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(no subject) [Jul. 11th, 2009|11:37 am]
Hellowwwww Chipmunks!
[My eyebags are pushing eye-luggages. PFFT!]
Yes, I'm mad, I know. Thank you for reminding me.
I do not like China Studies in English, Independent Study Paper.
I do not like China Studies in English, Independent Study Paper, at all.
In fact, I loathe China Studies, Independent Study Paper with every fibre of my being.
You feel me?

Right, now that that's done:
Back to China Studies in English, Independent Study Paper.

 
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Funny Web Things [Jul. 5th, 2009|08:14 pm]
1) Ivan on Facebook:

Was playing a game when I saw this. Funniest joke ever, considering that Ivan is now training as a commando in the Indonesian army. The only bit of power I have over him is I know where all his ticklish points are. And he is VERY ticklish.


2) Stupidest Bike Lane ever:

Watch it for yourself. It really IS the stupidest bike lane ever.


3) 'Ang Moh' english. Tsk!:

Checked just to make sure. Bicycling doesn't exist in the British dictionary. It does in the American though. Eeesh. What happened to cycling, then?


4) Get fit in Six minutes:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/can-you-get-fit-in-six-minutes-a-week/
Basically, you need to exercise like mad for six minutes in short intervals. But you really need to go beyond your comfort levels. In other words, it's gotta hurt. But hey, it's six minutes. I'm not going to complain.


5) Comments about other stupid bike lanes:

I like the fact that it's not just one stupid bike lane in the video, and one other comment, but another 181 stupid bike lanes in America. Even if you consider the overlaps, it's still a lot. This comment, however, was brilliantly funny. Whoever drew out that bike lane must have been a bleeding retard.

Mrawr, Youth Day break tomorrow. Gives me some time to catch up with more revision, and go to the library to finish my book research. Went today, but didn't have enough time. Shall get everything else settled tomorrow, if I bother enough.

I really hope that the number of people who have contracted H1N1 does not reach 1000. I really cannot afford to have schools closed down. It's just not cricket.

Sweet potato fritters (or sweet potato balls as we call them at home) are to die for. Especially when they are freshly fried. We get ours from..... and suddenly I forget the name. The market opposite the huge ass temple at Chinatown. They are GOOOD. Just really oily, but nothing some tissue paper cannot solve.

Went down to the library earlier. The reference library is pretty much the only place where I can actually find the books I need. Which means I need to photocopy them. That's the annoying bit, because you can't borrow books out of the reference library. It is also a wonderful place filled with so many other wonderful books on issues like political sciences, ethics, religion and so on. (I'm a nerd like that). Which means that whilst I'm looking for the books I need on the shelves, I also take out other books that are completely irrelevant but so darn interesting. That's the annoying bit, because I haven't the time to read them, and I can only cry as I very painfully put them back onto the shelves promising to read them the very moment I finish my A levels. Don't you just love reading and learning like that? No? Sigh, I know. It's just me.


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Jigga-Wigga-Jigga Bop! [Jul. 4th, 2009|12:24 am]



Been dancing like mad to this song!

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GWMTK: Faith is exactly what it takes to get through uncertainty. [Jul. 1st, 2009|12:55 am]
Faith is not necessary when you know how things are going to work out,
- that's knowledge.
It's in the time of unknowing that having faith is what sees you through to the other side.
Faith is what gives you strength.
Faith is that light in your heart that keeps on shining even when it's all darkness outside.
Now is the time to keep that faith alive!
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(no subject) [Jun. 30th, 2009|03:56 pm]
Ahem.
Amelia has gone off to Sweden and UK.
With her family, naturally.
And with Isaac.
*Jealous*
 
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Sunday Evening Blues (in anticipation of the Monday Blues) [Jun. 28th, 2009|07:33 pm]
"School Re-opens" denotes a very many awful, nasty things. Especially tomorrow's. Tomorrow means a few things:
1) Start of ASP (and stupid GP MSP)---2 1/2 hours of lectures on our H2 subjects almost everyday. In the bleeding afternoon, or worse, morning for GP. Why can't we have night classes?! I'd seriously prefer to leave day time for sleeping and night time for staying awake.
2) Intensification of preparations for Literary Festival. Rehearsals everyday. Oh Joy!
3) The whole "no-time-prelims-exams-no-time-stress-homework-no-time-stress-A-levels-no-time" chants. Oh God.
4) The extra load of homework to do, which means less time for revision, which means less time for sleep to make time for revision.
5) Bloody CSE IS.
sigh....

On a side note: Photos from recent trip to Malaysia will be up when I feel like editing them.
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(no subject) [Jun. 27th, 2009|12:38 am]
Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I'm haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you.
Boo, Forever by Richard Braughtigan
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(no subject) [Jun. 19th, 2009|11:24 pm]
Conversation between the sister and I [the most traumatising so far]:

Jean: omg omg omg!!!!!
Jean: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0WWOpH0oPk&feature=related
Jean: see see see!
Jean: cutenesss

and the video started playing, and this was what she so desperately wanted me to see:


Me: EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Me: YUCK
Me: WHERE GOT CUTE?!
Jean: I think it is

The frightful child. No pun intended.

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Holiday Homework--the most cruel irony [Jun. 17th, 2009|11:48 am]
1. Finish Reading UN Notes
2. Do Secretary Generals' Diaries [DONE]
3. Attempt IH UN "Peace-Keeping Post Cold War" SBQ
4. Read Articles on Corfu and Nicaragua and Do the Case Study
5. GP Grammar Worksheet
6. GP Newspaper Articles--20 Articles
7. Finish reading ASEAN Notes.
8. At least, finish CSE BRB Articles on Economy.
9. IS

Updates
I want to finish watching:
Are You Being Served
Grace and Favour
Blackadder

I want to watch:
Johnny Mnemonic
Scent of a Woman

I want to read:
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding how good people turn Evil, by Phillip Zimbardo
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
The Entire Sandman series by Neil Gaiman
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Crazy Hair by Neil Gaiman
The Day I Swapped my Dad for Two Goldfish by Neil Gaiman
Angels in my hair by Lorna Byrne
The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
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Conversation with Andri: Future Husbands and the feminine Oedipus complex [Jun. 15th, 2009|10:19 pm]
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Btw chris pine is cute.  Ahh
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Who is that
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 E male lead in star trek
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 ohh ok
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 His eyes esp
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 ^^
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
   Neh,  We marry a white guy k
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 YES!  I FULLY AGREE! 
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Higher chance of our offspring gettin piercing blue eyes.  White white skin.
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Hahaha yes. Then no need to waste money on whitening lotion.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 N hmmm hair which is nt black. Preferably blonde or red.
YES!
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Of course, if not our kid will confirm have black hair.  I don't really like Blond or Red.  brownish nicer
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 To hell w whitening lotion!!!
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Hahahaha!  Yes, we must find.  I want either German one or English one. You?
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I like red hair!  Interesting!
 Hmm andri wants a french, irish or brit.  Brit preferably 
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 I  <3  their accents
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Yes!
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Super dreamy ^^  *swoons*
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 They make everything sound like shakespeare
 *catches neh on a stretcher after she swoons*
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 HAHAHAHHA
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Hahha
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 mreowr  we have very funny dreams
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 They're rarer than a chanel bag in spore!  We hv to go to europe!  Lol
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Hmm...  They should have like a shop,  and a catalogue for us to choose from 
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Omg!!!! YES
|Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Makes life so much easier for us females ^^
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Den we can choose e characteristics
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 YA!  Physical and personal characteristics! Oooh such a lovely lovely idea!
 Even,  even if such a shop didn't exist,  the catalogue would still be a lovely novelty to have.
Hahah even if we can't have the option of choice, we can still have the freedom to look and gush and daydream ^^
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Hmmm wat shall we choose den?
 Loving, caring?
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 I want someone stable and independent.  The occasional romantic. Incredibly intelligent.  But with a high EQ as well.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Hmm I want sum1 who can hv friendly bickering w me
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 YES!  Very important. If not, I'll die of boredom.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 hahahah  Pleasant looking.  I don't want handsome
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Me neither...
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I'll get tired of his face lol
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Sometimes, too handsome also not so good
 Hahaha yea
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 U know wat?!
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Hmm?
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I want someone who will b able to complement me
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Don't we all ^^
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Watever I don't hv, he has
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 It'll balance nicely
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 So we'll b a perfect circle
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 We have such unrealistic dreams, haven't we?
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Yup.  We can dream
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Methinks, that's the one thing I'm most grateful for.
 For all the shit that life/fate/God throws at me, I'm glad I can still dream.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
Ahhh yea
|Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 "HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams..."
This is why I love the Romantics.  They capture the epitome-s so beautifully
Fragile, fragile dreams. I'm glad I can still dream.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 If I can't find anyone, I'll gladly marry someone like my dad.
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 I think you have a lovely dad.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I've read dat smwhr
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 If I can't find anyone, I'll marry someone like my dad too.
 It's a Freudian thing. Sigmund Freud has this theory that girls usually marry someone like their Dads.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I think ur dad is cool
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
I think so too ^^
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Oh my! It was featured on e newspaper last yr
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 what?
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I rmb reading it.  Dat freudian theory
  ||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 Is super cool right?
 Maybe that's why I generally like older guys.
 As in, I can think that guys my age or younger guys are good looking or whatever.
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 Mayb me too
 Hahh
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 But I love the chilvary, maturity, and stability that is suppose to come with Older men.
 http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/070613_father_partners.html
Andri is finally breathing jakarta's air says:
 I want sum1 who can take care of me or at least keep a lookout. But not in dat bodyguard manner.
||Freckles|| Life is a ball of Lint says:
 YES.
I'm glad we share the same views on this :D

 
 

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Updates: 140609 [Jun. 14th, 2009|02:09 pm]


Cafe Latte for Manang. Made it for her. I had one for myself, but with pink himalayan rock salt in the milk. Quirky, but lovely. Don't quite like the angle of the picture though. A tad too high up methinks. Grr.



RAWR! I EATS YOU! Is be a chicken's head, with a carrot decoration behind it.


CTG 124, 2008. From Left: Rio, Me, Navi. I miss my rings.


Erdnuss der Katze. Or Peanut. Or Imogene. Or it's real name: Bruce. Poor cat.


Ferkel. His face is so black, you can't see his eyes.


November 2007, Gabriel's birthday. Do I really honestly look like a boy in this picture?


Ferkel! He always gets very mesmerised by my computer screen. Then after a moment of being stunned, he'd rush and proceed to type all sorts of nonsense with his body. I <3 Ferkel. Except when he squeaks like a bird for no rhyme or reason.


Construction at 'the garden'. I didn't even know it was referred to as 'The Garden' in school. For the last two and a half years, I had always referred to it as 'that bare waste of land behind nothing'. When I took the picture, it was with the intention to catch the light rays. Which aren't too obvious (is be in the centre of the picture). Rio noticed how beautiful it was, so I took it, and tried meddling with shadows and light and highlights, and this is the best I could capture it.


I love my eyes. I think they are my best physical asset. Or emotional. Or Psychological. Or... =) I love my eyes.



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(no subject) [Jun. 8th, 2009|06:58 pm]
He kissed her. She gave no sign either way. Her lips were warm and dry.

In a minute she said:

"That was very sweet. And very badly done."

"I can do better," he mumbled….
-The Citadel, AJ Cronin

"A few nights later, I am sitting by Grandma's bed, reading Mrs. Dalloway to her. It's evening. I look up; Grandma seems to be asleep. I stop reading, and close the book. Her eyes open.
'Hello,' I say.
'Do you ever miss him?' she asks me.
'Every day. Every minute.'
'Every minute,' she says. 'Yes. It's that way, isn't it?' She turns on her side and burrows into the pillow.
"Good night,' I say, turning out the lamp. As I stand in the dark looking down at Grandma in her bed, self-pity floods me as though I have been injected with it. It's that way, isn't it? Isn't it."
- Audrey Niffenegger, The Time-Traveler's Wife

"The radios that pass by here play nothing but rap music. Sounds like somebody feeding a rhyming dictionary to a popcorn popper."
-Skinny legs and all, Tom Robbins

"Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death"
-The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

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Deeper Conversation by Yuna [Jun. 6th, 2009|12:15 am]
Is your favourite colour blue?
Do you always tell the truth?
Do you believe in outer space?
Now I'm learning you

Is your skin as tanned as mine?
Does your hair flow sideways?
Did someone took a portion of your heart?
Now I'm learning you

And if you don't mind
Can you tell me
All your hopes and fears
And Everything that you believe in
Would you make a difference in the world
I'd love for you to take me to a deeper conversation
Only you can make me

I let my guard down for you
And in time you will too

If you don't mind
Can you tell me
All your hopes and fears
And Everything that you believe in
Would you make a difference in the world
I'd love for you to take me to a deeper conversation
Only you can make me

If you don't mind
Can you tell me
All your hopes and fears
And Everything that you believe in
Would you make a difference in the world
I'd love for you to take me to a deeper conversation
Only you can make me

(4x)
Deeper Conversation
Does your name rhyme with mine...
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“Life is like Tango... sad, sensual, sexy, violent and quiet.” [Jun. 2nd, 2009|09:18 pm]
China Studies Independent Study paper sucks big time.
Thank God for the few working papers I had managed to find online.
[Schwein and Ferkel are making their happy noise again.]

The only thing that has been keeping me sane the entire afternoon is TANGO.
[Andri--Methinks I will not be heading to the library for research this week.]
Tango is hot, and sexy, and so violently passionate, yet, so graceful, and elegant, and classy.

I want to learn to Tango.
Be it classical or Argentinian.
It's all beautiful.

Found many movies that revolve their storyline around tango.
Scent of A Woman [with an oh so charming, though blind, Al Pacino], Shall We Dance [also with an oh so charming Richard Gere], Take The Lead [with an oh so charming Antonio Banderas], along with Chicago [with darling Richard Gere again] and Moulin Rouge [John Lequizamo!] because they do have some really great tango scenes.
You see, all the oh so charming darlings are in Tango movies, which means Tango is good!
From Take The Lead

 
From Shall We Dance
[This one is super gorgeous!]

 
From Scent of a Woman
[With a fantastic storyline to boot]

“Other music exists to heal wounds; but the tango when sung and played is for the purpose of opening them, for the purpose of sticking you finger in the wound and to tear them until they bleed”

On a side note:
I want to go to the Science Centre for the Da Vinci Exhibition before it closes!
 
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And All That Jazz [Jun. 1st, 2009|09:26 pm]
If ever given the chance to go to any point in history, one period I would love to go to is the Jazz Period.
It was all so exciting, in the streets, the stage and the boudoir.
It was a period of never ending glamour.
Which is one reason why I love the movie 'Chicago'.
Euphoria introduced it to me a few years back, through the song 'All That Jazz' and 'Roxie'.
Had to watch the movie. Did. Loved it. Still do.

Think of those autographs I'll sign
"Good luck to you, Roxie"
And I'll appear in a lavaliere
That goes all the way down to my waist
And I love the audience. And the audience loves me for
loving them. And I love the audience for loving me. And
we just love each other. That's because none of us got
enough love in our childhood.


Catherine Zeta Jones was hot in the show. Even though she was pregnant.
It didn't really show.
I love the sultry look that she pulled off in her eyes and lips.
She was definitely a better vaudevillian than Renee Zellweger.
If I could pull of that look, I'd cut my hair like that too.

The sexiest part of the show was this:

Sexy and Charming as ever.
Especially in the song "We Both Reached For The Gun."


This was my favourite part of the entire movie:
 

This is one reason why I want to learn the tango.
It's amazing how they can be so passionate and viscious, but yet, so graceful.
I want to watch the movie again.
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Baluchistan Pygmy Jerboa [May. 30th, 2009|11:31 am]
I WANT A BALUCHISTAN PYGMY JERBOA!!!!

Isn't it the most adorable thing you've ever seen??
And they hop!!


That's the Long-Eared Jerboa
WHICH IS ADORABLE TOO!!
I want!!!

Could someone get me a Balustichan Pygmy Jerboa or a Long-Eared Jerboa please?
I'll love you forever!

 
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(no subject) [May. 24th, 2009|09:07 pm]
This is Azis:
I don't like him.
I want his legs.
But, I'm just being me. Rawr.
A gay man in disguise.

School again tomorrow.
And so the wheel continues turning, upon a still that is not still
I need grounding.

Lock myself into my chair.
Glue the pen into my hand.
Chain my brains upon these books.
A little pain, instead of a life time of regret.
I think.
Damned butterfly effect.

AAA / A
I'm not really smart, you know? Just because I know things that most others don't does not equate to intelligence since I don't know most other things that they do. It's not brilliance. If anything, it's stupidity. Knowing silly things that will not get me anywhere. They are the smart ones.
 

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helfen [May. 17th, 2009|02:12 pm]
All I Need

I'm dying to catch my breath
Oh why don't i ever learn
I've lost all my trust though i've surely tried to
Turn it around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace

Don't tear me down
For all i need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear me down
You've opened the door now
Don't let it close

I'm here on the edge again
I wish I could let it go
I know that I'm only one step away
From turning around

Can you still see the heart of me?
All my agony fades away
When you hold me in your embrace

Don't tear me down
For all i need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something I can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place

I've tried many times but nothing was real
Make it fade away
Don't break me down
I want to believe that this is for real
Save me from my fear
Don't tear me down

Don't tear me down
For all i need
Make my heart a better place

Don't tear me down
For all i need
Make my heart a better place
Give me something i can believe
Don't tear it down
What's left of me
Make my heart a better place
Make my heart a better place

-Within Temptation
 
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Meh [May. 11th, 2009|01:58 pm]

What is your True Fear?
Your Result: Commitment
 

Even though it may not always seem like it, deep down you are afraid of being committed to anything serious. You love the feeling of being carefree and not having anything tying you down. You're afraid that someone or something that may tie you down in life, will keep you from reaching other goals. You may also be afraid of getting hurt. You need to open yourself up more to possibilities and realize that sometimes it's good to be committed to something that you really care about. Just because you're an independent, free-spirited person doesn't mean that being committed to anything is going to change who you are.

Where Your life is Going
 
Disappointment
 
Losing Someone
 
Looked down on
 
Being Alone
 
Death
 
What is your True Fear?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz



What Be Your Nerd Type?
Your Result: Literature Nerd
 

Does sitting by a nice cozy fire, with a cup of hot tea/chocolate, and a book you can read for hours even when your eyes grow red and dry and you look sort of scary sitting there with your insomniac appearance? Then you fit this category perfectly! You love the power of the written word and it's eloquence; and you may like to read/write poetry or novels. You contribute to the smart people of today's society, however you can probably be overly-critical of works.

It's okay. I understand.

Drama Nerd
 
Social Nerd
 
Gamer/Computer Nerd
 
Artistic Nerd
 
Musician
 
Anime Nerd
 
Science/Math Nerd
 
What Be Your Nerd Type?
Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

IQ Test from Tickle:

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This is how I want to always feel... [May. 3rd, 2009|03:02 pm]
I think I'm in Love....

















http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx0e57LkpCE

"The requiem mass is not at all gay," Erik's voice resumed, "whereas the wedding mass-- you can take my word for it-- is magnificent! You must take a resolution and know your own mind! I can't go on living like this, like a mole in a burrow! Don Juan Triumphant is finished; and now I want to live like everybody else. I want to have a wife like everybody else and take her out on Sundays. I have invented a mask that makes me look like anybody. People will not even turn around in the streets. You will be the happiest of women. And we will sing, all by ourselves, till be swoon away with delight. You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself." -POTO, Gaston Leroux
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