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Book Sale II	[Oct. 25th, 2009\|12:26 pm]
New and unread: How to Read Nietzsche $10 mailed Jung- Aspects of the Feminine $10 mailed Rousseau by Nicholas Dent (about the life of Rousseau, his works etc) $15 mailed, bought at about $30 Creative Writing $10 mailed Good Condition, read once, slight yellowing of pages, no highlighting, no creases: The Woman in White by Wilke Collins $3 mailed Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and other Stories $3 mailed Absolutely no meet ups otherwise stated. All parcels will be mailed within 24 hours of receiving payment. Please add $0.20 if you want a certificate of postage to prove that I mailed out your parcel. Free registered postage will be given if you spend at least $20. Otherwise, please add $2 if you would like registered postage. Please email me at crazylorensa[AT]yahoo[DOT]com if you would like to buy any of these books.
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"Parking" space	[Oct. 22nd, 2009\|12:45 pm]
Normal high waist skirt 1) Fallen Leaves in Green Miss Bow 1)Vineyard Rose in blue Miss Saccharine 1) Whimsical Florals in Blue Wish List Miss Laced Roses- black satin or purple satin??? Miss Gypsy- vineyard floral in black, sweet reverie in purple Miss Bow- waist 32", length 23", funky dots in navy
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Book clearance sale 1

[Oct. 21st, 2009|08:47 pm]

Condition: Brand New, Never read before.

~~Player Piano by Kurt Vonneghurt $5 mailed~~

~~Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes $10mailed~~

Natural Supernaturalism by M. H. Abrams $15 mailed

~~Mien Kampf by Adolf Hitler $20 mailed~~

~~Michel Foucault~~

~~The Order of Things $10mailed~~

~~A History of Sexuality Part One $10mailed~~

This applies to all books listed below. Condition: Good, Read Once, Slight yellowing of pages, No dents on spine, No folded pages, Clean pages free from any writing, otherwise stated

~~Elizabeth Wurtzel~~

~~Prozac Nation $5 mailed~~

~~More, Now and Again $5 mailed~~

~~Freud~~

~~The Uncanny $5 mailed~~

~~The Interpretation of Dreams $5mailed~~

Other titles

~~The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath $5 mailed~~

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris $5 mailed

The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Winsenburger $3 mailed

~~Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen $3 mailed~~

~~Lucky by Alice Sebold $3 mailed~~

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Sublime and the Beautiful by Edmund Burke $5 mailed (A little neat highlighting using green highlighter)

~~Philosophy- The Basics by Nigel Warburton $5 mailed~~

Introducing Romanticism $5 mailed

~~Foucault- A very short introduction $5 mailed~~

Absolutely no meet ups otherwise stated. All parcels will be mailed within 24 hours of receiving payment.

Please add $0.20 if you want a certificate of postage to prove that I mailed out your parcel.

Free registered postage will be given if you spend at least $20. Otherwise, please add $2 if you would like registered postage.

Please email me at crazylorensa[AT]yahoo[DOT]com if you would like to buy any of these books.

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(no subject)	[Oct. 9th, 2009\|08:04 pm]
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This week has been tiring	[Aug. 1st, 2009\|08:00 pm]
Life hasn't been the same after my thesis title has been changed. My 4000 word draft which I wrote in July is now in scrap-paper-heaven because changing the title means changing the argument as well. And a new semester is starting soon, which means I'm obliged to work at a more productive rate. I suspect my brains have been fried too much by this thesis. I'm facing more moments of indecision. I took more than half an hour to decide on which pair of sunglasses to buy when I usually can decide in ten mins. I wasn't in the mood to go shopping that day, but I had no choice as my old pair of grey sunglasses had cracked. I can't do without sunglasses when I'm feeling particularly anxious about going out of the house. Wearing them helps me to avoid any eye contact with humans and hence any awkwardness which I may experience when some inconsiderate bugger decides to stare at me. Of course, I can never blame anyone for staring at me because of the way I dress. I put on too many accessories and overly huge earrings. Or because my clothes are mis-matched. When I went to school on Wednesday, I wore a black flared skirt with pink polka dots and a grey cardigan with printed black hearts over a teal lace camisole. This outfit was accompanied by the folowing accessories: Purple chain earrings with dangly beads and a butterfly charm and my purple stacked elasticized bracelet set.
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Why online shopping has managed to survive	[Jul. 8th, 2009\|12:03 pm]
Online shopping adds anticipation to our boring lives. Why pay for an item before you even get to touch it or try it on? To experience the excitement of waiting for it to arrive in the mail! WE ARE A PATHETIC GENERATION.
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With the option of using Twitter and FB status updates instead of writing a blog post	[Jul. 8th, 2009\|12:00 pm]
thoughts get simpler with the desire to squeeze all your feelings at the moment into one sentence. When thoughts become overly truncated, sustained discourse becomes nearly impossible. The problem of "yessss, i have a thesis statement but NOOOOOOO.....it cannot seem to move beyond its puny existence.
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I'm reluctant to blog because...	[Dec. 19th, 2008\|02:09 pm]
I have no privacy online because an IDIOT has been ceaselessly googling my email addresses. Also, I suspect that he has viewed by friends-only entries when my password was insecure. I'm not sure if that IRRITATING NON-ENTITY is still invading my privacy online. If YOU, yes, YOU, happen to be reading this, YOU'D BETTER STOP THINKING ABOUT ME!!!!
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Found while lj surfing	[Aug. 17th, 2008\|06:29 pm]
Instructions: - Look at the list and bold those you have read - Italicise the ones you want to read - Underline the books you really loved and strikethrough the ones really didn't enjoy - Reprint this list in your own journal if you want to... you know you want to. 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 (how about incomplete?) 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 - loved this as a child 34 Emma - Jane Austen 35 Persuasion - Jane Austen 36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis - isn't this the same as Chronicles? 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 A 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 Albom~~ 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
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I sell unwanted stuff at cash converters	[Apr. 18th, 2008\|05:28 pm]
In case you're not aware, cash converters is that place where people sell off their unwanted but still in working condition stuff. It's also the place where the low income and unemployed try to earn a few dollars. People there are either elderly or middle aged. I sell stuff to rid the home of clutter and to earn a few dollars, even though that amount isn't even enough for my lunch. I think the feeling of ridding the house of clutter is satisfying though:) It's also good to earn a few more dollars as these do add up to a substantial(I hope) amount over time. There's a need for more money as the times of good and lowly priced clothes from This Fashion may be coming to an end. I do hope that they wouldn't close down.
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removing that bottle cap	[Dec. 22nd, 2007\|02:15 pm]
I've finally managed to open that bottle with the help of this site: http://www.wikihow.com/Open-a-Bottle-Without-a-Bottle-Opener I used a stapler remover, which is now unfortunately splashed with fruity wine. Gotta buy a proper bottle opener. Can't possibly be risking an accident each time I open a bottle.
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My facade	[Jul. 6th, 2006\|07:02 pm]
I've got to mantain this appearance of social acceptability whenever I'm in the company of others. You may think that it confuses me to switch between these modes of behaviour. But I actually feel more confused if I have to behave the way I do with you and have the same feelings even when I'm alone. I don't think about the issue of the REAL ME as I believe that a human is comprised of various selves in conflict. But what amazes me is that many people whom I know actually possess the same mindsets consistently at all times. How do they do it? Perhaps that's why the idea of living in the same room as another person freaks me out as I do not know how my partner will react to my melancholic self or my reading habits. Experience has shown me that the appearance of social acceptability will get me far, but not the other, which will consume more of people's energy, so much so that they may stop hanging out with me altogether. My two selves or perhaps even more suport the existence of each other. I would not be able to appreciate the value of laughter if I'd never been to the other side. I can keep smiling the same way I can perpetually frown.
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This is just a subjective opinion of mine, so you're being really touchy here if you're offended	[Jul. 4th, 2006\|09:32 pm]
Sometimes, we are forced to be mean, not because we want to, but because the people around us drives us to it. Of course, I don't derive pleasure from being bitchy. But what if I'm at the receiving end of selfishness, arrogant behaviour and worse still, possessiveness? I wouldn't be nice to that pile of excretory material then. Really, why can't people just be nice to each other? And not take each other for granted? Perhaps everyone has received unkindness from others, so it is impossible to be civil. So those who have been treated shabbily by others will in turn treat others the same way? If the world comprises of people thus described, then why are there still optimists? Or is optimism a mere social construct to fulfil our needs to persuade ourselves that everything will turn out fine? No matter how bad your life is, everything will eventually be fine one day. Just think on the bright side and you will be fine. But what exactly is your perception of positive? What exactly is your definition of "fine"? All my problems can be solved, but I can still possess a negative outlook on the future. Do I have to be optimistic then? Is there a need for me to be? What if being negative gives me more gratification then being positive? Being a pessimist allows me to explore the dark side of human existence. It has offered me a glimpse of life as it really is. Life is devoid of any meaning. Meaning in itself is a social construct. Even the word "meaning" brings about reassurance that there is some greater "truth" of human existence that will render our existence totally meaningful, that we exist beacause we are important to the survival of Earth. Utter gibberish. The opposite is true. Since life is in fact meaningless, then why create optimism? Why try to create perceptions of positivity? Optimism, then, is a relative state. Different people will have different interpretations of what is positive to them. That's why motivational talks don't work for me. Ok, here's a scenario: Many people are optimistic about their future. Hope for them stems from materialistic desires. They think, "Great, I'm so gonna secure that job/ace those exams/grab that important business deal!" Yes, they are thinking positively. Fabulous. But so what if they achieve their goals, supposedly as a result of thinking positively? How do they feel? Can they still hope for something better if they have achieved what they wanted? Duh, course not, human wants are limitless, especially in the materialistic sense. Then what has driven them to achiveve their goals are materialistic desires, not optimism in itself. In fact, I'm suggesting that optimism is a result of our sheer desire to achieve to limitless, to gratify our materialistic dreams. Optimism is a disguise for all that frivolity. A mere social construct.
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Infatuations are a huge waste of time	[Jul. 4th, 2006\|04:39 pm]
And energy too. Infatuations shift our focus to the unimportant and unintellectural pursuits as we spend more time thinking obout that person/turning to jelly when we meet that person, rather than concetrating on our work. Relationships seldom materialze out of a mere infatuation as the other party may not even know about it or worse, totally freaked out if he/she is aware. Why be attracted to another person when it will all be for naught in the end? If that's the case, how are we to get over infatuations then?
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[Jun. 18th, 2006|01:38 pm]

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Why is it that holidays always seem to be busier than school days? Firsty, I've got to make appointments to catch up with friends OR end up friend-less. It's a horrible state to have no friends at all, coz it can lead to possessiveness due to over-dependency on a single person. I've had my share of possessive people trying to be with me as much as they can and what they have or used to have in common is that they don't have any other good friends to share their life with. So it is a GOOD THING that your best friend/boyfriend/girlfriend has his/her own circle of friends which you may not be part of. Most people cannot be around the same person for a prolonged period of time. Of course, there may be some people who just feel that they cannot do without a certain person. That is fine with me, so long as I'm not involved. I need A LOT of personal space. Ok, I think I'm contradicting myself a little here. How can a person need lots of space and yet still desire many friends? Well, humans are a paradox. It's a fact. Ernest Becker wrote that humans are a paradox because we may possess great abilties but are trapped in a "body that will decay".

I'm a paradox. I associate pleasure with studying because it leads to greater knowledge. So I DO study quite a lot these days. Right now, I'm reading "The Denial of Death" by Ernest Becker. I get confused at times as it is rather complex, but hey, it will enable me to dissect complex arguments with greater ease in future. You may think that I'm a well-disciplined person. Yet, I indulge in excess. Binge eating, shopaholic tendencies(clothes, books, accessories) and excessive sleeping. So how would you catagorize me? Some people couldn't deal with or accept my contradictions. I may come across as being a hypocrite, coz I look so innocent yet am anything but. But it's not my fault that I'm born with an innocent, law abiding look.

I stand up to my own decisions. Which is why cliques just hate me. I've never managed to survive in a female clique. I get dumped by the group coz I don't participate in their outings if I don't want to. I study even when the other members of the group aren't doing it. I see nothing wrong in such behavior. I cannot bring myself to do something which I don't want to just because others are doing so.

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