Tuesday, August 21, 2007
Dreams and Birthday Wishlists

-Manga Messiah-
-Consuming Fire by Hillsong United-

"You never know why you're alive until you know what you would die for. - 2 years and 8 months is worth it... ~ Consuming Fire, Rain Down on me."

Feeling: Gleeful

Oh, it's that time of the year again, when my birthday approaches and I, as usual, post up my birthday wishlist for the year. =P

I never do get half of what I post up, but it's just for the fun of it anyways. And for the benefit of people who don't know how to buy presents for others a.k.a. Ben. (Okay then Ben, I'm expecting to get at least one thing on my list. =P)

I'm supposed to have moved blogs by now, but I'm not used to blogspot yet and I don't have the time to manouevre through things, so blogdrive it is.

Zhen's 17th Birthday Wishlist

1. A small silver cross pendant necklace

2. Books! (and I've decided to be nice enough to include pictures this time round! =P)

I like this cover better, but I don't think MPH stocks these anymore.



This is nice as well, but not as nice as the above. =)








First book in the Cosmic Trilogy.
The other books are Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.
(read between the lines: If you're nice enough to get me all three, I'd love you forever.)




Recommended me by Tzu Anne. But haven't gotten my hands on it yet.




I like this cover but I don't think it has reached our shores yet.


This is the more common one in Malaysia.






Yes, Ju, I still want this even after reading it. =P.







Supposed to be a really, really good book.



One of those children's classics that I simply must own.




  • Inkspell by Cornelia Funke - not sure how much the paperback is.
This silver version is nicer. =P




I found this cover to be just as I like it - whimsical, fantastical...
But I don't think it's arrived at our shores either.



This is the cover I saw in the bookstores.
It resembles crime fiction like Jeffrey Archer and airport novels. Not to my liking.





Actually, I wouldn't mind any book from him. I just wanna read his style.
Stardust would do fine as well. =P







  • Anne Rice novels
  • Any other book that's worth having la. I'm trying to expand to good literature that are shortlisted for/win book awards.
  • Any good Christian literature =)
3. CDs
  • A Thousand Different Ways by Clay Aiken
How can I not include him? =P




  • Pride & Prejudice Soundtrack
Must have must have must have!




  • Nothing Is Sound by Switchfoot
I need a Switchfoot album to be played on my radio.




  • The Beautiful Letdown by Switchfoot



  • More Than Life by Hillsong United
Love the songs in this album. Well, technically, I only know four songs, but I love all four. =P




  • All Of The Above by Hillsong United
Actually I haven't really heard any of the songs from this album.
I just need another HIllsong United album.




  • Arriving by Chris Tomlin




  • Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack Deluxe Edition =P




  • Five Score And Seven Years Ago by Relient K



  • Sound of Music Original Soundtrack. =P

Hmm. I don't think this is it. I'm sure there're more worthy albums out there. But I can't think right now. And I think I've given you enough choices already. =P.

So yeah. Here's my list for this year. The books and CDs listed aren't really listed in order of preference. Though I'd really, really, like to have that Pride & Prejudice CD. *heavyhint* =P And Joshua Harris book. And C. S. Lewis book. And.. and....

And now it's back to studying.

Living In Dream Haven,

Zhen

"A man's life is much more than what he has"

Luke 12:15

Posted at 9:36 pm by zhenlim

Esther
August 22, 2007   06:39 PM PDT
 
You know sthg?...You really should try downloading songs...it's a lot easier..=P

XD...Can't wait for our party!!XD
zhenlim
August 22, 2007   11:10 PM PDT
 
Haha. I do download. It's because I download and fall in love with the album that I want the album. =P.

Mmhmm. =D
Vanz
August 23, 2007   05:55 PM PDT
 
U really do know how to make life difficult for me don't you?

hrmph.

Woman!...i've already spent big bucks on your birthday present. you had better like it!!!! =D
zhenlim
August 27, 2007   12:05 AM PDT
 
Nono, this is just for people who have absolutely no clue what to get me so that THEIR lives will be easier. Haha. =P

Don't worry I'm sure I'll like it. ;)
 

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Zhen

>Christian

>Self-professed ex-Bookaholic
(ex because she has decided she is unworthy of that title until she ups her reading count)

>Bibliophile

>Optimist

>Amateur (really, really, amateur) Pianist

>Dancer



"Life is a tapestry of events that culminate in an exquisite, sublime, plan"

- Serendipity

"Everything is possible for him who believes"

- Mark 9:23

"Nothing happens unless first a dream"

- Carl Sandburg

"A picture paints a thousand words, but a thousand words paint a world"




>>Dreams & Wishes

  • Bring someone to Christ
  • Study in Oxford or Cambridge
  • Get married to my soulmate
  • Climb Mount Kinabalu
  • See the Aurora Borealis
  • Travel the world - See Venice, Paris, romantic cities...
  • Sustain friendships
  • Own a grand piano (a baby grand would be sufficient)
  • Build a mini library of my own
  • Write a novel and get it published



    >>Books I Want To Read
    (in no particular order)

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
  • The Cosmic Trilogy by C.S. Lewis
  • The Screwtape Letters by C.S. Lewis
  • The Golem's Eye by Jonathan Stroud
  • American Gods by Neil Gaiman
  • To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris
  • Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
  • Ragwitch by Garth Nix
  • Artemis Fowl and the Lost Colony by Eoin Colfer
  • Voices by Ursula Le Guin
  • Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
  • Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
  • P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern
  • Grim Tuesday by Garth Nix
  • Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
  • A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine Le'Engle
  • The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster
  • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende
  • Catcher In The Rye by J. D. Salinger
  • The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
  • Saving Fish From Drowning by Amy Tan (anything from her would do fine)
  • Checkmate by Malorie Blackman
  • Man and Boy by Tony Parsons
  • Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
  • Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norell by Susanna Clarke
  • The Historian by Elizabeth Kustova
  • The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans
  • The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
  • Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
  • Faerie Wars by Herbie Brennan
  • Tithe by Holly Black
  • Deep Secret by Diana Wynne Jones
  • The Dalemark Quartet by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire
  • Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix
  • Sir Thursday by Garth Nix
  • New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
  • The Pinhoe Egg by Diana Wynne Jones



    >>Books I Dearly Need To Own

  • Anything else by Diana Wynne Jones that I don't have, particularly:
    >Howl's Moving Castle
    >Castle In The Air
    >The Pinhoe Egg
  • The last two books of the Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • Lyra's Oxford by Phillip Pullman
  • Inkspell by Cornelia Funke
  • Eldest by Christopher Paolini
  • Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
  • Other lovely classics by Jane Austen
  • The rest of the Vampire Chronicles, fourth book onwards by Anne Rice
  • I Kissed Dating Goodbye by Joshua Harris



    >>If I Had An iPod, my music list will definitely have

  • Clay Aiken
  • Planet Shakers
  • Hillsong United
  • Chris Tomlin
  • Switchfoot
  • Lifehouse
  • Rascal Flatts
  • Westlife




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