SOY cosplay'08:"The Beginning" Presented by Japanese Tsubasa anyone??

Yes yes yes!!! My computer was returned back to us on around 14 Dec 2007 after being sent to the shop to reformat(T.T)....I lost all data but at least I got my computer back!! Almost two weeks of no internet access!!!

By the way, I am very very sad to announce that I had yet missed another Cosplay event!! GRRR!! Just when I vowed to attend the very next event! It was held in the EXPO on 15 Dec 07 (Sat) and I knew nothing of it until the very next day when one of my friends asked me if I did attend the cosplay event which I knew nothing about. Gosh. Luckily she was kind enough to send me photo....and I am glad to say that I found a forum that have all these cosplay events updates so I will not miss another cosplay event again! There's a cosplay event going on 26 Jan 08 (Sat)! I think that I am going and I hope that Elie will go with me too! Of course if you wish to go with me as well, just contact me! =^0^= I am not going cosplay by the way!! I wish to but its too expensive and my parents will not allow me. T.T I will just go there and take pictures using my camera!!!(MUST remember to charge it) My first ever cosplay event ever!! I am so excited!!* *as you can see by my high number of usage of exclamation marks... (^.^)Y*

Details below:ripped from forum.

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Hi everyone!! We, the Japanese Tsubasa Club in Ngee Ann Polytechnic, are proud to present, SOY cosplay’08: “The Beginning”!!!

And yes, SOY is pronounced as soy in soy bean, but we ain’t related to any soy products. SOY means Start Of Year as it should be the first cosplay event of the new year. And why “The Beginning” ?It is due to the fact that, this will be the first standalone cosplay event that we are hosting. We hope to make this a yearly or bi-yearly event, so please come down in your costumes or with your cameras and support us.


Some details about the event:

It is a FREE event. NO entry fees and it is open to all! You dun need to be a student from Ngee Ann to come and join in!!
There will be a solo and group cosplay competition. And there will be prizes!!! The rules and more details about the competitions will be up soon.
And like any other Cosplay events, there will be booths set up for rent. Rental fees and more details on it will be up soon.
There will be a bag storage system so you can drop off your bags with us while you have fun at the event, but note that there will be a fee for the bag storage, details in the time to come.





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Date: 26th Jan 2008 [Saturday]
Time: 11am to 7pm.
Location: Ngee Ann Polytechnic, The Atrium [block 1]
No entry fees!
Website: *not ready yet, will post it up when it is ready!*

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How to get there?
Please try to come by the Main gate.
These buses stop near the main gate: 74,151,154,61,75 and 184

You can take 74 from dover MRT (heading to towards Hougang/ west bound)
154 and 184 from Clementi MRT (opposite of the Macdonald)

If driving, Come by Clementi Road.


If there are any personal, private or official queries and questions, Please email pr[at]soy-japtsubasa[dot]net
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My computer is spoilt!!!

Everyone out there! Just for your information, my computer is spoilt so I wouldn't get a chance to go online unless I use my school libraries computer or I get my computer fixed(which I hope that its soon). But as for now, I am either waiting for my brother's friend to get it fixed(but he's busy at the moment)or for my dad to bring to to some shop and get it fixed. So I wouldn't be able to reply to your emails or tags so quickly and if you have anything to ask me, its best to call me(you know my number)or sms me. One major bummer about this is that if I have to get my computer fixed, it seems that the only way to get it fixed was to reformat it. Guess what? Idoitic me didn't do any backup for my newer files even after that last lesson which the computer was spoilt by the very same person(or so it seems) and I lose all my files. Noooo~~!!! I do not wish to lose all my UGLLIES news,series pictures,wallpapers etc,songs,bookmarks and files!!!

By the way, the only thing that can comfort me is that I have bought and finished reading EXTRAS from Borders using my brother's gift card. But that would be another story to tell in another post...probably when my computer is repaired. Then I will post the pictures of my trip to New Zealand up too...

P.S By the way, EXTRAS is indeed an excellent book(although I couldn't get use to the idea of e new main character at first However, if I were to choose between UGLIES trilogy and EXTRAS, I would choose UGLIES trilogy. I am sort of undecided about EXTRAS...however if I was given the choice to choose to or not to buy it, I would buy it for it worth the read and this let you see things from a different point.) and guess what, some of the events take place in the future Singapore too!!! ^0^

Many thanks....(my trip to NZ)

Thanks everyone for your well wishes for my trip to New Zealand and back. Many thanks to(in random order) Vivien,Elie,Emeline,Adelyn and Suven. Sorry if your name is not mentioned here for I can't remember all of the names. I just saw some of your well wishes only yesterday and today. :P Elie has requested for me to put up the pictures I taken during my trip to New Zealand. I will do so tomorrow after I finished charging my camera battery and uploaded the pictures into my computer. It might take some time for I have a couple hundred pictures and videos together. I will pick some of the higher quality pictures and put it up on my blog. So keep a watch out on my blog this past few days!

I have sent an email to Danielle, my host student for 5 days in New Zealand, yesterday but there's no reply yet. I hope that she will reply soon!

I am one shade darker and sun burned(1st degree). You can never underestimate the UV rays of the sun in New Zealand. That's because as the air in New Zealand is not so polluted, there's nothing to prevent the harmful rays from coming in. To think that my mother was still wondering why sun block and cap is included in the packing list which the school gave us. Some patches of my skin is in darker shade while some are in my lighter shade, the shade I was in when I left Singapore for New Zealand. The reason was because I was peeling from being sun burned and my darker shade of skin peeled off along with it. That's great since I prefer me in a lighter shade. I do not like getting tanned. For me, I prefer me being fair with a nice rosy shade on cheeks. Not those kind of ghostly fair. That's a part of my definition of pretty girls/teenagers/woman. I guess that's all for today. Am off to eat my very late dinner now! =^0^=

I AM BACK IN S'PORE!!

I am back in Singapore!!!
Finally after 14 days in New Zealand, I am back in Singapore. I arrived today, 27 November 2007, at about 6.30am. More details will be posted later for I am going to eat my dinner now!! =^0^=

Celebrating Deepavali@Indrani's Hse

Yesterday(10 November 2007,Saturday), was such a fun day! One of my friend, Indrani, invited me to her house for a sort of celebration for Deepavali. She told me to go to her house at around 2pm after giving me her address and the name of the LRT station that was nearby her house. After alighting from the LRT station, one of my classmates saw me and asked if I was going to Indrani's house too. We both waited at the LRT station for Indrani to lead us to her house. Upon reaching there, I noticed several familiar faces. I sat on a chair beside the sofa and began snacking on some tidbits that were laid on the table.(I especially like a small ball that was really crunchy.) Small wine glasses filled with F&N drinks was given to us. The colours of the F&N drinks(namely grape and a yellow coloured drink which I don't know of the name) l=in a wine glasses made it look especially like we were drinking some kind of sparkling wine. After Indrani's brother's friends have eaten, I went to sit down at the dining table and her parents immediately started filling my paper plate with rice, curry chicken, mixed vegetables and also prawns. This was the first time I am eating Indian food so this was an eye opener for me. Indrani's parents seems to be afraid that we do not have enough food on our plates, and kept refilling them. We had to stop them from doing so as we were too full to eat. This scene reminds me of a shop in Japan that sells noodles in a bowl. You have to finish all the noodles in the bowl and shout "Stop", put on the lid to prevent the waitress from refilling the bowl again. In chinese it was called 一口面. After that horror movies like Evil Dead 1 and 2 was played on the TV. Around 5pm+, after we finished watching Evil Dead 2, we went into Indrani room and she helped us to do henna for free(Starting price is around $5 and the longer it is the more expensive it is). Indrani draw really fast and is able to finish one within 5minutes. She just uses imagination and draw on the stop. This is my first time having henna and I never imagined it to be done by my friend. After that, she poured some medicated oil on the design to make it last longer. Meng Yun, who was also going to New Zealand, bought a tube of Henna($1.50) from Indrani as she wanted to show the New Zealanders. I intended to do so(as in show the New Zealanders my henna) and wanted to buy a tube of henna to try to draw some designs on myself for fun. I found out from Indrani that it can be bought from Rivervale Plaza. After that, I took some picture and we left her house at around 6pm+. I waited until around 8pm before washing off the henna as I hope that the design will not fade when I am at the New Zealand host family.

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The Artist(aka. Indrani) at work!


Henna Design on Meng Yun


Henna Design on ME!


No flashlight Henna Design on ME!


Henna Design On ME After Washing



What do you think of the design????

EXTRAS Number One!

Please read my first post here, the second post at here, and third post here to get a idea of what this UGLIES Series is all about!

Wow! EXTRAS is number one on the New York Times Children's Best Sellers list!*Even though the UGLIES Series is categorized in the Young Adult Science Fiction, they just place it in the Children Best list *

At first EXTRAS was Number Two as it was released.(Below)




But when then a recount was requested. In the end, EXTRAS is at Number ONE!(Below)



Another amazing thing is that even though UGLIES(published in August 5, 2004) and SPECIALS(published in March 2006) had been published for more than a year now, with the help of the release of EXTRAS, both had jumped back to the list!*Maybe people think that EXTRAS is a good book and want to read the other books in the series as well*

Below: UGLIES and SPECIALS in the New York Times Children's Book Review list!


This news is about during October 18th, 2007 to October 23rd, 2007.

UGLIES Quartet(International Covers!)+UGLIES Trilogy BOXED SET

My dear friends. This is going to be my third post as to the topic on UGLIES Quartet. For those who haven't read my first and second post, you are strongly advised to read it before continuing with this post. Otherwise you will have no idea on what is this post about! You can read my first post here and the second post at here.

Some might wonder that why sometimes its called a UGLIES trilogy but yet it has four book in the collection? This also result to some places you find people calling it as the UGLIES Quartet. The UGLIES series,meaning the books UGLIES, PRETTIES and SPECIALS, and EXTRAS are counted as UGLIES Quartet. Originally, the UGLIES Series was meant to be a trilogy only, with UGLIES, PRETTIES and SPECIALS counted in the collection. However, with the release of EXTRAS, some might count it into the trilogy, thus changing it into a quartet collection. However the author argues that it is not officially part of the trilogy, but a companion book because it will not focus on Tally Youngblood. The main character in EXTRAS is instead a fifteen-year-old girl named Aya Fuse living in Japan several years after SPECIALS ended. Thus, I shall refer to the UGLIES trilogy&EXTRAS together as UGLIES Quartet as it is easier to refer to.

So this post is just basically to show the different covers of the UGLIES Quartet. Which one do you like best?

Let's start with the first edition covers which were the US covers that were first published by Simon & Schuster. It was then before other companies started releasing and translating the UGLIES Quartet in different languages and covers. Personally, I like the US covers better than the UK covers which are also published in the language English.

US COVERS

Below:US UGLIES Cover


Below: US PRETTIES Paperpack Cover


Below: US SPECIALS Hardcover Cover(Published first before Paperpack version)



Below: US SPECIALS Paperpack Cover


Below: US EXTRAS Hardcover Cover


Let's go on to the UK Covers. All the UGLIES Quartet are released in Paperpack edition.

UK COVERS

Below: UK UGLIES Cover


Below: UK PRETTIES Cover


Below: UK SPECIALS Cover


Below: UK EXTRAS Cover


Next is the Japan cover for UGLIES! The Japan version of UGLIES is a novel version with only some pictures inside. Don't mistaken it as a manga of UGLIES!!!

JAPAN VERSION

Below: Japanese Cover of アグリ-ズ (a gu ri- zu)(UGLIES).


Below:Character Information Page for UGLIES main Characters. Rightmost is, of course, Tally (タリta ri-). On the left-hand page are:
upper right: Peris(ペリスpe ri su)
upper left: David(デヴィシドde vi shi do)
lower right: Shay(シエ shi e)
lower left: Dr. Cable(ドクタ-ケke-ブdo ku ta- ke- bu)


Below: Here’s the party scene, with Peris(ペリスpe ri su) in his tux and Tally(タリta ri-) clutching a pig mask and looking crumpled in Japanese UGLIES Cover.


Below: Shay(シエshi e)on hoverboard in Japanese UGLIES Cover


Below: アグリ-ズ (a gu ri- zu) Japanese Cover of UGLIES book two(which I think is PRETTIES in this case.)




Next, Taiwan Traditional Chinese Edition Uglies Cover!

Below: 醜人兒(Uglies)


Let's move away from the Eastern countries and on to the Western countries!

From Right to left:UGLIES,PRETTIES and SPECIALS GERMAN Cover


From Right to Left: UGLIES and PRETTIES Italian Cover(Notice that for the UGLIES cover, its the same picture as the US UGLIES Cover?)



Below: UGLIES Polish Cover


By the way, I am thinking of getting that boxed set since that exclusive content is a glossary of ugly slang and bubble-speak written by Scott Westerfeld himself!!!

Below: USUGLIES Trilogy Boxed Set(UGLIES, PRETTIES&SPECIALS)


Below: US UGLIES Trilogy Boxed Set(UGLIES, PRETTIES&SPECIALS) LAY OUT.


IF you want to know about the story of UGLIES series, then read this BBC online news article on the future human species here. The upper class human is just very similar to the PRETTIES in the UGLIES series.

That's all for today!

UGLIES Quartet: Introducing Uglies Movie.(also fake pretties)

My dear friends. This is going to be my second post as to the topic on UGLIES Quartet. For those who haven't read my first post, you are strongly advised to read it before continuing with this post. Otherwise you will have no idea on what is this post about! you can read my first post here. Ok, this is going to be the post on all about the UGLIES movie estimated to be released in year 2008!!!! It is going to be distribute by Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, the company that released "Eragon" also a movie made from the story of a novel. IF you don't know about the company Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation, look at the picture below and I am sure you will recognize it.

The production company will be Davis Entertainment, that has produced some movies such as "I, Robot","Garfield,Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties","Eragon","Garfield Gets Real" etc. You can find Uglies on Internet Movie DataBase(IMDB)here. Indeed, IMDB have posted several false project before. So is this real? There's a article on Variety talking about Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation going to make a movie on Uglies. If you can't view the website, never mind. I have taken a screenshot of the article which can be viewed here. It's worth mentioning that IMBD is not the only site that have Uglies as an upcoming movie, but also other sites like The Movie Insider and Hollywood.com. However, I do not know how credible these sources are. Also, it seems that Mr Westerfeld himself didn't admit or having posting anything about the possibility of an Uglies movie in his blog. Or perhaps it was just that he was bound by a contract or something. But you can go to his blog post titled The Big News where he talks about the Variety article. This is as close as having Mr Westerfeld admitting and confirming on Uglies might be made into a movie. If you ask me do I want to have a movie of UGLIES? Of course! But it must be an excellent movie. It must not be a product which they changed the story here and there and then claim that this is a movie based on the novel Uglies. I presume that they will be needing a lot of editing considering how high tech life in the Uglies story is. I think that having a movie of it(assuming that it's well made)will be good for it allows even more people to know the Uglies Quartet and perhaps they would like to read the rest of the quartet. Not many people knows about Mr Westerfeld, unlike J.K Rowling, whom lots of people know of.

Meanwhile let's quenched our thirst for an Uglies movie with this fan made Uglies & Pretties Trailer(BELOW) made by an user named TheHatchChild334 on YouTube. This is made according to some events happening in the novel of UGLIES.


If you have read UGLIES and PRETTIES, watch the video Pretties made by an user on YouTube named laylaylayla. This video shows some events that took place in the novel UGLIES and PRETTIES.


While we are on the topic of Uglies and Pretties, let's talk about some fake Pretties in our world shall we? Have you ever thought that the pictures and cover magazines featuring a particular star is really pretty? Have you ever thought that they are really that pretty? Well, i am sad to say that you are wrong sometimes. Most of the pictures you found of the pictures or magazine covers of a star had been tampered with. Using make-up,lighting and photoshop, they can air brushed a star to make it look perfect. Don't believe in me? Watch the video below.

Now do you understand why stars always look so perfect? I dare to say that quite a number of us normal people without make-up can actually be prettier then most of the stars without make-up. Without make-up and photoshop, most of the stars are actually normal looking people like everybody else. Let me show you picture of some stars that are normal looking in real life. All pictures taken from here.
Below: Jessica Simpson


Below: High School Musical Star Vanessa Hudgens


Below: Extreme Makeover


Of course there are some stars that are naturally pretty.
Below: Reese Witherspoon(I am not totally sure if she really don't have any makeup on.)

With the right clothes,make-up,lighting and sometimes a little help from the photoshop, you can look gorgeous as well. But I think that the most important would be being beautiful inside. It's no use having a beautiful exterior and being ugly inside for people will sooner or later notice it.

Change the picture to represent me!

Stormy weather.....there is a lot of thunder rumbling and lightening flashing going on now. Ok. So this is just going to be a very quick update. I changed the picture to represent me because that my teacher said it was not clear when it was reduced in size. This had to be done for the back of the Polo Shirt had to be able to contain all the 29(or was it 30?) students design. Apparently, my picture was too complicated as the printer could not capture the tiny details when it was reduced in size thus causing a patch of black on my picture. She actually ask me to meet her in the general office after exam. When I got there, she actually told me to find another picture to replace it right on the spot! As I was in a hurry to get home(I was going to go out with my mum), I went to the library and just found a very simple but cute picture of Mokona Modoki, Soel, from Tsubasa Chronicles as Soel is cute but has a simple design to it, I doubt that the printer can mess up the picture again. It was only when I got home that I found out that this is a fan made picture. Oh well... what ever...I've also posted a CLAMP picture of Soel below.....don't you think that Soel is so cute? For those guys who might be here looking at my post, please ignore me this fan girl raving.... :x

Below: A fan made picture of Soel


Below:CLAMP picture of Soel.SO CUTE!~~

What a busy November for me! =^0^=

I would not be free for either the half of the days or either the whole day. This is so as surprisingly, the number my end of year holidays activities comparing to last year's, increased incredibly. This year 2007, is the year in which that I have the most number of activities going on during the end of year school holidays. Every year during the end of year holidays, I mostly spent my time reading novels, using computer, watching television and going to public libraries(plus a couple hours of window shopping ^^). I normally only go out to the public libraries(and the malls) once in a week during holidays. Even if when I go out with my friends, it's only for at most 5 times in the 2 months holidays. It seems to be very pitiful to me for most of my other friends seems to go out every day. In case you are wondering, I don't usually touch my textbooks at all during the holidays and I will leave my homework until the last few days before I will start doing it.

But this will all change!!! As this November, I have couple activities already planned and also some others to be confirmed. Let me start with those in which have been confirmed. (It's not all play and no work!)

I will be attending a course in which I signed up for(along with one of my good friend), when one of the teachers came to my class and asked if we are interested. This course has only limited places and fortunately, I am in the course! Sadly, my good friend is not but fortunately, there's one people who wants to back out of the course and so my friend(the back up as the teacher says)is in the course with me too! What's this course I have been mindlessly rambling about? This course is named Digital Gaming Development, which is one of the Advanced Elective Modules (AEMs) and our school will be collaborating with Temasek Polytechnic for this. This means that I will be going to Temasek Polytechnic to attend this course during 1-13 November 2007. Only 3 days are of half day session. I will upload a picture of my timetable here when I have time. The time in which the course will end for a full day session is 4.30pm. A typical half day session will end at 12.30pm if I am not wrong. Just in case you do not know, here's what I found about AEMs from Wikipedia,

AEMs may be used for polytechnic admission under the Joint Polytechnic Special Admissions Exercise (JPSAE) and the Direct Polytechnic Admission (DPA) exercise. They may also be used for credit exemption in subjects that are relevant to the pupil’s subsequent course of study in the Polytechnic.

Hmmm....interesting.

Besides that, I am also not free for the whole day from 14-26 November 2007 as I am going over to New Zealand for a exchange programme with Te Puke High School, a high school in New Zealand! This is going to be a 14 Days 13 Nights trip along with 3 key personnel (Mr Yong Kek Shoong (VP), Mrs Sukhdev Singh (HOD EL/Literature) and Mrs Chia Siew Ching (SH Pupils’ Welfare). It's a small group as only 30 of us(students)(30 is the maximum number they would take.)are going there. This is going to be the fourth time my school organized a twinning programme to Te Puke High School. We are traveling by Singapore Airline. The original total cost for the whole trip was $3449 but then the school informed us that due to a surge in prices of jet fuel worldwide, Singapore Airline is imposing an increase of approximately of S$140 per participant at 1st August 2007. However, as my school has been working with the travel agency, Global Adventure Consultants Pte. Ltd. which has planned the previous trips to New Zealand, for two months, the company is willing to absorb partial cost of the increase. Thus, each of the participant will now have to pay an additional of $70. This brings the total cost pf the trip from $3449 to $3519. Before you gasp and faint, I am happy to say that due to the subsidies offered, and also that I can deduct $500 from my Edusave, I only have to pay $1126.

This trip includes 5 day hosting with one of the Te Puke High School student's family so we can get to know about their daily life. If you interested to see the programme itinerary(and the places we are going along with some pictures) for this New Zealand trip, you can download it from my school website. Just check out my school at Wikipedia and you will know the link to my school website. I am very excited about this trip for this is going to be the 2nd time I am going overseas and 1st time I am traveling by plane! I am going to borrow a very big suitcase from one of my uncles who always go overseas for work purpose. Besides that, some other preparations for the New Zealand trip included getting a cheer ready, a powerpoint about Singapore, dance and song performance, a symbol/picture to represent yourself for the polo shirt.....

The symbol/picture I have already handed it up as the deadline was on 28/09/07(Friday). If you don't hand up by the deadline, your symbol/picture will not appear on the polo shirt. I stayed back after school yesterday(28/09/07) to do last minute work for the symbol/picture. At first I wanted to use the picture below,

but then I found the picture below


on the internet. But as my school library printer for student use is only able to print black and white(as seen in the picture below)
, I print out the picture in black and white. Hence, I had two pictures to choose from to put onto the polo shirt. I was troubled for both pictures were very nice. Then I realized that as the polo shirt colour is black(we choosed the colour ourselves), the picture might not even show up on the polo shirt at all. So I used the colour printer used by authorized people(I am a librarian so I can use it) to print out the coloured picture(shown again below) and used it as a picture to represent myself.

Below:The picture used to represent myself.

What do you think of the picture? =^0^=

Jam Band Competition On Youtube!

Remember the last time I posted about my school holding a Jam Band Competition during National Day Celebration Concert? If you don't remember, go HERE
to read about it. Below is an extract from my blog post on th Jam Band Competition along with videos of the song the champion band singer sang.

Below is the exact video and the song she sang(Kuang Biao)...
"Butterfly", Digimon Season 1 First Opening Song


Butterfly Original Full Song


Below is another nice song from Digimon

Digimon Tamers Opening, "The Biggest Dreamer" sang by Wada Kouji


In overall, the second band won the first place and the second place was given to the band our class and E4 class formed(the name of the band is "Fatal Attraction"). One thing
I am curious about is why on earth does all their costumes look like Cosplay or something? Not that I mind of course, I think that they did put out a good show.

So the whole concert ended with the Choir..... it's quite nice concert this year...is it possible for the school to host Cosplay next year???

I just realized that the videos of the 3 bands performance are available on Youtube! How slow I am! Some of our school students must have taken it using camera handphones during their performance. But anyway, the videos are below. Please note that the audio and image quality is not very clear so it might cause some of you to think that they are lousy singers. But I think that they are not bad. Besides, our school sound system is not exactly that great either. The microphones couldn't catch those words clearly even when people speak.

TOTAL OF 3 BANDS COMPETING FOR 1ST, 2ND AND 3RD.

Below:Champion Band Named "Kuang Biao" Song:Butterfly from Digimon(Original version see above in the extract.)Or you can view it HERE.


Below:1st-Runner Up Band Named "Fatal Attraction" Song:A Beautiful Lie by 30 seconds to mars(Some members are from my class!!!)Or you can view it HERE.


Below:2nd-Runner Up Band Named "This Tragic Affair" Song: Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. Or you can view it HERE.

UGLIES Quartet(introduction)

EXTRAS TO BE RELEASED ON 2 OCTOBER 2007

Countdown to EXTRAS!

Get this widget!

Ok! Here's the blog post I promised my friends!!! As some of you know from my last post, I am totally hooked on this Uglies Quartet which includes the books named UGLIES, PRETTIES, SPECIALS and EXTRAS. As far as I know, the US cover was the 1st edition of the Uglies Quartet that came out on the market. It was before other publishers got interested in the book and started publishing Uglies Quartet with other covers and language to suit the market they are targeting.

Below: UGLIES US Cover

Title: UGLIES
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: ISBN 0-316-70129-7
Language: English
Media type: Print (Paperback)

Below: PRETTIES US Cover

Title: PRETTIES
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: ISBN 0-316-70129-7
Language: English
Media type: Print (Paperback)

Below: SPECIALS US Cover

Title: SPECIALS
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: ISBN 0-316-70129-7
Language: English
Media type: Print (Hardcover&Paperpack)

EXTRAS TO BE RELEASED ON 2 OCTOBER 2007

Below: EXTRAS

Title: EXTRAS
Author: Scott Westerfeld
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN-10: 1416951172
ISBN-13: 978-1416951179
Language: English
Media type: Print (Hardcover&Paperpack)


How I Found This Book.
I came upon this quartet while I was in the public library scanning the shelves looking for something to read. The spine of UGLIES(right)and also the title,
caught my eyes. As to me, it's not everyday in which you find a person's face at the spine of the book. I grabbed the book, and turn it to the front cover. The title "UGLIES" along with the tag line "In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is Ugly" intrigued me. What's with the title called Uglies? A story about Ugly people? I read the summary of the story and was determined to give this book a try after reading it. I am glad that I have not made the wrong decision about UGLIES as I am absolutely in love with this book after reading it!
END OF HOW I FOUND THIS BOOK

INTRODUCING UGLIES
Set in a futuristic world where people are divided in three parts, it's compulsory for every person to have an operation once they reached the age of 16 years old. This operation will turn each and everyone of them into a Pretty. As for those who are under 16 years old, they are called Uglies. The main character is none other than Tally Youngblood, a 15 going on 16 years old Ugly who is looking forward to the long waited operation that will turn her into a Pretty. By becoming a Pretty, she will be able to enjoy the special privileges that comes along with being a Pretty. Not only that, she will get to live in New Pretty Town where New Pretties go to after the operation. Even though New Pretty Town and Uglyville are only separated by bridges, the life that goes on in there is worlds apart. While Uglies have to go to school and also to stick with a curfew, New Pretties does not have to stick with curfews and they only have to have fun. This seems like the perfect life for Tally Youngblood, but when a new found friend, Shay, enters the scene, a series of events follows that changes Tally Youngblood's life forever.

When one first encounter this book, perhaps they might think that UGLIES is only suitable for girls to read for the cover is quite misleading(due to a girl as the model) and the plot is based on a beauty theme. But I am only to happy to point out that this book is suitable for people who are interested in reading a science fiction and adventure story. This book is certainly suitable for ages. As long as you are interested in the story, there's no reason why you shouldn't read it with the reason saying that "It's not for me."! So to all boys who think that this is a girls' book, NEVER JUDGE A BOOK BY IT'S COVER! There are fighting scenes in it as well!

NO WAY!!!!!~~~Uglies Boxed Set...I WANT IT!!!

This sucks!!! I just bought Pretties($14.76) and Specials[Hardcover]($23.15) from Kinokuniya and Borders separately on 6 September 2007, Thursday. But guess what? When I reached home and went online, I found that Uglies Boxed Set(containing Uglies, Pretties and Specials) is due to be released on October 23, 2007 at a price of approximately $39.61(I convert the amount directly from USD)!!!! The total cost of buying the two books are already $37.91!!! So by buying the boxed set, I saved more and get more as the cover says "exclusive content inside"!!!! ARGGGHHH!!! How I regret not doing my research before I buy!!! I want to know what's the deal with the exclusive content!!! Somehow...I feel.....like...buying......the........boxed........set....... :p*I mean what's with the "exclusive content!!! Trying to guess about it killing me!!!"* Can someone be kind enough to give me money to buy it??? :x

Below: As you can see, it the boxed set...


Below: Cover of Pretties


Below: Cover of Specials