers
• forced/organised religion
• being distracted
• private numbers
• missed calls
• 'top friends'
• being interrupted when listening to my ipod
• when people play music o...

• tumblr
• facebook
• deviantART
• flickr
• Last.fm
• Myspace
• shelfari
• delicious
• twitter

• The Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
• Moby - Porcelain
• Stars - Romantic Comedy
• Radiohead - Idioteque
• Patrick Wolf - Tristan
• Mew - Special
• The Long Blondes - Weekend Without Makeup
• A Perfect Circle - Passive
• The Flaming Lips - Do You Realise?
• Massive Attack - Tear drop
• The Zutons - Valerie
• The Cure - Friday I'm In Love
• Radiohead - Exit Music (For A Film)
• MGMT - Time To Pretend
• Death Cab For Cutie - Photobooth
• Alexison...

• "Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" - Franz Kafka
• "This is love, isn’t it? When you notice someone’s absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?" - Everything is Illuminated
• "I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us…We need the books that...

• Quentin Tarantino
• Jack White
• Thom Yorke
• Damien Rice
• Anja Rubik
• Kim Deal
• Kim Gordon
• Hayley Williams
• Cindy Sherman
• Noel Fielding
• Julian Barret
• Richard Ayocade
• James Franco
• Kirsten Dunst
• Ingrid Newkirk
• Karen O
• Henry Rollins
• Chuck Palahnuik
• Frank Miller

• Stars - This Charming Man
• Placebo - Bigmouth Strikes Again
• Death Cab For Cutie - All is full of Love
• The Living End - Tainted Love
• Goldfinger - 99 Red Balloons
• Katy Perry - Electric Feel
• The Kooks - Kids
• Sarah Blasko - Flame Trees
• Lily Allen - Naive
• Vampire Weekend - Exit Music (for a film)
• Ben Folds - Such Great Heights
• Kevin Mitchell (Bob Evans) - Streets of your Town
• The Editors - Feel Good Inc.
• A Perfect C...

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
• Choke by Chuck Palahnuik
• Fight Club by Chuck Palanuik
• Junky by William S Borroughs
• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
• The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell
• Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
• The Virgin Suicides by Jeffery Eugenides

• Benoit Pioulard - Triggering Back
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Y Control
• Mew - Comforting Sounds
• White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button
• Green Day - Jesus of Suburbia
• New Order - Krafty
• White Stripes - Blue Orchid
• Bright Eyes - First Day Of My Life
• Bit By Bats - All Night
• All American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret
• Pixies - Velouria

• reblogging anything i find interesting on Tumblr
• refreshing my iGoogle page every two minutes to see if someone has sent me an email
• Facebook (no explanation needed)
• appearing offline on msn then watching people go online and offline and contemplating whether i should chat to someone or not
• refreshing my Tumblr dashboard every second
• making lists on listography that I will probably never end up complet...

• analogue photography
• dystopian fiction
• films about drugs
• drinking excessive amounts of tea
• people who send me emails and letters
• drawings people give me
• cuddles and hugs
• old furniture
• rabbits
• top hats
• heart shaped glasses
• lateral thinkers
• sylvia plath
• YSL models
• eyes
• collar bones
• autumn/winter
• standing in the rain
• being able to sleep
• british accents
• label makers
• post it notes
• violets
• pomegranate and blueberry juice
• vinta...

• London, England
• Tokyo, Japan
• African Safari
• Peru
• New York
• Montreal, Canada
• Paris, France
• Prague, Czech Republic
• Munich, Germany
• Auschwitz, Poland
• Antarctica
• Finland

• moleskine
• iCal
• mobile phone calendar and notes
• scribbled pieces of paper
• post it notes
• poster-calendar that comes with Frankie bi-monthly
• listography
• NowDoThis

• great personality
• humorous
• humble
• lanky/skinny/boney
• pretty eyes
• gives good hugs
• intelligent
• look like they are thinking
• NOT "buff", overbearing, arrogant
• modest
• altruistic
• generous
• caring
• honest
• not creepy!
• strange in a good way
• alternative to an extent
• similar taste in music
• similar taste in appearance/dresses well
• reads
• appreciates literature/film with substance
• likes to go on adventures with me
• will take photos wit...

1. Nikon D80 - AF-S Nikkor 18-135mm; F1.8 50mm
2. Olympus SP 500-UZ
3. Olympus MJU 1020
4. Holga 120CFN (with 35mm adapter; and polaroid back)
5. Diana F+ (with 35mm back)
6. Lomo L-CA (original)
7. Action Sampler
8. Lubitel 166B Universal
9. Polaroid Sun 600 LMS
10. Polaroid SX-70 Alpha 1
11. Polaroid 1200FF
12. Polaroid Spirit 600 CL
13. Polaroid Land Camera 1000
14. Polaroid Joycam 500
15. Polaroid Izone Camera
16. Polaroid Colour pack 80
17. Polaroid Spectra
18. Canon Can...

• Dawson's Creek
• Nintendo 64
• Pokemon
• Crazy bones
• Digimon
• The Trap Door
• Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
• Spice girls
• Goosebumps books
• saying "NOT" after every sentence
• rock paper scissors
• Captain Planet
• not being addicted to the internet
• Where's Wally?
• Cheez TV
• Tamagotchis
• The Rugrats
• Inspector Gadget
• Feral TV
• Art Attack
• Mario Cart

• ipod video - good for blocking out people when walking to and from school, clearly i do not want to talk to anyone
• macbook - contains my life in digital form
• desk in my room - is kind to me. it holds a lot of school work and folders and has handy organisation systems. it also lets me fall asleep on it when working late into the night
• dettol hand sanitiser - i can't walk out of the house without this ...

• i am cindy
• 19/02/1992
• proud vegan
• dreamer
• thinker
• likes reading letters and emails that people send me
• makes a lot of lists throughout the days (but really shouldn't)
• extremely pedantic
• overthinks things
• listens and cares
• often quiet most of the times
• is always the first to apologise
• always tired and drained of energy
• quotes a lot from the Mighty Boosh
• gets sick really easily
• loves to read
• fond of comfortable sil...