It's been said too many times before that Hollywood's been long drained of ideas, hence all the idea ripping from Asian cinema and books and graphic novels and things, and there's no way for me to rehash this any more creatively than its been previously done, but i want to express my EXTREME dismay in the Golden Compass movie. Didn't watch it in the past because i wanted to read the books first, which i only got around to doing last week and i COULDN'T FRIGGIN PUT IT DOWN. Oh sure sure, anti-religious themes bla bla bla (Though I found it more philosophically discursive than blatantly anti-religious? What's up with all the hatred, Catholic Church? Although SURE i can see how institutions, religious or not, would want to cut away your soul so you can become blameless as well as thoughtless BUT I DIGRESS)- I REALLY FRAEKIN LOVE LYRA. That is one badass kid.

Anyway, the movie sucked. I hate it when they just pick a couple of scenes from the book they want to film, make a couple of awkward dialogue-based links between scenes and then just string the whole thing together with a smear of shiny all over it. It's AWKWARD. It's what they do to Harry Potter, it's why these fantastic characters seem so flat and lifeless on the screen, and it's why the stories all seem so damn COMPLICATED. Fuuuuuuu. Either rewrite it for cinema, or do what Peter friggin Jackson did. If not, take a hike Hollywood and do not waste my time >:(

Oh hey yeah, Christmas! Was run-of-the-mill, by my family's standards, though we did manage to Skype with my brother in Vienna briefly. Lots of hugging and sweating! Nicki got me The Subtle Knife and I also got this really badass Spiderman bubble gun. For making BUBBLES. UH-HUH. BE JEALOUS. And I cleaned my ROOM!!! Woah, i unearthed so much crap.

Going to party my ass off with the fam tonight, get a couple of cousins drunk, and then it's off to Bohol! I wish i still knew what my thesis was!

Was gonna write some shite today about my current ideological and philosophical standpoint, but i guess it can wait. Rest assured that i have been pretty happy with my stance lately. Maybe i'll write about it on New Year's. ♥

Yesterday afternoon i decided on a whim to spend the night at school one last Lantern Parade ridden time just because, considering the way the admin is faring, i probably will never be able to once my status shifts from student to alumni (THE GRIEF IS STILL TOO NEAR). I'm glad i did. I spent most of the night up with Andy and Chalk playing Fuck Kill Marry, and i lay down with an emotionally drained Udz and Nico on a blanket in the middle of a dusty empty parking lot staring up at the brilliantly clear night sky from 3AM to daybreak. I love doing NOTHING. I also had one of the most incredible shooting experiences in my life today at dawn. For serious, it was nothing short of absolutely absurd.

For the first time ever, i was at the parade as more of a spectator than as an actual participant. I love doing NOTHING.

I watched the fireworks alone this year, perched on the dewy trunk of my car in the middle of an inhospitable parking lot. I wasn't alone for the evening, i just so happened to have stepped away for a second when it began. I enjoyed that, and spent a couple minutes thinking, and when you start thinking about what the year's been about, you know it is time for...

( The Year-End Meme )

Oh my lord i have not felt kilig-hanggang-batok for such a good long lonely while.

( ALICE )

Dearest Glee writers, THAT IS HOW YOU HANDLE A LOVE TRIANGLE. You need to make all parties sympathetic otherwise it's really just a TWO DIMENSIONAL LOVE STORY. See also: Lost seasons 1-3; John Hughes' Some Kind of Wonderful.

/procrastination

GLEE IS SUCH BULLSHIT.

( NO. NO NO NO NO NO. )

I have had a very long day. I went to shoot at a local monument, i made new friends from my PI class, i self-dated for lunch and then some, i fucked up a cup of coffee (SERIOUSLY. how could i do THAT wrong??), i saw Amelia, i watched a lecture on the fanfiction subculture and i went jogging for an hour. I miss being a fangirl.

Exhaustion is the word of the hour.

( Things~ )

Aaaaaand for my friends who have not had the opportunity to lately, please check my photojournal for an update on my China adventures! I also cleaned up the CSS, for your sexy viewing pleasure.

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Short addendum:



From the last Glee, also moved me to tears. I think it is because Tina sings it with such earnest. And it makes me think of all the people i listed (and some that i didn't) in that last meme i did.

SO I KIND OF DIDN'T BRING ANY UNDERWEAR TO BEIJING. It's ridiculous how much i am NOT KIDDING with that. I don't know how my brain just GLOSSED OVER the bringing of underpants, it's not like it was my first time to do any sort of short-term packing before. It is ridiculous, anecdotal, and makes a good response to "How was China?". Thanks, brain! Thanks for the memories.

But it was largely a fantastic trip, as expected! All that Mandarin I was trying to learn when i was sixteen in order to converse with my former-future-spouse, 朱孝天, actually came in handy! SERIOUSLY, WHO WOULD HAVE GUESSED. Our love has served a purpose! Beijing i think has really become foreigner friendly since the Olympics, so i don't really kid myself into thinking my wimpy grasp of the language gave me any sort of edge, but now i'm a little more excited about studying it full time. It's a pretty important language. And also, i am so ready to have his babies.

(Also, how in the HELL has he been 30 for the past YEAR?!?!?! ALREADY?? Does he want his nubile 22 year old yet?)

Saw the Great Wall, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, all the usual places. The Temple of Heaven was a fantastic shooting experience. My camera was a giant block of ice and my fingers were popsicles but it was difficult to care for China is pretty. And cold. Pretty cold.

And now i'm back here, taken aback by just how much crap i could have missed in a mere five days. You guys, i cannot keep up with you all! I was backchecking the LJs of people and realized i was out of the loop before i even left. __sundaymorning was saying something recently about LJland being full of heartbreak of late, and WOW i did not realize how true that was until i got back. You guyyyyyyyys! What's going ooooon! Therefore it is fortuitous that intodelirium posted this recently:

You know how sometimes people on your friends-list post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-word answers seldom help anyone out.

( Primer Ib )

Feeling kind of seasick (some dumb kid was kicking the back of my seat for FOUR HOURS, and i very nearly told her mom to get her shit together but then i remembered two things: 1) some woman's postsecret about the same thing and 2) that the mother probably had to live with that brat, which is probably punishment enough, so i reigned it in and tried to pretend it was some disruptive form of Chinese massage) but i gotta get my own shit together! Work work!

As depressing as it is to me that my peers are all out there making the big bucks and i'm still taking four hour leisure naps in the middle of the day just because, in some ways i am glad for the excuse not to get anyone anything in honor of the season. I'm sorry boys and girls, i love you all, but the funds just aren't going to cut it this year. I will make my sister bake everyone Love Cookies, how bout that? Or i could write people letters. People love letters! Matagal na rin akong di nagsusulat ng palanca!

I'm getting pretty excited for Christmas though! I've been hearing Christmas music peppering in everywhere and it just made me miss being in a choral group and learning alto parts and caroling and things. I could totally start going back to church in December just to listen to the choir... they'd still let me in there, right? Sure, over the years Christmas has turned into a mass-produced holiday serving a largely capitalist purpose in the hearts of many, but to me it's always been about family and the two weeks we generally spend in each other's ceaseless company. This year's turnout is looking to be pretty good. And my very last Lantern Parade ever?!?! Juicy tears! I remember the drama! I remember the crankiness! I remember the yelling! Good times.

I'm writing songs again. This new one is about a creature living in a hatbox. And i bought a cheapo harmonica, but it's sooooo much fun.

YESTERDAY I TOTALLY HELPED MAKE DINNER AND NOBODY DIED. LIKE I PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE. KIND OF. Actually i probably acted more like Sean's extended robot arm, and i messed up cutting the bread, but WHATEVER, there was food that was (un?)surprisingly good, and there was consumption, and there was merriment! Nico freestyled some chicken with Keisha! Jamie "did nothing"! I threw cheese at Rayson's face! We played cards and yelled a lot, and then i got kind of sick afterwards, but i think it was ultimately an overwhelming success.

Except for the bread thing.

And also, i did the groceries, so now we have Oreos. ♥

The ending had me in tears!!

( Glee )

Today is the natal anniversary of someone who has, over the past three years, become incredibly important to me. She listens to me wail as i listen to her, she comes to my house and sleeps in my bed, we love good food (i eating, she creating as much as consuming) and her nature as date-kaladkarin allows me to ring her up at odd hours of the night for midnight snacks, i greatly admire her swirly girly boobly artistic sensibilities, she's never ever selfish with anything she's learned or anything she has, really! Thank you Katrina the Unselfish Loving Chinese Chicken Breast for putting up with the whiny rants, the racist cracks, the sexual abuse and the picking on your seemingly inexorable reservoir of unintentional That's What She Said moments.


I love you Kittysauce, with all the cells in my body ♥
Happy birthday!

But im not sorry that Zac Efron has decided to marry me instead of you. Girl, thats just the way it is.