She's pretty as can be, but unfortunately her chair is in kind of... two pieces right now. The back rest has crappy joints that broke D:. I need some glue... Oh yeah, I got Fluffy too, if you wanted to take a look. He actually pretty darn heavy...

Work tomorrow, but a late change gives me the morning shift instead of the afternoon one, so I can be home properly in time~ Sucky (Well... understandable) fireban means no barbecqued duck for us. We'll have to try and fit it in the oven. Lots of people (well, okay, only a few, but i'v enoticed it) ask if we have Bleach. I'm surprised people don't know it's not licensed, although it's encouraging that the fansub watchers still want to buy it. Most giddy/horror inspiring plot twists of the year have come from Bleach and Battlestar Gallactica though. The end of episode 60 left me in a 'omgwtfbbq need to know what happens!' state.

Mainly because I think it's going to entail Renji getting beaten up again D:

As sad as that sounds though, I find it terribly endearing that he always seems to loose. Such is the nature of side characters, but I find the likes of Ichigo to be easy to root for, but the outcome is highly predictable and thus dulls the perception of the character. You know Ichigo is, in one way or another, going to win. It's just, you know, a general rule of main-character-ness that people regularly follow. It's so much more facinating when someone doesn't win as expected. Someone in the WF once described Deus ex Machina as being what happens when the author flinches at the last moment. Setting up the character for a spectacular fall, only to be unable to complete it at the last momemt because they just can't bring themselves to do it. So they invent something to get them out of the bind and away from the harm of their own writing. But I digress slightly... To me there's definitely something more appealing about a character like Renji who, even though he gets his arse kicked, still attempts to succeed. It's much more interesting to see someone fail spectacularly than to win.

But, one must admit, it's harder to commit to. There's definitely a factor of "But I just want them to be happy! D:..." in most characterisations (happy endings are taken to much better than sad ones, after all...). But like... hmm. One has to try not to flinch.

That turned really rambling...

~Kimi

Saw Chronicles of Narnia today. Overall it was quite good, but I prefer my high-fantasy to be more... LotR-ish. It just kind of makes you appreciate the richness of Tolkein's world when you compare it to things like Narnia. I mean, yeah, the movie was pretty and entertaining, but it had this horrible sensation of reminding me in certain parts of what I dislike about amateur fantasy. I mean, when Edmund asked for Turkish Delight and the Ice Queen was all *magical poof*, the nitpicky part of my brain just went spaztastic. "How the heck would she know what a Turkish Delight IS?". Maybe it comes from bitching to people about their un-realism, Mary Sues and plotholes. Or maybe I'm just a stickler for detailed, stand-alone fantasy. None of this 'Speshul kids go to spiffy fantasy world, get stuck in prophecy and learn swordsmanship skills in two days'

Not to say that's a bad premise, but i just found it a little... lacking. Maybe I'm taking it too seriously... I mean, it's supposed to be a childrens book after all.

That reminds me though... I totally need to ACTUALLY WRITE MORE. I was looking over my bloody, what, 20 related documents, thinking "Yeah, I totally know what's going to happen and all", but then realising I've only written 1/10th of that. I want it to be good and interesting and worthy of being read, but at this rate I'll never finish the damn thing in less than 15 years. Although, when you let things simmer for like, one year, you get some good plot devices going on.

I finished Prince of Persia 3 the other week as well. I think I'll write more about it later, but suffice to say it's a lot better than two, and I'm now sad it's over :(. Also, Yuri Lowenthal is love~ <3. And I don't like watching super spiffy cinematic trailers, only to realise the cinematics aren't in the game. It's like when my brother told me Mary jane dies in Spiderman... you keep expecting more/different things to happen, which distracts you from what's actually happening. But I digress...

~Kimi

My brother was flicking over the channels while I was having a break from playing Fire Emblem, and an Arab news program on SBS (From the United Arab Emirates, I think...) had an article about the Cronulla riots. Kind of puts things into a bit of perspective. That and it makes Australia look really, really bad.

I mean, I thought we were better than this? Reading about it gives me the chills. There was an article in the SMH which mentioned a young kid around 12 or 13 urging on an older group who were chasing a young woman trying to take off her headscarfe. That's just... eugh. Sickening stuff. Mobs chasing down a lone person just because of the way they look? I don't care what your excuse is, that shit ain't right. That goes for the actions of both sides too. In culturally diverse countries such as our conflict is always going to arise from both sides. But that doesn't stop me wishing it wouldn't happen...

~Kimi

Okay, can someone name me one piece of fucked up legislation that the government hasn't passed yet?

IR reforms, Telstra, terrorism laws, and now VSU. I'm sorry, it hurts my brain to think of such horrors. At least Barnaby Joyce was smart. Too bad Fielding wasn't. Urgg! Reading quotes like this make me sad, because it could have worked out to be a good compromise.

"This was driven by a cabal of people ... who are driving this issue out of some sort of political nirvana that they want to achieve rather than out of the impacts that this will have on the ground," Senator Joyce said. "We could have got rid of compulsory student unionism, we could have made sure that the funding mechanisms for political purposes had been stopped and we could have also preserved what a university is."

Why did people have to give them power in the senate... why? D:

Oh yeah, before I neglect to mention, Homebake was really awesome~ XD I got to see a lot of great acts, like Wolfmother, End of Fashion and The Cat Empire. Random highlight of the day was the lead singer from End of Fashion just walking past me and complimenting me on my (End of Fashion...) bag I'd just bought. I thought that was kind of cute... Meeting Lany again was awesome too~ Glad we got to do stuff together for the last part of the day. It was actually near impossible to properly hear The Dirty Three over the Finn brothers though, so that was kind of wasted.

I really feel like eating pancakes now...

Big thanks to Mathew for giving me the tix too X3. It was a great day out.

~Kimi

Yuri Lowenthal is reprising hi role for the next Prince of Persia game. This makes me happy.

I mean, it can't be as bad as the second one. Not when it has Farah, and the Prince bitching to his evil!Prince half, and vice versa. I feel like playing Sands of Time now...

How's Canada? Have you seen any snow yet? It's kind of raining here, which isn't quite the same.

I have a cold...

~Kimi

Awww...

But damn it! I was angsting a little there. But, as Alanna said; It's a damning indictment of your friendship if you don't rant on about your friends while drunk. So I took comfort in that...

's nice to know you were only teasing though.

Meanwhile, Karaoke is awesome. But they were missing key songs of awesomeness! Like "All that Jazz" and "Heroes" and "Prisoner of Society". So by the end of it we were just singing our own goddamn songs. Although, "Fly Me to the Moon" got belted out a few times on the machine. When the others weren't yelling/singing it was mostly me and Alanna (We made our own, slow version of Fly me To the Moon since they only had an upbeat tempo. And we were just getting stuck into A Whole New World when we had to leave 'snif'... damnit!). I have been infomed that I have a good singing voice, although I don't know how true this is. If I had to sing from memory I would forget half of it though... and remote controls + drunk people = not working. However, despite what may be suggested, I was practically sober for the whole night. By 11 I was just... "You people are drunk and I'm not. This sucks". Evidently I went home since people were leaving for either a) sleep, or b) more drinking.

Durrrh. I need sleep now. Although, I got a crit on Lamentations, and I'm not sure how i should take this comment;

"But, again, this was a lovely story. The main character's voice was very strong. Even in this first chapter, her speech patterns are clear, as is her dispostion. Your characterization is very well done."

...I mean, the compliments were heart-warming. But... Oh dear. I hope she doesn't think my narrator is female. Katen is all man, dang it! Just because he's a little... sensitive and angsty.

T_T

~Kimi

Your last minute message made me go "awww."
I know you wouldn't say anything bad about me to your friends, even if you were piss drunk. I was just teasing you about your wild ways!

Anyways, I think I should still be able to talk to you sometimes on MSN, because it is not as if Canada is backwards and have no internet.

Kam

I'm sure you'll be right flying up~ I mean, your stopover is in Vancouver, right? They speak english. There are people there to help you if you get lost. And if you miss your flight I'm sure they'll arrange something.

But sweet jeebus @_@. That timetable sounds busy... I only have to choose 3 subjects for next year, although I don't know how long they are... (Come to think of it, I'm not even sure when I'm meant to enroll for them. I think it's at the beginning of next year or something). I know I want to do Graphics/Media, probably Object Design, but I dunno about the last... maybe jewelery or something. We have to drop one for 3rd year anyway. I'm actually kind of excited about next year X3. Now that we're doing electives instead of just standard subjects. I think I need to get my arse into gear a little though. I got so damn swamped by assignments towards the end of this semmester. Usually I don't stress about stuff like that but this time I did a little... Hopefully I'll pass that goddamn Interactive Systems course. I mean, I handed in the essay and did the exam so I should get something. I think our speech went okay too.

I still have my job though, which is 'yay'. I'd been thinking a little since I hadn't had a shift for like, 4 weeks since i had assignments, that maybe Dave forgot about me. Maybe you could try getting something part-time in the holidays? But I can see your dilema... As I was moping to myself in the last week before assignments, "There just aren't enough hours in the day".

~Kimi

Ok, so I told a lie. These are not 3 hour praticals anymore, they are fucking 4 hours now.

Kam

So I'm doing pre-enrollment stuff for next year.

I'm keeping in mind that I have to find days for when I can go and find a job.

Not only have they lowered the units for each course, but I still have to do the same minimum number of unit points for each semester. This basically means I have to pick up an extra subject, just to keep up with this course.

I do science, so each one of my subjects is about 3 hours with pratical, that could vary from 2-3 hours. Now I don't know if I have to do more praticals next year, or if I still get the one. Even if I just get the one, I have to do 4 science subjects in one semester. That is like having a practical on every day of the fucking week. Each one of these subjects has a 20% report, 15% essay, pratical exam, and one of them I have to do some sort of fucking bug collection.

Or, I could stay out of the creepy bug collection one and pick up a course that gives me the same number of course units, but I'll have to do an assignment every week, a report every second week, a 3 hours pratical exam, 20% worth of quizzes and 5 hour pratical per fortnight.

I just can't see when I'll ever get the time to go find a job! @_@

WTF.............................

Kam

So I'm flying up to canada next week. (Don't you dare say it) I'm kinda scared because I've never flown alone, and I've never had to switch flights in a foreign airport all by me onesies, and there's a part of me that wonders what'll happen if I can't find the right terminal and I get stranded like in that movie with Tom Hanks.

I've got three requests for snow in a bottle. Do you want one?

Kam

You fainted? Damn, that's another thing you've done before I've gotten the chance to. :(

Kam

Because having heatstroke (or something...) on the train is totally the best way to prepare for an exam in half an hour.

Fainting in public sucks... but people are really nice which is cool. It rstores your faith in human nature when strangers stop to help you and give you water. One guy even offered to walk with me to the bus stop at Town Hall to make sure I was alright.

Although I don't know if it was a faint so much as an "argg my vision! Legs not... supporting...". The bad part is usually the "Don't you fucking black out on me now, eyesight!" bit... Then again, it's not so much blackness as a grey, sucky static. But whatever... such was my somewhat eventful last day of Uni for the year. The exam wasn't too bad, pretty easy actually in terms of the fact that the questions were understandable and answerable, but I felt like there was something.... more I should have been writing. Like, one question asked me to define sustainability, so I wrote a paragraph, and then when I went to hand in the sheet the person before me had started their two page freakin' essay answer with "As Carl Marx said, sustainability....". But the course in itself was really badly designed in terms of the fact that no-one really understood what our assignment or exam was about until two weeks before they were due. We had to fill in review sheets about what we thought of the course, and I'm pretty sure almost everyone ticked 'Disagree' or 'strongly disagree' for some questions.

But now I am freeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

~Kimi

DX... That would be why I hate most mainstream music.

Although, this reminds me of one time JJJ Graveyard SHift host Dave Callan came on the breakfast show and was talking about another (most likely intoxicated) caller ringing him up and reciting a rap song he had made up. And promptly got p4wned by Callan asking him to come back when he'd written a song that was more respectful to women XD.

*Resists urge to biiiitch about lots of stuff to do with mainstream culture*. Instead I will sleep, because I have my (one!) crappy exam tomorrow, and then I am free~!

~Kimi

I know you like me
I know you do
Thats why whenever I come around shes all over you
And I know you want it
It's easy to see
And in the back of your mind
I know you should be on with me

Dont you wish your girlfriend was hot like me
Dont you wish your girlfriend was a freak like me
Dont cha, dont cha
Dont you wish your girlfriend was raw like me
Dont you wish your girlfriend was fun like me
Dont you, dont cha

Fight the feeling
Leave it alone
Cause if it aint love
It just aint enough to leave a happy home
Let's keep it friendly
You have to play fair
See, I dont care
But I know she aint gon wanna share



"Funny how mainstream music teaches girls to be whores."

Kam

*falls off chair*

Hmm... but isn't that kind of what loincloths do anyway?

...I'm not looking again >_>

....okay, maybe I am. To credit, I will admit that it does have a certain... ride-uppage-ness.


This is such a sad, sad topic of coversation T__T;

~Kimi

I think it could almost be a thong.

Just saying.

Kam

Cute comics XD.

Hmm... I almost aesphyxiated myself with giggling laughter when I read that post though... But to answer your question, I'll let you decide that for yourself.




*cries* ....SO UNDIGNIFIED DX. The angle is kinda hard to get though. I feel so... voyeuristic (As one would, when you're pointing a camera up Renji's pants). Oh yeah, and it's Megahouse who makes those models (Lazy sod's down update their own website enough). Good Smile Company also makes some very pretty figures too. Now I have an LJ where I can spam my model photos and stuff~ Because I'm way too lazy to make an actual website...

Nothing beats the heart boxers though XD

~Kimi

[This] made me laugh.

[Edit: and this made me smile.]

Kam

Oh man, what company is it that does these statues?
I need to know in case a WoLaS movie ever comes out and they need someone to make a figurine of Arithon.

Lioncloth is good, but you gotta love boxers with hearts on them. For fear of sounding extremely pervy..............

Does he have a package?

Kam

Help, I think someone killed all my plot bunnies.

Kam

SWEET JEEBUS I CAN SEE RENJI'S UNDERWEAR DX.

Another reason I was hanging around the city was that I was going to Strathfield to pick up Renji as a companion figure to Rukia. So I was looking at him on the train and realised "Hey! They actually sculpted his legs instead of making his pants solid plastic *angles it again slightly*. Oh... dear me." I fucking shit you not. If you look up his Shinigami outfit he's wearing a loincloth under there. If not for the fact I was on public transport at the time of this discovery, I would have cracked up laughing. As it was I couldn't help supress a wince and a giggle.

I have to say, it's just a little... creepy. And insanely amusing. Rukia's skirt I can understand. You know, male fanservice and the like. But Renji? That's a whole 'nother level of wtf-ness.

Oh well... here's a happy snap anyway. Rukia's not as short as I thought she'd be, although Zabimaru is freakin' long. He's cramping up my desk DX.

I also own a guitar now. The lady across the street was going to throw it out so I was like "I'll take it~ Even though I can't play it...". I was a bit "Eugh, lazy from sickness and having to wake up at 6:30" so I didn't get to thank her properly for it though.

~Kimi

I think my general consensus on the film was 'shallow, but oh so very pretty'. I swear though, Rude and Reno totally stole the show :P. Hoorah for comic relief! I dunno... I was expecting something a little more... dramatic maybe? But it felt more like some random side-quest type thing. The fights reminded me a little of the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon style, which I'm not particularly fond offor it's lack of... gravity. And no blood or scratches! Wtf was up with that... Take a little effort to texturise your pretty polygons a little, people~ DX

...But it was so very pretty. And I liked Rufus' voice actor for some reason :P

~Kimi

[Edit: I like hamsters

Here's a piece of advice for all you happy and single girls out there. Don't go searching for love. Not that it's better when it comes up and bites you in the ass, but life is so much easier when you've just got the fanboys living in your head.]

Kam

:(

Kam

It's okay xD;... I figured you just forgot. No hard feelings or anything (We all have mental lapses at one point or another). I also totally forgot that I was invitet to the school art show o__O (Josh asked me if I'd gone and I replied "....oh shit! T_T"). Alison's organised a coffee meet-up tomorrow as well (8, local Starbucks).

You looked cute together though, haha XD. But, the fact that you forgot about me (in essence....) kind of exemplified that old cliche in an ironic way. Gawd, you make me feel so... so single though >_>. For some reason I find the prospect of conversing about love-lives (Or lackthereoff, as the case may be), really wierd. It's so... un-us. But I guess we can't talk about random fangilish things forever, however amusing they are.

In completely unrelated news, Yuri Lowenthal is going to voice dub!Sasuke. You know, the Prince from the Sands of Time? Hmm... maybe the dub won't suck too much then.

~Kimi

KIMI, I am so sorry. I completely forgot about Wednesday, I thought it was still Tuesday despite me having my Wednesday Bio lab. Somehow, it just didn't click in my brain. T_T That and I had alot on my mind, since tomorrow I actually have several hours of work due to be handed in... which I haven't done. Hahahahaha... *dies*

Sorry again T_T

Kam

Uh, well.

Yeah, what do you say to a guy who says to you that he hates your boyfriend because he's jealous? It's sweet, I guess, but I'm kinda like... "huh?"
I don't know when this happened, but this is a bigger knot than I can handle right now.

Kam

o__O

You can get a talking Jack Sparrow figure. And Kotobukiya is making a figure of Fluffy. XE. This made me do an instant 'wtf?' though. It's just so... so WRONG and CUTE.

~Kimi

I got the Madman release of Chrno Crusade vol 1 today~ XD

And then I dropped it at the train station >_>.

Buuut.... it has a luverly dust-jacket, so you can't really see the dent in the top xD;... It's not the same translation as you have though, I think, since it's the Chuangyi version. I'll have to check if there's any difference when I'm next in Kino. Also, I don't usually follow the communal goings-on at Deviantart (I rarely comment much either... mostly for art spammage XE), but a lot of shit seems to have hit the fan recently, and it's all got yo do with why, exactly, Jark was fired from Devart Inc. No-one has exact details, although there's a fair share of information floating about which indicates that Jark may have been cut a low blow by Spyed. I'm far more inclined to believe the likes of Brazensix and the word from the man himself, since Spyed has yet to offer explanation. I know who co-created Devart. I've not always been fond of Jark, but he did build up devart from the beginning with Matteo. He built that community, and if it has unjustly been taken away from him then that's not right. I haven't always been that active on Devart, but I have been around for a long time there. I remember when Deviations would stay on the front page for more than one second. Deviantart will not suffer for this because I believe it's a strong enough community to deal with this in a responsible way, but I'll be interested to see how all of this pans out. I can't help but view it with a sense of the forlorn, however. Deviantart was always a corporation, but it use to be more about the community than it is now. For Jark to have been sacked seems like a kick to Devarts more idealistic roots.

`Kimi

Why, Gestalt. Why did you cover art have to be so pretty, but your inside art.... not so pretty? D: It's not like it's badly drawn or anything... it's just... meh. And yet, I see no reason to suspect it's not drawn by Yun Kouga, apart from the slight disparity in art style. Maybe this'll teach me not to buy random things just because they have pwetty art :/. I mean, there are similarities between Loveless' art style and Gestalt, but Gestalt's cover is a little misrepresentative of its inside art. I can only imagine she used a different art style for the comic itself, but why two different styles I don't know...

Dangnabbit >_>. I don't know what to do with Gestalt. I suppose it'll just sit on my shelf now

And... thanks for the below post. Means much~ I hail the return of coffee-time! XD

~Kimi

Hmmm... I guess that everyone has one of those days where everything rubs you the wrong way, but...
Hey, remember the first time I talked to you? I think it was in B block where you used to sit with Liason's group before we merged. You were doing something in your diary, I can't remember what it was, but me and BB stopped to grab it off you because we saw it had pretty pictures in it. I think we were talking about X, actually.
Actually, to be completely honest, I sort of knew you from before, but I thought you were the quiet oddball, like Luna from Harry Potter. (Which is actually a pretty good first impression) But anyway, your friendship has come to mean alot to me, more than just a provider of What's Michael?, so when you have bad days or problems at work or some asshole steals your bike, I really wish you better... I'm not so stupid as to think I can say anything that'll suddenly change your day around (unless it happens to be about Johnny Depp, I suppose) but I really do care about what happens during your day and when you're unhappy or extremely pissed (both meanings). I'll always be here to listen and throw you a cyber hug.
And "yay!" for your dad. :P

We need to find a day to start our coffee chats again.

Kam

I don't know what the fuck is wrong with me today. It started out well enough, apart from waking up at 6:30 to have to get to my tutorial. Ensue more assignments et. al. And then I kill my feet trying to find some replacement laces for my boots because I snapped part of one. By the time I get home after psuedo-shipping for b-day presents, I have 45 minutes to spare before work. Much squeeing ensues from seeing my Tales of Phantasia pins have arrived. Then I ride to work. All's well and good minus my faux pas at work when I ended up talking to a customer for an hour while removing sale stickers from boxes (While not doing entirely what I was meant to, at least I was being productive). Dave chided me but I shouldn'tve been talkign for that long anyway so whatever. It was my fault and I know it. But for some reason when it got to closing our young, new casual was really cheezing me off, and Dave was going on about how 'money is everything' when I told him I didn't want to work for a pithy 3 hour shift on Thursdays because it's a bloody inconvenient time. I find out I'm working on Sunday as well as Saturday, and leave on an inexplicably sour note. I don't even know why I was bloody pissed off, which made me even more pissed off. Turns out the trains weren't running so I had to catch a bus. Ended up walking the wrong way, slightly on the end of my tether for no specific reason. Plonk down on the bus next t a guy who seemed like he didn't want me there. I can't believe I nearly fucking cried when he said 'thankyou' after I moved so he could get off at his stop. It was just 'holy crap, he was actually nice'. And then I get to the station, tired at the prospect of having to ride home. Except some absolute fucker stole my bike. It just wasn't fucking there. I walked around trying to contain myself, thinking that maybe someone had moved it, but it just wasn't fucking there. I don't know... it was just a inexplicably shitty day for very little reason. Having my bike stolen shouldn't have made me cry, but I just felt so freaking annoyed and entirely helpless. Bloody phone was engaged until I got through to my dad and had him pick me up. Threw my helmet and bag in the car while trying to formulate some kind of response, only to burst into tears again and have him come 'round to give me a hug. I don't think I've ever done that before. Gosh I love my dad sometimes. I don't tell him this nearly enough, but our family has never ben the touchy-feely-open type anyway.

But what the hell... I don't usually get that emotional over such trivial things, and I still don't know why I was so annoyed after work. I really don't want to work both days on the weekend though. If Dave has a problem with that he can shove it, because I don't care. I don't want to have to feel as if I need to rush everything to get it done. I don't like his "Oh, it's just Uni, you'll be fine. Just enjoy life" kind of attitude, when 'enjoying life' seems to entail working so I can get money and be happy. Ever since I got back to Uni it's just been non-stop for everything. Today was just too bloody long.

AT least I get to sleep in more tomorrow...

~Kimi

Trivia night was awesome. And not just because we won, which surprised us all a little bit. I knew the exact answer to a grand total of 3 questions, two of which were about Tennis o_O (One was to name the all-england Lawn and Croquet club, aka Wimbledon, and the other was to name the speaker of a quitem which was Guillermo Coria bitching about Lleyton Hewit xD;...). What the heck though... how is anyone supposed to know the real name of the hooker who Hugh Grant shagged? Then again, that was a part of the $500 prize, so eh. We ended up with a $50 voucher, which will most likely be spent on b33r. Considering it was a voucher for teh bar, this isn't syrprising. Oh, and I got a pencilcase sponsored by a Shnapps company o__O. And when I went to the bathroom, I passed a couple of guys who asked me to rate their ears. I'm guessing they were either drunk and/or being random... But yes~ A fun night, and one that didn't involve any excess drinking DX (Having a 9 o'clock lecture kind of negates that....). If you ever go to trivia night, bring parents along. They're awesome for naming obscure 70's TV shows and dodgy 80's music.

~Kimi

...and then I did. Whoever made this icon is fecking brilliant XD.

I like it when our store isn't covered in sale crap. You can see the goddamn floor now. Well, more of it anyway. And the streamers in front of the door are gone. Dear god how I hated them... I don't hate my boss, but he does make me want to kill him sometimes. He's not that bad, really... *sighs* Only one more day of freedom D:. And then back to Uni~ I look forward to the learning part, but not the assignments so much... and wow, my winter WriMos totally failed. I think I ended up writing 1000 words of the 50000 goal. Hummm *prods fingers*

~Kimi

I heard that Snape is the halfblood prince.

Maybe your boss just isn't very good at giving out compliments? Atleast, that's what I've observed from watching my brothers' boss.
It's probably nothing personal.

Kam

Humm... I asked Steph and Aarti today about it, and the spoiler is true. They also said Remus was 'wierd' in this one... I don't know what they mean by that though. I lamented that the love-puppies won't be reunited. Not in this book anyway... I didn't really ask them about much else though. It was more mentioned in passing.

Am somewhat apathetic to... stuff in general right now. Not sure why. Boss got back at work and the first thing he did was ring me up to complain about missing keys. No "Nice job looking after the store" or "you did a good job cleaning up", just "SOme stuff is missing, ring me back". Blah! I so did not miss him in any possible sense of the word... Humm... and I felt like I was being pushy at the group gathering :/... or maybe I was just a bit bored and didn't feel like spending money on Imax or a small train that would take me 5 minutes walk away. That and I finally got to sleep in, only to have to wake up to get to Chatswood by 10am. It was nice meeting up, but we didn't really do much, which seemed to make the whole thing rather pointless. Oh well... I bought fudge, a lanyard and a chibi-gallery keyring...

I don't want to go to work on Saturday. Dave's going to be there and I'm sure he'll find something to complain about to me. In 8 months, I only think he's told me I've done a good job twice. How wonderful.

~Kimi

We need to find someone who still cares and pump them for spoilers.

Kam

I hear [spoiler?] Dumbledore gets killed by Snape... but that's only because two customers who hadn't read the book were talking about it at work, so I have no idea if it's true or not. I didn't even realise it was out until someone walked in with a HP bag from Dymocks. I feel so not-with-it. Hmmm.... Maybe I'll see if I can borrow it off someone.

JK needs to re-unite the puppy-love. Then I'll have no reason to read the 7th book because all the interesting people will be dead. Hurrah!

I finished Jak 3 the other day. I like the 2nd one the best though XE. The 3rd had less mission variation, was a little short and kind of to lets-save-the-earth-y, whereas the 2nd one was more interesting and down to earth in its story and character development. Plus, he looks better with longer hair, although his armour is nifty in 3. But where the heck was Keira in 3? I thought she was supposed to be the romantic love interest and then she was only in one scene in the 3rd one. Pfft. The Psuedo-commentary voice-overs in the character model viewer are hillarious though. Jak: "Well, Daxter's his own little furball... but I can't say he takes all the glory because y'know, he brings in the women and I take them home with me" XD. The voice acting is wonderfully top-notch, and for once a main character delivers his dialogue without sounding like a stilted bucket of angst. I like Jak and Daxter as characters, just as I liked the Prince and Farah in SoT, because they were discernably humanistic in the way they acted. Jak is cool, but he also has what I can only describe as a kind of jaded arrogance. Or maybe It's just all that hover-car stealing... Jak 3 wrapped things up sufficiently, but I woulcn't be disappointed if they made another one... well, as long as it was the same calibur as the others.

Although, a woman came in today looking for a game for her son, but she said he wouldn't take to anything that had a G rating (I was trying to extole to her the virtues of Jak II as an awesome game, and that despite its appearance it did have a dark theme and mature content). She was still contemplating getting True Crime: STreets of L.A, despite two of us going on about its general mediochreness. But it's like, unf! I dislike attitudes where something has to have a lot of blood and 'matureness' to be deemed a good game. Jak II has great gameplay and a sophisticated maturity to its story and presentation which makes it a cut above your average, generic gore-fest. It's that same element which endears me to SoT over the second Prince of Persia game (I'm hoping the 3rd installment redeems itself in that respect). But railing against that kind of attitude is liek railing againt most mainstreem suckiness. I just wish kids today weren't so annoyingly bent on thinking they're amazingly mature when some of them are nothing more than a bunch of snobby immature teens. ratings are for the weak

~Kimi

Does he die?

Kam

Zomg! Cyberpixels recurring bill on the 13th o_O.

The price is the same as for the 'starter' package though, which has more space and bandwidth. But since assuming wasn't the best option to have followed last time I'll double check that... Tomorrow, that is. I stayed up to 2am yesterday playing Shadow Hearts Covenant. It's a cool but wierd RPG from some ex-Squaresoft folk. One character is a vampiric wrestler who is currently beating people up with a frozen tuna he found in a Russian courtyard. Like... Wtf? Finally got on to the second disc and met my shmexy last character (Aside from Yuri, there was a noticable lack of bish). But... one of my characters went fangirlish over him. And I thought "Haha! ...wait.". Yuri's soul (which you can enter as an area), is also a graveyard with a freaky tree-clone-man-thing growing in it. How depressing... At least, I would find it depressing if my soul was a gravehard. Penny ARcade was right though. You do find 'stud cards' and trade them in to your French stalker-caravan guys to get new dresses for your doll.

When we went to Russia to find some mysterious evil d00d, I thought "It'd better not be bloody Rasputin again. AnastasiaI already bastardised Russian history with that...". And low and behold, it was Rasputin. I gave him a thorough ass-kicking. I wish a boss would just come along and p4wn me for once though. Maybe I spent too much time wandering around lost in dungeons and leveling up.

~Kimi

I don't care who the fuck you are or who you think invaded your country, but you don't blow up innocent people, mmkay?

:/ the state of world affairs is seriously farked.

I dunno... I don't really feel like saying much else. It makes you paranoid, doesn't it? I know that's the whole point of it, to make us all afraid. It really peeved me off once though when someone was talking about Madrid and making it sound as if it were all their fault, that they were somehow cowardly and despicable for voting for the opposition in teh election. Fuck your elitist bulshit. People react in the way they see fit at the time. Because we can all say crap about being defiant, and I do think that's the overall right outlook, but you shouldn't blame people for feeling vulnerable. There's a difference between being defiant and stupidly stubborn. And of course, if you freaking invade a country that has almost nothing to do with a lot of what happened, then you can expect a lot of hating from people. I'm not being sympathetic to fundamentalist fuckwits, but I don't believe the world did the right thing in Iraq. Believing that you can adequately combat terrorism by bombing the shit out of a country is not what I would call smart

And now I'm just a little paranoid because bloody Johnny Howard thought it would be really cool to suck up to the US and get us involved in a shithouse war that has very little to do with terrorism. The world is safer? Tell that to the 52 people who lost their lives in London. I'll be fucked if we should all curl up and give in to despicable acts such as this, but I don't want to die because of some idiotic foreign policy either.

I don't know if that rant made a whole lot of sense, but oh well...

~Kimi

*stabs YoS* >_>. Wow. I just put it up the other day and it uses like, 1.5 gig of bandwidth. Stupid site. Maybe I should just get it its own damn server.

Saw WotW's today as well. It was kind of freaky in some places, and the CG was very spiffy. I like the atmosphere it craeted, and overall it was a competant and well done film. But since I saw the old one aaaages ago, I already knew the ending and it didn't come as much of a surprise. It cut down on teh 'wtf?' factor that others expressed after seeing it anyway...I mean, it makes a lot of sense, but that doesn't stop it from feeling kind of... stupid? "It makes sense, but somehow it still seems kind of lame..." was the general consensus.

Tom Cruise is still a prat in real life anyway XE

~Kimi

But I like Johnny Depp much, much, much more.

I didn't have any intention of seeing War of the Worlds, but my family wanted to see it so I went along for the ride. It was... interesting. I suppose. I don't have a exceptionally great opinion of it, or a particularly negative impression... it was just.. meh.

Kam

Ok... After 5 seconds of thinking, I have decided to take this website off my MSN public profile. A few years ago, I used this blog to post things that are inconsequential, but now, I find I am starting to use it more as an outlet for things that are a little bit more personal. It's just way too embarrassing.

I was going to blog something funny I saw the other day. As I was walking home from uni, I cut through the little alley on the side of the chemistry building and what should I see scribbled all over the walls and floor, but graffiti. This is graffiti, however, is not like any other that you'll see at the train station. This graffiti was done by geeks.
I mean, what other kind of person would draw immaculately labelled diagrams of the caffeine molecule all over the side of a chemistry building? I wish I had a camera on me, because I thought it was too funny to resist.

Kam

Movie night rawked. I think, if we run out of movie anthology things, maybe just rent long series and watch them all in a row. Y'know, like they do on cable or whatever...

Saw batman Begins, and despite Josh proclaiming its overwhelming awesomeness, I still prefer the Tim Burton flics better. Begins was still a good movie; much better than the previous two installments in any case. But maybe it took itself a little too seriously, or it just didn't have that same mysterious, gothic appeal of the first two. Or danny Elfman's music, for that matter. It's nice to see Gotham City regaining some of its former titular glory, and there were some nice touches all round (At first I lamented the Batmobile's APC-like appearance, but the black tank kind of grows on you after a while). But I liked the wierd, gothic mystery which Burton brought to his films. Perhaps Begins just grounded itself a little too much in reality for my superhero movie tastes. It works for Spiderman because Peter Parker is already an earthy kind of character, but not so much for Batman...

Damn. I wanna get Batman Returns on DVD now XE

~Kimi