I'll be leaving for the airport in about an hour or so...
So, merry christmas to all of you, hope you remember the reason why there was a Christmas in the first place, and thank God for the great year you've had (No matter how horrible it was anyway).
And, all the best to those who are going to collect their PMR results on the 27th. I'm sure you'll all do well. Don't be too disappointed when you don't get 7A's, 'cause it ISN'T the end of the world, but DON'T be happy that you got 7B's, either.
Good grief. You know you're old when you start giving advise like that out. Ew.
Enjoy the last week of the holidays, people.
I'll be chilling in Shanghai while all of you have Christmas/Boxing day/whatever lunches/dinners/meals without me.
I'll see you when I'm back on the 31st, frosted and all.
Rules: Pick five of your favourite fandoms and answer the questions: 1. House MD 2. CSI:NY 3. ER 4. Blackadder Goes Forth 5. Prince of Tennis (Only because I'm out of fandoms.)
House MD;; 01. The first character I first fell in love with: Erm... Hard to say. I guess, House.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Wilson. And his Eyebrows of Great Doom
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Chase. And Foreman.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Thirteen! And Cameron. But Cameron's got a big fanbase, so there are people who also 'love' her.
05. The character I used to love that I don’t any longer: Cameron?
06. A Friendship I love: Cole and 13. Until Cole did the whole backstabby thing with Kutner.
07. The character I’d want to be: Uh. I dunno. I don't want to be House, even though he's brilliant and all, nor do I want to be like Cuddy (Uh. Unspeakable reasons involving cleavage flashing), or Wilson(Spouse cheater!), or Chase(Annoyeeeeng!), or Cameron(Too... I dunno... straight?), or Foreman(It's ARROGANCE, I tell you!), or Taub(Spouse cheater, AGAIN), or Kutner(MASOCHIST!), or 13(Sadlly, she's possibly dying?). But I think my mindset's a little like Kutner's. Why be the same with everyone else? Being unique is what makes us individuals in the first place. But I'm more of a sadist than a masochist.
08. The character I’d slap: Amber. Just 'cause I can.
09. The pairing I love: House/Carpet FTW!
10. A pairing I despise: House/Every female character. It's getting annoying. Yes, Hugh's hot, but can you stop pairing him with every female alive?!
11. Favourite character: House. And 13. =D
CSI:NY;; 01. The first character I first fell in love with: Mac.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: ... Flack. I hated his hair in Season 1, but I barely watched that, anyway.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Adam. I really, really, REALLY don't like Adam. For goodness' sake, you've worked in that lab for more than 2 years! Stop being such a nervous wreck! It's ANNOYING!
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Lindsay. HAH! I started watching NY again when Anna Belknap joined the cast. Yay, me!
05. The character I used to love that I don’t any longer: No one! I love the cast!
06. A Friendship I love: Mac and Lindsay. They really are a good mentor/student pair.
07. The character I’d want to be: Hawkes =D 'cuz he was a child prodigy.
08. The character I’d slap: Uuuhh.... Kendall! Kendall! I've always wanted to slap her in the 2 episodes she appeared in! And Adam! I can slap both of them!
09. The pairing I love:
Sid/Dead body! I was kidding. Danny/Lindsay!
10. A pairing I despise: Uuuh... Adam/Kendall?
11. Favourite character: All of them but Adam. =D
ER (Early seasons);; 01. The first character I first fell in love with: Susan Lewis. And Mark Greene. And Doug Ross.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Carol Hathaway.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Uuh... Benton? I dunno whether he was liked. He's such an old character.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Erm... Kerry Weaver? 'cause Laura Innes rocks. Hee. And she directed an episode of House. Informed Consent, which was, incidentally, one of my favourite episodes.
05. The character I used to love that I don’t any longer: Erm... Roberto Romano? I thought he was cool at first, then he got on my nerves. He started grating and grating and grating and... forget it.
06. A Friendship I love: Mark and Doug!
07. The character I’d want to be: Probably none of them. They're pretty messed up, eventhough being an ER doctor is cool.
08. The character I’d slap: Romano.
09. The pairing I love: Mark/Susan, which went defunct in Season 3... =(
10. A pairing I despise: Mark/Corday. HOMG. I didn't know they hooked up 'til around season 6 or 8, and Corday was just... Not for Mark.
11. Favourite character: Uh... Tie between Mark, Doug, Susan and Kerry.
Blackadder Goes Forth;; 01. The first character I first fell in love with: Edmund Blackadder. Hee, Rowan Atkinson's a genius.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Uh... Captain Darling. He's so funny with Blackadder.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Dunno. I like all of them. But ol' Flashheart was annoying.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: I love all of them! I dunno who hates them.
05. The character I used to love that I don’t any longer: No one!
06. A Friendship I love: Blackadder and George. 'cause Rowan Atkinson's very pessimistic Blackadder and Hugh Laurie's very optimistic George made a very cute pair.
07. The character I’d want to be: None of them! I don't want to be stuck in WW1!
08. The character I’d slap: Melchett. Hee. Stephen Fry gives him the funniest laughs
09. The pairing I love: Blackadder/Darling and Blackadder/George
10. A pairing I despise: Cross-Dressing George (Georgina)/Melchett. But it gave us a lot of laughs
11. Favourite character: Blackadder
Prince of Tennis;; 01. The first character I first fell in love with: Syuusuke Fuji.
02. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Kaidoh.
03. The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Echizen. Ew.
04. The character I love that everyone else hates: Atobe... Hee.
05. The character I used to love that I don’t any longer: Momoshiro. He used to be so cool...
06. A Friendship I love: Tezuka/Fuji
07. The character I’d want to be: Fuji. Or Tezuka.
08. The character I’d slap: Echizen!
09. The pairing I love: Kikumaru/Oishi, and Tezuka/Fuji
Five things found in my bag ~> Stuff for Shanghai!
1. A very thick jacket 2. A windbreaker 3. Gloves 4. My Adidas Jacket 5. Romance of 3 Kingdoms, Volume 1
Uuuuh... an umbrella, a notebook/sketchbook, pencil case, MP3 player, spare battery... Ooh, and the camera. Yeah, my bag's pretty packed.
Five things found in my purse ~>
I use a wallet, not a purse. LOL.
1. Money. Both Ringgit and Sing Dollars 2. Student ID 3. Nametag =D 4. Plasters 5. Numerous members' cards and business cards.
Five things in my room ~>
I'm living in my sis' room right now. So my stuff is there.
1. Sketchbooks. Lots of them. 2. My luggage bag, and backpack, all packed for Shanghai 3. The Passion of the Christ poster 4. A clock 5. Books. I need to clear them.
Five things I wanted to do ~>
1. Play tennis. It's something I still can do. Eventually. 2. Go to Singapore for Christmas 3. Have Boxing Day lunch with Cheryl, etc. 4. Have Christmas lunch/dinner/whatever that MS planned with the Melonades 5. Draw well again.
Five things I am currently into ~>
1. House 2. CSI:NY 3. Writing 4. Global warming. It's a very, very baaaad thing that happens 5. Drawing really crappy pictures.
Five people I'm tagging ~>
1. Jen (HAHA, YOU'LL HAVE TO POST IN YOUR BLOG) 2. Yih Shan 3. Min Shen 4. Pei Lyn 5. Cherie!
Comprehensive List of Short Forms and Initials We Use
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And here is a Comprehensive List of Short Forms and Initials We Use for dear Jen and other fandom-confused people. (Not that Jen is a fandom confused person)
1. CB : Christian Bale, Min Shen's Hubby No3 (I think he just got upgraded to 2) 2. CTB: Cut-throat Bitch, Dr Amber Volakis, House character. 3. HSM: High School Musical. *shudder* 4. NY: New York, short for the city and CSI:NY. 5. RSL: Robert Sean Leonard, House actor. 6. CCF: Cameron, Chase and Foreman, House characters. 7. HL: Min Shen's Hubby No 1, obviously. 8. CBS: C-something B-something S-something, an American channel. 9. ROF: Ridiculous Old Fraud, Henry Dobson, House character 10. DWB: Doctors Without Borders Guy, Dr Travis Brennan, House character 11. USWGT: US Women's Gymnastics Team, speaks for itself 12. HBIC: Head Bitch in Charge, affectionate nickname for Nastia Liukin 13. TKT or TK13: Taub, Kutner & 13, new House team 14. ONTD or ONTD_O: Oh No They Didn't and the sub-community, Oh No They Didn't_Olympics, Livejournal communities 15. A compendium of Olympic-related terms I have been using, like 'Jells' ...
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That's about it. Anymore acronyms/short forms/initials you would like to add, write it in the comments box! Whoo!
My life is so eventful right now, I can make you cry...
...
of boredom.
Yeah, so now my sis and I are doing all the housework since my maid's gone back to the Phillipines for her hols. So, yeah. Mop, mop, mop, sweep, mop, iron, sweep, wash... Oh, well. At least I'm doing something.
Oh, MS, now I know why there was a big, BIG advert of Dexter on CSI:NY - Showtime is a CBS-owned company, so they can advertise in their own shows. Hm.
And a little The Black Donnellys/Jonathan Tucker picspam so that MS knows what Jonathan Tucker looks like - if you haven't googled a pic of him yet, that is.
It's a TBD promo pic.
And so is this one. With everyone!
....Posers....
*Sigh* NBC cancelled a good show. Oh, well. Doubt it'll ever come back, now with the cast having other projects, and OW supposedly signing a series-regular contract for House. No Jenny Reilly then, which means one half of Tommy Donnelly's story gets ripped off. Hooray.
I've only finished the Sulphuric Acid bit of the Chem project. ONLY. Time to get your ass back to work, woman. Sheesh.
I'm not exactly the kind of person who really watches fanvids, unless someone (Like Min Shen or Yenn Ling- House and CSI NY respectively) asks me to, but I found this little gem on my own.
However, watching it may cause Extreme Lack of CCF Syndrome. But hey, I'm so un-invested on anyone on House, sometimes I wonder why I like the show so much. I think it's the sarcasm.
ANYWAY,
It's really, really good... In my own opinion, of course.
I'm not shoving it down your throats. Don't watch it if you don't want to, but I think the song's kinda cool.
How our actions have profound consequences on people around us, whether we know them or not.
I must say, I think this was one of the best NY episodes. I think the season started picking up since Commuted Sentences (407, after that funny Halloween ep that MS used her phone to partially cover her eyes and Yih Shan thought was scary. Was it?). I've always loved the music mixing on CSI:NY (A bit more so than House), and they really did have the songs to suit the eloquence of the episode.
Not much Mac this week, thankfully, and no more, "It started in London, when I recieved anonymous phone calls exactly at 3.33am.... *Sense of impending doom*" But I think Gary Sinise and Anna Belknap did really, really well to portray how emotionally detached their characters are. Mac being uber stiff and Lindsay just not knowing how to react to a situation involving someone that she really cares about. I feel that I can connect with Lindsay in a way, as I myself am bad at the whole 'comfort others' part - ask Yenn Ling or Joanna about that. Seriously.
The A case victim was DISGUSTING. He got his MOUTH blown off! His... Jaw! Nose! And I thought there were some disgusting looking bodies. This was... Urgh...
Anyway, my annoyance with Adam goes on to no end. Seriously, you've been working with them for 2 years, and you're still too nervous to talk properly with Mac, or Sid, or Hawkes? Sheesh, much?
Carmine Giovinazzo deserves at least a Golden Globe/Emmy nomination for this episode. You could just feel how Danny was so torn. Obviously a supporting actor nomination, as Gary Sinise's the lead actor, and Hugh Laurie OWNS the Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Drama Series. And the lady who guest starred as Danny's neighbour/Ruben (The 10 year old victim)'s mother also deserves at least a nomination for Best Guest Star. However, the bodega shop owner's sister cannot emote to save her life.
Hee, Flack, Stella and Lindsay in casual clothes and their NYPD jackets. JEANS FTW, man. Did 13 start a new trend in other TV shows? Hmmm. LOL.
And NY has got THE BEST Medical Examiner in the series. SID! With itching powder! Stella and Lindsay could BARELY contain themselves from laughing out loud as poor Sid was scratching himself. Then, the trio have a very funny banter.
-------------------------------- Stella: Oh, there is one more thing, Sid. [Inaudible scientific name for something] - in India, they're also known as velvet beans, cowage, but here in the United States, we normally know it as *whips out evidence bag, with a packet inside* itching powder. Sid: *Looks at evidence* Oh, no, aaaw, no! *Lindsay laughing, Melina Kanakaredes showing of her perfect Colgate-ad smile* Stella: Looks like he stuck it in his pocket, then after the blast, it got all over his clothes. Sid: Then why aren't you- *gestures at Stella and Lindsay* uh, uh - Stella: The long-sleeved labcoats, both stylish and functional. --------------------------------
Yeah, so basically Stella was advertising their labcoats. LOL. Scrubs no good! Labcoats PWN!
And so, the packet was from 'Laughing Larry', a joke shop, Lindsay recognizes the suspect (They pulled thumbprints off the vic's wallet) as Laughing Larry himself. And so, they set out to see Laughing Larry with Flack.
In between all that, there's Danny drama, blah, blah, blah.
Then, we see Flack, Stella and Lindsay outside, walking towards...
Flack: Laughing Larry? You gotta be kidding me. Do you know how much of my childhood was cruelly destroyed by this moron? Lindsay: Trust me, I feel your pain. Stella: You 2 want to enlighten me, here? Flack: I was into comic books as a kid, right? Lindsay: Yup! Flack: And this guy had full page back cover ads on every one of 'em selling dribble glasses, onion gum, hypno coins, whoopee cushions- Lindsay: Plastic vomit, rubber dog doo- *Does that "You know what I mean" gesture* Stella: Mmm, sounds great. Flack: Oh, yeah, and they all looked great, and I'd do whatever it took - I'd scrimp and I would save, I would mow every last lawn in the neighbourhood to get my hands on sneezing salt, or a 100-piece battle fleet (?). And then, I would go to the mailbox, and right before my innocent young eyes- Disappointment in a cardboard box. Lindsay: I once spent my entire summer allowance on this hovercraft that Laughing Larry said would bring *In a sarcastic voice* "Me and my friends riding on a carpet of thin air!" Hover-crap! Flack: How 'bout the X-Ray specs I bought in Middle School to see through girl's clothes? All I saw through those things was a nun, coming at me with a yard stick. Lindsay: Unbelievable! Flack: Right? Flack and Lindsay: *Looking hopefully at Stella for a story* Stella: Uuuuh.... I bought Sea Monkeys!
LOL. Stella- you see? That shows your age. Not a good thing.
Anyway, best line from Mac was -
Mac: *To Adam* Somewhere in this sentence, you're going to start making sense.
Hee. They were talking about eyeball tattooing.
Not any normal tattoo- an eyeball tattoo. Injected dye INTO your EYEBALL. Yucks.
Better not spoil any more, for when YS wants to see it. I shall just chuckle silently to myself on Flack and Lindsay's childhood suffering. And Mac's stiffness.
I miss the public transport, the fact that I can end up in the opposite end of the country, and still get back to a relative's house in less than an hour.
*Sigh*
But then again, I would give anything to keep my friends that I have right now. See? There's always a bright side to everything.
About 2 weeks before I leave for Shanghai. I'm pretty stoked about the trip. Haven't been to a place during winter since... Since... Since 1997? LOL. So long ago.
Feeling a little down recently, thoughts quite scattered.
Hard to believe that we are THE seniors next year in school. No more students who are older than us, the prospect of the world looming, awaiting to consume us once we get out of the world of school. When we enter college, when we slug our way through uni (Eventhough I can hear my cousin shouting "Humanity courses are slacker courses!") and to the world out there.
Time flies by so fast. It was like yesterday, I was 4, walking along with my grandmother, that I was 7, just starting primary school. 12, when it all started to open up. Then I was 13. Then 14. 15. Now 16, and very soon, 17. It is said that as the brain develops, we lose sight of minute details, having too little time to contemplate. Savants - they may be handicapped mentally, in a way, but it opens up a whole new world for them. Not that I want to be a savant - the prospects of one side of the brain being partially damaged is quite horrifying, but the fact that they see things so differently...
Very soon, we'll have to throw off the carelessness of youth and submit to life...
Oh, well. That's why we should live in the present. Make the most of it. And I'm sure Appreciation Night have been a good jumpstart for most of you.
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And now comes the shameless advertising bit.
Watch An Inconvenient Truth. Buy it. Borrow my copy. Whatever. I always thought that what mankind is doing to Earth is bad, but after watching AIT, it's not bad.
Plant trees. Lots of them. And recycle. And walk to school, if you're near enough (And, no. 10 minutes IS NOT FAR. And claiming that you wake up at 7.30am, so you can't walk to school is a lame excuse. WAKE UP EARLIER). Or carpool. Anything that helps.
The world may be fine now, but think about 5, 10 years down the line. When YOU are working, paying the air-conditioning bills, the water bills, taking shelter from unexpected storms.
Me? I'm a tennis fan, more specifically, a Justine Henin fan. I also enjoy watching gymnastics and the 2008 Olympics USWGT. Because they're awesome. Although some of them are younger than me and make me feel bad because of it.
Name : S'L
DOB : Towards the end of May, 1991
School: Taylor's University College, Main Campus. Class G9 of '09!
