another recap ¬_¬
OHHHHH PEOPLE. I'm so sorry I haven't been around much - tiredness accounts for my absence. I'm going to work on replying to your entries tonight when I get home from my exam - which I still need to study for liek RIGHT NOW or I'm going to fail :P
(I'd like to say welcome to a new friend though, antoinettemason , who has a really epic Wide Sargasso Sea username and therefore deserves respect :D And she's also a Criminal Minds fan, which gives her cool points ^___^)
This is another one of those recap entries, because I've been to tired to update these past few days. Haven't been sleeping too much either. I miss sleeping. :(
Friday
Amy and I went to the market and bought clothes, some for cosplay as well. My Shuichi costume is assembled, and Amy got a bathing suit for guys for her summer Lelouch cosplay. We also bought the Twilight DVD, harhar, which we watched in the evening. There was lol'ing, of course, and this time we could pause it and laugh all we wanted, which was EXCELLENT. We still need to watch the extras, but at least we watched the movie again. Poor RPATTZ, that's all I've got to say. Also, I'm crushing on Bella again, she's so pretty dammit >_<
Saturday
We met up with aaaall the Hetalia people at pandarosi 's place, and got to work immediately. We needed to split up the old 7.5minute audio into 5 smaller parts, and record new bits since the skit would no longer be performed all together but scattered throughout the masquerade. That took us 5 hours, plus another hour to write and record the new introduction... It was 6pm before I knew it. It all passed so quickly I had no idea! It still surprises me. It came out really well though, so all in all, a good day's work! Of course it was a lot of fun too, as it always is when we're frolicking around with the Hetalia group :)
Then Amy and I went home to watch the Eurovision FINAL!!!
It was quite good. A shame that I'd never thought to check on the participants and songs earlier, I really hadn't thought of it at all before Thursday when we randomly checked if we could watch the second semifinal online and found that the BBC streams its program on its website. In any case, Greece did well, Sakis was AMAZING once again, that man never ceases to surprise and enthrall the masses. My favourites were Estonia, Lithuania, and Iceland, and I liked Norway because I found the song really sweet and the background and the whole image very pleasing to the eye. The boy was cute, but something about his face irked me, maybe it was the forehead/eyebrows/square jaw combination? IDK.
In any caaaaase. The commentator dude on BBC, Graham Norton, was frickin' epically hilarious. Sarcasm and irony were dripping from his voice, and on occasion you could tell that the man isn't really all that crazy about this Eurovision shit, or he forgot that he was on TV and millions of people across Britain could hear him, or he didn't care, IDEK. Either way, he ended up uttering phrases such as:
- *random woman from random country is announcing the points* GN: "This is Paulina. Hello Paulina!"
- Swedish ancorwoman: "Hello Moscow, this is Stockholm calling!" GN: *very flirtingly* Hello there.
- "This is Irina. You don't want to mess with her."
- *Latvian guy announces the points* GN: What the hell is he wearing? Does he know he's on TV?
- *UK gives Turkey 12 points* GN: We gave Turkey a 12? Come on people, what were you thinking?!
- *grumble grumble* random country never gives us a lot of points, *grumble grumble* Oh wait they gave us a 10 - I take it all back you're a marvelous man!
All in all it was a blast to watch, I really miss following the whole pre-Eurovision craziness, will work on it next year. I liked quite a few of the songs this year, though the level wasn't nearly as epic as 2007 or 2006, but it was still alright.
Sunday
I had a slight headache all day long, which coupled with my lack of proper sleep made me dizzy/sleepy. However I had lapses of clarity and energy during which I practiced for the Hetalia skit along with everyone else. It looked great by the end of the day, I think we're all set for Expo :) It's going to be all kinds of epic fun ^____^
Amy took this while practicing the skit. Pipe cleaner ahoge wins :D Thank you pandarosi :3
After skit practice Amy and I went to Chinatown and had Japanese food :) It was filling and delicious!! We then went home and watched Night at the Museum, because I hadn't seen it before and we're probably going to see the sequel on Friday so I needed to have seen the first one :P After that we went to bed and sleeeeeept forever. Or almost forever, since I had to meet Emily for revision in the early afternoon.
Monday
Revision with Emily @ the uni library. Went very well actually, we covered all of the material that might be on the exam (5 different plays/kinds of theatre), found external material to aid the studying, I photocopied a lot of useful stuff plus three plays from Emily's textbook, and we were good to go! It took us forever though, like from 2:30pm till... 7:30? Without breaks. It wasn't tiring but by the end of it we were both like *twitch, twitch* And Emily said "let's wrap up and go have hot chocolate, yes?" And I was like YES PLZ OTL.
Tuesday
Slept FOREVER, got up in the late afternoon, saw Angels & Demons with Amy.
I thought it was crap, tbh. Which is a real shame because the book was frickin' EXCELLENT. Much better than Da Vinci Code stupidness.
But mehhh, they changed so much, it's not even funny. They made Vittoria a scientist at CERN, and the dead dude was her "research partner" instead of her father, and we got flashed by Tom Hanks in a Speedo, and they almost made Ewan McGregor out to be a good guy. Now I'm going to be honest, I thought they were going to kill him in a heroic self-sacrificial flight above the Vatican which would totally KILL the book ending but it would still be awesome as a movie end, plus I got teary because you're killing Ewan McGregor, you bastards!!! But they didn't, which was somewhat comforting. Still, it was a cheap suspense thriller, and it didn't retain any of its educational/intellectual aspects at all. The soundtrack was awesome, but then again Hans Zimmer is pretty much a guarantee of awesome epic music.
Oh, and Ewan McGregor actually said that lightning is "awesome", I kid you not. Amy and I were in a giggling fit for a good two minutes.
"He said 'awesome'!"
"I know!!"
*SPAZZ*
XD
By the end of the movie though I had an almost split-heading headache, which was NOT FUN. I took a painkiller but it didn't work, so I went to sleep. I kept waking up in the night though, and had to get out of bed at 4:45am or something because I couldn't get back to sleep. Now I'm sleepy again but I need to get a move on with studying because my exam is at 2:30pm and I still haven't done anything for it. >__<
I really want to blog about other things right now but I have no time and I needed this recap out of the way.
Also, I've been wanting to say this for like a couple of weeks, if not more. WTF IS UP WITH ALL THE DREAMWIDTH SHEBANG?! You people and your bandwagons, WTF, honestly. I will stop here before it turns into a rant, OTL.
(I'd like to say welcome to a new friend though, antoinettemason , who has a really epic Wide Sargasso Sea username and therefore deserves respect :D And she's also a Criminal Minds fan, which gives her cool points ^___^)
This is another one of those recap entries, because I've been to tired to update these past few days. Haven't been sleeping too much either. I miss sleeping. :(
Friday
Amy and I went to the market and bought clothes, some for cosplay as well. My Shuichi costume is assembled, and Amy got a bathing suit for guys for her summer Lelouch cosplay. We also bought the Twilight DVD, harhar, which we watched in the evening. There was lol'ing, of course, and this time we could pause it and laugh all we wanted, which was EXCELLENT. We still need to watch the extras, but at least we watched the movie again. Poor RPATTZ, that's all I've got to say. Also, I'm crushing on Bella again, she's so pretty dammit >_<
Saturday
We met up with aaaall the Hetalia people at pandarosi 's place, and got to work immediately. We needed to split up the old 7.5minute audio into 5 smaller parts, and record new bits since the skit would no longer be performed all together but scattered throughout the masquerade. That took us 5 hours, plus another hour to write and record the new introduction... It was 6pm before I knew it. It all passed so quickly I had no idea! It still surprises me. It came out really well though, so all in all, a good day's work! Of course it was a lot of fun too, as it always is when we're frolicking around with the Hetalia group :)
Then Amy and I went home to watch the Eurovision FINAL!!!
It was quite good. A shame that I'd never thought to check on the participants and songs earlier, I really hadn't thought of it at all before Thursday when we randomly checked if we could watch the second semifinal online and found that the BBC streams its program on its website. In any case, Greece did well, Sakis was AMAZING once again, that man never ceases to surprise and enthrall the masses. My favourites were Estonia, Lithuania, and Iceland, and I liked Norway because I found the song really sweet and the background and the whole image very pleasing to the eye. The boy was cute, but something about his face irked me, maybe it was the forehead/eyebrows/square jaw combination? IDK.
In any caaaaase. The commentator dude on BBC, Graham Norton, was frickin' epically hilarious. Sarcasm and irony were dripping from his voice, and on occasion you could tell that the man isn't really all that crazy about this Eurovision shit, or he forgot that he was on TV and millions of people across Britain could hear him, or he didn't care, IDEK. Either way, he ended up uttering phrases such as:
- *random woman from random country is announcing the points* GN: "This is Paulina. Hello Paulina!"
- Swedish ancorwoman: "Hello Moscow, this is Stockholm calling!" GN: *very flirtingly* Hello there.
- "This is Irina. You don't want to mess with her."
- *Latvian guy announces the points* GN: What the hell is he wearing? Does he know he's on TV?
- *UK gives Turkey 12 points* GN: We gave Turkey a 12? Come on people, what were you thinking?!
- *grumble grumble* random country never gives us a lot of points, *grumble grumble* Oh wait they gave us a 10 - I take it all back you're a marvelous man!
All in all it was a blast to watch, I really miss following the whole pre-Eurovision craziness, will work on it next year. I liked quite a few of the songs this year, though the level wasn't nearly as epic as 2007 or 2006, but it was still alright.
Sunday
I had a slight headache all day long, which coupled with my lack of proper sleep made me dizzy/sleepy. However I had lapses of clarity and energy during which I practiced for the Hetalia skit along with everyone else. It looked great by the end of the day, I think we're all set for Expo :) It's going to be all kinds of epic fun ^____^
Amy took this while practicing the skit. Pipe cleaner ahoge wins :D Thank you pandarosi :3
After skit practice Amy and I went to Chinatown and had Japanese food :) It was filling and delicious!! We then went home and watched Night at the Museum, because I hadn't seen it before and we're probably going to see the sequel on Friday so I needed to have seen the first one :P After that we went to bed and sleeeeeept forever. Or almost forever, since I had to meet Emily for revision in the early afternoon.
Monday
Revision with Emily @ the uni library. Went very well actually, we covered all of the material that might be on the exam (5 different plays/kinds of theatre), found external material to aid the studying, I photocopied a lot of useful stuff plus three plays from Emily's textbook, and we were good to go! It took us forever though, like from 2:30pm till... 7:30? Without breaks. It wasn't tiring but by the end of it we were both like *twitch, twitch* And Emily said "let's wrap up and go have hot chocolate, yes?" And I was like YES PLZ OTL.
Tuesday
Slept FOREVER, got up in the late afternoon, saw Angels & Demons with Amy.
I thought it was crap, tbh. Which is a real shame because the book was frickin' EXCELLENT. Much better than Da Vinci Code stupidness.
But mehhh, they changed so much, it's not even funny. They made Vittoria a scientist at CERN, and the dead dude was her "research partner" instead of her father, and we got flashed by Tom Hanks in a Speedo, and they almost made Ewan McGregor out to be a good guy. Now I'm going to be honest, I thought they were going to kill him in a heroic self-sacrificial flight above the Vatican which would totally KILL the book ending but it would still be awesome as a movie end, plus I got teary because you're killing Ewan McGregor, you bastards!!! But they didn't, which was somewhat comforting. Still, it was a cheap suspense thriller, and it didn't retain any of its educational/intellectual aspects at all. The soundtrack was awesome, but then again Hans Zimmer is pretty much a guarantee of awesome epic music.
Oh, and Ewan McGregor actually said that lightning is "awesome", I kid you not. Amy and I were in a giggling fit for a good two minutes.
"He said 'awesome'!"
"I know!!"
*SPAZZ*
XD
By the end of the movie though I had an almost split-heading headache, which was NOT FUN. I took a painkiller but it didn't work, so I went to sleep. I kept waking up in the night though, and had to get out of bed at 4:45am or something because I couldn't get back to sleep. Now I'm sleepy again but I need to get a move on with studying because my exam is at 2:30pm and I still haven't done anything for it. >__<
I really want to blog about other things right now but I have no time and I needed this recap out of the way.
Also, I've been wanting to say this for like a couple of weeks, if not more. WTF IS UP WITH ALL THE DREAMWIDTH SHEBANG?! You people and your bandwagons, WTF, honestly. I will stop here before it turns into a rant, OTL.