it was another bloody exam week. but that didn't stop me from watching any of the World Cup matches. =) or from reading any books.

anyway, i just read Stephen King's The Green Mile. yup, that's right, the one on television.

i am currently trying to write my first book. i say trying cos i written a few starts and they sucked to the max, so i don't know if i ever will finish it. the main characters are erm... Arawn, Cybele, Linus and Kate. the name 'Kate' was the only one that didn't sound weird or uncommon cos i am to lazy to change it all over again.

that's laziness for you.

i rather like Cybele. it reminded me of some blonde girl with a slivery laugh, sorta like fairy-like.

also, i am trying to win 15 000 dollars in a crossword puzzle contest. this time, i say trying, cos like, duh!

-sparky flower-

so, i am planning to turn this into a book review site, though when i say planning i actually mean like .. give me several months. the layout is begining to bore me. and i haven't seen any cool book review sites yet. except for some of the really corny ones that go ' A Cool Site By Teens!" ewWWW..

anyway, i ask for book recommendations from you guys. bear in mind, i hate Raymond E.Feist and don't particularly like Frank Herbert's Dune series. they bore me.

Raymond has this flaky characters that doesn't make any impact on me, and his style of writing sucks. Dune, however, got me rather lost. i guess it fits readers who like to pay close attention to the words and the plot. the characters have no sense of humor.

i want to be a writer. cool novelists make indecent amounts of money. i am jealous. =P.

here's the review of ARTEMIS FOWL by Eoin Colfer.

What attracted me to the book initially was it's cover. it 's golden and shiny. let's face it, book covers which are real shiny and nice attracts people. that's why i bought it. when a friend of mine said, "Don't judge a book by it's cover," that's irony for you.

anyway, the summary thing behind book sounded interesting. it told of this criminal mastermind kid who kidnaps a fairy. anyway, as i read the book, i was shocked to see how the characters in the book can seem to NOT resemble real people in real life.

Artemis is so UNREAL. yuck yuck. you know how sometimes, the characters are so real, you can bond with them; imagine yourself to be in their place? well, artemis was like this smart-alec kid who makes lame jokes and is flithy rich. and there are no servants in the house except his butler and his butler's sister. incredible.

anyway, the plot of the story, which is about Artemis kidnapping a fairy and outwitting them, could have came out to something, if it wasn't for the characters and the lame jokes in the book.

-sparky flower-

so Brazil won! whoo--hoo! Prosperous Thumper is/was supporting Japan, Bambi supports Senegal, and I supported France, but then, it was 3 matches, then they were out, so now it's Brazil.

also, Korea got accused of having bribed the referee. poor them.

-sparky flower-

yesterday, i saw the Korea-Italy match. it was a pretty cool one, considering the fact that Korea was on the brink of losing, before someone ( i 'm really bad at remebering names) from the Korea team scored that goal nearing the dying minutes of the game. i guess that came as a shock to Italy. especially when one of their players was sent off.

though i support Korea, i feel so sorry for Italy. i mean they could have won, they would have probably won, except someone screwed up the defense, cos they were relaxed. Football is such a cruel game.

anyway, i can't wait for Saturday's match between Brazil and England. it's a match that would create legends. i am not supporting anyone, yet. actually, it would have been more meaningful if this match was for the finals. they are both two really strong teams, and it's so wasted that they had to meet this early in the match. one of them will lose, and will earn no place in the World Cup glory. that's like, cruel.

i had a maths test today, and i forgot to bring my calculator. yesterday it was my watch.

-sparky flower- has her Physics test on Friday.

it's half time and England beat Denmark 3-nil! Denmark has to muster a fantastic comeback if they don't want to fly home so early in the World Cup. in the pouring rain? an uphill task. it would be like soooo embrassing if they stay at nil. i mean, after all that challenges, "England, we can take you!"

-sparky flower- is supposed to be studying Biology.

ok.. here are more books which i read. (and bought)

Foward the Foundation - Isaac Asimov.
Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer

if i say anything about Isaac Asimov's Foundation series, i will fall over my heels praising. but as much as i love his Foundation stuff, i didn't really like FoF. why?

it certainly would give readers new to his stuff a bad impression of him. it sounded so normal, so mundane. in his other books, notably Second Foundation, there was that sparkle, charisma, in which Isaac possess.

(spoiler ahead) everyone knew Dors was a robot. the Prelude to the Foundation made that clear. where was Mr. Isaac's convincing wit?

and Hari sounded so dead. flat character comes to mind.

anyway, i bought Artemis Fowl cos it had been topping bestseller lists . EWWW.. DISAPPOINTMENT.

i'll write bout it later, now i have an exam coming up.

-sparky flower- becomes a book reviewer

just read several books =)....

Reaper's Man - Terry Pratchett
Men At Arms - Terry Pratchett
Dreamcatcher - Stephen King
The Mysterious Affair At Styles - Agatha Christie

i borrowed them from the library. loved Men At Arms! it wasn't to say that i didn't like Reaper's Men, but i love the love story between Carrot and Angua.

my fav book from Terry was the Feet of Clay, so far, cos i haven't read all of his stuff yet. beneath all that slapstick humor and witticism, somehow, Terry manages to include stuff like discrimination, religion and goverment systems, and doesn't sound boring like hell doing it. =)

i had always like agatha' stuff... but i can't really give reviews... i suck at it.

Dreamcatcher disappoints. i would have thought that it would be better, matching up to the standards that 'The Stand' and 'Insomnia' set. it was a little puzzling following the story, and there were some scenes which were a little boring.

oh there, i said it. usually, i find Stephen King's stories a good ending for all the other books i read in a row. but... i don't know..... maybe cos he wrote in a different style then his past works.

-sparky flower-

i love my wallpaper so much that i am gonna put in on the net for everyone to download. =)

the sample is in my screenshot in my 1st of June entry.

you can download it here

-sparky flower-

yello everyone... i have ran out of books to read, cos my mum doesn't want to drive me to the library.

my television has no satellite reception cos it is raining.

i can't play basketball cos it is raining.

i can't go running cos...well, duh.

my brother is hogging the playstation 2.

so, here i am writing an entry on my comp. although, i could re-read my Wheel of Time books. hei, that sounds like a good idea. i am probably gonna read ummm... Book 9? erm.

never mind, i'll just surf the internet for interesting stuff and post them here. =)

-sparky flower-

hiya, is feeling pretty bored today.... so i decided to take screenshots of my comp. here's one ..

and here's another...

the first pic is when there's nothing on my desktop. see the cool pic of Tidus from Final Fantasy X? and the second pic is when i am typing on my comp doing my website. yes, i use Dreamweaver. yes, i love Dreamweaver.

i don't particularly like Adobe's Golive and i never tried the other HTML editors except Netscape Composer so... to me Dreamweaver is everything. go ahead and mail me if you don't like it.

-sparky flower- shows the world her stuff on her comp.