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Leftover Media

Ramble

Meh. This is really bad. I haven't posted here for ages. Well, one thing is that Vox doesn't have an app for the iPhone. Which puzzles me, because my Nokia phone warranted an app, so I just did all my mobile posts happily on the go, as you can see from the rather angry post I did about missing all those buses. It does leave a rather bad taste in you. Missing buses, I mean.

Seems like another year will go by without my having decided on a use for this blog..for Posterous I'm using it as a photo blog, my Tumblr is where I post whatever strange pictures and links and whatever strange musing that pops into my head and I use the app because it's nice and convenient. But like, I like Vox too, because it lets me post whatever media file I have and lets me embed it, something which Livejournal (as of now, still my main platform because I paid for it...) doesn't allow yet and Tumblr is a little disadvantaged there because they restrict the file sizes of music files and they don't host video files on the server itself, unlike Vox. For this, I'm really grateful for Vox.

But now that I blog so much, (maintaining three different blogs, not counting this one!) is really...it gets really messy sometimes. You get confused when they overlap, because Livejournal really gets a bit of everything, and I guess it's a little more serious, because there's actually an audience there. I don't get so perfectionistic about the other two blogs because I'm quite sure no one even know they exist. As for now, why I'm typing this up...I have no idea. But another reason why I like Vox is how the layout resembles the Japanese blogging website, ameblo, a little. Mm. Why ameblo, I shan't explain.

Well, this should be the last proper post this year, unless I feel more inspired. Until next time!

03/09/09

Hi everybody. Now I'm sitting on the bus all pissed off because I missed three of the same buses because one went when I was still walking towards the bus stop, and thinking that it would behave normally (which is to take at least 15 minutes to arrive), I decided to walk down to the next bus stop. To my horror, within 5 minutes, the next bus passed me by while I was still huffing and puffing along that long horrible road. And within another five minutes while I was waiting at the sauna of a bus stop, another one came. I simply cannot believe this atrocity. And now I'm taking another bus service, which apparently believes in stoning on those old stupid models that still have the atrocity that is TV Mobile. You should be glad your country doesn't have it if it doesn't.

18/07/09

Hello! Long time no mobile post so here's one!

Thanks to the wonder that's mobile blogging, I'm now keying this in my mobile phone on a kelong in the middle of the sea.

And my fellow companions are currently engaging in human interactions for entertainment seeing as there is no Internet, no TV reception and the phone signal is patchy at best. (Mine is the best. It appear to have two bars when in standby mode, but quickly switches to no signal when I flip to say, the SMS section.)

So like I said, they are all engaging in human interaction (like playing mahjong, or simply chatting with each other) so with me frantically punching in stuff on my mobile phone, seems lie I'm the only one who can't bear to leave the 21st century behind!

Yeah to tell you the truth, I can't wait to get back to civilization. I can't bathe here because they use rain water and my skin freaks out when it touches it, but I guess that's not a very big point because if it comes down to it, I can bear with it because it's not like I haven't done this before.

I think my greatest problem would be with sleeping among strangers, and I must say I'm pretty attached to my bed. Yeah, these people are okay company during the day. And it's a pretty interesting experience, what with the new sights and sounds. But when it comes to sleeping, I would very much prefer the amenities of the 21st century please!

Actually now that I think of it, are these people going to sleep? Not that I wouldn't mind staying by the whole night because frankly speaking, it feels safer.

Off to watch someone scooping up crabs, maybe more later!

18/07/09

I Will Always Love You 2

I Will Always Love You

Well, take a look! I Will Always Love You's cover's out. Well, this is the one put up by Hachette for the audiobook, but it's most likely safe to assume that it will be the same for the book as well. And judging by hair color and gender, Nate should be the guy, Serena in the middle, and Blair on the right. I kind of disagree with this arrangement though. It makes more sense to put Nate in the middle, since both Blair and Serena are always fighting over one Nate.

I do vaguely wonder if this will be a one time 'special', or the first of many to come. To be honest, I wouldn't mind if it were the latter. Despite being one of many in its genre, it can be said to be its 'icon'. And really, there just isn't any thing like Gossip Girl.

Update (6th August 2009)

Link to Book: Here

I Will Always Love You

It's interesting to note that Serena's expression's different from the audiobook version in this.

Got some Hannah Montana?

The Best of Both Worlds:2009 Movie Mix

Hannah Montana

Vox's finally loading properly for me again! (This may or may not be the post for June) Been on a Hannah Montana roll ever since I watched Hannah Montana:The Movie last Saturday. Which probably explains the Hannah Montana music influx in the audio section. Well, there's that.

Excuse the lame title, but I never was good at coming up with titles anyway, so you have to forgive me. Re-reading the what's available of the Blue Bloods series later this month, in preparation of The Van Alen Legacy which is (hopefully) coming out in October. Hopefully because it was pushed back from a September release to October, remember?

Oh and got to check on George R.R. Martin's progress on A Dance of Dragons. His is the ultimate delay.

13/05/09

Time for a mobile post!

That's the moon covered by the clouds yesterday morning. Though I suppose you can't really see it now. I hope Vox resizes this because I believe the base size's some monstrous thing.

Making mobile posts is not exactly my thing, since it shows off all my brainlessness, and I have no idea how to do my paragraphs what with the screen so small and all. But you do have to admit it's kind of useful when you don't have a computer around, which is probably something that may be changed soon.

Or maybe not. Maybe phones will get better at doing what computers do and computer availability will stay the same. I don't know.

Anyway Math lesson later which is probably going to be sucky because as usual my Math is terrible. I don't know why Math is just so alien to me. :(

Well will try to post more over here. Vox's too good a platform to leave empty.

13/05/09

Sunday, May 10, 2009 11:14:07 PM

Hello! Seems like I missed posting completely in April. I blame it all on the old mobile site of Flickr's, because I had planned to use this site as a sort of photoblog, but now that I can upload my photos directly to Flickr, I can simply post them all to my main blog.

That's the problem, you know. There are too many awesome blogging platforms around, and I have to have at least one on each platform, and now that I do, I can't quite decide what to do with them. So for the time being, it will all be some hodgepodge of nonsense that I post on whims and fancies.

One interesting thing is that I seemed to have posted rather extensively on the inadequacy of my brain during it's most trying period recently (where it completely failed to live up to expectations, unfortunately.) everywhere that is semi-active. So there's evidence everywhere...

I do enjoy being more interactive with media over here though, simply because it makes it easier and I can simply upload them directly without having to grapple with annoying restrictions that are way too restrictive. (e.g. Tumblr and their not allowing people to upload photos/pictures when the post in question is not a 'photo post') Here, Vox has an overwhelming advantage.

Well, that's probably all for May! See you in June!

01/03/09

There are weird smiley faces at the bottom of my print outs for school! Hopefully the printer hasn't been taken over by a smiley demon or something.

Anyway I suppose this place's taking on a once a month update scheme. I can't quite think of what I want to update here. Not that it's bad here or anything. Just that much of the updating's taking place via my phone which is always bad because I lose all my brains while staring at this tiny screen.

Okay there's your monthly dose. Got to go close the windows, it's raining again.

01/03/09

08/02/09

This is what happened to my wonderful computer. No doubt it's a goner for sure, because it's still like that even after I've wiped my entire C drive. I can't decide who to blame though, the wonderful Microsoft that brought us this, or Acer, the equally wonderful company that brought us this wonderful machine?

08/02/09