| [ |
mood |
| |
 sleepy |
] |
| [ |
music |
| |
Love Is All - Busy Doing Nothing |
] |
It's been a very low-key Christmas this year. I didn't wake up until 2pm, and my father was out shopping. Turns out he was buying a duck from Springvale. Not a live one - just one to cook. I mostly played WoW all day, with a bit of iPod Touch scrabble on the side. I'm currently on my seventh game with Ingrid. Score so far: Lish 6, Ingrid 0. Now that I've bragged about it on LJ, I expect that karma will get me.
Dinner was annoying. Dad invited three random people over for mahjong. I don't even know who they were. One of them kept asking me about teaching, and saying things like "Teaching must be such a wonderful job - you get so many holidays!" Ugh. Anyway, normally when my father invites people over, I stay quiet, zone out and eat my dinner and leave. Usually, people approvingly remark something to the tune of "Lilian is such a quiet, demure girl!" which works to my favor, because it means I don't have to interact too much with anyone while fitting perfectly into Chinese social norms, or whatever. And usually, Mum acts like a buffer and either does the talking for me, or is able to translate. Today, this dude kept asking stupid questions like "So which school got the top VCE marks this year?" and "Which private school is the most expensive?" and "How much does a year at a private school cost these days?" and I'm like, internally, "How the fuck should I know?", but not really knowing how to express that politely in Chinese. UGH FAIL. And then they were like "Lilian, have some beer!" and I'm like "I don't fucking drink beer!" (but more demurely) and then they were like "But it's Christmas! You have to drink beer!" So I drank the beer, and tried to eat dinner as fast as I could so I could get the hell outta there. And then they played mahjong and I went back to playing WoW.
Anyway. Then I watched some episodes of Merlin, and got to episode 2x08 and was like O.O at the new character, Morgause, and her total slashiness with Morgana. I will probably do a picspam tomorrow.
Yesterday was good. Dad had his little work party, and I went out with Jackie. We had dinner at Claypot King, and then watched Avatar. Jackie was very unimpressed. I enjoyed it for the eyecandy. The world of Pandora looks a lot like what I imagine Zangamarsh (a zone in WoW, for the uninitiated) would be like, if it were fully fleshed out. I hope the people making the WoW movie take note of the effects used in Avatar and does something similar with its CGI. It really was a very pretty movie. The characterisation and plot in Avatar were complete fail though. (However, I did enjoy the completely random Xena warcry that one of the aliens does, at around the one and a half hour mark. Xenites, make sure you watch out for it. I cracked up laughing when I heard it.) Another highlight of the movie was Sigourney Weaver, although I had COMPLETE LESBIAN FAIL by totally not recognising who she was until the credits, at which point I was like "Ooooh that was Sigourney Weaver!" and Jackie was like -.-.
There's not much else to report, really. I've somehow managed to mostly avoid the Christmas emoness that usually occurs. I listened to Jewel yesterday, and that was about it for teh emo, so that was good. Anyway. Bedtime.
|
amused
blank
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small}
loved
