first things first: JORDIN WON! Finally, an american idol I am satisfied with. (although I think doolittle shouldn't have been voted out) I knew during career ed (a free block), an hour after the show was over :D because wencen was nice and went to find out when physics pt-ing. I liked blake when he did the maroon 5 thing though, partly because I like that song so much and I liked to see it not mangled. In my personal opinion, the guys were not as good as the girls this time, because I was gunning for stephanie or geena to get into the finals, but not phil or sanjaya to get so far. OSC doesn't like the whole idea of american idol though :/ he thinks it is a very commercial thing and the contestant with gimmicks and is popular gets to win, but not the contestant with the best voice. He also didn't like what the record companies did with mcphee's album because they made it sound very pop-ish, copying from artistes with the highest record sales, resulting in her not sounding anything like herself on american idol. -think 'somewhere over the rainbow'

secondly, my mum and sister just left for my sister's school trip, which reminded me to pack early (i.e. today/tomorrow) for wales because they found out at the last minute that the luggage couldn't close properly and had to switch their stuff to a new one. I will miss them, because my sister isn't coming back for 12 days and I won't see them until after wales. They left at 10.40, and they were supposed to be at the airport at 11, which also reminds me not to pack last-minute and make sure everything is ready, which I very rarely do X) but if I don't the consequences will be mine (and a lot of other peoples') to bear, so.

Trying trying very hard to be focused and work on physics so that it can pull the unsatisfactory mya mark up. Will probably post tomorrow so that I have a lot for you to chew on as I won't be posting very much when I'm in wales- we only have internet connection for the first 6-7 days I think, so maybe I can post then.

Osc: If you're a Harry Potter fanatic -- and what sensible reader isn't? -- you might enjoy The Great Snape Debate, a book that can only be purchased at Borders.

I'm going to buy that asap, and I am very happy that osc supports jo. :D :D all the more you should like harry potter.

Today I will plug plug plug since my life is kind of dumpy right now, and not very interesting.

I ship bean/petra!=pean?[ew.] or betra [odd.] it is so incredibly sweet, and a lot like the canon pairing harry/ginny. Though I think not many osc fans ship pairings because the books are quite plot-based, and one tends to focus on the themes and major issues at hand. And bean/petra have weathered many hardships together and they are the only people that genuinely understand each other, just like in Kathy/Tommy in Never let Me Go. (you should read that) Sometimes I find it surprising that osc can write fairly good fluff, since most of the Worthing Saga was smut, and the fact that he is a guy. (okay I'm stereotyping) So I'm kind of on Shadow Puppets right now, after a short break from osc because his stuff are quite intense and sometimes emotional, and after reading one, you feel a little drained and in great awe-- this 'whoa' sense like after you've been though a 360 degree roller coaster.

= I am very happy that blogger automatically saves posts now, so that my long lovely posts don't get accidentally deleted.=

I read in Two Caravans that chickens are bred in masses, and they are housed in a large warehouse-type thing (illegal, of course, but cheaper for major supermarkets) the lights are turned on 24/7 so they don't sleep and continue feeding all the time, making them nice and plump for human consumption. The food they have is nutrition-rich, making them weigh more and sell for a higher price. In the crowded space they are in, they are packed shoulder to shoulder, such that they can only waddle a little and shove their way to the feeding tubes. As a result, they have little or no physical exercise and underdeveloped muscles, with brittle bones. This makes them all the more easier to catch them and stuff them, sometimes on top of each other, into crates for transportation. Feeding on large quantities of food results in them producing great amounts of excrement. Because they are packed so tightly within these warehouses, the excrement forms a layer on the floor, and the birds have to wade through it as when one cleans the warehouse, one has to first remove all the chickens. During their short lifespan of five weeks, they live in these unsanitary conditions but do not fall ill because of medicines in their food supply.
One can only imagine how other livestock are treated, just to supply the needs of human demand and excessive consumption. The fishing industry is also not spared because most companies fish from unsustainable sources, and the fish are killed at increasingly younger ages to meet worldwide demand. Their short lifespans only allow them to grow to a certain weight before they are harvested. These are one of the reasons I chose to go veggie, and perhaps you should consider changing your diet to save your environment. Having one less meat product every week may not seem much to you, but if done on a large scale, the demand for animal products may eventually decrease and the overwhelming amounts of natural resources used to sustain these industries may decrease as well. For more information, go to The PB&J Campaign.

its been what, three weeks? an mya hiatus, even though I've been spending lots of time online anyway. I did really badly ): rawr though it was expected due to my lack of effort. I haven't told my parents yet, though I plan to do so today, to get it over and done with. I think my mum would ground me for the rest of my life, till I'm thirty. This is exaggerating but I think she doesn't really expect this, explaining the serious punishment. I sound/feel kind of apathetic about the news though, I think mainly because it has happened so many times, and if I start to bawl over it, it wouldn't help because it would make me feel in more of a funk, and less motivated to start working again. (what mum would get me to do when she knows) Anyway, I did my cranky blubbering yesterday already, perhaps on a subconcious hunch that my results would be so bad. I saw a lot of people blubbering today and I distract myself by going to study german or reading my caravan book, primarily because I've been rather touchy lately and hypersensitive, i.e. prone to psyching myself into thinking blubbering would make me feel which I'm trying to correct. (I have no idea how)

On a lighter note, I've read three sandman graphic novels, Never Let Me Go or Alles, was wir geben mussten (translated, it means 'we must give everything'), Shadow of the Hegemon and In the Time of the Butterflies. I think I won't review the sandman ones, because I can't remember enough to review it >< but I especially liked a midsummer night's dream's neil gaiman's puck in dream country, I think, the one with the trio of short stories