Saturday, April 19, 2008
As I was checking my email, I clicked on a ninemsn news link that said down with the black parade.. I suspected something about mcr or "emos".
Lo and behold it was about "emos" ("emos" because DIC191 has disrupted my stereotyping hahaha) and how in South America, they were being protested against by every other available sub-culture, so much so there were protests marches, cyber fighting lol.
First reaction: HAHA nice..
Until they took a crack at MCR.
OH NOT HAPPY JAN.
There are SO many more bands with more "emo" music and lyrics!
MCR has awesome music and can be enjoyed by lots of people who AREN'T part of the "emo" sub-culture.
Some of their songs have been aired allll over the radio airwaves.. and people reaaally like them. HMPH.
Don't argue with me!!
On the other hand, this looks like an article I could bring into DIC191 class. :P
Lo and behold it was about "emos" ("emos" because DIC191 has disrupted my stereotyping hahaha) and how in South America, they were being protested against by every other available sub-culture, so much so there were protests marches, cyber fighting lol.
First reaction: HAHA nice..
Until they took a crack at MCR.
OH NOT HAPPY JAN.
There are SO many more bands with more "emo" music and lyrics!
MCR has awesome music and can be enjoyed by lots of people who AREN'T part of the "emo" sub-culture.
Some of their songs have been aired allll over the radio airwaves.. and people reaaally like them. HMPH.
Don't argue with me!!
On the other hand, this looks like an article I could bring into DIC191 class. :P
Labels: Those Idiots
11:03 am ♥Thursday, August 16, 2007
After a long day at uni, headed to Garbo to print some photos at K-mart for tomorrow's computing class (grrr) and check out movie times.
License to Wed had already finished, and the next time was 9.20pm, so we couldn't watch that. Instead, we opted for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Pretty funny movie, a little uncomfortable at points but still laugh out loud funny. More on that on Manny&Moo as Moe came along with us to watch it!
Another fairly long day tomorrow, have to start my assignments and stuff due next week in my random 3 hour break. Unsure about weekend, if I'll be able to get out of the house for a breath of fresh air, because assignments have fallen out of the sky and hit me straight in the gut, and I think things are sort of full speed ahead at the moment. On the contrary, I need to get into the city to do my photography assignment one. (GAHH)
Anywho, off the topic of boring old uni shit.... :)
License to Wed had already finished, and the next time was 9.20pm, so we couldn't watch that. Instead, we opted for I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry.
Pretty funny movie, a little uncomfortable at points but still laugh out loud funny. More on that on Manny&Moo as Moe came along with us to watch it!
Another fairly long day tomorrow, have to start my assignments and stuff due next week in my random 3 hour break. Unsure about weekend, if I'll be able to get out of the house for a breath of fresh air, because assignments have fallen out of the sky and hit me straight in the gut, and I think things are sort of full speed ahead at the moment. On the contrary, I need to get into the city to do my photography assignment one. (GAHH)
Anywho, off the topic of boring old uni shit.... :)
Recently, (as in about 2-3 weeks ago), Moe discovered something called Mugglecast which is a Harry Potter podcast, with people who discuss all things HP and bring all news of HP to their listeners. I found this mildly interesting, and started to download the podcasts and subscribed to them, so I get a weekly fix of HP news and random discussions and theories.
Pretty sad that we only just discovered this as it's been around for approximately 2 years!
I love the HP books, but have never actually been that big a fanatic. Sadly, Mugglecast has turned me into some raving lunatic who relates almost everything to HP and can never give up the opportunity to say something random about HP or quote Luna Lovegood at random points in time. I think Moe finds this quite disturbing, and has expressed her feelings, and told me she should never have told me about Mugglecast. hehe. But thank god she did, or I'd have nothing but secular music to fill my ears on long bus rides to uni or long breaks in between classes. :)
Mugglecast totally opened my eyes to how major the Harry Potter fan situation is, and amazingly, they have even formed their own style of music (in a way) called Wizard Rock. Now there's something you don't hear everyday! :P
There's bands such as Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys, The Remus Lupins and the Moaning Myrtles who sing about anything and everything HP.
Strange how we in Australia don't hear this kind of thing being in the news! It's like a Potter revolution! hahaha. Ok that's abit OTT.
But another great HP podcast, Pottercast has been doing a wonderful thing, and actively aiding the Darfur campaign to stop genocide, and I just listened to their podcast this morning on the bus about Darfur, and there are people, using HP as an excuse to band together as one, to try and stop the genocide in Darfur, as the politicians are not doing anything to help them.
Going on a tangent, speaking of politicians, a specific politician who is trying to form her UAP party, featuring her newest campaign against Muslims in Australia gave me a horribly bad start to the morning, as I watched her on the news being terribly blatant and stupid. All I can think about now, is HOW THE *fu-lalala* can you be so idiotic and racist. She claims she isn't racist, but staging a campaign against a specific race (and religion) and wanting them out, WTF do you call that? A welcome-to-Australia barbie? I think not.
Our planet is slowly dying, there are people being killed in wars, crime rates are high, and all you can think about is not wanting certain people in your country because maybe they don't hold the same values as you, or look like you. There are so many more important things, and you just choose to be a racist pig and do something as stupid as this.
Some people are so bloody ignorant.
Ok, rant is over for the day. Back to serious issues.
Darfur.
Pretty sad that we only just discovered this as it's been around for approximately 2 years!
I love the HP books, but have never actually been that big a fanatic. Sadly, Mugglecast has turned me into some raving lunatic who relates almost everything to HP and can never give up the opportunity to say something random about HP or quote Luna Lovegood at random points in time. I think Moe finds this quite disturbing, and has expressed her feelings, and told me she should never have told me about Mugglecast. hehe. But thank god she did, or I'd have nothing but secular music to fill my ears on long bus rides to uni or long breaks in between classes. :)
Mugglecast totally opened my eyes to how major the Harry Potter fan situation is, and amazingly, they have even formed their own style of music (in a way) called Wizard Rock. Now there's something you don't hear everyday! :P
There's bands such as Harry and the Potters, Draco and the Malfoys, The Remus Lupins and the Moaning Myrtles who sing about anything and everything HP.
Strange how we in Australia don't hear this kind of thing being in the news! It's like a Potter revolution! hahaha. Ok that's abit OTT.
But another great HP podcast, Pottercast has been doing a wonderful thing, and actively aiding the Darfur campaign to stop genocide, and I just listened to their podcast this morning on the bus about Darfur, and there are people, using HP as an excuse to band together as one, to try and stop the genocide in Darfur, as the politicians are not doing anything to help them.
Going on a tangent, speaking of politicians, a specific politician who is trying to form her UAP party, featuring her newest campaign against Muslims in Australia gave me a horribly bad start to the morning, as I watched her on the news being terribly blatant and stupid. All I can think about now, is HOW THE *fu-lalala* can you be so idiotic and racist. She claims she isn't racist, but staging a campaign against a specific race (and religion) and wanting them out, WTF do you call that? A welcome-to-Australia barbie? I think not.
Our planet is slowly dying, there are people being killed in wars, crime rates are high, and all you can think about is not wanting certain people in your country because maybe they don't hold the same values as you, or look like you. There are so many more important things, and you just choose to be a racist pig and do something as stupid as this.
Some people are so bloody ignorant.
Ok, rant is over for the day. Back to serious issues.
Darfur.
Genocide.
The HP Alliance is dedicated to using the examples of Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore to spread love and fight the Dark Arts in the real world.
Who cares that this is created based on fictional story characters?
This is a chance to help out with something horrible that is occuring in our world.
Who cares that this is created based on fictional story characters?
This is a chance to help out with something horrible that is occuring in our world.
Ehh. i'm suchanerd.
edit// i just remembered, I thought of random Wizard Rock band names some band could have, because obviously, i have no musical talent whatsoever.
Eyeballs for Moody.
or
Dolores Filch.
And just for kicks, I thought a funny band name would be:
My Pet Rock
Labels: Harry Potter, Movie Reviews, Ramblings, Those Idiots, Uni Crap
10:26 pm ♥Friday, July 20, 2007
It seems as though the Singaporean blogosphere is turning into a mish mash of wars between bloggers, what with XX's recent Top 7 most disgusting singaporean bloggers post. Yes and I know, how sad, I've been blog surfing again, but I just wanted to check out all these random blogs that I'd never heard of when I read her post. I discovered that they were all pretty mediocre, and really nothing extremely special... And I don't understand why they have such high readership... But anyway, she was going on about how she didn't like some of them because they were ugly in their photos...
But ugly does not = disgusting does it?
The first blogger she mentioned really does gross me out, with his try-hard personality and narcissistic? self-worshipping.
But the others she attacked for being ugly where simply average, everyday, girl/boy next door looks. Ok, actually the rest were girls.. So girl next door looks. And if there's no hope for them, where lies the hope for all the rest of us! But oh well, that's her opinion. In my opinion the girls are average, not exquisitely beautiful, simply average. Although one of them does look like a squashed monkey in some of her photos... Just like ME hehe. But she's a very skinny squashed monkey.
And so the backlash begins through comments on XX's blog itself, and on the blogs of the unlucky chosen ones. But the most retarded backlash of all, would have to be Chosen one No. #1, Mr Narcissus himself, with his 8 minuteYoutube video where he tries to insult XX by calling her a chicken pie.
But ugly does not = disgusting does it?
The first blogger she mentioned really does gross me out, with his try-hard personality and narcissistic? self-worshipping.
But the others she attacked for being ugly where simply average, everyday, girl/boy next door looks. Ok, actually the rest were girls.. So girl next door looks. And if there's no hope for them, where lies the hope for all the rest of us! But oh well, that's her opinion. In my opinion the girls are average, not exquisitely beautiful, simply average. Although one of them does look like a squashed monkey in some of her photos... Just like ME hehe. But she's a very skinny squashed monkey.
And so the backlash begins through comments on XX's blog itself, and on the blogs of the unlucky chosen ones. But the most retarded backlash of all, would have to be Chosen one No. #1, Mr Narcissus himself, with his 8 minuteYoutube video where he tries to insult XX by calling her a chicken pie.
I mean, WOW, that must be the highest insult on earth. I'd be appalled if someone referred to me as a chicken pie.
Will someone explain to me where is the sense in being called a chicken pie?
And he called her a midget, several times. When she is an average sized human whose companions happen to be taller than her.
What about real midgets, who were born with no hope of ever growing taller than when they stopped growing. :( Some people do speak without thinking.
But enough rambling.
My throat glands are swollen I think.. And my throat is sore, and itchyyy. Which is making my ears itchyyy. Which is highly unpleasant.
Will someone explain to me where is the sense in being called a chicken pie?
And he called her a midget, several times. When she is an average sized human whose companions happen to be taller than her.
What about real midgets, who were born with no hope of ever growing taller than when they stopped growing. :( Some people do speak without thinking.
But enough rambling.
My throat glands are swollen I think.. And my throat is sore, and itchyyy. Which is making my ears itchyyy. Which is highly unpleasant.
Labels: Personal Issues, Poor Unfortunate Souls, Ramblings, Those Idiots
1:10 pm ♥Saturday, June 30, 2007
I'M HOME!! :D:D:D
Ok, MAJOR fiasco at the airport.
Got up after like 4 hours sleep and showered very quickly in order to get out of the house on time. Thought was gonna be reaaaally late.
THEN.
THEN.
Arrived at the airport and scurried to the counter, where I found there was a lack of a queue, as usually it is sardine jam packed into the barriers. :S
THEN.
THEN.
The airport chick told me that the flight had been delayed.
Oh the joys of airplane malfunctions.
Ok, so this was just the windscreen wiper but hey you need those..
So i had to wait until 2.45.
THEN
I saw mum and dad were having a nice chatty with some people wayyy over on the other side of the airport.
Turns out they're some nice people dad and mum knew.
SO.
dad decides (because they're on my flight DUH) that it'd be nice if we all took a drive in our car so we wouldn't be wasting time trying to mooch around the really really boring airport. -_-"
BUT.
Our car, is away at the Car Hospital, and so we have a nice modern courtesy car, which just so happens to be the SQUISHIEST car in the world.
We could barely fit jerri in when we went to pick her up from school and there were only two people in the back seat!!
imagine fitting 6 fully grown humans and one growing child into this tiny confined space.
What dad was thinking, I had NO idea.
So there we were stuck like sardines in a tin can in this highly squishy car.
Thank god for the wintery weather, if it were summer i think i may have preferred to bore myself to death in the airport!
Went to Foo Gwai chinese restaurant all the way in friggin' Applecross.
Dim sum for lunchh.
GREAT
About to go to Singapore, and my last meal in Australia is Chinese food. -_-"
Not that I have anything against Chinese food in general, it's just that once you've had a taste of Asia, you can never never never really like the aussiefied version of the taste of Asia.
And I'm not the only one who can verify that! o_O
Moe's brother says he can't stand the chinese food in aussie anymore cos he's been travelling through Asia.. (:
Took mindless pictures of the food but I think I won't post them up because I've already done a post on Foo Gwai once before..
So once we were done, we still had a little more time to kill.
So guess what?
YEP, drive HOME again.
To show them around the house...
Which was in a dreadful state after the panicking in the morning and last minute preparations.
So i don't know why they even bothered.
Crammed in to the car and went back to the airport, where we used the funky complimentary Meal Vouchers to buy coffees and biscuits from Dome.
Went through immigration and xraying, and OH THE SHOCK AND HORROR.
The flight was delayed... AGAIN!
Only by an hour this time.. But STILL.
like OMGWTF.
And after a fruitless attempt at trying to connect to the airport's wireless internet from my lappie (u had to pay hehe) I just ended up going through Picasa and deleting nonsensical photos :D (I was so gonna do a blog post if i'd been able to connect to the internet!!:P)
So finally, got on board and sat down.. Finished reading Little Women and to my utmost shock and horror i found that Beth did NOT die!! :O I was dreading it throughout the whole book because of Joey in Friends!! :O :O :O
Also bought a Women's Weekly mag because it was the cheapest interesting one.. :( Didn't realise it was a NZ one, and I was like this is different...
Watched Priceless on the plane, which was absolutely sweet and beautiful and her outfits were so damn beautiful but very very pricey. (: Also watched The Holiday after tossing up between several other interesting films .. :)
It's absolutely brill but a little slow moving at times.. Jude Law is sooo sweet in the movie just makes me wanna go awwwwww.
Also started to watch the Trop Fest 2007 winners short films.. The first one was so cute and sad, the 2nd one I didn't finish because they turned off the entertainment system!! D: gah.
Got through Immig pretty quickly but had to spend some time waiting for luggage.
And now, I am at home, really should be asleep because I have to wake up heaps early to go and pick up MOE!! :D
And now I am frickin hungry as well. :(
Oh wait, I hear the spaghetti bolg in the fridge.
It calls my name.
:D
Labels: Book Reviews, Complaints, Family, Food, Movie Reviews, Those Idiots
10:24 pm ♥Saturday, June 09, 2007
Ok, so I said I was going to stay away, BUT, given the circumstances:
1. Everyone is watching Eragon, and it is the most noisiest bloody movie ever, especially since they're watching it with Dad's surround sound system or whatever its called.
2. It is bothering me. (like Snape! heh) and so I find i cannot concentrate
3. I didn't study today, so I'm like fcuk all man.
2. It is bothering me. (like Snape! heh) and so I find i cannot concentrate
3. I didn't study today, so I'm like fcuk all man.
4. My legs are too tired to move to get my books and laptop.
5. I.. Ok, ran out of reasons.
So I am here to tell you of the bargain i found awaiting me at Garbo.
Less than $5 sale at DIVA!!!!!!!!!
Like holy shit dude...
Finally was able to get my gorgeous butterfly gold bracelet I've wanted for ever so long.
5. I.. Ok, ran out of reasons.
So I am here to tell you of the bargain i found awaiting me at Garbo.
Less than $5 sale at DIVA!!!!!!!!!
Like holy shit dude...
Finally was able to get my gorgeous butterfly gold bracelet I've wanted for ever so long.
From $24.95 to just $5 bucks!!And also, pretty gold long-ish necklace!! With fan... :D And lots of. lockets. lol
Best fcukin' bargain. $29.95 to $4 bucks!!
Also bought Jerri a necklace (It has a cross on it) for her first communion, as well as a really cool long pair of earrings which i left at Moe's house. GREAT..
And ALSO. I woke up at 7am this morning, did LOADS of laundry (AND hung it out), cleaned the whole damn house, my eternally messy room, the bathroom, the toilets, the kitchen and the living room, changed all the bedsheets and was at Coles to do groceries by 11am. Achievement, oh yes I think so.
Decided I'd make a cool cake (Well it was sposed to be cool aiight.) for my sister's 1st communion..
Personally, i don't think i had one, but everyone seems to make a jolly big dealio out of it here, so i thought Jer should have a cake too.. haha.
Oh yeah, REASON number 6.
I made a cake.
Not from scratch, oh no no no..
Good ol' Betty Crocker. :D
Managed to actually FIND icing pipe bag thingamajiggies, except when I was experimenting with the first batch of icing, I kinda destroyed the bag and it was unable to function normally..
So when rents and Jer got home, a little too early, the kitchen was in a bloody mess thanks to me..
Mum helped make "makeshift" bags lol :P
And here it is, Jerri's communion cake, VERY dodgy mind you, not my fault I had dodgy piping bags~
I did what I could to save it. The cake itself was pretty nice though!On Thursday, went to watch Shrek the Third with Moe, it was pretty damn funny.
I couldn't seem to control my laughter, I think Moe must've been quite embarrassed to be seated in my vincinity.
Feast your eyes on the WICKED straw I got with the Shrek popcorn combo!!
Ok, I coudn't actually figure out why no Coke was coming through... Only when I got home did I realise you drink through the one not actually IN the drink. Dumb, but very tricky. :P
Stayed at Moe's house yet again, she was SPOSED to come over the next day, but she was being a lazy arse, so i was all on my lonesome again... Wanted to go to the KARDDYY, and couldn't have gone by meself! lolSo here's a lovely picture of Moe from our random night time stroll on Thursday, and well, she couldn't resist hopping on the playground swing! Then she realised it really was meant for kiddies, and that she'd squeezed her butt quite enough for the time being.
Weeeeeeeeeee.
And here's something I'd like to rant about:
While I recently enjoyed a guilty splurge on magazines e.g. Cosmo :D heh
I decided i'd pick up this one when i saw the headline a couple of weeks ago.. So it's a fairly stale mag cover..
Was reading the magazine, filling out crosswords and such in it :P on the Thursday night when I had completed all my assignments and I just felt absolutely wonderfully stress-free.
While I recently enjoyed a guilty splurge on magazines e.g. Cosmo :D heh
I decided i'd pick up this one when i saw the headline a couple of weeks ago.. So it's a fairly stale mag cover..
Was reading the magazine, filling out crosswords and such in it :P on the Thursday night when I had completed all my assignments and I just felt absolutely wonderfully stress-free.
Who the fcuk is so fcukingly retarded (JOHN MAYER).
I mean, poor Jessica Simpson... I just wrote my essay about this, perfection in the media.
Not only do they choose a most unflattering photograph to feature in the front page, everyone knows that you look much bigger than you really are if you take a low-angle shot. They use this shot in film-making to make the character appear larger, (in the case of movies it's powerful, but they still look heaps larger.. e.g. HAGRID in harry potter. :P) but enough about the magazine, I was just annoyed about the photo.. The article sympathises with Jess, not John, because he is a superficial fcuktard with no brains and no heart.
Not only do they choose a most unflattering photograph to feature in the front page, everyone knows that you look much bigger than you really are if you take a low-angle shot. They use this shot in film-making to make the character appear larger, (in the case of movies it's powerful, but they still look heaps larger.. e.g. HAGRID in harry potter. :P) but enough about the magazine, I was just annoyed about the photo.. The article sympathises with Jess, not John, because he is a superficial fcuktard with no brains and no heart.
But good for Jess that she's moved on.
Now I'm not one to follow the tabloid magazines, but one cannot resist occasionally picking one up when they see an interesting headline. (Or, maybe it's just me.. :P)
And, OMGWTF. Eragon credits play Avril Lavigne's song Keep Holding On!
hahahaha.
Alright, that's all for now.
Now I'm not one to follow the tabloid magazines, but one cannot resist occasionally picking one up when they see an interesting headline. (Or, maybe it's just me.. :P)
And, OMGWTF. Eragon credits play Avril Lavigne's song Keep Holding On!
hahahaha.
Alright, that's all for now.
Labels: Adventures, Food, Friends, Movie Reviews, Poor Unfortunate Souls, Ramblings, Shopping, Those Idiots
10:27 pm ♥
