Delirium Country

ack!

2004-09-18T04:24:00.000Z

to my utter horrification i have discovered that Firefox completely destroys this layout and now that i know i just cannot leave it that way, even though i will probably have to slave for aeons to get it looking right again, and even though i don't even like blogger much anymore. because in this i feel have to at least keep up appearances.

2004-06-03T17:23:00.000Z

have forgotten which of my RL peeps fwded me the message below, but if you got it too, you should prolly take it with a grain of salt (which is what one should do with a lot of these fwded emails, really) just scroll down a bit to read the part where the allegations made in this message are refuted.

From: Dianne Boma
To:

Subject: A simple information....a serious problem

I just happen to have received a very important information about something
we most often drink... read on and see what I mean...

Just a few among us might be aware of what a "SOFT DRINK" is made of... One
popular brand is Coca Cola... here's the "REAL THING"...

Have a look at the wrapper on a Coca-Cola 1.5 liter bottle and in the ingredients label you will find phosphoric acid in it. Minute quantities of ethylene glycol are also used (which is acknowledged in the soft drink world for making it really chill). This is popularly known as anti-freeze which prevents water from freezing at 0 deg C and instead drops it 4-5 degrees with minute quantities. This chemical is a known slow poison in the caliber of arsenic. So, if you manage to drink about 4 liters of Coke within an hour or so, you can die.

Read along and give up these dangerous things. Be natural; have flavored milks, tender coconuts, buttermilk, and plain water instead of these "soft" drinks.

Guess what's the pH for soft drinks, e.g. Coke? PH 3.4! This acidity is strong enough to dissolve teeth and bones! Our human body stops building bones at the age of about 30.

Softdrinks do not have any nutrition value (in terms of vitamins and minerals). It is high in sugar content, carbonic acid, chemicals i.e. colorings etc.

Some like to take cold soft drinks after each meal. Guess what's the impact? Our body needs an optimum temperature of 37 degrees Celsius for digestive enzyme functioning. The temperature of cold soft drinks is very much below 37 degrees or even close to 0 degrees Celsius. This will dilute the enzymes & stress the digestive system. The food taken will not be digested. In fact it will be fermented! The fermented food produces gases, decays and becomes toxin, gets absorbed by the intestine, circulates in the blood stream and is carried to the whole body. Hence toxin is accumulated in other parts of the body, developing into various diseases.

Think before you drink coke/Pepsi (or any soft drink) again. Take water or natural juices instead. Have you ever thought what you drink when you drink an aerated drink? You gulp down carbon dioxide, when nobody in the world would advise you to drink CO2. Two months back, there was a competition at Delhi University "Who could drink the most Coke?" The winner drank 8 bottles and fainted on the spot-too much CO2 in the blood. Thereafter, the principal banned all soft drinks from the college canteen!

While this might have been an extreme measure, their results do provide some food for thought.

Did you know that soft drinks use chemicals in them that cause immense harm to you. Someone put a broken tooth in a bottle of Pepsi and in 10 days it DISSOLVED! Can you believe it? Teeth and bones are the only human parts that stay intact for years after death. Imagine what the drink must be doing to your soft intestines and stomach lining!

Request to all: Forward this message to your friends to increase the awareness of the great "Assumed soft drinks".

You can take this precaution for yourself, for your friends, and for your families. I would not require to forward this to all of them.. you can simply print this out and share it to them... you can do whatever you want to do with this information... However, I challenge to show to them HOW MUCH YOU CARE...

God bless!!!

in with the new

2004-05-10T07:16:00.000Z

whoa, Blogger's got a new look. new everything, as it turns out. and to think, i only noticed this because the blogger link button had changed.

a well-deserved update

2004-05-07T08:00:00.000Z

have added some of those nifty buttons i've seen around to the left sidebar. [ MUSIC ] links to my Launch station, check it out if you'd like to know what kind of music i enjoy. [ >>> ATOM ] is a link to the ATOM RSS feed for this blog.

fight the hate.

2004-04-07T10:02:00.000Z

*returning to my poor neglected blog to impart a very important message*

let's Googlebomb the haters because we shouldn't let them win. if enough people do this we can push that anti-Semitic site down in the Google rankings.
more information here.

also, sign the petition @ removejewwatch.com

2004-02-09T01:13:00.000Z

presenting...the world's most ineptly executed scam email! couldn't even fool someone born yesterday! for which we should probably be thankful:

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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:20:00 -0500
From: "CitibankOnline"
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_Dear_ _citibank_ Client_,

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veerify _your e-mail address_.
You mustt comtplee this pscreos by clicking on the_ link
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account, click on _the link _below.

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Hotmail message

2004-01-14T07:01:00.000Z

From : petrea stonum
Sent : Wednesday, January 14, 2004 5:27 AM
To :
Subject : RE:

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you salty planet Shave the orange!

Someday the cotton ball will be hairy you king-sized rope
the egg is soggy Hey baby wanna let me start squeezing your leg?

the bumpy cup hates the gun
Where am the spiffy wire? underneath the skateboard? the icy ear hates the gun
lmao! Someone is hammering the musical instrument!

2003-12-15T19:35:00.000Z

learned something useful recently:

Many hosts don't allow direct linking to images. To get around this, try adding the URL "http://invis.free.anonymizer.com/" in front of the URL to your image.

2003-11-30T18:38:00.000Z

the following is a spam message but with the crap cut out.

Subject: Custom is a tyrant.
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2003 22:02:33 -0500

Good morning, campers :)

>> A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens
your own expectations.

>> All the power that we exercise over others depends on the power we exercise
over ourselves.

>> The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

>> One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

>> Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than
a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.

Buona notte

A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly
strangled.
Communists are people who fancied that they had an unhappy childhood.
Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without
knowledge, of things without parallel.

2003-11-25T20:14:00.000Z

spoke too soon in the post prior to this one. i tried posting an entry to blog.sms.ac/delcj using my other SIMcard's email, and it worked. there was a delay, but it worked. it was just my other cellphone email that was wack, after all. i should complain to the cellular service. maybe i'll post it on their forum or something.

2003-11-09T18:47:00.000Z

so. there's blog.sms.ac now too, right?
so i sign up for one so i could blog using my cellphone's email function, i've always wanted to.
and then i find out it won't accept the entry i sent from my phone bcause it's apparently exclusive to mms phones >_< life is unfair.

2003-10-11T20:02:00.000Z

additional random bits from TWotW:

furious energy. Every minute a fresh gun came into position until,

at Ottershaw. He was immensely excited at the news, and in the excess...

unclean. One man in evening dress passed them on foot, his eyes on...

Martian advance. He had hurried home, roused the women--their servant

and along a passage beside a big house standing in its own grounds,

head on his arms, and began to sob and weep like a little boy in a

Shepperton Church--it has been replaced by a spire--rose above the

from The Acharnians:

abuse, a deluge of lies. Through what a slough of mud he dragged me!

Subject: ... DICAEOPOLIS
You carry nothing worth having; however, take it, for you will...

Subject: ... returned from Lacedaemon. Welcome, Amphitheus.
THEORUS...

Subject: ... What other news of Megara? What is wheat selling at?

2003-10-09T18:26:00.000Z

the saga of the HHGTTG-quoting spam continues with this snippet from a
"Zina Oblak" < Murielwc@ deskmail.com >:

"Would it be a problem if I'm angry most of the time?" `Like a military academy,' said Arthur, `bits of me keep passing out.'" .... the interview process... "`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'"

seems like spammers really like sci-fi, notice the subject line from a "Thomas Tiana":

Subject: Maybe You Were Just Meant To Get This! were none. One may picture the orderly expectation, the officers bd80qq5

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRAh! I have the very thing; take away an Informer, packed up

[blablabla...]

sky to herself. I heard a dog howling, and that familiar sound it was
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR $book4

the subject quote's taken from HG Wells' War of the Worlds.

incidentally, most of the rest of the text that isn't in boldface is from Aristophanes' The Acharnians. which brings me to this other subject line from some Viagra spammer:

Euripides, nothing beyond a small pipkin stoppered with a sponge.

addendum: more HHGTTG in office spam from a "Madeline Daniel":

`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.' ...

2003-10-07T05:27:00.000Z

what the hell is it with these spammers cutting up Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy quotes?!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Seymour Dalrymple" < Sandfordwr@joymail.com >
To:
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 11:12 AM
Subject: Quick and convenient online prescriptions dccba

...

"I know this is off the subject, but will you marry me?",`I don't know, I didn't listen.'" abelia abigail awexwtghrkjbn

From: "Kayla Imbemba" < Gaycyr@hotmail.com >
To: <@bankrupt.com>
Sent: Friday, October 03, 2003 5:26 PM
Subject: Phentermine prescribed online ubx

...

The employers were also asked to list the "most unusual" questions that have been asked by job candidates.,"`This must be Thursday,' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer, `I never could get the hang of Thursdays.'" adeline agnes baqxakkmin

the context of the boldface quote in the first spam is actually

"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."

"Why, what did she tell you?" [also quoted in spam from my previous entry. argh.]

"I don't know, I didn't listen."

"Oh." Ford carried on humming.

(from hhgttg_quotes)

and just one more for the ol' spam files before i sign off on this entry:

From: < duanerpmsm@darwinkeyboards.com >
To: "kelvin volk"
CC: "kasey gorham" , "fausto nestor" , "boyce barbie" , "kasey yeubanks" , "nickolas aranas" , "freddy tangredi" , "lynwood ockey" , "clayton grantham"
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1030ffa Give a dog a bad name and hang him.

damn spammer gave me the address book nickname "fausto nestor" which i find damn unacceptable. i would much rather have been "Kasey Gorham"

2003-09-30T03:14:00.000Z

some days ago, i saw an issue of The Asian Wall Street Journal with a Marcos Chin illustration in the office but now i can't find it again :(

so anyway. interesting little spam @ The Creek now:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Marconi" < Agatharf@sina.com >
To: < >
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:35 PM
Subject: Trip into fall xw

You recently visited one our websites or one of our partner sites and you have been awarded a 3 day Vacation & 2 Airline Tickets.

Visit the link below for your trip

http://alwaysfeelgreat1.com/tnl/

Update list preference: alwaysfeelgreat1.com/re

"Would it be a problem if I'm angry most of the time?",`Why, what did she tell you?'

the boldface quote is from a list of the "most unusual" questions that have been asked by job candidates, the veracity of which is uncertain and the origin apparently unknown.

2003-09-27T05:19:00.000Z

from Alvin @ The Creek

----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 1:13 PM

I was reading an article the other day about how "political correctness" has infected the manufacturers of school text books in the United States. These publishers have to scrub their text so as to not offend anyone.

I'm not making this up.

For instance, these publishers can't even print the legendary The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. Why not?

"Old" is ageist.

"Man" is sexist.

"Sea" can't be used in case a student lives inland and doesn't grasp the concept of a large body of water.

2003-09-04T02:58:00.000Z

have not died. however, my modem @ home seems to have taken an indefinite leave of absence from me because all it will say is "The computer you dialed did not answer." still trying to fix problem. keep fingers crossed for me and my wayward modem.

2003-08-30T05:35:00.000Z

gotta love the pics for this quiz:

an enigma wrapped in a mystery, you blog
for yourself. You have your own reasons for
doing what you do. We are still glad you're here!
What kind of blogger am I?
brought to you by Quizilla

PRESS RELEASE,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 20, 2003
SELF ESTEEM LAUNCHES ITS FIRST AD CAMPAIGN
�Inspire to be.� reflects the SELF ESTEEM vision.

Los Angeles, CA -- All Access Apparel, Inc., manufacturer of the SELF ESTEEM� junior apparel brand, has announced the launch of its first ad campaign, to break for fall Back-to-School 2003.

The new print ad campaign, titled �Inspire to be.�, targets teens, and strives to empower self-expression among them. Each ad produced will feature a different SELF ESTEEM girl; a model who is approachable, non-intimidating, and represents individuality and freedom. Capturing the brand identity of SELF ESTEEM�s butterfly icon, the ad will portray each girl as the body of a butterfly with illustrated butterfly wings behind her. Different artists will illustrate each set of wings to achieve variety, personality, and style expression, thus representing SELF ESTEEM�s customers and the individuality SELF ESTEEM strives to inspire.

SELF ESTEEM�s inspirational ad campaign will launch in August 2003 consumer fashion magazines including YM, Teen People, Elle Girl, Twist and J-14. The ad will also run in WWD in October. In addition, the �Inspire to be.� campaign will be placed in mall kiosks throughout the country.

...

For the first series of ads, two models were chosen for their representation of today�s girl. Each one exudes self-confidence, individual style and diversity. Highly recognized fashion photographer, Stan Musilek, with offices in Paris and San Francisco shot the images. New York artist Celia Calle and Toronto artist Marcos Chin illustrated the butterfly images.

(Photos available upon request)

###

Press Contact:
Shout Public Relations
Kristy Wampole
895 A. West 18th Street
Costa Mesa, CA 92627
Tel: 949.574.1440
Fax: 949.515.0549
kristy@ shoutpr.com

well, i requested, but have yet to see Marcos Chin's butterfly images. oh well. *keeps waiting*

...

whoops, spoke too soon. i think i found a small pic of one of the butterfly images.

2003-08-26T07:57:00.000Z

it occurs to me that i should probably discuss something other than s-p-a-m here so that the Ads by Google thingy will start displaying something other than boring links... but i don't use this blog for much else these days. maybe when i get home i'll think of something. i need a new computer keyboard (not to mention a new diskette drive) but have to hold off on buying bcause money's kinda tight at the moment.

2003-08-26T01:11:00.000Z

another spam with a Hitchhiker's Guide quote in it! >_<

From : Vacationnnn Trips
To :
Subject : Don't be silly
Date : Mon, 25 Aug 2003 14:51:04 -0500
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Hi [name witheld],

Think this is too good to be true?

Receive an 3 day 2 night Vaction Voucher
to Your Choice of Several Fantastic
Destinations Around the World.

http://claim--free--travel--for--[name witheld]@7p3.com/index.php?rd=13&e=[email address witheld]

"`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"? 'Cos I don't.'", Candidate dozed off during interview.

http://unsubscribe-from-our-list.bvthoffwukhbswukulcadifwssmkxpqbllibqoany@7p3.com/index.php?rd=15&e=[email address witheld]

2003-08-21T03:40:00.000Z

finally! d/l'ed IE6 and now am on the blogger interface i want. so here are some more of those dummy URLs i mentioned in the previous entry:

aceofmontezumasdeck.com
xaviersblueroom.com
bluetempletemplars.com
bereftandriotous.com
bartsbubblesalon.com
firedwiredandmired.com
eagerbeaverlovers.com
clubbedanddubbed.com
creativecretins.com, etc.

2003-08-14T02:16:00.000Z

in the spam email i get i've noticed a bunch of bogus URLs used solely for address removal, there is no real _content_ on these 2-page websites, such as:

pigeontoed.com
twelvesolvesthepuzzle.com
rexroxy.com
redloveangels.com
redandrusticriders.com
loosehaggis.com
buymagshere.com
rollersolar.com
slickaveragemonkeys.com
worrysorry.com, etc.

isn't this a form of cybersquatting? what if someone who actually had something to say wanted one of these domain names?

cute animated gif spam of "Italian charm bracelet"

am still on lofi interface right now, haven't upgraded my browser to IE6. bah.

2003-08-08T18:29:00.000Z

what the fark?! why am i back to blogger lofi again?! i want the other blogger thing, dammit! what do i have to do to get it back, and for good?!

2003-07-24T19:54:00.000Z

*relief* blogger lofi is no more, my fi is no longer lo. it is...more of the hi now? all is well in delirium country. ... well...not really. but you get the picture.

2003-07-22T22:16:00.000Z

blogger lofi, go away! i want my fi that is not lo! *sob!* how do i get the other fi to come back?!

in other, less stupid news: July 22 is David Spade's birthday. happy birthday to him, he rawks my sawks.

i want to reply to this very strange message that was in my Rogue inbox but it's from an unknown source. bah.

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for ; Sat, 7 Jun 2003 02:16:35 -0400 (EDT)
From:
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damn right i am 20nj2vk

aaand... this background i was spammed with makes me want to vomit or something. -->
i mean, it's sort of cute, cause those chrome spheres are like quail eggs that've been...well, chromed. like bronzed, y'know? am all for chroming stuff but when you see a whole page of it in a repeated pattern, it's kinda ick. they look like alien eggs, that kind of thing.

2003-07-22T01:39:00.000Z

why is the 'Net apparently in a happy imood when _i_ am not?! why?! what's it so happy about, i'd like to know!

and another thing i'd like to know: who is A-n-d-r-e-w S-u-l-l-i-v-a-n and what in god's name makes Ads by Google think that the "Related Search" with his name on it "matches the content and context" of my blog? the bsb fanfic link i could understand, but when have i ever mentioned this person before?!

... except now i think i've inadvertently encouraged the thing by mentioning him and his name shows up more frequently than it did before! argh!

2003-07-18T09:13:00.000Z

judging from the filename, it seems the woman in this picture is called Adriana. could it have been Marcos Chin who named her? or maybe the filename's meant to be read "adria, napalm"

this one's a much clearer version of that 468x60 banner i saved to My Documents folder then promptly forgot where i got it from. ehhh. anyway now i can erase it from there.

2003-07-12T06:38:00.000Z

Current music: "Tonight and the Rest of My Life" - Nina Gordon. ChoiceRadio.com Voices of Women

Monday i was flipping through magazines in a beauty parlor waiting while Thel got her hair done, and saw Marcos Chin's kewt prom illustration, it took up about a page. it made me smile to unexpectedly find it and see it in detail ^__^

2003-07-08T17:32:00.000Z

one of the related searches in the Ads by Google thingy along the top of this blog is, get this...backstreet boys fan fiction ^.^ heee! am sorely tempted to click on it.

2003-07-06T22:54:00.000Z

got this awhile back from Maril:

----- Original Message -----
From: Matthew Tan
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 12:47 PM

Check this out!!! The new Honda Accord Advert!!! For those who r using 56k connection, this award winning Advert is 4.8Mb, so will take abt 20minutes to stream finish the video, but the wait is worth it, man!!! U will never believe yur eyes on how they filmed this advert!!! It takes them 606 times to successfully complete the whole shot!!! *standing ovation*

http://home.attbi.com/~bernhard36/honda-ad.html

2003-07-03T02:30:00.000Z

weird spam of the day:

5 Million Beautiful Singles... 1 Ugly One.

what the hell is that supposed to mean?! how in howling blue blazes is that supposed to get ppl to want in on their dating service?! it reads like an insult, for crying out loud! OK, enough with the exclamation points.

meanwhile, i feel like posting this next spam (from a similar IP as the first) just bcause the guy reminds me pleasantly of Ike Hanson. *looks around furtively*

2003-06-27T18:33:00.000Z

w00t!
found her again through a stroke of serendipity! the Asian-looking girl with the dangly Scorpio(?) earrings and a cuppa coffee/tea(?) whose facial expression i <3

2003-06-26T08:08:00.000Z

so. damn spammers still cannot spell but they quote from Shakespeare now, for some reason...

From : sa675t8765grah@ebay.com
To :
Subject : check this out!
Date : Thu, 26 Jun 2003 15:42:55 +0800

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the last line's said by Camillo in A Winter's Tale, Act 1 Scene 2.

2003-06-26T02:58:00.000Z

*sigh* maybe i should just turn this blog into a record of Marcos Chin's illustrations...they are so kewl.

[edit] just one more lavalife pic and i'll quit posting them. for today, anyway.

2003-06-25T02:46:00.000Z

yes we are still hung up on Marcos Chin thankyouverymuch.

nother one of his illos for lavalife: "it's raining men, hallelujah!"

am not sure if this one was used for lavalife too, but it could very well have been...:

"ladies' choice"

isn't this one just KEWTness?

he's also *award-winning*, and one of The Great 8 @ aaronleighton.com

2003-06-24T07:09:00.000Z

so. burning question of the moment:

WHO DRAWS THOSE CUTE LAVALIFE CARTOONS IN THE POPUPS?!

they don't make me the least bit interested in joining up but they are rather charming. particularly that Asian-looking girl with the dangly Scorpio(?) earrings and a cuppa coffee/tea(?) � i <3 that chick's facial expression.
so. we google and find that:
the artist's name is apparently Marcos Chin. it's a good thing i'm apparently not the only blogger to have expressed interest in those pictures.

[addendum] read about this quite some time ago: Madonna's related to Celine Dion � view their family tree

2003-06-21T03:06:00.000Z

if you're the praying sort, please pray to whichever higher power you believe in that my grandmother's operation is successful and that my family will weather this tropical depression. thanks.

the 'net's current imood is happy. i attribute that to the arrival of new HP canon. i'm getting my copy in less than an hour!

Blogger's got a new look. it's rather sexy. i like it.

Geek Chic. Offbeat and with a thumbful of
calluses, you spend most of your time catching
Simpsons reruns and sucking down raspberry
Jell-O. However, you're still a hipster,
you've still got your own style, and you
probably dig the Velvet Underground's "Who
Loves the Sun?"
What Kind of Hipster Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

'i am the world trade center'
what electro band are you?
brought to you by Quizilla

anyone out there know if this band's good?

...

[update] have d/l'ed 2 songs by the band. listening to "Move On" right now. it's kewl. they are pretty good.

2003-06-17T19:18:00.000Z

forwarded by Katiekat:

----- Original Message -----
From: Nicollete Delfino
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2002 11:33 PM

THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Lets face it: English is a terrible language

There is no egg in the eggplant, no ham in the hamburger and neither pine nor apple in the pineapple

English muffins were not invented in England, French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted. But if we examine its paradoxes we find that:

Quicksand takes you down slowly, boxing rings are square, and
A guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig.

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing. If the plural of tooth is teeth, shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth. If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught. If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat!?

Why do people recite at a play, yet play at a recital? Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down and in which you fill in a form by filling it out

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race (which of course isn't a race at all). That is why when the stars are out they are visible, but when the lights are out they are invisible.

And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts but when I wind up this story it ends?

And more.... Some food for "Thought"
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?

Why is the man who invests all your money called a broker? Why is a person who plays the piano called a pianist, but a person who drives a race car not called a racist?

Why are wise men and wise guys opposites? Why do overlook and oversee mean opposite things? If horrific means to make horrible, does terrific mean to make terrible?

Why isn't 11 pronounced onety one? If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen are defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted, cowboys deranged, models deposed, tree surgeons debarked and dry cleaners depressed?

Why is it that if someone tells you that there are 1 billion stars in the universe you will believe them, but if they tell you a wall has wet paint you will have to touch it to be sure?

If you take an Oriental person and spin him around several times, does he become disoriented? If people from Poland are called "Poles," why aren't people from Holland called "Holes?"

2003-06-14T07:06:00.000Z

what's with this Blogger LoFi?! it's all...strange and stuff. will take some getting used to.

2003-06-02T08:08:00.000Z

got this from Grace Ann:

Fw: are u color blind?

----- Original Message -----
From: Linda Teo
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2003 7:58 PM

Take the test and find out....

2003-05-28T05:53:00.000Z

mere words cannot express how ticked off i get at spammers and virii.

If You Get This E-Mail, Delete It ASAP

If you get an e-mail message from the address support@Microsoft.com -- no matter what the subject or title -- delete it immediately. Do not open it. Do not download the attached file. It's not a message from Microsoft; it's an e-mail worm known as both W32/Palyh and W32.HLLW.Mankx@mm, according to the IDG News Service. It started appearing last week.

The subject lines vary, but include:
Re: My application
Your password
Approved (Ref: 38446-263)
The attached files have different names, too, but all have a .PIF extension. Examples include password.pif, doc_details.pif, and ref-394755.pif. The virus will only be unleashed if you download the file and click on it, according to virus software maker F-Secure.

IDG reports that once it is released, the virus code modifies the Windows registry so that the worm program is launched whenever Windows is run. Since it's a worm, it also looks for files containing e-mail addresses so it can mail itself to more people. Unlike many viruses, this one does not need Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express to run; it only needs the Windows operating system. A special code in the virus allows it to send its own e-mail messages without Outlook. Microsoft Corp. reminds its customers that it never distributes software via e-mail.

2003-04-24T03:52:00.000Z

heyhey! Subliminy's back! w00t!!!

to continue in the phobia vein from the previous entry:

The World's Strangest Phobias

Phobias, which often begin when we are children, are irrational fears that are so intense they become disabling. Why are the names so unpronounceable and bizarre? And who knew these phobias even existed?

Fear of Body Parts
Opening one's eyes: Optophobia
Chins: Geniophobia
Hands: Chirophobia
Knees: Genuphobia
Getting wrinkles: Rhytiphobia
Becoming bald: Phalacrophobia
Bald people: Peladophobia

Fear of Life's Joys
Feeling pleasure: Hedonophobia
Laughter: Geliophobia
Falling in love: Philophobia
Kissing: Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Marriage: Gamophobia
Music: Melophobia
Flutes: Aulophobia
Poetry: Metrophobia
Theaters: Theatrophobia
Clowns: Coulrophobia [clowns are among life's joys?! i really do not think so.]
Dancing: Chorophobia
Hearing good news: Euphobia
Flowers: Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Books: Bibliophobia

Fear of Religion
God: Zeusophobia
Church: Ecclesiophobia
Crosses or the crucifix: Staurophobia
Holy things: Hagiophobia
Priests or sacred things: Hierophobia
Religious ceremonies: Teleophobia
Sermons: Homilophobia
Theology: Theologicophobia
Satan: Satanophobia
Sin: Hamartophobia
Hell: Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Credit for this list of phobias goes to The Phobia List.

2003-04-19T00:11:00.000Z

yep. that sounds like Despair to me. canonical quote, supposedly. which canon? and what's achluophobia? hmmm.

...

i'm back. and boy, do i ever feel like a moron. achluophobia = fear of darkness.
as for the canon that quote came from, it was allegedly said by Kelly from the old I Spy tv series.

2003-04-17T13:16:00.000Z

fw from Janelle:

A man takes the day off work and decides to go out golfing. He is on the second hole when he notices a frog sitting next to the green. He thinks nothing of it and is about to shoot when he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron."

The man looks around and doesn't see anyone. Again, he hears, "Ribbit 9 Iron." He looks at the frog and decides to prove the frog wrong, puts the club away, and grabs a 9 iron.
Boom!
He hits it 10 inches from the cup. He is shocked. He says to the frog, "Wow that's amazing. You must be a lucky frog, eh?"

The frog replies, "Ribbit lucky frog." The man decides to take the frog with him to the next hole.
"What do you think frog?" the man asks.
"Ribbit 3 wood."

The guy takes out a 3 wood and,
Boom! Hole in one. The man is befuddled and doesn't know what to say. By the end of the day, the man golfed the best game of golf in his life and asks the frog, "OK where to next?"
The frog replies, "Ribbit Las Vegas."

They go to Las Vegas and the guy says, "OK frog, now what?"
The frog says, "Ribbit Roulette." Upon approaching the roulette table, the man asks, "What do you think I should bet?"
The frog replies, "Ribbit $3000, black 6."

Now, this is a million-to-one shot to win, but after the golf game the man figures what the heck.
Boom! Tons of cash comes sliding back across the table.

The man takes his winnings and buys the best hotel. He sits the frog down and says, "Frog, I don't know how to repay you. You've won me all this money and I am forever grateful."
The frog replies, "Ribbit Kiss Me."
He figures why not, since after all the frog did for him, he deserves it. With a kiss, the frog turns into a gorgeous 15-year-old girl. "And that,

your honor, is how the girl ended up in my room. So help me God or my name is not William Jefferson Clinton."

2003-04-12T08:40:00.000Z

The X-Files Funnies Quiz

2003-04-08T10:31:00.000Z

forwarded by deej, a questionnaire thing where you learn a lot of little known facts about me:

WHAT TIME DO YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING?
around 6 usually, on weekdays.
IF YOU COULD EAT LUNCH WITH ONE FAMOUS PERSON, WHO WOULD IT BE?
right now i'm thinking Adrien Brody would be marvelous to lunch with.
GOLD OR SILVER?
neither, i hear platinum's lovely.
WHAT IS THE LAST FILM YOU SAW AT THE CINEMA?
Maid in Manhattan.
FAVORITE TV SHOW?
Gilmore Girls, Futurama, The Simpsons, Angel, BtVS, Smallville
WHAT DO YOU HAVE FOR BREAKFAST?
coffee. it's all about the coffee.
WHAT WOULD YOU HATE TO BE LEFT IN A ROOM WITH?
a rabid animal.
CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE?
wait, let me try � no. my tongue only goes up to my philtrum.
WHAT INSPIRES YOU?
great music, great art.
WHAT IS YOUR MIDDLE NAME?
it means "wagon"
BEACH, CITY OR COUNTRY?
city!
SUMMER OR WINTER?
i prefer summer. but only by a very slight margin.
FAVORITE ICE CREAM?
strawberry, vanilla, cookies & cream.
BUTTERED PLAIN OR SALTED POPCORN?
buttered, _and_ salted.
FAVORITE COLOR?
blue.
FAVORITE CAR?
old model black Benz. with a chauffeur who is either a sweet middle-aged man who treats me like a daughter, or a deadringer for James Marsters with whom i will do naughtiness in the backseat. or in the front seat. or even in the trunk. *lol*
FAVORITE SANDWICH FILLING?
cream cheese.
WHAT CHARACTERISTIC DO YOU DESPISE?
general obnoxiousness.
FAVORITE FLOWER?
i love those tulip fields they have in Holland.
IF YOU HAD A BIG WIN IN THE LOTTERY, HOW LONG WOULD YOU WAIT TO TELL PEOPLE?
it's not really the kind of information one should broadcast, is it?
FIZZY OR STILL WATER AS A DRINK?
Stillwater, which also happens to be the band from Almost Famous *g*
WHAT COLOR IS YOUR BATHROOM?
blue floor tiles, white & yellow wall tiles, light green wall. it sounds like a decorator's nightmare, but it's home.
HOW MANY KEYS ON YOUR KEY RING?
four.
WHERE WOULD YOU RETIRE TO?
maybe my mother's hometown, it seems like a nice place to retire to.
CAN YOU JUGGLE? IF YES HOW MANY?
no.
FAVORITE DAYS OF THE WEEK?
Saturday.
RED OR WHITE WINE?
white. i just prefer it.
WHAT DID YOU DO FOR YOUR LAST BIRTHDAY?
nothing special.
DO YOU CARRY A DONOR CARD?
no. and the thought of getting one depresses me. :(
WHO DO YOU LEAST EXPECT TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU?
it doesn't really matter, i'm just posting it on my blog.
WHO WILL BE THE FIRST PERSON YOU EXPECT TO SEND THIS BACK TO YOU
see answer to #30.
DEEPEST FEARS?
death, failure, public speaking.
LIFETIME GOALS?
to be happy, to be comfortably well-off.

2003-04-02T08:02:00.000Z

"The choices we make, and the chances we take, determine our destiny."

* stands on head, looking at picture *
no, that doesn't look like Destiny to me. ...
pretty, though.

2003-03-27T15:23:00.000Z

BLOGS OF NOTE

saddamhussein.blogspot.com
osamaladen.blogspot.com

2003-03-15T02:44:00.000Z

first it was Japanese, then Chinese and now i'm getting German spam too! arrrgh!

From: "Schnucki"
Reply-To: andrea01815@web.de
To: "du"
Subject: Eine Gest�ndnis an dich...
Date: 14 Mar 2003 13:23:02 -0800

MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from mail.worldnet.att.net ([198.203.59.6]) by mc7-f25.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Fri, 14 Mar 2003 13:23:01 -0800
Received: from [206.16.96.178] (helo=mail.worldnet.att.net)
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X-OriginalArrivalTime: 14 Mar 2003 21:23:02.0500 (UTC) FILETIME=[E50E8A40:01C2EA6F]

Hallo!

Hehe , ist ganz sch�ne lange her , aber solltest mich glaube ich noch kennen....

Ich hab endlich meine Homepage , kannst sie dir ja mal anschauen :
http://members.tripod.com.ar/prettywoman/liebe1.txt

konstruktive Kritik ist immer willkommen :-)

Meld dich mal wieder...

Gruss u. Kuss

which roughly translates to:

Subject: Confession to you...

Hallo!

Hehe, it's quite beautiful for a long time here, but I believe I still know....

I finally have my homepage, can you look at it
http://members.tripod.com.ar/prettywoman/liebe1.txt

constructive criticism is always welcome :-)

Announce your times again... [?]

Gruss u. Kuss

it seems to be some sort of gimmick to get me to d/l some lameass chat software. *sigh* Gott in Himmel...

2003-03-11T03:24:00.000Z

why the hell are there now 2 banner ads stacked @ the top of my blog?!
bleargh!

[edit]
oh good. it went back to normal after i published an entry.

2003-02-27T02:24:00.000Z

same sort of spam as in the entry immediately prior to this one, with same image. still odd. 163.net is also a Chinese site. help! i'm getting spammed by the Chinese! or should it be: "i'm getting Ma Ling from the Chinese!" one of my other addies is also getting a lot of .jp spam.

From: "Nevins Bennatt"
Subject: It works l
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2003 02:15:38 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from oqkrb ([61.159.235.36]) by mc10-f21.bay6.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Sat, 22 Feb 2003 21:51:58 -0800
X-Message-Info: dHZMQeBBv44lPE7o4B5bAg==
Message-Id:
Return-Path: Lynnap@163.net
X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Feb 2003 05:52:01.0414 (UTC) FILETIME=[AF680260:01C2DAFF]

"Do you think the company would be willing to lower my pay?"
`So had the stairs.'

2003-02-22T02:06:00.000Z

???
is it just me or is spam getting odder everyday?

From: "Abby Bodkin"
Subject: It works q
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 01:45:42 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Received: from llsabm ([216.43.97.77]) by mc7-f22.law1.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Thu, 20 Feb 2003 21:22:16 -0800
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Say good bye? show me
Candidate said he never finished high school because he was kidnapped and kept in a closet in Mexico.
`You ask a glass of water.'"

sina.com is a Chinese site though, which may explain the quaint oddness of this message.

2003-02-21T06:31:00.000Z

fw from Teena, an essay originally by Lee Pitts which was read by national radio commentator Paul Harvey on his radio program in 1997 and published in Chicken Soup for the Golden Soul in 2000:

"These things I wish for you"

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids that we made them worse. For my grandchildren, I'd like better.

I'd really like for them to know about hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and that you learn honesty by being cheated.

I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the lawn and wash the car.

And I really hope nobody gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line down the middle of the room, but when he wants to crawl under the covers with you because he's scared, I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little brother/sister wants to tag along, I hope you'll let him/her.

I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your friends and that you live in a town where you can do it safely.

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks away so you won't be seen riding with someone as uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you how to make one instead of buying one.

I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have your first crush on a boy/girl, and when you talk back to your mother that you learn what Ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you don't like it. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with your Grandma/Grandpa and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs you and kisses you at Hannukah/Christmas time when you give her a plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.

Send this to all of your friends. We secure our friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.

incidentally, if this has been forwarded to you with the attached riddle:

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got the answer, compared to 17% of Stanford University seniors.

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil, The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

Send this to 10 people and then press shift and you will get the answer.

P.S. You won't believe this, but this really does give you the answer!!!

do not believe it for a second, absolutely NOTHING will happen. but if you're savvy, you'd know that already.

2003-02-12T19:18:00.000Z

oh, good � Black Dragon's managed to do a blog update.

2003-02-09T05:50:00.000Z

forwarded by deej:

The Rules by Men

LADIES, TAKE NOTE! THESE ARE GOOD!

We always hear "the rules" from the female side. Now, here are the rules from the male side. These are our rules. Please note these are all numbered #1 ON PURPOSE!

1. Learn to work the toilet seat. You're a big girl. If it's up, put it down. We need it up, you need it down. You don't hear us bitching about you leaving it down.

1. Sometimes we are not thinking about you. Live with it.

1. Saturday = sports. It's like the full moon or the changing of the tides. Let it be.

1. Don't cut your hair. Ever. Long hair is always more attractive than short hair. One of the big reasons guys fear getting married is that married women always cut their hair.

1. Shopping is NOT a sport. And no, we are never going to think of it that way.

1. Crying is blackmail.

1. Ask for what you want. Let us be clear on this one: Subtle hints do not work! Strong hints do not work! Obvious hints do not work! Just say it.

1. We don't remember dates. Mark birthdays and anniversaries on a calendar. Remind us frequently beforehand.

1. Most guys own three pairs of shoes - tops. What makes you think that we'd be any good at choosing which pair, out of thirty, would look good with your dress?

1. Yes and No are perfectly acceptable answers to almost every question.

1. Come to us with a problem only if you want help solving it. That's what we do. Sympathy is what your girlfriends are for.

1. Check your oil! Please.

1. Anything we said 6 months ago is inadmissible in an argument. In fact, all comments become null and void after 7 days.

1. If something we said can be interpreted two ways, and one of the ways makes you sad or angry, we meant the other one.

1. Let us ogle. We are going to look anyway; it's genetic.

1. You can either ask us to do something or tell us how you want it done. Not both. If you already know best how to do it, just do it yourself.

1. Whenever possible, please say whatever you have to say during commercials.

1. Christopher Columbus did not need directions, and neither do we.

1. ALL men see in only 16 colors, like Windows default settings. Peach, for example, is a fruit, not a color. We have no idea what mauve is.

1. We are not mind readers and we never will be. Our lack of mind-reading ability is not proof of how little we care about you.

1. If we ask what is wrong and you say "nothing," we will act like nothing's wrong. We know you are lying, but it is just not worth the hassle.

1. If you ask a question you don't want to know the answer to, expect an answer you don't want to hear.

1. When we have to go somewhere, absolutely anything you wear is fine. Really.

1. Don't ask us what we are thinking about unless you are prepared to discuss such topics as navel lint, the shotgun formation or monster trucks.

1. You have enough clothes.

1. You have too many shoes.

1. No, NO, you really do have too many shoes.

1. It is neither in your best interest or ours to take the quiz together. No, it doesn't matter which quiz.

1. BEER is as exciting for us as handbags are for you.

1. I'm in shape! ROUND is a shape.

Thank you for reading this; Yes, I know, I have to sleep on the couch tonight, but did you know that we really don't mind that, it's like camping

2003-02-08T02:39:00.000Z

just found out Dave Barry has a blog too. kewl.

2003-02-08T01:20:00.000Z

Subject : Fwd: Meaningful... [from Maril]

Cos I'm waiting for tonight
Then waiting for tomorrow
And I'm somewhere in between
What is real, and just a dream

----- Original Message -----
From: ounnie
Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 11:42 AM

u only live once. ...be sure to identify your rocks, pebbles n sand too!

A philosophy professor stood before his class and had some items in front of him. When class began, wordlessly he picked up a large empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks right to the top, rocks about 2" diameter. He then asked the students if the jar was full? They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them in to the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks. The students laughed. He asked his students again if the jar was full? They agreed that yes, it was.

The professor then picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else.

"Now," said the professor, "I want you to recognize that this is your life. The rocks are the important things - your family, your partner, your health, your children - anything that is so important to you that if it were lost, you would be nearly destroyed.

The pebbles are the other things in life that matter, but on a smaller scale. The pebbles represent things like your job, house, or car.

The sand is everything else, the small stuff. If you put the sand or the pebbles into the jar first, there is no room for the rocks. The same goes for your life. If you spend all your energy and time on the small stuff, material things, you will never have room for the things that are truly most important.

***** Pay attention to the things that are critical in your life. *****

Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out dancing. There will always be time to go to work, clean the house, give a dinner party and fix the disposal.

***** Take care of the rocks first - the things that really matter. *****

Set your priorities, the rest is just pebbles and sand."

May there always be work for your hands to do; may your purse always hold a coin or two; may the sun always shine on your windowpane; may a rainbow be certain to follow each rain; may the hand of a friend always be near you; may God fill your heart with gladness to cheer you. (An Irish Blessing)

2003-01-27T16:39:00.000Z

some puns to laugh about, forwarded by Maril:

A GOOD PUN IS ITS OWN REWORD

A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.

Dijon vu - the same mustard as before.

Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

Sea captains don't like crew cuts.

Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?

Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.

When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.

A bicycle can't stand on its own because it is two-tired.

What's the definition of a will? (Come on, it's a dead giveaway!)

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

A backward poet writes inverse.

In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.

A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

If you don't pay your exorcist, you get repossessed.

With her marriage, she got a new name and a dress.

Show me a piano falling down a mine shaft, and I'll show you a flat minor.

When a clock is hungry, it goes back four seconds.

The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.

A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.

Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.

He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.

Every calendar's days are numbered.

A lot of money is tainted. It taint yours and it taint mine.

A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.

He had a photographic memory that was never developed.

A plateau is a high form of flattery.

The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

Once you've seen one shopping center, you've seen a mall.

Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.

When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.

Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead-to-know basis.

Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.

Acupuncture is a jab well done.

Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.

The poor guy fell into a glass grinding machine and made a spectacle of himself.

2003-01-24T03:36:00.000Z

Maril forwarded this fun link not too long ago.

Take the What website are you? quiz @ Angelette.net

Take the What layout are you? quiz @ Angelette.net

i haven't updated my anime shrines in sooo long, am such a lazy lout.

2003-01-22T01:44:00.000Z

first of all, something i should've added here long before has now been given its rightful place. there is now a link to Black Dragon's blog over on the left side where all the lovely linkies are.

2003-01-13T06:35:00.000Z

just a little update: i've set up another blog, which is all about Ed Quinn. it can be found at the site that Fi made about him, iframed right below the creator's note. i've not heard from Fi in a very long while, i hope she comes back online soon. the site's just not the same at all without her, she's the heart & soul of it. well, apart from EQ, of course.

2003-01-11T13:05:00.000Z

dear anonymous Blaise-commenter,
your Blaise sounds intriguing, to say the least. i agree with the Catholic part � if Blaise is male then he should have the same religion as me so that if we got hitched i wouldn't be marrying outside of my faith. erm. Zabini sounds Italian, anyway. i bet his/her dad's Mafioso, Sicilian. and part gypsy as well. but that's just the romantic in me, i guess.

2003-01-10T17:00:00.000Z

bcause i'm disabled from posting on lj during this maintenance they're doing that affects my cluster, i've come running back to blog.
here's a survey i've bn meaning to post here for ages:

This is for fun only�

1. Name/nickname? call me Del

2. What CD do you most want 2 get?
oh, but there are so many! Distance and Deep River by Utada Hikaru, Mutter by Rammstein, S.C.I.E.N.C.E and Morning View by Incubus, etc.

3. Who sent this email 2 you?
Maril, my Queen of FWs!

4. What is your favorite food? pizza

5. While you are browsing thru the racks @ the library, you notice a cute guy/girl watching you. He/she does this 4 a very long time. What would you do?
stare right back.

6. What is YOUR idea of a dream guy or girl?
he's the guy of my dreams � literally. i once had a lovely, lovely dream about this
tallish, nice, intelligent guy whom i had wonderful long talks with, and introduced to my
father (who quite approved of him, btw), and whom i kissed. on his ear. {sigh...}

7. What did you last eat, where was it, and who was wit you?
i believe it was that lemon lolly in the living room. my bro was also in the room watching tv.

8. What is your GREATEST fear? death

9. Favorite colour? blue

10. If you could be born as anything you like and in any point of time, what would you be and where would you be?
as a Briton. in Britain. after WWII, maybe.

11. Crayons, colour pencils, marker pens, paint or colour pens?
colour pens.

12. What would you MOST like 2 be when you grow older?
youthful-looking.

13. Caucasians, Asians, French, Italian or Blacks?
any. i wouldn't want you to think i'm racist or anything... {lol}

14. What's your favorite number? 7

15. What was the last movie you watched which made you cry?
Tezuka Osamu's Metropolis

16. Ever wielded a knife @ any1 b4?
no. and that frustrates me, for some reason... {lol}

17. Pizza Hut or Seoul Garden?
Pizza Hut. but only bcause i've never been to Seoul Garden.

18. What mountains/hills have you climbed b4?
a few dinky ones you never heard of. even i don't remember their names anyway.

19. What countries have you travelled 2 up till now?
just my country.

20. Strawberry/ Choco/ Vanilla/ Plain milk?
strawberry milk! but vanilla & chocolate are good too.

21. How many steads do you plan 2 have?
as many as i can get! heheheheheh...

22. Favorite sport?
spectator sports!

23. What is the 1st ting you notice bout sum1 of the opposite sex?
erm...height?

24. Favorite brand?
please be more specific.

25. What is the happiest moment of your life?
when i graduated. maybe.

26. What are your favorite bands?
Weezer. Coldplay. Gorillaz. The Smiths. Our Lady Peace. Dave Matthews Band. Stabbing Westward.

27. What are your favorite mags? InStyle. Details.

28. To you, what is the most important ting in life?
to be happy

29. What is your favorite season? summer

30. What do you most like 2 get 4 Xmas?
a Dustbuster. and CDs and books. and HP stuff. and clothes.

31. What's the most daring ting you have ever done?
not sure. i'm not prone to acts of daring.

32. What type of ppl do you hate the most?
insensitive ppl.

33. If your stead makes you wait 4 over an hr, what would you do?
call & ask what's taking him so long

34. What animal do you like best? cats

35. If you had a chance 2 star as a character in any movie, what character would you be?
�owyn from the LotR movies

36. If you were paid a million dollars 2 murder a man, would you do it? no.

37. Favorite author?
Terry Pratchett, Agatha Christie, JKR, lots of them

38. Who do you enjoy talking on the phone MOST?
not sure. i'm not much of a phone-talker really

39. Favorite festival?
i don't have one, actually. just as long as it's a legal holiday, no work, i'm happy.

40. If your stead asks you 4 a kiss, where would you most likely kiss him/her?
ahem. do you mean a body part, or a place? =D
body part � cheek, just to be on the safe side, if we're in a public place.

41. What's the last book you read?
Harry Potter & the GoF. i think.

42. How do you let out stress? sleep

43. Favorite song? baby don't you break my heart slow by vonda shepard.
Maril, i love that song too! but my favorite is probably
"Crash Into Me" by DMB

44. When do you hope 2 get married?
i don't really think about it.

45. What's your favorite fashion item? jeans

46. When�s your birthday?
25th of Oct.

47. What is the virtue you pride yourself on having?
high fidelity

48. What do you do when your nervous?
fidget. it burns calories too.

49. Do you like soft toys and sleep wit them @ nite? yes

50. Do you believe in fate or that man creates his own destiny?
i would rather believe that ppl's choices do affect their lives, and they're not just following some preordained fate

51. What's your horoscope? Scorpio

52. Do you believe in love @ first sight? naaah.

53. Describe the scariest dream you ever had.
it had a very scary vampire woman in it.

54. What is the phrase you always repeat?
"i dunno."

55. What is your favorite phrase or saying that is most meaningful?
it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

56. Express how you are feeling now in 10 words or less? blah.

57. Tattoos or piercings? piercings

58. What would you do if 2moro was the end of the world?
have the mother of all nervous breakdowns, probably

59. What do you think, is your best feature?
my eyes

60. Do you have any weird fetish or liking?
wouldn't you like to know!

i'm in the Geek box.
What box do you get put in?
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What's Your Personality Type?
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Treebeard: the Shepherd of the trees. You are the Wise leader of the Ents, and the oldest of Fangorn forest, which was named after your elvish name. You wait for the returning of your beloved Wandlimb and your hope of her return prevents you from becoming 'tree-ish.'

Wich LOTR Character are you?
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2003-01-02T13:19:00.000Z

I kept Pippin. Who will you keep?

take the nerd test.
and go to mewing.net. a nerd utopia.

See what Care Bear you are.

2002-12-27T03:07:00.000Z

the archives are back. {gigantic sigh of relief}

Pippin's my fancy!
What's your fancy? Click here and tell the world!

What sort of geek are YOU?

2002-12-20T02:01:00.000Z

damn you, blogspot!!!

what've you done with my archives?!
why do i get error messages when i try to view them?!

they better not be gone forever!

please excuse me while i panic.

2002-12-17T15:55:00.000Z

to the anonymous person who commented on this post from over a year ago:

yes, the Blaise in Modesty Blaise is her surname. but the fact remains that i like to think of Blaise Zabini as being like Modesty Blaise. in my mind Blaise Z is a girl with dark hair, lovely eyes, and an incredibly fascinating personality, that's all. {shrug}

2002-12-06T01:16:00.000Z

Dream, i wish i looked like Del or Tori; Liam, he looked so much like Destruction in that photo he posted at the Endless Domain...i must see that pic again if it's still there.
the bit about me being 200 years old is an old but very fondly remembered little inside joke between me and Chels and some of my other Sidekicks. but yeah, i do feel so much older than just 200 sometimes...when i remember....

2002-12-04T03:11:00.000Z

hmmm. seems the 'Net's feeling sick like i am. but maybe this cold'll be good for me long term � maybe i'll lose a little weight, i'm always looking to lose some.
recently i helped Laura, an rl friend of mine, to organize her very own blog. i'd link to it, but i haven't asked her yet if that's OK with her.
Dream, i already posted my photo here on my blog sometime ago. i look nothing like Del or Tori or Jill Thompson, more's the pity. and i still haven't tried to contact Destruction bcause...i don't want to seem needy or anything...{weeble} maybe i'll just go ahead with my plan to make an lj userpic of the 2 of us.

2002-11-29T01:48:00.000Z

aaaaaaaaagh! Dream was here! i called and he came to me, and i didn't even have to use our sigils. heee. just a little family inside joke there. lurv you too, my big brother. i miss Destruction though. maybe if i call out to him too, he'll come back too. he told me he'd been here once before, but apparently Delirium Country almost blinded him. which is a bit strange coming from an anthropomorphic personification of chaos, don't you think? but then he never was too comfortable with his role in the universe. heee. anyway, i is sowwy, Destruction. if you want, i'll redesign, just for you. or maybe not. i'm too lazy at the moment. Didi knows about my *dead*journal, but of course you'd expect her to, wouldn't you? {wink} maybe i should try to call Destiny too.

oh, some guy named Tom from Scarborough stopped by also. if he'd left an addy i'd've replied to him but i guess he wanted to stay an international man of mystery, so...whatever.

2002-11-23T13:57:00.000Z

Which hobbit are you?
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Pippin. High-spirited and occasionally (alright, frequently) a little irresponsible. It's taken you a while to grow up and learn to use the intelligence you were born with. Facing your fears, though, and those surprising depressive tendencies, you've emerged unscathed with an acute understanding of, and a great deal of compassion for many others. You've been able to do a lot of good with your quick intelligence and refusal to give up hope. And for some reason you're an awful lot taller than you were...

my "big brother" Dream doesn't visit my blog or anything, but i thought it'd be nice to put this here in his honor. for we are both admirers of The Took. ^_^
i just adore Pippin-Billy, he was my favorite thing about the Fellowship movie. so, here's to my big bro, and to Pippin:

Hey! ho! to the bottle I go, to heal my heart and drown my woe
Rain may fall and wind may blow, but there still be many miles to go
Sweet is the sound of the pouring rain, and the stream that runs from hill to plain
Better than rain or rippling brook is a mug of beer inside this Took!

woot! quoted from his email sig which is quoted from the book, of course. ;) Dream also sent out this cute link recently. quite entertaining!

KoNeko graciously answered my question in her guestbook and informed me that Ruri, geek girl of anime, is from the Angel Sanctuary manga...not anime but she wanted to add her to the quiz anyway ^.^
more on the cute Saiki Ruri *here*.

2002-11-20T01:04:00.000Z

oh, Annabella darling! i'm so sorry we're making you feel left out of the Sidekicks lj "alliance"! (that makes us sound like we're all on Survivor or something...bleargh, i don't really like Survivor but my younger brother & sister insist on watching. i think they're reality tv junkies! if our tv could get The Anna Nicole Show they'd prolly watch that too {rolleyes} but thankfully none of the local channels are showing it, for which i am truly grateful) i agree with you that the lj format is kind of hard to take sometimes, i don't have as much control over it as i do here at my blog. i love my blog still, and i'll try to have something substantial here as often as i possibly can, *promise*.
anyway...update: i'm going to join a Percy fanlisting so i'm going to edit my archives & cliques page now to add the code. Percy (Chris Rankin) is such a cutie pie! one of the main reasons i still hang onto my blog is for all the cool FL memberhips i've managed to amass for it. :)

2002-11-17T08:52:00.000Z

i had a scare earlier. i refreshed the window where i had my blog open and suddenly i was staring at someone else's blog with only 1 entry onscreen! but then i refreshed it again and my blog was back. whew! is this blogger's way of telling me to post here from time to time as well? bcause my lj's usually where the action (such as it is) is at these days... {wry grin}

2002-11-11T08:54:00.000Z

ugh. keeping up with my email and fanfics and boards and fls and blogging and lj and dj and everything is an absolute beast.

2002-10-30T00:53:00.000Z

analyzed my name:
Heart Number is 6
Shows that you have the ability to be a real peacemaker. Your home and family, and their care and well-being, are very important to you. You tend to be a highly responsible individual who is always there when needed.

Personality Number is 8
Makes you appear to be a rather intense individual, and you're probably not afraid to go after what you want. You like to be in control and other people may often approach you for advice.

Image Number is 5
And you may appear to be many things to many people. Restless and curious, you crave variety and are always on the move. You love adventure and are eager to explore everything you possibly can.

analyzed my birthday:
Life-Path Number is 4
You are practical and hard-working and can be depended upon to take care of business. You are good with details and organizing, and are not afraid of hard work and responsibility. These traits should help to bring you the security and stability that you desire for yourself and your family. Remember to finish everything that you begin!

Forecast Number is 3
Now's the time to get out and socialize. It's a good time to connect and communicate with as many people as possible. You should be very busy and active and might find yourself being asked to speak or write on occasion.

2002-10-23T08:05:00.000Z

Which PPG would you be?

heheheheheh. got Buttercup again.

Geek!
Find out what anime girl you are.

I'm getting there. I don't suck, but I've got a ways to go.

My profession is Final Fantasy video game heroine!
My name is Del. I am a psycho swordswoman, with blue hair and hot pink eyes.
My goals in life are to destroy my pet and save the man that I love.
My love interest is a strangely intellectual martial artist with sexy glasses who is in love with the game's final villain.

Take the idle profession quiz yourself!

I'm The Internet-Addict Test!
I love in-jokes, especially if they help highlight the marvellously geeky cultural differences between my internet clique and the rest of the world.
Click here to find out which test you are!

I am 52% Internet Addict

I am pretty addicted, but there is hope. I think I'm just well connected to the internet and technology, but it's really a start of a drug-like addiction. I must act now! Unplug this computer!
Take the Internet Addict Test at fuali.com

2002-10-21T18:03:00.000Z

oh wow...i'm at DeeDee's blog ryt now, and i've discovered that when you pass the mouse over her link to my blog it makes that blank space along the bottom of the browser window (at the moment i can't recall the proper term for it) say "Gleowyn the Rohirrim!" =D this makes me very happy. i love wonderful little minutiae like that.

2002-10-02T06:04:00.000Z

What's YOUR Inner Hair Color?

oh. i wanted to be a redhead {grin} but i don't mind being brunette outside & in. though that sounded vaguely...dirty {lol}
plus, Sandy's one of my favorite brunettes ever.

Which X/1999 characters are you?
Quiz made by Chesa

am very pleased to be Arashi again, the grrrl is just so very gorgeous. but i was also prepared to maybe get Yuzuriha. she also ranks very high as a favorite of mine.

Visit this and other SelectSmart.com selectors:
Hogwarts Familiar Selector
by Klawzie
What were your results?

my results are...

#1 Cat = my best match
#2 Dog
#3 Owl
#4 Bat
#5 Monkey
#6 Tropical bird (parrot, perhaps)
#7 Frog
#8 Large spider
#9 Phoenix
#10 Rat (or mouse)
#11 Snake
#12 Lizard (or iguana)

2002-09-28T14:16:00.000Z

Another one of those get-to-know-me-better thingys...sent to me by Maril, who apparently got it from some1 at her school :)

1) Name: call me Del

2) Date: 28th Sept 2002

3) D.O.B: 25th Oct

4) Horoscope: Scorpio

5) Favourite song at the moment: "Cold Cold Heart" - Norah Jones

6) What do you do when you are sad?: not deal with my problems.

7) What do you want to do by next week?: get through all my email? :)

8) What is your height?: 5'3"

9) Favourite cartoon character: Velma Dinkley

10) Most touching song: "We're Still Fighting It" by Ben Folds

11) What are you going to do after doing this?: take a nap, maybe

12) Which is more annoying, the alarm clock in the morning or school?: alarm clock. i don't go to school. well, not to study, anyway.

13) What PC/Playstation games you own: PC games only - HPPS, The Sims & expansions, RealMyst, Discworld Noir (hilarious & very atmospheric), Daria's Inferno, Victorian Mansion

14) CA 4's over, how'd you fare?: you must be mistaking me for some1 who's still studying :)

15) Manchester United or Liverpool: dunno much about football but i like Manchester

16) Michael Owen or Beckham: it's gotta be Beckham, bcause i dunno who Owen is =D

17) What colours attract your eyes?: blues

18) What's your favourite animal?: cats

19) What are you doing besides this survey?: sitting? breathing?

20) Among the people you are going to send to, who is most likely to reply?: i dunno, but it's really all up to them

21) What do you suck at?: jumping rope i'm pathetic at. don't even ask me to do it.

22) What movie/s do you like?: The Matrix, Billy Elliot, i don't feel like typing all those titles...

23) Do you want to have blonde hair?: no, i want straight, glossy blue-black hair

24) Describe your room in two words: cluttered. very.

25) What do you want to do before 40?: get a PhD maybe

26) Would you like to be an astronaut?: sure, Lance Bass & i can fly to the moon together :)

27) What is the most unbelievable thing you saw?: i thought i saw a UFO once

28) What do you miss about Primary school?: the lunchboxes? the pencil cases, and erasers that smell good enough to eat?

29) What can you NOT do?: swim, drive

30) What is your most prized possession?: my bank account

31) What disgusts you?: spittle. spittle with phlegm in.

32) Are you sick at the moment?: i'm fine, thanks

33) What do you want now that costs below $5.00?: secondhand books. on Monday i got Weetzie Bat by Francesca Lia Block for under a dollar. i love it.

34) Which movie actress, Mandy Moore, Samantha Mumba or Britney Spears? Samantha - i'd like to see her in The Time Machine with my Guy (Pearce) =D

35) Do you have a stead now?: no. what's a "stead"? {lol}

36) What brings you to school everyday?: my job

38) Do you have a handphone?: yes

39) Do you have the Hardball VCD/Soundtrack?: nah. is it any good? i'm only mildly interested bcause Chris Klein's in the movie...no, wait, that's Rollerball, isn't it? what movie is this again?!

40) What MTV Video do you like at the moment?: i'd like to see "Warning" by Incubus again. or Korn's "Thoughtless" - the projectile vomiting guy's kinda cute, and his prom date's jawdroppingly awesome. and Tenacious D's "Tribute" is always fun. if i named all the videos i like, i'd never get done with this!

41) Do you think you'll get a reply?: at least 1, prolly

42) Are you still hanging on to your first kiss? (Tongue and all): [no comment]

43) Who's the most handsome guy now?: oh, but there's so many! Ian Somerhalder, Tom Welling, Eric McCormack, Dylan McDermott, etc... and those are just the ones that i think of as handsome. there's also the ones that fall into the category of "lickable" and "hot" and "gorgeous" and blablabla...

44) Are you looking forward to something?: isn't every1?

45) How many ex-steads do you have? (Tell the truth!): oh! you mean *those* kinda steads!

46) Do you want to say anything significant to anyone now?: nah, i never say anything significant if i can help it. only stupid things come out of my mouth.

47) Do you have any siblings?: brother & sister

48) Own pets?: a part-Dalmatian named Bella DoggyDog. i wanted to name her Jake, but the fam wouldn't go for it =D some cats hang around our house sometimes, my favorite's a harelipped one i call Blondie, and there's also 1 we named Nicky who's really quite beautiful

49) What do you like to do now? (Even if it's hard work): sleep. hard work be damned.

50) The holidays are here, what do you plan to do?: presents. must get every1 presents...

51) Did you have any regrets recently?: oh, i have them all the time.

52) What creepy crawly can't you stand?: cockroaches

53) What's the most embarrassing thing that you did?: yeah right, like i'd tell; i've done too much stuff that i'd rather forget about.

54) What do you *aspire* [correction by Maril] to be?: a good person

55) Which country do you really want to go?: England. London. to see the Queen. naaah. to see Rupert Grint and all the other cool ppl who live there ;)

56) Would you give up everything (including your virginity) to your other half?: what's my "other half" want with my virginity?! i'll tell you what my other half wants: to take over my life, and rule as the dominant personality of eeevilness! bwahahahahaaa!

57) What turns you off?: erm...a paunch?

58) Would you rather be seen with Ben Adams (A1) or Ronan Keating: either's fine. when would they like to be seen with me? so's i can pencil them into my unbelievably busy schedule.

59) Do u own anything really precious?: nah, most of what i own is rubbish =D my life is complete now i've managed to incorporate a reasonable facsimile of a Ron quote in it! {faint}

61) What's the nicest thing a stead ever did for you? n/a

62) How many VCDs do you own?: HPPS, Sense & Sensibility, Billy Elliot, 2 Shadow Skill videos, 2 Rayearth ones, PPG (tv eps, not the movie), Life as a House = 9 - we also hav Gladiator, but i didn't buy that with my own money, and i've never even watched it.
oops...10, i forgot my Breakfast at Tiffany's

63) Who's your favourite comedian?: David Spade's cool. Mike Myers too. and i like Owen Wilson bcause his broken nose is so cute.
oh, and i am so very bad bcause i forgot to include Jimmy Fallon when i forwarded this...

64) who's your greatest inspiration?: i don't really know.

65) What did you think happen to christina aguilera?: nothing, and that's exactly her problem. and she can just stay gone too, i don't really care.

66) Do you own a diary?: do 2 journals (livejournal & deadjournal) and a blog count?

67) If i had a website, what do you wanna see on it?: anything prettyful is OK :)

68) If i made it big and famous, what would you like me to say about you?: a casual mention of your great indebtedness to me as you accept your Oscar, Emmy or Grammy etc. shall suffice.

69) What is your motto in life?: 'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

70) Worried about anyone now?: i worry a lot.

71) Right...now tell me honestly, have you EVER fancied a butch?: yes, Butch Cassidy, but i fancy the Sundance Kid too.

2002-09-27T02:00:00.000Z

There's more than one hot blonde Slytherin, you know!

i luuurv you, Terence Higgs!

this test i took quite some time ago, and i didn't think to blog it then so i'll do that now. i wanted to be �owyn, but this result is pretty cool with me too.

Celeborn
If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Celeborn, Elf, King of Lothlorien, husband of Galadriel and grandfather of Arwen.

In the movie, I am played by Marton Csokas.

Who would you be?

Zovakware Lord of the Rings Test with Perseus Web Survey Software

tulips are so lovely. and i don't want to be just 1 tulip, i'd be more like, a whole field of them! squeee!

I'm Jesse as Aaron Kurlander in King of the Hill.
Which Jesse Bradford are You? by Clicks and Buzzes

i wanted to be Bring It On Jesse, but i don't mind this result bcause he looks so cute - awww!

2002-09-20T02:12:00.000Z

What Was Your Past Life?

I fire

2002-09-15T18:20:00.000Z

* Time Now: 10:30pm

------------------HAVE YOU EVER------------------

* Been so drunk you blacked out: never

* Missed school bcoz it was raining: i think maybe yes.

* Put a body part on fire for amusement: no.

* Got hurt emotionally: certainly.

* Kept a secret from everyone: yes.

* Had an imaginary friend: not that i can remember...

* Cried during a movie: yeah, i was in tears when James Cromwell told Babe "That'll do, Pig," at the sheepherding competition. i also cried at the end of A.I. i am an utter cornball.

* Had a crush on a teacher: i guess so.

* Ever thought an animated character was hot?: *oh yeah.* {LOL} there's Dryden Fassa from Tenkuu no Esca, Sano and Hiko-sama from RuroKen, and ... well, you get my drift.

* Had a New Kids on the Block tape: never. not even when i liked them.

* Been on stage: a few times. not 1 of my favorite things to do.

* Cut your hair: not with my own 2 hands, no.

------------------FAVORITES------------------

* Shampoo: Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific, the type that comes in the yellow-orange bottle

* Soap: Irish Spring, maybe.

* Color: navy

* Day/Night: mornings are nice.

* Summer/Winter: summer, but i hear winters can be nice too

* Lace or satin: satin for sure. lace is prissy.

* Fave cartoon characters: Velma Dinkley from Scooby Doo, Buttercup from PPG, lots and lots of anime characters, and so on and so forth.

* Fave Food: mashed potatoes, fries, Chinese food, pizza, pasta

* Fave Advert: the Oreo ad with the lil boy and his daddy is one of my favorites

* Fave Movie: Sense & Sensibility, Charade, HPPS, Amelie, The Matrix ... quite a lot of them, actually

* Fave Ice Cream: strawberry

* Fave Subject: English

* Fave 'normal' drink: quite possibly coffee.

* Fave persons to talk to online: Lucy, the Sidekicks, Liam (but we've been out of contact for awhile now)

------------------RIGHT NOW------------------

* Wearing: forest green polo shirt, black cords

* Hair is: kinda gunky

* I'm feeling: slightly constipated

* Eating: nothing

* Drinking: nothing. i'm considering another coffee later.

* Thinking about: going to the bathroom

* Listening to: the tv, the hum of my computer's cpu

* Talking to: my sister, a lil while ago

------------------IN THE LAST 24 HRS------------------

* Cried: no, thank goodness

* Worn a skirt: no. i don't do skirts. usually.

* Met someone new: no.

* Cleaned your room: no

* Done laundry: no

* Drove a car: no {sigh}

------------------DO YOU BELIEVE IN------------------

* Yourself?: kinda.

* Your friends?: yah.

* Santa Claus?: nah. but he's a charming myth that i don't really mind

* Tooth Fairy?: we don't do Tooth Fairy in our belief system =D

* Destiny/Fate?: dunno.

* Ghosts?: no

------------------FRIENDS AND LIFE------------------

* Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?: why yes, i have both boyfriends *and* girlfriends, just simply *dozens* of them dangling along on a string!

* Like anyone?: oh, i like lots of ppl. {eyebrows}

* Who's the loudest?: it's kinda hard to tell.

* Who's the shyest?: me, maybe.

* Who's the weirdest?: i plead the fifth.

* Who do you go to for advice?: my best friends

* Who do you cry to?: no one. i don't like to cry and if i have to, i'll do it when i'm alone.

* When you cried the most: when some1 in my immediate family died.

* What's the best feeling in the world?: relief

* What will u do when u are feeling down?: nap

* Worst feeling: getting your hopes dashed.

* Who will respond to this email the fastest?: i have no idea.

* Who you send this to who won't reply: i don't know but it doesn't really matter :)

* Who sent this: Maril. thanks, sweetie!

2002-09-05T08:30:00.000Z

Book Worm Meter for Del

Shut In 71%

29% Out Of The House

Intellectual 59%

41% Moron

High Attention Span 59%

41% Low Attention Span

Bookitude 96%

4% Book Burner

Book Worm 71.25%

28.75% Bug Stomper

Take your bookworm readings.

What is my spectrum?

I am blue: My main color is blue. I am a little bitter when people choose a blissfully ignorant aproach to life. I try to see things for the way they really are.

What is my spectrum?

How Are You Smart?

~Find Your Inner Supermodel~

~Find Your Beauty Aura~

Which Season are you?

Which era in time are you?

2002-09-04T08:27:00.000Z

Which flock do you follow?
this quiz was made by alanna

i like grunge so that's cool, but Maril is cooler still, she is an individualist. :) thanks for this linkie; see, i get some quizzies from you now too.

Well, you're a slacker. Your greatest joy in life is sleeping, and you try to avoid doing work as much as possible. Others are envious of your talent for skating through life doing only half as much real, actual work as everyone else. You're an expert at talking teachers or bosses out of reprimanding you for your apparent lack of effort. On the upside, you won't have to worry about things like repetitive stress disorder or high blood pressure. Your life expectancy is probably pretty high due to this, not that you'll actually accomplish anything, you damn leech.
Be cool! Take the What Do You Want Out Of Life? Quiz

2002-08-28T17:44:00.000Z

What Kind of Harry Potter Are You?

*sigh* You're no fun. You've turned out to be Canon!Harry, and you're soo boring. You've got one thing on your mind, but unfortunately, that one thing is defeating Lord Voldemort, and that puts a damper on your love life. If you do fall for a guy, however, it will be someone also helping take down the Dark Lord - you're so into saving the world you wouldn't be paying attention to anyone else. Your best slash pairings are with those most likely to join in the fight, like Oliver Wood, the Weasley twins, and Cedric Diggory (even though he's, ya know...dead.) Surprisingly enough, you and Voldie/Tom Riddle would also make a great pair - you're both obsessing over each other, so it's rather natural.

2002-08-24T17:19:00.000Z

good god. i wish i was whoever it is who owns the two autographed pictures on this page. how *did* they ever manage to get ahold of Will Theakston, also known as Terence Higg? he seems almost as elusive as the Golden Snitch!

but wait, there's more! there are also 2 pictures autographed by Scott Fearn. the first one shows that Slytherin cutie with the floppy bangs, and in the second one he's with Angelina Johnson and Marcus Flint. so now i have confirmation that Scott Fearn is really cute-floppy-haired-guy, and not the 1 who was playing Marcus as i previously thought. would someone please tell me what Marcus' name really is then?! i mean, he has a bigger role than his floppy-haired teammate and yet no 1 seems to be able to confirm what his real name is! is it really Jamie Yeates?

...

aaand...yes, his name really is Jamie Yeates. more on this at my lj. i was getting used to thinking of him as Scott, and i'd been calling him that in my head because he looked like a Scott Fearn to me, but i guess i'll adjust to this just bcause Jamie happens to be one of my favorite names either for a boy or a girl.

2002-08-24T05:54:00.000Z

If I were a Neopet... I'd be a Kacheek!

Kacheeks are a shy little species that live in the lush meadows of Neopia.

They will avoid violence whenever possible and love to make new friends.

Which Neopet are you? Click here to find out!

2002-08-22T08:12:00.000Z

i wonder if Annabella is going to be using blogger.com.br now...

our most recent Wei� Kreuz manip: the terminally cool Fujimiya Ran "Aya".

the lyrics from the Garbage song on it are *so* him.

and since i've already started on the subject of anime.... earlier i was browsing ff.net's Slam Dunk stories hoping against hope for a Kogure x Ayako. but nooo. is it too much to ask of the universe to give me a non-yaoi Kogure story where he's not with an OC? i mean, i love both Kogure and Mitsui, i just don't feature them *with* each other; neither of them strikes me as particularly slashy. or could it be that i'm the only person in the world who likes Kogure x Ayako, the rest of the population just goes along with Ryota x Ayako? they seem to be 1 of the officially sanctioned SD couples or something {sigh} not that there's anything at all wrong with Ryota, it's only that i want Kogure to get some intimacy with a female character who wasn't made up just for fanfic, dammit! on a happier note, i am highly amused by Pacey informing me recently that another nickname for my Megane-kun is "The Edible Frog" {VBG} he must be like...a Chocolate Frog! ^.^

somewhat panicked i was this morning bcause while i was in my usual stupor i dropped my cellphone Trini, and when i picked it up the screen display wasn't right anymore. luckily it sorted itself out - whew!

2002-08-12T08:06:00.000Z

behold. yet another quiz to clutter up my blog.

	Which Classic Book Are You?

Book:	William Shakespeare's *Hamlet*.

Synopsis:	Hamlet is an atmospheric story of internalization - of feelings (guilt, love, hatred), of people, thoughts, and actions. Marked by indecision and a strong sense of self-pity and self-consciousness, Hamlet makes the slow transition from fear to determination in his quest to avenge his father's death. Oedipal complex, supernatural powers, royal incest, revenge - these are all explored in the play. Several famous questions are posed and thoughts explored - of existence, suicide, meaning, value. Hamlet is just packed with philosophy, psychology, and humanity. A must-read in which you will find many of the most famous soliloquies in all of Shakespeare.

Excerpt:	To be, or not to be,--that is the question:--Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end them?--To die,--to sleep,--no more; and by a sleep to say we end the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to,--'tis a consummation devoutly to be wish'd.

Amazon:	Hamlet

	Which Classic Book Are You?

2002-08-10T05:34:00.000Z

What Lesser Harry Potter Character Are You?

hn. didn't see that coming. which is not to say that i am anti-Cho. quite the contrary. i am definitely pro-Cho. the girl frequently gets a bad rap in fanfics. more Cho-friendly fics, i say!

2002-08-09T09:00:00.000Z

my Random Surreal Generator just gave me this bit of insanity:

Is this a lupin which I see before me, the laser-gun toward my monkey? Come, let me clean drains with thee.

my Lupin-loving self likes it {snerk}

2002-08-07T01:53:00.000Z

last week i finally got Come Away with Me! happy happy joy joy! and i got it at the music store where my quest for Norah Jones was previously thwarted. maybe it helped that i walked away that last time with utter dejection obvious in my every step, so they said, "aw, poor kid, let's get her the cd she wants!" shyeah right. {lol} so anyway it's been played on and off in both of our cd drives at home (my fam and the neighbors are prolly sick of it by now), and presently resides in its rightful place beside John Mayer's Room for Squares. so there.

2002-08-03T02:00:00.000Z

to Ben: the link to your blog has finally been updated. thanks for reminding me, i did find out about your new URL sometime ago but i've bn neglecting my blog. again. and 'tis not for you to understand the quotage of Del, yours is but to wonder and reflect upon the strangeness :-) can it be thou hast not read the works of thy fellow Brit Neil Gaiman? he whom i worship as a god {g}

to Subliminy, who was so nice about the fact that i'm always posting silly quizzes: i bring yet another silly quiz. forgive me, all.

PG-13

Now we're getting somewhere - your actions are now past pre-teen level, and you're beginning to display some more mature content in your life
"Which Movie Classification Are You?"
Test created by Jamie - take it here.

2002-07-31T05:40:00.000Z

You are not very reliable but people like you anyway because you are so easygoing and fun to be with. And cute, too.
Which Blogging Tool Are You?

my Spy Name is:
Del "Dashing" C

You save the innocent victim with such a flair that they almost forget to get out of the line of fire as they are mesmerized by your performance. Enemies try to bring you low, but you will have none of that! Not when the music is swelling and there is a perfectly good chandelier to swing from!

Vital Gear
Includes a cape that swirls around you when you dance, pearl white teeth for heart-stopping smiles and a clean white shirt for all occasions.

{grin} -> but unlike Austin, my teeth look OK.

2002-07-30T08:36:00.000Z

You're Lux Lisbon of The Virgin Suicides
You're mysterious and sexy and yet the only girl in school not interested in the school fox.
Your parents are over protective, and the boys of your street are all completely obsessing over you and your remaining sisters. Even after your mysterious suicides.

Quote: they understood love, and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

Which Kirsten Dunst Are You?

Take the "What *NSYNC Hairstyle are you?" Quiz

yeeesh. well...at least it's JC. i prefer that sorta windblown lion's mane of hair he had in "Pop," i think it was. at first i thought it looked weird, but then it started looking better to me, i really don't know why...

and get a free fic idea

Your fic idea is:
Well then, JC and Justin (or couple of your choice) are sitting beside a riverbank and the morning is sunny and bright, on haitus from the tour, because JC just got his heart broken, by... someone. There are deer prancing in the thicket, and Justin puts his arm around him and tells him it's alright, because there are other people that love him, more than that girl could." JC looks up at him and tells him he doesn't believe him. Justin proclaims his love for him, and JC weeps. Justin ends up picking him flowers from the riverbank, and gives them to JC. He weeps some more. Then, Justin pulls a ring out of his pocket and asks JC to marry him, no matter that they don't live in Vermont. JC says...

good lord. i don't write *NSYNC fics, let alone *NSYNC slash, but i admit to a tendency toward sappyness, and can only hope i'm not quite so sappy as that {lol}

2002-07-20T14:51:00.000Z

You're Kishuu Arashi!
Always calm and composed, you aren't prone to dramatic outbursts or displays of emotion. You save your emotion for times when it is really necessary. Some might call you cold or distant, but on the upside, you're very emotionally strong and can take care of yourself. And when the right person comes along, they might just break your shell.
Which Dragon of Heaven are you?
Quiz by Kerianne

yowza. i got her, i really got her � i'm Arashi! now all i need is my Sorata ^_^ i love them both, they are so kawaii. it makes me want to go look at them again in those copies of X/1999 i have at home.

You're Omi.
The "baby" of Wei�, you tend to be a little moody, but with all the shit that's constantly happening in your life what else can you be? And, despite all that, you're still a pretty all-around fun-loving guy. You still have a little more maturing to do, but you're every girl's sweetheart. Sometimes you may rush out and do things without thinking, and also let your emotions get the better of you, but in the end...you'll do what's right. You enjoy the company of elder men.
Which member of Wei� are *you*? Take the quiz!

i wanted to get either Aya or Yoji, but after several unsuccessful attempts, i surrendered, and accepted my inner Omi-ness ^.^ the descriptions of Aya & Yoji in the results were pretty harsh anyway {lol}

Who's your daddy?? Find out @ blackhole

{LOL} that phrase "who's your daddy?" has been on my mind a lot ever since i saw trailers for The New Guy, and Master of Disguise. i thought it was cute how Dana Carvey said it in that silly accent. oh alright, maybe that was just my soft spot for Dana asserting itself. actually it could even be a soft spot for lil blond comedians bcause i happen to be fond of David Spade too {more LOL}

2002-07-18T02:23:00.000Z

on my lunch break yesterday i went to the mini-mall type place near where i work, and there had a Norah Jones moment. i heard "Don't Know Why" playing, straightaway i followed the sound and dashed up the escalator to the music store where it was coming from. i then asked the saleslady if it was the radio playing the song and she said it was a cd, so i asked to see it, hoping it was Come Away with Me. unfortunately it was one of those sampler cds that they don't actually sell, they just play them to lure in ppl like me {sigh} so at lunch i had a chocolate sundae to console myself. and i'm posting the lyrics here too, like Annabella does on her blog :)

"Don't Know Why"

I waited 'til I saw the sun
I don't know why I didn't come
I left you by the house of fun
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

When I saw the break of day
I wished that I could fly away
Instead of kneeling in the sand
Catching teardrops in my hand

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever

Out across the endless sea
I would die in ecstasy
But I'll be a bag of bones
Driving down the road alone

My heart is drenched in wine
But you'll be on my mind
Forever

Something has to make you run
I don't know why I didn't come
I feel as empty as a drum
I don't know why I didn't come
I don't know why I didn't come

2002-07-16T16:56:00.000Z

cool quiz linkydink found @ Kara's lj:

what movie symbolism are you? find out!

i thought i might get The Matrix like Kara, but it turns out i'm Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. which is fine by me, i like this movie a lot.

2002-07-15T01:10:00.000Z

pssst, 'Kicks � wanna see what a 206-year-old woman looks like? here she is, looking remarkably well-preserved, ya? {wink}

I'm Ron/Xander
Which crossover slash pairing are you?

bwahahahahaaa!!! that took hardly any manipulation of my answers at all, so it must be fate. Ron/Xander � {drool} that Ria takes all the funky quizzes, she does.

more slashiness! "Water to Whine," chapter 5 of the ab-fab illustrated Esca fanfic Boys Will Be was posted recently and i must say, i worship Didodikali. now more than ever. she has a blog too; i'll go there, be voyeuristic and stuff. yeeesh. i'm pathetic. {wandering off to look for that fanart of an alleged Dryden x Allen kiss}

2002-07-14T17:41:00.000Z

from a link found on Dee's dj. she is so the band chick {grin} and i couldn't be more pleased with my result for this indeed is the song that made me fall in love with Weezer

Which Weezer Song are You?