After a week of sleeping at 6/7AM...

... I finally bid goodnight to everybody at 3AM.. only to wake up feeling unbelievably uncomfortable an hour later.
I go downstairs, fill my stomach and then sit around waiting to feel tired again.
It didn't happen.
I am now sitting around waiting for lecture to start.
I watched The Mask of Zorro in the middle of the night.
That show breaks my heart.. only because my childhood hero was Diego de la Vega a.k.a Zorro... and they kill him at the end of the show.
My Dad bought the VHS of the animated version when I was very young.. there were two.. and I would watch them all the time. No flying man in underpants could beat the masked dude with the sword. for me.
My favourite scene, that I still love, is when the bad guys were riding across the suspended bridge only to meet Zorro at the end.. with a few swipes of his rapier they fall off the horse and he carves his "Z". :D I loved every moment of it.. that was my favourite episode too.
Yes, you can imagine the shock I got when I first watched the 1998 version... I was like this ':O' when I found out that the dude being locked up at the beginning was Diego de la Vega.

Argh, now I feel tired -.-
This is gonna be one disastrous day.

Went out with Masayo-chan today for my post-birthday celebration and her birthday celebration. Hers was today.
The moment she stepped into my car she dropped bad news like bombs during war.
It was just one hit after the other.
Man, does she have it bad.
Anyway, since she was dressed like a dude today, she ended looking more like my boyfriend and not my friend.

We decided she should just be my boyfriend after taking this picture.
As girls, I think the two of us should learn to sit with our legs closed.
I think... but who the heck cares.


After dinner, we watched Jennifer's Body.
I cannot believe she can't stand thrillers.
Anyway, the movie wasn't really a thriller.. yes, you have the 5 second scream factor but the rest of the movie but it was more comedic.
You do have the 'wtf' areas but overall, let me say that this makes up for all the cons of the movie - Megan Fox.
You have some brief girl-on-girl action, girl-on guy action and guy-on-girl action. They forgot some guy-on-guy action, that would've made it perfect.
We also took purikura.. finally!
I like the ones we took this time, especially our 'ghost' picture.

Aaaah~

On Wednesday night, while rushing my dissertation assignment, my monitor flickered and then *poof*.. OFF!
My initial reaction? ._.
My second reaction? OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was mild hysteria at 12AM.
Bordering on mayhem, if I might add. Solo, solitary mayhem, but mayhem no less.
I had a few thousand, note thousand, words to write and the MOST important part of a computer - without which all is useless, the monitor - decided to die on me.
I managed to transfer ALL my assignment files into my thumb (the gadget not the bodypart) in between the monitor's 5 second flicker of life.
Then I thought, I'd sleep and wake up early to finish it (mind you, that night, I came back from two cakes, a martini and a beer) and turned in early for the first time in a long time.
Then after 15 minutes, my heart started beating so hard I could've sworn it felt like it was gonna burst through my ribs and see the light of day. I'm not one to panic but I did panic.
So I woke my sister up and was all "Can I please use your laptop??"
She went "Mffh"
Okay :) Back to work.
Or so I thought.
After an hour of thorough dissertation concentration, I flipped the telly on and there ya go, they were showing Interview with the Vampire at 3:15PM. My mind instantly flicked the assignment switch off and turned towards the TV.
Yes, I do not like Tom Cruise but he was hotter than hot in that show. Antonio Banderas however, wins hands down. I swear, even if I didn't love the book already, I would've loved the movie for the men XD I'm sorry, you know how I am. The part where Lestat turns Louis into a vampire, and they were in some vampiric form of a passionate embrace, my hands were typing but my eyes, brains and full concentration was on the telly. I've watched it so many times and the 'so many times' I've watched it, it managed to capture my full attention. I love the show. I'm not gonna start comparing Twilight to it, it's incomparable (HAHA NUT). Thank GOD Anne Rice's vampires don't "sparkle". HAHAHA.
Then, it occured to me that I've only read Interview with the Vampire and even that, I read while at a bookstore. (Yes, I sat in a bookstore for HOURS and read a book.. all on my lonesome.. because I was bored and decided to ditch meeting 'somebody' despite being in the same location).
So now, my list of books has increased. :D I want the entire collection of The Vampire Chronicles.

Yesterday night, I stayed up till 6AM watching Dexter.
At first, I just wanted to finish watching the three last episodes until I realised that I kinda forgot what happened so I rewatched from the second disc.
I LOVE DEXTER. Let me take some time here to devote my love for Dexter.
The series is probably one of the few shows that I enjoy every second of. The intrigue, the mystery!
And his sister.. is amazing. Every word that escapes that girl's mouth consists of F's and more vulgarities.
My dad loves her too.. for the exact same reason but then I said "So, it's okay if I'm like that?" and he goes "ABSOLUTELY NOT!". Bias much, Dad?
Anyway, the ending was great. Especially the final line where he says something about him being everyone of us. Sort of like saying he represents our deepest darkest desires by killing the criminals and stuff.
The killing, I remember sitting there with my Dad watching the firt scene where you see him cut up the person into pieces, we looked at each other and went, this is a DAMN GOOD show.
And the music that plays is so upbeat and cheerful it hardly feels like you're witnessing a horrible murder.
Oh, so you guys get the idea that it's about a serial killer right? That's his hobby. He's a blood splatter analysis (or something like that) for the police. See how awesome it gets?

Masayo-chan messaged me just now all sad and upset and a little disappointed.
She just broke up with her man (as she used to put it) and tomorrow is her birthday.
Oh well, I'm gonna be celebrating her birthday with her tomorrow. It's dinner for us and hopefully, she'll be up for some alcohol as well.
18 IS the legal age right? I don't wanna get into any trouble for being the older one.

I'm re-linstening to all my old song collection (refer to JRock post below) and decided to listen to all my favourite early 21st century pop songs.
Darren Hayes' Insatiable wins hands down.
This is on my sex song list. (That list is a mile long.. includes Casablanca, Careless Whisper and One Wild Night XD)
I swear it is.
The beginning where he goes "ooh ooh ooh" makes ME go 'oooooh' and makes me all happy.. in an innocent way, you pervs.
XD And how much more suggestive can the lyrics get? Seriously, it's a good, romantic song about sex. Nothing can get any better than that.
He's gay, right?
I still remember studying for my PMR to Savage Garden's first album. Looping over and over again as I studied science. That is, believe it or not, a fond memory for me.

I wonder what's for dinner tomorrow.. :)

Just to express my sadness

Doing research is depressing me because one of my case studies is the Nakagin Capsule Tower.
What a fine example of plug-in architecture but they wanna demolish it.
Why?
Residents said it's too cramped.
T_T Why? Gimme that tower and I'll live in it, anyday!
If you're gonna talk about that, I live in a capsule myself.. albeit an open capsule.
If you calculate the square feet of my computer's area.. it's quite capsule-y and this is pretty much where I live.
That is somehow deflating my confidence in my dissertation but it's okay because I'll still try my best.
Sometimes, I wonder if I'm aiming for another galaxy with my dissertation topic.
I think this is what Mr. Leong meant when he said there will come a time where I'll doubt my topic because of how theoretical it is.
I didn't think it'll come this early!

Who remembers my love for JRock?

(Everybody STOP READING XD)
I'm currently trying to write a few thousand words while listening to all my old JRock music.
Yes, I have not heard Phantasmagoria in a long time. Which reminds me, I never really did follow up on that Phantasmagoria-Vidoll 'graduation' thing. Then, there was that Kisaki tax evasion thing. Hmmm, is Phantasmagoria still alive? I really do like them alot.
Pierrot - another classic :D
I really will classify Kamijo's (Lareine) and Kirito's voice under the 'just like sex' category.
Even more when they wear tight pants. XD
And who remembers Sanaka from Fatima?? :D I will never be able to call him Kanoma.. even though he changed his name. Did you know he was called 'Hitomi' or something like that before he became Sanaka?
His voice isn't like sex but he was. XD
I remember Kinokuniya's present to me for Christmas 2005. The old issue of SHOXX where Kamijo and him were posing in passionate embrace. (Yes, I meant like 'sex' in a yaoi sense XD) Who would've thought that after half a year, they'd suddenly have an issue of that magazine out. I have it in my bookshelf now :D
Oh yes, I had alot of fun with JRock until it became too generic for me.
If you can recall, there were a string of emotional posts from me when I heard Lareine, Pierrot etc.. were breaking up.. rough times.. even Psycho le Cemu disbanded -.- and I quite liked them in an odd way.
Yura-sama was hilarious no matter what he did, drumming or dancing.
I still listen to the random Psycho le Cemu every now and then.. just for the kicks.
Same goes for AnCafe.. I didn't follow them after Bou left. It just wasn't the same without Bou.
If only these bands will decide to come back to live, I'd be the happiest girl in the world.
Then, just as I was getting to like Shulla they disbanded.
But the oldies are the besties... X-Japan, Pierrot, Malice Mizer, Dir en grey, Lareine, Luna Sea etc.
The bands from the 90's beat the new ones anyday.
Even Gazette, I saw them before Reita discovered his noseband and I liked them until that song.. what was it called SJ? Guren??? I forgot.
I can still remember all the songs I first heard from each... except, maybe Gazette.
DEG - Raison D'Etre... (Better off than SJ who watched Obscure's PV when I told her not to)
X-Japan - Crucify My Love (Shut up, I might cry now)
But I'm so glad they got back together!! :D :D :D :D
Pierrot - Mad Sky... or something... my favourite is Neo-Grotesque though. That screaming = sex.
(Oh man, I really love Pierrot!!!)
I studied history for my SPM to Yuuyami Suicide and I raised a perpetual G9 to a B3.
I was leaping in the air when I discovered Barairo no Sekai was the third opening theme for GetBackers.
And I mean leaping.
Malice Mizer - Illuminati (I think, again. Apparently, I don't quite remember after all XD)
But my favourite, excluding Illuminati is Bois de Merveilles and Kyomu no Naka de no Yugi.
Plastic Tree - Tremolo (Dreamy dreamy dreamy)
Phantasmagoria - Okay, I forgot this one. I think it was Pixy False, though.
Kagrra - Haru Urara (I was briefly transported back into the Genji Era or something)
So many other bands I like... D (Yes Asagi I Love Him ALOT), Merry, The Candy Spooky Theater, Nightmare, PanicCH/Panic Channel (Before the three T's left), Jinkaku Radio (Awesome possum in it's best meaning)...
Good times.
Then there was Dokusatsu Terrorist and their Doraemon song which was my theme song for a few months.
And Charlotte's diamond something song.
Due le Quartz was also great until they disbanded and Miyabi suddenly became Miyavi and then it was just MYV. XD
Blood, I loved their outfits. Nobody had better outfits than Blood! (Except maybe Toshiya's micro mini)
Speaking of micro minis.. back then, the crossdressing members really did look like women.
Mana-sama being the best of the lot.
He was so successful at it, he started Moi Meme Moitie... XD
I remember discussing JRock with Masayo-chan and she told me that she has friends who believe Gazette is the best and heaviest there is.. of course, in our opinion they aren't.
I still remember that the only reason why she started talking to me was to leech shit off me.
And she liked TenTen from KuRt for awhile.. she wanted to move to Japan primarily to shag him.. and she was only 14 then.
Me? I've liked hide and Toshiya from the start. No doubt 'bout that.
(And Asagi, Kirito, Kamijo, Sanaka, Kozi, Ni~Ya, Yura-sama, Kami, Takumi, Jun, Shin, Mana-sama, Tara, Sakito (Due le Quarts not Nightmare) etc etc etc. Trust me, the list goes on XD)
Back to my words.
Gonna loop Pierrot. Again and again and again.

At a busy, busy time like this, I suddenly feel like watching Gravitation again.
I believe I have an inbuilt procrastinator.

I walked into a clothes sale and only bought three magazines and a pair of sunglasses.
I have no idea why there were magazines for sale in a clothes sale but that's all that managed to grab my attention.
And the sunglasses, which reminded me of the grainy, sepia coloured people in pictures my parents have.

Time to bust out the AutoCAD again.

F1 season officially ended in Abu Dhabi today.
The track was amazing! Despite how much my Dad complained about the pit lane, I liked it.
Rosberg finished.. what? Ninth? I think.
And that's the end of his drive with Williams. I'm really curious who he'll be driving for next.
Kobayashi drove really well for his second race. First race, ninth, today, sixth.
I think he'll be someone to look out for next year.
Hamilton had to retire due to break problems, unfortunately. My brother was really upset. There goes his McLaren.
The only thing, though.. the hotel. It's amazing, don't get me wrong but I'm not a fan of such flashy architecture. On it's own, it'll be fine but the lights were abit flashy.

Speaking of architecture, I read that they have decided to demolish Kisho Kurokawa's Nakagin Tower.
NO! WHY?! KENAPA?! NAZE?!
As it is, Japanese Metabolist architecture is quite scarce (In sense of executed works) and this is one of my favourite of the lot. Also, it is one of the few "plug in architecture" that has been built to date.
That's how the Japanese work, I suppose. Perhaps it just grew too old.
Talk about no lingering attachment.

I brought my dead hard drive to see if its sorry arse could be salvaged today.
The answer was N-O but my data was saved.
I literally breathed a sigh of relieve.
I had to buy a new one. There goes the money I was saving for a Wii/PS3. Damn it!
However, I bought a 1 terabyte hard drive which means, at the moment, I have about 700+ GB left for more shit. :D
I wanted the 2 TB but it was so much more expensive so I thought a 1 TB was good enough for now.
Then, I bought games. Games and more games.
Batman Arkham Asylum! :D
Devil May Cry 4! :D
Yay!
I must control and still DO HOMEWORK.

After all that, I cut my hair.
My hair's 5 inches shorter but it's still long.

I need to sit for my Japanese exam on Monday and not tomorrow as I originally planned.
I was so busy with my assignments I forgot to study for it.
Damn!!

During my tutorial, we discussed how...

• My writing style isn't the report writing type... so what is it? Dramatic? Emotional? Passionate? Fantasy? XD But that means I'm gonna have to change my chapter breakdown.
• I'm gonna use survey results against the people who took the survey (Shut up, you lot, you're still gonna be doing my survey whether you like it or not)
• I have no problems thus far with my design process.

Here's what I figured after that.
I do have a problem with my design class.. but it isn't in the process nor is it the design itself.
The fact that I did not have a tutorial and he still has not seen my full site analysis.

Anyway, I've been thinking of my concept or rather my expresive element since the conversation with Nut (during which, we decided on Saturday for my birthday celebration at a watering hole where I can water away my age)
I'm thinking Rubiks cube at the moment because it is something that is square, tight, limited with constraints but yet you can change it (colour and location) to your every whim and fancy. Which is what my concept of compact living is about.
That's what I've been thinking.
I shall do more thinking.
Our new budget has got me working really hard. Imagine my RM30,000++ PTPTN loan being turned into a scholarship. That is like having my birthday, wedding, Christmas, Valentines, Easter etc. shoved into a box and handed to me at a go.
At this point, it's like a pipe dream but I'm gonna try my hardest so that in the event that it doesn't happen I wouldn't look back and think "If only I worked harder".

The end is near.. this is a sign, I tell you, a sign.

So, I was sitting here, wondering why my music can't play when I notice that my external hard drive is dead.
Dead.
DEAD.
DEAD!
Naturally, I nearly flung myself out the window.
How can it die?
HOW CAN IT DIE?
HOW CAN IT DIE!?
T________________T
Have I ever pissed the God of Technological Failures off?
How can he let my 'life' die like that?
I'm now praying that the data has not been affected and it's just the unit that is faulty and not the 250GB WORTH OF MEMORY.
My manga~ My music~ My art~ My schoolwork~ My anime~ My movies~ My games~
Why do you do this to me?
Why?
WHY?
WHY?!
Now, I may have to buy a new one.. if I do, I'll buy one with more memory.
500GB, anyone?
This really sucks.
I keep saving and somehow, everytime I am close to the required amount, something happens and I have to spend it.
But, you know what, my data is worth more than that.
I have important stuff in there.
I need it.

"It's my party and I'll eat cake if I want to"

Slept at 5AM last night. No, it wasn't heavy partying.
More like heavy working.
Slugged into school early this morning to top up printing credit.
They sang me happy birthday in the cafeteria before class.
Sang again during class.
:D Thank you to everybody who wished me. I feel all fuzzy inside now.
Claireeey, Thingy, Ray and Ting Fung bought me another rabbit. Terima kasih banyak-banyak. Xie xie. Hontou no hontou ni arigatou. Thank you very, very much-y.
It's pink this time. :D I named it Cap'n Kidd but Ivan nicknamed it Pinky (The name on the tag says Pinky Pirate)

I came home for lunch.. had my big McDonalds lunch again and started rushing last minute work for class. Was totally expecting to call in late when Claire called me while my phone was beeping the low battery alert.
Me: HelloClaireIGotNoBatteryICallYouBackK?
Claire: Wait NO NO! Got NO CLASS!
Me: ... what?
Claire: He just SMS-ed. Class canceled. Don't need to come.
Me: Oh, okay.. I was just rushing my work -.- Bye!
After that I looked at my brother and sang "Happy birthday TO ME!"
He figured what happened.
Torchwood viewing for the rest of the afternoon while I was thinking up "benefits of compact living and why we should change our views and opinions on it".
Torchwood was fun but the thinking was not. Need to draft up some survey and ask for his opinion. I need this survey to understand a young person's lifestyle.
Hopefully he won't be too harsh about my introduction draft.

THANKS TO EVERYBODY WHO REMEMBERED MY BIRTHDAY.
Even if it was a Facebook reminder. :)
Shari, SJ & Nut, keep your dates open. We need to celebrate. Especially SHARI. MAKE SURE YOU COME.