After my meeting with my insurance agent (sighs...always pushing us to buy new policies, that fella..) at home, I sat down to watch E!'s Top 10 Vampires That We Love.

Ok, with a title like that, you know that it's going to be teeny-fied.

And it was. Like no duh, Edward of the Cullens was at numero uno. The thing that I didn't get though? Angel was at number 9. NINE? And Spike wasn't even on that list. Dude, Spike would have totally kicked Blade's ass (ok maybe no but he's definitely more awesome). And why the eff was Alice Cullen even IN the list?

Stupid list.

But one thing they did mention though was that Angel was the original Edward. Ya'll better recognize!!!!

*cue Buffy and Angel love theme*

And while we're on the topic of Buffy and the awesomeness that is the Slayer, can we cue the, "Awwwwwwwwww!!!"-s? Mini-Buffy's a Virgo!!

ETA: How cool is it that m_i_a_s_m_a and purajo share the same birthday as Charlotte Grace?! =D

Ever had one of those days where you just do not want to get up for work. God Bless flexible working hours cause I was still rolling around on my bed at 9.30am.

It's just one of those days where the only form of conversation you can seem to muster is a grunt or a scowl.

Thank God it's Friday although Friday's barely just begun. And although I know it's not fair, I'm getting off work at 12.30pm cause I just don't want to be here.

Again, God Bless flexible working hours cause I need to weekend to come now.


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I stayed up late last night, sifting through the students' comments on Facebook. Had to act as a counsellor with them bending over with all the "I'm so stupid!" comments. Some are really bummed about their results although I think most of them only realized a little too late that they should not have lost their focus during the last semester.

It's a little scary that the lecturer knows a lot about their personal lives..Sometimes I think it's more of a curse than a blessing because truth be told, sometimes I just do not need to know what they fight or argue about.

There's a senior lecturer who keeps spamming my office e-mail with quotes but since they are pretty thought-provoking, I don't really mind. However, I'm finding problems with keeping my e-mail space usage at a minimum so I decided, why not post them up on LJ and share it with you guys? =)

If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won't either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out.



By the way, I was thinking of upgrading my account to a paid accoount. Is it worth the dollars?

So I kinda really really want this book? But I don't know if I would be able to find it here.

I might make a special order next time I swing by Borders at Wheelock.

So uh, I guess my colleagues and I will be holed up in Concorde Shah Alam for the next 3 days...we're presenting a paper at one of the conferences held there and yeah..I can't even be bothered to figure out what the name of the conference is. I'm THAT ignorant.

LOL.

There'll be pictures, I reckon, and unlike most people who present at conferences, I'm one who calls her girlfriends up to hang out with them and will only be around at the conference area when she needs to be there.

So yeah. See you guys on Friday!

I know I'm supposed to be pissed that I've discovered someone who apparently stole one of my The OC manipulations.

From this to



this....

...but I'm not. I think it's kinda....validating in a way. Especially since it's a FB Bumper Sticker. So yeah. I guess...it's not that bad..lol..considering that I did this manip about 5 years ago or so..

It's a celebrity-filled post. You have been warned.

( Mariah and Leighton collide )

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The Oscar nominees aren't out yet but there's talk about Precious being nominated.

Again, anything with Mariah, I'm game but that doesn't deflect on the actual message that the movie conveys though cause abuse is never something that one should shun from.

However, though there's not really talk about The Young Victoria, there are people out there (fine, in the LJ community) who think that the movie should be nominated.

I found some pretty pretty picspams to validate this.

You are not replacable to me.

They don't know you like I do.

Because it would make me happier than anything, too happy really, if you would agree to what I wish.

If anything, I feel that the movie should at least be a contender in the costumes department. Or the set should at least get acknowledgement. Cause it was glorious.

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Zac Efron has mellowed down. Like a lot.

And I'm bustin at the seams, trying to make sure that I'd be able to catch this movie.


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Backstreet Babies are awesome. And seriously cute. And seriously adorable.

But the pictures seem to be down. I guess people are stealing bandwidth or something...oh well...






Can you guess which trailer I'm more of a fan of? The second one. Cause Gaga is so much fiercer than Hilary Duff. I just don't...understand her presence.

And WHEN is Kevin Zegers making his presence known?

KEVIN ZEGERS IS APPEARING NEXT WEEK.

Ugh, be still my precious heart for I think I might just ignore Nathaniel and his man bangs and Maybelline eyelashes for Mr Zegers.







So, I'm not going to lie. Sometimes, I watch tv shows because of the eye candy.

Especially when the show's pointless and painful to watch.

Case in point, 90210.



If it weren't for Mr Lanter, I'd probably abandon the show in a heartbeat.

Top 12 Scariest Episodes

 I stole it from ONTD and the reason this is so is to basically point out that Bloody Mary is #1 on the list. 

I TOLD YOU SO. Fuck that episode makes me want to pee in fear all the time. As in I've attempted SEVERAL times to finish watching it but I never could get through it. 

I'm a wuss.

:/

Awkward. Very awkward.

I'm even more embarrassed that it's from Women's Weekly. Dude, I never bothered with W.W. cause it's a freaking boring magazine in the first place.

I miss literature.

Wait, let me rephrase that.

I miss being surrounded by literature.

Gone are the days when reading a book was considered doing my research. I miss reading sentences littered with metaphors. I yearn for those moments when one had to only tell me the title of a poem and not only would I be vibrating with glee when I realize that I could not only name the author, but also quote a line or two as well.

Now, to get my literature fix, I've resorted to abandoning my romance fiction to cater to more literary-defined materials.

I'm in the middle of Antony and Cleopatra by Colleen Mccullough and it's a struggle.

I may not have due dates and I may not have reports to write anymore, but I do have a part of my soul to save. And right now, I feel like it's slowly suffocating.

The one thing about literature that I've always reveled in is that indescribable feeling when I come across a flurry of words that make up a vibration of colours that portray a variety of emotions. I know that I'm not the best reflector when it comes to thoughts and emotions but I am also aware that, God Bless, I've been awarded the ability to grasp imagaries quickly. I miss that. I miss reading a sentence once, sometimes, twice, and having these images fly around in my mind continuously in revered understanding.

I miss challenging my vocabulary skills. Those moments where an unorthodox word or two would suddenly creep up and find their way to the tip of my fingers and spilling over onto my keyboard. I miss going, "WTF did I just write?" and reaching over to my trusted Oxford to check not only the meaning but the spelling as well. I miss experiencing the realization that, hey!, I was actually right all along.

Although I would not be able to recall where I'd first heard or seen the word.

I miss literature. I miss my soul. I miss having the creative freedom to express my emotions and thoughts carelessly.

And I miss realizing that although my spelling may be bad, at least my meaning gets across.

Because I'm getting sick and tired of analyzing every single part of speech and trying to find reasons why the rules are the way they are. 

Do you know what's annoying?

Lecturers who spend TOO MUCH time on information that's worth nothing and zero time on information that's, you know, crucial to what separates between you passing or failing.

DAMMIT! FOR AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, YOU SURE SUCK AS HELL.

UGH.

And now, I can't find any notes for some stupid Difficulty Index that's supposed to measure essay tests. Like WTF man? You don't teach stats by not giving students examples to work on. Masters students are still STUDENTS dammit.

AND IT'S NOT FUNNY THAT YOU WILL NOT BE PROVIDING US WITH THE FORMULA DURING FINALS. LIKE WTF?! Even if I swollow, snort, suck and drink bottles of ginko biloba, I won't be able to memorize all this shit.

UGH.

kaostic and purajo , I've been meaning to reply to your comments and I will very soon! Lol...work and studies have been kicking my butt!

I just needed to get this off my chest.


The new Mariah album? I love it. Like I really love it.





This song is just p.e.r.f.e.c.t.i.o.n. So heartbreakingly beautiful.




And on a sidenote:

I got a picture with Nick. And I didn't reallllllllly feel like gushing about it cause some of my homegirls are Nick Girls too and I feel really bad that they didn't get their moment (yet!).

And since that boy is seriously the hardest to land your grubby hands on, I guess it's pretty cool..heh..(who am I kidding? The basis of the men/boys that I've chosen in my life was based on this mo' fo')

( My parking fee for this experience cost me $43 in parking fee, dammit! )
The backstory:

I was waiting at the lobby of the hotel with jaannonymous and Siti because my super-sensitive gossip ears overheard a lot of whispers of the Boys coming down to the lobby. And sure enough, soon, Q was down, scoping the lobby and eventually used the phone behind our couch to call, well, apparently, Mr Carter. I overheard his room number but to reveal it would have been wayyyyyy too much I reckon. LOL.

Soon enough, Nick walked out from the lifts and (as usual), people started rushing in. But he stopped to take pictures and sign autographs and that's when I decided to try my luck and swooped in to ask for a picture. I was given the Carter nod but before I could go near him, Q pushed him forward and his back was suddenly to me because another girl had begun talking to him again.

But, come on, all bets are off, baby, so I decided to try and ask again and Nick stopped talking to the girl and turned back. Ok, I'm aware that he's sort of a, well, difficult character sometimes, so when he turned around and took a few steps back to me, that totally took me off guard a little. Next thing I knew his arm was around me but there was no one to take the picture so I just stretched my arm as far as I could and well..there you go, odd angle and all...</div>

So yeah. Got to finally violate The Carter. =D


Day 2


I'm gonna cut to the chase. Being in the front row with the Unbreakable set list? Felt a LOT like Sunway all over again. But to be honest, the Sunway concert was much much much better in terms of well...a lot of things. It's hard to put my finger on it but, no matter what, this concert was awesome too. Hey, it's the Boys. They know how to put on a show!

1) Us girls got blessed with Lord Carter's Water. LOL! It was funny when the water came spraying down on us. Unfortunately, our concert experience was severely disrupted by the girls around us.

2) This girl behind us kept sticking her camera phone in between liza1131 's head and mine, knocking us non-stop. There was another girl who kept screaming, "OMGNICKILOVEYOUUUUU!!" and "FUCCCCCCCCKKKKKK!! ILOVEYOUNICKKKKKKKKK!!" throughout the whole concert. It's actually in my videos so..yeah...have a ball with that one peeps. The girl next to me kept on flailing her arms all over the place.

3) At one point, we saw one of the bodyguards taking a picture of the crowd, which we KNEW was going to go on Twitter. The girl next to me started blowing air kisses at it and just shaking her body all over the place. Sighs. I guess you had to be there to experience it. And YAY for white sleeves cause despite the sorta bad pixel-ation of the picture, I can totally point us girls out! Woot!

4) From our side of the stage, we could totally see Brian imitating Howie during Howie's solo set. IT.WAS.HILARIOUS. Sorry Howie! We couldn't pay attention cause Brian was totally hamming it up backstage.

A lot of things happened but those were the highlights! Videos will be up soon! =D

And to the girls, MUAHZ!! YOU GUYS ALWAYS MAKE THESE CONCERTS SUCH FUN!!!!!!! 


I wanna write more but zomg...am sleep deprived man....

Ah..the Backstreet Exploits 2009.

LOL...I know I should be writing about it and I WILL but I decided that I'm gonna compile them up into one whole post ;)

And yes, the Carter has veen violated.

I can sorta hang up my stalker shoes now =P

liza1131 ,jaannonymous, you WILL get your moment!!!! I demand that you do!

And trumpeterofdoom , it was nice to finally meet you!! See you at the concert!! 

What started out to be a day that began with bouts of food poisoning, it ended as one of the most memorable birthdays to date.

To my crazy girlfriends, you guys have NO IDEA how thankful I am to have you guys in my life. I love you girls like a fat kid loves cake (which, of course is true, quite literally, in my case).

To every single person who have helped me burst my Facebook wall with your birthday wishes, THANK YOU GUYS SO *BLEEP* MUCH! I could not stop myself from smiling the whole day through despite my constant trips to the ladies. You guys are special. Thank you.

To my students who caked me in flour and eggs, you guys are INSANE actors. I was duped through and through. Insane! Hehehe...I love you guys...thank you for capping the night off the way you guys did.

I feel blessed to be surrounded by such amazing people. Thank you to each and everyone of you.

*Seriously cannot stop gushing*

But despite all the joy, the one person I have to thank but will never be able to do so would be my late mom. For, without her guidance, her love, her affection and her example, I would not be the tolerable person that I am today. I miss you, mama. Especially today. I'll especially miss having her wish me happy birthday with a hug and a kiss early in the morning when I would wake up with my groggy face that any other person would rather slap or punch silly.

Thank you guys. Each and everyone of you. From the bottom of my heart. Thank you for making today really really special. And thank you for making the first birthday without her one that is slightly less painful than I thought it would be. If I could give each and everyone of you guys a hug, I would.

*Virtual hug* For my crazy girlfriends, I'm gonna hug-choke you guys so tight when I see you.

=)

I don't know about you but I find it funny how when you check a library's database, and you've jotted down the CALL number for the books, and you've made your way to the shelves, you almost always never find the books that you've jotted down but end up finding other books that are of use instead.


Odd. 

Dear World,

As of tomorrow morning, I will be returning back to my normal life. No more late night theater practice, no more monitoring of stage blocks and vocalization, no more exhaustion.

I can return back to you happy, contented and all theater-ed out.

For now. Until the Fasting Month is over. ;)



*sigh of relief*