It's Been A While...

Currently Listening To: Blue - All Rise

...since I listened to music from the 90's and the early 2000s!

I was inspired to check out the videos for all those 90s bands last night.
Sigh, the good old cheesy days.

I remember being a huge fan of Steps (anyone remember them?) and S Club 7 about like, more than ten years ago (omg can you believe it has been ten years and more??) It wasn't just them though, I think I was into every British group that came out at that time - Westlife (apparently they've covered Daughtry's What About Now and will be released sometime in November), Atomic Kitten, 5ive, M2M, Blue and a -forgotten- band called Point Break.

Ahh, the good old days.



Used to be obsessed with this video! They were pretty good dancers...
(wanted to post Steps' Say You'll Be Mine too but embedding not allowed)

I joined a S Club 7 contest once, where we had to design a logo for them and I actually won a CD! Still have it now, and I think I can remember most of the lyrics for all S Club 7 songs =D

They even had their own tv series, I remember watching it on TV back then. It was soooo cheesy, but I kept watching anyway. Anyone else watched that??

Found my first 'lyrics book' while hunting for my old CDs. Can't believe I wrote all those lyrics down! (Oh who am I kidding, I still do that. Think I have about a dozen books dedicated to lyrics...haha) I remember buying those Smash Hits magazines, and they weren't cheap. Should have kept them instead of throwing them away...


Girl Thing - Last One Standing

For some odd reason, I really loved this song. Even after all these years, I still like this song lol. The official video was fun! (Ripping off the Spice Girls though) Too bad they only had one hit...


Gosh I really miss those songs.
Cheesy or not, those songs were fun to listen to!
*goes off to listen to my old CDs*
=D

Fall '09 Watchlist

Currently Listening To: Kalafina - Fairytale

So it's like the new season for everything.
I have like, a ton of shows to watch seriously.
I know I can choose not to watch them, but then where's the fun?

Downloaded a few episodes of Glee so far, but have yet to even glance at it.
Eastwick looks interesting, but I doubt I'll be watching that anytime soon.
So I guess my main focus is on the existing shows, and even that I'm relying on Astro to show it soon! (Knowing them it's not gonna be soon)

Then there's the fall anime lineup.
Downloaded the first episodes of everything on my watchlist. *pokes list* ->
Have watched most of it too.
First impressions:
Kimi ni Todoke - It's quite interesting, so I guess I'll continue watching this. Shoujo stuff.
The Sacred Blacksmith - Oh god. Not impressed. Probably dropping it unless it gets more interesting.
Fairytail - Well, I like the manga so I'm definitely watching this. First episode is just...normal. Not good nor bad. Can't wait to hear Sayaka Ohara in this (Yuuko and Beatrice rocks so yeah!).
Kampfer - Surprisingly, the one with the cheesiest storyline is better than the rest. Just my opinion anyway. Watch only if you're interested in silly, gender-swapping stuff.
Armed Librarians - The Book of Bantorra - The title seems a little stuffy, but it's actually not bad. When I first went read through the titles, my thought was Sacred Blacksmith > Armed Librarians. I suppose looks are not the only things that are deceiving!
11 Eyes - Uh...kinda weird. And Daisuke Ono again. I swear, that dude is everywhere this year! Cute school uniforms, annoying female lead. Could be interesting I suppose, will keep an eye on this one. Get it? Eye? Haha.

Sigh, it sure looks like my 'currently watching' list is going to expand considerably.

Some Updates

Currently Listening To: Kalafina - Natsu no Ringo

• This semester's ending in less than 2 weeks.
  
• I have one more assignment left - a presentation actually. It's next week.
  
• My fingernails are too long and it's starting to get in the way of my typing. Not that my typing's any good to begin with.
  
• Exams in about a month. Boohoo =(
  
• I only have two papers to sit for this time. Woohoo!
  
• I think I lost weight...
  
• Not impressed with Alison Iraheta's (AI8 third runner up) new single.
  
• Last black screen of death - one week ago. Hope it's gone for good.
  
• Can't wait for tomorrow's episode of Umineko =)
  
• Will be having sushi for dinner.

Ill-fated

Currently Listening To: Kalafina - Oblivious

I seem to have really bad luck with electronic devices.

Take my laptop for example.

It's only about six months old? But I'm already encountering problems with it.

I can't pinpoint the exact problem, but it should have something to do with the Vista updates. It was working fine until the last update was downloaded. Not installed yet, just downloaded.

And then my laptop just froze. Nothing worked. At that time I only had Firefox and Windows Media Player on, so it must have been either one of them causing the problem. Or the update I mentioned earlier. That's what I thought anyway.

Since I couldn't shut it down the usual way, I had to force it to shut down.

Then I tried to restart it. Unfortunately what greeted me was a blank screen with only the taskbar visible. So I started to freak out. Once again, nothing worked so I had to force it shut, and the next restart in Safe Mode resulted in a totally blank screen with only a white cursor.

I can't begin to tell you how horrified I was then. I mean, my laptop's still relatively new and my mum would so totally kill me if I were to tell her that it died for no reason.

It was already quite late then, so I just did a little research on Vista's black screens of death with my surprisingly well-behaved computer (usually it's as slow as hell, and constantly freezes - not in the freaky Vista way though).

Found out that it's ridiculously common, so I calmed down a bit and told myself to attempt fixing it the next day.

The next morning I was prompted to start windows in safe mode so I did that. Thankfully it worked! After fiddling in safe mode a bit, I restarted the system in normal mode and woohoo no more blank screens.

Was really happy about it until...the stupid thing froze again. And again. And again.

Thought it was a problem with Mozilla Firefox, so I used Internet Explorer instead. And it froze for no reason. Again. Moved on to Google Chrome, and it seemed to be working fine...

...until a few moments ago. Well, Chrome wasn't the thing that made it froze - Ares seems to be the cause this time.

Yes, Vista crashed while I was typing this!
I thought maybe Facebook's the culprit, but I guess not.

Anyone know what's wrong with it?
Something must be causing it to freeze.
Everything was working fine until that update.

Okay maybe not everything? Last Saturday the wireless network was faulty. It couldn't detect any networks, and the wireless switch was on, but the Windows diagnosis kept saying that it wasn't. It only worked again after I left the laptop for 8 hours.

I don't think it's my fault? Or at least I hope it isn't.
Okay probably not. Since Vista's notorious for being lousy.

Gosh this is irritating. My computer's as slow as hell (I think something's wrong with one of the hardwares) and my laptop keeps crashing? Not good.

If anyone has a solution to this please let me know.

I really do have bad luck with this kind of stuff =(