January 2009
World's Smallest Postal Service →
Holy freaking hedwig, that’s the cutest thing I’ve seen all day.
And I just looked at a picture of- Never mind.
Edit: I am seemingly wrong about the “cute” comment. Matchbox theatre. Pencil scrolls. Poetry ribbons. I am wholly enchanted by these delightful little thingy-ma-bobs.
This is the last first day.
Not really. There’ll always be first days in a new workplace, first day of living independently, first day of having a new car, first day of married life (etcetera etcetera). I just thought it was a classy way to title this entry, which is aptly named because it’s almost the end of my first day of year twelve (and stolen from the lovely K - thanks so much, doll).
Anyway, I’m...
Chalk and cheese (just call me a cliche)
I now remember why I stopped taking quizzes aimed at the teenage girl demographic - they always have the most extreme (and obvious) answers ever. Take this for example:
There’s a girl who’s been your total rival since year one. You show up in the same outfit. Do you:
a) Why would you ever even notice what anyone else is wearing?
b) Put up with it for a day, then make sure you...
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I haven't been to the beach for years.
I swear to God I’m the only person who buys a pair of skinny jeans, and finds - after one wash - that they’re baggier than my black bootcut jeans.
Anyway, interesting (ha) opening aside, this is the obligatory end-of-holiday rant. I’m half melancholy, half annoyed. Melancholy because it’s the final summer holidays I’ll ever have before I graduate at the end of this...
“Hey! I need to water my plants!”
– My mother, the nutcase.
It is literally storming here. The dogs are going beserk, and I’m about to turn off the computer in fear of the whole eletrical/lightning thing.
That don't impress me much.
(Sorry for the Shania Twain flashback. Had to use it.)
Just stubmled upon an (old) article in which Daniel Radcliffe says he’s not smooth with the ladies (understatement of the decade). However, the most hilarious thing is that the journo refers to him as “Potter” instead of “Radcliffe” when quoting him.
I swear to God. Here’s the article. Badly written, but...
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You:
haven’t compromised your integrity while standing up for what you believe in;
aren’t afraid of making a statement or taking a stance opposite to the mainstream;
make me believe the music scene is still evolving - for the better, despite “crunk” becoming mainstream;
are possibly the voice and soundtrack of my generation, in my opinion;
aren’t afraid to fight for...
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How is it even POSSIBLE?!
Okay, I’m fresh from seeing The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and all I have to say is…
WHAT. THE. HELL.
I didn’t know it’d go for almost three fucking hours! The old lady kept on making the kid read from the diary! I was waiting for the old dear to die so my ass could stop freezing, and every time she seemed on the cusp of death she’d take another shallow breath...
Limited.
I have never felt so frustrated this year.
Slumdog Millionare, a movie I’ve been dying to see since I read the book Q&A, has a limited release. I’ve never encountered a limited release (well, except for December Boys, but I never even got around to seeing that and it WAS at the Hyperdome so it wasn’t ‘limited’ in a sense). I’m a bit naive, but I’ve...
“Life sucks. I was doing fine until James and Bryan came along and they told...”
– Beanie John’s Love Advice (Also watch out for the “I like rap” quote. Hi-freaking-larious.)
If they wear it, we can sniff them out.
themarsresolution:
So, you’ve got it… the assholes from Twilight are bringing out a “fragrance.”
Yay.
Seriously, it wasn’t all that good to begin with, and now THIS? I don’t quite understand the purpose of Twilight purfume, but whatever. I suppose they’re going to advertise it as the “smell of Edward Cullens breath” or “scent” or whatever that sickly sweet smell is that makes all the...
The word “prolly” (if it can even be considered a legitimate word) should die a swift death. It’s up there with “ai’ight” and “iono” with words that people my age use on the Internet.
I don’t know. Netspeak (as in, removing the vowels) I can deal with. The abbreviations like “lol” and “omg” are fine. Mashing words...
Twilight: The Abridged Script →
Quote:
KRISTEN STEWART
Wait, we can’t have sex at all, and you can’t suck my blood? How can you make a vampire movie without anyone sucking blood?
ROBERT PATTINSON
It’s alright, I think this movie already has more than enough sucking.
Well said, Robert. Well said.
About as useful as a chocolate teapot (which is...
Urbandictionary never ceases to amaze me (or supply me with the word I needed). Case in point: word of the day for January 10.
“Kitchenheimer’s: When you’re in the kitchen going around in circles because you can’t remember what you were doing there.
I was in the kitchen this morning walking around in circles wondering what the hell I was looking for when the microwave...
“We’re teenagers, baby. I read a study claiming adolescence was similar to...”
– Seb, She’s In the Band (by Georgia Clark).
“Okay, you have got to stop calling your nose the Super Smeller. If you want to...”
– Shawn Spencer, Psych (#2: The Spelling Bee)
Tisdale'd?
I’m not quite sure how I feel at the moment.
On one hand, I fully wanted someone to cover Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up for the novelty (and to get over the whole Rickroll thing). On the other, I’ve just found out that Ashley Tisdale’s already done it.
I think I’m going to go and listen to some B. J. Thomas. I think my brain imploded and it needs some TLC...
Fatal hilarity.
I recently read about the guy who died of laughter watching The Goodies (note to self: do not laugh too hard when watching The Goodies). I was afraid that history would repeat itself, only it concerned my mother and an episode of M*A*S*H (which I also love). She simply couldn’t stop laughing, but now I know where I get my high-pitched, squeaking, hyena-like laugh from.
What’s that?...
My Mom is a Fob →
I relate and laugh my butt off to these. Just this arvo my mother asked me to be her “spectingles”. After me laughing my guts out, she realised she meant “spectator”.
Why can't we be friends?
dontletgo:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT????
YOU’RE LEAVING BIOLOGY!?!??!! NOOOOOOO.
Who’s going to stay up with me till 3am doing practical write-ups the night before they’re due? Who’s going to laugh at sexually-named sea creatures (Prime Example: ASSFISH…or something to that effect. *Giggles*). Who’s going to find nifty ways to revise IPMAT and realise it’s not even on...
“Not here!” said Harry hurriedly. “I’m here!”
– Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, J. K. Rowling.
Years later, this still makes me laugh out loud. Despite being a delusionanl H/Hr shipper, I found Ginny ‘accidentally’ sitting in Harry’s lap to be too cute (and devious).
Stars and STRIPES... →
(via dontletgo)
Oh lord, I lol’d. We’d better keep an eye out for the stripes… (And the comments? Gold.)
I am simultaneously intrigued, entertained and freaked out by the guys in We Are Scientists. They seem pretty wicked guys, but just a little strange. (I emphasise ‘just a little’.)
Anyway, tomorrow I go out and buy my new books for my (final) school year. It’s going to be interesting, since I don’t do biology or geography any more. All my other books are going to feel...
Sidney Freeman (or Fraiser Crane), if you're...
Note: this was previously a private post with a different dream. Only one person in the world knows what that dream was about (and they already read this blog). I made it private (after a few hours) because it really wasn’t something I wanted to project into the blogosphere. However, this time I have something to share which isn’t as embarrassing (or fucked up) as the last dream.
...
New year, new phone.
So, I finally got around to getting a new phone. It’s a Nokia 6210 (trust me, I’ll need the navigator because I suck at directions), and so far, I’m in love. Except for the fact I can’t access the internet (which I’m paying for). I’ll tackle that later because for now, I’m loading songs on there.
Awesomesauce.
“I swim to brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water...”
– Swim, Jack’s Mannequin Album: The Glass Passenger (2008)
I see red.
I am convinced that Virgin mobile has the marketing team to die for. I’m on their website, looking at the plans and phones they have on offer, and I come across their Topless rate. The slogan is “Take off your cap and get topless. You know you want to” but just below, in the terms and conditions, it tells you that “Our legal team insisted we warn you that taking your top...
The future freaks me out.
It’s almost baffling how much I change my mind about my tertiary education every single day. One day I want to be a lawyer (because the law isn’t boring to me), next I’m going to be a nurse (something that I think I’m capable of doing) and then there’s this desire to become a psychologist or psychiatrist (and make life difficult for me). Sometimes I want to try my...
“What the ass”
– Faye, from Questionable Content #1310
Simply mortified.
I am embarrassed for the percentage of our generation that can’t spell or use grammar/punctuation correctly - which is, apparently, huge.
Now, I don’t pretend to be a grammar god or anything - I’m well aware that I make mistakes with punctuation, and spelling - but I’m just saying… if you can’t spell ‘received’ on national TV (“R - E - C - I -...
Tear, tear.
I think J realised this before I even bothered to look at the Soundwave timetable (which was around five hours ago - I only made sense of it now).
EPIC CLASH BETWEEN SAY ANYTHING AND NEW FOUND GLORY is my “epic clash”. I don’t know what hers was, though…
“I always describe it as ‘that time when you decided to mix all of the...”
– Courtney, on describing the taste of Dr. Pepper
Is it sad that I used to do that and like some of the combos I came up with? No trip to Hungry Jack’s is complete without my Coke spliced with pink Fanta. But Dr. Pepper = total grossness. Sorry.
JD Perry's Toothbrush Photo Blog →
I think I just laughed myself into a coma. I can’t wait till Soundwave!
Tilt shift photography.
My newfound love of this evening. I love the way things look when they’re photographed this way, kind of like little models or toys.
Have a flickr group for your trouble.
Ridiculous.
How can you have a “customers who bought … also bought” when you’ve NEVER SOLD A COPY OF THE THING IN AUSTRALIA? Tell me that, JB Hi-Fi, and then phone me when you’ve got a copy of the CDs I’m vaguely interested in (which, I’m anticipating, will be never).
Here I go, battling the exchange rate yet again… I hate converting money.
Wuss. That's my new middle name.
Okay, I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I can’t even look at my car (okay, the car that is half mine) anymore. I start shaking whenever I think about driving and have to desperately distract myself.
I shouldn’t be afraid. I was fine with it yesterday. What’s happening to me?
dontletgo:
Getaway Plan, Glasvegas, Laura Marling, The Grates, Jackson Jackson, Ida Maria, Josh Pyke, The Killers, SIA, [is] (a.k.a. Tom Ugly), Tokyo Police Club, The Wombats, Vampire Weekend, Presets, PNAU….
and many others making the shortlist for Triple J’s Hottest 100 2008.
SOO HAPPY. YAY TO NOMINATIONS.
NAY to only able to nominate ten songs for the mix(TEN!!!?!?! ISN”T THERE MEANT TO BE...
“Looks like he wants a smack in the mouth or something.”
– Papa, about Edward Cullen
I love my dad.
“Emotions were running high on the Zune message board as some users said they...”
– Microsoft blames leap year for Zune freeze
And that is why I’m buying an iPod. Not that I’ve ever considered a Zune anyway…