Darkschunt

Want to hear about a chain of events?
Okay, here's how it goes. I'm in my flat in EUH, online. SweetRhapsody is in her flat downstairs, and she's talking to me online and somehow because of certain reasons due to my conversation with her I am obliged to go talk to the Colored Fringe online at the same time and he is at his house which is across the university campus and at the same time he's talking online to these girls who also stay in EUH but they stay in the flat below Shuddup's flat and they complain to the Colored Fringe that Shuddup is blasting his music way too loud and so Colored Fringe asks me if I would call Shuddup and ask him to lower his music since phone calls in EUH are free and so I called Shuddup and told him that the girls below his flat have asked Colored Fringe to ask me to ask him to lower his music and Shuddup curses Colored Fringe and agrees to lower the music and then goes down to SweetRhapsody's flat to curse even more.
Now we have come full circle!
(0) comments

One of the best things about studying journalism is that you never have any exams. I love telling everyone else that and watching their jaw drop and listen to them scream "WHY?!??????" Today, I carelessly mentioned that very fact to Trevor and he immediately stopped short in his tracks and screamed "WHAT?!? You have NO exams?!?"
It was very satisfying.
I've been listening to Liz Phair's Extraordinary and I love the chorus: "I am Extraordinary, if you ever get to know me, I am Extraordinary, I'm just your Ordinary Average Everyday Sane Psycho Super Goddess."
Want to jump out of the window and fly through the sky and sprout wings like a butterfly's?
(0) comments

Marcus rang me the other night and I complained to him about getting rejected by the Blood Donation Bank. He said, "You can always come to me, baby, I'll drink your blood any time."
On one hand, I have the Blood Donation Bank who wouldn't take any of my blood and on the other hand I have Marcus who would take all of it if he could get away with it. Oh, the extreme choices of life.
Marcus is now in Columbia. I shake my head at the things he's doing there. I think that after landing in jail in Haiti, he's become even more determined to lead a criminal life to prove that getting thrown into a Haitian cell was just a fluke and that he IS a criminal mastermind. Marcus CAN be a criminal mastermind but he's just a little too greedy. There's only so much that greed can take you on a life of a crime. Too much and you find yourself counting cinderblocks. I told Marcus that but was cut off by the sound of voices shouting, chains clanking, and sirens wailing in the background and Marcus shouting "I'm, er, running out of change, I'll call you back" and then hanging up on me.
(0) comments

Its been a week since I've last blogged...my bad...
I've been meaning to blog but I just didn't feel like it during the past week...
So anyway a rundown on the latest...
SweetRhapsody and I ran down to the city last week to look at Rowe and Jarman shoes and have a quick bite at the Merchants Tea and Coffee and I dragged her to the bookstore ten minutes before the bus left to get Giants of The Frost by Kim Wilkins. It's a great book... but I didn't like the ending too much, but I can understand why it ended the way it did. Very realistic ending, but whyyyyyy!!!
Went to a persimmon farm during the weekend with my sis and that reminds me - I have persimmons and gold kiwis in my fridge. I'd better get everyone to eat some before they start rotting. I prefer normal green kiwis...I like the tart taste better then the gold ones...they're too soft for my liking.
I've probably mispelled persimmon too but I couldn't care less right now, I'm too lazy to go check up on the right spelling. We should just call them crunchy peaches anyway.
Watched Dreamcatcher last week....Duddits! That was adorable.
Also watched 50 First Dates and that was very sweet.
Over the weekend SweetRhapsody, me and the DESIs started talking about isolated sleep paralysis and then started swapping ghost stories and Baby Brother is getting the Old Hag Syndrome or isolated sleep paralysis thanks to me and SweetRhapsody, and then the ghost stories led to our Bony Nanny telling us all the fucked up stories of his life, some of which I don't think are true but are probably a little exaggerated but they were all so hilariously funny that I couldn't stop laughing.
Speaking of which, Bony Nanny's friend came over today with her sixteen month old daughter who is just positively adorable!!! And she likes my red sneakers and my red handphone so she's got good taste too. ;)
We also watched the 2005 Miss Universe pageant today...the one where Miss Canada won. For once, the stage setting was actually decent. It had been getting kind of lousy over the past few years. The final five contestants were all brunnettes and I'm glad. Go brunnette!
I've dumped a lot of stuff on my PC and gotten a new codec package which the Backstabbed Deaf-mute told me about, it can play lots of stuff like Divx and MKV programs so that's good and I get to watch Ayashi no Ceres at last!!! But it's been a real letdown so far, I like the manga better then the anime. I thought it would be the same, or even better since it's all in color and movement with music and stuff but I so way prefer the manga. Aya's kind of pathetic in the anime, she was a lot stronger in the manga. But I've only watched the first two episodes so far so....
I also managed to download episodes of Vampire Princess Miyu. This guy on the sharing system has loads of anime cartoons! I've been dying to watch Vampire Princess Miyu for ages!!! It's not too bad, but Miyu's constant giggling gets on my nerves. I feel like belting her one. And Larva keeps his mask on most of the time so you can't see his gorgeous face. *sigh*
Actually, come to think of it, I've always preferred the manga to the anime. For example, Houshin no Engi was way much more better in the manga because they could go into more detail there and they had more characters and so much more plot. I don't know about VPM because I only have a couple of the books and they were in Chinese and I can't read that. And the Ayashi no Ceres anime so far has not done any justice to the manga, even though the sequence of events have been almost similar. In fact, the only Japanese comic which I think I've really enjoyed both the manga and anime versions of was Samurai X. And Sailormoon! I really did love Sailormoon so much when I was a kid! (Stop rolling your eyes, every one of you!)
Okay, okay, I'll stop talking about manga and anime. Let's see, what else? I've got a load of assignments due this week but I can probably get away with handing up two essays on Monday morning at the crack of dawn. I've got to put together a contact book of the numbers I've called during all my radio news workshop and that's a LOAD of numbers so I'd probably be up all night trying to find the scraps of paper that I always write the numbers down on and then lose, and then alphabetize all of them. Sigh. And OOOH I haven't told you about the clothes I bought this weekend!
I got: One gorgeous magenta jacket with those cool drawing and sequin patterns here and there on the jacket AND it's hooded.
A pair of black cropped pants that my sister talked me into trying on even though I've always hated cropped pants as a rule and they looked so good on me that I ended up buying them.
A green "cabbage tweed" skirt, because it's made of tweed and it's got these stiff frills. Sounds weird but looks cool.
One dusty rose tank top.
Oh, and I don't know what I did to my ankle on Friday but as I was jumping to throw my towel over the top of the door I heard a CRACK and came back down hard on it and it HURT. And it kept hurting throughout the whole weekend (nothing too bad, I could walk on it but there was a dull ache) until Sunday night while I was trying on my new clothes again in my room and suddenly I turned my leg and there was another CRACK and I think it's kind of back to normal now.
Well I'd better get back to work. See ya!
(0) comments

So anyway, today, right after the class that I attended and said barely two words in, I went over to the Red Cross blood donation booth on the green lawn by the library because I have always wanted to donate blood but I've never done it before. And because I've been getting annoyed with quite a few people in the past few days and so I figured if anything can purify me, it's by draining myself of blood.
And they rejected me, the fools, because apparently they're fully booked. They did suggest that I head down to the city to donate blood though.
Why can't you just stick a needle in and take my blood now, huh?!?????
Or if you like, I could slit a knife down my arm and let the blood drain into a flask.
Whatever suits you best.
Hmph.
(0) comments

So last night I downloaded a bunch of movies but then found I couldn't open any of them, or at least I'd get the sound but not the video, and the Windows Media Player keeps trembling and insisting that it's got an error in downloading the required codec everytime I glare at it.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
Well, like apparently hundreds of other people who have had the same problem and asked for help online, I have discovered the answer!
First, you download the Video Inspector from this website: http://www.kcsoftwares.com/index.php?vtb (sorry, I'm a little too lazy to make nice ahref links).
Anyway, the Video Inspector is a nice tool which tells you exactly what you need to download in order to run your movies or whatever, unlike Windows Media Player which everyone complaints only trembles and squeals "Error!" and runs off without telling you what kind of error or whatever.
So anyway, the Video Inspector would usually tell you where to go as well to find the codecs you need to download to run your movies so it's a sweet thing.
For me, the problem was that I had to download Divx to get the video to run and I got it from here: http://www.divx.com
And the best thing is that all these downloads are free!
And, you know, the thing is if I had waited until tonight to ask all my friends what the problem was, they would have probably told me but the thing is most of my useless friends are off somewhere or other for the whole day and I couldn't wait because I'm not patient and look, I managed to solve the problem all by myself anyway. What a victory.
(0) comments

Yesterday, I yakked on and on for ages in my MCI 212 class.
Today, you didn't hear a peep out of me in my Media Ethics class.
It's so weird, you know, that sometimes I can't stop talking and sometimes I can't talk.
I think it depends on the people and whether I feel comfortable with them, but how is it that I can feel so fine with some people and so uncomfortable with the others?
If I ever find out the answer, I promise you I will try to bottle it up and sell it at a low price to other people like me who are still looking for the answer.
On the other hand, the online What Were You In Your Past Life quiz could be right and this could be a revenge karma thing on me for being a manipulative male Scottish trickster in my last life.
And here I always thought that I was a vampire in my past life.
Hmph. Pisht. Whatever.
(0) comments

Oh my gosh!!!
I was just going through the Blog Herald when I came across this piece of news which was about this New York college student named Simon Ng who had recently been murdered on May 12. And apparently, just before he had been murdered he had posted up an entry about the murderer's presence in his house (the guy was his sister's ex-boyfriend who Simon had let him in because the ex-boyfriend had said he wanted his fishing poles back). And I suppose, shortly after Simon had posted his blog, he was stabbed by the ex-boyfriend, who then stabbed his sister later when she came home.
That's terrible!!!
Read Simon's last entry here at his blog: http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=ToTo247
The poor thing...what gutted me was all the things on his blog, like his profile, when he was born, what his interests were, how he had a website and how he cheerfully admitted that he was pretty much a computer geek...and he had been happily talking in his last post about working on a Japanese report and how he's been missing his Japanese classes but he'd make up for it this summer "so no worries he he". What he didn't realize was that there wouldn't be any more summers for him. Oh my gosh, the poor thing! I think it was just looking at his blog and how he had been happily posting all this while without realizing what was in store for him. And he had, like, so much in life going for him, just look at all his interests: politics, history, Language Studies, cooking... it makes you realize how much of a real person he was, not just some other name in the news. His blog just makes him seem more real. Oh gosh! Rest in peace, Simon!
Other news about him can be found in http://www.blogherald.com/
Just scroll down to the post about him, the one with the headline: Victime Blogs about his Murderer.
(0) comments

The blue white of the sky
It teaches me to fly
In ways I never had before

What do you do when you want to run as you had never run before and escape everything in life?
Shhh.
Don't move.
I'll help you through your pain.
No one can ever reach down deep into your cut but I'll try the best I can and maybe that little bit will help.
Maybe that would be enough.
(0) comments

So anyway, to update you on the weekend, we ended up watching The Kingdom of Heaven instead of the Upside of Anger because it wasn't showing at the cinema we went to. SweetRhapsody was disappointed and I kind of pretended to be, but you know what, I think that right now I wouldn't mind watching the Upside of Anger. Strange how things work, eh?
Saturday night was also the night of the FA cup final between Manchester and Arsenal and I sat in the middle of a bunch of gamble-mad soccer fans while painting my nails and drinking beer and eyeing hot soccer boys on TV.
Sunday was the day I slept. Alot. Enough about Sunday.
Today was a beautiful day! It is also the day we realized that the bank and the ATM machines have something against SweetRhapsody. It is also the day that we ordered three large pizzas and I stuffed myself with an entire large cheese pizza with mushrooms, chicken, pineapple and barbecue sauce. After that I think that all that food had a side effect on my brain because I started losing it and talking about how you couldn't fly in a plane when the stars and the moon weren't properly aligned and about how I once had to float home in a sampan boat but my fisherman fell over halfway through the trip and thankfully the lobsters came to push my boat home.
After that I think I fell apart because everytime I started laughing my stomach started hurting and I was laughing uncontrollably.
(0) comments

The other day a friend of mine said something to me and while I'm not mad at her (she's probably going to read this post, and NO, I'm not MAD at YOU), I'm pretty much steaming about what she said and the way she said it.
She had mentioned that she was going to buy a bunch of books from the bookstore and I was like "Cool, can I borrow some of them to read?" and I can't remember what else we said, but then we got turned onto the subject of literature and she was suddenly throwing all these names of authors at me and I would be like "No, never heard of this author." "No, never heard of that author." Now, that wouldn't be so bad itself, but she was just spitting them out machine-gun-fire at me, and it felt really challenging and disconcerting, as if the more I said "No" the more I was making myself out to be some idiot who has never read a book in her life. And then she finishes off with "You don't read much literature, do you?" and in that single line I heard the ringing condescending patronizing tones of every literature snob I have ever come across.
And it just made my blood boil to the max!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In fact, I woke up this morning and the thought suddenly floated into my mind and I just got all steamed over!
You want literature? I'll fucking show you literature! I AM a fucking well-read person, even though I don't bother advertising the fact all that much! I don't mind talking literature sometimes but when you talk about it to some people, they turn it into a complete literary competition, like "oh MY reading achievements are this much heavier than yours" and you find yourself suddenly swept up into this huge competition and I sure don't need to get into that. I am a fucking well-read person who's read a lot of fucking books and even if I haven't read SOME authors that doesn't make me any fucking less a brilliant brain than I fucking KNOW i am. I just don't bother keeping my entire reading list of authors and books ready in my mind to spit out at any just moment in case some literary snob is on hand to question me. I read for the fucking PURE pleasure and not for any fucking literary discussions. Reading to me is a private pleasure, not a bragging pleasure.
So, you fucking WANT literature? HERE, i'll FUCKING give you literature. Below here are just a few of the authors I've read in my lifetime, what names i can dig out of the dusty archives of my library memory:
Defoe, Bronte, Shakespeare, Austen, Mark Twain, Tolstoy, George Eliot, Gaston Leroux, Arthur Conan Doyle, Anthon Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, E. Scott Fitzgerald, Herman Melville, Kipling, Henry James, J.D. Salinger, Thomas Hardy, Dickens, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Louisa May Alcott, Agatha Christie, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edgar Allan Poe, Yeats, Hans Christian Anderson, Tennyson, Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Joyce, Geoffrey Chaucer, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Milton, Emily Dickinson, Byron, Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Anne Bradstreet, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Arthur Miller, Walt Whitman, John Steinbeck, Austin Alfred, Dante...
The truly ancient? Well, have you read The Tale of Genji by Lady Murasaki, which was the first ever novel written by a woman? Or her diary? Or the Pillow Book of Sei Shonangun, one of the most fantastic poets of the Emperor's court in the Heian era in Japan?
And if you want to talk contemporary books, there's Jung Chang, Amy Tan, Michael Crichton, Arundhati Roy, Joanne Harris, Eliot Pattison, Arthur Goldstein, Liza Dalby, Jean Sasson, Isabelle Allende, Mary Higgins Clark, Irvine Welsh, James Patterson, James Clavell, A.E.W. Mason, okay we'll add in Dan Brown too, Tom Clancy, Dale Brown, Robin Cook, Jack Higgins, Ian Fleming, Ken Follett...
And what about science fiction and fantasy? Let's not forget David and Leigh Eddings, Ursula le Guin, J.R. Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, Terry Brooks, Phillip Pullman, Glenna McReynolds, Anne Rice, L. Frank Baum, E. Nesbit...
And horror and chick lit and graphic novels and more autobiographies other than those already mentioned above, or authors like Focault and other plays and poets and authors whose names I can't recall right now...
I could go on and on but I'm really hungry now, and SweetRhapsody is crying for me like a hungry infant, so bye!!!
(0) comments

Was woken up twice this morning by the Walking Running T-shirt. Grrr! After finally waking up, was lying in bed eating white chocolate filled with strawberries and reading about middle-aged women walking down the aisle to Neil Diamond when the Roaring Lion drops in on me and yaks on about how he was so drunk last night he could barely remember what happened on the cruise last night except that he had so much fun. Aaaargh - make me jealous, why don't you! It's the Roaring Lion's birthday tomorrow - he's 21, like moi is going to be too, a few months from now! Eventually, managed to get up enough energy to brush my teeth and pull on a summery dress - I feel summery today! Even though the weather looks sunny yet a little cold! My clothes defy the weather! Down with winter!
We (SweetRhapsody, the Duchess, and I) had bought tix to watch Star Wars today but since we had gone on the opening night to watch with Baby Brother, the Bony Nanny and Shuddup, we'll be watching something else today. Probably the Upside of Anger, though I'm not that keen on watching that. But I guess there isn't much else to watch. I'm still waiting for Mr and Mrs Smith!
Actually I'm in SweetRhapsody's room right now, blogging while I'm waiting for the two of them to get ready. Allow me to confess to you, dear readers, tha SweetRhapsody seems moody while the Duchess is complaining about having cramps. Looks like I'm going to be stuck with two moody schmoodies today!!!
I spent most of yesterday passed out on SweetRhapsody's bed, and I passed out again last night while we were watching Frequency. The only thing I remember about that movie was how hot Jim Caviezel was. Mmm!
Okay, must go, SweetRhapsody is frightening me. Hyukhyukhyuk. If she reads this she will kill me soon! Bye everyone!
(0) comments

Well, the presentation went all right, I guess. We ended up talking a lot about Buffy, thanks to me.
Hehehe.
Speaking of Buffy, I downloaded one of the fan music clips, with screenshots of the seven seasons of Buffy played to Smashing Pumpkin's "Tonight Tonight" song. And it was sooo sad! I forgot how crazy we used to be about Buffy and Angel! I got so emotional. *sniff*
There's snow in Queensland tonight. SweetRhapsody and I are still lamenting about how we're missing out on every single natural disaster event taking place all around us.
We're also lamenting the fact that we missed out on tickets to the river cruise tonight. We're missing out on a romantic cruise down the river! On a beautiful full moon tonight! On hot boys dressed up and looking sexily hot and lots of booze and dancing!
*sniff*
All right, gotta go, the masses are screaming for my name. Oh, it's so hard being such a star!
(0) comments

I'm supposed to be working on my presentation for tomorrow and time is running out but I don't care - I'm procrastinating!!!
On Tuesday, SweetRhapsody, me, and the Duchess headed down to the city to do a little shopping and watch Sahara in Picadilly. Gawd, the way those seats were arranged in the cinema, it was like climbing a steep rock wall! I thought we were going to fall off our seats any moment. The show was all right, a bit slow at some times, the trailer was more exciting than the movie itself.
And last night we went to the first screening of Star Wars Episode III! It was so fun and there were so many people at the cinema and we got to see guys dressed up as Darth Vader and Jedi knights and playing around with light sabers. And the ending was so sad....as expected... and Padme's funeral was the best funeral ceremony I've ever seen.
It's been raining, raining, raining, but today the sun's finally come out!
Right, I'd better get to work, so ciao everyone!
(0) comments

Today I slept through a tornado and woke up to find myself in the Land of Oz!!!
The only boring thing about this is that I was in the Land of Oz even before the tornado took place.
Oz...Aus....Australia...get it?
Hyukhyukhyuk.
I was like "OMG, this is the perfect time to use such a pun!!!"
And yes, a tornado really took place...well, it was more like a bunch of mini hurricanes...and I can't believe I slept through it! Because today had been my designated Sleeping In Day after an entire week of a serious lack of sleep so I didn't get up until well after five in the afternoon. And by the time I got up and heard about the tornados which took place in the morning I was like "Damn, I can't believe I slept through a natural disaster!!!"
And I also missed the earthquake which took place in Malaysia earlier this year AND I didn't even know about the tsunamis last year until a day later.
I am missing every single natural disaster that took place in my lifetime.
SweetRhapsody and I are both moaning about missing the tornado because we both slept in. The Duchess was up and about and running in the heavy wind and rain to class in the morning and she had the nerve to wake me up at eight something-ish to ask for an umbrella. Pah! Why can't she just struggle in the rain and leave me to sleep in my lovely warm bed? LOL. Anyway, I was pretty cranky to her, as I am to all who wake me, and I dragged myself out of the bed to literally toss the umbrella to her and caught a glimpse of rain and wind and her face (I was aiming the umbrella right at her nose) before I slammed the door in her face again. I tell you, the world has some nerve waking me up in the middle of my Designated Sleep In Day. Von called me to ask me if I was willing to sell my personal land phone to her friend and I snarled at her and hung up on her, then my sister called me right after that and I cut her off and told her I would call her back and the hung up on her in the middle of her sentence. I didn't call her back till after eight in the evening. Next time, I'm going to turn off my handphone and pad the door.
(0) comments

I forgot! I had this fantastic dream last night. It was fantastic because it was just like watching a movie and when i have these kind of dreams it's like watching a movie for free while getting a good night's rest at the same time. And my movie-dreams are REALLY exciting. Sometimes I astound myself. Hollywood should hire me.
Anyway in this particular dream, it was an action movie kind of dream, and I was running from these people. And I had to get somewhere else at the same time. I as an action hero! It felt very Star Wars only it was kind of in a Jurassic Park setting minus the dinosaurs. Which is a huge coincidence since today we were all watching Star Wars: Attack of the Clones on TV. And might I digress here by saying all the guys were complaining about the number of love scenes that there were in Star Wars: Attack of the Clones and how Star Wars is supposed to be about Jedi and all that and not about love, and that suddenly made me realize, you know, one of the reasons why I love Star Wars so much is because of all the love parts. Princess Leia and Han Solo, Amidala and Anakin (even though he can be such a brat)...actually my favourite is Leia and Han, they're the best.
Anyway! Me over-digressing. Back to action movie dream! Actually I forgot most of it but I remember I was running through the jungle trying to get away from my pursuers and trying to get to something else at the same time. And it was pretty exciting and they could kind of sense me by psychic force (very Force-like, I'm just only realizing the number of Star Wars elements in my dream here. And that's strange because I had the dream before re-watching the movie tonight. Maybe it's all that heavy advertising for Star Wars and it subconsciously seeped into my brain). And the fact that my pursuers could sense me made it all the harder to get away from them. But then I had this brilliant idea of how I could elude their psychic power by killing myself and then resurrecting myself. And I'm not sure how I did it but there was this green plant poison that could lethally kill me and I had this idea of bringing myself back to life by smearing my fingers with the plant poison and then placing them on electric wires all elaborately set up. But first I had to go through the jungle to get to this poison plant and there were land mines everywhere or those tricky metal cans disguised as bombs hanging down from the trees everywhere, very Vietnam War like. I remember heaving a huge sigh before starting through all those land mines. And once I got through all the mines, I remember smearing my fingers with the green poison sap, it had a thick texture and actually tasted pretty nice, like avocado, and I was licking it off my fingers because it's only lethal through digestion. And then I lay down and placed my poison-smeared fingers on the wires and prepared to die, and I remember being apprehensive in case it didn't work and I really died...
And then SweetRhapsody woke me up by calling me to wake up so we could go to the exhibition centre!
AAAAAAAARGH!
I hate it when that happens. When you just wanted to find out what happened in your dream but something wakes you up! Don't you hate it when that happens? Do I resurrect? Do i escape my pursuers? Do I make it to wherever it is I have to go?
Anyway, I dragged myself out of bed in the cold wet rainy morning and to SweetRhapsody's room and I sat on her bed and told her about my dream and the Colored Fringe who was fast asleep, was listening in, and later he analyzed my dream and told me that people who dreamt they were being chased did so because they were feeling insecure in real life.
Yeah well that's nothing new. Aren't we all insecure in some ways?
Hmmm but I always have a lot of dreams about being chased so does that mean I'm always very insecure? But these dreams are very exciting! I don't wanna stop having them! I think it's more likely that I have these dreams because I'm so into movies and books about people being chased. It's very exciting. Someday I may hire someone to chase me so I can run and elude them just for the fun of it.
(0) comments

What an embarassing moment today!
So SweetRhapsody and Walking Running T-shirt and me and the FTV group (our film crew!) went to the Career and Education Expo at the Convention Centre to do some shooting. And while we were there we interviewed this captain and took shots of all these army stuff because the army was recruiting kids there and there were all these hot soldier boys there. And when we were done shooting the army people we decided to go to the other side of the room and shoot some other people and so I led the way, walking fast because we wanted to get it over with. But as I was walking really fast, I passed this hot soldier who smiled at me and asked "Would you like to join up in the army?" and I just opened my mouth and because I was walking fast and my brain was so unprepared for that, a gargle just came out and I just kept on walking because I coudlnt's top and SweetRhapsody caught up behind me and hissed "what did he say?!? what did you say?!? why does he look so confused?"
AAAAAAAAAAH!
I am so mortified! and ready to hit myself over the head!
Sigh....let's not talk about this anymore....this is definitely one moment that belongs in the Hall of Idiots.
Enough said!
(0) comments

Did you know...
That cider comes from apples?
I learnt this amazing fact from SweetRhapsody tonight as we were watching Cider House Rules!
You know...it never occured to me where cider might come from! "What?" said I, "you mean it comes from apples?" And here I thought it grew on trees or something...and then I remember that cider is a drink, not a cinnamon stick.
I still think of it as a cinnamon stick.
And she just shook her head and said, "Do you want me to tell you where wine comes from?"
Now, that's just plain silly. Of course everyone knows wine comes from grapes. Cider is entirely different.
(0) comments

So last night SweetRhapsody, the Duchess and I headed to the mocktail thing and had a few tequila sunrises and and south pacific something and sweetrhapsody had her pina colada and sweetrhapsody and I considered stealing the lava lamps. Lots of people were there - the Curly Pumpkin, the Ninja Crisis, the Pony, the Pothead Teddy, Louise, the Walking Running T-shirt, 80s Laundry Dude, Insincerity, etc. Some guys all dressed up in jackets and they looked hot but out of place. I wore my short green jacket and looked very classy...mmm...
After that, SweetRhapsody, the Duchess and I headed back to our respective flats to change for tonight. I thought it would be a piece of cake deciding what to wear...but who knew...I had a wardrobe crisis instead!!! Half my wardrobe was all over my floor and bed...i must have tried on every single combination of clothes in my closet. Finally, I decided on my short flirty green bamboo skirt and my black top with the long black cords at either end and my turqouise heels. The other two had wardrobe crises as well and I think we annoyed Nanny Bones by not showing up til after ten when he had specifically told us to show up at eight thirty. Oh well...the boys didn't show up till ninish either and besides, Nanny Bones was annoyed the whole night by all the disruptions in all their plans. I could've told him that the more plans you lay out the more easily they'll get disrupted. Anyway, after a few drinks and photos, we headed off...only half the people who were supposed to go to Heatz got stoned and didn't make it and the guy who was supposed to take me and SweetRhapsody and the Duchess had also gotten too stoned to drive so some of us ended up having to take a cab.
Anyway, we finally got to Heatz, only to realize that SweetRhapsody had forgotten her ID!!! Luckily we got her in by using The Duchess's driver's license. Then Cherisa arrived too...and then we were all in! And there were lots of people...though not as many as the last time we were there. And we danced...and I accidentally burnt my monkey with a cigarette but he deserved it anyway, and a couple was smoking and having sex in one of the cubicles in the bathroom while we were in there...they were pretty quiet about it too! And this cute guy asked me to dance but I thought we were leaving then so I turned him down...only to realize we were staying for another twenty minutes. Grrr...I could have danced with him! Oh well...
Ohhh...and while we were drinking and taking pictures in the Transit Flat before we left for Heatz a couple of other guys came by and one of them was the Roaring Lion. We sort of know each other from last year and have always seen each other but hardly said hi and we started talking and he was like "You never say hi to me whenever we see each other!" and I was like "Well, you never say hi to me either!" And we were like, fine, we'll say hi whenever we see each other from now on! Anyway, today I was fast asleep in my nice warm bed when i hear the doorbell ring. I had this feeling it was for me so I turned over and went back to bed and hoped whoever it was would leave. James ended up opening the door and they were knocking on my door but I was just too dead to open it and James was like "she must not be in." So whoever it was left and I just lay there, wondering who it was and couldn't go back to sleep for at least five or ten minutes before I zoned out again until SweetRhapsody woke me up a couple of hours later. And I'm stumbling around and banging on James's door to ask him who had showed up earlier but he had gone out too and so I stumbled into the living room to see if anyone had left a message for me and there it was on the whiteboard: "Hi, Marilyn, I just came to say hi!!!" and signed by the Roaring Lion! Hahaha....it just made me laugh and woke me up.
So today SweetRhapsody and I headed back to the city because Betts, the shoe shop where she and the Duchess had both bought boots from yesterday, had given her two right-feet boots and our Baby Brother's shirt was too large for him so we exchanged both items. And the sales guy at Quicksilver was sooo hot and sooo sweet when he helped us exchange Baby Brother's shirt! SweetRhapsody and I were practically drooling over him. Mmm...
This evening The Philosopher called me up and made me come over for dinner(he had cooked butter chicken but it looked nothing like butter chicken) with him, the Duchess, The Tall One, The Soft-Spoken Socializer, Smoking Before 21, Beard of 25, P, and this other chick from The Tall One's class. We were all pretty stuffed after dinner and sat outside in a semi-circle on the balcony after, just smoking and drinking. The sky has been pretty beautiful these past few nights, with a single crescent moon and lots of pinpoint twinkling little stars in the velvet dark sky...it looks like something unreal and out of a video.
After that, the Duchess and I headed over to the Transit Flat where SweetRhapsody and the DESIs and the PotHead Teddy and The Quiet One were watching The Cider House Rules and Driven and drinking Baccardi and Jack Daniels and smoking sheesha. We gave Baby Brother his shirt and he likes it, or he pretended to anyway, haha. It did look pretty good on him! He'll be having girlfriends soon...awww...
I'm suppose to be getting some sleep now since SweetRhapsody and I are suppose to get up at the unearthly hour of eight for our TV News shooting...eurghhh...how am I ever going to get up? But I can't get to sleep because I'm on a roll downloading songs! There are all these old songs that I've missed so much like Alisha's Attic I Am I Feel and The New Radicals's Jehovah Made This Whole World For You and Gotta Stay High, Daft Punk, Lene Marlin, Liz Phair, etc...
(0) comments

So today is Friday and we went to the city to check out the career and education exhibition at the convention centre, which is what we would be covering for our TV news. The army and defense peeps were there too, trying to entice young children into becoming killers for the country, and lots of hot soldier boys were there too! Mmm, sign me up!
After that, we went shopping! I bought a pale green short jacket which I should not have! SOB must...stop...buying...clothes!!!
Today is the Baby Brother's birthday and we're going to some RDB thing at Heatz club. But before that we're going to some mocktail thing at the common room and have a few drinks in the Transit Flat first! Us girls bought him a Sara Lee cake to celebrate at midnight last night but the boys ended up squashing the cake in his face....it would have been fine if it had been some ordinary cake...but this is SARA LEE!!!!! What a waste of a good cake.
All right, must go now, have a great night, everyone!
(0) comments

Congratulate me!
The presentation went incredibly well!!!
I have never felt so relieved and pleased at the same time!
I didn't make a fool of myself in front of the postgrads!
Last night was pretty funny...I'm so used to making instant Indo mee, which is dry noodles so I'm used to draining the noodles before mixing the satchets of soy and seasoning in. But last night, when the pothead teddy asked me to make him some instant tom yam noodles, I totally forgot that this wasn't dry noodles and didn't put the seasoning in while the noodles was boiling. When we realized my mistake, I just fell over and couldn't stop laughing. SweetRhapsody and the Duchess were shaking their heads and saying things like, "See, the child really can't cook to save her life!" and the pothead teddy just looked at me in disbelief and shook his head and pronounced, "You can't even cook instant noodles!!!"
I must be the only person to wreck instant noodles.
Well, at least now everyone will think twice before asking me to cook for them.
SweetRhapsody has been lusting after boots - and when I mentioned that I owned a pair of calf-length boots she said, "But you can't wear boots either, can you? Not with your skinny legs."
Let me tell you right here and now, people would kill to look the way I do in boots!
For that, I will wear my boots tomorrow with a skirt just to spite her!
Even though I barely got an hour of sleep last night, what with presentations and all, not to mention I have to get thirteen stories with three contacts each together by two in the afternoon tomorrow (I'm the producer in tomorrow's radio class), I still agreed to head down to Carousel with SweetRhapsody and the Duchess this afternoon. We watched In Good Company. It wasn't a bad show, though I had to admit I had been expecting it to be more of a romantic comedy but it wasn't. SweetRhapsody, who had been really hot to watch it, didn't like the ending because...okay, I won't tell you guys. Okay, I will! Scarlett Johansson and Topher Grace did not get together! You heard it from me first!
Half my flat was up the entire night working on assignments. James was up the entire night doing who knows what, I was up working on my presentation and continuously reciting lines aloud to myself til I'm sure the rest of the flat must think I have gone mad and started talking to myself, and Von took over the entire living room with her stuff and her two friends who had passed out all over the couches by dawn. I tiptoed over them to get to Von to borrow her USB drive and then I tiptoed all over Von's two other friends (the chicks who are staying in our flat currently) who were also passed out all over Von's bedroom.
A special thanks to the guys of our flat who cleaned the entire flat for us! Von and I have never been so grateful, with all the work we've had to do. Charming boys!
Right, I must shower and resume work! Ciao, darlings!
(0) comments

I'm busy trying to finish up my presentation for tomorrow! Just had an extremely healthy dinner of Diet Coke and Feta cheese. I'm the poster child for a balanced diet! but I'm still hungry and my biological older sister has just abandoned me for a while so I think I'm going to find my pseudo older sister and raid her kitchen! See ya!
(0) comments

*Whew*
It's the procrastination weekend to end all procrastinations.
I was so planning to work hard and study hard and get all my presentations done in due time but nooo, it hasn't worked out that way at all! I should have known that my most social weekend of the semester would also coincide with the weekend with the most assignments due next week.
Actually, it's just that one presentation with the postgrad class that I'm more worried about. Bah. I hate those postgrads. Can it be possible to be both intimidating and boring at the same time? Because they are.
So let me tell you about all the socializing I've been doing this weekend! First, on Friday night, me, SweetRhapsody and the Duchess met up with this girl. We first met her at the place where SweetRhapsody and the Duchess has their eyebrows threaded and she's from Malaysia too, and we got to chatting and agreed to meet up some time soon. So she was having this dinner with her girlfriends in Northbridge so we all headed down there for dinner at Valentino's (the food wasn't too bad, we had chicken tortellini, some shrimp fettucini and lamb shanks with a couple of bottles of wine, but I didn't think too much of the lamb there) and after that we did a bit of club hopping from Varga Lounge to the Mustang Bar to Paramount to Universal Bar. We also met up with Von and her two friends who are currently staying in our flat; but we left them at Paramount. I had the most fun at Mustang Bar - I miss live bands!
Von had left her ID behind so she borrowed my driver's license to get into the clubs and it worked. Those bouncers never looked at us twice - and I was only ahead of her in the line by a couple of people. And no - Von and I definitely do not look alike, not even in pictures.
on Saturday night, the DESIs were planning to go to the SEXPO exhibition - it's supposed to be an exhibition of "sexuality, awareness, life" and that kind of thing, but it's just about sex really, wiht strippers and the biggest collection of sex toys and stuff in town, so SweetRhapsody, me, and the Duchess tagged along. They had all these really nice lingerie on sale there too so the Duchess and I grabbed some and the Duchess got herself a showbag full of goodies to *ahem* play around with. They had a male stripper but he was a little too built up for my taste. And SweetRhapsody got her palm read and a tarot card reading too, and the fortune teller was pretty accurate! And apparently she's going to be financially stable and have a love marriage which would last forever or something so yay her!
After the exhibition, we stopped off at Burger King to grab a bite, then the guys dropped us off at the Colored Fringe's house where I downloaded some advertisements on his Limewire before the Duchess and I walked back to EUH. We headed over to Flat 21, narrowly missing the sprinklers (we heard them gushing and screamed and legged it to the stairway just before they sprayed all over the lawn). The guys at Flat 21 were in a totally chilled-out mood, lying around the Tall One's room with candles burning in red and blue glass candle holders and the Tall One's usual collection of chilled-out music playing. It was pretty nice - but the atmosphere was a little too depressing for my taste that night, especially after all the fun we had earlier! The guys were pretty depressed too, it must be something in Flat 21 that night.
Anyway, today I was planning to stay at home and *ahem* work hard, but I woke up pretty late in the afternoon and right after consuming a handful of Frosties in bed, the phone rings and I had a feeling it was for me so I dragged myself out and down the hall to the phone. And it was the Curly Pumpkin! The Refugee's turning 27 on Tuesday so he's invited us to celebrate his birthday in Frio at a Mexican restaurant, and after that, the Little Creatures Bar. So we headed down to Frio. The restaurant was lovely, and the food was delicious and after that we headed to the Little Creatures where they brew their own beer and the place is like a huge warehouse or something by the ocean. It was also at Little Creatures where I ended up reading everyone's palm. A lot of people are going to take it pretty easy later on in life and the Guatemalan Eggshaker is going to have many women when he's an old man. We had planned on going home early *so we can do our work ahem* but we ended up driving down to the beach and walking barefoot in the sand which was so lovely and white and cold and then just sitting to watch the waves and the stars. The Guatemalan Eggshaker and this other guy were trying to figure out the two Pointer Stars and the Southern Cross but it was pretty confusing. "Are they pointing this way? Or that way? Why do I see two sets of Pointer Stars? Why are the Pointer Stars to the left of the Southern Cross rather than the top?" LOL. But it was so beautiful just sitting on the beach, by the waves and under the stars. But by the time we left the beach it was past midnight and I'm like "Gawd! I still have so much work to do! Aaargh!"
So now I'd better shut up and get to work! Wish me luck!
(0) comments

It's been an efficient day today...
I actually forced myself out of bed at the unearthly hour of eight thirty and made myself chirpy! And then I managed to get my radio interview and even studied in the library after that!
And then I went to class!
But I didn't participate in class, though. But, honestly, everyone was just arguing about completely pointless stuff. Instead of ARGUING about it, why don't we go DO something about it? Besides, they kept going off in tangents. But nevermind that. I'll do my best to be a Good Student and participate next time.
And then after that I stuffed myself with food and went shopping with SweetRhapsody and the Duchess! And we watched the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy! It was so fun and I loved the dolphins' song. I could hear The Duchess laughing hysterically at the other end of the aisle but SweetRhapsody didn't really like it.
I also bought a book to satiate my reading cravings at the moment... you know it's like how you suddenly crave one kind of food for several days on end and just have to eat that and nothing else will satisfy you? Or you suddenly crave this song and only that song will satisfy you? Well, now, I'm just craving books in general. I just have to read. Maybe it's my reading-deprivation body crying out to me. Anyway, I wasn't too sure what I was getting, but then the newspaper today had some discount for this chick-lit book, The Jane Austen Book Club, so I just bought that. Hey, it was on discount.
And I got a pair of corduroy pants! My first pair! And they look so good on me! *squeal* And SweetRhapsody got this pink long coat - she looks very like a First Lady or Modern-Day European Princess-ish in it. And it suits her shoulder-length wavy hair too. I don't know how to explain it. Kind of like trendy anchorwomen or something. Or like she's one of the Kennedy's. She needs a prince now, or a president's son. Poor knights from the desert with colored fringes ain't gonna cut it. Oops. Let's hope he never reads this.
We have strangers living in this flat. The first sign I had of this were the two extra toothbrushes in the girls' bathroom. Or maybe it was the sound of people dragging their luggage through the hallway at some unearthly hour in the morning yesterday. They're Von's friends. I wonder what they're going to do here. There's not much except get high and drunk - but I hear they don't smoke or drink. Von should send them on a trip to the country or something. I think we're taking them clubbing this weekend.
Hey, I thought I wouldn't have much to blog about since it's only been a day, but a lot has happened!
I was watching this series on SweetRhapsody's laptop...she downloaded it from the pothead teddy...it's Committed...about this psycho couple....and it's so funny. Now I'm in the mood to watch sitcoms!
Okay, I'd better go...it's past one am and I still have a load of work to do...sigh...wish me luck!
(0) comments

Today I came home to be greeted by an adorable kitty on my doorstep. I petted her, she stretched, I stretched as well, and then I took a picture of her. Then I went in and shut the door on her face.
(0) comments

Today I actually got work done!
I am so proud of myself.
I even went to another lecture when my MCI replacement class got canceled.
I did unnecessary work!
I feel so studious and hardworking...wow...
I am listening to Sooner or Later by Breaking Benjamin over and over again... it's addictive. It makes me want to dance and shout. And kiss random cute guys.
Also, just finished reading 7th Sense by John McLaren. It's not too bad for a $4.95 book. I'm really getting desperate for books to read. The only complain I have about the 7th Sense is that everyone in that book speaks in italics all the time...it's as if they all think they're Holden Caulfield from The Catcher in the Rye.
The Pothead Teddy told me that his first impression of me was that I looked intimidating. Oooh. He's not the only one who's told me that before. But it was pretty surprising because he's one of the last people I'd expect to be intimidated by anyone, least of all me.
Today is a cold wet drizzly day. Grey. Depressing. I revel in it and think some more about screaming.
(0) comments

Fez is getting back his knife. I have agreed to trade it with him for a bag of bones from the Gobi desert. He has also agreed to carve the bones into candle-holders for me.
I feel that is a good bargain. Fez must have learnt how to bargain in the Gobi desert. He was never good at haggling before this.
(0) comments

Fez called me up today!
Apparently he was in the Gobi desert.
He insists his earlier message was a mistake. He had sent it to the wrong person and could he please have it back?
Well he can have the letter back but he sure ain't having the knife. It's mine now.
Jennifer is apparently his ex-neighbor. How sweet.
(0) comments

I danced in the rain tonight!
Last night I watched as the Colored Fringe got drunk and merry for his 20th birthday, swung on a hammock, watched SweetRhapsody huff over the Colored Fringe when he started puking, cunningly stole a silver bracelet from the Puppy, watched a fat cat try to steal his way into the flat at least three times, met a leprechaun from Australia, saw the Grim Reaper, and watched a pothead teddy dance to hiphop music.
Yes, it was a very interesting night last night!
And I think I've been smoking way too much. It's time to cut down.
And today I was roused from bed by my sister at an abominably early hour...then I got my revenge on SweetRhapsody for all those times she woke me up from a good dream by waking her up to borrow canola oil spray from her - hah! I saw rows of the most adorable little choir boys today and then was overcome by guilt at the mounting pile of assignments I have due in the next two weeks and then went to sleep again. When I woke up, I actually did some work before running over to the Duchess's to have some leftover pizza and the Colored Fringe's birthday chocolate cake and watch Desperate Housewives and scream at one another outside the flats whereupon some guy talking on the phone outside his door stared at us strangely.
Well, they can't say today wasn't productive.
(0) comments