Thursday, December 26, 2002
Oh yeah, and I'll be in Hong Kong from the 26th to the 31st. ^^
Martians attacked at 03:46 a.m.! Where were you?
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Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Here, finally, is my Christmas card, which is technically not late because it's still Christmas day. ^^
Aside from the card, have also just finished a delicious Christmas dinner with extended family (all that aren't currently in Hong Kong, anyway). Mom's best turkey yet! Gifts received include: many new clothes, which I really did need; several graphic novels from the friendly neighborhood comic store, including Fables, which I have been wanting to read for some time now; a gun that shoots bubbles; the new Tori Amos CD, from Carlo; and a book full of photographs of cute cats in Japanese temples, good for hours and hours of entertainment. And this afternoon, I watched Nightmare Before Christmas on Star Movies. I swear I could recite that movie line by line.
I love Christmas! Martians attacked at 10:51 p.m.! Where were you? ~
Tuesday, December 24, 2002
I hate all you people that already have their special Christmas images up. I haven't even started on mine yet, due to a profound lack of ideas as well as having to finish an editorial by the 26th in between Christmas party stuff. >_< At least I had the forethought to do a layout that worked for both Halloween and Christmas. And at least all my gift-type-business is pretty much done. But still. Bah humbug.
Martians attacked at 04:25 p.m.! Where were you?
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Tuesday, December 24, 2002
AAGH, MY EYES!!! IT BURNS, IT BURNS!!!
At least she has the scarf. X____x Martians attacked at 03:13 p.m.! Where were you? ~
Monday, December 23, 2002
My cat Tigger was playing with this sort of abaka fiber trimming that was part of the wrapping of a present. I scolded her and made her stop. A few minutes later, she was throwing up on the floor. Now, Tigger occasionally throws up hairballs; but this time as I was cleaning up her mess, I noticed something long and flat in it. I freaked out, thinking that she had just puked up a huge tapeworm or something. But upon closer examination, I realized that it was a piece of fiber from the trimming she had been playing with. I hadn't even realized that she had eaten part of it. >__< Stupid cat, worrying me like that!
Martians attacked at 08:23 p.m.! Where were you?
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Sunday, December 22, 2002
Last night, went with Carlo and friends to yet another premiere showing of Two Towers. The audience seemed much more into it this time. Everybody applauded when
And today Mom, Carlo, and I braved the crowds at Megamall, so I could check out the anime/comic convention and do a little Christmas shopping on the side. The con was nice, more for the art displays and artists sitting around drawing and selling their stuff, than for the actual anime or comic merchandise. There were cosplayers galore, and some amazingly good ones too. The entire audience screamed when somebody dressed as Sadako from The Ring crawled onto the stage and lurched towards the MCs. X___x Martians attacked at 11:26 p.m.! Where were you? ~Jesus Christ Gandalf rose from the dead.
Friday, December 20, 2002
Last Amazing Race 3! THE ULTIMATE INJUSTICE. Flo and Zach so did not deserve it. Zach deserved a trophy for his patience, but that Flo creature should have been tossed onto the train tracks. I'm serious. I spent most of my time screaming, "Kill her now, Zach! No court in the world would convict you!" Teri and Ian were obnoxious as hell (especially Ian), but they had real grit. And the funny brothers were so cool! Why couldn't one of those two other teams have run just a bit faster? ;_____;
Martians attacked at 01:47 a.m.! Where were you?
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Thursday, December 19, 2002
A preview of LoEG issue 4. I LOVE VIOLENCE! And I am dying to see the other half of that spread. *___*
And now for more Two Towers babble.
I suppose it was kinda screwed-up for all those elves to show up in Helm's Deep, but you wouldn't really know that unless you had read the book. But there was one thing about that that should have seemed screwed-up even to people who had only seen the first movie. Those elves were supposedly sent by Elrond. But Elrond is in Rivendell. Haldir was from Lorien. What's up with that? I suppose it's not too much of a stretch; Elrond could've phoned his mother-in-law down in Lorien and asked her to send troops. Still, it's kind of strange that Haldir would say he was sent by Elrond rather than Gal-chan and Cellywelly.
And it struck me as kind of funny that they give the dramatic musical death scene to some guy who appeared for all of two seconds in the first movie (four seconds in the extended cut.) It's like they couldn't kill anyone who was really important, but they wanted to kill off someone who the audience might at least recognize. Which puts him about one step above Redshirt status. Last night as I went to bed, it occured to me... you know who should've showed up at Helm's Deep to get Boromir'd*, instead of Haldir? GLORFINDEL. That would've been so cool. XD
*Boromir'd: a handy-dandy term I use to describe someone dying in a dramatic/heroic fashion from multiple puncture wounds. Example: "Sean Connery was all cool in First Knight, even though he got Boromir'd in the end." Or, "When I first watched Gladiator, I thought that Numibian guy would be killed off for sure; but it was the Germanic guy who got Boromir'd." Martians attacked at 11:27 p.m.! Where were you? ~
Thursday, December 19, 2002
Wait wait, just one more...
Sam: *tearful* It's your Sam! Don't you know your Sam?
Oh, and speaking of innuendo, I cracked up at that one scene where Eowyn looks so disheartened at seeing Legolas give Aragorn back the Evenstar. "Oh no! I guess Aragorn rides on the other side of the saddle after all..." XD Martians attacked at 04:34 a.m.! Where were you? ~
Frodo: What? I thought I was Frodo! I'm so confused...
Thursday, December 19, 2002
So Carlo, Mom and I went to the special premiere thingy of Two Towers. Seeing movies the same time they're released in the States is cool. Yesterday I had been saying to Carlo that if they made a Superfriends-like cartoon out of Lord of the Rings, every episode would end with Gimli getting into some amusing predicament, like his beard catching on fire or accidentally sitting on Legolas' arrows. Then all the other characters would stand around laughing, and then the credits would roll. Well, as it turned out, the Two Towers movie was kind of like that. "Ha ha, Gimli is short!" "Ha ha, Gimli can't ride a horse!" "Ha ha, Gimli is explaining the disturbing sexual traits of dwarves!" But Gimli still kicked ass, and Legolas was still ass-kicking SuperElf, so I'm not complaining. ^_^
And that's all I have to say about that. What, you were expecting some kind of detailed review or something? Forget it! Go watch the movie yourself. Because I know you won't watch it unless I tell you to. Martians attacked at 01:14 a.m.! Where were you? ~
Sunday, December 15, 2002
Image above courtesy of my new FAVORITE WEBSITE EVER. Click on it to visit. Now if you'll excuse me, my guts hurt from laughing so hard and I need to lie down.
Martians attacked at 11:39 p.m.! Where were you?
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Sunday, December 15, 2002
I have just watched Gladiator on TV for the third time in two days. Well, I guess I can never get tired of that movie. Though I cried at the end like a baby the first four or five times I saw it, repeat viewings have enabled me to supress the big gooey tear-fest with some effort. I even start cracking up at the thought of the Coliseum closing down because of the Evil Emperor's neglected corpse stinking up the place.
You know that scene towards the end where Maximus collapses on the ground and that lady runs up and kneels over him? I always expect him to say in a scratchy voice "Rome... out of danger?" a la Spock dying at the end of Wrath of Khan. Am I a complete dork? It's a rhetorical question. Martians attacked at 02:06 a.m.! Where were you? ~
Friday, December 13, 2002
Series of Unfortunate Events movie stuff. Jim Carrey as Count Olaf sounds like the dumbest movie idea since "Hey, let's add Tom Sawyer and Dorian Gray to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen since we just don't have enough characters to deal with in a feature-length film. And let's, y'know, give Mina wonky vampire powers, since she's just not cool enough without the wonky vampire powers." 9__9 On the other hand, I find the idea of Johnny Depp as Lemony Snicket strangely delightful. *_____*
But I still think A Series of Unfortunate Events should have been animated. Preferrably in the style of Nightmare Before Christmas. Now there's a capital idea. Martians attacked at 07:02 p.m.! Where were you? ~
Thursday, December 12, 2002
I don't know why I haven't been blogging. But I figure now I'll just blog about totally random things and take up some space.
I didn't have class today. Whoopee! Yesterday I went to the comic store and bought Plus Anima vol. 5. This manga is really cute. LoEG issue 4 is coming out December 26, but the store will be closed until January 6. Cuuuurses. Actually, maybe I can buy it at CATS Virra Mall before then. After we get back from Hong Kong. Assuming they still have it. Cuuuuurses.
Oh! Check out these pictures of my Halloween costume if you dare. I was Evil Red Riding Hood, if you recall. Picture 1 and Picture 2. That axe is real. I could actually barely lift it, weakling that I am.
"Lookit me, I'm Flo from The Amazing Race 3! I'm going to cry now and throw a tantrum and make a complete idiot of myself on television because you're not listening to me because I'm a whiny bitch! Oh look, those male models I've been flirting with the whole race got eliminated, but I'm so sure it wasn't my fault for being a whiny bitch. Anyway, they should've just used their Wonder Twin Powers and assumed the shape of a flamingo and the form of an ice-bicycle and pedalled to the finish line. Ha ha, I am so smart! I should win The Amazing Race because I am so cool and not a whiny bitch at all."
It will be the ultimate injustice if that nitwit and her poor man-slave win over the Funny Brothers and the Cranky Old Couple. -_- Martians attacked at 10:00 p.m.! Where were you? ~
Saturday, December 7, 2002
I'm so stupid, I just realized that I missed Angel. >____< Which especially sucks because we didn't get any Buffy this week either; Studio 23 showed a rerun instead. I keep forgetting that Angel shows on Friday evenings. And yet I have no trouble remembering Justice League on Fridays... sigh, Batman is so cool... huh? Where was I? Oh yeah, missed Angel. Sucks.
And I'm feeling some guilt pangs over not donating anything to that Leaky Cauldron auction fund yet. I guess if tomorrow's not too late I'll see about signing up for a Paypal account. In the meantime, here is one of those damn banners, which you can click on just in case you are some weird person who gets their Harry Potter news from this blog instead of from the Leaky Cauldron.
Martians attacked at 03:03 a.m.! Where were you?
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Saturday, December 7, 2002
Finally read Coraline. That book gave me a severe case of the creeps. Although something seemed a little off about Gaiman's writing style this time; as if he couldn't decide whether he was writing in a simpler style for children, or in his more normal style with elaborate metaphors and literary dialogue. But the story itself was great. They're apparently making a movie; if they make it half as scary as the book, I'll be having nightmares. X___x
Martians attacked at 02:19 a.m.! Where were you?
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Friday, December 6, 2002
You want to know something that really bothers me? The logo for Survivor Thailand has an elephant on it; but it's very clearly an AFRICAN elephant, with the big round ears and long tusks. You'd think with such an incredibly high-profile show, they could afford to get their logo designer a cable subscription so he could watch Animal Planet or the National Geographic Channel and see that African and Asian elephants look different. Or they could've just raided the bargain video bin and gotten him a copy of that horrible movie "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle" which contains an Asian elephant even though it's supposedly set in Africa. As it is, the designer obviously had to do his own exhaustive and gruelling research, by typing "elafunt" into Google image search. 9__9
Martians attacked at 05:58 p.m.! Where were you?
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Friday, December 6, 2002
Claudia, the Cardassians are those nasty evil vaguely-reptilian looking people that oppressed the Bajorans. They played a bigger role in Deep Space Nine than in TNG, I think; but they did capture and torture Captain Picard in that one TNG episode. (THERE! ARE! FOUR! LIGHTS!) ^^
Martians attacked at 12:04 a.m.! Where were you?
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Thursday, December 5, 2002
Eek! The League of Extraordinarily Pretty Greek Boys! That's so adorable. Icarus is wearing the sci-fi hero pants! X3 And I love how Bellerophon is "the boy with the ride". XD That Clergyman!Subaru strip is also precious. ^^ Aww, Seishirou looks just like a little angel... oh, wait.
Martians attacked at 10:41 p.m.! Where were you?
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Wednesday, December 4, 2002
Droool... I want to play this game so badly. *____* I downloaded the opening movie... is there not supposed to be any sound, or is it just our dumb RealPlayer? And Goemon, are you sure you want to slice up that suspension bridge while you're still standing on it? X___x
Martians attacked at 05:14 p.m.! Where were you?
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Sunday, December 1, 2002
Everything seems very strange in the morning after staying up the entire night. I was going around the whole time staring at my surroundings as if I had landed on an alien world. And of course, I found the weirdest things endlessly amusing. You can imagine the hilarity I got from the following description of Lord of the Rings in today's church misalette (spelling and grammar errors preserved): "The film is a trilogy of the adventures of Froddo and his friends -- in pursuit of goodness, truth, and restoration of peace in their kingdom. Despite of uncertain fate in their struggle against the forces of evil, they keep themselves united in watchful and hopeful waiting for the appearance of a hero who will rescue them." I saved that misalette. It's a classic.
Anyway, the reason why I stayed up the entire night is obviously that I had to finish my NaNoWriMo novel. Which I did, ultimately, with the help of a few thousand words worth of shameless padding tricks. It's sort of my first novel ever. "Sort of", because many years back, in grade whatever, I actually wrote a "novel". It was divided into many chapters, all handwritten on yellow pad paper, complete with illustrations. It was about a bunch of representatives from different endangered animal species having a conference in, I don't know, a cave somewhere, and arguing about a bunch of environmental issues. I think at some point there was a fire or something, and all the animals rushed outdoors, but then the crisis was abated and they all went and sat back down and started arguing all over again. In the end, they concluded that none of them could really do a damn thing about any of the problems they talked about, and that their only hope lay in humans. They all went home sad. At the time I considered it a stirring triumph of social consciousness in literature. Not to mention that it fulfilled the main requirement of any serious novel, in that it was long and divided into chapters. In retrospect, it was probably about a jillionth as long as this novel I just finished writing. But the two novels do share one certain similarity, now I think about it: they're both dialogue-heavy, and the characters seem to spend all their time talking about inane things.
Um. What's my point? What, was I supposed to have a point? I don't think there was one, except that I wrote a novel and it was tons of fun to do even if some parts came out dumb. That's all. I have to go now. Middle Earth needs me. *dons Superman costume and flies off to rescue "Froddo" and friends* Martians attacked at 09:39 p.m.! Where were you? ~
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