Today, I am grateful we don't have big alien Transformers trying to kill our sun. But then we wouldn't have awesome Autobots either..XD Though Jetfire is pretty cool! He has a cane. And a beard. Somehow I was reminded of House, heh.

I'm glad niisama came over. :) He's always so nice and huggable! And he helped buy LotR and Baldur's Gate~! Yay~ Thanks dear. :) We started on LotR, but it isn't easy and we died on Normal. XD I tried Road to Isengard after he left and died on Normal too. Zzz.

I liked the game, though. I'm grateful for nice cake and Dad turning 50. =) I guess I shouldn't have bought him games cos he really should exercise more! Oops.

I'm glad because of $9 movies. :)

Thinking of getting an LG Renoir with my next plan...has anyone had bad/good experiences with it? The Virgin booth guy at Burwood yesterday was really sucky and unhelpful. -_- Not to mention the phones at the booths are duds, but I really didn't like the plastic clacky buttons on the only other solid competitor for my attention at the moment, the Nokia something-or-other with GPS and a 5mpx cam.

Alright, time to sleep! Enough Renoir videos. -wry-

Thought I'd write an entry. XD Niisama is at work -- hope his interview went fine, and work is okay/not too stressful. Today, I'm grateful...uh, forgot my train of thought. XD Ohhh right. I'm grateful for being able to wake up before 9 and not feeling like shit! :D Though I'll have to wake up at 8 tomorrow...sigh...

I'm also grateful for the money I've earned from today.com -- now all I gotta do is wait for the AUD to go down against the USD before I convert them. I feel evil now. XD But meh, still haven't received Ruddbux yet....religiously checking. In the meantime, everyday account has $1.49 in it. -grins- I'm burnin' mah plastic!

I'm not grateful that I actually have to go out and buy pads...for the first time in MONTHS. And here I was, happily buying a new set of liners. Maybe I can use them a few months down the line. >.>

I have to finish something up in an hour's time before niisama comes, but I figured might as well post...

Those who've noticed this blog languishing should know that I spend most of my blogging time/energy on my anime blog, [*Anime By the Books*]. Yes, I post once a day there. Yes, I'm grateful about getting paid to post. XD If you'd like to know more about it, please leave a comment with your email and I'll get in touch..(not expecting many to be) I get 5USD for referring people, which I can route back to you.

In any case, I'm once again happy that I know both Chinese and English. It makes watching ChiSubs..possible. -wry- And somehow Chinese subbers are relentless and super fast. I mean, I just got Koukaku 10...should go and watch that. And almost done with Kemono 10.

I remember in school a lot of us used to drag our feet learning Chinese, but in Australia now, my middling-standard Chinese and even my half-bucket Cantonese is a lot more than most people can speak. Surprising, really...I don't want my brother to turn out like a typical only-English-speaking ABC, but I guess aside from dumping him in Chinese school..

I'm grateful for awesome-tasting yusheng, despite my stomach ache earlier. Grateful for niisama coming over yesterday and playing games with us. ^^ Also for hong hong sleeping peacefully beside me -- he smells weally nice!

Above all, I'm grateful for the angpao I'll be getting! Haha, just kidding. =) I'm grateful for spending CNY with my parents, and having abalone and good food. Awesomeness.

Lately I realise I've become dissatisfied with books. I don't know what happened..but somewhere along the line I've become tired of the mundane. Romance thriller homicide FBI? Yawn. Epic quest and dark villain? Been there, read that, skipped on the T shirt.

And now I'm encountering yet another species of books - the No Endings. The past three or four books I've read (and held -- i.e. not ebooks) have had no decipherable ending. They just dropped the reader at the end. Granted, two of them are biographies of sorts (Grant Stoddard's Working Stiff and Belle de Jour - diary of a working call girl) -- the other two, were, however, just normal chick lit. That didn't really have an ending.

It's sad, really. I did enjoy the books. Not so much Stoddard's -- he writes like a guy, and does rather dumb things a guy would do; shows no visible character development; and writes in semi-linked. While Belle de Jour does much the same thing, the protagonist is at least greatly likable to me. Not to mention her life's more interesting. -wry-

Now, I know it's the nature of life to be unfinished. I am VERY grateful for my life to be unfinished. XD But sigh. What books have you guys been reading?

Therese, one of the other receptionists, was talking about self esteem and how you need to love yourself before you can expect others to love you. It -is- true. I do wonder why everyone is supposed to have self esteem problems, though. Are humans that messed-up?

In any case, I'm gonna try to mention at least one thing I'm grateful about every time I write an entry.

I'm grateful for: unexpected Christmas gifts at work (thanks, Alison, Robert and Jean. :)), and above all, niisama for having been majorly here for me this past month. I love doing homehome stuff with you, dear. Should I visit your place more? ._.

I'll get around to taking some pictures of niisama's wonderful presents to me, too...after Belle de Jour, I got Working Stiff. \o/ I wonder how he finds these books. XD I am grateful niisama attempted to arrange a dinner to celebrate my 21st, but I really didn't want one.

Why not? Maybe I'm paranoid, but I don't think I am (you get vibes after a while.) -- I don't feel like I'm very well-liked. I'd rather not everyone come to celebrate with me....knowing they didn't like me. Even worse, they'd have to get a present for someone they didn't like. Might as well save them the trouble. :/ Plus there's something deeply hypocritical about attending someone's birthday celebration when actually thinking they're crap. So yeah...spare me, spare you.

I'm glad I spent it alone with niisama in the end. Thank you for the wonderful cake, dear. Snapped it up in two goes, we did! :) There -are- a few people I do know would like me enough to really wish me well, but most of those aren't even in Australia.

Suddenly feeling somewhat emotional. I do miss my family. I'm glad that I can talk to mom, though. Guess it's somewhat ironic we can only really talk freely when she isn't around for us to annoy each other.

I don't know...my parents say, 'Get more friends!' but what I really want is people to hang out with both niisama and I. Is that wrong? Should he have his own camp of friends while I have mine? (Preferably male and female respectively?) When I look back on this year, I feel...sad that people who don't really know me all that well would just say bad things about me. Or say I've changed.

I haven't. If there's one thing I know, it's my faults. ("Excessively emo" is a big all-encompassing one) Maybe you just never really knew me. But if people don't talk to each other plainly and without holding back, the knowing doesn't happen, you know? And there's probably few things that annoy me more than people who say things they don't mean. If you do that, I can't count you as a friend...or would you think I'm being unrealistic because everyone keeps things from/says bad things behind the backs of people they call friends?

Because even if I joke about friends, if I really am their friend I'm deadly loyal, and will defend them with my last breath. :/ If you're more of an acquaintance, I might note your less-than-stellar points, but I still tend to believe the best of people until they prove me wrong. Then I probably get excessively upset. But meh. More people/potential friends in the world? :S

I -am- grateful for Maria, Cali, Siwei, Jo, the bunch of people on fb who saw/remembered my birthday. I'm sorry that I'm such a crap friend in that I have a horrible memory for birthdays/dates in general.

Hmm. So this is a stay-at-the-top entry for Christmas card exchange~

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Card last year: If I sent you a card last year, I don't want to send you the same one this year...cos I mixed my Christmas cards up, and the old batch isn't finished yet. XD

I want to send to lots of people (I won't be lastmin like last year!) but I wanna actually get cards this year too. XD Heh...

Yay! I finally got Christmas cards mailed out (I fear they'll be late...sigh XD), and went to Westfield to get the rest of niisama's Christmas presents. Unfortunately, the Ben 10 briefs at the Korean Artbox place were sold out. :( Guess I'll have to get bro just the Bakugan books for his Christmas. :)

So now, everyone's gifts are set! :D I think this year I'll only get one gift...even though it's my 21st. It makes me feel kinda lonely, but then I remember I have niisama and that's all that matters. (Well not really, but I'm super duper ultra zoongly grateful for having him. -hugs imaginary niisama-)

I've been watching many many movies these days, mainly since when at home with niisama/eating, it's the easiest thing to do. :) Let's see if I can come up with short summaries for them.

Don't Mess With The Zohan: This was obviously poking fun at Israeli/Palestinians. -wry- Adam Sandler was funny, but as a film it didn't make me all that attached. Not to mention I wonder how the groups of people parodied feel...
Kung Fu Panda: Very fun romp. Wonderful colours, great animation, sweet story, likeable panda (Jack Black, haha!), and awesome action sequences. Watch! ^^
Dragon Hunter: Another animation, but not as likeable as Kung Fu Panda. (The girl is kinda annoying) Still rather cute, and whimsical besides. All I can say is - knitting needles.
Hancock: Three words - Too Many Loopholes. It wasn't bad, I just didn't really get this one. And the chemistry between Will Smith and Charlize Theron was dubious at most; torturous more than anything. Loophole bit: still don't get the pair/lose power thing. -wry-

I think there were a few others but I forgot. XD Gonna watch Titanic this weekend, yay~~

As title. -wry- Maybe too much trying to get Marioholic up. Tomorrow's order of bizness...translate GA ch62, and begin trans of Marioholic 5. Hrm. All in a day's work. XD Shall email niisama. :) See if he sees it before he goez out.

; Don't do the quiz, it's not worth it. Only putting here cos the bar is shiny. XD

Sigh, that must have been one of the more clinical tests I've done. Koped from moonblader, though. This weekend has been kinda hrm.

First anniversary was a bit short cos niisama had work, but it was still great anyway, and I've been reading Belle de Jour and it's awesome. XD Now to get him stuff from bookdepository...as soon as I get that bloody credit card of mine. -sighs- -now sighs as she thinks of niisama- I hope he's alright, he said he wasn't feeling well earlier. That boy seems to not feel well a lot. :(

...At the moment Avast is scanning my comp; 60k files and still only 1% completed. ._. What else..was watching Lazytown videos (the cake one) on youtube earlier, they're quite awesome. Julianna Rose Mauriello looked rather like Natalie Portman, as Stephanie. Also finally released Marioholic chapter four; people who haven't read it, proceed to my anime blog to read a review on it, which I will write in half an hour, and or to the JE site to get scans.

Nothing much else..gonna spam on a forum soon so I can get paid, lol. XD

Zooong. I'm all tuckered out from writing an epic anime list post for next season's anime. I'm so tired I think I'll just sit here and do nothing. Please go read my post and at least generate mah poor anime blog some traffic. Or leave a tag if you so feel inclined. If you actually comment on a post, I will wuvvle yoo~~

But nooo~ I can't rest, I have to finish checking Moyashimon chapter 62. T_T Lucky Imman's done a pretty good job so I don't have much to do. :) And I'm only about five pages away from finishing...go, Jenn, go!

I didn't know we had a Hoover until today. It's kinda loud, and really big. At least it seems to make my floor clean. Speaking of cleanliness, I packed my room out! Now all that's messy is my fabric corner.

I hope sydneycyclist.com (thanks for link, by the way, Jay -groans at rhyme) will forgive me for hotlinking, but I couldn't help it. Everyone who thinks that looks more like a vacuum cleaner than a solar car, comment aye!

Short post tonight. Also, I have a kinda-sponsored sorta anime blog -- Anime By the Books. Don't ask about the name. -pained- I picked it at 4am and only realised the folly of my actions the next day (by which time the blog was already accepted). I'll keep you guys updated on the payment status for today.com -- but if you'd like to join them anyway, please tell me so I can pass you a refferal link and you can help me earn extra moolah~~ Thanksyoo!

My favourite phrase is now 'Zoong'. Altogether now, guys, say it with me! Zoooooooooong. (zoo like the zoo, zoo-ng). So if you hear me saying that, no, I'm not going crazy. XD

Bargain of za day: Get drink and chips with every wrap, valid until 12th dec 08. Wraps priced around $7.90, from what someone says.
http://www.alibaba.com.au/locations/nswstores.htm

( A tale of two memes~ )

This piccher is purty.

( The other meme starts here )

An hour and a half ago (or whenever I last posted, I forget) it looked like I was never gonna get to my goal, but now that I've skipped 9 exercises in a row, it looks much more doable. Still, it's kinda late. I reckon maybe I'll sleep like 4 hours, and hope that when niisama starts chatting to me tomorrow that I'll be woken up. XD

Who helped me with preparing for my oral presentation/interview on Tuesday! Thanks, dear, you're rather interesting when you're acting. ;) I'll try to speak a bit slower. XD Though sometimes I feel if someone's speaking too slowly that it's kinda patronising. ._. But meh, for understandability's sake! And I'll go test out on mom, who actually has hypercholesterolaemia, though she's not using Zocor.

( Bloody trolls on the bloody net )

Just a quick word cos I wanted to blog a bit before going back to study...(four more files left before I finish today's quota, and it's below the actual quota even. :S) Maybe I won't sleep tonight...sigh. Goodness knows I do have enough work to catch up on. Just take naps tomorrow.

In any case, went to KMart today in attempt to get $29 digiphoto frames as stated in yesterday's deal. But Ashfield AND Burwood were both sold out. I feel pretty cheated...there were some printers, though, but they were marked at a strange price. I went at around 2pm, and the truth is we saw other photo frames @$79 originally, and there was no blank spot for another frame, so I wonder where it all went, and how many the stores actually had to sell. -_- I know we weren't there at opening, but it's not the first time I've been to KMart looking for a deal (was last looking for USB) and found it was sold out. -___-

I can't believe I just tried to convince my mom to go on facebook. It went something like..

Me: Don't you want to go on? Aunty Josephine and Aunty Vanessa are both on it already..
Mom: But I don't have photos to put up...
Me: Well it's not so much a photo sharing site but a networking site..

Save me! I don't actually want my mom on my fb, do I..>.> Unless maybe there's a 'censor content' button, lol.

Just spent a rather surreal afternoon with niisama -- and listening to the distant thundering, a premonition of rain. I should go shower now so I'll be back when niisama gets back. :) Some bargains, by the way:
( Perfume, garlic bread, and Kmart weekend sale )

I'm shedding.

I even have this dish (cover of a mooncake tin once) that I put on my bed so I can put any hair of mine (on my bed, on my clothes) I find on it. Or if I want to eliminate some random hair. (I keep my tweezers close for this reason.) It probably sounds kinda gross, huh. -coughs- I really should pack up my room before niisama comes...and I wonder whether my parents have noticed my vibrator (the one I don't use) is just sitting at the edge of my bed. XD

Sigh, just finished watching The Great Happiness Space as provided by Cali. Skipped through most of it, but it's just really depressing...I thought it was interesting most of the girls were so pretty, then I find out 80% of them are prostitutes who do their job so they can spend more at host clubs, and it's just...sad. Plus Issei is so cynical. Sigh.

I thought Ryoma was cute, though. XD Looks girly and has spiky hair~~ But I guess it really is true, that they sell dreams -- and that the girls seem really demanding. I'm happy to have my own darlingling who likes me for me. ^^

You need to be a new member to do this..following the instructions at the ozbargain offer place to get USD$80USD$50 in yer account. Worth quite a lot now that AUS is pretty weak. XD

Update: $80 combined offer is no longer working, but you can still get $50 if you sign up in a new account...