• The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
  • Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
  • His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
  • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
  • Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
  • The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
  • Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
  • Catch-22, Joseph Heller
  • Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
  • Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
  • Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
  • The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
  • The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  • Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
  • Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
jan 28 2009 ∞
jan 28 2009 +
jan 18 2009 ∞
jan 18 2009 +
jan 18 2009 ∞
jan 18 2009 +
  • learn every word from 20-volume oxford english dictionary
  • travel around the world by boat
  • spend days and days sunbathing and swimming on beautiful beaches
  • live on a desert island for a while
  • have a incredibly equipped kitchen, ingredients from whole world and then cook cook cook
  • have huge library and read read read (learn learn learn)
  • teach
feb 2 2009 ∞
feb 2 2009 +
  • Art&Decoration magazine
  • knowing who I am
  • sail the seven seas
  • cookies and cold milk
  • very cheap cafeteria lunches
  • weekend trips to Zagreb
  • sharing a dream
  • popcorn
  • teriyaki peanuts
  • they, who make me laugh
  • getting on time
  • wind
  • city lights at night
  • traveling by aeroplane
  • town decorated for Christmas
  • weekends
  • being of full age
  • shopping bargains
  • 35% and 48% chocolate
  • taking long hot showers
  • trying to be truly generous and sympathet...
nov 7 2008 ∞
jan 25 2009 +
  • Jitterbug Perfume (Tom Robbins)
  • Inkspell
  • Inkdeath
  • Becoming a translator (Douglas Robinson)
  • Brave new words [Language Lover's Guide to the 21st Century](Kerry Maxwell
  • A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning (Peter Skehan)
  • DICTIONARIES:ART&CRAFT OF LEXICOGRAPHY (Sidney I. Landau)
  • DICTIONARY OF SLANG [And Unconventional English](Eric Partridge)
  • Oxford English Dictionary (20 volume edition)
  • The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland (Daniel Hahn and Nicholas Robins)
  • Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World

1750 to the Present (4672 pages)

  • The Oxford Handbook of Computational Ling...
jan 17 2009 ∞
jan 18 2009 +
  • my cats
  • Morning Glory stationary
  • lists
  • watching men playing team sport (except soccer)
  • washing dishes/cooking and listening to corny pop music
  • A-line skirts
  • stumble & del.icio.us
  • handball and handball players
  • Hana Kimi (taiwanian version)and Quan
  • watching AVA's soap operas with my family
  • msn emoticons determining new kinds of emotions
  • scents which I smell early in a morning during my walk to school and the way they bring up memories and associations
  • realizing that first impression was wrong
  • museum shops
  • ginger ale
oct 13 2008 ∞
jan 25 2009 +
  • He who angers you controls you
  • ""Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called."

— A. A. Milne (Winnie-the-Pooh)

  • "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else."

— G.K. Chesterton

  • "How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. "

— Annie Dillard

  • "If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where t...
dec 6 2008 ∞
jan 30 2009 +