Tinkerbell's world of pink and fluffy

The move has happened.

2011-06-15T19:30:00.000+02:00

This blog has been moved. All new updates will now be at Tinkerbeth's World of Pink and Fluffy

Pirates of the Caribbean

2011-05-22T10:57:00.002+02:00

I hesitate to call it bad. It's Pirates of the Caribbean after all. The most epic and beloved Pirate franchise in years, maybe ever.
But I wouldn't exactly call it good either.

They have lost Elisabeth and Will and the gays, and the movies are better for it. They all outstayed their welcome by at least one movie.
The new female lead, 'cos you know, pirate movies has to have cleavage, is played by Penélope Cruz, and they could have spared themselves that. She is not a good actress. And I wonder: She is supposed to play a Spanish lady, but how come, the angrier she gets, the clearer and better her English becomes?
The only characters that are left from the previous movies are the Captain himself, Barbossa and Gibbs. Which in my opinion was an excellent casting decision. In my opinion they were the only truly enjoyable characters from the previous movies. Except, of course, Tia Dalma, who was a positively fascinating character. (Who the screwed up royally. She was way more fun when she wasn't a crab goddess.)
The new characters, like Blackbeard, was kinda bland mostly. Except from Angelica, who I really didn't believe for a second, and was just bad. Philip was weird, Syrena was odd, the Spaniards didn't not become an exciting twist. They were just really... I don't know. Not interesting at all.
Scrum was really cool, and the kid was cool, but to have a movie rest on the secondary supporting cast is really disappointing.
The character development fell into: sloppy and lazy, non-existing, or WTF? I am seriously supposed to believe that?
Barbossa was awesome though, and I really believed his motivations when he told them to us, and all the out of character stuff he had been doing up until that point suddenly became in character after all.
The Captain thou, I didn't believe his motivations even a little, and his actions in the end made me believe them even less. Even if he had an extreme Jack Sparrow moment at the end of the climax, he disappointed me royally in the one.
Oh, and Keith Richards has a cameo. Which was fun.^^,

The camerawork was awful. Dreadful. No doubt the cover the fact that the stuntmen weren't any good at sword fighting.
Do not watch it in 3D. Small details were cool in 3D, like ashes and other things flying on the wind, but the way the camera seem to be thrown from one cameraman to the next during action scenes made my dizzy. In a lot of places the 3D adaptation split, especially on scenes where things were going on at the edges of the screen.

The plot was really bad. It was an excuse for milking more money out of the PotC cow.
To give an example. Blackbeard is recruiting sailors by having his daughter, a former corruptee of Jack, play drag in Jack Sparrows clothes, making everyone believe they are signing up to be on his ship.
Why?
The motivation for doing it this way is never explained.
Maybe it is because they needed Jack to get to their destination (the Fountain of Youth), 'cos they don't know the way. Ehm... Wot?
He is abducted several times to make him tell people where it is.
But, twist of twists: There is a ritual. Which Sparrow didn't even know about?!
And then, when the ritual involves murder, then he don't want to? Ehm...? Again: what? He is a bad man. I am pretty sure he has killed in the past. More than once.

The writing was poor. Nothing more to say.

Well, it was entertaining anyway. And I have long since stopped expecting any much in the way of quality from Disney live action. The first one, as is often the case with firsts, was amazing, and nothing since as even come close. But that is the way it is. You don't go to see Johnny Depp movies to see high drama or Oscar performances, you go to have fun. It's not that he can't, I need only mention Chocolate or Edward Scissorhands. The thing about Depp is that he thoroughly enjoys playing quirky and completely mad, and he is really really good at it, and that is one of the reasons we love him so much. He is downright fun. Pure unadulterated glee permeates every single performance, and that's what makes him wonderful.
So what if female counterparts are poor actresses, and not even that pretty? We aren't there to see them.
Or if the writing is shotty, and the plot has holes you can sail a cruise ship through? We are there to be entertained, and as long as you don't think to hard about stuff, that is easily achieved.
So yah, while I hesitate to call it bad, and it certainly wasn't good, it kept me from being bored for 2 hours and about 16 minutes, and that was the whole point of it, wasn't it?

One more annoying thing thou:
I realize Marvel want to connect their movies into a universe, but Captain America was made in 1941, 12 years before Iron Mans first appearance in 1963. Stark enterprises could not have made Captain America!!!!
Bah!

Those days are past

2011-05-21T23:53:00.001+02:00

Last year I was an angry angry little girl. I used to write angry angry poetry. Angry graphic poetry. The anger and the hurt isn't so much fun to look back at, but sometimes I go back and read the poetry that arose from that anger and hurt. It's kind of therapeutic. The past can't be changed, but I can learn, or the future will be just as bad.
While rereading poems about Innocence and Little Dahling and umbrellas I found a little gem that I wanted to share with you. It's about six months old and one of the last things I wrote. You see I just woke up one morning and didn't need to write anymore.

So for your enjoyment:

Phoenix

she spun too slowly
to see the debris
raining off her wings
clinging to close
to the past
she had left behind
the buried won't rise
to see new days
life was best forgotten
in the days that passed
she learned to smile anew
shedding glitter
from her fingertips
she was blinding
when she wiped the war paint off
who knew
there was porcelain
hidden beneath the covers
of a murky past

casting off the world
the old grime crumbling off
rising
shining
with a fire from within

she flew into new tomorrows
glittering from the dust
of new days
screaming terror
from the lost days
as she shed no tears

tomorrow
is always to come
yesterday will never return

shining brightly
up towards you
don't tread to close
you will be burnt

Stupid WordPress

2011-05-21T16:31:00.000+02:00

So stupid WordPress won't work on my stupid WebHotell. 'Cos stupid WordPress wants to use stupid too new PHP. Bah!

So the fantastic new website will be further delayed. BahXP

Nerdygirls are hotter

2011-05-08T20:38:00.000+02:00

It's infinitely satisfying to run across something as obscure as a Turing test and actually know what it is.
I felt a moment of almost overwhelming nerdiness at that moment, and that was immensely gratifying.=D
(Yeah, I am still reading Mogworld^^,)

Packing up

2011-05-07T19:16:00.000+02:00

Update on the blog-move. Prolly gonna write mostly about that 'till it's upXP

So I am still waiting to be able to upload to the webhotel that's gonna host me.
I am gonna make the background and colours all nice and pretty. Gotta have banners, so I am gonna start making them soon too.
It's exam season, so that's gonna slow me down.
I am in the process of writing some nice posts to go on the new blog, practising the whole translating deal, how to do it fast and good.
I am brushing up on the German, hoping to get steady enough to have that as a launch language too.

If I get things all nice and set up in time, I am hoping to have it all up in a months time.
Wish me luck dollies^^,

Just a heads up

2011-05-06T20:05:00.001+02:00

I will move this blog soon.
You see, I have a dream (corny as it soundsXP).
And my dream is to offer my blog in all the languages I know, thereby making my blog a tool for others when they learn other languages, reading the blog in their goal-language and then re-reading in a language in that they already know when to see how well they picked it up.
My biggest passion of all is languages and the learning of languages. And I want to teach and help others learn.

So I went and took the big leap and ordered myself the new domain. I will post a link when it's open.
Rest assured the blog will stay essentially the same, with what I consider a few improvements:

I will have actual sections for stuff, one for books and cartoons and manga, one for games, one for movies, one for... girly stuff, like soaps and makeup and stuff, a general area for my random stuff like my life and travels and stuff.
The goal will be a minimum of 3 posts a week, which will all go in the "new posts" area. But we all know how it is with these good intentions XP it's a good goal anyway^^,

The starter languages will be English and Norwegian, and hopefully German, if I can brush up again fast enough.

Maybe I will fall flat on my face, but I wholeheartedly believe dreams are important, and this is mine. And I aint givin'n up 'fore I get started=D

Mogworld

2011-05-06T10:41:00.000+02:00

There's something infinitely poetic about a book in which the first-person main character dies on page 12.

But then he rises as a zombie. I'm reading this book only during daylight hours, but I can't stop.

The author of Mogworld is named Yahtzee Croshaw and does this for a living:

Thank God I'm pretty...?XP

2011-04-29T08:53:00.000+02:00

Decided on a whim to do my hair an makeup this morning. So this is me with corkscrew curls and a full face of makeup. Doesn't look like I'm wearing any? Well, that's kind of the point isn't it?
I am in actuality wearing concealer, foundation, a darker foundation for sculpting, blush, eyeshadow (including tightlining my lashes), mascara, eyebrow colour, and full lipstick (linpiner, lipstick and gloss).
Takes a lot of makeup to become perfectXP
And the reason half my hair is pinned back is that I screwed up some of my screwsXP

This is the nail polish picture I promised you guys. Kind of a blurry picture. I need to buy myself a camera.
It's a kind of seafoam-blu/green- ish sort of colour as base coat, topped with a black crackle polish, topped with a yellow one^^,

Ohisashiburidesu^^,

2011-04-11T20:34:00.000+02:00

Yeah, it's been almost a month since I updated last. Since that time I have come of clubbing age. I can now get into nightclubs in Norway even if I am carded. Wooooo... I guess.
I spent my birthday in Stockholm, shopping mostly. For nailpolish and makeup and books.
Oh, and before I forget: A, thank you so much for the Mudkip cap, I sent you a mail and a message on youtube, but you haven't answered. Have you changed you mail address? I haven't, so please send me a mail. Pretty please? If you haven't got my mail address, maybe leave a comment on here? It will come to me as mail, and then I will have your address due to it being the return address (if you have that enabled). Just please let me know nothing is wrong and that it really was you who sent me that cap, so that I won't have to throw it out.
I am gonna post pictures of all my new stuff that I got in Stockholm some day, hopefully soon. But it's dark now, and my apartment is a mess (as usual).
I got lots of nail polishes, which I will do pictures of when I try them out. I have my nails in a sort sea blue-green colour right now, with black graffiti nail polish on top and then yellow on top of that again. I am gonna post a picture tomorrow if they are still aliveXP My nail polish always chips really easily, it has chipped a little already, so we will just see how it looks tomorrow when it's light enough to photograph.
I bought a leather jacket also, and before anyone starts to go all about leather being murder: I believe that when you first kill an animal, you should use all of it. Even it's skin. And cows are being killed so that I can eat them, therefore it's not immoral of me to wear cow skin as clothing. I don't wear mink thou, 'cos I don't eat mink. I think that I can wear whatever I eat. So: I do not wear rabbit fur, but I do like sheepskin. I don't wear mink, but I do wear leather, that comes from cows.
And I do not condemn the practice of natural hair brushes. To make animal hear brushes they shave the animal. And upset and mistreated animals produce bad fur, which in turn gives poor brush quality. I have actually heard of vegans who only use synthetic makeup brushes, which I guess is important for them, but I don't really see the point. Seeing as the animals hjave to be happy to produce good brushes. And if you think this is a weird statement: who do you see if a dog/cat/other pet is happy? They have glossy pretty fur. So thereXP

Ms. Autumn =/= Miyavi

2011-03-15T00:01:00.002+01:00

I am sorry, I know Emilie Autumn and Miyavi appeal to a lot of the same demographic, now shying away from the "emo" label and calling themselves scene-kids, but they are not related.
I can't really see the connection to Rasputina either (to ms. Autumn that is). (It's actually closer to Imogen Heap Maybe? Maybe not? Hmmmm)
I realize that these bands are of a class by themselves, way off the side of any genre I can think of, but appealing to scene-kids and lolitas are a bad excuse for telling impressionable youth who doesn't know better that they are related.
That would be like relating Beetles to Nick Cave just because they both make morbid sh*t. Or Miranda Lambert to God Module due to they both being awesome.

That being said: Wooooo For Miyavi on Spotify!!!!

Do me more

2011-03-14T13:52:00.000+01:00

I have rediscovered Amuro Namie. She came bubbling out of the youtube cesspool as a related video to Double.
She has recently released a new single in collaboration with After School, a Korean girl super group. (there are those Koreans againXP)
Ms. Amuro however is Japanese, and is helping After School get a kick start to their Japanese carrier.
Here you go:

(I wonder why they always flip the videos....O.o)

I think that Namie has a much cleaner sound than BoA, and thou I heart BoA with a passion these days it's nice with a break from all the autotuningXP

I hate birthdays....=/

2011-03-08T00:01:00.000+01:00

A month from today I will be turning 23. Man, am getting oldXP
Or, not really. But I am getter older and even that can be kind of upsetting sometimes. I have been accustomed to being a child. To do childish things and wear childish clothes.
I gave away all of my goth wear a couple of weeks back. That was hard. Saying goodbye to a part of myslf that I really liked. But it was time I guess.
I gave away all my miniskirts and pink clothes too. Things that made me lokk 16. I was done being 16 seven years ago. That however felt really nice. That was a kind of childish I haven't been really comfortable with since I was 18.
I am gonna spoil myself clothes-wise for me birthday. Find out what my new style will be.
So far I know I like jeans, red sweaters, and shirts. Also I like halternecks, but I don't know if that's in style this summer. We'll see^^,
One good thing thou. I will be old enough to go to nightclubsXP

So yoo herd I liek Mudkips?

2011-03-05T10:42:00.000+01:00

Se my hat! See my hat!
I got a late x-mas present from A^^, Isn't it awesome=D=D

Plants vs. Zombies

2011-03-05T00:01:00.001+01:00

So I have a zombie-phonia. An extreme and annoying fear of dead, rotting things that move around.
And you can tell me they don't exist 'till you're blue in face, I am still terrified of them.
But I have discovered this neat little game called Plants vs.Zombies, where they are drawn sort of childishly, and I get to to shoot them dead with plants.
It's helping a little. I spend most of the game trying to ignore them, and after a few hours I am so terrified I can't stop playingXP
But little by little it's getting better.
I made Boyfriend do the foggy night-time levels where you can't see them coming thou.XP

To do (or I should do)

2011-03-04T00:01:00.000+01:00

I should really do some reading, but it's way to easy to be distracted.
Friends on facebook, Simon's Cat, Plants vs.Zombies, Questionable Content are all excellent distractions.
It's hard to concentrate. I put on classical music, which usually help, but it's too boring, so I listen to Aha! by Imogen Heap on repeat, which is too interresting.
I think it's just all the things that have to be done I get distracted by. I should clean my room, I should organize my book shelf, I should wash my clothes, I should clean my bathroom. Bah!
In the end I just end up playing games. I think it's the lack of sugar. And the excessive amounts of coffee.
I eat apples to calm my need for sugar, and to keep hydrated. No more saft for me. I should drink water.
I need to pluck my eyebrows. Maybe I should dye my hair? And then look down and my great big green philosophy book lie there, mocking me.
Bah! I think I am gonnna go buy some soup.

Sticky tape

2011-03-01T15:09:00.000+01:00

Rory on the Obama campaign trail

2011-02-26T00:01:00.008+01:00

You know the funniest, sharpest, quickest show on TV?
Full of jokes and references to obscure pop culture. Which gets better and better each time I watch it, 'cos I get more of the references each single time.
They also predicted Obama for president. The whole show ended in 07 with Rory going off to follow Barak Obama on his campaign trail. This before he even decided to go for president.
I just heart Gilmore Girls so much <3<3

Cool Schoolthings I have bought

2011-02-25T00:01:00.000+01:00

I am a little late with this post, as school have been in session for a while, but I bought some cool stuff, as I always do at the start of the school year. Sorry about the pictures being crooked, I hate blogger's picture upload feature, I have to flip all pictures every which way on my computer before they turn up right, and honestly I am too lazy today.

These first pictures are my book of spells day planner. It came wrapped in a article about Albus Dumbledore. Isn't it neat?
It has a page per day, and it's all tidy and a nice size=D

These are my notebooks. They were way different size than I thoughXP
But I'll find some use for them^^,
They came in a plastic sleeve with a "Plans for Global Domination" paper plate for stiffness.
Cute, neh?^^,

Going on a saving spree

2011-02-24T00:01:00.001+01:00

So I might have a shopping addiction. I don't like to buy stuff, or clothes. And it's not the satisfaction of spending money, I hate being broke, which is what happens when you spend too much money, as we all know. It's more that I like owning a lot of books. It's not the buying that does it for me, it's the owning. The owning of ways to spend my time. Of books and movies and music and games. It's at the point where I'd rather spend 800kr on books than spend 300 on a new pair of jeans. On top of that I keep giving my clothes away or actually tossing them, due them not fitting, being ruined or simply belonging to another life.
I also spend a lot of money on nice smelling soaps, bath fizzers, shampoo bars, and other nice smelling beauty stuff. I have become almost addicted to smelling good and pampering boyfriend and myself, and it just costs too much.
This cannot continue.
And then the boyfriend decided that he is taking me shopping in Stockholm for my birthday. And for that I need money.
So until my birthday I am going on a saving spree^^,
This means that I am not gonna buy books, movies or games. I am gonna use up all of my soaps and such before buying more, but I have to be allowed to clean myselfXP
But lets be honest, I have books. I have movies. And I have games. I have not seen, read or played about half of it. No, untrue, I have not read most of it, and have seen nearly all of it, but I just keep watching my favourite movies over and over anyway, and I have played all of my DS games, except one, which I haven't taken the plastic off, but I have decided to make it a birthday gift, so I think I am excused at that game. I have not however finished any of the finishiable games. Not one. Pokémon games can't be finished, but I haven't even taken on the Elite Four in about half of them.

So I think that I will not buy anything but food and cleaning supplies until my birthday. I will play games I already own, watch the movies in my bookshelf, and read my own books. That I have a few of.
I will give or throw away anything that I ended up not liking.
And when my birthday comes up I will hopefully have a neat little pile of money that I can buy clothes with, so that I can throw out my frayed jeans, faded sweaters and dated... well everything. Last year I bought two party dresses, 'cos I needed two party dresses, and some underwear, and that was it. It's too little.
I need a less dated look. So I am gonna stop shopping so that I can shop^^, Maybe even pay to get my hair cut, and get it cut right, and in a way that actually suits me, for the first time in... over 5 years I think. At least. Maybe more. The last time I can remember paying to go to the hairdresser was when I got black streaks when I was 15. I am so over being a model for random people and not even having straight bangs afterwards.

So yeah, I am going to be sugar free. and well dresses soon^^, It's gonna be a whole new me=D

Public announcement directed at men

2011-02-23T00:01:00.023+01:00

I have been raised good. It means that I am a nice person. I pride myself on not being a mean bitch until I need to. I means that I will smile and listened until I you are done talking and actually answer you nicely.
None of these things means that you have a shot in hell to get laid by me.
I am just being polite.
Men everywhere thinks that nice girls are interested just because we are not rude if we don't have to. A lot of these men make me have to.
No matter where I meet you, I do not want you. On line, at school, at the library, at parties, no matter where, I do not want you.
Can you hear how I am talking non-stop about my amazing boyfriend? That is because I have an amazing boyfriend, that I love and do NOT want to trade out with you!
Nice girls =/= easy lay!
I am NOT going home with you, tonight or any night.
I am nice 'cos I am nice, and a little naive, so when you are nice, I think you are being nice, end of business. I don't automatically think that you have romantic interests, I think you maybe wanna be friends or you are being polite.
Argh! Stupid men! I need to start being a bitch straight away, so that I won't have to be a bitch later on when I have actually discovered you are a nice guy, that I could be friends with. FRIENDS with, No More.
Stupid men. I am so over stupid men.Bah

Candy-schmandy

2011-02-22T00:01:00.016+01:00

I am gonna stop eating candy.
Sugar rots your everything.
Sure, you need carbs. I can eat pasta instead. Just as tasty.
I think I am addicted to sugar, so I am gonna stop feeding my addiction. See if I won't be better off for it.
My mom has done it successfully, so why can't I?
It's expensive, and really bad for you. I am gonna slim my flat stomach (as if I need it, right?XP) and fatten my slim wallet.
So, who's with me?

There's a few exceptions to the rule:
I get to drink cocktails and alcoholic sodas. I am gonna be better, not boring.
I get to eat cake at special occasions, like when I visiting my grandma or other people who like to serve cake with the coffee. Or birthdays. I do not however get to ravage the chocolate bowl XP

It's gonna be hell for a while, but then it will be better. I can drink coffee and eat apples. If my mom can, so can I! (Even if she has a much stronger willpower than I doXP)

Changes

2011-02-21T10:12:00.002+01:00

Life changes. Love changes. Soon the place will change. I have changed. A lot. So I think my blog should reflect that.
What do you think?

Go clubbing in Korea with me?

2011-02-21T10:03:00.001+01:00

Anyone wanna buy me BoA for my birthday?

Bonus points for aggressive clappingXP

Changed my mind want Bom instead. (I actually bothered to find out her name, that's hoe cute she isXP)

And Suzy please^^,

Just because we can go clubbing in Japan too:

I think I heart perfume a littleXP

I had almost forgotten hoe much I love Ringo Shiina. Couldn't find Bou Jackson Fujin, so it is what it is.

And last, for nostalgia's sake. The first Japanese song I really hearted:

Saturdaynight dinner

2011-02-19T20:07:00.000+01:00

Niiiice glass of red wine.
Making entrecôte for dinner. With oven baked shalotts and potatoes on the side.
Pokémon on the DS. Complete with shiny legendary dogs and brand new Celebi.
Boyfriend bringing home cake from downtown^^,
Whoever said I don't know how to cook are too wrong^^, Poor people, who doesn't get to taste my delicious entrecôte stuffed with garlic with a nice redwine reduction drizzled over^^,
Bah on you peopleXD

Stupid cold

2011-02-09T11:05:00.000+01:00

I have a cold. A stupid cold that makes me sneeze and cough and makes my nose run and my head heavy.
It's no point in going to school with such a stupid cold, 'cos I can't think, and I will probably just infect everyone, and that's just bad form.

I love my optician shop. I broke my glasses the day before yesterday, but one of the nice girls at my optician shop fixed them free of charge. I have the typa e of frames that only have metal on the top half, and a platic wire on the underside of the glasses and it was just the wire that snapped. I have had them for a couple of years, and it might be time for new ones.
I kinda want contacts. I like glasses, but apparently glasses on girls are bad, and I like being thought of as pretty^^,
That and my glasses are pink. I want midnight blue ones. I still like pink and I think that pale pink suits me in small doses, but I am evolving more in the direction of blues and reds. I think that people are always evolving and at the moment I am evolving away from pinks and into other things. I have other friends who like pinks thou, so I am able to give my pink clothes to them, so that I don't have to throw them away. I have a little too much pink in my skin I think, and wearing the baby pink sweaters and dresses that I used to often make me look a little washed out. I figured with my light hair and fair skin I should wear bolder, brighter colours. I really like red. I think I look good in them too.
I am thinking about perming my hair also. I have always wanted curls.
My hair has gotten a sort of golden/honey quality about it. I am using Lush's blonde shampoo, which sadly has been discontinued, and their Marilyn hair cure, and it has brought out the honey tones in my hair.
I am trying to learn how to curl my hair with a straightening iron, but it's sort of difficult.
I am getting better at doing my makeup also. It's amazing how much a tinted moisturizer can even out your skin. I am gonna pluck my eyebrows when I get better.

But now I am gonna go read some.

Follow up post ZOMG O.o

2011-02-03T21:54:00.002+01:00

I got a comment on my last post, or rather on the TV makes kids stupid part of it, and as a first on this blog, I think I am posting a follow up.
I totally agree on the part where Norwegians are good at English due to TV. I attribute my good English skills to watching a lot of TV as a child. But there are some contributing factors here: The first one being our age, and the second one being the age that we start to learn English.
I can see that I was very unclear about that in my last post, but these findings are mostly directed at children of 3 years and younger, so they are very young, and are still learning our mothertounge. When we start to better our English through TV we already know some English, which brings me to my second point. In Norway we start learning English in 1st grade. Or at least a lot of us do. I learned longhand instead, and therefore did not start to learn English before I was in 4th grade.
So: When we start to learn English from TV we are old enough to do so, and we already know English. You cannot simply pick up a language from watching TV, unless it was a language teaching programme. If we could how many teenagers would not be fluent in JapaneseXP
I wholly agree that our very high exposure to English through the media contributes hugely to our adeptness at English here in Norway, and the fact that they have deemed English a second language in Norway (as opposed to a foreign language) somewhat attests to this fact.
But then you have other people who don't learn as much as say you or I have. I know a man, exactly my age, who has watched as much English TV as I have, and who started learning English in 1st grade, four years before me, who cannot speak it at all. He almost flunked out of English in high school. So then we have to ask ourselves: This kid, who has had all the same things as us, and who doesn't have our skill, and you do not have to look far or hard to find others like him, what did his parents do differently?
I was speaking and writing poetry in English (very bad poetry thou) when I was 11. I did not grow up in his house so I don't know his amount of TV watching, or what he watched, but I know that he has had a similar upbringing as me and all that.
The fact that Norwegians are generally better than Germans or Finns does not mean that most of us are very good. We all grew up watching the same after school specials, and the same soaps, and the same sitcoms. We had the same TV available, but still a frighteningly large amount of Norwegian teenagers are very bad at English. And I believe that this proves that it has to be much more than TV that makes us good at English.

Britnzzz

2011-02-01T22:19:00.000+01:00

You know how I like Britney and such when I am drunk?
Sleep deprived apparently works also.
I do realize it's 8 to 10 in the evening as this sentence is being written, but I don't sleep well these days. Weekends are better. Weekends bring companyXP

Aaaaaanywho. Britney is the shhh when I am sleepy or tipsy so I clicked a random mashup with her name on it. And she has just released a new song.

Ohohoh! Do NOT put your kids in front of the TV. Television makes kids stupid. In the Dream Garden might capture your kids like nufink else, but it's gonna hurt your kid in the long run.
The thing is: Kids can't learn language from TV, and there is a direct correlation between people's adeptness at the talking thing and their intelligence. You might sit there and think "but I learned (insert word/language here) from (programme)". But how old were you. Kids can learn some words from TV when they are older than 3, but no grammar. When we were kids here in Norway Cartoon Network was not dubbed to Norwegian, and I have heard so many people my age go on and on about how good they were at English from watching Cartoon Network. Funny thing thou, a large portion of these people are really bad at English. Really really bad. Horrible.
So: TV makes kids stupid. Don't make TV be your babysitter.

Oh! Luke puts Megaman Protein Powder in his shakes. How's that for your random referenceXP

I need to eat more green stuff. And I need to not drink so much coffeeXP

I went swimming today, so my poor tummy is feeling better. Actually the biggest help was shuffling snow. I hate shuffling snow.

I am gonna download Jul i Svingen and watch that soon. Christmas ain't over 'till Easter right? XP Makes me sad sometimes. They haven't even taken down the Christmas decorations in town yet. I guess that will be nice up north thou. I am so done with this drab city. Next year will be better=D

I am so annoyed at Nintendo right now. I have ordered Pokémon 5th gen from the states to get it early. BUT it's released March 4th in Norway and March 6th in the states! And then I have to wait for them to be shipped. There better damned well be some event only Pokémon in it for me! XP
I am getting it half the price thou.

To cap the rambling off. If I am ever audition for Idol or something, I am singing this song:

5 points and a hug if you can place it

Tummy hurts

2011-01-26T06:19:00.000+01:00

You know how I aways say that excerise machines look like torture exquipment?
They don't do maximum until the next day.
My abs hurt like hell.

But Boyfriend just warmed the homemade mac and cheese with cauliflower that I made yesterday and I have almost half a litre of coffee strong enough to murder cows with and I am cooking marshmallows over a candle.
Boyfriend takes good care of me.
I heart him^^,

Disney World on Ice?

2011-01-24T23:20:00.000+01:00

I went to Disney on Ice yesterday. And I saved myself a pretty penny, 'cos now I don't have to go to Disney World. Now, wasn't that convenient?
It was really cool and all that, but what's with all the promotion for Disney World? I mean, I wanted to see Disney characters acting awesome on ice skates.
Instead I got huge the usual Disney cast (as in the mice, the ducks and Goofy) emoting just about as well as the Teletubbies, Buzz Lightyear going to "infinity and a little bit further" (what's up with that? It's supposed to "to infinity and beyond") and the Incredibles.
I did get Maleficient (sorry if I spelled that wrong) thou.
The second half, when there was actually a story was awesome. But the entire first half of the show was a frggin Disney Land commercial! Why?!!!!
I never get to go when I was little, and maybe I had it built up too much in my mind, so I was bound to get let down, I don't know. It was really fun, and I got a Mickey Cup, and a Violetta powersphere to show for it, so all in all I am happy.

I feel sorry for my kids thou, I am afraid that when I finally get some of my own, I am going to have used up all my spoiling on the kids I have around me nowXP

Noooooooooooooo!!!!

2011-01-16T17:15:00.000+01:00

Heathran
Shaymin
Deoxys
Manaphy
Mew
Latios and Latias
Jirachi
And Arceus

All Pokémon Wi-Fi events last year.
The Arceus, God of all Pokémon (or something, not too clear on the mythology here), because of the Wi-Fi router laying on a shelf, not in use. The rest because I didn't know Boyfriend has WEP coding on his router.
*crying out in despair* And I really gave it my best shot getting the Jirachi at the end of summer too. But my router was broken, and my new place doesn't allow Wi-Fi anyway. And the only other place I found with a WEP coding had an ø in it's code. Can't read the letter? Neither can my DS.
Oh well. I have managed just fine without these Pokémon thus far. And I DID get the Pikachu coloured Pichu, so it wil be fine.
Plus, I will get the Shiny Legendary Dogs. And I didn't have to travel to Japan to get the either.
I am also buying a dongle thingy, so I will never ever miss an event again=D
I am gonna go play in Plaza now.
Oh, and if you wanna trade Pokémon with me over Wi-Fi drop me a note, and we can figure something out now=D=D

Pokémon and funny academics

2011-01-15T12:29:00.000+01:00

So, I will in fact be playing the new Pokémon games in March=D

Fun thing about the book I told you about yesterday. It's funny. Humour in academic literature is so rare it's almost non-existent, so this is a wonderful book to just relax from the more stone-faced serious books.
I think, but I don't know yet, that I might recommend this book to a parent interested in learning herself the mechanics about her child's linguistic developments. But I am not sure yet

Schedule made

2011-01-14T20:52:00.000+01:00

So I signed up for classes today. Most of the classes I wanted to take were full, so I ended up with philosophy and language acquisition.
I have tried both before, but do to my life sucking for most of that semester I wasn't able to pass them. So I am trying again.
There are new books for Language Acquisition, and the one we are covering first is way better than the one we used last year. It's a 1000 subject, meaning that's it's mostly an introductory course, and therefore the fact that this book is way more geared towards beginners of linguistic. Actually it's directed mostly at psychology students. Which makes it easy to understand for linguistic beginners.
The book is Child Language: Acquisition and Development by Matthew Saxton.
I am reading the very first chapter at the moment for my first class on Monday, and I already feel much more confident about passing the exam this time around. Both because I have already done the subject once, but also because the terms are being explained in way that is easily understandable for people who don't have a pre-existing knowledge of linguistics.

Pokémon 5th generation is being release in the US in the 6th of March. I will be getting it sometime after that=D=D
It's like looking forward to Christmas and my birthday at once, I am so excited=D=D I am trying not to read too much about it, but I am kinda failing at that.
And I have said this before, and I will say it again. $35 is cheap!!! Stop complaining. It will be at least $70 when it's released in Norway. Stop complaining!!!!

School start euforia

2011-01-13T09:02:00.000+01:00

The absolute best part of the year is at the very start. When I get to buy the books, and the little study aids.
I would be absolutely hopeless during shopping week at American colleges. (For those not in the know, this is the week at the beginning of the semester where you can sample the classes to find out which you want to take.)
I am going shopping for books tomorrow. I wanna go today, but I can't until I know if I can take the subjects I want.
I have been doing some internet shopping for fun study things, like notebooks and pens and really magic markers and a really cool day planner.
I have been picking out my subjects. This will be a fun spring indeed=D=D
Expect a lot of school talk=D=D

I got me #131 of 500

2011-01-12T19:02:00.000+01:00

So I had some free books lying around. I mean of course that while I was cleaning my flat I found some of those little stampy cards that gives you every 8th book for free, and when I put them together I had enough for this huge, expensive book. 1st edition and signed. Norwegian knight book, based on a true story.

I also drooled on some other books I have to get.
I am number four (I think it was called), which is going to be made into to a movie, and I know next to nothing it, but I know just enough to know that I HAVE to read it!
Also there is Return to Jotunheimen (which is my Norwegian to English translation of a title I am not 100% sure of). It's a new Norwegian Viking type fantasy, and way to expensive for me to be going around and buy it just now. But I have it read it. Libraries are good for that sort of thing.^^,

Entertainment for 2011

2011-01-11T12:20:00.000+01:00

This will just be a little list of non-schoolbooks that I am gonna read in 2011.

Sofie's world - Which is really a little of both, school and non-. I am really halfway re-reading as I have half of it before.

A wrinkle in time - Which is a series of children's books that I bought in a bout of January depression. I have read about 20 pages so far and one of the characters is names mrs. Whatsit, so it's looking good.

Harry Potter y la piedra filosofal - To practice my Spanish. Maybe the rest of the series. Hopefully the rest of the series.

Der Herr der Ringe - My parents bought me the most beautiful box of LOTR in German. I am looking forward to that.

Die unendliche Geschichte - Finish it rather. To practice my German.

Any and all books from the Hallows, the Kitty Norville, and the Sookie Stackhouse series that I have not read yet.

Shogun - My boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday and I am reading a little at a time. The way that I read books, I read maybe a couple of chapters and then I red something else and then I read a couple more chapters. I am starting to like it, it has a very slow start, but it's getting very much better.

The Inkheart and/or Tintenherz triology - finish it rather. In either English or German. Or both.

And then maybe finish the crown of stars series.

And then I am gonna finish these games:

Pokémon White and/or Black
Rune Factory, maybe
Starcraft 2
Maybe one of the myriads of unfinished other Pokémon games I have.
Maybe my Kingdom hearts game.

I am gonna finish the wedding present, but I don't think that I will manage the gift for V. It's just too large.XP

So I have a lot to do^^,
And then I have to pass my subjects as well^^,
Happy new years^^,

Single dinner

2011-01-10T22:16:00.000+01:00

Whoever said cooking dinner for one is awful?
For dinner today I had a little steak, mushrooms cooked in butter, penne pasta and a cremé fraiche sauce.
And whoever says I am bad/boring cook are all wrong.
I am having a wonderful evening with Gilmore Girls on DVD for the umphteenth time and chatting with my Man^^,
Life is wonderful^^,

On a more academic note: Guess the only book store I have been able to find Sofie's World? The timeless Norwegian classic about philosophy?
The local fantasy book store O.o
But I have it now. I am so passing philosophy this time aroundXD

I need winter to be over

2011-01-08T18:48:00.002+01:00

It's wet. I don't mind the cold so much these days, as there is nearly none, but I am so tired of the wet and the dark. I just want to be a bear and go to sleep until it is all over.
Stupid winter!

New year or something

2011-01-03T21:08:00.001+01:00

So, yah. I know I promised Christmas posts. I need to stop doing that every year. I never manage to follow through. Might having something to do with me hating Christmas and all. Awful holiday. Detest it.
I am not a Christian, so celebrating the birth of a guy that in all likelihood was born in April anywho seems kind of.... pointless? Is that a nice way to say it?
All the glory to Christian people. You seem very lucky to me. Actually I am for personal religion. I like the idea of having some sort of god to talk to or turn to when life sucks. It would be nice. But I don't have that.
I go to Christmas mass thou. The priest that did my confirmation training is a wonderful person and an amazing priest, at it has gotten to be a nice tradition with me and my mom. And my sister sings also. It's really nice.
But in the end, with me technically believing that Jesus existed (with the amounts that have been written about him in different places the probability that he actually existed is bigger than the probability that Caesar did), but with me believing that the whole son of god thing can at best be called a gross exaggeration it is basically celebrating capitalism. It has become a whole holiday of buying shit for each other.
And over the last... whole of my life, there has been at least one person who has had a habit of judging the power of out love/friendship/whatever on either the gift I gave them or the reaction I had about their gift. I mean, come on! I that persons gift was not the most awesome thing I had ever owned I must not love them. Waahwaahwaah. God, I am so effing tired of that sort of people.
This year that was a lot easier. People like that have either been forcibly removed from my life or they have calmed down. Presents were pleasant this year.
But with the angst that has built up over the last... 7 years mostly, it was hard anyway.
And then after having been stressed and freaked out over the entire course of November and December I was so tired by the end of it I wasn't able to enjoy it like I should. And being tired and depressed all the time, Christmas posts sort of weren't the first thing on my mind.

However! It was actually nice. I spent time with my family, and my friends. I devoted some days to the person who have always and will always be the closest to my heart, my little sister. We had a great time running all over town at bookstores, and eating pancakes, and just having some sister time.

I did the traditional Gacha New Years eve. Got ridiculously waisted and almost got shot by some stupid drunk 40 year olds and their non-existing fireworks-shooting skills XP
(And according to the texts I was sending the god told me to drink a lot of wineXP)

So all in all it was good. I am tired. And next year I am not doing the X-mas posts. Remind me of that if I promise you some okey?

Plans for the new year will be moving, getting into the new school, seeing more live concerts, and having an all around awesome time of it all. We are only young once, and I am gonna enjoy it to the fullest.
Happy New Year world

Non X-mas related x-mas mulitmedia

2010-12-16T15:00:00.000+01:00

It's getting nearer to Christmas.
And there are some things that I just relate to Christmas, that have absolutely nothing to do with Christmas.
Like the Hollows. The Hollows books always come out around now, or at least they have for the least couple of years. I am still waiting on the "right" cover, so I am probably not gonna get to read the newest book before Christmas this year.
There's a new Sookie Stackhouse out too, but it's in the fugly tv-series cover. Well, actually the cover I collect is rather non-pleasing to the eye, but I kinda like it. So I am gonna wait until it comes out.
Order it off Amazon if I have to.
My DS just ran out of batteries. I am house sitting for my boyfriend. He is waiting for a sound thingamabob that's coming with FedEx. It's been at the airport since Monday, and someone has to be here to sign for it. It's gonna be awesome (he tells me). I was playing Pokémon HeartGold, and that is also a very Christmassy thing for me.
There is no release date on the Black and White games as of now. They sell the Japan-imported ones on Amazon for 80 bucks. Sitting tight. Just because I have the money it does not mean that I cannot wait.
I am the least nosiest girl alive. My present is sitting the room right next to this one, and I have not snooped. I am so un-nosy.^^,
Gonna watch Gundam Seed now.

I am hopeless at posting

2010-12-14T12:55:00.000+01:00

Been a week.
BUT!
Me and boyfriend went ice-skating on Sunday. It was cold, but it was so fun^^, Afterwards we went and drank Irish coffee^^,
The world looks like a post card.

Boooring

2010-12-06T08:15:00.002+01:00

Christmas cleaning is booooooring.
But since I am the one with the ugliest klear and the longest face it falls to me to do itXP
It might also have something to do with me being done with school, and therefore having the days offXP
But I have been very good, and tidied three rooms, so now I am taking a break and some food before going down into the basement and chopping firewoodO.o

Mommy mommy, I know what I don't want for X-mas

2010-12-04T22:16:00.002+01:00

WTF!!!

2NE1 - Don't stop the music

2010-12-03T20:39:00.000+01:00

2NE1 has released a new single. I think it's just so-so. What do you think?

3rd of December

2010-12-03T20:17:00.000+01:00

I missed yesterday. Sorry folks.
Sooo... Something Christmassy to write about today....
There's a fire in the fireplace, and boyfriend and his friend are playing Super Meat Boy. I am nice to play TV games with, I don't like playing, just watching.
There's snow on the porch outside.

In my Christmas Calendar they tried to straighten out the propeller, and they have decided that they will "spikk" one out of wood. I think the vampire is rearing it's head soon.^^,

First of December

2010-12-01T23:08:00.000+01:00

Today is the first of December. The International Month of Nissenusse (Santakisses^^,)
Here's me sending the first Nissenuss for all of you.

I am watching the Julekalender as my Christmas calendar. I spend way to much money already, and chocolate calendars aren't really all that fun. I am kinda tired of stuff. I have too much stuff, so any kind of trinkety calendars are out. I have too much stuff.
These days I enjoy throwing away stuff. But enjoy keeping stuff even more. The nice stuff that means something to me. Like the tea-set that my grandfather's ex-girlfriend made for me when I was around 5 or something. And the little fairy statue that my friend sent for me from Finland, and the little bobblehead kitty that the Gachas bought for me. Little things.

I am gonna try to write one little Christmassy thing every day for the whole of December.
Today my Christmas vacation began. School's out^^,

I have finished all of my Christmas presents. All I have to do is mail the ones that have to be mailed, so that they will arrive before Christmas.
Some of them have been ordered online, so they have to arrive, and one of them has to be assembled.
And they have to be wrapped and marked of course.

L is ranting about the difference between fluorine and fluoride. One will kill you, the other one can poison you and put white spots on your teeth. She is very cute^^,

They sang "It's hard to be a Nissemann" in the Julekalender today.

Winter wonder land (or something)

2010-11-12T10:52:00.000+01:00

Picture taken while waiting for the bus this morning. The world has dressed itself up in cotton and powdered sugar. When I got got to school I saw that the world here is quite different. It's wet and dark and drippy.

The rice porridge has gotten Christmas packaging^^,

Trolljegeren

2010-11-09T20:13:00.000+01:00

So, Boyfriend took me to see Trolljegeren.
I love mockumetaries. They are the funnest of the -umenatries.
It's about some students chasing after a guy who illegally hunts for bears, or so they think.
The lead, the troll hunter, is played by a Norwegian comedian called Otto Jesperen, and a lot of other comedians have small roles. Robert Stoltenberg (who is just as obnoxious as always) plays a east European fella who supplies the bears for the cover-up operation. And Knut Nærum, who plays a technician at a power plant up in the monutains. Both of them only got about 5 minutes of screen time, and these are huuuuge comedians in Norway. I am guessing that they got the parts so that they could put their names on the posters^^,

I think that it is worthy of the Oscar for foreign movies^^,

It's not a horror movie by the way, even thou it can seem that way from the trailer.

Why Disney?!?! What did we ever do to you?

2010-11-07T21:30:00.000+01:00

Please proceed with caution. This is painful

Why on earth did they do this? It's an amazing song. These are the movies of our childhood, and Disney does this over and over, making their crappy bands like Jonas Brothers or what-not ruin our movies.
I admit however that some, a very small number, of these remakes might be liveable. But I haven't heard them yet. Do you really hate your loyal fan base this much Disney? What did we ever do to you?

I just had a shocking revelation

2010-11-02T11:52:00.000+01:00

I wanted to reheat my coffee this morning, so I put in the microwave oven. And what do you know, my microwave oven didn't like my metal cup and threatened to set itself on fireXP
I guess it's too small to handle things like metal cups. The larger ones at uni handles my metal cup. Oh well.
I put it in a creamic mug and reheated it in that. And then I forgot it at homeXP

Stolen ideas and good essays

2010-11-01T23:04:00.003+01:00

I stole your idea V.
I made a artisan craft blog.
Stiching with Tinkerbell

Also I got my American Literature essay back today.
I got great response. The only negative response I got was for grammar and the fact that I accidentally turned in the wrong version of my essay and it is filled with exclamation marks where I was supposed check facts or put citations^^,
I bought myself a Spanish Grammar Work Book as a price for myself^^,
I called the boyfriend during his lunch to tell him, and I could literally hear the smile he had plastered all over his face. He sounded proud. It felt really good. So come on people, tell me how proud you are of me^^,

Um... What?

2010-11-01T18:49:00.003+01:00

So I am subscribing to S/mileage's youtube channel. And in my inbox today I found this:

All I have to say is: Um.... What?!

Somebody who speaks Japanese much better than me: What the eff is this about?!?!

New 2NE1 video

2010-11-01T10:43:00.002+01:00

It hurts

The video is beautiful.
I looked up the lyrics thou, and they are really dull. Bad actually. But it's an entirely different culture, so I guess the love songs, or heartbreak songs rather, would be entirely diffent also.
But it sounds wonderful. And the video, as I said, it beautiful^^,

Concert

2010-10-30T10:35:00.002+02:00

Skambankt rocked my socks^^,
The concert was awesome!!! My thighs are sore from all the jumping I did.
The sound mixing was awful thou. It was impossible to hear the vocalist.
And the warm up band sucked.
A man gave me his spot right behind the mixing desk. I think he thought I was cute. He had his arm next to me like he was considering groping meXP My Boyfriend was standing right next to, so I guess he didn't dare^^,
I also completed my cd collection, I now own all the Skambankt cds. I didn't bother to get it signed thou. I went backstage to get a signed cd, but then the drummer came out, and he was... wrong. He looked all wrong, like not the way I imagined. I honestly think that knowing too much about the people behind the music ruins music. So I just took the cd home.
I am kind of hang over thou^^, I got drunk enough to crave beer. That means I am drunk.

Halloweeeeeeeeeeeeeen^^,

2010-10-29T16:14:00.002+02:00

So it's Halloween this weekend. And I have two parties lined up^^, And I am baking cookies tomorrow with the Gachas. And today I am going to the Skambankt concert, and I am going backstage^^, Good times^^,

Because them Asian sure can dance

2010-10-25T14:00:00.004+02:00

The western world lost it's dance troupe approach to bands sometime around the same time as we lost our fascinations for constructed boy/girl-bands.
Asia still loves that thou. And so do we.

This is the "dance shot post"

Double-U - Miss Love Tantei

Anyone but me who thinks the intro sounds like "not gonna get us" by T.a.T.u?
But seriously, they could have saved themselves the rap-sequence.

Miss A - Breathe

Okey, I love this song. So sue meXP

Berryz Koubou - Special generation

Anyone but me who hear "super shallow generation?XP

100220 SHINee & 2PM dance battle

I am not hating on the dance abilities of the Japanese supergroups of Hello Project, but these Korean bands kick Hello Projects ass in most cases. Thou in Korea there seems to be a different focus on the dance abilities of their idols than in Japan. Also their styles are completely different. Hello Project are singers who dance, while the Koreans are dancers who sing, if you get my meaning?
And thou I still like Japanese pop, I must admit that these days, I do prefer the Korean bands.

See what I mean? They aren't bad dancers at all.
Mostly posted for nostalgic reasons^^, Thou I still like it thou^^,
And to any and all men who find them hot: they are 13. Did you gross yourself out now? I hope to all that's holy that you didXP

It's a shame that Koreans don't release as many Dance Shot versions as the Japanese so. On the other hand, most of their videos are all dance anyway.
Here is one of the awesome songs, with it's two videos mashed^^,
How cool is that, right?XD

If I am ever gonna be a teacher

2010-10-25T11:28:00.001+02:00

If I am ever gonna be a teahcer, I am gonna be a professor at a university, and get applauded after every lecture^^,

Where are all the Japanese channels?

2010-10-25T06:27:00.000+02:00

Korean bands seem to all have their own youtube channels. Which is how I discovered things like 2AM and 2PM, they are signed to JYPentertainment, and when I added Miss A all their bands were suggested to me so I added them all for funsies.
But when I went to look for the youtube channels of Nakashima Mika, Ringo Shiina og Tsuchiya Anna they were nowhere to be fun.
So I thought Hello Project would surely have a channel so that I can follow Bouno! and Berryz Kobo, but they don't have one.
None of the Japanese groups or artists I like do.=(

Why on earth?

2010-10-24T18:20:00.001+02:00

Why on earth does celebrity kids get to anything they want like this?
Whe could at least make something good, like Jaden did with Karate Kid. Which I haven't seen, but I have heard a lot of good things about the movie.
But this is awful. At least it isn't all that indecent.

Scott Pilgrim VS the World

2010-10-23T18:18:00.000+02:00

Clickable title, peeps^^,

Edit: This post is actually from the 4th of October, but apparently it never got published. Sorry 'bout that.

So I saw Scott Pilgrim VS the World on Sunday.
When I first saw the trailer, I knew I just had to see this movie, but as time went on, I started to think that I had missed it. I hadn't thou.

It can be described by one word, and one word only: AWESOME!!!
I was dead tired and half knocked out by a cold when I saw it, so most of the references went way over my head. It was inhabited by all these vaguely familiar actors, that I know I have seen somewhere before, but I generally didn't recognize any of the movies they have played in when I checked it on IMDB. I guess they all just had "one of those faces, you know."

But this movie was everything that Kick-Ass was, and more.
It had vividly coloured foes, a dark and mysterious, "woe is me" kind of love intrest, lots of craze Ex-es. Even a cute little stalker girl.
All the Evil Ex-es explode into coins when defeated, and at one point there are some animated dragons which just drip with awesome.
The battles are fantastic. All over with bright colours, flashing sound effects (you know, like in the Batman tv-show), and fantastic coreography. Even the Boyfriend, who usually rags on any and every combat scene in every movie we have ever seen, said it was awsome.

Purely visually the movie was beautiful. All the scenes are excelently lighted and cut to fit the mood, and all the sets are very pretty. The special effects and generally sparkly and over the top, just the way we like it, ne?
The soundtrack is a must-have. As in: I am gonna go buy that soundtrack when I leave the studyhall for the night. Michael Cera mives generally have a pretty nice soundtrack. I actually spent money on the Juno soundtrack, just like I am actually gonna spend money on this one. That says something in today's society of free downloading, don't you think?
All the characters had the exactly right balance of goofy, cute, and just barking mad. Knives Chau, played by Ellen Wong, showes exactly this. Going from the cutesy little catholic school-girl, blinded by the awesomeness of her boyfriend, Scott Pilgrim, gradually changing to a crazy fangirl (think cat-girl, only with a Sex Bob-omb t-shirt and sans the ears, the kind that needs spayingXP), and eventually a crazy-ass ex-girlfriend stalker as Scott takes his relationship with Ramona, played by Mary Elisabeth Winstead.

Gotta cut it short here, they are gonna lock the doors in 10 minutes. See ya'll later^^,

I can understand it!!!

2010-10-22T03:41:00.003+02:00

So I was listening to Me gustas tú by Manu Chau, and I suddenly realized how much I understood.
So I was gonna find the song on youtube so that I could embed it to you, and then I found this video right here:

Now you can learn too^^,
"Me gusta" roughly means "I like", "gusta" being the first person singular in present tense or the verb "gustar" which roughly means "to like" but not quite. It's like that in many languages, which is why my Spanish teacher abhors the use of dictionaries for early learners. It's just gonna confuse you.
Take "vear" in Norwegian (written vær for those of you with Scandinavian letters on your computer. Sorry about the æ, it's 4 in the morning at it was the only word I could think of). It can mean either "to be" in the imperative tense, "weather", the star sign Aries, or a ram (as in the furry, sheep looking animal with horns. Might actually be a male sheep, I don't know. All I know is that it's big and furry and it looks like a sheep.)
The point being that "gustar" does not necessarily act like "to like", like he sings "me gustas tú", and here it is being inflicted in the second person singular.
My Spanish teacher explains this by saying that "gustar" is more similar to "please" than "like", so you aren't really saying "I like this", what you are saying is more in the like of "this pleases me", with "gustar" pointing at the thing you like, rather than you as the liker.

Anyway, now that you know that "me gusta" means more or less "I like" you can just look at the pictures and learn the Spanish words that go with the pictures^^,

Double-U Tee Eff?!?! BIG BANG

2010-10-22T02:17:00.002+02:00

Beautiful hangover by Korean boyband B.I.G. B.A.N.G

"Keep me warm and beautiful/hangover/hangover yeah"
WTF?!

This is one of the reasons I would have liked to speak Korean. What the eff are they singing about?!?!
But that's what google is for, neh?
Apparently it's a love song about a girl who's like a "beautiful hangover" O.o
Do they know what hangover means?!?! O.o I would be so insulted!
The lyrics are absolutely beautiful thou, like poetry. Go google them.

The beat is delicious thou. Makes me want to dance^^,

2NE1

2010-10-21T04:50:00.001+02:00

OhEmGee!!!OhEmGee!!!OhEmGee!!! *Fan-girl squeel*
2NE1, the main reason I started liking Korean music in the first place, has released a new album *-* (supposed to look like I've got stars in my eyes)
The album is brand new, released 8th (Japan) and 9th (Korea) of September.
It feels amazing to finally be able to report news as they happening^^,
Fire is still my favorite thou^^,

They are the band behind such songs Lollipop together with Big Bang, and Fire. Fire is one of my all time favorite Korean songs^^,

Lollipop

Fire came in two versions:
Space:

Street:

This far they have released 3 singles from their new album "To Anyone"

Clap your hands, released September 9th

Go away, released September 10th

Can't Nobody, released September 12th

I need to learn Korean

2010-10-20T21:36:00.001+02:00

I wanna know what they are talking about!!!=D=D
Usually In couldn't care less about the people behind the music, I like the actual music, but I am sorta starting to understand V's obsession about know everything. I am not gonna go that far, but being able to understand what they are talking about in their videos would have been funXD

Boybands= awful, but oh, so fun

2010-10-20T18:39:00.005+02:00

I was not one of the girls that screamed over Backstreet Boys, I got the creeps from N'Sync, and I thought A1 were stupid, Westlife was for brainless blondes who wore lipgloss in 5th grade.
Oh em gee! I can't believe that I actually remember the names of these bands! O.o

I was more a Spice Girls kind of girl. I had a huge crush on Baby Spice. When I grew out of that face it was No Doubt that was the thing. Then it Kaizer's Orchestra. You know the rest.

But you know how everything is more fun when it's from Asia right?
Well, it's true for boybands too.
I give you 2PM. A Korean boyband that has been at it since '08. It's just as awful as the things that the west grew out of around '00, but how can seeing cute Asian boys dancing in sync not be fun, right?^^,

But wait!
It doesn't stop there. Becuase for the girls who only liked the heartfelt, tear-dripping ballads there is 2AM, which an all ballad band. That's right, they only sing ballads!!! O.o Only in Asia!
They were also started in '08, and they are so cheesy that I don't think it's even almost fun. But that is meXD Happy ballad listening^^,

Miss A

2010-10-19T18:33:00.004+02:00

For once I actually discover something new from Asia just as it is starting up, not waaaaay after they are broken up.

So my newest Asian favorite is the South Korean girl band called Miss A.
They have thus far released 3 singles: Dashi Sarang/Love again, Bad but Good, and Breathe. So as you probably can tell they started up this year. As far as I can tell their debut album is going to be called "Step Up". It may or may not have already been released. If you judge by all the youtube videos with a still picture and music, I would say it's alreasy been released, but the youtube album is slightly ambiguous on this matter. And they are superfun^^, All colourful and peppy.
So I need to get hold of their album. I really do. Or rather I need to get ahold of it when it's actaully released=D=D Or something XP
It feels so good to discover something in their startup fase. Maybe I'll even get to see them in concert sometime=D=D That would be Awesome with a capital A^^,

First single: Dashi Sarang/Love again

Secong single: Bad but Good

Third single: Breathe

Hill climbed, now for the mountain.

2010-10-19T16:07:00.003+02:00

One of the most important things to learn, and one of the hardest, when learning a language is to learn to separate words in fluent speech. Without this it's just no good trying to speak at all.
I just realized I have reached that point in Spanish. Huge hill climbed. The mountain to climb now is becoming fluent.
One huge hill over with anyway.

Oh, and by the way, the last post I posted was number 300. Yay me=D=D

I hate fall

2010-10-17T20:29:00.004+02:00

Almost as much as I hate winter.
Only difference is that it's not snowingXP And that it looks warmer than it is, so I always wear too little clothes, and end up freezing my butt offXP
Boyfriend bought me cocoa with marsmallows. It was nice.^^,
I have another paper due on Friday. English grammar. Also I figured the Acer won't ever get fixed right, I will probably be able to demand my money back in about six months. So I bought a HP Touchsmart.
I love tablet pcs and my old one is really busted. So I bought a new one to do my school work on. It's a real beauty^^,
I tried to snap a picture for you, but it's too dark so it turned out bad. Maybe tomorrow.
Pokémon Black and White will be out in the States in the spring. I am so importing it.^^,

Infliction headache

2010-10-13T23:01:00.003+02:00

I have inflections up to here *holds hand up to forehead*
Now, my favourite part of learning new languages is to learn grammar. Vocabulary is just words, it's the grammar that make you able to talk.
Now, irregular verbs I am not that crazy about, mostly because they don't have a pattern, you have to learn them one by one.
Japanese only has two of these so that is pretty easy, but Japanese has a lot of inflections in general, for time and purpose amongst other.
Spanish on the other hand has a lot of both. They inflict their verbs in time, sex, and number. Kind of like German. One of the advantages with the fact that Spanish and Japanese are so inflection rich is that you don't have to learn sentence patterns rules as much. They have them, but not many.

Take the Spanish verb ser, which means to be:
Soy - eres - es - somos - sois - son
And that is just present tense, you have all these patterns for all the tenses.
My head hurts

Skambankt

2010-10-05T12:18:00.003+02:00

Clickable title

My relationship to music can be described in terms of human relationships.
Linkin Park was a fling.
Miyavi was a crush.
Marilyn Manson was a flirt.
Evanescence was a "thing" that I outgrew.

And then there are the four great ones:
Kaizers Orchestra, Gåte, Lumsk, and Bertine Zetlitz. We are lifers. We are married and are never gonna split.
Kaizers was the obsession that just never cooled down.
Gåte was the exiting new fling that grew into something deeper and more significant.
Lumsk was the love I thought I had lost, but that I rediscovered.
And Bertine Zetlitz was the friendship that grew into something deep and wonderful.

And now. Now there is Skambankt.
I saw the covers, and I knew. I just knew it. It was love at first sight. Hadn't even heard a single note, but by jove, I knew that this was to be my new love. And I am rarely wrong when it comes to this sort of thing.
This is the exact reason I can buy books 'cos I like the cover. The cover says a lot, the cover very nearly says it all.
So I asked to listen to the album "Søvnløs" (Sleepless), and after the hearing the beginning of just one song, I was sold.

Ted Winters has a voice that will make it snow in the desert, and make glaziers run in wide rivers of melted water.
This is music that will make your spine tingle and your heart vibrate.
This! is the sort of music that will make your panties wet. It pours over your skin like hot oil, and melts into your head, making your synapses spark like you were dead drunk and saw a hot piece of tail walk by. It's heady and wonderful. It's the sort of music I pay money for.

First thing I thought was that it was like Kaizers only harder. And I still think that. It's the "harder, better, faster, stronger" version of Kaizers. Not really, but it was my first thought.
And with a little more research I discovered that the reason for this is that the vocalist of Skambankt, Ted Winters, the guitarist of Kaizers.
Skambankt was sort of hastily thrown together when another band didn't show up for a gig. Skambankt wrote 9 songs and went on stage. This was in '94.

I just now discovered that they are playing in Oslo later this month, and I am gonna be there!

Very few bands make this happen for me. But Skambankt did. Skambankt will join the halls of the bands I will always love, never forget and always return to. I love Skambankt!

I (still) loathe Acer

2010-09-29T15:01:00.005+02:00

You know how last time my 'puter broke it took over 3 months for them to fix it?
And when I got it back it was still broken, and I had to actually crack windows to have a working computer?
And then the on/off button broke almost at once when I got it back?
I can't remember if I wrote about it, but the on/off button magically started working again, after I had had the 'puter off for a long time. But then it really broke on me while I was in Finland, so I eventually had to send it in.
It's been about a month and a half, and all my midterm papers are do in a couple of weeks, so I really needed it back.
So I sent Datakjeden a mail on friday, telling them about the papers, and that if they thought it would take long, and if it would, could I please have a loan 'puter, so that I would have something to write my midterms on?

It really wouldn't be a problem me to use the computerhalls at school and use Boyfriend's 'puter when at home, but then I would have to send the drafts to myself by mail everytime I moved, 'cos most of the school computers haven't got USB slots.

Aaaanywho, I sent them that mail.
And then around 10 on monday I got an answer saying "yeah, it's been a month since we sent it to Acer, and that is honestly way to long. I'm gonna go send Acer a mail asking them how long it's gonna take."
At around 13 I got a new mail saying that it was lying in a shelf over at Acer's and that they would get to it right away.
Then, early yesterday morning (tuesday) I get a new mail, saying that my computer was fixed the day before. Which would be monday, which would be the same day that Datakjeden told them to get a move on.

Double-U, tee, EFF!!!
It takes them a MONTH!!! to even start my computer, and then it take them maybe a couple of hours, tops, to actually FIX the damned paperweight?!?!
How crappy is that?
I mean, seriously? If it takes that little amount of time, how come they haven't done it faster?
I effing loathe Acer. With a passion!

So I am gonna say it yet again (probably not the last time), DO! NOT! BUY! ACER!!!
The machine is a dream. It is powerful, the screen has gorgeous colours, the batterylife is amazing.
But when it breaks, you can't expect for it be fixed in a timely manner AT ALL!
I am taking bets on how many parts I get back in this time, and will it, or will it not, actually work?

I am expecting it back probably the beginning of next week.
I am looking forward to it. I am gonna play some more Sims 3 and Boyfriend is gonna play Starcraft, and I am gonna download all the Spanishpod PDFs.
And I am gonna actually watch movies, and Dr.Who, and rewatch Dark Angel and Gilmore Girls, and Firefly, and Glee.
I will be able to talk to people while I am bored at the studyhall, and get addicted to Facebook games again, and watch youtube videos, and write blogposts, and what-not.
And if I have the self disiplin I will actually write the essays.XP
I hope it shows up soon. I really do!

Educational science? Pish posh, quit your jabbering

2010-09-28T08:06:00.003+02:00

Yeah, so I am quitting Educational Science. (I think that would be the equivialent English name for Pedagogikk.)
I don't want to be a teacher, so I am focusing on American litterature and English Grammar. And of course Spanish.
I mean, seriously, you can't imagine me as a teacher, can you? 'Cos I sure as heck can't!

But English! And Spanish!
It's language that is my true passion!

I am writning an essay in Am.lit. now. I hate writing essays, but for the first time almost ever I actually write things that make sense in a half-way (at least) academic language.
I have just written my part of a case study for Educational studies, and I did good. When we had our draft back the only criticism I got what that needed another paragraph with a little criticism om my assigned teacher to make the case study balanced. I was the only one who didn't get any "WTF? What are you talking about" sort of comments. I did however get some "This is so good, you have understood it just right!" comments=D=D

I am preparing for a oral presentation thingy, which is the last thing I am gonna do in E.S. before I quit, and that I am doing just so that I won't leave my group in the lurch.
We are already one person short. She figured she didn't want to pile up student loans studying to a profession she didn't want, which I really get. She will be a much better elementary school teacher than a high school teacher anyway. She is really lively and fun and nice, so I am thinking she will be an amazing elementary teacher=D=D
The group does seem kind of empty without her thou. Silent. I miss her=j

Pokémon will just have to wait

2010-09-27T08:44:00.004+02:00

I have been all excited about buying Pokémon Black from Japan for about a month now.
But then I discovered, horror of horrors, Amazon.co.jp doesn't ship games to Norway. So that isn't gonna happen.
I am gonna preorder it from the states thou. The rich uncle in the states has to be good for something right?XP

In other news me and H are starting to plan my birthday party next year. We are doing a masquaradeball I hope. Hopefully I can find someone who can split the cost of renting the party-hall over at the student-town with me, or it probably won't happen. Or I might party in a park somewhereXP
Probably won't happen, but it's fun to dream, right?XP

Spanish is not for pussies

2010-09-23T15:24:00.002+02:00

So, I started Spanish classes yesterday.
I have been told that Spanish is an easy language to learn. Oh, how mistaken they were.
Spanish is an infliction rich language. An extremely infliction rich language.

Languages split into two groups. The ones that are rich in inflictions, and the ones that have strict rules for sentence building. Naturally the infliction rich ones have a more complicated grammar.
All verbs are inflicted in concern to the sex and number of the subject. The noun is more often than not the subject, which is the opposite of Norwegian and English.
It is basically a very different language.

I can see I am headed for a hard year. The class I am taking is very intensive. But that is the way I like. I like to get good fast^^,
I am gonna have great fun this year=D=D

But what if I like swearing in church?

2010-09-22T22:36:00.004+02:00

Yeah!

I know damned well that I might hang for this, but I have discovered HIM.
Yeah, I know it should be rediscovered, but all those years ago it was only white noise in a cacophony of emo "we want to be metal" music that was poured over my head by various people and/or media. They hail from the early upstanding of what is now called "emo-kids".
Yeah, totally aware of the whole "emo stands for emotive and is a music style from the 70's (or 80's, can't be bothered to look it up)". You keep telling yourself that.
Thing is, it doesn't really matter what the expression has meant before. Emo these days is a synonym for a combination sort of mood, sort of like mopey-gloomy-pissy in a big mush.
That, and it's the name for a subculture of teens who are usually on the verge of anorexia (or at least they look like it). Who dye their hair black, and wear it in certain styles, generally poker-straight, with a greasy hair-gel sheen to it, and their fringe draped down the one side of their face, almost covering the eye on that side. Who wear black clothes, and usually arm-warmers or cuffs. If they only have one, that is a 100%, never failing, sign that they are cutters, and either have scars or fresh wounds on that arm. (A sure fire way to spot cutters anywhere and at any time is that covering of the one arm or wrist. Never ever fails.)
The subculture, and their music have faded somewhat out of the regular media. They are still there, but you don't hear HIM on the radio, and you don't have the "why is your child this way and how can you turn them back into your dream-child?" sort of articles in news or magazines any more.
Doesn't mean that they have gone away thou. HIM (and I am talking about the finish band here, not the American one that popped up on wikipedia when I looked up HIM) has been at it for 13 years. They released their newest album this year, the lyrics are still emo, as is their music as a whole. They seem to have tipped a little over into electronica since I heard them last, not a lot, but a little. Ville Valo still have his voice thou. It's not as good as I remembered it, but still.
I am, however, not going to embed you a new video. This is supposed to be a nostalgic post, so here I give you:

In Joy and Sorrow

Another band from this era is The Rasmus. Who are also finish (they make a lot of decent music over there^^,)
If you like Ville Valo's voice, Lauri Ylönen's voice will make you wet your panties.
That voice is made of velvet and fire. It's the kind of voice that makes angles go to hell to fornicate with the beasts. Oh Em Gee, that voice!... is not the voice I remembered....
You know how things were always better when we were young? (only true of the music in my case) That is because you were young, everything was fresh and new and you just didn't know any better.

Just for the sake of nostalgia:

In the shadows

Same with Evanescence, Marilyn Manson, Avril Lanvigne and some others. Some of them still have songs that makes me remember. I try to avoid them mostly.
So even thou their songs still make my heart weep, I will lay the new-found love HIM back beneath the black roses where it belongs.

But the song that never died. The one were their voices are they works of art that make my insides freeze and melt at the same time. The song that makes me wanna scream and cry and laugh. The one that makes my panties and eyes wet all at the same time. The song I lived on for over a month. The one perfect song from that era. The ultimate Dark Years song. Ladies and men, I give you!

Bittersweet

Success!!!

2010-09-21T10:37:00.003+02:00

So, I just met my science teacher from my first year of senior high.
I went to a high school for "special teens", and apparently they have a low percentage of teens who actually finish the entire senior high.
He seemed so happy that I go to uni, and that I actually finished senior high^^,
Success!!!=D=D

A good deal is a good deal

2010-09-21T06:04:00.016+02:00

So, at the moment I am doing the first year of the 5 year masters programme which will make me a foreign language teacher qualified to teach junior and senior high school. That's what I am doing at the moment anyway. Probably won't finish, but that is a topic for another day.

However, I managed to eff up the language selection and go for a Spanish major, only thing is that the programme require that you have taken Spanish in high school. And I haven't.
So the crisis solution is an intensive two semester course in basic Spanish, and a premium membership over at SpanishPod101 (there's a button at the top of this post, it's the orange one).
When I was signing up for the podcast account earlier today I discovered that they are apparently holding a contest to win a free premuim account. I am guessing that you enter automatically when you sign up, I couldn't find all that much info about it.
When I signed up I got a special offer thou. I got to buy some quicck-start cd-deal and month premium membership for $9.99 (I think). I don't know if everyone gets the offer, but I recommend that you check. I got this offer when signing up for the free account. Don't know if it works for the other ones, but if you are of have been thinking about learning these languages, I recommend you go check it out^^, Note: I can't get the ads to stand next to eachother. Please bear with me^^,

End of an era

2010-09-10T20:03:00.003+02:00

The end of the era of Facebook game addiction might very well be ending.
I have not logged on for days. The OCD about having unlocked every single Restaurant City recipy died today.
The thing, you see, is that right now they have some very special "champion" recipies, which to be able to unlock you have to have 7 (I think) other recipies at level 10. And to do this you ofcourse have to have all the ingredients. And one of these ingredients you have to find in your friends restaurants, and then post on their walls (!) so that they will click them and we would both get the ingredient.
So I added a lot of temp-friends (special temporary friends that I do not know that I only add to get things in games) to find lots of these sodas (which was the ingredient).
The thing is the chance of finding them is next to zero. And I am kind of past the point where I feel comfortable with having hundreds of these temp friends. And the few I had almost never found any sodas in my restaurant, nor me in their restaurants.
So, since the unlocking ran out today, that would mean that I would have to buy these sodas (and whatever other ingredients I was missing) with real money(!).
And I have spent real money on virtual crap two times in my entire life, and it's just pieces of code on a server on some unknown location. If that servers crashes or the game goes out of commision, the money would be lost.
So, no. I'd rather stop playing alltogether.

In other news, I am totally swamped at the moment.
What with two essays to write (with one more coming soon), and innumerable chapters I am behind on, and finishing the wedding present, that still isn't done.
I feel like I will never be done. I might never be XP

Wonderful wedding smiles

2010-09-05T02:49:00.003+02:00

I just came home from my cousin's wedding.
I had so much fun.
I ate (and drank) a lot^^,
We had thinly sliced Italian ham and asaparagus as an apetizer, and reindeer with bacon and greens for the main dish, and a chocolatetrio for desert. The chocolatetrio was a heavenly cake with an almond bottom, a heavy mocca chocolate pudding/mousse thing above that, a firm milk chocolate mousse above that, and a light, creamy whitechocolate mousse on top. I had two of those^^,
My oldest cousin doesn't eat sweets you see, so I got to eat his as well^^,
Or rather I ate almost all of mine, and the top two layers of his, but then I had to go visit the secret, and by the time I got back it had been cleared away^^,

There were a lot of great speeches, and a lot of inside jokes, which were, sadly, lost on said oldest cousin, who hasn't grown up with us, and who live a all around the world these days.
But he took time out of his very busy schedule to come to the wedding, and the bride-cousin was thrilled. As were we all really.

I danced. A lot! I never used to dance before, but lately I have discovered it's really fun^^, It's all about relaxing really, and where better to relaxe than with your friends and family right?^^,
The funnest dance of them all was of course when they put on Fairytale. You know, the song that wun the Eurovision contest last year, which caused the Eurovision contest to be held in Oslo this year.^^,
It's very inspired by Norwegian folk-music, and over half of the ladies wore our bunads, which are our national-dresses. Of course. It's the nicest attire we own. Only taken out for special occasions, like weddings, confimations, christenings, and of course 17th of May. Our national day.
I have a east-Telemark one.
You aren't really supposed to have a bunad from a place if you don't hail from there, and I have gotten some stress about that. Until I tell them that it was my grandparents who made it, then it's okey. I will have to post a picture at some point. It's an maginificent piece of artisan craft. It is made of a very heavy (and hot) wool material (which isn't prickly, thankfully), with really pretty embroidered hem all around the bottom. It has a apron, also with an embroidered hem all around. At the waist it has a wide, plaited belt, and the chest and back are covered with embroidery. All done by my grandmother.
It comes, of course, with a shirt. It has cross stiched areas on the chest, collar and cuffs. The stiches are tiny, on regular fabric, not aida. Really gorgeous work. My grandfather made the shirt, or rather he made the cross stiched areas. He was so sad when he had to stop, but age, sadly got the better of him, so he had to.

I am sorta drunk, so I think I am gonna stop rambling now^^,
I had an amazing time anyway=D=D

Kommandør Treholt og Ninjatroppen

2010-09-03T23:40:00.002+02:00

Can you say Oscar for Best International Picture?
This movie deserves at the very least a nomination!
It was, hands down, the coolest movie I have seen all year!

It has ninjas, and king Olaf the 5th of Norway, played by Trond-Viggo Torgersen, who is sort of a Norwegian legend. He was the children's ombudsman for a couple of years, which is a person employed by the government to take care of children's rights. He also made a rather legendary series in the 80's explaining how the body works. They were used as educational videos at elementary school when I was a kid, I don't know if they still are.

It has invisibilty technology.
It has the most specatular sneak scenes ever made!
It has been a while since I saw it thou, and it's late, so my brain can't dig up more than this.
But it was amazing!
Go see it!!!

Mindless sex-sheep-herd-music-fans

2010-08-25T22:00:00.001+02:00

You know what it takes to become a big star these days?
Mindless lyrics with a catchy refrain, and a thumping bass will get you your first hit.
The freakier the costumes the more notice you get. The less there is of these costumes the more you get remembered. And if you take your music videos to the very edge it won't exactly hurt your career.
Now do more of these mindless songs with skimpier costumes and freakier music videos every time, and you got yourself some staying power. You are now a star. Congratulations.
But the thing is it kind of takes someone with some talent for at least business that bothers to put some money and time into your career..
But what happens when you yourself have talent for business, and have been in the industry for years, and therefore know what work?
And then have musical talent to boot?
Then this happens:

Pokerface:

Unplugged: (needs some skipping. starts at about 3:30)

Just Dance

Unplugged:

Paparazzi:

Unplugged:

And then, just becuase she is a good performer
Love Game live at Much Music Awards 2009

The lady can sing, and she can play, perform, arrange and write her own music.
When she figured that she had enough fame, really god music started to happen. I'll admit that she still takes too much of her clothes of, but at this point it's just that we are used to seeing her undressed.

Alejandro:

So, sheep. We just proved our own tendecies to get fooled by barely dressed women spewing gibberish. But in fact, if you listen more closely, the lyrics say more than they let on.

Just Dance:
"Wish I could shut my playboy mouth, oh oh oh-oh
How'd I turn my shirt inside out? Inside outright
Control your poison babe, roses have thorns the say
And we're all getting hosed tonight, oh oh oh-oh"

I am not doing Pokeface, becuase absolutely all of the song has a wicked double meaning, and you can read into it whatever you like. So just go read and/or listen to the lyrics.

Paparazzi:
"I'm you biggest fan, I'll follow you until you love me"
That one shouldn't even need a quote, it jumping right at you and biting your nose clean off!

I am not doing Love Game either. It's just fan hoarding. Both Pokerface and Lovegame came fairly early, and both the songs and the videos stank of sexual innuendo and were (as I see it) mostly designed to drag us in and catch us in her net of trickery.
Who still talkes about Love Game? We talk about Pokerface becuase it ws her big breakthrough. It simply came first. (Actually Just Dance did, but it apparently wasn't suggestive enough, seeing as she amped up everything after that.)

The point of it all is that she tricked us. She let us believe that she was some stupid, autotuned-to-death, constructed pop princess. She had us all fooled. And we all fell for it.

I, personally, don't think she is half bad. I have had some mixed feelings about her music in the past, but I like her more and more as I realize the beauty of it all.
She hooked in an enitre world, almost an entire generation, with a devious lie.
We are a social experiment. And we proved her right.
She isn't the mindless one. We are.

Thank you world. And a good night to you all.

Cop Out, the worst movie ever made

2010-08-15T10:57:00.003+02:00

The Boyfriend wasted his money on Cop Out for us. It was horrible. The Boyfriend's friends who I had pegged as the types to like sort of humor didn't even like it. It was so horrible I actaually got nauseous (I don't have a spellcheck on this 'puter, so I applogize in advance for any typos.)
End of post. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.

Shopping makes the wallet empty

2010-07-07T17:27:00.007+02:00

We have been shopping all day, and I have spent about 150€.

Here is what I bought:

This perfume I saw for the very first time on the Danskebåten, which is a nick for the boats going between Oslo and Fredrikshavn, and Oslo and Copenhagen.
When I was little we went to Denmark every summer, and we took the boat to and from Frederikshavn. To we took the night boat, so we just ate and went to night club and watch whatever show they had that night, and then we went to bed.
On the way home I the boat sails during the day, so that's 8 hours stuck on boat with nothing to do. So we usually ran around the boat playing gambling machines and going to the tax-free stores. And there they had a perfume and makeup department. We ran around spraying perfume on ourselves until we stank perfume from the other end of the boat. And at this perfume department I once found this perfume, and all other perfumes were ruined for me forever.XP Almost XP
But I never had enough money for them, I was a child and I never really had money. And it was really expensive, so after Mom and Dad said no once, I don't think I ever asked again. I just stood there, longing for it.
And then when I got old enough to have enough money to buy it, it was gone. I had even seen it at one perfume shop at Aker Brygge in Oslo, but it was gone from there too. And I never found it again. Every perfume shop in every country I went I looked for it, and never found it.
But today. Today I found it. And it cost 37,70€. And then I found it at another store for 57 something €, so I felt that I had made a bargain^^,
So this perfume is kind of a big deal for me^^,
I am also searching for the Gwen Steffanie's Harajuku perfumes. Both because they are shaped like Kokeshi doll, and because I also had sort of the same deal with them, but not as much.
I saw them at a perfume shop at Egertoget in Oslo last summer I think. No, spring. And I told everyone I wanted it for my birthday, and no one gave it to me, so I saved to buy it, and when I went they were gone, and I couldn't find them anywhere. I had gone into the store every time I passed to smell them and look at them, and when I went to buy them, they were gone.=(
So I am gonna look for them now^^,

And I also bought socks, because I couldn't find enough to bring one pair for every day, so I bought more^^,

My shoes looks like I bled all over them. Remember I wrote that I that I painted the barn red. Well, I splattered paint all over my shoes.
So I bought new ones.
Also the other ones are sneakers and very warm, so now I bought some cooler shoes. But they need to be broken in, so I'll have blisters everywhere all week XP

And I didn't bring soap and shampoo and conditioner.
So I bought some. I got a necklace with the shampoo and a body lotion with the soap.

And I bough some really cute hair bands^^,

And then I bought some glitter nail polish, and there was this special offer that I didn't know about because the sign was in Finnish, so I got a nail file with buffer on the side, since I bought two things from the same brand.
I went back and bought back two eyeshadows from the same brand, but I didn't get another nail file, because I was to shy to bring the file, and the clerk didn't get it for me, and nobody dared to say anything. But I got two awesome really bright eyeshadows, which was why I bought them in the first place^^,

I bought some note books. And the topmost book is a day planner, to use for school and stuff.
I am addicted to notebooks. I have tons of them, and I buy cute ones whenever I find them, and I write in every single one of them. I rarely finish them thou, since I keep buying new ones^^,

And then we ate, and we got a bagel and a soda and a desert for 7,50€
We all got a doughnut thing, and they were really cute, so I made a collage. The heart one was mine, and it had something called pomade inside, which was very similar to the yellow stuff in the middle of solskinnsboller. It was really tasty^^,

I also drank a really tasty mandarin smoothie.^^,

I had yoghurt for breakfast also. I am already getting a little bit bored with yoghurt. Mission accomplished^^,
Coffee yogurt. It was not lactoses reduced, which is really annoying, because it was very tasty.

And peach and passion fruit yoghurt.

I have finished the kokeshi doll, but I had already taken out the memory card when I remembered that I had forgotten to take a picture of it, so there might come one tomorrow.^^,

5 o'clock in the morning, guess who's early and bright

2010-07-07T05:08:00.005+02:00

Yeah, so usually I wake up at the crack of dawn. (That is, of course, when I don't sleep until noon XP)
So it's 6:11 AM. I didn't actually wake on my own thou. I had forgotten that my cellphone insists on setting your alarm clock to ring every day, instead of being content with just once XP
So of course it rang at 5:05 this morning X3

I have spent the morning constructively thou, taking pictures.

So here are some things I have bought.

A lot of Hello Kitty stash. Or rather an activities bag for bored little girls, and a tin of Chupa Chups with Hello Kitty on it^^,

Hello Kitty perfume. Boyfriend tells me I have bought a children's perfume, which might by right. (I have a dim recollection that it was in the children's part of the store.) He also said that I only bought it 'cos it's got Hello Kitty on it, but that isn't true, I bought it 'cos it smells of vanilla. The fact that the only reason I smelt it in the first place was because of the Hello Kitty stamp on the bottle is another matter all together XP

I bought earrings. I recently took out the silver rings that I have had in ears for God knows how long. A looooong time. And I have spent the last week or so trying to find some new ones. I finally did^^,

And that was all she bought. But she had yoghurt for a night-time meal. (As in something light to eat before bed so one does not wake up hungry in the middle of the night. Is there a word for that in English? Supper doesn't seem right for this.)
I don't know if you can see it, but it's pineapple flavoured.
What is the significance of this you ask? I am as of recently lactoses intolerant, and thus can't eat yoghurt. I never really was a big one for milk based products before (except for fine cheeses XP And whipped cream in cocoa of course), but when you can't have it, you just end up craving it.
And here in Finland they have a really wide (and cheap) selection of lactoses free and reduced food stuffs. So I have decided to eat yoghurt until I am sick of it so that I stop craving it.

I have started cross stitching again. Right now I am stitching a collection of Kokeshi dolls for the Gacha's. This is mine, as purple is my Gacha-colour^^,

This is what a real, live Kokeshi doll looks like.
They are a special kind of painted Japanese wooden dolls, which farmer's children had to play with. Now they are very popular all over Japan (and all of the Japanofile world XP)

On an ending note, this is the bed I woke up in.
The air mattress that I was supposed to sleep on had a hole in it, and was leaking air. They tried to tape it, with little to no success. We are buying something new today thou.
But to compensate of the increasing flatness of the mattress we first took an mattress cover and folded that double, and then we folded the mattress it self double, and then we put a beanie sack by the side of it, in case I were to roll off (it's the huge white and brownish thing. It's kind of old).
I slept surprisingly comfortable.^^, And I woke up completely rested^^, Even thou it was 5 in the morningXP

Finland here we come^^,

2010-07-06T08:40:00.003+02:00

We are now sitting on the boat to Finland.
Yesterday I woke up at 1:30 AM, and tonight I only slept around 4 hours, so I fell asleep on the table in the restaurant where we ate breakfast, and then the Gachas bought me coffee, so now I feel all awake and rested again^^,
Gacha 1 said that I was really good at power-napping, which I kinda agree with. When I am so tired that I feel like I am falling asleep standing up, I just lay my head down on the table and nap for 10 minutes, and then I am all awake again=D=D

Our hotel was really nice, we had a little kitchen and everything. Which of course we didn't use, since we were there just to sleep a few hours before going to the boat.

I was so afraid of missing the boat, because I had a walker's ticket (as opposed to one with a car), and I had to walk to the check-in area all by myself. Gacha 2, 1.2 and 4 helped me find it, and then I walked there on my own.
I was starving so I bought myself some toast with ham and cheese. I am getting some penalty for that cheese thou, I have a slight stomach ache XP

Now I am gonna read some more Septimus Heap=D=D

One hour 'till lift off

2010-07-05T15:17:00.001+02:00

I one hour and 30 minutes my train leaves for Stockholm.
I have movies and cross stitching and DS and a book. And loads and load of candy and fruit and soda and chips. You know, in case I get peckish. XD
So I am all set^^,
Ready. Set. Lift off!!!!

Finland away flying motions

2010-07-05T06:12:00.002+02:00

So, in about 10 hours I leave for Finland. We are going to Turku.
Or, rather, I leave for Stockholm. I am riding the train for 6 or so hours all by my lonesome. I have filled up on movies and cross-stitching supplies.^^,
I have been awake since 2:30, and I buzzed. I am gonna fall asleep the second I sit down on the train...XP

Tipsy Britney

2010-07-03T22:30:00.004+02:00

Okey, don't kill me now please.
I have had a Mai Tai tonight. One, mind you. And I am not drunk or anything, just a wee bit tipsy. I have the alcohol tolerance of a really tiny small something with low alcohol tolerance XP
But I was sitting on Spotify just browsing, and for some odd reason I started listening to Britney Spears. And you know what? I actually like some of her non-single songs. At least some of the ones on the In the Zone album.

Mr. T and a REALLY cool shield

2010-06-28T07:54:00.003+02:00

Have anyone ever noticed that Mr. T looks like a Buffy-vampire with it's teeth out?

We played D&D yesterday, and Frain got new attacks and abilities. We got pre-made characters, so yesterday me and V got to pick some new attacks that we liked better. It's cool to be a tank, but it always means that I have to stand right next to the monsters to be able to attack, so I needed some ranged attack, which I got. Which was cool^^,
We went on a quest behind or maybe in an enchanted cabin. We killed some icky desert thingies, and two dragons. And we leveled up the team, so we are all lvl 2 now, people.^^.

The DM got us some cool new gear (which we hoarded for ourselves of course, finder's-winner, right?XP)
So I got a REALLY cool shield. Which was named a REALLY cool shield for quite some time, until the DM could figure out what it was, and it was really cool. It makes me able to move full-speed over water, and not sink or drown,^^,
I love my really cool shield<3<3

Septimus Heap

2010-06-19T12:28:00.006+02:00

I am currently reading the Septimus Heap series. And I love Love LOVE it.
It's is masterly written and it has an absolutely wonderful use of Capital letters, marking the Important things. It also uses old fashion ways of writing some of the more important words to the story. Like Darknesse, and Magyk.
This is children's fantasy at it's best. I would say it's suitable for children all down the age of 7, and if you are a parent you should definitely read it out loud for your child, because if you liked the Harry Potter books, you will love this one.
It's for children, young adults and proper adults alike.

Fake your beauty

2010-06-17T14:35:00.002+02:00

For some reason society want girls to look natural, but not be natural.
We should dye or bleach our hair. Dye our eyebrows and eyelashes. Curl and straighten. Wearing self-tan and bronzer is for some reason nicer than actually being tan. Make up is very important, but you need to look as if you aren't actually wearing any.
Breast implants and botox and lipo-suction are made to look as natural as possible. These days flattening out your wrinkles is frowned upon, because the thing to do is inject fat under your skin to make it look plumper, smoother and, you guessed it, more natural.
In this day and age anorexia and bulimia are looked upon as something awful, but we plaster larger-than-life posters of H&M models, whose thighs don't actually meet when they stand straight on every relatively flat surface. Mothers are hated on, because it is their need to feel beautiful that are befouling the minds of their daughters, making them think they aren't good enough. I say people wrong, it's not the mothers, it's the society. It's media hating on the girl with a half a kilo extra, the girl with bags under her eyes, the girl with large pores, or bumps or blemishes, with limp hair, or hair with the wrong colour or length, or texture or shape.
Everyone always hates on the skinny girls in the commercials. But what about the hair fixer-upper commercials? Or skin-miracle commercials? Or the make-your-self-beautiful commercials, who proclaims that their product contains 35% more beauty with every stroke? Or the shows about how to make yourself look 10 years younger? Have anyone but me noticed that the way to look 10 years younger takes at least 2 operations and brand new porcelain teeth?
Because we will never be good enough the way we are. We will always weigh 3 pounds too much and have the wrong hair and wrong skin tone and wrong face. So lay down on the table dahling, let me nip and tuck you. Let me fix your hair and your body and your face. And when you are done there will always be one more thing.
Ladies. Get ready. Let's fake our beauty!

I think I got purdyful today

2010-06-16T23:26:00.003+02:00

So someone decided that I had a hairy face apparently. And that my facial-hair had the wrong colour. So I got my eyebrows waxed and coloured, and my eyelashes coloured.
And then I apparently got a reaction to the eyelash colour, so my eyes got all burny, and they're still kind of sore, but my eyelashes got some colour.
And yesterday I lightened my hair.
So I think I am kinda of pretty now. Maybe?

Beer and books

2010-06-05T19:54:00.003+02:00

I have less than awful beer. I really really hate beer. It's awful, it tastes like rancid piss to be quite frank.
But my dad presented me with lemon cut Tuborg. And thou it still tastes like beer, but not quite as rancid as normal beerXP

Also I raided Oslo's biggest library. I came out with about 20-25 books.
The perfect cure for the means reds and/or the blues, or almost any other unpleasant colour, is taking home unread books. And if I borrow them instead of buying them I don't get more of whatever colour is bothering me because I have spent money I need for other things.
And I have wanted to visit Deichmanske for almost 3 years, maybe more. So we went there, and I got snickered at because I had promised to only borrow five and then we would go back afterwards, but I couldn't help myselfXP I had to carry all the books around for the rest of the dayXP

Hmmmmm.... My beer has started to turn rancid on me again. I am gonna put more lime in it now. Night night.

Loopdelooploop

2010-05-16T08:45:00.002+02:00

They are playing the Narwhal song on repeat, and I have maybe slept 10 hours since Thursday. SPOOOOOOOOIIIIIING!!!! X3

Birdie FTW

2010-05-15T22:40:00.002+02:00

Birdie rocks my boots^^,
Right now they are having a live concert, and there's laser tag out on the lawn, they have a climbing wall, and a jumping-castle. (You know, those big plastic things filled with air that you jump in.) Earlier there was oil wrestling^^, Sweedish girls have large titsXD
They have concerts every night, and in 1 hour and 16 minutes there will be a fire show before the Demo showing. Which I am really exited about. It's hands down the coolest thing at these parties.
The Gathering can go to bed. (A thing I used to say when I was little: "Gå hjem og BOGG!!!"^^,) This is WAY cooler!!! By far!!!

Fan hva snygt

2010-05-14T20:30:00.004+02:00

Apparently I am pretty^^,
Still at Birdie, and the photo competition just had a showing of the pictures, one of which portray yours truly playing with soap bubbles. And from the stage area where all the people were watching came a "fan hva snygt" (Damn, how pretty). Now they might have been talking about the bubbles, but my ego chooses to think they were talking about me^^,
I don't think we'll win thou, I think the half naked chick with the pink hair will win. Seeing as how she's half naked in the pics XP

Fun seeing myself on bigscreen^^,

Crappy piece of crap (also: Birdiebirdienomnom)

2010-05-13T21:56:00.002+02:00

You know my craptacular piece of crap that tries to pass itself off as a laptop.
It's broken. AGAIN!!!!
At the worst time possible. Again.
There's Birdie this weekend, which is a big LAN/demo party in Uppsala in Sweden. And the day before we are to leave miss craptacular decides she doesn't like her power button, and refuses to turn on!!!!
I ended up having to bring the piece of shit Dell. It turned off 3 times due to the heat in the hall we're in before I just had to go buy a big fan thingy to put underneath it. It works like a dream thou, no more problem.

We arrived in Stockholm after a 6 hour train ride about 2 yesterday and went shopping before travelling on to Uppsala.
I bought Kamikaze Girls, Cutie Honey and Sex is Zero on DVD. The two first are Japanese and the last one is Korean.
I have started watching Cutie Honey, and it's so over the top it's pure genius. If you have seen Cybergirl it's even more over the top than that. It's awesome beyond belief=D=D

It's really hot here. They have everything that can be open open, but take around 1k computers and laptops and put them into a hall about the size of a junior high PE hall, and you get a hot hall indeed.
Actually it's not so bad right now, because most of the kids are sleeping.
I slept for about 4 hours in the sleeping hall, but I woke up from heat and dehydration. So I just had to get up.
The showers here are actually hot thou, and that was really refreshing.
Right now we are mostly waiting for the stores to open so we can get some breakfastXD

Distractions galore

2010-05-09T10:00:00.002+02:00

Do you know what time of year there are the most distractions? Right before any and all exams. There are webcomics I wanna read, and youtube videos I wanna watch. There are friends I wanna hang out with, and shops I wanna peruse. There is music I wanna listen to and books I wanna read, and comic books and drawings I wanna draw and games I wanna play.
But I have got to read, at least a little. Time to hit the books^^,

Free Comic Book Day, after the fact

2010-05-08T20:52:00.002+02:00

It's been a good Free Comic Book Day^^,
I'm not really that into American comic books, I get annoyed enough about Ret Cons when people tell me about them, if I have to experience the horror for myself, I think I will go absolutely nuts. So I am donating all (almost) of the comic books I picked out to my cousin who didn't have time to come get them himself^^,
I am keeping the Fragglerock comic thou. And the Nail Gaiman book^^,

Also I bought some Tru Blood. Which is a kind of synthetic blood, which the Japanese created as a substitute for human blood, and that vampires can survive on, so that they can come out into the open^^, Or at least in the books that's what it is. The bottle that I bought contained a carbonated blood orange drink. Which for some odd reason smelled like a shampoo.XD

Then we went to Dragens Hule, which is something as cool as a webshop that has moved on to getting a real-life honest to god store. And that is freakin' awesome=D=D
Anyway, in that very store we found (or rather L found and then showed me) a purse/backpack shaped like my logo. It's made of red and black vinyl, with the actual purse in red shaped like a heart, lined with black lace and with black vinyl wings sown on.
So it's shaped like my logo, the DragonHeart. I can't really afford it right now, but they only had two left, so I had them put it aside for me until Monday. (Because I forgot my wallet at home.)

Later we went to an outdoor market and I ate spring rolls, and drank unsweetened Japanese Green Tea. Which tasted a lot like soap. which was kinda gross. But I payed for it, so I drank it all^^,

I am gonna go to bed now^^,

Free Comic Book Day

2010-05-08T10:09:00.002+02:00

I'm guessing Free Comic Book Day in America was last Saturday, like usually. But last Saturday was the 1st of May, and that is a holiday here in Norway, it's called Workers Day.
So we are having Free Comic Book Day today. I am guessing all other countries that celebrate Workers Day also are having Free Comic Book Day today.
So head over to you local Comic Book store and get your copies of the tons of free comics that they give out^^,
Happy Free Comic Book Day everyone^^,