New Year's Resolutions.

2008 in a few days, I figure I'd put my resolutions down. Here they are:
1) Lose weight
2) Be more efficient
3) Be less lazy
4) Study (I need a 80% grade average. Ugh. Also related to Number 3.)
5) Piss less people off
6) Be much less bitchy (Also linked to Number 5)
7) Join more clubs and, um, be active and whatnot (something that I would never, ever encourage someone to do. But I need a scholarship. Unfortunately for me, they don't only look at academics. Just as well, though. My grades are so sucking right now.)
8) Lose weight.

So. I'll try to, erm, keep to those stuffs above, especially Numbers 1, 3, 4, 7 and 8.

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Well, it's Christmas Eve, and I haven't done anything productive besides (in no particular order):
1) Eating
2) Going to the movies with my mom and watching National Treasure: Book Of Secrets
3) Listening to Tokio Hotel's Monsoon over, and over, and over, again (I dunno why, but I just love that song)
4) Stuffing my face
5) TRYING to learn Mandarin
6) Sleeping
7) Bingeing (on food, not alcohol)
8) Watching Hot Shots: Part Deux! on PayTV

Can't think of anything else right now. But when I do, it'll probably be something edible.

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Tales of Europe.

It is with ABSOLUTE GLEE(!!) that I write this:

My mom's boss just came back from his Europe (London, France, Spain!) trip (with his friends and their families, and his as well), and man, they finally blew their top!! They used the same tour guide they always did, which is Annie, who went with the whole bunch of us to Hong Kong. (I hate that bitch because among other things, she's the reason I only got to spend three hours in Hong Kong Disneyland. AND IT WAS MY FIRST TIME IN A DISNEYLAND, EVER!!!! THREE FUCKING HOURS!!!). Anyway, by the time my mom and I were halfway through that trip, we were pretty much complaining, to each other, at least, 'cos the trip's free for us. If I complained outright, I probably can't go for free the next time or summat. Yeah. Like I'm gonna go if that bitch is still hanging around.

My mom's going to Beijing in a bit, and if I want to go (which I can't, 'cos I've got class), she'd have to pay for me. Knowing how her bunch is going to pretty much mess everything up (and I've been to Beijing anyway), I said, "Hellz, no". (My mom said, "Bitchings should be done on free trips"). Even if it was free, it'll probably be another Hong Kong.

Anywho, on our trip, my mom's boss and his two friends are pree-ty high up in the government, and that's why Annie was cozying up to the eldest son of my mom's boss's friend (I reckon, 'cos he's the only one around her age group that's loaded) in HK. I call him Imhotep, because he REALLY looks like Arnold Vosloo in The Mummy movies (that, and, well, I don't really know the guy's name), except darker, shorter (I think), and scrawnier. HE wanted to stay at Disneyland until 8pm, and my mom thought that Annie was going back with us at 4. If bitch had told us that she was staying with those remaining till 8, I wouldn't have to GO BACK AT 4-FRIGGIN'-PM!!!!

My mom's office (and herself) didn't go to Europe, but the same Three did. The tour guide's the one that has to basically herd everyone around, and make sure they don't get lost. That's why they're called the guide. My mom heard (from her boss), that they were the ones that had to keep an eye out on where she is, and that instead of staying in the city (where, I would say, the heart of everything is), they stayed in this hotel really outside of town (or is it, Hostel? *wink wink*). Turns out, most of their trip was spent on the bus, travelling to and fro. And Bitch is really trying to sink her claws into Immi. The whole bunch caught her leaning on his chest(??!!) once (I'm not sure about the 'chest' part because that came from my mom. Shoulder, yeah, but Chest sounds a bit off. Doesn't really seem possible... Anyway, main point: body contact). As Sebastian (one of my fave characters from Little Britain) once said, "Oh, she's so BLATANT!!!" Mind you, that time he was referring to Simon Callow. Haha. Luckily for Immi, though, he's kinda a momma's boy, and his mother DOESN'T approve of Annie!

Oo, oo!! And they had trouble at Customs 'cos you're supposed to follow what's written in the passport to the letter, and Annie added 'Dato' ' before each person's name in that form thingy before entry. Suck-up. It's like Ian McKellen going around putting 'Sir' before his name in forms and stuff. I thought he was rather miscast as Magneto and Leigh Teabing, but he certainly has the voice, for those characters. (Loud and booming! Yeah!). Anyway, I think they were trying to get past Customs without attracting attention, because they were in London, and they're Muslim. You get the picture.

So, they just came back two days ago, landing in Singapore for a connecting flight back home. After they landed here, Annie told them to collect Boss's daughter's bag. And they were like, "Why? Shouldn't the bags be in KL?" (Daughter's to take separate connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur). But they did anyway, thinking it was a mistake, and afterwards, didn't put too much thought into it.

Bombshell during dinner: They were eating together (Bitch had already gone home), and that's when the daughter called. From Singapore. Yup. Apparently Annie messed up arrangements, so they wouldn't let the daughter board the flight to KL. In a nutshell, she's stuck in Singapore.

So they called Annie. And she wouldn't pick up! Meaning she knew! Anyway, an hour later, they managed to get the poor girl a flight back. Home, not KL. See the massive grin on my face as I'm typing this.

Next day, the Boss kept trying to call the tour agency to talk to Annie but they kept saying she was out. So he asked my mom to call instead. Once Annie was on the line, she passed it to him! Minutes later (same building), Bitch rushed up to the office and was apologizing. After the whole row, she sent the Boss a text message apologizing, and saying that she felt like she was treating him like her uncle, meaning like family. I was like, "If she was treating the bunch of you like family, she wouldn't have stranded your friggin' daughter in Singapore!"

These bunch of people have been using Annie for countless of trips. And only now the find out that she really, really sucks?? My mom said that they might be complaining to the Tourism Board about this. Honestly, I don't think that threat's going to come through, but it'd be an interesting day at the office. Well, till next week, anyway. Tomorrow's the weekend.

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The telly's back!

And I officially feel more alive! Been feeling rather dead the past coupla' days because the TV broke down. Right now our current telly is really tiny (the square of the whole telly is the same size as our big TV's screen), but it DEFINITELY is better than no TV at all. And I was running out of DVD's to watch. Apparently we don't have that many. C'est la vie.

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Heroes: Generations Chapter 10: Truth And Consequences

I have no idea why, but I just realised that I forgot to put a summary up the week before last. Huh.

(You know the drill.)

Sylar with his shirt off!! Maya knocks on his door while he's killing Alejandro, so he pretends that he was in the shower. Then they make out. Wow. First Milo Ventimiglia and now Zachary Quinto. Not that I'm complaining or anything. No, sirree...

I feel like strangling Micah's STOOPID cousin. And kicking him multiple times.

Bob shows up at the Bennet's place, and gives them HRG's ashes (ah, but we all know that HRG isn't dead!). Before they leave, she release HRG's ashes into the sea. Now, Elle was asked by Bob to follow them around, but wasn't careful enough, till Claire spotted her after she emptied HRG's urn. The part when Elle was trying to get away was really funny. Her right arm's in a sling, and she's holding a drink with her left, and she's also trying to start the car with her left, and she finally drops the whole drink. I couldn't stop laughing.

Hiro finds out that Takezo Kensei = Adam Monroe, and Hiro teleports back 30 years ago to see what happened to Adam. He sees the guards apprehend Adam before taking him in. Young Kaito talks to Young Victoria, and he says he'll lock up the virus. Young Vicky is pressing for it to be destroyed, but Kaito refuses, so she quits. (Funny, if she quit-ted the Company when she was young, then why is Joanna Cassidy in the Original 12 photo? Unless I misinterpreted the whole situation).

Anyway, Peter and Adam go to Odessa to get the virus, and time freezes. Peter turns around, and Hiro is there, wanting to kill Adam. Peter won't allow Hiro to do so (because he's just gullible that way!) and Hiro raises his sword, yells and charges at Peter. Peter readies a lightning ball, and as Hiro charges at him, the camera zooms in onto the sword, with the blue light reflecting off the Kensei sign. Sweet!

By the way, I was wrong. Sylar only called Mohinder in this episode; they don't meet till the next.

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Heroes: Generations Chapter 11: Powerless

Well, this is the final episode of the current Heroes season, since the Hollywood writers' strike isn't resolved yet, and no writers means no scripts, and no scripts means no stories. And no stories means REALITY TV ALL DAY!!! ARRRGHHHHHH!!!

(Meh, spoilers)

Niki goes to save Monica, building's burning and finally blows up. That's really lousy. I mean, Niki's one of the regulars... And Monica should really watch Assassins. There's this scene where Antonio Banderas breaks his thumb and slides his hand out of the cuffs. Now THAT's cool...

Matt and Nathan go to intercept Peter and Adam in Texas. Nathan flew and Matt rode on his back. Heehee. Hiro got to do his "FLYING MAHNN!!" routine (gosh, I miss that), and they go in to stop Peter. (Seriously, Peter's really gullible this time around. My mom doesn't follow the show and even SHE knew that Adam was the bad guy at first glance. She was like, "Why's Peter talking to that guy? He looks bad." Then I said, "Yes he is, mom. He was Mr. Sark in Alias.")

Elle is rebuked by Bob for messing up the stakeout (Claire discovering her last week was still the funniest thing to happen). She's upset, so after talking to HRG (who's still alive, yay), she goes to Bob's office and checks his spy cams. And sees Sylar in Mohi's lab. Ooo...

Claire's so boring for me, I'm not even gonna bother.

I thought this episode was okay. The best part was when Maya starts freaking out about her brother (she finally finds out that Sylar killed Alejandro) and Sylar rolls his eyes, turns around and shoots her. Really, from the exasperated look he had, Maya had that coming a looong time. Anyway, Maya is Reversed, as Sylar told Mohi to test the cure on her first. If she comes back to life, he'll take it to heal himself, 'cuz he has the same strain of the Shanti virus as Niki (Oooo...).

(I saw forums; someone said that particular scene was like Sylar saying, "Let's bring Maya back to piss the fans off!" That really made me laugh. Not that I hate Maya or anything, I just found her storyline dull. She was like Matt in Season 1. And she was a bit too gullible and kept saying "GAH-bri-ELL..." all the time. She REALLY had that one coming... Pity her brother though).

Anyway, Elle comes along and saves everyone. But she didn't get Sylar though.

Press conference. Nathan's about to tell everyone that he could fly when he gets shot. As everyone's crowding around Nathan, we see someone walking out of the room. Looks like HRG. Darn.

End of Volume 2.

Volume 3's called Villains (now that's a cool opposite-thingy there!), and we see Sylar use the cure on himself, and try his telekinesis out on a poor, unsuspecting spinach can. (My first thoughts were, "First Spock, now POPEYE!! He's on FIRE!!"). Telekinesis works.

(Ironically, even though Vol. 3 = Villains, initially Sylar isn't going to be in it much, because Zachary Quinto's doing Star Trek, but with the strike on now, by the time he's done filming, he'll be able to come back to the show, and make everyone's lives miserable. Nice.)

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(Because what happened today, well, I just couldn't put it in a title!)

Well, I was driving to class today, and there's this car looking meshed up from behind, and the thing was, it's between on the curb, between the tree and the college proper. And I was like, "How on EARTH did that car get all the way THERE??!" But I think I saw some cops, so I tried not to stare too much, and drove into the college.

The whole bunch of us were pretty much talking about the accident. Sze Mun said she turned into the college driveway, stopped, stared, until someone behind her honked, then she moved. That was just about the funniest thing I've ever heard.

So anyway, I reckoned that said crumpled car was trying to turn into the college or something, when the car behind rammed into it, causing it to go between, well, in the awkward position it's in now. The back did look pretty bad...

So after class, as I was turning out, I got the chance to see the side and front of the car. Oh BOY WAS IT RUINED!!! Front was smashed, side was all, well, WRONG!!! It looked like the car was on the curb, minding its own business, when ALLUVA SUDDEN, this TREE comes along and impales the poor thing on its side. Or vice versa, where the tree's just standing there, and the car comes falling on him. But then the car would be in the foliage and we'd be looking up and there'd be a pileup cos everyone'd wanted to get higher and higher to see the wreckage and the college entrance would be blocked and everyone can't get in cos they closed off the other entrance and we'd have to walk and no one would show up cos nobody wants to walk and they'd have to close the college down temporarily. (Try saying the previous sentence really fast). NO CLASSES FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK!!!

But I digress. This is very serious business. Hope to read about it in the papers to see what actually happened.

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Dream-related postage.

So over the course of the past few days, I didn't have any spit- or bathroom-related dreams. Lucky me.

Last night though, I had another one about Lestat (and by that I mean Stuart Townsend. Seriously! Why?!!). Can't remember too much about the Lestat one though.

And also. Bugs. Lots and lots, of bugs.

From the usual small beetle-ish ones that have the tendency to fly into my hair, to the more exotic and weird-looking insects. For instance, a few days ago, a beetle (of the first sort) flew in, and was apparently either 1) too fat, 2) too exhausted, or 3) a combination of the two, to fly out of my window. And so he crawled everywhere that was behind my old computer. From the back to the front, and to the back again. And when finally(!) he had enough strength(/energy?) to fly out, he flew about aimlessly, missed the window, hit the wall, and fell back in the area behind my computer. Sheesh. I haven't heard from him in a while, so hopefully, he's either out, or dead.

I dreamt about said beetle yesterday. And there was this white spider with black streaks about the size of a tarantula (but not as hairy), that was hanging around the snack cart (well, it doesn't have snacks on it, but I eat snacks on it. And I also leave everything else on it) in the living room. He fell into a bag with some DVD's in them (I think it was a DVD. And no, I can't remember which movie it was. Might be The Producers. But I think that it may have been The Producers because my mom and I just watched it yesterday). Anywho, I grabbed the bag, crumpled it up (cos I was REALLY grossed out!) and went to the balcony to fling it out. Then I stopped to wonder whether I should've taken the DVD out before I scrunched the bag up. I mean, if I lobbed the bag out, my mom's gonna yell at me, and if I don't, I'm going to be the one doing the yelling the entire day.

I can't recall whether I'd reached a decision or not, but next thing I knew, this huge blue insect crawled up onto some... thingy on the floor, in front of the telly (which is weird, because we sent the TV for fixing yesterday. And yet in my dream, the telly's still in the usual place). Anyway, I started the usual yelling, and my mom nudged (slightly kicked?) the box-thingy, and the insect broke into half. I was like, "Ewwww...", and then, as I looked at the bottom half of said gross insect, it kinda layered up. I mean, I could see its insides and all, but looking from the top down, the bottom half looked like it had more than it originally did, after my mom kicked the box. Then I looked closer at the top half, and then I realised that it was a FROG! A BLUE FROG!! Right now I figured it's because I kept looking at my Azureus icon too much, but in my dream I didn't think of that yet. I was like, "Ohmigosh, it's regenerating!" (I really watch too much Heroes). And I looked at both halves, and sure enough, they were slowly rebuilding(?) themselves. I sat down to stare at them a bit longer, but unfortunately then, I woke up.

Right now I'm going to stuff my face. Surprisingly, our kitchen isn't swarmed with bugs. It's infested by lizards.

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