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Monday, February 20, 2006 Look at me ma, I'm on the bandwagon!http://kevan.org/johari?view=Imaginarium Knock yourselves over! Tell me what you think I am! Crazy week over, thank God. Filming went better than anticipated though I suspect continuity errors and inadvertently not fulfilling shot requirements. But we'll see how that goes. Feel more relaxed now -- starting to gear up for the trip down to COMICON this weekend! :D Too bad I didn't book our hostel accommodation earlier -- the one we've got now is at a hostel that's further away from the convention centre and not as nice. :( But we'll make do. Lesson learned. >_< Over and out! Viv wished for the moon @ 4:39 PM Tuesday, February 14, 2006 Happy Valentine's Day to all.But a special greeting to my baby. *muah* I love you. Viv wished for the moon @ 6:14 PM Sunday, February 12, 2006 Happy Monthday...?So I just ate a chunk of dark chocolate which I couldn't taste, and then when I blew my nose afterwards I could finally feel the taste of it up my sinus passages. Like how cool is that, babies??? So well that's my anecdote for the day. Otherwise, it's going to be a rough week ahead. Bit off more than I can chew with intensive 8-10pm rehearsals all week for The Vagina Monologues which will culminate this Friday, Saturday and Sunday evening. This coming weekend I also have to contend with filming for my cinema production class, which I have to juggle with Vagina Monologues commitment somehow and I haven't thoroughly thought through what I want to do for my film yet. Add to the mix 3 crew calls for the electrics crew of another performance I signed up for (Violet), and a paper due on Tuesday and a presentation early next week, and you've got the makings of a very stressed out Vivienne. As my MSN nickname says, I Shouldn't Have Signed Up For This. What was I thinking when I took on Violet electrics crew? For one credit only they're making us do an awful lot of work, and it's going to get worse. I feel like just dropping it if I can. Way more trouble than it's worth. Perhaps I will. So the past 2 weekends have been spent more or less indoors, writing papers. This ain't the way to live, man. :/ Ruth's the lucky one, for some reason she's never got as much work to do as Becky and I do, and well I'm really just a moron for getting fingers in too many pies. Sigh. Lessons to be learnt here, kids. :( Mmmm pie. *Weebl voice* Anyway but at least (not even at least, it's more than just a small consolation, it's a big HAPPY THING) I have NEW YORK COMIC CONVENTION to look forward to!!!!!!! :D I'll be making the trip down to New York's Javits Convention Centre during the last weekend of February. It's gotten me so excited. It's my once in a lifetime chance to check out what a comicon is like, a chance I won't get again in a long time. And when I saw the lineup for artists coming, I nearly passed out. DAVID MACK WILL BE THERE!!!!! I fangirl madly for him alone. Well not alone. But for a very select group, of which he is a member. Jim Lee will be there, as will Brian Azzarello, both of whom I fangirl albeit more moderately. As I told Galen, this is the time for my inner otaku to run rampant over verdant fields of green while the wind slowly blows and ruffles its hair and the tinkling piano opening-credit music starts to play. Then Galen had to wreck the moment by giggling about white-panty fanservice. Oh. Speaking of panties and fanservice (kinda...), we went to the Mr Ithaca pageant last night. No drag category, I was disappointed, but the swimwear section was fascinating enough. Guess which one hails from across the pond.  RULE BRITANNIA! We march forward in the name of the Chairman.And D.P Dough's calzones are the best. The ones at home are crap in comparison...dry and usually small. Coffee Club Express's turkey calzones are the worst offenders, ugh. All bread no filling. So well never liked calzone much until last night came along and we ordered in from D.P's because everybody says it's one of those things you have to do if you're in Ithaca, so we did. And they were absolutely right. I don't mind ordering in from them again. Ordering in is fun, I'm wondering why I never did it more at home. Probably because my house was always too out of the way for most delivery places to feel happy delivering stuff to. (Damn you, Pizza Hut, your delivery policy is part of the reason why my family took its business to Canadian 2-for-1. HA!) But there you go. Just get comfy in the living area, call, settle down to a nice game of Taboo, and then just as the game is winding down and people start deciding to play games with the Swedish dictionary (which instantly excludes everybody except gamemaster/game initiator and implied Swedes :/), there's a knock on your apartment door and voila! 6 calzones, 12 wings and 2l of Sprite. As they say over here, sweeeeeeeeeeeeet. This ordering in business is getting quite addictive and is awfully dangerous. Amazon is the first trap I have fallen into. I just happily clicked on Amazon to check out this wonderful graphic novel called Blacksad, and bam! Before I know it I'm choosing standard shipping and confirming my credit card details, and all 3 volumes are now making their merry way to the post office at school, after which I shall get a happy little email/pink slip in my mailbox that will inform me to go and collect them, and I will go to the post office near the bookstore and Mac's the convenience store to pick up big packages wrapped in brown paper, and I'll feel like a kid at Christmas and I'll be excited all day, not so much by the stuff I ordered (which is amazing already), but by the simple fact that I got packages. It's a tough feeling to describe unless you've done online ordering before.But I guess it's like finding out you've got personal snailmail that isn't annoying magazine sweepstakes or POSB card statements or flyers or what have you. Anyhow when these packages come in it'll be my first time getting packages that aren't textbooks from Amazon. But if those already got me excited, can you imagine getting packages of stuff you want?? MIND JOB!! So well, at least that's a bright spot to look forward to in the crammed up week ahead. Hurrah. Sean's just arrived in Australia and homesickness seems to have the better of him right now. It's so strange that exactly one month ago (a month and a day, really) that was me. Though I think looking back I'm surprised I wasn't as much as a wreck as I expected myself to be. There were rough bits...the absurdest being when I started on a broccolli stir fry and began to feel awful because the smell of onions and garlic frying reminded me of mum's cooking at home, but settling in turned out to be a much pleasanter experience than feared. It probably helped I had friends to go through it with me, for which I thank God. But well. The only advice I could give him was to give himself a chance. It really does get better, if only in the sense that you get used to it, even if you don't wind up enjoying it wildly. So that's my fortune cookie message for today, and your lucky numbers are 12 5 75 306 and 67 and let's learn the word Bok Choy. X) And tracking back in time a bit more, went to Cornell on Friday for a tour with Jac and Peixian. My god it's so pretty. Shots courtesy of Ruth's camera since I's not brought mine.  The bell tower is about 8 floors up and there's a magnificent chime organ (peeking from picture right) which gets played 3 times a day by the Chimemasters (can you feel the geek-cool vibe?). It takes an awful lot of strength to work that organ, and when I can get a better picture of it from Jac I'll post it up. Those levers are connected by pulleys to the bells on the upper level (where the DNA spiral staircase leads) and can be heard across campus. The girl on the right is the chimemaster, and she let us ring the 1.30 bells! Cornell has awesome cafeteria food, makes its own milk and apple cider on campus and has the yummiest homemmade flavours of ice cream ever at its dairy bar. Wish I got a photo of the ice-cream, which was happily consumed in -10 degree weather. My, what big...fingers you have. The Statler Hotel for the hotel management students. Gorgeous, 5 star, very expensive. So the best we could manage was flopping ourselves all over their lobby and taking pictures.And now "We Didn't Go To Harvard" is making more and more sense to me. I'm using it as my Cornell/Ithaca checklist. The song lyrics change every year, and you can google it to see what I mean...but when I'm all done here I'll post up the song lyrics (Every version I can find online!) and mark out what I've seen/done/now understood. Well that's my lengthy account for this week, and I've just burned an hour that was meant for my paper. Ugh. Back to work and waiting for the end of February to arrive! Viv wished for the moon @ 11:24 AM Thursday, February 02, 2006 Because Pablo asked me to say thisPABLO MEXICANIAN IS NOW MENTIONED IN THIS BLOG. Viv wished for the moon @ 1:25 AM Wednesday, February 01, 2006 Pieces of Ithaca. With newfound friends during Chinese New Year, at the only Bubble Tea shop in town! Random assault on the modesty of a parking meter in Collegetown. The poor thing never stood a chance. LAVA CAKE. With Purity Ice Cream, a local product. *incoherence ensues* Look ma we're tall!  Really. Campus was breathtaking over Chinese New Year weekend. Guess who I got to meet? :D *hugs* I hope we meet up again soon, Jac! :D And don't be rubbishy, you're still as slim and sweet as ever. X) Slice of life: Me poking around Ruth and Becky's room on a snowy afternoon. My roommate Marie is in the background, and this is a (somewhat) better shot of her:  Meet some of the International Kids (From left: Bobby from Canada, Becky, Sietske from the Netherlands, self, and Jessica from Australia) and WEGMAN'S SUPERMARKET!!! Any self-respecting Cornellian or Ithacan will tell you, that is the ONLY place to do any decent grocery shopping. And note my shirt. Even though you can't see it, it's a Beatles shirt from Walmart, and love it to bits I do. Finally. CAN YOU SAY DORKY WINTER HAT??
Viv wished for the moon @ 11:44 PM
    Badges of honour, brought to you from Der Webcam My first blood donation, and I had a funky red plaster, a pricked finger and a paper cut to show for it. Paper cut unfortunate result of brushing my fingers against a sheet of paper the Red Cross lady was holding, but otherwise unscathed. Felt rather dizzy after that though, almost fainted in the elevator on the way to lunch but made it there in one piece. So, whee. It was a good excuse to eat sweets and other chocolatey things, so all in all it turned out to be a pretty good affair, not counting in the long wait to go in and then having to wait half an hour at the health centre to get my weight in pounds because during the screening prior to the donation itself, the American Red Cross didn't have a metric converter in their database. 9_9 Come on, the whole world's on metric, don't you think it's time you took a hint and at least installed a converter in your little operations thingy?? I guess I wouldn't be so annoyed if I hadn't had to wait 30 minutes just to be weighed by the campus nurse, but well. It's all done with, and as Sean said, No Use Crying Over Spilt Blood, to which we all say, Ha Ha. But I'm 116 pounds and sans clothes probably 114,which works out to roughly 52kg. I can't recall if that's a gain or a loss or still the same. Mm. And in other news, my comic work is going to be published in the upcoming first edition of the Ithaca Comics Club Comic Book! :) So I'll keep you posted bout that. :) Gosh now that I've figured out to use photo blogger, my life will never be the same!!! XD It might persuade me to post more pics. Oh what the hell. More pics to follow in following post. X) Viv wished for the moon @ 11:30 PM |
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Head in the clouds Vivienne Wong was hatched on the 12th of June 1985 and hails from Singapore, which contrary to popular belief, is not a colony of Japan. Formerly of Raffles Girls' Primary and Secondary School and then of Hwa Chong Junior College's Humanities Scheme, she is currently readjusting herself to the finer points of academia (read: she hasn't studied in ages and is really overworked) in her 2nd year at Nanyang Technological University Communication Studies. However she is currently spending the semester on the snowy plains of Ithaca College, New York, and lovin' it. Otherwise, she likes talking about herself in the third person, drawing, acting, comics, watching cartoons, eating Italian food, light rock, Irish music, Broadway tunes, acoustic guitar riffs, drawing some more and singing loudly in the bathroom. On the other hand, she dislikes unmotivated people, afternoon naps, the conventional, and people who are either smelly or wearing clothes too tight for them so that they end up bulging. Contactable here.
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