I've decided to chronicle a little of this year's Ramadhan, since my family always has gatherings on Saturdays to break fast together. But then I stupidly forgot to bring my camera to Cik Nah's place yesterday! Bodoh!

Speaking of which, when we were going home after yesterday's gathering, and saying our goodbyes at Cik Nah's house door, there was this flying creature. This flying creature turned out to be a cockroach. @_@ At which my sis and me screamed and I tried to hide behind my grandmother, and my aunts refused to budge out the door, and I'm pretty sure the neighbours were at the very least, annoyed. >.< It was so funny. I like made a mad dash for the lift lobby while one of the boys, Amir allegedly, stamped the cockroach to death. It never ceases to amuse me how these pesky creatures can create mayhem within a split second.

These are pics from the first Ramadhan weekend, 6th Sept 08, @ Cik An's place, Telok Kurau.

This is why Ramadhan rocks.

Bubu back from Qatar!

Porridge! And my granny's never-fail sambal goreng.

Our array of scrumptious food.

Popiah!!! One without the super-hot sambal for weak tastebuds and one with. At one point, Cik Dah and me were fighting over the last few pieces of popiah, but then luckily there were some more. :P

Getting ready for terawih.

Granny and me.

I like this photo! Caught my sister's expression nicely. Amused by all the banter.

And then the lepak-ing after terawih.

Toodles.

Semester time is not a good time for blogging. I need inspiration for writing. And being bogged down by worries of assignments and lack of grasp of module concepts is far from conducive for inspiration. All I feel like doing sometimes is keyboard smashing in frustration or something. I just. Feel. Tired.

This is where a break into song would be appropriate: I want to break free. I want to break free! You know. That song. Okay, nevermind.

At the back of my mind, I keep thinking how I want to sit down and blog properly. You know, some nice honest from the heart ponderings. But for that, timing is crucial! Now ain't the time. With Ramadhan, I just feel constantly sleepy, and it's maddening because hell, now's the time to do more good, not to grumble about lack of time and fatigue and frustrations. oh gah. I need to shut up.

So anyway, since I figured my mood isn't all good, I'm going to do less with the words for now and more with pics or random fan postings.

And today, I found something interesting from kamika's blog: a new British show called Lost in Austen, about a Pride-and-Prejudice-obsessed girl who got transported into the world of the book and meets the Bennets and Bingley and Darcy and all of them. It's quite amusing. I say, there is no end to the Austen obsession.

Link to the first episode here. If you feel like checking it out, do it QUICK! Because you never know when youtube will rip it off.

Am becoming frazzled over my protein ISM paper. Getting to writing the first word down is the hardest part! gah. I don't know how to start. :( Sometimes I wish for a brainless job.

Am talking to duckie. And we're reminiscing a little on our long friendship and past fiascos. Apparently, I've always been known as the Queen of Emotional Outbursts. I really can't help myself. Don't know why I'm like this imploding volcano everytime. Grumble grumble grumble dan kaboom! Gosh. I should strive to be more zen. Deep breaths. Don't get too excited over things.

Gosh. Me and duck are talking deep things. Like true loves. And never being too happy with second best. And relationship issues. And finding happiness. And just. why is life so perplexing.

We were hypothesising how if one of us gets left behind while the rest get attached, wouldn't it be depressing, we'd have no one to rant to:

[Yu Jie] says:
who will i sms?!?!??!
so OTP it hurts says:
I hope none of us gets left behind!
so OTP it hurts says:
:(
so OTP it hurts says:
JUST SMS ME.
so OTP it hurts says:
I dont care about my bf okay.
so OTP it hurts says:
I lvoe you.
so OTP it hurts says:
~love
[Yu Jie] says:
aw
[Yu Jie] says:
but... what if he were yamapi?!?!?!?!?
[Yu Jie] says:
don't regret your words... :'D
so OTP it hurts says:
EVEN IF.
so OTP it hurts says:
HAHA
[Yu Jie] says:
REALLY!!!

:P

I'm just loving this song right now.

Well you done done me and you bet I felt it
I tried to be chill but you're so hot that I melted
I fell right through the cracks
and now I'm trying to get back
Before the cool done run out
I'll be giving it my bestest
Nothing's going to stop me but divine intervention
I reckon its again my turn to win some or learn some

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait, I'm yours

Well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love
Listen to the music of the moment people dance and sing
we´re just one big family
It's your God-forsaken right to be loved love loved love love

So I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

I've been spending way too long checking my tongue in the mirror
And bending over backwards just to try to see it clearer
But my breath fogged up the glass
And so I drew a new face and I laughed
I guess what I'm saying is there ain't no better reason
To rid yourself of vanity and just go with the seasons
It's what we aim to do
Our name is our virtue

I won't hesitate no more, no more
It cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

Well no no, well open up your mind and see like me
Open up your plans and damn you're free
Look into your heart and you'll find love love love love
Listen to the music of the moment come and dance with me
ah, la one big family ([2nd time:] ah, la happy family)
It's your God-forsaken right to be loved love love love

I won't hesitate no more
Oh no more no more no more
It's your God-forsaken right to be loved, I'm sure
Theres no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours

No I won't hesitate no more, no more
This cannot wait I'm sure
There's no need to complicate
Our time is short
This is our fate, I'm yours, I'm yours
~ Jason Mraz, I'm Yours

This is really random but I saw some strangely dressed people in the train today. I tried not to look too amused though. One was a girl dressed in a frilly black and red dress, with matching black net stockings and red shoes to boot. And black and white patterned nails. She looked like she was from some cosplay event. Maybe she was. And next to her, was this guy, who actually wore a decent-looking white, hooded shirt but, for some reason, he reminded me so much of L from Death Note, I just wanted to laugh. He had his hood up over his head, and kept his fringe nicely arranged across his forehead. It was the way he seemed to be subtly bopping to some phantom music (I checked; he had no earphones on!) that made him seem like in his own world or something. And the way he sat, like he was perching, although his feet were on the floor, made me think of L too.

Watched HYD movie yesterday. (Abah allowed us to go despite it being Rmaadhan. He said: "Just this once!") The movie satisfied the fans, I think. Thoroughly. The premise was crazy and ridiculous and there was a bit of lameness in some parts, but overall, nyaaaaa. :) It was a fuzzy, heartwarming finale with beloved characters returning and Tsukasa and Tsukushi being so adorably funny together. I laughed really hard at some parts, which makes me glad. Seriously, Tsukasa is so idiotically and crappily random, it's hilarious. I still don't get a line he said to Rui, when Rui was talking to Tsukushi: something along the lines of, "Don't get too close or she'll catch your spaciness!" Naturally, Rui went, "Hah?" Everybody went, "Hah?" I'm still going Hah! I don't get it. >.< Tsukasa's logic is so skewed. <3 Loved it.

It's the fourth week of sem. And things are approaching a lull. In other words, my jiayou feelings and enthusiasm has started to dip, and I'm starting to push work to the side again. :s It's so hard to stay hardworking. I wish I had a button to switch off my daydreaming and my distractions, so I can focus on work. Discipline! Where art thou! And really, it's not that I absolutely hate what I'm studying. It's tough, but I don't dislike it. In fact, once I do get into the mood of perusing my texts, I do get absorbed in them. It's just that maybe... they aren't interesting enough? Or maybe I have a lifelong mild ADD (attention-deficit disorder) or stg, and I can't help but want to jump from one thing to another.

Anyway, in relation to this here's a cute icon I stole from somewhere:


on other things:

1) Had Mentors' Day with the Irsyad kids. It was the sweetest thing. And I cried! I blame Nusaibah, my mentee, who started crying when she gave me this turtle soft toy thingy. And there was much hugs and sniffles, and I kept telling them to work hard for PSLE. Aiyah. They were all so adorable. Emo emo emo-ness. I loved it though. <3 After it all, I had fuzzy warm feelings inside.

2) My sister got to meet her indon tv stars at the geylang light-up! Cinta Fitri's Farrell and Fitri. She was one of the ushers and got to see them up-close. Exciting x 1000! And she got CIP hours for this. What crap, I say.

3) My wacky family went to mount faber at midnight this past saturday. For fun. We ate pre-packed ice kachang and ice jelly cocktails at faberpoint and took random photos. We left at 2 plus am. @_@ record!!!

4) Kurosagi the movie is actually coming to Singapore! @_@ And I thought it wasn't so I'd already watched online. But nvm. Maybe I'll catch it anyway.

5) Did I already mention Hana Yori Dango? Yes, HYD! This week! This week!

6) My mum claimed she saw a pocong in Kelantan. (She and Dad just came back from Pakcik Mail's place, bearing a whole load of rambutans this time.)

:) 98.7FM says September is going to be a good month. And I agree. yeah, yeah, yeah.

Suddenly work is piling up at a scary speed and I am getting increasingly nervous. :s I have to remind myself: what is life if not a struggle. I'm becoming more certain of the theorem: life = hard work (+ other issues that become negligible in the face of hard work). :P Theorems, ehek. I am becoming crazily mathematical, eh? Blame the modules I'm doing this semester. Everything seems to include statistics. I see the Gaussian distribution so many times a week, I now know its probability distribution formula by heart. -_-

Am listening to 1 Litre of Tears' Konayuki. The song itself makes me choke up in remembrance. Life is indeed a struggle. That's why I say: DT!Draco was right to imagine heaven as a final resting place. Speaking of which, did I say I have the full copy of Draco Veritas in PDF now (1647 pages long)? Anyone interested can ask from me! I'm rereading it again myself.

To less depressing things: guess what is playing on TV mobile!!! The HYD movie trailer!!! >.< Arashi's One Love came on and I almost squealed out loud. I swiveled my head around to find the screen but the front screen had conked out so it was blank, and I couldn't see the other tv screen, being stuck in the crowd like a sardine. GAH. I almost exclaimed wtf. I could hear Arashi but I couldn't see the trailer lah, like wth. But nonetheless, I was almost spazzing from the excitement. It's coming out next week. yay yay yay!

oh, also, I have to report that one of my kids in APEX class (the group of P6 madrasah kids I tutor on saturdays) admitted to another mentor that he was afraid of me! O_O That is an absolute first! This means: I managed to be strict enough with a class that they become scared of me! That is amazing. He didn't finish the compo he was supposed to have done and then begged the other mentor not to tell me and not let me mark his work. I still find the whole thing incredible. o_O

The day always seems so short, and I never end up accomplishing what needs to be done. :( My time management skills have not improved over the years. Am always so easily distracted too. Nyah. My problem is that I find too many things interesting. Too many.

Maki is appearing in a drama in October! I am uber excited for that.

Been spazzing over the NEWS Pacific Tour the entire night. If there was a rolling-on-the-ground-happy smiley, I would put one here. ohmegad >.< how did I come to heart them this much?

seriously. love creeps on you, man. before you know it, and without your own volition, BAM! You're in too deep.

Sis and me were like going nuts. Memorable things: Koyama saying that he sings UltraMusicPower when he's happy in the bath. Of course, the Nino crazy stuff. The little girl in the audience asking Ryo why his voice was husky. Tego's whoa Ai Nante performance. Massu saying, "I am a xiao long bao!" at the Taipei concert. And Yamapi looking eternally anime-perfect. How does he do it.

Gah. And I wanted to mug proteins today. So much for study plans.

I'd been feeling somewhat crummy all of today. Kept telling myself to get to working, but somehow never got to doing so. But then, when my mum got home bearing donuts for me and sis, we watched the Lohans on tv and bitched together. And the day got better. And the day got even better when I went online and GUESS WHAT. >.< Clips from NEWS Pacific Tour were on youtube. Ah, it's just so fun. And crazy. I'd been waiting for this! And Newshfan is superb for subbing everything at superspeed. And Nino and Sho appeared. (Nino called Yamapi Tomo-chan and Masuda Giri-Massu - what?! Also, Nino kissed Ryo on the shoulder - again, what?! What is up with this guy.) And Tegoshi tried to remedy his 'superior attitude' by speaking lower >.< fail, I say.

Times like this, I do wonder if I am a bimbo at heart. Ahak. :P It takes so little to make me happy.

Also, today is my parents' anniversary, so we're going out for dinner. And also, Jean's birthday! Happy 21st, my dear. I doubt you read this anymore, but you used to, I think, so I'll say it here anyway.

That's the thing about my blog. I never do know who's reading, except for my usual close friends. This same url has served me for near 5 years now and gone through different batches of people, such that if I were to bother compiling the total range of people who'd know of my blog, I'd be freaked out and be tempted to shut down. But I won't do that. Because I confess, I am clingy. And to this blog I cling, so here I shall stay. To the person who I wouldn't think would be reading my blog: hello! You are welcome anyways. :)

Crap. I officially love Code Blue.

Anyway, I've decided to do a tag I got from Shweta's wonderfully amusing blog. Because I've got nothing better to do, it seems. :P

Rules:

Pick up the nearest book.
Open page 123.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post the next three sentences.
Tag five people, and acknowledge the person who tagged you.


Okay, here goes:

"Well before 9-11, technical studies had concluded that 'a well-planned operation to smuggle WMD into the United States would have at least a 90 percent probability of success'. This has become 'America's Achilles Heel', a study with that title concluded, reviewing the many options available to terrorists. The Council on Foreign Relations Task Force study adds others."

That's from Noam Chomsky's Hegemony or Survival, that's sitting on the table next to my bed, and which I've abandoned since last sem ended. I bought it impulsively cause I was so hyped up about last sem's geopolitics module and got so into American Foreign Policy stuff. Ehek.

So let's see... I tag:

Yu Jie
Lin
Marli
Jiawen
Munirah

(: Night!

Apparently, Yamapi can do no wrong.

I really don't want to start fangirl-raving, but then I was watching Code Blue and his doctor character, Aizawa, did something almost certainly clinically impossible, that I just had to say something. First (a little background knowledge), you should know that for some reason, Yamapi has always just won in a lot of things lah, okay. Variety shows, tv challenges, acting roles, saying the right things etc. Like in Tokyo Friend Park where he jumped damn high and scored so much. And on hey!hey!hey! with the hula hoop game. And various Shounen Club activities, to name a few. So much so that he's somewhat recognised by fellow members for being the ultra-reliable and failproof person.

So anyway, in Code Blue, Aizawa was trying to save someone who got spiked on a metal pipe and the poor guy's heart was failing; the heartrate on the meter was steadily decreasing and the machine was making all the scary beepy noises. And then the heart stopped all together. So then, I was like, "Finally! Aizawa fails to save a patient... " But then, looking all emo with the clenched jaws and incessant fist-clenching, guess what he did? He thumped hard, once, on the guys chest... and voila! The heart beats again.

I was @_@. Magic doctor, is it. I was so incredibly amused.

But ignoring certain fantastical glitches about the capabilities of a certain ER intern, I'm liking Code Blue more than I thought I would. I've harboured a certain disinclination for medical drama ever since Gray's Anatomy (yes, despite its undeniable popularity, I just never took to Meredith or any of the other characters) but surprisingly, Code Blue is working for me. Maybe cause of Yamapi, of course. But even without him, I think, the drama has the right elements in right amounts. And thankfully, no romance in sight.

O_O I just discovered that my biophysics class has a grand total of 20 people. TWENTY ONLY. This freaks me out. The thing about a small class is that it can go two ways: it can turn out to be really really fun and engaging, or it can turn out to be a total nightmare where the lecturer in charge breathes down your neck and expects scary stuff from each student and students stay mute in class. I really hope the lecturer is someone great. >.<

The first day of school was nice enough. (Not counting the running around I had to do to settle my ISM proposal.) Maybe it's a good omen.

Also, textbook expenses are making me go into spasms.

photos! from escape2008 (: It's not in chronological order; more like they're reversed.

This was the bbq chicken lunch. yummy yummy yummy and comfy sofas.



Hanging around Pasir Ris Beach in the morning. And then cycling.










Breakfast: coffee, eggs and kaya toast.





Escape theme park: three frakking rides were closed lah.





Okay, this is just funny. See the white floaty thing? That's Munirah's tudung that went haywire when the ride went upside down!!! >.< It was hilarious.





That's tempura ice cream at Hei Sushi.

school's starting tomorrow. hum.

I can't wait for saturday afternoon. It means my presentation would be over and so would my final theory test, and finally I can enjoy the last week before semester starts.

I realise I am going to miss IBN. And all the people who made the stay a fun one. I am so very grateful that I got nice mentors and a whole office of nice colleagues. And I am going to miss the cute cute mice. Ah man. This has been a nice experience.

I realise I miss my friends. I don't know. I miss playing. Working has made me somewhat a responsible person, and I miss being playful.

Why do I have an insatiable urge to blog and blog about the littlest things? I must be more of an exhibitionist that I thought. Sometimes I just like putting words on this page here you know. Just for words' sake. Words look pretty.

Oh, guess who I bumped into yesterday!!! YAU PUI MAN. Who I haven't seen in about three years, give or take. I love bumping into random people I haven't met in ages. It was at Buona Vista MRT on the way home at 6 pm. She was the one who cried out my name first (since I'm forever the more oblivious person) and I went like, PUI MAN! What are you doing here?!?!

She looks the same. (Haha, what did I expect? >.<) And dressed nicely. But she seemed less of an explosive person. My memory of PuiMan has always been associated with wackiness and her crazy brand of laughter and her fanfiction. Her stacks of fanfiction. She could write like seriously, stacks of them. I remember her reading some off to me on the train home from rg. She insisted on my not reminiscing anyway, cause according to her, only old people do it. I suppose I'm a natural old soul. I reminisce far too much. Or if I'm not reminiscing, I'd imagine how I'd be reminiscing about something 10 years down the road.

I should be preparing for my presentation. Public speaking = bane of existence. Together with chemistry. But I think chemistry ain't that bad even. And since this attachment experience, I've come to like programming thanks to MATLAB and Kumar's and Archana's patient guidance, so programming is definitely no longer a bane. But public speaking - GAH. Always and forever will be a thorn in the side. The day I actually enjoy speaking to an audience, I'll plant a tree in memorial.

The American Scholar: The Disadvantages of an Elite Education

"...Yet it is precisely that opportunity that an elite education takes away. How can I be a schoolteacher—wouldn’t that be a waste of my expensive education? Wouldn’t I be squandering the opportunities my parents worked so hard to provide? What will my friends think? How will I face my classmates at our 20th reunion, when they’re all rich lawyers or important people in New York? And the question that lies behind all these: Isn’t it beneath me? So a whole universe of possibility closes, and you miss your true calling."

the perfect education is an elusive thing, I tell you.

"Because students from elite schools expect success, and expect it now. They have, by definition, never experienced anything else, and their sense of self has been built around their ability to succeed. The idea of not being successful terrifies them, disorients them, defeats them. They’ve been driven their whole lives by a fear of failure—often, in the first instance, by their parents’ fear of failure. The first time I blew a test, I walked out of the room feeling like I no longer knew who I was. The second time, it was easier; I had started to learn that failure isn’t the end of the world."

yay for failures. they are important things.

It doesn't take much to make me happy, I think. Little things like mochi ice creams and pancakes and seeing cute cats make me happy. And finding power sockets in public places makes me very very happy. >.< haha. I go: "YAY! A place to plug my laptop!" And I add one more venue to my growing list of outside-places-to-be-sedentary-and-study.

I am at a good emotional place in my life right now. When I think about it, there isn't really anything to be extra happy about... But somehow I am. It could be the usual deceptive it's-a-new-school-semester-and-let's-jiayou! feelings, but this time, I don't know, it feels even better. Like a ray of hope is shining ahead, and I am heading towards it. Call it gut-feeling or intuition. And so. I feel good. I have work and I have worries. But I still feel good. yoshi. :)

Also. Been finally giving Hey!Say!JUMP a chance and watching their pvs and I feel like a paedophile now, :P ehek. But mostly, I look for Yamada, who I have fallen for since Tantei Gakuen Q because he was so kawaii. And kakkoi. Oh no, I am nuts. Sometimes I truly worry about how much of a weirdo I am. But most times I'm too much into my weirdo world to notice.

Looking forward to the weekend with eunice, mumu and jiawen! Our downtown east holiday, heretofore known as escape2008, okay? :)

Next friday is a-coming closer and closer and a corner of my mind is already starting to freak out about my research presentation. It's only like 5 minutes long, but I have an incredible phobia of public speaking and envision nightmare situations where I start blubbering incoherently or blanking out or something like that. Gah. It's true what they say: there is nothing to fear but fear itself.

I am absolutely loving kamika's blog. She's such a random nutsy person who writes great funny stuff about JE and everything under the sun. And I have a feeling if I actually knew her in person, we'd be awesome buddies. She posted something about Neil Patrick Harris too! NPH is such an entertainer. And I think I really, really should go and continue watching How I Met Your Mother again. I want to see Barney antics again! Or Supes episode 16. Or Code Blue. Or Maou. Or Pride. Or My Boss, My Hero.

@_@ I realise I have a backlog of tv shows I want to watch but have yet to! nyah!!! I can't believe I'm actually working so much that I can't get to watch my shows. This is amazing.

Afidah keeps saying I should become a press secretary ever since I wrote supposedly great and diplomatic answers for her interview questions. And I cannot, I think, receive compliments about my writing. Because it will make me go into crisis mode again about what I'm actually pursuing (science, not languages). This is like the don't-know-what-time-th situation where someone has said to me, 'You have a gift for being lucid in your writing!" and by god, yes, if someone can find me a job where I can write and crap, my favourite pasttime, then tell me! I will willingly crap for you.

Seriously, man. This drives me nuts, it does. Or maybe. I can be a medical writer. I don't know.

That's from Pearls Before Swine. I got it off uwasako's LJ here. Isn't it the most adorable thing. And Rat, despite myself, is just an adorable meanie to me. We all need hugs, eh. And I don't think it has to be a physical hug. Sometimes, all you need is go up to that someone, and wail. And let the person pat your head, and then you'll feel that much better. Or virtual hugs through smses from friends far away. Like sometimes for me, I just walk around the house, calling out to my sister, and then she'll say, "Whaaaaaaaat." And I pout and say nothing. And then call out to her again and the same thing happens repeatedly. It's therapeutic.

Oh yes, I also thought I couldn't love JK Rowling any more than I already did, but her speech at Harvard's Commencement Ceremony blew me away. If you haven't read it, go here. I was helplessly swiping at tears as I read it. It just moved me deeply, and certain things resonated so much with my own feelings. If it were my own graduation, I think I'd be uncontrollably sobbing or something.

Time has passed superbly fast as always, and guess what, it's three weeks to the start of a new academic year. And strangely, or maybe not so strange cause I feel like this everytime, I am looking forward to starting lectures again. Partly cause work is ultimately less fun than learning, so I want to get back to books. And uni life offers infintely more freedom than an 8 t0 6 work schedule. Although, on the down side, money will stop coming in. You know, I was thinking how truly paradoxical it is that the modern world strives for technological advancements that speeds up processes in order that we save time, but in the end, we find ourselves increasingly short of time. It is a sad, vicious cycle.

I don't know where my brain was today. I must be seriously lacking rest, which is why I shouldn't be online but sleeping instead. But I am stubborn like that. I sort of blundered through the later half of today. Coupled with the fact that I was fasting, I became rather cranky and extra blur. Such that I spoiled Afidah's stack of film because I switched on the white light in the dark room before sealing the box. So the top bit of each film is black. :( KARUT. And on the way home, I was dozing off really badly in the train. Really lah, so embarassing! Usually, I think I sleep rather decently and manage to sit straight but I was so damn sleepy this time. I was like leaning almost 45 degrees into the next person's personal space. Then at Simei, I groggily woke up and thought it was Tampines and rushed off the train. BODOH. Actually, I realised just before I stepped out the train doors, but I thought I'd already embarrassed myself enough and pretended my house was at Simei. Nyaha.

And here I ramble a little about the concept of fandom.

I've been thinking about fan-speak lately. You know, fan jargon the likes of which if you've never fangirl-ed, you'll never know? Words like fanon, fic, canon, AU, PWP, slash, het, BNF, meme, keyboard smash, OTP and all the weird acronyms for pairings depending on which fandom you're talking about - LoVe, HPGW, H/D, Wincest (gah,scary >.<) etc. Nowadays, the name squish for pairings is becoming highly popular, at least in JE fandom: Yamaki, Kamepi, Tegopi, Tomapi, Ryopi, Piyui, Pin and Tegomassuki. Like WTH man. It amuses me greatly.

I think someone should do a study on fandom. Like study how these groups of girls crop up and establish such big communities online that share fan stuff and interact and develop the fan world. I am fascinated. Truly.

Reference:

fandom = whatever book, show, movie, story, actor, personality etc that people are obsessed about.

canon = reality i.e. what actually happens in the real book/show/movie/etc

fanon = NOT canon; creation of fans; e.g. in Harry Potter fandom, for some reason, Draco Malfoy is highly perceived as some gorgeous, rich, misunderstood, witty and highly redeemable dude of Veela ancestry. HAHA. This is very very far from JK Rowling 's version of Draco.

fic = abbreviation for fanfiction, which if you don't know, (I am shocked!), are literary works written by fans about their fandom to satisfy their insatiable thirst for more canon.

AU = alternate universe; meaning that the fan disregards actual canon entirely when doing fanwork. e.g. Harry Potter is a prince of 16th century England and Hermione a princess with whom he is forced to wed. Personally, I think good AU works are hard to come by. Because seriously, who wants to read about Hermione worrying about arranged marriages and fitting into corsets, and nothing about magic?!

PWP = Plot what plot; this is basically fanfiction in which the fan writes crappy pointless stuff like smut or trashy humour.

slash = same-sex situations; nowadays, this is the dominating sexual preference among fans. go figure. -_-

het = male/female pairings; slowly approaching extinction in fandom, in my opinion. scary, I tell you.

BNF = big name fan; e.g. the notorious Cassandra Claire who wrote the Draco Trilogy; they are kind of the 'elite' of the fans whom all other fans 'cling' to; usually BNFs are great writers who produce fantastic reviews, fanfiction or fanart.

meme = I still am not sure what a meme is! HAHA. I thought I knew what it was. I think it might be like a survey done by a fan for fans? not sure.

keyboard smash = fan-squee in keyboard fashion; it's basically being so excited about something that you type incoherently this: lkhfnsydagfbnuasydgfabsuynfksaniuf vyqowygp qhJDKW;,KLMHASGNASDFJCBHN; actually, I think this might not be exclusive to fandoms. Eunice does it quite a lot.

OTP = one true pairing; a fan's favourite pairing

LoVe = Logan Echolls and Veronica Mars; this is one of my favourite name squishes!

HPGW = Harry Potter and Ginny Weasley; sometimes it's so funny to see a slew of capital letters in a fanfic summary, like this: HPGW HGDM RLSB SSMM etc. go figure -_-. But I think this sort of abbreviation has phased out, in place of adorable name squishes?

H/D = Harry/Draco; this is the default manner to write pairings before they come up with more creative ways.

Wincest = Dean/Sam Winchester from Supernatural; called so because they're brothers! incest, yo! >.< Rest assured, I keep absolutely clear of this scary pairing (and in fact of every kind of slash). Homosexuality of any kind still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand, I'm very sorry.

And a list (not exhaustive one) of JE pairings:

Yamaki = Yamapi + Maki (my OTP <3!)

Tomapi = Ikuta Toma + Yamapi

Kamepi = Kamenashi + Yamapi

Ryopi = Ryo + Yamapi

Piyui = Yamapi + Aragaki Yui

Tegopi = Tegoshi + Yamapi

Pin = Yamapi + Jin

Tegomassuki = Tegoshi + Masuda + Maki

Wahahaha. Yamapi is in almost everything. :P Someone did say he's somewhat like the little black dress of slash-dom. My my. Such crazy fans.

There are many other fandoms, each with their own exclusive language. Like Star Trek fans are called Trekkies and Battlestar Galactica fans called... something else? I can't quite remember now. And this is only like a glimpse into the crazy place that is fandom. And I know only the bare minimum to survive as I read LJ communities. So interesting, I tell you.

This is so incredibly funny! >.< King Arthur in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Been having a long day today. The entire morning working on western blot in the lab. The thing about working is that you have no time to let your mind wander... and so... I have nothing much interesting to say.

oh, I am soo psyched for The Dark Knight! Hopefully we can go watch tomorrow. yippeeness. I've got my batman shirt ready for wear. Haha.

My mind is seriously drawing blanks right now, man. -_- I think I need sleep.

But you know what. I think I'm happier now. :)

And I am still stuck on Tantei Gakuen's theme songs.

WARNING: MAD RAVE AHEAD.

Ahah. Okay. I loooooove Tantei Gakuen Q.



At first, considering the main characters are only 15-years-old or so, I was kind of doubtful about all the great reviews the JEP Cast people were talking about. But then I watched it, and persisted, and ohmegad, it is awesome. And makes me go like >.< and it is just an uber good story, with fantastic child actors. It's about a bunch of genius kids training to become detectives, with heavy complicated backstories intertwined between them. More than anything, Kyuu and Ryuu's relationship reminded me of DT Draco and Harry's relationship, and maybe this is why I majorly loved it. Goshgoshgosh. ADORABLE. I love the friendship between them, and how only Kyuu would insist on believing Ryuu when everyone else thought he was evil (think: Draco Sinister! gah!!!). And the finale mystery arc was cool and Kyuu is so crazily smart and Ryuu is so gorgeously broody - MAN, what's not to love??? And Megu - HAHA. She was alluding to the whole possible "future" love triangle between her and Ryuu and Kyuu, and it's just so amusing! Think DT Hermione/Draco/Harry.

Friendship stories almost always leave a better impression on me than love stories. Maybe cause we have an overload of the latter and to find good love stories, one has to sieve through a whole load of crap. But sweet stories about friendship - wibble wibble wibble! I melt easily.

And the opening and closing songs rock. rock very much. oh, I heart this show. <3 <3 <3

The opening song is called 'Answer' by FLOW.


Ah dang! I can't find the closing vid. But the song's Stand By Me by The Brilliant Green.



Sometimes, I think I should get money from all this advertising. haha, okay, goodnight.