Rum. Rum is good.

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Neither google, nor facebook are opening ? I thought it might be my comp/line/both problems, but lj, dw are opening just fine. What's going on ?

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'Snuff' !! :)

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It sounds a lot of fun :)

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I'm not getting all the notifications in email, am I ? *Makes a note to chk inboxes*

Also, riots in London ? Wtf ? I hope everyone living/staying there is all ok ?

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Must have fanfic. Spirk/Snarry/both ...



No matter what anyone other than me says, Herschelle Gibbs is a darling.

And Graeme Smith is a nasty piece of work. Was, Is and Will Always Be.

Everyone should follow Albie Morkel's twitter, only for the inadvertent Super-LULZ --- both pics and tweets. A real trueblue entertainer, albeit involuntary :D :D

Graeme Swann's twitter is very pleasant to read :)

Dalai Lama's is one twitter I will never, ever 'unfollow'.

And finally, Finally, I have got the twitter I had even opened that damn twitter for. The moron I was interested in following/terribly worried about only opened his this week, that unmitigated nitwit ! Don't ask !



Now, to fanfics ...

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this one. A nice little fanfic meme.

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Beginning to post post-ddos ...

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ETA : Oh good, I could post it :)

Currently horribly sick, hence reading fanfic (mainly Snarry and Spirk). Take care, everyone.

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So. I was away on farmville ... and some rl things ... for a month. And my lj's been getting spam, eh ? I hope the spammers enjoy it when I get all the ip-s and post them public.



Btw, must share this :-

“On this Memorial Day,” said Barack Obama last Monday, “as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes — and I see many of them in the audience here today…” --- it would seem to be somewhere at http://www.steynonline.com/

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This is a result of the recent USA tornado/es.


http://bunnyowners.livejournal.com/5351152.html

Help and/or spread the word, please.

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Is my mind permanently in the gutter/USpolitics/both gutter-and-USpolitics or is this twitter update I just read - from a slightly oblivious silly ass - 'If you love the bush follow @kingscamplodge for daily sighting updates..' really hilarious ? Especially as I have no doubt the post-er didn't think it funny :D

Thank heavens for the Dalai Lama ... At least his twitter updates are comparatively sensible. Like 'A holistic view brings realistic action'.

Still giggling about the update about the 'bush', though :D

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For friends,

with linkies,

here !

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'The 35 best obnoxious responses to misspellings on Facebook'

There are so many moments in life when I feel like topping even these. But I have, till now, resisted.

Till now ...

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Snarry-a-Thon11 is ON ! HEE !!


And has everyone joined these yet ? - http://ao3-collections.livejournal.com/profile and http://archiveofourown.org/


*Runs away to read Snarries*

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Oh do go read/readNjoin/readNjoinNcontribute !

Here !

I know so, so many people I have friended can do fantastic stuff in this comm.

*Goes back to read*

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Whenever I watch the 'Poirot' stuff nowadays, I think 'OMG Reacher Gilt' :D

Also ... I liked Charles Dance better as Vetinari than Jeremy Irons.

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Here are the details (with links).

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And all this time, while I fretted over the problems I had whenever I tried to post in ij, or open specific friend's pages in ij - forget posting comments ! - it was 'Internet Explorer' messing with the process. The difficulties happened intermittently for dw as well, and it all made me slightly unhappy and unable to interact in those places. And now I am using 'Safari', and I can actually do all that which were being stopped up by that damn 'IE'. Well ! I am using Windows, and I expect IE to behave ! If it doesn't, and I find out, then I don't have any qualms about abandoning it. Not at all.

My oven has died. I want to get a new one. I don't know whether to get a plain oven or one of those new-fangled microwave-and/or-oven functional thingies. I must decide before it is Monday morning. I can't live without a functioning oven ! A steamer isn't quite the same, though 'twill do in an emergency such as this for a day or two.

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I know for a fact there are at least three people on my f-list who will feel irresistibly drawn to join this community at Dreamwidth for 'shoes'.

Unless, of course, it was one of those three that actually set up that comm.

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'Internet Explorer' really has been a bit of a nuisance for more than two and half months now and a complete disaster for the last three days for me :{

Just installed 'Safari'. Test-posting using it :) Seems to work fine so far. I just hope my dw and ij woes are solved now onwards *Hopeful*


The icon's been dug out Specially for 'IE' !

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I can't believe plain homemade pasta, in homemade sauce (tomatoes, garlic, salt, sugar, pepper, olive oil), topped with homegrown young onions and cheese slices, and finally finished with a little butter on top is so ... so Amazing !

I must make it again !

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Motherbatesss, thank you so, so much for the Gopher and the Cupcake ! *Hugs* It'd have been even more fun getting Herschelle with those, though ;D

Everyone else who have wished me on my birthday, Thank you all so very much *Lots of group hugs*

Love you all :)

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Ok, now I get why lj is suffering DDoS because of the opposition of a certain section to this particular lj-er. If the guy really looks like the picture on his wiki, then what 50-plus guy wouldn't be terrified his fangirlz and fanboyz would desert as soon as they took one dekko at Smokin' Hot Alexei ? *SNORFLE*



Btw, I just realised that if I want to watch Christoph Waltz's 'Col. Hans Landa' in 'Inglourious Basterds', I'll have to endure watching Brad Pitt as well. Sorry, I'll pass.

It'd probably be much, much worse than having had to endure Bruce Willis in 'Die Hard' and what'stheirnames Selleck and Costner in 'Quigley Down Under' and 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'. So, yeah, I'll pass.

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Three.

Frikking.

Spam.

Comments ! :{

from 222.186.17.85

from 200.150.66.226

from 201.230.104.15


None in ij, jf, dw. Yet.

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So, Gary Kirsten is now the best/most valuable coach in cricket. He actually turned the whole of the Indian team nearly sapient. And Allan Donald is definitely the best bowling coach, having coaxed the NZ bowlers - except Daniel Vettori - to near-sapience, too. They would do well to go home and rub everyone's faces in this, because when they were playing, theirs was the best team their country ever had. Till vested interests turned most of them into dirty words and some into targets for knowing too much. It only remains to be seen if it is humanly possible for South Africa to appoint someone even more ruthlessly evil than Graeme Smith as the captain of their national cricket team. Btw, Gary Kirsten should never, ever coach the RSA team. Not if the poor darling values his sanity - or what's left of it - after having coached the Indian national team to a 'Cricket World Cup' win.

Personally, I am pleased that India has won this cup before. At least, in 1983, when Kapil Dev's team won the 'Cup', the outcome of the tournament hadn't been 'decided' beforehand. This year, the only snags in this tournament were (i) England's unpredictability (Viva Swanny !) and (ii) that Pakistan had to spoil the party by playing the semi against India rather than the final. Now that second one in particular put many people's noses out of joint, innit ? Especially that of the organisers and involved 'associates' Tut, tut. ;D


ETA : No one should ever try to escape the consequences of natural laws - for example, Newton's Third. It doesn't work :D :D

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There are very, very good reasons why I deeply dislike facebook and certain typical facebook-type idiots. Very good reasons ! *Sniff*

And I just handled spam comments in my lj. I hate doing that first thing because it pisses me off majorly. But I don't want to leave them unattended either *Heartily annoyed* I apologise to anyone who has received spam-comment/s as reply/ies to their comment/s in my lj.

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These are Not mozzie bites. They are urushiol-contact thingies from fresh-shed mango-flowers. Resulting from me disporting gaily under the beautiful golden blooms, taking pictures which I can't do anything about now because the rashes are now itching so much I can't think !

Will be back after they heal to the point where they don't itch ...

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OLE ! The chokeypooz lost the match HEE HEE !!

OLE !!!

*Cackle Cackle* From now on, RSA cricket should be officially dubbed 'the comic relief' of cricket Bwahahaha !!!!!! And I want a Jesse Ryder plushy :D

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Today is Lilacs day, innit ? Lookit my default icon :)

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I just saved a minute spider, less than 1 centimetre from foot-tip to opposite foot-tip from a watery death ! I wouldn't have seen it if the wash-basin hadn't been white porcelain !! I could have turned on the tap Oh My God !!! *Hyperventilating still*





In other news ...



One of the perils of sleeping in ... the buff ... in the tropics is that one can be left bitten all over by mozzies and itching and sort of intermittently reddish all over ... And I dare not scratch, for fear of making it all worse :O



And ... families can be amazing

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ly irritating too often AARGH !!! As a specific example, I could swear my dad takes positive pleasure in handing me wrongly calculated phone bill/s while concernedly stating the colossally wrong amount stated in it/them !!! AAAAAAARRRGH !! *Hairclutch*



And ...

yesterday I made 'The UltraStoopid Pudding'

When I was making it I felt stupid. Because it was so easy to make. When it came out to be super-amazingly as I had wanted it to, I felt even more stupid. And when I was eating it, I felt totally stupid because I can't imagine how something so easy could be so ... so ... fantastic ! After eating it, I also felt completely stupefied.

Here goes -

in baking container :
a layer of gone-slightly-soft ginger biscuits
layer of torn bread slices
drizzle small amount of ghee/melted butter
sprinkle sugar - any sugar
layer of broken chocolate bar
layer of torn bread slices
drizzle small amount of ghee/melted butter
drizzle one/two spoonful/s of olive oil all over

in another bowl :
mix egg and milk very, very well
pour all over things in baking bowl so everything gets soaked by mixture

sprinkle sugar - any sugar - on top

bake at 150 plus degree centigrade for 10 minutes

cover and bake for another 30 minutes

( I even remembered to take a picture when I was eating ... )

Nothing that tastes like this one did should be so easy to make ! O_@

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Since when has Brazil been a land of 'Hispanics' ?

And I'd really like to see clear pictures - with videotaped interviews of residents of the specific street/s in question - of the 'piss-and-sand-filled streets of Rio de Janeiro'. Really. Especially as I have actually been to Rio and travelled all around in it quite thoroughly.

*HEADDESK HEADDESK HEADDESK*

Is it too nasty of me if I point out that the news items in question originate in a particular type of social set-up on the Earth ? :/ P**********s C***s *DISGUSTED*

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Getting the current newses from/of Japan feels like watching a particularly doom-laden horror film. Some places are evacuating their citizens ; India certainly is *heroically resists referencing certain rodentlike tendencies*. People of certain other places (especially one starting with 'U') are freaking out bigtime on facebook ; although, having mentioned facebook, I see that mentioning 'U' before that was quite redundant, really (a few years ago, and the freak-out would have been on 'myspace'). I'm sure they are freaking out elsewhere, and everywhere else, as well.

Personally, I'd like to get exact news of what the situation is, but one may get that only from people at the worst disaster- (and possibly impending disaster-) sites, and they are, I guess, too busy trying to resolve the situation to come online for informing me in particular.

The few people I know from/in Japan, and their families and friends, seem to be alright. So far.

So far.


I've had a slightly disturbing week myself. Complete with a wrongly calculated phone bill which almost freaked me out. This has been resolved yesterday.


I've watched a film that made me feel somewhat disturbed. It was '8 mm'. However, I did feel it was very well presented. Very truthful.

I also rewatched 'Moby Dick'. I love whales. I especially love Sperm Whales. They are completely amazing beings :)


However, I did bath my now somewhat-grown-up kitten one day. It was the best entertainment I've had in a very long time. At the first splash of water on him, he jumped onto the porcelain Goddess, screaming bloody murder. I pulled him back and poured a little more. I did feel it was necessary to wet him thoroughly before I could lather him, and I really needed to bath him properly because he seemed to have picked up three or four fleas. Or ticks. Or something small, dark and insecty that moved about within his thankfully-not-too-thick-fur and made him scratch himself a lot.
So, one more mug of water, and he jumped up to the window, locking his claws on the sill, panting. The window, I'm glad to say, has slats of glass all through, thank goodness. Especially as this is the first floor bathroom I'm talking about. He hung there determinedly till I pulled him away.
Another splash of water, and he jumped onto the door - which has sort of panel-ly ridges - and hung from there. This particular ridge was around chest-height to me. From there, he climbed to hang from the door handle by both hands/forelegs, and this was on the other side of the door to the point he was dangling from. I was reminded of special effects from films where people are seen to fly as for a split second during the transfer, he didn't have any of himself supported by anything.
It was also all very noisy, because he was screaming continually of threat/s to his life and limb, and I was laughing too hard to keep it silent.
Anyway, I pulled him back and next he was running and slithering around the bathroom while I sat on the floor and laughed helplessly.
And then, he noticed a shelf, built in, around head-height to me, and holding the cleaning thingies. And jumped. And reached it. I stopped laughing and stared, amazed. And thought that if there was a 'Catolympics', Paolo (that's his name) would have been a sure shot first in the standing high-jump and possibly even pole-vault categories.
Anyways, before he could claw further up and start tumbling and/or puncturing the cleaning bottles and things, I pulled him off and decided to hold him close all the while for the rest of the bath. He did bare his claws a couple of times after that, but the remaining part of the bath went without incident. Much, that is. Except the point where he nearly started licking the soap off.
It was fun. I was laughing all day afterwards.


Btw, Ireland won the match yesterday. That was lovely :) :) :) I'm having potato crisps now. I might not feel like more potatoes later, though ...

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Google is really, really all kinds of wonderful in many ways, and the translation system is totally awesome - for my particular needs ...

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whenever I type in something to search for, it comes up with all kinds of suggestions by itself, and if I'm careless in clicking, something in the subcategory of my search begins to happen. This wasn't bothering me till yesterday - much, that is, except the occasional swearing on my part - ...

... but then, there is this person I'm googling by full name (let's say 'X Y'), and I google him frequently, and suddenly yesterday I see - for the first time - an option which is 'X Y dead' as number 3 ... and this being not actually the case, I ... Dammit, that just hurt ! Why on Earth doesn't google just suggest the correct spellings while something is being typed for a search rather than suggest options like ... like that !?



Btw, one out of two ain't bad :D *Evil Cackle* And it's the one I wanted more if it had/has to be a case of 50% of what I wanted :D :D



I'm developing a really serious soft spot for Eric Bana. I actually watched ST2009 the other day because of him :D (I'd resisted watching it till before that because I couldn't acclimatise my mind to watching completely different people playing the characters I grew up watching). I loved his 'Anchor' in 'Finding Nemo' too. He really does a great caricature of the Australian accent there :D :D And of course, I find him devastatingly lovely to watch. Somewhat disturbingly lovely ... er ...



I'm reading f-pages today. After more than a fortnight. I was actually suffering from withdrawal :D albeit a little bit, but still, withdrawal. I have just started reading them, and will try my best to comment as much as I can. I love you all, a lot, and I hope you are all well, and I hope everything with you gets better and better :) :)


'K, going off from here to read f-pages now :) Will check on remaining comments as soon as possible.

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I want England to win today. Just a win will do.

And my countryppl will prolly lynch me for this - But yanno what ? - I don't give a frikking damn ! - I want Ireland to win today too :D :D :D

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Yikes, I can't believe I have unattended comments/replies going back to middle of last month :(

I was going to attend to them now, but I got distracted by this. It's in/through the wikipedia page for AR :) :) :)

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IRELAND WON ! Won !! Actually WON !!! And I gave up watching in misery after the 30th over first innings when England was going at around 6 per over and pasting the Ireland bowling all over the place. OMG IRELAND WON !!! :) :) :)

And my hair is showing little curls like the Snape-wig these days :D

And Colin Firth got the Acad. Award ! Though I thought he should have had got it for 'Single Man' already !

OMG OMG OMG Ireland WON !11!1! :) :) :) :) :) :)

Will get to comments after I watch the highlights tomorrow :) Love you all !! :)

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People who created biryani, moussaka, lasagna, bread-and-butter pudding and mocha-layered-shortbread should have been identified and enshrined.

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Just now, instead of typing 'waterborne', I typed 'wereborne' *Dies Laughing*

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( 25 screencaps ! :) :) :) )

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Go on, read this, and repost if possible. (I saw it first through here)


In other news, I am so tired of blanket/s ! I itch !!

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Found through my friend Bruno :

"Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
In Soviet Russia
Poem writes YOU!!"



( My slytherin(?) blanket )

Ok, I don't like black, so deep navy will have to do :D



And, if I see much more of these sort of stuff, I'm going to ( start forgetting whatever geography I know )

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Behind, so very behind on comments again :( Will definitely get to them tomorrow. Today I want to catch up with the f-pages.

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I need options like this :

Ovulate ? Yes/No

It'll stop some day, right ? (/in pain)

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Go to

helpbrazil2011 and look up the whole of helpbrazil2011. Participate if possible.

Please also rec the comm helpbrazil2011 around.

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( Meme !!! )

Ok, I love memes. Haven't done one in a long time. And I've put it under a cut, see ?

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Friends and net-ppl, everyone shd go do this poll :D


Go check this post for a new enterprise.


sheherazahde gave me her recipes for Chocolate Tofu Pie, Pickled Eggs and New England Clam Chowder.



Apart from that, yes, 'm behind on comments again. Bit busy, will be back on them as soon as possible. ij still not cooperating. I'll have to check dw. So not updating anywhere except here now. Take care, all of you :)

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I hadn't the faintest idea how fantastic bacon sandwich in pud can be Oh My ! :) :) :)

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ETA : Updated jf (ajatshatru there), can't update ij or dw, they're both giving up on me :/

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Snow Leopard picspam to cordeliadelayne and for

any/everyone else who wants to see :)

( under ze cut )

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I was looking up the prospective 'Ice Age 4' film by searching through google. I do like the three that have been released so far, even the third one, which I found to be slightly odd in sort of parodying Moby Dick in one little part. But mummy dinosaur saved that film for me. I really like her :)

'nyways, getting back to the one I was looking up - well, I landed up on a little news snippet which really put me off somewhat. I mean, if it is going to start off with the main characters as still life :D then I think I'll stay away form it.

But, then came the comments to this piece of news. I don't want to detail them, because I ran away after a very, very quick glance. But if anyone wants to read them and join me in my horror, please go and have a look. (/absolutely need to read correctly written English Now !)

There really should be a way to stop really weird people from being on the 'net *Sigh*

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I'm getting my connection line changed. I'll be back on the unanswered comments as soon as this is done. Take care, everyone :)

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