Everyone

The other day, we went to Uncle Nizar's open house barbecue dinner thingy, and everyone was sitting around talking and listening to Uncle Jeff's son play guitar. Then Mira was telling me about how her guitar was still a little out of whack and needed fixing. So I told her to just ask Papa. In the end, we sent Hanna to do the job of informing him:

Hanna: Papa, Kakak's G-string broke.
-silence-
Papa: You know, if you say it that way it means something else.
Everyone in vicinity: *crack up laughing*

Six year-old talk is def cute.

In another dimension of emotions, I'm having this feeling where I'm annoyed with the entire population of the world. It's never been of this scale before, so it's been ... quite interesting. Usually all this stuff is directed towards a lone individual, or just a particular group of people. But now I'm overly cynical and sarcastic and I can't feel ... cheery, y'know?

I was reading this pretty little poetic piece on Deviantart a few minutes ago about a girl and a boy. Usually I get all choked up reading this kind of stuff, but instead, I just raised my eyebrows and go, "Meh, they're all written the bloody same way. Is there no originality anymore? Sure sure, your boyfriend is miserable and makes you feel like crap and probably plays the emo violin, boohoo. Get a new one."

I don't get it. I used to love reading these little poetic semi-depressing snippets. Now they look like trash to me. I can't even talk to people without over-analyzing everything they say and do.

I'm sick of reading newspapers, too(stupid politics). And with exams coming up, I'm not reading much of anything else(stupid exams). I've stopped playing with the characters in my head. They bore me now. And, I'm confused with the spectrum of people I hang out with. Everyone's at extremes, either studying their asses off or not studying at all. Variety's nice and all, but sometimes I wish people would just stick to one thing, or at least stop being such dumbasses about what their extreme about. Doesn't help that I'm in middle ground and SA doesn't seem to produce many medium-achievement students, only multitudes of straight-A-scorers or failures. (No offence meant to anyone, your personality is not proportional to your exam score, live with it.)

Then there's the matter of NS, which I am not looking forward to at this point. I'll miss too many things. I don't feel ready.

I'm tired and I just want to clean out my brain of everything. Like starting fresh. Is this supposed to be a second puberty-anger phase or something? I'm not familiar with it.

I miss feeling optimistic and knowing what's right.

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The arguments on IMDb Boards regarding racism in movies are:
Long-winded
Redundant
and
Annoying.

Dude. The racism you're all pointing at and howling about? Doesn't exist. It's because of you people, bringing up the topic of racism, that these arguments even exist.
Sheesh.
What with the war on Twilight boards, the over-popularity of The Dark Knight boards, the Western vs. Asian hoo-ha on Dragonball boards, the inactivity on Avatar boards, the Harry Potter boards' anger at WB for pushing the movie back and the idiot racism arguments EVERYWHERE ...
No message board is FUN anymore.
*closes IMDb window*

Man, sometimes I really hate people on the Internet.
Or maybe just people in general.
Not you people reading this, ya'll are cool.

Ps. No, wait. Hollywood is to blame too. Haha.

Too baaaad.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MATUK!

and
HAPPY SWEET 16th SOFEYA!

Firstly, regarding the WB decision in moving the HBP movie to July next year: WTFish, people. WTFish. You're all a bunch of greedy no-good wingdings. If the movie's good, even if you release it on the coldest winter night, it'll top the box office. So what if the writer's strike killed a few things? All the other movies and tv shows pulled through OK. Heck, 2008 is a pretty good movie year in my opinion. I can sense your fear! I bet you guys think the film sucks. Well too bad. >:(

Secondly, hey guys, SA now gives you your homework online! Yippie-kay-yay. *waves white flag miserably*

Oh, I borrowed Breaking Dawn from Sab. It was a very spur-of-the-moment thing; she happened to have the book, but Tarsha was absent, so couln't pass to her. So I took it instead. Haven't read it yet. I just don't have the mood. :(

By the way, I finished reading Nightrise a few days ago. SPOILERS ahead. I thought it was really good. :) My favourite of the series so far. The story starts off a few weeks before the ending of the second book, with Scott and Jamie Tyler instead of the protagonist of the first two books, Matt Freeman. They both have powers; they can read minds, and they've got the whole Jedi-mindtrick deal going on. xD

Anyway, Scott gets kidnapped by the Nightrise Corporation, a company that supports the return of the Old Ones (basically, the evil bad guys). Jamie, lost and confused, ends up getting help from Alice McGuire, a woman who's searching for her son Danny, who was also kidnapped by the company. Horowitz's writing is simple, but effective; I can see everything clearly in my mind. Very good stuff. And the plot is finally starting to come together, giving us a clear picture of just what exactly is happening in this series.

So far, Jamie is my favourite of the Five; Matt is too much of a classic hero for me, and Pedro comes in second. We don't see too much of Scott from the book, but he comes off as the troubled one of the group, if you ask me. The fifth one, the girl, is Scarlett ... but I'm not sure whether I'll like her yet, because we've only met her 'past self'. And the indication is that she might turn out to be the one who does an anti-hero ... but I won't know till the next book, coming out in October.

Dangerous places :P

This post contains information which shouldn't be read by people who are uncomfortable discussing reproduction. Just a heads up.

The Internetz is a very dangerous place indeed. Especially when it comes down to what everyone refers to as 'free speech'. I just got back from a very heated discussion on several message boards, and felt like putting this out there.

By the way, I'm a lurker in the land of the train-wreck which is what used to be a pretty cool Twilight-Fandom. I'm a little sad that everyone's turning on each other and shooting amongst themselves, but what're you going to do about it? The Twilight Lexicon decided to, uh, prohibit any criticizing of the series, which resulted in their site getting hacked into. I do feel sorry for them, but heck, they should have seen this coming. This is an angry fandom we're talking about.

Ooh, found this on the IMDb boards:

[in response to an argument about just how Bella can get pregnant when Edward clearly shouldn't be able to reproduce]
"...Unless the [vampire] venom did some freaky stuff to his jizz which would just be weird. Can you imagine if the venom turned his little swimmers into vampire sperm? Oh what a funny place Edward's testicles must be!"
- craaaazzzyally

... I LOL'ed. xD

Sooo, moving on. The first Pendragon book has been made into a graphic novel! :D The cover looks lame and cheesy, but I read the first 35 pages, and it doesn't look bad. The drawings are nice, although Courtney is nothing like how I imagine her and Uncle Press looks ... Native American. But Mark looks exactly like how I pictured him, so I'm pretty much satisfied.

Today was an OK day. Except for the fact that Pn. B have sold us off to the CLP. We wailed and we begged and we whined, but to no avail. We will be having class with the CLP on Monday. And I don't care if this proves 'dedication', etc. etc., you can't be of any help when everyone hates your guts. Seriously. Maybe it would help if you stopped threatening to leave us in the lurch and just do that already. Just ... argh. D:

*yanks tie*

School started off great, then ended on a note so bitter, I choked. Or rather, tried to with the stupid striped tie.

I mean, I was set to enjoy the best of school days, i.e. the kind that only has four subjects, one of which is put on hold where we have to go to a pretty fun ceramah. And also the kind where I get to talk all day long no problemo. I got to discuss the finer points of film and literature (Hehe, the Avatar finale and the latest Pendragon book) with Tarsha, have an easy-going Bio lesson (I love learning Bio when it's human-related), build plot-points with Nad, good food for recess (seriously, prefects? Really good food-providers. xD I'm lookin' at you, Nahjan and Anne.), and one of those Agama class days where Ustazah tells super-cool Rasul stories.

And then the last two periods arrived.

And all I have to say is: I am tired of this. I'm sick and tired of getting teachers who completely make me feel like hating English. The last English teacher I really enjoyed was Pn. C (Yup teacher, it was you in Form 1. ;] ). It's not teaching-wise ... but just the way they make me feel during class. And Pn. B is really nice, but I hate it when she starts going on about us not paying attention in class and about letters.

I understand that you've got to get the job done, but really, I get so so so tired. So so tired of how that's the first thing you ever say when you come into class. None of us have ever had to worry about frickin' letters. None of the other teachers seemed to care. Form 5 seems a lot too late to plant the habit into us, considering we're ready to not care anymore.

And then, to all those other people who make me want to choke myself with the stupid tie even more. No offence, fellow classmates; but really, when a teacher starts off on a tangent and tells you to shut up? SHUT THE HELL UP. STOP THE FREAKING GIGGLING. Almost every single class, guys. I want to tear my lungs out every time a teacher howls at us about paying attention. Not all of you, of course. Most of you are super-cool classmates. But some of you (or one of you, I can't really decide).

So yeah. I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm acting like a total a-hole right now. But I had to get this off my chest. Oh, and here's another thing I want to get off my chest:

Stop hushing people when you're the one who's making the noise, you moron. I'm quite aware that you want to be every teacher's bestest friend. Stupid hypocrite. Just because you throw the story in first doesn't make you the person in the right. You're like that stupid kid in The Pencil story in Form 1, when he stole the pencil and squealed to the teacher that the other kid tried to steal it from you first.

You make me sick.

Sigh. I was pissed off all the way outside the school gates, and even in the car when Mama picked me up. I cheered up considerably when she took us to Subang Parade to visit the fish spa ... y'know, just to give it a try. It was incredibly ticklish. xD I closed my eyes because every time I saw just how many little fishies were gnawing at my legs, I'd get all giddy. But I got used to it after five minutes. My legs were all smooth afterwards. And the skin on my hand is slightly better (all you people close to me, you know about my hand) ... I could actually clench it properly (the way you're supposed to in Taekwando), something I've had trouble doing since last year.

So I'm thankful that something sweet happened after all the bitterness. It was a ... cute experience. xD

Friday is an F-word.

No warning.
No reason.
"Why?"
"It's Friday."

I would have liked an explanation. Or at least one of you in front of all of us saying, "Sorry, but it has to be done." Not this silent smug-faced act. Passing the task of telling us the news to someone else. I'm disappointed in you.

Well you know what? I'll make you disappointed.
The cert's already with me. I could lock it up in Alaska, you can't do anything.
Five years. Four days won't make any difference.
But thanks a lot for treating us like we're five. Much appreciated.

And y'know, if this is a GOTCHA situation?
That would SUCK. BIG time.

Style-Rant

I don't like most manga/anime styles. There are very few that I don't mind looking at, or watching. I have this obsession with having to see proper facial ratios, as in eyes being reasonable shapes compared to the head. And head to body proportions.

Other than that, I admire the artwork. I love the way the clothes fold, and details such as hands and feet. I just can't stand stuff above neck level - then I start to get annoyed.

Why the sudden rant? Well, they've gone and made a Maximum Ride manga ... which actually looks good, truth be told. But what detail am I so frustrated over? Their faces. I. Can't. Stand. Their. Faces. The girls and little kids have too-big eyes. The older boys are alright ... but that's cause their boys.

I know this is pointless, and by right if I were ranting on an internet forum right now, people would shoot me down with spiky manga style hair spears.

There's only one thing I'm relatively happy about: The wings look awesome.

Sigh. Sometimes when I look at these things, I feel like I'm wearing black shoes in a world where people wear white.

Ps. No offence is meant to anybody who reads/watches/draws manga/anime. I'm just expressing how I feel.

Your complimentary weekly update.

School's pretty blah lately. People keep being absent, and CLP lectured us on how it's important to not miss class when we go to uni ... I'm not worried for myself, since that I've got a crazy obsession with not being absent. But more steadfast people than me have switched ideas, so here's to hoping the obsession with never missing a day continues.

Then Pn. B lectured us on getting money together for class layout. And the people who keep being absent, because she wants their excuses and whatnot ... it's crazy, every morning it's the same thing. In the end, I just turn my brain off, I can't stand to listen anymore.

On the other hand, there's been a lot of Avatar news. The show's ending in July, which is a long way away. I don't mind, prolong the days till SPM plskthx. But the trailer looks so cool! It's only 2 minutes long, but it's like throwing a hungry dog a miserable little bone, the way the fandom are reacting. Then there's stuff about the Twilight movie, which is partially very amusing and partially kinda suffocating. I don't feel right belonging to a fandom consisting of 95% females. At least with Avatar, it's half and half.

I just realised how boring this post is. Hmmm. Have some Jasper/Alice love. They're my favourite couple in Twilight. Bella and Edward can go on dodging her eventual vampirism, as long as we get more Jasper/Alice goodness. <3Brush credits can be found on my DeviantArt page.

Many tags today.

Random celeb-bit: James McAvoy's next film has him co-starring with Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman in Wanted.

That guy is on a ROLL!

In vaguely related news, I have decided to add another career option to my list of things I don't want to be when I grow up. Following doctor on the list which I haven't updated since I was seven, I now never want to be a casting director. Or anything related to sitting through auditions. I am a weak and flimsy person who cracks under pressure. D:

Now some sentences thrown together: Drama still chewing on my liver. Tuition took a shorter time than usual. Funny bones are humerous, but I'm the only one laughing. Holding on to people is mind-numbingly frustrating at times. I want new Avatar episodes. The month of march has me marching.

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Ahem.

Oh, human beings of the world.

When someone asks you to write down your name ... applying a club membership, for example ...

You are supposed to write your full name.

Not just, say, 'Lucy'. Because, dudette. You're not the only person in the entire world named Lucy.

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Ps. There is no HU member named 'Lucy'. No offence is meant towards anyone named 'Lucy'.