Good lord. Now I remember why I hate summer class -- I cannot focus on the work. It's like my brain slips off and I'm distracted by anything and everything. Cause I guarantee you that I don't want to do a presentation on The Hours despite it being a good book (though a touch depressing. I like happy endings, dang it! Why does every piece of literature have to be page after page of downers whining about how love screwed them over or live screwed them over ect.  Apparently that's what constitutes art. Bah.)

.......my roommates are being loud again. And sitting right outside my door. It's annoying.

I GOT MY TICKET FOR HALF-BLOOD PRINCE! HELLZ YEAH! Although I'm being a loser and going to the midnight showing by myself since my friend bailed on me at the last minute. I almost didn't go but then its was horrible just thinking about NOT going. It's something I do every time an HP movie comes out and I can't NOT go.

In drama-land (asian drama not real life drama, lol),  Brilliant Legacy is still continuing to be awesome. Sometimes I wonder what sets these asian shows apart from American shows (other than that they don't ever get cancelled halfway through due to lousy ratings which I love. Good shows get to finish no matter what). Granted, we have a looser sense of propriety here. (I mean, no one expects someone to get married if they accidentally kiss someone else. If that happened here, no one would even bat an eyelash). You have to really understand certain cultiure aspects to get into dramas. So what is it? It's strange. I NEVER would have though that I would fall into the Asian drama rabbit hole and yet here I am, happily watching them on my (crap) laptop. Crazy, crazy.

Well, that's it for me. I'm going to go play Phoenix Wright before I snuggle into bed. Later!

*Sigh*

So. I jumped on the twitter bandwagon and am still slightly boggled by the concept. Oh well. Who isn't boggled by something in their life? At least my twitter name satisfies me....it's _bad_wolf. XD Doctor Who is in my blood I tell you!!

I'm busy these days with school, internship and watching crazy amounts of TV --- both American, Asian and British. Sometimes I wonder if I'm sleeping enough (the answer here is: no). I also have to somehow read "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Monday. Am I actually attempting to read?

NAH. I'm watching City Hall instead. (Korean drama, for clarification's sake).

I picked it up on whim. (My god this is whole the whole asian drama thing started isn't. *glares at her DVDs of Hana Yori Dango*). It's cute and although at first glance the leading man is sorta creepy (intensity unsettles me, always has), I now find him mad attractive now. (And this I blame on reading Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre. Seriously, how are those guys attractive? I feel as though I would run away in real life but in fiction? *swoon*) It's about politics and what happens when a girl who doesn't know anything about government (well, enough as seasoned politicians, that is) gets elected mayor. Plus the romance makes me heart flutter.

I'm also watching Triple which is another Korean drama about ice skating and advertising.

....no really.

It's cute! It's just really upbeat and I love the three main guys cause they remind me of Ross, Chandler and Joey on Friends (in their dynamic only...they aren't carbon copies of them). I love male camraderie. Maybe it's cause I'm a girl and girl camraderie is vastly different? Plus I wish I could live in that house, it's really, really nice. Another Friends comparison here -- really nice living space and who knows how they're paying for it. (Then again, Korea could be different in terms of cost of living. Who knows. It's one of those things I don't question. I didn't in Friends and I know that a chef and a waitress couldn't afford to live in a New York apartment like that!)

I've found that I really prefer K-dramas on the whole. I can't really pin-point why. I mean, they can be crazy angst-fests though I tend to stay away from those really sad ones (the exception being Spring Waltz and that's cause I have a girlcrush on the female lead there who's now in Brilliant Legacy....*sigh* it's a sickness I tell you!) But Japanese dramas don't fulfill my romantic sensibilies and Tawainese dramas need to bother me with their acting. (Not that it's a universal fact. I think the language sounds rougher to me and I can't get into the rhythm? Ah well. I liked Mars a lot.)

OH! And MERLIN's on NBC on Sunday and I really enjoy it. Arthur's quite an attractive British man. Tee hee. =)

Bleach (manga) finally got interesting again. Ichigo and Emo-Espada (I can't spell his name and I'm too lazy to look it up) Mark 2 was a bit underwhelming. I think the end was a bit meh for me and I'm still not sure what went down. The art was pretty awesome though. Orihime's so pretty. (But I want her to have a proper battle! I need to see Hime in action). But the Vaizards FINALLY made their appearence and SQUEE it's all pretty much going to hit the fan. I CAN'T WAIT.

Okay that was enough rambling. I really need to go watch My Boss My Hero for dorama_watch I've gotten behind. It's cute but its not one of my favorites. Ah well.

Later!

I've always been a night owl.  I can easily stay up til about three or four in the morning. It's my own way of sort of battling insomnia. I mean, if I get dead tired like that than I'm not just lying in bed. Anyways. Lately if I'm staying up all night, it's because I'm watching a TV show or something. These days, it's usually an asian drama and when I stay up all night, it is a particularly addicting one (Full House and My Girl come to mind). I also did it to watch the end of Doctor Who Series Four before it aired over in the US (I can't stand other people knowing the end to something that I don't). When I was little I used to stay up all night and considered it a feat if I could. (I was a weird child). =D

Sleeping Beauty has always been one of my favorite fairy tales. Though I love the Disney version dearly, I'm talking about the real version. When I was little I used to listen to a book on tape version of Sleeping Beauty which was set to the ballet's music. I always loved all the different fairies...especially the Lilac fairy the most. Her song was so pretty. =D

I haven't posted in forever, I know. Life's been hectic. BUT new Doctor Who news......

So. I should stay away from spoilers but...

( Spoiler for upcoming Dr. Who specials )

That's right. My little fangirl heart is a-fluttering.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-rUTlQPm4o

^ Planet of the Dead trailer

The Doctor Who Easter Special looks to be quite epic. Well, at least the scenery suggests that. I'm not sure I care the monsters yet....they kinda look like sperm of the air or big piranhas or visible Vashta Narada (from Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead). But, regardless, DOCTOR! HOW I HAVE MISSED YOU!

Nothing important here. Just cleaning up my profile and getting rid of the color bars/fanlistings....I prefer the blog crews there instead. So, yeah....ignore this! =)
( Color Bars = Love )

( Fanlistings also = Love )

....Yes and no. I think that it depends on the transgression. Personally, I hate lying. If I find out that someone's lied to me about something major than I would find it incredibly hard to trust them again with anything. But I'm a pretty forgiving person anyways so if I can understand why things happened they did, I might be willing.

Long story short: yes and no.

Back to work!

*sigh*

I remember a time when a couple things were true.

A) I didn't agonize over any writing assignment big or small. Ever since I decided to make writing my minor in an effort to learn fiction (P.S I'm only just taking my first fiction class now instead of a year ago), it seems that I'm always trying to prove myself to people who don't matter. Or maybe I didn't feel like I had to prove anything to myself. But there are days (and I think anyone who's ever been a writer or at least writes regularly) when I feel like I'm a hack. I read my stuff and I want to burn it because I find it so boring and awful. I wonder if I'm delusional in believing that I ever had a shot. It's a trap that writer's fall in (I just finished reading "A Writer's Tale" by Russell T. Davies and he talks about this too).  Anyhow,  I don't remember falling into this trap so often.

B) I wasn't obsessed with Asian dramas. My god. It's flippin' ridiculous sometimes. I blame Hana Yori Dango (the manga). If I had never read it, I never would've tried the live-action. I never would've gotten hooked on the crack-fantastic elements in these shows (although I'm finding that I'm partial to Korean dramas...they look better to me). Maybe it's because they are the complete opposite of realism and they know it. I mean, Boys Over Flowers, the Korean version of HYD, is a universe where a hot (and I mean, smoking. Seriously, Lee Min Ho is such perfection that I want to just babble incoherently at picture of him) rich guy can terrorize a school through horribly illegal and unethical means. He also could kidnap a girl, pretty her up and then tell her to be his secret girlfriend. He also get sick at the drop of a hat (apparently in Korea, Japan ect. if someone EVER gets wet, they get horrible fevers. I want to administer Advil to them all). There are loads of other strange things (Jandi, the main girl, is homeless for a short while and she goes to live in Junpyo's house and works there as his personal maid...in a frilly french maid uniform...oh yeah....it's a porn waiting to happen). *Sigh* My brain's been captured.

I'll be so happy when school's out for summer. I may sleep for a full 24 hours JUST BECAUSE I CAN.

Oh and I'm hopefully getting the Twilight DVD tomorrow. The Border's edition looks really cool (black cover...inside cover art is the forest with faded images of Edward and Bella), it has three disks and like 8 postcards (which are totally going up in my room). Plus Borders Book Club with Step. Meyer! I remember downloading it. It's a really great interview. But we shall see.

Back to my hole!

So like I said a few entries back, I've been watching the Korean version of Hana Yori Dango (which has a fancy Korean name that I a) can't spell and b) can't pronounce without mangling the language). Now, being completely honest here, I've never been attracted to any guy who was Japanese, Chinese, Korean ect, (and I'm by no means lumping them all together but you get what I'm saying). I just never have but after watching this show? Geez. I may have to rethink that. The main guy in this show? Gah. And I mean gah. I need to find a proper icon to illustrate the gah-ness. Hopefully that didn't sound offensive...just being honest.

Speaking of which, I'm falling further and further down the Asian drama rabbit hole. WHY? (I think it's cause they're usually pretty cracky...kind of like a soap opera...and addictive too!) It feels like I'm watching so many different ones at once! Crazy!

And school is kicking my ass with every passing week. All I want to do anymore is sleep and then sleep a bit more. But NOOO college is all like "We wanna make you get a degree because we know that you know that you won't get a decent job otherwise and we LAUGH AT YOU! AND STEAL YOUR MONEY!"

Grrrr.....

I'm off to read other people's fiction because I have to for workshop. Here's to hoping that it's not horrendously awful!

I'm SOOOOO pumped for new Torchwood. I was already squeeing when I saw Ianto (and the kiss! Woot!)  Children of Earth trailer under the cut!

( The 21st century is when everything changes...and we got to be ready... )

It's been ages, I know. My life's pretty boring and while I get on LJ every day, I never have enough to say.

Well, I do now. I'm am full-on obsessed with asian dramas and to a greater extent, hana yori dango (boys over flowers). My god, I can't stop watching them. They are hilarious and interesting....maybe its the fact that networks like to cancel all the shows I like (*weep* PUSHING DAISIES!!). But I've really gotten into them.

How did this happen?

Well at some point, I read this mango called "Hana Yori Dango." (Seriously it was like the best crack ever. So unrealistic but SO good.) It's basically like Pride and Prejudice only with a lot more crazy twists (dude gets amnesia and forgets the main girl and then this other girl decides she has to have amnesia dude so she throws herself at him and takes main girl out of the equation....OH THE ANGST and that's only like a couple chapters. Those two go through so much other crap.) And then it...ended. And I got frantic because I wasn't ready so I then decided to check out the live-action (aka the drama) and OMG. And did I mention that there's ANOTHER version of this story in Korea? It's airing right now and omg, LOVE!

So, you could say that I've gone into the rabbit hole and probably won't return for awhile.

In other news, Doctor Who's shooting in Dubai (I know, what? Why are they there?) for the Easter special Planet of the Dead. They crashed a double decker bus or something. (RTD I love you but no injuring David Tennant. He just had back surgery. Kthanks.)

*sigh* I have to get back to my school-work. DIE SHORT STORY

Peace.

Allyson

P.S Isn't Donna being awesome in my icon. Queen of awesomeness.

Seriously they do...I'm officially beyond getting annoyed. It just makes me chuckle now.

I LOVE the comparisons to every other vampire anything in existence. If they were like those vampire, bet you anything that they would call it copying or something. That's why I like Twilight because it's a completely different take on the mythos of vampire. Like it or not, it's different (and I wish people would get off their Breaking Dawn soapboxes about how Stephenie Meyer told us that vampires couldn't procreate.....she only said this of vampire females. She was being crafty...if JK Rowling had done it, she would be applauded for it. Poor Stephenie, at least she's laughing all the way to tha bank!)

Another argument that I see on DeviantArt a lot is that Twilight is everywhere and cannot be avoided. HAHA. Seriously, I didn't really care for Dark Knight and it was everywhere....no way did I expect the entire world ot bow down to my wishes.

*sigh* Too, too funny.

That's all, sometimes it's nice to have an LJ to come and write randomness.

......finals suck. That is all.