so this holiday was the first ever that i started reading jodi picoult’s books. it’s called Nineteen Minutes and it’s really nice. it’s like so addictive that you don’t feel like putting it down. thanks yan ying, for lending me this great book!

and recently i bought Change of Heart cause now i am in a jodi picoult craze. haha. anyway, here is the text on the back of Nineteen minutes. (i forgot what they are called, you know those words behind a book which tells you the storyline vaguely and makes you wanna read it??)

Sterlling is a small, ordinary New Hampshire town where nothing ever happens – until a student enters the local high school with an arsenal of guns and starts shooting, changing the lives of everyone inside out.

The daughter of the judge sitting on the case should be the state’s best witness – but with her boyfriend dead and her childhood friend charged with murder she is struggling to remember what happened in front f her own eyes.

Number one bestselling author Jodi Picoult brings us her hardest-hitting and most involving novel yet. Nineteen Minutes asks what it means to be different in our society, who has the right to judge someone else – and whether a person is ever whom they seem to be…

cool storyline, huh??

what i like about jodi picoult’s style of writing is that she doesn’t’ write in a chronological order or flashback like most authors do. instead, in this book, she started with a date ‘6th march 2007’ which coincidentally is the day before my birthday!

so anyway, in each chapters there are different points of views which are differentiated by a line leaving in between a chunk of paragraphs. and in each chapters there are several points of view. each chapter does not begin with ‘chapter 1’ etc, instead it begins ‘seventeen years before’ then ‘hours after’, then ‘twelve years before’ and ‘the day after’.

interesting right? playing around with timeframes

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three cheers for me for being able to perfect river flows in you by yiruma in 2 days!!! haha. i LOVE that song. it’s way better than fur elise (cause i am very sick of it, playing it like more than a hundred times) and forbidden love (which is a bit too simple). and i think it’s comparable to canon in d (except that the real canon is a lot harder)and i think i will take ages to play the real canon in d. haha.

playing river flows in you is really addictive. after playing it once, i just want to keep playing it again and again! and once i even tried to play with the recording by yiruma himself and it's really cool cause you get to feel how to song really should sound like.

and i finished doing the 58 math algebra question in one a half day! yay! and redoing the lang arts EOy compo took only an hour i think. you just have to correct the grammatical errors and spelling errors and those stuffs right?? you don't have to change the storyline right??

and now i am left with all the chinese homework.

should i feel happy or sad???

i think i am beginning to like wushu training. but sometimes it's quite sian. but when we learn the jiti quan, it's fun! especially the part where i have to do qian2 sao3 in the middle of a circle, 'knocking' down everyone else on the circle and then ending up in a 'buddha' position. haha. so funny. and cool.

and i think i am beginning to get a little sick of korean drama. help!! and now i am a BIT inclined to those taiwanese drama on tv now. especially the one i am watching now-that one on channel U every mon to fri on 7pm, zhuan2 jiao3 yu4 dao4 ai4 (or something like that) help!!! i wanna like korean dramas, not taiwanese dramas!!!

so now i shall abstain from watching korean dramas for the time being and concentrate on a) reading nineteen minutes and other jodi picoult's books, b) playing more yiruma piano pieces like kiss the rain! c) finishing the rest of my homework.