Monday, March 31, 2003
Qn: How do I review a story?
Ans: Cruelly.
Qn: I'm under thirteen. Why aren't I allowed to submit a story?
Ans: Because it would probably be awful. (*cough* agreed *cough*)
What can I say? Slytherin Rules.
| I think I've read that spoof Chris has on her blog...
Ah... but then again the first Harry Potter movie was totally over-run by mistakes. I know why they cut out the part about Snape getting sassed by Harry... cos Harry has got to be little goody-two-shoes see? Can't have nice polite boy talking back to his teacher. And actually... I was probably one of the 3 people in the audience who didn't know Snape wasn't the bad guy *grins sheepishly* (Even though the first time I got obsessed with Alan Rickman wasn't one of his bad-guy roles.)
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Sunday, March 30, 2003
I was just eeked-out that's all.
| Am very disturbed now. Chris, did you know that chocolate frog (you have a link on your blog) is a Snape/Lupin shipper? I did not know that The Sims allowed homosexual pairings. *blinks* I was pretty tickled by the fact that they have Hogwarts add-ons though... Gryffindor chairs, Albus Dumbledore in a long purple robe, Severus Snape in a black one...Gilderoy Lockhart and his extravagant wardrobe. *grins* But I am even more troubled to find that The Sims has an erm...adult version. Did not need that scary mental visual place that I just stumbled into.
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Friday, March 28, 2003
*arches eyebrow at Claire* company as in army platoon, my dear. But thank you for your compliments on my work. *smiles*
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Thursday, March 27, 2003
You're a half and half!? That means your the
perfect witch! Your good side balances your
bad! Way to go!
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
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| Oh no, I just went past the four-page mark for the Quidditch Final match... some editing is definitely required here, or all of you will get bored to death.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
| My friend just told me that apparently Erwin is the best recruit in his company, LOL... What kind of lan4 company did he get himself in?
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Above is a screencap of Alan Rickman in the TV series The Barchester Chronicles as a cunning and flattering clergyman who went around seducing women for gains in wealth and status...he has this slicked-back hair that made him look like Draco Malfoy! Not blond though, thankfully...cannot imagine how he would look like with bleached hair, even though I think his natural hair-colour is dark blond. But still swoon-worthy...very swoon-worthy.
| Finally! My film got developed. =) I arrogantly conclude that idiot automatic cameras suck, because my sister's photos were mostly a bit blur. Yay for ancient bulky manual 35mm cameras! (My version of pure-blood snobbery *smirks*)
This is the bloody swan that tried to eat my shoe. Looks so demure and harmless here, doesn't it? They've got quite a few at the ponds of Schloss Herkules.
Some of the pictures I took of the peace demonstration. They were telling me something but it was all in German, so I ran away after I took the pictures. The slogan on the banner in the picture on the right says (according to my sister) "While you shop, people are dying in Iraq".
This are the grounds of the Orangerie Karlsaue. What is it with me and fowl I don't know, but this time it was the bloody geese that got on my nerves. Will be eating roast goose soon at this little HK-based eatery I saw...
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Tuesday, March 25, 2003
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Monday, March 24, 2003
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Which tarot card are you?
which lotr novelty are you? quiz by greyelf
Erm... okaay...
You're an Athelas plant.
Which Middle Earth flower are you?
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What in Middle Earth is that? *totally lost and confused, like Errol*
13 1/13 inch, ebony and mercury. Interesting and unusual are severe understatements for this Gregorovitch wand. You've got your own style and your own opinions, and you probably live in your own world as well. Join us down here in the real world sometimes, will you?
Which wand will yours be?
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Wolf. You like your solitude.
What Is Your Animagus?
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I took my own quizzes. Duhz.
| Singapore is way too hot...=( Anyway, my travel log:
19/3:
The trains here are damn confusing. What's written on the boards does not match what the ticket people tell us. Am sorely regretting wearing a normal tank top and jeans under my jacket 'cause I'm freezing my butt off here. (But ice-cream is about the cheapest thing here at 0.5 Euro, so we're eating ice-cream. Everyone on the street is giving us funny looks.) Saw a plastic TRex statue in one park. Thought it was damn cheesy even though I figured out the building in front of it was a natural museum. It was under renovation but I saw what looked suspiciously like a statue of a hippocampus (a mer-horse). I saw this building in Frankfurt that made me want to sing praises of the Esplanade in front of it, with a microphone and powerpoint presentation. Did not take a picture of it because I was afraid my film would shrivel up in shame at having something so horrendously ugly emblazoned on it.
20/3:
The university students were having some sort of peaceful demonstration outside one of the government buildings this morning. It's very wintery and gloomy today, and even colder than yesterday. Went to Goslar, which is at the foot of the Harz Mountains, and it snowed a little. I like Goslar, it's very quaint...makes me feel like I went time-travelling back to the 17th century. Cobbled streets, gothic churches, the whole works. I wanted to climb up the Harz but my sister said I could go climb it on my own if I wanted to, and since I don't really fancy getting lost in a place where they don't speak English, I didn't. Goslar is nicknamed "witch village" 'cause they used to believe the witches gather there at night (It's the place that started Walpurgisnacht you see), and they still sell little witch figurines. Wanted to buy some back for you guys, but my sis said you'd all get freaked out 'cause they are really ugly little things. And in case you were wondering, there isn't a Leaky Cauldron there or whatever. But then again I couldn't really read the signboards 'cause they were mostly in German. (Although there was this weird guy who kept babbling in some version of German that my sister couldn't understand and kept shaking my hand. Weird.) There were more demonstrations this evening, and one guy jokingly shouted "Paparazzi!" at me when I took a picture of them.
21/3:
Very sunny today. Went up to Wilhelmsh�he (another mountain) to see Schloss Herkules, the castle of Welhelm the Fourth. They light it up with greenish light in the evenings and from far it looks like some freakishly ugly party hat sitting on the mountain. There's also this really corny 8m tall statue of a butt-naked Hercules right on the top of the highest tower. It also has enormous forrested grounds and swans that tried to eat my shoes. I made my sister take the long way around and we ended up at another older castle called L�wenburg instead. It was all in ruins--almost half of it was gone, and the turrets and towers were all moss covered and crumbling. We did make it to Herkules at the end, but I still preferred the rundown little castle that we stumbled upon.
22/3:
More parks and castles today. We went to Karlsaue...a bright yellow building that used to be a summer palace or something. I must say they have a lot of space there for humongous parks that take whole days to walk through. Very peaceful life they have, just spend the weekend strolling about in the parks... just beware of the geese. Their park police ride horses, like in London. Very cool. They also had a greenhouse you could walk through, which even had orchids. There was this orchid named "King Arthur"... poor King Arthur, it was a rather ugly species, all green and blotchy. But it was also the biggest orchid there. After that we went to the airport...cute staff there who looked like Lex Luther from Smallville! =D
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Sunday, March 23, 2003
Going to sleep now though, cos couldn't sleep on the plane so I've basically been awake for 48 hours. Right now my room is spinning around like a rollercoaster ride. Because I couldn't sleep, I watched Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets about 3 times...continuously. Finally realising why Kenneth Branagh's ex-wife Emma Thompson says he looks like a plumber.
But before I go...Chris: VJC Harry Potter? Ah, but nobody's really bad-moody and sarky enough to be Snape... Sayers could be Dumbledore!
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Monday, March 17, 2003
Paranoia dictates that I should now be screaming hysterically and running around in circles babbling about killer pneumonia, but then again I never was very prone to paranoia. It's quite freaky really... sounds like it came right out of Stephen King's The Stand. You know, at this rate the US won't even need to bother with nuclear bombs and what-not...just send someone over to Iraq to sneeze at them.
| I just read this facfic where Faith, from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is Snape's daughter. Ack!
Anyway, side trip here... I saw an advertisement for CityLink that called it "the one link" *arches eyebrow* Now why did that sound so darned familiar...
| Oohh... Thanks for the card, Claire! I just got it in the mail today... very sweet of you. =)
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Sunday, March 16, 2003
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Saturday, March 15, 2003
The HP Male Marriage Quiz made by Sapphire.
*grins*
Which Alan Rickman Character Are You?
Can't say I've watched this show though. I think Josh Hartnett was in it, as Alan Rickman's son...I don't know why he was casted as the son, 'cause I don't see any family resemblance. But it was a weird plot in the first place...I mean, a movie about hairdressers? Although the fact that Phil's wife left him 'cause she was lesbian was kinda ok, since it's the only plausible reason why anybody would choose anybody else over Alan Rickman =P
Which Anne Rice Vampire are you?
by Tera
Oh eww, I always thought there was some incest thing going on with Gabrielle and Lestat.
Take The Which Dogma Character Are You? Test.
I liked Loki...he had kind of a one-track mind which mostly involved mass genocide, but he was a good guy. But check out the pic below...
Cute, ain't he? But when did angels start wearing watches...?
I am terrifyingly evil!
Find your soul type at kelly.moranweb.com.
Yeah, I got it. Do we really have to chat about how evil I already am all day?
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Friday, March 14, 2003
| I made my own animagus quiz and wand quiz! *insane grin*
Check out the animagus one here and the wand one here.
| Argh...Imagestation and Yahoo Groups doesn't like me very much. Look what it did to my header! *growls*
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Monday, March 10, 2003
You are the introvert, the watcher and the pessimist.
Your personality strengths:
You have a low-key personality. You are easy going, relaxed, calm, cool and collected. You are patient, well balanced and have a consistent life. You are quiet but witty, sympathetic and kind.You keep your emotions hidden and are happily reconciled to life. You are the all-purpose person.
Your strengths at home:
You will make a good parent and you will make time for the children if you have any. You are never in a hurry, can take the good with the bad and you don't get upset easily.
Your strengths at work:
You are competent, steady, peaceful and agreeable. You have administrative abilities and can mediate problems. You avoid conflicts but are good under pressure. You will often try to find the easy way to get things done.
Your strengths in relationships:
You are easy to get along with, are pleasant, enjoyable and inoffensive. You are a good listener with a dry sense of humour, you enjoy watching people and have many friends. You have a lot of compassion and show concern for others.
Your personality weaknesses:
You are unenthusiastic and can be fearful and worried. You are often indecisive and avoid responsibility. You have a quiet will of iron and can be very selfish. You can also be too shy and reticent. You are too compromising and can also be self-righteous.
Your weaknesses at home:
You are lax on discipline, can't organise the home and take life too easily.
Your weaknesses at work:
You are not goal oriented and lack self-motivation. You are hard to get moving and resent being pushed. (Yup! Got that right!) You can be lazy, careless and discouraging to others. You would rather sit back and watch rather than become involved.
Your weaknesses in relationships:
You can often dampen enthusiasm preferring to stay uninvolved. You are not exciting and are indifferent to plans that have been made. You often judge others and you can be sarcastic and teasing. You are very resistant to change.
| After watching a short clip from Mesmer, I realised that the band Savage Garden seems to have a thing for stealing lines from Rickman shows and turning them into lyrics.
And Chapter 7 of my fic is finally up. *whew* I had a serious writer's block for that one.
| I've just finished reading The Unauthorised Alan Rickman Biography. I think he must have hated this book, LOL. It practically dissects his life and puts it on display in a very impersonal and almost scientific exhibition. Like he's some species of new plant or something. Although I did like reading about his theatre and film history since it's so hard to get my hands on any of his stuff in Singapore.
For some reason, his childhood coincides with what I imagine Severus Snape's childhood was like. Maybe that's why he took on the role... after all he's known to be extremely picky about the characters he act and he's been complaining about getting type-cast as a villain, so it must have been something about the character that appealled to him.
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Sunday, March 09, 2003
I can sorta feel your pain... Catholic sch for 6 years, Christian sch for 4...the hymn singing was fun but everything else kinda sucked. could not understand why I was forced to attend mass even though the Theology scholar in me couldn't help but be rather fascinated by the whole ritual thing later on. But what exactly do you want to break free from? You want to be like a Solitary Christian? 'cos Christianity doesn't work that way you know... lotsa emphasis on community and family.
Oh the eternal life business. Interesting concept really. You know how Heaven is always portrayed as this land of eternal bliss and everything? Well, how do you know you're happy if you don't ever feel sadness? And if I'm not wrong, only Taoism and Christianity have this concept of eternal purgatory, ie Hell. (I haven't really studied the Hindu and Muslim religion, so I can't really comment on those. But I believe Christianity has some similarities with the Muslim religion.) Other religions I know of (Buddhism and Wicca) usually believe that our life on earth is Hell itself...something I remembered from Anna & The King:"Buddha says all life is suffering." The Hindu religion, I think, has similar beliefs. So far the only "religion" I know of that subscribes to the "there is only life and then death, no hell or heaven" is Satanism. Makes sense when you realise they believe the material world is our god and embracing the basest instincts of human nature is to achieve true enlightenment.
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You were a tree
What were you in your past life
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Great. Maybe I was an evil 1000-year-old tree spirit... and I have just been watching too many corny Chinese ghost stories. Or maybe a Whomping Willow?
| I've just finished reading The Winter Guest...it was a bit sad, but I thought there were some funny parts too...especially the two boys Tom and Sam. Sharman Macdonald has this very bare-bones way of writing, very straight-forward and simple. Easy to read definitely... and I find she has this fascination with beaches and the ocean. She claimed the play was kinda plotless, but I thought I could feel some sort of movement... not much, since it's really slow moving, but still some movement. And the nice thing about watching the movie trailer first helps me to imagine how it's gonna be like in my mind's eye on stage or on film.
| I seem to be rather pre-occupied with the sky. But anyway, today's sky looks right out of a painting...wispy clouds and everything.
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Saturday, March 08, 2003
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What? I certainly don't remember the part where the Heir of Slytherin (i.e. ME) gets thrown into Azkaban! But on the plus side, no Dementors are going to get to me 'cause I'll be in a constant state of delirious euphoria, LOL.
| In a much better mood today after I ran around all over Singapore...NTU for the admission talks, National Library for "The Dark Is Rising" sequence, library@esplanade for the play the "The Winter Guest" and Pasir Ris Library for "The Unauthorised Alan Rickman Biography". And yes, I have gone completely and utterly mad.
Oh and Claire, you won't really be the same as everyone else if you take mass comm, 'cause they're only taking in 175 people this year. Quite surprised that you're considering mass comm actually, since I remember you saying you would never go to NTU.
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Thursday, March 06, 2003
Piano lesson tomorrow... had a little typo just now and typed "paino". Well, that's exactly what it is to me at this point in time. Oh I like listening to classical music and everything, but I suppose I'm just too lazy to go practice those bloody scales. They make me drowsy cos they are so repetitive. And besides, I've always liked the sound of the cello better. Today is just one of my slightly bad-moody days I think... usually I find piano quite interesting.
Gotta do so many things... application for scholarships, university admissions, hostel... sian. And piano exams coming up as well. *groan*
Oh just ignore me... I'm in a cranky, grouse-y mood today.
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Wednesday, March 05, 2003
What's Your Soul Color?
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Harry Potter: Which Hogwarts professor would you be?
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You were expecting something else...? *arches eyebrow*
You are ... about to kill me for asking you these questions.
Who are you in the Harry Potter or Hogwarts Universe?
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How unusally smart of the person who wrote the quiz.
| Is it just me or do fanfic-version Voldemorts exist for the sole purpose of casting "crucio" on his followers so as to give Harry Potter a spliting headache? I'd certainly expect more from the Dark Lord that nobody dares to name. And you'd think that by now an intelligent man like Lucius Malfoy would know better than to stand there and get tortured by some barely human freak...
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Tuesday, March 04, 2003
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Monday, March 03, 2003
You are Galadriel!
Lord of the Rings: Which Ringbearer are you?
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I don't know what to say. You just utterly pulverized Legolas's fragile heart by being unfaithful. He can't understand it. He gave you his EVERYTHING: his money, his food, his love, his shelter, even his precious arrows!! And you STILL think its not enough. Why play him like that and act as if you love him when your heart is somewhere else? He's vowed never to love again, and will spend the rest of eternity trying to figure out the female psyche.
How will you break Legolas's heart?
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Ha! Take that, nancing elf-poof!
| All quizzes below courtesy of Chris...
Your an Elf!
What sort of RPG character are you?
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Have come to the conclusion that if you expressly say you want to be a Dark lord, you end up anything but.
Draco Malfoy
Which male HP character are you most compatible with?
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Great. Now I'm dating the bloody ferret. At least he's a Slytherin.
![[draco + hermione]](http://atypically.net/hp/images/dracohermione.jpg)
![[harry + lupin]](http://atypically.net/hp/images/harrylupin.jpg)
Ack! *chokes at both*
Which
Harry Potter Book Are You?
by Mina-Clare
I liked PoA better actually. Oh well.
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Saturday, March 01, 2003
| He's a fruitcake = ta1 shi4 shui2 guo3 dan3 gao1...*rolls on floor laughing*
Chris, I've heard even worse ones--ones that are totally unrelated to the original speech. My sis bought the pirated CoS vcd from China and the part where Harry hears the Basilisk hissing "...kill...time to kill..." in the walls has the subtitles "xiao3 xin1...xiao3 xin1"...*face faults*
The VSDs were funny, even if they were kinda slashy. *grins*
| I uploaded Chapter 6 of my fic! *whew*
But I think Chapter 7 is going to come by in about half a million light years later, LOL...
| Ah, it's working. Cool. =) Thanks for the code, Chris!
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