Isn't this one gloomy picture? It seemed appropriate to my mood.

University starts for me, tomorrow. On one hand, this is fun. It makes me feel.... all grown up. On the other hand, it means lots and lots of work again. Which in turn means that I won't have much time left for 'fun' stuff, like lurking around in LJ. (and I've grown quite attached to my fandoms and flist, during the past few months.) See why I have gloomy thoughts?

And anyway, I hate doing actual work.

(Oh, and the picture has buildings, which, I'm told, has something vaguely to do with Engineering, which is what I'll be getting my degree in. :D)

I'm also kinda nervous. (Which is stupid, I know.)

Oh well. I'm going to keep a stiff upper lip....

Since I came across it...... Why not do the test?

Your results:
You are Spock

Spock 72% Data 69% Uhura 65% An Expendable Character (Redshirt) 65% Beverly Crusher 60% Geordi LaForge 60% Deanna Troi 60% Jean-Luc Picard 55% Chekov 50% Will Riker 50% Leonard McCoy (Bones) 45% Mr. Scott 45% Worf 45% James T. Kirk (Captain) 40% Mr. Sulu 20%

You are skilled in knowledge and logic. You believe that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Click here to take the Star Trek Personality Test

I've got a thing for memes these days....

List 10 of your favorite characters from different fandoms, and ask people to spot patterns in your choices, and if they're so inclined, to draw conclusions about you based on the patterns they've spotted.

That sounds rather risky!

Okay, while the first three are my favourites, I can't pick who I like best among them. So, those three are in the order of the length of my association with them.


1. Spock (Star Trek)
2. Gregory House (House MD)
3. Bertram Wooster (Jeeves and Wooster- Damn. I had a heartbreaking choice between him and Jeeves. Just so you know, I love both of them equally.)
4. Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes)
5. Achilles (The Iliad. I hope this counts....)
6. Jack Aubrey (Master and Commander. Another heartbreaking choice; Stephen and Jack.)
7. Elizabeth Bennet (Pride and Prejudice)
8. Edmond Dantes (Titular character from Count of Monte Christo)
9. Sirius Black (Harry Potter)
10. Susan Calvin (character in Issac Asimov's Robot stories)

Hmmm..... Wonder if I forgot anything.....

I'VE COME ACROSS THIS TWICE NOW. GUESS IT'S MY TURN.

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicise those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ, or not, as you see fit.


1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series- JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House- Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy- Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina- Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Alborn
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables- Victor Hugo

Sadly, many of my favourite books aren't there on this list......

Oh, and trenchcoatedson convinced me to read 'The Time Traveller's Wife', if I can possibly find it.....

No, never. I don't like the whole idea of Religion. I'd rather not be a Buddhist even. (I was raised as one.) Anything else will probably be worse for me.

I'm too much of a sceptic to believe in anything.

Instead of drawing things I've never seen, I drew something I really have. Since I live about 1 km from the beach, I get to see this sort of thing, all the time.

Actually, I had a conversation with someone, which reminded me again how much I love the sea. (Does the someone remember? LOL.)

Well, this is a good way as any to keep my journal updated.....

Oh well, since everyone is doing this......




01. Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper at their livejournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

Good Lord! I don't have five reasons. I adore 'Jeeves and Wooster'. I like this wallpaper. Jeeves's facial expressions are so great. I think Bertie looks really good in the big picture. And, it's a nice combination of screencaps. Ha ha. I made five.

There you go......

Well, Mickey mouse is kinda disturbing, considering that it's a MOUSE who talks.

But seriously, does Dennis the Menace qualify? If so, it's him. At least, the cartoon version my brother used to watch on TV was incredibly annoying.

I like the word 'twilight' in English. (Yeah, I know it's English. But it isn't my native language.)

"Joie de vivre' in French, and 'Zindagee' in Hindi. (which means life.)