Power went off in the office, thus, having to leave work early today.

So happy, so very happy. Currently eating scrambled eggs & cheese with sausages. So delicious.

Let the fanfic reading begin!

Job – Much to do and much to learn, I think I have finally got into the right frame of mind to tackle the new job the way it is meant to be tackled. Hard to say just how well I can do this till the major project is complete in August. In the other area of my job I have reached a level of Zen that extinguishes my hatred for the human race. This is a good thing because for awhile there before I was so bitter that I’d happily watch every single person I came in contact with drowns in a river of pollution and hatred. But yes, Zen.

Fandom – mostly too tired to keep up with or talk about in great details. Have been reading novels (sci-fi, when you are well written you are truly amazing), watching Korean films and re-playing FF12 because sometime you miss the simple things in life. Avoiding spoilers for the last episodes of Supernatural because I rather not know, and I’m pretty sure the season finale will leave my heart in shred and me bawling my eyes, or numb. I’m not sure which is worse.

Other – oh gods, house-hunting is both frustrating and exhilarating. I had to forcefully talk myself out of buying a $2,000 couch, because you know, I haven’t GOT the place yet, thus, not actually having the storage capacity for the said couch. But wow, the couch was beautiful, and there was this coffee table that reminded me of a prop-set from Space Odyssey, I WANTED it so badly. And the READING chair, OMFG! The reading chair/circular-seating-furniture of awesomeness was beautiful, but it was $1,000!

Anyways, that’s about it, hopefully I’ll actually have something insightful to say next time.

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Oh, you fucktards. As if the world doesn't have enough politicians and policy makers who does fuck all but play with their dicks. Why can't common sense and logic be readily available?

Also, explanation about Google Bombing.

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HELLO INTERNET! I have MISSED YOU!

OMFG! perseid! Yoochun NAILS the high note!



I HATE traveling for work. Missed my home so very much. So good to be back.

A legend about the Li family is that those who are the directly descended from rebel Emperor Zhuanzu have a genetic trait noticeable in their feet. The last toe on each foot would be pointing inward a little rather than being straight like the rest of the toes. In addition, the nail on this foot has two sections, with one section appearing to override the other. This distinguishes the "true" Li's from the other families with the name as they were born with perfect feet.

- Wikipedia, I love you.

AHAHAHAHA! OMFG! My little toe is exactly like that. Hell, I have to remove the top section off with a knife, clippers and a real tough file.

ETA: Yes, my surname is Li (李).

Fuck. The toll from the fires has just reached 66.

Australia, what the fuck? QLD is flooded, half of its land is under water, and now VIC is burning down. Just what the hell?! Also, when will the fucking idiots realise that setting fires in AUSTRALIA in SUMMER is beyond stupid. Gods, I hope they get charged with murder, this shit cannot be scaled back to arson.

Death toll of 66 people, and expected to rise. Just fuck.

ETA: 76. I don't even know what to say.

ETA 2: 84. Fuck.

ETA 3: Over 2000 hectares of land gone, 108 deaths and still counting. Houses, livestock for farmers and wildlife all gone.

I have a work colleague who is very spiritual and is a true believer of the human spirit and reincarnation. It is always interesting and enlightening talking to her because while I may not believe in a god or an afterlife I do not deny that there is something bigger than us out there in the universe. Just because I can't understand it or see it doesn't mean it isn't there, so I respect her. Anyways, yesterday she told me about a dream she had of me in one of my past lives. She said that I was a man fighting in a war, trying to protect my child, and you know I got a good kick out of it. The way I figure if I had a past life, fighting for what I believe in and protecting my child is a pretty good way to live.

Klingon Criminal Robs Two 7-Elevens In Colorado.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA! OMFG! I needed this. AHAHAHAHA!

Colorado Springs police are looking for a man who hit two 7-Eleven convenience stores early Wednesday, armed with a Klingon sword. The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white man in his 20s, wearing a black jacket, blue jeans and wearing a black mask, entered the store with a weapon the clerk recognized from the Star Trek TV series.

The robber demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.

A bat'leth?! AHAHAHAHA!

Also, the following makes me giggle.

Two Men and a Dalek Mask Arrested in Weird Ex-Girlfriend Kidnapping Plot

Rawson, 21, claimed he thought Wakefield was joking until he turned up with the £40 helmet he had bought at Woolworths, along with night vision goggles, handcuffs, an air pistol, a balaclava, a boiler suit and a knife block . . . The court was told that Rawson was meant to go to the woman's home in Newark, Nottinghamshire, hold the knife to her throat, then bundle her into the boot of a car and take her to the woods.

But after waiting outside her home twice, Rawson abandoned the plan. On the first occasion, he ran away after he was "spooked" by a cat. The second time he ran off after being caught in the glare of an approaching car's headlights, the court heard.

A CAT! AHAHAHAHA! A CAT!

Today (well technically yesterday) was 42 DEGREES CELCIUS (that's 104 DEGREE FARENHEIT)! Of course it would be on this day that some idiot would start a fire in King's Park, which destroyed over 20 hectares worth of bush land. The Old Swan Brewery luxury apartments were evacuated, dude, the fire reached the boatshed on Mounts Bay Road. That's practically next door to UWA.

Hell, if that wasn't bad enough, arsonists has been setting fires around WA; Two Rocks, Bridgetown, and others. Just, WTF?!

Oh, and let's not forget the fire scare that happened at the Perth International Airport yesterday that was caused by a cigarette butt, yes, a CIGARETTE BUTT! And because it is Perth, there were NO contingency plans to cope with incoming planes during an evacuation. *HEADDEASK*.

Oh gods I need the new Supernatural episode.

isoHunt Sues the CRIA to Legalize BitTorrent Sites.

Danish ISPs Reject Anti-Piracy Proposals.

Study Says Intellectual Property System Should Die.

Just go to TorrentFreak. It is a fascinating place to spend some time in.

Oh, and Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account was hacked by 4chan. Awesome.

Yes, it is an invasion of privacy, but there is two issues here. Palin broke the law by using her private email account for government correspondance. I'm curious whether they will be able to find the original hacker, and if they do, what kind of fallout will there be.

Swedes Massively Protest Wiretap Law.

In June the Swedish parliament passed a controversial surveillance law that gives authorities a mandate to read all email and listen in on all phone calls without warrant or court order. In response to the law, The Pirate Party organized rallies, bloggers and journalists turned into activists, and even Google decided to relocate their servers.

The whole article makes me squee in GLEE.

Australia now world's fattest nation.

This really does make you think. I'm not obese, though I'm definitely on the heavy side for my height, and at one point my weight crossed into the field of obesity, except I was losing lengths from my waist. The power of exercise; look slimmer and feel fitter without losing weight, however, since I stopped jogging and doing weights I've lost a bit of my muscle tone, and while I have lost weight I just feel more flabby than healthy. I think it may be time to pick up exercising again, or at the very least start doing weights again.

The only thing I’m really worried about is that this report will be used as an excuse for the marketing industry to push harder for the anorexic look. Or that teenager who suffers from eating disorders decides to take this as a validation of not eating. After all, 1 in 5 female students are estimated to be bulimic with anorexia nervosa the third most common chronic illness for teenage girls in Australia.

They need to release the report for this to the public. The ratio of men and women, by what percentile are they overweight by, and there are a million and one thing that needs to be released except they are hand waving it. Grrr.

Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves the right to terminate your license).

The Associated Press (i.e. rich MEDIA corporate dicks) is pushing for stronger IP laws, attempting to criminalise consumers and want to charge anyone who quotes more than 5 words from a news article.

Fuck you and your association; I hope you all catch syphilis.

On the life front - a friend of mine was out at a pub with a group of her girlfriends. All of their drinks were spiked. There have been hospital visits, police visits, and possibly long lasting effects. Nothing can be determined until the blood works come back and the doctors can figure out what they were spiked with.

Shit like this makes me want to put my default setting when meeting male of the species to Hate until proven otherwise. Considering the statistics on murder, rape and other forms of assaults committed by men against women I'm thinking it is a pretty good default setting. Hell, it is the smart setting.

'Horror frog' breaks own bones to produce claws - Wolverine!! Article found by issen4.

Aussies announce Australian Top Gear hosts, where's ours? Link via deathwombat, and also He's gonna need a paperclip, an elastic band and some gum. MacGuyver, WHY?

A woman protected her new born baby using her own body as a shield against the falling debris of her house. The baby was saved but the mother had long died. They found her mobile phone wrapped up with the baby. It had one message that wasn't sent.

"Child, if you survive this, know that your mother loves you."

A ten month old child was found under the corpse of her parents. They protected their child using their own bodies.

A school teacher ran back into a collapsing school to save 3 children. The building collapsed before he could reach them.

A 16-yr-old girl refuses to leave the danger zone with her parents. She and her one remaining classmate will not leave until all the bodies of their class are recovered.

The stories continue on and on.

nekomancy compiled a list of places you can make donations to assist those in need in the aftermath of the Sichuan Earthquake.

To all the Australians on my flist, please make a donation to the China Sichuan Earthquake Appeal 2008. A minimum of $5.00 is required.

To the Americans on my flist, please make a donation to the CHINA EARTHQUAKE RELIEF. A minimum of $10.00 is required.

You can donate as much or as little as you want. Remember, under both Australian and American Taxation laws there is a tax deduction or tax exemption when it comes to donating to a charity.

So, please take the time and make a donation. Thank you.

The earthquake that occurred on Monday in the south-west province of China was a magnitude of 7.9. Current death toll is 15,000 but there are approximately 40,000 missing and I doubt many of them will be alive when they are found.

China’s One Child policy means that whole generations are now dead. News of students being buried under the wreckage of primary schools, middle schools, and high schools with a number of 2,000 attached to it means that 2,000 families have lost their only child.

My parents know people who live in the south-west province, and honestly speaking I don’t have the guts to ask them if they have managed to get in contact with them. All I can think about is how thankful I am that my extended family lives in the far north of China.

Rape Is Not a Crime? Who Knew?.

I swear if one more person says she deserved it, or she should have, or it is her own fault I will go for their fucking face and their fucking genitalia with a sharp object. Yes, this will include any of my guy friends who open their fucking mouths without thinking.

Murder victims are not given the same level of crap as rape victims. It is never the fault of the murder victim even if the victim chose to walk home by him/herself, it is never their fault when they are in bad part of town, and it is never their fault for living alone. But by the gods if a 16-yr-old-girl was drunk and raped it is of course all her own fault. Oh no, it couldn’t possibly be the fault of these upstanding young men who didn’t do anything by got her drunk and then gang-raped her. Fuck you dickheads, I hope to gods someone cut off your dicks.

There is no gender equality, and hence I’m a feminist.