Word of the day: Bored.

Bored. Bored. Bored. Bored. I so need to mug something, anything. On the brighter side of things, I have bought the latest Cradle of Filth DVD, Peace Through Superior Firepower. Personally, I really enjoy watching it, unlike Disasterpieces where Corey will always have the same lines to say and it can get abit boring and draggy. Whereas, Dani is a much more interesting and unpredictable subject. The setlist for this DVD is a good mix of songs, with new and really old and classical songs like A Gothic Romance/ 13 Autumns and a Widow/ The Black Godness Rises and also never before played live songs like Mannequin/ Promise of Fever. With all that,...

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Choosy moms choose Jif. And the British Museum.

All hail the witty, talented, and smokin' hot Redlaw!Across the ocean she brought me the object of my desire, even the Jar of Jif. It's absolutely beautiful. I have already eaten a peanut butter & banana sandwich with it and nearly swooned with the joy of the thing. (Secret confession: I was too cheap to buy Jif back home--I bought Western Family. But hey, if I'm going the contraband route then it might as well be the good stuff. There's no sense smuggling crubbish.)WR and I took a way-before-the-crack-of-dawn train into London on Saturday. This ended up being more of an adventure than we'd planned, since we sort of didn't get much sleep...

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I'm British. We only show affection to dogs and horses.

Conversation that happened the other night at my house, just after Lady J's cat ran away in terror from WR, on account of she is scared of the menfolk.Me: Sorry the cat's is scared of you.WR: Enh, it doesn't bother me. (whispers) I'm actually allergic to cats!Me: Oh, that's too bad. Like severely allergic?WR: No, I just sneeze and stuff.Me: Well, that's okay, because I'm not a huge cat fan anyw--Wait. What about dogs?WR: Huh?Me: Are you allergic to dogs?WR: I dunno, does it matter?Me: Answer the question!WR: Well, I probably am if I'm allergic to cats, right? Doesn't it work that way?Me: No. No, it doesn't work that way. You can be allergic to cats and not dogs. My sister is allergic to cats and not dogs. So I bet you're fine.WR: Um . . . I'm getting the feeling here that you really like...

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Something to add to your food storage list

So today I was in the Relief Society class, minding my own business. For the non-LDS friends out there, that's one class in our block of Sunday meetings that is specifically for the ladies. We have the same lesson the menfolk do in their class, although we have things like pretty centerpieces and object lessons and gentle laughter in ours, whereas the men probably light fires and swap camping stories or whatever it is they do in theirs. The kids are off having their own classes as well. Then we all meet back up for the rest of the services, otherwise the Engaged People and Newlyweds might just spontaniously combust and die from loneliness.Anyway.The lesson was about spiritual and temporal preparation, so a big part of the discussion centered around emergency preparedness and food storage...

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The world just got dumber.

Extracted from Roadrunner's Blabbermouth: Rock music that sucked a young man into a world of devil worship and drug use is being mounted as a defence in his trial for murdering his teenaged cousin.Though two men, 21-year-old Osei Lazare and 28-year-old Marcus Daniel, are charged with the death of 16-year-old Suzette Gibson, the focus of the first day of the trial immediately shifted to Daniel yesterday when the claim was made by his lawyer, Pamela Elder SC.Several witnesses admitted to her that her client- who was Gibson's cousin- regularly listened to heavy metal music, that his bedroom was decorated with skeletons and that he drank heavily.Daniel's music collection and tattoos came under scrutiny.One witness said Daniel listened to artists such as shock rockers Marilyn Manson, Ozzy Osbourne,...

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Happy Thanksgibbing Back!

I won't actually be celebrating Thanksgiving today, sadly. Here's what I have planned:1. Homework2. Some more homework3. Planning a lesson for Sunday School4. Going in to speak to my prof about the xhtml test only to be told that I actually should have received a lower score than the one I did. Oh, wait, I already did that! He was quite nice about it, though. We agreed to let the "high" score stand, which was big of me. And he agreed that my redone pages look quite good and would have earned me a very nice grade if I'd come up with them in the first place. Sigh . . .5. Heating up a jar of Tesco curry and a mug of Free Trade hot chocolate for...

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Oh my gosh, I AM going to flunk out of school!

So forget the part where I thought I was doing well in school. I got my score back from the timed XHTML/CSS test we did a couple of weeks ago and I totally, totally failed. Like, by a lot failed.I will end up living on the streets of Nottingham in a refrigerator box. Even the cats will shun me. Then I will be shot in the crossfire of gang warfare, which they have in Nottingham. And no one will care.I guess I'd better go talk to the prof, so that he doesn't think that I'm actually okay with this. It was quite a horrible shock. When I talk to him, maybe it would help to say something like, "Excuse me. You appear to have made a mistake here, because I don't actually fail things. Ask around." Or, you know, maybe I'll go back into the computer lab and follow the directions for the test again (I...

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Finally some news from Cradle Camp.

After much wait, Count Filth finally decides to pick up his pen and click his heels together three times six and update us on the latest news of Cradle of Filth. Greato!So here's it:Studio update by Dani FilthDear all,Excuse the following exercise in bad grammar, doctrinal expletives and general< buffoonery but i am writing this report from 'The Chapel' studios here in deepest, darkest rural Lincolnshire following a night out at the local pub (the only means of entertainment in the entire region) and a fall into a deep ditch full of water, having partially succeeded in rescuing a drowning football. Suffice to say i awoke this morning having...

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One serving of smallpox, please

Scene: Cuddling on my couch, late of an evening last week. WR is ill, but is still looking quite attractive to me. Am trying to weigh the risks, which seem less the later it gets.Me: So . . . you would be contagious then.WR: Yeah, but I asked my doctor how long I'd been contagious and he says it would have been for 3 days before I started showing symptoms.Me: You actually asked your doctor?WR: Oh yeah. So you probably already have it.Me: I bet I don't. I don't feel sick.WR: Well, if that's true, and if you don't become ill, then that means that you gave it to me.Me: Excuse me? How do you figure that?WR: Because . . . that means that it's some American disease.Me: But I'm not sick! How could I possibly have given it to you?WR: People can carry viruses and be immune to them. You're probably...

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Welcome Freedom!

Finally the Os are over! Gone are the dull and monotonous days when I mugged my butt off. Here are the days I embrace going out as often as I like and to do whatever as I please. Ahhh such a rare feeling indeed! Let's track back in time, back to June this very year. The stress then was already mounting, like dead bodies in a damnable pit. Slowly, foul and fecund. It was sick, befouling everyone's mood. The books are keep mugged and the papers are always hitting our faces, one stack after another, like a firing squad. We are being executed, to find ourselves drained of brain pulp and all sanity at the end of everyday. This shit continued for a good solid 6 months. We toiled. We sweated. We bled. We had our hands work for us in the most nerve wrecking papers namely SS for an notorious example,...

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My UK stage debut

I'm officially famous, and my bf is even more famous. Last night we saw The Reduced Shakespeare Company's touring production of Completely Hollywood. We ended up with front-row tickets, which seemed strange to me since we'd booked quite late. Then WR mentioned that being in the front row quite likely means that you'll be called up on stage. So I told him that we needed to move, now, because I wasn't doing that. Only then there was nowhere else to go.So, of course, it happened. The 3 actors decided that they needed a body double, so one of them walked down off the stage and stopped right in front of WR and asked him to go up. When he got on stage they took one look at the dress shirt and tie and asked if he was Mormon. I got a kick out of that.But suddenly the whole "Yeah, all that was left...

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I'm a Happy Maggot once again.

Wheee! Thanks Mr Neo once again for getting me Live 9.0! God damn it. That Live CD blew me away! I was trying hard to hear which song belongs to which country's gig, my conclusion, Eyeless, Purity and People = Shit are from Singapore's. Why so little? Phoneix and Vegas crowd are much much better and sic-er by all means then SG Maggots. We must strive to become better maggots, but hey there's only a mere 5000 people at SG's gig, so pardon is possible :P Slipknot honoured SG maggots by inserting so many pictures of SG's gig in the brilliant booklet. So I guess What more can a Maggot ask for? :P Oh yes, all the black and white pictures are from...

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The new P&P

So I actually saw this about a month ago, because I am a lucky girl, and because for some reason The Powers That Be decided to drag their feet before releasing the thing in the US. I didn't want to write all about it then, because it didn't seem fair to my girlfriends who were having to wait and wait and wait. But now the wait is almost over, so here's my take on it!(Please note that this list is written for those who have already seen, loved, and possibly memorized the 1995 BBC version of Pride and Prejudice. If you do not fit into this category, feel free to keep reading, just trust that my jokes are all kinds of funny, and that if you do not think so it's because you're out of the loop.)(Please also note that many of the things said here will have already been mentioned in the critic's...

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The Tesco who Stole Thanksgiving

I don't even trust myself to tell this story, because it is so very sad. Please, send the children out of the room and grab some tissues. You'll need them.I must preface by explaining my unreasonable love for pumpkin pie. Every Thanksgiving I eat it--hot, cold, with a fork, like a pizza, whatever. I usually consume an average of 2 pies during the holiday season, which is why my Christmas presents consist of money to buy new pants.One of the lovely American YSAs is throwing a Thanksgiving dinner at her house this week. I offered to make pies and my cheeseball. Because hey, everything is better with the cheeseball. I knew I would have to buy real pumpkins because they don't do the nice big cans of Libby's over here, but I was prepared for that. I figured that a pie made with fresh pumpkin would...

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Yay, I might not flunk out of school!

I'm sure my parents will be very relieved to read this, because I get the feeling that they may possibly have been slightly concerned. I think what tipped me off was the part where every email to me contained a p.s.:"p.s. Hey, so you're still going to classes, right? Ho ho ho!"or"p.s. So . . . are you giving yourself time to, you know, study amidst all this socializing?"or"p.s. You're not going to flunk out of school, are you? Because that's why you're there, you know."But now everyone can rest easy, because I've now received two pieces of coursework back and I'm officially [my university's] daddy. Or at least I'm not flunking out yet.The grading scale is different here, so I had to ask my British classmates to remind me how it worked before I opened the envelope with my library weblogs essay...

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You have got no fucking idea?!

OMFG!!! Mayhem is confirmed coming to this fucked up island of Singapore! Thanks Shyiathan a octagillion billion whatever-illion! \m/ And to futhur shock me is that the gig is held at a proper venue, Expo @ Max Pavilion! Wow, you can imagine the pure karnage indoors! Gonna be tonnes better than Slipknot's. The sound and everything is going to be so fucking tight. I can't wait! Here's the poster! :PLet the Deserkration unfold itself in the unknowing masses of Singapore. Seize them unprepared and blow them off! \m/ Hail Mayhem! Hail Shyiathan! Let me just hope they will play 'Freezing Moon', let us feel the bleak nordic weather through your wunderbar...

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At least that's what you said -- Wilco.

Hereby presenting the Live Video of Wilco, At Least that's what you said. Enj...

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Since you all seem determined to out me . . .

And can I just interject here that I should never have provided you people with a public forum in which to conspire against me?GOSH!!!Okay then, let's do this thing.Some of you may have noticed that I've been slightly . . . preoccupied lately. I haven't been posting as often, and when I do it's probably not up to standard. Some of you--the trusted few who have since turned against me--know the reason for this. And for everyone else, the reason is that I haven't been able to post about what I really want to talk about, which is my English Boyfriend!!![Blissful Sigh . . . . ]So, yeah. Short story, I'd heard all about WR from Lady J before I met him--all about how witty and smart he is, and how he's really going places, and how all girls want to date him, and how if I'm looking to snag an English...

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One week left to heaven.

Wheee! After so much of mugging and endurance over the sands of time, yes it's correct. Yes, finally it's here. It's just left with ONE week of final confrontation at the bleak exam hall! One word, or rather two, Can't Wait!!!Anyhow, on a more positive side, Mr Neo, being such a nice and sweet friend of mine, bought Slipknot's Live 9.0 for me. Oh man... I'm starting to feel guilty because you have already got Marilyn Manson's Holy Wood for me. Mr Neo, if you are reading this, to tell you the truth, I really don't mind you buying stuff for me. HEHE! Kidding. And, I have been obsessed with german! Gosh, gib mir Till Lindemann! ** Fariza MSN chat. ** Haha!Just one week left. FOCUS and have no regrets. =) \m/otivated ...

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I don't want any of your orange juice

So I just sent the lovely Streets home today, and I'm hoping she's back (relatively) safe in the Belfast. I had such a great time hanging out with her, even if I wasn't the best hostess in the world.Also I learned something very important: Streets now knows more about my town than I do.She had some time to prowl about while I was in classes, and every day she would tell me about some treasure she had found.Streets: Hey, so do you know if True Lover's Walk comes out to the park?Me: Huh?Streets: Oh, it's this great little back path I found in the town centre, and I think it must lead out to the park but I didn't have enough time to go explore it, so I wondered if you knew.(later)Streets: Do you mind if we swing back around near the movie theatre? I want to take a picture of the stained glass...

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It's The Precious!

So the other day Savvymom sent me a picture of baby Savannah, who after 20 months of life now finally has enough hair to be gathered and put into girly things like pigtails. This day probably could have come sooner, but if anyone tried to put anything in Savvybabe's hair she began bellowing in the manner of a moose calf while shaking her head violently and rubbing her fists through her hair as if trying to shake out a nestful of spiders carrying egg sacs.And now look how precious!!!(Picture by Savvydad!)When I got this pic my heart nearly burst right out of my chest, because it's like seeing extra cute when I didn't even think she could get...

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It's been a while...

Hey, it's been a brief while since I blogged. So here's it and you people just shut up and stop clicking the back button. Alright, recently Mr Neo just gave me his collection of metal cds! Thank you for much for this wunderbar gift, I really appreciate it alot. My huge \m/ovitation to study even harder, faster, faster, harder. Haha! *flourisher's insider joke* Those songs in those cds are kickass! From Emperor to Mayhem to Satyricon to Opeth to Whores of Babylon to Cradle of Filth, phew what a colossal collection! Thanks once again! I will post a picture of the cds someday when I'm more free, probably after Os which is finally ending in 10 days only. Endure! - remember the time i waited for slipknot for 4 fucked up years! 10 days is a small fly! -And I have bought Rammstein Rosenrot, so one...

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I'm not dead yet!

Sorry, sorry, I promise I'm not dead. I was in London, though, with the very lovely Streets, which was just wonderful. And now she is at my house and actually reading in my room this very minute and buying me things like chocolate chip Scottish shortbread, so life probably couldn't actually get any better.So here are the London highlights and lowlights. Ready go!Highlights:Seeing Streets!Dinner at an English pub, where one orders things like lasagna, chicken korma, and shepherd's pie. Yay for pubs.Sunny for the first half of the day, rain only once.The National Portrait GalleryGolden Jubilee BridgeGreen ParkSt. James ParkSaw all our favorite spots. So lovely.Streets found a candy shop at Picadilly where she could buy American gummy candy.We thought we had the name of the Guys & Dolls...

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Word of warning

The packaged sandwiches here can make you want to kill people. Or, I should say, the ones available yesterday in the library cafe made me want to kill people.Every single one of them is gooey and contains mayo, usually as the main ingredient to which the other ingredients (like meat or cheese) are added.Some of you may read this and go, "Great! I love mayo!" My dad, for instance, has been known to grab a jar of Miracle Whip and make an entire sandwich with just huge gobs of Miracle Whip in it. This usually makes me want to dry heave, but hey, I guess if dinner's late (and you're nasty) that's what you have to do. (Love you, Dad! And this is not me putting your personal life on the Internet, okay?)So anyway, back to me and my problems in the cafe. I'm hungry, I don't have a lot of money, I...

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This is my 100th post

And I'm too swamped to even make it a good 'un. (See, Mom and Dad? I do homework!) Instead I will leave you with a survey, which I just stole from Danalee, which she stole from somewhere else.Also I will tell you that last night for dinner I had a toasted baguette with slabs of warm brie, thick bacon, and cherry tomatoes inside. And oh my gosh it was good.Ahem. Here is your survey.THREE NAMES YOU GO BY1. Stephanie (I don't know why)2. Tee (to my sweet baby niece)3. NemesisTHREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF1. I look sexy and vulnerable in pink2. I can raise one eyebrow to give foolish people the Look of Impending Death3. I have great calf muscles, which makes people think I'm a runner even though I'm notTHREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF1. My milkmaid shoulders2....

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