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Tuesday, June 22, 2004

this is getting seriously stupid. its 2am, i'm still studying, and all i can think about is blogging. argh.... wat's going through my mind right now? uncharitable thoughts. Very uncharitable thoughts. Was just thinking about her, and why I don't like her, and I realised that some times, you may not like a person cos that person is inconsistent with the schema/stereotype that you have about what a person from somewhere would be like. OHmigosh! What am I thinking? All I'm thinkig about rightnow is what a geek she is. My goodness... Its just inconceivable that she can be such a geek, and still think that she's totally cool and awesome. Ok... should give her the benefit of the doubt. She doesn't think she's cool lah. that's just me. But even though she doesn't actually THINK she's cool, she sure does act as though she's the coolest person on earth. Duh. Just thinking about her dress sense man..... quite bad. Her jeans don't even fit her properly, and her colours are all wrong. Saw her in this skirt before, and it just looked so so so wrong on her. Then again, its the skirt, and the skirt could actually pass off as a formal shirt..... think she was wearing it with a t-shirt??? ewwww..... I don't understand why I'm being so mean and bitchy all of a sudden. I mean, I'm normally not like that, am i? Why do i suddenly feel like I have a bone to pick with her. How ironic that she isn't even a relevant person in my life. Argh. I hafta get over this. Its just annoying me to no end. My goodness.....she's such a geek. I just hate it that she thinks she's so cool and puts on that bloody condescending attitude when she talks to me. Argh! Here's something else that pisses me off. I hate it that she knows what had happened. To rephrase that. I think she knows some things which she shouldn't have known in the first place. And i feel judged everytime she looks at me or talks to me. Maybe that's where that whole "condescending" thing comes in. Hmmm.... whatever it is, I've got my life and she's got hers, thank goodness. I'm just glad that we never were close. Argh.


Leanne rocked @ 6/22/2004 09:31:00 PM | Comment

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this is absolutely nuts! i'm so excited! Auds is extending her trip, and she's gonna be staying till Sat. Which is good, cos then I can spend a bit more time with her! Yay!!

On a lesser note, I've got social psych coming up tmr, and all i can think of is how my territory to becomming enroached... Hrumph. There goes my private space. If it were anyone else, I wouldn't mind.... but.... sigh. This is getting annoying.

Went to KCOC with Mr Ang on Sunday, and it was very very different from Barneys, and not so different from Meth church back home, or Kong Kong's church. It was small and homey, and everyone knows everyone else. Everyone was just so friendly. Talked to a few old aunties, and its nice cos they're soooo motherly, you feel like they're the sort that would take care of you if they knew you needed taking care of or something. If anything.... wouldn't mind joining their home groups at KCOC cos everyone's just so nice, and its a really comfortable crowd to be with. Yup!

Something really stupid happened just this afternnon. I found the easter aggs in the lotr extended dvds, and it was really funny. I cracked up so bad, i thought i'd just pass out from laughing. So anyhow, I decided to call Kalvin, and ask him to copme over, so he could see it. I know he'd get a kick out of it. And guess what? I called the wrong person. Forgot that lyann was holding on to Kalv's old number and ended up calling her instead. I was absolutely stunned for a minute. But I covered it up well enough! Hahahahaha!

I can't wait to get through this period. Its asolutely killing me. Why is it that everything you have shitloads of work to do, you always find something else ten times more fun to do? I feel like I'm missing out on so much, then again, that's what got me into trouble in the first place.

On a lesser note, i absolutely hate it when ppl write in the cutesy way. i read through this girl's blog and she was writing like dat. she tinks that subsituting i for mi and adding in a whole ton of lah, haiz, lor, keke is so cute.

HOW CAN ANYONE WRITE LIKE THAT? or should i say lidddat??

Tis unnatural, that's what it is.



Leanne rocked @ 6/22/2004 09:31:00 PM | Comment

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Monday, June 21, 2004

Hrum... sittin here in Badham, trying to hang onto the computer for the next hour, or for the next half an hour. Waiting for da jia and Mr Ang to turn up..... sigh.

I've never really thought myself to be really close to Auds. But somehoqw, with her gone, I can't help but miss her.... sigh.... Hope she's having fun somewhere in the country though.

It was really funny. We all deicded to send auds up to newcastle, and so we rented a car. Then we thought that since newcastle's just 30 mins away from Hunter Valley, we might as well make a stop there first, before dropping her off at her friend's place. Armed with a really shitty brochure map, we drove right straight through hunter valley without even realising it. Haha! How sad and How dumb, when you think about it.

We were all kinda expecting to get to this HUGE winery where we could get down, stretch, and taste wine. Were even hoping to buy a bottle or two back home. Apparently, you just had to stop at any small "house" along the way, and that was it. TAlk about tourism man. Most ppl would want the "real" thing. I mean, most tourists would obviously try to srtay off the really really tacky touristy areas so that get to see more of the place they are visiting. And us? We just kinda assumed that there would be a "main" winery, with loadsa ppl there. Talk about the current age of consumerism, and how we tend to expect things coming in a nice pretty package that we forget what it really is. Hehe! Now THAT'S what i call hyper-reality.

Arghhhhhh... wher are they???????

LIIIIIIMEEEIIIIIIII!!!! WHEREEEEEE ARE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU?????????

MR ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNG!!!!!!! WHEEEEEEERE ARRRRRRE YOOOOU????!!?!?!?!

Argh. I don't believe this.

Writing all this rubbish and crap into my blog.

Its painful for me to write all this shit, just as it is painful for you to read all this crap.

I've decided that I'm not gonna go home for the winter, and I know that i'm seriously seriously gonna miss home. Somehow, I just assumed that i'd be fine, but..... well.... dunno. shall see how it goes. I shall occupy myself as much as possible, so i won't get overly homesick.

Dad's decided to relocate to Shanghai in 2006. I would have already graduated by then. Wonder what I'm gonna do. Maybe I'll just move with the family as well and teach English there, like Lyann teaches English in Japan.

Ok.

Mr Ang is now here. I shall go print my stuff, and go grab food.



Leanne rocked @ 6/21/2004 01:10:00 PM | Comment

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Friday, June 18, 2004

i am such a mean bitch

just read something, and everything he said just fell into place.

argh

i think we should just stop it

stop talking about what or which expensive little bauble we're gonna get on the trip back

stop talking about THAT watch that WE'VE ALWAYS wanted that we're never gonna have

stop talking about THAT handbag that your mum's-cousin's-daughter's-niece's-neighbour's friend - aka AUNTY XXX - is gonna get for you.

He would say "pang pui"

And i agree.

pang pui

We should all just stop it.

That.

Or maybe i'm just nit-picking on poor little miss...


Leanne rocked @ 6/18/2004 06:32:00 PM | Comment

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Lord of the Rings Symphony - conducted by Howard Shore

I was totally blown away.


Leanne rocked @ 6/18/2004 05:13:00 PM | Comment

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I am sitting here in front of my laptop, with the internet connection disabled, itching to blog.

Why? Cos i've just found some juicy tidbits about the huge hoo-ha surrounding the Troy soundtrack, Betcha didn't know that, didja?!!

Auds is here, and she's so kindly bought me the soundtrack of THE TWO TOWERS!!! (yay! one more strike through my wishlist!!) Its a really excellant soundtrack, and i can't rave enough about it!!! Now that i've got all 3 of them, i've just been listening to them one after the other, and it never fails to amaze me how seamless they all are. Anyway, the point is that I was so hooked onto the soundtrack, i HAD to go online to get the lyrics to some of the songs in the soundtracks. Cos not all the lyrics are printed on the CD sleeves. It was getting pretty annoying, trying to figure out what the choir was singing anyway. I was looking for the lyrics, when i came across this really good Filmtrack site with pretty good reviews. Was looking through the reviews for "Harry Potter: Prisoner of Azkaban" (was wondering if I should get it) when I just deided to click on the "Troy" review.

Yes, Folks. Troy.

Those who watched the movie with me would know that while i did enjoy the movie, I wasn't terribly impressed with itt. Why? Cos I thought that it was too commercialised. Too Hollywood-ish. Ok, somehow, I couldn't help copari it with Peter Jackson's LOTR. I mean, its not like there totally isn't a basis for comparison. They're both e[ics of some sort, aren't they? ANd therealways is an element of good triumphing over evil, or some sort of moral in the story - I digress. The point I am trying to make is this. I watched LOTR, sat through 9 hrs of it, and In always come away feeling awed, and totally immersed in it. I watched Troy, and i sat there, always fully aware that it was just a show. I don't know how to explain it.

While Troy was good, I just think that it didn't really do the Illiad any justice. There was just way too much focus on the battles, and I just felt that the whole movie was too battle oriented. DUH!!! Troy IS all about the battle. What am I talking about??!!! What I mean is that I felt that Troy had the potential to go deeper... all the characters the potential to really develop. But everytime we went slightly beyond the surface of the character, it's back to the battle again. There wasn't really a chance for the audience to truly identify with the characters before being dragged back into the midst of war and battle again. One scene that really struck a chord in me, however, was the scene where Paris (Orlando Bloom) had done battle with XXX (can't remember his name) and crawled to his brother (Hector) for protection. I love the way Paris was portrayed in that scene, a prince of a great city, down on his knees, vulnerable and humble in front of his father, his brother, his subjects, his people. No sense of misplaced 'honour' or 'glory'. Just a desperate attempt to save his own life. This poor dude just wanted to live out the rest of his days in peace, with his beloved, start a family, and do what any other normal guy would do, and if he has to abandon his pride to do so, so be it.

Darn.

I keep digressing.

Back to soundtracks. did you know that while James Horner, the guy who composed the Titanic soundtrack composed the Troy soundtrack, he wasn't the original guy who was commissioned by Warner Bros to do so?

Basically, Gabriel Yared was originally asked to do so. After assembling a 100 piece orchestra and sought the help of Macedonian vocalist Tanja Tzarovska, he was dismissed by Warner Bros on the basis that the music was too brassy and too bold, and James Horner was brought in on it instead. Apparently, Warner Bros had already begun to put out feelers for someone else, even before the foul test screening. Yared, naturally feelign quite outraged by the sudden termination, wrote an open letter, and pu up audio clips of his work on his site. Naturally, Filmtrack lovers and critics preferred Yared's work to Horner's work, and lotsa ppl have begun to search for the "original" Troy film soundtrack whether through "promotional form, or bootleg". =D

Hrumph. I've just ranted and raved for about half a page, adn I still don't know what point I wanted to make.

I just wanted to
1. tell everyone that I still like LOTR a lot better.
2. tell eveyone about poor Yared.
3. tell everyone about more filmtrack crap, and what i think makes a good score good.

What makes a good Filmtrack good.
Boy! I look at the music critics, and just think that they are so amazing! Whoa! What I'd give to be able to dissect a score in the way they do! How much more would I get out of it man!! To keep it short and sweet, cos i know that most of you are probably bored by now, and probably no one's reading thign, a good soundtrack makes you think about the film, about the music, makes you recalll the emotions yu felt as you watched that particular part of the film. A good foundtrack makes you fall back into the movie all over again. It makes u feel what you felt at the movies, without the benefit of visual stimulation. A good soundtrack IS the movie. A good soundtrack makes you forget the composer altogether. I mean, I wanna hear something that will make me fall into it totally, and not be conscious and think "hmm... yes.... that's definitely John Williams." I wanna hear the Harry Potter soundtrack and feel like there really is magic out there, and that enchanted cars DO fly. I wanna listen to Pirates of the Carribean and literally feel the "swashbuckling-ness" of it all. I wanna listen to Anakin's theme and feel the hint of sadness at the end of the song which speaks of his dark fate. I wanna hear the theme song of Minas Tirith and feel like I'm really being swept up into its 7 tiers of grandeur. I want the music to be able to wrap itself around me, and transport me into a ficitious world. Once that has been done, once i identify a hobbit theme song as particularly "hobbitish" for example, the Composer has indeed done his job, and has created a piece of work that truly is 3-dimensional. Now THAT is what I call a good filmtrack.


Leanne rocked @ 6/18/2004 12:44:00 PM | Comment

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Thursday, June 10, 2004

did i fail to mention that i've got a pimple mustache now???

and no, unlike the stupid msn and friendster pictures, this is NOT deliberate


Leanne rocked @ 6/10/2004 03:33:00 PM | Comment

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Sigh.... i'm so tired. just did my sociology presentation, and in half an hour's time, i'll be doing my social psych test worth 33.3% exactly. Argh. I'm so tired and everything.... been cramming and mugging and just doing the darn readings over and over again, my eyes are about to pop.

I'm stressed.

Exams are 2 weeks away

And auds is coming for 1 entire week.....

Sigh...... i dunno how i'm going to cope man.

I guess it's only with God's grace that i can even hope to pass my exams.....

Sigh....

I'm in uni now, sitting at the keyboard and typing this out when i KNOW that i should be going through my notes again. Better for encoding lah.....

I'm sick of studying

I just wanna bum.

I shall go home and nua after this... and maybe change my blogskin.

A new skin is always prevents blog death.



Leanne rocked @ 6/10/2004 03:23:00 PM | Comment

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Monday, June 07, 2004

Ai! laurie lantar lassi surinen yeni unotime ve ramar aldaron! Yeni ve linte yuldar avanier mi oromardi lisse-miruvoreva Andune pella, Vardo tellumar nu luini yassen tintilar i eleni omaryo airetari-lirinen.

Si man i yulma nin enquantuva?

An si Tintalle Varda Oiolosseo ve fanyar maryat Elentari ortane, ar ilye tier undulave lumbule; ar sindanoriello caita mornie i falmalinnar imbe met, ar hisie untupa Calaciryo miri oiale. Si vanwa na, Romello vanwa, Valimar!

Namarie! Nai hiruvalve Valimar. Nai elye hiruva. Namarie!


Leanne rocked @ 6/07/2004 12:10:00 PM | Comment

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i know i haven't blogged for ages.... couldn't bring myself to.

taking a break from 'the limbic' system, and decided to surf the net, and guess what i came across??? Another one of those test from quizilla! Heh!!! First time i did it, i decided that i'll just do it without consciously picking the answers... if you know what i mean, and guess who i ended up with?

your match is haldir!
Guard and guide... Dressed in grey, Haldir of
Lorien takes your breath away with his eyes and
tantalizing voice. He'll be away from home
often, off to the borders to insult Dwarves and
be insulted in turn. There's coolness and
aloofness on the outside, but if you are able
to unleash the fire within, you will be one
happy girl! One thing: if you want to keep him,
tell him not to wear red when going to battle.


Which LotR-man would be your match?
brought to you by Quizilla

MY BABY!!! yay! I swear, i didn't deliberately pick answers!!!

anyway, i decided to pick answers just for fun lah, and since i think Hugo Weaving's a really good actor, decided to pick Elrond next...

your match is elrond!
So you like 'em solemn and a bit older, don't you?
You would love to smooth away the wrinkles in
Elrond's brow; poor, troubled Elrond. If you
don't mind his grave moods, the Lord of
Rivendell will be the perfect mate for you;
after all, he lives very prettily and he has
the most amazing eyebrows in all of Arda.


Which LotR-man would be your match?
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I can't believe i'm doing this. Shows the extent of my restlessness....


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