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    October 31st, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    It’s 31st October, the last day of the month! What does this mean..?

    Halloween? Yes.
    Internet capped? Yes. Yes. Yes.
    OMG WHAT TO DO??!!! >.<

    Oh the agony of sitting at the computer, and not seeing any page load is very disheartening. I was woken up this morning by what sounds like witches laughing and bats flying around. (I really heard that! ) Anyway, I checked the time and it was 6am- a bit early to wake up on a Saturday morning but I thought hey- I could make use of this time! I sit up, only to remember the Internet is down. Oh, okay- good night then. zzz.

    What’s wrong with me? Isn’t there anything else I can do which doesn’t involve being “connected”? XD It must be some kind of addiction. I sit at the computer everyday at work, web designing, surfing the net. I go home and do pretty much the same thing (except web stuff for myself). But what exactly on the net do I HAVE to do? This made me think hard. Technically I can still work on websites, I can blog (which I’m doing right now), MSN chat (which doesn’t require much bandwidth usage), draw pictures, play games, watch drama or anime. These things I can do. Apart from googling or youtubing, I don’t think there’s an awful lot. 1-2 days without the Internet shouldn’t be so bad.

    BUT IT IS!!!

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    Linda Chung and Moses Chan visit Sydney!

    September 13th, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    I’m absolutely over the mooooonnnn ^_______^!! Today Kaz, Jacky and I went to China Town for TVB’s Linda Chung 鍾嘉欣 and Moses Chan 陳豪’s autograph session! To be eligible for an autograph, we needed to spend $30+ at a store in Sussex Centre to go into a draw. Kaz entered and was lucky enough to win a ticket!! :D She was also allowed to bring two friends along and invited me and Jacky, yay.

    We arrived at 12pm to redeem our tickets and went to have some drinks to cool ourselves down :) We went back there at 1.20pm to start queuing up and we were 2nd in line! How awesome is that? They made their appearance at 2pm and at that very moment, the queue kind of went crazy and people just pushed in and jumped all over the place ^^;; IT WAS SOOO EXCITING!! I was surprised how happy I was actually- I didn’t think I would be THIS excited to see them, but I went crazy too. lol There was sooo much competition for a good shot of them, but alas.. I think I dominated!!! :D :D :D

    Linda and Moses at Sydney

    I mean seriously… can anyone get a better view of them than this???? No randoms in the way!!! YAAAAAYYY!!! XD I didn’t even zoom-in for this picture- I was that close to them! So happy..lol

    Linda and Moses Wave
    aww..they waved at us ^.^

    Linda Moses Promote TVB

    Linda and Moses recording a footage promoting TVB XD  Yes, their recording camera was RIGHT next to me!! ahahaha…which is why my view was so good ^^

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    Nodame Cantabile

    July 18th, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    In my previous post I mentioned I might give Nodame Cantabile ago again because of Ueno Juri’s awesome portrayal of Ruka from Last Friends. Since then, I’ve finished it and surprisingly, I really enjoyed it this time! Previously, I gave up after episode 3, but it seems the story starts getting better at episode 4. My my.

    What really drew me in the story was the relationship between the clumsy and messy Nodame, and the arrogant multi-lingual perfectionist Chiaki. It was very very cute! XD There were very few romantic scenes of them together but that makes it all worthwhile in the end when they do kinda of get-together.

    Nodame and Chiaki

    Aside from them though, I wasn’t as interested in the other characters- so it was a good thing they got the most screen time! Eita and Mizukawa Asami from Last Friends also played some part in this drama, except I liked their characters more from Last Friends. It’s quite interesting watching this comedy after the serious nature of Last Friends, but it gives it a nice balance. Their characters are totally opposites- especially for Ueno Juri. Even now I find it hard to believe Ruka and Nodame are played by the same person… @_@ You would understand if you watched them both. XD

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    I can’t wait to see the special, and the 2 movies :) Ahh…Chiaki senpaiiii!! ♥ >_<!

    Prisoner of Love

    July 3rd, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    For the past few nights I’ve been watching a j-drama called ‘Last Friends ラスト·フレンズ’ . I haven’t seen something this emotional since NANA. (Thanks Somps~)

    Last_Friends

    Fake displays of strength and avarice have become meaningless
    I’ve been in love with you since that day
    When I’m free, with time to spare, there’s no life in being alone
    I’m just a prisoner of love
    Just a prisoner of love

    Oh… Just a little more
    Don’t you give up
    Oh don’t ever abandon me
    If the cruelty of reality tries to tear us apart
    We’ll be drawn more closely to one another
    Somehow, somehow, I have a feeling we’ll be able to stand firm
    I’m just a prisoner of love
    Just a prisoner of love..

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    Chinese Paladin 仙劍奇俠傳 ~love

    June 29th, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    Recently I started a new Twitter account dedicated to Chinese Paladin, mainly ’cause I’m a bit crazy about it and just wanted a place where I can share my obsession XD I’m sure the average person wouldn’t know anything about it…lol

    Anyways, I thought I’d keep all Chinese Paladin related stuff on the Twitter account, but then I really wanted to share this video here on my blog, too. (lol, kinda defeated the purpose of the twitter account, aye?)

    It’s the opening theme of Chinese Paladin 3 仙劍奇俠傳三 主題曲:生生世世愛~ And I love it!! I’m really really looking forward to this series.

    But yesh, I might have to wait a while for the English Subtitles since my mandarin is a bit rusty at the moment- it’s a little hard to follow XD

    Currently seeing..

    February 22nd, 2009

    Dear Chibi,
    Yesterday I discovered a newly released artwork of a Chinese drama I’m really looking forward to… OMG, HOW PRETTY IS THIS?? *__*
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    Chinese Paladin 3 (Xian Jian Qi Xia Zhuan Zhi Ling Zhu Shen Jian )

    I went pretty nutty when I saw the trailer a few weeks ago, especially discovering the amazing Hu Ge was the main character, and super cute Yang Mi was the female lead~ ahhhh.. hope it’s good >_< ..Can’t wait til it comes out.

    For the meantime, I’m watching an old-ish anime titled “Revolutionary Girl Utena”. I downloaded this aggggges ago but just left it sitting around and thought I might give it a go now.

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    Revolutionary Girl Utena

    Not too surprisingly I’m enjoying this series so far. The director for this anime also worked on Sailor Moon so I can feel some similarities, hehehe. Although created in 1997, the art and animations are quite good. I’m up to around episode 17/39 so still a while away… hope it keeps me entertained :D I don’t mind that the two leads are both lesbians, as long as the story is good I’m happy. The last time I tried a Yuri genre,  “Maria-sama Ga Miteru” I was really bored ^_^;

    And finally, something random to finish this entry:
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    For you, Jacky. XD

    Its gotta be sad with the sorrow word in it.

    February 11th, 2009

    Dear Chibi,

    I’ve recently been following a period drama called “The Silver Chambers of Sorrow” and am pleasantly surprised by how intriguing it is :) I like it.. I just wanna keep watching the next episode to see what happens! I’m up to episode 9 out of 20 and even though I’ve already spoiled the ending about a year ago, it’s still good to see the character development and plot unfold. It’s a pretty depressing series, though I find depressing series more interesting. Come on, we all love a bit of tears in our eyes~ which is another reason I like hiding in my room and watching it by myself *sniff* hehe. XD

    The_Silver_Chamber_of_Sorrows.jpg

    Other than that, just me trying to recover from the flu…getting there!

    ‘Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you’

    September 26th, 2008

    -quote Mae West

    Dear Chibi,

    I’ve realised I haven’t blogged since September 13th, and while that doesn’t seem too long ago, I know I’ve left out a lot of blog entries I could have made over the past couple of weeks. Sometimes I really feel obligated to put down things that happened, but there’s just times when I don’t know how to put it in words. Sometimes I simply can’t be bothered to blog, other times I don’t have much time. The other day at work, I looked at the mini calendar sitting on my desk, and the quote of the day was ‘Keep a diary and one day it’ll keep you‘. *sigh* So very true.. okay, so I’ll attempt to write something..

    hmm..I hear a random girl screaming outside my window…oh.. I just received a new email notification via MSN..from some viagra admin- great. *delete*

    I’m listening to Raymond Lam’s album at the moment- Kaz bought it recently and was very very very happy to find it in the mail. Ah, what a fangirl she is, hehe..Lately I’ve been following the HK series ‘Moonlight Resonance‘- I was pleased with this drama actually, a lot better than other TVB series I’ve watched in a long time and much better than it’s prequel, which was supposedly also a hit. Moonlight Resonance also had a Moon Cake theme in it, perfect timing for it to be aired around Mid-Autumn festival.

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    Moonlight Resonance

    Unfortunately unlike other years, I didn’t go out to join in the celebrations that were held around various locations. I think I didn’t have time. However, we would always have the yummy dinner and snacks night on Mid-Autumn Festival+ of course the moon cakes =) Jacky was also over and we played some mahjong- I can’t remember who won (*coughahahacough*), but we spent the next weekend playing more mahjong! I really like the game…there’s just so much excitement in it.. I think it’s the kind of excitement people get when gambling..err…knowing they have chances of winning. Even if you lose a round, you always have hope you can win the next! I wouldn’t play it with money though- it’s just not practical to throw your income away like that XD

    This is my 10th week at my current job, and during lunch breaks I usually walk around to find a nice place to sit…thanks to annoying seagulls and pigeons, I can’t seem to find peace, lol. As I was strolling around mindlessly, I found myself inside the Museum of Contemporary Arts. There’s something about art galleries and museums…they give me the creeps =.=… I feel extremely empty. Well, literally the interior is empty, and I guess just standing in all this open space with creepy looking displays isn’t going to help. It reminded me of first yr at Uni- the first time I went into an art Gallery as part of an assessment. I had a similar feeling.. I guess it’s also because I was alone then, as I was just now during my lunch break.

    Being alone is a scary feeling… I wasn’t able to stay in the exhibition for long, but when there’s nothing to do during breaks, you tend to end up finding yourself in the same places. It’s amazing how much you think/talk to yourself when you don’t have company. Everyday I’d see many many tourists, snapping pictures, looking at souvenirs (heck, I even went into Souvenir shops and probably looked like a tourist XD). I wondered how I would see Sydney, if I was a tourist…would I be very excited? What would I take pictures of/with? Would I find everything in CQ expensive? Well, I find things around here pretty expensive anyways…

    There’s this Aboriginal performer who plays the digireedo everyday, and for the first 2 weeks I’d actually go watch him play. It’s really weird. I feel like a tourist sometimes.. It’s not like I’ve never seen an Aborigine, or heard their music- but I was engaged and fascinated. There’s also a lot of school kids around, some from primary and some high schoolers. What also catches my attention, are the amount of people jogging.. there’s so many people jogging around for ages- and I often wondered- don’t they have to work?? XD I was told, they’re probably rich people who won’t need to work, or retired, or work in different shifts. Still..there’s so many!!

    The other day I came out from the office to watch the Olympics parade- I couldn’t really recognise any of the athletics, but still exciting with all the confetti and all, lol.

    parade.jpg maninbox.jpg
    I like my office location actually..you can see some interesting things by just walking out of the building! A little while ago I saw a whole line of Fire Brigades on strike XD That was pretty cool, too…I made a recording of them, but I’m sure everyone knows what Fire brigades look like. Just imagine 20 of them! ehehee….

    Okay, you may be wondering what’s with the second picture… I’m as lost as you are. I was walking around during break and saw a man standing inside a glass box. Um, yeh, and that’s it. XD Any ideas??

    I find some fascinating, some cool, and some weird/random things around here… I was even approached by a creepy ‘fortune teller’ a few weeks ago.. it’s probably all nonsense- but I guess we’ll see =p He said October will be my super lucky month, haha.. err.. yeh.

    Phew.. at least I got all that outta my head. If you’ve managed to read through all that, well done… I’m really not sure what I’ve written makes any sense, or if it’s even interesting to anyone, but it feels good ^_^ Oh, I’m gonna finish off by saying WALL-E is so cute ^.^ Go see it if you haven’t =)