TV Dramas

As I had started to write this post, I had titled it Another Untitled Post. But as this developed, I ended up calling it drama. No, not lots-of-things-going-on-in-my-life drama (though there are aspects of that), but I just couldn't stay away from one of my favourite hobbies of all time: TV drama. 

I have my theory driving test tomorrow =) When I pass that, I can book my practical driving test. So I should really be revising for that right now. That was until I decided I needed a cup of tea, then decided to write a post. So all was going well until I had decided to let myself get distracted. 

As most people know, I'm a big fan of watching TV, whether it's movies, TV programmes/dramas (American, Taiwanese, Korean or Japanese). I've actually been pretty out of touch with dramas recently. I'm a big fan of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory, and I have been up to date with those for a long time, and each week is an agonising wait for the next episode. 

Last year, a friend of mine who is also an avid fan of How I Met Your Mother recommended Modern Family. After a very busy year, I've finally caught up to all the episodes of Modern Family. Yay! I realised how much I hate being up to date with all of the latest episodes. It always feel so empty once I've finished watching something. And usually for the next few days, I keep on finding things to watch. 

So I've finally watched Looper yesterday. It was pretty much how I expected it to be, except that I have a very, very, very bad and annoying habit of spoiling things for myself. After a short while into the movie, I Wikipedia'ed it. (I'm sorry for turning Wikipedia into a verb.) Any how, so not long into the movie, I know what happens. I did save the last bit of the movie as a mystery... I stopped at the last two or three paragraphs. As I watched the movie, it didn't take me long to give into temptation and just read the last few paragraphs. So I even knew what would happen at the very very end.. So... that's the story of how I spoiled a movie. 

Oh oh, I also finally watched Kung Fu Panda 2. Ohhh, why have I waited so long to watch the second one! The first one was alright, not my favourite, but definitely worth watching once. But the second one is totally amazing. Maybe I was just in a weird mood, but it made me laugh so much. I enjoyed it so much that I wished my little cousins were next to me so I could watch it with them (though I do think they may have already seen it). 

Recently, I've also been watching a Taiwanese drama called Once Upon A Love. I know it sounds corny, that's what I thought at first. This was a few months back, if not longer, but I've seen the name of this drama a few times, then I finally gave it a try. And man, it's pretty good stuff. I've been a bit out of touch with all these Asian dramas, especially the idol ones just because I think I've grown out of them. I'm no longer that teenager who watches all these idol dramas about love and everything where I can predict the whole storyline within the first five minutes. Once Upon A Love is totally different, it's not about this young girl who meets this young, good-looking guy, where they have a misunderstanding upon their first encounter, then they somehow become more acquainted and then starts liking each other, etc, etc. I don't really know how to summarise it, but if you have like twenty hours to spare or something, it's definitely worth a try =) 

That's enough of talking, or writing, to be accurate. I think I better get back to my theory revision. 

(Future) Baking Blog

I think I may well get back into the habit of blogging. I'm not sure whether it's because I really want to blog, or whether it's because I have so much work to do that I need a marginally productive form of procrastination - this comes before cleaning and tidying up =P

Today, I remembered something I had long forgotten to do. About a year - or a few years - ago, I wanted to make a baking blog. A little part inside of me died when I've realised how little I've been baking over the past few years. Lack of time being one of the main issues. Well recently I've gained a little success and knowledge in making Portuguese tarts - though there's definitely plenty of room for improvement. I also made my first proper chocolate soufflé yesterday. I think it went well =) I would upload photos but they're o my phone and I'm a little lazy right now.

I think from now on, or next week onwards after my assignment and test, I'll officially start my baking blog. I guess it'll be more of a portfolio so I can keep track of stuff I've made and how they failed or succeeded =)

I guess the main reason for this post was really to remind myself to actually create a blog dedicated to this fading out passion of mine. Will post details once and if the blog is made =)

Have a wonderful day x

49 Days

You can tell I have coursework due when I post a lot. I think blogging must be one of my most frequent forms of procrastination. I wish I have the willpower to get all this coursework over and done with. But I have three. Bad times. But that is all that's left in my first year of university: three more courseworks and three exams in late May/early June and dun dun dunnnnn that'll my first year of university finished. (And I'm sure the work only gets worse as life progresses).

A brighter side, I am extremely looking forward to summer! Despite the fact I want to get a job and work all summer so I can save up lots of money... but at least I won't be feeling guilty about watching lots of drama and anime - like I do now.

Oh, speaking of dramas. I started watching 49 Days. I keep seeing it on websites but it didn't really seem interesting enough for me to watch. I'm glad I started it.

49 Days is about this girl, Ji Hyun who will be married in a week's time and seemingly has the perfect life, gets into a car crash. On the other hand, there is another girl (Yi Kyung, maybe... I've watched so many episodes but I still can't remember her name) who works in a convenient store, doesn't have many friends and basically lives a depressed life - she tries to commit suicide. Then Ji Hyun, the one who gets in a car crash, is given a chance by the scheduler (sort of like a shinigami). The mission is Ji Hyun has to find three people who will cry genuine tears for her but using Yi Kyung(?)'s body.

It sounds complicated and the synopsis sounds crap (well that's what I thought when I first read it). But then you slowly get hooked to it ^^

Luffy

As usual, I got super bored from revision... no new news here. I've always wanted to try and draw One Piece characters (if you haven't read the manga or watched the anime... I strongly recommend it, it's a bit long bit you'll catch up eventually). I started watching the anime since last October (I think), I only started to watch it when I got to uni. Then I was up to date by December-ish... and have been since. Being utd (up to date) at the most epic bit is the most agonising thing. Especially when you accidentally read a spoiler on Wiki... so before the epic arc, I knew what happens at the very, very end. I still cried like there was no tomorrow though ='[

With some anime, you have to go though about 10 to 20 episodes until it gets good (like Bleach... it doesn't get super exciting until quite a while) but OP, you only have to bare through the first five-ish episodes or so and it gets good =] Now I'm utd on the anime... I decided to pick up from the manga... that was even worse than catching up on the anime. Because the manga is only about 20 to 30 chapters/episodes ahead of the anime... now I'm utd on the manga... and watching the anime becomes meaningless because I know what happens... the life of anime and manga... *sigh*

Besides my super ranting about One Piece (which you must read/watch)... I tried to draw Luffy in the process of procrastination. At first I wasn't going to post him, because as I went onto blogger, I saw all of Miranda's drawings and they're just too amazing! I hope Miranda's web comic goes well because I really want to read it =]

I drew Luffy on paint. I realised that drawing on paint is the most difficult thing, it's worse than photoshop. But it's actually way fun =] The best tool is the squiggly line tool, it's so annoying but it's cool at the same time. I messed up Luffy's hair. The top strand in the middle: it was too big, then I tried to fix it and messed up. And I messed up the bits on the left too. By the time I realised, it was too late for backspace. Paint needs more undo buttons. Also... I started with Luffy's eyes, did the nose, then the mouth, then hair (outlined the ears), then hat, then ears. But after I did the hair... I realised his mouth was too wide or his eyes were too close but too late for that. Then by the time I got to the hat and ears, I obviously got lazy =[

Next time, I'll work harder, and draw his body too =]

Monkey D. Luffy

Random revision: the Easterlin paradox: increases in per capita income (GDP per capita) do not increase happiness. The hedonic treadmill: high incomes just produce greater apirations/desires. 

I am a cookie cook ^^ ~~ lame, I know

Ladies and gentleman, it's that time of the day again! Procrastination time!!! =D After doing a facial, learning Chinese words, checking FaceBook and doing my nails - I'm actually running out of things to do. I have to resort to blogging to try and delay working on my coursework. It's not that I don't want to do my coursework, it's just that when I start thinking, my brain doesn't stop thinking about economics and it hurts...

Anyway, I made some cookies two days ago and I'll have you know, (some of them) were GOOD! They actually tasted like they were from Millie's cookies! I am on a mission to try and make the awesome-est cookies ever! Well... that may be a little too ambition, but you've got to aim high!

The double chocolate chip ones... well something happened to them. I didn't know how much cocoa powder to put in so I was just guessing... I did even bother using a scale, I was just tipping cocoa powder in and that didn't turn out too well. Plus they were slightly over baked ^^; there's always next time!

The normal chocolate chip ones were AWESOME! I feel a little bit big headed complimenting my own cookies but they were soft =)

The only major complaint is the chocolate chips. First, quality - I bought three packs of chocolate a while ago, it's the Silver Spoon ones (if I recall it correctly) and their chocolate sucks. It's not smooth, it's just not-nice chocolate. Just like the 20p supermarket brand stuff. So I think next time, I'll buy a few different types of chocolate and test which ones are good for cookies ^^ Another thing is, I keep having to chop my chocolate with a knife, and they're different sizes... so maybe I can buy chunky chocolate chips, or just work on my knife work =]

I feel like this blog is slowly moving towards a food journal or something =P

My aweosme and not-so-awesome cookies ^^

P.s. 'COOKIES' now has it's own tag! (I feel so proud and happy for the cookies to officially have a 'cookies' tag *tear in my eye*)

The life of coursework: procrastination

Quick note before I click post: this is going to be a complaining post. Well, (1) I need to get the stress of coursework out of me, (2) this is part of my procrastination plan (writing this post has managed take about 10 minutes).

The title says it all. Basically, distraction is the key to procrastination. The general story is: I have a management essay due this Thursday and an economics assignment due next Tuesday. The management essay is about half done... I just have to waffle another 400 words about managers lying for the organisation... I have a general thought on it, but I just can't seem to express in it words... well, let's wait for the inspiration to come~~ (hopefully soon).

In the mean time, I've decided that I can't write about my economics assignment without reading the textbook and making notes first, but that numbs my brain after two and a half pages or so... so now I'm finding 'interest/productive' things to do rather than making notes. Mind, I have been working diligently for the past few hours making these notes.

At this point, you'll be thinking I did great, making notes for a few hours. What you don't know about is the five or six hours before I started making notes: I was watching Korean variety shows (again) whilst attempting the management essay and the econs assignment in turn every hour or so. In two days, I actually finished U-Kiss's variety show: Vampire. I've tried to watch this a few months ago but it wasn't that interesting... but then I desperately needed some distraction (omg, for a moment there, I had this word block and couldn't spell distraction... I was like: #des'? no, 'dis'?) <-- Excuse that moment of retardedness. Now I'm watching Chef's Kiss, another U-Kiss variety show... I was enjoying it until about episode 7, this was the point where I started to make notes and could no longer concentrate on reading the subs and keeping up... (I still carried on watching it though... I'm on episode 9 now T_T)

The life of coursework. Sigh. What can I say. I hate it. And it'd be much better if I was actually writing it right now rather than complaining on this blog...

I feel like eating sushi...

I've concluded that when I'm doing coursework: I eat a lot T_T

I bought some fizzy cola laces from Tesco's yesterday... I ate two packs yesterday and ate the other one today... it was three for £1. They didn't last very long and I was rather disappointed; not because they didn't last very long, but because they didn't taste that good (certain bites tasted really bitter =S) and eating them didn't make me feel any happier. I feel this is where the economics of happiness should come in... or maybe talk about marginal utility theory (some new micro stuff I learnt a few weeks ago) but I think I'll give it a pass and I'm sure not many people are interested to know.

If only writing the management essay is like blogging. I'm sure this post exceeds the extra 400 words I need to finish it.

Back to making notes... Annyeong~