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I have a cool idea for if you want to add me (which I hope you do). Since I think friending memes are really lame, I'll make up my own friending-filling-out thing. No, in fact, since I'm so kind and everything, I'll give you a choice. You can either fill the thing out or give me 10 interesting facts about yourself. Or, if you're super awesome, you can do both! Because I like to get to know my LJ friends more than what their favourite colour is, it would be brilliant if you do the following. Or of course you don't have to, I mean it's totally up to you...


Copy and paste that code, then fill it out~! Here's mine (because I have nothing better to do):

( my filled out one... )

Or you can do a 10 interesting facts list. I'll go first then:

( my 10  )

So leave a comment with one of the above, so I can gauge how interesting you are before I decide to add you back. Kidding. Of course I'll add you back (: *Cough*

I don't think I'll be able to stay off the internet for that long. But a part of me believes I can. I mean I will have a lot of other things to do in the meantime. Like practising piano. Hardcore practising. And then studying for yearlies. WHY DOES MY PIANO EXAM HAVE TO BE ON THE WEEKEND AFTER YEARLIES?! It's just not fair.

So while I'm here, I will get a few things off my chest.

• I will be a nerd and go study at the library on some especially distracting afternoons.
• I hate it when bogans go to the shops in bare feet. Why the freak do they do that. It's gross. Like the other weekend, there were these two year eight chicks that I used to know who were both wearing something that looked like it came directly out of a Supre catalogue, strutting around in expensive shops WITH NO SHOES ON. I gave them disgusted looks. Very obvious disgusted looks. And also loudly remarked how boganic and idiotic they looked. Not only did they fail to notice the attention I was giving them was negative, but they gave me looks of smugness and superiority. I nearly puked. Go home you stupid, low-class scum. Go home, get some shoes and wear something that looks slightly close to pretty. Gah. It's especially gross when older guys do it. Because a) they don't have very attractive feet; and b) how old are you? 4? Fuck me.
• That was a good rant. I think I may go off on another now. THE NEW FACEBOOK. ASJKLDF. What is up with the new "Live Feed" thing?? And because of the new "Live Feed", I join like every group that comes up. GAH. Why do they always have to cahnge Facebook the moment I get used to it?? But you know one good thing that's come out of all this? I'm becoming un-addicted to Facebook. At last. I'm getting bored of it. Hopefully.
• Hardcore kids make me jealous. Like on Facebook (surprise surprise), there's this reallyc ute guy named Aaron Chan right, and he is so punk and rebel and awesome; I love him. His new profile picture is of him with this equally hardcore chick and they're both smoking all hotly and hardcorely. Everything about him is cool. Bah.

Finished for now. Goodbye my cyberlife. Bye for now. See you after exams and stress and stuff. I'M GOING TO FAIL PIANO. I just know it. Or get a C-. Lovely. I have a lot to look forward to don't I?

Wish me luck, my pretties.

I'm really excited for Toy Story 3.
It will be the most epic movie of all time.

I was also initially looking forward to the Tintin movie too, but it's live-action. And it looks bizarre. Gah.

F.T. ISLAND.
Gosh I love them sooo much!! Everything about them is awesome. Jaejin's Japanese skills are so cute.

Oh how slowly the days go by...

I love the House theme song. How lame of me. The state I have sunk to...so desperate for new music that I've downloaded the theme song to a television program I don't even like. But it has a very nice theme song.

Yesterday I bought the Meteor Shower DVD (pirated...shh). Yes...don't know what else to say about that. The girl at the store sold it to me for three dollars cheaper than the marked price. That was nice. But then she tried to make me buy another drama. Baha.

Look at what I've become. I am so bored these days I'm actually inclined to do my homework properly. Note the keyword "properly" here. This statement suggests that on regular school days I don't tend to complete homework "properly". No, rather, I rush through it quickly then get online. Story of a modern day teenager's life.

I don't like being a modern teenager. The problems and issues we're going to have to face in the future were all imposed upon us by one generation our senior. Gah it's all their fault. And now this iGen I so unfortunately belong to, is stuck with dealing with everything. Ugh. And we're going to have to come up with a cure for whatever radiation from mobiles and computers causes.

FAREWELL MY PRETTIES!

In the past few minutes, I saw the two things that made my day.

First was a message from Toma!!
I get a little hyper whenever I receive messages from him. I always send him long messages about how I'm finding Japanese class, maths and ramble on about how much I look forward to anything he does. And he always sends a response of roughly two lines. Well yes, I know he's been extremely busy, especially these past couple of months what with all the hectic filming for three upcoming movies. But, just once I'd like to see him tell me something that's been going on in his life. E.g. I told him that I was in the first maths class this year and was dreading the enormous workload but I was somewhat happy about taking Japanese. And all he replied with was an apology for his late reply and that he was glad I liked his new theme. Just then I congratulated him for his movies and wished him a happy birthday. So hopefully he will acknowledge how much I follow him.

Oh and if you were wondering, Toma has an Imeem account. And he actually goes on it and replies to messages. It's great fun.

The second thing that made me happy today was this post.
This picture made me totally go nuts:

LOOK AT HIS EYES!!! *Giggles hysterically*

Oh gosh, did you see me lose my cool just then? It was terrible.

Ok I shall be off to bed now. I need to wake up at normal school time tomorrow...catching the train to the city.

1. Ningen Shikkaku
2. Seaside Motel
3. Hana Mizuki

Oh gosh, a lot to look forward to next year, eh?

I just want to say, the song of Hana Mizuki is shit. That chick can't sing to save her life. Well neither can eighty-percent of the gorgeous boybands avidly followed...but that's irrelevant. Here is the link if you were wondering.

I'm so proud of Toma. How lame of me. Teehee.

Interesting stuff always seems to happen in yum cha restaurants. Like once I saw this cute waiter that looked just like this hot Facebook star. Scary. Then at a yum cha restaurant in Chinatown, this waitress there LOOKED JUST LIKE ZHAO WEI. As in Vicki Zhao Wei. I did a double-take when I entered the restaurant because I actually thought she was Zhao Wei. Momentarily. And then I spent the rest of lunch trying to take a photo of her on my phone. It was quite hilarious. I tried pretending I was texting someone. But it failed. It must've looked very creepy to people behind me. And then at another yum cha restaurant (it wasn't lunch time, so the normal menu was in use rather than the bulky metal trolleys) this older, more experienced waitress kept yelling at the obvious "new guy" waiter and calling him "xiao huo zi". For those of you who know Mandarin, you'll understand why I find this funny. Or maybe you won't. Since no one ever seems to find stuff I find funny actually laughable at all. Anyway, so you would just hear her shouting across the room at this poor guy who didn't really have any choice but to obey.

Yesterday I went rollerblading with my best friend Elise. It was so uberly fun. Falling over wasn't though. I used to be such a good little skater...so very long ago. Anyhow, I'm very sore right now. I have a humungous bruise on the side of leg. It's painful.

Ooh, "Speed" is on television at the moment. I kind of want to go watch it. Keanu Reeves looks so young. It's quite a frustrating movie.

OH! Everyone! Check out style06 for me please! I wrote an article and I plan to write many more to come. It never fails to amaze me how obsessed young Asians are with hair and fashion. No, I think it's the obsessive photo-taking that amazes me. The well-practised camera angles and the little tags or signs that are made; pure brilliance. Some would disagree and label it as "too much time". Although I wouldn't argue with that, I happen to be one of the people who spend far too long in front of the mirror applying far too much styling products to me hair. So I'm calling this whole fad COOL. (I'm generally opposed to fads and crazes because I think they're nothing but silliness.) So please go on and have a read of my article!

Toodles!

Holidays at last. Term three did feel like it zoomed past. I feel like I missed a lot of it. Must've blinked.

Somehow, I don't feel so elated now that I am on break. The anticipation experienced in the few days leading up were monumental, yet the first day of holidays has been somewhat of an anticlimax. This miserable weather has been no help either.

There are a lot of things I'd like to get off my chest right now.

• I know I've said this before, but I cannot wait to be able to drive myself around, and then eventually move out. I hate not being able to go places simply because there's no mean of getting there. Today is Moon Festival. I was invited to go to a "Moon Festival" party later tonight, but my mother did not feel obliged to drive me a suburb away. Honestly, it would've taken less than fifteen minutes in total.
• Sometimes I feel like lying in bed all day and ignoring what everyone says to me.
• Sometimes I feel like talking to one particular person all day and ignore what everyone else says to me.
• When I move out, I will share an apartment near the shops and station. Call me typically Asian, but I like to keep conveniences close.
• I'm feeling rather pensive at the moment. For once, I'm thinking about the future. And what will become of my friends and I. I'm thinking about who among my current friends I will still associate myself with in the future. You know how there are those people who you just don't see playing any part in your future life? But what's troubling me the most right now, is if I'll be able to keep the people I want to keep.
• I feel like I haven't seen him in ages. Although it was Thursday I think. But. A lot happened. Bad stuff. Sad stuff.
• I miss him. Because we haven't talked in nearly six hours.

This post is sad. Much sadder than my usual bouncy self.

And I haven't received a comment in ages. Maybe because I haven't commented on anyone's journals myself. Sorry about that.

I'm sort of annoyed that the stat counter is gone since I changed themes. I had nearly 2000 hits in like four months! Ah well.

Making new friends should be a good thing right? I'm trying to convince myself that this new friendship I have formed will be all for the positive. But it's making me feel a bit down. I do a lot of thinking when I talk to this person. And when people like me think too much, it ain't good.

It's the first day of the holidays. I feel miserable. I did too much contemplative thinking throughout the course of writing this post.
Oh. New version of MSN available. Erk, can't be bothered to download now. Which somehow reminded me: I need credit for my phone.

I feel like writing something intensely personal. But I won't. I can tell it will be one of those things that only causes more problems for everyone.

For some reason, I am really stressed out.

Ciao for now ♥

And the theme song is quite pretty too:


boku wa kimi ni koi wo suru - Ken Hirai

So yes, this is what I will be anticipating for a while. Because it just looks so damn good!

Yes, I know he's just released a new album (or is it single?) and completely revamped his image (I think. I'm not 100% sure what he looked like before) what with the blonde hair and scary eyes...but seriously, every other thing that come out of my K-pop-following friends' mouths is, "ZOMG G-DRAGON IS SOOOO HOT!!!" Firstly, no, he is not that hot. It's called cleverly done Korean makeup. Secondly, why is he only hot now? What about last year when he had regular hair and was part of Big Bang? And lastly that's not even his real voice. It's like warped so badly it hurts my ears. I know they call it "digital enhancement", but surely what they've done to GD's voice isn't enhancing it? What happened to being famous for your talent?? I don't want to hear a computer singing; I want to hear the natural voice of a talented young popstar! And then the whole fiasco with plagiarising Flo-rida's "Right Round" song. Breaks my heart (get it? Get my funny joke?).

At least the music video is cool. GD is like walking sex. I like the new hairdo. It suits him better than it did Jaejoong. I love it when people take risks and try crazy things like completely bleaching their hair. If I were a millionaire I might try dying my hair like electric blue. And of course if it looks bad I'll get it back to my normal colour and pay for a good treatment too. Sorry, back to the MV. So it is rather typical K-pop style of MVs like with all the colourfulness, funky backup dancers and costumes I drool over, but I still enjoyed it nonetheless. But it sort of felt like it would never end...

Oof. I'm so bored I could go download the whole Heartbreaker album and write an extensive review on it.
I'm so bored I could write a book about being this bored.
I need to get a life.
I'm so bored I could rewrite this whole post in noob-speak...but that will probably give all my intelligent LJ readers a headache.

Alright, out of sheer boredom, I shall compile a list:

People I would try to trip over if I saw them walking down the street doing any of the following:

• wearing jeans leggings. I cannot stand those extremely ugly garments of etreme ugliness
• wearing gladiator sandals. My feelings towards these are similar to those to jeans leggings.
• shoving their phones down their bras. To those idiotic bogan chicks who do this, I want to spit in your face and yell, "WHAT ARE POCKETS FOR?!"
• talking really really loudly about their private life. Or worse, someone else's private life.
• talking on Bluetooth. But since nobody can ever tell if someone is talking on Bluetooth, it always seems like they're calling the person closest to them a "ragged biatch"...I don't even understand what that means.
• singing out loud. Far out, take it to the shower. Or Idol.
• sucking air through a straw. I hate that noise. Don't do it. It bugs everyone.
• saying stuff like, "OHMYGOSH did you watch Idol last night??!!" Uh, so what if you did? It doesn't even have anything to do with you. Unless your brother won or something. But the chances of that are like skinnier than slim.

Bored like a blah.
TOODLE DOO.

YAY! Meteor Shower is airing on August 8, which is only five days before my birthday! It's going to be a great early birthday present. Doesn't the H4 look great?



Drool...Wei Chen looks so damn cuddly. And I want to ruffle Haoming's hair. And trim Zhang Han's eyebrows. And google the other guy because I've never heard of him before. *Dramawiki...* OH MY GOSH. He has the same birthday as me!! Pretty creepy, seeing as I was just talking about my birthday...He's actually pretty hot; his haircut is just sort of weird in Meteor Shower. I'm on his blog now and some of his photoshoots are sizzling. I should do a big pimp post on the H4 and Zheng Shuang. Anyway, I think Zhu Zi Xiao is now my favourite out of the four...nah, Haoming is still my number one.

Whatever.

You know something that makes me really happy? Meeting new people. I love finding random people with similar interests, and then getting to know them. I love finding out about where everyone comes from...even in real life I like talking to people that seem interesting. How I love technology.

Ok, I've decided because it's the last day of holidays and I have so much homework still to do, but since I'm the queen of procrastination, I will do a pimp post on Meteor Shower. Essentially testing my Chinese reading. Which I can't. I can barely read any Chinese, but I can understand and speak it fluently enough.

( this leads to an epic post about the five leads )

So are you looking forward to this drama? I sure am. There's only...13 days until it comes out on Hunan TV. I can't remember if I've posted it, but here's a link to the trailer/theme song MV sung by none other than the H4. By the way, the reason why they're the H4 not F4 is because in Chinese the word "flower" is "hua" so yeah...And you can watch the drama on the Cfanboys2 channel on Youtube...but I don't think there'll be subs...I must find out who is subbing it.

让我为你唱首歌吧。。。

I'm so bored and with nothing to do, I looked my name up in Urban Dictionary.
And I found the most amusing results.


Um yeah, that's nice to know. I don't like pizza that much, but I am rather funny. Or so I think.
( more urban dictionary definitions )
The website is so random. You should look stuff up on UD. It's just hilarious what people write. But I go on it a lot when I don't know the meaning of a web acronym. Like..."FFS". Or like ages ago when I didn't know what fob meant. And when I couldn't work out whether ftw meant "eff the world" or "for the win", and since I am now in the knowing, it can be both! Baha.

Another great website I've recently come across is mymomisafob.com. It's funny. Highly entertaining.

I truly don't have anything worthwhile to say. It's the holidays at the moment and I keep saying to myself to do homework, assignments, log books, etc. but I just cannot be bothered. Which reminds me; is it true that in America, people don't say "I can't be bothered"? Because I said that to my friend in America yesterday (I said "cbb") and she was like, "...uh what's that mean?" So that's interesting. What do you say instead of "can't be bothered" then? Huh, it's just a phrase I use well too often.

Ok, I'm going to go search for something to say. BRB (haha).

Yatta~! I'm sure many people have already read this, but I still think it is a lovely post. It is from JohnnyIntern and it's the post about our beloved TomaPi and their longstanding relationship. They truly are a wonderful pair. If you haven't already read like all the posts on JohnnyIntern, then I suggest you do, and subscribe to it too. The author is eloquent anf funny, plus we get some sort of insight into the Johnny's world. The Intern also has daily updates on Yamapi's diary thing. I don't care much for it, but hey, a lot of people do seem to like Yamapi. But yes, it is very good blog, do read it.

Anyways, I'm going to go add randoms. TOODLE DOO.

So who's excited for Ningen Shikkaku?  ME!!!
I'm not sure if this photo is of our Toma in the movie but he sure looks hot.



I've sort of gotten tired of the fluffy perm...So I guess this is sort of an improvement.
The plot sounds interesting enough. I mean, even if it turns out to be a crap movie, I'm still going to watch it. Because I'm so biased like that.

Who was totally pissed at the end of Majo Saiban? ME!!! I was so annoyed at the witch!!! Argh she's so EVIL! But awesome. I love the evil characters in dramas. But still. There's still so much that they haven't told us eg. what is White going to do about her husband?! She was clearly distressed but is she going to leave him? Or ask him if he would really harm Mai? Gah, I need to know!! And, and, Kaori!! What's up with her?? I wanted to see her and Toru embrace before the end. But instead we got that weird shot of the back of the witch. BAH the witch totally fooled everyone!! Best twist EVER. Huff. I watched it without subs when the RAW first came out, and I reckon it's very clever how they shocked like everyone in the last sequence without any dialogue. Just wide-eyed Toru, and smiling Witch. And some flashbacks. Epic. She truly is a witch. Majo Saiban is the smartest, cleverest drama EVER.

Meteor Shower!!!!!! OMGICANTFREAKINGWAITFORTHIS!!!!!!!!!! I'm dying to watch this. START ALREADY!! I'm glad I won't have to wait a whole week before watching each episode because I can understand Mandarin. HURRAH. Finally, my knowing how to speak Mandarin has come in handy. Well it's come in handy a zillion times before, but still. I've been listening to the songs from the drama and I if there's one thing I should say, it's that the theme songs are better than the Arashi ones ever were. Haha. What a bold thing to proclaim. Especially in the midst of all these Arashi fans. I should say something else rather daring.

I don't like NewS. Man, I'm feeling brave today. I'll just leave it at that.

F.T. Island's new album!!! I LOVE IT. I haven't been so obsessed with an album since...Break the Records! Wow. Yes, it's called "Cross & Change" and it is so good. I've had it on repeat for about two hours. BUT. Jaejin! Why on earth did you have to get that weird haircut?!?! Oh, I want to cry! It's so....EPIC CHAT. My friend's been trying to convince me that he looks cute but...I can't see any appeal in the lame bowl cut. Which reminds me (only because this particular friend lives in America). There are hardly any Morning Glory stores in America?!?! That is weird. There must be some in the city right? Well in the city here, there are three. Which is really too much in my opinion. There should be more cheap Asian drama shops rather than Morning Glory stores. I've grown rather weary of cutesy stationery. It's boring when everyone ends up with the same Monokuro Boo pens (or whatever those pig things are called).

I know before I've said how much I care about Korean music (not much). Well, I seriously think F.T. Island is a good band. I actually know all the members! I think...actually I don't know who replaced Wonbin...I should probably find out. Maybe later (we all know what this means. Procrastination...my worst enemy). F.T. Island is awesome. They're all so young and...dateable. BAHA. Ok well my favourite is Lee Jaejin because he is so adorable and smart and sporty and everything, and when I get excited I write badly. Hence the inclusion of four "and"s in the previous sentence.

Oh yes, I changed my layout again. I loved this White X`mas one too much. It's like the only PV where all six of my boys look equally good.
Credit - Layout: okimiyage 
              Stylesheet: minty_peach 
White X`mas is my all time favourite song, and the MV is my second favourite of all time. My favourite is "I do, Yes I do" by the gorgeous Yu Haoming.

Well I guess I should stop wasting your time if you actually read this. Comment~

I don't know what I should write about...

Ok, I know. I'll randomly click on one of my bookmarks, and write about the first thing I see/read. This should be interesting. Alright...here goes.

First try: WIndows Live Mail.
Um...ok then. Let's see what's in my inbox today...New message from Facebook...boring. We were just talking about how hairdressers never do what you want them to do. My friend was saying how the haridresser "hacked off half her hair" (ALLITERATION!!!) and people have just been commenting saying stuff like, "LOL! cant be that bad~ :D" or "ayye~ thats why u should cut it yoursefl xDD" and Facebook-y stuff like that (that typo was intentional). But it's true, I've never left the hairdresser feeling completely satisfied with what they've done. Which is why I haven't been to the hairdresser in like two years. I've been cutting my own hair. I've cut my own hair like four times now. And not to sound too braggy, but I'm always very happy with the way it turns out. I'm getting handier with the razor scissors, thinning shears, and the trimming ones. Ah, could this be a potential career path for me? I think not...I can't stand touching other people's hair.

Right, let's do that again. Randomly picking something from my bookmarks...err...Kpopshare
Um, what are some new releases today then...I see some SNSD, T.O.P. and Se7en. Ok I really don't know how to elaborate here since I barely have any knowledge of Korean music. Although I have heard of SNSD, T.O.P. and Se7en...but I don't actually know anything about them. SNSD is also known as Girls' Generation I believe, and they have like a jillion members, all of them have like super straight skinny legs. It amazes me how people can remember all their names. T.O.P. is in Big Bang right? Or is it DBSK? DBSK is also Tohoshinki or TVXQ, but I haven't the slightest clue why they are called three different names. And Se7en. I don't know anything about them at all. Is it even a band? Hmm...sounds like it would be a band. Enlighten me, someone.

Ok third time should come up with something. Alright, in about four seconds I'm going to shut my eyes and click a random bookmark.
Oh how lovely! Sparknotes! I love this website; I don't know what I would do without it. The study notes are excellent; very comprehensive and well covered. The language they use is not too difficult and they have notes for every book and subject imaginable. However it is an American website, and I don't really know what the "Sparklers" are talking about half the time in the community. But I do love learning about stuff like Wal-mart, Costco, spring break and barbeques during Independence Day. We Aussies have barbeques on Australia Day, so that's one similarity. But down here we (actually not "we", just bogans) call it a "barbie". Yes, like the shiny plastic doll. Anyway back to Sparknotes. You know one thing that really annoys me about the community posts, is the people that comment. If someone is the first to comment, this is usually what the comment is: "FIRST!!!!", instead of, "That is a really interesting point you've brought up here; I too feel strongly about the silly fanfiction-like language used in the Twilight books. I feel Meyer is trying much too hard to use extravagant vocabulary so she can match up with authors that are actually good at writing." And then we usually have, "SECOND!! dayum u beat me to first D<" or something stupid and juvenile like that following. Oh, here's a brilliant post about Harry owning Edward. I've already mentioned Dan Bergstein's "blogging Twilight" series haven't I? But since I love it so much I shall share it once again. He truly is a genius. Dan really tears Twilight apart and he's extremely funny as well. Read it. I promise you'll laugh.

So did you enjoy reading that? I bet you didn't.
Try it yourself. Shut your eyes, and randomly click a bookmark and try to talk about it.
Man, I have way too much spare time.

Many icons to be found under the cut.

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Half-Blood Prince was epic. Brilliant. Superb. Magnificent.

I even dressed up! Sort of...I wore my school shirt and tie and black tights with my black cardi. And this dude from Oporto took a photo since he thought it was so funny. Cough.

I'm not such a big fan of the films like I am with the books, but this movie was worth the seven-month delay. Of course, they wandered off the book's plot, but they still did it pretty well. I'll try to talk about it without spoiling too much because I know that it's only just opened in the US. And hopefully everyone's read the book.

The start was great. It was a great "bang", just like Yates (the director) intended. Then after the Millennium Bridge part, we see the waitress hitting on Harry and telling him that she gets off at 11 (that means she finishes work at 11...in case you don't get the British talk) and Harry looking hopeful until Dumbledore shows up and whisks him away to Slughorn's house. Baha. So, they totally messed up the Slughorn bit. In the book, Dumbledore says that the thing that gave it away was the fact that there was no Dark Mark above the the dwelling. In the movie he said it was the dragon's blood that gave it away. But they did the whole flying objects stuff part really well. It was, well, magical. And Dumbledore does his hilarious, "take my arm" thing which makes everyone giggle. But then again, most of us were just high from excitement. I know I was.

When Harry arrives at the Burrow, there's a very cute scene using the several storeys and winding staircase. And we get to see the first sparks between Harry and Ginny. A lot of "oooooh~!!!" from the audience.

Onboard the Hogwarts Express, Harry spots Draco and decides to follow him (with the help of his Invisibilty cloak of course) and eavsedrops, however Draco discovers him..and you know what happens. But instead of Tonks finding him, Luna does with her funny glasses things. She says something about Wrackspurts and then walks with him up to the castle.

So Harry gets the HBP textbook and everything, gets the Felix, etc. The movie really didn't stress the HBP obsession enough. Nor the Draco obsession. The film was too romance-centred. Like from the very beginning, Lavender is dropping hints. At Fred and George's shop,  she was there batting her eyelashes at Ron. And for the first quarter of the film it was:
Lavender wanting Ron,
Ron sort of confused since he kind of wants Hermione,
Harry wanting Ginny,
Harry and Ron annoyed at Dean for getting intimate with Ginny,
Cormac wanting Hermione,
Hermione slightly appalled at Cormac, and
Ron slightly annoyed at Cormac.

Then after the first Quidditch match (which was excellent):
Lavender absolutely fawning over Ron (she was so annoying, so clingy and the extreme example of the worst girlfriend type),
Ron progressively getting annoyed at Lavender,
Hermione loathing Ron,
Hermione getting together with Cormac temporarily to annoy Ron,
Harry still interested in Ginny,
Ginny's getting more interested in Harry, and
Dumbledore saying pretty gay but amusing remarks.

The Quidditch was great. Well it might've just seemed that way because we haven't had Quidditch in a movie since the third one. Cormac was pretty hot. He would look great with Hermione. He totally owned Ron. Anyway, Quidditch was epic. The graphics are getting better and better and it wasn't so brief like in Prisoner.

FIREFOX IS ANNOYING ME, IT'S NOT PICKING UP MY SPELLING MISTAKES.

Continuing on, I love Quidditch so much as it is, and this movie totally delivered. Actually, no it didn't, they didn't give us the second match when Cormac hits the Bludger at Harry! BAH! That's lame!!!!! I would have liked very much to see Cormac getting really pissed, it would've been hot!

Um...the Slug Club bit was funny. Harry enjoyed dessert very much. Watch it and you'll see what I mean.

Just trying to think of random points...

There was actually another funny bit they didn't put in the trailers! I was so glad, seriously, it felt like we had seen all the funny bits already. It felt like we had seen the whole damn movie in the trailers.

The cave part was so intense. The music, and everything...gosh, it was so Lord of the Rings like. The potion drinking part was excellent. They didn't make it what it looked like on the cover of the books, so it was...refreshing. The Inferi...oh my gosh, you could feel the whole cinema jump. It was pretty scary. Which reminds me. SECTUMSEMPRA. My favourite scene in the whole book, AND THEY STUFFED IT!!!! I wanted to see some pretty gruesome action but NO, they had to make it child-proof!!! GAAAH!! I wanted to see blood gushing out of Draco's face like it was meant to be!! Trust Yates to ruin my favourite scene. Dumbledore's death was so...under-done. Snape just rushes in and just kills him, like that. There wasn't enough buildup of the suspense. Well I wasn't expecting better since they ruined Sirius' death in the previous movie. Yates is just not that good at deaths. But, after the death, when you see Dumbledore sprawled across the grass with the students and staff looking on, that was intense. Harry closes his eyes, McGonnagall raises her wand, and the rest of the school population copy her. The scene was very dramatic, there was no speaking, just the orchestral music in the background. Speaking of which...the cheapskates used two of the same songs from Order!!!! Dumbledore's Army and Fireworks were both used again in this film! How disappointing; we know Nicholas Hooper is nothing compared to John Williams, so why not show us some new music?! I think using different music for the opening credits instead of the traditional Hedwig's Theme (or Ginny as it is called on the soundtrack fo Half-Blood). Sorry this paragraph was a bit long.

I'll elaborate more on the cave part shall I? Personally it was a tad rushed. Going to the cave I mean. Like one moment Harry and Dumbledore are talking about Slughorn, and then the next they were standing on that rock in the middle of the ocean! The whole standing-on-the-rock-in-the-middle-of-the-ocean thing was a bit over the top. With the strong pounding waves and loud melodramatic music, it felt too epic for a Potter film. It was a bit pointless, if you ask me. Looked great in the trailers, but it was just a bit too much. Inside the cave...all I can say is WOW. It was done faithful to the book what with the blood payment and everything. Then the boat...uh...not so great. I didn't get the whole pulling of the chains and the flying lumos thing. Once we got to see the potion. Oh dear. Well, it wasn't the basin that we saw on the cover at all. It was like a crystal stand sort of. And the "goblet" wasn't a goblet at all. It looked like a shell. But this change was good. It fitted in more with the location. Once again, I must say, brace yourself for the Inferi.

I really don't like Gambon's Dumbledore. He's too...un-Dumbledore-ish. He's too aggressive, not the calm, complacent Dumbledore we know from the books.

So overall, great film. Even people who aren't fans of the book will enjoy it. But like all the other films, if you haven't read the books, then you won't really understand what's going on half the time. As a Potter fan, I would rate it 7.5/10 simply because they used the same songs again and they messed up my most favourite scene in the whole series. And they focused too much on love rather than the crucial plot.

After watching HPHBP, my friends and I went to the arcade and played DDR. I feel terrible, I can't DDR anymore. Dance Dance Revolution that is. I used to be a total PRO. But now, I can't jump fast enough. It's horrible. I feel so OLD!! Yeah, if I go to the arcade, I DDR before anything else. Well there's nothing else that really appeals to me. I'm hopeless at shooting with guns, racing and those hooking soft toy machines.

Want to know something incredibly stupid? Livejournal's spell check is American spelling only. There must be a way to change it so whenever I write "favourite" it's not marked as incorrect. And the suggestion for "Dumbledore" is "Tumbledown". I did not know that was a word. Microsoft and Firefox and stuff with spell check should just add Potter terms into their dictionary. I mean, they named a constellation after Draco, so why not add words to the dictionary?

Well, this has been a very big post. Well it was a very eventful day~! If you do go see the film, I want to hear your opinions about it! I'm still quite excited...well giddy at least.

The holidays have arrived at last. Two weeks of pure relaxation.
Or so you would think.
No, I will be furiously practising piano, doing maths homework, PDH assignment and other stuff...
Oh joy.

Lately, I've been getting messages asking me how old I was. Just so everyone knows, I'm 14. Surprised? Several people were. Why does it seem surprising that I'm only 14?? I'm turning 15 in August. But yeah, I don't really get why people are a little shocked when I tell them I'm 14. I  know a lot of people in the fandom are in university right? Well, it seems like that to me...maybe because I'm the baby of the fandoms I'm part of. Anyway, so tell me if you were surprised just then when I revealed my true age.

So. I think I said a while ago that I would make a bunch of icons out of Majo Saiban screen caps. Well...I'm in the middle of that...I've made a few...but more will come. I can't actucally remember right at this moment who took all those lovely ready-made caps but I will credit when I put the icons up. But since if I don't share something in this post, people will scowl and roll their eyes and mutter darkly about my lack of interesting-ness. So:

( toma friends only banner )

CLICK IT!! The cut I mean.
I really cannot be bothered to post it on communities. So just take it and share it among yourselves. But credit and don't alter it, hotlink, etc. You know the drill. You know, I'm actually rather pleased with that banner. I've tried making banners before but I'm not very good with brushes and that sort of thing. And also, I have no idea whether the dimensions are "correct". It looks right to me.

New layout. Like it? And new mood theme as well. Golly, this really is an era of change.

Well, I'm off to bed then, looking forward to the holidays tomorrow.

There's only one thing that bugs me more than the annoying orange flashing from MSN when I'm watching a video. And that is bad spelling and grammar (Isn't my subject title clever? It says "speeling" instead of "spelling"...ha...ha..ha...*weak laughter continues*). We've all been to school right? We've all learned how to spell; ant to anaesthetic, bee to babiroussa and cat to catastrophe. The occasional typo I don't mind at all, because I'll admit it, I make plenty of typos when I rush or can't be bothered to use spell check. Or if Firefox doesn't feel like detecting some of my spelling mistakes. So just to confirm, typos are ok. But when people clearly do not know how to spell a word...GAH IT JUST TOTALLY F**KING PISSES ME OFF. Once I was on a forum thing (I can't even remember what it was I was just so enraged when I saw this fateful spelling mistake) and someone wrote "kratchers". They meant "crutches". If you say those two words in an Australian accent, they would sound exactly the same. People who spell things phonetically just make me so damn ANGRY. Here are some words that I when I saw, I clenched my fists, my right eye twitching as I fought to keep my rage in: medecine (medicine), story (storey), stationary (stationery), bore (boar), et cetera. As you can see, the last few example can be vice versa. Homophones need to be used with great care.

Another example of homophones are these two words: your and you're. The latter is a contraction of "you are". E.g. if you wrote: "hey I really like you're shirt", I would give you a virtual slap. Even worse if you said, "dude, your really picky with spelling", then I would glare at you through my computer screen, grinding my teeth and stabbing a voodoo doll that oddly resembles you (only if you were the perpetrator that is).

However, because this is just Livejournal, not a government declaration, you will be let off. When I see bad mistakes on signs in shops or even in my school notes, I would crumple up the piece of paper and tear it between my teeth. Once we had this slightly spacey student teacher for maths. We were doing basic geometry revision and using the triangle symbol, he wrote on the board in his messy scrawl: ∆'s i.e. triangles. WHY?!?! IT'S A PLURAL!! IT DOESN'T NEED AN APOSTROPHE!!! Gah! I thought you went to university, you bumbling fool!

Ok. I must calm down now.

Frankly, I don't care how offended people get by this; go back and check your previous posts and see how many mistakes you've made. Typographical errors are accountable for I suppose...I make typos, but never spelling mistakes because I can't spell the word. But if you realise you have squiggly red lines under specific words (assuming you have copied and pasted on to Word), then I would stand back over here laughing mirthlessly as you hastily correct your mistakes, fearing I will hunt you down and threaten you with red envelopes (why did I have to drag in a Maou reference here??).

Breathe in...and out...honestly, I get worked up over the silliest things.

ZOMGAH
Majo Saiban episode 8~!
I'm dying to watch this episode.
DOWNLOAD FASTER!!!
Bah.
And to make matters worse, my stupid internet keeps disconnecting.

Tonight is the Jay Chou concert. Right at this very moment hundreds of people are at Acer Arena having a great time listenign to him play his piano and singing and...sob sob. It's all over Facebook; so many people I know are going. I've been begging everyone to buy me stuff.

Everywhere I look these days it's Gokusen. It's taking over every magazine, TV, etc. Kame has had some sort of feature in magazines where he provides excellent eye-candy in that grey suit and black tie. He looks so hot. I can't wait for the movie though~!! Speaking of anticipating movies, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is coming out in 12 days!! I'm rather excited. Blah side-tracked. So. Gokusen: The Movie. Should be good eh? Well the series has been going for like, what, 7 years? And Yankumi hasn't aged a day? I'm serious, she doesn't look a day older since she first graced our non-HD televisions in the first season where Matsujun looks incredibly young. Who agrees? Matsujun has gotten significantly older, and so has the guy that played Tennouji in Hana Kimi who was also in the first season of Gokusen whose name I forget. Shun has aged reasonably. But Teppei...he still looks young and cutesy but his hair is atrocious. But still, Kame is the main attraction. This guy will never stop looking hot. When I watch dramas when I'm old and all these current idols are like playing grandpas, my kids will be like, "Ew, he's so old and ugly," to which I would reply, "How dare you say that, you insolent child!" and banish them to their rooms. It would be awesome.

Well I suppose there's no use sulking about the Jay Chou concert now...I did my best...that is, entering the competition numerous times.

I shall be badgering my friends tomorrow about how the concert was. Until then.

I really love Kurokawa (from Majo Saiban). He's so hot. Bahahaha.
Well, he's not that hot but like, his arms are really sexy and his lame fake laugh was cute. And his teeth are very white. And his hair is sexy too. Grey hair is hot. So is white hair (think Miura Haruma in Koizora and Jaejoong's white hair). But the main hot thing about Kurokawa is his ingenuity. I love clever guys. Aaahhh flail........Bruno.........so dirty yet so lovable..........

Suzuki Ryohei. I hope this guy gets a lead role sometime soon because he is a really good actor. I shall do a little timeline of him. Cheesy grin.

Well the first time I saw him was in Hana Kimi, one of the all time best dramas ever in my opinion. Ryohei played Akashi Soichiro. He was the crazy gangster guy that stepped on Mizuki's foot. He always had like a toothpick in his mouth. And he had that hilarious gruff voice.
Ok, well next we saw him in Mei-chan no Shitsuji. Another fantastic drama. He played Miruku's butler, the super nice full-of-praise one who ultimately became my second favourite butler (after RIhito of course. If Mizushima Hiro is there, I don't really have much of a choice, do I?). He was such a cool butler and I would so want him. Actually having any ikemen butler would be awesome. Which reminds me, you know the bumbling butler who served Izumi, the only nice Sole-rank girl? Welll he's in Gokusen 3 I think, I swear I saw him there. So whatever, here's Daimon.

Thriller definitely.
I love this song.
This song is going to be known forever. It's crazy, this guy really is the King of Pop; I, being the second generation since his rise, still am familiar with his hits.

I still can't really get my head around Michael Jackson's death. I can't believe we'll never hear another scandal or song from him ever again. I feel bad for him; the world didn't seem to understand him.