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Okay, this is about the first time I've filled up a quiz without someone tagging me directly or any such, but it was just too much fun to pass up! It was a challenge, so how could I resist?

Here are the instructions:

Using only song titles from ONE ARTIST to answer these questions. Pass it on to 15 people you like and include me. Try not to repeat a song title. It's a lot harder than you think.

'Dyu see? Such fun! As expected I picked the greatest band of all time. Here are the questions:

Pick Your Artist:

The Beatles

Are you male or female:

Baby You're A Rich Man

Describe yourself:

Nowhere Man

How do you feel about yourself:

Good Day Sunshine

Describe where you currently live:

Magical Mystery Tour

If you could go anywhere, where would you go:

There's a Place

Your favorite form of transportation:

Twist and Shout or What You're Doing.

Your best friend is:

Mean Mr. Mustard

Your favorite color is:

For You Blue

What's the weather like:

Getting Better

Favorite time of day:

Good Night

If your life was a TV show, what would it be called:

Here Comes the Sun

What is life to you:

I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

What is the best advice you have to give:

Let it be

If you could change your name, what would it be:

Wild Honey Pie

Your favorite food is:

Savoy Truffle

Thought for the Day:

I Want You (She's So Heavy)

How I would like to die:

It Won't Be Long

My soul's present condition:

Wait

My motto:

Tomorrow Never Knows

I'm not going to tag anyone, but please let me know if you fill up this quiz yourself, so I get a chance to read yours. And have fun with it!

Labels: music, quiz, random, song titles, the beatles

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Am sitting in bed watching My Name Is Earl, which I'd forgotten how well it ages. My second viewing, and every episode is as great as it was the first time around. Unbelievably funny, and it's not even my favourite episode yet. On television this minute: Season 2 ep 4, the the "Time After Time" sequence. Sheer brilliance! And yay!

Was so sick all day today that I completely forgot my tooth was aching. Had horrible KFC food for dinner. I'm avoiding so many people on chat it's not even funny (interestingly, nobody likely to read my blog, so this is all good). Read a play after ages today, which is always nice.

There's a Flickr meetup this Sunday, so um, yeah. Might go in the interest of being a bit more outgoing or whatnot. Let's see how much I change my mind by Sunday.

Two other things: am getting Brazil on Saturday. Brazil! The other thing involved Mars being as big as the moon in Aug 2003, but I guess that's not really important at all.

Labels: flickr, play, random, things

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Saw Ferris Bueller's Day Off again today, after absolutely forever. Such joyful film-making and acting! Still undecided about whether to buy the DVD (or rather, when to buy the DVD), but probably sooner rather than later, the Amazon-purchase-hold holding back things for a while, though, thankfully. Still, the Ferrari's final scene is one of the few completely laugh-out-loud scenes in moviedom as far as I'm concerned, and so many cute scenes make up the movie - Cameron giggling when caught looking at Sloane naked, the view from the tower, the scene in the restaurant, and the fantastic parade sequence (oh shake it up, baby now ... !), which is only helped by the vocal contribution of Messrs Lennon and company.

I also saw A Shot in the Dark, and - so far - am fairly disappointed. I don't suppose I'll ever appreciate Mr. Edwards' comedy style, and Mr. Sellers seems too unsurefooted and off his usual genius to really make Clouseau work in this movie. Oh well; I suspect the second half might be better. I'm starting to appreciate Mr. Chaplin's movies more in retrospect, particularly "Modern Times", which I've been wishing to re-see. Compared to Mr. Edwards' long, drawn-out comedic situations in which coincidence, accident and surprise lead to the funnies, Mr. Chaplin's tightly knit gags, taking a normal, everyday occurance and exaggerating it beyond belief into supernatural funnies gets me happier. Oh well, perhaps it's best not to think too much about these things, merely to laugh and move on; perhaps?

Also, also: tried to call a friend in Bombay tonight. Didn't happen, will call tomorrow, but appear to have missed my cousin brother yet again. Oh well, so it goes. Another week can't hurt, and perhaps I will e-mail him instead or goodness gracious me write? Suddenly everything seems so possible again, somehow! The logical combination of Ferris Bueller and Evangelion, perhaps? Haha, craziness.

Since I've gone on this long: a friend of mine also wrote a pretty funny entry on her blog just now. Go read!

Labels: comedy, links, movies, random

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A vague list

1. I paid mucho mucho money for .Mac, and promptly felt very guilty. I'm not going to pull the move-all-my-money-out-of-my-account-before-they-debit trick this time, though, I have to stop making spontaneous online purchases with the power of my mind. Was very disappointed that I could publish my calendar but not make it private. Anyway, it came in use with an hour, because of me sending TaxonDNA somewhere by e-mail (just under 800kb), and Gmail refused to send such nonsense (probably because it contained an executable, not because it was too big), but .Mac was happy to do it. I guess it's nice having paid-for e-mail again, after years of free e-mail :).

   Of course, if iWeb is nice and I finally move my blog off Blogger ... well!

2. I found out OMG somebody has made a Saramago movie! It's Blindness, which I'd definitely like to watch, particularly the latter half of the book, but I'm glad there's atleast one out there now. It premiered at Cannes, and will release in Singapore in September. Initial reviews are disappointing, alas. Can't have everything, and something's better than nothing!
3. Another of my friends' folks are moving to Singapore. Everybody's doin' it!
4. Twitter is sweet. This post began (in my mind) as a Tweeter post, before expanding to present form.
5. Watched Indiana Jones and the Forgettable Title on GVmax. Good things: watching all that effects on a nice, big screen, which nice sounds and all; most of the acting was handled okay (I found the Shia kid irritating as usual, but he kinda stops talking halfway through the movie, and then he's okay), there were cool walking-around-in-caves-finding-things scenes, and the camera work was nice. Bad things: the skull was "magnetic" (no it wasn't, atleast not consistently), the underlying plot idea wasn't so much plotted as vaguely scribbled, and every single CGI animal just looked weird. But I thought Karen Allen looked hot, so what do I know.
6. Got stomach-sick eating movie food. Was too slow getting from theatre to bus-stop and missed bus, had to take cab. Didn't have cash, and NETS and Credit Card wasn't working. So I had to go the MRT and withdraw from the ATM. But the cab-driver-uncle was really sweet about it, and offered to drive me from the MRT back to my home without charge. Didn't take him up on it, but thanks all the same cab-uncle!

Okay, doesn't have anything to do with anything, but I always thought that Wallace Line was creepily cool. Now: on to tomorrow!

Labels: movies, observations, random, things

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So, here we go again; dead sleepy at 8am. Fun for the whole family.

There's a lovely essay I just read about creative inspiration and copyright, i.e.: if you borrow characters from another writer, are you stealing, etc. Nice.

Am vaguely considering just staying up all day. Apart from the danger of staying up at night because of the Bangladesh/Bermuda cricket match. Also, did you know that hauling sand to the beach could get you in trouble? As usual, there's plenty of weekend career worries, brought on by a combination of having to call home on Sunday and having way too much free time to think about such things on the weekend. Of course, going into work, say, now, instead of lying in my slowly chilling room moping might be a good idea, too. And getting my lamp fixed so I can read a book before sleeping ... yeah, it's possible. Certainly possible, for sure.

On the other hand, these more and more frequent day-night-day attempts can't be good for my health. God, my health. I honestly haven't thought about that in ages.

Labels: health, links, random, sleep

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