Imabitch

Yea. I'm so irritable and tetchy that I irritate myself!

Donno PMS or whatshit wei. Today almost everything and everyone pissed me off.

Some people really need to have some tact. Over these few years, I've run into so many people who straight away tell you what's wrong with you. I tell you ah, if I said what's on my mind EVERY time I thought of something negative, everyone I know would have broken down crying because of their destroyed self-esteem. And yea, I'd have no more friends, lol.

I mean maybe one day I'll go out with a friend I hadn't met in a long time and he dyed his hair orange-brown. You know how I hate orange hair, right?

But still, if he's clearly happy over his newly lala-fied hair, I'm not going to crush his joy by telling him he looks hideous, right?

And I'd spend my whole like telling people they are dumb, stupid, ugly, have bad taste, have no individuality, have BO or whatever and then everyone's just gonna be all sour-faced and grumpy.

THAT is why you keep your mouth shut. You know when your parents used to tell you 'if you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything'?

Yea. That pretty much applies here. I mean, sure, everyone is entitled to their own opinions. Maybe what you think is a gorgeous hairband looks like a fucking tumour on your head to me. But I'm nice. I'm not going to tell you it's horrible because you're my friend and you like it and it makes you happy right?

Criticizing someone negatively does nothing but chip away at their self-worth.

So why do you do it? Can't contain your inner bitch, hai mai?

I mean it's different if someone asks you your opinion on something and you give an honest response. But to walk to someone and say 'hey, you look like shit!' What the fuck?

And I hate it when people follow trends mindlessly. It's like a farmer pulling a cow around with its nose ring. Cow = you; farmer = media.

Oh I'm going to wear this, and listen to this band and rave about this movie because the fucking magazine/newspaper/blog told me so. Don't you have a mind of your own?

I mean, of course people may happen to agree with the mass perception that so-and-so is hot and the rest is not. But when I see people just blindly following trends like some brainless bimbo I really want to smack them upside the head to see if it's hollow, since it is clearly devoid of any personality.

I'm not encouraging rebellion or those stupid punk/emo 'i'm an individual, you can't stereotype me' shit, because you ARE a stereotype. Guess what, people have been there, done that. You are not a rebel. You are following people's definition of 'rebel.' Hence, you are a conformist. Sucker.

I wear black to show my disdain for the ever-deteriorating society blablabla - I'm a intelligent person who is better than all of you because I know how to moan and whine in a vaguely political way. Congratulations, you have just fallen into yet another stereotype known as 'righteous arseholes'.

Or, 'ohmahgawd look that chick's wearing socks and sexy heels! What a fashion FAIL!'

Then 1 month later, you see socks and heels on the runways and suddenly it becomes 'edgy' and 'hip' and you immediately run out to fill your closet with schoolgirl socks and strappy heels.

Well, congratulations on having such a fashion-forward mind.

I don't care what the magazines or models or designers say, strappy heels and slouchy socks will NEVER, EVER look good. Crocs will always and forever be hideous and the classic sign of a douchebag/herd mind.

WOW! Professional model + professional photographer + branded product = I. Must. Get. This.

Fashion editors are probably laughing behind the desks saying 'ha, bunch of suckers!'

Have fun looking hideous. Have fun being 'individual.'

Next time you're on the receiving end of my best bitch-face, know that you deserved it because you have done it to me too. I may behave more mildly and look more bimbotic now than I was not long ago, but that's just a fucking facade.

I can still give as hard as I get and you'd best not fuck with me because although I forgive, I don't ever forget what you do or say to me although I may pretend to.

:)

Good night.

Porn

I have a confession to make.

I have watched porn. Twice.

...okay that doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would, given that there are many people who watch porn on a regular basis and think nothing of it.

However, both times that I watched it was not because I felt unbearably horny and needed a release, but because I was curious. No, really.

The first time was watching midget porn on Perez Hilton. Having never watched any type of porn before, I thought it would be funny and...it was unfuckingbelievably hilarious.

It starts off with this girl sunbathing on a horribly construction 'beach' (think billboard background, sand and spotlight.) She starts to get comfortable and removes all her clothes, revealing these 2 monstrous, squishy boobs that jiggled around like water balloons when she lay down.

Of course, she's having so much fun sunbathing naked knowing that there's no one watching that she starts pushing and massaging her boobs for no apparent reason.

Then, 2 midget lifeguardscaught sight of this boobalicious babe and tell her that it is illegal to sunbathe naked. With a comically provocative tone, she exclaims that there must be SOMETHING she can do for them to not arrest her. (Covers mouth in mock horror and slumps defeatedly)

With the worst acting I have ever seen in my life, (save Bristol Palin in some shitty movie) the two midgets give each other a LOOK and quickly nod.

They moved their heads left to right in an exaggerated manner to check whether there was anyone around - think wide-eyed, high-school caliber acting - and promptly pulled their pants down.

They then start having their way with her, kneading her boobs in the most un-erotic way possible, and I found it fucking hilarious that she could give them blowjobs while lying down in the deckchair cause they are, after all, midgets and are of convenient height.

The most off-putting thing about the whole production (besides the shitty unnecessary lines, tasteless acting and lousy props) was the girl's horrible fake moaning.

OHH? OHH YEAH? UH huh YEAHH OH? OH? OHH? OH YESS? OH YEA OH? OH? OH?

HOW THE FUCK IS THAT SUPPOSED TO BE EROTIC?

???

It's not even an OH YES! It's an OH YES? Like she didn't know whether she was supposed to be turned on or not.

It was so obviously fake and clinical it just made me shake with laughter.

-_-

All that while, I couldn't help but wonder...people find THIS a turn on?

I then decided that midget porn was probably a rather niche fetish, so I went in search of 'regular' porn - for research purposes only *whistles*

After roughly an hour of sifting through gangbang porn, 'underage' porn, sugar daddy porn, homemade porn and plain titsandass porn, I was left feeling let down.

Like...is THIS what people find so intriguing and excitingly forbidden at the same time? What the hell? I'd rather watch animals mating on National Geographic!

Maybe I've had a bad porn experience or maybe I'm simply too inexperienced to find A-grade porn. So, for MORE research purposes, I asked my bf (yes, I know he watches porn occasionally and I'm fine with it) to show me some of the 'good stuff.'

I ended up spending half the night staring incredulously/snorting in laughter/laughing uncontrollably.

WHAT THE HELL?

I thought porn was some exciting, foreign and dirty realm that I'd abstained myself from all these years to keep my mind 'clean.'

And when I decided to finally take the plunge and find out what the fuss is all about, I discover tasteless videos of obviously un-aroused porn stars in awkward positions moaning in the most annoying, whiny voices EVER. I'd rather listen to a baby crying in a plane! And you KNOW how irritating that is!

It's like a tween trying alcohol for the first time. After being kept away for it for YEARS, imagining it as a 'dangerous' and a 'teenage feel-good' thing, they finally have their first shot of vodka...and find that it is utterly repulsive, tastes like burning medicine and makes you nauseous after one too many.

Of course, people do grow to like alcohol once they get past the dry eyes/mouth, headaches etc so maybe I will learn to acquire a taste for porn one day. Not that I care to.

Now, whenever I think of something naughty I can't help thinking of that naked girl moaning like a strangled duck.

AaaAAAH AaaAHHH.

Thanks a whole lot, porn industry.

I'm still holding out the hope that I've simply had a few bad experiences with porn and that my peers aren't as tasteless and desperate as I thought.

My bf says I should stream online to find better quality ones (we watched a dvd) but I'm still skeptical. How much better can it be?

Anyway, I'm back to my non-porn-watching self.

Sigh.

I've been let down.

Ulzzang

If I had to choose a plastic surgery procedure to undergo, it would be rhinoplasty.

Today was the first time I came across the word 'ulzzang.' I discovered it was not pronounced 'oolzang' but 'ohl-jang.'

It means 'perfect face' in Korean. And to them, the perfect face has bug (typo but it stays) eyes, small nose and a small asymmetrical mouth.

This seems to be the look that most Asian girls are going after. I used to call it the 'lala' look, but now it has a name!

So, I decided that by having rhinoplasty, I'd shave down this big lump of a nose down to those cute tiny skislope noses that these Ulzzang seem to desire.

Then I'd have the 'perfect face!'

And after years of fretting about how ugly my tiny lopsided lips are, I now find out that this is exactly what these Ulzzang want to achieve. It makes me feel bad in a way that I've been worrying about something that so many girls wish for.

Eureka moment: OHHHH that's why they always make those silly duck lips and scrunched-up pouty faces when they camwhore!

Now I can be lala just by looking straight into the camera and not making any faces! Yippee!

I spent more than an hour watching videos on Ulzzang makeup and looking at before and after pics of these girls.

And now I am not sure what to make of lala-ism. Some of these girls look amazing and really know what they're doing. But some of them...really cannot make it.

I think to achieve a look, you must possess some of its qualities already. I mean, if you're hideous, it's really hard to act sexy without 3p|c ph4i|ing.

Makeup can only do so much...though I must admit I've seen some miraculous tranformations. o_O

It's not only makeup though...I find that lots of girls hide their noses by pushing up the contrast of the photo so much that they DON'T have noses - only big round eyes and tiny pouty lips on a plain white canvas.

Great for hiding pimples too.

Alternatively, you can hide big/misshapen/ugly noses by doing this:

I'm sure lots of girls already know these beautifying techniques. Camera angle, lighting, makeup, poses...the whole works.

I've heard about them too, but I've never really tried any of them or cared much about them...until tonight.

I've always thought of makeup as faking it...trying to pass yourself off as someone prettier. I wasn't really against it, but I was never all for it either.

But tonight...tonight...I finally see! I see what makeup can do. And I condone it. I mean, if you are so unlucky to be born hideous, but are blessed with the gift of putting on makeup beautifully...why not?

I mean, I don't know about you, but even though she's still not gorgeous, I'd rather look at this girl in the after picture than in the before picture.

O_O

I'd rather be all made up and not-that-pretty than straight out plain ugly. Yes, you may say that choosing to go out with a naked face means being 'true' to yourself and 'appreciating' what you have, but I don't see what's wrong in trying to make yourself look better if you can and if you want to.

I mean, I've never bothered to do my hair and face and put on nice clothes, but that doesn't mean I don't want to. I'm just too lazy.

But one fine day, when I have the time (4 hours for facehairnailsclothes) and money for all the thingamajigs and nice clothes, I'd like to play dress up too.

Not necessarily in the Ulzzang/lala style, but you know, dolling up in general.

(And though I now am on the positive side of lala makeup, I am still firmly against lala clothing. They're hideous!)

As for coloured contacts to brighten up and enlarge your eyes, I think it's really important to choose a colour that matches your makeup and skin tone. I still think those translucent ones are creepy and really ugly on the wrong person.

I mean it's one thing to look like this:

(Obviously photoshopped but still looks okay)

And another to look like this:

D:

But anyway, as of now, I'm still too bloody lazy to bother about all these stuff, though I'd dearly like to meddle with makeup someday. So I guess I don't have to worry about making any fashion faux pas yet.

I'm happy with the way I look, though I know I probably should dress myself better - I'm just too lazy in the mornings. It's hard enough dragging myself out of bed as it is! I really don't know how some of these girls can wake up a couple of hours earlier just to do their hair and makeup and pick out their outfit.

-____-

Oh, and I watched this cute and pimply but very likeable teenage girl cutting her bangs and had to impulse to give mine a trim too. It grew past my eyes again and were bothering me so I snipped away at the sink.

I am proud to say that I have greatly improved my haircutting practices and did not shear off my entire fringe like I did when I was in kindergarten (and had to wear a headband for more than month until it grew out - kids asked me if I hurt my head and so had to bandage it.)

Hmm...maybe I should dabble more in makeup when I go back to Malaysia. I have all the time in the world then after all - and a fat Aussie dollar paycheck to boot. (HEH HEH HEH.)

I really want to do something about my hair, but I'm too traumatized from past salon disasters and I'm afraid they will murder my hair. Irreparably iron-straight orange hair is...I don't even want to think about it -___-

This is an example of super-straightened hair:

Actually, it's not that bad cause it looks shiny and healthy. I'm more terrified of the ugly, semi-burnt and dry looking hair that most girls have after straightening it at a (presumably cheap/bad) salon. But I'd still like mine to have some bounce and life in it.

Was thinking about investing in a straightener and some heat-protective serum and DIY it at home. At least I can still wash it out if I don't like it :) Might be more ma fan though. But at least I know I'm never going to iron it ramrod straight - I just wanna smoothen out the kinks in my hair. :/

I love hair like this! Don't know who the girl is (looks familiar though) but I want hair like that. :(

Okay, I don't know how I got from me rediscovering the lala look to talking about self-improvement.

:S

Nevermind, I'm just going to end this post with 'I like my bangs' and 'I'm willing to experiment, but I'll never lalafy myself! EVER!'

Hello people

By people I mean my known readers and those silent readers who somehow wandered here by accident/hunted it down like crazy (though the former is more probable.)

Hello.

I know you're there so don't deny it. :/

I don't know how you got here, but if you're my friend and I've said something horrible and criminal that a friend should never say, I'm sorry.

:)

My blog is my diary, it records random events, rants, feelings, musings and (sometimes biased) opinions.

What I say is a reflection of my current mood and emotions, and I rarely hold back on a rant so if you find me cursing you out, I just needed to let go of some steam. I don't hate you, please don't hate me?

I find that sometimes keeping my feelings to myself and exploding privately in words on my blog will hurt less feelings than screaming at a person in the midst of a temper.

I know that talking behind one's back is bound to evoke some bad karma, but I never did make this blog to publicize your shortcomings or mine.

It's simply to express my feelings, not criticize you behind your back.

But yeah. I'm truly sorry for any hurt feelings I have caused, but please try to understand that I'm not one to hold my feelings inside forever - they have to come out SOMEWHERE.

Better on my blog, lost in cyberspace than to other people.

I'd stopped promoting my blog ages ago, and taken a few breaks from blogging to reconnect with the real world and TALK to people instead of ranting on my blog.

At one time, an average of 2 people read my blog each day. Now the total has risen to about 9. :o Besides my sister and boyfriend, I don't know who still reads my blog consistently, so I KNOW you invisible stalkers are out there.

Grr.

And don't think 9 is a small number either; people who read will normally read perhaps every 4-5 days, so multiply that number by 4.5 and that's a hell lot of people. For a blog that's intended to be semi-private anyway.

Anyway, I didn't start blogging to gain popularity and fame, nor to make sure that everyone else knows what's going on in my daily life.

My blog is more of a place to rant and talk crap if I so wished. I don't need people to approve and say omg your blog is soooooo funny/entertaining/cool, or to be invited to blogger events where you mingle around with other 'bloggers.'

Self-satisfaction is my purpose. :D

If you've been a reader since I started blogging at 14, you'd see how much I've grown as an individual, and I am glad for these chronicles of my life, for they show me that I AM growing, and not just...stagnant. A lump of rubbish left to mould.

I find people who blog for the sake of blogging very wu liao. :/

You know the type - those who make an effort to go the every public event in the local vicinity, snap 218731 photos and give reviews of the event...

It would be interesting if 2342352 other people hadn't just written about the same damn thing and taken the same freaking photoshopped pictures with PRO cameras.

o_O I can't taste the individuality - it's like these bloggers eating and regurgitating the same food that everyone else is and call it special cause it has their spit on them.

D:

Blogs are quickly dying.

I love reading about people's opinions, anecdotes about their lives and seeing candid, non-photoshopped and watermarked photos that allow me glimpses into their lives.

Not this commercial click-me-and-help-me-advertise-my-blog-please crap.

Also, I find it ridiculous to think that some people read blogs just so they can find ways to criticize and put that person down. :/ If you don't like the person, then don't read. Simple as apple piieeeeee.

I find that blogging is quickly losing its meaning.

And that is why I mourn the loss of another honest blogger.

TAN SUI YI DON'T STOP BLOGGING LAAAA.

:(((

Write blogs not to impose beliefs.

Write blogs not to tell the world you've been to so-and-so event and wore so-and-so and met so-and-so famous celebrity blogger etc.

Write blogs not to sell yourself.

In this way, I prefer lala, today-I-ate-a-hamburger-for-lunch type of bimbo blogs as compared to the new wave of commercial blogs.

I want to read about YOU.

Blog for yourself, not for others. :)

It's an expression of self, not essays written to please people.

Keep blogging alive people!

Love from Snarkie. xoxoxoxoxo

The Miss California controversy

So. There seems to be a heated debate on Perez about Miss California's 'controversial' statement at Miss USA.

As some of you may know, Perez was a judge on the pageant and Miss Cali happened to pick his question for the interview round.

It went something like this:

"Should gay marriage be legalized?"

And her answer went something like:

"No offence...blablabla America is a free country and we are free to choose blablabla...but in my family we think that marriage should be between a man and a woman and that's the way I think marriage should be."

Note: This is NOT verbatim, just a brief summary of the exchance - I'm too lazy to write it all down properly. Watch the clip here.

So anyway, Perez totally flamed the poor girl on a vlog, calling her a dumb bitch and being a total bitch himself.

Although I think that gays should be granted to right to marry legally and not be discriminated against, I also believe that Miss California should also have the right to state her own opinion honestly without being flamed and booed.

I also think that Perez and the majority of his readers should grow up a little.

Here we are accusing people of not being tolerant of gays, yet there they are oppressing the right to free thinking and speech.

=/

Is it just me or is Perez being a little smug and righteous in his own beliefs?

Sure, he is gay and proud and believes that homosexuals should be granted the equal oppurtunity to wed their loved ones, but does he have to right to impose his own views upon others?

Imagine being asked about your favourite food and you innocently answer:

"A hamburger."

And the person goes all apeshit on you for not being considerate to the wellbeing of pigs and how you're sacrificing a life to feed your insatiable appetite for fattening and unhealthy food?

Not so fun now, is it?

I'm not saying that fighting for gay rights is equivalent to vegetarians crusading for people to give up eating meat, it's just a situation to show you how I see the whole 'Miss USA controversy.'

Furthermore, readers bash the girl for being 'incoherent' and acting all condescending, asking 'what the hell is 'opposite marriage'?' Now, the term on its own may not be clear to listeners, but if it was preceded by 'same sex marriage' then I should very well assume that the reader has at LEAST a vague idea of what she is referring to.

Thus he has no right to call her 'incoherent.'

And these people are all worked up into a rage, bashing the Miss USA candidate for 'dividing, not uniting,' yet they themselves do nothing to alleviate the hate that it clearly felt across the internet right now.

Instead, they fuel the conflict with their own opinions and senseless bashing of a girl who has enough guts to state her own views. They even had the cheek to say that she should lie and be diplomatic to be more sensitive to the rights of gays - what a lousy pageant candidate!

So you would rather the girl lie her ass off, contradicting her own beliefs to satisfy the audience and thus promoting the practice of lying, rather than speak her mind and hope that the world that is watching is open-minded enough to accept that some people simply have opinions that differ from theirs?

Given, if she lies convinvingly everyone will be all happy and CHEERS for gay marriage!

However, what happened was that she spoke the truth and was bashed incessantly for it. Some even go the lengths of calling her an 'illiterate bitch' who 'makes no sense at all.'

Alright, she was a bit redundant and did not directly answer the question, but that is understandable seeing the great amount of pressure put upon these contestants.

Anyway, I just think that Perez should grow up and deal with it more 'diplomatically' as he puts it himself, instead of starting a hate-fueled campaign against Miss California.

Oh, as for posting a hater's email address for the world to see?

That's low, man.

Alright, the hater was being exceptionally rude but as a gossip site author, he should grow some balls and learn to take emails as they come. You can't expect everyone to love you.

Some of his readers applaud Perez for 'taking the high road' and not flaming him. Since when does not responding to a hateful statement automatically qualify as 'taking the high road?'

Especially since he posted the guy's email address up for his millions of fans to flame and spam.

High road, my arse.

Perez should get off his high horse and stop embarassing the gay community with his childish tantrums.

And yes, I don't like Perez but I still read his website cause meaningless news about celebrities entertains me and numbs my mind when I'm bored/stressed.

So sue me.

I don't really have to justify my reasons for still visiting his website despite my dislike of Perez to you, but I'm feeling decidedly nice today so there you go. And also so that you won't pester me with irrelevant questions like 'do you know you're sending more traffic to his website by posting this?'

I don't really give a shit if I do. -_-

What's 5-6 extra hits to a site with million of hits per day anyway?

Meetoto

LOLLLL!

Fuck. I can't believe I did it.
I fucking sang on meetoto at 6.30 am!
AHAHAHA!
I cannot tahan d. The whole night was filled with songs from 4 different people.
ALL ENGLISH SINGERS WOOHOO MIRACLE!
One joker with a gay voice who insisted on torturing us with old chinese songs.
But he was really funny.
One guy with a deep ghost-like voice who was okay, but had a cheena accent.
One girl who raps and does hip-hop songs.
One guy who was FUCKKKKKKING sexy.
Helyna and I were like:
*drool*
OMGOMGOMG!
FANGIRL MODE!
His voice damn freaking sexy la. Dewwwwww! (Learnt this stupid-looking variation of 'diu' just now - it was funny at the time.)
He kept serenading us with love songs - with his guitar and his own rearrangement of the song.
WTFWTF. Helyna and I are such suckers!
*starry eyes*
Anyway, I don't even know what motivated me to go up and sing, but I think it was mainly:
1. My competitive streak which made me itch to beat the rapper chick. ): RAWRRR!
2. To spite Mona and sing only for Helyna AFTER he slept. Muahaha.
3. The fact that I couldn't be much worse than anyone else NORMALLY in that room. LOL.
4. There were less than 20 people in the room, and some were inactive anyway so not many would be listening.

Wadafak!
I made Helyna cheer for me throughout. LOLLL.
I was so nervous -_-
Macam real live performance like that.

"Hello hello. Can hear me bo?"

People kept chatting amongst themselves, but Helyna went "YESYES SINGSING LOLLL GO BUNNIE"
And so I sang Sara Bareilles' 'Love Song.'

Because it's one of the very few songs that keep within my voice range. =/
Good god, my voice was shaking at first.

Then I just minimized the Meetoto window and concentrated on the lyrics.
Then someone shouted that I wasn't singing.
-___-
So I got annoyed and turned down the music a bit so he could hear my voice.
LOL. I kept breaking down in nervous laughter and going: "Helynaaaa T_T"

Anyway, I got 300 gold for that 5 minutes of petrifying nervousness.
AHAHA but I have no idea what to do with MeeGold wei. -.-
OH! And the guy with the sexy voice was there listening. LOLLL.
He asked me to sing for him tomorrow night.

AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAA.
WHEN IT RAINS TOMORROW YOU KNOW WHY!

Whatever. The guy is kinda ugly - damn potong - but dayum! His charisma is just THERE!

And I got stalked all the way from Garena.
Wadafak. -_-
Some dude recognised my username - snowbunnie - and asked if I played CS.
And so I said yea, who are you?


And it turns out it's that irritating dude - Vampire - that always whines while playing sniper maps. -_- Josh says he's pro but I don't think so.
Later on, Ducky came. This is the guy who makes me complain while playing sniper maps. He's not THAT pro, but definitely more accurate than I am. But whatever. His speed is annoying.
I donno what's wrong with them. I can't sing for shit.

But I guess the other ah lians were so bad that I sounded passable.

HAHAHAHAHA!

OKOK!
MEETOTO TOMORROW!
WITH MONA AND DUCKY AND WHOEVER ELSE I CAN DRAG ALONG!
Are you in?

Web browsers

IMBA! I now have 4 freaking web browsers.

That's 2 too many. -_-

Of course, Internet Explorer was the default browser when we first bought the pc.

But over time, I got so fed up of the non-tabbed browsing and useless popup blocker. That's when Firefox came in. (Of course IE has improved since, but still. Trauma.)

Well, I thought Firefox was the bomb. XD

Compared to IE, it's definitely a godsend.

Close to 0 popups, more speed, tabbed browsing and not to mention it doesn't screw up my html back in the days of my primitive frankenstein coding.

(Meaning I get bits and pieces of coding from here and there and modify it to my liking. Of course now as an IT student I pretty much don't stick CSS and html together anymore and screw the whole page up. Lol.)

However, ever since Firefox recently updated, I was very dulan with the whole thing.

1. I didn't like the new appearance.

2. It was somehow SO FREAKING SLOW.

My whole comp lags just to open FF.

Wtf.

And one day later, my sister excitedly told me to download Google Chrome.

So I did.

And wow, I'm impressed.

It's really fast, and the appearance has started to grow on me - I really like the clean look.

No title or status bar or unnecessary text. Just basic icons.

And also, I can search google directly in the address bar - I don't need a seperate google toolbar anymore. (:

I told Sherman about Chrome and he said he uses Safari.

I didn't know Windows could support Safari. o.O

So I was curious and donwloaded it for fun. I like some parts of it but I still prefer Chrome.

Heh heh.

I shall now rate each one individually according to factors that I deem important. :D

Internet Explorer

(old version, didn't bother to update)

Speed: Don't know, don't care

Appearance: Cluttered, too many buttons on the taskbar

Features: Didn't update, so I can't say anything =X

Pros: Html is easier to code than in Firefox. I no longer have this problem though. (:

Cons: Lots of ads and pop ups and is generally ugly

Conclusion: Abandon this! XD Go for another browser.

Mozilla Firefox

Speed: Horrible, since the most recent update, used to be alright. Chrome is still faster either way, though.

Appearance: So-so. Relatively clean. Preferred how it looked before the update.

Features: Tabbed browsing, RSS feeds (live updates to make keeping up with blogs easier)

Pros: Supports Greasemonkey! (I use one of the scripts to put emoticons in blog posts)

Cons: Laggy. The whole window hanged twice even as I blogged this. (Just switched to Chrome to continue.)

Conclusion: Good, but could definitely improve on speed. Don't really like the appearance too. I'm keeping this as my blogging browser as font coding in blogger and greasemonkey is not supported in Chrome.

Google Chrome

Speed: Miraculously fast after experiencing the FF lag

Appearance: Didn't like it at first, but I do now! Very clutter-free. Doesn't have unnecessary stuff like the title bar and the status bar only appears when a page is loading.

Features: Can search in address bar, new tab shows recently/most visited pages and bookmars,

Pros: Intuitive, organized search in the address bar, user-friendly - I got used to it within a matter of minutes, fast speed

Cons: Doesn't support greasemonkey, doesn't support RSS. However, if you have a blogger account you can still keep track of updates easily using the 'Follow Blogs' function. (:

Conclusion: My favourite browser so far, I hope they come out with more skins though. Get this if you're not a compulsive blogger/blog reader. (:

Apple Safari

Speed: Fast, but Chrome is still faster for me

Appearance: I normally like Apple stuff, but this is just too boring for me. Especially after seeing the same layout when I open my iTunes everyday. -_- However, I like the way the page load status is shown in the address bar - it colours in as it loads.

Features: Tabbed browsing, RSS feeds, IMBA bookmark organiser!

Pros: Fast, very organised and clutter-free

Cons: Doesn't support greasemonkey, I'm still a bit confused with the features, but can't seem to find out how to put the Home and New Tab icon on my task bar. I know there are keyboard shortcuts for these but I prefer clicking.

Conclusion: It's alright, but most of what I can get here, I can get on Chrome too. (: Except the lovely bookmark organiser. T_T Well, Chrome is still new - they can always create this feature in later version. :P

So, I'm now using Chrome as my default browser, but I use Firefox to blog.

Hehe. I highly recommend Chrome. It's nice to use if you're not a blogger. Otherwise stick with Firefox or maybe Safari - haven't really explored it yet but I've already taken a dislike to it.

It looks so silver and metallic and cold.

So. Boring.

*yawn*

Okay. I told Ling that this post was going to be short, but I get carried away as usual.

=_= Good night.

Happy fangirl mode~

As some of you may know, I'm a fan of the Twilight saga by Stephenie Meyer (waha.)

Breaking Dawn, the 4th book in the twilight saga, was released on August the 2nd. I can't wait to get my hands on a copy! However, I have yet to see a hardcover copy in any bookstore yet - TELL ME IF YOU DO! (This isn't the cover, it's a picture of the queen in chess.)

On another note, being a so-so-ok-lar-and-not-rabid-frothing-at-the-lips kind of fan, I have just only discovered the Twilight movie promo posters. It's set to be released in December this year.

Rosalie, Jasper, Alice, Edward and Emmett.

Alice, Emmett, Bella, Edward, Rosalie and Jasper.

Hero and heroine: Edward and Bella

Official tagline: When you can live forever, what do you live for?

(Kind of weak and boring, but that's just in my opinion )

If you think Edward looks kind of familiar, that's probably because you've already seen him before.

Robert Pattinson

Ring a bell?

The boy whom many of my ex-classmates weeped for when he died in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire?
Cedric Diggory?
Remember now?

Waha. Thought so.

Personally, I'm impressed by the casting of Bella, Rosalie, Alice and Emmett.

Jasper...kind of...failed la. He looks like some creepy pervert with awful hair; not a calming, soothing personality with blood-resistance issues.

As for Edward Cullen, the boy even I drooled for while reading the book...ok la.
I guess Pattinson had huge boots to fill - Edward is almost perfect. =x

I don't even know why so many people romanticize vampires - supposedly they like to rip out humans' throats and eat us alive.

Still, there's a fascinating allure about them that makes them so easy to fall in love with - merely the idea of them makes me excited. I like stories of vampires.


Somehow, Edward Cullen didn't strike me as the sort of person who had bad-boy, come-and-get-me looks.
More of the passive type you wouldn't wanna pick a fight with.

Hmm. I can't wait for the movie to be released so I can go and watch it.

I look forward to it, as I always do with any of my favourite books that are made into movies; I can see the characters alive and moving like they are in my head when I'm reading the novel.

But I also dread the idea that the director may have butchered the story.
It has such intense story-telling - my heart really ached for Bella when Edward wasn't by her side - that may or may not be portrayed well in the movie.

I have only read the whole series once.

Last year, in September I believe. Since then I've had an almost neverending flow of new books, so I have yet to reread the book, much as I keep telling myself that I'll get round to it.

Now that the 4th book has been released, I'm going to be very diligent and start from book 1 again to savour the plot.

That is, after I finish reading my current book - Sara's face by Melvin Burgess.
It proving to be quite cool so far.
Plastic surgery. Rock stars. A girl with a mind of her own.

I'm going to finish it tonight!

...After studying for IT.

Potong.