Pennycake

My blogs

Blogs I follow

About me

Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Student
Location	Singapore
Links	Wishlist
Introduction	My life is but an instant, a passing hour. My life is but a day that escapes and flies away. O, my God, you know that to love you on earth I only have today! -St. Thérèse of Lisieux
Interests	Reading, writing, messing around with HTML, drawing (doodling), painting (though I haven't done that for months), rock-climbing, spelunking/caving, climbing fences & trees (I climbed all over the house when I was small, I guess the penchant remained.), mixing pancakes from scratch (I'm not very good at flipping yet, the last one landed on the stove. Let's hope the next one doesn't stick to the ceiling.), origami, building card castles, making sandcastles, kite-flying, piecing jigsaw puzzles, fivestones, cross-stitching, posting too much Catholic stuff on Facebook (but then again ...how could I resist digging into our treasure trove and sharing the loot?)
Favorite Movies	Billy Elliot (2000), Braveheart (1995), Cars (2006), Charlotte's Web (2006), Corpse Bride (2005), Dead Man Walking (1995), Forrest Gump (1994), Karol: A Man Who Became Pope (2005), King Arthur (2004), La Vita e Bella [Life is Beautiful] (1997), Night at the Museum (2006), Pinocchio (1940), Pirates of the Caribbean (2003 & '06), Shall We Dance (2004), Sleepers (1996), Spiderman 1 & 2 (2002 & '04), Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002), The Forgotten (2004), The Holiday (2006), The Incredibles (2004), The Land Before Time (1988), The Little Mermaid (1989), The Lion King (1994), The Lord of the Rings (2000), The Passion of the Christ (2004), The Phantom of the Opera (2004), The Polar Express (2004), The Song of Bernadette (1943), The Sound of Music (1965)
Favorite Music	oldies, medieval/folk songs, Celtic traditional, Celtic Punk, Abba, Boyzone, Eden's Bridge, Gingerbread (Singaporean!), Herman's Hermits, Michael Learns To Rock, Mike and the Mechanics, Peter Paul & Mary, Peter & Gordon, REO Speedwagon, Simon & Garfunkel, The Beatles, The Bee Gees, The Byrds, The Carpenters, The Eagles, The Irish Rovers, The Mamas & the Papas, The Monkees, The Pogues, The Scorpions, The Seekers, The St. Louis Jesuits, Tokyo Square (Singaporean!), Annie Lennox, Bette Midler, Bob Dylan, Bobbie Gentry, Bryan Adams, Cat Stevens, Celine Dion, Collin Raye, Crystal Gayle, Dan Fogelburg, Dionne Warwick, Don McLean, Elton John, Emi Fujita, Enya, Eric Clapton, Eva Cassidy, Joni Mitchell, John Denver, John Michael Talbot, Judy Collins, Kris Kristofferson, Lee Ann Womack, Ralph McTell, Richard Clayderman, Roger Miller, Roger Whittaker, Stephen Sondheim, Sting
Favorite Books	The Bible, The Bad Catholic's Guide to Good Living [http://www.badcatholics.com/], the OED, Heidi by Johanna Spyri, Les Miserables by Victor Hugo, Treasure Island by R. L. Stevenson, Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng, Dead Man Walking by Sr. Helen Prejean, Moby Dick by Herman Melville, The Lord of the Rings by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling, Sleepers by Lorenzo Carcaterra, The Bear Nobody Wanted by Allen & Janet Ahlberg, Master and Man by Leo Tolstoy, Tom's Midnight Garden by Philippa Pearce, Lady Daisy & The Mouse Butcher by Dick King-Smith, Andersen's Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen, Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm, Griffin's Castle by Jenny Nimmo, The Enchanted Castle by Edith Nesbit, The Last Unicorn by Peter Soyer Beagle, The Indian in the Cupboard series & The Farthest-Away Mountain by Lynne Reid Banks, Nancy Drew by Carolyn Keene, The Princess and the Goblin & The Princess and Curdie by George MacDonald, Puck of Pook's Hill & Kim by Rudyard Kipling, A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess