Out with the old, in with the new

Yo wassup mah homies

As i was sayin in the chatbox, but was rudely censored by blogspot, I'm feelin ya bitch and I do feel it is TIME we got WITH the TIMES... if you know what i'm sayin. I've been doin a fair bit of research myself ..and let me ask you peeps this..What do people like P. diddy, Snoop doggy dog and J. Lo got in common? Yea they all cool.. but why? and then it hit me.. Its obvious y'all... they got cool nicknames! After thorough research.. i discovered the sources of most of their nicknames.. Get this y'all.. Snoop doggy dog's nickname came from some unknown comic strip (who has time to read comics anyway?) named PEANUTS where there is a dog named Snoopy. Notice how he doesn't use 'Snoopy dog' as his nickname but uses a more hip and cool variation! J.lo on the other hand is is actually..a short form of her name.. Its brilliant.. Jennifer LOpez..and hence J.LO.. I am still however getting to the bottom of the P. diddy mystery. Unfortunately there seems to be no journal articles on the subject as i have tried researching on PubMed and Science Direct several times.

So it got me thinking.. We gotta get nicknames y'all!
I thought up a few.. Let me know what you guys think:

Suchuen : M. Diddy ( which is MD for medical doctor... notice how i tried to make it sound more hip and cool)
Grace: Em-Cee (short for master of ceremony which is what she's good at doing)
Nadia: N'archy (this one took lots of creativity.. N for nadia and archy for being an architect..
Pronounced as anarchy.. i was inspired by apparently world famous pop group N'Sync)
Lisa: Dopey-D ( apparently the word pharmacist was not in the dictionary of cool words.
I also discovered after thorough research that the word on the street for Drugs is Dope (pronounced DOPE)! THis is a top ecret code apparently and can also be used to address drug addicts (for example "you a mean ass dope-head"). Pretend you didnt hear it from me.)
Krystle: Bling bling (because crystals shine)
Karmern: Flash (because of her camera skills)
Ann: ALi ( As in Ann. LIm..See above for J.Lo example)
Yi min : Noodles (as in Yee Min)
Peishi: P. CHo (once again in light of the J Lo. example)
AiLi: Chinkity Chin

I think this is the first step we can take to pursuing coolness. PLease let me know what you think


Where's the love y'all?
Dopey D

My measly attempt to revive geekobookclub. Let's hope it works.

Hello all!!

Geekobookclub has obviously been confined to the dark recesses of our inner minds for the past oh I don't know, half a year or so? They say every good thing has to come to an end and as much as it pains me to say this, I believe we can no longer deny the fact that we have all *gasp* lost our love for reading and *doublegasp* become cool. Having said that, I still believe in the cause of this blog.

Please, don't be too hard on yourselves. No one is to blame. It is not our faults that the world turns its face away from geeks such as ourselves. I, just like yourselves, had high hopes of making my voice heard back when we started this little blog. In fact, the very essence of the geekoboookclub was, I believe, borne out of nothing but our undying desires to make our geeky little voices heard. All we wanted was to tell the world that IT IS OK TO LOVE READING. THAT IT IS OK TO BE GEEKY. But we failed.

But all's well, my friends. They say, it is better to have tried being geeky once, than to never have been geeky at all. And yes, they in the previous sentence was really just me. Not all is lost, y'all. Yes, such is the way the world has changed us. We have lost our sense of pride at being labelled geekos and have had to move with the changing times, using slangs like "y'all", "dude", and by far the worst I've heard, "bitch". Yes, apparently, beautiful names like Kwang Feng and Ching Chong are now considered to be uncool and too long to utter by the-cool-ones, and therefore have been reduced to that of a female dog. Why the new powers that be (yes, my friends, we are no longer the powers that be, seeing as it is almost a crime to be geeky these days.) chose to generalize everyone's name to the word "bitch" and not something less derogatory like say, "princessconsuelabananahammock" is indeed a mystery to behold.

I believe the time has come for us to accept the fact that geekos have no place in the world we live in today. Unless of course, we acquire a piece of land off the coast of Papua New Guinea, and attempt to geekonize an indigenous man-eating tribe who have never been exposed to the "coolness" of our world, but that, I'm afraid will have to wait for after Lisa's wedding this December. Until then, I suggest, we attempt to assimilate ourselves with the people around us, taking in their slangs, actions and everything that will make us cool. Sadly, this might include having to call each other the equivalent of a female dog when we're around the-cool-ones, but, this is all transient. And this will be our guise, until we hatch another plan to storm the world with our geekiness.

There is nothing much we can do to erase the geeky posts we have so painstakingly typed in the past. What I suggest we can do is change our style of writing and, maybe even change the name of our blog. If it is possible, we might like to change our logo from the geekolizard to something a little more with the times, like say a picture of the Backstreet Boys who seem to have achieved fame again with their song "I just want you to know". As you can see, I have started doing my homework by researching the newest and coolest bands in town. You should probably start soon.

Till our next meeting. Ciao y'all!

Geeko Book Club

Disclaimer: The writer is not writing this to correct or compete with Su Chuen's post.

You know how disclaimers are usually written at the bottom of something. well, i decided to write it at the top.

This is the first time in a long time i have read a book. I can't say this is the first time i have read a book because it is not true and i wouldn't want to give nadia or now ai li as it seems a run for their money.

i have only in my whole life however read 6 books from beginning to end:
1) Bridget Jones diary 1 and 2
2) The curious incident of the dog in the nightime
3) Swiss Family Robinson
4) Harry Potter- all the episodes
5) some Enid Blyton books i read as a kid
6) Memoirs of a Geisha.....and this is where my story begins.

haha...cheh...drama-nya. ya well, that's how the book kinda goes as well.

i guess all the synopsis was already mentioned by chuen.

sadly, the story is completly fictional. aarrrgghhh...i was conned!! how stupid was i. i thought that when a book said "memoirs of a geisha" it meant- this book that you are now going to read contains memoirs of a geisha. just the same way one would expect "Baking Cherry Pies by Betty Bot" to mean -this book that you are now going to read contains cherry pie recipes by Betty Bot. well of course i overlooked the fact that if the book is written by ARTHUR GOLDEN it means that Memoirs of a Geisha is in fact not to be viewed in the same way as Baking Cherry Pies by Betty Bot is. i only discovered this truth when i was already 1/4 way through the book, and i glanced to the back of the book and to my horror there was the acknowledgements written by ARTHUR GOLDEN (who is not a geisha) saying "bla bla bla....completly fictional....bla bla bla"....GASP!!! the horror!!!!!!!

so i went through the rest of the book thinking.....aiyah....ya lor..where got this kind of thing happen in real life one.

anyway....the book is good. the grammar is sometimes very ununderstandable and the author uses alot of alliterations and similies.

the story is very touching. it is the kind of book that a true romantic would love.

in fact, if everyone in the world had read this book, then as i always say, there would be 2 kinds of people in this world- one who thinks Sayuri should end up with Nobu as her danna and the other kind who thinks that Sayuri should be with the Chairman.

i am the latter.

everyone takes with them a pair of glasses with which to see the world. these glasses have our past experiences, or values and dreams. when we read books or do anything else for that matter, we use these pair of glasses to do it. (and no i don't just mean those who don't have perfect vision). i guess this is why we all predict the content of books to mean different things.

to me this book was ironic. the main gist of the book was about destiny. it spoke about nothing but destiny and the paths in life from the beginning to the end. Japanese people especially geisha believed firmly that one couldn't avoid their destiny if it is already written for them. and yet the brave girl who is the star of the book, turned her destiny around. she refused to give into her destiny because she didn't like her destiny at all. if she gave into her destiny it would mark the end of her life( though not physically). She never let go of hope. Because a life without hope wouldn't be a life at all i guess.

This book reminded me that hope is one of the most important things in life.

The Girl with the Grey Iris

Sayuri lived the life of a fisherman's daughter, poor and yearning for a better life. It was as if fate had dealt her a bad hand. If it wasn't bad enough that they were barely making ends meet at home, her mother fell ill with a mysterious illness confining her to the bed. Her father, a stoic, silent man spent his day out in the open sea, and during the stormy seasons, mending his net in their home. He was a quiet man. Sayuri's sister held the fort, taking over household chores and the like. Sayuri was a young girl. Her mother had been her only true friend and companion and now even that had been taken away from her. Looking at the terrible misfortune that had beheld Sayuri all her life, one would think that her life was finally taking a turn towards the bright side the day a man (whose name I've forgotten and am too lazy to check seeing as I would have to heave my ass off my computer chair and drag myself up the stairs, into my room from which I may never return seeing as I may just decide to go back to sleep which is something I am avoiding seeing as I have to leave for uni in an hour and a half. It's 8 am and I haven't slept a wink the whole night and I blame it on the impending doom of my results which I will know in exactly 3 hours. But nevermind that.) appeared on their doorstep, beckoning for Sayuri's father to release his 2 daughters into his care, with the knowledge that neither he nor his wife would ever see either of them again.

And this is where the story begins for Sayuri. Her sister was just a side character thrown in by the author but the last I heard, she was thrown into a brothel if you must know. Memoirs of a geisha is a story of Sayuri and her life as a geisha under the tutelage of one Mameha, a geisha of renowned beauty and style. It is a story that intricately weaves the fine webs of deceit, hatred, jealousy, desire and most of all undying love. Many other characters spice up the storyline and makes it a very enjoyable read indeed for example Nobu, the cynical yet intellectual individual who unfortunately was scarred on his face, earning him the nickname of Lobster (I may be wrong, but it was definitely something to the effect of Lobster. But it doesn't really matter la.)and a Dr Crab, yet another of Sayuri's suitors. Like the title says, what set Sayuri apart from all the other geishas was the fact that she had grey eyes. This was apparently a sight to behold although it gives me the heebee jeebies just thinking about it.

Sayuri goes through much disappointment and discouragement at the beginning of her stay in the house of geisha. (there was a special name for this 'house of geisha' but I forget. I'll check later and correct it ok.) She is mistreated by Hatsumomo, a nasty bitch if you ask me, who makes her life a living hell in the beginning. However, Sayuri's life takes a turn for the better somewhere in the middle of the book. I shall leave you to read that for yourself.

Memoirs of a geisha to me, has a central theme, and it is that of pure, unadulterated love as it is her love for a certain person whose real name I have also forgotten but is also known as The Chairman which I believe provides the drive for her character and is in essence her very reason for living. An awesome read. Go read the book before you catch it in the cinemas.

Please bear in mind that I'm writing this off the top of my head without any references whatsoever (due to reasons I have provided in the first paragraph) or sleep so forgive me if I make the occassional grammatical error and for the many memory lapses I have had in regards to names of characters.

I give this book 5 lizard tails or claws, whatever. Sorry,I don't know how to load them tails. If somebody who knows would kindly do it for me (read: We-Ki) I would very much appreciate it.

Demise of the Geeko Book Club?

This blog is like sooo dead!
anyways...to revive this blog a little....i have decided to play a game.
can anyone guess who wrote this post that you are now reading...yeah that's the game. simple right

the rules are- you can ask the person whom you think it is real life (face-to-face)/ you can ask other people/ you can just guess randomly . if the person chooses the person can lie to you.

well, basically the fun is just to see whether you all can guess who i am la

happy guessing

*btw....i know this has nothing to do with books but neither does the beer post!!!!!!!!!!

Geeko of the Year updates

At last count, there have been 2 nominations:

Nadia Tan (2)
Lim Kar Mern (1)

Nadia Tan seems to be leading at this point of time by 1 vote.

Sorry Karmy, my vote still goes to Nads.
No doubt, you did write a rather witty post in regards to beer, but Nads simply cannot be denied the recognition and honour of the title as she has written the bulk of book reviews posted in the Geeko Book Club.
If you care to peruse through the golden rules set at the start of this, you will come to the realization, as did I that not only has she been the main contributor to the Geeko Book Club, but she has been the only one to strictly adhere to all the rules stated there.

Besides, she has a franguncle who's a dentist. Nobody can beat that.

Geeko of the Year award

2005 is coming to and end and 2006 is drawing near. The geeko book club has been up and running for the past 4 months. What do we have to show for ourselves? I urge you to take the time to think about how you have contributed to the great cause that is the geeko book club. I am excited for what's in store for 2006. In the spirit of celebrating 4 months of geekiness, I have decided that there must be a Geeko of the Year award. I propose that this be given every year in recognition of the geeko who contributes the most. I hope that this award will bring cheer and joy to the heart of the winner and encouragement to the rest of us lazy asses to contribute more to this great cause.

For this year, 2005, I'd like to nominate Nadia Tan as winner of the Geeko of the Year award. She has painstakingly written many a review and to be quite honest, is the reason geeko book club is still alive at all.

The winner of the Geeko of the Year award will receive a plaque bearing his/her name with the words "Geekiest geeko 2005" and a 6cm by 5 cm section of the sidebar for the whole of year 2006 for him/her to place anything she/he pleases.

The nomination booth will be closed on the 25th of December at the stroke of midnight.