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I'm going stir crazy, check back and forth everyday, awaiting the next Bleach chapter. I don't want to spoil it for myself but seriously, I'm ready to scream if I don't get my shot of weekly hotness soon. o_o;;
In the meantime, I took a trip to Shenzhen, China this past week... Okay, no, not really; I'm studying the city, specifically the Futian and Nanshan districts, and I've been researching a great many things to do with Japan as well (such as the ferry system to and from China, plum blossom season, etc) all because I like to put effort into my fanfics. I've been working on three different stories at the same time, all Bleach fics, of course. So much for trying to forget about it until the next chapter...
Oh, and I got new glasses (finally)~!! They're really pretty -- black with red trim, and flowers etched along the side. They're thick and squarish. Pretty emo, but I wear them GOOD. (Not the emo bit, I mean they LOOK emo but I think I make them look good because I tend to rip faces off when someone accuses me of being emo. If you're gonna label me, label me properly: I'm the token and very rare Asian Punk.)
Please excuse that second picture. I swear, I'm not a poser... but after I take that hat pin out, it's just too much of a hassle to put it back on.
In case you're wondering, yes, that is one of those old fashioned hats with a feather and that black mesh thing that goes over the face. I decided a while ago that punk goes well with classy retro accessories. No one's insulted me yet.
Anyway, meme time! Gacked from nuingiliath.
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
The Dark Knight
Not really one of my biggest obsessions but I really fell in love with it right from the start. I've been a fan of Christian Bale since I was in junior high, and my best friend and I were fangirling over him, having Serious Discussions about his hotness, etc. I was so thrilled with Batman Begins -- finally, a Batman movie that wasn't cartoonish, which is more than I can say for the ones directed by Tim Burton... and don't get me wrong, I LOVE Tim Burton, but Batman has always been a dark, troubled superhero, and the man who came up with Oyster Boy and Edward Scissorhands should really stick with kids movies and modern fairytales... (Same goes for you, Adam West.)
Anyway, from the moment I saw the trailer for The Dark Knight, I knew I HAD to watch it. Especially after I learned that Heath Ledger was gonna play Joker. Like almost everyone else, I was all, "WTF!!" so I'll just skip the part where I was blown away by his amazing performance because I'm pretty sure that most people had the exact same reaction as I did. Anyway, I have to admit that I was strangely attracted to that psycho clown because HE WAS THE PERFECT VILLIAN.
Just as superheroes are motivated by their desire to save people without expecting anything in return, the Joker was then, by definition, the quinessential bad guy being that his goal was not world domination or money, or even infamy (well, okay, maybe). Entirely Batman's opposite, the presence that counterbalances his being, the Joker was about anarchy and chaos, which pretty much gives him more depth than just about any villian ever to have existed -- fictional or otherwise.
SO THERE. :P
Mr Lim
Homigod. *hangs head* Okay, blame Lisa for bringing this up but for those who haven't known me for as long as we've been LJ friends... Mr Lim was the student teacher in my drama class in grade 11, with whom I was completely infatuated. If you're bored enough and go all the way back to entries from 2004-ish, you'd see that probably all of my entries have some mention of him.
What can I say? He was gorgeous. (Well, I thought so.) I found that he liked poetry, he was very refined (with major Chinese influences, of course), he taught an early morning tai chi class that I never missed, he taught my class about Chinese opera, and the man was just so... everything I usually tend to like physically in men (tall, thin, full lips, mwrar...). I went all crazy stalker schoolgirl on him. I'm not embarassed to talk about it now but in hindsight, I just keep thinking maybe my high school years could have been spent on better things... like actually finding a boyfriend my own age to go out with rather than spending the last two years of my school life obsessing over a really, really hot student teacher.
Funny story -- this past May, I went to the Asian Heritage Festival in my city because my youngest sis was performing, and Mr Lim just happened to be the coordinator of the event. Afterwards, Patrick (my boyfriend, Alee (the middle sister) and I went for dinner and he just happened to be at the table in front of us. Hahaha. Since I wasn't obsessed with him anymore, I wasn't foaming at the mouth or anything; we were just minding our own business when I noticed him get up to pay his bill and his girlfriend turned around and GLARED at me, which was probably one of the highlights of my entire life. Because then I knew that my huge crush on him was not a secret anymore (not that it ever really was; a lot of my teachers knew about it, too, and used to tease me about it). It was awesome.
Canada
Seriously, Lisa? Hahaha. Hmm, what can I say? It's big, it's very diverse (in a few ways, such as culturally, topographically and climate-wise), we've got free health care, as well as the biggest coastline of one country (or pretty close, I'm sure). And my city, the beautiful fucked up I'll-hate-it-until-I-live-somewhere-else Winnipeg, Manitoba (affectionately known as Winterpeg, Manisnowba) is:
- the geographical center of North America
- the Canadian equivalent of Chicago (windy city, etc...)
- has a temperature range comparable to a desert (extremely hot to extremely cold)
- AND IS WHERE WINNIE THE POOH CAME FROM!! Fuckers took the credit. Winnie the Pooh = WINNIPEG.
- we used to be the murder capital of Canada but sadly, that great title was taken from us at one point
- a plane crashed on the street I live on, once... but no one died, or was even seriously injured; there COULD have been an explosion, but it was just too much to ask for the plane to slide just a few more feet forward into the gas station. That's how uneventful it is here. "Disaster Avoided: Dammit!"
- oh, and Homer Simpson came here with Grampa, Ned Flanders and someone else once to get free drugs (seriously). Apparently, we made him an honorary citizen of our city or something. It made front page of the paper the day it happened, because we've got nothing else going on most of the time (see: above).
I do have this to say about Winnipeg: we're nice people. I was riding the bus one day, on the way to work, and I was wearing these three- or four-inch high heels that I was not yet used to, being a pratical shoe girl. Anyway, the bus lurched at one point, and I had been standing because it was absolutely packed. When it lurched, I lost my balance and fell on a bunch of people sitting down behind me -- instead of getting angry, they must have thought I fainted or something because they were all offering me seats and asking, "are you sure you're all right? Are you SURE?!" We're not called Friendly Manitoba for nothing.
The Prince of Egypt
Ahhh, PoE! That totally awesome Dreamworks version of the story of Moses, which some epic songs, beautiful graphics and yummy slashy undertones. Now, I don't mean to offend anyone, so please don't take it personally if you happen to be religious but I thought Moses and Rameses made a GREAT slash pairing. Keep in mind, these pervy thoughts are based on the movie version of the two and not the people written about in the Bible, so suck my girl cock.
I always had a fascination with Egypt since I was young, as many intelligent young children do, I theorize. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point. When this movie came along, it just gave me a reason to delve into it once more, from a fresh perspective, because I wouldn't write about a fanfiction without first knowing a little bit about the fandom setting, its cultures and customs. (See: above, hehehe. Shenzhen... *shakes head*)
Squishy frog
I HAVE NO IDEA! Didn't you just start calling me that one day, Lisa? Anyway, I AM the Squishy Frog. I have an army of frog stuffed toys just rearing to take over the world at my command, bwahahaha.
In the meantime, I took a trip to Shenzhen, China this past week... Okay, no, not really; I'm studying the city, specifically the Futian and Nanshan districts, and I've been researching a great many things to do with Japan as well (such as the ferry system to and from China, plum blossom season, etc) all because I like to put effort into my fanfics. I've been working on three different stories at the same time, all Bleach fics, of course. So much for trying to forget about it until the next chapter...
Oh, and I got new glasses (finally)~!! They're really pretty -- black with red trim, and flowers etched along the side. They're thick and squarish. Pretty emo, but I wear them GOOD. (Not the emo bit, I mean they LOOK emo but I think I make them look good because I tend to rip faces off when someone accuses me of being emo. If you're gonna label me, label me properly: I'm the token and very rare Asian Punk.)
Please excuse that second picture. I swear, I'm not a poser... but after I take that hat pin out, it's just too much of a hassle to put it back on.
In case you're wondering, yes, that is one of those old fashioned hats with a feather and that black mesh thing that goes over the face. I decided a while ago that punk goes well with classy retro accessories. No one's insulted me yet.
Anyway, meme time! Gacked from nuingiliath.
Comment to this post and I will give you 5 subjects/things I associate you with. Then post this in your LJ and elaborate on the subjects given.
The Dark Knight
Not really one of my biggest obsessions but I really fell in love with it right from the start. I've been a fan of Christian Bale since I was in junior high, and my best friend and I were fangirling over him, having Serious Discussions about his hotness, etc. I was so thrilled with Batman Begins -- finally, a Batman movie that wasn't cartoonish, which is more than I can say for the ones directed by Tim Burton... and don't get me wrong, I LOVE Tim Burton, but Batman has always been a dark, troubled superhero, and the man who came up with Oyster Boy and Edward Scissorhands should really stick with kids movies and modern fairytales... (Same goes for you, Adam West.)
Anyway, from the moment I saw the trailer for The Dark Knight, I knew I HAD to watch it. Especially after I learned that Heath Ledger was gonna play Joker. Like almost everyone else, I was all, "WTF!!" so I'll just skip the part where I was blown away by his amazing performance because I'm pretty sure that most people had the exact same reaction as I did. Anyway, I have to admit that I was strangely attracted to that psycho clown because HE WAS THE PERFECT VILLIAN.
Just as superheroes are motivated by their desire to save people without expecting anything in return, the Joker was then, by definition, the quinessential bad guy being that his goal was not world domination or money, or even infamy (well, okay, maybe). Entirely Batman's opposite, the presence that counterbalances his being, the Joker was about anarchy and chaos, which pretty much gives him more depth than just about any villian ever to have existed -- fictional or otherwise.
SO THERE. :P
Mr Lim
Homigod. *hangs head* Okay, blame Lisa for bringing this up but for those who haven't known me for as long as we've been LJ friends... Mr Lim was the student teacher in my drama class in grade 11, with whom I was completely infatuated. If you're bored enough and go all the way back to entries from 2004-ish, you'd see that probably all of my entries have some mention of him.
What can I say? He was gorgeous. (Well, I thought so.) I found that he liked poetry, he was very refined (with major Chinese influences, of course), he taught an early morning tai chi class that I never missed, he taught my class about Chinese opera, and the man was just so... everything I usually tend to like physically in men (tall, thin, full lips, mwrar...). I went all crazy stalker schoolgirl on him. I'm not embarassed to talk about it now but in hindsight, I just keep thinking maybe my high school years could have been spent on better things... like actually finding a boyfriend my own age to go out with rather than spending the last two years of my school life obsessing over a really, really hot student teacher.
Funny story -- this past May, I went to the Asian Heritage Festival in my city because my youngest sis was performing, and Mr Lim just happened to be the coordinator of the event. Afterwards, Patrick (my boyfriend, Alee (the middle sister) and I went for dinner and he just happened to be at the table in front of us. Hahaha. Since I wasn't obsessed with him anymore, I wasn't foaming at the mouth or anything; we were just minding our own business when I noticed him get up to pay his bill and his girlfriend turned around and GLARED at me, which was probably one of the highlights of my entire life. Because then I knew that my huge crush on him was not a secret anymore (not that it ever really was; a lot of my teachers knew about it, too, and used to tease me about it). It was awesome.
Canada
Seriously, Lisa? Hahaha. Hmm, what can I say? It's big, it's very diverse (in a few ways, such as culturally, topographically and climate-wise), we've got free health care, as well as the biggest coastline of one country (or pretty close, I'm sure). And my city, the beautiful fucked up I'll-hate-it-until-I-live-somewhere-else Winnipeg, Manitoba (affectionately known as Winterpeg, Manisnowba) is:
- the geographical center of North America
- the Canadian equivalent of Chicago (windy city, etc...)
- has a temperature range comparable to a desert (extremely hot to extremely cold)
- AND IS WHERE WINNIE THE POOH CAME FROM!! Fuckers took the credit. Winnie the Pooh = WINNIPEG.
- we used to be the murder capital of Canada but sadly, that great title was taken from us at one point
- a plane crashed on the street I live on, once... but no one died, or was even seriously injured; there COULD have been an explosion, but it was just too much to ask for the plane to slide just a few more feet forward into the gas station. That's how uneventful it is here. "Disaster Avoided: Dammit!"
- oh, and Homer Simpson came here with Grampa, Ned Flanders and someone else once to get free drugs (seriously). Apparently, we made him an honorary citizen of our city or something. It made front page of the paper the day it happened, because we've got nothing else going on most of the time (see: above).
I do have this to say about Winnipeg: we're nice people. I was riding the bus one day, on the way to work, and I was wearing these three- or four-inch high heels that I was not yet used to, being a pratical shoe girl. Anyway, the bus lurched at one point, and I had been standing because it was absolutely packed. When it lurched, I lost my balance and fell on a bunch of people sitting down behind me -- instead of getting angry, they must have thought I fainted or something because they were all offering me seats and asking, "are you sure you're all right? Are you SURE?!" We're not called Friendly Manitoba for nothing.
The Prince of Egypt
Ahhh, PoE! That totally awesome Dreamworks version of the story of Moses, which some epic songs, beautiful graphics and yummy slashy undertones. Now, I don't mean to offend anyone, so please don't take it personally if you happen to be religious but I thought Moses and Rameses made a GREAT slash pairing. Keep in mind, these pervy thoughts are based on the movie version of the two and not the people written about in the Bible, so suck my girl cock.
I always had a fascination with Egypt since I was young, as many intelligent young children do, I theorize. I wanted to be an archaeologist at one point. When this movie came along, it just gave me a reason to delve into it once more, from a fresh perspective, because I wouldn't write about a fanfiction without first knowing a little bit about the fandom setting, its cultures and customs. (See: above, hehehe. Shenzhen... *shakes head*)
Squishy frog
I HAVE NO IDEA! Didn't you just start calling me that one day, Lisa? Anyway, I AM the Squishy Frog. I have an army of frog stuffed toys just rearing to take over the world at my command, bwahahaha.