This is really cool: Chinese music/rock awards. Miserable Faith won a lot of the categories, including album of the year. I absolutely love that album of theirs ♥ Helen won in the female singer category, which is also awesome. Not particularly fond of the other nominees. But, I object to AK-47 getting best metal performance. I've actually only heard their second album, but it generally wasn't too pleasant; meanwhile, Voodoo Kungfu are killer; I'd choose Ordnance over AK-47, too. Hell, even Suffocated are better. Dude from Honey Gun and Spring Autumn also won a category and both those bands are good, so that's nice.

Worked four hours today. Fridays are pretty painful. All day tomorrow and then a couple of my friends are getting together and we're gonna watch some scary movies. Hopefully it'll be fun.

I did some serious shopping tonight: a black sweater and a red sweater from Dynamite, grey pants, a pink tanktop and a grey/pink striped sweater from Garage, a book from Chapters, flats and sunglasses from Payless (they had a really good sale on) and some underwear. I spent too much money lol.

So, after a month and eight days of waiting, I finally have it!

( And your bird is green )

I also bought Paul McCartney & Wing's Band on the Run album. Fucking amazing. Fucking. Amazing.

This is my desktop right now ♥


Just finished listening to the 2009 Super Girl compilation album. Really liked it. I wasn't expecting to, but generally all the songs were good.

Second attempt at a German translation:
( Juli - Wir beide )

I have so much schoolwork to do. So much D: D:

Ugh school. If I could skip German, Second Language Learning Theories and Literature, I could tolerate it. The thing is, all my profs are good (three I've had before), but the courses I have to take suck D: My Auschwitz and Culture and Ideas from the Black Death Onward courses are good so far (except the latter is 3hrs long ugh). Literature's the worst though. I fucking hate literature classes. That shit is boring beyond belief and I don't care about the ~*deeper meaning*~ because none of it interests me.

My weekend was pretty good. I worked Saturday, but most of the time my sister and I played pool and darts. We've had a pool table since I was born, but I had never actually played until Saturday :O It was fun playing and listening to classic rock. If you go down to my basement, you can go down another small staircase and down there we have the pool table and dart board, as well as our laundry room, storage room, a bar and an old record/8 Track player lmao. The 8 track part no longer works unfortunately hahah.

We got an Xbox 360 and the Beatles Rock Band :) The last system we bought before this was a PS2, not even the thin one, so it's been a while. We got the limited edition of the Rock Band, which is not worth it, btw. But, it's so amazingly fun! I love the drums, but I generally stick to the guitar. The graphics are fantastic. The only thing is, easy for guitar is too easy (easier than for Guitar Hero, except the little things you have to hit are smaller in RB), even for the hard songs. Once I go to medium though, I find it hard to use my pinky lol XD

Last weekend when I had to work at the other library, I was asked to work 9-5 instead of 1-5, so I couldn't really say no. I thought it might be okay since Sandwich Festival was going on that day and it might get busy. Nope. I walked around bored all day. And I had to do crafts with kids D: The way the librarian told me about it, she made it sound like incase the other librarian needed help with it, but noooo I had to do it. It was a terrible craft for such young kids. And there was only like 6 that came the hour I was outside. The one librarian was like, "maybe there wasn't such a good turn out this year because of the shooting." lmao D: D: They put the libraries in really scary areas of the city and twice since I started working there, there's been shootings near the library. Thank God I'm done there. No more creepy guy! 8D (He asked me twice after the intial time to watch those DVDs ;_;)

The Office season premiere was pretty shocking :O


Oooh, spooky sky.

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.

Today I worked at the second library and all was well, yet boring, until 5 minutes before I left some creeper started talking to me. He was waiting for the librarian to get his DVDs and started making small talk with me as I was shelving in the area. "You keep it clean here." "How long have you worked here?" "You work at another branch?" I thought nothing of this, and kept working. Then when I was shelving DVDs moments later, he started talking to me about the one he just returned. He then told me we could get together if I wanted to talk about the movie, because he wanted to see if I felt the same way about it as he did. *vomits* This guy was like 60 and gross D: D: D: At first I thought he was a cop (there's a station next to the library), but he was just in costume for a movie they're shooting down at the university, which he said I should come down to if I wanted a part ;__;

Moving on. Omg guys, let's get on a plane to China and go to this festival. Thin Man, Twisted Machine, Miserable Faith, Ego Fall, Honey Gun and a slew of other artists/bands I'd love to check out. It's in Hohhot, too D: Provided I'm there by next year, they better damn well have it then lol.

The Lemons' new-ish album is really good :O Some of the tracks are a huge step up from Red Album, but others are in the same vein. I found Өөр ертөнц particularly impressive.

A-Sound are good, too.

That is all.

Wtf MUCC? I don't want your shitty compilations. They just put out two in 2007. The only thing I'd consider buying is the indie b-side disc, since I generally don't like their PVs. Ageha was cool, but that's it. And that world tour... If they go back to the US, you know it's only going to be NY and/or LA, because the rest of the country doesn't exist.

I watched Genghis Khan: To the Ends of the Earth and Sea again, finally. As such, I decided to revisit my previous thoughts on it and Mongol.

( God, I'm such a nerd :P )



I dunno when that came out, but new Altan Urag video. The song is so different compared to their last album. I didn't like it when I first heard it, but it's really grown on me. Can't wait for the album!

I keep finding Cantonese singers. There's just something about Cantonese I do not enjoy, but most of what I come by lately is Cantonese. I like Kay Tse's Yelling album. Japanese music wise, I grabbed Miho Fukuhara's newest single and am loving it. A great summer release and a rock-y a-side :)

Rapey McRaper is back :/ He's a nice guy, I guess. Just kinda creepy now lol. The other day, there was this guy in about 19 or 20 who smelled like alcohol (at 11am) and then this girl came in and they started arguing, then they went outside and argued and came back in and argued. They finally went back outside and were really loud. After the guy left, the librarian went to check on the girl and apparently the guy threw a bottle at her and bit her O__O