BUT I'M NOT. WHY? BECAUSE timeofyoursong FOUND THIS:


OMG IT'S BETH AS LOGAINNE SCHWARTZANDGRUBENIERRE!!!
Better-quality pic here. OOF. DO WANT.

TRUTH BE TOLD I AM KIND OF OBSESSED WITH THE EPIC CUTENESS OF THIS. EFFFF. WANT TO SEE THIS NOOOOW. SO.SO.BAD.

( Includes mini-interview in which Beth flails about Norbert Leo Butz and Aspen )

Ooooof. How am I supposed to focus on work this way?! D:

1. Minor friends-cut has been done! If you feel I have erred (either in cutting or NOT cutting you) and/or want to be added back, please message me now or forever hold your peace! (Comments are screened and, if necessary, will remain screened for discretion!)

2. WORK IS MADE OF FAIL. Seriously now. I should not be awake at 3.07am, but I am. And I have to be back at work in far too few hours, rewriting an entire paper again. After I left at about 1am. D: D: HORRORS.

3. GOOD THING MY FANDOMS MAKE UP FOR THE LOUSY. OMG seriously there has been SOOO much random lollerskating/random flailworthiness involved in my fandoms over the last couple of days:

a. It was just Meryl's 60th birthday on June 22! :) I missed it, because I suck big time, but girlie_girl_23 didn't and her lovely tribute is here.

b. Next To Normal: The Abridged Script <-- omg I howled laughing at this, especially the way ALICE RIPLEY always and only refers to herself in the third person as ALICE RIPLEY, and Bobby, poor guy. *weeps*

c. Random thought: Alice is actual going to be bereft when her FB account reaches its maximum number of users, isn't she...!? And that's coming up soon, she just needs, like, 2,000 more people...

d. Official site for Julia's upcoming show - the Cy Coleman revue. She is looking classy. David's goatee, on the other hand, amuses me far more than it really should. So who's going to see this, other than Not Me?

e. OMG the Wonderettes universe is going to expand! - I swear I flailed when I got that google alert: now we get the story from the point of view of the Crooning Crabcakes! I'm hoping it includes - other than Billy Ray - Johnny and Richie as well, so there'll be shout-outs to my Wonderettes. ♥

f. And as a perfect example of how my life is full of random lollerskaty flail, guess what show's coming to Singapore in August? CLEARLY I would rather be watching Beth in this show in Aspen (OH GOD I WANT TO GO SO BADLY), but I guess I can make do with a local production of Spelling Bee. SO RANDOM A COINCIDENCE, AMIRITE?? It's the last show I thought would get a run here, just because it's not well-known at all (usually we get Phantom or Les Miz or some such well-worn chestnut of a show, ad nauseum).

g. Also, I got this comment on one of my random House!flail posts and was ridiculously amused. I can't decide if poster was being sarcastic, LOL.

4. Also, I think I am legit insane. Today I decided to embark on a flail project of complete insanity. OMG. Details... at some later point. XD BUT THE PROSPECT OF IT EXCITES ME.

5. How is it that I am wide awake NOW, when I am flailing, but will be half-dead when I'm at work, trying to work? Urgh. I PROMISE TO CATCH UP ON COMMENTS SOMETIME IN THIS MILLENNIUM.

ALSKFHALFHSDLFHSDLFHLSDFHLDS.

Now that we have that out of the way: I have been stoning at home, watching many episodes of Bones and marvelling at how adorable Booth and Brennan are. A+++ way of entertaining myself? I'D SAY SO.

Then I came across possibly the cutest thing in the history of my Wonderettes fandom ever. Basically, it turns out the wonderful Bets Malone has been regularly updating a blog on her NYC adventures after she booked the Marvellous Wonderettes - THAT'S RIGHT. *gasp* A regularly-updated blog on Wonderettes! It's AMAZING. My new favourite thing EVER in the WORLD. It's so darn cute how HAPPY and EXCITED Bets is about the entire adventure, from meeting the new Wonderettes girls (that would be Farah and Victoria) through to recording the cast album and getting her hands on the vocal selections for the first time ever. It's kind of TOO CUTE TO BE BELIEVED. ♥


♥ SEE. ♥

( my FAVOURITES under the cut! )

ICONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN MADE.
xitian will probably be updated soon, once the batch expands further. XD

GO EXPLORE. But if you want quick flail, these are my favourite posts: cast recording (Beth recorded video of Bets from her booth, so you can hear Bets singing and Beth's harmony!) and Wonderettes field trip in NYC (cutest. thing. in. universe.) - I am only upset that the second post does not have enormous photos like the other posts do, because I would KILL for a photo of Cindy Lou vamping it up.

I'm not entirely sure why the universe is conspiring against me and keeping me from the internet before/on my trip TO the US, but there we have it. I had a little computer snafu trying to transfer stuff to my computer, so ended up leaving the house later than planned. And then my brother and dad decided to get out of the car and have a late-night snack before sending me off... eating into planned internet chillout time at the airport pre-departure. And NOW I'm in Qatar, oh good ol' Qatar where I appear to spend a great GREAT deal of my transit time, and they want us to board two hours early! ARGH. I know that there's a bus that has to take us to the plane, but COME ON.

Sigh. In any case - I never had the chance to post my hiatus post, so this is it, before I dash off to get on the plane way too early. I'M GOING TO BE IN NEW YORK IN... LESS THAN 20 HOURS, GUYS. :D I am kind of stupidly stupidly excited.

People I'll be meeting over the weekend or in the first few days: I WILL have email access if nothing else, thanks to weazel_luv being awesome and gifting me her Starbucks account ♥, so send me emails to set things up as necessary. SEE YOU ALL SOON. OMG OMG.



ALSO, FEEL FREE TO SPAM THE HECK OUT OF THIS ENTRY.
JUST BECAUSE. XD

IT'S 5.51AM ON A WORK NIGHT. I HAVEN'T SLEPT YET. OR REALLY PACKED FOR MY TRIP. I HAVE, ON THE OTHER HAND, WATCHED 13 EPISODES OF HOUSE IN THE SPACE OF ONE DAY AND AM ALL CAUGHT UP. 5X23 WAS LEGENDARY, GUYS. LEGENDARY. TO THE POINT THAT I MADE A SHIT-TON OF ICONS RATHER THAN SLEEP, BECAUSE I. HAD. TO.

( MORE RANDOM FLAIL - SPOILERS AHOY )

ALSO NOW I HAVE TO PACK FOR NEW YORK WHEN I GET HOME TOMORROW. I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING, BTW, WHAT EVEN IS MY LIFE.

I'M SOOOO LATE TO THE HOUSE FLAIL PARTY, GUYS. I FAIL. HOW DID I LET THIS SHOW GO FOR SO LONG? BUT I'M BACK NOW. So, you know, flail with me if you like? :D

p/s I am sooo behind on comments and checking the flist because I've been busy watching House. Will deal with that when I can, promise!

1. THREE DAYS. CANNOT FATHOM THIS. Even though work is starting to fall in my lap again, and I really should do some of it because so much of it is due to my sitting around doing a whole lot of not much, right now my only concern is to keep from falling ill before I have to take off for the trip. Being barred from entering the US at this point is really NOT at all high on my list of priorities, nope. OMG CAN'T BELIEVE I'LL BE SEEING WONDERETTES IN LESS THAN FIVE DAYS ALSDHSADHASLDSA ♥

2. Also, I find it hard to focus these days because all I want to do is be a huge enormous dork and curl up in a corner with my stash of X-Men comics and devour them like the good little nerd I am. Today I tried to explain to my boss why Wolverine doesn't age and has apparently been through a litany of world wars in the recent past. Nerd extraordinaire, that is indeed me.

3. Cheno is a ball of cute, I just had to say. I love that the pay-off to that interview is a nice, long, glorious stretch of Over The Rainbow. Also, I SEE HER IN CONCERT NEXT MONDAY. \o/ The excitement, it is EVERYWHERE!

4. Speaking of which: native New Yorkers, where is there a good place to snag free internet? Do I have to start living in Starbucks? (Is there even free wireless there?) I have my perfectly portable little netbook, so that's fine, but I still need to know where I can go to get net access... in case the friend I'm living with has maxed out her internet time (entirely possible). I'm also trying to figure out what the weather's gonna be like: I'm sure I can easily buy anything I'm missing, since it isn't the absolute dead of winter this time. But I'm guessing I'll need an umbrella at least...

5. MORE of alphabet meme, I intend to FINISH this before I go to NY!! ( F - em - L )

6. I LEGIT TALK TOO MUCH. How is it 2am already!?!? Okay okay OKAY. Bedtime... if I'm not distracted by comics, that is. XD

1. URM. FOUR DAYS. Just four days more, guys - this time, in four days, I will literally be boarding the plane for Qatar New York. OMG. I can't... even BEGIN to process this, it doesn't feel real at ALL. I mean, I have tickets for most of my first week of shows, and at least half of the second week, and I've been planning this for a while. STILL. NOT GOING TO BELIEVE IT, as usual, until I'm actually THERE.

2. In other news, longest, laziest weekend I've had in AGES. We had a full three days off thanks to Labour Day (May 1) falling on a Friday. I had SOME grand plans of catching up on tv (god knows my flist is going to explode when the next House episode airs, and I am FIVE MONTHS BEHIND), or do something a little more productive... and yet, I spent most of it asleep and being lazy. Truth be told, I actually kind of like the sound of that. XD

3. Friday was family day - lunch out for my brother's birthday, at a fancy Chinese restaurant where basically we proved that, genetically, we all have a song playing in our heads at any given moment. Seriously we all just kept... humming out loud during the meal, while scoffing down epic amounts of beef and cod and god knows what else. I came home and napped after that, as I had gone to bed at some ridiculous hour of the morning, and then out for dinner to my aunt's place again. She's doing better after her second round of chemo, not having quite as bad a reaction to it as the first round, so ♥. Then I came home and... spent the entire night flailing at weazel_luv over Wonderettes. GOD KNOWS WHY. (I AM SEEING IT WITHIN THE WEEK, GUYS. ASFHALFHLSDHFLSDHFLSD.)

4. Saturday: I had plans to go for yoga, which were completely thwarted when I got up at 3.30pm (sigh). Instead, I watched X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which I actually REALLY liked. I know it's been critically savaged, for the most part, but I loooved it. Turns out I'm just a huge X-Men/Marvel fandork, I guess, because I just... had the best time settling back into that universe, watching all the characters I love pop up in flesh, blood and celluloid, and... it was just FUN. (I also loved X3: The Last Stand, so yeah, I really am just a huge nerd with really poor taste in movies. I'm not apologising though, these movies make me happy!) I am a sucker, apparently, even for not-entirely-well-wrought romance, and bought into the Silver Fox thing by the end. URGH, ME. No spoilers, however. Let us, for a minute, discuss the masculine pulchritude on display in that movie. ZOMG HUGH. JACKMAN. When I saw the trailer, I KNEW the movie could have been an absolutely god-awful pile of steaming manure and I'd have loved it anyway just because Hugh gets to run all over the screen being sexy and hot and growly omg omg. And that he did, in epic amounts. What surprised me is that I also found Ryan Reynolds as Deadpool ridiculously sexy. SHUT UP. In his six minutes of screen-time, he didn't even bare these, but I was still done. OMG HOTNESS. Now I have to go watch Definitely, Maybe again. I did NOT, however, like whoever played Gambit. Taylor whatever or somesuch? Urgh. Not that Gambit's one of my favourite characters, but... it just didn't work for me. He wasn't anywhere near charismatic enough.

5. During the movie, I had the insanely pressing URGE to delve back into the comics again - now, try to believe me when I say that I really AM far from being the biggest comics dork around. ( I don't think anyone really believes me, do they? )

6. AFTER the movie, to get back to my weekend - I went to a colleague's house for an awesome potluck dinner. ♥ He made chili and corn on the cob, other people brought corn muffins, mashed potatoes, ice cream (I contributed some not-so-great salad that wasn't popular anyway with all the OTHER things on the table), and it was just fun to sit around chatting about... movies, work, anything, everything. Honestly the people I work with are about the only reason I haven't lost my fragile grip on sanity in the past six and a half years I've been at this job. And it's been FAR too long since we had one of these chat sessions, so that was good!

7. Then, on Sunday, I managed to get up in time for my 2pm yoga class: which, although it was the easiest of the easy classes, I almost died in. GOD. I have not been back in weeks, because I've been lazy and the thought of inflicting pain on my really just completely inflexible body didn't appeal. So, being out of practice, that - predictably - became a self-fulfilling prophecy. A+, me. I'm already sore, and am going to hurt like the DICKENS tomorrow. In fact, I was apparently so tired I went for lunch, came home, and SLEPT FOR FOUR HOURS. Straight through dinner on a worknight. EPIC FAIL. That now means, of course, that it's 2.46am and I am WIDE AWAKE. AUUUGGGH.

8. ALSO, YOUTUBE LOOP. AIEEEEEE. Chiefly, there was Alice and Emily belting their faces off in I Will Never Leave You, one of the few times I've SEEN them sing that song unattached at the hip. YOU HAVE TO WATCH IT, GUYS: can we say omigod sexy SASSY belting times a million. 2:31 is legit an ORGASMIC EXPERIENCE, when they belt in opposite directions but sound PERFECTLY in sync, omigod. (ETA: OMG, 0:55!!! How. Cute?!) Then I found Bebe videos, and although she really doesn't have the best voice on her, god I LOVE her sass. She's SUCH a killer Velma, and probably the only person I'd want to see in the role over Julia (that's right, REPLACE IN CHICAGO, JULIA, PLZ). And yay, Bebe singing from Cabaret! I LOVE her line readings more than anything else. Mmmm, dripping with sarcasm and sass. I heart you, Lilith Bebe. ;)

9. And, because apparently this isn't already epic long enough, I figured I should get started on my alphabet meme, or I won't be done by the time I hit NY. To wit, here's the first five letters of the alphabet, accompanied by a lot of flail and a handy Twitter-ready summary for each. ( That would be A-E, in case you didn't know )

10. OMIGOD THAT TOOK FOREVER. Wow, I am going to have to seriously cut down on the time I spend on the next 21 letters or I am going to die. D: I shall now attempt to go to bed at 3.47am even though I'm WIDE AWAKE (damn the nap) and hungry (no dinner). Blaaarrrgh.

OKAY SO I SHOULD BE WORKING. AND FOCUSING. BUT HOW CAN I FOCUS WHEN THERE IS THIS:


THE MARVELLOUS WONDERETTES SING THE NATIONAL ANTHEM (16 APR 09)

OMG OMG OMG. Every time I think my obsession with their talent and their voices and FOUR-PART HARMONIES might be just a tad excessive, I am reminded that no, it really REALLY isn't. My life is kind of made right now.

My completely incoherent very brilliant analysis of the video:

EPIC AMOUNTS OF LOSE: the damn plane flying overhead.

EPIC AMOUNTS OF WIN: EVERYTHING ELSE. Especially:
- 0:01: the adorkability that opens the video, with the girls hamming it up for the camera ♥ ♥ ♥
- 0:16: I KNEW the harmonisation would get me. And OMIGOD just listen to them go, OMG!!! Also, I looove it when Victoria leads off. How gorgeous is her voice!
- 0:34: EEK. Victoria and Beth steal a look at each other. FUCK. I THINK MY HEART STOPPED FROM THE CUTE.
- 0:54: WTF WTF MISTY WTF IS THAT. HOW THE HELL WHA ASLDDHLDLADA. Dude. She sounds SO. GOOD. when she takes leading harmony. Fuckity.
- 1:11: Again, Misty, WTF SERIOUSLY.

I AM SO OBSESSED WITH THESE GIRLS. AND THIS VIDEO. AND THE BELTING, WHAT EVEN.

p/s I am behind on comments, I know, I'm sorry - I crashed and fell dead asleep last night, eek. Will get caught up!

1. Again I do not understand how it is almost 2am where does the time go SERIOUSLY.

2. I think I am just inordinately, tragically bad at multi-tasking, however much I'd like to believe that I'm truly awesome at it. I wanted to get around to tracking some of my January audios since I'll be racking up a BUNCH more in May (THREE WEEKS ZOMG), and thought I could at the same time catch up on my book and movie reviews. EPIC FAILURE THERE. I managed to track the FIRST ACT of A Little Night Music (awww, Natasha :( ♥ - also, Vanessa is a LEGEND and I am legit in love with Christine Baranski's sassy mcsassy line readings), write the book review and... nothing. FAIL FAIL FAIL.

3. Which means I am behind on emails and comments and I APOLOGISE to people, I am not ignoring you (well, no more than normal, anyway, ahahaha). Will hopefully get to it eventually. At least instead of getting caught up, I had a good weekend, with movies, friends and SLEEP. (Though not right now... obviously.)

4. I'm on a bit of a movie kick right now. Finally there are films playing in cinemas here that I want to see! Plus I finished my longass book Instance of the Fingerpost (mindbendingly good and so smart that it made my brain hurt from it) and am finally reading movie magazines again. So I'm looking forward to so many films! Can I say, OMG, posters and standees of Angels & Demons going up in cinemas everywhere = inordinatelyexcited!ellixian! I don't even know WHY, beyond the fact that I loved A&D a LOT more than Da Vinci Code and have always thought it'd be far more suited to a cinematic adaptation. I guess I'm a sucker for shiny pretty ads. Also I am a closet Tom Hanks fangirl (even with the mullet from DVC) and would watch him in anything (shut up). OH ONE MORE THING: EWAAAAAAN.

5. So this weekend I saw: ( lots of movies! )

6. Meryl on her surprising newfound bankability: "It's completely improbable, and no one in Hollywood can understand it. Which is so thrilling!" ♥ ♥ ♥

7. Oh random fail from today. I bought a bottle of Coke Zero to bring into the cinema with me - and of course, having MY luck, picked up a bottle that was sealed completely shut. I gouged out a chunk of my ring finger trying to open the damn thing. NOT exaggerating, it hurts like a MOFO when it comes into contact with water. So I brought the bottle back to the store, and turns out EVERY Coke Zero bottle there was sealed shut. WTF defective shipment!!! So I had to trade for something else of equivalent price, and picked Sarsi Light. Which tasted like SHIT so I dumped it after a few mouthfuls. Yuck, FML etc.

8. OMIGOD BETH'S VOICE WHAT IN GOD'S NAME IS IT DOING TO ME. (Never going to stop listening to this song ever in my life, guys, how does someone sound this sassy and incredible and DIFFERENT ASKDFHALDHASDA. I am never going to stop pimping or talking about the awesome 15-second closing note, so you might as well download it if you don't already know what I'm talking about.) In any case, I am starting to plot my theatre schedule. At the rate I am going I will be back at the Westside Theatre, like, four times over two weeks. EXCESSIVE MUCH? Or AWESOME? *cries*

1. Am I posting from work right now? YES I AM. I don't give a damn. I was gonna post yesterday, but was so crazy shacked I fell asleep in bed... the perils of having a netbook, sigh. Though I guess it's better for me than falling asleep on my chair and waking up all bent and broken just to stagger to bed.

2. MY JOB FAILS SO DAMN HARD. After staying 'til 6.30am on Monday morning, went home and crashed, but went back in at 3pm and stayed 'til 1am. Then I didn't go back in until 1am the next day and stayed until 8pm that day. For NOTHING. There wasn't ANYTHING to write, or anything that I COULD write, and it was a complete waste of my time. I also discovered that what I was hoping to have happen at the end of the year - that would have given me a few months' reprieve from this hellhole - is in all likelihood NOT happening for me. So, you know, FML in every way.

3. I'm STALKING MY MAILBOX SO HARD. Still nothing as yet. Why does my mail not bring me flail, guys? WHY? D:

4. Icon meme from timeofyoursong, because I like icons and I like flail and I like flailing about icons. Let me know in your comment if you want to play:
1. Reply to this post, and I will pick six of your icons.
2. Make a post (including the meme info) and talk about the icons I chose.
3. Other people can then comment to you and make their own posts.
4. This will create a never-ending cycle of icon glee.




( flail ensues )

5. And another meme, because this one looks like crazy fun. I suspect I'm too verbose to be quoteable though. ;) Go forth and play! And let me know if you have a thread too. :)



6. Okay I should stop procrastinating and work now. I don't want to. :( I'll flist properly tonight.

1. As my subject line has it - omigod, you guys. I'm in love and am so eloping to the Bahamas with the object of my affection!! ♥ ( details and phooooooootoooooooos )

2. Not only did I find the love of my life, I also went bookshopping, eeeeek. So much random retail therapy that I'm not even sure I DESERVE, but what the hey! ( today's haul )

3. Urgh, I have NOT taken public transport in a long time - I actually parked downtown and then took a train down to the IT show because parking there would've been a fool's errand and completely insane. Good thing too, I don't think I've EVER seen that many people shoved like flopping sardines into one area. Literally there were POLICE everywhere directing traffic, and setting up detours so that the tunnels wouldn't get too crowded. Manoeuvring in that crowd would have given anybody with agoraphobia nightmares for a millennium. Which is one reason I decided I should NOT leave with just a hard drive. ;) Oh, look, someone took a photo. Let it be said that the crowd I encountered was at least TWICE as bad, this being the last day of the fair and all. INSANITY.

4. Refusing to leave the IT fair meant that I cancelled on a couple of friends - we were supposed to watch a movie. I spent three hours wandering the convention instead (also getting stopped by random insurance people, argh) and my feet hurt SO MUCH by the end. But it's worth it. XD

5. Decided to watch a movie after that, having missed out on sombre Oscar-nominated Japanese fare - Race To Witch Mountain, which was a serviceably silly, workman-like action adventure. I think I have an affinity for The Rock that rivals my semi-crush on Brendan Fraser. Why do I find him oddly charming? I have no answer for this, but I do. A fun but entirely forgettable watch that dragged once more characters were brought into the mix.

6. Did I forget to mention that I totes didn't go into work as I'd planned? I got up at almost 3, decided there was no point going in (I will regret this come Monday) as I was SUPPOSED to watch the film at 1845H. Besides it was one of those gorgeously grey, stormy Sundays. Sleeping in was practically mandatory!

7. So it's been a good weekend - my family friend's big 21st birthday bash yesterday (at which my brother did a very brave thing, I must admit!!) and also Watchmen in the afternoon... which I THOROUGHLY enjoyed as a character study and deconstruction of the superhero myth. How awesomely fucked-up were all the characters, seriously? Those on Twitter would already know that I am OBSESSED with Rorschach - dude with the Rorschach ink stains perpetually wheeling across his masked face, with a penchant for breaking people's fingers and being generally scary/creepy/violent - and now have a crush on Jackie Earle Haley as a result. Yes, the same actor who freaked me the hell OUT as a freaky paedophile in Little Children. Apparently I am a screwed-up individual... and go me for being proud of that fact. XD Anyways. I loved the look, feel and many of the ideas that went into the movie. That being said, however, the plot was totally meh, Dr Manhattan's existential angst and epiphany bored me, and poor Matthew Goode (on whom I have a crush from Imagine Me And You) was a bit miscast as Ozymandias. Also, too looooong.

8. And now, though I want to spend time bonding with my new love ♥, I MUST go to bed. As I have said, I am going to regret the hell out of not going to work on Sunday. AUGH. Wish me luck for the week ahead. :(

1. Why so spammy, me? I apologise for posting so often in the past day or so. Blame it on my fandoms constantly providing me with awesome over which I feel I MUST flail. Surely you guys don't blame me for it? ;)

2. To wit: ( here's some awesome )

3. God, I hadn't realised HOW tired I was after work today. I was supposed to dash out for a facial before meeting noldoparma after her dinner, but that didn't work out and I was spurned by my facial-doing person. (What is the proper noun to describe the occupation of giving facials anyway? Facialist? because that sounds WEIRD.) I went home and briefly contemplated going for a short jog in between, but instead... fell dead asleep for a much-needed nap.

4. Dinner after at House, one of our favourite haunts. Since J had eaten already, she left me to demolish most of our late dinner - a metre-long chicken sausage (no lie, it really turned out to be that long!) on a bed of rocket leaves; TRUFFLE FRIES (this is something of a tradition for us, apparently), and eggplant salad. Lemon tart to finish, OM NOM NOM.

5. And now I must sleep. Busy day tomorrow - Watchmen, tea with K, N's birthday bash at night... I WANT to do yoga or some such exercisey thing at some point, but have no idea at what point that will/can happen.

6. HAVE A GOOD WEEKEND, EVERYBODY. I'm going to enjoy mine... until I have to go back to work on Sunday. D:

WATCH THESE VIDEOS. YOUR LIVES WILL BE BETTER FOR IT, I PROMISE.

Epiphany: Holy HELL, Alice is FIERCE.


I am legit obsessed with this. Especially when Alice cackles at one point, and then at the very end, when she just eases into a gentle, sweet smile. INSANITY. Best female Sweeney EVER, y/y??

( more amazingly sassy belting under the cut )

Thanks SO much to the filmer for sharing!

1. I am EPIC late for work - as in, I'm supposed to BE in the office by now - but since I spent a while lounging around in bed and am already late... whatever. ;) I fell dead asleep yesterday early this morning before posting... this, I realise, is the upshot of having a laptop which can be used in a semi-horizontal position, rather than my usual desktop computer which keeps me upright... for better or worse.

2. Anyways. A couple of quick things. I was tagged by irnbruise and alex_kingston for a handwriting meme:

a. Write your LJ username
b. Write your two favorite bands/groups at the moment (not overall, just currently)
c. Write either I ♥ k-pop ; I ♥ j-pop ; I ♥ c-pop (this isn't really for anything, just to see how you draw hearts xD)
d. Write the name of your favorite person of all time (e.g. Yamada Ryosuke)
e. Write down your recently favored person (e.g. G-Dragon)
f. Tag 5 people to do this meme

( pardon the illegibility )

3. Quick fly-by flail: I'm done tracking my audio of the awesome Superband concert. ♥ SO MUCH LOVE. Can't get over its amazing. ( audio and some pro-shot video! )

4. ALSO, JULIA @ BROADWAY JUKEBOX. OMIGOD YOU GUYS. She sang soooo many things, like Unusual Way and LOSING MY MIND (THE LOW NOTES IN THIS ARE SEX, YOU HEAR ME? SEX!!!) but but BUT my favourite? The fact that we finally have a FULL VERSION of her singing I Dreamed A Dream from Les Miz. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Guys, do you know how obsessed I - and a legion of fangirls, thanks to Mr Rudetsky - am with having her sing that? THIS OBSESSED <-- literally I had spliced together two fifteen-second clips of her singing different parts of the song during interviews so I could pretend to myself I had a full version. AHAHAHAHA NOW I DO. And it is unbelievable. She acts the craaaap out of this. I want to flail more and will probably do so in comments but now I must run. Although I have to add: Julia is doing a show on May 18! XD Possibly not a solo performance, but whatever: this more than ever confirms to me that I need to be back in NY in May, y/y?! OMG. Why is everything falling into place for crazy epic amounts of flail AGAIN?

5. And now I am INSANELY late for work and really REALLY need to get going, ackity ack. OFF I GO.

[ETA: Posting this old entry from a teahouse in Xi Men Ding, after a huge plate of beef fried rice which only confirmed to me that Singapore - with its fanatical health tendencies - has bred the ability to eat copious amounts of MSG out of me. Dude, I CANNOT eat MSG-laden food anymore. Sad. Due to head to the airport in a little under an hour...]

1. It's 2.40am on Sunday morning in Taiwan. This post - clearly - is going to appear somewhat later than that because I am made of so much epic fail that I tried to buy myself wireless internet, SUCCEEDED... and then proceeded to forget to take down the password and info I needed to LOG IN. Of course, this info was pointlessly forwarded to my email account, which I can't access because I'M NOT ONLINE, AM I. Honestly I could easily buy myself another day's worth of internet - it's not expensive at $4 a pop - but I'M PUNISHING MYSELF FOR BEING STUPID. No internet for you, IDIOT.

2. Doesn't mean I can't write an epic long, FLAILY entry to be posted when I finally get back online, though. HAI, CONCERT OF ENORMOUS AMOUNTS OF EPIC AWESOME, OMIGOD. LIKE, I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT I GOT TO SEE THIS LIVE. But we did it. We were TWO ROWS from the front, and honestly so close to the stage that the performers were real-people-sized. We were SO CLOSE we couldn't even see the huge television screens that the REST of the stadium were watching. ( To remind myself on Monday that life IS worth living... ) One thing I MUST say is that I am super super excited to be seeing them when they eventually make a tour stop in Singapore as well. Because hopefully by then, they'd have figured more things out, written more songs just for Superband, and gelled better as a band. Because that would basically rule my life/universe/everything.

3. WOW GUYS I'VE BEEN TYPING THAT RECAP FOR OVER AN HOUR, WTF. I really should sleep.

4. It's kind of sad that this was our last day in Taiwan though. I have to cop to being super pathetic this trip in the sense that I didn't... go OUT and see more of Taiwan as I should have? Really I dawdled in bed, stayed within a certain small geographic zone and just ate a lot. I've seen a LOT of Taiwan in the culinary sense, and I loved what I saw, but I was a really bad tourist. But... I'm kind of okay with that. What I needed out of this trip, other than Emil!flail, was a BREAK, and I got just that. I got to sleep in and just REST, and... get my brain right again, you know? And be reminded why there really is a lot in this world to love. Besides, this only means I need to come BACK to Taiwan. Next time Emil holds a concert here, maybe... ;)

5. Okay okay. About the rest of the day: the food finally caught up to me and J. *weeps* My stomach protested MIGHTILY once I woke up, and I had to be really careful the rest of the day because I didn't want to spend most of the concert in the bathroom. So... I think I ate... not very much, compared to the day before anyway. A rice roll for breakfast, some sesame mua chee (SESAME, guys, SESAME), and I shared J's lunch of deep-fried pork steak and sesame-boiled chicken (SO heaty). I had a green tea latte at Starbucks while we stoned at the stadium, since I was freaked out that we might get lost and we wound up spending... way too much time there waiting rather than out shopping. And after that we went back to Shilin and ate teppanyaki as the healthiest option we could find, because even J couldn't bear the thought of oily pork anymore. Buttered/salted/MSG-ed cod, buttered mushrooms and beansprouts... everything with butter, and yet probably healthier than pretty much anything else we'd eaten to date. At least it was fish and vegetables, right? Though... what does that say about us (and Taiwan) that we considered this healthy?

6. Of course, this entry is now hopelessly out-of-date. BUT IT WASN'T WHEN I TYPED IT.

7. Right. It's 4am. No more flailing. Bedtime. Guys... I kind of really DO NOT WANT to go back to Singapore/work. :(

OMIGOD. I am due at the airport NOW NOW NOW. I stayed at work until past 5am and just came home and showered and threw stuff into my bag and now I have to go. Most important things: passport and recorder. Everything else can be bought. EXCEPT I DON'T HAVE MONEY. AUGH. LIFE, WTF.

Anyway. Just a hiatus announcement - I'll be back on Sunday, and it's not like I won't have net access while I'm away. But.


No time to make my own banner! D:

1. I think people need to write a thesis about the phenomenon of peanut mist. So I've been eating peanuts for the last hour or so - when I cracked the first one open, it kind of sent up a little POOF of mist. What was that?! And don't tell me dirt. Because I've already eaten it. :P

2. HAVE YOU MISSED MY RANDOM?! Hee. It's been three days. Filled with work (yuck), movies (ranging from yuck to yay) and good friends (MUCH yay). Balanced out pretty well, I'd say.

3. Epic work day of epic fail - it's the main reason I disappeared for such ages. Honestly it was terrible. I went out for dinner with my sister and brother at a lovely fish restaurant in Greenwood (mmm, I love cod SO MUCH), and then for gelato (peanut butter & cookies and cream XD) after that, but had to go back into work because something was due first thing the next morning. (Even though I got the draft in on time, my stupid boss took ages to clear it, which makes me BITTER but argh, let's leave that can of worms closed, shall we?) I think the day that I realised I could work throughout the night in time for a morning deadline and ACTUALLY DID SO was a bad bad day for me - because it set a precedent. Once I've done it, staying all night is no longer off-limits, you know? No matter how tired it makes me or how plain stupid it is. Also, I hate that I stayed for HOURS on what should have taken me, like, two hours. WHY SO STUPID AND UNFOCUSED, ME? Grrr. Darn job.

4. So that was bad - but I went home, slept until noon-ish and went in to work. Was in NO MOOD to work, so didn't, and had an epic chat with irnbruise about, you know, awesome movies and awesome actresses (Isabelle Huppert ftw, seriously), among other things, and that was GREAT.

5. Airport after, to send mirime off - it was great having you back, Ka. ♥ And thanks for spotting Julia going to NYC with me. I'm so glad we got to do that together! XD

6. Met noldoparma in Borders after that, at about 9.15pm, figuring we'd have our usual epic chat over dinner/dessert/whatever. AHAHAHAHA. We didn't know what we were about to embark on. I think we stayed a couple of hours at the Borders bistro, chatting over calamari, and then we moved on to TCC (mmm, green tea freeze with red beans!) for QUITE a few more hours... until 3am, by which time we were ready for more food. So we moved onto McDonald's for... supper/breakfast/something, and ended up talking until 5am. If you did the math, that's AN EPIC EIGHT HOURS OF CHATTING. Like, a legit WORKING DAY, guys. We spent all of that chatting about EVERYTHING: politics, philosophy, work, our childhoods, art and fandom and everything ELSE in between, and omigod. Honestly, one of the most epic chats of my LIFE. Thanks for sitting there and picking through my brain with me, J. ;) It was fun.

7. Collapsed at home after that at about 7am, and slept 'til 4.30pm (!!!). Then it was time for a TON of movies: three, to be precise. Let The Right One In was creepily atmospheric, and I'm GLAD I subjected myself to it (I don't usually watch horror/vampire movies except for very good reason i.e., well-reviewed, as this one was, or epic lulz i.e., Twilight). Best movie of the day. Then, Marley And Me. AUGH. The ending made me cry, because it WAS sad, but the film was so manipulative. PUPPY PORN, for one thing, but it just... wasn't well-written, or particularly engaging, and Owen's character seemed SO neglectful to me of his family. Did not like. Third film was Last Chance Harvey - I would watch Emma Thompson in anything, and she and Dustin Hoffman had a nice chemistry. A sweet little film, not AMAZING, but nice. It was like Before Sunrise for the geriatric crowd, and set in the stone-washed loveliness that is London rather than Paris. I want to go back!

8. I decided to pretty up this rather boring entry with a minor pic-spam of my favourite film actresses - inspired by chatting with Leslie about Isabelle - and EEK. It ended up taking me SO LONG to find pictures and put them together. But, worth it.

( I need to go where people are serious about acting )

9. Brunch at 11.30, eek, and then work after that. I'D BETTER GET TO BED NOW.

Play a game. Write short sentences. Three words each.

Useless at work. Could not concentrate. Why so faily?

Chatted with irnbruise. Wonderettes on Sunday. Colour me jealous.

Fantastic yoga class. Seriously, not kidding. No premature death.

noldoparma stressed out. Consumed skinny pizza. Truffle mushrooms ftw.

Played Rock Band. Suspect am addicted. Although hopelessly uncoordinated.

Using brother's laptop. Internet in bed. Heaven on earth.

Tomorrow will fail. Must give lecture. AND write speech.

Therefore must sleep. Though only 2.10am. A feat, yes?

You... respond similarly? XD

So, in celebration of a year in which I expect Slumdog Millionaire, Mickey (or maybe Sean), Kate, Heath and Penelope (or maybe Viola) to win, it was nice to receive a little affirmation. The DaColbert Code = MOST RELIABLE PREDICTOR OF OSCARS EVAR. ♥ Stephen's arcane and mystical power FTW.

The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c

The DaColbert Code - Oscar Predictions

( MORE EPIC LOLZ )

IT'S BEEN FAR TOO LONG SINCE I'VE WATCHED THE COLBERT REPORT, Y/Y???

Who do YOU expect/want to win?

1. What a surprisingly productive day!

2. I managed to get up before 2pm - 'TIS A FEAT - as I had bought myself a ticket to see Valkyrie at 2.50pm and really did not want to sleep through ANOTHER movie and waste another 11 bucks. Unfortunately, any attempt to have a normal lunch was THWARTED by the epic huge rainstorm that blew up RIGHT over town when I was walking to the cinema (having parked somewhere further off in a failed attempt to incur less parking charges). Seriously, I would have really wanted an ark right about then, though not so much the pairs of animals that would've come with. :P I had to buy an umbrella on the way just to make it to the cinema vaguely on time, and as luck would have it, the WORST of the storm would ease RIGHT after I opened the umbrella and started outdoors. Story of my life.

3. Valkyrie was... disappointingly HOLLYWOOD, given its very weighty, very worthy subject matter. I mean, I should have seen this coming a mile away and expected it: WHO casts Tom Cruise in a movie about the last, most successful (not to say it SUCCEEDED) attempt to unseat Hitler and change the course of world history? So yes, it was Hollywoodised, Tom was not awful but didn't really seem able to make me want to care about the character... and Eddie Izzard was unrecognisable in the film. I liked Bill Nighy and Tom Wilkinson though. Again, REALLY solid supporting cast. That being said, I STILL CRIED AT THE END. EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE OUTCOME AND THE MOVIE WASN'T THAT GREAT. My tear ducts, how much more faily could you be?

4. BTW, as a sequel to yesterday's cookie-eating debacle, I am currently trying to eat a chocolate bar that suffered a similar fate. Cleanliness and maturity are kind of not happening right now.

5. Yoga after that, for the first time in almost seven weeks. Aside from being off in NYC and being felled by illness/work, I've tried a couple of times in the past week to go back... but keep getting to town too late for class. GRRR. Clearly it was not the best idea to go with a class taught by one of the most strangely sadistic instructors on offer. I've had trouble in this guy's class before, when I was already fairly run-in and could handle classes without COMPLETELY unravelling in them. Today, his favourite REST POSITION was the plank i.e., full-on push-up. SIGH. I'm already starting to ache, a little bit, and will no doubt regret this when I wake up on the morrow later today.

6. Subsequently provided an alibi of sorts for noldoparma to hightail it out of her high-school reunion, and we met for Japanese at Vivocity. GOD. I've been stalking a particular restaurant there ever since I came back from NYC, but for some reason have never been able to get there in time to eat before/after whatever movie I'd be seeing. FINALLY got to have my hotate kakiage don - which is basically tempura (lightly battered) scallops and vegetables over rice. OM NOM NOM NOM. V HAPPY. I think I might be addicted to that particular dish. Then, predictably, black sesame ice cream before...

7. Heading back to mine to try our hand at Rock Band and Sing Star. *weeps* What a rockin' way to spend a Saturday night, huh? WE ARE SUCH DORKS. I held the guitar the wrong way around, and J got blisters from the drums ALREADY. But I think we might be a little bit hooked. AUGH NO.

8. Finally, I came home to Youtube, and I don't generally REALLY look at the recommendations on the front page, but I did today and they kind of amused me a lot: ( What Youtube thinks I should be watching )

9. How is it that I always manage to write SO MUCH about a day that really was, basically, VERY BORING to anyone who is not me?! Do not understand.

10. ETA: Meryl pic-spam - because everyone needs a dose of class (and PRETTY) in their day, y/y?!