So, hi. Wow. I will admit that I thought the place was razed to the ground years back, and became nothing more than a childhood memory. I was still technically a youth when I was last here. I was a child when I first joined this place - a very vivid memory of me asking my mother for permission to join the Internet in a world of Bionicle that I learned from a Flash game of Takua. To add to the feels of polishing off cobwebs, a lot of my old content was gone. I found a message in my Inbox as
My 5 year old MacBook Pro died on me in class - worst time to lose your files.
After getting a hard disk dock, torx and Phillips screwdrivers and spudger on speed delivery, I disassembled the MBP, got my HDD out, and cloned the disk to a new external hard disk.
I put the MBP back together successfully (mumbling to myself on what a fine job I did), brought it to the Apple Store and they took it away without much of a glance-over to check if anything looked fishy.
And now I got the gear
Guess who's back in Boston?
The flights I took to get here were crazy! Screaming babies, jutting elbows, and that neckache from sleeping without reclining (I don't like to squish others behind me, if I can help it) is hurting a little bit. However, and most surprisingly, where's the jet lag?
*faint*
-<dd>
Well, that's one way, out of many many ways, to fix a nosebleed.
I was a chronic nose-bleeder when I was young. It's the kind that leaks all the way down and doesn't go away until half an hour later, with treatment of course.
My grandmother firmly follows the method of letting the bleeding one lie down, with a ice-cold wet towel placed on the forehead as treatment. I remember the feeling of something going down the back of my throat during this lie-down, and I hated that feeling. It was ve
A while back, I blogged about my late grandmother's passing. Sympathies all around.
Now share with me the rage!
My mum finally broke it to us - my grandmother died of complications from the speech therapist. She insisted that it'd be fine that my grandmother spoke, her head tilted backwards. Well, water rushed into her lungs due to that treatment and led to a high fever. In fear of her fever my mum starved my grandmother, complications arose and then she died. Of that. Not of her cancer. S
Nasty facts about dental surgery:
1) I now face a 2% risk of permanent (possibly partial) numbness to the right side of my lip and jaw if I go through this.
2) I also face a 0.1% risk of permanent (most likely partial) numbness to the right side of my tongue if I go through this.
3) The dental surgeon realized that I'm one of those kids who hasn't done any major dental surgery before. He suggests sedation.
4) And I don't mind the idea. It's 1 needle on my hand versus 4 needles in my mouth
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «He's King Varian Wrynn from World of Warcraft! In Toa form!
Is it OK if you find characters with the same name, but in different realities/fandoms/worlds?
I personally think it's fine. Even the music industry finds it OK - google for a song called 'Call Me', or 'Heaven', or really generic titles. You'll find TONS. The industry says that, if you want to argue about copyright, it's that the idea of the song - melody, lyrics, arrangement - are
I'm finally old enough to drink in America. But that's not important - I don't like drinking anyway. Birthday was a little meh, until I had dinner out and romped around town with my boyfriend, taking in the sights and sounds of the places my previous age wouldn't have let me close to. Now I realize it's not as much a hoot as others make it, so I'm happy, curiosity satisfied, and amused by a techno-didgeridoo player busking on a bridge.
As for birthday thoughts, there's just one reflection I
I have a rather bad dental problem. After wearing head-gear, braces, and now retainers, the wisdom teeth have come in. The least I can say is that one came out right. The rest came out, well, wrong. Wisdom on the Upper Left came out perfectly natural, matching with the rest of my teeth. Upper Right is half-in half-out, and no intention of moving out anymore except there. Bottom Left is half-tooth half-gum, meaning that gum infection's likely going to make my jaw hurt like mad, and Bottom Right i
It was after the Video Game Orchestra at the Berklee Performance Centre that I stepped out into it. Nothing had prepared me for it. If you could believe it, not even the weather forecast foretold the coming of the chilly phenomenon that stirred outside.
Snow! More specifically, falling snow! And torrents of falling snow, with the ground already icing over from the falling precipitation. There were people around me cursing and swearing at the new wet obstacle they faced, some people were going
Guys, I blew it.
I killed my microwave!
It started with a burning cookie. I managed to warm it up the last time till it was soft and chewy, I still have no idea why that cookie smoked so much. I smelt the burning smell, turned around, and saw smoke in my dorm room.
Cursing and swearing, I turned the timer off, opened the microwave (to more smoke), and disposed the cookie down the toilet bowl (attached bathroom, neh). I stuffed my jackets in the door gap to keep the smoke in so no one wo
The piano players here can attest: There are some really nutty piano teachers out there. You get them, or you don't. It's a matter of luck for some.
And let me tell you that I was, and am, a very lucky piano student.
My first horror teacher was when my mother decided to drop her twins off in piano class. I can't remember for the life of me when did I turn to my mum, with the sweet innocent 4 year old face I had then, and say something that went 'Mummy, piano! Piano!' or 'I piano!' or anyth
It's time to take a break from all the schoolwork, because fall is here! And I've never seen fall before, at least in its presence. I may have written about it a long time ago, but it's so much better to be there and experiencing it in person.
(Note: I made the pictures tiny, because I worried about bandwidth.)
Welcome to the Boston Common. This is Boston's biggest park, and the trees were just starting to turn red and yellow. This is a late fall, but still fall nonetheless. And
Don't mind the sudden question, but the Epic Critic Club is in dire need of help. Permanent help, temporary help, any pair of willing eyes, hands and brains.
So, if you're interested, you can reply below and ask me, '<dd>, I wanna help. What can I do?'. If you can't, go ahead and make a note too I guess.
Popping quickly in and out. Hopefully will get some help somehow.
-<dd>
I just realized that BZPower's back. Am I very late in this news? I'm sure I am!
Well, the period the board went offline was as long as I needed to get ready to go. I'm heading over to Boston - tonight! On the AirBus A380 no less!
Yet, I feel many pinches of sadness about the people I'm leaving behind: Family, especially the old folks, my wonderful boyfriend (we're going to make this LDR work!), and the friends I've made through secondary school and polytechnic. And, of course, Lucky. I f
Has anyone tried to Google their name?
I tried. I always found it amusing when new search results show more mentions of my name online. It's a real reminder of how the Internet has really connected everyone together.
Like, how I dug up an online letter my sister sent to the animal and food safety people of the government, because we had pet chickens and Indonesia had bird flu, so the government officers came by and took them all away. It was even funnier to see that a doctor (most likely b
I saw it yesterday.
I almost cried.
» Click to show Spoiler - click again to hide... «Not because Optimus Prime died again.
But because...
MICHAEL BAY! You killed my childhood!! (Or what's left of it!)
*goes to a corner, takes out her Makuta and Takanuva and plays quietly by herself*
-<dd>
Who needs to say anymore? BERKLEE! BOSTON! MASSACHUSETTS!
Currently doing up the sums and conversions for how much I've to pay for Berklee! I had seriously no idea that I'd get in. I thought I flunked the auditions very badly. XD
Oh, and what am I doing now, musically-wise? I'm trying to rush out a project with Imogen Heap's vocals in her Twestival participation. She released vocals she never used before, and now I've got her in a daydream land (hahaha!), swimming in clouds and all th
