February 2006

Carling Cup Final

Posted on February 27, 2006 at 2:00 pm in


Manchester United 4 – 0 Wigan
Rooney (32, 60), Saha (54), Ronaldo (58)

YES!! It was absolutely insane during the second half. Three goals in the span of six minutes had me blinking at the scoreboard in disbelief. Although this is Wigan we’re talking about, Paul Jewell and his players are not to be trifled with, having kicked Arsenal’s butt (the Gunners’ sloppy season notwithstanding).

This team rebuilding is such a long-term task, and like some fans I can be very impatient, more interested in seeing a successful outcome in the short term. But watching the youngsters and how Sir Gaffer plans for a better team should be worth all the frustration and disappointment. This trophy shows a taste of what may come and infusing a sense of understanding for what Sir Gaffer has up his sleeve for Manchester United.

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A 55th birthday roast

Posted on February 27, 2006 at 1:45 am in

55th birthdays are big events. You get your EPF with the option to evict your kids. ;) In honour of Papa officially turning old, Jules and I organised a roast, possibly sealing our fate of being thrown out of the house. I’m just glad he took it well, considering some people came up with the saltiest and the most embarrassing stories.

Finding people to reminisce was perhaps the most difficult. Thankfully there were many visiting masses, so we managed not to make complete arses of ourselves as emcees running the show.

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La vie boheme

Posted on February 22, 2006 at 3:05 pm in

After being very disappointed at having to give up tickets I won to watch Rent, the movie musical (I have a conference to attend the same day), I set out to find a copy online. I found a DVD-quality version, which took no time to download.

Whatever critics may say about it – that Rent did not make the smooth transition from stage to silver screen that well, that its message was lost on the big screen, well, it doesn’t really matter, because if you like it, cool; if you don’t, whatever.

Anthony Rapp reminded me very much of Charlie Brown (the broadway revival), Adam Pascal sporting a suspiciously Bon Jovi-like do, Idina Menzel without green makeup and hey, Rosario Dawson wasn’t so bad either. Probably one of the most outstanding performances had to go to Wilson Jermaine Heredia for playing a most convincing drag queen afflicted with AIDS.

Jesse L. Martin is <3, ever since the day he broke into song on The X-Files, then proceeded to endear himself to a certain Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order. He’s amazingly talented, and surprisingly, buying him as someone other than Detective Green wasn’t so hard.

The musical arrangement was excellent. I’m guessing a few numbers were added and a few others moved around to allow for transition to film, but overall it worked really well. Seasons of Love constanly overlapped other numbers, reminding the audience of the ties that bind the story together.

Good movie musical. Questions marks on transition to big screen but I think it more or less works well.

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Nothing disappears without a trace

Posted on February 18, 2006 at 4:18 pm in

Especially on the internet.

Troughing through my original fandom, I am icked to discover that some of my fanfics has remained in a few archives. Not the stuff I’m particularly proud of – I never send off what I feel are good fics. Then again, some of the recent fanfics written I think are rather decent. Stuff written by 15 year-old me? Downright embarrassing. I may think the same of the things I’ve written now in a few years.

There needs to be some sort of guidebook warning about the pure mortification in discovering that your works live on, somehow, somewhere, on the internet. And it’s come back to bite me in the ass in the form of oh man, that doesn’t even count as a sentence and a few is that even physically possible? what kind of pr0n was i watching back then?

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Post yuk-day musings (aka allergy to flowers)

Posted on February 15, 2006 at 2:57 pm in

Thank you Cyn for the lovely Valentine card!! And it arrived just on time too, LoL. ;)

Opened up my e-mail while putting on my contact lenses, and was squinting at the screen… Virtual flowers?! WHATTHEHELL?! Some e-mail about someone sending me virtual flowers or something. And guess who it was allegedly from?

Sorryla David Duchovny, maybe when I was 18-19, I’d have accepted your advances, but now, my brain is tied up with fantasies of Ruud. :D Not even watching The X-Files can rekindle the <3 I had for you. Now it’s all memory lane, squees and omgheshocuteHEE!! Maybe if I watched the episode with you in your Speedos again…

Thought the link would go straight to a virus, and I refused to try. Lucky the e-mail came logged with an IP address of the sender, so I ran it through an IP to hostname converter. Ahem… SETH WILSON!! DIE!! *clubb0rs the Eternal Cow*

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