We're all here to play an endless game,

Today when I got home, I was in a really good mood. Lately I've been thinking about buying an iPod Touch and I know my sister wants one too so I decided that I'll wait until December and buy one for my own birthday. Actually, when I decided that for myself today, I thought that since my sister's birthday is in the same month as mine and just a week later, I'd buy her one too like a double birthday deal since I've never really been one of those sisters that spoil their younger sibs...

BUT then I got home and during dinner I simply asked her when she was getting up tomorrow morning since I have to be up early and she usually gets up before me for school though she has a cold so I wasn't sure if she was actually going. Out comes the bitchy attitude... and as a hater of bitchiness this of course made me think 'whoa there, was I really just thinking about buying you an iPod touch? Forget it, you're getting a candy bar. I know, maybe she's grumpy because she's sick-- it is for this reason that I'll still buy her a candy bar. As you can see I have VERY little tolerance. Of course, I also have a bad memory so maybe I'll have forgotten this incident by then...

Oh well, what she doesn't know won't hurt her and I'm pretty sure that though she CAN see me update my LJ via Facebook, she doesn' t bother to read my thoughts since I don't follow her facebook either. I'm allowed to rant in my journal anyway.

I wonder how many "ipods" I've lost in my life, you know?

I went to the optometrist today to ask about contacts. I'm really iffy about putting something in my eyes but glasses are sort of a pain to wear all the time but blurry vision isn't nice either. Decided to try out some 1-day disposable ones so I'll get those on Friday to see how I like them. AH THINGS IN MY EYES! ...well, I figure it can't possibly be that horrible if so many people use them.

I just felt that I really needed to say this since I've been feeling it awhile: I LOVE BONES. The tv series, I mean. XD A couple of weeks ago, I marathoned the first four seasons in one weekend and now it's horrible having to actually WAIT for the new episodes to come out. DX I did not like David Boreanaz as Angel in BtVS or ANGEL but he is so awesome as Booth with his snazzy belt buckle and colourful socks of rebellion. In fact, I AM GOING TO START WEARING SOCKS OF REBELLION because I can't always wear belts with my pants, yanno?

Cooked curry for my brother, sister and myself yesterday. Actually, cooking is pretty fun though I still find cutting meat to be quite gross. ~_~ There is a sort of satisfaction to successfully cooking something, a bit like how I feel after I finish an especially good graphic in Photoshop, maybe? Though it might be a strange comparison. I have a strange urge to combine two of the few things I can make to try make curry omurice. Though I fear the result that might come of that...

Went to the hairdressers last week because my parents dragged me out to my gran's for an early Mid-Autumn's dinner so I wandered around a nearby shopping complex before it was dinner time. During the obligatory hairdress-head of hair conversation, the dude asks me (AS USUAL) when I came back to Hong Kong because my crappy Cantonese and bits of English they don't understand are the obvious marks of an overseas Chinese. I tell him "after high school" and he goes "Are you old enough to be out of high school?".

... I came back to Hong Kong in 2004. v_v This out of high school thing isn't exactly recent but since the place had flat screen tvs and 2PM had come on, I decided to just let it go and sit quietly.

Oh now let me rant about the stupid assistant that did the hair straightening after I got my hair cut because he was awful. DX First, I didn't ask for my hair to be ironed straight but I let it go. Horribly though, this guy has no sense of when when he's pulling way too hard. I could FEEL my hair snapping during parts. SNAPPING. DX It's a really terrible feeling. Obviously, I had become a guinea pig for some NUB.

In the end... the hair looked pretty good though. v_v So I guess it's not too big a deal.... ;o;


--- too many emoticons...

I just remembered Pocket Bishonen/Bishoujo today. :O

I wonder if anyone else remembers this very old phenomenon from way back in the day when everything on the internet looked really crappy so it'd load faster because we were all on modems. I remember "catching" my Bishounen and Bishoujo and then saving all those "you caught <so-and-so>" pictures. Saving them on stiffy disks, no less. To think, you couldn't fit even a single photo from a digital camera of today onto one of those things. Webpages were butt ugly back then too because all you had to work with was HTML and they'd blast horrid, tinny little MIDIs at you as you browsed.

...Ah, I kind of miss those days, back when 800 x 600 was relevant.

Now because everything is pretty... I NEED NEW PHOTOSHOP. HOMG SMART FILTERS ALSDJKFA;. MUST HAVE.

You know what I don't understand? How people can have no money. No, I don't mean the poverty stricken, unemployed masses - I mean your average everyday person on the street who has a job, part-time or not. Like when I say that I'm broke, what I mean is that I have breached that line where I have less money than I am comfortable with and I'm only left with my "safety net" of a couple of thousand dollars but other people, when they say that they're broke/have no money... they REALLY mean it. I've known people who really only have less than $500 in their bank accounts and maybe $40 in their wallets at some given time and I don't know how they can stand to spend until they reach that point.

I'm always paranoid about some catastrophe happening wherein I will need cash. Don't ask me what I expect to happen because I have no clue but the point is, money is THERE if it does.

Still, it must be nice to be able to not obsess about possible disasters and just spend what's in your pocket/bank account.

So today a bunch of us just... randomly decided to meet for tea. Since it was so random, only two out of five of us actually ate or drank anything. lol, but somehow the topic "marriage" managed to come up and we decided to make a prediction (okay, so it was my idea) on the order in which the people at the table would get married. Of course, since it was my idea I would have to record the results... and also because I love being right and I want to be able to gloat about this in the future if I am. hur hur hur.

My order at the time: Christine, Avis, Afra, Leila and me last... because yeah... >_>
Though actually, thinking about it some more I've changed my mind. So my new order is:

Afra - because she actually WANTS to get married.
Christine - because I think she would as soon as one of the guys in line offers her a big enough rock. :P
Avis - since she's probably gonna before Leila and me. lol
Leila then I.

Other news. Today, I spent a ridiculous about of money on food and it didn't even taste that good. When that happens, all you can do is write on the little suggestion card thing all the scathing thoughts on your mind about how their food sucked monkey balls. Even though they probably won't read it at least you put your thoughts out there.

SUJU is gonna come to Hong Kong. I want to goooo waaaaaaatch. ~_~





....GAHHHH I WANT THE LASTEST BERIKYUU. T.T

Free express shipping from Yesasia AND they now count towards Japan's Oricon charts? Okay, it's time to say farewell to CDJapan.

Internet shopping is nice and all, but there something about going out there and getting the stuff from shops. However I realized something when I picked up a pack of four dehumidifiers today and it came bundled with two fliers printed in colour on glossy paper but NO PLASTIC BAG (I'd forgotten about that BYOB thing but I wasn't going to spend 50c on a plastic packet, okay? --why, that's 1/4 of an ice-cream at McDonalds. :x ). The fliers probably cost more than a plastic packet would of and I know I wouldn't have thrown the bag away as soon as I saw a rubbish bin.

They could have printed those ads on a bag and given me that for my dehumidifiers, right? :P Just a thought. I would have probably then read whatever was printed on them as I took the train home. Hm... if it was simple enough Chinese for me to understand, that is. ^^;

Okay, I'm hating Windows Vista more and more as each day passes. Everytime my McAfee tries to update, I suddenly can't open my iTunes from my icon tray anymore and it eventually kills my taskbar... which I wouldn't mind if I could just bring up my task manager to reopen it - only HAH says Vista, I HAF TAKEN THAT FROM YOU TOO! I miss when ctrl+alt+del could be counted on to solve almost all my problems, now ctrl+alt+esc doesn't work when you most need it. >_<

To add onto that fustration, the sound recorder SUCKS MONKEY BUTT. The old one was so much better. What the heck? Why is the OS regressing? What next? Am I going to have to buy stiffy disks to work the next version of Windows? I HATE YOU MICROSOFT. I REALLY DO. BURN IN FIERY HELLFIRE.

...the only think I like about Vista is the folder search function... which they obviously ripped off. v_v

What is this attitude with people that if you want to say that something Japanese isn't up to standard that they pull the culture card on you? It's not crap, it's the Japanese way. What fustrates me is that these people saying that don't know a damn thing about Japanese culture beyond what they've seen in anime/music videos. They've never been there and they've never studied it. I'm no expert but I know I can recognize when people are talking about something they know nothing about. Something being made by the Japanese isn't an automatic pass to greatness. It needs to measure up just like anything else.

That condescending tone of 'you just don't get the Japanese culture and that's why you don't like it' is such bull.  Especially when they use Pokemon as the only resource of comparison. If you think something is generally accepted in Japan just because you've seen it in an anime/hentai/movie then you'd be sorely mistaken. If you think that because you've seen it once or twice in a video that it's part of their culture, then I unabashedly call you a dumbass. Of course there is material with controversial/less than normal material in it available in Japan but does that mean that Japan in general accepts these things? That's it's CULTURE? Of course not. God, I hate people sometimes. All people. Yes, I know I'm a person. Shush, I'm being dramatic.

So I only just noticed that on my computer, the calendar had Monday set as the first day of the week. Little things like that bother me a lot because while maybe the working week or school week starts on Monday, I've always thought of Sunday as the first day of the week. So off I go to google how to fix this because Windows Vista fails once again and doesn't give you a way to change this one thing in your control panel despite having options to switch around my date displays and currencies which are things that don't actually bug me.

Imagine my amazement when online, all these people have the exact opposite problem! They all wanted their calendars to display Monday as the first day of the week and were annoyed at how it was showing Sunday! What? Anyway, I still solved my problem by adjusting their solution but I couldn't help but wonder about this Monday/Sunday thing. If you were to ask me which day is the first day of the week, my automatic answer would definitely be Sunday but when I think about it, it really is pretty odd, isn't it? Especially since the two days of the weekend is Saturday and Sunday as well. Hm.

About 18 hours until I face the doom that is Written Japanese for the last time, followed by the sucker punch that is Oral Japanese (note how I probably wouldn't die from the sucker punch but it follows death so that's just disrespectful). I stare at my notes and I'm just thinking 'WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?' ...which is probably not a good thing.

Just... exactly what are you trying to tell me? I lack the concentration to interpret moonspeak. I just need to concentrate but I stare at the words and I space. D: *stares* ...wait... wait... I think I'm getting it.

HELP MEEE! /Sayumi

Also. Must. Stop. Listening. To. Buono!... that might just be as impossible.

Edit: After all this time, why are people still writing self-insert fics? Haven't they caught on that their Mary-Sue'ness is not appreciated and that the serious self-insert is a category of fanfiction that must die already? The only ones I can really stand are parody self-inserts in which everything is crackified. I love me some crackfic but people who write self-inserts seriously make me want to dig my eyes out with a spoon - thank you ancient China for the idea.

Seriously, when I tell people SEND YOUR SHIZ TO MY GMAIL I DON'T CHECK HOTMAIL, I really freaking mean it. If you're going to send stuff to my hotmail prepare to phone me and send be about a million SMSes that I WON'T GET BECAUSE OF MY CRAP PHONE RECEPTION AT HOME to inform me about it. Since I send all MY emails from gmail anyway, just click the damn reply button. Yes, I'm feeling fustrated because I have a buttload of things to get done and somethings I need to get done that I can't get done because I'm waiting on crap... THAT WILL PROBABLY BE SEND TO MY HOTMAIL EVEN THOUGH I SAID GMAIL.

Anyway, I have an interview at the end of this month. I don't know how it will go because my luck has been pretty messed up lately. Lots of experiences I don't feel like writing about. Okay, calming down... I dunno. I just woke up at around 2AM feeling extremely pissed off. Although I don't think I dreamt anything bad (that I can remember).

AM I SUPPOSED TO FEEL OLD AT MY AGE?

UGH. AND I AM SO GLAD VAMPIRES AREN'T REAL BECAUSE MOSQUITOS ARE ALREADY KILLING ME FLIPPIN' BLOODSUCKERS.

...this post has been brought to you by ABUSECAPSLOCK.ORG.

I really hate to admit this but I just finished watching Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model last night (don't shoot me!). At first it was because I heard that the season had a really cool asian girl in it and I thought 'could I finally forget the pain of April's elimination in Cycle 2 through this new beacon of hope?'. Unfortunately the answer is 'no' because Sheena got eliminated and close to the end was substantially less cool than I had been led to believe - though I still loved her. Something good came out of it though and that was ANALEIGH and I have not loved a contestant this much since Joanie from Cycle 6. I simply could not resist her super niceness and sheer awesome. The dorkily delivered 'YO's also chipped away at my ANTM-hardened heart then add to that the fact that she's a figure skater? I wanted to rig the thing in her favour and if it hadn't been already... you know, over, I might have tried to fly over there and done so. haaaaa. (shot)

Seriously, Joanie and Analeigh are the only two I've semi-seriously considered stalking on FB before telling myself 'no, that's creepy and stalkerish, don't do it'. ...Okay, them and Chelsie and Mark from SYTYCD. >_< I can't help it, I'm a crazy stalker person! Obviously I need help and to stop watching reality television. Seriously, I should have gotten this message when I asked Xu Xi what she had against reality shows and she basically called them a waste of time and brain cells (but worded much more nicely as expected from a professional writer). Next time you see me watching reality television, smack me please.

Blehhh. Now I feel like making ANTM icons but really, I. dont. have. time. I have essays to write and apps to fill and I won't have time for it this weekend because I have to go visit family - on both sides. Plus I kind of need to sleeeeeep because my eyes look gross and shot from my horrible sleeping habits as of late.

WHY IS THERE NO ANTM RPF FOR THE FIC OBSESSED??? I know, it's gotten to the point where I want fic for everything I watch/read. Can't be healthy... but as already proven by my sleeping habits, health is not one of my big priorities. =x

Okay. To make myself less crazy, I am NOT watching American Idol... tonight. maybe.

edit: AND I realize that there IS no Idol tonight anyway because my crazy sleeping has my dates mixed up. =p Nix the 'maybe'. XP

edit2: I'm not watching American Idol period. It's stupid and there isn't any entertaining bitch fights to make it worth it.

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!
Finally the year of the rat is OVER! Good bye terrible bad luck. :3

I have a lot of stuff I should be doing but instead I started putting it off and playing in Photoshop instead. I've always thought that it's really hard to make icons of yourself /  people you know because you always have way less pictures to use than models / actors / singers who have a gajillion photoshoots and screenshots for you to draw on. Then I thought it couldn't be impossible to make icons with my own pictures, right? Haha... so I tried, even though I'll probably never use them on LJ because... well, because I'm IN them. XD This turned out fun to do anyway because YAY REAL LIFE PPL. When you make icons this way though, you start noticing how shippy some pics would look if it weren't people you know in them.

( icons )
I ordered my new computer last week but it's only arriving next week because of the Chinese New Year holidays. I was tempted by the prettiness that was the Mac but ultimately I bought a Windows PC anyway. By brother always quips "so what games are you gonna play on your Mac?" when I suggest buying one. XD Not that I really play games anyway. Besides Audition. Finally I can install a version of Photoshop that isn't SEVEN. Psyched!

Gossip Girl seems to be losing it's charm lately. D: The only thing that made me happy these last few episodes was when Lily adopted Chuck and it was all IN YO' FACE UNCLE JACK. The way Dan and Serena keep breaking up and getting back together is just tedious now. I find it funny that Nate is the only one in a stable and problem free relationship right now but because of this he's hardly getting any screen time.

Lately I've been feeling like I've forgotten something important but I don't know what it is. ~_~
I  bet it's not going to be good when I finally remember. Dooom.

Oh and I feel the need to mention that I really hate Facebook's photo compression. D:<

So I always end up writing LJ entries when I have time to kill at school which means actually having a livejournal client on my computer at home is so pointless. Ah well, when I scrap that computer, I’ll scrap the client with it, I guess.

 

I somehow think the universe is against me printing out my lecture notes. My printer at home died, pretty much right before I had to print my first set of notes for the semester. Then I decided to wake up early and print it at school before the lecture – my alarm doesn’t go off. Then I decide to go to the computer lab after my other classes and print them before the lecture next week but of course there’s construction and therefore some labs are closed and classes are moved to the remaining ones so I can’t print. FINE. I go off to the other campus and use the computer rooms there. Still a no go because they’re all booked. Frustration and much fist shaking please.

 

Chinese New Year is almost upon us but I wonder if the whole economic crisis is going to have a huge impact on red packet money. It probably is. I think that would make a pretty interesting angle to take on analyzing it. Way more interesting than how it’s currently being written about.

 

Also, is anyone tired of hearing about Gaza already? Maybe it’s just the BBC newspod I keep listening to but isn’t there any other news? I mean sure, keep me informed about the important stuff but I’m tired of all the countless interviews where it’s the same thing over and over again. It’s not breaking news if I already know. I suppose people need to be reminded constantly so they can remember that “shooting missiles = bad”. I need more stories like the one about how being clean can actually lower your morals. See? That’s fun.

 

Yay, first pointless entry of the year! Took me long enough.

Mehhhh... I can't plan anything worth beans. HOLIDAY PLANNING BELOW.

But so I was thinking, Skating at the Dragon centre is only $30 if we go on either a Monday  (students) or a Tuesday (woman) but since I don't think Chants has a student card... (CHANTELLE: DO YOU STILL HAVE ONE???) I guess a Tuesday is best. For the Holidays that means Dec 23, Dec 30 and Jan 6. Jan 6  is too late for Chants though so maybe not. D: Oh well, we can go any weekday after 6PM too, that might be better even.

Ocean Park (Because HK Disney SO isn't worth it) is $208 per person for a day pass. It's better to go on a weekday than a weekend, I suppose just to avoid the kids who need parents to take them but then we'd have to contend with people OUR age for rides. Maybe competeing with kids is better...  at least we don't aim for the same rides. More expensive on public holidays though so negative for the 25th and the 31st and 1st.

Do we want to go cycling again? And Tai Wai or Tai Mei Tuk. I actually think Tai Mei Tuk is more fun, plus we can go fishing there. I guess since this can be for anyday it's a filler activitiy. Maybe a good one for the 31st because you can BBQ afterwards until New Years.

Then there's Macau, I haven't been there either! One day trip or actually staying there is the question. I'm pretty sure there are hostels and cheap places to stay if we look though... more research on this later.

I suppose that we'll have to visit Lan Kwai Fong since it's like... a MUST when you are visiting Hong Kong, right? Drinking and Clubbing and crazy crowds? Yeah, we'll do that... I just don't know on which day yet. DX Ugh, I suck at this.  I need a magical itinerary genie YESTERDAY. Ah and Temple Street night market is worth a visit just for LULS and oyster cakes.

Are things like the Big Buddha and Temple of 1000 Buddha and Wong Tai Sin temple important? TST night view, The Peak and the Electric Trams ought to be on the list of places to go too for a tourist, right RIGHT? What about Karaoke? I mean they have that in Japan and it's so much BETTER THAN HONG KONG KARAOKE but it's the experience? @_______@

THIS IS ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW. T________T

Since I have tutoring, I've at least narrowed down Ocean Park to the 27th, 29th or 31st since I can use the full day for playing then. I really don't know about the rest. v_v

On Tuesday the Korean BBQ we went to was a minor disaster. Wasteful Tuesday, it's been dubbed because we grabbed too much and couldn't finish. Then we sat there staring at the food until they told us it was okay to leave it. I felt kind of bad about that ( I WANTED TO SAY I TOLD YOU SO ABOUT EATING THE ICE CREAM).

Anyway, today started off with me in a bad mood. >_> Stupid people who don't understand what it means to stand in a line but I told myself that a continuing bad mood would only attract more negativity and bad luck, therefore I tried to be all positive and :D.  But then I met up for the first time ever with a VHer (Hi Cassie!) and er... my lack of any sense of direction was very apparent. =x I still think talking to people face to face about VH is JUST PLAIN WEIRD. I'm very not used to people I see for real understanding what VH is.

OH BUT I FINALLY BEAT THE THIRD SONG ON DANCE MANIAX TODAY. That was just awesome considering how little I play it. :3

...bleh, this entry is a mess. but I don't care. Journal entries don't need to make sense.

I'M  SO SLEEPY.

...................but I want to play Dance Maniax again soon. Okay, end of obnoxious caps and rambling.

Another birthday has passed~ So I'm another year older and realized I still have a lot of stuff to do... but I'm just really lazy to do them. I still have to inquire about the Special Admissions Scheme from Takahashi sensei. I thought I'd write her an email but since she's having a lecture tomorrow anyway, I figure I might ask her about it some then instead and follow up with an email. Yeah, that's a good idea and not just me being a procrastinator.

The day before my birthday though, I went ice-skating with Ada, Ivy, Christine, Leila and Afra at Megabox. It was pretty good fun in all and it was right after our last exam so we'd all finally loosened up. Although to be honest, I'd already loosened up way too much before the Critical Reading exam and therefore I'm pretty sure I didn't do awesomely. Especially for the question on Metaphors where I totally wrote nonsense and only realized after what a load of you know what it was. MAKE-UP. Geez. You'd think a Sailormoon fan would think of that. While we were there I got presents~ Hooray! But Ivy, the clever thing that she is, left before Ada and I could give her her presents since her birthday had been during exams. SO, I had to take her gift home. And also Beedle the Bard because Evella wanted to borrow it but then SHE TOO leaves before taking it with her. D: Srsly people. Oh well, KOREAN BBQ? I hope people can make up their minds on what we want to do and we don't have to flip a coin again! (Ignore incoherant thoughts. relevant people will understand???)

My birthday was spent with my family, minus my sister who had to go be a promising business person or something like that. She was off selling towels in any case. I GOT A NEW HAMSTER. Which wasn't so much a birthday present as a spontaneous we should buy one thing. My mom secretly loves hamsters and just uses me as an excuse to keep one - I'm totally convinced.

Day after we went to have dinner with my gran but I'm not really sure why. D: These Chinese things confuse me. My mother told me that I need to either learn Mahjong, do Tai Chi or read Romance of the Three Kingdoms to be more Chinese-like. Well, I'm sorry if I'm not Chuugokujin rashii enough. D: But of the three, I guess I might be heading to the library for an English version of Three Kingdoms... because obviously the anime version doesn't tell it right. hah. It looks really boring though. -_- Fine, I'm not a Chinese person. I'M BLACK AS PROCLAIMED BY SOUTH AFRICAN LAW. >:D

Hm... a BP debating event on the 23rd. I dunno if I'm going yet... PROBABLY NOT SINCE SHANTS IS COMING ON THE 22ND HOORAY!

Stop telling me you need to update crap. You suck. I hate you. So I wait ages for you to load and after you DO load you tell me to reboot because you need to install updates and can't while things are running. NO.  I am not rebooting - I have things to do, that's why I turned the computer on in the first place. THEN when I'm done with stuff and I clearly press the SHUT DOWN button, you reboot yourself instead... to install updates. This means I have to wait until you finish installing them and boot up again just so I can go and press shut down (shut down, you stupid thing!) once more. This is not something I want to do when it's four in the effin' morning and I just want to sleep after rushing to finish a paper before the deadline.

The worst part? The updates just make you run even slower than before. DX

I hate you. So. So. Much.

Why, world? Why? Do you want me to fall into a timeless chaotic spiral wherein punctuality is no more than a distant memory? That is what you're doing when you screw up my PC's clock, break all my alarm clocks, give me a iPod that syncs with said screwed up PC clock and now kill off my Swatch, the only timepiece that I could depend on. Ah well, so it needs a new battery and a new strap - because of that I might just get a new watch. A new Swatch probably because Ilike to stick with what I'm familiar with. I want to get a new phone and go back to Sony Ericsson too because iPAQ has seriously failed me as far as their smartphone goes.

Today's plan was originally to go tutoring and then grab some pictures of the big Kowloon Tong Christmas tree because after talking to criminalize about last year's tree, I realized I actually didn't remember it very well. So wouldn't it be nice to have a picture next year for comparison purposes? Yes, I'm mo liu. Leave me alone. But I guess know it would be a bit waste of money to actually stop at Kowloon Tong and then get back on the MTR to go to Yau Ma Tei so I might just take Yau Ma Tei pictures and take the ones in Kowloon Tong on Tuesday / Thursday when I'm there for tutoring. Or even Wednesdays when I'm there for debating. Oh wait, I'm there on Fridays too... and Saturdays. I just realized that I'm probably there more than I'm at home. D:

When I get home tonight, I'm not too tired to finish off the Press Release I need to get done for Man Whore's Ho Bo / Bobo's class and get my  練習 for Japanese done. Then I can spend Sunday studying for the Japanese Vocabulary test and maybe do some French. I should probably try and fit in some news reading for debating too. Hopefully, I just get to just watch for once this week. My brain isn't being very organized lately.

I'm still pondering if I should read Twilight or not. Do I want to start reading and then have to sit through a bunch of awful books just to get to the end? It'll be like Harry Potter again, except with vampires. ...but FIC... Yeah, maybe in the holidays.

P.S. Toni, go watch your birthday movie sometime. It's fate. X3

ak;jdfds; I woke up at 6PM today. I only got home from debating last night at around 1:30AM so I stayed up trying to finish my Japanese homework and what happens? I don't wake up to hand it in. Obviously I ignored my iPod screaming at me to wake up. Now how am I supposed to wake up tomorrow for tutoring if I'm not going to be able to sleep tonight? ...I'll probably stay up all night, go to tutoring and crash in the afternoon before heading out to Yau Ma Tei? Ugh, I have such a headache.

The Round One of JUDC went pretty horribly. D: Our teams got 3rd and 4th in the two rooms. I suppose tanking in the practice gave me loser's lurgy or something. It's my first time ever getting fourth so I was pretty disappointed but I guess it had to happen sometime too. The adjudicators were a bit... they basically told our team that we weren't getting to the main issue of the debate. The motion was that THBT we should not pull out of Iraq. They said that the major point to be tackled as National Security and that it shouldn't have been a "moral debate" and what we did was a principled debate. Our one trainer noted that the Hong Kong adjudicators never wanted to debate principles even though it's valid. It's harder to do well but it's valid. tyvm.

Also I think I was also thrown by the fact that even though we were Opening Opposition, we were not defending the status quo as obviously America is in Iraq now and we were advocating that they get out. So actually, the Government was defending the status quo which sucked for us. Additionally the PM of the OG did not even propose a proper model the Leader of the Opposition (my partner) to take down. That only came later from the DPM. So yes, asdjkfasklfhas;f.

Oh and there was this one girl at the back of the room that looked perpetually angry. O_O ...CityU also seems to have a zombie infestation. There was this blue dude walking around with an empty water bottle... he just ignored peopled and shuffled in some sort of weird circle/figure eight in the passages. Creepy.

Things to work on:
- Speech organization / Structure
- Substantiation
- Extension
- Identifying clashes

Cuz I said I'd show Ada my dollies and she doesn't go on VH. And they HAVE to be shown together or the fuzzy feelings aren't complete. Boy dollie by me and girl dollie is by Hyangpie<3


Base

If this doesn't make sense to you then... well... just enjoy the cuteness. :P

I really want the holidays to come already. I handed in a POEM for an English assignment today, I felt like I'd gone back to high school when they made us write poems for English, remember? Stuff like, how it feels to be a shoe or something.

P utting words together
O verall not that fun
E ver think there are
M any better things to do?

Har. I amuse me. :D

I just keep editing this post over and over because I don't have the attention span to sit and type out everything anymore so it just comes out in splurges? Splotches? I was totally typing splotches. This is why I wouldn't post voice entries. Because they'd end up being twice as long but make half the sense... half the sense? Ugh.

Anyhoo. Today sucked. I was on the bus to go tutoring this morning at around 9:30 but the kid's mom CANCELLED  on me. WHEN I WAS ON THE BUS GOING THERE. wtf. Give me my bus money back! But I thought, okay, it's cool... I'll go to school and hang out in the computer lab and print my poem. Oh but silly me.. I forgot my USB at home. ...So I had to go home and get it (later when I told Ada this, she asked me why I didn't just rewrite the poem... AND I FELT REALLY DUMB).

I got home and met my mom who was on her way out. She tells me that a parcel is arriving today (dictionaries I ordered and stuff) at between 2:30 and 3PM. I have class at 3:30 and it takes me an hour to get to school. Thanks a lot God. I'd blame evolution too but it wasn't a dinosaur delivering my books - not God either but who cares. So I end up waiting for the postman and get to class late. Oh and the kid I was supposed to tutor in the evening cancelled too. D:

Yet somehow today felt like a happy day.

Since I spent most of my day taking trains and buses, I played a lot of Taiko on my DS. :3