All right, two days ago, found this lovely Hector/Paris vid; was so lovely that I almost cried. Very appropriate choice of song too. The Calling's "For You".

Weepy stuff. Sob. Wibble.

Fave parts of the vid are when the second line of the song comes on: "I am justice" and it's accompanied by a shot of Hector; beautifully appropriate. Wibble.

And the part where Hector and Paris are riding back towards the city gates after the Paris vs Menelaus duel (really, should we even call it a duel? More like an ass-kicking) and Hector tells him to get inside and then he calls out to the archers, but coz all the sound in the clips is cut out and dubbed over with the lovely song, Hector's yelling coincides with the moment where the singer sings a loud, simple "For you", and it's followed by the shot of the whole Greek army starting their charge and it's just wonderful. Sigh. Bigger wibble.

It's almost like saying that he's only fighting it (the war, I mean) for Paris, y'know? That's what that scene transition in the vid looks like to me. 'Tis most lovely. Wibble.

And the two occasions in the vid where the lyrics go "You are the light that shines the way" and it shows Paris' face... Sigh, wibble, melty puddle of Gerri-goo.

And the end where um, Hector dies, well.

We all know my reaction to that already...

*flat-out wibbling and moaning and sobbing*

Well, this is faintly amusing... :)

Orlando Auction by sidhe_elf
Name:
Date of auction:	August 13, 2010
Amount you spent:	$876,033,996
Who you bought:	Orlando Bloom
Bonus accessory:	A bottle of olive oil
How it ended:	It never ends: you're with him for life.
Created with the ORIGINAL MemeGen!

Interesting, isn't it? LOL. August 13 2010.. you don't say. Not too long after my 25th birthday, that date is... :P Haha....

Strange thing is, I entered "Gerri" first and I got.. well, what you see above: Orlando Bloom (hehe :P), but when I entered "Geraldine" just for fun to see if the result would be different, I get Paris.

Hm. Doesn't matter; I liked Paris' hair. I mean, Orlando Bloom's hair for Paris. Lovely hair. And he's so babiable. :P And who cares if he's a bloody coward? Between me and his other brothers we'll teach the kid to grow some balls...

*Falls off her chair laughing at how ridiculous she sounds*

Well, well, guess what I saw in yesterday's paper's Life! section. 'Twas most amusing, I assure you.

There was this small column right at the back of the section, and it was about how Orlando Bloom had no chest hair, so Ridley Scott was making him wear fake hair on his chest to make him look more manly for his role in Kingdom of Heaven, LOL....

Tickled me pink, that one did. :D

It's like in the week that Troy was released, there was this article on the actors in the paper as well, and it mentioned "the three lead hunks, Brad Pitt and Eric Bana and Orlando Bloom" or well, they said something to that extent, but I remember the word "hunks" very clearly, and I burst out laughing coz does Orlando Bloom look like a "hunk" to you??

Haha...

Nah, he's not a hunk, he's too slender to be a "hunk"! He's just an adorable, lovely little femme-boy, hahaha....

Not that he's just good for looking at; he can act, sure he can. No sarcasm there. I'm not one to criticise since I can't act, although I can lie pretty well. :P

And, see, the reason why I like these adorable little boys, I think, might be coz I'm a Cancer. Cancers are supposed to have very strong maternal instincts, so I think I'm just looking for someone to baby, haha.

And well, since I can't baby Orlando Bloom, I just sit back and watch other people baby him and then gush over the squealworthily-cute spectacle that it makes. :D :D

I can't help it; Orlando Bloom is almost too adorable to be true, haha. :P

Oh, and I've found music for my blog! Like it? I loved it when it was still playing on the Troy official flash site, but pity that it's not there anymore. It's been replaced with boring old-Hollywood-1960s-epic kinda music. :(

And shh... the music's actually snatched off someone else's site; I was SHOCKED as all hell when I went on that site and suddenly the music started playing and I was like, "what the hell? WHICH WINDOW IS IT COMING FROM?!?!?" :P

So, I found the window, and I read the source code for the page, and after a wee bit of trial and error, voila! I got it!

I've got the sound file itself on my com now, so I'll upload it onto my own site (just into the file manager, I think) soon and then I'll source the music from there. Coz I feel very bad hotlinking it from someone's else's site... :P

Oh, and in other news, apparently last week, my poem "Shrift" was in the Poet Sanctuary's Spotlight column... and I didn't even know!! Such a shame... I would've loved to see it in there, but well, it still has about 20 reviews right now, and that's still much to thank for!! :D

All right, this is going to be really irrelevant, but I just had to post, coz I just saw this clip of Eric Bana doing an impression of Orlando Bloom, and y'know, when I said before that I just couldn't imagine Eric Bana as a comic, well, I take that back, coz his impression of Orlando Bloom was just damn accurate and so goddamn funny, good LORD...

"...like a painting of my head, on the back of an Air New Zealand plane; I couldn't believe it!"

*Falls off chair and dies laughing*

Oh, and I quote: "Hot young thing, Orlando Bloom."

Haha.

Hey, he (Eric Bana) said that, not me.

Not that I disagree. :P

I GOT INTO NUS!!!

Well, yeah, I did. Haha. Checked my email last night, and as of 12 mn this morning (morning/night??) I knew that I was accepted into FASS, haha...

Was so happy; my mum made me call my aunts and tell them immediately, and after that I messaged Pam, and we both came to a strange conclusion over the course of our messaging conversation: we both don't know any other girls who've been accepted to NUS.

Strange, no?

We're talking about girls here, coz well, all the guys in our year will only be entering NUS when we're about to leave it; in two years time! So far, total tally for guys accepted is four: John, Kevin and Wai Lun were accepted into FASS too, and Wei Jian got into engineering, but apparently John turned down NUS' offer coz SMU gave him the course that he actually wanted; well, good for him, anyway. :) All this is starting to make me wonder where we're all gonna be in ten years time or so.

*shrugs*

Oh well. This solves a lot of my problems, haha... :D Was damn worried that I'd have to go to an arts school in the UK (not that that's a problem; I'd love to go to an arts school) but I wouldn't have the finances for it so I'd be at a dead end!!

Yes, anyway, I'm damn happy, haha.

And just last night, I had curry for dinner; I hate anything spicy coz I don't see the point of making yourself suffer while you're supposed to be fulfilling a basic need (eating)-- see, another point to prove that humans are naturally masochistic! But I didn't have a choice, coz all there was was curry.. oh well. Anyway, it wasn't half-bad; it tasted nice, but my tongue and throat were smouldering away by the time I'd finished dinner.

Right, and my point is, I was thinking, what is it about chilli and ginger and anything spicy that makes us feel the spiciness? I mean, spicy stuff makes you feel like your tongue's sorta on fire, yeah? So what is it that the chilli does to make you feel that way? Does it increase the temperature of your tongue or something?

Logically, this doesn't make sense, coz that'd mean that if you put chilli seeds (coz that's where the spiciness comes from; the seeds, mainly, not the whole chilli) on paper, it'd raise the temperature of the paper and it'd catch fire. Interesting idea, but not logical.

So, I finally came to the conclusion, after MANY years of pondering this question, that what chilli seeds do, is that they inflame the taste buds on the tongue!

Yes sirree, that's it! They inflame the taste buds, so they cause this unpleasant (or pleasant for some people??) burning sensation, which we human beings call spicy!!

And that in itself is strange; we call a burning sensation "spicy"-- language is never short of synonyms, is it?

And Gerri is also happy because today, she has finally finished her first "Troy" wallpaper! Yay!

It's a Hector and Paris one, haha.

No, note the use of "and". "Hector AND Paris", not "Hector/Paris". I'm not that far into slash yet, altho, hey, why not? :D

It's just that I don't think that any of the Troy pics of the two of them that I've seen really lend themselves towards slashing. Or maybe I should go look for more piccies.

Ah well.

All right, shall be off now. :)

Just got back from concert; WHEE!!!!!!!! :D

God, that was FUN; I wasn't even anxious and nervous like I usually am before a performance; maybe it's coz this time I was only performing two songs instead of an entire repertoire, haha....

Oh, but people, there were so many people that I knew who came to watch us! My Gerri twin came to watch, and Karen too! Oh, and when it was over, I came downstairs to look for my sis, and I saw Miss Fernandez and her husband! And Soon Aik and Dawn were there, and John and Wei Jian came too, and when I was leaving, I saw Wai Lun with John; almost didn't recognise Wai Lun at first, man; I haven't seen him for so long! :D

Sadly, Wai Lun said that he only arrived after interval, which means that he missed our performance! And that means that he was only left with the boring old choir and the combined band and choir piece finale... :(

Still find choir as boring as usual; even the guitar club was better than them tonight, man! Mostly coz their soloist; some guy called Anson, I think; was really good-- played like a pro, man. As for the song that the whole guitar club performed together, well... the group songs still don't do it for me. I think it has something to do with the fact that everyone seems to be playing more or less the same thing, while in band there're melody players and counter-melody and harmonics and everything; band has a fuller sound that way, and guitar just doesn't seem to be able to cut it.

Nearly died playing Appalachian Overture; oh, but Phantom of the Opera was good... was lovely; I had fun on that one!! :D

Haha... we actually had a sorta false start on Phantom; the power for the synthesiser went off, so before we got to bar 8, Alvin stopped us and explained to the audience that the power for the synthesiser had gone off; poor Jacqueline was so embarrassed when Alvin actually pointed her out. But her solo later when beautifully; everyone loved it, they clapped and everything; she played a few wrong notes, but they actually didn't sound too far off, so you wouldn't know that they were wrong unless you were looking for it or unless you knew how exactly it was supposed to sound.

And Viknesh was great on his solo, man! And his sisters really look a lot like him!! And Ming Li's brother looks like Kevin, haha!! Some of the alumni people spotted him when people were just getting seated before the concert started, and Wei Seng kept on for about half an hour, annoying Kevin by saying that the kid was Kevin's brother, haha... but it was pretty freaky; Ming Li's brother really did look like Kevin, man! Like a younger version of Kevin!

Was so fun; don't think I've ever enjoyed myself at a concert more, haha... :D

And in other news, Gerri is becoming obsessed with Eric Bana/Orlando Bloom slash, coz those two are just absolutely fetching, and putting the two of them together in any way is just damn hot. :P

So.. this is kinda leading towards me leaning towards Hector/Paris incest Troy slash.... :P Haha... yes, Gerri is a poor, sick, sad child indeed. :P

Oh, but they do look so cute together, like in all the Cannes pics where it looks like Orlando Bloom's being babied by Eric Bana; awww, that's just so *cuuute*..... :D

All righty.... Gerri is still giddily happy after concert, so off she shall go.. to do.. um. Something. To amuse herself.

Hm.

Well, all right, back to the slash fics, I suppose... :P

Haven't blogged for days... more than a week, I think. Not that nothing exciting's happened or anything, but I was just too lazy to blog. :P

Anyway, performance is tomorrow... Phantom is okay, but Appalachian still sucks. Especially the Coda bit. Eugh.

And I still need to find myself a pair of black pants! ARGH!! Why does this ALWAYS happen to me before performance?!?

Oh, and the Miss Universe pagaent was on on Wednesday night, and Australia won!! Ha, I was so happy when USA had to settle for 1st runner-up, haha....

Oh, but Miss Australia looks like Diane Kruger from some angles.... it's scary. And Miss USA had to be the most BORING person I'd ever seen in a beauty pageant; she was just blond and had this sweet, wholesome looking face, and-- gah, well, she just looked so boring!!

Oh, and Miss Paraguay had LOVELY eyes. Beautiful. And no, it had nothing to do with the eyeshadow. But her blue eyeshadow did go very nicely with her eyes. And Miss Jamaica had a really nice, smooth, sorta low, sexy kinda voice. :D No, really, I loved her voice! :D

Argh... spend all this time looking at pretty women and making myself feel inadequate; yes, human beings are naturally masochistic; this is another point to prove my theory. Hey, if I get to do Psychology, maybe my thesis for my Masters will be on the masochistic inclinations of the human race. :D