Sonaisali Island Resort — magnificent hotel on lonely island. But it is not necessary to miss here — set of entertainments, the fine nature, and the main thing — the warm emerald sea — all it at your order.
Hotel from the Australian architects
The hotel has opened in 1992, it is constructed in traditions of Fijian architecture which so is harmoniously entered in a surrounding landscape. The resort consists of the general premises and a bungalow, shaded by magnificent tropical vegetation. At hotel restaurants it is offered to the menu, made under the influence of Asian, Indian and an European cuisine.
The freshest components are used only, vegetables and fruit are grown up there and then, on island. Also probably to arrange a romantic supper for two at a stellar light, under silent whisper of ocean waves.
Arrangement: at 4 o'clock flight from Sydney, at 3 o'clock flight from Oakland, at 10 o'clock flight from Los Angeles, in 3 minutes of driving from island Viti Levu. The hotel is designed by the Sydney architect, therefore, you to the full like the Australian aesthetics and up to the end will understand local mentality.
In hotel: 2 restaurants, a bar, a car rent and bicycles, shops, excursions, business centre, exchange, transfers from/in the airport, a laundry, a first-aid post, trading gallery from 3 large shops and several boutiques.
The Conference hall offers ample opportunities for carrying out of private meetings, trainings, conferences and seminars. The club for children works daily from 9 o'clock in the morning to 9 o'clock in the evening and offers the whole complex of entertainments for children from 4 till 12 years. In hotel there is a service of co-ordinators (wedding, on the organisation of meetings, on work with the Japanese clients, on work with groups).
Restaurants and bars: — Restaurant Sunset Terrace. — Restaurant The Plantation.
Sports and entertainments: tennis, riding, driving by boats, fishing, a water ski, a paintball, billiards-pool, the TV with the big screen in foyer, tables for Ping-Pong and board games, trips on jungle on motorcycles.
Residential architect Sydney — knows true sense in the Australian culture and is always ready to offer original architectural projects.
The designer from Hong Kong Leo Yiu has suggested to change a little representation of inhabitants about what should be wall clocks in office and official bodies.
Nextime has bought the patent
The manufacturer of clocks company Nextime with pleasure has got at the designer idea of a dial with the cut off lateral part which allows to suspend conveniently them to a direct plane.
I slept in until noon today and I definitely wasn't planning on that. Actually, I got up at eight to finish my cookies and then I went back to sleep at ten, planning on only sleeping for about thirty minutes. Silly me for not setting an alarm. It wouldn't be a big deal but I'm going to a Christmas/Birthday party at two o'clock so I have zero time.
I am not in Iowa City anymore, I'm at my parents house very far away from Iowa City. Actually not really, only about in a hour and a half. So far my mom has pushed a hydrating nasal rinse on me because I have a small nose and asked me if I'm eating enough fruit in Iowa City. Gotta love moms! My boyfriend brought his presents for my parents over yesterday but my dog has started to open them. Woops!
Last week was a good reading week for me because I had nothing else to do. I didn't finish quite all the books I wanted to, but I never expect that I will. I finished The Eyre Affair, The Moment Between, and The Red Necklace. I also posted a review of In A Gilded Cage, which I finished two weeks ago. I did some deep thinking this week about how people look at you when you read certain types of books, and how it doesn't really matter. Today I plan on finishing The White Garden by Stephanie Barron and The Clumsiest People on Earth edited by Todd Pruzan. I am also reading The Luxe by Anna Godbersen right now and I must admit that I am hooked! This week I also plan on reading The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova, The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, and Sex Lives of the Roman Emperors by Nigel Cawthorne. I was only planning on reading four YA books for my self challenge, but I ended up purchasing the first three of The Luxe series and I might end up reading all three before I turn 20. We shall see!
I've been reading for one hour and I'm already off to a good start! I decided to take a quick break and check out the Readathon site and do whatever challenges are post. Miss Remmers' Mini-Challenge is to talk about your kick-off strategy. I'm not really surrounded by anything right now, but I did know I wanted to start off with Fahrenheit 451 since it was the heaviest book in my pile but still short. I should still be able to accomplish something early in the day, but I'm also reading the hardest book while I'm still fresh. I made myself a pillow fort on my bed because I knew I wouldn't want to get out of bed at seven o'clock in the morning, so all I had to do was wake up, grab my book, and start reading. Eventually my tummy started to growl, so that is when I decided to stop, have a pop-tart, and do this mini-challenge.
On the Dewey website they asked you to answer the following questions for hour one: Where are you reading from today? Since waking up an hour ago I've been reading Fahrenheit 451. 3 facts about me … I am a sophomore at the University of Iowa. I have flowers on my desk but they are starting to wilt. I read about museums for fun. How many books do you have in your TBR pile for the next 24 hours? 6 Do you have any goals for the read-a-thon (i.e. number of books, number of pages, number of hours, or number of comments on blogs)? I would really like to finish the Shelf Discovery Challenge today, we'll see.
Well I'm back to read for awhile. I'll be back in a few hours!
I am participating in the Dewey Readathon today! My readathon mornings are always messed up. I always oversleep, and it seems like I'm always going to my parents' house for the weekend. This readathon was new different. I got started about two hours late, nine o'clock my time. I haven't wasted much time though, one and a half books finished. Jason and I made a little pit stop in Pella, Iowa on the way home to meet some of family for lunch. Now I'm at my parents' house to read for an hour before we go get our engagement pictures taken.
Time spent reading: 15/21 Pages read: 704 Hours listened: 3 Books completed: The Walking Dead Volume 2 by Robert Kirkman, Welcome to My Country by Lauren Slater, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie, The Pharmacist's Mate by Amy Fusselman Activities completed: None Trees planted: 8
I'll be returning to update this post throughout the day. You might be wondering about trees planted. For each book I finish during the readathon I am planting two trees through Eco-Libris.
Update: My engagement pictures are complete! We had a lot of fun getting out pictures taken and I read a little Shakespeare during the photo shoot. I'm sure I'll share some of those later. For now I will just say The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian is a fantastic book. A really quick read too! Also, I didn't fill this out during hour one, so I'm doing it now.
1) My parents' house in Altoona, Iowa. Started at my house in Iowa City, Iowa and read on the road in between. 2) I love essays, almond macaroons are my favorite cookie, and I'm probably going camping next weekend. 3) 10 4) I don't really have any specific goals this time around, I'm just hoping to get a lot of reading done! 5) Relax and have fun. Try to get some actual reading in instead of checking up on everyone else's blogs!
Update: It's now 11:18 here. I went and got some dinner, took a nap, and started two books. I was originally planning on reading Molly Fox's Birthday, but decided it wasn't really working for today. Right now I'm reading Welcome to my Country by Lauren Slater instead. I've been working on some art projects for school while listening to Genghis Kahn and the Making of the Modern World, which has been a nice break from reading and a good opportunity to get some work done. Now I think I'm going to get back to some real text reading for a few hours. Who is still out there? Are you hanging in there?
Update: A few hours have gone by since my last update. I'm officially starting to get tired. I've accomplished a lot more in this readathon than I thought I would. I've finished four books and made a pretty good dent in the beginning of an audiobook. I even managed to get a little homework done. In the last few hours I read a graphic novel to give my eyes a rest from all the text. In the next couple hours I think I might listen to some audio while trying to get some more homework done and then see how I feel.
Update: This will probably be my final update for the readathon. My eyes are heavy and I'm at the beginning of a book which is making it difficult for me to keep up with it. I might try to get up after a little nap to read just a little bit more-but I am basically done for this readathon. I also keep thinking about the paper I have to write tomorrow and how I should probably be a little coherent for that!
How is your readathon going? If you're not participating then how are you spending your Saturday?
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1. The Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL). If you haven't heard of this website yet then you are probably constantly walking around in a state of confusion. Like any style guide, this website answers all of your questions about how to write an annotated bibliography or when exactly to use a semicolon. There are also instructions for resumes and research, so it really covers all the bases. 2. Oxford English Dictionary is the best online dictionary (in my opinion) because it not only defines the word for you but it gives you a history of what that word used to mean. This can be extremely helpful for writing papers about a specific word or topic. It takes some getting used to because the site is kind of janky, but I'm sure you'll be able to understand after a couple of tries. 3. Online Literature. The site is laced with ads but once you get past that there is great information to be found. There are forums about books and authors as well as lengthy profiles on many classic authors. It will also lead you to other websites about the author and articles. Oh... and did I mention they have chapters from books and full length poems for each author? 4. Quotations Page has thousands and thousands of quotes. If you are interested in an author or writing a paper about a topic this is a good place to look to either expand or narrow your ideas. If I'm writing a paper about marriage and Jane Austen I can go to this site and look for "quotes about marriage" by "Jane Austen" and I receive two (and 43 quotes about marriage overall). 5. Online Stopwatch is not really specifically for English majors but I'll admit that I use it quite a bit for school related tasks. If you have lots of stuff to work on and not a lot of time this will keep you moving. I personally like the countdown watch because it alerts you when time is up. One example of how I use this is when I'm writing a paper. Let's say I don't need to finish the paper that day but I should work on it for about an hour. I just put an hour on the countdown and it tells me when an hour has happened, that way I'm not constantly looking at my clock. It helps keep me focused.
Yo! It's almost time for the awesome Dewey's 24 hour read-a-thon to begin!:) I'm SUPER excited! Last time (April) I managed to get a lot of reading done AND I stayed up the full 24 hours!:) I'm hoping to do so again this time! We shall see! And can I just say, that it is proof of how much I love read-a-thons and this one in particular that I am willing to get up at SIX AM to do this?! Seriously — if you know me at all, you know I hate mornings and think 9 o'clock is still on the early side... So... For me to be away before 6?! Lots of love I say, LOTS OF LOVE.
I don't have an awesome picture of my read-a-thon pile today for two reasons. One, because I can't find my camera and two, because I'm absolutely terrible at sticking to a list. Instead, I'm going to read the two books I absolutely must have read by next week and then move on to some others. I have a feeling that this read-a-thon is going to be very heavily Contemporary YA because that's what I've really been in the mood for lately and I have a few more books I want to get read before Just Contemporary month starts! It's getting so close!: D
Anyway — I shall update often, I'm sure throughout the day, both in this post and subsequent posts! If you are read-a-thoning too, best of luck! I'd LOVE to chat on Twitter, cheerlead, share what we've read etc, so if you are participating, leave me a comment here or come chat with me on Twitter! (I'm @BasicallyBooks) I will most likely be getting on after each book finished so I can offer updates!
I'm officially beginning the countdown to Dewey's 24-Hour Read-a-thon! As you can see, I've even added a countdown clock to my sidebar!
I've requested my reading material from the library and I will pick it up today.
So far, here is my list:
Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson Wicked Lovely Trilogy by Melissa Marr Thirteen reasons Why by Jay Asher America, America by Ethan Canin House of Night series by P.C. Cast The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead Jessica's guide to dating on the dark side by Beth Fantaskey Need by Carrie Jones Angels of Destruction by Keith Donohue
Now, depending on my reading mood, I may remove or add books to this list.
So, if you are participating in the Read-A-Thon, what is on your reading list?
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By DAILY MAIL REPORTER Rare condition: The two-head conjoined twin girls were born in a hospital in Suining city in southwest China's Sichuan province last week A woman has given birth to a baby girl with two heads in the Chinese province of Sichuan. The conjoined twins, who share a single body, two arms and two legs, were born by Caesarean section last week, according to officials. The sisters are believed to suffer from a condition known as dicephalic parapagus - an extremely unusual form of twin conjoinment where only a single body develops. Intensive care: The twins will require around-the-clock attention Because they share the same body, it is not possible to separate dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins. The birth of dicephalic parapagus conjoined twins - who develop after a fertilized egg cell fails to divide fully - is extremely rare, with most cases occurring in southwest Asia and Africa. Sister act: Conjoined twins are extremely rare, occurring once in 100,000 births, while the dicephalic parapagus form of the condition is almost unheard of However, there have been instances of dicephalic parapagus twins being born in the West. In July 2009, Lisa Chamberlain, from Portsmouth, gave birth to twins Joshua and Jayden, who shared the same single body. Joshua was stillborn while his brother lived for 32 minutes before dying in his mother's arms. And in the U.S. dicephalic parapagus twins Abigail and Brittany Hensel have become media celebrities, appearing on the Oprah Winfrey Show and featuring in television documentaries. The sisters, now 21, from Minnesota, appear to share a perfectly normal single body, although in fact several of their internal organs are doubled up. While each is able to eat and write separately and simultaneously, activities such as walking and driving a car must be co-ordinated. Two-headed baby: Amazing conjoined twins born in China
Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along!
Just do the following:
Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
My teaser this week comes from The Magicians by Lev Grossman
"It was almost like the Fillroy books--especially the first one, The World in the Walls--were about reading itself. When the oldest Chatwin, melancholy Martin, opens the cabinet of the grandfather clock that stands in a dark, narrow back halloway in his uncles house and slips through into Fillroy (Quentin always pictured him awkwardly pushing aside the pendulum, like the uvula of a monstrous throat), it's like he's opening the covers of a book, but a book that did what books always promised to do and never actually quite did: get you out, really out, of where you were and into something better." (page 7)
