Name: Louise

13 April 1992

You can only call me Lulu if you don’t think the name’s funny.

I am a member of the Smiley Conspiracy and a proud ex-CHS-ian, graduating class of 2009. Now doing A-Levels at HELP University College. Is proudly Malaysian, but doesn’t look like it and is proud of that too.

This is the 7th time I am editing this about section of the blog this year; I have sort of accepted that my personality is ever-evolving, ever-changing, therefore rendering my moods as volatile as the weather. But just as there are some things that have stood untouched across the centuries by harsh weather, so there are some things with me that remain ever the same: a belief that to live is to learn, and the ability to bounce back from setbacks.

What I love also remains constant. I love good food, dancing, fresh experiences, open minds and friendly people, all of which can be found in the wonderful wonderful city that is Istanbul. I love musicals, plays, good books, stickers, owls, colourful wrapping paper, hugs and kisses, chocolates, almost any music from the 17th to the 21st century, intense debates and post-it notes.

Fictional characters I have been compared to (in terms of personality) are Piglet from Winnie The Pooh and Kelsi from High School Musical.

I dream of finishing this list [29/8/2010: list is undergoing revamp!], and my secret ambition is to become a hairdresser or bartender. Unfortunately I’m also incredibly kiasu, so I’m going to go to university just to show everyone that I can. But want to go to uni also because I love learning lah!

Words that describe me are impulsive, impetuous, quixotic, sanguine, quirky, bewildered, kiasu and hodgepodge. The last one also refers to my sense of fashion.

*GRINS* :D

Hooked on: Boys Like Girls – Contagious
Boys Like Girls ft Taylor Swift - Two Is Better Than One
Boys Like Girls - She's Got A Boyfriend Now

Yeah I know a lot of Boys Like Girls songs right? But what to do, they’re all so nice. (: If someone gives me their Love Drunk album for Christmas I will be VERY VERY HAPPY and I promise to remember them when I’m famous.

Awww. :)

Ian and Pei She’s birthday at Ian’s place yesterday. Was okay lah, but didn’t take any pictures cause no picture-taking feeling.

On Wordsmith, I discovered this REALLY REALLY useful word:

comstockery

PRONUNCIATION:

(KOM-stok-uh-ree, KUM-)

MEANING:

noun: Overzealous censorship of material considered obscene.

ETYMOLOGY:

After Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), founder of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice. He crusaded against anything he considered immoral. Nothing escaped his wrath -- even anatomy textbooks for medical students and the draping of mannequins in public view in shop windows were obscene to him. He lobbied for laws against mailing any material that could be perceived as promoting immorality.

He was appointed postal inspector and he seized books, postcards, and other materials by the boatload. He boasted that he had arrested more than 3,000 people and driven more than 15 to suicide. George Bernard Shaw coined the word comstockery after him when he attacked the American production of Shaw's play "Mrs. Warren's Profession".

USAGE:

"The language and thought police are hardly some Orwellian invention; America has been unusually susceptible to plagues of Comstockery and self-righteous tomfoolery."
Jon Newlin; Well, Shut My Mouth; Times-Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana); Oct 13, 1996.

Okay lah, this guy was really OTT but doesn’t something else come to mind? *coughMalaysiacough*

You think all my friends are crazy
And I know you hate my car
But well I don't drive a Mercedes
Would it be that hard
To just give me one more minute
This story's far from finished
We could now run it off the pages
I'm feelin’ sick girl you're so contagious
Just wanna say I miss you
I caught it when I kissed you
And I've been through all the stages
I'm feelin’ sick girl you're so contagious
I'm feelin’ sick girl you're so contagious

Wheeee!

PS: Thank you, Sean. :)