#212

i want to be like jane lane.

she's the coolest

:)

been watching daria lately

i'm up to season 3 now.

my favourite episode was the first episode of season 3

the musical one

i found it hilarious :)

#211

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#210

finally finished my hypothesis

but i'm pretty sure its utter crap

because i couldn't really reconfirm with my supervisor today exactly where i'm going with my topic

so hopefully my hypothesis isn't too narrow

and that i can write 2000 words on it.

or that i can say

yes, my hypothesis is correct

but i can add more stuff

to fill space.

hopefully.

and what's stupid about this is:

the 1000 word draft is due in two weeks

but the 2000 word draft is due one month after that.

i wish it were reversed.

because surely if you've done your first draft

you'll need a bit less time to do your final copy.

and you need a bit more time to draft your first copy.

sigh.

footscray station #209

i found a song call "footscray station" today

how hilarious!

the song isn't that great

its a bit meh

but its pretty funny

also, its also pretty funny that the band name is called

scott & charlene's wedding

ie. this:

in other news,
i'm a bit stressed out about this research subject
i've read about 10 research papers and none of them have really good info i need

so i need to keep looking

until i find at least one.

so then i can write my hypothesis which is due tmr.

sigh.

♥

p.s. i never would have thought i would ever write, or sort of write, something about neighbours in the blog. but there you go.

YES! photos #208

EMMA!

photo of us at the Strokes :)

+ your friend

i put up one of each member that night

for viewing purposes

& i particularly like the one of albert hammond jr. smirking at the camera

cute :)

haha.

these photos & many others from thevine.com.au

(it's because on the night we asked the photographers who they worked for, that's how i found them ;)

#207

had quite an interesting ethics tutorial today at 9am
it wasn't as bad or as scary as i thought it would be
also, because i hadn't actually read all the reading material beforehand
so i was a little fearful
but the tute was more or less just discussing different scenarios
which i thought was interesting

but another issue that came up was about the 'anti immunisation' groups forming
and all that
and well, i agree with my tutor (not that anymore in our group disagreed)
i'm quite against the anti immunisation groups
or better said, i am for immunisation of adults and children
because the anti groups
all their views stem from emotion and pretty much no evidence
because yes, their may be some side effects from immunisation
but how much worse would contracting 'whooping cough', 'small pox', 'tetanus', 'hep B', etc. compared to this
sure it might be a bit of pain, arm tenderness and headache, etc.
but compared to what you are immunising against
thats nothing.

and compared to the very low percent of actually recieving a serious adverse effect from immunisation
not immunising your child, puts them at higher risk of contracting these relatively serious diseases
which is much worse.
and actively choosing to put your child at risk,
sounds to me like bad parenting.
(i do emphasise the 'actively choosing' bit, eg. when children get vaccinated at school refusing to sign the form of consent. i do not mean it as being: not having children vaccinated because of lack of access) .

some things don't change #206

this is off a the strokes discussion group, i posted 3 years ago.

as you can see, most of my favourite songs are the same.

the only questions i'd answer different now is:

have i seen them in concert?

and my overall fav song

its funny because if you look at the forum post

jacky's one is right under mine.

(clearly, this was during the time he was trying to impress me. HAHA.)

original link: here

• 15 Mar 2007, 22:16

Name: Alison Zhang
Gender: Female
Age: 17
Country: Australia

Favorite Track off of "Is This It?"?: right now its "Is this It"

Favorite Track off of "Room On Fire"?: "The End Has No End"

Favorite Track off "First Impressions Of Earth?": "Heart in a Cage" & "You Only Live Once"

Favorite Track Overall: not sure, right now its the song they did with Regina Spektor "Modern Girls and Old Fashion Men"

Favorite LIVE Song: New York City Cops

Favorite video?: Heart in a Cage

Favorite Line: "so many fish there in the sea. she wanted him. he wanted me." Automatic Stop

Ever seen them in concert?: no =(

Ever met them?: i wish

Least Favorite Strokes song?: Juicebox

If you could choose one song to hear from them acoustically, what would it be?: the end has no end

If you could ask them 1 question, what would it be?: come back to melbourne next year?

Favorite Band Member: Nick

Next single/video YOU think should be released?: Razorblade

Song that means the most to you and why?: heart in a cage, i can't explain why. i guess the song is quite deep. also "you only live once", i like to jump around to it in my room. =)

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battle scars #205

i kind of didn't want to post for today yet

because i want everyone to read my epic post about the Strokes

so go read below if you have not

go! go! go!

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so if you have read it

then you would know i was quite battered and bruised from it

here listed are my battle wounds:

bruise on my left hip:

it actually looks better in the photo

than it actually is.

imagine the dark pink bits

well, theres bits of purple in it.

and the whole area has a tinge of purple/blue/brown.

finished imagining?

yeah, that's how it actually looks.

random dot bruises on my knees

funnily enough, they're the same shapes as the cut outs from the barrier in front of me.

which makes sense

and explains how i got them in the first place.

i also have a friction burn on my right wrist, which hurts to touch

and also my chest hurts, especially on the left side.

i told you the crowd was brutal.

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THE STROKES! #205

i clearly am not actually posting on this actual day

since i got home at 1.30am

but since i need to keep the 'one post every day' thing

i'll have to back track.

so, me & emma saw the STROKES

at festival hall

and well, we weren't planning to get there as early as we

actually did

its just that i took the bus to the city at around 4

and my bus passes the venue

and i saw people there waiting already.

so i freaked out, & called emma.

& didn't go to friday afternoon training like i was going to

so that we could go sit at the door.

so after rushing around mc to get our supplies.

ie. dinner, random snacks & taking our last bathroom break before we go there

we ended up getting there around 4.45

and sat down at door 11.

and we were second at our door

well there was a couple, and then us.

and we sat & waited

& ate

& took photos

& waited.

well, at about 7 we finally got up & was let in.

not before they told us that cameras weren't allowed though, which was very sad for me.

and also, emma had to 'cloakroom' her bag.

which took agesss, because she kept having to go back and forwards because she forgot things. and i had to let a couple of people in front of me.

luckily, it was not detrimental

because i managed to obtain a floor spot in the front row

next to the couple that was at the same door as us

and this guy that emma manage to befriend during the course of the concert.

and we waited quite a while, til we were forced to get up

and everyone RAN to the barriers.

and me and emma still managed to keep our front row position along the barrier.

then Gypsy & the Cat came out

i was glad i did listen to some of their songs beforehand

because i knew them when they were playing.

they were pretty good.

& the drummer was awesome.

seriously, emma described it as being orgasmic for him.

lets just say, just by looking at him you wouldn't think he was just playing drums at a concert.

& the bassist, was just this afro guy.

and he was just like chilling.

which was pretty funny,

especially compared to the drummer.

and i also liked the lead singer :)

i didn't manage to get photos of them

because the security guy was standing right in front of me

so i didn't want to get caught and everything.

after Gypsy & the Cat, there was more waiting

since they had to remove drum kits and set up

and there were these sparkly drum sets.

and i didn't think much of it

because i thought there was only going to be one support act.

but the lights dimmed again

and much to my surprise it was 'the Like'

(surprise because i read somewhere that they weren't supporting the Strokes for melbourne. just for sydney)

and odd too, because i used to listen to them

i have a couple songs from their album 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?'

but the stuff they have out now

or what i heard is that they've gone more chick rock

more like The Donnas now.

i really like the chick who played keyboard

she had the cutest hair.

also, during their performance

some of The Strokes were watching them from the side

:)

after the Like, more waiting.

then the beginning of 'We Will Rock You' stand playing

and the enslaught began.

everyone went nuts and lots of pushing.

and being in the front row, I was being pushed into the barrier in front of me.

I was in pain a lot of the time because of the pushing

a few of the times, I felt my lungs getting squashed

and the thing is it didn't alleviate during the course of the concert

it just kept going

to the point where people in the middle of it

wanted to get pulled out to safety by the security guards.

and some people even had their arms completely around me

as in, for a few songs when they clapped

they clapped right in front of my face

at least i think it was a chick though.

and then there was a point, this other chick shoved past me

and managed to squeeze into the front row

and she was fully shoving me

i was very pissed off

i tried to elbow her.

and kick other peoples legs away.

YES.

it was brutal.

the most brutal concert i've ever been actually.

at points, i felt a little violated.

but that aside, it was a pretty good concert.

though i would have enjoyed it a lot more,

if i wasn't in pain a lot of the time.

so, to the actual band now.

i was standing directly in front of Nick the whole time,

who was massively awesome at guitar.

and was always my favourite member.

and he truly cemented his position as my fav member by his awesome guitar skills.

truly amazing

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& i think nikolai fraiture is now my second fav

he was so cute

just like calmly playing his bass.

he looked like he was just chilling, you know?

and he was dressed cute.

haha.

albert hammond, jr. was a cool cat in a white suit

i thought he held his guitar funny.

i felt like he was kind of holding it like a ukulele

julian casablancas was pretty awesome too

being all cool, in his sunnies

and he had like a green streak in his hair

which i thought looked funny.

& i didn't quite get a good pic of fab though

i was limited by the capacity of my phone

which isnt very good at all.

bummer.

but obviously fab had awesome drumming.

(i was tempted to say he had fab drumming, but that's just wrong to say. haha.)

though i did manage to get a lot of pics using my phone

(at this point the security guards weren't worried about the photos anymore. but more or less, people not dying in the mob)

but i realise now that i was taking them in the wrong mode

so 80% of them are too small or pixelated.

sigh.

here's the set list as well:

i keyed it into my phone while they were playing

so i'd remember

New York City Cops

The Modern Age

Hard to Explain

What Ever Happened?

You Only Live Once

Soma

Is this it

Vision of Division

I Can't Win

Reptilia

Last Nite

Encore:

Juicebox

Someday

Under Control

Heart in a Cage

Take it or Leave it

i was so glad they played 'Heart in a Cage'

i went a little bit nuts

(not that crazy though, because i couldn't, due to being squashed to oblivion)

as i mentioned before, Nick was freaking awesome in Heart in a Cage & the other songs with crazy guitar solos.

and i'm also glad that they played 'Is this it'

:)

but bummed they didn't play 'The End has No End'

and i felt that ending with 'Take it or Leave it' was a weird choice

i would have expected it to be 'You only live once' or 'Reptilia' or something

it was also strange they didn't play '12.51'

but it was still a pretty awesome night

despite the pain.

i think it probably rates as my second or third favourite show ever

not sure which one

but if i wasn't in pain, and the crowd weren't so crazy

it might even have come first

and so Yeah Yeah Yeahs is still my fav show

because i was still in the 2nd row & i could go nuts & i touched karen o :)

but it was pretty EPIC.

and i mean, the Strokes was my ultimate

the ONE show i wanted to go.

so it was a pretty amazing experience for me.

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more about what happened: here

#204

i went to savers today

its been a while since i've been there.

but i bought a pair of shoes

it is made of brown canvas and has a low heel

quite like them.

also bought a top

and another used film camera to add to my collection

because i'm collecting them.

:)

quite excited about tmr night

yesss!

p.s. i shall alter my quote of the week and music list

& the music list shall be in honour of the strokes

thus i'm compiling a fav strokes song list :)

loveyoulongtime.

29.july.2010
i'm seeing the strokes in concert tmr
so this is a strokes-dedicated list.

1. the strokes - the end has no end room on fire
2. the strokes - heart in a cage first impressions of earth
3. the strokes - is this it is this it
4. the strokes - automatic stop room on fire
5. the strokes - you only live once first impressions of earth
6. the strokes - reptilia room on fire
7. the strokes - what ever happened? room on fire
8. the strokes - last nite is this is
9. the strokes & regina spektor - modern girls & old fashioned men
10. the strokes - 12:51 room on fire

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#203

i had a terrible nightmare yesterday

i dreamt that i completely slept through the strokes concert

as in i completely missed it because i was still at home sleeping

luckily it was just a nightmare.

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gypsy & the cat #202

still not over inception yet.

haha.

been listening to Gypsy & the Cat

they're pretty good

a Melbourne duo that have been compared to Empire of the Sun

i can definitely see why

they do kind of sound like them

but less upbeat, and less electro (i think)

but their sounds are richer.

there's something a bit more there, a bit more depth perhaps?

also, in Til tomorrow the lead singer sounds a bit like Liam Gallagher (Oasis) singing Wonderwall

they'll be playing as support acts on friday for The Strokes

which i am uber excited about :)

i also like it when i like the support

because there hasn't been that many times where i've quite liked the support as well as the band

its usually me having to sit through the support to wait for the main act.

but yes, they're pretty good.

but there's another band that they sound like

but i just can't put my finger on it

damn.

INCEPTION #201

man, it was good.

i really want to see it again, to pick up the details that i probably missed the first time.

and i have a

new crush now.

along with alexander skarsgard.

joseph gordon-levitt is cute :)

i loved the moment (which was one of very few light moments in the movie) where he was like

"gimme a kiss."

haha, cute :)

anyway, if you are going to watch it

(& yes, i highly recommend you watch it)

stop reading here

------------------

what i have gathered from doing some extra reading and thinking about it:

some sites i have gathered from include these: #1 #2 #3

interesting facts:
- Ariadne is named after a the mythical Ariadne who helped Theseus escape from the Minotaur's labyrinth read more here. there is the obvious connect here, with the mazes and you can see most traditional labyrinths are circular, like the one she drew in the movie
- Mal in latin means evil, i also read somewhere that it might have meant unfortunate, which makes sense with her convinced that she is still in dream state and tragically commits suicide because of this.

my take on the ending:

it is obvious that the director wanted us to be left hanging and we can choose which ending we wanted for cobb.

for those who don't want to think as much, or want a happy ending, you can choose to believe that he woke up back into reality, and that the top totem would eventually stop spinning.

and there are other evidence that might support this theory:

when cobb is in reality he does not wear a wedding ring, however in his subconscious he does wear a wedding ring. in the last scene, he does not have a wedding ring on.

it is also damn well possible that he woke up on the plane, then went through the airport and back to his children. Saito seems to be powerful enough to deliver on his promise.

the totem also looks like it might stop spinning, but then again it has spun much longer than any other times when he is in reality.

so the other option is that, cobb is still in a dream in the last scene, probably in a limbo.

because 1. as mentioned the totem has spun for a long time, much longer than any time in reality

2. his children look exactly the same throughout the movie, wearing exactly the same clothes as in his last memory of them. but we know that quite a while as past since he has seen his children and so they must have aged if in fact he did get to see his children again. (though however, if you check on IMDB there are two sets of children who play the kids, so perhaps they did age and the fact that they are wearing the same clothes is messing with our minds. also, someone else notices that their shoes are different to previous visions of them in the film, but one might still question why the kids look the same despite the different shoes. since the different shoes may just be a slightly different projection as it has been a long time since he has seen his children, but the projection is largely the same)

	Claire Geare	...	Phillipa (3 years)
	Magnus Nolan	...	James (20 months)
	Taylor Geare	...	Phillipa (5 years)
	Johnathan Geare	...	James (3 years)

3. we do not see cobb go through each dream levels, but he wakes up on the plane. this is strange because for all the other characters, the each woke up from each level before they came back into reality.

4. also, when he does wake up there is no dialogue and everything around him seems like a blur. also, everyone is sort of smiling at him, and everything is happening as he would have expected it to, thus it seems like cobb is filling his dream with his projections of reality and how he would expect it to be in real life.

but the question with this theory is that, if he is at the end in another limbo state, how did he get there?
and the other thing is that since when has he been in a dream? from the beginning? from the plane?
I thought this was an interesting observation to support the possibility that he has been dreaming all along: (taken from: here)

Directors drop visual hints as to their main character’s true nature all the time. Remember the scene when Dom looks into the mirrors with Ariadne and we see that endlessly repeating image of him? That’s Dom’s reality. He’s lost within all of these dreamworlds and he doesn’t know where he is.

Mal keeps appearing in every one of Dom’s dreams to break them up. If this interpretation of “Inception” is correct, then Mal is not a projection of his guilt, but a protector. An angel of sorts. She is part of Dom’s subconscious, yes, but she’s there to help him wake up, even if he thinks he doesn’t want to. She is trying to provide that kickback for him.

This interpretation is supported by another Nolan-dropped clue. There was a scene with Ariadne where Dom joked something about “Why would you want to wake up?”

i thought that was pretty interesting, especially with the mirrors that i had never thought about til now.
i also like the thing about mal being protector of his dreams, kind of like how fischer had his security to protect him as well. it does make sense, kind of. except for the fact that in the second scene if mal was protector of his dreams, why would mal be talking to saito, instead of killing him?

in my mind, i think these are the two possible endings: he is in reality, or he is in a dream state at the end. but there are some more theories here.

but in the end, no matter which theory, he is no longer paranoid about whether he is in reality or not, since he walks away from the totem before he truly knows whether he is in a dream state or reality. but throughout the movie he constantly checks, with a gun in his hand whether he is still in a dream, as if he was still in a dream, he'd shoot himself to come out of it.

but in the last scene, he simply doesn't care because he is satisfied with this 'reality' where he can be with his kids.

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funny mommy #200

ZWEI HUNDERT!

i know i spelt mommy the american way

but i didn't want it to be spelt mummy

like the ones in tombs

because i am actually referring to my mum

not embalmed dead people.

and i wanted it to rhyme with funny

but yes,

emma came over today

and the funniest thing happened

well me and emma were playing like guess who and cards

whist on my bed

and we started playing big two

so i got my mum to play with us

i also must add

that for those who have not met my mother

she just looks and dresses like a normal asian mother

and its pretty funny

because i know plenty of parents

who get all caught up about cleanliness in the house

like you can't eat in your room

or on the couch

or whatever

but my mum's very laid back about this

she eats whilst in her own bed

and so there she was in front of emma

eating chocolate

and leaving chocolate crumbs all over my bed

and then

whilst we were playing big two

in front of emma,

my dearest mother,

let one rip!

HAHAHAHAHA.

and it was very loud as well.

and emma was absolutely hysterical

:)

workstuffs #199

so a lot of you know

i always work on saturdays

(pretty much always)

and i used to do the 10-6 shift

but now my boss has wanted me to do the 9-5 shift

because it gets pretty dark at 6 and stuff

but the weird thing is that

though i'm working the same amount of hours

as when i'm working 10-6

9 til 5 goes so much quicker

which i definitely love.

i think because after i get back from lunch

its usually around 2

and i only have 3 hours left

and i have already been at work for 5 hours.

yes, i quite like this shift much better.

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#198

sorry about not being on time with posts and everything

just been feeling very run down

and have not completely got better from my sickness

and also, need to get back into the habit of uni

and study and everything

so,

bear with me, please :)

creepy woody #197

http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1806994

go to link

and listen to the audio

:)

creepy.

haha.

#196

so i just found out what my research project report will be

along with which supervisor i have

and the topic is: What key properties, that can be calculated from a molecular dynamics simulation, can be used to determine the phase(s) present within a liquid?

Find examples of their utilisation in the primary literature to illustrate their validity.

i know they said that it would be specific

but like

how specific is this

i don't even know what i'm supposed to do with something like this.

i hardly know what the sentence means.

sigh.

i'm also supposed to meet with the supervisor tmr

but i've only been told who it is

but i have no idea where they are

damnit

i hope i don't make a fool of myself

because i have no idea what i'm doing

sigh.

ok bye.

:( uni #195

first day of uni of the semester today

i skipped the first two lectures

because i was still at clara's

and still uber tired

i had to endure some bs class for two hours

when she could have given us the lecture notes

instead of slowly frying our brains

but anyway.

i also bought tegan and sara's sainthood yesterday

because it was $15

haha

i've only listened to it a couple times

it's ok so far.

though, i might need to listen to it a bit more to get into it.

this is also a uber cute version of them singing 'alligator'

daniela sent it to me

they changed the lyrics :)

so cute.

iheartyouall♥

endless pit #194

people have described my bag as an endless pit

i think i agree

today because i'm going to sleepover at clara's

i fit in:

- a pillow

- a pair of trackies

- a rather large film camera

- a digital camera

- exercise books plus lecture notes for uni

- pencil case

- make up bag

- wallet

- phone

- bible

yes.

:)