ausare: (Sing)
2010-10-18 09:04 pm

Various updates / Video Monday 24

雨が欲しい〜
あめがほしい〜
Ame ga hoshii~
(I) want rain~


There was a book fair/sale at the Expo a few days ago and Y got me two Merlin novels just because while he was there like a bookworm drawn to book sales. Envy me, for my boyfriend is both nerdy and awesome XD
(Ooh, Colin and Bradley~ *Coos at book covers*)

Anyway. I started out typing this entry with a few things in mind that I wanted to say, but now I've forgotten what I was going to update about. Fail.

It was supposed to go something like: I kept nodding off at work because after years of staying up for uni stuff, I can't seem to keep to my 10p.m. bedtime. Waking up at 6a.m. for five days a week has made work hours very difficult to get through. And I've been packing my own lunch to work since the third day of work because eating outside meant having to endure the heat and the expensive CBD menu. Although I feel so wrung out tonight that I'm not really up to cooking something for tomorrow. I guess I'll just buy a sandwich from 7-11 tomorrow morning on my way to the bus stop. Then maybe I'll mention something about the crazy heat these few days. I didn't even have to switch on the heater for the shower; the water was too warm on the lowest setting. And that my hair's getting long enough to be at that length that its mere presence is irritating, and it sticks to the back of my neck and fizzes when it gets too warm or too humid even though I have straight hair (so totally not true that only curly and/or wavy hair fizzes). Can the rainy/monsoon season be here now? UGH.

Okay. I think my mind just went *kapoot* because it's functioning on a lack of energy while the weather is overheating it. Stupid equatorial weather.
 

VIDEO MONDAY 24


[Direct link to the video]

Because I'm geeky and this will blow your mind.


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2010-09-21 09:46 am

You know you're too much of a fangirl when

私は奇妙な夢を見た。
わたしはきみょうなゆめをみた。
Watashi wa kimyou na yume wo mita.
I had a strange dream.

I think this is a sign that I'm too deep in the Merlin and Harry Potter fandom.

I had a dream that some of us (me and a few uni friends who I chat with more frequently on Twitter than we have the chance to in real life) have magic but it's not really accepted in society, and, added to that, one of the guys in my dream *ahem* isn't so straight.

There was rain, hoodies, flying on broomsticks, me having a mad search for my mobile phone with my previous phone in mind but eventually finding my current one, a young mother teaching homophobia to her child and why it's wrong for two people of the same gender to love each other, and our Media Interviews lecturer (strangely named 'Mr. London') searching/secretly hunting us down for being magic and accepting that homosexuality exists and thinking that it's not wrong.

I guess this dream alone explains how weird I am. Or who I am:

Rain: I LOVE rain.
Mobile phone: Geeky.
Having magic and not being accepted for it: Harry Potter and Merlin.
Broomstick flying: Harry Potter (I shouldn't have gotten myself angsty by looking at two pictures of Hedwig last night).
Homophobia-hate/Acceptance of the existence of homosexuality: Does this even need explaining?
Hoodies: I don't know, I just like hoodies.
Being hunted down by an ex-lecturer: It's not a secret that I DON'T LIKE HIM.
Him being called 'Mr. London': I have a thing for UK, a'ight?

I am so much weirder than I thought I am.


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2010-07-11 07:24 pm

Bleaugh

眠い〜
ねむい〜
Nemui~
Sleepy~

Um. Yes, I have a test tomorrow for my Creativity module (how ridiculous is that? What's the point in testing us about the theories and stuff related to something as abstract as creativity?!) but am digressing from it for a bit. Okay, so not 'a bit' because I've been watching (10 episodes of) The Big Bang Theory since lunch. And I initially wanted to wake up at 8.30am to study but was up at 8am and somehow fell back asleep until 11.30am. Ugh. So much time wasted.

Anyway, hey look it's Rex! Because apparently Y went and spent $4 on those egg toy capsule machines before it rolled out a Rex (or he exchanged with a friend who got the Rex), so... now I have it hanging from my handphone.

(I don't think he remembers/knows that Rex is my favourite from Toy Story, but he picked Rex out of the few other characters that rolled out, so. Yay! :D)

Yes, in case anyone's asking, there's no purpose whatsoever to this entry other than me wanting to brag about how awesome my bf is. HAHA.


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Sing)
2010-04-25 07:50 pm

Writer's Block: Another country

Do you have good friends from other countries that you've met on LiveJournal? Have you ever met them in person? If not, do you think you ever will?
Submitted By moskalkov_opera (on LiveJournal)

Nope, I'm not getting a writer's/blogging block. I'm just trying to ease my way back in after my long blogging hiatus. HAI FLIST DID YOU MISS ME? :D

So. I do have good friends that I've made thanks to LJ and nope we haven't met in person. I wish we could meet in person but I'm not sure whether it'll be possible. It will be super awesome if we could, though.

My first few LJ friends were made through fandom (big surprise), specifically the CSI: Miami fandom, in the order of [livejournal.com profile] swift_tales, [livejournal.com profile] lausi_gm and [livejournal.com profile] spilled_notes. [livejournal.com profile] swift_tales was kind of unexpected because I was following her Odd Colour Series on FanFiction.Net and it led to more of her fics on her LJ. Thanks to the power of fangirling over the same OTP and fanfic commenting, there came friendship and the joining of LJ communities, which led me to [livejournal.com profile] lausi_gm and [livejournal.com profile] spilled_notes, who are awesome people who remind me to think more of myself than I do and who reassure me that I'm not as alone as I always think I am.

It's strange yet awesome how just one common interest can sustain these friendships for these past few years, and it's even more awesome that our common fandoms keep expanding to include Torchwood (oh, Ianto *wibbles*) and Merlin. I love it that we have similar tastes in UK series.

Then there's the fandom for w-inds. and WaT, where I've met [livejournal.com profile] lovryu, [livejournal.com profile] esined_xoxo, [livejournal.com profile] tomosuki, [livejournal.com profile] chychaai and [livejournal.com profile] gn_chan. The first three don't really count since we're in the same country, but I like them and they deserve a mention, especially [livejournal.com profile] lovryu, with whom I've shared lots of late-night-early-morning flaily times with over pretty and hilarious Japanese boys, the Merlin cast (Gaius's eyebrows FTW!), cracky British comedy shows, the similarities of our lives having been through the same education system and having enough similar character traits to be LJ-and-MSN-IM twins, and the EPIC FAIL of our fellow Singaporeans.

Come to think of it, the main reason why I know all these people came down to our love for hot and/or pretty boys/men. I love how superficial us fangirls are XD


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2010-01-22 01:41 pm

Remind me why I have a curfew

私は十二歳の子供じゃない!
わたしはじゅうにさいのこどもじゃない!
Watashi wa jyuuni sai no kodomo janai!
I'm not a twelve-year-old child!

Curfews suck. And I really couldn't feel the vibration of my mobile phone through my shorts. Accept that, and shut it. And really, taking away my phone and Internet access for the night? I HAVE SUCH IMMATURE PARENTS (and utterly uncreative ones, at that).

In other news, I finally have my red Converse jacket back. YAYNESS.

Because I'm an unapologetic MERLIN fangirl )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (CSI:Miami. Eric/Ryan)
2009-12-31 08:33 pm

Before 2009 ends (4/5)

Here it is, the whole bunch of photos I've uploaded but never got the change to blog about (all right, I admit, I was just procrastinating).

Seven hours left and I still haven't gotten round to do #5 of that list!

My fandom's EPIC BROMANCE is Facebook approved )

11 August: Leonardo da Vinci )

3 and 10 July: Baking! )

10 July: Dinner with friends from polytechnic year 1 class )

August: Trying to make sushi )

26 August: Cookies this time )


Phew! And that's #4 taken care of! Looking back, most of my 2009 has been about food (or most of my life...?). I'm such a pig. But well. Now that I have a part-time job that earns me at least double of the allowance I used to get from my mother pre-job, I can bear to part with a little more of my money on better (but still student-affordable) food. For me, enjoying food comes along with enjoying the company of friends I'm having that meal with, and that experience of trying something new together. So... I guess it worked out well for a food-filled 2009...? Heh :D


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (CSI:Miami. Eric/Ryan)
2009-12-22 10:00 pm

Before 2009 ends (3/5)

私の火曜日はどこに行ったか?
わたしのかようびはどこにいったか?
Watashi no kayoubi wa doko ni itta ka?
Where did my Tuesday go?

There are less than nine days left of this year, and considering I'll be working for three days later this week, I forced myself to check off #3 of my last-try-for-2009 list today before I run out of time.

It was super nerve-wrecking since I haven't been posting to my usual fandoms for such a long time that it was almost like posting for the first time all over again, and also I really was posting for the first time ever on new fandoms where there are already lots of brilliant fanfictions and I just felt inadequate and ashamed that I had the audacity to want to exist in the same LJ community as those amazing writers. Oh, crossposting. UGH. What a nightmare. It's the part I dread the most; making sure all the details follow the community's posting rules, that I didn't miss out anything and end up incurring the wrath of the mods, that all my links work, blah blah blah... OH EM GEE. *PULLS HAIR*

BUT. IT'S ALL DONE NOW. UGH. I've been working on this since after lunch and UGH LOOK AT THE TIME! IT'S HALF-PAST-9! I WANT MY TUESDAY BACK! D':

*Huffs* Oh well. Anyway, here are the links:

Next Step
[There was one last thing he needed to do before leaving the past behind.]
CSI: Miami fanfiction; Eric/Ryan; One-shot; Possible slash; Spoilers for season 8 episode 5 (Bad Seed); Dialogue-fic; PG; CBS and the various producers own CSI:Miami. I don't; Thanks to [livejournal.com profile] lausi_gm for the hand-holding and the confidence-bestowing! *HUGS!*

20 Tweetfics
CSI: Miami | Glee | Merlin | Merlin RPF/S | Torchwood

THIS. IS OFFICIALY DONE DONE DONE. I can now go shower in peace, then go wrap up the gift I bought for tomorrow's company bbq+gift exchange (ugh I despair at my gift-wrapping skills, or lack thereof. Am dreading the process already).

I hope my work-friends are sensible enough to not buy anything impractical. *Nervous*


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2009-12-19 10:03 pm
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Before 2009 ends (1+2/5)

このままで続けます!
このままでつづけます!
Kono mama de tsuzukemasu!
(I'll) continue on like this!

Seeing as there's only two weeks left of 2009, and considering how much of a slave I am to Procrastination, I set about conquering my last-try-for-2009 list.

Feels like a good start )


Recently, I've gotten my sister hooked onto Doctor Who. It's just hilarious; she's always half-shielding her eyes through the episodes and getting easily freaked out but still wanting to watch more. I should think that's 'Objective Achieved', RTD and Steven Moffat.

One more Doctor Who convert! Yay, me! World, you're welcome :D


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (CSI:Miami. Eric/Ryan)
2009-12-17 11:40 pm

Too soon!!!

2010の前に…
2010のまえに…
2010 no mae ni...
Before 2010...

Well, before I could even begin to notice, another year is almost ending. And yet I still have some unfinished business left. Like Y.Mei used to say, it's better to settle everything and not have anything leftover to the next year (even though I'm not superstitious, heh...), so here's my very short list of things I want to get done in the remaining fortnight of 2009:

1. Pay the October and November bills for my mobile phone.
2. Get a haircut. No idea where I can get a good one at a cheap rate, though.
3. Post my tweetfics and that short Eric/Ryan fanfic I managed to complete.
4. Clear the backlog of photos I wanted to put up on LJ.
5. Deal with my drama (mama). For good.

Here's to hoping I can get them all done. Or at least three of them... *smacks self* Stop giving myself leniency to back out!


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Default)
2009-12-06 03:31 pm
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It has come

始まった!やっと始まった!
はじまった!やっとはじまった!
Hajimatta! Yatto hajimatta!
(It has) started! It has finally started!

Trimester is over, all my assignments submitted, JLPT4 over and done with a couple of hours ago (although I have a very bad feeling that I won't pass D: thanks to crazy school schedule leaving me with no time to study and I tried to cram everything into my head last night until 3a.m. and OMG THE LISTENING SECTION must you change your conversation details every few seconds? Stop confusing us! And the grammar section was just EPIC FAIL D: Am feeling very MEH about it).

But anyway, trimester break is finally here! THREE WEEKS! Okay, less than that, because I need to spare some days for work to get allowance, BUT BREAK! FINALLY! XD

So, as I have promised myself a few weeks ago to buy a tub of ice-cream and finish it all by myself...

Decadence YAY! )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Sing)
2009-12-02 06:29 pm

Procrastination strikes again

私は勉強する時間がない!
わたしはべんきょうするじかんがない!
Watashi wa benkyou suru jikan ga nai!
I don't have time to study!

My JLPT4 examination is this coming Sunday and I've studied zero of it, and I still have three components of my last assignment of this trimester to complete by Friday which, I might add, I HAVE NOT STARTED YET. Instead, what was I doing? Looking at Merlin series 2 episode 13's promotional photos and I was effing making wallpapers.

Ugh, Self. Why so FAIL? )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2009-11-30 11:47 pm

Rant (again, ugh) / More WIN than FAIL / Video Monday 16

久しぶり!
ひさしぶり!
Hisashiburi!
Long time no see!

Wow. It's been three weeks since I last updated my LJ. Ugh, schoolwork, the things you do to me.

First, a belated rant )

Next.

That darn Media Interviews assignment. After much procrastination, I've finally joined and edited my soundbites on Saturday midnight (or would that make it technically Sunday midnight?) while my mind was half shut-down and fully annoyed at the assignment because I could only use Audacity to edit it when previously in our first trimester's Media Production module, we used Pro Tools, which was way superior and more precise than Audacity.

Ugh. Audacity sucks to the high heavens.

But the editing was all taken care of within hours (by 3 a.m.), and there was only a 200-word write-up left to do so Jay and I met up in school this morning to complete it.

This was what things should look like (ignoring that Facebook game on the iMac): me on MSWord trying to get things done-

Reality, as we all know, is a different story )

WHAT IS ‘BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY’, KILL YOURSELF )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (CSI:Miami. Eric/Ryan)
2009-10-17 05:56 pm

Randomness is random

眠いです〜
ねむいです〜
Nemui desu~
(I'm) sleepy~

I was planning to spend my Saturday researching for the telephone interview assignment for my Media Interviews module that's due in two weeks and then catching up with Merlin fanfictions to cheer myself up because the Brazilian Grand Prix pushed Merlin out of this week's BBC schedule (damn racing cars; first making me take the MRT because my straight bus to school had its route changed when the night race was held here weeks ago, now it ruined my Merlin-watching schedule! Bloody racing cars!), but for some reason I suddenly felt like making a Ryan Wolfe wallpaper.

Preview and links under cut )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Sing)
2009-10-12 11:22 pm
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DO NOT WANT! / Video Monday 15

歯が痛い。
はがいたい。
Ha ga itai.
(My) tooth hurts.

The last tooth on my bottom left has been hurting since Sunday afternoon during work (wherein I kept wondering out loud, "Argh my tooth effing hurts D: Why? D:" to which no one made any remark whatsoever nor a single sympathetic acknowledgment. Why is it that in any group, I'm always ignored? I bet if I didn't talk for a whole day no one will notice. [/angst]) and Jay told me today it might be the wisdom tooth erupting and would hurt for about three days. So I was staring at my teeth in the mirror, yeah? And I noticed that the wisdom tooth on my bottom right has also erupted but I don't remember it being painful at all. Weird. And now my mother says it's because I've been staying up (way too) late and the 'heat' has been building up in my system so it's my gum hurting instead. I don't effing know. I just want it to stop. And I don't want to go through some excruciating surgery to remove my wisdom teeth, because OMG PAIN DO NOT WANT D: *crosses fingers and hope I didn't just jinx myself*

Self cure )

In other news, I bumped into one of my lecturers from the previous trimester (who has this weird dictatorship over which lecturers she gets to "recommend" and by proxy our whole degree course) on my way to PR project meeting and she said I've improved in said trimester. Unexpected compliment was unexpected! If only she knew how many of my assignments were completed at the last minute. And that wasn't even just an idiom.


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2009-09-14 10:55 pm

Video Monday 12

無料のアイスクリーム最高です!
むりょうのアイスクリームさいこうです!
Muryou no aisukuriimu saikou desu!
Free ice-cream is the best!

Because at work today, I realised that the tubs of ice-cream in our pantry are for us, so Sheralyn and I ended up putting off lunch for a couple of hours for the sake of rocky road. Heh.

Cracking up )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Sing)
2009-09-12 04:30 pm

Payin' anything to roll the dice

思い出はいつもきれいな。
おもいではいつもきれいな。
Omoi de wa itsumo kirei na.
Memories are always beautiful.

Last night, after Jacq's birthday celebration/party, where Y.Ting and I indulged in Arthur's Epic Expression of Disbelief (from series 1, episode 3: HERE, from disparue) and my mother was still imposing the you-are-12-and-your-curfew-is-at-10p.m.-and-I-will-bloody-well-call-you-to-remind-you-of-that-to-spoil-the-celebration-mood, I finally got to watch the pilot episode of Glee (the Director's Cut version, because I'm resourceful like that, and the Internet is my best friend).

And I cried. True story.

‘Just one more time’ )

OMG SECOND MERLIN SERIES 2 TRAILER! Be still, my heart!

WARNING! There are spoilers!



[Direct link to the video]

Can I has 19 September NOW?

Am ignoring all the het. LALALA~ DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WAS LALALA~


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Psycho)
2009-09-09 05:17 pm

Hold on to that feelin'

集中できない!
しゅうちゅうできない!
Shuuchuu dekinai!
Can't concentrate!

I'm supposed to be writing a news story by today for tomorrow's class but I can't seem to understand the instructions just recently uploaded onto Blackboard by my lecturer. My brain seemed to have gone offline along with my TwitterFox. Which explains why I'm here instead. Heh.

Anyway, it's September! The month of new and renewed television series! Woots!

9th
So You Think You Can Dance, season 6
Glee, season 1

19th (?)
Merlin, series 2 (?)

21st
How I Met Your Mother, season 5
Accidentally on Purpose, season 1 (not sure if I should watch this one.)
Heroes, season 4
CSI: Miami, season 8

23rd
CSI: NY, season 6

24th
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, season 10

I have so many shows coming up that I want to watch, but I still have a backlog of older seasons I haven't even watched yet (CSI season 9, Heroes season 3 and Chuck season 2). Ugh. I need 48 hours in one day!

My new obsession )


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Yellow)
2009-09-08 02:51 pm
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:D

アリサ。
Alyssa.

Because I'm sick of people mispronouncing my Mandarin name (that even the Chinese have problem pronouncing - WTH EPIC MOTHER TONGUE FAIL!). Because I like the way it's spelt and the way it looked, with the arrangement of 'A's and the 'L' and 'Y' and 'S's. Bonus? I like that it can be pronounced perfectly in Japanese.

Also, I am typing all this out on the bus on my way to school (ugh, afternoon class. I prefer having too-early classes because at least I'll have the rest of the day all to myself to waste away. But I suppose it lets me rest on Tuesday mornings in case I work Monday shifts). Have I mentioned that I love it that Albus doesn't fall apart when used anywhere else other than on my desk, the way my old Compaq would have? Oh, wait, it was already falling apart.

In other news, I am SO PSYCHED for Merlin series 2. I don't care if 19 September isn't the confirmed broadcast date - I'm sure I'll be too busy to worry about it - but I'll be happy as long as I get to watch it sometime this month. Goodness knows it'll be months before Hallmark channel/cable here starts showing it locally. So. Yay for Internet!



[Direct link to the video]

Merlin's eyes at 0:07! *DIES* Merlin using magic! *DIES* ARTHUR/BRADLEY!!! *TRIPLE DIES* And, UGH ARTHUR/GWEN D: *sputters in shock* Was not expecting it despite all the talk about it from the producers and the actors during pre-series 2 interviews. But, meh. Am going to ignore it (Arthur/Merlin OTP!!!) If stupidly blind Gwack viewers can ignore canon-Jack/Ianto in Torchwood (sorry, people, but that's what you are and that's the truth, and I will not apologise for my remark. She's married, for goodness' sake! Pregnant with Rhys's baby already, even!), I can surely ignore legend-and-series-canon-Arthur/Guinevere for the sake of my ship and its RPS counterpart.


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Torchwood. Hysterical woman #70)
2009-09-02 10:07 pm

5 hours of depressing television programming

今年の天気はメッチャ変な〜
ことしのてんきはメッチャへんな〜
Kotoshi no tenki wa meccha hen na~
The weather is weird this year.

It's supposed to be the hell-fire-weather period here but it's been raining every two to three days and it's bloody cold. UGH!

So after more than one month since getting the Torchwood series 3: Children of Earth, I've finally watched it yesterday. I slept at past 2a.m. the night before that and woke up at 6a.m. so I can have five hours to myself for CoE marathon before class in the afternoon. Alas, I lazed in bed a bit, was slow in washing up and having my breakfast, and had to spare precious seconds for household chores and stuff (argh, mother! D:). In the end, I managed to watch only the first three episodes. But! I finished the last two grueling episodes last night, so I'm finally done with it. Phew!

Because I'm crazy and self-indulgent-and-entertaining, I tweeted commentaries as I watched and now I'm gong to post them here. Because it will amuse me, shut up :P Only those who watch CoE will understand my tweets, though.

And yes, SPOILERS AHEAD!

(Time-stamp is in accordance to the international download version.)

Day One )

Day Two )

Day Three )

Day Four )

Day Five )

Some comments about the programming )

Last minute decision )

Ugh... I've been typing this entry (very slowly) since this morning in class (oops :P) and my dry eyes are killing me. Also, I need a shower. Ugh.

*Backs away from Albus*


以上、Chii です。

ausare: (Sims)
2009-08-14 10:47 pm
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Almost ending

寝る前に…
ねるまえに…
Neru maeni...
Before going to sleep...

Updates and stuff, and Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince spoilers )


以上、Chii です。