Saturday, January 19, 2002, 05:55 a.m.

Thursday, January 17, 2002, 01:21 a.m.

Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 01:33 p.m.

Adam Ant charged in London scuffle . Ho ho ho. But the line from that article that really got me was " The singer, whose hits included "Stand and Deliver" and "Prince Charming," is scheduled to headline a 1980s nostalgia tour this spring."

*LEEEER* Get your butt out of trouble and over to the US, damn you! 80's nostalgia tour. Ho ho ho. New wave. Ho ho ho. Ho ho ho ho. This had BETTER be a US tour, not just a UK tour, or...or...well, I'll sulk.

And if I hear the phrase 'vasovagal reflex' one more time...

In better news, it may be too late to sublease my apaato. XDDDD Yay!

Oh, I saw "The Royal Tennenbaums" on Sunday. Pretty good movie. But I need the soundtrack more. Mm-mm. If it's anything like the in-movie music - the Clash, Velvet Underground, Nico, Bob Dylan, Jackson Browne...

Crap. Now they want to screen ALL luggage at airports? Good god, aviation's going to slow to a crawl. >_<

Now Playing: Daft Punk - High Life

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Sunday, January 13, 2002, 12:37 p.m.

o/~ I watched it for a little while...I love to watch things on TV...o/~

I swear, I'd blog more if pitas didn't give me such crap. X_x

Oh, here's a random meme result...heh.


Take the Which Stroke are you? Quiz

*snerk*

Man, I've been feeling old and cranky nowadays. Nothing like graduate school and your 21st birthday to make you feel decrepit. I've been swinging between a nice cosmic Zen tolerance for other people's weaknesses and a raging bitchy hatred for the idiots who populate the world. It's only the knowledge that someone else - several someone elses - probably want to run ME over with a speeding Mack truck that keeps me from getting any delusions about being less irritating than anyone else in the world. But I've noticed myself becoming more vengeful lately, as anyone who talked to me about two days ago can attest to. @_@

You know...I keep hearing how FFX is so good...and Krisit's spoiled me thoroughly about it and shown me all the cool bits and it DOES seem really cool...and yet I still have absolutely no urge to play it. @_@ I don't know why not. Maybe it's the prospect of Hastagas and Curagas and Moogles and Chocobos and silly side games that makes me ph33r. Although I admit I find this game's plot more interesting than usual.

Oh, for you..FFIX fans? I was at the temple yesterday with my parents, and found out that "Kuja" is the planet/god Mars in Vedic astrology. I dunno if this is common knowledge in the fandom; I was used to Mars being called Mangal or something. If you're curious, check out this page on the Navagraha, the Nine Planets. The Vedic astrological system is rather like the Aristotelian or Ptolemaic model with the 'six planets' = Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn - orbiting the earth. Rahu and Ketu are dark, smoky demons that cause Solar and Lunar eclipses.

Reminds me, my mythology class starts again in a week! Yay, I get to teach again!

You know, I'm just rambling about stupid shit again, so I'll stop right here. *rubs eyes* I'm getting Persona 2: Tsumi and a bunch of DJ in the coming week, so I ought to be happy. I'm so easy to please. @_@

Now Playing: The Sea and Cake - Nature Boy

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Friday, January 11, 2002, 05:25 p.m.

o/~ So I walked out....oh baby I don't care no more, I know this for sure, I'm walking out that door... o/~

Hm, I have a live version of 'Last Nite' in which he says he 'walked out' instead of 'turned 'round.' Kind of changes the point of the line, doesn't it? Shannon, remind me to give you that mp3 sometime.

Hya hya! The universe is yellowish-blue! No, seriously, it IS. Read the article. If you combined all visible light in the universe and sent it through a prism, you'd get a pale greenish or turquoise color. Yellowish-blue. I guess all those Lunatic demons were right! XD~ Now, when we find the 5 million ton tombstone, THEN we should start worrying.

India and Pakistan are saber-rattling again. My mom's heading home for a month on the 29th; I hope India can keep itself under control until AFTER she gets there and back. I haven't checked if she's flying west or east to get there...if she's flying via Singapore she can fly directly into Madras instead of stopping in New Delhi.

Then again, Singapore is pretty busy right now. Dammit, that sucks. I LOVED Singapore both times I visited it; it was just about the loveliest place I'd ever been. It's lush and green and clean...I just have so many good memories associated with it, like sitting in the kitchen during a thunderstorm, eating parata and anchovies, and suddenly there's a clap of thunder so loud that it deafens me, and the lights go out. There's just something about the light during a summer rainstorm...

Bleh, some places provoke such a strong visual memory out of me. Like, say, Enya songs. Everytime I hear that damn Enya song, I can only think of when I was about seven, when my sister was a senior in high school, and during the summer we would go to a big field a block away, armed with a battery-powered CD player and a kite. We'd lie on our backs in the grass, fire up the CD player, and fly kites all day. It was that one Enya CD with 'Caribbean Blue' on it, actually. So when I hear Enya, I think of the color of the sky, that rich June-July blue, with the white clouds and the warm grass and the kitestring yanking at my hands.

I guess a lot of the music I listen to is for the memories I associate with them. All the early alternative and punk and new wave stuff I associate with being small, when my older sister was deeply into that sort of music and gave me the old-fashioned sl0ring. My relationship with my sister has been distant sometimes, but I guess I have more good memories of her than I'd thought. When I was little, she used to dance with me to Modern English's "I'll Melt With You". During her wedding, that song came up, and I was thinking, "Oh, it's that song"...and then I saw my sister head towards me, and she dragged me onto the floor so we could dance together to it one last time.

Good god, save me from the sappy reminiscences. I guess I miss her more than I used to - now that we have a GOOD relationship. She lives six hours away. But we AIM sometimes; the other day we spent a solid hour calling each other dorks for our respective weaknesses; hers for X-Files, mine for anime. :D

OK, OK, I'm done rambling. One of my freelance editors brought me a free copy of the 54th Physicians' Desk Reference. I feel so 1337! That's kind of a nice present.

These lyrics make no sense. Well, they do, but not really.

Hya Hya!

Med school is eight months away and counting. I must goof off more! Time's running out!

Dude, Ka, you should watch more Blackadder if you can. That show has always been awesome...and I'm serious when I say that many of the snarky/amusing lines you'll see on TV or even in fanfic are cribbed from Blackadder. Before he was Mr. Bean...Rowan Atkinson, as Edmund Blackadder, was THE master of the sarcastic put-down. XD Although I find it amusing that in the first series, Blackadder was dumb as a brick, and Baldrick was the SMART one. XD

OK, better finish this chapter. I would kill for a nap.

Now Playing: the Clash - Car Jamming (I think that's what it's called. second track on side A of the Combat Rock LP? I honestly can't remember track #'s on the CD; I had it first as a record, so that's how I count the tracks X_x How weird is that?)

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