modus operandi

No thanks to those people burning vegetation illegally over at our dear neighbouring Indonesia, we've been having serious haze for almost a week. It was so bad we were practically surrounded by a fog, and the moment you step out from any indoor area you could smell something. BURNING. And the haze didn't let up until after a huge storm yesterday afternoon in the west and another one this morning in the east where I am. I hope that means I can sleep with my windows open tonight and not needing to worry about breathing in vegetation ash while asleep.
 

VIDEO MONDAY 25

I really don't have much to say about this anymore. At least not anything profound and moving.

People, do you not see what hate does to others? Being hateful doesn't rid the world of the things you don't understand or can't accept. Your hate is making others hate themselves for things that are out of their control and making them think that they're worthless when they're not. What makes you think you are without traits that would incite dislike from other people? Why is it that you're not driven to the point where you think there's nothing in your life left to live for and the only way to stop feeling like a sorry excuse for a human being is to take your own life? Because there are people who hate less. Because there are people who at least understand, even if they don't accept certain things. Because there are people capable of giving a little bit more love.

It gets better, only if we believe enough to let it—if we hate a little less and love a little more.

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以上、Chii です。

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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以上、Chii です。

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 lausi_gm for the hand-holding and the confidence-bestowing! *HUGS!*

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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*

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以上、Chii です。

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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以上、Chii です。

So. My proclamation at the end of this entry to not post anything on LJ until my trimester ends? A lie.

My declaration on Monday to never drink coffee again (because it was the first time I've experienced coffee-high that lasted from 11p.m. to 1p.m. the next day, of which during the whole time I was positively bouncing off the walls. It crashed disastrously right after, and I had to sleep the whole day away to feel remotely human again)? A lie. Am drinking Burger King coffee right now in the school's computer lab (shh!) to keep me awake until today's deadline is over. I have a feeling it will be a very regular occurrence every time there's a period of mass-deadlines.

My very resolute decision to not get involved in the whole Torchwood: Children of Earth-Ianto debacle/petition/peaceful protest (because there's this theory I have about why things happened the way it did and I don't want to look like an idiot having been all outrageously indignant when in the end things might work out the way the fan community wanted)?

A BIG-ASS LIE.

Go on. Click it. It'll probably be the only place on the Internet where you can see my face (unless you're on my list of friends on Facebook) because I'm deathly paranoid about the World Wide Web like that. But for Jones, Ianto Jones? The Universe, m'dear, the whole Universe.

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以上、Chii です。