Where crickets and cicadas are louder.
May. 23rd, 2009 08:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Mention my fiction - and there is the dulcet sound of crickets chirping. Or cicadas, since it is officially Summer.
I foresee this happening in the near and distant future. :P
Just a note: Envisioning is available for download.
And a review is on Gather.com (I used to go to Gather... and then I got busy and forgot about it).
*crickets and cicadas chirping away*
*lol*
I foresee this happening in the near and distant future. :P
Just a note: Envisioning is available for download.
And a review is on Gather.com (I used to go to Gather... and then I got busy and forgot about it).
*crickets and cicadas chirping away*
*lol*
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Date: 2009-05-23 02:17 am (UTC)No lah, it's ... um. whatever that sound is. I think it's crickets. >.> Cicadas are fucking loud and annoying, espeiclaly when they're RIGHT OUTSIDE YOUR WINDOW.
But yay for your review! It's a good one, and now people are going to read!
I'd read your fantasy, but I find it hard to read pdfs on the computer. >.< When I don't feel quite so guilty about ditching work, I'll read it. :D
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Date: 2009-05-23 09:50 am (UTC)The review was actually done by my friend who bought the book, hehe. But I was glad she gave a positive review about it.
I used to hate reading PDFs on the computer. But after a while, when I started work as an editor, I got used to it. And now many publishers are going the e-book way.
Please focus on your work. *lol* I feel like an auntie, nagging away. ;)
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Date: 2009-05-23 03:54 pm (UTC)I went and did a bit of cursory research, and apparently cicadas live in the tropics too. so... hmm. I don't know what DOES make those piercing sounds in the Bukit Timah Nature reserve - crickets or cicadas or both. :)
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Date: 2009-05-23 05:50 pm (UTC)*lol*
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Date: 2009-05-23 06:41 pm (UTC)Pissed off my English teacher at SecSch because I told him that I wanted to do English, but was in Bio instead.
He was all ARGH NO NO NO WHY.
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Date: 2009-05-24 12:19 am (UTC)I think I would react the same way as your EL teacher did as well. Hehe.
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Date: 2009-05-24 12:26 am (UTC)I do wonder what that plant was though - the one that drops pods that are filled with water, shaped like tiny pistols or bananas, and if you squeezed right, squirted water like water guns.
Heh. Well, I had to make a practical choice, right? I didnt want to end up teaching in Sec School - I didn't want to read kids' handwriting that just got worse and worse. Writing and literature is instinct to me - imagine trying to teach it! Biology, I thought I could tahan.
Well, I can. It is fun. It's just not a PASSION writing it.
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Date: 2009-05-24 06:56 am (UTC)I had seen monkeys at close range before. The reason why they are nasty is that people have been feeding them and they have already associated people with food.
Yeah, practical choices have to be made. I ended up teaching Humanities and English Language in secondary school, General Paper and History in junior college. Trust me - essays with bad handwriting make a very grumpy and cranky tutor. I had a kid in one of my JC1 classes - great kid, great writer (he wants to write and I have seen his stuff) but his handwriting, for the love of God, is bad. I always told him to either write more clearly (he writes cursive) or that he will end up having markers who are pissed with him. :P (Like me and my colleagues who had to mark his essays).
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Date: 2009-05-24 01:33 pm (UTC)The teacher would give her an extra week to hand in stuff because when she did hand in anything? It was Just That Good.
(it's not a pitcher plant - it's like, tiny tiny seed pods, yellowbrown and shaped like a banana. They'd fall off the tree on to the ground and you could pick them up and shoot. )
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Date: 2009-05-24 01:48 pm (UTC)Whee. Banana-shooters! I will go check on my book of plants in Singapore. Going to be fun. ;) (Gardening nerd here - hehe).
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Date: 2009-05-24 02:06 pm (UTC)And she's in Princeton now. wow.
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Date: 2009-05-24 02:12 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2009-05-24 09:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-24 10:12 pm (UTC)SECRET WRITING WOO.
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Date: 2009-05-25 01:14 am (UTC)Stealth writing. I think many people do that!
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Date: 2009-05-25 01:18 am (UTC)... which is, sadly, true. :|
(what are you doing up at 6am!? Oh wait, toddler. Poor you. >.< By the time we hit pri school, my parents let my oldest sister wake us up and get outselves out to the bus.)
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Date: 2009-05-25 01:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-05-25 01:25 am (UTC)My parents had made my sister sleep by herself at that age, I think. They were following by the book sort of parents, being extra-firm and determined not to spoil their first child.
Then I came along and made them spoil me silly. >.>
<.<
Yeeeeeah by the time my brothers came along, we were all put in one room and just told to sleep.
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Date: 2009-05-25 01:32 am (UTC)no subject
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