for the love of lists

(posting since the net has suddenly become fast again)

MONDAY
gave my resume to vets nearby - i thought they would be empty during the day since people worked but no.
found the origami club website thanks to frankie!! ohhhhh creative wonders that's good for filling time - i'll post photos of the ones i made later
ate mi goreng

TUESDAY
watched eli stone and kite runner
wrapped lemper on the (i guess clean) floor

WEDNESDAY
made brandy snaps for the christmas lunch the next day which was soooooooo complicated T____T i thought it was done when it "bubbled all over" but i mistook golden for 'golden brown' ie undercooked so it wouldn't harden and remained the consistency of slightly tough and sticky golden syrup T____T
baked it for a second time but then softened again after a few hours. realised later thanks to cc monic that you have to make these stuffs right before serving or they'll absorb air and fail.... *tear*

THURSDAY - christmas day
lunch with family! whilst the pets got ignored and chinta was protected from a kid's destructive hands by a closed gate.
and for les cadeaux....i got a laptop!!!!!!!!! weeeeeeeee my new table will look modern!!!!!! and other as appreciated gifts: a new yorker cartoon 2009 calendar, *super kawaii!* (say in the harajuku perfume ad style) sandal pin things in the shape of a cat head and ladybug, sandals, borders gift card (yippppeeeee!), pet magazine and pyjama shorts.
and as always. played cards lots.
and saw santa take off his beard omg disturbing. for a kid's heart.

FRIDAY - boxing day (the real significance still unknown to me)
city in the morning for "shopping". if you call socks and jasmine-milk bath powders shopping.
ate heaps - baked potatoes (chilli con carne flavour for breakfast hehe), pretzels that are 99% fat free (topped with icing sugar and chocolate), max brenners strawberry (milk chocolate) frappe with ice cream, kfc as popcorn.
watched benjamin button which was REALLY good and like the review, did not feel long though the movie was two hours plus. which i guess isn't that long... but the person next to me's breath stanked and he whispered A LOT to his girlfriend.

SATURDAY
continued my "shopping" - undies (very comfy actually), grey shirt
the last copy of perks of being a wallflower was bought T____T so i have to special order it.... it was so expensive man thirty something dollars for a regular/thin-ish book and also realised when i sat to read that the cat fell off my sandal and was lost T_____________________T!!!!!!!!!!

SUNDAY
cleaned hutches with a really depleted newspaper supply which i'm replenishing today.
went to the neighbour's party (late christmas? early new year's?) and ate

TODAY
ate at Pasteur in chinatown
visited the NEW T's Bookshop and drank iced coffee sitting on their nice large reading-room style leather chairs with a back and arm rest. but somehow it seems they have less books than the old crowded store..
got the book thief by Markus Zusak from Dymocks since it was 20% off :D
watched WALL-E!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i understand now why themovieblog.com picked it as the best movie of the year!!!! it was soooooooooooooo cute and sooooooo touching and sadddd and etc and they didn't show the humans living in space as mean and responsible for the earth like i thought! but more brainwashed and unaware. yea. wall-eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
finished downloading beauty pop!!!! ahhhh.. now i can move it to my complete list on mangaupdates.com

ok. that's it. why are you still reading this and good on you if you have read until this last word. no this last word. this! this! this! ....

rio returns

rio's favourite pastimes:

watching tv (as you know)


playing the piano


kneeling


sitting on the cat

and modelling size comparisons...

biscotti inside + chinta

main activities: eating, finding comfy spots to sleep on

even on a bit of blanket that's fallen

hahhahaha i stuck a borders price tag on her head and she had no reaction

kawaii hana ne


wow a perfect crest

vaf vaf!

ah! bonjour monsieur marcel.
he is the french bulldog from ici et là the antique-ish furniture store in surry hills

kept on licking his paws. and then lied down in the middle of the entrance blocking some customers' path

he's famous

: )

(btw, finally found a use for my postcards)

update : ) > T______________________T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE

my heart was actually beating harder i was so nervous when i got up to check the marks.
and so....
i don't know what it means relating to the uai still - which i get tomorrow, but the two subjects that i thought i did worst in the actual exam, i did better than my school assessment.

i feel sick now.
i hate waiting!! :"""""(

food for the eyes/soul/etc

the Open Air Cinema movie list looks real good - so many advanced screenings! but oh dear wallet.

role models - 14/1
changeling - 21/1
ghost town - 29/1
he's just not that into you - 9/2
the secret life of bees - 16/2
the brothers bloom - 17/2

and the Moonlight Cinema at centennial park:

wall-e - 3/1 (weeeeee i can watch it on the big screen!)


other news:
skip beat anime is SOO funny!
watching bolt tomorrow :D
hehe. twilight movie is good.

*update*
this will be SO good to watch wall-e

ii ne.

thank you please:
aussie dollar to worth as much (or more) than british pounds whenever i feel like online shopping
all manga to be translated into english straight away
this:

the softest, comfiest piece of clothing i have ever felt/worn *angels singing*

there's gonna be TWO nodame movies in 2010!!!!!!!!!! mukya!!!

*UPDATE* one will be in December 2009 (yippeee) and the next one about 3 months later

pet visitors

today yasmin came over with her rabbit, "Bruce", or "Bruce Bear" as she likes to call him.

He was soooooo round and fluffy and really a good rabbit - doesn't bite and not overly shy. this is the ultimate bunny man. but she found bernie and mimi scary T___T which is kinda true when you compare them... my one (still doesn't feel like it) is more like a hare than a pet rabbit since it's body is longer and face is sharper. the harness we tried to put on mimi couldn't even fit since her head was too small. T___T smaller brain?

yea anyways it was slightly frightening since Bruce seemed so calm and "docile" (haha she was saying if Bruce was a dog he'd be a labrador) and the other two was all hyper. but i find rabbits a bit scary since they move quick, and they don't make a sound like those silent villains in movies. like with a guinea pig you can tell what they're gonna do since they squeak or make chattering noises but rabbits are just so much more creepy. haiyah this is kinda sad. my rabbits are not that scary.

i let mimi out since girl and boy won't fight and i was wary of bruce potentially mounting mimi, but no. it was the other way around!! T_____T it was disturbing to see...

and even though "Bruce & Bernie" sounds like the ultimate guy-couple, Bernie looked too aggressive and hyper and bit Bruce from the inside of the cage!! (the T____T emoticon has lost all meaning)

*rush*


*ennngggh!* (struggling sfx)

so we didn't let them run around together in case anything happened. and when he was being bit, had no reaction! such a nice bunny!! (he is a bunny. less than half a year probably)

and when he met chinta,

we're the same colour!

he put his head near her face to nudge and tell her to lick him!
illustrated by the dutch couple (see, they're nice too):

but chinta, known for biting sophie when fiona put them together once, was looking a bit dangerous - her mouth was kinda opened. probably and most likely ready to bite. why are they all like this?

nothing happened though. and for the rest of the day, bruce just wandered around chinta's cage (she is inside) and behind the washing machine in the laundry. he didn't pee.


on another note....
sophie and bowlar went home yesterday and because the cage was all folded and put in the trunk of the car, they were put in the back seat of the car and walking around!! and they're quite talented too. when i was at their house - the person's house, not their cage - they can find their house (in another room) from the living room and climb the cage door to jump in to their house!

and they sleep so cute lying on their sides like this:

(i was blinking at her pretending to look asleep and her eyelids started drooping but when i stared at her, she stared back with eyes full open again.)


and since no pet talk is complete without biscotti, here:

after i called her name: "what?"

hugo cabret & grand illusions

omg youtube is in widescreen.

anyways

came across this book by Brian Selznick: The Invention of Hugo Cabret on the Borders website and can't wait til i see it in the shop!

the description of the actual book, more than the story, is what sounds most interesting:

This 526-page book is told in both words and pictures. The Invention of Hugo Cabret is not exactly a novel, and it’s not quite a picture book, and it’s not really a graphic novel, or a flip book, or a movie, but a combination of all these things. Each picture (there are nearly three hundred pages of pictures!) takes up an entire double page spread, and the story moves forward because you turn the pages to see the next moment unfold in front of you.

here's the site, and a video interview on amazon of the author explaining the book.

there was also the author's links to "weird websites" like Grand Illusions which has articles, toys, and features on...weird stuff. like optical illusions, toys, etc
and things i found really amazing:

metal pen

the whole pen is metal and has no ink so that it doesn't run out ever. unless you drop it and break off the 'soft' nib.
it works on all types of paper but dunno how it works. apparently it's been used since medieval times.

resurrection plant (Rose of Jericho)

a small fern that grows in arid parts of the world and shrivels up and drops its flowers when its roots are dry, but turn green and unfurl again when moistened.

and this "dragon illusion" that i've seen in the clip of daniel radcliffe visiting a girl's magic high school in japan (youtube it. it's good)

where the dragon seems to be turning its head and following you when you walk left and right infront of it. you can even download the pdf so u can make your own dragon! hehe i did :D but hv to wait till i buy new printer ink to make it.

and also another site called "Barry's farm" that makes these super cute laptop cases!

ok. next post is a pets post.

yayyy bolt tickets came!! and it's not two adults and two children as expected, but just two double passes!! yayyyy!

rebound, slumdog, matsuko

went to the finders keepers markets on saturday and got this! (kinda sad since there weren't any old frankies to be bought. and just found out that the back issues are mucho expensivo)

it's a "little golden book" (the ones you see in coles, bookshops for kiddies and has the golden edges) made into a journal by Rebound - btw i just realised that "twothousand.com.au" is cos sydney's postcodes are 2000 something. and there's a threethousand.com.au for melbourne!!!!

anyways.

yesterday was the slumdog millionaire advanced screening at paddington's palace verona cinema - the fundraiser for the RSPCA - and just as expected, there was A LOT of old people. probably only a handful were youthful. and it was so cute how before we went in they gave a small paperbag with biscuits or timtam and jellybeans XD

the movie was really good. i read that it won 3 awards at the BAFTAs - best director, film, upcoming actor - but since atonement won lots and it was kinda boring at times.. didn't want to get my hopes up. but no. there wasn't any boring bits in fact EVERYTHING was good. but since i suck at writing out a synopsis, go to twothousand.com.au's review on it.

oh and also i'm watching this new jap series called "bloody monday" about this hacker who helps save japan from a biological terrorist attack. ahhh addictive.. and just realised the main actor's the guy from koizora - the crazed movie which i haven't watched because it sounds too dramatic.

AND (hahaha keep forgetting things) memories of matsuko (kiraware issho no matsuko) was good too!

the story is this guy "sho" (played by eita!!) who's told by his dad to clean out his auntie matsuko's house because she has died (murdered actually) but he doesn't know anything about her since according to his dad, she was removed from the family and her life was meaningless.

and so the whole movie is duh "memories of matsuko" and i guess showing how her life's not meaningless. but it's not a soppy nostalgia, but more eccentric and laugh out loud funny at times (the characters, the musical scenes). At first though it's funny, exciting, empathy-causing, you're kinda wondering where the movie is gonna go, but the second-half makes sense of it all and it even becomes sad and touching.
can't really pinpoint the exact moment because then i'll spoil the unexpected-ness of the movie that makes it so good. and that's why i won't link any reviews of this movie since they're all too revealing.

and if you're very knowledgeable of jap culture, then the snippets of tv they show to represent the time period will be amusing. this jap guy sitting on the row behind was like "hikaru genji!" and "dango dango dango san kyou" in a soft excited whisper.

so..... yea watch these movies. 9/10 out of 10 as clearly described.

this is a very long post. so i've bold-ed the sections to help navigate.

chowwww

(reminds me of the ccs episode when kero was lost and stayed at this little kid's house and he couldn't speak so only said "chau chau")

anyways.
these are baby chow chows that might be martha stewart's new dog. they're soooooooooooooooooo cute!!!!! the round face, short legs, slit eyes and the the floppy ears!!!!!! (click to make them bigger and smile at the computer screen for the next hour)

pom, rabbits, biscotti

photos from yesterday and today:

new pomegranate drink. quite tasty but can't really taste the mango and one bottle is TWO serves -___-.

the hutch

bernie stepping on the pellet bowl to get to the vegetables. food bowl on the second level before it toppled off and food was wasted T__T (the covered front legs makes his head looks big lol)

my new obsession with rabbit noses XD

biscotti walking cool-y. i like her round face here hehe

biscotti sleeping with trees in the background