A Special Birthday Wish for Yoda AKA LO Maria

     I've been such a slacker with the posts these days that I'd forgotten to share the special birthday wish received by the formidable Yoda AKA LO Maria of Roblam on 21 January.  How remiss of me!

     A little birdie told me that she had a glorious feast of teriyaki chicken with sticky rice. Yumm!

Idle Hands Will Make Crane..

     I have a tendency of folding flyers that are given to me. So I can be walking down the street and the piece of paper would be folded into whatever oddity that comes to mind at the time, LOL, though more often than not, they end up looking like paper airplanes. I do refrain from throwing said paper airplanes into the public though.

     I do love making paper cranes though. I picked up the trick a long while ago but forgot it so when I remembered the steps again, I was naturally keen not to forget it so soon.

     I often find myself thinking how big or how small I can go.  Sometime ago I was feeding the printer a new ream of paper and the wrapping remained intact so I thought I'd have a go and see if I can make one that big.  Guess the answer's quite clear, LOL.

     It's been given an honorary position and seem to have a longer life expectancy that I'd first anticipated, LOL.

     Oh look, it's even found a friend, LOL.

First of Many Anniversaries on TA and With The Realm of Forks Hopefully!

     It's hard to believe that a year has passed since I discovered the wonderful realm of Forks! I know it started as a fascination for a movie and eventually books but I reckon the friendships I've formed especially since joining Twilighters Anonymous has been truly amazing!

     I did a little announcement about my TAnniversary on TA coz that's just our way, LOL.

     This people I've met in this fandom has definitely enriched my life. We may have started by talking about the books, characters, movies and actors but we've surely progressed to talking about more! Don't you just love meeting like-minded people!

     And they couldn't have chosen a more apt tagline: TwilightersAnonymous.com - Helping Addicts Since 2008 Because We Don't Want A Cure. Ha ha ha! So, so true!

Movie Marathon

     I won tickets to the final screening of New Moon on Friday organised by Twilighters Singapore. Yeh, just when one thought I'm done with wining anymore New Moon, eh? The questions were rather tricky, especially the first one but they were nicely chosen.   The first one got me thinking longer than I would have expected. :)

Question 1

List the Quileute tribe members that were mentioned in New Moon.

Question 2

What was Bella’s grandmother’s name?

Question 3

List down the names of the wolfpack in the sequence of their transformation.

Question 4

What was Bella’s and Mike’s choice of movies that they wanted to watch during their movie outing?

Question 5

How old were Leah and Seth when their father passed away?

    We went to Shaw's special screening room. I've never been there before. Looked rather posh but wish we'd got better seats.  Alas, we are not really the 'kiasu' types to rush for seats, LOL. In any case, it was nice to see them on the big screen again. They still look good!  For my foreign friends, 'kiasu' literally means 'fear of losing' in the local Chinese dialect.

     My sis wanted to watch another movie after that. It was a toss-up between Daybreakers and Legion. I saw the trailer for Daybreakers many times when I'd gone to watch New Moon. It's a movie about a world when vampires rule the world and humans are harvested for their blood.  I was keen to watch it but then I saw the trailer for Legion and thought it was awesome.

     People thought me crazy that Legion was my choice because I didn't want to mar my memory of my favourite vampires but hey, Daybreakers vampires also have golden eyes but they are not nice, what can I say, LOL.

     In any case, I'm glad I'd gone to watch Legion. Even though it was draggy in some parts, I rather thought it was pretty awesome! In the movie, an out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael.

     But I reckon it's a test for Michael, Gabriel and the humans involved in it. And wow, Michael is amazing! I think Paul Bettany played him very well! I'm still thinking about him a day later. I may well have a crush on a fictitious version of an angel!

 

 

 

When the Storm Hits...

     Seems like it's been ages since I've spent any time here! Work has been so crazy since Boxing Day with allocating students, preparing welcome packs for them and data entry in the timetabling system that the last thing I wanted to do was spend any extra amount of time facing the computer than necessary. And this was before the new semester started too!

     I barely spent any significant amount of time on my other indulgence, Twilighters Anonymous! Egad! Could that day have possibly come?  Ha ha! No need for rejoicing. I'm not quite ready to stop talking about the Cullens yet! I know my continuous heaping of accolades of them seems like a broken record but hey, here's a thought, don't get me started or shut your ears when I do! See, easy peasy! LOL

     In any case, I digress. I did have an awesome time away from the computer, first on 27th December when I had the chance to meet up with my long-time friends and former, the Sercombes, whom I've not met for close to 10 years surely! They were a family of four when they left Singapore and now they are a family of six! I knew the older two girls, Grace and Chloe, have carried them in my arms when they were babies and toddlers, but Lilianne and Daniel were born after they returned to England.

     Funnily enough, it was with Lily and Daniel that I spoke quite a bit with. Understandable I suppose, considering that Grace and Chloe are nearing their early teens. Well, I think Grace is already 11 and Chloe is 9, close enough, LOL. Lily is 7 and Daniel 3.  The whole family is ever charming and Colin and Leanne looked wonderful! They are now based in Hong Kong and were passing through Singapore while they had their cruise through South East Asia. I don't reckon they would be in a hurry to do that one again since I recall them saying the service and facilities were unbelievably horrid!

     We sat for an hour having coffee and catching up a bit. It was so surreal sitting at the same table as them again but it was wonderful nonetheless. My only regret was not having any photos taken with them. Silly, silly Noor!

     I also caught up on a lot of reading - though the speed at which I go through the books that termites would be proud of, there's nothing to really catch up on, I suppose, LOL. But shush! Books are wonderful things and I dunno what I'd ever do without them! I can't remember why I went to the Library again after my Christmas eve visit since I still had books to read from Sunny but I can never resist when there's a book I want.  Besides, it's always a pleasure visiting the library, eh?  Although I dare say, I've not borrowed such a huge stack of books since my uni days!

     The night before the new semester started, I thought I shan't be too distressed and that the most I'd have to deal was the alarm clock, ensuring that I wake up earlier than the hour later that I indulged in during school holidays since we start work at a later hour.

     Oh how wrong I was! From the moment I stepped into the office at 7.55am, it was go-go-go until about 10.30am before I managed to get my first cuppa joe and brekkie of biscuits and oh, remembered to put away my bag.  Furthermore, it was only when I was going for my lunch break, did I recall that I haven't gone to the washroom yet and realised that I needed that break as well, LOL.

     As a testament of how things hasn't seemed to have settled down yet, just look at my desk a week after the semester started. That's what happens when you seem to get new things to do before the previous tasks are completed. Ha ha!  Days like these, I miss seeing the top of my desk!  Would you believe that I clear it as much as possible each eve before I leave?