Quiz: The Song of Ice and Fire House Test

Your Score: House Stark

27% Dominant, 27% Extroverted, 81% Trustworthy

Responsible. Respectable. Dour. That’s not shit coming out of your ass--it’s honor. You are clearly of House Stark.



You are a submissive personality, meaning that you are more than willing to relinquish control to someone more qualified; you will unflinchingly accept any responsibility that is thrust upon you, including servitude. Unfortunately for you, your unending patience and accommodating nature often make people look to you for a leader. In essence, you are the perfect leader: someone who has no desire to lead, yet is substantially well-qualified to do it.



You are also introverted, which means that people sometimes have difficulty understanding your thought process. Your dependable nature makes you predictable, but you’ve probably got all sorts of emotional dysfunctions when it comes to more intimate relationships. There are very few people whom you trust unwaveringly, and you’re not the type to confide in other people. So cold, so aloof--so Stark.



Finally, you are trustworthy--the very definition of the word. All secrets are safe with you. All of your vows are unbreakable. True to your name, you world is a stark place; there is black, and there is white. Your rigidity tends to undercut your overall value as a friend and ally. Honesty such as yours is hard to come by, which is easy to understand when you consider how easily manipulated you are by less decent individuals. Essentially, you’re the nice guy, and you’ll always finish last.



Representative characters include: Eddard Stark, Jon Snow, and Sansa Stark



Similar Houses: Frey, Lannister and Tully



Opposite House: Baratheon



When playing the game of thrones, you play it with one sword in your hand and another up your ass.

I really have no clue what this is referencing to, but since my friends did it, so did I. This was actually my 2nd result...after I more carefully considered what the questions were asking. Yes, this is what happens when you're tired and just clicking. My first result:

Your Score: House Frey

36% Dominant, 27% Extroverted, 45% Trustworthy

Violent. Self-important. Total fuckers. Universally despised, you are of House Frey.



You are a submissive personality. Piranha-like, you’ll viciously attack anyone weaker than yourself. However, you are content to bow and scrape and kiss-ass, as long as the owner of that ass remembers the favors you’ve done him. You’re slimy like that.



You are also introverted. You don’t enjoy broadcasting your devices and ambitions to the entire world; instead, you prefer to confide in a close-knit support system of friends and family. The people you keep around yourself are as vicious and proud and power-hungry as yourself, so you’ll always get the advice you want.



Finally, you are untrustworthy. In fact, you are the most untrustworthy of all houses. Do you have any idea how bad that is? Lannisters kill their kings and their fathers and fuck their siblings, but they are still far more trustworthy than you! Nobody likes you; nobody trusts you; nobody respects you. In the end, your blatant ambitions and ruthless executions thereof will alienate you from everyone. You’ll die alone. And you deserve it. (Asshole.)



Representative characters include: Walder Frey, Lothar Frey, and Cleos Frey



Similar Houses: Greyjoy, Stark, and Tyrell



Opposite House: Targaryen



When playing the game of thrones, you play it like a true villain.

Link: The Song of Ice and Fire House Test written by Geeky_Stripper on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

Okay, I lied. I was quite awake when I did it the first time. So this is either an example of how wildly inaccurate online quizzes can be, or a hidden look at my true nature. :D

Angry...very angry...

They have the voting on the readers choice for the Shojo Beat girl, and mine was not in the top 10 runner up. Some of them were pretty good, granted. But at least my submission didn't have her arms do not go down to her knees. Argh! So unless they have top 3 editors choice or something or another, mine didn't make it. *gnashing of teeth* Which is why I am blogging right now, instead of taking a shower.

Anyways, today wasn't too bad of a work day. Had training for 3 hrs, team meeting for 2. Apparently I met some quality metric so I get a draw into a turkey dinner. The option was a frozen turkey or you could have a $50 restaurant dinner. Personally I think the best option is to go to restaurant b/c you don't have to clean anything up. B said she'd prefer the bird b/c she makes an elaborate Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, since I never win anything, I won't win this draw either.

Made doctor's appt for Thursday. My ears' been bugging me for 2 weeks now. And I'm very sniffly, coughing, sneezy, itchy eyes, get chilly easily, headaches, tired. I know, classic symptoms of allergies. But it's still very annoying, and doesn't seem to go away. At least my stomach hasn't hurt lately. And problem w/ getting cold easy is that I prefer cold weather. So when I have to bundle up b/c my body can't handle it, and then I start sweating...it really sucks.

Anyways, H dumped over D about how he's a loser. He's very emo, doesn't take criticism well, so he cried even when he was telling me about it. So I email her about it, since he is my roommate, which means I have to deal w/ him everyday, whereas she's a couple thousand km away. She was really insensitive w/ her reply, and actually quite crude. And seriously pissed me off, b/c she's not taking any responsibility for any of her actions, and then she acts all offended when we call her on it. As TA said, she acts like a selfish 17 yr old. No flipping thank you even for the armwarmers I'm knitting for her, which she's not paying me for, and I'm just making b/c I'm nice and she's my friend. No acknowledgement of all the work I'm putting into it. Just asking me when they're ready b/c it's getting cold in Quebec. Well at this point, they'll be ready when I flipping feel like it. I have Xmas stockings and Xmas presents to make.

Finished Fossil Collection!

For Animal Crossing! Yatta, finally completed it! Quite exciting to walk thru the room and see everything. Should show T since he was a dino-fan when he was younger. Still lots left in the insect, fish and painting collections. Still can't find a bloody ant, and I'm running out of time. Haven't caught scorpion yet, although I've been stung 3 times already.

Took a while but Playstation site finally came up so I could blog about finishing Devil May Cry 1. I'm always surprised when people make comments about my posts. Had one go to 102 replies b/c it was about American's ignorance. Now I'm just weighing in on expensive games.

Yeah, I succumbed

It is w/ grave regret and too little sleep...that I signed up for Google Ads. Mostly b/c I forgot how ugly they look. But well I'll maybe give it a whirl. And hopefully I'll be able to withdraw w/o starting a new blog. But I'll try to see if I can find any advertisers that actually match my interests.

Anyways, friends are pressuring me to get onto LiveJournal and Facebook. Really I don't have time for more projects. Hard enough trying to sort thru the insurance policies I have.

I requested copies of my policies, and they send me a single page. With no details on what it covers. And there's no info about their policies on their website. And you can't create an account to get more info. Like WTF? If that's the way they're going to treat their customers, I'll take my business elsewhere. Which is unfortunately harder b/c I'm older, and I've paid quite a bit into it already. Damn vultures.

Cooking is always a useful skill

Whether it be in RPG or RL.

Looking at Domino's flyer, and why the heck would I pay $6.99 for a 12" 1-topping pizza?!?! Geez, unless I was someone who had a restricted diet, that's stupid. Mind you a cheese pizza from them is $10.99, so I guess it's a deal. Should get that and order just Hot Banana Peppers. LOL. But pizza's not quite what it used to be. At least not when I used to make them. Dad would buy 2 premade pizza doughs, and I'd lay on a bag of cheese, can of pineapple and mushroom, kubasa, ham and tomatoes. Get about an inch thick layer of toppings. Yeah, that was awesome.

Anyways, my stupid roommate D is sick. So after whining that he couldn't go to sleep b/c he was hungry, but lacking the culinary skill and ingredients to actually make anything, I found his can of veggie alphabet soup, which he prepared a la microwave. Then he goes and opens a can of root beer from the fridge. Aside from the fact that combining those 2 flavours is really disgusting, he thinks that having them alternately will equalize the temperature in his mouth. Yuck. Everyone knows that you don't drink anything cold while your throat hurts. But whatever, it's his stupidity if he can't get better. Anyways, he misses his ex. Even though she dumped him.

Yeah, so bringing lunch everyday, and prepping from scratch is helping my cooking. Found out that while Korean soy bean sprouts, tofu, red peppers and BBQ sausage is good w/ noodles, not so good w/ rice. So I guess I'll be having noodles for the next while. Although I have bok choy that needs to be taken care of before it spoils. Had it made w/ roast pig for my bentos. Then had some last night w/ steak & rice. Hmmm, *goes to pull out the mackeral* guess I'm having it w/ mackeral for tonight. Mackeral's kinda big, so I'll probably have to chop it in half after I gut it. Yeah, D's totally squeamish about stuff like that. TA doesn't look at me like I'm a freak when talk about butchering, but he figures I'll be one of those people who'll actually be able to survive in the wild if hunting.

But sometimes I feel like I should splurge and buy lunch like everyone else. But then not everyone else has enough to go on a trip to Asia tomorrow just b/c they feel like it. Yeah, but there are those urges. So I tend to splurge on buying sushi at T&T...after it's been discounted twice b/c it's near the end of the night. Heh, gotta work out though. Now that I have to take the bus to work, I'm really losing out on my exercise. B/c I actually had about a 25 min walk a day. Now it's like 10-12. So sad. Trying to restrict portions, but it just looks so sad when you have a big bento box, and so little food. Hurm, well one of the boxes probably holds about 1L, so it's really not that I'm starving...it's just sad.

Misnomers for donations

Yah, so it's that season again. For all the charities to start sending out their Xmas cards, calendars and giftwrap. It's getting to the point that the only way that I can use up all the Xmas cards I've accumulated is to give one to every single person I know. Like everyone at work.

Anyways, the thing that's annoyed me is that I got a request from the Canadian SPCA. Which you would think would be maybe the central organizing committee for all the SPCAs in Canada. Okay, well that's what I thought. B/c there are SPCAs all across the world, so I thought it was like the Canadian branch. Well stupid me, I didn't actually go to their website, just checked that their Charity ID wasn't revoked by Revenue Canada. Turns out that they only really support work in Quebec. Quebec!! Why are they calling themselves Canadian when it's only 1 province?! And the province that wants to separate from Canada? The nerve!! Yeah, so I probably won't give them much.

Another thing that's irritating is that they don't always state what the minimal contribution that needs to be made to get a tax receipt. Yeah, yeah, I know. It's so that people will give more to ensure they get a tax receipt. But it's still annoying.

Finally getting something

So after completing all my monitors and more, I'm finally getting paid more than regular rep. Yeah, got extra $0.50/hr, which is same rate as when I'm floor support. Least better than nothing, which was before. Wow, that almost rhymed. Kowaii.

So today was first day back on the phones, after about a month. I also didn't have most of my systems, so it was a bit wierd. And considering I was coaching about everyone else's bad habits, I caught myself making a few mistakes. But I got a compliment from a customer. And then there was a guy who sounded like he wanted to flirt w/ me b/c his tone got all shy at the end. At least I got to sit w/ my friends, and we bugged each other the whole time. So it wasn't all bad. But it did cause my CTS to flare up more, even though I had a wrap on. Actually hurts a bit to type.

Cleaned the bloody stove, well just the top, and the covers and the little dishes under the coil. Took close to 1/2 to scrub everything off. Told D that he'd better be careful when he's cooking. He just grunted. Think he's still all depressed that H didn't beg him to forgive her. Not that she would, she did dump him after all.

Got screwed again and almost didn't know it

Yup, another work rant. So when I first started the monitoring thing, I learned from a TL that I had a target of 140 in 12 days. Met it on the 8th day. So I'd been helping other TLs w/ their monitors, either just listening or even entering them. They had to coach. Then today, another TL asks me what my target's supposed to be, so I'm like 140. And then they call me over, and the f*ckers raised it to 184. W/o telling me. So I go to the OM, and he blames me for helping other people and tells me to do 20 a day. With only 2 1/2 days left. WTF?! So I'm like freaking b/c no TL wants me to do monitors on their team under my name b/c they have their own monitors to catch up on. So now I'm doing monitors on my peers. Yeah, well desperate times call for desperate measures, eh? And if they happen to help my team, all the better. *snicker*

You Are A Gold Girl

You're dependable and hard working. You never miss a deadline - and you're never late. You have a clear sense of right and wrong. You're very detail oriented. You get frustrated when your friends are sloppy - or when they don't follow through. You're on top of things, and you wish that everyone else was!

What Color Girl Are You?

And this is what happens when I'm such a bloody workhorse. I did so bloody well that they raised expectations on me. And make me freaking miserable b/c my CTS is completely acting up after my drawing spree. Which incidentally appears to have made it just on time. Yeah, I think I'm coming down w/ something b/c I'm constantly sneezing, starting to cough lots, and really tired all the time.

Summerslam 2007

So went to see it with D at the theatre. No one else was avail to go with. He said that it was better to go to the theatre instead of watching it at home (just needed 1 more person to make it cost-effective to stay at home), b/c he liked the bigger experience. I have suspicions it's b/c he didn't want to do any housework. Which I asked him to do before I left for Warp. B/c he's been doing nothing but surfing or playing on his computer every day and night. Which of course he never did when I returned 4 hrs later.

I really wanted to know who was McMahon's son. Although the Mae Young skit was hilarious. Especially when Vince said it wasn't that bad. Fabulous Moolah looks really thin. During all the inbetween matches, I pulled out my DS Lite and played Pokemon LeafGreen. Levelled up about 4 pokemon. Someone next to me even asked what I was playing.

Anyways, for the matchs, liked the Findley v Kane one. I think Hornswoggle added a good dimension to Findley's character. I was cheering for Findley, and it was pretty good work from the both of them.

Umaga v Carlito v Kennedy was pretty good too. Everyone almost got all their spots in, although Carlito only got his flying elbow. It was quite entertaining when you have 2 talkers in the match who wrestle smart.

Mysterio v Chavo was good too. I'm not sure why Mysterio came out covered in silver paint. Maybe to say that he's a ghost from the past to haunt Chavo? Seemed to have gained some weight around the middle, and not the same intensity as before he left. But w/ his buddy Chavo against him, they pulled off a good match. I'm sure he'll be back to normal soon enough. The luchadore at the beginning was cool once they got it figured out.

Divas Battle Royale kinda sucked. I wish they didn't get rid of so many of the ECW ones like Ariel and Trinity. They looked like they could tussle. The stupid dancers were sad. Glad Beth won. Think I was the only one that cared. Ticked that it wasn't a final 4 of Victoria v Beth v Malina v Mickie James. That woulda been cool and more like the male battle royale finishes.

Liked the Austin entrance. Saw it a mile away. Had 2 marks sitting next to me, and even after the audience started chanting Austin and going "what?" they were still trying to figure it out.

CM Punk v John Morrison was bleh. They can do sooo much better. They've done better in the TV broadcasts. Very disappointing from them. Compared to the other matches, wasn't too bad.

Batista v Khali was bad. Too short and pointless. If Khali's not ready to do an extended match, they shouldn't make him champ.

Orton v Cena. Gawd I wanted Cena to lose, and so did half the crowd. Unfortunately the 2 marks were split btwn them so they were shrieking every other second. And there was an idiot Cena fan behind me. So I was plugging my ears half the time. When Orton started schooling Cena, I knew he'd lose. Just like HBK. But Orton did a really good job, so hopefully he'll have some more big matches.

HHH v Booker. HHH seems to have moved off the 'roids. Looks good still, but not at as big. I wonder if it's b/c they mentioned steroids being a factor in the Benoit tragedy. Didn't have some of the moves, but his intensity was good. Nothing too surprising from either of them except at the end w/ the reversals. But it's cool to see HHH really thank the fans.

And once again, no one cares about the tag team division. Or the cruiserweights. What happened to Jeff Hardy? Did he fall off the rehab again? As much as I hate to say it, I hope he's been MIA b/c he was injured.

An actual model guide please!

I'm doing an entry for Shojo Beat's Beatgirl contest, and I'm in the home stretch. Just need to add colour, photocopy and scan it for keepsake and send it off. It's been almost a week planning and about 2 weeks of madly drawing, redrawing and redrawing again. I actually have 4 test pictures, and 4 redraws of the final thing. Test pics were finding a pose in a fashion mag, doing the pose North American style, then same model in manga style(Crimson Hero), then close up on the face for facial expression, then putting everything together. The redraws were mostly due to rescaling so that everything fit on the page and were in proportion. And we're talking manual all the way. No computers. I used 3 inking pens, 1 brush w/ diluted black ink for tone, and white paint for touch-ups. My arm's really tired. And I need a better light to draw by. It's waaaaay too dim.

But my beef w/ the contest is that it says the hair has to be certain way, but the written directions are completely contradicted by their example which has the instructions written above it. Someone doesn't know left from right. And their examples from their features artists don't even follow the character guide. And why is the hair colour red? A colour that is only found in a small population in Northern Europe?? For a magazine featuring Asian characters and culture??! Really peeves me off. And of course I'd forgotten about the hair colour, so the colour choices I had were for someone w/ dark hair. Now I have to re-pick the colours. It totally sucks. And her eye colour switches from green to brown. Driving me nuts.

Freedom!!!...maybe?

So it's the start of my week-long vacation! A whole week away from my job, although it won't mean that I'll be loafing the entire 7 days. I still have a drawing to start on, and then I'm working the Animethon for C&L Yeah, so on my vacation, I'll probably do more work than my roommate who's been looking for a job since he's unemployed. Actually I got him and H a job working w/ me at Animethon. B/c they need money. B/c he's mooching off her and neither of them are very good at saving.

But for the last 2 days I've been listening to bad calls, working unpaid OT, swearing at the computers and been really super tired. Didn't help that I needed to get up 3 hrs earlier. I was supposed to take over a team for 2 days (why bother?) but then they wanted me to just monitor their calls. But do to 50 calls or 25/day. I told them they were crazy. But I ended up doing about 40 anyways. Which almost a week's worth in 2 days. And coached them too. And it's not like some of the reps will shut up when you bring them over to review their monitors. And you don't really wanna say, "shut the f*ck up, I've got another 15 monitors to do and enter, I don't have time to listen to you prattle. " So I had about 3 sessions that were about an hour long. I'm sooo tired. Since the computers and network there suck so much, you can't pull up multiple systems at a time or they'll crash. Actually this morning we didn't even have the Internet for a while. How pathetic is that? And the system I needed to enter the monitors went down so I couldn't enter them. And I write up my monitors as if I'm going to enter them, which means a lotta arrows, scribbles, and uncircled scoring that's not relevant to the rep but we need to enter. So I had to leave them on my OM's desk w/ a note that I couldn't enter them. Yargh!!!! If the systems weren't so stupid, I wouldn't have to do OT! Although for OT it was only about 1/2 each day, which is really good for me. When I was in Team Leader role, I would do about 1-3 hrs a day.

My stomach's been bugging me lately. Not sure if it's my ulcer-lite coming back. I call it lite b/c I haven't spat up blood, but it hurts bloody lots. I've spent hrs lying in bed rolling around.

Went to Heritage Festival. It wasn't too bad. Went w/ H, D, TT, and AB. Was hoping for a Pokemon mask, but they were sold by the time we got there. Picked up an Ocarina from Peru pavilion, and pencil drum from Afrika pavilion. The food tickets were overly expensive at $0.83 each. And Venezuela was a ripoff compared to the other places. Had a Quesillo and Mango juice from them. Had bannock from the Aboriginal site. Tandoori chicken from Afrika, Combo from Japanese. Finally got to have takoyaki, and it was pretty good. But the okonomiyaki had pickled ginger in it, and it totally overwhelmed the flavour from everything else. Even when I tried to pick it out. Really had to choke it down. Had my fortune told at the Taiwanese and Chinese sites. Both were the fortune sticks. So at Chinese it was just that it'd be good time for new project. My fortune cookie said that I'm a good influence on others. Taiwan said I had a Medium Ordinary Fortune. 1)Litigation would be solved in a hurry. 2)Ailment be prayed early. [??] 3)Information be reached soon 4)Wealth be as usual 5)Pregnancy to give birth to a son [think I'll name him Henry or Iori ^_^] 6)Pray God for health [well that might help my stomach] 7)Everything be managed under one's own opinion [??]. H got a super lucky one, but some of the stuff could mean trouble for her.

It's all about networking...

Okay, Blogger is starting to piss me off. It's so damn slow w/ it's spellchecking, and just loading in general. Anyways...

So I get another invite to Facebook. And well, yeah okay, like it's another thing that I have to spend updating. Frig, I'm not playing Nintendogs anymore b/c it's too much work taking care of my dog. It's at least 1/2 hr to walk him, plus contests and grooming. Getting a 2nd dog was a bad idea. I guess I'm not someone who likes to have something constantly nagging them, demanding attention all the time. Which is probably why I'm still okay w/ my betta fish Akao. Feed him twice a day, change water every so often and that's it. Although I've been lax on water changing at times. Good thing they're pretty tough fish.

So I still haven't joined Facebook. Not sure I like the thought of people keeping tabs on me. Even if they are my friends. Heh, sometimes I just can't stand to be around people in general.

How not to book...

I didn't bother buying "The Great American Bash" but since I was dusting my computer(which always takes a while since I have so much stuff on my desk), I decided to mosey over to the WWE site. And not a single title changed hands. How crappy is that? Oh, wait sorry. 1 title changed hands. The cruiserweight. Which is almost a joke title. The one that everyone remembers as an afterthought. You know that it means nothing when they have the champ forming tag teams with another cruiserweight just to beef up their tag team ranks. Not that Chavo is a joke champ. He's got a hell lot more talent than stupid Cena. But it's really sad that it's the only title that changed. Nothing against Hornswoggle, but geez, giving it to him?!? The matches were kinda crap anyways. Most were obvious on who would win. I'm sure their buy rate on this PPV reflected that too.

There's no point buying the monthly PPV when there's nothing to look forward to. And you know the tag titles are jokes too when there's no match for them. I honestly cannot remember who are the tag champs for either RAW or Smackdown. TNA may be small, but they book so much better. More professional rivalry instead of soap opera.

Random just posting because...

So I really got nothing. Just decided to post b/c I thought it was a while since I had posted. Although it turned out that it wasn't really that long ago. I mean, I've gone months w/o posting, so a week is really nothing.

But again, Blogger is super slow on showing what I'm typing, so I'm typing blind again. It's absolutely irritating. B/c sometimes I forget what word I'm typing and lose track of the spelling.

So today, when I was eating breakfast, I forgot how to chew. I was sorta gumming my food and just swallowing. So my stomach didn't feel so great, and I didn't eat all that much b/c I was eating slow. So I ran out of time to eat breakfast. And then nobody relieved me for lunch, so I ended up just turning it off and going at 8:00. And with the weather changes, my joints are aching, especially my wrists and knees. Yeah, my brain hasn't been working well lately. And I've been going to bed around 5am or so, so I'm getting about 5-6 hrs of sleep. Damn weather. It's probably not a good thing that I see the sunrise and sunset. I don't want to go to work. Well I suppose that's nothing unusual really. But I can't say that I look forward to anything there.

I don't like people. They annoy me.

Anyways, Ticketmaster is being annoyingly vague on the disappearance of the WWE Canadian live shows. Not saying anything about cancellation or postponement. Argh! Nothing on WWE site for any Canadian events either. All disappeared. And I'd collected most of the money for the tickets too!

Is it a bad thing that I've played Animal Crossing so much that it's starting to creep in my real life? Rocco wanted me to find a moth, so I'm waiting for the bus home at work, and I see the lights at the Rogers Video. And I'm thinking..."I bet there are moths there. But I don't have my net!" That would be fun, spend all day fishing or catching bugs. Shooting presents out of the sky. Shooting aliens out of the sky. Drinking coffee. Digging up fossils. Picking fruit. Getting chased by bees b/c you shook the wrong tree. LOL

Review: The Prestige & The Messengers

Well, I'm really not sure what's going on. Seem to be missing the option to select my font and also my colour. And of course with my patchy remembrance of HTML programming, it's going be loads of fun trying to figure out how to do that. Oh, and I did I mention how bloody slow the stupid words are appearng in the field, which completely dirves me crazy? I'm a touch typer and I actually sorta type somewhat subconsciously. So I actually have to see if what my fingers typed is correct. I can't look at them or else I loose track of my thoughts...sorta like right now. And yes, I type tons worse when I'm looking at my fingers. Actually even w/ my eyes closed, b/c I have to think about what I just typed, instead of seeing it on screen, I'm getting pretty bad.

Hmm, just published the darn thing, and the font is still Arial (Yahhh!!) but it's all in yellow. But the HTML isn't showing up in the Edit version. Whaaaa? Must admit, it is quite easier to see. And the typing seems to come up much quicker when I'm in Edit HTML mode. Okay, well whatever. And the mouse pointer isn't quite pointing to where it should. It's like where it's affecting doesn't seem to match w/ what's on the screen. Particularly on the title field. Blogger doing something again?

Onto the review. Actually saw Messengers first w/ H and D. The bad thing about watching anything with them is that H will loudly comment all the time. Whereas D will be surfing on his laptop and constantly pester you what's going on. Ending was quite disappointing. It seemed they changed the villain at the end, and decided to make John Corbett's char the baddy, b/c the events leading up to it didn't make much sense. What was w/ the Cigarette-smoking Man constantly wanting to buy the house? Why were there tons of crows even before the family got murdered? Why would a sepia-coloured photo be in the locket, when the murder took place 5 yrs ago? How did the pitchfork scratches appear behind the 2 kids when they were running, but also puncturing the walls from either side? Special effects, atmosphere-wise, it was pretty creepy. At least for me. I'm not a horror-veteran, so I get spooked easily. Yeah, I was holding onto Goleo throughout. I'm a wimp. So ending was very dissatisfying, but was good and freaky up until then.

The Prestige was pretty cool. Hugh Jackman looks lovely as an aristocratic magician. Christian Bale's pretty good-looking, but his eyes are too squinty. I think Cutter was working for the both of them the entire time. If Bale had given more of an apology and taken full responsibility, Jackman's char might've been more willing to forgive him. But I guess this is what happens when you're jealous, prideful, and vengeance-obsessed. Bowie was awesome as Tesla. H thinks there's still a Jackman running around somewhere, but I don't think so. I did want Jackman to win, b/c it seemed he lost more w/ his wife's death. Bale's wife killed herself b/c of his duplicity. So I think it's a good movie, and would be good to rewatch, just to see if you can spot all the tricks. I wonder if at the end, Cutter killed the bird when showing the trick to Bale's daughter. I'm not really sure how the cage was supposed to work w/ Jackman's trick. Yeah, I like magic tricks.

***P.S. Looks like Blogger fixed it b/c everything back to normal. ****

Whatta cutie!

I was looking up the lyrics to Siam Shade's "Get a Life", and found a live concert video. His English is pretty good. I wonder if more Japanese artists are just going to start performing in English to break into the USA. I wish they didn't have to, but that's the sad reality of American xenophobia. I was really just interested b/c I thought I heard him say "f*ck"when was listening to the mp3, so I had to make sure. Not that I have an issue w/ it, but just caught me by surprise. I'm one of those sad people that don't know much about the different music genres, and just listen to what sounds good.

Then I finally decided to see what was avail for Seki Toshihiko on YouTube. And they had clips from an old children's show that he used to do. It's pretty interesting to see him back then, his voice hasn't changed too much but he's dancing so it's very much a squeal moment. And he's singing one of my childhood favourite songs "Sing."




And I learned how to put YouTube videos on my blog. Yatta!!! *clap clap clap*

Lousy week

I really thought the worst thing that could have happened this week was the death of Chris Benoit and his family. The circumstances of their death is so bizarre, I really don't know how I feel. Of course I'm saddened that he's gone, but there's also the feeling of disgust by what he may have done. It's not a good feeling and I know a lot of people are feeling the same way. Most of us have tried to just focus on what a great wrestler he was. Certainly the tribute they had put together on RAW left me alternately crying and clapping @ his matches. We'll see what what the WWE does during their Smackdown and ECW shows.

And this week, probably due to the stress of Benoit's death, has left my immune system really weak, so I'm coming down w/ flu-like symptoms. My CTS is flaring up, my back's aching, throat's sore, and it's been non-stop headaches. Coupled with a GI tract that's been functioning in spurts, it's been cruddy. I really felt like going home early yesterday but then my TL threw a fit so I stayed. Gawd, was that a mistake. That's been why I haven't written earlier about Benoit.

Of course Sensational Sherri passed away the week before too. Yeah, it's been bad times. I got interested in theatrical makeup from her.

But the one that really is close to breaking the camel's back is that stupid fat c*ntla. B!tch has been on my case for months. She's always rude to everyone who's not her buddy. Anyways, today I was doing my chat support and trying not to throw up from being sick or dwell on the Benoit investigation, and playing Bejeweled 2. For those who might not know, the version I'm playing pauses whenever I'm not on the page, so in between chats, I just go back to it. Still trying to get past Lv 7. Anyways, the c*nt-sniffing sow comes up to me and tells me to move to the other side of the room (we'd always told the reps to move b/c there's not enough support for questions/escalations, but d@mmit, I am SUPPORT!), and since she's told me before not to be surfing on the web she's going to tell my TL and Ops Mgr about it and put a CAP in on me. (CAP is this punitive measure even though it supposedly stands for corrective action plan). I'd never been on a CAP before (written plenty though), and I was so furious, I was ready to start destroying the computer and desk. I was really debating between just walking out, sitting at my desk (it's even labelled!), or slowly moving my @ss over to there. After I calmed enough to not destroy furniture or march up to her overpainted @ss to tell her off, I moved over to where I thought some friends I know would sit. But they'd left already. And of course I had to clean up the desk, only to find that I could really hear the thrumming of the ventilation system which matched up lovely to the pounding headache. So after another 3 moves, I got another seat next to JO and stayed there. But the desk smelled and was really gross no matter how much I cleaned.

So I'm sure tomorrow I'll hear something from my TL. And depending on how they handle it, I might just walk out. Although w/ the July 1 and 2 coming up, the pay would be pretty good. Also I signed up for OT tomorrow, to support the launch of the next "it" device, the iPhone. Anyways, definitely time to dust off the resume. Heh, and D will be laid off tomorrow too. Wow, won't finances be great?

Review:Animal Crossing: Wild World

It's been a while since I've gotten Animal Crossing...and it's completely addictive. I've given up trying to take care of my Nintendogs b/c I can't afford the other hour I need to take care of them, and the amount of time I spend on ACWW. Finally shot down Gulliver, and as usual the conversation is hilarious and cute. Heh, maybe he shoulda spent more on his ship instead of his suit...oh wait, he just pointed that out. Yeah, I'm blogging as I'm playing. And I should probably only do one thing at a time though...did I mention ACWW is addictive? It's summer now, and raining. I dunno if you need to water the flowers when it's raining. The faqs says you don't but I've found that some of the flowers are still wilted the next day. And I have a excellent town environment, so I'm trying to keep it that way for a golden watering can. About 8:20am ACWW time, although obviously not in real life. I do change my DS lite's time a lot, b/c of when people visit, catching bugs/fish, meeting KK etc. I wish you could select your coffee flavour. Yup, I drink plenty of coffee in ACWW. Well only one of my residents anyways. I just created another one the other night, bringing it up to 3. Need the extra room to store all the gyroids, clothes, wallpaper, flooring and furniture. I'm trying to get the exotic, classic, cabana, green series. And yeah that's a lot as HRA tells me. Find it's better to give Gulliver the parts as you find them instead off all at once b/c he says what they're for. ...Inhibition Inhibitor? LOL Although I'm little disturbed that he thinks he considers our heads bulb and expects things to bloom from them. Don't want him to wanna see fountains of blood, heh heh.

I'm so annoyed w/ the spellchecker thing. It makes the typing so slow that I'm making more mistakes and losing my train of thought b/c I can see what I'm typing. Unless I'm typing w/ my eyes closed so it doesn't really matter. Yup, it's actually slowing me down b/c I'm watching what I'm typing so if I can't see what comes up, I'm lost.

Anyways, off to play. I think I'm also behind on my manga b/c of this game. *sigh* Just bought $200 of books today too.

Aren't managers supposed to inspire?

You know, I thought this week would be fun. Only had 1 shift on calls and 2 1/2 hrs would be spent in a potluck/team meeting. And I had a 1 1/2 hr training. And I was going to see my family for belated Father's Day thing.

Well, on the personal side it was fine. Had fun w/ the kids, my family didn't ask me annoying questions. Got my youngest niece to talk and interact w/ me. Melissa's quite the talker, and very interested in learning. When her big sisters do their homework, she gets some paper and sits right next to them and says she's doing her homework too. My nephew Justin was cranky and didn't get to play with him. He seemed to cry every time he got near my dad. LOL. But he's so big now, I can barely recognize him. Which makes sense. He's 21 mons now, but I've seen him maybe...4-5 times? My sister-in-law as usual barely spared us a glance or hello when she got home.

But work-wise? Gawd, I've never been so annoyed in a meeting that I've wanted to walk out. Being told that if we're late, swear on the floor or are rude to the customer that we'd get our position on the team evaluated? It's one thing if the definition of swearing and being rude would make a sailor blush, but their definition is anything that would offend the Pope. And even then the Pope would probably forgive a lot. If we don't kiss up to the customer, we're in trouble. If we're stern or point out the customer's stupidity, we're in trouble. We can't even say they're lying when they completely contradict themselves. They're telling us if what the customer says contradicts what the reps have notated (and notated very clearly and well), we're supposed to believe the customer. All b/c a bunch of stats are low, so they're trying to buy the stats by having us throw out the policies and procedures. She keeps harping on the "you're the creme de la creme", while throwing all this crap at us. Our previous managers were a lot better about it, they'd let us whine and bitch for a decent amount of time before telling us to move on. Now it's if we step out of line a bit, we're going to get canned from the team and its perks. It so sucks.

Anyways, a lot of managers are leaving too. There's another team that's hiring, and they have a fair bit of perks, but not the $0.50/hr bonus. But I dunno who their new manager would be so it's kinda annoying. Truly when you find a manager you can connect with, it's so much easier.

Anyways, T had surgery about 2 weeks ago. Been trying to take care of him w/o seeming smothery. I dunno, think I read too many manga and watched too many anime with episodes of characters taking care of other bed-ridden characters/love interests, and they're mostly romantic comedies or shonen-ai. Even volunteered to tidy up his apt! Anyways, also used up all my min checking up on him...and my bill cycle doesn't end until about end of month. *sob* Maybe I should call up my carrier to see if they got any bonus minutes or something.

Yeah, so work has really sucked. I've been thinking of just calling in absent, just so I can get an extra day off. I haven't had a cat day in ages. It's been grocery shopping, going away parties, cleaning, cooking or some other chore. So odd to be so popular. But what pisses me off is that D doesn't do anything that I can discern. All he does when he's home is nap, go on his laptop, play his games. Doesn't bother cooking or cleaning. I have to tell him to clean the stove or counter, take out the garbage, etc.

Since I'd had to write so many cards lately, and I haven't time to practice a new font for each card, I've been working on the Linoscript font from Linotype. I've added a few of my own touches, and it's looking pretty good. My characters are about the same size, same angle. Heh, who needs to buy fonts when you can just copy them?

This won't become a Den of Iniquity

Is basically what I told D if he let some person that he met thru the casual sex ads on some online dating site come to the apt.

I was wondering why he was being extra nice and washed his dishes(which'd been sitting in the sink for last couple of days) and cleaned the oven top, although I attributed it to the fact that I talked w/ H for close to 3 hrs yesterday, and she told him that he'd better start pulling his weight around the apt. But apparently some girl replied to him in one of those online dating sites he goes to (I thought so that he could mock the ads and/or play yo-yo w/ his self-esteem). So when he first started talking about the girl replying, I was like "huh, well whatever. That's nice you're going to get laid." Then when he said that the girl said that she had prudish roommates and thin walls, I'm like "So what?". Then he gave this look, and I'm like "Hell fuck no, you're not bringing her over!" And he's like "why not? I'll only bring her over when you're not here." Like dude, I have tons of expensive stuff, and I'm not letting someone steal it. Someone always has to be watching her. And he's saying "Oh I'll be with her all the time." Yeah whatever. Like he's going to follow her to the bathroom, after he came a couple times. (not that I actually said that. Neither did I point out that considering that he's had bad luck w/ attracting women, the fact that someone's paying attention to him will mean that he'll be too giddy to notice anything. And he's not observant in the first place.) So I told him that I'm letting the apt turn into a den of sin, and I'm the prudish roommate here. So he's all pouty and goes, "so you're not letting me have anyone over?" And I'm like, "I don't trust these people, I don't know these people. You could've had Z (mutual friend) over, and it'd be awkward in the morning but I know that she wouldn't touch anything. "

And really that's that. She could be some streetwalker, drug-addict, kleptomaniac, sociopath, who knows what. And I have lots of easily pocketed stuff around. Hell, I don't even like it when the building caretaker comes over, and the guy's in his 60s. I may be overprotective, protecting the nest, but dammit, there's a hotel on either side of our building. Frigging pick one.