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Post by Phoenix on Feb 25, 2009 10:05:08 GMT -5
I have no highlight - well other than reading my book which is very interesting. Well if you like Tony Curtis it is I guess otherwise it's probably a bit boring.
Seriously.. I considered smacking my flatmates heads in with the fire extinguisher this morning. I'm following my mothers advice of not cleaning the kitchen and leaving it for them.I got the whole "Victoria.. they are taking the mickey. They know you will do it so leave it all for you to do" lecture. And I decided she is right. They are taking the darn mickey. Exams and revision is not an excuse not to clean your darn house. I'm sorry but its really not. I have a workload the size of Mount Everest and I still make the time for basic hygiene. So I'm leaving it - I have the feeling it won't get done though but oh well.Seriously you guys probably think I'm very anal about it or whatever.. but I'm really not. I'm just used to people displaying common courtesy is all. Its really bad manners not to clean up after yourself when you share a house irrespective of whether you're a student or not. My flatmates actually used that as an excuse to be messy.. I was like maybe in Greece/Canada/Italy it is buddy but you're in the U.K. now. Get cleaning. We do things properly here. Wow.. I feel much better for ranting - even if it is the same thing Im ranting about every darn day! My stress levels are seriously peaking on the standards of a very high thing!
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 24, 2009 6:06:57 GMT -5
Erm.. reading about an amazingly clever girl who won University Challenge. Background to it being that - the poor girl has had to endure various comments about her being a snob, ugly, unpopular etc.. all because she is intelligent. It's a very sad thing when as a nation we value ignorance and beauty over intelligence. Lord knows I would much rather be clever than beautiful. I dunno...its like the U.K. loves a woman called Jade Goody at the moment - simply because she is dying of cancer at 27. Now that is all very sad don't get me wrong but she made herself famous based off ignorance - yep she is the one that caused the whole "racist Big Brother" scandal we had over here- and that's just an awful role model for children these days. Oh its fine if you are ignorant of others because Jade is famous so I can be too. And people who are intelligent, or even well read ( because intelligence is not necessarily brain power or whatever - are vilified for being intelligent or wanting to know things. Makes me angry...I mean I haven't put myself through years and years of grammar school and university just to have people think that I'm a snob because I want to make something of myself.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 22, 2009 15:03:54 GMT -5
Highlight.. erm not sure yet. My parents are apparently ringing me but as its now 8pm I'm getting a bit less with the excitement
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 20, 2009 6:33:43 GMT -5
^ Well yes. I do agree with that. I think some Eidos dude stated she was 3 years younger than James Bond - and he is ageless AFAIK. Unless they mean Daniel Craig who is 40 so she would be 37 but whatever...
I kinda think its easier in general to have ageless characters - especially if you plan to make the series long running - like for example there is only so long that RE can keep the same characters now. Granted they did themselves a favour in setting some of the games back in 1998 and I'm not sure when RE5 is set I think at least 2006?? But sooner or later the characters will have to be left behind/changed I reckon.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 20, 2009 6:28:28 GMT -5
Highlight... erm I'm meeting my friend in town and then perhaps going back to hers to watch a film, eat pizza and generally forget my dissertation exists
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 19, 2009 9:38:00 GMT -5
^ Exactly right. But we still there are these hardcore Core Design fans who believe Lara has been dead since the final Core Design game - but yet tell me "Well Core said her birthday is 1968 so she is 42 now". Ha.. she looks mid 30's at the oldest and her voice actress is 33. Seriously now - get over the fact Core got kicked off TR and move on.
I agree though it would be rather silly - especially as they have dated the games - Anniversary states 1996 at the beginning and her high tech gadgets in the newer ones date it to reasonably modern times. So its not like they can backtrack and maintain it is the 1970's or whatever.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 18, 2009 16:29:53 GMT -5
Chatting to my sister over MSN about possible cosplay ideas for our birthday night out in Easter. So handy having birthdays three days apart Currently we are thinking of dressing as the ladies from the Hellfire Club of X-Men. So I will be Emma Frost, my sister will be Selene and if my friend Lisa comes along she can be Maddy Pryor.. soo.. White Queen, Black Queen and erm.. Black Rook/Red Queen. Gonna have to make some slight costume amendments so we dont get arrested for being ladies of the night however .
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 18, 2009 4:27:32 GMT -5
^ You are exactly correct. That said - as its so ish at the moment as to how old she is I'm going by the age of her voice actress Keeley Hawes - and she is born in 1976 so.. sounds about right if you ask me. There was some mention of her being 19/20 in Anniversary so that would fit with my idea that she is 33/34 now... as Anniversary was set in 1996. But yes originally in TR1 she was about 28 I believe..which would place her at...42 now....if you follow the old Core Design dates. I think the new biography has no birth year which makes more sense really...
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 17, 2009 15:55:24 GMT -5
Happy b-day to Jill Valentine, too! (Feb 14th, 1975) Also Lara Croft's birthday too incidentally.. year is variable 1968 if you follow TR1-6 timelines.. and I dunno perhaps 1976/1977 if you follow the new ones.
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 17, 2009 5:03:37 GMT -5
Just went to the supermarket and managed to lock my pin for my cash card. Felt like a total fool.. until I remembered that you can unlock it yourself at a cash point. Yay! Went and did that and then it unlocked it - well I assume it did because the card transaction went through - so highlight of my day - rescuing myself from looking like a total div!
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 16, 2009 15:28:21 GMT -5
Highlight : I finally finished Chapter One of my dissertation! Yay! Well near enough.. am just adding something I was going to put in chapter 2 but it works better at the end of chapter one as William I introduced the court to England...rather than simply developing it as Henry II did.But yay!
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 16, 2009 15:27:09 GMT -5
Britney Spears : I Love Rock N Roll
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 16, 2009 4:37:50 GMT -5
Marilyn Monroe : I Wanna Be Loved By You
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 15, 2009 4:37:42 GMT -5
Carrie Underwood : I Ain't In Checotah Anymore
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Post by Phoenix on Feb 14, 2009 16:02:28 GMT -5
^ Oh.... ha ha. Its Jared Padelecki - who incidentally plays the younger brother. I looked up the listing on IMDB and I wonder if you mean Danielle Panabaker? She was the daughter in Shark if I remember correctly.
> Highlight : I just watched Night At The Museum which I love and adore. Totally brightened up my study day!
On a side note : I totally needn't have bothered cleaning the kitchen - my flatmate seems to have been baking.. oh yes. Flour is currently gracing our tabletops and the hob is once more black. Ugh. Sometimes I wonder why I bother! Also.. will Region 2 DVD's play in a Canadian laptop? My flatmate is Candian and I lent him some DVD's bout a week or so ago and even though he apparently doesn't want to watch one he is being rather "keep hold" of them both, and has given me neither of them back. And I want them back.. being that they are Xmas pressies I haven't had chance to watch yet and I lent them thinking he would watch them with his friend when she was here. I would knock on his door and ask for them but he is never in.Ah well.. way to sound like an obsessive battleaxe! Ha ha...still though I think its coz I'm used to my other two flatmates borrowing DVD's and returning them within 3 days...
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