Bee fucking Season

Spent the whole fucking afternoon killing bees. And my housemates are idiots.

Why? I'll tell ya.

Apparently, the bees are currently out for pollen during the day. They're everywhere. Now, every time someone finishes using the bathroom, they open the window.

Big mistake.

The bees come in, and being idiots themselves as well, they can't get out. They finally die when it's night.

Normally, when I see the two or three bees hanging about, I just use the other bathroom.

Today was an exception.

Some idiot also thought that today would be the day to USE THE BATHROOM LIGHT in the morning.

And so, the bees came in droves. Through the crack in the door, I saw at least 6 hanging about the fluorescent lights. I can even hear the buzzing from my room (I dunno whether it's 'cuz my walls are thin, or the buzzing is really that loud.).

For people who happen to be university students, they're pretty dense when it comes to cause-and-effect. I mean, it's not the first time this sorta thing has happened. It's been going on for the past coupla weeks.

Anyway, the other bathroom was infested as well, because another idiot also liked opening windows.

I had to go take a dump downstairs. It's something I try to avoid, since I DON'T STAY DOWNSTAIRS. But that's not the point here.

As if the infested bathrooms weren't enough, the bees made their way into my room (up till now, I have no idea how they got in). Instead of an afternoon spent on studying, I had to slam the windows on those nasty little fuckers, because they just won't fucking die. Really. One bee had his body cut in half, and he was still trying to fly through the glass. For ten minutes, least. Amazing.

I was thinking about calling the landlady, but someone else beat me to it. Kudos. At least now I can shower without having to circumnavigate my way through 20 tiny, wriggling, will-not-fucking-die insects on the bathroom floor.

[To be honest, I don't know that they're bees, even though they're striped yellow and black. Maybe they're wasps or fucking hornets or something.]

All my fingers are hurting now, since I spent most of the afternoon gripping the window and sliding them open and shut to get the bees out. And my piano practical is on Thursday. Woo-fucking-hoo.

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The Times Higher Education World University Rankings

So I just looked through the top 100, and my uni is nowhere in sight. Sigh.

For the rest of you interested in where your university ranked, linkie below:

The Times Higher Education - QS World University Rankings

Another reason to WANT to go to Harvard. Or Yale, or Cambridge, or Oxford...

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Found this offa Perezzers...

This is too cute to NOT embed. Enjoy.



28/12/2014: Re-posted because embed was dead.

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Books, books, books...

Is now working on Anne Rice's Lasher, although since I just collected Queen of the Damned (also by her) this morning, I'll probably divide my time between the two. And exams are in less than a month.

Sigh.

And the edition of QotD I'm having right now (the only one available in the uni) doesn't have Stuart Townsend on the cover.

Dubblesigh-er.

So I bought my first Dean Koontz book a few weeks ago, The House of Thunder. It wasn't thick, but it was gripping enough. Got it for $5.75, which translates to RM18. Not bad for a book that normally retails for RM32.95 or something.

Finished Cry to Heaven (also Anne Rice; I'm going wild here) some time back. It was okay for me, although the revenge bit was what kept me going.

Right now my desk is swamped with textbooks and literature on the Romantic era in music history. It's for an assignment due this Monday, but somehow I'm not really panicking yet. I've still like, 500+ words left. Normally I finish everything a week before and go into editing mode, but... meh. Every moment I can, I go around playing Delicious – Emily's Tea Garden and watching Yu Yu Hakusho whenever new vids're uploaded.

Crap. Why am I overloading on self-confidence?

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"Don't get hot and fluh-HUH-STERED!

...Use a bit of MUH-HUH-STARD!"

[woulda blogged yesterday, but laptop was being a bitch.]

Watched Rocky Horror LIVE yesterday (and didn't think of bringing my camera to actually just take photos of the stage and stuff, ugh), and...

I TOTALLY FREAKING LOVED IT!!!

Front row balcony, best seat ever. I could even see the band do their thing, which was totally, totally awesome. Honestly, I think I was the Chines–nay, ASIAN there. Everyone else was white, goth, punk, and/or old. Audience members were mostly middle-aged to old, as Rocky Horror has been around since the mid-70's.

They even included audience participation!! Well, sorta. About 15-20 minutes before the show started, they sent the dancers into the audience to stir things up. So the guy the balcony got had on fishnets, denim very-short-and-very-tight shorts, some kind of half tank-top thingy, and full-on tranny make-up. He proceeded to bend over quite a bit and cause a lot of discomfort among us females (which is very funny when it's not happening to you). After a while, he moved up to the back, where I think he kinda satleaned(?) on this old lady who, when I was looking, couldn't stop laughing.

When he came back down, he crossed our row from right to left, SLOWly. As I was on aisle left, he had to cross this middle-aged couple before me, the lady of which, poked/slapped/smacked his bum when the guy passed her (I don't know which, I was too busy laughing). Like, her husband was with her! Hahaha!

After he passed me, he was standing on the steps (elevated seating, facing the back row). I, on the other hand, was trying my bestest not to look at the guy, since staring is totally weird in my current situation. He was standing there for a while, so finally, I gave. I looked up at the guy.

He winked at me.

I totally giggled (he was kinda cute ;)), throwing in an "Oh my God" while doing so, while Mrs. Butt-Pincher next to me was laughing hers off as well.

I noticed the people downstairs weren't having much luck either. Since the dancers below had the stage, well, let's just say it's POSING TIME!!!

Then the show started!

Even though it was only two hours, they still had an intermission (the term meaning 'mad rush to the bathroom'). At the end of it, the band played a medley of the show's songs. So cool to see them play live.

Costume-wise, the show is much more different than the movie, with the Transylvanians dressed way more provocatively than their black-suited counterparts in the movie. Additional song lyrics (additional song as well, cut out from the movie), and dialogue and storyline is slightly different (to suit the stage, 'cuz the pool bit's kinda impossible to emulate on stage.)

One thing's for sure, though: Rocky Horror Live is very, VERY MUCH dirtier! During Don't Dream It, Be It, they unveiled a giant lifesized plastic penis (YA RLY!), after which it shot out CONFETTI. HEART-shaped confetti. At all of us! I was gawkinglaughing at the same time 'cuz that sure as hell wasn't in the movie! xD

I loved the end of the show. Usually after a show ends, the players come out, bow, bow a bit more, then leave. Well, in our instance, everyone was walking away, except for guy playing Riff-Raff. And he yells to the audience,

"Melbourne! Would you like to do... the TIME WARP AGAIN!!"

[The Time Warp is Rocky Horror's signature song.]

Everyone cheered like mad. It was a friggin' ENCORE!!

The band started up again, and the cast proceeded to do The Time Warp. They were totally encouraging the audience to stand up and dance along (it has steps). I didn't; it's one thing to make a fool out of yourself in front of your friends, and another thing to do so when you're by yourself. But I had a ton of fun singing along and watching them perform again.

And then it was finally over. Sigh. Next time when I have money and it comes, I'm gonna go again :D

[I think my mom's gonna kill me when she sees at the program I bought, she didn't really like the idea of me going to see the show :p]

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Let's... do... the Time... Warp... AGAIN!!

I'm going to The Rocky Horror Show!!

Yesterday, I went traipsing around in the city BY MYSELF. IN BOOTS. HA HA HA. I went to check out the Comedy Theatre 'cuz I wanted to get tickets (well, ticket, yes I know, it's sad).

Me got front row balcony seat xD

Found the place, and spent $6.30 on a damn ham-and-cheese sandwich at the joint down the road, just 'cuz I didn't see that they charge a base price of $2.50 for the freaking bread alone. And it's just two slices, for eff's sake.


Anyway, today I just earned $35 (Aussie!) for sitting in front of the computer for an hour and assigning who should do some task or something. It's part of this research experiment run by this dude who's Head of School for Economics. The premise is there are 5 workers of group L and 3 of group C. Each of the workers (irrespective of letter) are either classified as passed (meaning that they're qualified for Task 1), uncertain (going either way) or failed ('nuff said). The 'uncertain' ones are the clincher, 'cuz you never know whether they may be qualified for the task or not (if they are, they're counted as pass points). They're pretty much the ones that influence your score.

Besides that, there is the base fee for just COMING, which is $15. That is for if their system crashes.

Still haven't updated myself on Heroes: Villains Chapter 3 yet. No one put a WMV file up =(
I'd go for the normal 350MB one, if it weren't for my laptop/Internet connection screwing with me right now. I really need to get that motherboard fixed.

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