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It's a quiz overload! *grins*

Pic of Faol

Faol, half elf.

A wolf during full moon, an elf on other nights,
this young man is wild and full of energy. He
may be brash and sometimes hasty, but he does
know what kindness is and shows it.

Which Ratalier male is for you?
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*eyebrow twitches* All I can say is...Serry, you're the only one who's been speculating whether or not poor Faol has a nice butt.

Your SNAKE DAEMON shows that you are dangerous,
clever, and disconcert others with your
effortless power. You function best when left
to yourself, as other people's minds work too
slowly for your liking.

What Animal Would Your Daemon Settle As?
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I know there was a wolf result somewhere... but looks like my Slytherin side won out

What Animal Personality Are You?
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After I read The Dark Is Rising sequence again, I have come to the conclusion that... Merriman/Gwion/Will is very possible. *laughs* I can't believe it! I'm having slash sandwich ideas for a children's book! It's all Will's fault... there's this part in Silver on the Tree when the Lost Land is about to be flooded and he tells Gwion "I like you", and then I started thinking of the mysterious friendship Merriman has with Gwion, and then one thing just led to the other. *LOL*

Have not blogged for a while simply because I lead an extremely boring life and there's nothing much to say about it. Anyway... been trying to finish Chapter 5 of my HP fic. It's taking forever. Shall go off to read all the HP books all over again to get some inspiration, instead of reading Private Lives only about, like what, the 10th time? 'Course compared to the number of times I've read the HP books and The Dark Is Rising, there's basically no competition to speak of. ^_^'

I came across the astrological signs version of the classic changing the light bulb joke... below are the ones I found more amusing and most typical of the sign:

Q: How many Cancerians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Only one, but he has to bring his mother.

Q: How many Leos does it take to change a light bulb?
A: A dozen. One to change the bulb, and eleven to applaud.

Q: How many Virgos does it take to change a light bulb?
A: One to clean out the socket, one to dust the bulb, one to install, and two engineers to check the work.

Q: How many Libras does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Libras can't decide if the bulb needs to be changed.

Q: How many Scorpios does it take to change a light bulb?
A: None. They like the dark.

Q: How many Aquarians does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Have you asked the bulb if it wants to be changed?

Q: How many Pisceans does it take to change a light bulb?
A: What light bulb?

(Anybody who's curious to know what their's said and I didn't put it up here can just leave a msg in the comments box)

Tried some Bertie Botts Every Flavoured Beans my sister bought from New York the other day. Very extremely gross. Since I've never eaten boogies I wouldn't know if they tasted right, but the sardine and dirt flavoured beans were disgusting. One was super fishy and the other one tasted the way fertilizer smells, and the sugar had a strange way of grinding on your teeth like sand grains...maybe that was a psychological thing. And in the meantime, my dear 3-year-old cousin happily worked her way through them ^_^' The only thing she refused to touch was the cinnamon one, which was pretty okay actually. Of course there were nice and unusual flavours too, like grass and pepper... though the grass ones made me feel like I was a cow chewing daisies. *LOL*

Azriel: One of the darker angels... you are the
angel of death, and destruction... how do you
like that? Figures? yea... thought so...

Which Angel Lays Within You?
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I think it's supposed to be "lies within you", no? Incompetent fool *zaps quiz author with fiery sword* muahahaha~

You are...Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing!!!
You meanie. You hate men for no good reason
(and believe me, we are all wondering why).
Your entire family thinks you are a silly
goose, even your skanky maid. Get over
yourself and marry that handsome devil
Benedick...;)

What Famous Shakespearean Lady From A Comedy Are You? (10 Possibilities!!)
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Is that Emma Thompson in the picture?

Call him Sevvie and get your head bitten off.

You are Severus Snape.
You are a superbly sarcastic, somewhat evil wizard.
You are a former Death Eater but have found
your true calling in making students' life
hell.

Which Cool Evil Guy Are You?
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*smirks*

Remus Lupin, Defence Against the Dark Arts.

Harry Potter Quiz: Which Hogwarts Professor Are You?
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My second favourite professor! Did not like the Snape photo they put up in the quiz anyway.

You are the Dark Mother. Beautiful, dark,
protecting, you are the grace of the night. You
keep safe the newly turned and guide them
through their first dark days.

What Fictional Vampire Archtype are You?
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Why did I get this? Chris suggested that I might have gotten The Lone Wolf *grins* maybe... that would make more sense than the "protector and grace of the night", at any rate.
Hm... was wondering about vampirism. Ever wondered if one day you were turned into a vampire, what would you be like? Like the Anne Rice vampires, still keeping their minds and personalities, perhaps a little more...enhanced? Or like Dracula, all devil and no soul? There are some self-professed vampires who have websites... interesting to read and all. But not quite the demon possession they used to say it was. Then again they used to say witches were demon-possessed and consorts of the Devil, and I happen to think I'm rather human.

I was surfing Fanfic.net....and they have The Dark Is Rising fics...and they have slash pairings. *feels sick* I did not need that mental image... pairing Merriman with anyone is like pairing Dumbledore with anyone.

I drew Serry this morning... looks like another bishounen-ish sketch. *sigh* Every single guy I draw seems to turn out like that... or is it simply because most manga guys turn out prettier? If anybody can suggest some mangas where the guys don't turn out like this, for me to "study", I would be most grateful.

I've been reading this LoTR/HP crossover... pretty interesting. I'm already at Part 2: Stars In The River, and there's this part where the Gryffindor trio hitch a ride on the back of a Thestral (black winged horse, said to be able to turn invisible at will). And the Thestral calls Harry "black colt", calls Ron "bay colt" and calls Hermione "chestnut filly" *LOL* If you're interested, the link to Part 1: Clouds Over Snow is here.

I am never colouring with Photoshop again. Took me almost an hour just to colour the eyes in the picture above. But then again, I find the effects of colour pencil just don't work when you scan the picture in. Lazy person that I am, I didn't draw the town below... I can't remember where the photo is from. Anyway just drawing half of the wolf face was quite enough, thank you. And after so much work... the result is just a tiny 100 X 99 avatar. Why do I feel so cheated?

I managed to draw a smirk, so I had to try and draw Levizt...see it here. Now I've got to go off and try to draw Serry as well *grins*

I seem to be in some sort of drawing craze at the moment *grins* Happens when I see other people drawing and get inspired by their art... for example Aingeal's and my aunt's. This time I drew Isilme and Hyanda... (At this rate I think I'll be drawing all the Ratal people). Hope you don't mind me and my horrible drawing skills mutilating your chara, Isilme =D Wasn't very sure how the hair was supposed to look like ^_^' so it ended up like this. Don't worry, she didn't turn out looking like bishounen this time. Definitely girl.
Hyanda, on the other hand, ended up extremely bishounen =P Click here to see it. Then again, my impression of him has always been like that. Lothlorien elf and all.

I finally finished Chapter 4... without any strange Plot Bunnies popping up. I think. Now on to Hogwarts... what a relief.

I drew my impression of Eleris this morning as well... uncoloured, as usual. But at least she looks like a human child. You can see it here. Unfortunately, after I looked at my drawing a second time... I realised she could also be taken as a very pretty boy. *sighs* This is so hopeless (or as my sister likes to tell me, hoffnungslos). I think it's the hairstyle.
And the reason why I always draw side profiles only, is because I can never get the both sides of the face to balance properly *laughs* And they usually face the left, because I find them easier on the eyes that way.

Was doodling, and for some reason started drawing elves. You can see it here. Kinda looks like... bishounen. Or does it look like a girl after all? *shrugs* I also didn't have the patience to colour it. *laughs* Was thinking of drawing Silien when I drew it... now I think it's more "generic elf". Well, actually, aside from the pointy ears, you can't even tell it's an elf *LOL* If you still can't see it, Claire, try this link.

*defensively* It looked better in my sketchbook!

Quote from Emma Thompson's Sense & Sensibility: The Diaries:

"Hugh Grant breezes in after last night's premiere of An Awfully Big Adventure, in Timberland boots and specs, a blue shirt. Repellently gorgeous, why did we cast him? He's much prettier than I am."

It's okay Emma Thompson, I think you're Still The Prettiest. *laughs* According to her, one tourist poking his nose about the set when they were filming mistook AR for Tom Cruise *face faults* Proof that two billions years of evolution have still failed to work wonders with the intelligence levels of some people.
Lee Ang also seems to be a very giggly person o.O And he gave the crew massages and made them meditate before rehearsals.

All the Ratalie writing I've been doing for the past few days is doing weird things to my Chapter 4. ^_^' I think I should attempt to lock all disturbing plot bunnies in Ratal AU before they start rampaging my squeaky clean PG Harry Potter fic *swings Faol's broadsword desperately at the rabid rodents* Poor Faol will be eating a lot of rabbit stew for a long time *grins* Die, crazy rabbits, DIE!

*ahem* the above paragraph should be happily disregarded. Thank you.

Aiyah, duh, the comments are still there what... *glares at blogger for giving me a scare*

Hm. I didn't realise enatation deleted previous comments if you changed the template *sighs* oh well...

I've just read Noel Coward's Hay Fever...again with the Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? deja vu, except there were real kids who were equally nuts as the parents, so the game was four against four.

Then I read some Snoo Wilson plays: Vampire, The Grass Widow, The Glad Hand and Sabina. I didn't get most of any of the plays. In my (highly superficial) opinion, they just seemed to involve a lot of unnatural sex and a lot of nudity. Oh, and dead people and drugs. Vampire, for example, was a hugely unfunny Gothic farce thing, it was just plain disturbing (or maybe that was the point? I don't know). And The Grass Widow, though a lot more coherent, was just weird. There was this whole "God is an alien" thing a la Scientology, plus strange gangster/drug-dealer guy who insisted that we need to "get in touch with our inner snake" or something. But there were some funny parts at least, so I'd say it was the play I enjoyed the most. There was a bit of a whodunit feel 'cause Dennis (played by AR) was acting so strangely you didn't know if he was lying about his best friend's death or not, or even if he really was the guy's best friend and it was really creepy when one of the characters, Carmen (played by Tracey Ullman), unearths a pile of bones in a chest of papers. Plus piranhas in the hot tub *LOL* reminds me of a Weird Al song.

And either it's just me, or my blog is turning into a book review column. *LOL*

I found a rather amusing picture...HP/StarWars:

*LOL* courtsey of Mugglenet

Went to Aingeal's house today... was great fun! Thanks for having us over! *grins* Plus you finally updated your blog! Quizzes below are from there.

Hermione Granger

Eternal Magic : Which Harry Potter Girl are You?
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Duh...boring. But then again, there aren't many HP girls anyway... unless you count McGonagall and Trelawney?!

You are one of the Sindar.

Also called the Grey Elves, they were made up of a large portion of the Telerin Elves, which remained in Beleriand searching after their lost king. There they dwelt with and fought alongside the Noldor in the great Wars of Beleriand, after which they dispersed into the forests of the world, ruling remnant kingdoms of the rustic Silvan Elves, before retreating into the West, where all Elves eventually came in their end.
They are known as the Grey Elves of starlit Beleriand, for before the return of the renegade Noldor and the Enemy from the West they dwelt in the twilit forests there, gaining much knowledge. They were accounted the fairest and most wise of the Dark Elves who never completed the great march.

What type of Elf are you?
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Er... that's nice. Even though I don't really understand what all that meant.

You are Morgan Le Faye, King Arthur's sister. One
of the most mysterious and enchanting lady of
Camelot, Morgan was an powerful sorceress.

Which Lady of Camelot Are You?
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*makes face* That's all well and fine, 'cept am so not into the whole incest thing, nor will ever be.

I read There's A Girl In My Soup! (by Terence Frisby) yesterday...*tries to imagine AR in an apron*

*ends up laughing self silly...er...sillier*

I've just finished watching The Barchester Chronicles...well the first part was quite boring really but everything sort of picked up when AR entered the picture, then got incredibly tedious again after that. Well the good thing about it was AR looked very good in it (which made me want to screen-cap every second he was on screen) and he also managed to not end up very dead in this show like he usually does. *wry smile* He managed to stalk out haughtily and sneer "I hope the both of you live forever" at the Bishop (who was a complete wimp) and the Bishop's domineering, manipulative and ugly wife. Interestingly, Geraldine McEwan (who played the Bishop's wife) also played AR's mother in Robin Hood--Prince of Thieves. I thought she looked familiar.

Someone suggested that in view of the projected sales of the fifth HP book, the sixth should be titled "Harry Potter & the End of Trees" *LOL* I think I shall be very environmentally friendly and download the OotP (free) then. And of course my sole concern is that the poor trees should not be harmed. Do you see that nice ozone-layer halo around my head? *smirks*

A BLUE Dragon Lies Beneath!

If there ever was a draconic example of a supple attitude, my Inner Dragon is it. Blues are the Water Elemental dragon - typified by their Steam breath weapon. Pretty creative, huh? It goes right along with my Inner Dragon's tendency to maim, but not destroy. Much like my native oceans and rivers will deform the rock over time, eventually wearing it away to nothing.
Humans shouldn't make the mistake of thinking I'm weak, however. After all I'm a good 30 feet in length and have a penchant for materializing out of any body of water, no matter how small. I also enjoy communicating with aquatic life-forms, hunting in totally inhospitable terrain (i.e. 3000 feet below the waves), and using my fluid nature to my advantage. My enemies probably won't even see me approach in the first place. My favorable attributes are the sunset, Autumn, water, compassion, intuition, and calmness. Naturally, I pity the fool who'd try and prove that calmness part, he'd probably wind up being scalded. *small grin*

Take the Inner Dragon online quiz!
Well the picture belongs to me actually... *grins* It comes from my oracle cards.

They're showing Michael Collins on Star Movies and I don't have SCV! *sighs* I wonder if they have it at the library... I upgraded my membership to a Premium yesterday. *grins*

And Chris... I watched the Tomb Raider 2 trailer... there are British guys and one almost resembled AR when he had all of 0.01 seconds of screentime, but the voice is all wrong. Plus a longer shot of him made me decide that he definitely wasn't AR. But I think I need a second opinion just to be sure... see the trailer here.

Chapter 3 of my fic is up! Oh, and btw Chris, the sms you sent me yesterday...I think you meant Chapter 2 was better than Chapter 1 right? 'cause to me Chapter 1 was really too choppy.

Did you people see the VJC website? David Thian was awarded the Angier B Duke Memorial Scholarship by Duke University. And he's one of the 15 recipients in like, the world. (what was that sound? oh, that was my mind boggling) Anyway if he ever comes around to this blog, congrats! If not (which is really the likelier case) then...it's the thought that counts?

Ack! They've got The Barchester Chronicles at Woodlands Library! The videos!!! I think I just found new motivation to get an upgrade on my library membership. And after I manage to borrow it... I have this very very strong premonition that I'll, uh, accidentally lose it.

Hmm... this AR obsession of mine has certainly resulted in me reading stuff I never thought I'd read. I went to Woodlands Library on Wednesday to borrow some books (I can't believe they only have single copies of so many things and they're all either in Woodlands Library or in the Storage-Room-That-Never-Sees-The-Light-Of-Day) and among them was Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts(a.k.a. Those Who Walk Again), Public Enemy and When We Dead Wake. They were quite interesting to read, although the latter was all about symbolism and I got a bit lost. The first two were social criticisms, questioning what is deemed "right" in society (although his was a late 19th Century society, so some stuff is a bit back-dated) like concepts such as duty and "the majority is always right". When We Dead Wake was more personal I suppose, since it was Ibsen's last work. It's about an artist who sacrifices the love of his life for his art, and after that wonders if his "masterpieces" were really that good and if he has actually accomplished anything after all.

Basically I had wanted to read When We Dead Wake since AR played Professor Rubek in it. And then I found out that he was in Ghosts too. I still can't believe AR played Pastor Manders...it was such a goody-two-shoes character tragically believing that he had "done right" when all he had really done was screw everything up because he had trusted in the inherent good of Man and the special blessings of God. Rubek on the other hand was an interesting character (although according to directions he was supposed to be an elderly man, which AR wasn't in 1976). He was a sculptor who'd created what he had termed his one great masterpiece, in doing so losing the one woman he loved and the source of his inspiration. But as time went by before the piece was made public, he changed it, so that the original idea of the piece was lost and an almost entirely new piece was made...and though it made him famous, he started to wonder if perhaps it would have been better to just have left it as it is, if the original idea hadn't been better. *sigh* Not the first artist/writer I've heard saying that.

Irena: We see the irreparable only when--
Rubek: When--?
Irena: When we dead wake.
Rubek: What do we really see then?
Irena: We see that we have never lived. ("When We Dead Wake", Henrik Ibsen)

I watched Blow Dry today... the guy who acts as Filch is in it. And he's just as psycho, 'cept he's got sheep instead of cats. Then Josh Hartnett had this accent that reminded me of Sean Biggerstaff, though he didn't do half bad. Anyway it was a weird show... amusing, but silly. And a bit choppy. But a very gorgeous someone's smirk made it all worth the 3 bucks I paid to rent it. *grins* Plus the Yokeshire accent and calling everyone "luv" like Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer... *shivers with undisclosed emotion*

Am presently reading this AU fic where Harry and Draco become best friends, and came across this really dumb conversation:

"It's just the whole pulling a sword from a hat business. You pull rabbits from hats."
"I don't think I'd have fancied trying to kill a basilisk with a rabbit."
"Oh, but I would love to see you try it. Imagine it. Imagine the photos." Draco went into a quick but energetic roleplay. "The brave hero brandishes his fluffy and whimpering pet of doom. 'Back, back, foul serpent!' Thwack! Distressed squeak. Th--"

Dumb but funny...Can you imagine Malfoy doing that? *LOL*

mood

Translation:
Nemo nisi mors.

the subject

utopist. dreamer. cynic. poet. a contradiction. eccentric. cartesian. a starlight in the gloom.

The patient, born in 1984, suffers from a history of idealism of unknown onset and duration.

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