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About Valerie Leung

I ♥ Sydney Swans. Square-eyed from too much television. I don't read enough. You can find me blogging at LibraGirlRules.com, writing about TV, films and books at ArmchairParadise.wordpress.com and occasionally traveloguing at ThursdayHasAView.wordpress.com. I have been known to write fanfic at fanfiction.net (http://www.fanfiction.net/u/2660477/) and you can follow me on Twitter and Instagram @valshopaholic.

How Well Do You Know The Villains of White Collar?

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Villains of White Collar

OK if you have been reading my blog for a while or have been following me on Twitter, you’ll be well aware of my addiction with TV show White Collar.  As my mother always said, if I only put this much energy into studying I’d have had better grades (having an MBA isn’t enough? :)).  For the record, I believe that White Collar is a highly educational show! Check out my “Ten Things I Learnt From White Collar” post.  And if you are still not convinced, you can also find the show has made it into Wikipedia (Season 3, Ep 7).

If you were one of the lucky attendees at the “White Collar Fans at SDCC” party in San Diego during the annual Comic Con (“SDCC”), you may have picked up a copy of a crossword puzzle prepared by the party organisers based on questions prepared by me.  If you weren’t there (join the club :() then here’s your chance to take the quiz and test your knowledge!

When you’re done, leave a comment here and let me know your score 🙂

Take Our Quiz!

And don’t forget to check out the White Collar Fans at SDCC blog for all the behind-the-scenes action from the party and the fans 🙂

Is Geek The New Chic? Welcome to Comic-Con!

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2011 SDCC TV Guide Covers

From 21st to 24th July, 2011, the world’s largest convention for comic enthusiasts will take place in San Diego.  You may have heard of it – the San Diego Comic Convention – SDCC.  When this convention originated in 1970, it was attended by a few hundred fans of comic books and science fiction – Batman, Superman, The Avengers, Spiderman…you get the idea.  Of course, we cannot forget the Trekkies and the Star Wars fanatics.  You couldn’t consider yourself a true comic enthusiast unless you could speak Klingon.

I don’t pretend to know anything about this event except that over the years, this gathering of “comic geeks” has grown and now includes a galaxy of stars from the small and big screens.  Tickets were so in demand that the online sales service was not able to cope with the surge of orders when they were first released.  The server crashed, although this might say more about the event’s lack of organisation than anything else, but tickets were released again a few months later.  Still, to the fans who desperately wanted to attend, tickets were hard to come by.  Even the process the press has to go through to get their passes seemed ridiculously complicated, but I have been told it is worth the effort.

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Making The Tough Calls

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We make decisions everyday, from the moment we open our eyes in the morning to the moment we close them at night.  Most decisions are made subconsciously, like putting your pants on one leg at a time or putting water into the kettle before turning it on. But occasionally, we have to make some decisions with deliberation – what am I going to make for dinner?  Who do I tip this week in the football tipping comp?

There are decisions that are made by governments and corporations everyday, some affect us directly.  In a democracy, we are given the right to vote for our governments who make those important decisions on our behalf.  In the corporate world, consumers and investors influence business decision-making by whether we choose to buy their products and by how much we value the shares in their company.  But ultimately, we leave these decisions to the executives and those elected to power to make on our behalf, in the belief that they are making these decisions for the good of all.  So, why then, do we constantly delegate decision-making to others?  Do we really feel more empowered when we’re being given the opportunity to “make our voices heard”?

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Happy Bloggerversary!

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Twelve months ago this week, I dared to annoy and bore my friends and family by starting a blog and then making them read it.  It all began because I had always wanted to write and, quite frankly, I was not about to be outdone by my then-seven-year-old nephew who had started his own blog, Kids’ Movie Guide.  This is now my 44th post on this site, not counting the two travelogues I wrote for my photo blog Thursday Has A View which I created in March 2011.

It has been a long time since I read my earlier posts but when I look back at the titles of the earliest writings, there is no doubt they were all about how I could put a funny and positive spin on my work life which was pretty much making me miserable.  A friend of mine said she liked that my posts were always so positive.  The reality was that by writing, I was forcing myself to focus on the positives rather than the negative things that were motivating me to vent in public.

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Ten Things I Learnt From White Collar

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I’ve always been a strong believer in the idea of always learning.  Life gets pretty boring if you don’t learn something new everyday, or at least every week.   As of  time of writing, there have been 34 episodes of my favourite TV show White Collar that have aired so I suppose this post could have been “34+ things I learnt from White Collar” but I figured ten is as good a start as any just to pique your interest.

For those of you reading this who have somehow managed to miss the show, I’d like to invite you to come out from whatever nuclear bunker you had been hiding in for the past two years and check out this fun show.  It’s a show that makes me laugh, cry, swoon, laugh some more, and occasionally makes me think too much as I analyse every word uttered and every move made by the hottest cast (with their clothes on) on television.

So let’s start this list, and where better to start than the show’s pilot episode.

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