RIP TV Links

The FACT (Federation Against Copyright Theft) has shut down tv-links and arrested its owner.

This is the saddest thing to happen all day. Although it didnt actually happen today, I only found out about it today. It happened on the 20th I think. But whenever it happened, it has affected my day today. I was wondering why it hasnt been working for the last few days... I thought the server was down, coz that's happened before. I even cursed the owner for having server problems. Little did I know... *sigh*

The site is gone, no more awesome old and new tv shows and movies. Sure, there are other sites like it online, but none as comprehensive as tv-links, and most likely if there will ever be a site like it again, it will be a long time in coming.

The stupid part was, tv-links didnt actually host any of their videos... it was links pointing you in the direction you could watch them. They didnt even let you download them. Yet, no one does anything to the sites that actually host the videos. Possibly coz they dont want to deal with the big fish who have lawyers that will fry their asses. (Lol, weird sort-of pun not intended.) I mean, youtube anyone?

However, I did read online somewhere (I cant find the link now) that as the law right now stands, tv-links is not guilty of piracy. Something about the law stating that internet piracy has to involve hosting and providing downloads of copyrighted material. Neither of which, as I've said before, tv-links did. So hopefully, the case will get thrown out of courts on this technicality and there will be another tv-links in future. Well, one can only hope.

In the mean time... us lovely viewers out here will make do as best we can with the meager resources and lie in wait. =D

RIP TV LINKS. You will be sorely missed.

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Procrastination is the root of all evil.

Finish the sentence...

1. I've come to realize that my last kiss was... way too long ago.

2. I am listening to... Song In My Head - Sherwood

3. I talk... way too much for my own damn good.

4. I love... music and books! yay!

5. My best friend(s)... is awesomer than yours! =P

6. My first real kiss... took place at a place that was later dubbed "The Wall of Art". (I didnt come up with the name. shut up.)

8. I hate it when people ask... whether I have a boyfriend. why i dont have a boyfriend.

9. Love is... out there... somewhere... hopefully.

10. Marriage is... (hopefully) hovering somewhere in the distant future.

11. Somewhere, someone is thinking... "Inane questions about law suck. Lets take the subject of law out of the IFT Macau curriculum." (I wish! haha)

12. I'll always... love you. (The song... sort of. haha.)

13. I have a crush on... someone too far away.

14. The last time I cried was because... I found out crappy news.

15. My cell phone... is completely bloody insane. (it keeps randomly switching itself off)

16. When I wake up in the morning... I hit 'snooze'. Multiple times.

17. Before I go to bed... ehmm... nothing, I'm usually too tired to keep my eyes open much less do anything specific.

18. Right now I am thinking about... how lecturers assign stupid questions and ask for bloody references without giving the reference material. Ughhh.

19. Babies are... so damn cute!

20. I get on myspace... very rarely as of late.

21. Today I... went to class, had a midterm, came home, watched ER, read bits of cosmo and taught Owen.

22. Tonight I... have a date with some doctors! =D

23. Tomorrow it will be... possibly the same as today. Minus the midterm.

24. I really want to... get a job. And the internship I want.

25. Someone that will most likely repost this... Kay.

-x-

1. How old will you be in five years?
23. Holy crap. Thats freaky! Excuse me while I contemplate myself no longer being a teen. Wow.

2. Do you think you will be married by then?
Uhhh....... no.

3. What do you look forward to most in the next six weeks?
Getting this damn internship thing down.

4. Who was the last person you called?
My dad

5. Who was the last person to call you?
Patrick

6. Do you prefer to call or text?
text for short things, call for long

7. What were you doing at 12am last night?
watching ER! yay!

8. Are your parents married/separated/divorced?
married

9. Who was the last person you thought about?
uhmm... dunno.

10. How many states countries have you lived in?
two.

11. How many cities/towns have you lived in?
two.

12. Do you prefer shoes, socks, or bare feet?
bare feet all the way

13. Are you a social person?
i'd say so.

14. What was the last thing you ate?
a banana.

15. What is your favorite ice cream
chocolate anything. and b&j's almost anything. haha.

16. What is your favorite dessert?
chocolate anything. and cheesecake with the little chocolate bitties in it. lol.

17. What was your last drink?
water

18. Do you like coffee?
oh, do i!

19. How many glasses of water a day do you drink on average?
far far less than i should

20. What do you drink in the morning?
coffee

21. Would you rather sleep with someone else or alone?
hmm... right now, alone. but that would change (i'd hope) with the arrival of a significant other. haha.

22. Do you sleep on a certain side of the bed?
yeah, its called the middle.

23. Do you know how to play poker?
yes i do and i could kick your ass at it too! =P

24. Do you like to cuddle?
yes sirree bob! lol

25. Have you ever been to Canada?
no, but I'd like to

26. Do you know anyone with the same birthday as you?
nope. at least i dont think so... i'd remember that.

27. Do you want kids?
yep.

28. Do you speak any other languages?
that i do.

29. Have you ever gotten stitches?
yep. in my head. when i was 3.

30. Have you ever ridden in an ambulance?
nope

31. Do you prefer an ocean or a pool
i cant decide....

32. Do you prefer a window seat or an aisle seats?
window, no question

33. Do you know how to drive a stick shift?
nope but i will soon learn.

34. What is your favorite thing to spend money on?
pretty much anything. haha.

35. Do you wear any jewelry 24/7?
my necklace, bracelet, tie thingy, and 4 stud earrings.

36. What is your favorite TV show?
Gilmore Girls! One Tree Hill, ER, Heroes, Charmed, Ugly Betty, Prison Break etc...

37. Can you roll your tongue?
nope, i can roll my rrrrrrrr's though! haha

38. Who is the funniest person you know?
the funniest.... ehhhhhh CD if you can say I "know" him. haha.

39. Do you sleep with stuffed animals?
nope

40. What is the main ring tone on your phone?
the chorus of alanis morissette's "ironic"

41. Do you still have clothes from when you were little?
nope.

42. What color are the walls in your room?
cream

43. Do you turn off the water while you brush your teeth?
yep

44. Do you sleep with your closet doors opened or close?
closed

45. Would you rather be attacked by a big bear or a panther?
bear, coz even if it mauls me it'll leave me alone eventually

46. Do you flirt a lot?
i dont know, do i?

47. What is your favorite food?
Italian and junk food

48. Can you change the oil on a car?
no

49. Have you ever gotten a speeding ticket?
dont drive.

50. Do you dance in the car?
if a good song comes on... which reminds me... *wanders away muttering incoherently*

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Life is evil.

Found out something just now.

Shouldnt cry about it.

But I want to.

Life is evil.

Its out to get me.

This is one fight I cant win.

I'm running away and hiding from it now.

Let me know when its safe to poke my head out again.

*sigh*

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Now playing: Ludacris feat Pharrell - Money Maker
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Random rant

I'm so sick of hearing about and dealing with other peoples love lives. Just sick of it. If I hear one more person lamenting about their boyfriend being an ass or squeal about how sweet their boyfriend was I will scream. Long and loud. And hopefully the person talking will go bloody deaf. Though them going mute might help my case more.

Okay, so this sounds like I'm a really bad friend. In all honesty, I'm not. There is only so much a single person can take. And I crossed that point quite a while ago. The fact that I have yelled my head off yet alone should tell you what a good friend I am. I have however, been giving off subtle signals... I think when in the course of a conversation when the person you're talking to starts answering in unintelligible monosyllables it should tell you that the person wants out of the conversation, or at least a new bloody topic, no? But heh, not for my friends. They're too busy ranting or raving to notice. So I sit there and imagine various ways to freaking shut them up. Or imagine various ways to maim their boyfriends. This however, stops very quickly after I realize that if I maim their boyfriends I will have to sit and listen to tales of their boyfriends medical problems. Its a vicious cycle it is.

Actually... I dont mind so much listening to the raving. I like the raving. It just makes me wish I had a guy of my own to rave about. Its the ranting that gets me. I mean, I get that sometimes a person just needs to rant. But why rant at me? You have loads of friends who arent single who you can rant to. They'll sympathize with you if thats what you want. If you're looking for sympathy you are coming to the wrong person. No way in hell are you gonna get it from me. You asked for this. You wanted him. You're the one who chose him, you deal with it. I dont want to.

I would like to deal with the problems in my own love life. Not in the lack thereof. (If that last sentence made any sense whatever to you... kudos.) And there lies my problem. I have none. There's irony for you... my problem is that I have none. Hah. But then talking about it just depresses me even more than listening to other people talk about their love lives. So I dont. I ignore it. And put on a perfectly happy front and a weird (and fake) smile on my face and voila... No one's the wiser.

And yes, I do realize this post made absolutely no sense. But hey... I just typed. What came out came out. And I cant be bothered editing.

When I'm in a better mood I'll come up with a more entertaining post... till then, Ciao.

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Take two.

For some reason yet unknown to myself... I cannot get pics to show in my posts. Or my header for that matter. I have no idea whats wrong with it. AND I cannot get ScribeFire to log me into my account. Its an evil attempt to thwart my blogging plans I tell ye! But as you can see... here I am. Blogging. And therefore prevailing over technology's evil plans. Mwahahaha! And with that mini-rant aside...

I was looking at PostSecret yesterday... these are a few that stuck with me.

Picture 1.

This one's actually pretty creepy. Sounds like the person's talking to a guy, but I get the feeling that the 'her' in question is the person's girlfriend or something. Someone the guy's not supposed to be with in any case. Still though, it feels very stalkerish. Scares me for some reason. [Possibly coz if people are going to stick video camera's in my key rings they'd have many many choices to pick from? Haha]

Picture 2.

Racism is something I despise. Though I'll be the first one to admit that I have made racist jokes etc before [and in all probability will do so in the future] I dont mean them in a way meant to hurt anyone. And when people take racism to these extremes it just irritates me. I feel like yelling at them, or grabbing them and shaking some sense into them. Which is probably not the best course to take, but still.

More so than just the surface subject though, what I thought of when I saw this... was something I was once told by a person I'm extremely close to. Lets call said person 'E'. E said that if I fell in love with and married a person of a certain race to not expect them [E] to like or love my [theoretical] husband at all. Though I was assured that I myself would still be loved and that E's treatment of me would in now way differ from the usual. I guess that this revelation did show me that E is only human and therefore has flaws as well. It still irks me though, that should I marry a person of a certain race my husband would be at best treated civilly and nothing more by this person who is so important to me. I want my future husband to be loved by everyone who is important to me... and this little revelation makes me feel as if I should restrain myself.

On a whole different note... I have two more interviews to go to! The second one at StarWorld and one at Venetian. Yay! Both calls came today and I'm vair happy! The girl who called about the Venetian one though, I dont know if its just coz she was reluctant to speak in English, or if she wasnt trained properly... but for whatever reason, she had no idea how to go about making a phone call like this.

Our conversation went something along the lines of :
Me : Hello?
Girl : Hi, can you speak in cantonese?
Me : I'd prefer english.
Girl : Ok, we have an interview for you on thursday, can you come?
Me : Uhhh... where are you calling from? Which hotel?
Girl : Oh, Venetian. Can you come on thursday at 11 am?
Me : Would it be possible to change the time? Maybe to thursday afternoon?
Girl : I've set up the interview for thursday at 11 am.
Me : So there's no way I could change the time?
Girl : Uhhh... Its at 11am.
Me : Ok, fine. Where do I have to go?
Girl : To the shopping arcade, shop number 2508.
Me : The shopping arcade?
Girl : Yes. Number 2508.
Me : Where exactly is it?
Girl : In the shopping arcade. Shop number 2508.
Me : Ooookay. And who do I have to see?
Girl : Uhh... just go to the shopping arcade, shop number 2508.
Me : Yes, but when I go there who do I have to see? The person's name...?
Girl : Uhhh... just go there and tell them you have a interview.
Me : Thats it? They'll know.
Girl : Yes.
Me : Can I have your name please?
Girl : But at the interview I wont be there.
Me : Yes, but can I have your name?
Girl : I wont be the one to interview you, so you dont need.
Me : Okay. Fine. Thank you.
Girl : Bye.

This was punctuated with as many ahhh's, uhmmm's and pauses as she could muster up. Very efficient, eh? I thought so. The fact that I'm now confused and in all probability will have to make it to the Venetian a full 45 minutes before my interview is totally beside the point. She did what she had to do. Bah, people!

And on that fine and articulate note, I'm off to go do more productive things. Like, oh I dont know, my class presentation that I have to do tomorrow. Haha. Procrastination is a fine thing, isnt it?

Ta ta!

Hi, Hello & How do ya do?

I've not got much to say really... but all great blogs have to start somewhere, eh?

I have an interview today, at 3 PM, at StarWorld Hotel for my internship. I should be nervous... but I'm not. Funny how that works.

Okay, now I'm really blanking on things to say. You know like when there's something that you'd normally be able to talk a mile a minute about but when someone asks you a question on it you completely blank. Same thing happening to me now. Is there a term for it? Hmmm...

Anyway... yeah, first posts are rather pointless. But they get the ball rolling. So now I'm going to stop the inane rambling.

Till next time...

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