I am currently...

...having an apple, and hoping my lower gums don't slide into the base of my mouth because that apple is HARD! (Or super-crunchy, if you prefer.).

I am also typing this with one hand.

I just found out that The Rocky Horror Show will be touring here from mid-September. If I'd known that they'd be coming, I wouldn't have spent RM300+ on Wicked, as much as the plot had intrigued me.

Now, I've to find people to go with, because my Mom doesn't want me to go by myself, and I also have to bring Mom round to my side, because I made the mistake of telling her that the movie was a cult classic, and she doesn't dig the word 'cult'. Also, I've to save money 'cuz a ticket'll probably be $100+ as well.

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The end of an era.

[A TV-show era, if you will, 'least till I start GX.]

I just finished Yu-Gi-Oh! a few days ago (forgot to blog about it because the Internet/laptop was being cruel to me since then). Sniff. Now I'm gonna miss putting off episodes, teens doing nothing else but play card games, and watching people yell out their monsters' names when they launch attacks. I mean, they're just holograms (the monsters).

The show has about 220 episodes, all of which revolve around someone dueling with another person for something, either in a competition or to save the world or something. As Abridged Kaiba tells Yugi in YGO: The Abridged Movie, "The same way we solve all our problems on this show. By playing CHILDREN'S CARD GAMES!!"

Anyway, as silly as the premise might sound, I was seriously addicted to it. And now I've finished it. Sob.

I have no idea why I find a show about a bunch of teenagers/adults playing a children's card game so addictive. And now I can't watch The Big Bang Theory, because our landlady's tracking our Internet usage, and streaming is like downloading as well, so it sucks. And since we're sharing the bandwith with the next house, Internet = slownesh.

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Wicked.

I went to watch Wicked yesterday with Sophia. For the unitiated, Wicked is a stage musical show chronicling the life of the Wicked Witch of the West from her point of view (yes, the one from Oz!).

This is my first time watching a show of this kind, so needless to say, I was acting a little bit 38 during the whole time, gawking at the set. The extent of my 38-ness also includes me thinking that everyone was leaving during the intermission, because a whole bunch of people stood up and walked out of the theatre. I know now that they were just going to the bathroom (because there was a long line when I went.). I took a photo (I'll upload it later), but only one, since I thought that the ushers would take my camera away or something. I found out later that they would just ask you to KEEP IT. Crap.

So, on with the about-show. It paints the Elphaba, the Wicked Witch in a far much better light, saying that she was a victim of circumstance (propaganda, more like), and that she wasn't really bad to begin with.

She wasn't really bad to end with, anyway.

To be honest... I. Loved. It. Period. The songs aren't bad, but the storyline is fantastic.

I was OhMyGod-ing all the way through Act II, which ties in with Dorothy's coming to Oz, and the origins of her three comrades. It also shows how the flying monkeys came to be, how the Wicked Witch of the East got her infamous Ruby Slippers, and how her death by Barn-Falling was no accident. And don't forget, who Elphaba's real father is (because her parents are both white, she is green).

And... HAPPY ENDING! She didn't die. She manages to reunite with her lover, and they both run off.

Thuh End.

Tickets were $113 a pop, and Sophia and I manage to get the last two seats in the show because someone returned their tickets. Anyway, yay for us!

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Update...!

I'm back to watching Yu-Gi-Oh! again, since I spent the whole of Monday (or is it Sunday?) watching YGO!: Capsule Monsters. It wasn't as bad as LittleKuriboh put it to be (in his Abridged Cr@psule Monsters 2, he said, "Previously, on crap..."). CM2 wasn't as funny as CM1, but I loved the Army of Darkness reference. And that bit about the invisible bicycle.

On a different note entirely, I've finished my Math assignment! Yay! And I finished it one-week-plus before the due date. Which is the 4th. Yay again.

Now on with my Finance assignment! The one with a thousand-odd words! And I can sum the entire thing up in THREE WORDS:


Damn, I'm screwed.

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Cartoons.

Just finished watching The Nutcracker Prince, a movie I saw a long, long time ago, and stumbled on again yesterday, when I was looking for Twelve Months (found the Spanish dub, but I want the English one, it's nicer).

I remember that actress voicing Clara was Megan Follows, but I was shocked to find out that Kiefer Sutherland voiced the Nutcracker. Like, Jack BAUER?!! I mean, his voice is quite low, I'd remember if the Nutcracker sounded like a grown-up dude (because the Nutcracker's supposed to be 14 years old.). But watching this again, if I didn't know it was Sutherland, I never would have guessed.

Sniff, sniff. Is feeling nostalgic now :p

Found The Princess And The Goblin! And Thumbelina!! MY Thumbelina!! Ohmigosh, I'm on a roll! xD

Now I have to find Jack And The Beanstalk (Gene Kelly!), Twelve Months (of course), Tooth Fairy, Where Are You?, and this cartoon where they jumble up all the fairytales or something, the title of which I can't recall. Damn.

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2009 Movie List

[Yes, I know it's way early. But I'm really excited about the movies next year.]

I wanted to do this a few days earlier, but then the ants were holding court. This, by no way, is arranged by date of release, but instead, on the ones that I want to see the most. Will include/update with/correct release dates, when known.

1) Watchmen (6.3.09)
Look at the date! 6 + 3 = 9! zOMG!
Just spent the whole of last night reading the series (12 issues). Gripping storyline, plus Rorschach = Major pwnage. And the trailer looked really awesome.

2) Transformers 2: The Revenge of the Fallen(!!!!) (26.6.09)
Star Trek was initially Number Two, but this just in!! Aieeeeeee!

3) Star Trek (8.5.09)
I'm not a huge Trekkie fan (The Next Generation is pretty much the only spin-off I can stomach, probably 'cuz I saw it before I knew of the word 'spin-off'), but I am interested in seeing Zachary Quinto pull off Spock. Maybe he'll telekinetically slice someone's head off in the movie, although that's very much an unlikelylong shot.

4) The Spirit
Directed by Frank Miller. Think of it as Sin City with color. And like that movie, I'll be watching it just for the visuals.

5) Inkheart (9.1.09)
9 x 1 = 9! WOW! [I really have to stop doing this.]
'Cuz the trailer looked awesome. And Brendan Fraser.

6) Angels and Demons (15.5.09)
This book was way, way, way better than The Da Vinci Code, and therefore, must be read, read, read. Let's see how this translates on-screen, 'cuz TDVC: The Movie was a disappointment.

7) Erm... Dragonball? (8.4.09)
For fun. And to check out how big everyone's hair will be.

Falsely alarmed when I saw Avatar, but it's the James Cameron one, not the awesome one about element-benders. For those who haven't heard the great news yet, Avatar: The Last Airbender (in some places, The Legend of Aang) is about to get its own live-action trilogy, one for each book (season). The only slight (depends on how you look at it) downside is that the movies will be directed by M. Night Shyamalan, who's pretty much been criticized since Unbreakable (and even then, the movie got quite some flak. I thought it was okay.).

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Undone by Tim-Tams.

So, for the past four months or so, I've been living in a dump (because I'm really lazy in cleaning up, and getting around in my room requires me to circumnavigate around shoes, luggage, prone plastic bags, laundry bag, coke bottles, and other such-likes.

Because my desk is cluttered as it is, I put my opened packet of Tim-Tams on my food area.

That's when the ants came.

As per title, the Tim-Tams are my undoing.

Took me a half hour to compose myself and touch all the food items (and I mean, ALL) that the ants have or probably have gone over, another hour putting them in plastic bags (luckily they were lying in abundance all over the room, so they were quite far away from the ants and I could use them), another hour bringing the trash down from my room, two more hours spent on pouring detergent all over the infested area, wiping away the ants, and flinging globs of detergen on the wall (especially at the hole where the ding-dongs came from), and another hour taping up the crevices where I think the bloody ants are coming out from. Which wasn't easy, since they seemed to be coming out from the built-in inactive radiator/air-conditioner thingy in my room. I miss you, flat surfaces.

Because of this bloody incident, I must.... KEEP CLEAN!! *GASP!* Well, at least for a while, so that the ants don't come back. So no more leaving food items on the floor, no more leaving pots/bowl, etc. unwashed till I got less lazy, and no more leaving finished food wrappers and stuff in the room until I finally remember to throw them out.

As of now, I have yet to wipe the shelves of the soap yet. My mom says I should keep it like that for a while, which is totally fine by me, since I don't think I'll be stocking up on food anytime soon. Only thing is, the fumes from detergen's kinda making me ill.

I should really clean the wall, though; soap's left white marks and I've to tell the landlady about the ant-hole.

[Oh, and I'm boycotting Tim-Tams now.]

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Silent Snow, Secret Snow...

So on Saturday, we went up to Mt. Buller, this ski resort thingy. It was LOADS OF FUN!! Got some pictures of the scenery below (I don't really dig putting pics of myself on the Net). Like the idiot I was, I didn't bring gloves (I didn't even bring it from back home) because the thought never really crossed my mind.

We were supposed to take the 5am tram down to the city, where we THEN take the 6.30am tour bus up to the mountains. Unlike my friends who slept during the entire 4-5 hour drive up, I, for the life of me, couldn't sleep, I don't think it was because I was too excited or something. Basically the entire bus ride was pretty much crap, as I get motion sickness really easily, and wearing all those extra layers didn't really make me feel more comfortable. I envy Sophia; on our ride up the windy roads, she dozed all the way. Sigh.

[Pics later, 'cuz my stupid connection's being an eff-tard at the moment.]

Anyway, we reached the top at about 11am, and there was SNOW!! IT WAS SO COOL!! (no pun intended). And there was ice everywhere, and I was trying not to slip and fall on my bum. So we took the chairlifts up, six of us meaning three on each lift, and our first ride up (Esther, Sophia and I) we didn't put on that bar-thingy in front of us because we didn't know (Sophia and I found out the second time we sat on the lift with Wei Lynn). It was quite intense. I wonder what would've happened if one of my sneakers dropped onto the heads of one of the people below. High-ho Sneaker, AWAY!!

After reaching one of the peaks, we started throwing snowballs at each other. I played for a while, before my hands hurt from the cold winds and I had to shove them back in my pockets. We went back down for lunch, and we came back up again to traverse the slopy, snowy terrain (yes, I think I can actually USE the word 'traverse', since we walked really, REALLY far to get to the snowtube area). It didn't help that I couldn't put my hands out to keep my balance, since the ice was really slippery, but I managed to trudge along till we reached the chairlifts on the other side.

The snowtubes, weren't really much. Basically, you just sit in this oversized round swimming-type float, and they spin you down this slightly slopy area. I got disoriented. My friends were still playing around with that, since it did cost $20, and since Sophia's feet started aching ('cuzza the cold), we went down to this café by the second set of lifts. Even when we were still in the warm, we could still see our breaths in vapors. It was so AWESOME!!

After they were done, we went on the second set, back to the bus area, because they leave at 4.10pm. The second one was quite scary; I was sitting on the right-hand side of the bench, and it felt like it slightly tipping over to my side. Halfway they stopped (I think to get some other people on or something), and we were hovering over this HUGE drop. It was kinda funny 'cuz Wei Lynn wouldn't stop screaming. But anyway, it didn't really help with the wind blowing snow in our direction, and in my eyes. The whole side of my bag was covered with snow.

Lucky for us, it didn't start raining till we got on the bus. With my pink wintercoat, I still looked like an oversized candy treat. Haha.

So it was another five hours till we finally got back to Box Hill. I slept for like a bloody half hour (not of my own accord, of course), and for the rest of the trip, I've to put up with this little Chinese girl talking to her seatmate about herself and High School Musical. (I think she went on for about an hour or so). Wei Lynn started to imitate her after a while; I didn't really notice till I noticed she wasn't talking normally. I know it's mean, but I couldn't help but laugh.

The little girl went on to talk about Sharpay and Gabrielle, which was a bit annoying, since she kept saying "Lava STRINGS. LAVA! LAVA!!" to her seatmate (I'm guessing it's Lava SPRINGS, since the girl mentioned that Sharpay's parents owned it or something, I'unno. I don't really watch teenage crap.). I couldn't help sniggering, and Sophia said, "If you listen to her long enough, you'll soon talk like her." Which is quite true, actually. Hahaha.

All in all, we spent about $110 each, including meals (I spent a bit more than that because I bought Recharge), and we were joking around saying that one of Aaron's could pay for ALL six of us (because Aaron and his housemates went for like, two-three days starting Friday, and it's costing them $600+ a pop.).

But jokes aside, we found out that Lih Yii fractured her pelvic bone while on the trip yesterday (they were supposed to return last evening). As of yesterday, she's still warded up in the mountains (apparently, it's like a mini-town with hospitals and universities. Yes. Universities.), and will be until they deem her well enough to be moved to a better hospital or something. Luckily she has Aaron and some of the others with her; company and moral support are good in a time like this. Hope she gets well soon ^^

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Friday Night Lights.

[For the heck of it, the one in my room, and the ones along the highway. And it's also a Friday night.]

Recovering from Monday's sudden spurt of productivity, I have been sitting around doing absolutely nothing but watching Yu-Gi-Oh! on YouTube, loading and re-loading The Big Bang Theory (thanks for recommendation Hui Ming!) on YouKu, and playing computer games.

I have not touched my assignment(s) since then.

Thanks to the lack of inactivity in terms of 'loading' on YouKu, I now have 100 episodes of YGO! left. I've been watching bits and partial episodes of TBBT, and even though I haven't amassed enough of the show's jokes and punchlines, I still say that the discussion on the science of Superman, where Lois Lane should've been cut into three pieces when she falls into (or through?) Superman's arms, takes the cake.

Speaking of Superman, I read on Perezzers that they might be bringing in Johnny Depp to be the Riddler in Rebooted-Batman 3. Having Jim Carrey's cheeky grinning mug forciblyfirmly etched (I'm not saying that this is a bad thing, though) in my mind, I can't really imagine Depp being the Riddler. The Penguin might also pay a visit as well, and although Philip Seymour Hoffman isn't a bad choice, he really isn't short enough.

[BRING BACK DANNY DEVITO!!]

(Although, his take on Penguin is Burton-ish, the style of which I feel that the new franchise is trying to erase. The Joker, anybody?)

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