tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32168764639604880392024-03-08T23:58:08.957+08:00Anisa TaniaAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692915445866990875noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216876463960488039.post-67214537571821784832016-02-18T21:22:00.001+08:002016-02-18T21:22:12.514+08:00Sins<p dir="ltr">Last week's episode of Season 4 of Arrow was The Sins of The Father. The fifth episode of Birds of Prey was The Sins of The Mother.</p>
<p dir="ltr">DC is telling us that if your parents sinned, you are a superhero?</p>
<p dir="ltr">LOL.<br></p>
<p dir="ltr">People, this was seriously a silly conclusion I made. Watch them. It was nothing like it. Lelz.</p>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12692915445866990875noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3216876463960488039.post-22271332618431005482016-02-10T20:00:00.000+08:002016-09-24T03:25:30.185+08:00Tania Reads : Does My Head Look Big In This?<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"... this warm feeling buzzes through you and you smile to yourself, knowing God's watching you, knowing that He knows you're trying to be strong to please Him. Like you're both in a private joke and something special and warm and extraordinary is happening and nobody in the world knows about it because it's your own experience, your own personal friendship with your Creator."</i> - Amal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>"See zis ash, Amal? Za cigarette it burns, za ash falls, some bits solid zen zey fall apart, zey disappearing into tiny bits and zey fading away. To making it whole again you needing to go and finding each bit and putting togezer again, yes?" ; "Too many bits, Amal."</i> - Mrs Vaselli</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This book can be purchased from MPH for RM 38.90. But I was lucky to buy it at only RM 8.00. Thank you Big Bad Wolf. Yeayza!</span></div>
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