When I was asked about what I liked, I ranted off the usual things people would have said, and also that I liked them too.
Food, Animals, Music, Peace (oh world peace?), Friends... Transformers (That one, people know.)
... Bionicle?
Oh may the crickets chirp.
Well, Bionicle is not exactly popular where I am. I'd hardly term is as one of the legendary fandoms that would entice the child of all ages, but it snagged all of us, didn't it?
I like Bionicle. Love it tons by its character
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
This is the post where the word 'rantings' has its true meaning shown in its ugliest state.
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When I stepped out of the assessment room, the fog in my head was more than palpable. It had been such a bane during the Ear Training Assessmen
Come this Saturday, the 7th day of the New Year, it's Everybody's Birthday!
No, seriously.
Chinese New Year comes with a few more days to celebrate than just the New Year's Day. There's also the Valentine's Day at the last day, there's tomorrow, there's... I believe there's a moon-related something too.
Then again, to celebrate all these days in serious fashion, one has to rewind time all the way back to the times before the big AD, before 100 BC, way way back. You'd be swamped to
As those Japan-crazed people would know, 'hanami' means the pleasurable act of watching cherry blossoms anywhere.
Yeah.
Even in an amusement park.
Let me share a little something to you all, to those who are not in the Land of the Rising Sun currently.
Last year, I went to Japan with my mother and aunt. Mother was on a business trip, and my Japanese aunt was free to come with me. She loved her home-country, but she could question its culture turning to cult-worthy attitudes.
Anyw
Library Tip! (No, HH, I would never want to plagarize your idea. Credit to HH for the creation of Library Tips.)
And this applies to all of you! All of you who think writing fiction is easy, rethink!
To many of us, we think of writing as something like a movie playing in our heads. Actions, ideas, plotlines, everything exists in the author's head.
All he has to do is to transfer it into words.
Easy.
Nope. Not easy.
In a movie, we hear sounds and music (the techno remixes and
Today is Halloween, but not many people care of it. Me, well, I'm taking today as a good excuse to attempt a weak, a really weak, cosplay style.
I came today in red and black, a red top with the edges trimmed black and black pants, as a character I like. Anyone remember G1 Sideswipe from Transformers?
Oh wait, some others like to celebrate Halloween cosplay today, though. I see before me three hooded ghost people. Pretty sure they're other boys, but their red-trimmed and tattered coats, h
I have finally achieved a goal in life.
I watched Phantom of the Opera.
And I'm now a Phan. Brad Little was the best singer, overall. I finally saw why the movie version was critically slammed, and why a year of waiting for that show paid off.
I'm a very happy girl.
Yesterday, I found myself romping through BZPower more than five times, quintuple the amount of visits I would've made to this site. This place has marked a special place in my memory for being the first ever forum I was an active member in, and I continue to be, given the feat I did above.
And that I was bored.
And today, this wonderful morning at nine-thirty, I proceeded to do the morning ritual: Boot up that laptop, and give BZPower a nice warm visit to see how things were doing.
I w
Lookit what I found a few days ago:
Click here to see. Pardon my bad spriting and screenshot skills
The wonder of a rating. See how much power it wields!
How every vote counts.
How one rating changes the average.
How wonderful it is to be rated a nice rating. A perfect rating in fact.
How disappointing it is to be down-graded.
The Epic Critics Club is enjoying a slower pace to review epics. Thankfully, as critics who loyally keep reviewing on a constant basis have been pulle
You all know that the automatic function in cars is, by far, the most common type of gear found in the car.
There used to be the manual setting too. I bet all of us remember that.
Do you know that the manual setting is safer, much safer, than the automatic settings?
If you're driving at 160 km/h, or about 100 miles per hour, and you need to slam the brake, this could have two consequences.
In an automatic setting, the gear-box would immediately jam, and you'd be in a very bad fix.
My birthday just had to lie in a time where I was flooded with work - 9 assignments, gasp! - and was stressed to a breaking point.
The general wisdom is that, it's your birthday, it should be a happy day, you should be happy - others are telling you to have a 'Happy Birthday', aye? - but, I don't really feel it.
I felt spent and tired. The gifts did help - got a bottle of Estee 'Super Eau de Parfum' from my mum, a Queen CD from my sister, a tube of seaweed bath gel from a friend of Mum's,
If any would recall this entry, I had a nasty encounter with an insect at the outer reaches of my room, where the last I saw of the culprit was its feet going over the staircase directly to the first floor.
9:30pm, after a boring Christmas dinner at a parent's friend's home, and I had just put down my bag - and noticed something brown scuttle on the edge on my bed and disappear behind the blankets.
There was only one thing that was brown, scuttled and preferred hiding places.
I had to
*GONG!*
Happy Chinese New Year!
In advance. I want to get this in just in case I'm too busy on the actual day to greet you all.
It's the eve of the new year, and it's not just for people of my race to celebrate. If you guys still have any New Year Resolutions you couldn't make on January the First, make them on Sunday! It is, technically, a New Year too.
So, off I go to see if I can help in the last-minute preparations for my household and myself. I may disappear for a while too,
After coughing out the sixteenth chapter to my epic here, I realised something really worrying.
When I stared at the computer screen, I realised that my writing sense had gone numb. Seriously numb.
It's so bad that I don't think I can write any stories or prose for a good long while.
But at least blog entries don't need everything to be grammatically correct...(see, it already sounds funny!) or at least I can be pardoned.
Meanwhile, I'm trying to console myself about this sudden lo
I'm going nuts. BZP's bugs aren't helping.
Today, I sat down and thought for a bit while eating lunch. Good friend was doing assignments in the studio, so I was alone for the while.
And it was a good time to mentally prepare myself for a long while's worth of havoc.
A rather major assignment is due at the end of this week, one is going to be presented this week, one really really big one is due in three weeks and it's still in the works...
Do I really have any other life than an a
Part 2, ladies and gentlemen, and we are in full swing.
Rehearsals for the concert have begun, and we are in slick motion. The trio keyboard ensemble was created quickly and we headed off once the group was made.
The Pirates of the Carribean Medley has been composed on the spot - just a simple glue-in of Jack Sparrow, Davy Jones, and a few nice tidbits from the first movie. All in the name to promote the third installment that comes out two days after the concert and remind the graduates o
School's a pain. A seriously bad pain. The assignments are piling up, my final year project is due in 3 weeks and I still have nothing. My inspiration has dried, and I feel the loom of a comatose ready to swell over.
BUT - life isn't all that bad. I've finally taken an order in my non-existent order by using the 'Getting Things Done' system - and it's been working wonders. I'm actually getting things done!
I also had fun during the holidays I had. I went on a 3-day outing with my boyfri
It would appear that, as of becoming a critic, my approach towards Bionicle fanfiction had changed tremendously.
That, and the discovery of non-Bionicle fanfiction and more accurately, Transformers fanfiction.
It was a nasty blow to my conscience, that sent me reeling hours even after the immediate concussion.
It got worse when I ran over my drafts for my fanfictions.
They all looked like a toddler's scribbling, paling in the light of the newfound knowledge I had acquired. They look
Finally, as of today, after a year and 4/5 months of waiting, I've finally moved back into my old - now new - home.
Even though I walked my rounds around the place over and over, I still am trying to get my bearings down straight. The house doesn't feel smaller, even though it is the result of the old house being halved. Adding a pseudo third storey made this place seem a lot bigger!
During the house-moving, I managed to get permission to sleep over in this gargantuan house between the two
Jamiroquai is some old band that has risen from the dead. No, I'd say that of the band if it hadn't been for a funk-infused classmate who is spreading the Jamiroquai-love around the class.
And it was infectious.
With an outspoken singer (Jay Kay, with) who had vibes and hats to match his eccentric style on stage and a grooving band, it had lived through the late 1990s till now. Their style is all about groove - and really, it is their style that has remarkably kept going.
And, out of b
When it comes to online learning, you get one very nice privilege: You get to do your assignments at your own pace.
This, of course, could do some nasty-bad in your side.
My classmates are taking the e-learning week, easily letting things slide and waiting for the big graduation performance (which is tomorrow) to subside before tackling painful university text.
I did what no one in his/her right mind ought to do.
I sped ahead - at whatever speed the Internet could provide.
In one
If you could guess, on a tiny island, anybody would know anybody.
I met with my parent's good old friend who orginated from UK, but now lived in US (Boston). But, he used to live in the country and he and my parents would have extreme eating sessions.
He liked curry fish head.
So did I.
So, when he finally returned to this country of office, my mother whisked him to eat one of his favourite dishes. Wouldn't you know it, I followed along to - to see if this friend of my mother's is wo
