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  <updated>2007-07-19T16:37:20Z</updated>
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    <id>urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:stageshock:6984</id>
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    <title>Much Better, Thanks</title>
    <published>2007-07-15T20:59:43Z</published>
    <updated>2007-07-19T16:37:20Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://i12.tinypic.com/688uvsx.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="5"&gt;From July 2007 - September 2007&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I will still be checking on my blog, but I'll have too much to deal with this holiday , so I'll be on a long hiatus - i.e not blogging for some time.&lt;br /&gt;I will appreciate all incoming comments though and you can still find me on MSN or email me if you need anything.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Because I won't be blogging for a bit, I've decided to make this blog extra special, by making it one of the longest blogs on this site ever.&lt;br /&gt;Well, where to start. It's the summer holidays and nothing has happened. I am clearly on my way to becoming one of those cat ladies who sits in her rocking chair all day knitting the sweater for her granddaughter. Or maybe a birdwatcher with the local "old folk". But in my defense, I must state that I have only been on my summer holiday for 4 days, so... I have a good excuse for things not happening. Then there's my brother. His holiday hasn't even started yet he's received 3 certificates for being the best football player in his out-of-school-football-team. All I've ever gotten for sporting achievements is a broken trophy for Breaststroke, a teensy-weensy trophy for all round swimming and a swimming colour. Clearly swimming is my sport, yet I haven't swum at all this year.&lt;br /&gt;My dad decided to copy me and get my phone in white. Haha, dad, nice one. Yes, my dad STILL manages to make me laugh... even if it is AT him rather than WITH him... clearly I need a life. What else has happened? That's it, really. Except for getting 2 new bras, some nice fineliners and 2 birthday cards for friends. Yes, my bras are VERY sexy, thank you. I'm also off to&lt;b&gt; France&lt;/b&gt; for a week in 2 weeks.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I'll catch y'all with Harry Potter 7 and the new HP film! We are all lame adults who still love Harry Potter. Okay, I'm not yet hit by the maturity of adults, but hey, we'll all enter there sooner or later.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And that concludes my last blog for... 2 months?&lt;br /&gt;Till September, au revoir!</content>
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    <title>Screw it.</title>
    <published>2007-06-30T12:45:53Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-30T12:49:23Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>The Hush Sound - Wine Red</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Today has been the worst fucking day of my life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise, what colour should I repaint my room with? It's currently some sickly purple; I need change. White with a silver stripe going through the middle? I need my room to be ethereal looking, it's the only place of true sanity in the house. I need to get out of here.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Find me on &lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/p/Mary_Cheng/626185658" target="_blank"&gt;facebook&lt;/a&gt;, I won't be posting here for some time.</content>
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    <title>And all those LOLs...</title>
    <published>2007-06-17T16:25:51Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-17T16:31:09Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Newport Living - CIWWAF</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I came back from my &lt;a href="http://www.theaward.org/" target="_blank"&gt;D of E expedition&lt;/a&gt; around 5 hours ago and I've been wondering whether to put up photos or not. Turns out that I haven't actually got any photos to put up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So, D of E. It was... interesting, to say the least. Unlike &lt;a href="http://stageshock.livejournal.com/5122.html" target="_blank"&gt;last time&lt;/a&gt;, this weekend was actually quite fun! I suppose I should start off from when I actually started my 24km walk... that was yesterday, so we basically just camped for 2 days and 1 night. Not so bad... yesterday, we took a LONG LONG&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 204);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"&gt;LOOOOONG&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;detour around a field, only to find that we could have cut across a little pathway... so we wasted around 20 minutes. Then today, we saw a nuclear power plant and accidentally walked into it, only to find that there was a different pathway that we should have taken which only took around 10 minutes to cross! And then... there was an explicit moment involving cows... basically, the cows were having sex in an open field and we saw it. Oh, what joys we endured during our trek. The trangias also went under inspection randomly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yes, &lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;happy birthday Li Yan&lt;/span&gt;! Hope you have a great day. And &lt;span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(204, 51, 102);"&gt;happy father's day&lt;/span&gt;! That reminds me, I need to give my father's day card to my daddy...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Getting EOY exam results tomorrow, I think. *screams* I think I fluked the 3 Sciences, Spanish and History. And French. *hyperventilates*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;16.06.07&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy birthday Mayumi! Even though she doesn't know about this site, I might as well put it out there :)</content>
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    <title>Contemplations</title>
    <published>2007-06-12T20:28:52Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-12T20:28:52Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Death Cab for Cutie - Death Of An Interior Decorator</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I've been thinking all day, and after all of my contemplations, I can honestly say that gorgeous summer weather and England do not mix... unless there is some sort of heatwave. It's pathetic really. It's almost saying that we only have three seasons, despite England being famous, or perhaps infamous, for being a country with 4 seasons (I've heard that &lt;a href="http://www.visitsingapore.com/publish/stbportal/en/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;Singapore&lt;/a&gt; is summer all year round - the season that England seems to be deprived of). I enjoy Spring, as it's the season closest to Summer, and fashion always takes a fresh twist for me during those three months. For example, the "Nu Rave" fashion, I suppose, started in around the April/May period, and now everyone around me owns at least two of those tees that say "SAVE THE RAVE" or "MAKE LOVE NOT WAR". I'm planning on getting one soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I must say I hate the summer. I mean, the six-week holiday is the only aspect I enjoy; but the weather is either too humid or just way too hot - unless if England is becoming more like Africa or something and God wants us to get sunburn - another reason why I have a slight hatred towards the season. The tanning obsession of England also means that I need to slim down to be able to wear a bikini... however, with my round stomach and my rather bizarre junk food binging habits, I don't see that happening. I plan on losing around 15 lbs over the summer holiday - mainly fat reserves, because my stomach really needs toning and my thighs look butch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But then, what is perfection? What is the perfect body? Is it being as skinny as Mischa Barton and those size 0 models, or is it embracing the full feminine figure like America Ferrera and Coleen McLoughlin? Am I meant to strive to be considered anorexic to feel beautiful or should I feel happy with the less toned parts of my body? My love for food is to such an extent that I feel that I cannot be anorexic or bulimic... but with our superficial society, should I consider exercising excessively to be able to wear &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;that &lt;/span&gt;bikini?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To be honest, I don't know what I'm writing; a long string of thoughts run through my head. This break from the exams has been exceptionally enjoyable - I'll blog about that soon. But now, I'm going to eat some dark chocolate now.</content>
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    <title>From Summer Blues to Grey Skies</title>
    <published>2007-06-07T17:03:53Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-07T17:03:53Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">&lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/POTC4.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/POTC3.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/POTC2.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/Hellogoodbyeee.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/GA1.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;From the summer blues to the grey skies&lt;br /&gt;This world is covered from our eyes&lt;br /&gt;That we should endure the deepest feelings&lt;br /&gt;Of love and loss and treacherous dealings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The great steep breath of the immanent ghost&lt;br /&gt;Is nigh uncatchable by the post&lt;br /&gt;And yet here we all stand here today&lt;br /&gt;Looking left and right to find a way,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To search for a love to be so true&lt;br /&gt;That kisses can be just for you.&lt;/i&gt;</content>
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    <title>Collecting Six Page Lovers</title>
    <published>2007-05-27T22:12:27Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-27T22:26:12Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Jamelia - Superstar</lj:music>
    <content type="html">&lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/Lightup.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/Camera.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/GA4.gif" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/Guitar.png" /&gt; &lt;img width="100" height="100" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Avatars/POTC.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt; People marching to the drums,&lt;br /&gt; Everybody's having fun to the sound of love.&lt;br /&gt; Ugly is the world we're on,&lt;br /&gt; If I'm right then prove me wrong,  &lt;br /&gt; I'm stunned (to find a place we belong)&lt;/i&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="Standing in the way of control..."&gt;Oh yes! I saw Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At World's End on Friday with some friends (Lauren, Vicky, Farhana and Eujin)! All I can say is that it is absolutely INCREDIBLE! If you haven't seen it, go and see it NOW... "that's an order" (haha, memories from the first POTC film...) Jack Sparrow is hilari-o-u-s... Davy Jone's Locker... oh my god!&lt;br /&gt;The cinema was absolutely packed with families and kids... there was a group of kids at the front who were arguing really loudly halfway through the film, so people had to go and get staff to sort them out... and the whole cinema burst into cheer! Haha, it was quite a joke. It was a wonder how I managed to concentrate on the film, eh? Ah well, Jack Sparrow is rather hot... if you don't mind me saying.&lt;br /&gt;It's so good, I'm going to see it tomorrow again. Okay, I'm not seeing it again because it's so good (although that IS one of the reasons I'm going to see it... but not my main one), but I'm seeing it again with my family this time. It's so random though; I mean it's great, but my family never really go out as a family unless if it's to a dinner or a party... they happen pretty frequently though, I suppose. But my dad was like, "Hey, do you want to go and see POTC tomorrow?" and I said "I've already seen it, silly" and my dad said "No, as a family" and I just gave him this look of utter shock! Haha, but I agreed cos it's so nice of him to make the effort to go out properly as a family. Awww, I love him, really. My mum seems to be a bit of a grump though, for unknown reasons. Hmph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway, important news...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;font color="#ff0066"&gt;HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;i&gt;(I've got my EOY exams in a week and I can't both revise AND have this cloud above my head ushering me to blog, so... HIATUS! I'm afraid. Have fun, y'all, and BE SAFE!)&lt;/i&gt;</content>
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    <title>Okay</title>
    <published>2007-05-13T16:23:39Z</published>
    <updated>2007-06-12T20:31:52Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Jack Johnson - Banana Pancakes</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Okay, I lied.&lt;br /&gt;The layout has changed again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Camping is gross, I absolutely detest it. I went on a Duke of Edinburgh expedition practice and we had to walk 24km over a period of 2 days, in the countryside (we went to Hemel Hampstead). That means we had to camp overnight and cook food with a cooker thing call a Trangia. Anyway, that's all the theory detail out of the way. I've realised that I'm quite high maintenance, (even though I may not look it at times), and that I take things for granted way too often. Leaky tents, meth fuel and flying caterpillars are not my calling. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had to trek 12km each day in torrential rain, and I felt ABSOLUTELY horrendous! My hair was soaked and my legs were caked in mud... and navigating is a lot harder than it looks. I had to navigate today, because I hadn't yet navigated yet (our group took turns in navigating) and I almost got us lost... along with another one of the D of E groups: basically, what happened was this: we missed a right turn into a private road and ended up walking on a road which led to a dead end. Then we had to trek back up so we could turn into the private road, which by the way, is actually PRIVATE and we got to this woodland bit and I got really confused by which direction to go in. Miss Fleming (my group's supervisor) tried to teach me how to take a bearing but, being the silly twit I am, got totally lost and took around 20 minutes before I got it, and then the place we had to go to was right in front of us! It was so silly. I got so annoyed, and at that time it was raining and... *shivers*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were also slugs and caterpillars on 2 people's backpacks... oh dear.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, we made the BEST pasta and sauce ever! From a bloomin' Trangia as well! We (our group) are amazing... *giggles*&lt;br /&gt;We managed to get our fuel going, while one of the other groups took around 3 hours and 50 matches before they were called down in the campsite to cook in a drier area... then they ate at a really late time. My best friend, who's in that group, didn't even turn up... because she's ill. Or something.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I told you I would blog soon. Now bye.</content>
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    <title>I've run out of "I'm Back" titles...</title>
    <published>2007-05-03T17:49:48Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:49:48Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Yes, it's true. I cannot think of a decent entry title. I'm not giving it &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;another&lt;/span&gt; makeover, so this will be it for at least a few months, maybe even a year. No, it is not chirpy or summery. But it'll do.&lt;br /&gt;How is everyone? I've totally forgotten about this old thing... but I've jazzed it up with a new layout from &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://community.livejournal.com/gigiicons/"&gt;gigiicons&lt;/a&gt;. Some of the icons are from there as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You guys have missed out on a LOT since I last blogged. The past month, I've:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;got a facebook.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;been obsessed with it ever since.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;had the biggest waterfight ever.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;as a result, gotten a cold.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(I'm about to have my 4 day weekend - what a blast!)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;decided that I am going to stick to a work-out regime, which involves doing 1 hour of exercise, 4 times a week.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;been poked at least 2000 times.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;gotten a really bad cut on my face and my finger. Don't ask how.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;rearranged my room.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Yes yes, everyone get Facebook. At first, I thought it was really stupid... but it turns out to be better than MySpace; mostly because it is easier to use and you don't need knowledge of HTML and CSS. You can also "poke" people. Although that is NOT why I like Facebook so much.&lt;br /&gt;Obviously there have been other things happening but the truth is, I can't be bothered to write them down.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am now trying to outlive the long school days... but I suppose that won't happen for another 10 years, because 1) 1/3 of our lives is practically taken uo by education and 2) Our teachers have forced us to sign up for Language Conversation Classes, which will make the day seem even longer. Oh, the woes of school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ah yes, I promised that I would upload photos from my Lacrosse Tour! Click on this link...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www1.snapfish.co.uk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=159855981/a=91730293_91730293/t_=91730293" target="_blank"&gt;USA Photos!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'll blog again soon, so no need to worry, okay?</content>
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    <title>Hello... again.</title>
    <published>2007-04-12T19:29:22Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:11:13Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Five - Let's Dance</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Okay, the reason why I haven't been on this thing is because I've been in America for 12 days (31st March - 11th April). So, contrary to popular belief, I am pretty much alive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;b&gt;I am alive.&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yup, as I've just said, I've been raving it up there in America! I'll post about it later, when all of the photos are done, and when I can actually be bothered. I've been pretty much busy with my life, but don't worry, not much has happened (apart from America). I'll adjust the layout too (make it wider), so I can get away with putting large pictures for the next blog entry. With all that said, good night.</content>
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    <title>BACK!</title>
    <published>2007-03-28T19:36:25Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:22:59Z</updated>
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    <content type="html">Guess who's back, back again... *Eminem style*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After my hiatus, I've got off my butt, out of this shithole, and decided to write a blog. Weblogs are weird, I've realized. I mean, is it really that addictive to write an online diary? It's like a personal diary, but only on the net, for the WHOLE world to see. You see, I ponder about these things... clearly I have no life.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the contrary, last weekend was hectic. On Saturday, I saw &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/premonition/"&gt;Premonition&lt;/a&gt;, starring Sandra Bullock and Julian McMahon and it wasn't much of a must-see film, but a really good film if you're wondering what you wanna see in the cinema. The plot is rather confusing to read about; you have to see the film to get the picture. Speaking of films, what other ones are out in April? Oh, by the way, Julian McMahon is rather fit for a 40 year old.&lt;br /&gt;Sunday was rather okay. It wasn't really that fascinating, to be honest. I went to visit a friend, because she's going on this Geography field trip, so we decided to meet. All we did was watch Recess and talk to another friend on the phone. But the better part was when we went to Makro, when she got really excited about the confectionery section (Makro is this huge wholesaler place, where they sell everything in bulk).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I sorta miss everyone now, because half of the year group are in Dorset right now, doing Geography coursework... oh what fun they must be having. Founder's Day is going to be weird.</content>
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    <title>Hiatus</title>
    <published>2007-02-25T21:54:58Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:24:32Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>The Medic Droid - Fer Sure</lj:music>
    <content type="html">I really need to go on a hiatus.&lt;br /&gt;I'm not sure how long I'll be gone for, but you can still contact me via MSN or MySpace.&lt;br /&gt;If you have neither, just leave a comment and I'll reply or tag you.&lt;br /&gt;I will NOT be posting anymore entries until I feel inspired to do so.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also, tomorrow is my birthday.&lt;br /&gt;So many birthday wishes, please!</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>Happy CNY</title>
    <published>2007-02-17T16:35:27Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:27:13Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Happy Chinese New Year, everyone! May you all have a blessed and prosperous new year.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today is the beginning of the much-awaited half term break. FINALLY. No, I'm not going abroad; I feel like a spinster stuck at home updating her journal. I feel content right now. Not sunshine happy, but not emo sad either. I just feel extremely bland right now. I feel really uninspired. It's a wonder as to how I made this new layout: much thanks to &lt;a href="http://community.livejournal.com/reversescollide/" target="_blank"&gt;reversescollide&lt;/a&gt; for the style sheet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;LiveJournal keeps fxcking up on one of the laptops. It works on this one and the other computer but for the other one, it looks like this:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" src="http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4674/ljfw2.png" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's so annoying. I think it's because that laptop is old and it can't read the stylesheet.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyhow, yes, as I said in the beginning - Happy CNY! Apparently Oxford Street and Regent Street are both jazzed up for CNY, so I'm going out with my family to see all of the decorations - family outing - and perhaps eat dinner there. I have no idea. I'm also going to receive Lucky Money bags! Score! I'm totally broke (despite winning a £50 bet against my mum - yes, I'm a big spender), and it's my birthday soon! So I'll receive birthday money as well. Who says money can't buy happiness?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Everyone: watch Skins.&lt;br /&gt;I feel uninspired. Bye.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[EDIT]&lt;br /&gt;Look at this!:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;An ugly duckling has made waves on a farm - when he was born with four legs.  A rare mutation has left eight-day-old Stumpy with two extra legs behind the two he moves around on.&lt;/blockquote&gt; And here's the picture to prove it:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;center&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/4leggedduckling.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/center&gt;  Like, woah.&lt;br /&gt;Click &lt;a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6371901.stm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; for more. &lt;br /&gt;[/EDIT]</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>Snowed In</title>
    <published>2007-02-08T18:22:44Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:28:11Z</updated>
    <category term="news"/>
    <category term="weather"/>
    <category term="general"/>
    <category term="pictorial"/>
    <lj:music>MIKA - Grace Kelly</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Quite literally.&lt;br /&gt;We got snowed in. That means... &lt;br /&gt;THERE WAS SO MUCH SNOW THAT SCHOOL WAS CLOSED.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6338151.stm" title="CLICK!"&gt;LOOK HERE FOR PROOF THEN&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Heavy snowfall in much of England and Wales has closed schools and left travellers battling transport problems.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A number of airport runways were closed with flights cancelled, while train services have also been affected.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thousands of schools are shut and motorists are being urged to travel only if necessary. Some households are also without power.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Up to 10cm (4in) of snow fell in some areas. Leader of the Commons Jack Straw admitted the UK coped badly with snow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Amid calls for a parliamentary debate on the weather, Mr Straw told MPs the country needed to be better prepared for a cold snap. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was a joke. I wasn't affected by the disorganization because I live 5 minutes away from school... but some people live around 1 hour away from school, so here goes...&lt;br /&gt;This morning, everyone was really superduper uber-like-omg-wow EXCITED to see a whole blanket of snow cover their gardens and front yards. However, because lots of people have to take the coach to school, they have to wake up at around 6:00am. By this time, our school hadn't told anyone that school was going to be closed. Therefore, people were really confuzzled about whether school was on or not. But because our school hadn't told anyone school was closed, people took their coaches and went to school. But at 8:20am, our school stupidly decided that school would be closed! 8:20am is like, 20 minutes before registration. So basically all 12 school coaches arrived at the school gate wondering "WTF WTF WTF WTF WTF", like honestly. I don't set off for school until 8:30am so I wasn't in this mess. Anyway, people were superpissedoff at the school. It took everyone, therefore, 2 hours to get back home (all of the coaches were blocking the roads). HAHA TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE. Okay, not haha, but whatevzzz trevzzz. I wasn't affected by all that shiz but still... LOLLERSSSSS.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay so I stayed at home and played in the snow. This was my day in pictures:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="176" height="235" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/RandomShittttt805.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="176" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/2007-01-08SNOW009.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/2007-01-08SNOW053.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/2007-01-08SNOW055.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/2007-01-08SNOW050.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Haha! Those aren't the only pictures - there are around 70 more! But obviously I can't upload them all.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay. I really should revise Chemistry for a test tomorrow. Oh, how wonderful snow is.</content>
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    <title>Park View</title>
    <published>2007-02-01T18:23:44Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:29:15Z</updated>
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    <category term="general"/>
    <category term="school"/>
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    <lj:music>Rehab - Amy Winehouse</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Happy February!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My local park always looks great:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="200" height="267" alt="" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photo-0066.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="200" alt="" src="http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/9384/photo0067bm1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Those were from today whilst I was walking home. How beautiful? I think it is. The park is so quiet... I just love the serenity of it. It's such a good place to think.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today was the UKMT Maths Challenge... UGH. The school made it so formal - it was like lining up for GCSEs. Anyway, it was alright, although I missed out a lot of questions (because if you get one wrong, you lose points, but if you don't, then you just have the same mark). I think I did alright. Maybe a Bronze certificate? Yeah, right. Whatever, it really doesn't matter. ALTHOUGH I'm mega pissed off because I thought about putting down an answer but wasn't sure so I didn't, but then everyone else got that answer so I'm like, DAMN!!! But hey-ho, whatever goes.&lt;br /&gt;What else happened today... AH YES, English. LOVE IT; I got an A* for an essay! I ROCK YOUR SOCKS OFF, FO' SHIZZLE. Got 24 out of 25. Well, if it was a REAL GCSE coursework essay, I would have gotten an A*. But, since it wasn't, then... gah. BUT STILL. I was superhappy! &amp;gt;&amp;gt;INSERT GRIN&amp;lt;&amp;lt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GREY'S ANATOMY FINALE ON TONIGHT.&lt;br /&gt;OH MY GODDAAAHHH.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Superlove. Superlove. Superlove it. MEREDITH FOR DEREK PLEASE.</content>
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  <entry>
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    <title>Snow</title>
    <published>2007-01-24T20:53:28Z</published>
    <updated>2007-02-20T13:10:38Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Plain White T's - Hey Delilah</lj:music>
    <content type="html">England is a legend, because today, it snowed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="176" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photo-0030.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="176" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photo-0028.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="176" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photo-0033.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WHAT A LEDGEE. Pity we didn't get snowed in. Apparently it's going to snow tonight as well. Well, we'll just wait and see.&lt;br /&gt;Okay, that was really the main reason I posted today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh, since I feel like plugging people...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://notebookpaper.co.nr/" target="_blank"&gt;notebookpaper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;b&gt;PIMP&lt;/b&gt;ING THESE BITCHES&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://eternise-hearts.livejournal.com/" target="_blank"&gt;jeanette&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://cardboardwellies.com/" target="_blank"&gt;poppy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://community.livejournal.com/tillyness" target="_blank"&gt;tillyness&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://mascotlove.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;brenda&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;OKAY NOW I FEEL LIKE A FRIKIN' LOSER. I suppose that's not "major" plugging, but what the heck. I suppose they're just my favourite blogs to read. YOU SHOULD FEEL HONOURED.&lt;br /&gt;Nothing much happened today. BUT CHEMISTRY WAS A JOKE. Elaborate? You won't get it. Just that my Chemistry teacher left 10 minutes early and in the last 10 minutes of the lesson people just began to understand what the hell my Chemistry teacher taught us because another Chemistry teacher taught us all the stuff. LOLZ.</content>
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    <title>Camden</title>
    <published>2007-01-20T17:54:18Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:30:23Z</updated>
    <category term="offline"/>
    <category term="shopping"/>
    <category term="pictorial"/>
    <category term="friends"/>
    <lj:music>Death Cab - Photobooth</lj:music>
    <content type="html">YESTERDAY WAS A RAVE.&lt;br /&gt;I went to Camden with my two bests (love them to bits) and shopped till I dropped! I won't say much of this topic since you won't get any of the jokes we had and stuff (BUT WE MADE 4 NEW FRIENDS)... and we got stalked by some STRAAANGE girl in our school. Well, I'll put "stalked" in inverted commas, because we didn't literally get stalked... more like harassed. We had to hide out at Starbucks, Aldo and another store which I cannot remember the name of to be away from that harasser... o___o&lt;br /&gt;So, I got to Mayumi's house at around 10 in the morning (SO EARLY - had to wake up at around 8:30 because I take ages in the morning) and had a bit of a rave there with her and Alarna (who'd got there at 9 *OMG*). Then we set out to Camden which was around 20 minutes away. 'TWAS AWESOME. Eddie is our new best friend. Well, our Camden best friend.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="175" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/19thJanuary20070072.png" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woo that's us with EDDIE! Aren't we SO cool. He gave me a discount on a bag (ooops, not meant to tell anyone...!) - he's AWESOME.&lt;br /&gt;Okay, that;s all about Camden. OH YEAH, we made 3 more friends:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Keith (the bubble man)&lt;br /&gt;The sunglasses dude&lt;br /&gt;The guy in Cyberdog&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AND OH MY GOD white things glow in the dark in Cyberdog:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="175" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/19thJanuary2007004.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mayumi and Me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="175" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/19thJanuary2007005.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My polka dot shoe(s) - blurry...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I KNOW - ISN'T THAT COOL.&lt;br /&gt;Oh, and we 3 besties got matching tops too:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;img width="234" height="175" src="http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a315/mary_cheng/Photos/19thJanuary2007017.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, enough of my Camden story. Apparently there was the whole of year 10 in Camden/Oxford Street... well at least half of it. Because Year 10 is just too cool for school.&lt;br /&gt;If you're wondering why I went to Camden yesterday instead of school, it's because there were 11+ Entrance Exams, so no school for us! *dances* So it's a 3 day weekend, basically.&lt;br /&gt;YESSS.</content>
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    <title>Maths Mocks</title>
    <published>2007-01-11T17:30:39Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:30:46Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Fall Out Boy - This Ain't A Scene...</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Hello my fellow earthlings :)&lt;br /&gt;How be you all?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, tomorrow it's my last Maths GCSE Mock! I'm so relieved. I cannot wait for tomorrow afternoon, when my mock will ACTUALLY be over. I can't wait to stuff my Maths books into my locker and not look at Maths for this weekend! I've been looking at it for so long now, I can't actually be bothered to tell you how boring it is, looking at the same notes over and over again. Oh, if you're asking, the mock on Tuesday was fine, thanks :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;However, I've got to start my History Coursework and such shiz. I suppose I should start now, but I really CAN'T BE ARSED. Gah. I've also got to get my Spanish homework out of the way. BLEUGH. I hate Spanish now. It really really REALLY sucks. Miss Campo... well, not the best of all teachers, I suppose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;GREY'S ANATOMY ON TONIGHT!!! &lt;br /&gt;I cannot wait to see the finale... even though it's not tonight... but whateverr! I LOVE GREY'S ANATOMY. I LOVE GREY'S ANATOMY.&lt;br /&gt;Meredith and Derek = LOVE, BABY.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to sort out a problem with going to Lauren's party. AYAH.&lt;br /&gt;I might not even be able to go. Because I have no idea where it is.&lt;br /&gt;GAH GAH.</content>
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    <title>School Tomorrow</title>
    <published>2007-01-07T12:19:31Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:31:05Z</updated>
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    <lj:music>Snow Patrol - Run</lj:music>
    <content type="html">School starts tommorrow.&lt;br /&gt;Ayahhh. I absolutely &lt;b&gt;detest hate dislike &lt;/b&gt;school. Plus I've got my Maths iGCSE Mock on Tuesday and Friday. That does not make me feel any better. I really need a life.&lt;br /&gt;Us North London girls think too much of schoolwork and really, we need balance. NLCS forces those in Maths Sets 1 and 2 to take the Maths iGCSE a year early. They also pile on coursework, essays and all that shiz. Moreover, I've got the USA Lacrosse Tour in April to worry about (it's not all fun and games, y'know - I have to be extremely fit to play in USA). And then I've got to worry about French and Spanish aurals - I know my accent is alright, but I can still improve, yeah? It just sucks to be a GCSE student. History is stupid. I've still got to start my coursework about Women's Suffrage.&lt;br /&gt;I have so much work, it's impossible to keep up with extracurricular activities. Swimming is such a chore right now. I also have DoE expeditions to worry about - I've got to do community service (that's me visiting an elderly home), keep up a skill (going to Chinese school) and a physical recreational thing (swimming) for at least 6 months.&lt;br /&gt;And all of this is written in advance, so I won't have another rant about random school shiz.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Memoirs of a Geisha is the best book.</content>
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    <title>What next?</title>
    <published>2007-01-05T13:19:08Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:31:33Z</updated>
    <category term="issues"/>
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    <lj:music>Click 5 - Just the Girl</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Is it me, or is LJ looking really weird today?&lt;br /&gt;I think the CSS of the LJ website has gone a bit strange, because:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://imageshack.us"&gt;&lt;img width="158" height="219" border="0" alt="Image Hosted by ImageShack.us" src="http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/4674/ljfw2.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It's looking like that! |=O&lt;br /&gt;I mean, what the hell. Honestly. Yesterday, it looked really nice and pretty. Is the CSS mucking up here? Well, at least my LJ doesn't look screwed :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saddam Hussein was executed on 30 December. Not only is Saddam Hussein dead, but he is now being called a martyr. Now, I don't know if I agree with that term, but I'm definitely not celebrating his death. I mean, who can? What happens next? His death is going to cause even more conflict, especially with President Bush. I actually still don't understand why the UK and USA went to war with Iraq. At first it was because of Weapons of Mass Destruction. But were there any? NO. Absolutely none. Then they argued that Hussein was being cruel to his country. Others think that it was because of the vast oil supply in Iraq that Bush went to war. In my opinion? I'm still confused. I hate war, I hate destruction, I hate conflict. Why can't people just be satisfied with what they have? What right do they have to just kill another man? Is that right?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To hang a man is one thing, but to broadcast it on television is disgusting. There was an unauthorized  recording of Saddam's death from a mobile phone. It disgusted me how someone could just use someone's death and make it entertainment. Furthermore, hanging? Why not something less painful, like the lethal injection? Saddam may have been a cruel leader, but no one deserves to die in the gallows.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a name="cutid1"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="ljcut" text="Read more..."&gt;This is such a tough issue. Things are still being dealt with. I doubt the year 2007 will be a good year for the Iraqi people. Honestly, I don't know a lot about Saddam Hussein. I know he wasn't the nicest man ever. If he really was so cruel, then thank god he's no longer in power. But nobody deserves their death to be on television. Ever. In my opinion, anyway. Although, I can see a lot of argument for the death of Saddam Hussein. But there are also counterarguments against his death penalty. This isn't going to be pretty, at all. I suppose Saddam's death did end all of his torture and it did pay for all the lives he destroyed, but it's still inhumane to not only hang him, but to broadcast it on television? Eugh.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the Americans have gotten rid of the #1 threat, what comes next? More killings, or words of peace? What does this execution mean? Liberation or suppression for the Americans? A lot of Americans probably thought that the execution would end all of this. That's not right. It's just started a whole load of tension. There are those followers of Saddam, remember? I heard on the news that they are planning to avenge his death. Their first target? America. I'm not saying that I want it to happen, but it probably will. Take a look at 9/11. Everyone thought that something like that would never happen. However, it did. Then, in London, the 7/7. Tube bombings. Do you think that we are safe right now? With all of this tension and madness? I doubt it, very much. We can't be too careful about things anymore.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As we progress in the year 2007, let's all hope that these issues will be dealt with in a rational manner. But will that happen?&lt;br /&gt;Only time will tell.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I know that was a bit late. But it really makes you think hard about life, doesn't it?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content>
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    <title>New Year, Fresh Start</title>
    <published>2007-01-04T14:39:31Z</published>
    <updated>2007-05-03T17:31:55Z</updated>
    <category term="offline"/>
    <category term="online"/>
    <lj:music>Take That - Patience</lj:music>
    <content type="html">Yes, obviously I have shifted to LiveJournal.&lt;br /&gt;If I haven't asked already, please relink me! :D&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Okay, I know I've moved a lot of times, but this year I'm definitely sticking to stageshock. Why? I prefer livejournal; not many of my friends have it therefore there won't be any competition to see who has the most tags on their tagboard, nor should there be any undecent gossip. I also really love the mood smilies here!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gosh, it took me forever just to learn how to code something up. Thanks to &lt;a href="http://tillyness.livejournal.com/"&gt;Tillyness&lt;/a&gt; for the base codings. Yes, this layout is extremely simple, but I managed to do it, right? *wink*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oh yes, New Year's Resolutions:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;#1 STICK TO THEM&lt;br /&gt;#2 Control my MySpace addiction.&lt;br /&gt;#3 Improve my stamina and fitness greatly.&lt;br /&gt;#4 Learn the map of Europe.&lt;br /&gt;#5 Use pocket money wisely; i.e don't overspend when going out!&lt;br /&gt;#6 Listen to advice more often.&lt;br /&gt;#7 See my friends more often.&lt;br /&gt;#8 Smile more! Okay, I smile a lot, but I will smile EVEN more!&lt;br /&gt;#9 Revise when I can, not when I should (i.e stop revising at the last minute)&lt;br /&gt;#10 Wake up earlier, sleep earlier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes, those are my new year's resolutions. I doubt I'll stick to them, but oh well.</content>
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