Somebody to Love

So it's 3am, and I'm sitting in a massive room complete with desk with a squishy bed all to myself, and even though I've been at a wedding all day, I'm wide awake.

I've spent all of today in the company of strangers; half with strong South Yorkshire accents, half with strong North Eastern accents. Therefore, I spent much of today with no idea what anyone was saying. As if it wasn't awkward enough being in a room with 100 odd people you don't know, I had to struggle with the dialect barrier too.

Also, North Easterners are somewhat more proactive in achieving a personal goal that anyone else. I got forcibly carried to the bar and the dance floor on two separate occasions by two different people.

Everyone was lovely though. The friends of the Bride and Groom welcomed me into their group easily, especially the girls, and in the evening 3 guys came to talk to me one by one for a prolonged period ... It was literally one left, another one sat down. Obviously none of them leading anywhere other than them buying me drinks (free night for me), but it was nice nonetheless, although I went outside for a couple of hours and when we went back in everyone else had gone to bed.

EDIT: Apparently I sleep-publish my posts now. Maybe I wasn't as wide awake as I thought I was ...

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Wrong Number

I hate BT Homehub.

In the time it took it to start working again, I could make pretty patterns in the new tab thing. This was pattern combination number 792.

Then it starts working long enough for me to watch 18 seconds of video, so that was generous.

I hate BT homehub

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Stand Up!

Aish! I'm so tired!

Today, I got up, sat in my car for 2 and a half hours, sat in a room with 30 other people for just over 11 hours, sat in my car for another 2 and a half hours, sat on my sofa for an hour and now I'm lying in bed. Out of the past 17 hours, I have spent 16 of them sitting down.

Holy crap.

Note to self, don't work these things out, its scary when you get the answer.


I have literally nothing else to say. It was a productive read through, for me anyway, but it wasn't very comfortable and my legs and back don't appreciate it. Actually, at the time, neither did my bum, but my lovely bed seems to have appeased it.

Right, sleep before you start talking about any other parts of your anatomy, Heather.

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Purple Line

I'll probably keep this post quick as I want to go to sleep.

I am not in the slightest bit sleepy, but I am bored.

I have exhausted all my social networking sites, and I don't really want to start on a new episode of Super Junior Show or Goong as it seems a bit late. I also researched into local dry cleaners and how to cover tiny buttons (seeing as my test didn't work out too well today).

I even watched the lastest behind the scenes video of the film I worked on a while back, which was cast and crew interviews ... but they only talked to two cast members and barely any of the crew, although they did talk to a few girls who were just runners for a couple of days. The original 'Meet the Cast and Crew' video was much better. At least you actually saw the main crew even if they didn't talk to them.

I just yawned and could taste tortilla chips, so thats weird. 

Hmm trying to come up with a title with at least some relevance. I know, I'll just throw a music video in. Old school TVXQ, way back when 60% of the band hadn't filed lawsuits against SM Entertainment.

 From SMtown's YouTube

0.39. That is all.


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B.U.T. (Be aU Ty)

A long time ago, I promised you a post about all the ridiculous names of South Korean bands. In honour of the Google Kpop concert that I can't be bothered staying up for, here is that post.


Pre 2008, and most band names were fairly understandable ... with the few odd exceptions.

H.O.T. - High-five Of Teenagers
M.I.L.K - Made In Lovely Kin (right ...)
SS501 - Superstar Singer 5 members as 1
F.T. Island - Five Treasure Island

Post 2008, and here's where it gets ridiculous.

U-KISS - Ubiquitous Korean International idol Super Star (Ubi wut?)
f(x) - Flower x chromosome
MBLAQ - Music Boys Live in Absolute Quality (good to know)
LED Apple - Logic Egoism Delete ... Apple. (now its meant to mean LED light ...Apple)
CHI CHI - Creative electronic House Idols Creative electronic House Idols
TWI-Light - Trend World Idol Light (bandwagoning on Meyer's Twilight I reckon)
M.I.B. - Most Incredible Busters
NU'EST - New Established Style and Tempo (pronounced New East)
B.A.P. - Best Absolute Perfect (Blond Asian People also worked)
BtoB - Born to Beat (as in the music, not the violence ... I hope)


Notable mention goes to Teen Top for their original name of 'TEENZ ON TOP' ... can't imagine why they had to change that.

Maybe next time we'll go into ridiculous fan club names!

Hmmmm, I now only have to wait 40 mins, but still, I'm not going to. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to live stream it on YouTube, but I also have to be fully functional tomorrow.

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Everything from Wikipedia. I only looked into the ones I had heard of.

HEY! Don't Bring me Down

What did we do before the Internet? Not only is it my primary form of entertainment, but also my first port of call when I have a problem, even if that problem is the Internet itself.

Like today, I was quite contentedly in the midst of watching My Girlfriend is a Gumiho when the player stopped playing. I didn't think much of it, as it happens quite a lot with the homehub cutting out and repairing itself so regularly, so I just refreshed the page. But nothing happened, all that came up was 'CANNOT FIND PAGE' or whatever, and a warning under my wireless saying 'Limited or no connectivity'.

I checked Homehub. Fine.

I checked that I could use the Internet on both PC and iPhone. Fine and fine.

So, with the conclusion that there must be an issue with Laptop rather than the router, I googled for help. As I browsed through the many results, many from people asking for help the same as I was, it occurred to me how strange it was. All these people are asking for help gaining access to something they clearly already have access to, and, like me, their first response is to look for guidance online. How the hell did we manage before??

Thinking about it, before the Internet, people wouldn't have had trouble getting online. Problem solved.

Anyway, its all working fine now. Something about my IP being wrong all of a sudden. I don't know. I just typed things into the black box thing and pretended to be a computer hacker, while secretly freaking out that it was going to be messed up forever and my lifetime of IT support was about to be in another country.

Again, if even for a brief moment, the idea of buying a new laptop seemed very tempting. Zombie laptop, you aren't doing yourself any favours ... although I accept that you were probably under the influence of Homehub's bad behaviour.

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Secret Game

This week is not going very productively.

Yesterday, I spent the whole day trying to sort out the pleats on the skirt. I have given up for the time being until my mum can have a look. I tried to ask my Gran but she was so convinced that the satin was going over it (how pointless would that be) that I gave up repeating myself. I am also pretty sure she thinks that I'm making a wedding dress out of calico (more commonly used as curtain lining), despite showing her the satin and chiffon numerous times over the past couple of months. Sigh. The facepalm moments just get more frequent.

Today, I tried to fine pleat the chiffon for the bodice. After numerous time consuming and yet largely unsuccessful tries, I have come to the conclusion that I will have to have a couple of metres sent off to be professionally pleated. Its just so frustrating. You have no idea how difficult making 5mm pleats in chiffon is, especially when you are pressing in one and the others are falling out under the nearby heat of the iron.

Notice how all my problems stem from one thing. I hate chiffon.

However, on the plus side, I found that cutting chiffon on carpet stops it slipping so much, so that's just peachy.

In other news (I like saying that ... so much so that I say it in conversation and people laugh at me) I'm really liking My Girlfriend is a Gumiho. Something about the music. Nothing to do with this guy.

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Stand Up!

You know, its odd.

My legs ache so much, I feel like I must have walked about 20 miles yesterday.

I did not. I doubt I even walked 100 yards in one go. My yesterday consisted of sitting on my bed watching My Girlfriend is a Gumiho while eating an Easter Egg and the accompanying malteasers, interrupted by a brief visit to my grandmother. I didn't even do my hula-ing.

Maybe I have a long lost twin out there somewhere who just ran a marathon. Or maybe I ran a marathon in my sleep, thoughtfully showering and putting myself back to bed afterwards.

Back to being good from now on. I was going to try to cut down on my carbs again, but then my father cooked rice and baked potato for tea, so that plan went belly up. Although, thinking about it, I didn't really eat it so its OK. I was going to drink more water as well, but that kind of slipped my mind when I hit a brick wall on the dresses.

The visible grain line on the chiffon sure looks nice, but its biting me in the ass now. I hate chiffon. Why I was so happy when my bride said she wanted it I don't know. Tell a lie, its because it's pretty. A bitch to work with, but pretty.

In other news, someone threw a bra on stage during Super Junior's Paris concert. The look on their faces in the fancams are hilarious. Bless their innocence, even if they do hip thrust a lot.

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