Just Another Blog...

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:36:16 GMT

Apparently, I'm getting a Dell laptop for my birthday.

Yay, Explodo-box!

Mon, 14 Aug 2006 06:57:45 GMT

I swear, the next time I see one of those ads for the protection of animals with "I'll Stand By You" in the background, I will cry and throw my hot beverage at the TV screen with much force.

Seriously.

Fri, 11 Aug 2006 06:55:15 GMT

I pwn ABC competitions.

I am so entering more of them from now on.

Mon, 07 Aug 2006 10:52:41 GMT

After an otherwise shithouse day, finding out that you got 17 out of 20 for your Japanese speaking assessment is the best thing in the world. It really is.

「よくできました、タネアさん！」

Sun, 06 Aug 2006 03:51:48 GMT

I've returned from lucas_meow's dinner party groggy from too much Maison and Lindt. Here's a meme to make me feel better.

Pick 10 bands/artists...Answer the questions...
First song that you heard by them...a...
First song that you fell in love with...b...
Your current favourite song by them...c...

Nabbed once again from ryttu3k

1. b(if)tek
a. Read to Me
b. Projects For A Rainy Day. Gorgeous song.
c. Luxury. It's pretty much the only 2020 song that I really like.

2. Ladytron
a. Seventeen
b. Seventeen. I remember listening to the radio for hours on end just to see if they'd play it again. Those were good times.
c. Probably... The Way That I Found You. Not one of their best, but still OK.

3. Tripod
a. Science Facts Are Useful (also my first Song In An Hour experience!)
b. The one they did at the Melbourne Town Hall when Triple J had some "arena spectacular" thing back in 2003. It featured the Iraqi Information Minister, Justin Hamilton, a fish finger solo and sex with trees. I don't think it ever had a name...
c. Geek Eye For The Jock Guy!

4. The Presets
a. Let's Go. I had no idea that it was by them until very recently.
b. Girl and the Sea
c. It's a tossup between Are You The One and Down Down Down.

5. Cut Copy
a. It was either Future or Going Nowhere. I can't remember.
b. I think it was Going Nowhere. Or it may have been Future. ;)
c. The Twilight

6. Talking Heads
a. I've been exposed to Talking Heads since I was very, very young. So I can't answer that question.
b. Road to Nowhere. What else?
c. Once In A Lifetime and The Lady Don't Mind

7. Rocket Science
a. Being Followed
b. As above.
c. I woke up this morning with Hyperspace in my head. So, Hyperspace.

8. Bleepin J. Squawkins
a. I think it was RSVP.
b. Over and Out
c. Over and Out. That song is pretty much the only reason I bought their album.

9. Tujiko Noriko
a. 空っぽ (Karappo for the kanji/hiragana challenged) (Empty for the Japanese challenged)
b. Bebe
c. Niagara Hospital (タップダンス！)

10. Radiohead
a. There There
b. Sail to the Moon
c. Sit Down, Stand Up (I only have Hail to the Theif)

Tue, 01 Aug 2006 10:34:50 GMT

I had a dream disturbingly similar areyoustrange's, where everyone I loved had told me that they hated me. My friends. My two favourite teachers. My family. Everyone who had previously helped me see the brighter side of life had turned their backs on me.

So I killed them. I don't really remember how. Yet, I do remember making futile attempts to bring them back to life. Nothing worked.

So, yeah.

Sun, 30 Jul 2006 11:00:28 GMT

I really want a thunderstorm right now.

As long as everything else is dead silent, though. Just the lightning flashes with the sound of rain and thunder...

It might make me feel a bit better.

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 09:29:20 GMT

It seems that my father has been spelling his name wrong for the past 44 years.

For those past years, he's always spelt it "Darryl". However, as he discovered on his birth certificate today, it's actually written down as "Daryl". This means that he's managed to get everything of importance (driver's licence and stuff like that) without anyone raising an eyelid over the added R.

However, on my birth certificate, it's spelt with two R's. Interesting...

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:36:54 GMT

New-ish layout!

しちめんちょうはすごいですね。

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 10:25:54 GMT

Nervous. Breakdown. x_x

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 09:55:25 GMT

My official Sunrise Family membership card finally arrived today.

And that was the highlight of my entire two week break. :(

Thu, 13 Jul 2006 02:11:42 GMT

Baa.

Click here to post your own answers for this meme.)

✓ I miss somebody right now.	× I don't watch much TV these days.	✓ I own lots of books.
× I wear glasses or contact lenses. (No, but I'd really love to wear glasses. Just a weird fetish I have...)	✓ I love to play video games.	× I've tried marijuana.
× I've watched porn movies.	× I have been the psycho-ex in a past relationship.	✓ I believe honesty is usually the best policy.
✓ I curse sometimes.	✓ I have changed a lot mentally over the last year.	× I carry my knife/razor everywhere with me.

* * * * *

× I have broken someone's bones.	× I have a secret that I am ashamed to reveal.	× I hate the rain.
✓ I'm paranoid at times.	× I would get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free of cost, and scar-free.	✓ I need/want money right now.
✓ I love sushi.	× I talk really, really fast.	× I have fresh breath in the morning.
✓ I have long hair. (Well, long-ish)	× I have lost money in Las Vegas.	× I have at least one sibling.
✓ I was born in a country outside of the U.S.	✓ I have worn fake hair/fingernails/eyelashes in the past.	× I couldn't survive without Caller I.D.
× I like the way that I look.	× I have lied to a good friend in the last 6 months.	✓ I am usually pessimistic.
✓ I have a lot of mood swings.	× I think prostitution should be legalized.	× I slept with a roommate.
× I have a hidden talent.	× I'm always hyper no matter how much sugar I have.	× I have a lot of friends.
× I have pecked someone of the same sex.	× I enjoy talking on the phone.	✓ I practically live in sweatpants or PJ pants.
× I love to shop and/or window shop.	✓ I'm obsessed with my Xanga or Livejournal.	× I'm completely embarrassed to be seen with my mother.
✓ I have a mobile phone.	× I have passed out drunk in the past 6 months.	✓ I've rejected someone before.
✓ I currently like/love someone.	✓ I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.	✓ I want to have children in the future.
× I have changed a diaper before.	× I've called the cops on a friend before.	× I'm not allergic to anything.
✓ I have a lot to learn.	× I am shy around the opposite sex.	× I'm online 24/7, even as an away message.
× I have at least 5 away messages saved.	✓ I have tried alcohol or drugs before.	× I have made a move on a friend's significant other or crush in the past.
× I own the "South Park" movie.	✓ I have avoided assignments at work/school to be on Xanga or Livejournal.	× I enjoy some country music.
× I would die for my best friends.	✓ I'm obsessive, and often a perfectionist.	× I have used my sexuality to advance my career.
× I think Halloween is awesome because you get free candy.	× I have dated a close friend's ex.	× I am happy at this moment.
× I'm obsessed with guys.	× Democrat.	× Republican.
✓ I don't even know what I am.	× I am punk rockish.	✓ I go for older guys/girls, not younger.
✓ I study for tests most of the time. (Underline the "most" there)	✓ I tie my shoelaces differently from anyone I've ever met. (Used to, anyway)	× I can work on a car.
× I love my job(s).	× I am comfortable with who I am right now.	× I have more than just my ears pierced.
× I walk barefoot wherever I can.	× I have jumped off a bridge.	× I love sea turtles.
× I spend ridiculous amounts of money on makeup.	× I plan on achieving a major goal/dream.	✓ I am proficient on a musical instrument.
× I hate office jobs.	× I went to college out of state.	× I am adopted.
× I am a pyro.	× I have thrown up from crying too much.	✓ I have been intentionally hurt by people that I loved.
× I fall for the worst people.	× I adore bright colours.	× I usually like covers better than originals.
× I hate chain theme restaurants like Applebees and TGIFridays.	✓ I can pick up things with my toes.	× I can't whistle.
× I have ridden/owned a horse.	× I still have every journal I've ever written in.	✓ I talk in my sleep.
✓ I've often thought that I was born in the wrong century.	✓ I try to forget things by drowning them out with loads of distractions.	× I wear a toe ring.
× I have a tattoo.	✓ I can't stand at LEAST one person that I work with.	× I am a caffeine junkie.
× I am completely tree-huggy spiritual, and I'm not ashamed at all.	✓ If I knew I would get away with it, I would commit at least one murder.	✓ I will collect anything, and the more nonsensical, the better.
× I enjoy a nice glass of wine with dinner.	× I'm an artist.	× I am ambidextrous.
× I sleep with so many stuffed animals, I can hardly fit on my bed.	× If it weren't for having to see other people naked, I'd live in a nudist colony.	× I have terrible teeth.
✓ I hate my toes.	✓ I did this meme even though I wasn't tagged by the person who took it before me.	✓ I have more friends on the internet than in real life.
× I have lived in either three different states or countries.	× I am extremely flexible.	✓ I love hugs more than kisses.
× I want to own my own business.	× I smoke.	✓ I spend way too much time on the computer than on anything else.
✓ Nobody has ever said I'm normal.	✓ Sad movies, games, and the like can cause a trickle of tears every now and then.	× I am proficient in the use of many types of firearms and combat weapons.
✓ I like the way women look in stylized men's suits.	✓ I don't like it when people are unpleased or seem unpleased with me.	✓ I have been described as a dreamer or likely to have my head up in the clouds.
× I have played strip poker with someone else before.	✓ I have had emotional problems for which I have sought professional help. (And I still do)	✓ I believe in ghosts and the paranormal.
× I can't stand being alone. (I'd rather be alone most of the time)	✓ I have at least one obsession at any given time.	× I weigh myself, pee/poo, and then weigh myself again.
× I consistently spend way too much money on obsessions-of-the-moment.	✓ I'm a judgmental asshole.	× I'm a HUGE drama-queen.
× I have travelled on more than one continent.	✓ I sometimes wish my father would just disappear.	✓ I need people to tell me I'm good at something in order to feel that I am.
× I am a Libertarian.	✓ I can speak more than one language.	× I can fall asleep even if the whole room is as noisy as it can be.
× I would rather read than watch TV.	✓ I like reading fact more than fiction.	✓ I have pulled an all-nighter on an assignment I was given a month to do.
✓ I have no piercings.	× I have spent the night in a train station or other public place.	× I have been so upset over my physical gender that I cried.
× I once spent Christmas completely alone because there was a miscommunication on which parent was supposed to have me that night.	✓ There have been times when I have wondered "Why was I born?" and may/may not have cried over it.	× I like most animals better than most people.
× I own a collection of retro games consoles.	× The thought of physical exercise makes me shiver.	× I have hit someone with a dead fish.
× I am compulsively honest.	× I was born with a congenital birth defect that has never been repaired.	× I have danced topless in front of dozens of complete strangers.
× I have gone from wishing I was a girl to revelling in being a boy to feeling like a girl again in the span of five minutes, and not cared a whit for my actual sex.	✓ I am unashamedly bisexual, and have different motivations for my desires for different genders.	× I sometimes won't sleep a whole night or eat a whole day because I forget to.
✓ I find it impossible to get to sleep without some kind of music on.	× I dislike milk.	× I obsessively wash my hands.
✓ I always carry something significant around with me.	× Sometimes I'd rather wear a wig in day-to-day life than use my own hair.	× I've pushed myself to become more self-aware and thereby more aware of others.
× Even though I live on my own I still cry sometimes because I miss my mother.	× I hand wrote all the HTML tags in this document.	✓ I've liked something which a majority of people claimed was either bad or weird.
× I have been clinically dead for a brief period of time.	✓ Instead of feeling sympathy/empathy with people and their problems, I simply become annoyed. (Sorry)	× I participate/have participated in auto drag races and won.
× I do not 'get' most comedy acts.	× I don't think strippers are money-greedy or slutty for dancing.	× I don't like to chew gum.
× I am obsessed with history/historical things and can't wait for someone to build a time machine so I can be the first to use it.	× I can never remember for the life of me where I parked the car.	× I had the TEEN ANGST thing going for at least 2-3 years.
× I wish people would be more empathic and honest with each other.	× I play Dungeons and Dragons weekly.	✓ I love to sing.
× I want to live in my mother's basement when I grow up.	× I have a custom-built computer.	× I want to create a certain someone's babies, even though there's a 0% possiblity of ever achieving it.
× I would be in a relationship with one of my pets if they were human.	× I've gone skinny-dipping.	× I've performed in three plays.
× I enjoy burritos.	× I'm Irish and loving it.	× I have a thing for redheads.
× I am a twin!	✓ Most of the times, I'd rather do something intellectual instead of doing something generically 'fun'.	× Once I set out to finish something, I always stay at it until it is completed before I move on to something else.
✓ I wish there were a way to erase past mistakes.	× I sleep more than 12 hours a day.	✓ I wish I could be prouder of what I've accomplished, but it's never enough.
✓ I need more time to myself.	× I wish I was more open-minded.	✓ I hope that I go really prematurely grey.
✓ I download songs from the internet.	× I've just reenacted chapter 58 of Death Note with my best friend.	✓ I say random things to freak people out. (Unintentionally, may I add)
× I'm still a little mad about the ending of Death Note.	× I love playing Truth or Dare.	× I love listening to slow music, but I hate singing to it.
✓ Music helps me remember that I am not alone.	× Playing my favorite sport makes me temporarily forget my problems.	✓ I think this survey is particularly long.
✓ I prefer my LJ friends to my real-life ones. (Because most of my LJ friends ARE my real life ones!)	× I can only hate someone that I love.	× I've ordered an extra two shots of espresso to an Americano at Starbucks.

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:23:20 GMT

It's a meme spammage type post! Hooray!

From harrietwalker comes the

Bold = Seen more than 3 episodes.

24
7th Heaven
Adam-12
Aeon Flux
ALF
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Alias
American Idol/Pop Idol/Canadian Idol/Australian Idol/etc.
America's Next Top Model/Germany's Next Top Model
Angel
Arrested Development
Babylon 5
Babylon 5: Crusade
Battlestar Galactica (the old one)
Battlestar Galactica (the new one)
Baywatch
Beavis & Butthead
Beverly Hills 90210
Bewitched
Bonanza
Bones
Bosom Buddies
Boston Legal
Boy Meets World
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Bug Juice
Chappelle's Show
Charlie's Angels
Charmed
Cheers
Columbo
Commander in Chief
Coupling
Cowboy Bebop
Crossing Jordan
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Dancing with the Stars
Danny Phantom
Dark Angel
Dark Skies
Davinci's Inquest
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Deadliest Catch
Deadwood
Degrassi: The Next Generation
Designing Women
Desperate Housewives
Dharma & Greg
Different Strokes
Doctor Who
Dragnet
Due South
Earth 2
Earth Final Conflict
Emergency!
Entourage
ER
Everwood
Everybody Loves Raymond
Facts of Life
Family Guy
Family Ties
Farscape
Fawlty Towers
Felicity
Firefly
Frasier
Friends
Futurama
Get Smart
Gilligan's Island
Gilmore Girls
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
Green Wing
Grey's Anatomy
Growing Pains
Gunsmoke
Hannah Montana
Happy Days
Hogan's Heroes
Home Improvement
Homicide: Life on the Street
House
I Dream of Jeannie
I Love Lucy
Invader Zim
Invasion
Hell's Kitchen
JAG
Jackass
Joey
John Doe
LA Law
Laverne and Shirley
Little House on the Prairie
Lizzie McGuire
Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Lost
Lost in Space
Love, American Style
M*A*S*H
MacGyver
Malcolm in the Middle
Married... With Children
Melrose Place
Miami Vice
Mission: Impossible
Monk
Moonlighting
Mork & Mindy
Murphy Brown
My Life as a Dog
My Three Sons
My Two Dads
NCIS
Nip/Tuck
Northern Exposure
Numb3rs
One Tree Hill
Oz
Perry Mason
Picket Fences
Pokemon
Power Rangers
Prison Break
Profiler
Project Runway
Psyche
Quantum Leap
Queer As Folk (US)
Queer as Folk (British)
ReGenesis
Remington Steele
Rescue Me
Road Rules
ROME
Roseanne
Roswell
Saved by the Bell
Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?
Scrubs
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Slings and Arrows
Smallville
So Weird
South Park
Spaced
Spongebob Squarepants
Sports Night
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Enterprise
Stargate Atlantis
Stargate SG-1
Superman
Supernatural
Surface
Survivor
Taxi
Teen Titans
That 70's Show
That's So Raven
The 4400
The Addams Family
The Andy Griffith Show
The A-Team
The Avengers
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Bionic Woman
The Brady Bunch
The Cosby Show
The Daily Show
The Dead Zone
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Flintstones
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
The Golden Girls
The Honeymooners
The Jeffersons
The Jetsons
The L Word
The Love Boat
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
The Mighty Boosh
The Monkees
The Munsters
The Mythbusters
The O.C.
The Office (UK)
The Office (US)
The Pretender
The Real World
The Shield
The Simpsons
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Sopranos
The Suite Life of Zack and Cody
The Twilight Zone
The Waltons
The West Wing
The Wonder Years
The X-Files
Third Watch
Three's Company
Top Gear
Twin Peaks
Twitch City
Veronica Mars
Whose Line is it Anyway? (US)
Whose Line is it Anyway? (UK)
Will and Grace

Keep your laughter to yourself, please...

And from kitsunejin,

1. It gets harder, my father, the weight you manage and the damage too
Polystyrene, I wanna daydream, *********

2. Between the walls, well hey, we're just to small to make a fuss about it
Did something fall, well hey, what is the point of losin' sleep about it? (Underneath the Radar - Underworld: harrietwalker)

3. It's quiet when they fade away
Westgate Bridge breaks up the day
Into red sky (Upstairs In My House - Men At Work: insane_duckfish)

4. I wrestle
With your consciense
You wrestle
With your partner

5. When I find an injured bird
It makes a great nest
I use it as a puppet when I'm entertaining guests

6. I am here for you
Love is meant for two
Now tell me what you're gonna do

7. Because the air ouside will make
Our cells divide at an alarming rate
Until our shells simply cannot hold
All our insides in, and that's when we'll explode (We Will Become Silhouettes - The Postal Service; kitsunejin)

8. Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never been
Carry me on the waves to the lands I've never seen (Orinoco Flow - Enya: kitsunejin)

9. Let's sway, while the colour lights up your face
Let's sway, sway through the crowd to an empty space

10. Words can make you pay and pay
Four-letter words I cannot say
Panty! Toilet! Dirty! Devil!
Words are trouble, words are subtle

11. I don't know why I go walking at night
But now I'm tired and I don't want to walk anymore
I hope it doesn't take the rest of my life
Until I find what it is that I've been looking for

12. And the girl down the street said a dog couldn't bark
'Cause a man with an axe cut its voicebox out (Middle of the Hill - Josh Pyke: metaphoroflife)

13. Her friends are so jealous
You know how bad girls get
Sometimes it not so easy
To be the teacher's pet (Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police: harrietwalker)

14. Faster than the speeding light she's flying
Trying to remember where it all began
She's got herself a little piece of heaven
Waiting for the time when earth shall be as one (Ray of Light - Madonna: lucas_meow)

15. Another year and then you'll be happy
Just one more year and then you'll be happy
But you're cryin'
You're cryin' now

Sun, 02 Jul 2006 05:50:50 GMT

The next two weeks are going to be shithouse.

Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:12:52 GMT

Nothing unusual here...

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	High
Schizoid:	Moderate
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	Low
Borderline:	Very High
Histrionic:	Moderate
Narcissistic:	Moderate
Avoidant:	Very High
Dependent:	High
Obsessive-Compulsive:	High
-- Personality Disorder Test -- -- Personality Disorder Information --

Fri, 23 Jun 2006 02:08:23 GMT

Poached from ryttu3k

YOUR ROCK STAR NAME: (first pet and current street name)
Schooner Crest

2. YOUR MOVIE STAR NAME: (grandfather/grandmother on your dads side) and favourite candy
Betty Mint Aero

3. YOUR "FLY GIRL/GUY" NAME: (first initial of first name, first two or three letters of your last name)
T Qui

4. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (favourite animal, favourite color)
Cow Orange

5. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, city/suburb where you were born)
Laurene Wollongong

6. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (first 3 letters of your last name, last 3 letters of mother's maiden name, first 3 letters of your pet's name)
Quionssch (um?)

7. JEDI NAME: (middle name spelled backwards, your mum's maiden name spelled backwards)
Enerual Snommusztif

Nyark. No pornish names for me...

Mon, 19 Jun 2006 07:37:40 GMT

Today, I demonstrated my sheer brillaince in the disciplines of dexterity and co-ordination by falling over on the same foot TWICE and subsequently suffering the same agony that my ankle had suffered.

I explained my plight to Ms. McGrath and Mrs. Mitchell, who were quite obviously trying very hard not to laugh while I filled out an accident form. I have to admit, falling on the same foot in the space of four hours is pretty amusing...

Sun, 18 Jun 2006 10:02:59 GMT

Remember this little decision I made?

Looks like my dreams have been shattered...

Screw you, Seven Network.

Fri, 16 Jun 2006 10:08:06 GMT

The other day, it was a drunken wifebasher smuggling a small dog on to the bus, today, it was some guy outside a primary school poledancing whilst dressed up as Elmo.

o_O

...........

I have a Wikipedia account, with pretty userboxes, just like ryttu3k!

...........

I really want to make a Glass House/All Your Base icon, but I don't know how to animate. Can anyone put me in the right direction?

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 22:14:43 GMT

Latest Weather Observations for Albion Park
from the Bureau of Meterology.

14/08.00: 2.5
14/07.00: 0.3
14/06.00: -0.4

This is absolute crap! Why is it so fucking cold?

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 07:36:19 GMT

This is what happens when I get a bit too high on Home Brand Clinkers.

...........

今朝はさむすぎる！！　ああ！

Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:16:45 GMT

I've just realised that Girls Aloud have released an album titled Chemistry. On that album is a song called Biology.

Now, if they name their next single Physics and name their next album Earth and Environmental Science, it might just restore my faith in British Girl Groups.

Wed, 07 Jun 2006 09:38:06 GMT

There are many songs that classify as "Those Shit-Bad Terrible Songs That I Shouldn't Like But Sadly Do."

The one I'm listening to is one of them. Sob.

Mon, 29 May 2006 02:27:03 GMT

See, relenzero? There are 48 hiragana! I win!

Fri, 26 May 2006 03:10:09 GMT

Assessment Period leads to boredom. Boredom produces an LJ post with links to non-boring pages.

The Sweetwater Postnatal Abortion Clinic.

The Canonical List of Weird Band Names.

Jesus of the Week.

Jesus Christ Super Store.

The Museum of Food Anomalies.

Go forth and be not-bored!