OKAY SO GUYS. lanafromoz tagged me for a meme:

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same. - I'm not tagging but EVERYONE should do this, because it's a nice way to, you know, remember your day in the run-up to Christmas. :D

Anyway. WHAT BETTER WAY TO START THIS OFF THEN BY SAYING: YOU KNOW WHAT MADE ME HAPPY? THIS WEEK'S HOUSE EPISODE MADE ME HAPPY.

( pronoun confusion at its sexiest: 'you can use our outer office...' )

Wow I wrote a thesis. O_O I'm so sorry this turned out so long. *weeps* Can you tell this episode made me really super ultra extra happy? :D I can't believe there's only one more episode until winter hiatus. *cries*

I love my show. *hugs it*

Anyways. Tomorrow I'm going out for lunch - to my favourite restaurant - and out for dinner and a movie, so I think it'll be good times then too. YAY. XD I could really get used to this not-really-doing-work-while-at-work thing.

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. DUDE, I AM SO HUNGRY. SO. HUNGRY. I mean, noldoparma and I had dinner at NYDC, which usually involves HUGE AMOUNTS OF PASTA AND ICE-CREAM MUDPIES, which it did - my baked pasta came with TONS of cheese and Italian ham and mushrooms, and our mudpie supposedly had Bailey's in it (couldn't taste any of the alcohol, wtf). So I shouldn't be hungry? Oh, except that dinner was... maybe eight hours ago now? *cries* But I can't eat or even drink milk because I'm supposed to run to the doctor for a routine blood test tomorrow so I have to fast. ARRRGGH.

2. Why I just don't GO TO BED so I can sleep away the hunger is beyond me.

3. Oh I know. It's a little something called FLAIL. *rolls eyes* Seriously. I ended up watching Meryl's entire interview on Inside The Actor's Studio, which I'm pretty sure I've watched before, but hey. Always good to relive the awesome. This part is my favourite - she talks about how she had a nervous breakdown when her Irish accent coach was on set ALL THE TIME for Dancing At Lughnasa (which, randomly, I kind of half-watched in a Malaysian hotel room a few years ago at 3am in the morning) - 3:28 ftw, "I didn't know why I existed". LMAO. And her bitching about not being able to remember her lines, which she NEVER DID... until menopause hit. XD Also, OMG. IRISH JIG AT 6:10 FOR THE EPIC WIN. Then the QUIZ. I love the quiz. (7:54 for her daughter's favourite word. XD)

4. So I've been trying to restrain myself from going to see Mamma Mia for the FIFTH time in cinemas - and then I discover this! Such a GOOD copy of the movie online, considering that the DVD isn't out yet! SQUEE. Those who haven't seen it can go watch it noooooow.

5. Randomly, I have stupid little zits all over my face because I missed my facial a while back because of work. ARGH. Must my job destroy even my skin!?!? *cries*

6. Watched Burn After Reading today - not one of the Coens' best, I must say. The cast was brilliant though. Especially Brad Pitt. I don't think I've ever seen him been quite so out-and-out spazzy. As a commentary on stupid people doing ridiculously stupid things, I guess the movie worked. But it didn't work quite as well as, say, Fargo, which certainly had that as one of its underlying themes.

7. Then, HMV with noldoparma and her brother! I bought the first season of 30 Rock on DVD, FINALLY. XD And also Falling In Love, because... well, it might be a lesser entry in both their canons, but it's Streep and De Niro. Got to be worth a watch, right?

8. I was talking to alexia88 about XF and the dodgy fanfic I wrote back in the day. Like, from FOWLEY'S POV, ZOMG. See here. I was kind of horrified to realise that I wrote that in 1999. NINE YEARS AGO, OMG! *cries*

9. Finally. I have an icon meme I've been meaning to do. I snagged it from someone but never had time to do it, then passed it to lanafromoz who ended up doing it before I did, WTF. So I have to get caught up:

Look at your userpics list. If you have fewer than twenty icons, post them all. If you have between twenty and fifty icons, pick every fifth one. If you have between fifty and seventy-five icons, pick every seventh one. If you have over seventy-five icons, pick every tenth one.

List them on your journal and tell everyone exactly why you have it, why it's interesting to you, the keywords you use and what significance it has.

( 10,000 words )

10. Phew, that took ages. It's now 5.30 in the morning. O_O I was supposed to yoga tomorrow, but think I'll have to pass, since I have to run to the doctor's, put in a few hours at work, and then I REALLY want to see Alan Rickman in Bottle Shock and I can't imagine watching a 9.30pm show after a 6pm yoga class. D: God. Need to stop being so lazy and sleeping at such faily hours. Never going to happen though. *cries*

1. Want to guess what time it is? HA. DON'T BOTHER. I'll just tell you: it's 7.36am. WHO FAILS AT SLEEP?

2. It feels like ages since I've posted, even though it's been barely... a day and a half? There are things I must do - like flist a bit and reply to comments and do this icon meme that lanafromoz took from me that I haven't even DONE yet, heh. But. SLEEP FIRST, AND SLEEP SOON.

3. The reason I'm awake this late? Well, aside from the fact that I took a nap from 6-9pm, and also headed out for another late-night supper/bitching session with noldoparma, it's because I decided I needed to STOP MAKING MAMMA MIA ICONS. So I finished the batch and have now posted them. I realise the only reason I ever end up posting anything at xitian is that I've finally decided that I NEED TO GET MY LIFE BACK. Posting means I will STOP MAKING ICONS. Urgh. In any case, 100 icons = DEFINITELY TIME TO STOP, Y/Y?

4. I've also decided that I'm going to be all restrained and NOT watch Mamma Mia again in the cinema. Especially since I JUST went again, for Viewing #4, with my aunts on Saturday afternoon. They had a grand ol' time, I must say, which is great. :D But I have now watched Mamma Mia once a week for the last month, which is, shall we say, a tiny bit excessive. I think I shall just be good from now on and wait for the DVD. I CAN DO IT.

5. Oh, MUSIC CRACK! You know who has a truly gorgeous voice? JASON DANIELEY. ( yes, he's one of the reasons I went to NYC in June )

6. Wow, that was FLAILY. Anyway - I watched the VP debate on Friday, because I was WORKING SO HARD that day. :P I'm not going to get into my thoughts on that, but this sums it up pretty well:


From AdennaK
LOLOLOLOL, Y/Y?

7. Okay okay okay. I should sleep. SLEEEEEEP. O_O

*fails to meet midnight deadline*

*posts anyway*

1. POOL OF FAIL. I somehow managed to finish all my work at a perfectly respectable hour of 6.30 in the evening, and drove down to the pool all ready to, you know, actually EXERCISE again. I didn't, unfortunately, as I was informed that there was some kind of 'chemical imbalance' that meant the pool was under maintenance. BAH.

2. I wound up driving home and taking a long walk instead. (What's up with me this past couple of weeks - I can't bear the thought of actually going RUNNING. I think I'm just lazy.)

3. Good thing about walks though - and I suspect this is why I've started to prefer walks to runs - is that I can read while I'm walking. Well, technically, I SHOULDN'T, because the path is hardly well-lit at the best of times and I will either go blind or smash into something. Bah, I didn't let that stop me though. I raced through Rebel Angels, the second book of the Gemma Doyle trilogy, and actually finished the WHOLE THING FASTER THAN I EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE. OMG OMG. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT. AND I WILL, UNDER THE CUT. I'll white out the spoilers, just in case, and people might want to avoid comments if they don't want to get spoiled. Also, people who come flail with me: I haven't read book 3, though I will be correcting that SOONEST. SO NO SPOILING ME FOR BOOK 3, MMMKAY.

( Rebel Angels - a twist in the tale )

4. Busy week planned ahead - family dinner tomorrow night, yoga trial on Wednesday, EVITA on Thursday, and a play and IDINA on Friday. FUNTIMES. XD At least they're GOOD plans, rather than, you know, the ones I usually make i.e., no plans so I can be back at work at a moment's notice. :P

5. BED! Before 3.30am, perhaps! Gasp!!

1. Technically it isn't spamming if I'm posting on a new day for ME, right? IT'S A NEW DAY. Okay okay. I'm being spammy. Deal with it. ;)

2. I stole a meme from lanafromoz, because I felt like it. :D ( LJ meme )

3. My flail over Alice Ripley and Next To Normal continues to grow in leaps and bounds. I've been... stalking smokeline (to her knowledge, it's okay, I'm not crazy!), and just found it insanely adorable how Alice had a bubble-letters phase when she was signing people's playbills at the N2N stagedoor. Mwahaha. She's so dorky, I love it. Anyways. I made icons with a couple random Alice/Brian ones thrown in to complete the set. Woe betide the day that I decide to try making anicons of N2N...

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4. Continuing my Idina love from a couple days back: I'm sure she's sung I Feel Everything live on other occasions, but I haven't stalked Youtube enough to know when. I did get caught on a little loop when I was linked to her performing Roxanne on 18 Jul 08 in Atlanta though... and OMFGIM. SHE ROCKED OUT. SHE TOTALLY SANG, LIKE, MY FAVOURITE SONG ON HER ALBUM. ASLDJASLDJASDSA. 1:50 FTW.


5. OMIGOD. SENDSPACE FINALLY ALLOWED ME TO UPLOAD KERRY'S LAST WICKED IN LONDON. FINALLY. AFTER WEEKS OF BEING FUCKING EVIL TO ME. CELEBRATIONS - THEY ARE CALLED FOR.

6. And I forgot to add. I watched Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Blog yesterday but could not FLAIL because I'd just posted. NOW I CAN. OMG OMG. NATHAN FILLION AND NEIL PATRICK HARRIS. ILTHEM. They were freakin' HILARIOUS. (Felicia Day, I'm afraid, not so much. Did not like her voice. Not that Nathan could really SING either, but he played his part SO well, LOL.) Now I have to go and finish watching Desperate Housewives just so I can get more Nathan.

7. I've been quite spammy enough today, no? I was going to upload audio examples of Sherie Rene Scott proving INCONTROVERTIBLY that she is the most kickass thing about the Little Mermaid as a musical, but that can wait for another day. ;)

8. Oh also. Went for a run - half an hour, well done me! - and then chicken rice dinner. The chicken rice is inordinately expensive (like, five times as much as you'd pay in a hawker centre or food court) but wtf, it was SO YUMMY. Plus the restaurant has now moved to the 38th floor of the hotel, so there's a GORGEOUS view of Singapore town from way up high. Nice. :D

1. HAI. Let's make this the randomest post in the history of ever, y/y? Memes and random Julia bits from her Studio A Cabaret interview, because they make me happy and amuse me ENDLESSLY.

2. OMIGOD. So I'm finally tracking my boot of Kerry's last Wicked and I want to DIE from the awesome. She was. SO. FREAKING. AMAZING. Riffs everywhere, in excellent voice, and listening to the boot is like listening to a friggin' rock concert. There was just so much love and energy and crazy screaming and passion that night. GOD. BEST WICKED EVER, for me. So. So. AWESOME. Plus I'm totally grooving on the quality of this. LOVE.

3. Here's the first random Julia bit. Everyone remember the 'la la la la la la guava' moment from DQYNJ? Mwahahaha, check out this longer version - wouldn't it make an awesome handphone ringtone!?!


4. Meme the first, snagged from lanafromoz! ( 60 random questions )

5. And before I work on the next meme, here's ANOTHER random Julia moment. I guess I'll never get to see or hear her as Velma Kelly in Chicago - how much would that ROCK - but at least we'll always have her doing the ridiculously difficult Hunyak monologue in Cell Block Tango, eh? LOVE. Plus, she doesn't know that 7x8=56, LOL.


6. I was tagged for a pic-spam meme by naley_forever23:
1) Pick a hot girl... or guy... take a moment to think.
2) Is this the guy/gal you want?
3) Pick his/her top 10 hottest, cutest, most irresistible pictures.
4) Tag five other users.
5) Comment with the link to your meme.

7. And finally, to end off: I forgot how friggin' AMAZING Kerry's last was. I know, I started this post flailing about Kerry, but I have to flail SOME MORE since I'm done tracking Act I and OMFG DEFYING GRAVITY. LISTEN TO HER RIFF. LISTEN TO HER BE AMAZING. *SOBS*


8. FLAILY ENOUGH FOR Y'ALL?! That took 2.5 hours, in between tracking Wicked and whatnot, OMG!!

1. OH GOD. Had plans to watch House, right? FAILED, OBVIOUSLY. I should never volunteer to do a meme, even on a day off from work when I have more time to spend online. Because that's pretty much what I did all night. I did manage to go for the slowest run in the history of the universe. But mostly I memed. Oh well, at least it was fun. ;) Go play if you want to, if you haven't already!

2. I SHALL WATCH HOUSE TOMORROW.

3. Oh you know what? My heterosexuality came back today! At least for a while. ;) I watched Iron Man, and OMG. What a fun fun fun movie. (Though don't trust just me on that, because I much preferred X-Men 3 to Superman Returns, which apparently makes me some kind of movie retard. WHATEVER. The X-Men rule. IMHO, and yes I DO read comics because I am a geek that way, Marvel pwns DC, kthx.) Um, anyway. Bias aside. I LOVE the fact that the movie didn't take itself seriously - many random moments of epic fail as Tony Stark tries to perfect his power-suit - but that, because it had Robert Downey Jr as its lead, the movie jsut turned out darker and a whole lot more awesome than it'd have been if, IDK, someone with less acting chops but more bankability or whatever took on the role instead. And now I can stop pretending to have intelligent thoughts. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. PHWOAR.



4. Anyway! In honour of my heterosexuality resurfacing - however briefly! - FLIST. Spam me with your favourite pictures of hot guys. I expect LOTS of Hugh Laurie and David Duchovny in the comments. But everyone else is welcome. LONG AS THEY ARE SEXY. (medland, this means Richard Schiff, ahem. Or anyone on the West Wing, really.) Thanks in advance. ;)

5. I had a doughnut and cereal for dinner. And this is even though I'm at home with a kitchen and people who would actually prepare me, like, real food. Can you imagine what it's going to be like if I actually go back to university?! I'll be eating salad out of the bag again! FAIL. ;)

6. AND OH GOD. MATTHEW ROBINSON. Love!! What's with me and all the hot!guy! love today?! I guess I had to get Julia/Alice/Emily off my music player at SOME point. Thanks, Lana!! :):)

7. Edited to add: I have new music crack! (Not just music I downloaded, although, YAY for The Little Mermaid demo with Kerry Butler, Gavin Creel and EMILY SKINNER KTHX.) But also, I went to HMV! And bought Sarah McLachlan's new Rarities album, because I love Sarah and because there are some AWESOME tracks on that. And also Joni Mitchell's Blue. Because Alice Ripley told me to. Well, basically.

I was tagged by lfae! This is SUCH a fab meme and so fun to do - I've tagged people, but ALL of you should give it a go. ;)

Create an image of nine things you currently really like, explain the things, and tag six others so they can share some inspiration and positive vibes too. - ETA: I cheated and made it nine things I REALLY love, not just currently... or I'd have a rather different meme result, like Julia Murney, Idina Menzel, Julia Murney, Wicked, Julia Murney etc...!! ;)