Puss Ann Guest GIVEAWAY!!!!

Puss Ann Guest GIVEAWAY!!!!

Twilight Giveaway!

Crawl over to Korianne's blog for a chance to win a bunch of Twilight items!

I don't know about you, but I am OBSESSED with Twilight. I remember when I first read the series I would constantly think about Edward and wish he was real. Hahaha. But I still love Jacob too, he's still cool! Both Edward and Jacob are people I wish were real.. :/ But in terms of the movie, I say Taylor Lautner is hot and Robert Pattinson looks really sloppy off the screen. Haha I hope no one kills me since I said that!

Looking for some fun?

Over at
http://sarahockler.com/2009/02/24/contest-win-a-signed-arc-of-twenty-boy-summer/
you can win an ARC of Twenty Boy Summer! Yay! Two people will win.
You'll need a facebook to enter this one :) So go spread the word!

Also bounce down to Ashley Ashby's blog party to celebrate the release of her new book Zombie Queen of Newbury High! :D There are tons of authors stopping by there and plenty of contests to make you feel all happy inside, aha.

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Win 5 Books!

Over at
http://addictedtobooks1993.blogspot.com/2009/02/contest.html!

She's hosting a giveaway and you have a chance to win 5 books: Wake, Bloom, City of Glass, Cracked Up to Be, and Tithe. So go boogie on down there and enter ;)

Don't forget to tell me if you're following her now, hehe. Three out of those five books are ones I've been wanting to read for a long, long time, so I don't mind getting those 3 extra points for getting someone to follow her, bwaha.

The Conservatory Overcoat GIVEAWAY!!!!

The Conservatory Overcoat GIVEAWAY!!!!

You should check it out! It is probably one of THEE most adorable coats I've ever seen, and the color is so vibrant!

Stupid Acrylics!

It's making it so much harder to do my honors project! I'm trying to copy this piece:

But it's so hard cause I only have acrylic paint when the original was made of oil paints! GRR! I would buy some, but then I've never used them before so it'd be ugly anyway if I had them.. But darn it's uber hard to use acrylics for this piece! Why do acrylics have to dry so fast T__T I could add water but then it makes it thinner too so blah. It's so incredibly hard to blend... how frustrating! So my piece looks like crap right now. Ugh oh well. Whatever I've spent too much time on it to plan a different piece to work on.

Yay!

I'm so excited! I just won The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks. Hehe that's the first time I've ever won a contest even though I spend hours entering those giveaways!





Not to mention that today has been such a fun day. Carmen, Ann, Priscilla and I went to go visit Mr. Weaver after school after buying fries and it was really fun! Haha he's such a fun teacher. And then Priscilla's house was really fun too, we ate noodles and went to walmart and lots of other things! Yaaaaaay today has been such a great day, dare I say.... almost perfect?! Almost. But now I'm exhausted, so time to catch some zzzzzzzzzzzz's.

Win Perfect Fifths by Megan McCafferty!

Go to http://www.meganmccafferty.com/archives/2009/02/announcing-the-perfect-fifths-contest-within-a-contest/ to enter a giveaway for Perfect Fifths! :)

This book goes on sale April 14th this year, but you can still pre-order it here!

Tagged!

Kudos go to Drey at Drey's Library for tagging me for this Picture meme.

I'm supposed to find my 5th photo file folder, then the 5th photo in that file folder. Post that picture on your blog. Tag 5 others to do the same.


This here is my friend Mircea (pronounced Meer-cha). He was at my house and he was doing this handstand with one hand. Cool, huh! Except it's not as awesome once you see that he put his feet on the walls of my hallway (and now there are marks on my walls...). If you look a bit closer you can see the smiley face my friend and I drew on his stomach. Hehehe.

I tag:
Ann at !@#$%
Priscilla at Emotions Set Free ;)
Melange at Melange's Book Reviews
Korianne at Korianne Speaks
Liviana at In Bed With Books

Hope you all have fun! :)

Win Flip Mino HD

Ryan McLean from Smarter Wealth is giving away a brand new Flip Mino HD to one lucky reader. This will be the easiest Flip Mino HD to win because barely anyone is going to enter meaning more chances that you can win.

The Flip Mino HD is the coolest gadget around. You can shoot one hour of video in HD (so you can play it on your plasma) and you can even edit your footage right on your device. This device is so small that it will fit in your pocket so you will never miss capturing a moment ever again.

To enter all you have to do is sign up for Ryan’s newsletter and post about the competition.

Check out all the details of how you can enter the Win a Flip Mino HD competition now.

Procrastination to the max.

Oh boy I really don't want to do my essay right now... I should finish it though cause then I can get my teacher to edit it tonight. Blah! I'd rather be reading Lock & Key right now... stupid essay! I know we're supposed to write about our dream in life but I'm not even sure what mine is. I have some goals, some in reach and some practically impossible, but I don't think I call them my dreams. I'm writing about how I want to travel the world with close friends but that's kind of like those general ones where you don't bother thinking twice about that "dream" because you know it wouldn't happen... It's so hard to elaborate on, especially an A-quality paper!

Review: The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Yay! My first review. Mostly doing this for the contest at:
http://jenlyn-b.livejournal.com/172850.html

Anyways, I finished reading The Truth About Forever a few days ago, but never got around to actually making a review of it cause I've been "busy" (ahem, laziness).

So The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen is a GREAT book, in my opinion. It starts with Jason, Macy's boyfriend, leaving for Brain Camp. As Macy leads a dull life during this summer, she studies for the SAT's, works at the library in place of Jason, and follows all of her mother's orders. But one day, in an email to Jason, she simply says "I love you." This makes Jason want a "break" in their relationship until he comes back. However, she later starts to work at Wish Catering, a chaotic food service full of surprises. There she meets people who will change her life, including a boy named Wes. But who would have thought that changing would be so hard, even when it makes you happy? Macy has to learn that sometimes it isn't always best to be safe than sorry.

I really enjoyed this book, most likely because it can be so realistic. Macy has to deal with her father dying, while under the strict control of her overprotective mother. Personally, I know what it's like when parents don't bother listening to your side of the story, and they punish/lecture based on mere assupmptions. I think this book helps you realize that sometimes change is good, and that all it takes sometimes is someone to give you a little push in the right direction. Also, no matter how intelligent, beautiful, etc. you are, if you aren't happy it isn't worth it. Macy had to learn the hard way that risks are better than being on the safe side all the time, which I think can relate to a lot of readers of the book. Plus, it's really important to show your emotions, because then those around you will never know how you really feel, like how Macy's mother never noticed that Macy was really miserable with her father dying. I also really liked it because it's such a sweet story, and who doesn't like a meaningful romance novel?

Rating: 4.5 out of 5

Dear Ann,

Dear Ann,

If you win one more book contest I will freakin' shoot you.

Sincerely,
Michelle

P.S. I love you! (haha yay pun!)

TeeVeeeeeeeee!

Saw this on Pop Culture Junkie's blog and thought I'd give it a try too since I don't want to work on my essay ;)

1. Name a TV show series in which you have seen every episode at least twice:
My Wife and Kids! I've seen those episodes like a billion times!

2. Name a show you can’t miss:
Hehe I'm a Disney freak, I hate it when I miss Suite Life on Deck. Oh and America's Best Dance Crew.

3. Name an actor that would make you more inclined to watch a show:
Will Smith<3

4. Name an actor who would make you less likely to watch a show:
Haha don't really care, I barely watch TV anyways.

5. Name a show you can, and do, quote from:
Oh man, I know TONS of quotes from TV, and use them all the time with Ann ;) In one conversation I quoted from Wizards of Waverly Place, My Wife and Kids, and oh darn, I can't remember the other ones.

6. Name a show you like that no one else enjoys:
I like watching Fringe and Lie to Me and now Dollhouse. I don't know if other people don't like them, I just never hear anyone talk about them.

7. Name a TV show which you’ve been known to sing the theme song:
HAHA I know like every theme song... Family Guy, Wizards of Waverly Place, Phineas & Ferb, American Dad, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, Spongebob Squarepants, the list goes on and on.

8. Name a show you would recommend everyone to watch:
Dollhouse. Lol even though there has only been one episode.

9. Name a TV series you own:
I own NONE!

10. Name an actor who launched his/her entertainment career in another medium, but has surprised you with his/her acting choices in television:
Uhhh, no clue.

11. What is your favorite episode of your favorite series?
Well I don't even know what my favorite series is! Haha I guess Suite Life on Deck? The one I watched today was so funny! When Cody tries to impress the Harvard dean and blah.

12. Name a show you keep meaning to watch, but you just haven’t gotten around to yet:
Desperate Housewives and 24. I've watched a couple episodes each but never really went into it.

13. Ever quit watching a show because it was so bad?
Uhh when I was in 6th grade I like Hannah Montana when it first premiered, now I think it's total crap. Girl can't sing OR act! OH and GossipGirl, not that it's bad, I just couldn't stand all the drama that would happen in one episode!

14. Name a show that’s made you cry multiple times:
Ehh I don't really cry from TV shows, I cry from movies and books a lot though.

15. What do you eat when you watch TV?
Too much junk food & sweets...

16. How often do you watch TV?
Pretty much Thursday night for ABDC, Friday night for Suite Life, and then Sunday night for Wizards & Sonny. I watch crime dramas & basketballs randomly throughout the week but not much.

17. What’s the last TV show you watched?
Just watched Wizards :D awhile ago.

18. What’s your favourite/preferred genre of TV?
Comedy! Or good crime dramas on FOX and TNT.

19. What was the first TV show you were obsessed with?
Simpsons, most deff.

20. What TV show do you wish you never watched?
Those retarded MTV shows (except ABDC).

21. What’s the weirdest show you enjoyed?
Fringe. The situations in it are so freakishly odd! But that's probably why I like it (;

22. What TV show scared you the most?
I don't watch scary TV shows :D

23. What is the funniest TV show you have ever watched?
Family Guy! Simpsons too though... Hmm, and I guess some Disney channel shows are getting pretty funny too xD

24. What show was canceled too early?
Well FOX canceled Family Guy like a billion times.

Want to play along? Just answer these questions on your blog and leave me a comment so I can come check out your answers!

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ANNNNNNNN! I'M JEALOUS!
You won Wintergirls! I wanna read it :D I'm so stealing it from you at school.


LUCKY DUCKY!

One, is the lonliest number that you'll ever do...

Everybody boogie on over to
http://melangesreviews.blogspot.com/2009/02/behold-contest.html
and become a follower ;) 6 people will win a book! It ends February 26th and don't forget to tell them you were recruited by Michelle Kuo :D

Giveaway!

Hi Ann. I think you already entered the first one. Maybe Silla will see or strangers will stumble across this though. And enter the other ones too :)

http://dreyslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/giveaway-whole-lotta-love-from-hachette.html
There are so many books to win! But it ends tomorrow so better hurry! Only requirement is to leave a comment mentioning your "first love".

http://dreyslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/giveaway-african-american-history-month.html#comments
For this one, you need to just say your favorite African-American author. Ends February 28th I believe.

http://dreyslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/giveaway-italian-lover-by-robert.html
Just mention if you think Valentine's Day is really a special day or just another "Hallmark Holiday" ;) Ends February 24th.

http://dreyslibrary.blogspot.com/2009/02/giveaway-all-six-kitty-norville-books.html
Say why you're interested in reading the books mentioned and also your favorite werewolf :D It ends February 22nd.

http://wendisbookcorner.blogspot.com/2009/02/giveaway-agency-by-ally-obrien.html
You can enter daily up till February 17th.

http://bookinwithbingo.blogspot.com/2009/02/sundays-day-of-leisure-giveaway.html
Just comment and leave your email. Ends February 28th.

http://lisamm.wordpress.com/2009/02/12/100k-celebration-giveaway-from-random-house/
You can win one or all three books there! Ends February 19th.

http://thewrittenword.wordpress.com/2009/02/09/one-true-valentine-giveaway/
Ends tomorrow!


Adios!

25.

Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. (There was something after this line but then Ann deleted her blog so whatever -___-).

I'm extremely bored. I have things to do but not in the mood to do them.

1. I noticed that if guys can't enunciate, it's a huge turn-off for me. HAHAHA.
2. By the time I graduate high school I want to be able to play the guitar by ear.
3. I notice I always have an obsession thing going on.. xD like in elementary school-manga. 7th grade-Big Bang. 8th grade-Asian dramas. Beginning of 9th grade-Twilight/Edward Cullen. Now-AJ Rafael/still a bit of Twilight ;) LOL.
4. I am tired of not winning a single book contest! Oh well, try, try, again.
5. Lindt Lindor Truffles are the best chocolate ever.
6. I actually do enjoy playing the violin.
7. Total Lakers fan.
8. I don't want too many things, but everything I DO want is expensive...
9. I used to LOVE Paint-by-Numbers.
10. I usually choose my titles for school essays by looking at song titles in my iTunes.
11. I really long for a "perfect day".
12. I am sick and tired of T-Pain and Lil Wayne! They don't deserve all the fame they're getting!
13. I'm also sick of artists using auto-tune.
14. I miss health class :/
15. At the LA Fitness that I go to, there's this guy who always yells random phrases when he works out. It's funny cause new members that come to work out, when they first hear him, are like WTF! while everyone that's been a member for awhile are all used to him yelling and don't care.
16. I happened to really enjoy the first High School Musical.
17. I think Nick Jonas would be better as a solo artist, not with his brothers.
18. I'm a non-PTC taster! :D
19. My favorite colors are teal and dark purple.
20. If I could change anything about myself, I guess it'd be for me to not have eczema. Or to be rich so I could constantly visit California :)
21. I think AJ Rafael, Hok Konishi, and Dominic Sandoval are hawt.
22. A big turn-on for me is if a guy is a musician or b-boy/dancer (haha totally explains #21).
23. I was EXTREMELY depressed when I found out Stephenie Meyer stopped writing Midnight Sun.
24. Sometimes I get incredibly bored of R&B songs... so many sound exactly/almost the same!
25. I don't know why, but I really like the number 27.

I don't get it, why would you tag the person that tags you? Wouldn't they have already done it? Weird. Anyways, I tag everybody in the world!

Ann, make a blog. Now.

Okies. Time to do math homework so I don't have too much to do tomorrow and Tuesday! Farewell!

A Bunch of Contests :D

http://www.bookroomreviews.com/

Hehe you can win HSM3! xD

Hoorayy.

Yay! More giveaways :)

http://shhhimreading.blogspot.com/2009/02/winners-choice-giveaway.html

It ends February 22; you can win your choice of an ARC!








Man, I didn't win North of Beautiful :/ oh wellz.

This heart, will start a riot in me..

Another great giveaway!

http://cherylsbooknook.blogspot.com/2009/02/with-love-from-hachette-book-group.html

You can win TONS of books--5 winners. Ends March 13. Best giveaway I've seen!

I hate this part..

I hate today.
Today was stupid.
Stupid snow.
Stupid sub that didn't mark me in attendance.
Stupid facebook I made 2 years ago and never went on again.
Stupid mother.

**For Tuesday, February 10. (it's past 12 midnight.)

Another Book Contest! Just started today, so enter!

Hi Ann! Hi Silla!

Go enter
http://laurasreviewbookshelf.blogspot.com/2009/02/plea-and-you-get-prize.html

Yay you can win a book of your choice! and there are going to be 3 winners! :D HAHA wouldn't it be funny if those 3 winners were the three of US?

EDIT: The amount of winners has been changed to 4! So get everyone to come enter! :)

I tried to do handstands for you...

It snowed this morning... :(
There's supposed to be another blizzard tonight.
Yay no homework due tomorrow, except math.
I'll do that another day ;)
Yay I'm gonna read for the rest of the day.

This day has been bomb-diggity!
Except it was really cold.


WHOA it's snowing so hard outside right now!

To Ann.

83 out of 70.

I want the soul instead, cause I found some kind of fairytale

Wow, I was planning on getting off the computer a bit ago so I could go read The Truth About Forever a bit before I went to bed but ended up getting distracted all the time. Anyways, I just read Ann's blog about "a perfect day". I feel like so many things would make me really happy, so I have more than one "perfect day". Depends on my mood too, I guess. Sometimes (maybe even most of the time) I just like to be left alone, with little connection to the rest of the world, as emo and loner as that sounds. That's probably why I enjoyed visiting California so much in November, I was cut off from all that drama and people at school here. Of course, when I went to California, I visited my old friends there too, but then when we talked it was just about care-free, random things that would make you laugh for two minutes straight, instead of the "Oh my gosh, that guy is so cute" or "Did you know __ is going out with __?!" that you constantly here in the hallways of LHS. Even sometimes at lunch, I just get sick and tired of it. Some friends won't stop talking about boys, boys, boys, which is why I hang out with Kevin and Brian so much during lunch. I don't have to worry about them talking about boys, we just talk about random things that anyone else would find incredibly dorky. And it's also probably why I love CAMP so much; Carmen doesn't talk 24/7 about Scott, Ann doesn't complain to me during school about her problems all the time (THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU SHOULD STOP BLOGGING ANN! This is like my only access to what you're thinking so that I can keep up with what's going on with you! & those few times we talk in school!), and Priscilla.. well she's my best friend so that's an exception. But even sometimes with her, she won't stop talking about people like Jinno and Josh. I recall how sometimes my conversations with Carmen on the phone would involve us talking about how when Priscilla first likes a guy, she gets really obsessive. Then she goes through some sort of self-realization of whether she really does or doesn't like a guy and then blahhh. It get's a bit tiring, but I still love her.

ANYWAYS, back to the topic of a perfect day, I guess my first kind of perfect day would be just spending a whole day to myself, no boundaries or limitations to stop me from going anywhere. With some music in my ears, I would just stroll around on the beach or just lay down to relax. And I would have a book in hand, with a bag of a few more books for when I finish the one I'm reading. It would be sunny and warm, so I could just lay down and read to my heart's content. I'd also have a nice camera with me so I could capture all the simple things that surround me, and there would also be a little ice cream store so I can eat ice cream all day. To sum it up, it'd just be a nice, relaxing day all to myself.

A second perfect kind of day would be those vigorous, non-stop action kind of days with a couple of close friends. We would lots of money to NOT buy clothes and jewelry, but instead just PIG OUT! There'd be all kinds of food--chocolate, ice cream, pasta, sushi, dim sum, cream puffs, crepes, pizzas, noodles... EVERYTHING. Who cares how many calories we consume, it'd just be fun to be able to eat everything you enjoy all in one day. Then after we finish eating, we could go just sleep on the floor for awhile. Once we're all alert and awake, we could go to a theme park and ride every single ride they have there, from the baby ones meant for 3-year-olds, to the biggest roller coasters that have 5 loops and 4 fast drops. At night we could look up at the sky as the theme park closes and there are fireworks everywhere.

Then a third kind of perfect day for me could be with either a significant other or super close friends that would follow you on these crazy ideas. On a warm, sunny day we'd just run around in the park, then go a really large field of grass so we could lie down and stare at the white clouds that pass by. We'd then travel really far to a place with a beach that we'd all never been before, just so we could explore the town and play in the sand. There'd be a cart with some shaved ice, and we'd eat it when the sun starts to set because sunsets are always the prettiest things on the beach. After the sun sets we'd continue to lay down in the sand since it's so warm, and look at the stars and moon up at the dark sky...

After actually writing what a "perfect day" would be for me, all of these sound more like fantasies and dreams that would seems kind of hard for me to achieve in life... Maybe if CAMP still exists 5 to 10 years from now when our parents wouldn't control us so much, we could do Perfect Day #3 (: That'd be so enjoyable...

Now I know what my fairytale is, but I can't find it.

Book Contests!

Yay I'm so excited, I just found all these blogs about books and book contests all thanks to ANN! Hooray :D I'm really eager to enter these things, and even make a video for that one contest about Beauty:
http://booksbytheircover.blogspot.com/2009/01/find-beauty.html
And we have until March 30! But we need to figure out what to do in it!

That North of Beauty book sounds really interesting (: If I don't win it I'm so going to borrow it from the library haha.
I want to thank Ann for getting me back into reading a lot like I used to in elementary school. HAHAHA. And all those books on Books By Their Cover sound like such good reads! I'm ready for a long weekend so that I can read a lot all day >:D

Haha I really want to just enter every single contest on that Books By Their Cover blog!