Okay so I'm very insanely busy with the end-of-the-year rush, but I had this exchange with a friend today:

Her: OMG Frog Princess.
Her: Maaan.
Her: We soooo have to catch that on opening week at least.
Me: Um.
Me: I already have a date for opening weekend.
Her: HA!
Her: Rejected!
Her: Thwarted!
Her: Unloved!
Me: SO SORRY, BABY.

So head's up for dinglehoppers: WATCH OUT FOR SCARY JEALOUS GIRLFRIEND, SHE GONNA COME GETCHA. (I kid.)

Once you have been tagged, you have to write a blog with 10 random things, facts, goals, or habits about yourself. At the end, choose 10 people to be tagged. You can't tag a person who has tagged you.

1. I'm addicted to Diet Coke and/or Coke Light. I've taken to drinking it in a mug or coffee tumbler so my colleagues won't notice.


2. I get angry a lot. It's not immediately obvious on this journal or if you know me in real life, because I funnel my anger into productive (and usually creative) outlets.


3. I want to delete a lot of my old fanfiction because it's awful in retrospect, but I can't, because some people actually like it, what.


4. I create my own self-insert Mary Sues for every fandom I fall into. I just don't write or post 'em for public consumption.


5. I tend to self-censor myself to the point of ridiculousness. I wish I were more outspoken, but I have an aversion to accidentally hurting someone else's feelings, because that in turn would hurt my feelings.


6. I was seriously considering buying a Wii console, but then changed my mind when I realised that it'll leave me less time for my other hobbies.


7. I swear like Judi Dench. Which is to say: a lot but I don't look like I do.


8. I fantasize about performing in stage musicals all the time.


9. I love taking dorky photos with my friends.


10. I'm on asthma medication right now and it's making my heart beat so fast it's harder than usual for me to concentrate.

PS: Posted a slightly harsh DVD review for TLM: Ariel's Beginning. I don't say anything new, but just refreshed some of my general gripes with the film that I won't add in my separate upcoming rant.

I'm kind of in a Pixar high at the moment after watching WALL-E (again and again and again) plus the DVD extras, I find myself developing a wholly inappropriate crush on Andrew Stanton. While I'm perfectly at ease with crushing on "proper" celebs (and have been doing so since pre-teenhood), this just screams WRONG WRONG WROOOOONG because it kinda feels like crushing on a teacher or a senior colleague. (Though I've had both, to be honest.)

Then I remembered how I crushed on Brad Bird post-The Incredibles, which felt wrong as well.

ALSO! After reading Disney War and watching The Pixar Story documentary, I started fantasizing thinking about what Bird, Stanton and John Lasseter were like when they were students together at CalArts, all idealistic and bursting with insane ideas.

BRAIN: THESE ARE WRONG THOUGHTS, PLEASE DO NOT BE THINKING THEM.

I also went surfing round to see what Pixar's future plans are, and found that Brenda Chapman is directing their upcoming flick The Bear and the Bow. This filled me with joy because of the severe shortage of female directors, and I loved what she'd done for The Prince of Egypt. Trivia! Did you know Brenda Chapman sang the River Lullaby reprise for Miriam in the scene where she is reunited with Moses?

Five Random Things About Music and Me

Whenever I listen to Michael Jackson's Smooth Criminal, during the refrain my brain keeps responding, "I'm okay. Yeah, I'm okay. Seriously, I'm okay. Michael, I'm okay. Really, I'm okay!"

In recent times, my favourite song to sing along to is Billy Joel's We Didn't Start the Fire, if only because I want to see if I can still remember all the lyrics.

The first musical album I bought with my own money is Jordan Hill's self-titled album. I still love her voice. Such a pity her label dropped her like a hot potato. :(

Back in the 1980s, my father had a cassette of Michael Jackson's Thriller which he used to play occasionally in the car. I was utterly terrified of Vincent Price's monologue in the middle that every time it came on, I had to close my ears. When I was about 8, I hid the cassette so that my father could not play it. I returned the cassette recently.

As much as I enjoy The King and I, the song Getting to Know You gives me hives. This is because in my primary school (or elementary school, as some countries call it), it was compulsory for us to sing that song at the annual concert every - single - year. With hand-movements coordinated by a very bossy teacher. We were also forced to walk down from the stage and shake hands with audience members during the refrain, which I loathed because I was shy like a very shy thing. That's six years of torture and trauma for a kid. I had no idea it was from The King and I back then, but when I watched the movie for the first time, when that scene came on I literally shrieked out loud.

All my clips are still up, but from what's happened to this vid I think it's safe to assume that The Eye of Disney has finally turned its attentions to youtubers.

Youtubers. Sounds like a type yellow potato.

And with that, I bid you...

A Merry Early Hogswatch Christmas to All, and to All A Good Series of Holidaying Days and Nights!

PS. I'd add blinkies, sparklies and whatnot, but I am a n00b when it comes to those things. *disappears for the season*

Over in youtube, why would someone upload the exact same clips as the one I've already uploaded? I understand if they're ripped differently, with different technology, different start/end points, or different resolution, but these are exactly the same. Err, what?