Yes, new Sa Ding Ding video! The song leaked a little bit before and I wasn't too big on it - it's a very different style for her. But, after seeing the video, it's grown on me. As far as the really new songs go, I still think Tang La Ya Xiu is better. There video can be viewed here. S'pretty snazzy. I can't wait for her next album ;_;

BX has a new video out, too. It's for 4 days, one of the better tracks from I Have a Dream. I want his clothes though lol. I want the outfit he wears in the Luivriin khot video, too lol. Kiwi put out a video for Superstitous. It's... interesting. And the new Tokyo Jihen is fantastic 8D On the other hand, the new alan album blows. Next entry, expect a lot of YT embeds lol.

When I went to buy the book on Khubilai Khan, the Chapters website said they had it. This book was an older book, but was being reprinted for November. I thought they just had the older one, but we went twice and couldn't find it. One day there was like no one in the store, so I had 5 employees helping me. Their guess was that someone just moved, 'cause they only had one copy. The one was like, "It's probably somewhere, I mean, how many people wanna read about Khubilai Khan?" I do :( And then another one asked me if Mongolia was still a country O_O It's not like they were teenagers, more like middle-aged. Anyways, the third time they ended up having it, but it was the new edition. They had it in the store before the release date.

There was a post at ONTD recently that reminded me of this video: XD


Speaking of TV shows, I don't get all the new Simpsons hate :( I've never found it to be bad. Of course, not every episode has been awesome, but it's still really good. The episode that was on on Sunday killed me. "See, he hasn't changed." "Yes I have, in ways you're only beginning to suspect." And "Ooh, let me try! *rolls dice* Lick eyes. *rolls* Spank hair. *rolls* Whisper into... ass! Ohhh, this game sucks." LMAO

This was my top weekly artists on last.fm earlier. Black and white images must be in lol.
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It is cold here. Cold. It is August. This should not be. I want to enjoy the rest of my summer, thank you. I had my window open last night and my room was freezing this moring. I got my school textbooks Friday. $430 and two were used D: Fucking ripoff. For my Auschwitz class, I have to read Night (which I read in grade 10 and loved), The Diary of Anne Frank and The Reader, and some other junk. I'm looking forward to The Reader.

I don't think I posted about it yet, but I can't believe someone at itai_tegami got that Miya giraffe tattooed on them. Why? I'm sure that's something you'd want on you when you're 40.

Last night we went to this Thai/Vietnamese restaurant close by for dinner. I had Cashew Nut Chicken. Best thing ever? I think so.


Wolf Totem by Jiang Rong

I just finished this tonight. The last chapter was heartbreaking. I'm not an emotional person, but I just wanted to cry. This was an absolutely amazing book and it grabs you right from the first chapter. Kinda like when you get a new CD and you love the first track so much you just want to keep listening to it, but you think, 'I can't, I have a whole album to go through!' It's about students from Beijing who went to live with nomads in Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution and Chen, the main charachter, becomes fascinated with the wolves and their relationship with the people and their spiritual nature and tries to raise a cub. I can't recommend this enough.

( Random YouTube videos I'm into right now... )

I only had to work 1-5 this Saturday. If I had had to work 9-5, I would have killed myself. The next Sat I'm at that branch, I have to work 9-5 and help children do crafts D: Ugghhh. But, I couldn't exactly say no.

Went to Chapters last Tuesday and bought 3 books. At home, I was browsing the Chapters website and lo and behold, one particular book which I had paid $31 for, was only $20 on their site D: I placed an order for the books I bought (except I ordered one as a hardcover instead) and saved like $14 and returned the bought ones. Spending over $39, I got free shipping (4-9 business days) and since they were all in stock, they should've shipped in 24hrs. They didn't ship until after 24hrs, but they ended up in my mailbox the day after they shipped 8D

This time I bought Haruki Murakami's Sputnik Sweetheart, Jiang Rong's Wolf Totem and James Palmer's The Bloody White Baron. I need to take a break from Murakami for a while. I finished Sputnik Sweetheart last night and was just kinda irked at the end. I read one review that said, 'isn't he tired of writing the same book?' and it's so true. All his books are so similar that by the eighth one, I found myself annoyed more than enjoying it :( A book about Khubilai Khan is going to be re-printed for November and when that comes out I might also order the lone book on Sübeedei. That book has mediocre reviews, though. Actually, so does the one on Khubilai. Maybe I'll order John Man's book on Khubilai too, then.

Music wise, still lots of stuff I'm listening to; new and old. I might start a music post 'er something. I was listening to Tracy Chapman's first album when I was cleaning my room, but I had to switch to something else 'cause it was too depressing lol.

My German is pretty terrible now. I was trying to read something recently and couldn't really get through yet, but yet there were so many words from the vocabulary I learned. Ugh.

Blaaargh, I wish I was back in New York ;_;

...What a boring entry. I guess I just felt like writing.

My friends and I went to see Terminator Salvation Tuesday. Christian Bale was in the movie D: Ugh. He was a lot better in this than Batman Begins though. But, he sounds like an old man when he yells D: Either way, he looked pretty good. It was a really good movie; very action-packed, but I haven't seen any of the other ones lol.

Any of you guys watch Jon and Kate Plus 8? Man, the premiere was so intense. It was so sad when Alexis was talking to Jon during the party omg ;__; But I loled at Collin calling the piñata a 'chiñata'. The next episode looks funny.

Metric's new album is so. freaking. good. I can't stop listening to it. And it's not just good because their last album (excluding Grow Up and Blow Away) was garbage; it's really good. Satellite Mind is my favourite track.

Finished John Man's The Great Wall and really enjoyed it. The 'young Mao' part made me laugh, but it was a really interesting and enjoyable read. Now I'm on Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. I'm a little annoyed, tbh. Like, I absolutely love the way he writes, and this novel's no different, but is he incapable of coming up with different characters? It's always this sort of laid back, yet somehow unhappy guy and the mysterious, quirky girl who has problems. ALWAYS D:

I started practicing writing hanzi characters. I love the ones with a lot of strokes. But, I can't help but think of how wrong it seems writing them. Like, when you have to draw a line from left to right, or in some, imo, illogical order.

MiChi's new single is very good. She hasn't disappointed me yet, but I think the a-side was a bit better on her second single.

( Meme 'cause I'm bored... )

I know there was something I actually wanted to talk about...

The other night I made cookies from cake mix. Ya know the kind that comes in a box? You can make cookies from that. They are so delicious. I hate cooking, but I don't mind baking. Maybe because the end result is better? hahaha

I don't think I ever mentioned my love for Madagascar 2. Has anyone seen it? I watched it a little while ago and I think it's even better than the first. Usually sequels can't do that, but I'd easily watch the 2nd over the original. So much made me laugh, but I really liked when the shark followed Mort all the way into the volcano lmao. Wow, I'm so juvenile D:

I have about a quarter left of John Man's The Great Wall left to read. After that I have Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood. After that one, I dunno what I want to do. I might continue my histoical book > Murakami book > historical book routine. I only have a few more to read by Murakami, but I'd like to read more of John Man's stuff. Makes history interesting to read, he does. There's humour in his books, which I like :3 Anyone have Murakami recommendations for when I finish Norwegian Wood?

I saw a little interview with Alexisonfire about their upcoming music video. They filmed it on the Maid of the Mist lol. Any of you guys been to Niagara Falls? Anyways, Dallas said George is doing more singing :/ I liked the screaming.

Penny Tai's new album is really good. I think it started getting a bit dull at the end, but maybe I was just too preoccupied with what I was doing. I didn't even find her ballads particulary boring, which is odd for me.

I've been seeing a lot of requests lately for FLAC and Apple Lossless albums. I just don't get it. The files are massive. I don't see the point in using 300+MB of HD space for one freakin' album :S

HMV finally had BoA's US album in stock. I am totally loving it and I don't even like BoA lol. Energize and Scream are my two favourites, but there's not a track on there that's really bad.

Lee Jung Hyun is baaaack :) I was totally excited for her new mini-album since it's been so long since she's released anything. I'm quite happy with it. CRAZY is really good and I can't wait to see the full video, as it looks incredibly hot. Actually, she's looking incredibly hot, too. It's really different from her previous stuff, though.

The Office season finale :O What a way to end it! I was like :O 8D. I mean, they didn't exactly say it happened, but it was totally implied, right?