RJ in the end.

Sigh. I knew it. Knew it from the very beginning that I would choose RJ eventually, despite that part of me wondering whether it'd be better if I go to VJ or TJ. How can it end up any other way? My father was adamant about RJ. Okay, he wasn't exactly holding a knife to my neck, but he was really persuasive.

So RJ it is.

I have to go.

Relatives are here. Wish I could type more.

Check out Cassie's blog. Beginning of DV 14 there. Or so she says. A drunk and sarcastic Draco. Missed that.

2nd day of Hari Raya!!! Yesterday was tiring but nice. Babawok's (Granny on father's side) place was more crowded than it ever was, on account of some of my uncles finally letting bygones be bygones and forging back broken family ties. There was hardly space for my butt and I'm not even asking for a chair. Nonetheless, like I said, it was nice.

My cousins were bored to death... so guess what they did? They hid our video cam somewhere and played a prank. I was the first victim. The lured me into my granny's tiny room with the excuse of wanting to play Pyramid game (We played that game numerous times before). When I got there, my brother said, "Stand over here...". Then I was like, "Why?" He said, "Here! You have to stand here to see the categories." So I stood by him and suddenly he was like pointing at my white headscarf, "Look!"

And lo and behold, there was blue ink all over my white scarf. Apparently, he had sprayed ink from his pen onto me, on pupose. I was gaping at first. Then I went, "What is this? Haven't you got anything better to do?!" and started slapping my brother's arm. By then, all my other 8 cousins were laughing at me. Then I suspected something was amiss.

I realised a few seconds later that the ink had disappeared. It was 'disappearing ink'! And then, Hefni (the only older cousin,in JC1) whipped off a towel and revealed the camera. "Gotcha!" And then I laughed insanely, because I realised it was sooo funny! And I kept saying, "Haven't you people anything better to do?"

We should really send it in to Gotcha.

Leaving for aunt's house in an hour. Lots of food this morning. Neighbours came over to give food you see. Love the spirit of sharing on hari raya. Received 10 ketupats. That' it... I'm growing fatter than I already am.

Yesterday's salam lebaran was not too bad. I think other years were better.

This is the first year with hari raya on video! Can't wait.

Attack of Summary Executions again!

I was bored to death the other night and Lingzhi gave me the url to that site again. In case you don't know, this person has a collection of ridiculous, hilarious and insane summaries of fanfiction. If you're interested, here's the link: Summary Executions

Some that really cracked me up:

Hermione finds out that Remus is her father, but he wont tell her who her mother is.

He needed out. He needed air. He needed to bury himself so deeply in Hermione that no one would ever get him out again.

Are you sure shakespeare wrote Romeo and Juliet? Well you're wrong. Remus Lupin did after the tragic death of his two best friends he wrote down their love story so the world could remember Lily and James Potter and the love they shared, even after death.
(Shakespeare should sue. If only he was still alive.)

Harry's and Hermoine's day started out normal. Then Lucius Malfoy show's up and tells them that they're related. And not only that but Draco is their brother and they're triplets. (Dear god. How on earth... did that happen?)

If Percy Weasly was a girl and Draco Malfoy had an elder brother who was later hushed up and all charecters were a bit out of charecter then you would have this fic. (WHAT.)

This will be my last insane quote. There are a lot more that has left me shocked or made me burst into hysterical laughter. But some of them are... eewuuugh. See for yourself.

THIS IS AN AMAZING STORY ABOUT HOW DEPRESSION IS DEADLY! WHEN IT ATACKS A WONDERFUL PERSON! READ AND REVIEW!

Nouvelle amour, nouvelle affection; nouvelles fleurs parmi l'herbe nouvelle.
New love, new affection; new flowers among new grass.

Fleur means flower! Heh heh.

There's an article in LIFE! today about the Dove commercials. Four girls who have taken part in the advert tell their story. It seems they get teased a lot about it... Well, of course they would, after all the crap they said. Their exact words said during the commercial are now in print. And I think the "as springy as I am" phrase is the most ridiculous.

2 more days to Hari Raya. Not that excited yet. My mum is going nuts over cleaning and decorating the house. I think she has dusted over every inch of space. It irritates me that she LOVES cleaning. It's her hobby, apparently. It's not my hobby. But that doesn't matter to her. I am obliged to help her clean, and I keep washing my hands every 10 minutes because it is so dusty! I was pulling out old flowers out of a vase and all this dust kept poofing out. Ugh.She's been cleaning ever since I woke up and now, she's still walking around looking for things to put straight. Honestly. My mum needs a new hobby.

What on earth does "Shy as a dogtooth violet" mean? Anyone? It must be some metaphorical thing or some simile... But I don't know what it means... And I have no book to refer to... I shall try research online...

Ah! Found something. A dogtooth violet is a small bulbous herb of the Lily family. Shy? Must be some property of the plant. Sigh... I'm starting to read Lymond for the second time and am now picking out phrases and words I don't understand. "Shy as a dogtooth violet" is one of many. You must think I'm nuts - reading something again, just after I finished it. But Lymond is the kind of book with details. And when you read everything over again, you'll go, "Ooooh!!!", because you've noticed something you didn't at first.

I'm also going to use the online french dictionary to translate french phrases! Hoorah.

Am going to watch Fellowship with my sister. On vcd. Bubu (my cousin; her name isn't bubu per se. If you think bubu as a name is funny, it is. Bubu is a hindi or bengali word for 'big sister'. I have bengali blood.) asked yesterday when they all came over to break fast whether we wanted to get together and watch Looney Tunes. And I want to! Been so long since my last movie... Let's see, my last movie was... Pirates of the Carribean! That was in September. Hm. I want to go watch a movie... hope we can settle a date.

My sister received her PSLE results today. 253. Good, eh? I thought she'd get around there. My brother's was 250.

But... I feel kind of disappointed. I had hoped that my sis could get into RG. Then I could pass on everything to her... I feel sort of sad too that none of my relatives can beat my PSLE score which was not all that high, 265. To tell the truth, I was not ecstatic when I got my PSLE result 4 years ago. I had expected... 270 something at least. Like my prelim score. So to think that... I'm academically the best in my family... is not exactly that big a deal. I wish someone could just beat my score!!! But there's only one cousin left who hasn't taken PSLE... and.. he's not exactly the studious type. SIGH.

I think I'm confused. It's like... my family thinks I'm smart... but I'm not! At least not as smart as they think.

I have to get off this topic before I blabber more nonsense.

Finished Lymond! Nice. Nice. Nice. Though I have to say, the ending was too abrupt. Thank god there's a sequel so I can read about how those people who thought he was bad at first would react after finding out he's innocent. Innocent is not strong enough a word. He was not just innocent, he was used, hated, spit on, and slapped in the face when all the time he was doing more than any martyr would for his country. I like the story also because the women in the story are not always portrayed as the damsel-in-distress type. Of course, there's one who's like that, but there's the evil one, there's the one who shows extraordinary determination and spirit, and the extermely smart one. I was particularly surprised by the smart one. I shall try to read the whole book over in detail before buying Queen's Play. I think I shall buy Queen's Play before I fly off to Switzerland so I can read on the plane. YAY.

OH. OH. OH. The LotR movie marathon! I wish I could go! But how can I stay in the cinema from 9 am to 9pm?! My mum would never let me. Have to make do with marathon at home then.

Hopefully this will my last post for today. I am very tired. Spent half the day, literally, in front of the computer screen, repairing my blog.

Of course, the other part of the day was spent at my primary school, watching my sister receive her "Best in Higher Malay" prize and her "Model Student" prize. The students performed a play - Rumpelstiltskin. Not bad.

Brother is making me get off the computer. Not for the first time in my life, probably the hundredth time in my life, I wish I didnt need to SHARE. I wish I had my own computer in my own room and I could work on my blog and my videos as much as I want.

If only I had enough money.

I think I have really improved my ability to handle html. I'm not an expert or anything... but I solved some problems on my own. I even added my own guestbook! A real feat.

My "comment" link after each entry will bring you to my guestbook and so will the bravenet guestbook button hovering over my butterfly at the top right-hand corner there. That button is SUPER-annoying. I cannot seem to make it be placed at the bottom instead of the top. Like I said, I've improved, but... not by that much. Certain things still leave me stumped.

After approximately 9 months, I find myself back here. Why? Because certain host sites have decided to shut down permanently and there goes my blog... into oblivion. My poor entries. My daily creative secretions. Ok... maybe not daily... er, monthly?

Whatever it is... I'm using blogger again, hopefully for good. I'm sticking to it, since it hasnt given me much problem before. I've made everything look new and fresh, signifying a similarly new and fresh start in my life. O-levels are officially over and ditto my secondary school life. Unbelievable but true.

Today I woke up and thought, "Is there something I'm supposed to do?" And after a moment, I realised... no. I haven't any important thing to do because I'm finally free of exams. It felt strange, to tell you the truth. I'm so used to dividing my time every morning, setting aside a few hours for studying particular chapters and so on.

So... I'm slowly beginning to immerse myself in the projects that I so wanted to do for a long time. I've started editing my videos again... no matter how slow my speed. I've begun blogging again. I've bought the first book of Lymond Chronicles, The Game of Kings, and read furiously so that now I have only an eighth of it left to read.

I first discovered Lymond at Cassie's blog and was so attracted by her description of Lymond. And she is soooo right! Francis Crawford of Lymond is an amazing character. Maybe because DT!Draco is a reincarnation of Lymond. Haha! Alike in so many ways. Note that I said DT Draco, not canon Draco. They both have that cool exterior thing, the wit (though Lymond's sarcastic comments normally leave me blur because I dont know what he's referring to...), both are severely misunderstood (Lymond's is more serious... treason.), both have their own weird way of being honest and once you give your hand of friendship to either one of them, you can expect nothing less than absolute loyalty. Both have serious family problems. Draco with his father and Lymond with his brother. And of course... their looks. Both have fair hair! Though Dunnett normally describes Lymond's hair as yellow, and Draco's is more bleached. Both are drop dead gorgeous (I'm not the only one saying it. Lymond is described as so. And gorgeous Draco is common knowledge.). The parallels between them are infinite, I tell you.

But aside from the fact that Lymond is almost equivalent to Draco, the story has a great plot. I'm frustrated at my inadequate vocabulary, but what little of it that I possess has helped me grasped the gist of the plot and that has kept me going. It is so intriguing, full of suspense and surprising. And it has made me cry. Few books have succeeded doing that. HP 5, Little Women, that library book whose title I forgot, and Lymond...

I'm happy. I'm blissful. Holidays are here. And I don't feel bored yet!