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the weather here makes me so emo. -____-

greetings from new haven!

random points that i will elaborate on some other time if i feel like it:
-i left my place at around 1pm to go for my 4.35pm flight at heathrow
-I BLOODY HATE tfl (transport for london), the originally 1 hour maximum journey became 2 hours long. stupid delayed trains and problems of the picadilly line. learn some efficiency man! and teach your train drivers not to lie (re: train driver who told us to get off the terminal 4,1-2-3 train for the next 1-2-3,5 train which was apparently "directly behind")
-took american airlines. the entire plane smelled like pee. like wth?! i saw the steward/stewardesses less often than i saw those on ryanair/easyjet which are budget flights
-food portions were only enough to feed a kid. the only good thing was they kept coming around trying to feed us with drinks
-bloody passport control at the US side took ten billion years. i don't care if you want my fingerprints and photo. take them! just open more counters duuuude (it also didn't help that my flight consisted of mostly EU people so we were all in the same internationals queue)
-took the airport bus from jfk airport to grand central station. i think on my way there i might have seen the statue of liberty. which is omg the prettiest trains station i've ever seen. camwhored while waiting for my train but i realized my camera is really out of action. whhen i turn it on, it turns itself off. talk about attitude!
-was bullied by traindriver who made me put my luggage near the door and cause my luggage is super roll-y, once the train turned or went uphill it would roll around. pfft!
-spent an anticlimatic christmas midnight on the train, 11 minutes away from new haven. at least there was snow along pavements. yay for a snowy christmas
-took taxi to hotel, feeling very much cheated by the driver who to even my uneducated eye seemed to enjoy taking the scenic route to the hotel and had a penchance for stopping for lots of traffic lights. streets were totally empty despite/because it was christmas? tipped him all the same, well it wasn't like i had a choice right!
-made it safely in one happy piece here at 12.30am
-mooched around, bought more train tickets, facebook stalked and went to sleep at 4.30am, thereafter waking up at 1.50pm (now)

Less than 48hours to eloping and sailing around the world. (: Actually, no. It's just less than 48hours to be flying to New York.

Somehow New York just reminds me of Marvel and it makes me secretly very very happy. I remember impulsively sending an application to Marvel a few months back and needless to say I was ignored but hey a girl can dream right! Going to NY will totally be a dream come true. Hopefully it'll be amazing amazing amazing!

Am going to start packing soon. It's apparently been snowing for the past few days. Time to get out my winter wear!

Anyone who has not heard any of Pulp's songs should go and listen to them right now! They're total geniuses. <3

They've definitely managed to make themselves to among my top 3 favourite bands. What have I been missing all the time?

Pulp is my new favouritest band!

I first heard their song Mile End in Trainspotting which imho is a brilliant film with the ever so magnificient Robert Carlyle and very very young uhh Hottie (i cannot call him anything apart from Hottie apparently unfortunately).

I love their quirky and flippant lyrics and nice clean music. And I swear Jarvis Cocker's voice practically resonates in some songs. <3


(Though it's a little late to start re-living the Britpop era. There's also always hope that they'll come out of hiatus!)

i think tattooing is gross. very very very gross.

was looking at photos of black light tattoos, glow-in-the-dark tattoos, white light tattoos and the traditional ones.

just looking at them makes me feel squeamish. very very squeamish. especially when they're newly done. surely one has to be a masochist to want to have a tattoo done! =/ =/ i just cannot understand. and it's not pretty enough to warrant the pain i'm sure!



les mis vol1, vol2 and hamlet are now sitting happily on my bookshelf. going to start on les mis 1 tomorrow. the font size is dauntingly small though. //squints//
and my threadless shipment arrived yesterday. hooray for that! (: (: and i am currently the owner of a cute little inflatable tardis <3 life can only get better! i love retail therapy.

watched hamlet tonight. had no idea it was press night until after i had gotten the tickets. o__o (as you can see it was a very evident impulse ticket purchase. lul) well be checking out reviews for them!

for a shakespearean play, it was surprisingly understandable. i expected to spend like ages trying to decipher the english as i recall having a hard time reading the merchant of venice a couple of years back but surprisingly, it wasn't that hard at all! (think it was colloquialized at parts though)

and i saw patrick stewart. like OMG prof x as claudius! totally oozing charisma(: (: would have seen tennant as hamlet too but apparently he had a back injury (poor thing) so his understudy took over. who didn't do a bad job imho, he had a very very nice accent and speaking style though he was a little too comedic as hamlet for my taste. i expect more emo-ness in my hamlets but who am i to say (considering i haven't read the play in it's entirety). but anyway having stewart and tennant in the same play is any sci-fi geek's dream come true, so yes, if i can make time, i'll be a ardent little fan and go back to re-watch. before the play started, the director came onstage and gave a lengthy introduction on the interesting re-shuffling of parts due to the lead being replaced by the understudy. apparently the chain goes sthg like that like three or four other roles --> laertes --> hamlet. which made me wonder if any of them would get their lines wrong lul.

i very very much loved the staging and the costumes. the staging was just so lush, though the sound effects were abit lame -___- (ie worse than sound effects in les mis which is already lame to the extreme). the dresses, the suits, yumyum! hamlet with a contemporary twist suits me muchly!

annnd the acting was so amazing. kudos to ophelia, gertrude and polonius. ophelia was so so amazing! she made such a totally amazing turn from cute little sister / perhaps bride-to-be to crazy crazy crazy. osric (i know minor role) was cool as well! and mr grave-digger (whatever his name is) was super super funny.

which brings me to this: i wanna watch more plays. am gonna buy hamlet, suddenly have an urge to read the play in its entirety, so tomorrow, i'm gonna go buy les mis vol 1, 2 and hamlet if they're available. good holiday reading!

i liked the yorick scene a lot and think it's nice and significant though i thought the to be or not to be scene rather a letdown. //shrugs// it just seemed like a soliloquy that lacked a punch. guess i need to read through it proper!

http://www.ticketmaster.co.uk/SpongeBob-SquarePants-The-Sponge-Who-Could-Fly-tickets/artist/870764/?dma_id=602

HAHAHA

david morrissey for Eleven please! (if that truly happens i'll be the happiest fan in the world. he's such an awesome actor and looks fabulous in the Doctor get-up) can't wait for the christmas special anyway! though i'm definitely sad that tennant is leaving. ):

p.s. i've realized that the chances of anyone who reads my blog understanding what i'm typing about are close to zero. LUL

i find german songs with numbers oddly attractive.

Sechzehnhundertsiebzehn sounds simply amazing sung.

so is zwei vier sechs null eins for that matter.

or Neunundneunzig.

O__O

that's it. sleep beckons. going nutty!