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.

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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 swift_tales, lausi_gm and spilled_notes. 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 lausi_gm and 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 lovryu, esined_xoxo, tomosuki, chychaai and 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 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

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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 )

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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

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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 )

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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

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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! )

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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 )

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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.

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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!

Can I has 19 September NOW?

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

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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!

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.

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

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