July 2007

Harry Potter And We Can All Finally Get A Life

Posted on July 21, 2007 at 5:01 pm in

Nina put it so well – this is the kiasu fandom, possibly the scariest one I’ve encountered. But, it did make me a little sad not to be with friends who are so inclined to dress up. However, it was totally made up by the fact that while these young adults had their long-suffering mothers by their sides to get coffee and McMuffins the moment McDonald’s opened, I had runners who did my every bidding. Bwahahaha. It pays to know someone who only wants the Cliff’s Notes version.

Lining up was scary – at 4am in the bloody cold rain. With people in elaborate costumes wtf. Now the singing is one thing, but when a whole bunch of women chant, “Snarry for-evah!!” at the top of their lungs, and then hearing some little kid go, “Mummy, what’s a snarry?” You are bound to go all kinds of o_O. Dude, keep it PG.

Being evil, I opened up to the last chapter, much to the horror of people passed by, and proceeded to mutter all sorts of extremities upon discovery every last damn guess I made was wrong. Then I figured, why not call Nina, TJ and Lil just to be extra evil? TJ hung up on me. Psh.

Upon getting home I enforced radio silence until I’ve finished, and now can finally get online again. Although the urge to spit out every spoiler imaginable lingers, doing so would do most good on Wikipedia.

So, epilogue = fanfic? Yes.

Finally – does the UK children’s cover look a bit funny to you? Maybe it should be called Stargate: The Deathly Hallows.


Does it look like a Stargate or what?

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Of Pottermania, Transformers and goodbyes

Posted on July 18, 2007 at 9:36 pm in

Oh. My. God. Dolores Umbridge is the spitting image of The Supervisor From Hell. No really, from character right down to thinking processes. I say Ms Rowling, have we met the same person?

I like how they compressed emo!Harry into just a few short scenes. After wanting to slap him in the book, it’s good that they decided only a few glimpses of Harry going all Simple Plan was enough.

Did I mention I also watched Transformers on the same day? Yep, I’m nuts. Could Megatron be any more awesome? Can’t wait for the sequel. The writers can bring Megatron back to life like Kenny. I’m sure no one would notice. Please? Starscream may be cool but he’s too much of a pussy to be leader of the Decepticons. Now I also have a brand new respect for Optimus Prime, who is actually all sorts of fucking cool. See how much more interesting the good guys look without all the cheesy lines?

Lunch with my former co-workers was good, apparently this was meant to be my actual goodbye and Carina’s birthday lunch. Sarah yelled at me about not mentioning her on this blog, so to the n00b who has yet to understand It Is Not A Big Deal, I just mentioned it. Man, I think I’ve regressed 5 years in blogdom.

They gave me a $100 David Jones gift card which is super awesome. I even got reimbursed for my parking when I worked last week!! I am amazed. I half expected The Supervisor From Hell would have told Carina to tell me to stick them parking receipts where the sun don’t shine.

On the plus side, at least I didn’t get fugly birthday gifts. She picked all of Carina’s gifts and omg, they could be like, twins from now on. I LAUGH WITHOUT REMORSE.

Right now, all I want is sleep. I’ve been roused from my nice warm bed by a very insane Jules who dragged me to every department and toy store in search of Transformers toys. Hasbro got it right when they gave the green light to make the movie about 10 years after it was first created – the kids who loved Transformers are all grown up and have the purchasing power to get the most expensive ones in the range. Our parents call them bastards (still), we call them geniuses.

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The supervisor from hell

Posted on July 15, 2007 at 10:58 pm in

These days I try to maintain a semblance of privacy on this blog, even though I am 100% sure no one but friends read it. Notice how I didn’t go out posting lots of pics of my new car like a n00b. Then again, with all this time on my hands perhaps I should.

A couple of nights ago, after finishing up a very long and personal f-locked LJ entry on my journey over the last week, I thought, I still have this blog, what can I do with it?

The concept of Naming and Shaming while employing some serious marketing tactics courtesy of Jules popped into my mind. Okay, in the sobering light of day, the naming bit doesn’t sound all that great now, but Telling The Abbreviated Story On A Public Blog might work.

I came. I worked. I resigned. I got told my resignation date was pushed up.

All because of a very angry, very bitter 60 year old supervisor who is now terrorizing my remaining colleagues.

Continue reading The supervisor from hell…

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That’s all I have to say about this

Posted on July 15, 2007 at 1:09 am in

It’s amazing what sort of news the people you used to go to school with make these days.

Marie had informed me of this as I didn’t have the time (until now) to keep up with Malaysian news and politics – a former schoolmate of ours (a direct senior for me, 2 years senior for Marie) had been arrested by the cops for… something or other. It’s all very vague in which I am sure I will be hearing the nitty gritty from T-Boy sometime or other.

Considering I walked around in a bit of a teenaged angsty phase at school, I had to scratch my head to remember who this fellow was. Then I remembered Marie had said hi to him a couple of years ago when we were out shopping.

After reading up on what’s apparently going on, I thought – this guy, a Harvard University graduate, decided not to go, “Screw Malaysia, I’m going to stay in the US, make the big bucks and live the good life,” but instead, returned to Malaysia feeling he could make a difference. As opposed to 99% of the others who said goodbye to Malaysia and hello to big bucks.

And then he gets thrown in the can. Nice one, oh motherland of mine.

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