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Lots of people have been feeling a bit down lately, so I'm gonna bash into people's heads that they are not talentless-stupid-ugly-unpopular-boring-andstoopidstufflikethat. Cos really, AVATAR'S COMING OUT IN THREE DAYS WHY THE GLOOM!!!

"L E A V E--A--C O M M E N T--A N D--I--W I L L..."

a) tell you why I friended you,

b) associate you with something - fandom, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.,

c) tell you something I like about you,

d) tell you a memory I have of you,

e) ask something I've always wanted to know about you,

f) tell you my favorite pic of yours,

g) in return, you must post this in your journal. I just want to single as many people out as I can, but do it if you want to. ^^

And you know how I said I'm on holidays and Ill use them to answer and comment on pics and stuff? Yeah well, that plan is still in progress sorry! Blame the cold that is determined to cripple the entire city. XDDD

So anyway, I want to individually address as many people as I can here, so just comment. NAO!

EDIT And after coming on dA yesterday after a while and seeing the oh so very sleek v6, was I the only person who thought that they were randomly giving out some sort of half-subscription? XDDDD I'm loving it so much!

EDIT for the 157th time now After seeing Colin Firth and Meryl Streep two days ago at the Australian Mamma Mia premiere, (we made a sign that got quoted in the paper saying "You'll always remember your FIRTH time." XDDD) I saw it yesterday and gah, even though my mum was cringing at the absolute ABBAness cos she's Swedish and is sick of them, I loved all the songs and Colin Firth's, erm, "Spontaneity". X3

]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/19087813/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/19087813/ Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:54:29 PDT I’d love to go there someday and ogle at their… erm, Victorian Fillets? XDDDD
But apparently… THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE VEGEMITE! GASP!

So how is everybody? Having fun in the summertime? Or wintertime in my case? My throat has been sounding like a demented toad for the past month, I think coughing has become second nature now.

Anyway, and tagged me for that fun 8factsboutyourselfthatpeoplefindinterestingandwouldn’tknowotherwise that I can't be bothered posting the rules of. But in this case I’m gonna just use it as a few jotpoints of my recent life cos it’ll force me to be brief. XD

1. Yesterday I had a big family dinner thingo and went home with a leftover takeaway box of baby pigeon heads on my lap. Twas interesting. Tasted alright too. Apparently baby pigeons are called squab.
2. I officially claimed ownership of a tablet on the 12th of May at 2:24!!! It is now in my loving care. *pats* And I am loving every minute of using it. Claps for modern technology yeah!
3. I bought crumpet toast yesterday out of curiosity. It’s… different. Now my honey doesn’t go straight through the holes. 8D
4. Ah yeah! I also got 4 kilos of honey from the country. Lovely stuff.
5. And cos I’m on a food roll, I ALSO bought a tub of curiously flavoured Chocolate&MarshmallowFlavouredIcecreamWithFishShapedChocolatePieces. It was called… wait for it… GONE FISHIN’! BWAHAHAHA those people have astounding wit right? And I found about four fishchocolate pieces in there, and they looked as if they had gone through the blender and then got frozen and chucked in marshmallow icecream.
6. I lost my phone on the train a while ago. Then I got it back. That filled my weekly excitement quota. XD
7. OMG SAN DIEGO COMIC CON BOTU I’M GONNA BE STALKING YOUR LJ FOR UPDATES ARGH I’M SO JEALOUS TAKE ME WITH YOOOOUUU! I can fit in a suitcase easily.
8. Did you know that the city I live in *coughMelbournecough* has been proven to be the most liveable city in the world? Yep! I’m proud! Until people told me that it was recently booted off that position by some Canadian city. Pft. I want glory.

Anyway, this is my first journal for a while and I just want to say that I’m very sorry for neglecting people. I see my deviation box get bigger and bigger but I just feel like my commenting abilities have gone whooshing out the window along with my voice. But it’s holidays for the time being, so I’m really gonna try and get mah stoopid lazy brain into my commenting mode! Be prepared! BWAHAHA!
And do not take offence if just get a favourite without a comment from me, because it is most likely that I have seen your art, loved it, but my brain was dead and couldn’t string a sentence together. Rest assured that I’ll get to commenting eventually.
Hope you guys are all doing well!!

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Sorry, speech = gloom. So yeah. Tragic day really. It’s still sad, but I guess because obviously I am too young to truly know the significance of this day it just becomes a blur year after year. But nonetheless I buy a pin and a poppy and dunk my anzac biscuit in milk.

And also do you guys remember that I went to Sweden to spend Christmas with the family and visit my grandfather who wasn’t in the best of health? Well a while ago after we had come back to Australia he passed away in his sleep. My mum had to go back anyway to sort out his land and possessions with her sister and we weren’t really expecting to see him again anyway, his body was just deteriorating too quickly although his mind was as sharp as ever. So it was unfortunate we couldn’t go back for his funeral, but what can you do.

So yeah. Um… bleh. Need to get out of my brooding serious shell now.

SO DID ANYONE GO TO THE COMIC CON??? *foam* Because I couldn’t have gone halfway across the world just to go, I was obsessed with watching various panel videos, and everything was AMAZING!!! Probably the thing I love most about CC and their panels is what atmosphere seems to be like. I was watching the avatar trailer (ZOMGFOAM!!!) and couldn’t really hear what was happening because people were screaming and I was screaming and everything was made of absolute pwnsomeness and foam and I soooo wanted to be there screaming and clinging to my avatar merchandise and dirtying my cosplay costume!!!

AND GUESS WHAT??? I gots me a beautiful eraser yesterday, its erasing powers are amazing. I LOVE YOU MY ERASER!!

And because its autumn now and the weather is slightly colder, I gots me a pwetty coat! *happydance* Yet you really don’t need winter clothes until winter in oz because if you go outside in a dress and sandals, you can still survive. Even in winter it’s just cloudy and rainy. Nuthin major.
But I don’t really like the cold anyway, I absolutely LOOOOVE the summer when it’s so stinking hot that all you feel like doing is eating icypoles and sitting in front of a fan so you don’t sweat up your clothes. even when there are no fans. I LOOOOVE feeling hot. It makes me happy!

And did I tell anyone that this year, my musical is going to be the Sound of Music? No? WELL IT IS!!! ZOMG I WAS SO ECSTATIC WHEN I HEARD ABOUT IT THE SOUND OF MUSIC IS LIKE MY MOST FAVOURITE MOVIE EVAAAAH IT’S ALREADY SO AWESOME IT’LL BE EVEN BETTER AFTER THIS LA LA LAAAA!!!

So yes. I was quite happy.
I’m a specialist dancer whoop de doo! Cos… well, I dance. And I like it. ^^
I love being a chorus, dancer person, I think it’s in a way a lot more fun than a main character because you feel like you’re involved in everything, not just your character. Like as a specialist dancer we’re going to be doing the Landler, the absolutely beautiful Austrian folkdance done by Maria and the Captain during the party. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? Well I’m going to do that one among other things. I’m so excited! It looks quite intricate though…

We watched Astro Boy in Media yesterday. Twas great.
The lesson... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/17168334/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/17168334/ Mon, 03 Mar 2008 16:52:45 PST
If anyone would have the gift of looking into other people’s minds, recently, mine would probably read: rowing rowing rowing rowing rowing rowing sleep rowing rowing rowing musteatiron rowing rowing rowing wheresmyoar rowing rowing zzz. XD
But now… peace. I’m so blissful right now that the season has finished it’s actually scary how blank my mind and how restful my body has become. Training basically every day that leaves me with no spare time and I guess it was all for good reasons, but *faint* there was so much!

So yes. Last week I went on a rowing camp where we trained and went to a little regatta that we got into the A final and came second in, but was actually “training” for the biggest single-sex sporting event in the southern hemisphere, AKA: Head of Schoolgirls. Or maybe the-biggest-regatta-i-will-ever-compete-in-or-work-my-butt-off-for-because-fghjfl-so-many-PEOPLE!!! *faintsleep* it spreads over two days, so twas big.

SO yeah… competed in it, had fun, got new tan lines (I actually got rid of my sock tan in exchange for a thong , sandal tan ) ate piles of muesli bars and brown bananas (apparently to give loads of good energy) and got rewarded for getting into the A finals for my division!!! *flail* Twas seriously one of the best feelings I had that whole weekend. Everyone first competes in a heat, then repechage, then semi final, then the final. But if you win your heat on Saturday, you go straight to the semi final on the next day. If you don’t, you go to the repechage, and if you come first in that, you also continue to the semi final, and if you don’t come first in the repechage, you get eliminated from the regatta. And if you come first or second in the semi final, you go to A final, and if you don’t, you go to the B final.

My crew, (me and four other people) won our heat and went to the semi final where we came second and went to the A final where we came fourth overall!!! And for Head of Schoolgirls, that’s such an amazing feeling!! But the sad thing is, my crew’s coach who we love to bits had to leave for America on Sunday morning so she would miss our finals, so when we won our heat on Saturday, she was so happy and crying and everyone was screaming and crying and hugging each other and we made cards for her and signed tshirts and everything… :happytear: it was so happy… *warmfuzzyfeeling*

Anyway, that recapped my camp. Sorry for ranting. Just happy to get it out of my system!

And my arm is kinda swollen from an injection I had yesterday. Don’t know why. I’m going to the doctors today though, hopefully it clears it up a bit…

And I love my sister. She’s the nicest person in the world. Love you!!!

CLUBS:
http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/16606091/ Mon, 28 Jan 2008 01:08:43 PST time to get bored! Grrrr! And usually I strategically plan my holidays so social stuff are not too far apart or close togeher it's a constant pattern, but nooo, everything just had to be in the last week! Bleh. And al of the tedious stuff is clumped together too. Not good.

So yes, last week from Mon-Fri, I went on a rowing boot camp, (ok, so it wasn’t called a boot camp but it felt like it) and now I’m absolutely buggered. The first day alone were fitness testing, ergo testing (sprints etc.) nutrition talks, water racing, water technique, beep tests and all that jazz, so it was no walk in the park. And then the next day I was dreading the 5km run, but that turned out to be really fun, just jogging along next to the river. You didn’t need to walk, but I was more worried about the time I would get, because I’m more endurance than timed. Ah well. It was fine. And basically the rest of the camp was rowing after rowing after rowing after racing after rowing and racing. And then more racing. Good thing I brought along a lot of bandages for the blisters. But I’m sure that I’ve improved and worked off all of that extra poundage I’ve gained over Christmas. XD

But tomorrow is the last day of holidays, and then it’s back to the tiresome, dreary life. *sighs dramatically* Oh woes me! XB

And happy Jan 26th for a couple of days ago! Any idea what I’m talking about? *drumroll* Australia Day! Did I do anything special? Er no. Did I remember on the day? Hehe whoops. DON’T BLAME ME I’M TIRED ‘KAY??

So yes. Do I have anything else interesting to say? Well, if I’m saying that, then obviously not. Dum deed um. I’m lazy. I’ve said that a lot lately. Well it’s true. I’ve been sitting around eating and watching the tennis. (Australian Open!!! *foam*) Tons of projects halfway done, stopped, then attempted to finish, but then I realised that they are actually really bad, so I want to start over. Not good for my mental health.

And about the whole Heath Ledger thing? Well when a bunch of girls told me, I was helping to carry a heavy boat. It was a good thing three other people were carrying it, otherwise my toes would be purple sausages if I had no help when I nearly dropped it.
But as much as it is sad and all, it’s is actually making me even sadder that the media is capturing images of his corpse and harassing Michelle Williams (ex-fiance) is just going a tad bit overboard don’t you think? I mean, it’s the same case with any person’s death, whether famous or not, yet general media behaviour can still be quite atrocious at times. Sad really. They've taken his body back to Perth in Western Australia, so at least things aren't too hectic about the cause.

And lately, I’ve had an obsession with yellow. Isn’t it just a great colour? Not garish bright shades, just a soft butter yellow shade is lovely.

Hehe, anyway, hope everyone whose holidays have finished are having a fun time at school/work/anything-in-between, and remember that suffering makes you stronger! Even though at the time, you want to say “screw strength, get me out of here and gimme chocolate.”

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Wow. Sweden, or more specifically, Stockholm, the capital, was absolutely AMAZING!!!! I’ve been there quite a few times, but when I was quite young, so to me, it was just another big museum and town that had no significance to me. But HOLY %@$#&*$ was that AMAZING! *foam*

But the entire time we stayed there, it didn’t snow. There was white frost for the first few days e were there and well into the negatives, but no snow. My aunty rang a few days ago and told us that it had just started to snow days after we left. WHY?!? Does the universe just love to torment me?! Oh woes me!! *dramatics overload*

There were so many places that I loved, places like the Old Town, The Vasa Museum, the world’s largest IKEA (), various other museums, Christmas markets (so beautiful *drools*), and other trivial places that are personal to me.

But ZOMG!!! The Old Town, Gamla Stan, was soooo gorgeous. I’m absolutely in love with it. We went three time, twice in the day and one at night. At night, it was so beautiful with the Christmas stalls in the square and things like a group of carol singers, fairy lights, handicraft and bakery stalls and the gorgeous houses really made everything seem so magical. I drank glögg, an alcoholic, cinnamonny spicy, hot drink that really warms you up. It really woke me from my messed up body-clock state.


The Vasa Museum. Actually, I’ve already said all there is to say about it here: Yay mini pics! *flail*

IKEA!!! I went to the biggest one in the WORLD!!! I was in HEAVEN!!! *faintflailfaintflail* Sadly though, we couldn’t go eat at any of the cafes because it was the afternoon and we were going to have a giant dinner with friends later. But yes, there was a separate Ikea café on every one of the five levels! And it was different architecture too. Like a big donut on the outside connected to a smaller circle in the middle. And to get to the middle circle, you had to go around the whole donut. Probably to get people to see and buy more stuff. Twas awesome though, it was huge. And though it wasn’t the first Ikea to be built, (the first was further up in Sweden I think) it is the biggest. Pretty cool huh? XD My family thought it was weird that my sister and I wanted to go there out of all the historical places in Stockholm. But hey, don’t blame us, we’re fans alright? XD

And that dinner I just mentioned? It was the Julbord, (Pron. Yule-board) the traditional smörgåsbord served for Christmas. Three whole rooms full of food. Fish galore!!! The only time we get such an assortment of Swedish Christmas food is on Christmas back home, but we always have the same kind of thing. Here, there were more than eight types of herring in different mustards and sauces, so much fish and potatoes it was overwhelming, the famous herring potato salad that is known in my family for its colour; bright pink from the beetroot, and so many other dishes. To do it properly, you only take two or less little spoonfuls of each thing, otherwise there won’t be en... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15947977/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15947977/ Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:03:28 PST EDIT Oh yeah, and have you people seen the Shrek the Halls Christmas special? I'm not sure how old it is, but it goes for about 20 minutes. It's quite sweet. It's quite funny, and I would have laughed more if I was in a better mood, but one bit made me literally, roll on the floor laughing Go watch, it'll raise your spirits along with a glass of milk and a waffle santa! (if you watch it, you'll get what I just said.) *end of edit*

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Oh yeah, and because I want to try as an experiment, instead of using my usual emoticons, I’m going to just write the code. And things like XD and ^^ are going to just be my own interpretation of them. So whenever you hear me using a random word that doesn’t make much sense, that’s my emoticon. Wish me luck!

So how is everyone? Good? Bad? Tired? Feeling slightly deflated from eating too many mince cookies and nectarines? paranoid. No one? Well I am. *sigh*

It’s been so annoying lately! My mouse is getting a bit stuffed so I keep accidentally clicking things I don’t want to click! So far, I’ve requested two prints of fanart, which is not allowed, angry, been on various sites after accidentally clicking spam emails., rage, and things like clicking send when I DON’T WANT TO SEND!!!! ARGGHHH!!!

*breaths*

phew.

And before I continue, let me shamelessly promote a friend that has been on dA for a while yet is aiming to start to use it again! ~bongobop76 Some of her stuff is soooo cute! love. Looky here!
Of course, I love my cats and feline animals, so this is a favourite!

And omg, I love this one, it looks kind of retro and stylishly 2D with how she’s done it!

Soooo, yes. I know some of you may know her… but I knew her first!!! I have proof! BWAHAHAHAHA! evillaugh. big grin. SO GO VISIT HER AND SPAM HER PAGE! XD But seriously, I’ve seen her upcoming works, and they are fabulous, they really are. I love black and white. love! So I have a simple solution… watch her so you know when they are up so you can marvel at them and gasp from joy and surprise! XD

And as the title of this journal implies, I’m having my first white Christmas this year… IN SWEDEN!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOOOOOT! And I’m leaving tonight! 32 hour flight! excited excited excited! I’m looking forward to it so so much! I’ve never had a white Christmas that I can actually remember before! Ok, so I had one when I was about three, but I obviously couldn’t see the significance, so I’m excited now to see all the Christmas bazaars and markets lit with candles and snow on the roofs and overall squeeness! dancedancedance. And as I will not be able to get on the internet for two and a bit weeks, I hope everyone has a fantastic holiday and may your Christmas be a great one! Hoping to see you all well when I get back! Expecting my watch box to filled to the brim as a motivation for my lazy self! big grin! hughughugglompglompglomp!!!!!!!

Aaaanyway, I’ve had a busy week (month, year, decade… ) full of various small bits and pieces that add up to make me rather tired! On the 2nd, I had my dance concert that ran for more than half a day. *sleeps* Anyway, twas fun yet tiring! Usually on these kind of sporting days where you need energy yet there’s sometimes a lot or not much time to eat, I just pack little snacks, but of course being me, I neglect my food and nearly faint on my feet! unhappydead. Then I forgot half of all my costumes and had to drive back to my house to get them again and go back to the theatre all over again only to realise I forgot something else! headdesk.
But the thing about that concert was that I was supposed to be at a big weekend rowing regatta, but I’ve worked on the concert for the whole year, so it was a bit of a bigger pr... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15498961/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15498961/ Tue, 13 Nov 2007 19:40:53 PST and ’s My Little Avatar contest. Sooo I got a subscription… kinda weird cos I really really really didn’t expect to win! *is still in a state of disbelief* But anyway, check all of the other great entries, they are so imaginative and cute, I could eat all of them! Except I don’t want to get drool over my screen. But seriously, they are so great, this contest was much fun!

So what’s up with me? Oh nothing much. Two weeks ago I slammed my little finger of my right hand in a heavy door and it turned into a purple watermelon. XD The nurse said the nail may come off, yet hasn’t yet done so, and a few people have passed and asked why I have blue nail polish on only one finger. Tis very funny. Haven’t been able to row for a while then, but just got back into it after being Cox for a while. *dances because doesn’t like coxing*

And because I don’t really have anything else to say, here’s a quiz that I found quite interesting:

Your Boy Side
[x] you love hoodies.
[x] you love jeans.
[] dogs are better than cats.
[] it's hilarious when people get hurt.
[x] you've played with/against boys on a team.
[] shopping is torture.
[] sad movies suck.
[] you own an x-box.
[x] played with hotwheels cars as a kid.
[] at some point in time you wanted to be a firefighter.
[] you own a DS, PS2 or sega.
[] you used to be obsessed with power rangers.
[x] you watch sports on TV. (I actually love watching lawn bowls. It’s obsessive.)
[x] gory movies are cool.
[x] you go to your dad for advice. (always has an hour worth of advice on the subject. )
[] you own like a trillion baseball caps.
[x] you like going to football games. (AFL. Don’t know what it is, look it up. Tis awesome.)
[] you used to/do collect baseball cards.
[x] baggy pants are cool to wear. (At home. )
[] it's kinda weird to have sleepovers with a bunch of people.
[x] green, black, red, blue, or silver are one of your favorite colors. (REEEEEDDD!!! GREEEEEN!!!)
[x] you love to go crazy and not care what people think. (because people can expect that of me sometimes. )
[x] sports are fun. (DUH!)
[x] talk with food in your mouth. (Only because I have so much to say! XD)
[] wear boxers.

Total = 13
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Your girl side:
[x] you wear lip gloss.
[] you love to shop.
[] you wear eyeliner.
[x] you have some of the same shirts in different colors.
[] you wear the colour pink. (Worst colour ever on me…
[x] go to your mom for advice.
[] you consider cheerleading a sport.
[] you hate wearing the colour black.
[] you like hanging out at the mall.
[] you like getting manicures and/or pedicures.
[x] you like wearing jewelry. (Earrings pwn all. XD)
[x] skirts are a big part of your wardrobe. (Hey, I live I a sunburnt country. Either skirts or shorts, which I have both!)
[] shopping is one of your favourite hobbies. (Food shopping that it. )
[] you don't like the movie star wars.
[x] you are/were in cheerleading, gymnastics or dance.
[] it takes you around 1 hour to sh... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15233722/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/15233722/ Fri, 26 Oct 2007 18:35:49 PDT But WAIT! There a TWIST! (That I just conveniently remembered… XD) I just remembered that today is not only international plushie day, but…
IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!! YAAAAYYY!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
And here’s Qera to celebrate with me!
Qera:
BAL:
Qera:
BAL: *is oblivious to sarcasm*
But yes. Other than that, it is a normal day. That is all.

Next on the agenda, is going to be holding a promisingly awesome oekaki Halloween party! Doesn’t that sound awesome?!?!?! I’ve never used an oekaki before, but it sounds like oodles of fun! I’d probably just stumble around aimlessly, trying to helplessly find my way around.

Ok, the main reason for my lack of updates in anything an everything is fairly simple. One word: busy-because-of-inevitable-tasks-that-take-a-long-time.

And geez, I swear, my lungs and muscles must have expanded to double their original size, because when I did the beep test y... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14723853/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14723853/ Fri, 21 Sep 2007 04:40:17 PDT Whoops! Forgot to add that the wonderful made the below Avatar quiz up, and you should all do it because... well, it's fun.

1. What is your favourite Avatar episode?
I’d have to say the Blind Bandit, because it has TOPH! But besides that, it has great character development and introduction for all of the minor or secondary characters that are introduced, eg. The Boulder, Xin Fu etc. etc. …and it is just an addicting and crucial episode.

2. What is your favourite Avatar character?
Hmmm… because I’m avoiding the direct question, I will split up the Gaang and Other.
Gaang: Toph. She has a fantastic personality and is has the kind of confidence that everyone would like to possess. However, she has clear personality traits that also make her different to someone who is just a confident, almighty earthbender. She has clear faults that are plain and humane. She is strong and steady and very determined. So overall, she’s an awesome character.

Other: Azula. Even though she is terrifyingly sadistic, she emits a fabulous feel of power and destruction. This can be horrifying, but to me, it is incredible and so powerful. She is a kind of character you can always depend on to be evil and brutal, so in a way, she’s a rock. XD

3. Who is your favourite secondary character? (One who has only been in one or a few episodes.)
*looking up Wiki’s definition of a secondary character* Hmm… *scolls down list* I would definitely have to say Jeong Jeong. He is soooooooooo tough-ass-bitter-white-haired-dude-awesomeness-deserter-zhao-defeating awesome!
Oh wait, I have two. ZHAO!!! *foam* He's so cool. No self control man. And he's voice by Jason Isaacs, so that is also a major bonus in my book. Adore Jason Isaacs. *foam*

4. How many Avatar toys/videos do you own?
I have all the DVD’s and the first Avatar magazine. No toys. *sniff* People would look at me weird. Even more so than they are already. XD

EDIT
I have the Aang one!!! WHOOO! *foam*

5. Who would you be willing to kill to see all of season 3 right NOW?!
I WOULDN’T! Because Aang wouldn’t! And he’s the Avatar! I must follow his example.
And also that it might count as karma, and being me with some bad pieces of luck, the family of the murdered person would probably kill me in turn just as I am watching the first few minutes of the Awakening. Who knows? It might happen. But only if I kill… which I won’t. XD Patience is a virtue. I SHALL BE REWARDED!

6. Which Avatar character would you be most likely to snog?
…
All the male characters on avatar? It depends on if I’m me… or if I’m in this world, or the avatar world… or what mood they’re in. But Aang, Sokka and Zuko are the only ones that are relatively my age compared to everyone else… so I guess that’s them. Probably not Aang though… no. Not Aang. Sorry Aangy. XD
Oh wait, Sokka doesn’t have a great history with his girlfriends does he? The first one dying, (or just leaving the mortal world to be nice) and the second one being captured (yet we don’t know what happened do we???).
Wait... and JET!!! *swoon* Actually, he would be my answer.

Zuko portion.

7. Have you forgiven Zuko for betraying his poor Uncle?
Surprisingly, yes. I do not blame Z... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14598854/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14598854/ Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:07:13 PDT I have literally gotten nowhere in continuing SOAS. Not good. I’m unmotivated and I love playing them out in my head, but it can never reach the paper (or word document in this case). I know what and how the major events are going to unfold, yet whenever I go onto my laptop, I don’t open it up to continue writing. It’s sad. I’m losing concentration by every day and if it wasn’t for me being right in the middle of the story, I would stop to give myself a break and to do it justice instead of coming out with dodgy low quality stuff that you wouldn’t like reading anyway! I’m stuck. There’s not really much choice but to keep going and to hope I get motivated again and go on a chapter roll, but looking at the past few months, I think that is unlikely.
I have joined ~FirebenderGirl1’s great Avatar OC role play and I AM THE EARTH KINGDOM SIFU! YAAAAY!!! This Earth Kingdom Sifu’s name is Qeraloki to her students, but by friends and family, Qera. So seeing as I know have a new friend, let’s bring in Sifu Qera of the Earth Kingdom!!
Qera: You know, I could have introduced myself.
BAL: Well… you know… this is my journal…
Qera: Fine, but if you are going to ramble on like you usually do, I should probably monitor your every move and journal from now on to make sure you are kept in line.
BAL: I can write journals by myself!
Qera: Are you sure about that?
BAL: *fume* So you’re gonna stalk me?


Qera: *can think of no snappy comeback*
BAL: *grins widely* So on with my journal…
Anyway, this roleplay is going to be fun and I’m really excited for it! So go join now! Basically everyone has flocked to the Fire Nation-
Qera: FIRE NATION SUCKS!
BAL: *smacks Qera’s head* Anyway…
Qera: *smacks BAL’s head back rather harder* Hey, I am the Earthbending master here! I can bend rocks! Can you bend???
BAL: I would be able to if I was in the Avatar universe!
Qera: Which you’re not…
BAL: Anyway, yes, so the Fire Nation is filling up fast, and it does NOT suck-
Qera: If I obliterated them out of existence, who would make my favourite taro yam buns? Anyway, can’t you sense a joke?
BAL: Hey, you’re not accustomed to making jokes! You give your students punishments for telling jokes in front of you!
Qera: But they were really awful…
BAL: Anyway, so here is the link [link] and sign up if you haven’t already!
Qera: And become my student! After all, I am the most acknowledged and accomplished Earthbending teacher in the land.
BAL: Show-off…
Anyway… that is all I’m going to say about the roleplay as there are better points to talk about now.

Has everyone watched the new superdeformed avatar shorts? They’re not as funny as school time shipping, but still. I’m not giving any spoilers for those who haven’t watched them yet (GO NOW!), but I just want to point out, that even though it is a short, Toph actually said something to Zuko! REJOICE! And it was actually directed to him and was a coherent legible sentence!
Qera: Don’t choke on those long words…
BAL: I’M THE AUTHOR HERE!
*clears throat* And the fact that they talked to each other brightened my day. It’s not a ship-
Qera: Shipping is ridiculous…
BAL: -but it’s still nice to know that they acknowledge each other’s existence! So that concludes... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14481891/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14481891/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:07:57 PDT ~Sammie24 So you should all go visit her and leave nice comments on her userpage and fave and generally be very nice to her because she is a very nice person! And read her fantastic poems! She is a great writer and I love her stuff! So pop in to say hi! I know you want to! *evil and pointed glare* BUT I HAVE A REAL-LIFE FRIEND ON dA!!! THAT IS SOMEONE I KNOW AND LIKE WHO WILL PROBABLY GO ON dA FREQUENTLY! (at least I hope you will...) AND IT'S JUST SO AWESOME AND FABULOUS AND... SQUEEE! *hyperventilating*

Ok, calming down *breathe deeply* I don't want to have to paste her icon everywhere just to get the point across.

Another thing, there's this anime called Ghost Hunt that I have been watching for a while and I have no idea why I haven't talked about it to anyone yet. I guess it just slipped my mind, but it is so awesome!! It has a great balance of comedy and cuteness and overall squealing-ness with drama, horror, mystery and action. This is something that I have to use my brain for and that is always a good factor to have in a tv show.

If anyone has seen it, who is you fav character? I LOOOVE Bou-san he's so... COOL! *foam* If you could have seen me just then, I was having a complete fangirl moment, but yeah... All his lines make me crack up. XD And you know that every time they play this little piping tiptoeing music in the background, something funny is going to happen. It's cute.

Uhh… considering I only did a journal a couple of days ago, there’s nothing much new to talk about. I mean, I can always ramble on one particular subject, but it’;s a bit boring for everyone else…

Oh yeah, the side of my hip muscle has been really hurting for the last couple of days. I can’t bend over without it twinging. I mean, it isn’t unbearable, but in some ways it is, cos I have almost no flexibility now and my walking is stiff. I don’t like it. It was fine this morning and early afternoon, but just in the evening it has started to really hurt. I think I need to see a masseuse.

Anything else? *think* *think* *think* Noooo… I don’t think so. As many of you know, my progress in writing has gotten painfully slower and slower every day and I am updating less and less. This is very bad. What is wrong with me?!? These past few months have just been one giant writers’ block! And I feel cranky and pubescent and I don’t know why. XD (potter puppet pals… Everything is bugging me and I feel grumpy. Maybe it’s just my hip or just normal downs. Bah.

And on September 21st is the term three holidays moving into fourth term! And being it also the avatar release, that’s double good! Except of course, I don’t have nickelodeon. So again, I will have to wait even more!!! ARGH! Unless someone posts it on youtube or something r uploads it really quickly or I can buy the dvd or something, because there have been various rumours about the dvd being released on sep 21 too, but more articles and press conferences saying that that isn’t the case and the dvd will be released afterwards. Which even though technically it is good for nick if that is the case, but I WANT TO SEE SEASON THREE!!! *sob*

And guys, a year ago from today, Steve Irwin died. I would just like to acknowledge him and his family and commemorate his giant contributions in the world of wildlife. And even though I have never been to the Australian Zoo, I’m sure it is a magnificent place and that he has made a great difference.

Lightening up, today so... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14429866/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14429866/ Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:53:01 PDT Whoops. But I'm back and it was fun. I took lots of pictures cos I went to the Grampians and that is a huge collection of rocks and cliffs and waterfalls etc. that are absolutely beautiful. I also experimented with my camera and tried different effects but I eventually ran out of battery just as I was on a breakthrough. Bah. I might post a few of the pics.

And now I am stuffed from eating chocolate mousse after brekkie. Yuk. I feel bloated. And some of the hikes up the cliffs and rock formations were so steep, you were literally climbing on your hands as well as your feet. Luckily I had my own hiking boots with me, so I was fine, just a bit tired, but the oters were foolishly wearing converse, and dunlop volleys, so they were slipping and falling everywhere. It would have actually been quite funny if it wasn't for the fact that they were falling over everywhere. And one girl fell on me. It was quite painful and I received a few stunning scrapes and bruises for that. Ah well. It's like a souvenir! But the viewwhen we got to the top of one of the peaks... it's just so breathtaking.

And I swear, my muscles on my arms have built up in that five days. It's weird seeing more than I already had. And here I was thinking that rowing was the prime factor of muscle-building. Bah. Ah well. Helps with dance as well because I have to lift people. Good thing that they are kinda small and light. Otherwise I would be exhausted.


And yesterday, I was flipping through my October 27th (my bday) book and was thinking that some things they said about me were quite strange. Ok, this is what they said about me:
My birth colour: cherry red - bold and aggressive Dunno about that...
My birth day: Tuesday - it is in line with the red planet, Mars and could be considered the anger day I dunno... I am usually pretty happy on Tuesdays...
My birth letters: W, U, R - Wisdom, unpreditability, romaticism Well, even though some people think I am unpredictable, I actually think that the manner in which I do things is quite predictable.
My birth stone: Opal - msterious and allusive, Well, it is quite a mystery how I am taller than the rest of my family.
My birth food: Bananas - almost universally well-liked Well, lots of people don't like me, I think I know that, and that's fine with me. I treat them civilly.
My Birth flower: Columbine - Graceful, tender, tenderhearted. Well, this whole book seems to be contradicting itself doesn't it?
My birth animal: Swan - Grace, elegance You don't want to see me volleyball, I'm not very graceful then! And the only thing really that symbolises the swan in me is dance or rowing. Rowing, water, swan... thin connections right?
My birth number: Ten - completion and determination I'm actually quite a procrastinator.
My first desire: Peace Sounding like a beauty pageant girl aren't I? World peace? Though that would be nice...

So yes... just thought to share that. It was quite interesting on my part to flip through what my birth date would reveal. But I think that the book just covered every aspect of a person's wanted personality, so that when you look at it from afar, it would have at least a tiny similarity with yourself. And I guess people like being complimented too in one way or another.

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Oh yeah, and a quiz:
The rules are:
1-post these rules
2-each person tagged must post 8 random facts about themselves
3-tags should write a journal/blog of these facts
4-at the end of the post 8 more persons are tagged and named
5-go to their page and leave a comment telling them they've been 'tagged'

1. I hate tearing the heads of prawns off. That is the only thing I am squeamish with unfortunately…
2. I can make my stomach rumble at will. It usually doesn’t happen by a... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14282625/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14282625/ Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:42:15 PDT
2. Diamonds or pearls? I actually really love pearls… they are so beautiful and gentle and have a wonderful solidity to them that diamonds aren’t known to possess. And black pearls!!! Gorgeous.

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

4. What are your favourite TV shows? Don’t watch TV. Nothing is on that interests me except for some infrequent documentaries… they are interesting.
Oh and Avatar isn’t included in this because I actually don’t have Nickelodeon so I can’t watch it on TV. Except really late reruns. BUT I LOVE THOSE TOO! *foam*

5. What did you have for breakfast this morning? Toast with Fruits of the Forest jam and hot chocolate. And an apple. And a kiwi. And yes… that’s it. XD

6. What is your middle name? Which one? Ok, all of them: Waiyun (Chinese), Elias, Brigitta, (Swedish) and Karina.

7. What is your favourite food? Ohh, tough one… *think* *think* *think* I think I would have to say Pasta and this Swedish dessert called Angel Food in English. That is divine!

8. What foods do you dislike? Uhh… I love all foods. Oh, except durian. It smells so strong that I just can’t eat it!

9. Favourite snack food? Kiwi fruits, fruit in general and soy and linseed crackers.

10. What is your favourite CD at the moment? Hmmm… maybe Paramore or Daughtry? Or good old Corrs. But I don’t use CD’s anymore.

11. What kind of car do you drive? I’m too lazy to drive but if I do, it would be my next door neighbour’s white Beatle Convertible.

12. What is your favourite sandwich? Call me weird, but cheese, dried apricots, cucumber and sultanas on a fruity, grainy loaf. It’s yum.

13. What characteristics do you despise? Inattentive people. There are more that come to mind, but this beats them all. Oh and unfocused, ditzy, self-absorbed and superficial people as well. Ok, I bit more than I thought…

14. What are your favourite clothes? Call me girly, but I love airy, floaty summer dresses that are nice and simple. I love summer.

5. If you could go anywhere in the world on Vacation? Back to Hong Kong and Sweden, L.A. Poland, Austria, Portugal and Turkey.

16. Favourite brand of clothing? What? Oh right, brands… uhhh… Oscar De La Renta?

17. Where would you want to retire? Where??? In my house?

18. Favourite time of day? I love dawn. Where it is frosty and quiet and so serene. It’s just beautiful. Especially when I’m rowing and it’s just me and the morning. Even walking by the river is so beautiful. No music is needed cos it is just so magical. I could write a poem about it really… except I’m a bad poet. XD

19. Where were you born? Royal Women’s Hospital, Melbourne.

20. What is your favourite sport to watch? THE FOOTY! GO CARLTON! WHOOO!!! *waves banner* The Australian Football League (AFL) for those confused.

21. Who do you think will not make this a journal? … how can I say that? They’d probably just do it just in spite of me.

22. Person you expect to answer first? Hey look, a chocolate covered peanut! *munch munch*

23. Pepsi or Coke? Pepsi. I dunno why, but it has more taste than Coke. Coke is a bit more bland and non-cola-ish.

24. Beavers or ducks? Beavers. They are so smart. Not that ducks aren’t but… yeah… I’ll stop talking now.

25. Are you a morning person or a night owl? Morning. As I have said why in one of the above questions.

26. Pedicure or manicure? Manicure cos people don’t study my feet like they do my hands.

27. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? I’m going on prefect’s camp in two weeks!

28. What did you want to be when you were little? Well when I was three, I wanted to be a schoolgirl. Obviously, I have now completed that ambition, and then I wanted to be a cat. I dunno what I want to be now.

29. What is your best childhood memory? One of my best childhood memories: Going to Disneyland and riding the little “It’s a small world” ride over and over again and having it say goodbye at the end in 10 or more different languages. That made my day.... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14214941/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/14214941/ Fri, 17 Aug 2007 17:35:57 PDT
First, my username. Some of you might be thinking that it is kinda wird and long, but here's the story. One of my friends thought I was being weirdly poetic, but that's not the reason. It is because childhood story of me and my big sister where we were watching a documentary of Greeks making wine with the whole foot-squashing-the-grapes thing and the concoction was red. I was only about five at the time and this was just before I went to Hong Kong. At the time, I didn't really understand what the program was saying, and I didn't know that they were squishing grapes. I assumed that they were red leaves that they were squishing because the documentary kept popping up pictures of the beautiful autumn trees when playing music and stuff. So when I finally realised that the concoction was not made of red leaves, I asked my sister what it was. She said they were grapes. I asked why they were squishing grapes. She jokingly said that the Greeks were vampires and when you squish grapes it makes blood. Being the gullible little five-year-old that I was, I believed her. I didn't eat grapes for months. That has been one of my favourite childhood stories, so I decided to use it as a username. Simple as that really. So yes, that is the origin to my username.

Also, I have joined this awesome club : and you should all join cos it is so fun to be a member! PAR-TAY! They have already hosted a party for the wonderful and that was so fun! I brought a jester for entertainment! XD So join it now! Please! It's gonna be really fun and you can vote for various party occasions and stuff that is really fun too! There's gonna be one on the 27th of August! So hurry!

Another thing, because ~kingmukatan didn't expect his party, he drew everyone that was there! And I was drawn!!! Awesomely! It was so COOL!!! You can look at the comments and see my full ramble, I think it expressed my opinion quite nicely. Check it out! I love my clothes: [link]

Anyway, another thing. I have gotten reaonably better at digital art and have three pics lined up to colour and stuff. But being me, I get distracted by yet another picture and attempt to colour that as well. So in the end, I have ten pics to finish!

I had rowing yesterday for the first time in a while because I have been quite sick lately with flu, colds etc. so I was still kinda wobbly. But I tried my hardest and I think my coach was pleased. But **** were my teammates so annoying! Giggling and screaming and chasing each other around the boat and not holding it properly so I got the full blow of it, so then I yelled at them to help me, and they get all snooty! BAH!!! And when they got into the boat and we passed under a bridge, some of their friends were screaming at them from on top of the bridge and my teammates screamed and conversed back, not rowing! I wanted to strangle them! Except I couldn't reach their necks... XD Anyway, and the girl in front of me was complaining so much it was not funny! "I can't get my gate open, I can't hold the boat, ow I twisted my finger, my feet aren't in properly, Monica stop nagging, I'm so fat, I broke my nail, I an't hold the oars properly, people keep picking on me!" AARGH!!! Sometimes I wish that I didn't go to an all-girls school cos girls can be so INFURIATING sometimes!!! (But most aren't, to all the girls out there) But especiallt the people in my class! We are studying for exams in groups to "bond" but here they are talking about their boyfriends and hair! So I ask them to focus and they raise their eyebrows skeptically and continue! I sk nicely and appeal to the people who are annyed as well, and we all ask nicely with a fixed smile. Then they work. Slightly. *fume* I think it has just been bad this week though. Usually it is not this bad.

Well, that is all on rowing and annoying people I think. http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/13869085/ Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:17:00 PDT all alone...
Anyway... ON WITH THE MAIN ATTRACTION! *delighted squeals*


Names:

1. YOUR REAL NAME: Monica

2. YOUR GANGSTA NAME: (first 3 letters of real name plus izzle) Monizzle

3. YOUR DETECTIVE NAME: (fave colour and fave animal) Red Puma

4. YOUR SOAP OPERA NAME: (middle name, and current street) Waiyun Doonkuna

5. YOUR STAR WARS NAME: (the first 3 letters of your last name, first 2 letters of your first name, last 3 letters of mum's maiden name) Ipamoall

6. YOUR SUPERHERO NAME: (2nd favorite color, favorite drink). Green Agrum

7. YOUR IRAQI NAME: (2nd letter of your first name, 3rd letter of your last name, any letter of your middle name, 2nd letter of your mums maiden name, 3rd letter of you dads middle name, 1st letter of a siblings first name, last letter of your mums middle name)
Oandace

8. YOUR WITNESS PROTECTION NAME: (mum/dads middle name)
Uhhh…I don't know...and my parents are kinda in a bad mood… maybe tomorrow…

9. YOUR GOTH NAME: (black, and the name of one your pets)
Black Tiger

10. YOUR VAMPIRE NAME: (first vowel of your first name, last consonant of your last name, middle letter(s; incase of tie) of your name, favourite vowel and consonant)
Opniar

If you comment...

1- I'll answer with something random about you.
2- I'll dare you to try something.
3- I'll say a colour I associate with you.
4- I'll tell you something I like about you.
5- I'll tell you something I always remember about you / a first memory about you.
6- I'll tell you what animal you remind me of.
7- I'll ask you something I always wanted to ask you.
8- If I do this for you, you must put this in your journal.


Six bad beliefs/habits/qualities
1. I burst people's bubble a lot.
2. I am too suspicious.
3. When I get annoyed at the slightest thing, I can give everyone the cold shoulder for hours until I suddenly cheer up, which confuses and offends other people.
4. I pop with my mouth really loudly during tests as a way of thinking, not realising it.
5. I used to, (when I was younger, I don't anymore!) tilt the bathroom mirror to reflect the door when I was in the shower, just in case a basilisk would come in.
6. I eat my cereal with as least milk as possible. (ok, that isn't very bad, but I've run out of ideas.)

Tag six other people: No! They have to choose to do it themselves.

Random Questions
1. Grab the book nearest to you, turn to page 18, and find line 4.
“Shanghai shining imported motor cars were speeding down well paved roads…” Falling Leaves, Adeline Yen Mah.

2. Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.
What? I don’t feel anything. Oh, but if I turn it a bit, I… just knocked my glass of milk over. *fume*

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV?
Umm… I dunno. I kinda haven’t watched TV for days... or weeks…

4. Without looking, guess what time it is.
8:00pm?

5. Now look at the clock. What is the actual time?
8:35pm. Ok, wasn’t too crash hot.

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear?.
The heater whirring pleasantly.

7. When did you last step outside? What were you doing?
This morning at 7:40am. Going out. Early.

8. Before you started this survey, what did you look at?
Under my bed.

9. What are you wearing?
Pink and black striped v-neck jumper, white top, black trackies.

10. Did you dream last night?
Sigh. No. I love dreams…

11. When did you last laugh?
A few minutes ago. My sister and I were laughing hysterically over random things.

12. What are on the walls you are in?
Paint? Cream coloured.

13. Seen anything weird lately?
My face. Actually, this morning, I was looking for the milk in the kitchen, swearing that I had put it on the bench. After scanning the bench and assuring myself it wasn’t there, I looked in the fridge. Not there. Look back at the nearly empty bench. It’s standing right in the middle. Pft.

14. What do you thin... ]]> ~blood-autumn-leaves http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/13776949/ http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/13776949/ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 02:17:18 PDT It was such a coincidence to choose those ones. And remember, this was on shuffle, so I hadn't listened to some of those songs for ages. Including the boy bands. I think my sister gave me them. But they make me so happy! Yet the rocky ones make me want to jump on my bed and play air guitar.
And...uh... I didn't deliberately choose number 28... it just came up like that, and I groaned. Of all the times for that song to come up! Couldn't it just have been something completely random???
Sigh. Anyway, here it is:


Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle.
Say the following questions aloud, and press play.
Use the song titles that come up to answer each question.
NO CHEATING.

1.How does the world see me?
Keep On Moving - Five

2. Will I have a happy life?
Wonderwall - Oasis

3. What do people really think of me?
Like I Love You – Justin Timberlake

4. Do people secretly lust after me?
Will I Ever Make It Home – Ingram Hill

5. How can I make myself happy?
Tainted Love/ Where Did Our Love Go – Pussycat Dolls

6. What should I do with my life?
Hey Ya (Live Lounge) – Will Young

7. Will I ever have children?
Big Yellow Taxi – Counting Crows

8. What is some good advice for me?
Picture Of You – Boyzone (don't ask...)

9. What do I think my current theme song is?
Hold Me – Savage Garden

10. What does everyone else think my current theme song is?
Truly Madly Deeply (Cover) - Cascada

11. What song will play at my funeral?
This Ain’t A Scene, It’s An Arms Race – Fall Out Boy

12. What is my day going to be like?
Wonka’s Welcome Song – Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

13. Why am I here?
Rock This Party – Bob Sinclair

14. What will people remember me for?
It’s Not Over - Daughtry

15. What song will I get stuck in my head tomorrow?
Absolutely – Nine Days

16. Are there people outside waiting to take me away?
U And Ur Hand - Pink

17. What will this year be all about?
Glamorous - Fergie

18 - If you reached the top of Mount Everest, you would scream:
Voldemort Is Awesome – Draco and the Malfoys

19 - The next time you stand up in front of a group of people, you'll say:
Carry On Dancing – Savage Garden

20 - Your message to the world:
Wannabe – Spice Girls

21 - Your deepest secret:
I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Whitney Houston

22 - Your innermost desire:
Bring It All Back – S Club 7

23 - Your oldest memory makes you think:
High School Never Ends – Bowling For Soup

24 - Somewhere in your wedding vows, you'll include:
Steer – Missy Higgins

25 - When you wake up in the morning, you mutter:
Tell Me Something Good - Pink

26 - Right now, your feelings are:
Brown Eyed Girl - Busted

27 - The day you fall in love will be the day that:
Breathe – Anna Nalick

28 - You scream during sex:
The World’s Greatest – R Kelly

29 - Your farewell message to the readers of this:
The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani


Clubs:
http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/13735041/ Sat, 14 Jul 2007 16:52:11 PDT Went to my grandma's 4 times, went to box hill 3 times and chadstone twice, went out with friends 3 times, went on super-long bike ride twice, went shopping once, went to dinner twice, went to the ZOO! ()...ok, you really don't need to know this... but I went to the ZOO! I haven't been there for years!

OK! READ THIS! I"M NOT ACTUALLY FEELING DEPRESSED! But how much does it look like Mai and Ty Lee??? And the Ty Lee one is PINK!!! It's a sign!!! I laughed so much at the similarity. Well, comic similarity... I don't think it would actually happen, but in avatarfanworld, it would.

And I'm also quite proud of myself for writing my longest chapter yet of my fanfic! 51.8KB! That's quite a lot fo me. And I finished a picture/comic thingymabobby! Of one of my favourite OC characters by another author! TIGRA!!! She sooooooo cute! And powerful, musn't forget that...

You know, sometimes I wish I could speak Chinese so I wouldn't have such a hard time doing my stinking project. It's kinda annoying to have to look up the characters for each word so I can paste them into my documents. Oh well, if I could speak Chinese, then I would probably have done French...

I wish I could speak another language other than English. My sister can understand Swedish, but not speak it cos mum always talked to her in Swedish when she was a kid. Didn't do that to me. *grumble* And dad knows quite a bit so I am the only one not to know basically anything except for the daily Swedish ritual of "Thankyou for dinner, it was very nice," when I've finished eating. That's basically it.

But when I went to Hong Kong for three years, I learnt a bit of Chinese there even though I was young. That was alright cos I was in an Australian International School. But there were still all these people who could already speak Chinese sp they were jabbering away and I had no idea what they were saying. Kind of annoying. But I had a uniform that looked like a Madeline dress! It is quite cute, yet uncomfortable at the time I think...

And of course as soon as the school moved into te nine-storey new building with fancy-shmancy new facilities and classrooms and even with a POOL on the top level, my family and I moved back here. *grumble* and of course it was winter so I could never use the pool. And that happened with primary school as well! They were renovating it as soon as I graduated! Thankfully my highschool here hasn't renovated much though...

WAIT! DID I JUSYT SAY THAT THEY HAVEN"T RENOVATED MUCH?!? THEY HAVE!!! They have a whole new building for the year sevens! Why couldn't they build it a couple of years before now so I could have gone in it??? They have a microwave! And all these cool meeting rooms and funny blue plastic chairs!!! (That are actually quite uncomfortable, but that's not the point...) Stupid year sevens...*grumble grumble* Why do they get everything??? And more and more classes are doing the laptop program like my class does, but my year the first to use out model of laptop that is really good and then the school decided to use those laptops and are selling them to all the year sevens who act like THEY are the first ones to have them!!! But they AREN'T! I AM!!!

Do I need to sayanything else? Ok I read a joke in the paper today.
What did the hat say to the tie?
You hang around there, and I'll go on ahead.

Better than usual actually. Usually it's just "what is red and goes up and down? A tomato in an elavator" kind of joke. Not that roll on your backside hilarious. But I love completely abstract knock knock jokes. Ones that don't make sense and aren't at all funny. But they are hilarious. (Ok, I contradicted myself...)
The one that cracks me up the most though, is knock knock. Who's there? Ham. Ham who? Ham sandwich. when one of my crazy friends says it to me, I laugh hysterically, don't ask why.

Anyway, I think I have rambled enough. I need to go do stuff...

Wait! Nearly forgot the clubs...
http://blood-autumn-leaves.deviantart.com/journal/13555238/ Sat, 30 Jun 2007 18:30:29 PDT
Anyway, I have finally made some attempts to be included in clubs! I didn't think I would when I fist signed up with dA, but I thought to myself, "Why not? Who knows? I might get attacked by vicious possums and be ravaged for life or something. I might as well take the plunge!" So yeah. Hopefully that won't ever happen. I'll include the avatars down the bottom and everything else that needs to be said.

HOLIDAYS! Every day I appreciate my laptop more and more... *hugs the screen* But unlike my friends, I have not named it. I don't exactly come home and holler, "Hey Freddie! I'm home!"

Still, my holidays are only two weeks long. Oh well. I won't get too lazy then. I have a volleyball tournament comingup son, and I haven't trained for ages. Our coach says to go jogging or something everyday, but I am lazy and only go outside and bounce a ball against a wall and watch the cat next door get confused by the violently bouncing yellow thing. I don't even know how that cat gets into my garden. I think it climbs up the birch tree and opver the fence. Oh well.

For those of you who have read my fanfiction Secrets of a Stranger, I am sorry that lately, my updates haven't beenvery steady and rythmic. CURSE THIS WRITER'S BLOCK! It quite sad actually. I think my priorities have faded. Before I posted the chapters on dA, I only wote them for my own enjoyment, and when I would get home, I would look forward to rereading what I have written with great enthusiasm. But as I started to post them here, I became less excited about rereading them, and instead got joy for seeing them on a website. So I focused more on dA, rather than my actual story. Realising this, I think it is quite sad. So maybe I will just work at my own pace so I can enjoy it more instead of just thinking, "MUST POST TOMORROW! MUST POST TOMORROW!" Or maybe it's just becase I am in a bit of a dull stage of writing right now, I have to get some chapters out of the way before I can get to my twisty bit...hmph. Why am I just rambling about my fanfic? Just for myself I guess.

Anyway, here are the clubs that I am a member of, and maybe the only ones that I will go in, because I don't want to go in too many:


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Is it still around? Probably in a new fancy-schmancy version though. The original was cool. You travel through these magical lands while learning to spell and do maths as well! But when I was younger, I was constantly scared of the evil clowns that threw hamers at you in the candy-land world. But you have to admit, they were scary!
Wow, what a great journal entry, talking about childhood video games. Well, nothing wrong with that!!!

What else should I talk about? I dunno. Oh, I am trying to make my own picture of Arkana as part of my Avatar fanfiction Secrets of a Stranger, SOAS [link] and it's working outalright. But I can never find the right colours that suit her skin and hair. Oh well. I think I'll make a cover next, that might be nice...
Wheee! I'm having fun just typing away...about anything that pops into my head. Now what is popping into my head? Hmmm. I'll have to check... *filtering thoughts*...*BEEP!* Got one!
Oh no...just lost it...
Who's excited for the Avatar movie to come out? I'm not sure whther it is a good thing for M. Night Shyamalan to be directing it, because apparently he gets a lot of criticism for relying too much on twists in his movies. And I've noticed that he likes giving himself parts a lot as well as being the producer and screenwriter as well. Maybe he should choose to do one thing at a time. Eh. I wouldn't know.
I wonder who the cast would be? I hope that they're not all old, because that would destroy the feel, or they should look like twelve year olds, even if the're thirty. Like Charmain Carr in the Sound of Music, she was 23when she was playing a 16 year old.
Oh well, I guess that isn't too uncommon.

Anyway, about the Avatar movie, I have to say that I am actually excited about it, because I just want to see it come to life using live-action, yet I am also partly dreading it because if it is like Eragon, there is no hope left for fans. Eraon was such a load of... (about to swear violently, but refraining from doing so)...anyway, it was bad.
Did you know that Arya the elf played by Sienna Guillory is never mentioned to be an elf? Not once! They ingored one of the most important facts! And Murtagh's name is only said once, and by himself! And if Arya was there when Brom was dying, couldn't she have healed him? Oh wait! I remember! She wasn't shown to use magic did she? Becaues she wasn't an ELF!!!
*exhale* Phew! I'm all tired out now.
I have made my own author tag for my fanfictions! It is a picture of half a sword that is Arkana's. I am quite pleased with it, but disappointed that I couldn't fit any more of it on. Still, I'm satisfied.
And I got the song I'm doing for dance! We have to swap with another class, but oh well. Fast enough so I'm feeling tired by the end of it. It's strange though, it's a remix of Thriller, and by the time the words comes around, it's nearly time for me to go off again! It's mostly just fast thumping and that evil laughter. Quite cool though, and is upbeat. Anyway, I am not tlaking about anything relevant, so I think I will stop. Anyway, I need to get back to my Arkana picture. It's nit that good, but oh well. Maybe I'll start again if I can be bothered.

Remember, if you see this andyou haven't already, read my Avatar fanfiction and COMMENT! Even if it only a little emoticon, I'll be happy! (though is you use words, I'll be even happier!) I don't think it is that bad that no one should read it, so PLEASE READ IT! I'm feeling lonely! (and lazy) Here's another link! [link] and another! [link] and another! [link] FEEL PRESSURED!

Anyway, I had fun writing my first journal entry. If anyone reads it, I hope that they don't feel this-person-is-really-strange-so-I-am-lifting-an-eyebrow-sceptically kind of emotion. But that last comment may make them feel that way. Sigh. Oh well. Maybe another day. Thanks!

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