BBC's 100 Books to read before you die

Keeping track of the books that I've read on the list

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien
2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman
4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams
5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling
6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne
8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell
9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis
10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë
11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller
12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë
13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks
14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier
15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger
16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres
20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy
21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling
23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling
24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling
25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien
26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy
27. Middlemarch, George Eliot
28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving
29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck
30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson
32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett
34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl
36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute
38. Persuasion, Jane Austen
39. Dune, Frank Herbert
40. Emma, Jane Austen
41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery
42. Watership Down, Richard Adams
43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald
44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas
45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh
46. Animal Farm, George Orwell
47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian
50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher
51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett
52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck
53. The Stand, Stephen King
54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy
55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth
56. The BFG, Roald Dahl
57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome
58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell
59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer
60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman
62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden
63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough
65. Mort, Terry Pratchett
66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton
67. The Magus, John Fowles
68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett
70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding
71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind
72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell
73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett
74. Matilda, Roald Dahl
75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding
76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt
77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins
78. Ulysses, James Joyce
79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens
80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson
81. The Twits, Roald Dahl
82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith
83. Holes, Louis Sachar
84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake
85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson
87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons
89. Magician, Raymond E Feist
90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac
91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo
92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel
93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett
94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
95. Katherine, Anya Seton
96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer
97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson
99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot
100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie 

Half a year since you're gone...

But we miss you every single day.....

We are doing fine, hope you are doing well too, Chippy.

Wan Ching has agreed to marry me two days ago. :)

Take care, Chippy! We will always love you!

新年快乐！

Chippy! 新年快乐! 祝你开开心心！我们都很想念你。。。

Happy New Year!

Dear Chippy,

It has been 4 months since you left us and tomorrow is going to be the last day of the year.

2011 will always be remembered as the year where my beloved you left us for heaven. I miss you very much. :(

Have a happy new year in heaven ok, Chippy? Take care !

A birthday without you....

Dear Chippy,

Today is my birthday. And I completed a marathon early in the morning. I remember the first time when I completed a marathon on my birthday in 2006, I was able to celebrate with you, father, mother and Sarah at night. In subsequent years since 2008, Wan Ching joined us in our celebrations.

I miss you. How I wish you were here celebrating my birthday with me. Though we now have Peachy, we still miss you a lot. I have cut a piece of cake for you and placed it on your bowl. Enjoy the cake, Chippy and take care of yourself in heaven. I really really miss you, my dear Chippy!

Love,

Watson

Chippy, meet Peachy.

Dear Chippy,

How have you been? I miss you very much. It has been 68 days since we parted but I still think of you every day and night. Hope you are doing well and having fun in heaven, Chippy.

Yesterday, on 5/11/2011, we went to SPCA to adopt another Jack Russell Terrier called Peaches. We renamed her Peachy so that it sounds more similar to your name. I felt that I have betrayed you when we decided to adopt another dog. Chippy, we hope that you do not mind us keeping another dog. No matter what happens, you will always have a special place in our hearts and we will never forget you. We will always love you.

Let me introduce you to Peachy. She is 5 years old and her built is similar to yours, but she's slightly bigger. She was given up by her family who moved overseas and didn't want to bring her along. Poor thing, wouldn't you say? She's like you in so many ways and when she came to our home yesterday, I was reminded of the day when you first came. Like you, she's very well behaved and peed only in the toilet. She hasn't barked once in the home since she was here more than 20 hours ago. She's hyperactive and energetic, like how you were when you came to us. She even tried to squeeze through the hole in the gate like how you did when you ran away from home! We had to wire that up again. You liked to play with your bears and her obsession is with balls. Like you, she will grab hold of her tennis ball (bear in your case) and guard it with her life, fearing that we will snatch it away from her. While typing this, how I wish that we can travel through time and relive those moments with you again :'(

Even though we miss you terribly, we understand that Peachy is herself and not a substitute for you. You have gone through so much together with us and we will never be able to find a substitute for you. We will love and take care of Peachy and at the same time, we will remember you, our dearest little Chippy, never forgetting how loving and adorable you are. Please take care and have fun in doggie heaven, Chippy. Till we meet again!

Regards,
Watson

一个月了

Chippy, 你还好吧？
你在天堂生活一个月了。
生活过得开心吗?
天堂一定有很多好吃的东西和好朋友陪你玩，对吗？

你有没有想我们？
我们都很想念你。
我每天跟你说的话你有听到吗？

你要好好照顾自己，Ok?
有朝一日，我们会重逢。
我们永远爱着你!