1. SUPERBAND EP HAS BEEN RELEASED IN SINGAPORE ALSDHKFKHSDLHDSLFHSDKLFHALHSDSAAS. I wasn't expecting this - they talked it up for a late August release in their concert, and then the release date kept getting pushed back, until it was 7 September and I checked a Chinese forum and it apparently still was nowhere to be found, even in Taiwan stores. So I wasn't holding out much hope when I went to Vivocity for a movie today... I even briefly contemplated NOT walking over to the CD store (which are SO HARD TO FIND in Singapore these days, so many of them have shut down!) and just grabbing dinner before my movie instead. I'M SO FUCKING GLAD I DECIDED TO CHECK ANYWAY. Because, OMG SHINY AND NEW:


OBSESSED.

( so much flail and pics under the cut it's obscene, omg )

2. I SHOULD really talk about the important message movie I watched - The Cove - which was really good, although not quite as heart-stoppingly tense as the reviews would have it. I must admit that I came awfully close to wanting to disavow eating sashimi after watching it, because omg those dolphins, wtf. Those final blood-soaked scenes were BRUTAL. But I'm weak and selfish, with no self-control, and I need my regular doses of mercury poisoning, so.

3. Couldn't bring myself to work ALL of yesterday and after spam post, I attended a two-hour meeting (a lot of it completely pointless), which means I am SO EFFED next week... but argh, I am TAKING my weekend off, I don't bloody care. Especially since my boss informed me that I would have to keep working until I drop dead. I think this was said at least PARTLY in jest... one would hope, anyway :P I was going to go to the doctor tomorrow morning and get my ear cleaned out for good, but... I can't TELL if I'm just used to the tinnitus now and don't notice it anymore, or if the problem's cleared itself up. ARGH. I think it's kinda still there, but not as bad as it was earlier in the week? IDK. I'll probably go to the doctor anyway. IF I CAN HAUL MY ASS OUT OF BED.

4. OMG why am I so hungry now even though I had a Carl's Jr burger and fries for dinner. I guess it IS seven hours later. Maybe THAT'S why... OKAY, BEDTIME.

1. Okay, so anyone who's even vaguely a Julia fan has already been digging through her newly functional official site (seriously it has been 'under construction' for 100 years, give or take a decade), but whatever, I felt the need to squee about the photo gallery. The rest of the site is pretty standard stuff - albeit very nicely done and very comprehensive (it's so GOOD to see a gorgeous, up-to-date site for Julia!!) - but the GALLERY, OMG FAVOURITE. Aside from the fact that there are tons of photos that are completely new to me, DID YOU GUYS GO THROUGH EACH PIC AND READ THE CAPTIONS? So snarky and so clearly in Julia's voice, OMG I LOVED THEM. ♥ ♥ ♥ Honestly they made me lol. My particular favourites... ( under the cut ) So yeah, I think I'm making icons at some point soon... XD

2. Wow, it feels like AGES since I've flailed over Julia. As timeofyoursong pointed out... :P I still love her, I do - I went back and listened to Julia singing Life Of The Party again the other day, and holy crap, she might not hit that crazy high note Idina does, but wtf are those riffs of awesome she's tossing about, I don't even know.

3. I'm eating bite-size Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies at 1am. Be jealous.

4. Today was movie day!! :D I'm trying to get caught up now on the movies that opened while I was away in Aspen, and saw:

a. Bruno, which was really not as funny OR as good as Borat - it just felt way more scripted/contrived and I didn't care for it as much. Not that there weren't moments of inspired insanity: Paula Abdul's appearance was GOLD, as was Bruno's reference to Mel Gibson (LOLOLOL LOVE). Other favourite bits remain the ones that riff on politics: his attempts to fix the problems in the Middle East were HILARIOUS. Otherwise, not as good as I was expecting/hoping for. OH WAIT I LOVED THE MUSIC VIDEO THAT CLOSED THE MOVIE. OMG the guest stars of WIN ahahaha!!!

b. The Proposal: excuse me what is this supernova level of hotness that Ryan Reynolds is radiating. Really now. I'm not going to pretend he wasn't the main draw - I invited my friend to the show by proposing "dinner and Ryan Reynolds" - but I thought it'd be a fun night out, since everyone seems to have really liked the film, plus the cast! Sandra Bullock! Who's ALWAYS fun in shows like this and really should just never try to move beyond her comfort zone because that way lies disaster. Betty White, Mary Steenburgen etc... And YAY I LOVED IT. Beyond getting to appreciate Ryan's really sexy ripped body adorkability, the movie really was one of the best examples of the genre in recent years. Not that it had all THAT much competition - I was trying to think back to the last rom-com that had me raving when I emerged from the theatre, and it was Definitely, Maybe (also with Ryan - how strange and coincidental!!)... and I wouldn't even call that film a rom-com per se. So The Proposal is, like, the first proper rom-com in ages that I've really LOVED. I just liked the sparky, RIDICULOUSLY antagonistic banter between Ryan and Sandra's characters so much - omg, when the tables were turned and she needed his help? And he MADE HER PROPOSE on the streets of New York? EFF, LOVE FOREVER.

5. The only thing that would've helped me enjoy the show MORE? Being able to hear. I'm still suffering from a nasty NASTY case of waxy build-up in my right ear, so am half deaf and have been experiencing tinnitus for the better part of three days. Yuck. FAIL FOR ALWAYS.

6. One last thing before I go to bed - I'm trying to be responsible and turn in early (for me) so I can do real work tomorrow - I need to flail over my LUNCH today. HY suggested we go to this AWESOME sushi place in town, and I looooooooved it. OMG, I got the chirashi set, which came in a bento box that really didn't look like much. I hadn't thought it'd be enough food for me... but really I couldn't even finish it, because the raw fish (so fresh) was packed down and there was so much awesome with the preserved vegetables and tamago and ♥! Not to mention unagi chawanmushi and clams in the miso soup, plus aburi softshell crab maki AND hotate mentaiyaki to share!!! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE. I need to go back. Everyday. Om nom nom nom.

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?!)

1. Another day spent being sick in bed. God, don't even ASK me how sick I would be if I weren't already on antibiotics. Because, when I went back to the doctor at noon (part of the two hours I spent awake all day, I only got up for real at about 7pm at night), I was running a slight fever. Still coughing up green a few hours post-antibiotics. My nose is still completely stuffed-up, my back aches, and I fall asleep at the drop of a hat. This SUCKS. Not that I don't appreciate it, but I can't believe I've been on medical leave for three days now, and will be on MC for another day yet. Other than chicken pox in 2007, this is the LONGEST I've ever been out sick, at work or at school... as far as I can remember, anyway.

2. This doctor - a sleepy-looking woman - said no changed meds for me though. Apparently I'm on pretty strong antibiotics already. If I don't kick this and SOON, I have this nagging feeling that I'm going to spend all my time in NYC/DC indoors when I'm not in the theatre or travelling to the theatre. BUMMER.

3. Today, I decided to blame my current illness and suffering on this epic day of immense suckitude. That was a soft deadline, made because one of my (usually sensible) bosses was going on holiday on Saturday and wanted to clear the draft on Friday. So I busted my ass with it, worked 'til 5 in the morning, and drove back into work by 10 to make sure everything was okay. Clearly, assuming that I could do this as I HAD done this for days on end for a couple of months back in September/October was the WRONG assumption to make. *grumbles*

4. Did manage to get a little flailing in once I struggled awake, however. Just watched two more episodes of 30 Rock, which were HILARIOUS - that whole Jenna as a werewolf-lawyer on Night Court thing cracked me up SO much, even though it totally made me cough right after.

5. Also finished Book 3 of the Stravaganza series, City of Flowers. OMIGOD GUYS. SAKDALDLHDLHALDALDHLADA. Such an epic EPIC fantasy series. I kind of want to go and visit Italy now that I've read these books... I guess I should count myself lucky that I HAVE visited so many of these places, in fact so recently - back in December 2007, when my family took an epic tour through Italy and went to Venice, Siena and Florence, the places all referenced (so far) in the series. (My Goodreads review)

6. Then, while browsing my flist, I came across this on merylstreepfans:



Geez. As if it isn't depressing enough how talented she is, being, y'know, the most Oscar-nominated actress in the history of EVER, Meryl was more accomplished at the age of 18 then I think I ever will be, EVER.

7. I was debating whether to be shameless and decided, what the heck. I need some cheering up. Play along with me? But only if you want to, of course:

THE ICON TESTIMONIALS MEME
MY THREAD HERE!

8. And now, back to bed with me. Please god let me heal faster than this. PLEASE.

9. ETA: ARGH. I don't have photoshop on this computer. BUT. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, lfae, WHEREVER YOU ARE. I hope you have a great one. And I know I should have connected the dots earlier, but HEY. You share a birthday with my brother! XD Can't wait to see you in just over a week!!!

1. It kind of sucks MAJORLY that I am actually sicker today than I was yesterday. I know I was JUST starting on the illness on Monday, but I was hoping that the meds would be able to help somewhat in preventing everything from going completely wrong. Well... no. Very much no. This is the most tenacious bug in the history of the universe - I pop the antiobiotics (theoretically for 12-hour stretches since I have to take one twice a day) and barely 4-5 hours later, the green gunk is BACK. I'm SO stuffed-up, although the cough isn't too bad, and I have illness aches. Like, my back, and my head at times, and blargh. I was NOWHERE near this ill in December. I guess this is my body's way of going: I warned you in December, didn't I? I CAME BACK ONCE. Well you didn't fix me then. TIME TO DIE.

2. To that end, I spent almost the whole day asleep. Got up at almost noon for lunch and meds, spent an hour trying to figure out a stupid Taiwanese website to buy tickets, watched one episode of Desperate Housewives (WHY IS IT KICKING SO MUCH ASS THIS SEASON??), and fell dead asleep again. Then I got up to go get a new ATM card (the kind that will allow me to draw money overseas, essential for upcoming NYC trip), and came home and fell asleep AGAIN. Proof that I'm really sick? I just got my hands on my brother's old laptop, which means I'm finally typing in the comfort of my bed - and I'm going to finish this post and just go to sleep, because, urgh. Sick.

3. Bright spot of the day: noldoparma and I have Superband tickets! For 7 March 09. TAIWAN HERE WE COME. XD Omigod. Second-row seats in the centre block, though not dead centre as, by the time I figured out the website and its archaic log-in requirements, my ORIGINAL, very awesome seats had been snapped up by someone else. Bah. Regardless! This is going to be the year of flail...

4. I really REALLY don't want to go to work tomorrow. But I fear I must as I'm slated for a whole set of interviews in the afternoon which I THOUGHT I could make it for, but I can't imagine trying to stay upright during the entire ordeal and trying to remain civil throughout. I'll see how I feel when I get up at 7+ in the morning, I guess. Bah humbug.

5. Finally - noldoparma mocked me for taking ages to write a post, as I had said I would post and then go to bed. She's right. The reason it took me so long this time, however, was because I decided to snag an icon meme from fiddlings. I'm pretty sure I've done this in some form or other before, but this one has a handy icon table and is FUN. ( musings on my icons )

6. ARGH, WHY SO SICK. Going to collapse into bed now, sigh.

1. And so ends my weekend of EPIC FLAIL. Soon to be followed by a FORTNIGHT of EPIC FLAIL in NYC. Heh.

2. Mayday concert tonight was AMAZING. SERIOUSLY. Every time I see these guys live, I fall in love with them all over again - even if they made me work REALLY HARD for that. As mentioned here, when I went for a full-fledged concert in April last year, attending a concert by these guys is like a CARDIO WORKOUT. Even if you have assigned seating, it doesn't matter - you're on your feet for pretty much three hours, jumping and flailing even through the tender, sweet ballads. So the concert organisers for Sunday's event clearly decided - why bother with SEATS. Everyone who had tickets was just herded into Stadium Green, which is a large expanse of grass right next to the Singapore River. And so tonight, probably a few thousand people rocked out to Mayday (oh, 阿信, how I LOVE YOUR VOICE), beneath a cloudless, moon-lit sky, yelling like crazy people so everyone for miles around could hear. EPIC. ♥

3. Am tracking my audio now - SO amusing, OMG. The quality is actually really good, considering that the concert was outdoors and EVERYONE was singing along like it was a communal karaoke session (that's probably the most FUN part of c-pop concerts, how much PARTICIPATION is expected from the audience... though it makes for less-than-ideal boots). But you can actually HEAR the parts at which I just gave up on a consistently good audio and started jumping around like a mad thing. Hee.

4. Now that I'm planning to see SO many shows and concerts and read and watch movies, I decided to expand my yearly list to include live performances. It's only four days into the new year and I'm off to a pretty good start already! :D This is gonna be an EPIC year for flail. EPIC.

5. OH. I also got my hair cut. And coloured, and styled. FOR FOUR AND A HALF HOURS. Omigod. FAIL. I look like... a China doll or something. I now have a fringe, it's bright red (AGAIN), and... it's CURLED? *weeps* I'm sure at SOME point I should have stopped taking my hairdresser's advice - just as her assistant was about to dump all the brown (it's SUPPOSED to be brown) dye on my head, I had a moment of going... errr, the permed hair is QUITE enough of a difference, thanks. (What even possessed me to say yes to THAT, in the first place?!) And then I chickened out because the dye had already been prepared. And then I just had to suffer through it, because omigod it took AGES to get it all into my hair and then it HURT and made me feel sick. Yuck. And now it's RED. *weeps some more* I'm sure the colour will even out after I wash it a couple more times. BUT. Remind me - next time I get my hair cut, I'm going to stay away from colouring for a while.

6. Finished reading City of Stars. SO OBSESSED with this series, omigod. It's EPIC. From a parallel Venice to a parallel Siena, with winged horses, horse races, and just an AMAZING expansion of the universe from the first book. LOVE.

7. And I think I'm... falling sick again? As in, back into the illness I had all of December? Maybe it's just the lack of sleep from today coupled with the crazy cardio workout. But I'm snuffly, my throat is scratchy and ARGH. NO WAY. Not before NYC. How incredibly SUCKY would that be, seriously.

8. I should SLEEP, obviously, to try and avoid illness. But but but. I'm almost done with audio! Except I just screwed up and have to reload the entire file to fix it. ARGH. Why do I fail SO HARD.

1. GUYS. ( JULIA. MURNEY. 16-MINUTE INTERVIEW. THAT'S RIGHT. )

2. I've just spent... far too long working out my show schedule for NYC. Is 18 shows in 13 days excessive? *weeps* On an impulse and at the last minute, I bought two tickets for my sister and myself for the closing performance of Gypsy, after they unceremoniously announced that its theatre is shutting its doors two months ahead of schedule. FAIL. And now I've got a huge albeit still tentative line-up of other shows planned and it's INSANITY.

3. There's also new Meryl video, but it's taking forever for Youtube to upload/process it today. OH WAIT, IT'S DONE. Awesome. Thanks much to pdt_bear for ripping it and sharing! ( Meryl on Doubt - including her thoughts on Cherry Jones )

4. Now I have some diabolical cough of extreme evilness. It's not constant, and sometimes I feel as if I'm imagining it and am... just, I don't know, playing at being sick so I don't have to do other things like exercise. And then I go into paroxysms of coughing, and life quickly becomes a whole lot less... fun. I coughed my way through a looong work meeting today, and also through family dinner.

5. On which I have one comment: it must be NICE to be filthy rich. I now have an ENORMOUS, gorgeous, lavish basket on my bed filled to the brim with... I haven't even looked inside yet, but I imagine goodies of every sort. I find that to be... kind of crazy as a Christmas gift, but wow.

6. Oh, I lied about having just one comment. The soup at dinner tonight deserves a special mention. ♥ Omigod - Buddha Jumps Over The Wall, which means delicious soup double-boiled over EIGHT HOURS: apparently six chickens were used, as well as pork, abalone, mushrooms, TWO kinds of fish maw (because one wouldn't do, clearly), and I'm missing all the other herbs and ingredients, but OMG. Orgasmic experience in soup form. TALK ABOUT INDULGENCE.

7. OH AND. mirime's home. XD YAY. If only for a day before she disappears with the rest of my family to Japan, leaving me behind *weeps*, but hey. It's still nice to have her back. ♥

1. GUYS. IT'S, LIKE, SO CLOSE TO CHRISTMAS. And it hasn't really FELT Christmassy for me yet, this year... not so far, anyway. Not that I'm religious or really participate in gift-buying and card-giving or anything of that sort (I am SUCH a Scrooge), but well. The most I've done is put Santa hats on icons, and that's about it. BUT GUESS WHAT, IT'S OFFICIALLY CHRISTMAS-TIME IN MY BRAIN. YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? BECAUSE, ZOMG, IT'S JULIA FRICKIN' MURNEY SINGING MY FAVOURITE CHRISTMAS SONG, LIKE, EVER. And singing it mightily AWESOMELY, I might add.

2. I was planning to upload a Christmas mix of, you know, amazing, like with Frankie and Bing and Karen (Carpenter) and Cheno, but well. All I have do now is direct you over here, where the awesome pdt_bear has uploaded some frakkin' awesome CRACK, so you can keep up with the flail that will ensue... ( COME JOIN ME IN MY FLAIL )

3. Also. Let's talk about a completely random fandom collision. (Ahahaha, random fandom! Mommy, I made a rhyme!) I was watching this Emil interview when he was hilariously describing what he got up to when he was done working on his album and could just tool around at home. So what he basically does is make a nuisance of himself, because his face was all swollen up from when he tried to dust something, and then he cut himself when doing the dishes. There was this ADORABLE moment of when he held up his hand as he recounted the story, of how he went crying to his wife over his fail. And it SO reminded me of, well, a very similar Julia moment. To wit:


AHAHAHA. I have waaaaay too much free time on my hands.

4. And then. You know what's adorable? You know what's adorable at the age of 59? With a horrible cold and cough and plans to return home to quietly die once she's done with the interview? Meryl on Letterman, that's who. ( I wish I could go home, but I caaaaaaaaaaan't!! )

5. Okay, I'm actually going to go to bed now, because it's back to work tomorrow. I hate my illness, btw. It's SO ANNOYING. I feel terrible at times - usually when I wake up - but better than okay at others, but I'm still stuffed-up, and my cough gets pretty bad. Sometimes. Like when I was flailing over Meryl. I think it was a sympathy cough, but man. Not fun, and kind of painful. Isn't it stupid to give me cough meds to keep the symptoms away for the day - except that they cause drowsiness? As if I don't have enough problems staying awake at work as is. Boo.

6. ETA: O_O WTF. All the lights just... went out. I think the electricity just blew. I like how my computer seems to be running on a different electrical system than my lights and air-conditioning though, mwahahaha. I don't think anyone else in the house is going to notice, since they're asleep and I'm... not. Faily house of fail. Our front gate is still broken, so I had to climb into the house yesterday. Would have had to do it today too, except I got my grandma to manually unlock the gate and leave it for me. Bah.

1. So I wasn't going to post today as I've flailed QUITE enough over the last week. But WHO AM I KIDDING. SERIOUSLY. Just WHO do you think you're kidding, self?

2. Let me say it now: I LOVE THE CHINESE. 我愛中國人啊!!! Aside from the cracktasticness that is tudou.com, noldoparma and I - both of whom are now hopelessly hooked again on old-school Chinese pop - were directed towards some insane Emil fan's ENTIRE ONLINE ARCHIVE of bootlegs and audios. OMIGOD YES PLZ. YES PLZ TIMES ONE MILLION BILLION AMOUNTS OF AWESOME. I've spent the better part of the last five hours testing the limits of my computer by downloading songs, listening to them and obsessively renaming etc for my archive. I am a happy, HAPPY camper. Because I now have, like, over 100 new Emil live performances, with him belting the crap out of Your Song in particular, which was... like, a religious experience. ♥ ♥ ♥

3. All this, of course, AFTER an epic dinner out with noldoparma, when we spent the entire time recounting... erm, videos we had both watched (which is kind of sad, no??), and just flailing over how epic and GENIUS Emil and Jonathan Lee and ALL the old-school Chinese pop singers are. My god. All that flailing over a HUGE pile of truffle fries (so gorgeous-tasting, why would anyone want normal fries ever?), scallops... and I had this mushroom ragout thing that was okay, and J had duck. THEN we went for dessert and shared a lemon tart. Because we're not at all like pigs that way. *weeps*

4. It's also been an EPIC MERYL DAY. :D I bought the Mamma Mia DVD at Borders today, so that can go in a matched set with my special edition of the CD and I'll NOT watch the movie for the billionth time this weekend. (Yeah, right.) Then I get home, and discover that my Amazon order has arrived, with a clutch of rare(r) Meryl movies, all ready for me to watch/discover/savour. YAY. AND THEN. ( Why I really want to grow up to be Meryl Streep )

5. And as if THAT wasn't enough, we have the MOST adorable Julia interview in ages. She would be SUCH a fierce Mrs Walker, OMG. I've never wanted to visit Oklahoma more than I do now. :P Also, too many too many things of awesome happening in March. *weeps* Fly to NYC for Julia concert and 9 to 5, and then to Taiwan for Emil concert? WHERE WILL ALL THE MONEY TO FEED MY INSANITY COME FROM? I also feel the need now to hunt down that random Muppets Christmas album Julia mentions. I wonder if she'll sing anything from that in Toronto?! :P

6. Illness had abated, kind of, during the day - I guess the magic antibiotics helped a bit, though I was not too happy that I couldn't take my cough meds as they would make me drowsy... and I certainly didn't need any help with that. Well, cough is resurfacing again, right now, as it tends to do at night, boo. Do not want. So I'm going to... stop downloading EPIC MUSIC CRACK and go sleep it off. At 6am in the morning. GO ME. :P

1. SICK DAY. I woke up all stuffed-up, coughing out green gunk and just... could not reconcile myself to the thought of spending the day at work. So I went back to sleep, and then visited the doctor again. This doctor is SO unsympathetic - one day medical leave even though your antibiotics didn't work out the first time round? NICE. :P He stuck something up my nose, marvelled at how red and swollen it still was, declared that I had sinusitis, and then asked me if I was a smoker. THANKS FOR THAT. Anyway. Am now in possession of a fresh course of antibiotics and hopefully I'll be on the mend soon. Am actually feeling a lot better tonight than I was in the morning, so that's good?

2. I'm all done with the happy meme, but you know what would've made me happy today? Meryl got TWO Golden Globe nominations! She is now - officially - the most nominated actress in Golden Globe history. :D I'm sorry, Jack Lemmon, for I do love you muchly. BUT. Meryl! She's now at 23 nominations... and counting, I'm sure. :D

3. In celebration, I bring you what is possibly one of my favourite Meryl songs ever - and no, it's not from Mamma Mia. :P She sings a gorgeous gorgeous version of this Celtic lullaby: Gartan Mother's Lullaby (lyrics). Can I just say that she sounds absolutely AMAZING on this?! LIKE, AIEEEEE LEVELS OF AMAZING. The song is #15 on my top 25 in iTunes - yes, in among all the Julia songs. It's made of THAT MUCH AWESOME.

4. I fail hardcore at watching House. I blame it on tudou and the fact that Emil Chau holds the record for the most number of concerts performed by a Chinese singer ever (over 200 and counting) and has been on every variety show known to man. I CAN'T STOP WATCHING VIDEOS. *cries*

5. In that spirit, omigod. noldoparma, you're gonna love me. I found this video two years ago and DIED watching it, but it was unceremoniously removed and I couldn't find for the life of me find it again. HAI TUDOU ILU = FOUND IT. Emil jamming with Mayday! He sings a bit of Knockin' On Heaven's Door, and then a nice long stretch of What A Wonderful World. ♥ ♥ ♥



6. Finally, bedtime for me. One day of work to get through, and then the weekend. YES PLZ.

1. Merde. And if my French accent wasn't good enough: SHIT. WTFUCKERY IS THIS. I am sick again, indeed and for certain. Fail fail fail. A cough is... on the brink of happening. It WILL happen properly, I suspect, the next time I wake up. Stupid illness of stupid FAIL. And I can't go to the doctor tomorrow, probably - since my boss is busy all day and I need to... sit at my desk and pretend to take charge of things in her absence. Yuck.

2. That being said, I am not entirely unhappy today. I am kind of gross because I eschewed showering in favour of watching videos (WHAT - I got stuck on a loop and then it was too late and I figured I should shower before work so I could stay awake). GOOD THING I HAD AWESOME VIDEO CRACK TO ENTERTAIN ME.

3. Meryl was just on Good Morning America promoting Doubt! :D



( Yes I was - but now everything's CHANGED )


4. And then I stumbled across someone's tudou playlist of incredibly INSANELY AWESOME, HAPPY-MAKING EMIL VIDEOS. ( SERIOUSLY. )

5. And so my life is shiny and complete, even if I haven't showered and I have to go to work and I'm sick. Doesn't take much, does it, it really REALLY doesn't.

6. It's a good day. We put a paper out at work, there's new House for me to download when I get home, and I have video crack. ♥ Fun times.

1. WTF, body. Seriously, WTF. I woke up this morning and the Elphaba cold from hell is back. And I mean, back - there is snot, and it is GREEN. AGAIN. I finished my antibiotics! All of them! DO NOT UNDERSTAND. I guess maybe... since my brother is now down with the exact same cold (we compared symptoms) and I'm still weak-ish or whatever, it decided to come back? Or it was just never really gone to begin with? In which case, do I need MORE antibiotics?! Why was the initial course of meds SO FAILY!? D: So I am snuffly. AGAIN. WUT.

2. That said, it didn't prevent me from coming to work. Where I am now. I'll focus after this, promise.

3. Nor did it prevent me from eating potato chips for breakfast. Sigh. I figure I'm sick already - eating like a six-year-old isn't going to change the fact that the infection is back and I need food in my stomach to take what's left of my cold meds.

4. Urm. Happy things. Posting another batch of Meryl icons made me happy. She is inordinately beautiful. I'm a bit obsessed with this one in particular, because I can't believe how perfect she looked at a press conference. Sure, she had youth on her side then, but how does one explain this, from last month? Sigh.

5. Also, it's Felicity Huffman's birthday (Dec 9)! :D Awww. I think I'll go home and repost my vvv old Flicka/DH/Sports Night icons in her honour. In the meantime, have a grand ol' picspam.

6. I watched Zack & Miri Make A Porno yesterday - aside from one truly horrific scene involving... urm, defecation *cries*, it wasn't AS risque as I thought it would be. Also, not as funny. What's up with that, Kevin Smith? Although I have to say, I still kind of think that JasonMewesisstrangelyhot... is that wrong?

7. This being sick at work thing kind of sucks.

1. This is the Elphaba cold from HELL is what it is. Again, no fever or cough or sore throat - thank goodness for that - but apparently the meds have not helped any. Not so far anyway: I got up at 8 in the morning and again now (about 2pm) and I'm still all gunked-up with green stuff. Yuck. If you haven't figured it out yet, I skipped out on work AGAIN. This time taking my own time off, because I can't be bothered to go back to the doctor and tell him that he could just as easily have given me TWO days off as one. Idiot. I mean, he stuck SOMETHING up my nose yesterday and marvelled at how gross and blocked-up it was. Didn't he think it'd take a little longer than a day to rest AND unblock it?! Twit.

2. So I have just TEARED like crazy from the cold and I think I'm going to... well, I'd go get lunch because my grandma made this vile thing with melon that I don't WANT to eat, except I'm not hungry so maybe I'll just lie in bed and watch more tv.

3. Which is basically what I did YESTERDAY, since my computer stopped working for a while. (It also died on me early this morning just after I tracked stuff, piece of junk, except Firefox retained the entry I was working on - what's the POINT, Firefox!?) Oh, so I can ramble on about catching up on Season 4 of Desperate Housewives and also Pushing Daisies... (basically whatever was in my external HD that was NOT Last Resort *grumps*): ( some rambling ) Oh, and also House - that boring episode before Last Resort that was about, IDK, Foreman. And Kutner. And their issues. BORING.

4. I also spent a lot of last night tracking my 3-hour concert audio of awesome. And I still cannot GET OVER how freakity frakkity AMAZING it was. Like, WHAT THE CRAP IS THIS. Seriously. It's the most amazing thing EVER, with so many talented people, and my audio!! ♥ SO GOOD. Aside from the fact that it picks up people TALKING REALLY LOUDLY, which is still totally bearable. Otherwise, it's crystal clear and FABULOUS. I love it. ARGH.

5. Okay, I'm snuffling up a storm and crying a little bit. Sucky. Off to pop some more pills and lie in bed watching tv. I really wish the doctor had been kind enough to give me TWO days off, especially since I actually feel worse today than I did yesterday, but I guess he thinks the meds will take care of whatever ails me. Boo.

1. Happy birthday, dividingday! Hope you have a marvellous day. :D

2. Dude, LJ, why are you so fucked up? What is with the seriously fugly and stripped-down posting/commenting options these days?

3. Omigod SO ILL. It's one of those maddeningly slow illnesses - the annoying creeper version rather than the kind that just explode all over you - so I woke up on Saturday (at 5pm, go me!) with a slightly worse cold and cough, my voice a little bit gone. Thankfully I didn't sniffle at all throughout the show (so my audio should be clean). And I get up this afternoon (surprisingly, at 1.30pm!) and I'm done: the snot is green, I'm sneezing, and ARGH.

4. I'm supposed to be meeting a friend of mine from uni (who's now based in Taiwan and brought his wife over here for her birthday weekend), but I'm soooo lazy about it. I can't even pretend to be ill as my plan for today is to go out and catch up on movies since I can't do anything much else.

5. Though, then again, my back aches from the being ill. Yuck. I guess that doesn't matter though, as long as I don't fall asleep during the shows?

6. I got a full tank of petrol for under $70 yesterday. WTF. That's, like, almost a 20% drop in what I USED to pay. \o/

7. I was SO remiss yesterday in posting about the concert I went for. I was catching up on some internet flailing (mainly of the Mamma Mia variety), and then I fell dead asleep. Anyways: I haven't seen Emil Chau live since I started this LJ, so you guys have NO IDEA how scary my flail over him can get. Ahem. In other words, consider this fair warning that what follows is INCREDIBLY self-indulgent and flaily, and so is best kept under a cut: ( WTF IS THAT AMAZING. ONE OF THE BEST CONCERTS I'VE EVER BEEN TO EVER )

8. Anyways, audio will be tracked. Once I get around to tracking Act II of Wicked and STOP listening to this one song over and over again, argh.

9. And then I caught up on everything I've not been reading over at Simply Streep, and AIEEE. Meryl is on the cover of Entertainment Weekly! I HOPE that they're selling both covers and she isn't just on the subscriber's copy or something, because I do NOT want cover with Twilight boy. DO NOT WANT. Must haunt bookstores over the next week. Also, these pretty much made my life: Meryl on Obama and on religion. Can I be this smart and together when I grow up, plz?

10. Man. That took me almost 1.5 hours. O_O I'm going to stop now. :P

1. GUYS, I AM HOME. XD

2. And since I am home, with the internet at my disposal, apparently I don't do this thing called 'sleep' anymore. It's 5.34 in the morning, y'all. And instead of getting some REST, as I should - since I've been more or less awake since 4am Singapore time on Friday, when we got up to leave for the airport - I've been messing around online.

3. Even though I am SICK. ARGH. I didn't post on Thursday because I spent the entire day nursing a dreadful not-quite headache that had me feeling pretty terrible: even as we went to the Victoria Street Market in Melbourne, caught a flight back to Brisbane, went out for Indian food, met my dad's friend etc etc. I woke up on Friday feeling okay though... and then I got back to Singapore, and the cold/cough symptoms have steadily increased ever since. WTF.

4. I'm not sure how I'll avoid it (since I'm pretty sure that once I actually deign to go to bed and get up, I'll be even sicker than I am now), but I most emphatically do NOT want to be sniffling throughout my audio of the concert I'm supposed to go to Saturday night. Dude. I'm going to see my favourite male singer. I haven't seen him live since 2006. NOOOO. D:

5. MOVIES. Everybody! WATCH BOLT, OMG. For it is ABSOLUTE ADORABLENESS. ( That and other movie ramblings, no spoilers )

6. I'm soooooooo shallow.

7. It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, y/y? XD I don't even know WHAT possessed me to make this batch of icons, but well... It was fun. ;) And now I definitely feel inspired to put together a fanmix of my favourite Christmas tunes soon.

8. Okay, seriously, ILL. FAILING TO BREATHE. Argh. (But, new tag! XD) I wanted very much to get back to yoga, but at the rate I'm going, I'll just have to spend the weekend in bed catching up on House (GOOD, because apparently I missed A LOT in not being around to watch/download 5x09!!) and comments and movies. TOMORROW. FOR NOW THOUGH, BEDTIME. SERIOUSLY.