April 2008
48 posts
10 incredible Star Wars Posters from Japan →
Awards for Sexy
Just returned from the premiere of Iron Man, and it was incredible. I really appreciate that Robert Downey Jr was either in suits or shirtless/sweaty throughout the entire movie.
Indecision '08
Although I don’t use it much, I realised today that my Facebook profile was unnecessarily lengthy and made me look like a pretentious jackass. I ended up reducing all the “Favorite” thing sections to around 10 each. Basically, the hardest decisions I will ever make in my life.
Ghost Bees - Tear Tassle Ogre Heart The Ghost...
Son of a mother →
When I was young, I would have recurring nightmares of a giant squid that attacked my city. As a result, although I absolutely love discoveries in the ocean, this scares the shit out of me.
Dreams of pavement
The sky here is often a drab shade of grey or light blue, but when it’s twilight and the sun has set a bit, everything turns into this magnificent shade of blue that makes me wish I had a gigantic real life color dropper so I can replicate that on my desktop and in my dreams.
Sometimes I wish I was nerd(ier)
The TV station that I’m working at has an ongoing Iron Man contest where all you have to do is design your own Iron Man suit with 3 new functions. The prize is INSANE, it includes a trip to LA, a private tour of Stan Winston’s (Seriously, you guys. Terminator, Jurassic Park, Aliens, etc etc!!) special effects studio and a grand tour of LA by helicopter. No wonder they hardly have any...
The Weepies - How You Survived the War ...
I make my own fun
Sometimes I get a little worried that the walls are too thin and my neighbours can hear me singing Rilo Kiley loudly and off-key on a boring Saturday afternoon when I’m at home alone.
Students suspended for skipping class to meet... →
Hooray for encouraging young people to take an interest in politics!
Fake Word of the Day:
brakattack: rumpus: a play on the word ruckus, only more sexual. Can also replace any noun in the English language. example: “bring the motherfuckin rumpus”. This is why I always feel weird when I look at real estate blueprints and there’s a “Rumpus Room” (even though I know they mean the rec room). Also, why am even looking at real estate?
The Ting Tings - Great DJ (Calvin Harris Remix)...
Greenzo, out!
One of the more annoying things about my workplace is how apathetic most of them are about the environment. I don’t expect people to calculate their carbon emissions and hardly get preachy about this subject, but it’s the little things that make the difference. Really, does bringing a mug or water bottle to work instead of using countless styrofoam cups in a day take that much effort?...
You had a...
I started today by spilling the entire contents of my water bottle in my bag. Everything got wet and my iPod’s completely destroyed. I can see the water inside the screen condensing (!). Irony? My warranty for it expired last month and I didn’t upgrade it cause I thought nothing bad would happen to it. Then I waited forever for the bus to work, and sat next to a crazy man for an hour...
Ivy - Let’s Stay Inside A week into work...
“That’s why it’s called the Night Safari. Because it’s dark.”
– Overheard last night. It ended up being less exciting than I remembered, but we had a squirrel fly (!) over our heads. Biggest delights: Our two tour guides on the tram that went around the safari. Total androids.
Most amazing gif ever →
I had nothing to say yesterday, and nothing to say today either because now it seems like both days are the same and the days will all be the same for the next 180 or so.I don’t know whether the Office marathon before I started made me feel worse about the whole monotony of this job. Dear Universe, please send me a Tim or a Jim and I will stop complaining.
Miss Li - Why Don’t You Love Me? She is...
The good that won't come out
Today was the start of a very long six months. If there’s anything that could make me completely lose the passion and enthusiasm I have for the creativity behind television, it’s my new job. Hey school, thanks for placing me in an studio where I don’t even have a proper seat and nobody really cares for how great Lost has gotten this season or whether they think Veronica Mars was...
Over the weekend, I (finally) watched the entire series of the Office UK. I’m going off to work soon, and I’m pretty sure half my thought process for the day will be restraining myself from having everything I say come out in a fake British accent.
Broken Social Scene - Swimmers: This song reminds...
TMI TMI!
You know what’s the worst? While at a pharmacy in Bangkok, your aunt (who’s in her mid 50s) asks for KY jelly, and when she’s given a tube of it, says it’s too small and asks for their biggest pack. I’ll stick with the thought that she’s filming a movie about aliens and needs it as fake slime.
“Re: Fun Yellow Slides -
I used to be a air hostess, I’ve been on the...”
– via Post Secret. Ohmygod, it’s part of the training they get? I guess I have a new ambition.
Favour:
If any of you have a sudden craving for chewable Vitamin C tablets, could you please buy a bottle from the brand Cetrinets and then have some and tell me what the taste reminds you of? It gives me happy nostalgic feelings of something that I loved but I don’t know what it is/was and I want to know so I don’t need to keep overdosing on Vitamin C just so I can have that happy feeling.
I am back but I just received terrible news from everywhere so this is not a good time to update. Maybe somewhere you guys are having a better time, I’ll be somewhere thinking of how my new manicure and haircut and all my new clothes pale in significance to everything else. Please hug your dad/mom/girlfriend/boyfriend/best friend/dog/everyone a little tighter tonight.
I’ll be in Bangkok for 5 days so it’s gonna be a little quiet around here. Let’s see how well I survive without the internet and daily episodes of Mythbusters.
Somebody's old throwaways
Inspired by this blog, I dug up all the Baby-sitters Club books I could find. God, I used to be such a fan. Now all I want to do is watch the 1995 movie adaptation (I remember taping it and watching it over and over on late afternoons after school. It was my go-to chick flick till I was 11) but I can’t find any torrents for it. Oh, why won’t someone upload it so I won’t have to...
More adventurous
Today over fast-melting cups of gelato, my dad told me of numerous adventures he had when he was younger. He has sailed around the world and pulled survivors from sinking ships and then refused any sort of reward or fame. He learned to peel oranges “the right way” in the deserts of Jordan. He missed his connecting flight while in Paris and stayed an extra four days on the...
Trespassers William - My Hands UpThe rain...
Hide and seek
When I was little, for no apparent reason, when I heard someone coming upstairs, I would run and hide behind the door to my parents’ room. Sometimes I would wait in that tiny dark corner looking out at the thin sliver of light through the gap, for minutes, for a very long time, enough time for imaginary dust to collect on my eyelashes and nose. It was always worth it when someone finally...
Christian and Lions - Skinny Fists I told her...
My brother and father came home today from the barber with similar MacGyver-mullet style haircuts. It is awful to look at. I am wondering if they are both trying to fool me, or if the barber that they went to was a time warp into the ’90s. I will stick with the latter theory, because then at least I know where to go when I want to watch old episodes of Power Rangers.
Feel good lost (or maybe not)
Everyone is going somewhere (my IM contact list is full of ‘going to’s and ‘here I come’s) but I am going nowhere, and going to be nowhere for a while. In a year maybe I will be happy and having adventures in Australia (swimming with dolphins and movies under stars and sitting opposite a boy with eyelashes like ink on the bus).
