'Tis the season to be fuzzy

Mmm...opened my presents last night at 12:30 am. I had just enough for 'presents' to be plural (2); complicated ceramic cat calendar thingie (it's hard to explain, cute but useless) and new pyjamas. Fuzzy ones. I feel like teddy bear.

Ho-ming is bitter. He got none, poor baby. But he did get a fiancee for Christmas (Yay!) Congratulations to Ming and Katie! Proposed in Florida, much to the "surprise" of many of the church youth.

Christmas dinners galore, mostly with mom and dad's cell group posse (too many uncles and aunties to remember names).

Fuzzy Christmas everyone.

I really should update this thing shouldn't I?

So I'm home. From Kingston. There and back again.

Stupid Prof exam went surprisingly well. Went back to house, drank a glass of Bailey's and milk in celebration, watched two eps of Cowboy Bebop and then to bed, and then to bed. Took a 2 hour nap, the best sleep I've had for the three weeks since exams started.

Non Sequitur #1: words we've invented since the beginning of the school year - smiggle (verb, to smile/smirk while trying not to giggle), blong (adjective, (hair that is) long and blond), frankquilly (adverb, to be frankly tranquil).

Watched Return of the King twice already. Awesome both times; I think I like this best of the three films. Have I mentioned how much I love Pippin? I love Pippin. With any luck, Nem will be able to catch him for me when she's in New Zealand. Ke ke ke ke ke...house hobbit. I can install him in Melilywa and he can cook for me. Seedcake and whatnot. And I can laugh at him when he's smoking his pipeweed. Aragorn is all kingly like, but he's better when he's all dirtied up. Thank goodness the film only conveys how he looks and not how he smells.

Denethor was excellently prat-like. Much like Nerdy-High-Schooler-Who-Sat-Next-To-Me-And-Wouldn't-Stop-Flirting- With-Girls-But-Only-Before-Movie-Started-Or-Else-I-Would've-Beaned- Him-With-My-Shoe. Jerk jerk jerk jerk jerk. I wanted to bing him.

Non Sequitur #2: Other Chinglish phrases frequently repeated as a source of entertainment during exam period: "It's in the hup." and "I can't wun anymore! AUGH!!"

Ha ha, Gandalf obviously got his hair straightened while he was dead. And then re-bleached at Edoras before he rode off with Pip to Minas Tirith. Of course this (watching ROTK, not Gandalf's hair maintenance) means that I have to re-read the books to remind myself of what happened overall. So that's how I'll be spending my week.

Happy Belated Birthdays Marge and Maggie!

Many Christmas dinners/meals/belly busters this week, too. Will be as plump and rolly-polly as Fatty Bolger or even Bombur by the end of the week. But stomach-linked jollity tempered by the fact that my mom is making me drink Chinese herbal medicine this week. Ugh, it's like drinking cleaning alcohol mixed with gasoline mixed with essence of slug and bat and Wormtongue.

Non Sequitur #3: I am such a geek. That much is evident.

Afterthought

Oh yeah and I'm twenty. As of last Thursday. Weird. Ate ice cream and chocolate covered coffee beans in celebration and then studied my ass off for my chinese history exam.

My inner child is ten years old! The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. Whether I'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lost in a good book, or giggling with my best friend, I live in a world apart, one full of adventure and wonder and other stuff adults don't understand.

Yo Pumpkin Head

Shinichiro Watanabe is a genius. Cowboy Bebop has been around for a while, it's on the Cartoon Network (blurry bastards), and I've seen the series at least twice now, but it gets better each time around. It really is "a genre that will define itself." Cool bounty hunters, spaceships, characters with intriguing pasts, a crazy little kid and a dog. Just watch it. Velly good stuff.

Yokko Kano is also a genius. After looking through the music section (under downloads) at The Jazz Messengers, I went and listened to all the CB soundtracks I have (which is most of them) and looked up the info for each track on the website. I'm not really into jazz or blues (okay, I'm not into them at all) but the soundtracks include both genres, as well as some classical, rock, mambo, classical and more that I can't define. Kickass kickass cookass kickass. The Seatbelts are cool.

It's Revolutionary

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen:

Taiwanese Shirt Folding

I just folded all of my shirts, t-shirts, sweaters and tank tops in under 3 minutes. It really is revolutionary.

(Courtesy of the bwg. Show him some love.)

Yes I'm Still Alive

Caught in a huge blog backlog. Surprisingly, lots happening in the weeks around exams. This is what I can remember:

• finished the term without taking a boot to Stupid Prof's groin


• survived another Big Sugar concert with eardrums still intact


• wrote my CISC 124 exam without too much trouble


• bought obscene amounts of shampoo/conditioner because it was always on sale at Shoppers


• went home and ate and ate and ate


• watched the extended version of The Two Towers twice


• discovered that alcohol merely makes me sleepy while attending Emmy's 19th birthday party (Belgium Dream martini at the Tir Nan Og: two shots)

Thanks to WND, you will now know even more silly useless facts about me:

[Series 1 - you]
-- Name: Kobuta, Hoyan, Liane (2 of 3 are real)
-- Birthday: December 11
-- Birthplace: Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
-- Current Location: Kingston, Ontario
-- Eye Colour: Brown
-- Hair Colour: Black
-- Righty or Lefty: Righty
-- Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius
-- Font: Verdana all the way

[Series 2 - your favourites]
-- Music: Rock (Big Sugar, Bon Jovi, U2, etc.), anime/movie soundtracks (Cowboy Bebop, Escaflowne, The Matrix, The Beach, etc), even some pop when I'm in the mood
-- Cartoon: Too many to say; Daria, Undergrads, RuroKen, Cowboy Bebop, Furuba, Thundercats (ha ha)
-- Colour(s): Blue
-- Magazine: The weekly A&P flier
-- TV Show: Gilmore Girls, Scrubs, What Not to Wear (guilty pleasure)
-- Song at the Moment: Dario G feat. Vanessa Qui - Voices
-- Language: French, Mandarin, Japanese (need to learn the last two)
-- Food & Beverage: See me in person for these two, and block off five hours of your time.
-- Subject in School: English in high school, Lunch in university
-- Weekend Activity: Transforming into a slug
-- Ice Cream Flavour: Ben & Jerry's - Half-Baked (finished a tub by self in 12 minutes. So proud.)
-- Roller Coaster: Minebuster at Canada's Wonderland - feels like it's falling apart

[Series 3 - what is...]
-- Your most overused phrase online: "bip bip", "wibble", "jiggy schnitzel"
-- The last thought you go to sleep with: "I'm hungry"
-- The Best Name for a Butler: RoboButler. Or Butler-san. Or Alphonse.
-- Your best feature: My wonderfully obedient hair
-- Your bedtime: 12 am to 2 am
-- Your greatest fear: The velociraptors from Jurassic Park. Damn them.
-- Your greatest accomplishment: Making it through the day without walking into a doorframe
-- Your most missed memory: Grades 4, 12 and OAC, CNE with my buds, all of HK and Ecuador

[Series 4 - you prefer...]
-- Pepsi or coke: Ugh. I hate pop. Neither.
-- McDonald's or Burger King: Mickey D's
-- Dogs or cats: Cats. So delightfully human (read: selfish)
-- Rugrats or Doug: Rugrats, although Chucky and Doug both annoyed me.
-- Single or taken: Single as a duck. Does that make sense? Neither do I.
-- Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: NESTEA. Please. Remember whose blog you're reading.
-- One pillow or two: Heh. Three. It keeps the heat in.
-- Chocolate or vanilla: I'll quote Wnd on this: "do you even need to ask?"
-- Hot chocolate or hot cocoa: Hot chocolate.
-- Cappuccino or coffee: Cappuccino (French vanilla!)

[Series 5 - do you...]
-- Take a shower everyday?: Yar. Therapeutic.
-- Do you think you've been in love?: Yes. His name is Colin and he's part of SWAT/CIA/the Daredevil universe.
-- Want to go to college?: Sure.
-- Like high school?: Sometimes. Like when I forgot about the snootiness/bitchiness/students-as-cash-cows atmosphere.
-- Want to get married: Depends on what the gig is.
-- Type with your fingers on the right keys?: Yuss
-- Believe in yourself?: Not always
-- Have any tattoos/where?: No
-- Have any piercings/where?: None
-- Get motion sickness?: Yes, dammit
-- Think you're a health freak?: Does eating your own weight in (candy) corn count?
-- Get along with your parents?: In general, yes.
-- Like thunderstorms?: Yar. BOOM!!!

[Series 6 - the future]
-- Age you hope to be married: around 30 or earlier?
-- Number and Names of Children: 2. Have yet to think of names with a minimum of schoolyard mocking potential
-- Where do you see yourself in five years?: Hopefully travelling the world with all limbs intact
-- How do you want to die?: Happy
-- What do you want to be when you grow up?: Dunno. Something that allows travel.
-- What country would you most like to visit?: China (Hong Kong!), Russia, Australia, Egypt, Morocco, New Zealand, Costa Rica, France, Japan, England, Ireland, Spain, Brazil, Korea, Malaysia, Ecuador and Mongolia, among others. Pick one.

[Series 7 - opposite sex]
-- Best eye color?: As long as they aren't red.
-- Best hair color?: Whatever.
-- Short or long hair?: Middling to short.
-- Best height?: Taller'n me.
-- Best weight?: I dunno...to match above
-- Best articles of clothing?: Ooo...tux. Any guy instantly looks better in a well-cut tux or suit.
-- Best first date location?: Anywhere that involves my first love: food
-- Best first kiss location?: Mrph. ^_^
-- What facial feature do you find the most attractive?: Eyes. Preferably no more than two of them.

[Series 8 - other]
-- When's the last time you slept with a stuffed animal?: Last night. Stitch and my teddy.
-- How many rings until you answer the phone?: 1. I usually sit right next to it.
-- What's on your mouse pad?: Cogeco advertisement.
-- How many houses have you lived in?: 4 including Melilywa
-- How many schools have you gone to? : 4 - GMPS, HAPS, SCS, Queen's
-- What colour is your bedroom carpet?: Icky brown here, blue at home
-- If you were stranded on a desert island and you could only take one thing (not person) with you what would you take? : Satellite phone with solar panels. Or a cruise ship.
-- What was the best time of your life so far?: Hong Kong, baby!

PAST
First grade teacher's name: Miss.... I forget. All I remember is that she seemed huge at the time.
Last word you said: "Smiggle"
Last song you sang: The Cadbury bunny song

PRESENT
What's in your cd player?: Big Sugar - Hit & Run (Disc one)
What colour socks are you wearing?: Grey
What's under your bed?: lint
What time did you wake up at today?: 10

NOW
Current mood: Ravenously hungry
Current music: The Beach soundtrack
Current hair: Curly, messy, just-out-of-shower hair
Current clothes: Glow in the dark Pooh pj's, grey wool socks, sun low with teddy bears and sunflowers on it.
Current smell: Herbal Essences Leave-In conditioner
Current longing: A yen to travel (thanks to reading Bruno, watching The Beach, and looking at photos of HK)
Current desktop picture: Wallpaper with colour scan from YKK.
Current fingernail colour: Remnants of a sparkly pink
Current crush: I told you his name is Colin. He's a cad.
Current hate: Stupid Prof, these damned northern latitudes, Wendy (for making me do this survey)
Last CD that you bought: Big Sugar - Hit & Run (greatest hits...highly recommended)
Favourite place to be: either at home or (you guessed it) travelling in a foreign country
Time you wake up in the morning: around 11
Do you believe in an afterlife?: Yes
How tall are you?: 5'8" but not to my mom. She still insists that I'm two inches shorter than her, which would make me 5'3"
Current favourite word: Spiffy is mine! Always has been, always will be!
Favourite book(s): LOTR, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, I Want To Go Home, Discrete Mathematics and its Applications (okay, one of those was a lie)
Favourite season: Summer or winter. None of this wishy-washy-wet-weather spring nonsense.