Boom

I'm starting to get really fed up of my BT home hub broadband cutting out all the time. It always happens at the most inconvient times, like right in the middle of a video, and then it will take ages for it to start again, only to stop minutes later. It's very annoying. I was just watching Heartstrings when I nurse said to a sick patient "make sure you breathe deeply or your lungs will shrivel up." I really hope that it just didn't translate well. It's either that or nurses in Kpra need to work on their bedside manor. Speaking of nurses, I was looking down at my hands a few minute ago and for a few seconds thought I has contracted jaundice as my hands were tinged yellow. Then I remembered that I had been screen printing yellow at school earlierToo . It was my last day today. It's very bittersweet, because I was sorry to leave but at the same time, keen too. I'm doing that train thing were you want to sleep so shut your eyes (I have no idea what I'm talking about either, proves point) <3 x


EDIT: Yes, I am aware this makes no sense. I was sleep blogging and posting on my iphone. Keeping it as is for the lolz.

Stuff

I was going to blog about my last day looking after my sister, and then I thought I would post about finally seeing The Hunger Games. Now, its nearly 2 am and I've just got in to bed, so I'm kinda thinking I'll not blog much at all.

It was my last day looking after my sister. Hopefully, she will be able to stave off the boredom of another week off work by herself after all my intensive training. I drove home and the journey was fine, even though mid-week motorway drivers are lunatics and petrol has turned people daft.

I finally saw The Hunger Games. It was good. It was more true to the book than I expected, but obviously some bits were left out, such as the bread from district 11 which is what struck me most when reading the book. I liked the cast, I liked the style even if it was a little dizzying, and I liked the way how the violence wasn't too ... well ... violent. However, I still can't help think that its so similar to the Battle Royale films, just less realistic.

Done. How efficient.

<3 x

ROAR says Laptop

Its really hard trying to be quiet and undestruptive to sleeping relatives in the next room when my laptop is roaring away like this. Especially when I'm also banging at it to try and make it stop, which isn't working, so I guess both my laptop and I are being ridiculously noisy in the middle of the night.

Ah, it stopped. Thank God.

I think its the fan, which I guess means I need a new one or something. Fan, I mean, not laptop ... although to be fair, it may not be so bad of an idea. I know I decided against getting a new laptop when I got the virus, but seeing as this doesn't feel like my old laptop so much anymore, maybe I should get a new one. Ever since it was brought back to life, its been a bit of a zombie; the shadow of its former self if you like. I think I'll have to reinstall most if not all of my programs, which I may as well do on a shiny new system. Anyway, this one screams at me one minute and shuts off in a huff the next, so its hardly begging me to keep it in service ... more like its begging fro early retirement. I could even wipe this one clean and donate it to my father, although I'm not sure I should encourage him to spend any more time sitting on a computer than he already does.

I'll think about it, asses my finances etc.

So today I think I found my sister's wedding venue. They need to view it and all that jazz first, but from what we saw online, it looks so ideal for them. Very small and intimate while being distinctly country-ish. You can book out the whole place for the weekend, the couple can stay in the bridal yurt and its eco-friendly. There's even a campsite for the wedding guests!

It says its 'for a wedding day that doesn't cost the earth' but I'm praying they don't mean that too literally and you are in fact paying for it 'not to cost the earth'.

Heading home tomorrow, and while I'm sad to leave my poorly sick sister and my aunt, I'll be glad to get back to my own home comforts. Namely my bed, my mum and a fast internet connection.

<3

City Hunter

FINALLY ... I managed to finish watching the final episode and thus, I get to write this post! Only 3 or 4 days after I had originally intended, but oh well.

I had heard a lot about this series as it was airing over the summer. It's from all the attention that it got during that time that I first heard of Lee Min Ho, long before I actually saw him in anything else, before I had even started watching anything that wasn't Japanese. I see now why it received so much love ... it was awesome.

In the 1980's, a group of politicians decide that a mission is a mistake and orders the death of their own soldiers. One man, Jin Pyo, survives, and swears vengeance on them after promising his dying best friend to look after his wife and baby son. Jin Pyo snatches the young boy, Yoon Sung, and raises him in the Golden Triangle as a successful drugs lord. 28 years later, Yoon Sung returns to Korea to seek his and Jin Pyo's revenge on the politicians by publicly revealing their corrupt dealings, earning him the nickname of City Hunter. He meets Nana, a young woman with her sights set on becoming a presidential bodyguard despite her difficult financial situation, and Young Joo, a prosecutor who is working towards the same goal as the City Hunter while also hunting him out. Jin Pyo, however, has a far more final revenge in mind.

Lee Min Ho's Yoon Sung looking sexy in his City Hunter disguise. It is super effective, no one could tell it was him.

It was nice to watch a drama with hints of romance and comedy, but where the majority of the plot was action packed. Light-hearted and sweet, but also tense, exciting and emotional. So often in Asian drama, there is too much comedy to the point that it becomes overly cheesy, or there will be so much romance that is is too sickly, to the extent that it just becomes a little repetitive and boring. City Hunter, on the other hand, kept me literally on the edge of my seat, and yet I was still cheering for all the little sub plots that have little impact on the whole picture There were some pretty awesome action scenes, and it kept you guessing through out. I for one did not see the twist in the last couple of episodes coming. I was a particular fan of how Yoon Sung used whatever was to hand to fight with, a particular favourite being a water bottle.

The feel of the series was similar to Tokyo Dogs, really, but with more drama. I'm not really sure why, as the plots weren't at all similar, but I guess they are the only action based dramas that I have experienced.

I loved this series, I really did, and I have literally got nothing bad to say about it. Lee Min Ho was amazing as Yoon Sung and I enjoyed seeing such as strong and intelligent female lead in Nana. I laughed, I cried, I gasped. It was awesome.

Next up is Heartstrings. I have never heard of this drama before, and I can't say that I even remember seeing the title in the ranking charts before now. I guess I just saw City Hunter and stopped looking. Another music based drama, it seems to be some sort of cross between Nodame Cantabile, You're Beautiful and Mary Stayed Out All Night, involving an indie band and a classical prodigy in a Musical Academy. The two main characters were also in You're Beautiful as cross-dressing Mi Nam and unloved Shin Woo.

<3 x

I'm sleeping under sheep

The universe really does not want me to watch and post about City Hunter. It's official. After all the kerfuffle yesterday, and now today hasn't turned out to be any more successful. I barely have strong enough Internet to load one page let alone a video. I might take my laptop to my sisters in the hope that she'll give me half an hour or so to actually finish watching this thing. Its pretty much driving me crazy that I can't.

Hopefully popping to the shops tomorrow. May be just for food, maybe more, it depends on how much my poorly sister can manage. She seems much better, although the nurse signed her off work for at least another two weeks, whereas she was hoping she'd be back mid week. I don't think she knows what she's going to be able to do with herself. I said she should plan the wedding. Her partner told her she should do the gardening and house renovations. I feel he thought my suggestion just as ridiculous as his.

<3 x

All about City Hunter ... but not really.

The universe really doesnt want me to write today's post about City Hunter. The universe doesn't even want to allow me to finish watching the last episode. Firstly, I've been pretty busy all day, so when I finally had an hour and a half to sit down and watch the last episode, I was pretty excited. I watched the first part. It was amazing. Then my effing home hub decided to stop working. Half an hour later, it finally decides to cooperate, and I watch the second and most of the third part. Then, my laptop decided to over heat or whatever and turn itself off in a huff. Now, I'm thinking there's no point on trying to watch the rest of it AND blog about it when it's already 1am and I have to be on the road in six hours time. So you get an iPhone post about what I am unable to blog about, so that's fun. Heading down to my sisters tomorrow, to look after her for a few days after her operation. She sounded much better today, so hopefully she'll be better soon, but I hope she doesn't send me away too soon. Seeing as they've knocked down the spare bedroom I'm staying with my aunt instead, so that will be awesome. I should get used to travelling down south, it won't be that long now until all of my family are down there. <3 x

This post is much the same as posts from a year ago

I was saving today's post to be my review on City Hunter, but I haven't finished watching it yet, so I can't post about it. Probably tomorrow, I only have the final episode to watch, and I could have managed it today if I hadn't been getting so sucked into manga lately.

I go through phases. Before a couple of days ago, I hadn't read manga properly for months, having only caught up with the odd chapter here and there as they were released, but not any more than that. I had even given up mid chapter on the last new one. Drama kind of took over, so I was spending my time watching rather than reading. But then, all of a sudden, I wanted to read again. So I got caught up on the manga I had let slip, namely Watashi Ni xx Shinasai, started a new one called Love Berrish, and started re-reading Love Celeb. Yeah, I know, sometimes the titles sound really lame, but I swear, the actual thing is no where near as embarrassing as the names. You just have to hope they sounded more impressive untranslated.

I'm surprisingly sleepy. It may be because I didn't really do anything all day other than read manga, watch drama or watch SHINee's Sherlock MV. Or it could be that I woke up early (8 is early for me), and started playing DrawSomething with my mates mum.  I suppose it could be that I did 10 mins of hula hooping this evening rather than 5 because I was too lazy to do any last night. However, despite the above reasons all being perfectly feasible, it may just be because it is apparently 2.30am.

<3 x

Today didn't happen

Today, the being-healthy plan went completely to pot.

My sister went into hospital this morning, and I was pretty much fine with it. Sure, I was concerned, but I knew it wasn't anything life threatening and that she would be fine. It was only when I heard that she was being readied to go into theatre that I freaked out.

I'm not really sure why; I still know that it isn't really anything to be worrying about, but for some reason, right in the middle of lunch and Neighbours, I had a super hard time not bursting into tears. I think my hormones are just in overdrive at the moment.

Unfortunately, the only way I know how to deal with freak outs is by eating copious amounts of crap, and as a good friend should, I dragged Inki down with me. Having said that, we were reasonably tame in terms of unhealthiness. We even ended up in the fruit aisle, even though obviously we didn't get anything.

So I may have sabotaged both Inki and myself diet wise, but I still did my 5 min hula hoop session while listening to Big Bang's Fantastic Baby (even if i did only work of like 5 potato hoop snacks) and drank a litre of water. I basically did everything like normal and just ate a lot more chocolate, bread and potato based product than I would normally allow myself. A lot more.

My sister is fine, by the way. I'm just trying to resist the urge to rush down until I know whether I'm wanted or not.

<3 x

Internal Monologue

I was trying to wait up for SHINee's Sherlock MV to be released, as I heard that it would be at 12 Korea time, although I'm not sure whether it was supposed to be midnight or noon. Seeing as midnight has passed and as it is currently half past 10 in the morning there, I'm thinking I'll just wake up to it instead.

I was at the office this morning. Its weird how disjointed going to work in the morning and then heading over to  work on the dresses makes my day feel. You feel like its almost the end of the day before you have even started, and before I can even get dressmaking, I have to sort out my Gran first. Looking after old people is hard, especially when they are super stubborn old people who are fiercely independent.

For a while, I thought I might like to go into caring for the elderly as a new career, but that was when I was only looking after my Gran for one or two days a week. Now that I'm there every day, I don't think I could handle it. I can clean up and whatnot after my Gran and not be too freaked out by it, but I don't think I could do it for a stranger. Before, I basically thought spending time listening to old people's stories over a cup of tea and cake sounded awesome, but then I started to realise that old people are repetitive and their cake is usually stale.

I'm liking the wedding route at the moment. Apparently there is a place in the City that does pretty much exactly what I want to do. They have a shop with dresses to try on etc, but also a work room in the back that provides a bespoke service. As much as the idea of setting up my own shop and business is stuck in my head, I know I should get some experience in the field first, try to figure out how it all works and maybe even do a bit of networking. So as soon as I have finished the dresses, it looks like I'm back to the job hunt ...

That was a bit of a mish mash of subjects. I think I just typed what was going through my head in real time.

<3 x

Chronicles

Last August, literally right before I started on the BBC drama, I worked on a fund raising trailer for a upcoming TV series. It was a really tough few months of pre-production, followed by a tough few days shooting, but this is still the project that I am most excited by and can't wait to see what the future holds for. It has huge potential, it really does, I just hope that we have the good luck to see it realised.

Chronicles of Syntax follows Syntax, a girl caught between two warring factions in a post apocalyptic world.  The audio series, Primary Faction, acts as a prequel to the the characters as well as giving you an insight into the Chronicles universe.

Recently, a teaser has been released. Check it out here, as well as the Youtube Channel, where you can listen to the first episode of Primary Faction.

<3 x

Hula Hula

It's Monday, and therefore day one of a new start. I intend to drink more water, eat less crap and do more exercise ... yeah, so pretty much exactly what I try to do starting every Monday.

Today went well, though. I drank a glass of water and had an actimel before leaving the house, and then a litre of water while I was at my Gran's. I've been having actimel for a while now, although I have no idea why, I think I just decided it would be good for me. So far, I can't say I've noticed a difference in the health of my tummy ... in fact, I got a bug, so what does that say? I didn't have any lunch because my Gran was being stubborn, and if she refuses to eat, so do I. Normally, she backs down, but today was not one of those days, so I didn't eat anything until I got home. Luckily my appetite still isn't really back, so it didn't bother me too much. I had a few cracker and cheese, and then pizza and salad for tea, followed by my extra iron of a handful of cashew nuts and a square of dark chocolate. My mum and I did about a miles walk, and then I topped it off with about 5 minutes of hula hooping before bed.

I was reading up about hula hooping, to see how many calories I was likely to have burnt, and I was really surprised at what I read. It works so many muscles, not just your legs, hips and waist to keep the hoop moving, but your arms as well as you keep them up out of the way, which makes sense when you think about it. Apparently, the rough guideline is 100 cals for 10 mins, and it is supposed to knock inches off your waist in just weeks! I doubt I could do it for 10 mins at a time, I get bored far too easily, but it's quite easy to keep at it for at least a song and a half.

I have a very short attention span, OK?

Although, when I took my top off right afterwards, I had a rather attractive red line all around my waist. Maybe this is the disadvantage of using a massage hoop. I read that people using weighted hoops get proper bruises ... no wonder I've heard it hurts.

<3 x

Sherlock ... Half Naked

SHINee's back.

I'm so happy, I'm downloading the album as we speak. They haven't really released anything new since Lucifer in 2010, which was before I even knew Koreans made music. I can't wait ... although the teasers have all been a little ... um, how should I put it ....awkward.

First came Minho ... half naked.

Then, Taemin's teaser was released ... half naked.

Onew was next, but as Leader had the good sense to put on a shirt.

Key, a little green ... and half naked.

Finally, Jonghyun's teaser was released ... seemingly in the process of getting half naked.

Don't get me wrong, here. I have no problem with half naked men. I love the SHINee boys ... but that's the problem, they look like boys. Especially Minho and Taemin, you can't help but feel a little weird looking at those images. Unless you are a thirteen year old, I suppose. There were other images released too, another two or so for each member, which were sometimes better and less awkward, normally because they were close ups or they were wearing clothes. There was one of Onew wrapped up in a blanket which may be the most adorable thing I have ever seen.

I'm looking forward to the music video when it comes out. What I've heard teaser-wise sounds pretty awesome. I guess I'll go and listen to the real thing ^^.

<3 x

Back in Business

Yay! I have a working laptop again! Even if it is all different and I don't know where anything is anymore ...^^. It took me ages to find even iTunes before I realised that I had to use the desktop icon. I'm going to have to train myself out of getting to everything through the start menu, I think. As well as re-install everything, unless it's all hiding in weird places too.

To be honest though, I'm just glad to be able to type on a laptop that misses 'i' rather than 'f'.

Oh, although my @ key now produces " and vice versa, so that's a blast from the past. Joe fixed that for me, back in uni first year when he was installing AVG and uTorrent.

So most of my evening was spent trying to sort out my music, and by the time I had done, it was pretty much time for Battle Royale. I decided against it in the end, went for City Hunter instead. Children fighting each other to the death, or Lee Min Ho running around, beating people up, being lovely and looking hot, can you blame me?

It's Mother's Day tomorrow. This time last year, I was making her a card inspired by a Super Junior MV. I haven't done a card this year. It has literally only just occurred to me, and I'm kicking myself for it. I would do one now, but as I write this post, I'm slowly sinking deeper and deeper into my bed and I really don't think I'm going to be able to stay awake long enough. Maybe I'll make a cake tomorrow .... maybe.

She's getting Breaking Dawn, its not like she'll be paying any attention to a card anyway.

<3 x

Wow...

Big Bang are one of the most popular Korean bands out there. They not long ago beat the likes o Britney Spears to become MTV's Best World Wide Act, so their popularity is by no means limited to Korea, or even Asia.

I posted about them a while ago, having falling in love with their song 'Love Song'. I soon after became a huge fan of 'Stupid Liar'. But between me finding out about them and now, they weren't really active, other than a few scandals.

Then came 'Blue'.

It was pretty good. I played it a few times and haven't really felt the need to do so again.

Then there was 'Bad Boy'.

It was awesome. I played it a few times and for the next week, it was pretty much constantly in my head ... until ...

'Fantastic Baby'.

Wow. Fantastic Baby.

Its another one of those songs that on first hearing doesn't mean that much, but slowly grows and grows in your mind until it consumes you. Like Lucifer. You find yourself playing the MV on a daily basis, sometimes even multiple times a day, on repeat. I'm not sure why I like it so much. I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with a load of topless men, especially not the blond one (Daesung, I think). I really like TOP's first bit, when he's in the picture frames. He's the one with blue hair, which is strangely enough not the weirdest style here *looks at GDragon *wonders how missed it in Blue and Bad Boy*.
I'm a huge fan of the moment when Taeyang (with all the tattoos) is standing in front of the fence. He looks up and they cut away to the next shot just a frame too early, so you see him start to move in to his next part. It's at about 2.42 and I know its so tiny most people wouldn't notice it, but to me it sticks out like a sore thumb.

There you go. Big Bang ... updated. As usual, Simon and Martina of eatyourkimchi ave great comedic reviews of these songs on Kpop Music Mondays, so be sure to check them out too.

<3 x

A super boring post

The thing about being poorly is that there isn't much to blog about when you can't really move from your bed or the sofa. Today, I woke up, felt dizzy even though I was lying down, called in work sick and fell back asleep. Then I woke up, watched neighbours, ate half an apple, and read some of Mockingjay. My dinner was a banana and some bread and butter while I watched don't tell the bride and Transformers 2. The end. Thrilling, isn't it? At least the cramps have all but gone now. That was the worst part. Now I just feel weak and pathetic. So yeah, I'm poorly and that's about all I have to share. I still have posts I want to write, but they'll really have to wait until I have use of a functioning laptop again. <3 x

Today's vocabulary consisted of 'ow' and 'bleurgh'

I feel bad. For more than one reason. The first is that I missed a day. For the first time since I decided to blog every day, I was not able to post last night. In all fairness, I was a little preoccupied due to tummy pains and vomiting, which brings me to the second reason why I feel bad. Last night, my friends and I embarked on a trip to the cinema with no idea that it would end surrounded in puke. After they graciously got me home, I spent the whole night in further agony and vomit, and I don't think anyone in the house got to sleep. I feel really bad for it. Firstly, because it's always me in these situations, not once have I had to run around like a headless chicken while Elle throws up in a public place, and she's had to do that twice in the past couple of weeks for me. I have never had to look after Inki in a non-alcohol induced state. I have never had to stay with my mum all night because I can't bare the thought of her suffering alone. I would obviously, if the occasion arose, but it just makes it so obvious how inexplicably good people are to me, and I do nothing to deserve it. I'm still only a few chapters into Mockingjay, so that proves how poorly I've been. Anyway, I'm going to try and sleep now seeing as my cramps seemed to have finally stopped. They were scarily regular until about 2 hours ago, and I've not had one since. I've had to watch a load of tv though. Mostly documentaries about Italy or history. Apparently the only time I slept was through the duration of one about food poisoning and viruses, so that was smart of me. I also have to try and get the strength to go to work tomorrow. <3 x

Novelties

So here's something novel. I'm blogging on my father's laptop, which is attached to a screen like, a mile away from me. OK, maybe not a whole mile, but definately not in reaching distance. I actually have to move my head to see what I am writing.

In other novel news, MBGthree has more page views than thecakebrigade for possibly the first time ever. I guess its because, you know, this blog is actually in use.

So today, I was reading an article on allkpop about international fans sending a message of support to BlockB, who have been under fire lately. As I was reading the list of countries involved, I was dissappointed when England was missing from the 'E's'. Then I realised that they had classed UK as a country. Not even 'the UK', just Uk. I've heard this beore, but do other countries really not understand the difference between the UK, Britain and our seperate countries? I'm sure that England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales all have kpop fans, so why are we grouped as one, especially when in other cases, regions were listed seperately? Sure, the kpop fanbase is smaller than in Asia, but surely to list every countries support is more ... well, supportive?

Sorry, small rant there.

I have decided in the time it has taken to write this post that I do not like blogging on this laptop. The 'f' key is not co operative. Do you have any idea how tedious it is to have to go back and ill in the ''s. Oh uck this, I'm leaving that there to demonstrate my point.

Also, my neck has to do more exercise.

iPhone posts never seperate my paragraphs but at least they provide effortless entertainment in its autocorrect. I was a particular fan of 'THE HINGED GAMES', and something about 'ate a douche'.

I have a date with City Hunter and Catching Fire now. Probably City Hunter first, seeing as he got shot last night, and that I've already read 3/4 of Catching Fire today so its probably time for a break. I have decided that books aren't worth reading unless they are unputdownable.

<3 x

Grrr Arrgh

I had like two posts in the pipeline, you know. Maybe even three. One was about SHINee's teasers for their new album, Sherlock. Another was about a draft post I found from over a year ago. Lastly, I wanted to share Big Bang's new songs with you, which I have been playing and singing pretty much constantly. However, I cannot write any of these posts as my laptop is out of service until a professional awesome person can eradicate the virus that has destroyed my beloved laptop. I hate viruses. I like to think I've done pretty well at fighting them before now, mostly due to having access to an iPhone to google the hell out of 'f***, virus, HELP'. But this one has apparently wiped everything, so I can't even try to do anything. I really don't see the point of them. Do people write viruses just because they ate douche's and want to piss people off? Or do they actually get anything out of it? I'm fairly certain the most they would get out of my laptop is a crappy novel, a lot of Asian music and a dissertation on death. You really want that, virusers? I very nearly went crazy at the thought of no laptop for a week. You know how much I bitched at little Internet for 5 days, so I'm sure you can imagine how messed up my head was. I'm even contemplating buying a new laptop. But I swiped my father's laptop and screen so I at least can watch City Hunter, and the rest I can rely on my iPhone for. Ruins my plans for tomorrow though. I'm at the office, and normally I kill the internetless time with spider solitare and editing my nano novel. This time, I was also going to do some of my Japanese audio course, because nothing screams sanity like a girl talking to herself in a foreign language in an empty office with huge shop windows. Now, I think I'm going to head to sainsburies first and buy Catching Fire and Mockingjay, in the hope that they can distract me as successfully as The Hinged Games did. I finished that in less than a day. I slept but didn't eat. Ironic really. That's enough for today I think. I have no real idea what the majority of this post is about, or if I will have any autocorrect surprises to amuse me later, but that is the joy of the iPhone Post. <3 x

Tags

Sometimes, at the end of my posts, I write tags or labels. I believe these are supposed to be for readers to find your post, but mostly I use them to amuse myself. 

 

Here they are. I have put in bold the ones that particulary amuse me.

 

 

2011, 2012, a hint of suju, a little ashamed at how much i enjoyed this, a little bit camp but not as bad as it could have been, all about jdrama, all about super junior, all about super junior being lovely and I want them, all about the job interview that didn't happen but will be happening tomorrow instead, all about welsh people and sheep, all my tags start with s apart from this one, all the bad shit about PCOS, amusing engrish covered by disclaimer, and i cant wait to leave, asian drama, asian fashion, Asian film, at least super junior werent there, auto tags are annoying, autocorrect wants to change perve to pee, autumn, avon, back to my current obsession, back when typewriters were amusing, backwards or rather sdrawkcab, BAP, because we're naughty naughty, BED 2012, beda, beda fail, beda is dead now, Bedtime blogging, Blah blah blah, BLOCKB, blog everyday in april, BOO, boring google search sad face, boring post, boys, boys before flowers, bread makes you fat, brutally honest, Bubzbeauty, business ideas and discussions, but working in a shop is crap, Cake Brigade, Can't be bothered to tag, Can't be bothered to think of something witty, cant be bothered, cant wait for my SHINee socks, Cardcaptors A mystic Adventure Cardcaptors A Race Against Time, catch up blog about shit, cheese makes you fat, chuff hunting, Cinema, coffee prince, conspiracy, costume graduate, darling, day four, day one cinema marathon, day three, Daybreakers, did i mention rui is hot, did I scare you, diet fail, diet starts friday possibly maybe, do all korean dramas have a shower scene, documenting life through photographs, dont even get me started on Leeteuk's hair, drama, drama again, drugs are bad, easter eggs are better from cadbury, eddy is cardboard, eff shower i'll do it in the morning, elle, even cars have boy troubles, every Japanese actor was in Gokusen apparently, EXO, EXO K, EXO M, EXO PLANET, fangirl at the age of 22, film, from me to you, gah why is my laptop so slow, genuinely get freaked out when people are nice to me, ggggaaarghhfffaaarrrgghhh, girl pretends to be boy and causes sexuality crisis to everyone she meets, giving teaching a try, going home tomorrow to proper internet, going to be a teacher, google is silly, griffindor, guilt hurts my heart, hana Kimi is taking over the world, hana yori dango, happy new year, harry potter, harry potter and the deathly hallows, hello inki, here have a look at my to do list for the week ahead, hiro lessthan3, hogwarts, holiday day 4, holiday day one, holiday day three, holiday day two, holidays, holy crap less than 6 months, holy shit its april already, how can there be tags when there isnt even a post, hufflepuff, Hunger Games, I also kinda miss being on set, i am a massive dork, i am going to die alone, I AM NOT SURE WHY THESE TAGS ARE IN ALL CAPS, i amuse myself, i can just show you photos when I see you, I cant draw, i chickened out of what I was going to blog about so blogged about what to blog about instead, I dont know what to put here, i dont know why i put so many brackets in this post, i fiddled the times again but failed, I got laughed at for BED 2012, I got the job, I hate blogging on an iPhone, i have done nothing all day, i have lots of clothes from sainsburies too, i have some issues with my head, I haven't eaten anything savoury since soup on tuesday, i havent watched anime for a looooooong time, i just did all my tags and blogger fucked up and now ive lost them all, I just want to tell him that I am sorry, i keep reusing tags, I like films, i like foods beginning with 'c' apart from cod and crap, i like j drama did you know, I like people, i love castles so much I am going to build one and live in it with my miniture castle collection, i love my friends, I love my randommers, I love Tsubasa, I may have cheated on the timimg of this post, I only put 'realisations' in the post so I could check the spelling for the title, i put my hands on the keyboard and shit 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SuJu Tea Games

This is going to be a short post because 1) I'm tired and can't be bothered, 2) I want to watch City Hunter, 3) I want to read The Hunger Games.

I heard today Super Junior are planning another world tour including LONDON. I was gutted when they announced that the 'Europe' part of Super Show 4 meant a one off in Paris, but I might actually be able to go if they have it, you know, in my actual country. I hope that SMtown will come to London too, as I feel seeing everyone in SM will make the probably extortionate prices more worth it.

I went to make a cuppa, and found no teabags. Maybe I am just being hormonal, but it actually made me want to cry, in a not-really-but-I-really-could sort of way. I had to content myself with apple juice in a sippy cup instead, which cheered me up but didn't make me feel any warmer or kill my lack-of-caffeine headache. I complained to my mother, who replied with their secret location, but I'm all upstairs and in bed now, so I can't be bothered to go hunt them out.

I'm about a third of the way through The Hunger Games. So far, its pretty good, but the problem with coming into something when it already has an online presence means that a lot gets spoiled. For example, I am already aware of what happens to several of the characters, and especially aware of the ending of Mockingjay. It kind of dulls the shock somewhat, and it is the unexpected tragedies that hurt your heart the most. The only difference now is that I can place a character to the name. Battle Royale much though?

School was fine. Going to make a full sized Elizabethan costume now ...gulp.

Home Now

Driving relatively long distances on your own is boring. By relatively long distances I mean over 2 hours, because by then your throat hurts from singing along with your music and you start to find your attention wavering, which isnt good when you are supposed to be concentrating on the road.

However, my journey went pretty well. I decided to skip the motorways to avoid the mid week rush hour traffic in the city, and according to the sat nav, it only added an extra 20 mins to my journey. Having said that, I made up like half an hour on the way there, but only 10 mins on the way back, so in reality, it took me about 45 mins longer to get there than to get back. Highlights of my journey included needing the loo for the enture journey and trying to overtake a car but not being able to get up enough speed before another car came on the other side of the road, and having to drop back in embarrassment. For a moment, I considered trying to make it, but decided playing chicken when I had a car beside me wasn't the best plan. Also, my mother would murder me if I got killed.

Highlights of being home include having no heating, no hot water, noone to talk to and no food. Luckily, I can just fob myself off on friends and family to warm, feed and entertain me until my parents come home.

School tomorrow. I'm undecided whether to buy the boys fabric and make pillow cases, or just buy pillow cases. They've all chosen somewhat elaborate designs, and I want them to be finished by the time I leave. Its not like making pillow cases will take long, its just the convience of it. I think I'll get them to make it; that way they can say they've done it all and it will probably be easier to decorate flat pattens than an already sewn together case.

Sorry, thinking aloud again.

Exo released a new music video. I have no idea what they were doing in their pockets. There are some very dodgy dance moves in the kpop world at the moment.

Korean Ver. From SMTown Youtube

Chinese Ver. From SMTown Youtube

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Of Wales and Castles, obviously.

Today was the last day of this little family holiday for me, and as such, my family decided that we should go to a castle, seeing as I adore castles so much.

Cearnarfon was a pretty darn impressive castle though, even for a castle enthusiast such as myself. For one, it was huge, so much so that we had to take a break half way through to go into the town for lunch before going back to do the other half. Secondly, although it was a ruin, there were a lot of towers that were mostly intact, and we are all suffering greatly now for the amount of spiral staircases we had to climb. Like, so many that I got the shakes in my leg for the last hour of our time there, which was especially awkward when trying to act natural in the museum part. We did a lot of shouting and waving to each other from towers, pretending to be archers defending from the arrow slits against the enemies which my mother fondly named 'badasses', and sunbathing at the top of towers, even though an hour later it was hailing.

 I do love going to these sorts of places, especially with my sister. Its like we go back in time to when we were kids, and just run around playing like 4 and 7 year olds, rather than the nearly 24 and 27 year olds that we actually are. We have the attention span of kids anyway. In the museum part, we started off semi interested, but soon gave up and amused ourselves by powering through the rest of it singing Benny Hill and imagining what it looked like to the security camera. We also play tricks on my parents. We were ahead of them, us being on the parapet and them being on the ground, we shouted and waved, and then acted like we were going on even though it was a dead end. My sister, her fiance and myself squeezed in to the tiniest corner so they couldn't see us and thought we had gone through a non-existent door into the next tower, and then legged it back again before they could get to the parapet and realise we had tricked them into to climbing a load of stairs for nothing. We even lost someone. My sister and I were sunbathing on the walls of one of the towers (not as dangerous as it sounds) and her partner had climbed up the mini tower in the middle of it. We shouted to him that we were going down now, and he shouted back OK, and then we didn't see him for about an hour. It was at that point that we got stuck in the museum. As it turns out, so had he, as had our parents. It was a big museum.

I heard a Welsh accent today, and even heard people conversing in the actual Welsh language. I even learnt a new welsh word. Diolch. It means thank you. Therefore, I must come to the conclusion that they speak with Welsh accents in mainland Wales, but the Anglesey accent sounds suspiciously like English.

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Chuff Hunting

Its really windy tonight, so much so that I am literally in a curtain to be able to try and retain internet connectivity. I really cannot wait to be home, where buildings shelter you from the wind and the internet comes from inside the same place as you, not some BT Openzone thing.

Today was my Dad's birthday, so we sent him out for a bike ride with my soon to be brother-in-law first thing while we prepared a massive full English. My sister mostly did it, and I helped, although neither of us had ever made a full fry up breakfast before. Personally, I can't imagine anything worse than a load of heavy meat and grease first thing in the morning, but I know a lot of people love them, my father being one.

We had a plan to go to Holyhead to try and see a Chuff. Its a rare bird that looks somewhat like a blackbird, and my father has never seen one. A few years back, we were on a family trip to some RSPB place, and my sister and I saw 2, completely by chance, and ever since then, it has been our point up from him. He boasts about anything, and we will always have the chuff thing over him. So we went Chuff Hunting, unsuccessfully. There are supposed to be 11 breeding pairs at this place, so 22 birds, and not one would come and land in front of my father's face.

We then spent an hour in the car going all over the bloody place as my mother insisted on navigating rather than using a sat nav as she 'likes maps', and ended up in some woods where red squirrels live. We saw none.

We had a lovely meal at a pub recommended by the owners of the cottage, which was great even if we ignore the issues parking and the fact that the gale force winds kept blowing up my dress, which was somewhat awkward. On the drive home, there was a sheep strolling down the road, looking all suspicious, especially as it was on a coastal road, heading away from the sea....

Over all, a very unsuccessful day of rare breed hunting, but I understand my Dad enjoyed it none the less, so I guess that's OK.

Finally watched the whole first episode of City Hunter last night. Oh My God. It was worth all the mental anguish just for Lee Min Ho. So pretty. So far, all quite serious and dark, and very action-y, which is different from what I'm used to, but by no means an unwelcome change. It was good. Oh, Lee Min Ho.

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The Welsh

I'm back in my connectivity corner, facing the wall. To be fair, it probably wouldn't make any difference if I was to turn around and face the room, but the fact that I'm sat in the corner in the middle of the night to watch things on the Internet kind of amuses me.

(I'm buffering the rest of City Hunter ep 1 just in case the Internet decides to drop again, if you were wondering, which, lets be honest, you weren't.)

As you are probably aware, or at least should be if you read my blog at least semi regularly, I am in North Wales right now. During my time here, I have come to a conclusion.

The Welsh are suspicious.

I am in Wales. I have yet to meet ONE PERSON who speaks with a Welsh accent. 

There is Welsh everywhere. Good for them for keeping their language alive ... or at least that's what we have been told. How do we know that all the other writing on all the signs is actually what the English signs say but in Welsh? For all we know, they could be mocking us non Welsh-speakers, plain lying and laughing that we fell for it, or even just saying 'sheep' over and over again.

That's another thing, SHEEP. There are a lot of sheep here. A LOT. You look in any direction at any time, and you will be able to see at least one sheep. I was looking out to sea earlier and saw sheep, that's how bad the sheep invasion is.They weren't in the sea, just to clarify, but I really wouldn't be surprised. I strongly suspect they are conspiring with the Welsh to make a mockery of all non-welsh.

I'm not being mean, I like the Welsh ... I think. I'll let you know when I actually meet one. The suspicion is probably just some remnant of my Liverpudlian blood.

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Internet woes

It's slightly concerning how important the internet is for keeping me sane.

I found a little corner of connectivity. I wrote today's blog post, I even watched the first part of the first episode of City Hunter.

Then, before I could publish the post that had taken me an hour to write, or to gain the sense to load the rest of the episode, POOF. Gone. Nothing. Internet is dead now.

I waited for like an hour, and tried all sorts. It said it was connected, but none of my pages were connecting. Sigh. Good old 3G. I can't post my original post as I have no idea where draft posts are in the new blogger, nor the patience to find them. I can't watch the rest of City Hunter, or YouTube, unless I wait an hour for a few mins to buffer. But I can, if I'm lucky, refresh Twitter and maybe watch my sims garden.

 I want normal, reliable, high signal, speedy broadband.

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I Love Castles

I've managed to find internet on my laptop. I'm literally sitting on a wooden chair in the corner of the living room, facing the wall. I look like I've been naughty, I feel like I should be wearing a Dunce's hat.  Luckily everyone has gone to bed or I would look super unsociable. I'm glad though, even if I am mildly uncomfortable and highly suspicious of what's behind me, because sitting in a corner with internet is preferable to sitting in comfort with no internet. Last night, it took forever to get enough 3G to post, and I was so bored, you have no idea. I haven't even been able to update Twitter since I arrived, let alone check my emails or other social networking sites. Super Junior could be doing a one-off concert in Anglesey RIGHT NOW and I wouldnt have a clue. Because I'm sure the Hallyu wave has reached North Wales.

So today was super fun. We all woke up SUPER HOT, which is hard to believe because we are in Wales, but the heating here is clearly highly effective. Finally got everyone together (my Dad was rowing... rowing.) and headed out to do a spot of shopping before going for a walk or some such. We ended up not going where we had planned, but some tiny town that was nearer and had like, no proper shops. Then everyone said we should go to the castle there because 'Heather likes castles.' Literally, everyone said it. I have no idea where they all got the idea that I'm some form of castle enthusiast, but they have clearly all discussed my castle love between them. Not that I dislike castles, I do quite like them, I suppose. Just not as much as my family seem to believe. Anyway, so we went around the castle. It's yet to be finished, there are loads of tunnels and walls to climb up, and seeing as we were pretty much the only ones there, I got to run around like a kid. Then I brought a guidebook. Actually, I'm kind of seeing why everyone assumes that I'm a castles fan, in retrospect.

After lunch, where everyone had massive carveries and I had a cheese sandwich (being a vegetarian in a meat-eating family is hard, especially when my pig headed father hears us saying lets go somewhere more Heather-friendly and goes to get a fecking table) we headed back to the cottage. My parents watched rugby, Tim went for a bike ride, and Jo and I made welsh cakes and then went for a walk down to the sea, which is like 5 mins down the road, and had a massive gossip about boys. After tea, everyone older than me fell asleep on the sofa.  My family having finally dragged themselves off to bed, I ran round the house trying to find internet, and here we are now.

Was this post boring? I don't normally do enough in the day to be able to blog about it. Ah well, it'll only be for a week.

Ah for crap's sake. I had internet, enough to open blogger and start writing, and to load the first part of the first episode of City Hunter, but now its gone. Its now quarter to one on tuesday morning, I've waited like an hour, and nothing. It says its connected, but I can't do anything. I need to watch City Hunter!

GAH I WANT TO GO HOME.

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Family Holidays

Family holidays are a strange affair.

This week, to coincide with my father's birthday, and just days away from my sisters birthday and mothers day, my family decided it would be a fantastic idea to go on a good old fashioned family holiday together. In Wales. In March. Yeah, I don't understand it either. We could have gone somewhere however marginally warmer down south, but no, Wales it is. Seeing as I have to be back for school on Friday, we had to come in three cars; My sister's journey took 5 hours, while ours took 3. I arrived before all of them, even though my sister was an hour ahead of me when I left, and I left at the same time as my parents.

I don't mind driving on my own, but car games aren't so fun without someone to play them with. Like screaming out 'I can see the sea' seems to have less meaning when the only one who can hear it is yourself. Also, when people cut you up, you can laugh it off with someone else, when you are on your own it is somewhat more scary. Idiot drivers are idiots.

So now I'm in a little cottage in the middle of nowhere, with variable signal and access to access-less wireless. They say that it varies from cottage to cottage, so I guess it is ran from the owners house, but seeing as all the holiday lets are old outbuildings, the walls are super thick. So far, we've had to hang out of a window for connection. I don't much fancy having to go outside to watch City Hunter, especially when the time I need to watch it is like now.

The cottage itself it's pretty cool, if you ignore the wifi thing. It's pretty big and clean looking, it doesn't have that old building feeling that I hate, even though it is old. There are a few other cottages around in the same area, but ours is the biggest. There's a playground right outside the door, and next to it are stables with about 5 ponies and 4 goats. There is even a bunny.

I love my family, but that doesn't mean I am looking forward to the week ahead. There will be bickering, and we will have to do a lot of country stuff that doesn't particulary appeal to me. Like, I do like walking, but I dont want to spend all day every day doing it. Having said that, I doubt it would bother me if I could go at my own pace, but you can't just wander as a big group. Mostly, I'll get shouted at for not being awake early enough, despite how I don't complain when everyone falls asleep when I'm most awake.

Gah I can already tell this week is going to be hard. Put aside the family and daytime issues, and I'm still left with about 4 hours a night to fill between everyone going to sleep and me getting sleepy. 4 hours. With only very unreliable 3G. I'm glad I hadn't started City Hunter already. It's going to be hard enough going cold turkey without having been part way through a series.

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Keeping it real

Wow, so if there is a photo in your post, it comes up like a thumnail in the new blogspot mobile version. That's cool.

I'm typing this post using blogger's updated version. As I understand it, blogspot is where you read blogs, blogger is where you write them. I clicked 'try the updated version' on the chance that it would change my blog to like the mobile version, but it didn't and now this new editor is new and I don't know how to revert back to the old one.

Today at school, one of the kids started telling us how much he loved eggs. I think I may have ruined this view by informing him that eggs are a chicken's period. He ewwed,  then ran off and told everyone else, who also ewwed.

Heather ... inadvertantedly stopping chilren eating eggs since 2012.

It does amuse me how boys, especially at that age, see that such a word as 'period' should be whispered. The only one that didnt seem embarrassed was probably too young to kno what we were taking about.

right, im going to sihn ff befoie ny eyes fully shut abd i stop tying sense.... oh too late.

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Mary Stayed Out All Night.

Hmm I seem to be getting through dramas quite quick these days. They are just so easy to watch that the time seems to fly by, and yet you are always left wanting more. Today, I decided to stop on the dresses just because I knew that the last episode of Mary Stayed Out All Night was waiting for me. In the end, I had a bath instead, but still, my point is I literally spend all my free time and even some not so free time watching Asian drama.

I sound like an obsessed fanatic.

Yup.

Anyway, yes, this was a good series. Kinda predictable, but it was fun and interesting. I found it more interesting because the main character has a small obsession with dramas, and also because the whole story develops alongside pre production of a fictional drama. While I realised its very unlikely to be realistic, if everything else that happens is anything to go by, I still cant help but be intrigued by the whole behind the scenes thing they had going on

Mary has been downtrodden throughout her life by her debt-dodging father and Mu Kyul is a struggling indie musician. When Mary accidentally hits Mu Kyul whilst driving, she ends up taking care of him to ease her guilty conscience. Suddenly, Mary's dad tells her she is to be forced into an arranged marriage with Jung In, a similarly downtrodden son of an overly ambitious father who is determined to have Mary as his daughter in law. Mary and Mu Kyul pretend to be married to avoid the real marriage, even though they barely even like each other ... and you know what happens next. No matter who the woman is, if there are men around, they will fall in love with her. At least in Asian drama, anyway. Having said that, this is the first Korean drama that I have seen that doesn't literally pair everyone off.

Mu Kyul and Mary in a bin. Yeah, that's the sort of show this was. the two leads in a bin represents the drama much more accurately than the poster. Mary in a mini skirt and heels? Unlikely. It was layers layers layers with a layer over the top.

Mary's character was really cute, and I think she was well cast for the role, as the actress is probably the cutest Asian actress I have ever seen. Tiny and with her round little face and wide eyes, she was the literal representation of innocence. That doesn't mean I forgive her though. Poor Jung In. He was super nice, rich, hot and he loved you (eventually), and yet you choose the penniless stubborn playboy who mostly just made you cry. Sure, he's pretty, but he is mostly grumpy and selfish. Oh wait, I'm talking to fictional characters again. I think I just had a major soft spot for the guys that get left behind.

I'm going to leave it there, as I should really be getting to sleep. Basically, it was funny and I liked it. Next is City Hunter. I've wanted to watch this for about a year, so I'm really looking forward to it. Lee Min Ho!

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The Muppets

I never watched The Muppets growing up. My parents hated that sort of thing, you know, like the Muppets and Sesame Street, the really Americanised TV. Instead, my sister and I grew up on a lot of classic British children's television, like Rosie and Jim, Bodger and Badger, Brum and Sooty.

Oh, and Power Rangers ... yeah.

This evening, we went to see The Muppets movie. I now know why I never felt like I was missing out for this show not being a part of my childhood.

I present to you 5 reasons why the Muppets are terrifying.

1) Scary Muppet 1

 

The fact that this thing is apparently called Sweetums makes it even more scary. Also, its HUGE. Like bigger than people huge. How did this thing not give kids nightmares? When its mouth is closed, lets just say it doesn't look so much like a mouth anymore ...

2) Scary Muppet 2

One, its a eagle. Eagles are big scary birds that rip things apart. Two, its blue. Being blue is either a metaphor, or signifies death. Conclusion? Savage Zombie Eagle. Good luck surviving that, children of America.

3) Scary Muppet BABIES.

I'm not sure what is more terrifying, the fact that I saw Muppets in the style of Babies in the film, like tiny muppets wearing white with little hats and nappies, the fact that I can't find a picture of them to proove it, or the fact that there are millions of pictures of the normal muppets in some sick twisted baby version spin off.

4) Kermit.

A nudist giant frog in a relationship with a pig, do I need to say any more?

5) THIS.

They were singing and dancing and being SUPER HAPPY. 

 

So, in conclusion, I'm pretty sure that if I had watched the Muppets when I was growing up,I would have been severely mentally scarred.

Just FYI, other things that mentally scarred me when I was little; Postman Pat and Thomas Comes to Breakfast.

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