beyond the edge

Today I locked my bag in my locker and discovered that the spare key I had was merely a key that could fit in the lock but NOT OPEN IT and I didn't have my original key with me. *Facepalm*

Luckily I had taken everything useful out of my locker first, like wallet and phone and travel pass...

Was so tired today. 7am start tomorrow...fun.

Day 6 ~ Character who would probably be your rival

Miyazawa Yukino ~ Kareshi to Kanojo no Jijou Do people remember this classic? I never understood its popularity even if I did read and enjoy the whole manga. It must be because it resonated with Asian children being driven to succeed beyond their means. I don't like Yukino very much and she's not a character I can relate to, but I chose her because she would be everyone's rival, simply out of principle.

Hiyama Mihoko ~ Code Blue One of Toda Erika's bitchier roles, but also one of my faves. She plays bitch the way it should be done, not like Maki's spineless whiners, but she's also a very human character and a very familiar one. It's the classic type A personality who was not born into a family of doctors but had to work their way up, so she has a lot of embittered pride. She's had to fight for her place, and she feels she has to continue fighting even if it costs her friends and associates. She's one of those people who would do night shifts as a medical student just to push herself ahead of everyone else.

Pirates of the Caribbean 4 is really what PotC 2 should have been, and I'd be more than happy if they made it into a brand and did self-contained episodes like the James Bond movies.

As much as I miss Will (not very much) and Liz (not at all), this is the fun romp that it should have been. The plot is still full of holes, granted, like why they didn't destroy the chalices ages ago if all they were going to do was smash things up when they get there, but people are back in business. It feels like they've had more time to hone the script, and Jack Sparrow retains his witty incongruent banter without descending into incongruent babble. He's also much less of a rat, and has the sort of twisted backbone that he did in the first movie - he does have principle though they may be buried under a very thick layer of dirt.

The choreography of the fight scenes continue to be brilliant, and I think some of the superhero movies (*cough*Batman) can really take a page from how resourceful the sequences are...practically everything on set can be used as a weapon or for comical effect, and there's a natural stumbling flow to it all while keeping the theme of ships and sails and ropes. Every fight scene that doesn't take place on a ship somehow harks back to seafaring.

Penelope Cruz's character isn't much different from Elizabeth in terms of personality, but she handles it with much less bitchiness more grace. Angelica and Jack Sparrow is a cute pair but unfortunately I don't see much romantic tension between them despite proclamations to be otherwise. They seem much more like familiar bickering siblings.

( Day 4 ~ Character you’d like to go shopping with )

In an effort to stay relevant and motivated, I have decided to start a 30 day meme~

Stop using your motivation on uselss stuff like this.

Since I haven't properly watched anime in, like, 3 or 4 years (or however long it's been since Gundam OO scarred me for life), this will be more a memory exercise than a prolonged fangirling session. See, memory exercises, good for you it is XD

In fact, it is so good for you that I am going to do two characters, one from anime and one from J-dramas XDDDD

Day 1 ~ Favourite character
This is hard because I like characters for a lot of different reasons, so in the end I settled for the characters I love to watch.

Kira Yamato Hijikata lost out by the existence of Tosshi, whom I find unwatchable LOL. Basically Kira won by dint of me never remembering him to have annoyed me too much, and that he was either kicking butt or he was putting up a very impressive fight. The fights he loses are generally more spectacular, but that's another complaint altogether. After three years of fangirling GS I really don't want to exposit on his character again. Suffice to say he's a nice guy with a whole heap of very understandable insecurities, but who nevertheless got the job done.

Osawa Eriko This lady hath no rivals, seriously LOL In a society where women traditionally viewed employment as a temporary measure to burn up the time between graduating and marriage, it is always refreshing to see a woman who is more manly than a man XD She's brainy, efficient, poised and at the first sign of danger she'll be off kicking butt...well, someone's butt anyway, although most of the time it seems to be her own team's collective butts... And how can you say no when she's brought to life by Amami Yuki =3=

Been having a lot of quirky dreams of late, involving robots and zombies and blonde bombshells (yes ==;), though fortunately not in the same dream. Should write it up some day.

Did a colours meme on Facebook but because the advantage of FB is you can befriend anyone including those you don't give a damn about (not that there are necessarily any on my list...cough cough), I'd rather post it here. LOL.

I got the colour GREEN which was a bit urgh at first because I thought it was going to tell me I'm lively and optimistic like spring or something equally embarrassing. It turns out to be this:

Values:
Intellectual Achievements
Logic
Competency

Joys:
Personal Achievement
Ideas
Meeting Challenges

Strengths:
Confidence
Logical
Problem-solver

Needs:
Autonomy
Truth & Facts
Accuracy

Frustrations:
Unfairness
Incompentence - Yes, INCOMPETENCE at spelling in others often frustrates me, but in this case I think it's a typo XDD It made me LOL though?
Nonsense Rules

At work you are conceptual and an independent thinker. For you work is play. You are drawn to constant challenge in career, and like to develop models, explore ideas, or build systems to satisfy your need to deal wth the innovative. Once you have perfected an idea you prefer to move on leaving the project to be maintained and supported by others: This is why there are two unfinished writing projects sitting untouched on my computer *Gets slapped*

In love you prefer to let your head rule tour heart. You dislike repetition, so it is difficult for you to continuously express your feelings. You beleive that once feelings are stated, they are obvious to a partner. You are uneasy when your emotions control you. You want to establish a relationship, leave it to maintain itself, and turn your energies back to your career.

In childhood you appeared to be older than your years and focused on your greatest interests, achiveing in subjects that were mentally stimulating. You were impatient with drill and routine, questioned authority, and found it necessary to respect teachers before you could learn from them.

That last bit was soooooooooooo true =______= I must have been such a snobby and precocious high school kid. I totally didn't pay attention in classes where I thought the teachers were winging it LOL I remember submitting a project for wide-reading that featured a made-up book, just because XDDDDD

We watched an interesting video on Thursday about various types of seizures, but I was too busy floating on a cloud of bliss. I might write it up some other day.

Today will be a completely uninformative and useless meme XD

1. Open your library (iTunes, Winamp, Media Player, iPod, etc)
2. Put it on shuffle
3. Press play
4. For the first question, type the song that's playing
5. When you go to a new question, press the next button TWICE
6. Don't lie and try to pretend you're cool...just type it in!
7. Feel a little embarrassed? Join the club.

( OST to my life? )

I'm sitting in front of a heater fan (I must remind you that we are, technically, in the middle of summer, though the weather certainly doesn't agree) waiting for my hair to dry.

I am rather pleased with myself for the last few days, even though I quietly didn't go to uni today XDDD But! I got home after a long day on Sunday and stayed up listening to two anatomy lectures and can now definitively say that neurology is hell and I hate it, and that the Creator designed the central nervous system just to brainscrew medical students. Then I worked today (thus did not go to uni) and listened to the other two lectures I missed. All in all, I understood about 50% of my lectures and need to hunt down a really good neurology book. Or two. Or a few more.

So here's a happy dreams meme nicked from someone, while I'm waiting for bed.

Do you remember your dreams?
I forget some, I remember parts of some, and I remember a lot of others.

What's the best dream you've ever had?
I think in terms of haunting beauty and how much I want to see that waterfall again, this one. Apart from that...maybe one of the ones I had in high school, where though they're still highly tension-strung, at least they had a complete happy ending T-T Maybe I'll write them up some day if anyone's interested =P

What's the worst nightmare you've ever had?
There was one that I had as a child about Mentos which caused me never to eat Mentos ever, even though I'm kinda over it now. I also had one about my bathroom having eyes that blinked and moved - don't read into it since I was nine at the time - but that's a pretty normal nightmare as far as nightmares are concerned.... I've had a few dreams where they can be counted as nightmares except for the fact I wasn't scared at the time...but I think the scariest one I remember is one that I had in high school:

I and a few people (whom I don't remember) were at a mountain temple. The sky got dark and when we tried to leave, it started to rain. There was something wrong with the rain and at first we thought it was corrosive, like acid rain, but when it fell on our hand we realised it was drops of blood. We went back inside the temple, and our guide led us through a corridor to either safety or our beds or something. The corridor walls were painted a grassy sort of green that's gotten old and so has become a slightly sinister plasticky green. As our lamp lights glanced off the smooth walls, we saw that the ceiling was leaking, and the "rain" was seeping through the cracks and down the wall. Believe me...it looked like what blood would look like, rather than some bright red liquid, it was this pale diluted brownish-red colour because it was spread so thin on the green wall, and it was slimy and viscous and moving slowly and looking like it would congeal. It was absolutely disgusting and freaky, because I had no reason to know why blood would look like that!

What's the absolute WEIRDEST dream you've ever had?
I'll go for this one, because it was one of very few not to make much logical sense. To be honest, I find it freaky when dreams make sense.

Can you control your dreams?
If I'm aware I'm dreaming, yes. Sometimes I can go through doors and walls, just because XD

Do you have any recurring dreams?
Only about exams. Or about waking up and going to uni only to wake up and realise I haven't gone to uni, then going to sleep and dreaming this all over again.

Have you ever had a flying dream?
Every now and then. Maybe once a year or so XD

How about one of those dreams where you go to school/work and realize that you're naked?
Nope. Underdressed, sometimes, but never naked. LOL.

Have you ever had a dream that featured characters from a book, movie, or television show?
Yes. Rarely though.

Have you ever had a dream where your teeth fall out?
Yes.

Have you ever dreamed something that later came true?
Well, I think that's part of the reason I don't eat Mentos. Because when I had the dream I was maybe eight? And I've only just heard of the brand, but I had this nightmare where everyone who ate it got controlled or became not themselves, and there were three flavours, one of them being a fruity/colourful one, and each having a different effect. A few weeks later I happened to go to the supermarket and THERE WERE ONLY THREE FLAVOURS on the shelves at the time, INCLUDING A FRUITY ONE. I was so freaked I refuse to touch Mentos.

Bonus question for writers:
Have your characters ever shown up in your dreams?
I think so. Very, very rarely though.


Now~ Off to do some dreaming. Hope I have a good one XD

I only put this up because ARASHI was in the first answer =D=D=D And it is just the sort of thing someone evil *cough* might do...getting Paris Hilton instead of Arashi. If anyone did that to me they get a free and instant boot out the door XD

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Wednesday I committed genocide... Sorry about that, nicky87 (-5000 points). Last month I broke a_cryptic's X-Box (-12 points). In September I gave change to a homeless guy (19 points). Last Thursday I ruled Iran as a cruel and heartless dictator (-700 points). In October I saved a busload of nuns in Angola (326 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-5367 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal! Sincerely, luna_rainbow

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LOL.......wow, I have been busy! I committed genocide on one day and then was a dictator for the next (LOL)

Lumps of coal are useful, in winter =D They say in Chinese..."to bring coal in the snow" (to help when someone most needs it) =D

Went and had a look at my OSCE papers today (short clinical examinations exam). Pretty much passed all of them, but this exam isn't counted until next year, which means it makes no difference to whether I pass this year or not =___=

One of the guys was such a lazybum (a nice...lazybum nevertheless). He ticked satisfactory for everything, even though I'm sure he led me through the entire thing LOL. I wish we got him for clinical tutor, would've helped with those chest X-rays. The knee exam guy was lazybum without the nice part =/ He just wrote "adequate" for comments. Constructive, indeed. Okay, even though I only forgot to do two things out of the entire list...still, constructive helps construction...er what?