Long Blog #4

"There is neither happiness nor
misery in the world; there is only the comparison
of one state to another, nothing more. He who has
felt the deepest grief is best able to experience
supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to
die, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life."
--Alexandre Dumas

Recently I have watched a movie called Bandslam. It's pretty much the adventure (well, that's really bad phrasing but you get my drift after finishing this paragraph) of a band and it's glory of going to this competition to get some record deal in this competition at school. after coming second place, their performance was recorded, uploaded onto YouTube and eventually they got a record deal. The movie was good, I wouldn't say spectacular or anything like that nor extremely bad. I quite liked it, the fact that I want to get my band, Lola and the Rawr off the ground, the movie sort of inspired me to do that in a way. Kind of like me seeing Julie & Julia, it made me be inspired to actually do something.

I also recently watched It's Complicated. I absoultely dislike the whole plan and thing. It's just for people who are romance-obsessed over the limits. I am already confronted by the whole sexual thing through many lessons about it in PDH (Physical Development & Heath) and reproduction in Science. It's the fact that over doing it in this movie, kind of, well, freaked me out to the maximum. Meryl Streep was a good actress in this film, no doubt about that. In the end, it was a good movie, but I just disliked it with the over the top sexual themes, if you get my drift.

A Series of Unfortunate Events, well, what can I say about that? I read the first book in year four with my class. The class teacher was reading it to us, while the spare copies were given around to a few people in the class. I never bothered, after 2004, to read them. That is till the last few days of 2009 I picked up the second book (I still remember the first book, well in my mind) and started reading it. Now, up to book nine, I am re-loving the series again. It's 13 books long, pretty much 13 chapters inside (correct me if I'm wrong) and it's about the tales of three children and their misfortunes of escaping clutches of the villian, Count Olaf (who, each book, hides in disgisuses), who wants their fortune. It brang me back to my primary school years of reading the book. Does anyone enjoy the books like I do?

I am officially missing the Japan's rail systems. I missed the fact that trains come ever 2 minutes or so. CityRail (one of Australia's rail networks) is annoying the hell out of me. Whenever I go on the train (I think about everyone feels the same), it smells like number ones. It disgusts me like hell. There is a train pretty much every hour here and it annoys the heck out of me. They change the time table (I don't catch the train but), so my school has to pretty much catch the train in a hurry because of that. It's like 500m or more to the station from school and I think it's a pain because there is a train in an hour's time if you missed it. It is so annoying. If I catch the train to home, it's about 30 minutes (same amount of time if I wait for my bus) and it is a 6 minute or so train trip then a 30min or so walk to my house. If I catch the bus, it's 30min waiting, 40min trip and 5 min walk or so. The Japan Rail System, is crowded but still, it's sufficient and I love it. Even if it is crowed and you literally have to rush and get a seat if there is an oppertuneaty open for it.

Signing off,
DoomAngelKitty

Long blog #1

"Don't worry about falling in love...

In most fairy tales,

They don't find each other

Till the very last page."

DAK productions. No, it's not a unknown produxctions of music or films. No it's not a band or charity help center either. It's going to be a new 'sensation' (if you want to call it that) going to start work in 2010. It's a sort of base off from my account, on YouTube, but not as a tester. Once a day or week, I'll talk about something that is affecting the world or something that I want to get off my chest. I've got a few plans on what I should say in my videos but this might not go into the final video cut. The idea is still in the planing stages and this idea will fill in my time, especially the last term of school next year, where I won't be doing much school work because of work experience, camp, Year Ten Certificate, formal and of course, the annual Christmas Concert at my school. But still, if anyone is giving any hope with this idea, note that it's in the planning stages. It may include some other people as well.

Christmas this year was really nice. My sisters came up and we had the morning of opening presents. I recieved an iTouch, clothes (a Ellen Page t-shirt, black shorts, black and grey sweat shorts, and a Hello Kitty t-shirt saying "Rad in the day, awesome at night"), stationary (diary, a notebook and a bubblegum smelling rubber), perfume (Avril Lavigne's 'Black Star'), and a skull money box. After opening presents, we drove an hour and a half to my Uncle & Auntie's place to have Christmas lunch with my cousins and (if it makes sense, cousin's cousins) cousins twice removed. It was quite good and it was nice to see some of my relatives again. My cousin persuade me to join Orchestra, even though it's a large comitment, I MIGHT join. In year 7, at my school's End of Semester Music Concert, the orchestra played "Phantom of the Opera", which made me fall in love in Orchestra. Yes, I do play an intrument if you ask, the flute.

As you may have read of my Christmas presnts, I got a iTouch. I still have my iPod 2nd Generation NaNo. I will still use my other iPod. The iTouch is helping me, heaps. Even though my other iPod has 198 songs (plus two podcasts) and my iTouch has about 30-odd songs, it helps me with planing. Yeah, I know, PLANING! plus I saved in my contacts phones of my mum and my two sisters, incase if my phone is dead and I need to reach one of them by my friend's phone or a pay phone. Also I'm planing about what to do in my blogs, I have several ideas on what to say in the next two blogs or so, and it's ALOT! As well as, swear jar money (for me and mum, I think it's not really necessairy to swear even though it's in our Oxford Dictionary), how many pages till I finish a book(s) (it's for my holiday reading), birthdays and (going to be) ideas for futher coming videos on YouTube.

People on the roads, yeah I'm talking about them on my blog, which is quiet weird in a way. When my mum and I (yesterday) were driving to see my sister off to Europe for three weeks, several drivers made my mother angry. One driver was having trouble and when too forward so the driver reversed back, while the guy behind us, started beeping. Mum got really angry and have her "driving moment". Yeah, road rage as everyone knows. So then from that incident, I started a swear jar for my mother, several drivers from that incident onwards, kept on coming into our lane and going back to their lane, whicdh I got angry about that, but I didn't have road rage. I kept my calm -laughs-.

I love my addictions. It's quite, well, not normal compare to other people. I am kind of into manga (up to chapter 56 or 57 in Fruits Basket and I'm getting the hang of reading it back to front, right to left). Or my other one, I don't really like reading a book and finishing a page without a full stop (when I go to sleep that is), I always have to finish on (or rather, HAVE to) a full stop and turn the next page and take a break. How weird that is? Does anyone else have any additcitions like this?

My holiday reading is really, going slow. 35 days left and I have to read 2,000 pages of books. It seems so much but I can make it. MuggleCast is keeping my sanity through reading heaps of pages. I am planining to read through one book at a time, or a least two. I don't want myself to confuse myself with 5 different plot lines and forget what I have read on a particular book. Does anyone feel the same with me? Do you pace yourselves on a certin amount of books and work it out on a caculator how many pages you should read a day? I work it out on a caculator, I plus all the pages that I am left with on the books I'm suppose to be reading, then devide it by how many days until I have to finished.

Lola and the Rawr is my, well, on the road band. The only things are that I haven't written any songs onto my MySpace account nor do I have the equipment to record it. Another thing is, I am the only one in my band -unhappy face-. Does anyone have any knowledge of recording devices and where to get them (in AUSTRALIA)? Or anyone want to join my band? The thing is, it's kind of Wrock music (for those people who don't know what Wrock is, it's Wizard Rock). -shrugs- It's your choice.

Signing off

DoomAngelKitty

Sunday is the only relaxing day and a soul-missing one too

Do you think my personality is written in stone?
Are you positively certain that you know what you’ve been shown
I’m a snapshot of the person that you think I ought to be
Now give it up! Give it up! Give it up!
--- "Words" by Kate Miller Heidke

Sunday, is it? No play? My life has return back to normal. No more rehersals wrecking my weekend, no learning my lines (and procrastinating to learn them), no more getting my make up done and taking it off then doing it back on again, no more costumes (let alone the tight costume changes), no more getting screamed at for "not singing", no more corny dances, no more cheesy songs, and no more late nighters doing perfomances. I cried at end of the performance last night. No more Junior play for me. They did a tradition for the Senior play for the year 12s, giving them a teddy bear for graduating the play. Well, for the Juior play they gave the year 9s teddy bears since we are going to the Senior play. I was still crying and I got up to recieve my teddy bear with Totoro. My friend who got Cheif Weasel in the play said, "Don't cry (my name), you are making me sad." Everyone laughed. But when I was walking to get my teddy bear, everyone was like "I love you!". Now I am sad, typing this up now. T.T

On YouTube, I'm currently watching My Neighbour Totoro (となりのトトロ, Tonari no Totoro) with Japanese voice acting with English subtiles. I'm a humongous fan of Totoro. I've got a small and a big version of Totoro, a t-shirt of a scene in the movie (scene: when Totoro and the girl is waiting in the rain for the girl's father), and a pencil case of Totoro's head. When I went over to Japan this year, we went to a big toy store (I think it was the day when we went to Harajuku) and there was one level that has a section full of Totoro-related things. I got talking to a girl who came from a school in my state and it was cool. I am also watching A Very Potter Musical. My friends told me to watch it.

I really want to see the movie, Where the Wild things are. It was originaly a picture book, but now it's a movie. I first saw a trailer for Where the Wild Things Are was when I was seeing Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Maybe soon, maybe next weekend cause I am finishing this Thursday.

Happy: Ending School on Thursday and no more play
Sad: No more Junior Play
Listening to: Bad Romance by Lady GaGa

Love
DoomAngelKitty

Why the hell am I writing 7,000 words today and procrastinating?

This street continued to run ahead
It should have been written in a map
but I can't find the town
and as I turned around to look at that place
the scenery changed
This world is our last electro world
The ground is shivering and broken,
and the sun has fallen from the sky lightly into my hand
The truth, above all, has been recognized
I'll leave the world's plan behind in this letter
---"Electro World" by Perfume

I ask myself at 4:30 pm after I came home from school (on the magical school bus), why am I writing 7,000 words (somedays 8,000 words, 7,500 words and 9,500 words). At the end, roughly at 29th November, I'll writen 83,000 words plus my original 3,760 words. So overall, 86,760 words, 36,760 words over my finishing mark.

Procrastination isn't helping me much. Facebook, Blogger and on YouTube while I'm writing this, is not a good start to my 7,000 word writing. I should of done it in my Science class when we were watching a video about ecosystems and the food chain (even though it lasted 10 minutes). What are some good ways of me stop procrastinating today and write 7,000 words?

My Christmas Concert is soon approcahing so I was cutting down to songs that I can sing and sing it at the Concert. The list goes down to:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sG_3IiSV_U ---> "Electro World" by Perfume
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggTiV5ETRQ4 ---> "Two for My Seconds" by Operator Please
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPsZVTIygA ---> "Green Eyed World" by The Blips feat. Amiel
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRp6Wl_9lKo ---> "These Days are Dark" by Harry and the Potters
5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wRkoGKQ8qQ ---> "Love Story" by Taylor Swift

So which one do you think I should sing? I only have four weeks from Thursday to learn this song. I asked one of my friends from Russia what she thinks, she has yet to reply to it though. I haven't even asked my school friends though. I should even.

Love
DoomAngelKitty