Valentines Day

Once again, its Valentines Day. As usual, it was boring, butttttttttt I made a list of Valentines Day fics/books/movies/other stuff. Though the list is pretty short since I'm having a brainblock right now and can't think

Links

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/valentines-day.html
Some family friendly G rated info about Valentines Day, kind of interesting though and in very simple language.

http://www.singlesawareness.com
Some anti-Valentines day people! Go Singletons!

Fics
I'm not gonna give links because I'm too lazy to find them.

On http://www.checkmated.com

Going Through The Motions by Slayerette
The Good Fight by Slayerette
Weight of the World by Slayerette
The Book of Morgan LeFay by lavenderbrown
The Final Reckoning by lavenderbrown
See Hermione Score by arios1
Fellytones and Fuzzy Slippers: A Love Story by TheTreacleTart
The Devil's Triangle by fresh pickled toad
Between Fantasy and Reality by jocjarmom


On http://www.thequidditchpitch.org

Sailing the Dark Ship by kjcp
War and Passion by RedBlaze
Fire and Ice by RedBlaze

On http://www.dracoandginny.com

Keeping Christmas on the Death Train by Anise
Along Came a Wizard by fallenwitch

On http://www.siye.co.uk

It Happened One Night by Sundevil05


Movies

The Notebook
Breakfast At Tiffany's
Titantic
Love Actually
Bridget Jones's Diary

Books

Songs of the Humpback Whale by Jodi Picoult
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
See Jane Score by Rachael Gibson
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Happy Valentines Day!

(or Singles Awareness Day if you prefer)

The Woes Of Love And IM

You would think that all the new gadgets would make it easier to connect with people (ahem the male species), but after years of using said gadgets, I have concluded that this is a big fat lie that corporate companies have been feeding us. Think about this: way back when, the only way to communicate someone without actually talking face to face with them was to to send a letter. When they don't reply, you have millions of excuses. The guy delivering your message could have ran off with the post thinking that you sent money. His horse might have broken its leg and in a strange and long winding turn of events, the letter was never delivered. The messenger might have met bandits on the road and was robbed of everything, including your letter. Even when we fast forward a couple of centuries into a more modern mail system, lots of things could still go wrong. Cars broke down, boats sank, if you sent the letter "postage collect", maybe the person you're sending the letter to didn't want to pay for the letter and decided to return it to the sender instead. Now fast forward through a few decades, maybe you would send a telegram instead. Of course, a million other things could go wrong. The telegraph operator could have misinterpreted the message you wanted to send, for some strange reason, some weird technical difficulty might have prevented your message from getting through. Or when the person delivering the telegram might have lost it for some strange reason. Now lets fast forward to telephones. When telephones were first invented, every time someone called in one house in the neighbourhood, all the phones rang. Every household had a special ring so you had to learn to recognize your ring. That person might not call you because they're shy and they don't want the whole neighbourhood knowing that there's something between you two and its way too easy for other people to eavesdrop on your conversation. Now lets fast forward to emails. You might not get a reply to your email because for some reason, it got lost in cyberspace, or that person doesn't check their email inbox. The point is, in all the above ways of communication, there's always some excuse you can make to yourself as to why that person isn't replying to you, but with instant messaging technology such as Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, ICQ, etc, there are no excuses you can make. You can see their status as clearly online and every time you message them and they don't message you back, you feel stupid and like you're obsessing over him or something.

As you can see, we were better off with the letters and the horses.

"I'd rather get rechargeble batteries..."

Ahh yesss, "Sex and the City", the single girl's T.V. friend(s), here to defend us against the violent Hallmark Valentines Day attack. The stormy sea of red cardboard hearts drowns our protesting cries of overcommercialism while Cupid's arrow decides to stab our lonely ass. However, I saw on the news the other day that Anti-Valentines day cards are now available at Carlton Cards, whaddya know? I tried googling for a picture of it but I couldn't find it...but I found this little gem:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/airport_sleeper/99466837/

Only three more days to go before its over, hang in there!

Canadian Idol

Walked past the long line of people lining up to audition for Canadian Idol today. It seemed that every fifteen steps or so I took in the mall, I walked past somebody with a number stuck on their back, a guitar in their hand, wallowing away at some tune while inwardly I shook my head and said "Man, you're not gonna make it." There was also a huge crowd watching the potential contestants line up and various news stations were there with their cameras. I guess everybody wants to be a star. I mean, sure you hear about the scandals and the tabloids with the unflattering pictures on the front page but at the same time you see the nice clothes, the great parties, the admirers... Enough to make anybody with no vocal talent to grab a guitar and belt out their shower tunes.

I Take It All Back...Gladly

Back when "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" first came out and everyone made a mad rush to the theatres to watch it, afterwards, as usual, the main discussion amongst the female population was the bath scene where Daniel Radcliffe is half naked. All my friends were going on and on about how great his chest looked and I absolutely disagreed, he looked scrawny and a bit too pale for my liking. I mean, he's a great actor and all but out of all the actors in the Harry Potter movies, Tom Felton is the best looking, hands-down. However, I find that my opinion was challenged when I saw this picture:

The picture here is a bit small so you can't really see but the stubble on his face and the chest... *drools*. I mean, the stubble sort of scratches if you're kissing the guy but I always think that guys look better with a little stubble. And the chest and toned arms...need I say more? I mean, I thought he just looked horrid when the OOTP promotional picture of him was released with the dorky haircut. It sounds really harsh but just look at this picture:

The two pictures look as if they're of two different people. Too bad "Equus" is only performed in London, or else I would go and watch it. All I can say is I take back all the comments I've ever made about Daniel Radcliffe lacking in the looks department. *drools over the other promo pics*