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.

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. 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.

1. HERE'S A NEWS FLASH: MY JOB = FULL OF SUCK. Well, okay, that's not a news flash, it's a friggin' sad fact of my life. But I'm pretty certain I'm never going to get to go home at a normal time again - not for the next week... make that month (year? decade?), anyway. I am very much not looking forward to having even less of a life than I already do. And yet that is what shall happen. Fuckity. I whipped out a four-page paper in a few hours (again earning my stupid boss' five-figure salary for her) and went home at 11.30pm and STILL I'm not done with the work I have to do.

2. Is it any wonder that I actually looked up my vacation quota for the rest of the year? *weeps* Turns out I have 30 days, if I use my FULL quota, accumulated over years of service. How tempted am I to go back to NYC, like, yesterday? Also, I am having a minor Twitter war with curtains and llyfrgell right now, and I want a New York bagel with cream cheese and irnbruise has offered to buy me one if I go back! SURELY THE BEST REASON TO GO BACK TO NEW YORK EVER, Y/Y?!

3. Also, I super hardcore want to go back because llyfrgell watched The Marvellous Wonderettes on Sunday and I flailed about it with her and am now missing the show MORE THAN EVER. I want to see it again SO badly, especially with the original cast, and I'm bummed that Farah is leaving in early March. SAD. :( BTW, new icon inspired by Meredith and meepette - wtf, guys, I really did NOT make the pink & green connection until you pointed it out to me! How perfect is that, though. XD

4. I guess the one good thing about being made almost entirely of flail is that, no matter how depressing my work life can get (and trust me, it's heading in that direction as of today), my fandoms can and always WILL sustain me. SO MUCH AWESOME TODAY.

5. Julia's new hairstyle - or lack thereof - is worrying to me. She needs a hairbrush. Hair aside, however, she looks great in this interview for her Oklahoma production of Tommy. She talks about having been on SATC! XD And then she sings a bit from Tommy here. Again, I feel the need to reintroduce her to the concept of a hairbrush. But I think she is going to be FIERCE as Mrs Walker, who's with me?

6. Here is Reason #5,385 why Meryl Streep is better than you. You know, aside from the 15 Oscar nominations, her sass and her general awesome? She recently said in an interview that she needs to start recycling the expensive dresses she only wears to award shows - and she's gone and done just that: recycling a dress at the BAFTAs yesterday that she first wore thirty years ago, in 1979. WTH, SERIOUSLY. Way to make the rest of us feel like slovenly failures at life, Meryl. Unlike you, I'm going to look like this in thirty years, I know it.

7. The FLAILIEST thing I discovered today, however?? It's Emil-related, of course! I don't think it's FAIR, but his kids have inherited his musical ability - certainly his daughter Anya has a gorgeous voice (and is also gorgeous, which is good for her since, you know, her dad, bless his heart, really isn't). So I happened upon her Youtube channel, and she uploads videos of her singing duets with her dad while he plays the guitar. CUE MY BRAIN EXPLODING. Oh my god, seriously - they harmonise like crazy, and it's KICKASS, and they sound amazing AMAZING together. OMG OMG OMG OBSESSED. Plus they cover awesome English songs, like Two Of Us by the Beatles, and my personal favourite:

Falling Slowly - from Once the movie

SO. DAMN. BEAUTIFUL. ♥ ♥ ♥

8. Right, it's 3.45am. And it's not like I won't have a shit-ton of work to do tomorrow. I'm an idiot. Bedtime.

1. WOW. I EPIC HATE SENDSPACE. Stupid piece of junk site. I was uploading my tracked-and-ready Chicago boot when it DIED HALFWAY and now it refuses to even load at all. Bah humbug. I'll just have to share the madness with y'all tomorrow, I guess.

2. In other news, I am SICK. WTF WTF WTF. I spent all day apparently trying my very hardest to cough my lungs out through my eyes, which is only slightly less painful than it sounds. And then I started getting snuffly AGAIN. I disapprove of this in every way. How is it FAIR that I am sick AGAIN. I have spent, like, six of the last eight weeks incapacitated by illness of some sort - the two clear weeks being when I was in NYC. Evidently this is a sign that I should just move there now, since I MUST be allergic to Singapore/work/all of the above. Who's with me on this?! Sigh.

3. (That being said, I admit that I am actually more upset that I might ruin my audio on Saturday of VERY VERY TRES IMPORTANT CONCERT than I am at being ill again. I ADMIT THIS.)

4. Going phone-shopping after work did not put me in a much better mood. I must have hit at least ten mini-shops and asked after the kind of phone I need and just came away empty-handed each time. (Either that or I was quoted a price that I'd rather stab myself in the eye with a barbeque fork than pay.) Should I just give in and use a Nokia although I kind of pride myself on never having used one? Bah humbug redux.

5. Is it a secret that I love people who sing/belt awesome? BECAUSE ZOMG WHY SO SO SO AWESOME, GUYS. ( video flail )

6. I hate sendspace, my cough and work. However, I love my fandoms. Also, I adore Julia belting. Just, you know, fyi. Because she sounds like a DREAM. (p.s., I think I need to learn MORE about Farah Alvin. Who wants to educate me?!)

THE BAD	THE GOOD
Did not DO very much at work all day, even though the mess that greeted me in my inbox was ridiculously daunting D:	Did not massively oversleep for or sleep DURING work. ACCOMPLISHMENT. Also, chatted to irnbruise and weazel_luv XD
For some reason, found my office in equatorial Singapore to be ridiculously cold (yes, even after sub-zero NYC)	Figured out how to open the damn window to let fresh (warm) air in and did NOT give in to urge to put on a jacket
Decided to go for a swim after work and found the pool closes at 6pm on Wednesdays, WTF	Went for a run jog slow shuffle towards death instead
As a consequence, am aching all over and will probably regret this in the morning	But hey, at least I actually DID steel myself to get out of the house for a slow shuffle towards death for the first time in, like, six months
Got all weepy at night because...	... I tracked the first of my N2N audios! OMG. Why is it that I ALWAYS, INVARIABLY weep at I Dreamed A Dance!?
There is simply NO bad about:	A new Dick van Dyke interview about Mary Poppins! I LOVE THIS MAN.
If you consider obsessing about new fandoms to be bad, OMG, Marvellous Wonderettes has TAKEN OVER MY BRAIN.	It's awesome workout music! Also, Beth Malone is a SWEETHEART. I listened to her CD at work all day. It made me HAPPY. :D
No time no time no time...	... for all the AWESOME movies I want to watch that are currently out in cinemas.  I'm literally going to be watching three films on Saturday, I think, and one a night from now on, and that STILL won't be enough.
I drink WAY too much...	... Coke Zero. Mmm. One bottle at lunch, and another Coke Light after my so-called 'jog'. Can we say soda as substitute for water/health?

Ha, that was fun. Okay, bedtime. Why is it 3am already, AUGH!?!?

1. Oh goodness, I'm sleepy. I was sleepy at 10pm, wtf. It's my version of jetlag, I guess - though not quite. If I had had adequate amounts of sleep over the last couple of nights after getting home, I'd be fine. But I keep... lingering online, predictably, which means I've spent the last two days functioning on four and seven hours of sleep respectively. Fail. I'm gonna crash after this (for serious), since it's back to work in a matter of hours. BLERGH DO NOT WANT.

2. And that's CNY over for another year - well, the festivities go on for a couple of weeks yet, but the main part of it, with the food and money and visiting relatives, is over now. There was a massive party at my house tonight, and I spent most of it bonding with my computer. Honestly? People annoy me so much sometimes. Also, my brother took back the laptop he 'gave' me as his new one is, for some reason, worse than this one. Urgh. I was looking forward to multi-tasking by using it while watching TV. I GUESS NOT, NOW. Sigh.

3. Since on occasion most of the time I'd much rather spend time flailing than with people, I plunged straight back into icon-making (visual representations of my fandoms ftw!), and that's what I've been doing all afternoon. Made a ton of Meryl ones, catching up on the stuff I missed while on vacation. I decided to post all my Falling In Love icons because I don't think anicons are gonna happen as I originally intended. I'm too lazy. (Aren't Meryl and Robert De Niro ridiculously hot together though?) I'm also saving up icons for a bigger Broadway batch - I've quite a few (slashy) Wonderettes icons, and I made ten Gypsy icons because hai, photo diary of closing night! Awesome. Also, it makes me a tiny bit less terrified of Patti to see her just waking up, or to see her sprawled on her dressing room floor (presumably stretching, though for a moment I thought she had fainted and was horrified that the photographer was busy taking pictures instead of HELPING her).

4. BTW, this POSSIBLE guest star for 30 Rock? FUCKING ROCKS MY UNIVERSE. YES PLZ. If this happens, I think my brain might very possibly break into a million teeny tiny pieces, and each piece would melt from the awesome. I'M PRETTY SURE I'M NOT EXAGGERATING THERE.

5. If any of you guys happen to be bored, I've some music to flail over. ( videos under the cut )

6. OMIGOD I NEED TO WATCH A MOVIE, GUYS. I haven't watched one in two weeks, I think. Can we say withdrawal?! I didn't watch anything on the flight(s) back since I was addicted to Tetris (yes, I fail hardcore). But! There'll be Doubt this weekend (CAN WE SAY MEGA ULTRA EXCITED?!), and a bunch of other Oscar movies to catch up on. I have a feeling I'll be watching three shows a day on the weekend. Oddly enough, I'm totally fine with that. :D

7. Is Photobucket being a mega-bitch for anyone else? I managed to upload my Meryl icons before the site stopped functioning normally, but man, is it ever being a pain right now. Grrr.

8. The prospect of being at work in seven hours or so makes my heart very very sad indeed. :(

1. Am currently at the Doha airport, not even past the halfway mark of a SEVEN-HOUR layover between flights back to Singapore. I am sorely sorely missing New York already. Also, I am going to die from heat stroke when I get back. By our last day in NYC, it was about 45F i.e., 7C, and I was walking around in just my Wicked hoodie... clearly I had acclimatised to the -16C temperatures of the week before. :P Seriously: it was 17C when I disembarked in Doha, and already I exclaimed at how WARM it was - Singapore will be at least 10C hotter. F A I L. I envision spending most of the next year week indoors.

2. Turns out there's wireless internet at this terminal. I have never been happier to have dragged my laptop with me on this trip (and I will never travel without one again!) - I sure could have used this in my FIRST ridiculously long layover here. I think it was in 2005 or 2006 when I was on my way to Egypt. We had to wait here for six hours at one point. I have spent more time in the Doha airport than... probably any airport ever. How's that for random times?! This, of course, means that I haven't done anything of what I PLANNED to do - which was get caught up on all the books I brought/bought on the trip which I didn't read because I was too busy flailing/watching theatre. But Wavepad refuses to work, so I can't track audios, wtf! *grumbles*

3. I'm addicted to Tetris. I spent the entire 11-hour flight (it's shorter because head winds or tail winds or whatever are in our favour travelling back across the globe) playing Tetris instead of, you know, watching movies. Or reading. Or even sleeping. Boo, I suck.

4. Let me also admit right now that I am ridiculously addicted to The Marvellous Wonderettes. Also my Mamma Mia audio. I am listening to both (especially my favourite songs) on a loop, and I really REALLY want to be able to see both shows again. Preferably with the specific performers who make me all flaily. BTW, because I'm not at all creepy: when I mentioned earlier that I'd stalked Beth Malone on Facebook, I meant it - I thanked her for a great show, and she was really nice and replied! ♥ Corinne Melancon sings such a BEAUTIFUL rendition of One Of Us. Now I wish that song had been kept in the movie. Meryl singing it would probably kill me dead. (And here's another random factoid proving that I'm not at all creepy: Meryl HAS sung two lines from it and was all reproachful of Benny for it being cut from the film. XD)

5. Speaking of Meryl, I really want to MAKE ICONS. This picture is just screaming for a ROCK ON caption...


She's in Tokyo! Why on my side of the globe NOW, Meryl?!

On a related note: Is it sad that Photobucket has noticed my hiatus and is sending me e-mails titled "Your Album Misses You"? I wish I was kidding. I'm not.

6. STILL. I will keep my chin up - it's been one of the best trips in the history of the universe (honestly this is my favourite vacation I have EVER taken). But it WILL be nice to go home and settle back into a familiar groove, in a way, and get some me time... well, maybe not, since I'm plunging straight back into CNY festivities and then work thereafter. Again, as I've said frequently, I'm just glad there's so much flail-related stuff to distract me from being back in the equatorial climes of Singapore. Doubt (and a ton of Oscar movies) on the weekend. Epic Emil concert the weekend after. Taiwan a month after that. noldoparma - want to go book-shopping at Kino? I think we get 20%-off sales from Jan 28 for a few days. I'm going to have to distract myself from how blah and soul-sucking RL/work will be in comparison to the last fortnight...

7. I AM going to read now. I must try to finish another book before I go back to work on Wednesday!