...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.
Sunday, August 31, 2008
I am currently...
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.
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!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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.
Friday, August 15, 2008
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.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
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.).
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
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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