I realised a few things today.
1. I still have book ADD. Everything's boring and everything sucks. I pick up a book, read like ten chapters and then get bored. I'm too lazy to read something intellectually stimulating but at the same time, I feel like I should stop reading easy/light books. I'm getting tired of the same plotlines/characters and I'm pretty sure I can feel my brain turn into mush and my literary skills deteriorate with every new novel. After a while, everything just blends into one. This also extends to the Sookie series too. Maybe I should just take a break and then go back to it. The series isn't bad. I just don't feel involved in the story (yet). It might be because I'm not putting in enough effort to feel involved. I also realised that I'm still suffering from Fever Series withdrawal. LOL fail.
2. My book ADD morphed into drama ADD. I can't bring myself to finish TV dramas either... more specifically Chuck. It's not that it was bad. I think I just stopped watching it for a while and I lost interest. Ha, story of my life.
3. I'm still in holiday mode. I can't bring myself to do any homework.
4. I hate driving. Why can't someone just invent jetpacks? Then we could fly everywhere.
5. I think I'm suffering from blogging ADD too. I can't be bothered continuing this post...
Goodbye guys. Enjoy the rest of your Sunday.
Oh god. Oh god. Can't breathe. Laughing too much.
That's it. I'm rooting for Russia this year. GO BABUSHKI, GO!!!
This rivals the infamous Serbian entry of 2010. Balkan Balkan, anybody?
Oh and Jedward are returning to Eurovision in 2012. Whoop-de-doo.
and finishing The Hunger Games series, you get all the hugs,
and a complimentary comic.
And to Mr New Director out there, can we pretty please have Alex Pettyfer as Finnick?
Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MITNHpRyOls
Guys, Eurovision season is coming again soon! YAYAYAYAYAYAY!!! Oh God, I love Eurovision. It's so over-the-top/cheesy/hilarious/unnecessarily-political. I love how every country votes for their neighbour. I love how some countries send in the worst acts ever just so they don't win and have to host it the next year. I LOVE HOW IT'S GOING TO BE IN AZERBAIJAN THIS YEAR! LOL, I don't even know where the hell Azerbaijan is... or whether they even have enough money to host this thing. Oh well. That would contribute to the campiness of it, I guess.
By the way, for those who don't know, that up there is Alexander Rybak - winner of the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest. His performance makes me laugh. Maybe it's because of the cheesy grin on his face or the unnecessary back up dancers. But hey, at least the song is catchy!
Today is Sunday. AKA tutor day. It's also the second last day of the holidays so I cbf to do any homework. Instead, I bullied my sister into making a cover of "Pumped Up Kicks" with me. We tried harmonising. It was a fail. It was also kind of fun though. You can find it on my Facebook.... if you want.
Oh and Othilia, I'm finally reading the Sookie Stackhouse books! Afterwards I might watch True Blood... although I probably shouldn't do that until after the HSC. I'm about 3/4s through the first book. I can't get over her name: Sookie. What kind of person names their child "Sookie"?? You wouldn't name your grandma "Feeble" would you? So why name a baby Sookie? Also, after having watched some True Blood clips on YouTube, I'm picturing Anna Paquin as Sookie in my mind and it's driving me crazy. She annoys me. I think it was because of X-Men. Haha the book's enjoyable though. I like books that don't require too much thinking so... yeah.
Hooray for the first mildly-watchable reality TV program on Australian television since Beauty and the Geek last year! By the way, Rachael Leahcar is a palindrome. How cool is that???
I'm reposting this here in case you're one of the very very few people in Aus who haven't seen the legally blind 17 year old sing yet. When I rewatched it this morning, it had 25,000 views. Now, it has 100,000. I'm hoping it gets a sudden spike in popularity and goes viral. This girl so deserves to have her Susan Boyle moment.
I could write a whole post about how much The Voice (Australia) amuses me. I could talk about how awesome some of the auditions were (especially that lady who sang "Wuthering Heights" and that other girl who sang Samson - although I must admit that their song choices had a huge part in how much I liked them). I could also spend ages ranting about how fake Delta sounded in the first two episodes. But I love Delta so I'll try to withhold judgement until I see more.
Since I just spent like the whole day doing maths homework and practicing piano though, I feel very cranky. And I'd rather read my crappy novels than blog anymore so..... good bye!
Why hello there Mr Smouldy MacBrooderson. What long eyelashes you have!
I don't mind One Direction songs. Really I don't. A lot of them are quite catchy - not terribly original but at least they sound nice. Everytime "Gotta Be You" comes on, I feel like punching the air and singing emotionally and in an exaggerated manner. Haha. Anyway, I'm not the type of person to hate on a group just cause all the teen girls are obsessed with them. That is the main reason why groups/artists like these get so much hate after all, people don't like overrated things. Seriously. Shut up and look me in the eyes and tell me that "Baby" is not catchy.
Not defending Justin Bieber by the way. I still feel a perverse sense of pleasure at posting this:
One Direction are probably in Melbourne right now. They're performing at the Logies or something tonight aren't they? I'm not going to be able to watch though, cause of tutor. And that also means I can't watch The Voice. Why is it that every mildly watchable show that goes on TV, I can never watch because of tutor. Do the stations do this on purpose? Put all the good stuff on Sunday nights or something? TV, Y U NO LYK ME?!
And speaking of 1D, did anyone else laugh at all the crazy girls that appeared on the news over the past few days. The ones that they show crying and screaming while they stalk the band. I did. It was so funny - especially that one over-emotional girl at the airport who was like, "THEY'RE SO BEAUTIFUL!! AND WHEN THEY SING, THEIR VOICES ARE LIKE ANGELS'!!" *commences bursting into tears on live national television*
So, I went to the city yesterday. I ate nice food and bought nice clothes. Okay, probably not the last part. I bought clothes but considering I have about as much fashion sense as a blind hobo, they're probably not that nice. My mum kept dragging me into the Korean fashion stores in Market City and near the Chinatown area and I kept trying to escape because dude, the things in those stores are expensive and I'm not exactly loaded. We didn't stay very late - only until 7:30. I had to come home and write my legal essay. Le sigh.
Oh and I finally figured out how to move on from The Fever Series. I just had to give it a few days. It wasn't a matter of "getting over it" as it was "letting it run its course and get out of my system". Next time, I shouldn't try to read anything straight after. I have to leave a few days in between for me to mourn the series.
P.S. Othilia, you should google image stuff like fever/mac/barrons to get that weird image of Barrons out of your head. A lot of people seem to think David Gandy makes a good Barrons... but I'll let you decide that yourself LOL. If you don't do that, you'll ruin the reading experience by picturing some old, ugly dude when you read "Barrons". That would kind of suck.
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You know that feeling you get? The one when, after you've finished a fantastic series/show that just totally blew your mind, leaves you feeling like nothing will ever match up to its standard. That feeling that the thing you've just finished has TOTALLY RUINED EVERY OTHER BOOK/MOVIE/SHOW THAT YOU WILL EVER READ/WATCH IN YOUR LIFE EVER AGAIN. I have that feeling :( WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME, MS KAREN MARIE MONING, WHYYYY?!?!?! YOU HAVE RUINED ME - RUIIINNEEDDD ME I SAY!!!
I have just finished the Fever series. Am now going to lock myself into my room and cry/grieve over the end of yet another thing I love. Dude, I suck. I should stop growing so attached to things. It's unhealthy :(
Credit for artwork: http://arkoniel.deviantart.com/art/fever-Jericho-and-Mac-195805642?offset=10
Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=dpmN2PH5uKg
Welcome to the club Jessica, welcome to the club.
And I think you should just stuff the homework and read Catching Fire. Do it. You know you want to.
I finally figured out how to modify the top bar thingy-majigy. It was as simple as pressing "posting" and then "edit pages". Haha I feel so stupid, wasting so much time trying to figure it out. From now on the chatbox will be at the top of the page instead of at the bottom. That should make it easier to access, I think.
Today was such an epic fail. I woke up all motivated and shit - ready to churn out at least 500 words for my extension 2 project since I haven't touched it in the last 4 weeks. I then got sidetracked by Bloodfever, the fourth book of the Fever series and when I finished reading it, I sat in my bed like a stunned lump of useless nothing-ness.
I then got up and took a shower (I compulsively take showers when I'm feeling sick) and then went downstairs for breakfast. After breakfast, I came back upstairs, sat down with my laptop and wrote a little bit. I think I managed to come up with 200 words. It wasn't much. And in terms of story progression, nothing really happened.
Then I sat and I'm not quite sure what I did for the last 2 and a half hours. I might've been reading some stylerookie: http://www.thestylerookie.com/ or I might/might not have been youtubing The Civil Wars.
Either way, it was not very productive and now I no longer feel like writing. Seriously guys, pumping myself up to write anything for EX2 is such an ordeal. I just want to start the whole thing over again - go with a different concept and just write like I normally do. But I won't because deep down I have a feeling that even if I had chosen a different concept, I would've eventually gotten bored of it as well.
Anyway, here's a song for you guys:
I wish Janet would release a full studio album.
(There are actually five books but I can only show you the four.)
Guys, stop what you're doing. Like now. I mean it. And go pick up a copy of these books. Cause seriously:
These books.....
This series.....
IT IS SO F*CKING BRILLIANT.
During the first book, I was like, "Hmm this is pretty good"; during the second, I was like, "Oh wow, I can't believe how much I'm enjoying this" and then during the third, I was full like, "OMFG WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?!? THIS SERIES IS BLOWING MY MIND!! KAREN MARIE MONING YOU ARE SUCH AN EVIL GENIUS!!"
It's like someone decided to mash up all that is awesome and wonderful from the worlds of urban fantasy, paranormal romance, crime and escapist fiction and then added an extra dose of magic just to kick everything up ten notches. I have read so many books this year (mostly to overcompensate for my lack of dramas) and believe me, nothing has managed to blow me away like this series has managed to do. I haven't loved a partnership so much since Cat and Bones from the Night Huntress series and even they have nothing on MacKayla and Barrons from the Fever series. I can't even -
Okay, let me try to explain this better. Here's my crappy outline (with no spoilers) which doesn't do the series justice at all.
THE PLOT:
The series revolves around 20-something year old MacKayla Lane, whose sister has just been murdered and found dead on the streets of Dublin. The police are doing nothing about it so MacKayla decides to fly over to Ireland (from America) to track down her sister's killer and avenge her.
But obviously, it's not as easy as that because in Dublin, far away from the comfort of her home in the American south, MacKayla is suddenly exposed to the world of the fae. (You all know what the fae are right? The seelie/unseelie, etc.) and she finds out that she is actually a sidhe-seer, a rare breed of human who can actually see the fae. On top of that, she is one of the rarest of the rare. MacKayla has the ability to "null" or "freeze" them with her touch alone and on top of that, she can sense dark fae objects.
This ability is what causes her to team up with the enigmatic Jericho Barrons - owner of Barrons' Books and Baubles - a man who wants to use her for her unique detecting powers to seek out something called the Dark Book. This ancient unseelie relic contains enormous power and may be the the only clue to help track down her sister's murderer. MacKayla's not sure why Barrons wants it but since finding it will also benefit her, she goes along with it and agrees to be trained by Barrons in fighting against the unseelie and thus becomes his personal OOP detector (OOP = objects of power). The two (Barrons and MacKayla) rarely get along though and when V'lane, a royal fae seelie prince also starts trying to recruit MacKayla's help, the tension skyrockets.
What you end up getting is an extremely well written, thrilling and unbelievably satisfying series of books. I haven't finished it yet (I'm up to the fourth one) but I can just tell that when the series ends, I'll be suffering massive withdrawal symptoms - something that only happens with books/dramas that I become unhealthily attached to.
Some of you may be thinking that the plot doesn't sound terribly original and I can understand why. The whole "girl-realises-she-sees-fairies" thing has been done quite a bit but Karen Marie Moning has such an amazing, evocative writing style that she manages to make the story seem like something really unique. The series was also voted Goodread's Best Paranormal Fantasy of 2011 in their Choice Awards so you can tell that it's immensely popular.
I honestly wasn't thinking that I would enjoy the series as much. I'd recently gotten sick of reading Paranormal Romances cause honestly, the only thing the characters in those books want to do is have sex... like all the time. Seriously - the people are more like rabbits than humans. I think the reason I was drawn to them though was because of the whole "magical powers/paranormal" aspects of those books so making the switch to urban fantasy (aka fever series) was much more enjoyable. Not saying that there's no romance in the Fever series though - it just isn't always the main focus of the story. By the way, I should probably still warn you that the book is classifed as "adult" not "young adult" so stuff is much more.... well graphic, if you know what I mean.
Also, the character of MacKayla Lane, in the first book especially, tends to come across as a bit of a blond barbie LOL. She's not stupid - it's just that her thoughts tend to drift towards fashion and pink nail polish a lot of the time and since the book is written in first person, I can see why some people might get annoyed with that. I didn't really care/notice it but some reviewers on goodreads made such a big deal about it. Obviously though she changes quite dramatically over the series, becoming a much tougher and meaner character so that's only a very minor gripe.
Ahem. Okay, I'm done. No more gushing from me. If you've managed to read all that above then you must be a really patient, tolerant person. I would give you a virtual cookie but I seem to have eaten them all :) I shall now go back to my reading. God, how I love my books.
Needless to say my mum was absolutely traumatised by The Hunger Games.
My sister loved it by the way but my both my parents totally missed the point of it. My dad called it a "rubbish Hollywood movie" LOL. But then again, my dad only watches the indie movies on SBS. He watches Bollywood, French films and Aussie indie flicks but he can't stand anything that comes out of the US.
I asked my mum what she thought and she said she couldn't enjoy it because it was too unrealistic.
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.................................................................... well NAHHHHHH.
Thank you Captain Obvious. You win all the awards for pointing that out.
Basically she complained about how unlikely something like that would ever happen. How could a government resort to making kids kill kids just for entertainment? Inconceivable! And then I tried to explain to her that it was all about the government trying to suppress and control the people but she refused to believe that stuff like that ever happens in our world. Errr.... what about China? Tiananmen Square Massacre? No? Not ringing any bells? Plus it is a MOVIE adapted from a BOOK. Ergo, NOT REAL.
My mum does not understand sci-fi. She also doesn't understand the point of "what if" movies. Give her Tom Cruise and cheesy romances anyday over anything remotely intellectually stimulating and she'll be happy. (I suppose that's where my infatuation with shallow literature comes from. Maybe I shouldn't be judging her).
It was still worth it just to see the movie again though. The vast amount of stuff/details/scenes that they missed out on still bugged me but hey, the movie was long enough already. I can understand it I guess. Imagine if they included every single detail of the Harry Potter books. The movies would have to be 10 hours long!
Until I find the time to configure this template, it's going to stay a little bit wonky. I have to change the above picture as well as modify the label cloud so it stops looking so cluttered. I shall do that later.... for now, I think I'll just enjoy the beginning of my holidays :)
I have just wasted an hour of my life trying to find the perfect template for blogger. I didn't like any of them so now I guess I'm back to square one. Why do I always end up wasting so much time when I do these renovations on my blog? It's so not worth it.
Since my old chatboxes kept getting spammed, I decided to try another one. It's the same one that's on Lyanna's blog. I thought of disabling chatboxes altogether but then where's the fun in that? Sometimes I miss people's comments so if you want to say something you can say it there ----->
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Nope, it's there: ------------>
Sorry guys, I couldn't resist.
Have fun trying to un-see that ^
I'm blogging so much this week! Don't worry, I'll get bored... eventually. I can't help myself. I feel like showing you guys all this random stuff; such as this clip from episode 6 of Shut Up! I quite like the song. It's called "Jaywalking". It's not the whole thing though because at around the 2:30 mark, shit happens. You should watch it in HD. No really, you should.
Anyway enjoy the song... and if not, there's always the eye candy. (Seriously, this drama has an excess of beautiful people. Why so perfect everyone? WHY?)
Original link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNozNoKEp_s
Well now that I'm in one of my crazy, obsessed drama phases, y'all better watch out for all my future posts. I tend to go a bit.... overboard in expressing my love for things. Especially when those things are tall, sexy and Korean.
You have been warned.
First time I heard this was actually while playing Sims 3 Night Life. My sim was in a pub and this song came over the speakers in simlish. I really do love how immersive the sims world is. Too bad I feel like my simming days are over. I've got better stuff to do now... like watch k-dramas... or figure out whether I should read Divergent.
Has anyone read it yet? Is it really that good? People have been comparing it to The Hunger Games - which is quite a praiseworthy comparison. No really, The Hunger Games has been on USA Today's Best Selling Book List for over 135 weeks... which is over 2 years. But I've been hearing good things about
Oh and before I forget, yesterday was April Fool's Day and over at Mockingjay.net, the staff decided to trick all the fans by writing an article titled "Josh Hutcheson to Bow Out of The Hunger Games Sequels". My favourite part of that article is:
Hemsworth wants to be supportive, but doesn’t understand the decision to run from rabid fans. “What does he think he’s going to do? Take off, hide in the woods? They’d catch him. Cut off his clothes or worse. He wouldn’t make it five miles.”
You can check it out here: http://mockingjay.net/2012/04/01/josh-hutcherson-to-bow-out-of-the-hunger-games-sequels/#more-12318
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