154. Pictures

Since Magnar kindly labeled this folder "Up for deletion" on our Dropbox account.

*Be right back, I go plaster my torn heart first

I thought it would be only smart to save what I can as fast as I can because I think Magnar does not appreciate 1000 pictures of me filling up all the space on the Dropbox.

In all fairness, it really is only pictures of me me me me me me me and me. But he needs to learn, for every picture of me that gets remove, I will only take 2 more. *tee hee!

Question of the day : Should I try an make some eclairs?

153. Music Plug

Music Plug from the past. :)

Savage Garden, my less than demonic sister favorite band.

I wonder where they are these days? I read that Darren Hayes is currently residing in London and Daniel no one knows.

Don't you wonder where some bands are these days?
Like, 911 or Westlife or Blue! Remember those boy bands? Where are they these days?
Do they have day jobs at McDonalds or do they run their own music empire?

I Don't Know You Anymore, Savage Garden

Two Beds and A Coffee Machine, Savage Garden

Yay! I figured out how to embed Youtube videos. :) *Claps self, for being such a cute idiot.

152. Christmas wishes.

Everyone loves a bit of piano. Ain't Magnar's bunny cute? <3 That is the also the blue scarf I am looking for! Magnar look! 

Here is what I told Magnar what I want as a present this year. More like Christmas wish, with a bit of twist.

This year for Christmas, I wish Magnar would teach me how to play a complete song on the piano.

And as for presents, I also want reindeers, cows, a sack of potato chips, jelly babies, Mr.Darcy and him.

*Hee.

*smacks self, Blog is not a place to be mushy. Repeat a hundred times over.

But, learning to play a song is also what I really want.

Honestly, I think sometimes, there is nothing is more calming then the sound of piano music. I could listen for days the exact same song and still have it on repeat 2 weeks later. I am such a sucker for this kind of things.

Now, considering, I might need to ask the same Christmas present from everyone that plays the piano and as an exchange, I can teach you some conversational Asian languages! :)

Sounds like a good idea if you ask me. I am relatively rather broke for too many gifts anyways.

Now, anyways, see how I fully emphasize a complete song.

So, lately (well, since forever really)

I have loved Enya and her piano music thinggymajiggy. It's an obsession. I listen to it everyday without fail before bedtime. So, it's a clear choice I would love to learn to play one of her song.

In fact, it is playing right now and I refuse to go sleep yet because I just found a hundred Youtube links of people playing all my favorite songs.

If you are into this kind of things too, you have got to check this out.

My top 3 favorite songs from Enya, Piano versions

(Somehow, Blogger is being anal and refuses to let me upload even though I edited HTML, wtf?)

Guess you will have to do with just clicking them. These are my most recently viewed, there might be a few more better pianist out there!

#1. Oriel Window, Enya.

#2. China Roses, Enya

#3. Ebudae, Enya

Another picture of the cute bunny and the scarf I lost!

That is the other scarf I lost today :(

Okay, no.. this post is not about how I lose every scarf I own. It was just that it was from the same album. So I had to reminisce my lost scarfs and how much money it is going to cost me for my carelessness. Le sigh*

I realize my already really bad vocabulary decreases a hundred folds the moment we are over 1 am. Fml.

151. December already?

So, it is now December already. Omg!

Can you really believe it?

2009 is coming to an end. Already?

I don't want to get nostalgic yet, I can keep that for my New Year's speech instead. *cough

I took a trip to Oslo earlier today with Munchkin even though I made a self vow that I will not see him for a week! It's a personal thing. Hard to explain. Basically, he is having his mocks now, so I thought it would be best I didn't "distract" him further.

I get too engulfed in doing random shitzzz, that by the time we realize what time it is, its usually time to head home. I hate how time flies!

But today is Day 2. The day I failed.

Magnar is like smoking, you cannot stop. And since I don't smoke, he is a little bit like my personal addiction. *Note to self : Blog is not a place for you to be mushy Lisa! Learn already!

*Okay, I stop now.

Random picture on train that I actually really like!

Remember how I say Norway is set to go for Christmas, this is how the main street of Karl Johan looks like during Christmas time :)

Pretty,no?

(I was contemplating on being in the pictures too, but today is such a Bad Outfit Day *shy)

Had to upload all 3 pictures to do justice to Magnar's photography seeing that he actually waited till the sun set a little bit to get the picture of the lights and all. 

*Sigh, people with DSLR. They stop learning to just Point-and-shoot.

Okay, tired already. And my Farmville farm needs harvesting.

I'll blog more tomorrow! :)

150. Life really is fragile

Life is really fragile, but will I ever really know it?

http://sinober.blogg.no

(Use Google translate if you need to understand her)

I've been reading almost every post Regine made, and I thought I shared some thoughts.

That blog evoked so many emotions, I don't know how to begin.

I am not trying to sympathized her or anything (okay, sympathized is not a good word) but, you understand. I don't think she wants sympathy, she wants people to hear her story.

The more I read her story, the more it made me feel, selfish.

Selfish that I usually only think about my own problems, which really is absolutely insignificant to what so many people out there are having to go through. As Marius said, when we were 18, did we even do anything significant to remember? Right there, did we just wasted our precious life away?

And above all that, I know that after reading this blog, in a few days, hours even. I'll go back to being my old selfish self. It is not like I have never heard of stories like this before. I have. We all have.

What makes this story any different?

Sure, it hurts reading it now, but will it still hurt next week when we are then again surrounded by our loved ones, happily enjoying the warm sunshine.

Did we change after reading all the previous blogs/movies/what-nots about other people's suffering?

No, not really.

If you did, what did you do? Did you donate more money to cancer research?

Do you really think that is enough?

What do you suggest I do?

Cry for her being? Do you really think she wants us to that for her?

If you could trade your life for hers, would you?

I believe now, that truth is.. we are selfish people, and we will probably die selfish too.

I know I sound negative right now, but I guess I am little bit disappointed at myself. Disappointed that I can only watch and read as her life gets much worse by the day. All I can do is watch as her world crumbles and falls apart. There is nothing more I can do.

I do know now, that sometimes I really need to count my blessings. Because I am so selfish, and I always want more more more from life. I always forget to look back and see, how I do have it quite good.

I don't see how it takes a dying girls perspective for me to understand how fragile life really is. I should stop wanting more, and begin... living.

We all really need to begin living. For we just might never know. :(

(Irony is : 2 minutes before I got to that link, I was just about to complain about how my day has been. That is definitely not happening today at least)

149. Blogs worth checking out.

Okay, I really am starting to think I should start a new tag for blogs I think is definitely worth checking out.

Today's category, Norwegian blogs worth checking out. And also, a tool that might come in useful.

http://translate.google.com/

 http://sinober.blogg.no/

Marius linked me to this. Its about an 18 year old girl who basically has cancer and might not live to see Christmas. Need I say more? :(

All her stories are so heartbreaking. At times I wonder how can I possibly be so selfish. :(

http://www.voe.blogg.no/

I am contemplating on not linking you to Voe, she is the most read Norwegian blogger according to www.blogglisten.no, but her latest post on the Christmas spirit at her house is so different from Regine's, I feel it is almost inappropriate. But, yeah.

148.1st Advent

Yesterday was actually quite interesting. First I met up with Magnar then we headed to Oslo for a walk along the pier? Basically we started walking from Skøyen station all the way back to Aker Bryggae along the waterside.

That took us about an hour then we stopped at the Christmas Market at Aker Bryggae which is always fun to go see if ever you are in Norway during the Christmas season. They sell loads of knick knack items that you could just stroll and look at for hours.

Well, one could do that... if it wasn't freezing.

Then we headed back to Lillestrøm and watched the Christmas Lights, get light up marking the 1st advent?

Since Lillestrøm is a much bigger (such an understatement) city then Bodung is, the streets were filled with people! And honestly I loved it. Usually I hate crowds, but since everyone was in such a warm and cozy Christmassy mood with loads of kids running about, adults being calm and singing, people mingling on the streets, everyones happy. I loved it.

Now, I understand why Christmas is so special.

And as for the lighting of the street, it really isn't as dramatic as I have hoped for.

Very un-glam, I am sure. In my defense, it had been a long day!

Going to make Magnar go take another picture of me and the Christmas tree when I look much nicer!

Wait for it! :)

147. Untitled

Before I bombard you with horrible looking pictures of me and how I 'celebrated' my 1st advent day, I should blog about something quite interesting. Something "ranty" but yet important to me.

Magnar made a comment about how I always blog and tweet really happy things on my blog and on Twitter, etc and when (according to him) I am not always that jolly and is also rather moody at times.

That is true, but I will have to take that one up again sometime later.

Well, I gave that comment a little thought to myself, and how omfgwtfbbqdvd he was right! I am moody. I throw tantrums, I have mood swings, I am bitchy, I am slutty, just like everyone else.

So, as I may posts up loads of happy pictures of me and blog a lot random crap, but truthfully... how many of you readers actually know me? Have actually even spent time getting to know me? Truth is, very few, close to none.

I don't know half you strangers and occasionally I wonder why are you here to begin with? My life can't be that interesting. But you are still here, and some even keep coming back. And honestly, I quite like that, that is why I keep doing this.

I have always known that my blog doesn't always give me the necessary privacy I need. I blog because, I want to, I like ranting and going on and on about things. I like writing things down for the sake of writing it. It could be that none of the things I write here might even be true, I might be a 50 year old, pedophile, kidnapper for all you know. :)

And thus, because of the relationship distance between you and me is still not woven properly, I cannot for the life in me start blogging about what I truly feel at times. It has always been in me to trust, nobody.
(It is a working process this, but I think I am getting there) 

I read this quote somewhere, sometime. It was about, if I had a deepest darkest secret, and then I end up telling someone else about it. Why should I then be mad at the other person, for even I myself can't keep it a secret to begin with.

Moreover, Sometimes blogging is a show. When the curtain falls, what goes on backstage is not for the audience to see. I write as much as I want to let the world see, and the rest is not for me to present.

So once and for all, you don't know me. You don't know the first thing about me and whatever I write here really, might or might not even be true. I might be a pathological liar for all you know.

Assume that I am a fake and then assume nothing at all.

Now, lets look at cute things instead okay!

I go sleep now and shall blog about how I celebrated my 1st advent day thing tomorrow!

Goodnight all.

146. Blog reccomendations

So, I thought maybe it is nice to recommend even more blogs I read.

The last time I recommended a blog were for two Fashion Blogs I read,

This time around, it's Malaysian bloggers I think is worth checking out. 

*Since I don't know if I should steal other peoples pictures without permission (and I can't be bothered asking for it either, I shall just quote from them, okay?)

"I could see all of the guys going to get drinks for their girlfriends, and those girlfriends holding their boyfriends’ coats as they waited. there was this one couple right in front of me — the guy kept twirling his girlfriend’s hair around his fingers, and many times he would lean down and press his face into her hair (it was so golden and soft-looking). she smiled much. i wondered if she was happy."

"i giggled and apologized for being mean. he smiled, kissed me, and we fell asleep holding hands. it’s always like that. it’s always about me being mean for the sake of fun and glittery excitement, while he just kisses me and waits patiently until i’m bored of the game du jour, and i return to him, pouting. but i like the fun and the excitement. i can’t give it up, no matter what month of the year it is. there is a pace, and i wanted him to run with me too"

Quotes from Lim Su-Ann, www.quaintly.net

She doesn't update very often, probably quite busy studying over at Columbia but when she does, all her updates have got an "essence" in them. They are all so eloquently written and occasionally hits all the sore spots that you don't want to remember. :)

"Sentuh bab agama obviously nak lelaki yang beragama kuat (dalam doa selepas sembahyang selalu Ya Allah kau temukanlah aku jodoh dengan lelaki yang beragama, berharta, bijaksana dan rupawan). Rupawan, ish sungguh gatal. Berharta, ini ustazah yang suruh. Bijaksana, for obvious reason."

"I tak suka sweet talker yang dengan semua perempuan dia smooth gila sampai bila dengan yang dia betul-betul sayang pun tiada beza"

Quotes from Hanis Zalikha, www.inibelogsaya.blogspot.com

This blog just spells HILARIOUS. I love it! <3

She blogs about everything random and adds such a touch of sarcasm and herself in it. Unfortunately for some of you, she usually blogs in Malay but there are occasional English posts.She is definitely worth checking out if you want something different! :) 


I love how Hanis keeps it real, she is not trying to be anything else but herself. She is awesome! 

Okay, I can go on and recommend 100 more blogs, but I think 2 will do for now. I got to go back to my Guacamole and that glass of wine outside. Shall blog later!

So, do you have any recommendations for blogs I should check out too?

145. Pictures

Retard picture! :)

Oh, don't I just look excited!

:)

Okay, back to my ranting session. I should name this blog "Come and rant with me" instead sometime.

Today was my uncle's birthday, and he turned... 29 (so he claims)

So, For this to be his birthday it isn't very "happening" at all. Right now all of us are sitting in the hall watching some norwegian comedy, Karl & Co. which isn't very funny at all if you ask me, but my uncle absolutely loves it. Guess it is the old people's humor.

And since it is his birthday, he does get the Veto vote! :)

Earlier today for his Birthday, we all headed out to Egon, Lillestrøm for some dinner and drinks and to put it nicely and simply, the food blatantly sucks.

Absolutely totally most definitely not recommended at all.

Can't get over the clarity, honey.

So, yeah. That was my day today. :)

How has yours been?

Music plug for today : Coeur de Pirate

http://www.myspace.com/coeurdepirate

I recommend Comme des enfants and Francis.

How can you resist her French charm right? <3