My cage has many rooms, Damask and Dark.

So I'm kind of all alone in the house right now because almost everybody's out except for my brother and he's giving me a weird look right now because of the fact that I've been laughing like an idiot and disturbing him from watching his Yu-Gi-Oh.

No, but seriously. I'm still snorting as I'm typing this.
Huzzah for cheesy pick up lines! This has to be the best of 'em.

"I have a slight problem with directions. So please don't be offended if I find the way to your bed before I make it to your heart."

XXDD WIN.

I've actually seen this months before:

ROBERT: You're the most important person here, and you're hiding in the garden.
NED: I'm not hiding in the garden. I'm hiding in the garden with you.
ROBERT: A pair of Adams?
NED: It would have saved the world a lot of trouble.


And it took me practically forever before I finally got it. Namely, today.
The first time I read it I was like: What are they talking about? Two Adams? Who's Adam?

The somehow, I managed to stumble across it again today and I sort of blanked out and underwent the same thing all those months ago, Adam? Who's Adam?  when it suddenly smacked me across the face. I could just feel the cartoon lightbulb thingy popping above my head the the Ooooooooooh of enlightenment.

The whole Adam/Eve/Garden reference just passed over my head.
How could I not have gotten it before?
I'm really slow sometimes.

(If I lived in NY I could've already caught that play and seen John Barrowman and a million other plays and broadway shows but noooooo, I had to be born in Singapore, an Arts-phobic country. Even though now they are trying to make an effort and be all "Oh! Let's start cultivating the Arts and encouraging people into going into it even though everybody just wants their kids to become hot shot lawyers or teachers or doctors!".)

Like that one time when we were all talking about Geishas and my two friends suddenly started snickering at me and I just blankly went all, "What? What's so funny?" before the whole smacking thing across the face happened again and I realised the pun.
Gei-sha.
Gay-shah.

Jee-zus. I'm slow at times.

But at other times I just happen to unconsciously get something that most people wouldn't even have thought of in the place.
Was listening to Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah when the thought just crossed me on how the whole song, to me, sounded like it was hinting at something sexually orgasmic.

What was I supposed to think when the lyrics went all:

she tied you to her kitchen chair
she broke your throne and she cut your hair
and from your lips she drew the hallelujah

and

but remember when i moved in you
and the holy dove was moving too
and every breath we drew was hallelujah

and

it's not a cry that you hear at night
it's not somebody who's seen the light
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah


The next second I sort of told myself not to be such a pervert and to get the thought out of my head.

But Lo and Behold! Wikipedia-ed it up and guess what it says:

Jeff Buckley has called his own rendition of the song an homage to "the hallelujah of the orgasm'.^[2]



XXDD This is what happens when your mind is in the gutter all the time.

Note to self: Do NOT read JD Salinger's Catcher in the Rye unless you want to be depressed for the next few days
(No, seriously. I felt myself going into a sad zombie-like state of being while and after reading it. Holden Caulfield breaks my heart, he really does.)


So I went to the library straight after tuition finished hoping that I could somehow, someway, improbably, a one in a million chance shot, try and find EM Forster's Maurice.

Of course, no luck there.

Nothing turned up either for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or Catch-22.

I did however, managed to grab a copy of Stephen King's Dark Tower Series Book 1. FINALLY, I can start reading it. The problem is, I have the entire series except for the VERY FIRST BOOK. And I don't like going into epic stories without starting at the very beginning. You'll usually end up confused if you don't. Imagine reading Lord of the Rings from book 2. Still feasible. But there's something... not quite right about it, see what I mean?

Anyway, since nothing turned up I was about to trudge back dejectedly to the mrt station when I managed to catch sight of this dvd store called Laser Flair that was having some sort of warehouse sale.

And holy mother of gah! The movies you can find there! There were very, very old ones that you never ever see around anymore like Hello, Dolly and Good Morning Vietnam and Moonstruck and The Gods Must be Crazy and The Good the Bad and the Ugly and a million other potentially rare titles.

Needless to say, I was sort of hyperventilating in the store and making funny faces. I know. The cashier gave me a funny face.

Paprika was going for EIGHT DOLLARS. I saw Amadeus! I even managed to find Lawrence of Arabia!

Read: Hyperventilation

So I picked out all the titles I wanted and sort of dumped it at the cashier, promising her that I'd come back the next day since I didn't have any money.

Came back tomorrow and went away grinning like some mad thing with:

Amelie
Children of Heaven
The English Patient
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Strictly Ballroom
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Oliver Twist
Shakespeare in Love


Really, really wanted to find Love Story for my mom since she _adores_ that movie but the last title in stock just got sold.
I was hoping to find Yentl (WHY WHY WHY DIDN'T I CATCH IT ON MGM WHEN THEY WERE SHOWING IT DURING THE DEC HOLS? FUME FUME FUME.), but no luck.

And Assassination of Jesse James was waaaaay out of my budget. $56.60. =(


Finished watching Strictly Ballroom. Incidentally it was made by the same person who directed Moulin Rouge. Was it great? Of course it was! Everybody else can go ahead and drool over Step Up 2. I'll sit right by here and squeal over Strictly Ballroom.

Am halfway through watching Amelie. GREAT GREAT GREAT movie.
I think I might even be having a teeny weeny crush on her.

Excuse my acting like a dimwit and over excessive use of capitals. I cannot help it you see. I tend to do it when I get excited.

Also, I sent an email to the Paramount website over why they didn't have as great a movie as Something for Everyone on DVD.
Just look at the plot summary! A few seconds in and I was trying to contain myself from screaming SHIT I HAVE TO WATCH THIS.

Konrad, a handsome country boy in post-war Austria, charms his way into a butler position at the castle of a widowed countess that lost her fortune. Before long the opportunistic boy is running the entire household. As he starts affairs with both the countess's son and the daughter of a whealthy businessman, the idea grows to get his two lovers to marry each other and make the house rich again.

Apparently it's only on VHS.
We protest! Long overdue DVD release much? Anybody want to start up a petition with me?

Also, I underwent a bit of a weird phase in which I felt crushingly sad upon finding out that Rudolf Nureyev was dead. I just found out about him and youtubed him to find out more. Turns out he was a famous, male ballet dancer. Watched his performance, got blown away, and then promptly found out he'd died from HIV-AIDS. =(  So I sat down there in front of the comp screen feeling sad.
It was just like the time when I finished reading Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, felt very happy for having read such lovely book and then was immediately CRUSHED upon finding out that Douglas Adams was also...
Yes. Dead.
Why does everybody I love die!?

I was sort of huzzah-ing when I found out that Nureyev's lover was the director of the Swedish Opera Ballet, Erick Bruhn.
My Gay-dar never fails me.

Another thing about the Nureyev video that I found sad was that it was a montage of sorts dedicated to him after he died. You can tell the love that went into those shots, compiled and then edited into one short film.
There was this one scene of him as a kid, where he was spinning and twirling around in the garden, with his friend/sibling laughing and clapping his hands in the background.
Then him as an adult, and you can tell that the person who shot him must have been a very close friend/someone who loved him and whom he loved in return. It would kind of pan on him walking, and then he'd sort of tilt his head to the right and he had this expression like he suddenly realised the video cam was there and then this big, lovely smile would just... blossom across his face. There was him sledding across the snow. Another one of him turning round and laughing before blowing a kiss. Various scenes and pictures of his everyday life interspersed with the more serious stuff, interviews, and his best performances.

Boy. That person must have really loved him.

Someone in the comment said that some of the scenes for his montage were compiled and then used with permission from this..German? This German student that was infatuated with him.
Not too sure about that though. Since the one friend/lover/protector he'd had for years on end was Erik Bruhn. So it could most probably be from the latter.

Sing TEH GAY with me pplz!





There! Right There!
Look at that tan, that tinted skin.
Look at the killer shape he's in.
Look at that slightly stubbly chin.
Oh Please he's gay, totally gay.

Callahan:
I'm not about to celebrate.
Every trait could indicate the totally straight expatriate.
This guy's not gay, I say not gay.

All:
That is the elephant in the room.
Well is it relevant to assume
that a man who wears perfume
is automatically radically fey?

Emmett:
But look at his coiffed and crispy locks.

Elle:
Look at his silk translucent socks.

Callahan:
There's the eternal paradox.
Look what we're seeing.

Elle:
What are we seeing?

Callahan:
Is he gay?

Elle:
Of course he's gay.

Calahan:
Or European?

All:
ohhhhhh.
Gay or European?
It's hard to guarantee
Is he gay or European?

Warner:
Well, hey don't look at me.

Vivian:
You see they bring their boys up different in those charming foreign ports.
They play peculiar sports.

All:
In shiny shirts and tiny shorts.
Gay or foreign fella?
The answer could take weeks.
They will say things like "ciao bella"
while they kiss you on both cheeks.

Elle:
Oh please.

All:
Gay or European?
So many shades of gray.

Warner:
Depending on the time of day, the French go either way.

All:
Is he gay or European?
or

Enid:
There! Right There!
Look at that condescending smirk.
Seen it on every guy at work.
That is a metro hetero jerk.
That guy's not gay, I say no way.

All:
That is the elephant in the room.
Well is it relevant to presume
that a hottie in that costume

Elle:
Is automatically-radically

Callahan:
Ironically chronically

Vivian:
Certainly pertin'tly

Warner:
Genetically medically

All:
GAY!
OFFICIALLY GAY!
OFFICIALLY GAY GAY GAY GAY
DAMNIT!

Gay or European?

Callahan
So stylish and relaxed.

All:
Is he gay or European?

Callahan
I think his chest is waxed.

Vivian:
But they bring their boys up different there.
It's culturally diverse.
It's not a fashion curse.

All:
If he wears a kilt or bears a purse.
Gay or just exotic?
I still can't crack the code.

Brooke:
Yet his accent is hypnotic
but his shoes are pointy toed.

All:
Huh.
Gay or European?
So many shades of gray.

Judge:
But if he turns out straight I'm free at eight on Saturday.

All:
Is he gay or European?
gay or european?
Gay or Euro-

Emmett:
Wait a minute!
Give me a chance to crack this guy.
I have an idea I'd like to try.

Callahan:
The floor is yours.

Emmett:
So Mr. Argitacos...
This alleged affair with Ms. Windam has been going on for...?

Mikos:
2 years.

Emmett:
And your first name again is...?

Mikos:
Mikos.

Emmett:
And your boyfriend's name is...?

Mikos:
Carlos.
I'm sorry! I misunderstand. You say boyfriend.
I thought you say best friend. Carlos is my best friend.

Carlos:
You bastard!
You lying bastard!
That's it.
I no cover for you, no more!
Peoples.
I have a big announcement.
This man is Gay and European!
you've got to stop your being
a completely closet case.
No matter what he say.
I swear he never ever ever swing the other way.
You are so gay.
You big parfait!
You flaming boy band cabaret.

Mikos:
I'm straight!

Carlos:
You were not yesterday.
So if I may, I'm proud to say,
He's gay!

All:
And European!

Carlos:
He's gay!

All:
And European!

Carlos:
He's gay!

All:
And European and Gay!

Mikos:
Fine okay I'm gay!

All:
Hooray!

Mikos and Carlos:
Fine. Okay. We're gay!


Aaaaaaand....Avenue Q!!




ROD
Aah, an afternoon alone with
My favorite book, "Broadway
Musicals of the 1940s."
No roommate to bother me.
How could it get any better than this?

NICKY
Oh,hi Rod!

ROD
Hi Nicky.

NICKY
Hey Rod, you'll never
Guess what happened to
Me on the subway this morning.
This guy was smiling at me and talking to me

ROD
That's very interesting.

NICKY
He was being real friendly,
And I think he was coming on to me.
I think he might've thought I was gay!

ROD
Ahem, so, uh, why are you telling me this?
Why should I care?
I don't care.
What did you have for lunch today?

NICKY
Oh, you don't have to get
All defensive about it, Rod...

ROD
I'm NOT getting defensive!
What do I care about some gay guy you met, okay?
I'm trying to read.

NICKY
Oh, I didn't mean anything by it, Rod.
I just think it's something we should be able to talk about.

ROD
I don't want to talk about it,
Nicky! This conversation is over!!!

NICKY
Yeah, but...

ROD
OVER!!!

NICKY
Well, okay, but just so you know —
IF YOU WERE GAY
THAT'D BE OKAY.
I MEAN 'CAUSE, HEY,
I'D LIKE YOU ANYWAY.
BECAUSE YOU SEE,
IF IT WERE ME,
I WOULD FEEL FREE
TO SAY THAT I WAS GAY
(BUT I'M NOT GAY.)

ROD
Nicky, please!
I am trying to read....
What?!

NICKY
IF YOU WERE QUEER

ROD
Argh, Nicky!

NICKY
I'D STILL BE HERE,

ROD
Nicky, I'm trying to read this book.

NICKY
YEAR AFTER YEAR

ROD
Nicky!

NICKY
BECAUSE YOU'RE DEAR
TO ME,

ROD
Argh!

NICKY
AND I KNOW THAT YOU

ROD
What?

NICKY
WOULD ACCEPT ME TOO,

ROD
I would?

NICKY
IF I TOLD YOU TODAY,
"HEY! GUESS WHAT,
I'M GAY!"
(BUT I'M NOT GAY.)
I'M HAPPY
JUST BEING WITH YOU.

ROD
High Button Shoes, Pal Joey...

NICKY
SO WHAT SHOULD IT
MATTER TO ME
WHAT YOU DO IN BED
WITH GUYS?

ROD
Nicky, that's GROSS!

NICKY
No it's not!
IF YOU WERE GAY
I'D SHOUT HOORAY!

ROD
I am not listening!

NICKY
AND HERE I'D STAY,

ROD
La la la la la!

NICKY
BUT I WOULDN'T GET
IN YOUR WAY.

ROD
Aaaah!

NICKY
YOU CAN COUNT ON ME
TO ALWAYS BE
BESIDE YOU EVERY DAY,
TO TELL YOU IT'S OKAY,
YOU WERE JUST BORN
THAT WAY,
AND, AS THEY SAY,
IT'S IN YOUR DNA,
YOU'RE GAY!

ROD
BUT I'M NOT GAY!

NICKY
If you were gay.

ROD
Argh!

I effing love this picture:





And this is why the korean version of Hanakimi is a million times better than the taiwanese one.

Filched from mr-gittes LJ.

Rules:

1. Take your answer to each question and type it into Google Image Search
2. Post one of the images from the first page of results.


Ready..set...GO!


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1. The age you will be on your next birthday:






2. A place to which you'd like to travel:





3. Your favorite place:





4. your favorite object:





5. your favorite food:





6. your favorite animal:





7. your favorite color:





8. the town in which you were born:





9. the town in which you live:





10. first name of a past love:





11. name of a past pet:





12. your nickname/screen name:






13. your first name:


Your search - nurshahiylia - did not match any documents.

Suggestions:

* Make sure all words are spelled correctly.
* Try different keywords.
* Try more general keywords.


14. your middle name:




PFFFFFFT. I hate Google now.


15. your surname:





16. a bad habit of yours:





17. favourite movie





18. favourite song







19. favourite book






20. favourite singer/band

You tell 'em professor.

I randomly came across this pic. in the popart section on Devianart. Thinking that it was pretty and that the homoerotic-ish undercurrent was sexy, I decided to turn it into my latest desktop pic.

The fact that it's in the popart section shoukd have alerted me to the fact, but nooooo.... I kept hoping that those two men came from some kind of FBI/Detective show.

Me being the stupid one that I am, asked the person who created it whether those guys were from some kind of tv show, movie or book.
.
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.
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Turns out that they were band members from The Beatles.


I AM SO MORTIFIED.

Hello everybody out there, I would just like to take this chance to say that: I am a hopeless romantic
Yes. I am. I may not look it, but deep down, I actually harbor a deep passion for anything having to do with the subject of "love" (Not forgetting lust too, of course). Why do you think I like fanfic so much?
A stupid thing really, but I've always had this hope of my first love being someone who can really sweep me off my feet. Or a relationship that could be worthy of it's very own drama series. Think of how interesting it'll be when you tell your kids the story of how you met!
(And so far, I still haven't managed to have an affair with a hot close to 30-ish man. Must be because Singapore is generally lacking in said hot 30-ish man. *sigh*)

But all sappiness aside, I managed to dig up some stuff that I wrote for my friend on my old comp.

This one was based off the two rl people I met on the train in this post here: http://graverunner.livejournal.com/4919.html

*sings in that high pitched Bee Gees style*

But I don't feel like dancin'
No sir, no dancin' today.
Don't feel like DANCIN', DANCIN'
Even if I find nothin' better to do
Don't feel like DANCIN', DANCIN'
Why'd you break it down when I'm not in the mood?
Don't feel like DANCIN', DANCIN'

Rather be home with no-one when I can't get down with YOO-HOO-HOO.

But lord, is that song damn addictive. It's a suitable starter for this post too, seeing as how the whole song is just this shimmy-ish, glammed up sparkling utterly gay (in both ways) piece of bop-your-head 80-s musical thing.

I can't believe it's been more than a month since I last posted. @__@ And I know I should be writing about all the more important stuff that has happened to me lately (getting back O results for MT, the new class atmosphere, family and such....) but I just have to share all the great stuff I've recently unearthed from the internet. (One thing led to another you see...)

It all started when Hwee Key told me about how her maid had bought a gay movie starring Tom Hanks, Antonia Banderas and Denzel Washington. The conversation went something like this:

Me: *looks at her*
HK: *looks at me*
Both: PFFFFFFFT....BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Me: HEEEEEE. Good one there! That's a classic! Your maid's a very funny person. XXDD

Next Day:

HK: Omg. What my maid said was true. The movie is called Philadelphia.
Me: I know. I checked it out on the internet.

(To digress: I am getting very distracted by all the google ads that are appearing on my LJ. They've apparently decided that to cater to my Lawrence interest, I should book at St Lawrence hotels and have been asking me all the time "Going to Lawrence? Get the scoop from travelers who know Lawrence!"
And below all that, something about "Fruity Property".
XD Amazing how Google knows all these things.)

Antonia Banderas has starred in another gay movie other than on Philadelphia called Law of Desire. A very smutty one at that.
I shall never look at Zorro the same way again.






And...uh...Is it just me, or does the guy look a bit like the actor of Tom Mahone from Prison Break?

Also, even Gaspard Ulliel has starred in a gay role before. (*pumps fist* I knew he was too pretty not be slashed. Huzzah!) And he's not stopping there! No, my friends. He'll star in a gay movie called "The Vintner's Wine" coming out sometime this year or early next year. *beams happily*

Check out The Maccabees video Toothpaste Kisses:




HELL YEAH. Where do I sign up to get passed around like that?

Cuteness Abounds for this vid. When has tango-ing ever looked so fine? PS. Captain Awesome is thusly named so because of his hot bod.




And whoever said there was no slash in classic historical painting? THEY'RE CLEARLY WRONG.


If Hell is where you get ravished by hot red-headed men...We-ell...


Eye-fucking!



Cute Germans on a newspaper!



This post made me LAWLZ:

http://lay-of-luthien.livejournal.com/18673.html#cutid1

The initials of the Sylar & Mohinder pairing makes me a very happy girl.

And Jonathan Rhys Meyers gets all touchy-feely:

http://community.livejournal.com/boy_touching/1904907.html#cutid1

All Gayness hereby ends here.
The End.

Edit: Whoops, I guess it doesn't actually. Forgot to add this:

Caught this on Arts Central with my mother. Obviously, this one was our favourite. XD

I've actually made some Lawrence icons. 6 in fact. Would like to post 'em but thought that I should wait until I hit the big 10 instead.

And dammnit, nobody told me Le Chevalier D'Eon was a crossdressing anime! Now I'm interested in it and that'll result in a huge chunk of my time being wasted as I scour the internet for stuffs. *grumble grumble*

But moving on. Below you'll see precisely what I mean in no.2 of my Un-New Year's resolution.

( Unfinished snippets: The bane of my existence )

But anyway: Look Ma, a new icon! *points above* Saw that episode of Yakitate Japan and I knew that I just had to icon it no matter what. A bit of simple photoshop editing and...ta-dah! DENIED.

Also. Peter Wimsey and Lawrence? GAH. Blew my brains. Who knew it could work? And if that could Auda/Lawrence/Ali could too damnnit! I really didn't think it could be that Peter Wimsey at first. But the hints just kept smacking me in the face.
Lord. Cricketeering. Slightly foolish face. Oxford. Beautiful back.

"You have a beautiful spine."

*cracks up*

That has to be the classic-est of all classic pick up lines/compliments. Couldn't you have come up with something better? Hee. So fugging cute.

Ok. I'm actually making a New Year's Resolution after the New Year has passed, but what the hey right? Here we go...

1. Stop indulging in that all time deadly sin Sloth all the time. Get off your arse and actually try and attempt to study woman! Especially when that dreaded something that starts with an O is coming up in LESS THAN A YEAR. Do you want to be a homeless bum living off the streets!? Or someone mooching off your parents for money? THAT'S RIGHT. THIS IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARDS NOT BEING A PATHETIC LOSER.

2. Try not to indulge in that even more deadlier sin Lust all the time.
Who exactly am I trying to kid here?

2. Try to write more. In the least, try not to write so many snippets and actually go out and finish them instead of leaving so many unfinished disconnected drabbles lying around.

3. Save more money.
Yeah. We all know that there's a lot of purdy manga and stuffs out there but try not to blow so much at one go this time hmm?

4. Try to keep the internet surfing at a minimum.

5. GET MORE SLEEP.
I seem to suffer from lethargy all the time. Those at school should know me as that girl who keeps nodding off in class.

6. Try not to spend too much of Father's money.
Remember, control yourself. We're not millionaires here.

7. Read more books. Specifically those with a mind-bogglingly large amount of pages. (You know which one we're talking about T.E. Lawrence). But you can do it! If you've done it before, you can certainly do it now. Even with study stress upon you.

8. CLEAN OUT YOUR GMAIL DRAFTS SECTION. Holy cow. It stands at an immense 200+ right now. Clean and clear out the garbage in there.

9. GET DEATHLY HALLOWS BOOK BACK FROM MARY ANNE. MY DAD'S GOING TO KILL ME.

10. Also. Just maybe. You can find some wondrous way to save up and get that elusive no-longer-published hard-to-find T.E. Orensu manga. I mean...love triangles! B/w almost every single male person there! XD A yaoi-fied Lawrence. Who wouldn't want to see that? Even if it's in Japanese and I can't understand a word. The pictures are pretty enough to do just fine.

Oh god. This meme stuff is very addictive isn't it?

Wikipedia meme

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click "random article" (in the menu on the left). That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.


Band Name: Tarusa
Album Name: Girolamo Dalla Casa

Track listing
1. Meldreth Railway Station
2. Type 23 Frigate
3. Gers
4. Hahn
5. Fire in My Heart
6. Sheffield City Centre
7. Kakegoe
8. Lławka
9. Crystal Castles
10. May 30 Movement
11. Ranga Shankara
12. Gerry Lincoln
13. Metalocalypse
14. Locoh
15. Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova

So...who wants to buy my album? =)

I'm really liking my band name. Very exotic. And the album name too. Although it's hell to spell/remember and may be a mouthful to pronounce.
Am totally digging the track listing too, even when it seems to have been produced by too much late night drinking in the middle of the morning after smoking weed or something. No 15's my favourite...just because it's so long and complicated. XD

Another MEMEEEEEE.

1. Fandoms you have written/are writing/plan to write and favorite ships.
I have only written for FFXII and Jonathan Strange & Mr Norell. >___> And the latter's only a drabble. I usually write original stuff. Which do not ever make it to the internet as they're very disconnected. Would like to write Loa or From Eroica with Love sometime in the future. But the first one's a very daunting task (all that history!) and the second one comes close too as it has (all that history!).

2. Fandoms/Pairings you are ADDICTED to at the moment...
GAH. LAWRENCE/ALI LAWRENCE/ALI LAWRENCE/ALI

3. Fandoms/Pairings you like, but aren't necessarily obsessed with...
Conrad/Yuuri. Like this one, but as the above says, not obsessed OBSESSED. Fandom...would be Eroica. Lukewarm for that one.

4. Fandoms/Pairings you're new to, but enjoying...
Lawrence of Arabia. Yessiree. Enjoying every single minute of it.

5. You can chose one non-canon pairing you love to become canon. Who do you pick?
Lawrence/Ali. Jeez. It's almost practically canon already.

6. You're only allowed to read fic from one fandom (any pairing) for the next three weeks. What fandom do you choose?
This is HAAAAAAARD. Lawrence of Arabia has the best fanfic, definitely, hands down. But it's too little for 3 weeks. =( Have to go with Aziraphale/Crowley. Good amount of well written fanfic that comes from all genres.

7. You're allowed to refer to your favorite ship only by a shipper name. What ship is your favorite and what would you name them?
Lawrence/Ali is my favourite but reducing it to a ship name....Lawli? XXDD HAHA. Sounds like some sort of irritating hybrid of Lol that people like those on Friendster usually use. This is why I try to avoid ship names if I can.

8. Two of your fandoms are going to collide in a spectacular crossover. Which fandoms would you like to see crossed?
Spectacular crossover. *snort* I don't know. It strikes me as funny. I imagine some sort of fiery inferno or something of apocalyptic proportions when it happens. Umm...Lawrence of Arabia and Kyou Kara Maou.
I'm going to get stoned for saying that. But...it'd be funny really. Those two fandoms are as different from one another as you'd get. But they have the whole different races going to war thing. Yuuri would be able to identify with Lawrence. OH GOD. Now I'm imagining marauding desert nomads in KKM and flying skeletons in Arabia. GOOD GOD.

9. You have to choose between reading bad porn about your fandom obsession of the moment, or no fic at all. What do you pick?
NO FIC AT ALL. Duh.

10. You're asked to pick a theme song for one character/ship. What song do you pick, and for whom?
Me and the Major for Klaus/Dorian from From Eroica With Love

Me and the Major could become close friends cause we
Get on the same train and he wants to talk to me
Me and the Major could become close friends cause we
Get on the same train and he wants to talk
But there is too much history, too much biography between us

Me and the Major don't see eye to eye on a
Number of things, he'll take a guy like me and then
Me and the Major don't see eye to eye on a
Number of things, he'll take a guy like me
And put him in the army
Cause the Queen's own army makes a man of you

But he doesn't understand and he doesn't try
He knows there's something missing and he knows it's you and I
We're the younger generation, we grew up fast
All the others did drugs
They're taking it out on us
They're taking it out on us

Dude, c'mon! It's practically written for them.

11. It's 2 in the morning and you should be doing math homework. What kind of fic do you read instead?
Between math homework and reading fic? Well, it's pretty obvious which one. Especially if it's by Derry.

12. The ship that makes you go "Awww" is...
Most of my pairings aren't really the "Awww" kind. But...Satoshi/Daisuke and Franz/Albert? Not really all out "AWWW" but close enough. OH OH. Those two men from Love Pistols. Can't quite recall their name, but it's the black haired guy who doesn't look it but is actually a romanticist at heart and the blonde haired guy he gets hitched up with. VERY CUTE.
AHHHHH. How could I forget this?
Nowaki/Hiro from Junjo Romantica.
AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW.

13. The ship that makes you want to yell, "Just have sex already, you morons!" is...
CHARLIE/JOHNNY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GOOD GOD LADS. JUST HAVE SEX ALREADY YOU MORONS. And also
KLAUS/DORIAN. YOU CLUELESS MORONS.

14. The ship you're probably going to hell for shipping is...
EVERYBODY. WHEEEEE.... But the most would definitely be Lawrence/Ali. Because I'm a muslim and Ali's a muslim and I want to see him and Lawrence together and I don't think he minds either. BLASPHEMY.

15. The character you alternatively love to death and want to beat some sense into is...
Naoe and Takaya had me doing this a lot when I was in that fandom before. FOR GOD'S SAKE NAOE, YOU DO NOT TRY TO RAPE SOMEBODY TO SHOW YOUR LOVE. And TAKAYA. I love you to death too, and you're only still a teenager and definitely do not need this love feud spanning several lifetimes between you and Naoe, but you've got to try and understand him. Give and take y'know?  As do Klaus and Dorian. But mostly Klaus. And Lawrence! Ali doesn't need any sense beating but Lawrence does sometimes.

16. The character you're almost embarrassed to admit you like is...
None really. What's so embarrassing about any of them? I like all of 'em!

17. Your very first fandom/ship was...
Sanzo/Goku from Saiyuki. XD Practically nonexistent in my life now.

18. The fandom you could read any kind of fic in is...
Any kind? Including...bad fic? Egad. No. But a fandom in which I have liked close to EVERY fanfic produced by it is LoA.

19. The fandom you would totally write an anonymous Mary Sue fic in is...
I don't like to self insert myself. =( But if you mean, if I could be there to...push things along a bit or make suggestive remarks to the characters and generally irritate the hell out of 'em....Whooboy. I'd be in almost every one of 'em.

20. The show you would bring back from cancellation...
...Uh, I don't think I have any fandoms that got cancelled. But it would be nice if the Mirage of Blaze series was longer and had more time to fit in all the details of the close to 40 volumes that the book series had.
OH. Trinity Blood. If I'm not mistaken, the creator died didn't he?

MEMEEEEEEE!

OTP Meme

Pick five OTPs, preferably from different fandoms, and answer the following questions.

1.Lawrence/Ali
2.Naoe/Takaya
3.Aziraphale/Crowley
4.Basch/Balthier
5.Klaus/Dorian

IT IS SO HARD TO PICK JUST FIVE. I have to say that Conrad/Yuuri hovers around the edges, but ALAS, has been pushed out by those 5. SORRY CONYUU. And sorry Charlie/Johnny too. Sorry Johnny! *waves apologetic hand to my icon*

1. When did you first fall in love with ship number 1?
Recently. Ever since I finished watching Lawrence of Arabia. And even more now that I have found the fanfiction written for them. ALI AND LAWRENCE. Unrequited love, angst, death, fluffy cuteness, humour and sexyness all rolled into one. What more could you ask for???

2. When did you fall in love with ship number 5?
Oh hell. Instantly after reading From Eroica With Love. The UST...the UST! It kills me! So THICK it's practically palpable.

3.What is your favorite moment of ship number 3?
There are a lot of favourite moments for no 3. Especially the exchanges between them. But I definitely liked this one:
"I'd just like to say," (Aziraphale) said, "if we don't get out of this, that... I'll have known, deep down inside, that there was a spark of goodness in you."
     "That's right," said Crowley bitterly. "Make my day."
     Aziraphale held out his hand.
     "Nice knowing you," he said.
     Crowley took it.
     "Here's to the next time," he said. "And... Aziraphale?"
     "Yes?"
     "Just remember I'll have known that, deep down inside, you were just enough of a bastard to be worth liking."
     ~ page 340

Really. It says everything about them. And that they're really not your typical demon and angel.

4. What will the ship be if you take the boy from ship 2 and the girl from ship 1 and mesh them? If one or both of the ships are slash, then pick and choose.
Naoe/Lawrence? BWAHAHAHA. XXDD Oh god. I think my brain just froze up. Simply crack. It wouldn't work really. Naoe is too devoted to Takaya and Lawrence would be pining for Ali anyway. But they'd definitely go together to make their respective partners jealous. OH YES INDEED. Was that a plot bunny that just hopped by?

5. Vise versa.
Ali/Takaya? HEEEEEEEE, My brain just froze up again. Would never, not in this likely plane of existence, happen. Could see Takaya doing it to make Naoe jealous...but Ali? Hmm. Maybe. Could be good friends though. They both have fiery personalities.

6. What's your favorite moment for ship 4?
When Basch finds out that Balthier was the ex-boyfriend of his twin brother.
Okay. So that didn't actually happen but it SHOULD HAVE DAMNNIT. Can you imagine the drama?

7. How long was there between the time you got into the fandom and the time you started shipping ship number 3?
Um...a few days? A week? I generally start fandom/fanfic searching the second I reasonably like something. Didn't really start searching instantly for ship no 3 though. Didn't really think there would be much, but HEY. Surprise, surprise! The fandom's quite big.

8. When did you start shipping ship number 4?
The thing is, I didn't actually ship 4 at first. Way back then, at the very beginning, when I was still at the "I LIKE PRETTY BOYS AND ONLY VERY PRETTY BOYS" phase, I actually preferred Basch/Vaan or Balthier/Vaan.
I KNOW. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!??
And then, luckily, I dropped out of that phase and went into a new one: "I WOULD LIKE MEN THAT ARE NOT ANOREXIC PRZ K THNKS" and had a random thought when I happened to catch sight of the FFXII cover.
"Hey...this pirate dude. He's so...hot. @__@ Why have I not noticed this before?
And after playing the game:
EMHIGOD. Must. Slash. Him. With. Knight. Dude. NOW.

9. Take three people from three of the ships and create an OT3.
*starts giggling shamelessly*
Oh god. Um..I don't know really. XXDD Umm...
Crowley/Dorian/Balthier ? They all have that same hedonistic streak in them. Would get along pretty fine in my opinion.

10. Rank your OTPs in order.
The only one in order is the first one. After that, not arranged according to any preference. Love all of 'em equally. :D

Alrighty, recent happenings.

Tomorrow, I shall be off to sacrifice a sheep.

Oh dear. That sounds wrong doesn't it? Let's see...I shall try to phrase it more eloquently.

Tomorrow, I shall be off to watch a sheep being sacrificed for Hari Raya Haji.

That's better. =) I shall have to stand beside it and stroke it while I recite the prayer I have just memorised 15 mins ago and watch it being slayed. My father keeps reminding me to watch the first blood. No. Not because he is a sadist that takes pleasure in this but because the blood flowing out is supposed to represent my sins flowing away.

It sounds barbaric but it isn't really. Very professionally done. I was there last year when it was my mother that was doing the whole sacrificial thing. Anyway, they'll be donating the meat to needy families. And we'll even get some ourselves. After the whole thing is over, off we go to visit our grandmothers and grandfathers.
Except for the food, usually boring affairs. So I have brought along my palm and black device with me. Recently transferred The Count of Monte Cristo and The Seven Pillars of Wisdom ebooks into it so that should keep me sufficiently occupied.

My brothers, no doubt, will be bringing along their PSPs. Recently bought. My family thought 1 wasn't enough (I mean, c'mon, I have 3 brothers. They squabble over it all the time!) and decided to buy another one to avoid possible bloodshed between my siblings.

But I'll tell you what else was recently bought.

*beams happily like a self-satisfied idiot*

A NOTEBOOK! LAPTOP! WHATEVER PPL CALL IT NOWADAYS! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
I'm sitting here right now typing this away (the keyboard...so springy and fun!) and watching it all come out on the nice, shiny screen that it has. I am a very happy kid right now. Thus, I shall add another smily face for good measure. =)

What has also made me a very happy kid is that...
I finally finished watching Lawrence of Arabia!
The DVD had been shipped to my postbox around...a week ago? Watched it twice.
It's a BEAUTIFUL movie and words simply can't describe it. An utterly different experience altogether.
Also, Omar Sharif is teh sex. And Peter O'Toole is VERY PRETTY.
Lawrence after Arabia came a few days after and I have recently watched that.
Alexander Siddig is teh sex and Ralph Fiennes is JUST AS PRETTY.

My brothers simply can't believe that Ralph Fienne is Voldemort from Harry Potter.

Me: *screaming over Ralph Fiennes cuteness*
Brother/s: *casts disinterested eye*
Me:Oh, that's Lord Voldemort by the way.
Brother/s: O__O WHAAAAAAT!!??

Nope. They simply can't come to terms with the fact. XD

Brother/s: But he doesn't look like Lord Voldemort at all!
Me: Well, duh. Of course he doesn't. Nobody would if they didn't have a bleached white complexion, bald hairdo and slits for nostrils.

Ralph Fiennes is very, very, very different when he's not Lord Voldemort. Which is, of course, a good thing.

Am now obsessively searching for LoA fanfiction/fanart. Might have found almost everything there is, since it is a very small fandom. The fanfiction however, is ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. Very well written. And they have an exclusive few by some very talented writers that, quite literally, take your breath away when you read them.

Have now planned to watch Lawrence of and Lawrence after Arabia again when time permits.
Also, after reading this, will never look at those scenes the same way again. XD

I have also decided to try and make some LoA icons and so far, have made an insane amount of 1 icon.

:D

I am now going to blatantly pimp out Lawrence of Arabia stuff. Which is what I am currently infatuated with.



Everything You Need to Know About the Arab Revolt According to Auda Abu Tayi
By CopperCowries

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Aurens was an infidel and mad but he earned me much gold. Sherif Ali loved him like a fool.

The end.


And a quote from "In Broken Images: Selected Letters of Robert Graves":

Lawrence is a woman, and Feisal's mistress; the discovery of his sex was the reason for his dismissal from the RAF.


I have no idea what was up with the second one. XD But I found it funny. Robert Graves is supposed to be one of T.E. Lawrence's friends but in his letters he is known to be, pardon me, quite bitchy.


A poem by T.E. Lawrence himself:

"I loved you, so I drew these tides of men into
my hands and wrote my will across
the sky in stars.
To earn you Freedom, the seven pillared
worthy house, that your eyes might be
shining for me.
When we came."

The poem was apparently adressed to S.A., and it is said that till now, historians are still trying to puzzle who or what the hell actually is S.A.
Um..Sherif Ali?
But that's just romanticism on my part. Some people subscribe to the belief of it actually being "Syria-Arabia" which means that he is simply addressing his love to the country as a whole, which is more plausible.

And just look at the fanart! So fugging pretty and shiny! How could one resist?


Shiny-ness!


All the blue and gold makes me happeeeee.


Fluffyness!


And there's even something closely resembling a disney-ish animated cartoon!

Credits:
First 3 from Deviantart by the talented Pippipippitama. Even if her name is ultimate hell to spell or remember.

The last one is by the same person who did the first story at the top. I don't think you'd ever see this but...I love you! Write more LoA stories! Even if you can only usually write smutty ones because that just makes it infinitely better.

For now, I blatantly CURSE MYSELF for the UTMOST stupidity that had assaulted me by going out and renting Lawrence of Arabia during my FUGGING MALAY O LEVEL PERIOD OF ALL FUGGING TIMES. WHY? WHY DID I DO THAT? Now the 14 day trial period is gone and I didn't even get to watch the whole thing. Which means:
No Lawrence and Ali manly bonding!
No Lawrence prancing about happily in his new robes!
No Feisal!
No Implied Deraa Rape Scene!

*wails*

I MADE ICONS WHEEEEE




       


Did them through some simple editing on Photoshop. =)
I like the first one the best. The two lovely men there are from the Sex Pistols series, renamed Love Pistols when it was taken up by Blu.
The other two are Basch and Balthier from the FFXII game. Basch is the blondie, Balthier is brown haired and the one on the bottom. I got the image on the second icon from a fancomic on a japanese website. The third one consisted of two fanarts (Basch and Balthier) that I then split into half each and then rejoined back to make it look as if it was one person.  Nifty eh?

[Also, I want to post the Dorian picture I drew but my scanner was being Ghey as usual. =( ]

What Has Been Happening Thus Far In My Life In Which I Shall Post Everything In One Long (sort of) Concise Post

Umm....I have to say that I don't really get bored during the holidays because to put it quite simply, I have a lot of things to keep me occupied and distracted. Most people don't understand this. Let me put up the basic groups that hogs my attention:

TV
Books
Anime
Manga
Movies
Games
Internet
Drawing
Writing

Can you imagine the amount I have to juggle along with studying? Which is probably the reason why my stuides are not faring so well. Let's see, with TV it is:
Yakitate Japan on Animax
and
Top 100 Hits from MTV

This one already takes around 1 hr everyday of my life. Top 100 hits has been spread out over a number of days. Which is reasonable if frustrating. I mean, they can't exactly cram a 100 videos in 1 day.
Yakitate Japan is CRACKY RIDICULOUS LOVE. Melissa mentioned it once, saying it was funny but in a very weird way. I watched it and all I did WAS LAUGH FOR MOST OF THE SHOW. Which is why I still don't know the main characters' names until now. It is hard when what you're snorting away like some deranged degenerate. My reactions mostly alternate b/w O__o and laughing like mad when watching the show. This is because all of their reactions are overdramatic and over the top. VERY.
The show is about bread, and it has these two guys striving to be the best. One of them, the blonde haired guy, has the greatest reactions EVAH after eating bread.Certain examples include flying and being transported to the stars while various constellations gallop past or being transported to the eiffel tower in paris as he waxes lyrical about the bread's charm and beauty. And even one scene that had some sort of dragonball thing going on.
Yes. Really.

And then there's books! Which I still have quite a few to finish. *sobs* Now reading Dune. To sum it up in one line: A story in which a noble born family has moved to a desert country where water is of such great importance that people trample flowers to get the dew and wear suits that re-manufacture their sweat and spitting is considered a great sign of respect for another person as it means losing body moisture which is a precious thing.
And there's lots of highborn politics and dramatic sub plots within sub plots within sub plots. =)

And then there's the GAMES. I tried Manhunt. Which creeped me out due to all the violence and mental unstability. I mean, only a few seconds into the game and I've already been shitted and pissed on and forced to violently kill people by stabbing them repeatedly with a pointy syringe.
Which is why I have a sort of love/hate relationship with it. Manhunt is HARDCORE but this is exactly why it is so appealing in a "I don't want to play it but..there's..something..strangely...FUN about it" way.

And Guitar hero III is very, very, very addictive. I've already made it through Guitar Hero II and Guitar Hero Rocks the 80s so when I saw the third installation I just had to grab it.

And then there's Bully. Which is very, very fun. Any game where you're a guy that can kiss other guys has to be fun. Of course, that's not the only reason. There's a certain sort of satisfaction in playing a saviour in the form of a bully bullying bullies who bully the weak.
And we also have Puzzle Bubble. A classic game that has been around for quite some time. I played long, long ago when I was just a little kid and tried picking it up again now. Which is a bad thing since it's also pretty addictive.

OH. And how could I forget Absolute Obedience? If the title has a few of you already raising eyebrows, yes, it is what it sounds like.
You're a guy working in an agency that gets requests to target another guy in which you then have to, um, seme the said target. Yes. You have to coerce them into having sex with you. Willingly or unwillingly. XD What I do is I play them out in a way (through the help of an online guide) that has the characters I'm playing getting all the bad ratings. If you get a D on your missions, the tables get turned and instead of your character doing all the smexing, they usually get unwillingly forced upon by their targets. >;) Very amusing when this happens.

The Internet. The internet needs no explanation since most people since most people right now spend quite a lot of time on it.

Writing. There's a lot of ideas in my head but I seem to not have any time to type them out. I don't actually _write_ since my handwriting is atrocious and I prefer the speed that comes with typing.

Drawing. Uh...I drew a very leggy Dorian. ^ ^;; I think it turned out very nicely though. Had to reference a movie magazine for his pose but everything else came naturally. It has him sitting down in a chair wearing a big baggy rumpled overcoat with his legs stretched out long and naked from underneath. XD I like it though. It's fun to draw his hair. What with the curls and all. The angle of his face is a tad weird, but oh well.

Also, I've recently went to the CY bazaar where they had eng comics going for a dollar apiece. I KNOW. One dollar. From the usual price of 8-8.50. I bought around 20 and now they're all stacked up in my room tempting me to come and read them.

For anybody who've met me on MSN or outside and have asked me the usual "So, what you up to during the holidays?", what you'll get is "Oh, nothing much."
This is because it is much easier to say that then recite the whole of this long garbled post. Yep.