interclass karaoke today :D
There was lots of dancing! Though it's still amazing that more people didn't dance :(
I was looking forward to having the whole hall stand up and be mosh-pit-like for most of it :(
Ah well. At least 415 danced :D

songs performed, and Don't Stop Believing added for good measure. [someone tell me which songs I missed out!]

I interrupt regular transmission to bring you: Hank Green.
watch the video! I don't think he allows embedding ):
It's exactly when I think I mean when I say I don't want to get older.
But the problem is, very frequently in my daily life I find that I'm telling myself to act more mature. The conversation in my head often goes like this:

A: why did you do that? why can't you be more responsible! If you aren't responsible and mature, you can't be an adult and function efficiently in the adult world! What is wrong with you???
B: WHAT. IS. MATURITY?
A: Maturity is having respect for other people and yourself. It also includes being punctual.
B: BUT I think immature people are people who are too stupid to think analytically about their problems. You could take care of all your responsibilities and still be immature.

*angst*

I am not very eloquent. Anyway, I think right now my conscience is trying to convince myself to be more boring and adult, to ease my transition into the adult world. If this goes on for too long, I'm afraid I might forget to have fun altogether. However there are a million external factors that are making you be more adult. In fact, because of these million factors, I think I'm almost halfway there! These factors include: teachers, parents, exams, colleges, peers, and irritating mean old ladies.

It's not that I can do anything about these external factors, though. Honestly, becoming adult is almost necessary sometimes to have fun. It's only when you act mature people permit you to do fun things, and go places to have fun. All you have to do is make these external factors believe you are mature, and then you can go have all the fun you want!

In a less abstract manner, you need to make your college admissions officer believe that you are responsible and mature before you can enter college, and you need to enter college for your future employers to trust you enough to pay you a salary, and THEN you can start having all the fun you want. It sounds like I'm cynical, and I'm being anti-nick (just like anti-helena) at the moment, but it's my perception of the real world, and it's kind of what yingling was talking about during that endless night.

Although-- even though I have this perception, I don't necessarily act according to it :(
which is good and bad.

haha I seem to be posting more these days-- the last couple of entries came within 3 days of each other! (I hope) I have more to say today than before.

First things first: go buy The Graveyard Book, the latest by Neil Gaiman. Just found out that it's available in kino -.- so go get it! It's supposed to be really prominent and they put it up and things. Plus try listening to danse macabre before/ while reading it-- yeah it's that kind of book.

Oh yes and if someone finds Let it Snow by JOHN GREEN, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle, please please tell me, because I figured the only way I can get it now is through amazon... and I don't have the financial means at the moment. For those who aren't nerdfighters, John Green is this really awesome YA writer who did Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, and Paper Towns. (that just came out/ is coming out)

Speaking of coming out, last saturday, the 11th of october, was National Coming Out Day in the states. tyleroakley on youtube and italktosnakes did very funny videos on it, so go forth! (right no pun intended.)

Today I am not very bothered to write anything um remotely fresh, so let's pick up something from the stale bread bin!

On [Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?]:
In most SF novels, I've always noticed that the female is ALWAYS the object of lust, not the male. Even when the narrator is female, they don't objectify the male, but the female. Lust and the promise of it has always been a recurring theme in SF novels, even good ones, so I don't blame Philip K. Dick or Orson Scott Card for that. It's just that the male protagonist always sleeps with the hot female, and the hot female is always the forbidden fruit or the irresistible bait.

Why can't males be hot instead? In today's society, it is entirely not justifiable for only females to be objectified and used as an object of temptation. This only propagates the idea that females are only to be utilised as tools for pleasure, and they are not worthy of being anything else. It is only recently that females have been sufficiently empowered of proper characterisation -- Un Lun Dun by China Mieville and Philip Pullman have great examples of female protagonists.

This is coming from a humanist to boot.

the graveyard book

I wish you peace and love and happiness in everything you do
I pray everywhere you go someone will be in love with you
and I know that if you stay within these loving arms of mine
that every single one of these dreams will come true

- A Pensieve Full of Unrequited Love from The Mudbloods

Scored a acdc shirt today :D for $18 :( but it was really cool and thank you geeru for waiting for me xD even the salesperson got irritated that I took too long. I also saw this pretty pretty led zeppelin shirt that was coloured in front and had an actual zeppelin [a little steampunkish], but I figured it would be difficult to alter since the graphic went almost to the end of the shirt. Because the shirts are men's size M haha. They don't make band shirts for girls because it would be too... wimpy. So anyway I'm going to have to alter it to make it fit better so I don't look like I'm wearing pyjamas.

If you feel like getting one, it's a shop in fareast, on the third floor. Stand where the directory is, near the escalators, turn 90degrees to your left, and keep walking till you see it. They have a lot of, um, fetish-like costumes if you're into that thing. [geeru kept staring suspiciously at them] but good if you want halloween masks and outfits. The band shirts are the three whole racks of black tees that look all the same, so you actually have to look at every shirt to find the one you want. Which was quite enjoyable, really, because I saw pink floyd, muse, guns and roses, metallica, and a lot of old school rock things. And that's why I took so long.

*sigh* and the salesperson kept asking me "are you okay?" when I squeed at the shirts, and it was more than evident I really really wanted one, so I might have been cheated. Because $18 is a bit much for a oversized shirt that can't fit anyone, right? plus the graphic was just a simple black and white, nothing special. [someone who buys merch a lot please correct me]

jazz jewel