Tuesday, June 29, 2004
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| Speciality: | Potions |
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Woah. Is that even possible?
| That unopenable door on JK Rowling's site with the 'Do Not Disturb' sign can be opened now... and it opens to a brick wall. Took me forever to figure out the combination, even after watching Philosopher's Stone again.
She's bloody brilliant, but it still makes me want to choke her sometimes.
I don't know about the new Book 6 title though... sounds a bit dodgy somehow. Almost as dodgy as "Pillar of Storg�" or "Green Flame Torch". But never mind about the title - when is she going to finally release the freaking book?!
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Tuesday, June 22, 2004
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Monday, June 21, 2004
Cardboard
by Alfian bin Sa'at
Trembling, as if drenched in blood,
Her fingers slide across
The whispering surfaces of cardboard.
She folds them, as if they were her mother's bridal gowns.
With the tenderness of a storyteller after the final chapter
And the final truth.
Curiously crooked,
She could live in a box,
Crouched like a foetus.
Aching with ancient pains
In old joints
Wind dribbles through one fist
Hope dribbles through the other
Another box collapses...
On the day she folds her own coffin
Out of cardboard, from a box
Labelled "Fragile handle with care"
I only pray that "This side up"
Points heavenwards.
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Saturday, June 19, 2004
Other than the fact that the first minute or so was wasted on 'Hedwig's Theme' again, and it's missing that jaunt music Lupin put on during the Boggart scene, it sounds like a nice and rather enjoyable CD. Sounds like quite a number used medieval instruments or something, like 'Double Trouble' and 'A Window to the Past' (lovely haunting flute solo). And then there's the jazzy Knight Bus piece and the grand orchestra of 'Buckbeak's Flight' (seems like all the winged creatures in each movie get a piece named after them)... and the wordless-choir for 'Patronus Light'. As with the previous soundtracks the thematic material of the main song ('Double Trouble', in this case) gets repeated in many of the other tracks, but it wasn't as bad as the first album.
| LUPIN: So, Neville, what are you afraid of?
NEVILLE: Everything?
LUPIN: Besides that?
NEVILLE: Professor Snape.
LUPIN: Snape it is then! Make your fears funny and therefore harmless!
NEVILLE: *changes Snape into Drag Queen Grandma Snape*
DRAG QUEEN GRANDMA SNAPE: RUNS in my STOCKINGS? FIFTY POINTS FROM GRYFFINDOR!
RON: *changes giant spider into giant roller-skating spider*
PARVATI: *changes a snake into a GIANT SCARY CLOWN JACK-IN-THE BOX*
HARRY: Dude, you�re not helping.
LUPIN: Go on, Harry! I�m sure none of the things you�ve witnessed in your life would give the other students heart attacks at all!
HARRY: *conjures a dementor*
LUPIN: AHHH! CANCEL CANCEL CANCEL!
DRACO (writing):
Draco Potter
Draco Malfoy-Potter
Mr. and Mr. Malfoy-Potter
DRACO/HARRY SHIPPERS: YAY!
DRACO: *crumples up paper, starts over, sends over Origami Crane of Pigtail-Pulling*
THE NOTE:
Dear Potter,
HA HA!
EVERYONE ELSE: *leaves*
SNAPE [shouting after them]: WEREWOLVES WEREWOLVES WEREWOLVES!
Courtesy of "Prisoner of Azkaban in 15 minutes". The first few scenes were unfunny, but there were some gems in there.
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Monday, June 14, 2004
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow.
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
("Macbeth", William Shakespeare)
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Thursday, June 10, 2004
Threat rating: High. The Bush administration is
concerned that it may not get a second term.
Therefore, we are going to change the rules so
that each Democrat vote only counts as 0.2
votes because Democrat is a shorter word than
Republican
What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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| Watched "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" again! Must admit, after waiting so long for this next instalment, finally watching it for the first time left me a bit... empty? Maybe I was expecting too much out of it. But watching it a second time yesterday was far better � probably since I already knew what was going to happen, and of course the company somehow made every joke ten times funnier (don�t ask me why). We missed the opening sequence though, and that in my opinion was one of the good parts of the show... oh well.
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Tuesday, June 08, 2004
Fright Night for seniors' camp yesterday, seriously misjudged the time, so me and Tsewei ended up sitting there forever, waiting for some thing interesting to happen. As it turned out, we sat there til almost 5am before the people finally came to our station and they were too zonked out by then to have much reaction. Then I went for the debriefing, half asleep by then, and went back to my room to catch a bit of shut-eye (had to wait for the laundry at JP to open to collect stuff) before heading back home. And now I'm quite awake, strangely. Think I should really attempt to take a nap, otherwise Snape or no Snape I think I will be very blur during Harry Potter later... (yup, I'm watching it again - with my other family! Heh.)
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Thursday, June 03, 2004
| Prisoner of Azkaban starts today! I'm watching it tmr with my family... *glee*
Went to Bugis yesterday. The most amazingly bad idea ever. Way too many people 'cause of all those shops that sell incense and buddhist stuff, plus Guan Yin Tang in the vicinity. The rest of the week has been spent walking around aimlessly and reading the fifth installment of The Dark Tower Septology... there were so many Star Wars and Harry Potter references - snitches have become deadly explosive killing machines and come with a label that says "Harry Potter Model; serial 465-11-AA-HPJKR". And the Wolves of the Calla fight with light sabres. *amused*
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Tuesday, June 01, 2004
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