January 2010
39 posts
While learning to drive...
Me: Ahh!! What do I do if there's a bird in the way?
Mom: Just drive, it's hardwired to fly away!
Me: Well, not according to that episode of Seinfeld.
Mom: You need to stop believing everything on television. Especially Seinfeld.
She hasn't even heard about about my irrational fear of flying from Sydney to L.A. after watching Lost.
Thoughts Before Falling Asleep #2
29 Jan. Est 2:30 AM:
I’m straddling the fine line between heavy breathing and actual snoring.
Songs Before Falling Asleep #1 (In which I...
Thoughts Before Falling Asleep #1
I shall spend the next week chronicling the last thing I remember before falling asleep the previous night:
28 Jan. Est 1:15 AM:
If Jesse Eisenberg and those skinny arms of his managed to survive a zombie apocalypse, I’m pretty sure I can too.
“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a...”
– Carl Jung
Heartbreak and Home Runs: The Power of First... →
“Someone can be a primitive neophyte when it comes to writing, but when you get them to talk about their first kiss, you see eloquence, poetry, metaphor, synecdoche, and hyperbole,” says John Bohannon III, a psychologist at Butler University who studies first kisses. That sensation of disembodiment—pleasurable during a kiss, aversive when you first suffer the death of a loved one—is...
“Before we end this rodeo, a few things need to be said. There has been a lot of...”
– Conan Fucking O’Brien.
(via monkeyknifefight) | uprightcitizens
What a classy, classy man. RESPECT.
My Body is a Cage by Peter Gabriel originally by...
In the past three weeks, I've baked:
- Blueberry Butter Cake
- Blueberry-lemon Muffins
- Blueberry Crumble Bars
- Mixed Berry Cheesecake
I shall overuse these things until summer is over.
Don't be afraid to sing
For most of my life, I’ve leaned towards introversion. I wouldn’t exactly call myself shy, but a better word would be inhibited, sometimes to the point of being overly self-conscious in situations where I don’t need to be. I don’t know why I am like this exactly, perhaps it was due to a combination of slight nerdiness, an unfortunate onset of acne, and the Asian quality of...
“Animation is not just for children; it is also for drug-taking adults.”
– Sir Paul McCartney, presenting for Best Animated Feature. Love it.
Bad Poets Society
I found these two lines scribbled in an old notebook:
She puts mascara on in the mornings
So strangers call her their darling
Up in the Air
Alex: You're young, right now you see settling as some sort of a failure.
Natalie: It is. By definition.
Alex: By the time someone's right for you, it won't feel like settling.
DeLoreans and Dinosaurs
Too many kids right now probably have never watched any of the Ghostbusters or Back to the Future or (original) Star Wars or Indiana Jones movies. Heck, I wouldn’t be surprised if they haven’t seen Jurassic Park or E.T..
They don’t know the response to “Who you gonna call!?”, or wanted a DeLorean/time-machine for their Christmas present. They haven’t had...
I don't know why I enjoy random movie trivia like...
In Ghostbusters II, the kid who tells Ray that, according to his dad, the Ghostbusters are “full of crap” is played by Jason Reitman, the son of director Ivan Reitman. The same Jason Reitman who grew up to direct Juno and Up In the Air.
The more you know!
Bitter Batter Better
For some reason, I’ve always felt sorry for that little bit of batter left in your mixing bowl after you’ve poured everything else out onto the baking pan. The little bit that you can’t scoop out no matter what you use, so you end up washing it down the kitchen sink. I don’t know why I feel so bad for that bit of batter, never given its chance to fully become a cake or a...
Blueberry Boy Bait →
I love recipes that come with a story attached.
In 1954, a 15-year-old girl stole the show (but only won second prize) in the junior division of an early Pillbury Bake-Off with a variation of this recipe, named, she said, after the effect it had on boys.
Can’t wait to bake this tomorrow!
What is it about fireworks
That make them so endlessly captivating? After all, it’s just patterns of light and a bunch of explosions. Common sense should tell you to run from it, not stare at them for ages and ages. But I think maybe that’s why I love them so much. It makes me feel like Luke Skywalker or Alice in Wonderland, like I’m the star of my own adventure movie or fairytale story, all alive and...
