Fun at the Beach Day :D

Megs:

Yay! The beach was excellent yesterday. I can't remember the name of the beach, but I can always find out from someone.

Anyway, here are the sand sculptures I made, with help from some others, and was ridiculously happy with!


Yay! Best Friends Forever!

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Some people for size reference :P

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"I'M SQUIDWARD, I'M SQUIDWARD, I'M SQUIDWARD!"

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The sea taking them away!
What's the story behind the foam that comes up to the shore when the waves break, anyway? I have to find that out. Someone once told me it was whale sperm. Ha!

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Also found out that I can hit quite far with a cricket bat, and can catch pretty well. Which means I didn't keep dropping the ball as you would expect :P Woop! Maybe my suckiness at P.E disappeared lessened somewhat after school finished. I'm suspecting that learning to juggle helped me to un-suck in terms of hand-eye co-ordination :D Yay!

You know how I forced everyone to give me their used plastic plates, and cups and drink bottles? I managed to fill up a whole rubbish bag with all of them, and when I took the bag back for recycling I found that the blue recycling bin was still full from Christmas. We literally out-recycled the max of recyclability! Yaaay!

I have a rehearsal today for the gig at the wedding this saturday. I haven't practised! But I looked through the music I was given, and it's all very very easy. I'd forgotten that violists are treated like the handicapped musicians outside of AYO. But that's okay for me, because I haven't practised. Yay for winging rehearsals! Oh! And I got back into AYO for next year, I think I forgot to mention :D

Can you believe it? Three more days until 2010.

ps. I changed our background, as in added in something and also un-screwed the ice cream, because Michelle couldn't tell what it was.

Seasonal Greetings!

Frivelocity would like to wish our readers (and each other) happy seasonal greetings and all their religious variations, including but not limited to: Christmas, Litha (Southern hemisphere), Yule (Northern hemisphere), Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.

I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season and benefit greatly from your well deserved break.

Blessed Be :D


Stay frivolous!

Nutty mutterings

Megs:

Do you know what's amusing? The fact that Clustrmaps shows that the only blog views from New Zealand are from Bucklame. No hits from Fumedgm!

So quite possibly, to anyone whose life is average enough for them to read our blog, I could have just made this blog, and made up Wil! I mean, if you can only draw a valid conclusion from valid evidence, then I might very well be nuts and you imaginary. LOL!

I still find it exciting how there are so many dots from all over the world!!
Anyway, just random mutterings for the day. See you soon!

PS. I just realized we've never added tags "Bucklame" or "Fumedgm"!!!

polymerase chain reaction

Megs:

Hey Wil! I made a new blog, just now. It's not an illegitimate child, I swear! :P
It's a clone of this blog. When you read what's in it you'll understand. I'll be performing HTML/CSS experiments on it in hopes of not killing this one.

http://frivolousguineapig.blogspot.com

That is all!

*spas*

Megs:

Hello my lovely! :D Ha yes, I am back in Bucklame. I think I'm tanned-er! Which is kind of a bad thing, because there is no such thing as a healthy tan, because it means your cells have had to exert themselves and cough up melanin just so your DNA doesn't go ajwegfkahfvewf, but superficially it's symbolic of sun and good times and beaches, so it's appropriate I guess :P Except we didn't visit the sea-side but the lake-side. Yay Taupo!

Ahaha, if we're to have another trip of our own you'd better start saving, because I'm making you go on the Hukafalls Jet (Ha! When I first heard it I thought it was Hooker Falls.)

http://www.hukafallsjet.com/page/5-Home

INSANELY FUN. I repeat, INSANELY FUN. It's high speed + sea-spray (except it's a river) + 360 degree spins on a massive jet boat that sends all the ducks scattering. Ha, I haven't described it very well. I'll show you photos later!! [Some] best hundred bucks ever spent.

Ha the trip was pretty watery altogether. We spent quite a bit of time swimming in natural hot pools. The first night, we drove and drove and drove and drove in the pitch black on this long winding road to get to what looked like a hole in the ground, but it turned out to be a pretty awesome spa. And it was au natural, as the French might say (or they might not, I'm butchering their language again, I'm sorry!!)

Speaking of sorry, I didn't manage to get you the presents you wanted! Blah, sulphur. I was poking around the ground in one of the thermal parks in Rotorua and found tiny little rocks encrusted with yellow, but they didn't smell, and anyway I wasn't sure if it was sulphur, or mouldy/mossy stones, or just dried poo. And I didn't have a container big enough to carry your hot spa in, and I didn't find you a gang, although we did drive past a car full of swearing drunken idiots at this one point, but they were gone in a split second.

I apologise and will do better to find you presents next time!

Anyway, I'm hoping to see you tomorrow, maybe I can give you some more counselling about stress at work. And I need to start sorting out Christmas presents!! aewbfalwevfaef. Talk about stressful!

*spaz*

Wil:

::Written a few hours ago::

I'm currently at work. There is literally nothing for me to do because it's very not busy, so I decided to grab some paper and a pen and write the time away.

As you know, I can become rather emotionally spastic at work so i'm hoping this writing can be therapeutic. Although, the grease in the atmosphere is making me sort of nauseous.

I do hope you're having fun being in places other than Auckland. Let's hope by the time you arrive back you're still smelling sulphur :P
Don't forget my gift hot spring!

Ha. A couple of days ago, I was sitting at a table writing down maths stuff in an old exercise book, and my mother passes me and says, in a rather surprised way, "oh? You don't need glasses anymore?" I looked at her plainly, and sighed (for real) and said "Mum! I'm short sighted...geez". I've had glasses for how long?! and she calls herself my mother.

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Post-work:

Well. I'm not sure if you're back in Auckland yet. We should go on a little trip on our own, and this time you shalt not hold back from oogling shirtless guys. We can do it together :D

3-ish days until we get 2010 course acceptance results! OMG *dies*

Stay frivolous!

Mission Complete...

"Walk walk passion baby. Work it, i'm a free bitch, baby"

Wil:

Those are some pretty big things to be worrying about! :O

Try not to think about next year too much. Accept whatever happens and let it be. You'll save a lot of worry and stress this way, which in the long run will keep you more pretty and youthful in the future :D

Yes, you think of me while you go zipping down that hill when your life flashes before your eyes :P But oh no, you won't get your daily dose of Wil while you're away.
I'm not such a big fan of Rotorua - I don't think I could ever get used to the smell of sulphur.

I actually quite enjoyed my dinner. I might have it again in the future. Yours was a bit iffy. Blah.

I remember reading that article on fake degrees. I should just go get one off the internet - it would save me quite a bit of money and time. I wonder what sort of work/course you'd have to complete in order to earn the fake degree.

I enjoyed Santa's Clause tonight. It was an evening well spent. I thought Woolf was dressed rather fine and tasty :P nothing like showing a bit of chest... >.> *nom* The pants were a bit odd though.

Ugh, not looking forward to work. Be sure to keep txting me, encouraging me to keep my temper and sanity. Send me funny and frivolous comments to keep me alive. It is much appreciated!

Well. Some weird stalker person called Megs is chatting to me on MSN so i'll stop this post right here.

Mission Complete!

All things stressful come at once

Megs:


Woo! I'm finally home for the day. Thanks again for dinner! Although I would've liked to have loitered in Northcote a bit longer. The danger of getting mugged just added a bit of excitement :P

Anyway, I just got off the phone, and apparantly the wedding I'm playing as part of the string quartet in is on the 2nd of January, which is a Saturday, and it lands like half an hour after Hospice work finishes. Well at least I need to rush to catch a ferry / swim, preferably the former, to Waiheke afterwards, at 2pm.

Usually this would have been fine because my Hospice shifts are from 9.30am to 11.30am, but I've traded this week's shift with my friend who works the afternoon shifts, so on the 2nd I finish at 1.30 (I think). And the reason I've done this is because as you know, my parents are making me go to Rotorua this weekend.

I love Rotorua, because it's such a touristy place with fun touristy attractions, but I'll be sad! It's much harder to come over to your place when I'm quarterway across the country :P I'll be thinking of you as I zip down the hills on the luge and ride high in the sky in the gondolas! XD

Other things to worry about:
Christmas presents for people
Birthday present for friend (tomorrow)
The fate of my life next year
Climate change and/or the apocalypse

Greetings from Henry's computer

Megs:

Ha! Thanks for that :D That makes me feel special! <3 Do you think I could get away with sneaking into uni, printing that out and stamping it with the official UoA seal? Or maybe you could send it down to UoO and ask them to stamp it... since you've already got a real one, they wouldn't begrudge you the favour! Ha! But either way it's still awesome ^_^

Did you know that it's not illegal in NZ to purchase a fake degree?! I saw this in the NZ Herald a while back.

Issuing fake degrees should be a crime (it isn't!!)

Sometimes countries pass stupid laws, but in this case it's stupid we don't have a law outlawing that.

Hmm. I'm going to search up some stupid laws in NZ for the fun of it.


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Never mind, I wasn't able to find any outrageously stupid laws in NZ. I looked on Google for two whole minutes! Or even three. Psh. Maybe there aren't any here. Unless you count the Anti-smacking bill, which isn't so much stupid as it is an incredibly feeble way of trying to prevent child-abuse.

The whole argument surrounding that was silly; I think the people who were protesting against the bill in the "March for Democracy" failed to realise that the only ones who are going to be persecuted are the ones who don't give a crap about the anti-smacking bill anyway.

Anyway, I don't have any brilliantly novel political views, but that's my ten cents. Because that's the smallest unit of currency here! :D

I'm actually quite excited about our new world map and where the hits are coming from. Hello person from Canada!! Canada's like mapley-leafy and exciting and has bears. I had no idea where Peru was before today (I'm sorry!! I've learnt now). Sigh. Geo Challenge on Facebook does nothing to teach us Geo.

Word Challenge, however, is epic gewanp. (That's pwnage scrambled!) But it doesn't teach us Word either. :P But it's not a fad anymore, people have moved onto Restaurant City and Pet Society (one of the boringest games ever... but I play Animal Crossing so I can't talk.)

Lala. La. I'm excited about watching Santa's Clause tonight!

You should text me more!

Oh wait, I just got your text. Ha. XD

Greetings from Higher Authority

Dear Megs,

On behalf of the Higher Authority Council, I would like to congratulate you on your fine academic results achieved in 2009 at the University of Auckland.

You have brought credit to and continued the Asian ethnicity stellar academic traditions. We wish you every success for your academic studies.


Yours frivolously,


Wil
Higher Authority Council Executive Representative


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Here you go my princess; you can have a congratulatory letter too! :D

Mission Complete!

Saving the world one code at a time

Megs:

LOLOL thanks for the shameless fawning. :P This is exactly why I'm marrying you you're marrying me!

In other news, in a joint effort Wil and I have figured out how to resize mixpod/music player skins!! Wooo!

Fellow bloggers who want to put music players on the sidebars might notice that the flash files get cut off when they want to resize them.

There are three things to note, ALL of which must be changed to get the flash file to resize to scale:

1. There are codes which define the height and width; they say

height="100" width="100" (or some other numbers).
as well as
width: 100px;height:100px

Change these to the height and width you want first. The size of our dog is Width = 170 and Height = 202.

2.
Where it says:


param name="scale" value="noscale"


change the "noscale" to "scale", ie


param name="scale" value="scale"


It might be helpful to use Ctrl+F and enter this code in, so you find the line easier.


3.

Find the section that says

&ow=100&oh=100

And delete this! Note, your numbers might be different from ours (NOT 100 by 100, so just type in "&ow=" into your searchbar (Ctrl+F) and see where it turns up. Delete this completely!


Et voila, you should have a nice new smaller (or bigger!) MP3 player for your blog :D


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Today's been a good/frivolous day!
We must forever remember this day as the day of buying a tub of ice cream and too many burgers.

AND also the day we realized that the blog is actually searchable on Google now!! We're world famous!! Plan for internet domination commencing goodly.

Writing on the wall

Wil:

I would like to bid our new background and banner a formal welcome! :D

Woo! It looks awesome and it's all thanks to Megs creative hands. I really really really like the colouring! :D

She hand-drew everything (except the Patrick) and has transformed it into a work of swirly visual stimulation by blindly fiddling around with Photoshop :D

:D :D :D

Her talent is an asset to the community :D

Science really is the way to go. Megs has wisely chosen Patrick to guard our pages. With a Hammer of Strength in one hand and a board nailed to the head - his demeanour screams 'true warrior'!

'This is not a sushi blog' has really grown into a handsome, albeit frivolous, child :)


Mission Complete!

"You didn't seem to have a problem touching me when we played doctor... "

Wil:

Okay. I admit it. I find that twincest concept (especially with the Hitachiin brothers) really hot. Maybe because it's so taboo - that's why it's so alluring... <3 XD

I LOVE the banner! It's pretty nifty, I must say. The equation of motion that you added was a nice touch. The map of NZ and Bucklame and Fumedgm being connected was an awesome idea. Your artistic talent has shined once more! Feel proud. The colouring is very pleasing :)
We should put a little comment somewhere saying that you created it :D

I'm thinking about turning my Zombie party dream into a novel, except the thing is that i'm not a very good writer.. But I would really like to have it down in writing because the whole story plot is there! I just need to add in some fillers and change bits so it's not as spastic, incoherent and frivolous (as dreams normally are). hmm... I might start on that and get back to you. I might just change the characters a bit too. Like not write about me but think up a whole new cast of fictional characters to use. Yeah, i'll do it!

Hmm I might go start that novel now. I'll blog ya later!


Mission Complete

Finally, a new banner

Megs: Fourth time lucky :P Yay! New banner.

Natural/unnatural justice

Megs:

I had a very angry dream last night. I dreamt had two brothers, and they weren't Asian but white, and one was slightly older and one was slightly younger than myself. And I dreamt the older one was trying to get the younger one beaten up, by stealing some guy's girlfriend and pretending that little brother did it. (Or something like that, I think there was paint splashing in there somewhere). So I fully shouted at the older one in front of all our friends. I also made a very nasty comment about my older brother's not-so-flash GPA and declared it to everyone sitting in the lounge.

Anyway, I reduced him to a shamed wreck, and then our group of friends, in stunned silence, continued to fiddle with Pokemon figurines. And I felt this totally satisfied, vindictive pleasure.

Your thoughts? Maybe I'm subconsciously a merciless bitch with a twisted sense of justice... :[

But justice is entirely a human concept anyway. We could be the most merciless creatures in the universe and when an alien comes in a UFO they might be like, "damn, they have such things as punishments on this planet?" Yet they could probably blow up the planet for no reason and think they were being quite fair.

We should go into oneirology :D It'll help us on our journey of self-awareness and also to gauge our level of screwed-upped-ness. I still think your dream with the zombie party takes the cake.

^_^

In other news, I hate our (still unrevealed) blog banner, the third one that I'm working on. I was trying for a "graffiti art" effect and instead it looks like someone's suffered from a bout of emesis (love that word) on the computer monitor. Ugh, pixel vomit.

And I've realised why my tablet hasn't been working, it's because the battery's dead. It's lasted well actually, about four years (!) but it had green diarrhoea (I don't love that word, but since I bolded emesis...) inside the tablet pen and now I have to find a AAAA battery. I've never seen them in NZ but I haven't looked yet.

We could stick with the green banner we have now, the generic one. It's like the flag of Libya.
So we would be embracing the culture of this nation as well as representing, maybe, the green pastures of NZ where we can shove our sheep and children. But I'd still like to come up with something eventually.

Frivolous.

Long time no blog

Wil:

Hey. Haven't posted in here for a while, mainly because there has been no need to since we've been hanging out together lots.

Ha. Restaurant City is actually quite fun. I like to find the best layout for my restaurant to get the maximum benefits by not keep too many people waiting and using my staff and space as best as possible. I like that. But the other stuff is just frivolous, like having to clean the toilet all the time since I don't have enough staff to assign one as janitor.

I FINALLY how to 'step' songs for my DDR-equivalent programme on my laptop. So now I can create steps and install them to the programme and play with them for any song I want. It gets a bit tedious and repetitive after awhile but the results can be satisfying sometimes. Any requests?

Aloe juice has got to be one of THE most delicious drinks ever. Can I get an amen?

As you know, i'm actually quite enjoying Ouran Highschool Host Club :D I think i've grown a new liking for anime etc.

Good luck with your interviews. You can do great. You're a peoples person and you can speak well when you allow yourself. Don't lock up and panic and if you're finding that the words arne't just coming out just take a deep breath and start over, while looking at the interviewers in the eye.

"You're a hot mess and i'm falling for you, and i'm like hot damn let me make you my boo, cos you can shake it shake it shake it yeah you know what to do. You're a hot mess, i'm loving it - hell yes!"
I'm addicted to that song at the moment @_@


Mission Complete!

Floundering is a fish

Megs:

Yay, piano!
(I just misspelt that as paino. It's actually quite true when you're as unco-ordinated as I am.)
I can play like 3.5 bars of this piece now. Only because the third bar is where the left hand comes in.



My favourite piece from any soundtrack, ever. From since I was like 8. This guy is a genius x 12038325. He's Japanese apparantly, so I didn't expect anything less. :P
I've decided I might have to kidnap anyone who can play this and glue them to my piano stool.

Anywho!
Yesterday was great :D Amélie = new favourite film.

Pretending to be young parents was lol. We should have made off with the midgets on that playground while we had the chance!

This is actually nothing, but did you hear my use of vocabulary when I was talking to the girl at the counter at the swimming place about their contracts? I'd never felt so articulate!! Usually I feel awkward approaching people-at-counters. You need to be my sidekick at these scenes more often. Haha.

I hope you managed to find the people you were going to take clubbing with you. And stop leaving your phone in URLs! (Unidentified Random Locations. HA I just made that up.)

I'm floundering.

"Don't worry, tomorrow we'll be back for more frolic and fun."

Megs:

I have realised that I haven't been sticking the word "frivolous" in my posts for like the last how many posts, sorry! This should make up for it:

frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous frivolous

...My phone was ringing just now, and I just literally ran in a circle around the coffee table looking for the source of the buzzing and dinging. I still don't know where it is!!

Had my AYO audition this morning. I turned up at St. Peter's College on time, which is to say I was late, and was shown in by the reception lady who asked me if my last name was spelt right (it was spelt wrong/"WONG" all this year).

Anyway, the audition was sweet as, almost frivolous, I did a bit of chatting with Antun about uni and biomed/med and his friend who was also judging string performances. Ended up playing only three minutes of the Arpeggione (terribly) and two of the four excerpts they sent to us. I told him that when I go home and played it better I'd send him the recording. That works too, right? He laughed, like when I told him that med interviews were for making sure the students had qualities they want in doctors and weren't psycho (sic).

Did more backstage work at the Vector Arena today. Wore a Tibetan robe and a laminated lanyards with "PRODUCTION" written on it. Felt very important but of course I only helped with shifting stuff and showing people around. :P Do you know, if I had hung around backstage a bit longer than I did today I'd have met His Holiness in person. Tomorrow I'm sticking around backstage for real!

Ha it's funny. I was actually pretty tense at the beginning of His Holiness's speech because I hate politics and thought he'd talk a lot about Tibet vs China and somehow people would get upset, but it wasn't like that at all. I definitely felt peaceful after his speech. The columnist in the NZ herald who criticised him plus the correspondent who said His "holiness" was 'self proclaimed' don't know a thing.

And I just got back today from Gold Class at Sky City Cinemas in the city :D "Under the Mountain" was okay. Some pretty predictable events and some freaky stuff. Tim had VIP passes from his dad. But it was different this time, we didn't get waited on hand and foot. I was looking forward to the butter chicken, but still. Sweet deal :]

Could do with some bc right now though. Starviiing.

"Is it this paramecium?"

Wil:

Well, i'm not going to type out my day because you were there for the large majority of it.

Ha. I think I've had too much DDR - just before when I was typing in the password to log into blogspot, my fingers went spastic and I noticed that they were trying to type in beat with the music that I had playing! XD

Let's hang out more! I mean 'out' as in out of the house and maybe in town or else where, and terrorize little children.

I'm a bit tired. I have nothing to talk about anymore! I'm bored with this city. I want back in Dunedin so I can live in my awesome flat and do 'house-moving' things like buy new things for my flat and hold flat-warming parties! and I want to see my awesome Dunedin friends.

Hey you know what i've noticed? All my friends all go to Auckland uni (well, most of them) and they they'ved formed great friendships with each other and then they're like "oh Wil we've missed you so much. come play with us!" and then they act all exclusive when i'm around and all they do is chat about stuff that they did together and their uni (which I have no idea what they're talking about) and they don't even make an effort to fill me in or include me and so when they ask if I want to hang out again sometime I'm like "hmmm no thanks" and then they get all pissy at me. I mean yesh. It's not my fault they bored me to freaking death the first time I was out with them. Plus i've found some people to be more repulsive than I last remembered...

But you're excluded from all of that of course, dear Megs, cos you're awesome :D

Moral of the story: I want Dunedin back! Even with its scummy people, dirty, glass-littered streets and mouldy flats! Plus I want my eye candy back :D

Well, as you can see the ranting has started. It's only the tip of the iceburg, as they like to say.

I can't be bothered being creative so: frivolous.


Mission Complete!

Yay fun times etc

Megs:

Sup! I don't think there's much point me telling you about yesterday, because you were there, and your memory is better than mine :P But good times are good to record!

Things to keep in mind:
-In Game of Life, one should choose College over Career first.
-The Warehouse should stock up on clothes that fit us
-So should Postie +
-Aero chocolate is good (I'm scanning our photo now, will stick it on your Face later).
-We have to still watch Cloudy w/ Meatballs.
-We have to hang out with KayLynn more often, and in places other than an office xD

So, I got my interview offer yesterday. It was a really really really lucky thing. If I hadn't learnt violin when I was seven, I wouldn't have moved onto viola when I was like 10, then I wouldn't have joined all these orchestras and then the AYO this year, and then I wouldn't have gone to the dead-boring AYO AGM where Anne told me she got her letter. And later she reminded me to check my university email. (Haven't done that in a year, I had 259 new messages!)

IOUs:
You - $4.30 bus money
Anne - tub of ice cream
Marianne - 1 house, plus ice cream

I want to finish watching Amelie. The first half was really bizzare.

Mystery Google and then some; Epic screwage, ergo should party

Megs:

Today I discovered Mystery Google, via MLIA. Someone told me they were watching me through the window from the garden. I looked but didn't see anyone, and emailed this person. He said he was in the tree. Still nobody. I could only conclude this guy was either a midget/a leaf/a ninja. Well midgets wouldn't be able to climb our tree and leaves can't type on keyboards. So they must have been ninja. That or hiding underground, or in the rabbit hutch. I'm on to you, ninja person.

In other news: YAAAAY FOR BEING IN THE NEW ZEALAND HERALD! Well, not exactly, strictly speaking, but there are pictures of the parade from yesterday all over the back page of the papers, and Wil your face is probably one of the fuzzy dots in the crowd of fuzzy dots :D Woo! World famous in NZ.

Went to music lesson this morning, only my teacher was attending a funeral and I had a choice: wait til she returned or go home and come back for lesson at 6. Picked the latter, cos I've only practised once over the last two weeks. Yay! Well, not yay for the funeral so much. My sympathies to these strangers.

As Kaylynn would say, and as is blatantly obvious, I am suffering from ennui and freaking out about AYO audition and med interviews. aewkjfbgakwehfv.

I should organise a party, that'll make everything better! :D

"Santa's coming tonight tonight, Santa's coming tonight"

Wil:

So I went into town to meet up with a friend to catch up and have lunch. My bus journey into town was stopped early and we were all kicked off a couple of stops early cos of some parade.

I later found out that the roads were closed of because the santa parade was that day. Woo! So we spent all day watching the parade. It was okay. Half the floats weren't even christmas related, but whatever.

There was this one float. It had characters from this childrens cartoon. They were big and foamy and they were like "Let's dance!" and the music goes pumpin. Then this green character thing like does that dance move that girls do where you stretch your arms out to the side of you, lean forward thrusting your chest out and jiggle their boobs from side to side. Well yeah it started doing that and I found it hilarious. I found it hard to contain myself from giggling like a lunatic.

I found it hard to get free things because they would just walk past the older people and go straight to the little kids. I had to ask them all the time, "Can I have one of those?". I got myself a little fold-up hat thing which has a penguin on it! I think my friend regretted her decision to hang out with me cos I acted so much like a child, but damnit I want my free things!

Oooh! I also saw Tammy and Olivia there. They were in the cheerleading squad. I yelled out 'hi' to them. They noticed. woo!

Blah. It's so freaking humid and warm these days. I don't like it.

Bah, my optical mouse isn't being recognised by laptop. It won't work!

Dude, there were so many spongebob balloons at the parade. I wanted one! But they cost monnies.

Wow getting a bit tired.

I'm gonna cut this short. (not that my blog posts are that long anyway).

Quite a few of the parade floats were frivolous.


Mission Complete!

Gold Class, baby!

Megs:

Woooo, got waited on hand and foot at Sky City Cinemas this afternoon. Well, I could have, if I pressed the "GTFOver here button", and summon the waiters for food, but I didn't. The seats were excellent. Automatic Reclinable La-Z boyish chairs ftw. Physics can be such a pain in the patella, but it leads to robots the shape of chairs we can bend/straighten to our will. Muahhaha.

At either rate, the theatre was much better than the movie itself, by far. We watched New Moon. I'm not one to dislike something just because it's a fad; I've attempted to read Twilight twice (and failed to complete it). But New Moon is boring, with the most cliched of dialogues exchanged between an emotionally dependent moody teenager and her boys who can't afford shirts/don't exist. Dude, people don't say things like that in real life, they say that in every old movie that's ever been made. -_-

They served Butter Chicken on the Gold Class menu though :D I didn't have it this time, but now I know I will gladly go back. For a different movie. They should, though, train their waiters better in the art of fine dining! This lady had coke spilt all over her and all this waitress did was grab a cloth and say, "Do you wanna move to that seat?" Friv-o-LOUS. Honestly, WWSD?! (Like WWJD, but with Spongebob.)

My mother has now a credible theory for my bout of throwing up last night. FOOD POISONING. :( She forgot to clean the lid of the cooker before making rice.

Ughhh

Megs:

Yuck, totally suffered from emesis, last night. Four times. (Isn't that a pretty word? I find it pretty ironic. Just as the term nocturia is pretty pretty, but I haven't suffered from that in fifteen years.) I think the cabbage I had was too rough, or hard, or something... at any rate, my GI tract couldn't hack it, unlike yours with your cereal :P Chucking up is also especially more awkward when your rabbit is running around and around your feet wanting to play, and you're just kneeling by the lav going wtf is this. Thankfully I managed to shut Leo outside before actually doing it.

Beware the dodgy cabbage, children.

PS. Just added a playlist! I added the most frivolous songs I could think of, though obviously I could do with some of yours :P

"Do you feel me?!"

Megs:

Your idea for our banner is actually really snazzy. Why didn't I think of that?! I've already drawn a sushi on the moon, but I haven't coloured it. I could do both and see what you like.

PHANTOM LIMB is like, the spookiest thing. You know, like when you've lost an arm or a leg or some other protrusion of your body and yet you can still feel it itch and it drives you insane :( Do you think it has any psychological similarity to feeling like your phone is vibrating when in actual fact it isn't? I might have to look that up. It's also vaguely similar to your hearing things. :P That's interesting, because your door is sealed off by another door with a metal frame and like a mosquito net (wtf is with that? XD). So do you imagine hearing the classical "knock on wood" knock or the rattly metal?

To your brevities:
No, I'm sorry, we don't have any more cake. It's amazing how we thought it was so huge that we'd never ever finish it so Mum gave it all away in pretty much 3 days. I only had one slice, and it was a little one! :[ Sigh.

I'm out of texts! I've yet again used up 2000 texts this month! Remember the days when I never used a cellphone and you were like wtf?! Hard to recall, right? T_T I actually have some less frivolous messages to send to people, but I have to pay now. Dude, your idea to "CANCEL TXT2000" and then "BUY TXT2000" didn't work. Luckily it renews tomorrow.

I agree with what you say about "living through your children". Actually I have a sneaking suspicion I'd fall into that category of parents if I had midgets... I'm kind of worried! Yet another reason NOT to have midgets.

I never thought I'd say this, but it's too summery today. The brightness is giving me a headache.

"I'm gonna take you back to my house. I love the feeling when you touch me baby"

Wil:

I had dreams about zombies! Except I can't remember what really happened. I think the zombies and I were trying to come to a conclusion on some societal decision about our community. Ha!

You didn't answer my cake question!

I keep hearing the sound as if someone was knocking on the door... I want my dance pad to arrive already! It has been 19 days!

and I just got your txt asking where your 'garcon mignon' is. Never mind le garcon mignon! Where are our twins?! *nomnomnomnom* but I just realised. We have different tastes... so we'll have to find twins which are intermediates of your taste and mine.

Do you know what I really dislike? Parents who try to live their dreams through their children. So counter-productive and damaging to the parent-child relationship! Boundary fail!

I keep leaving my phone in places that i'm not and when I return there'll be like 5 new txt messages from you :P Sorry!
and i'm really sorry that my replies are always vague and short and just plain boring. It's just that I try to keep them short because most of the stuff I would really like to say is just THTT and if I tried anything complicated with my phone, I would just end up in fits of rage etc (you know the story).
I need a new phone! Geezus, Motorola sucks like a vacuum.

oooh you know how you should draw the banner? Incorporate a pic of me with the Otago Uni clock tower in the background (or something else Otago related) and a pic of you with the Sky Tower or something else Bucklame related in the background! It can be the one thing that isn't frivolous and irrelevant to us and TINASB.

Woo! Mission Completed.

Thursday actually sounds like "Third-day"

Megs:

Cookies to whoever gets the reference. Well Thursday would be the third, if Tuesday was the first day. Who made Monday the first day?! If weeks are cyclic and circles have no beginning, then technically any day could be the first day.

I'm back on my old laptop, because that's the one that won't reject the tablet, because I've forgotten how to do "digital art" with only a mouse. (I put that in italics and quotation marks because digital art sounds very proud and professional, when in fact I really only frivolously push pixels around on the screen and therefore, I hope, by acknowledging that I'm not actually pro at pushing pixels around on the screen makes me sound less like a pretentious git. :P ) Or at least, my basal ganglion has rusted and thus cannot assist my primary motor cortex as well as it did prior to my tablet-using-days. Sorry, sorry, I'll shut up.

So yes, I've been sitting here for a bit now, although not actually making our banner because the tablet ISN'T HERE. (I moved it, and getting it just seems like too much effort atm -_-)


WilPharma, ha! It's a sign!! You'll be saving the world from zombies and stuff! Dude, you'd better do so well next year that you get put up a stage or two and graduate by 2012, so you can fight zombies/inferi.


Today has been an okay day exam wise! High five. I think I could have done better... but meh :P You on the other hand, couldn't have done much better. Well done! I should tell the whole world what you got in this post AND YOU CAN'T CHANGE THIS POST BECAUSE IT'S A RULE, but only like two people read this thing anyway and they're us... XD Actually, the whole day has been pretty sweet. All the good stuff arrived kind of one after the other, like our like finding out about exams, and our Rinpoche coming from America, and the arrival of the stupa to keep an old leader's ashes, though not in that order.


Okay, just shifted the laptop, and it's now sitting in front of the monitor of the PC. Haha if the PC had feelings it'd probably be offended. Might get started on banner.


Random frivolous activity of the day: Writing LOL in the sand on Brown's Bay Beach and having people going "L...O...Love?" "No, 'lol'!"

...I like that, actually, going to put it on Facebook :P

It's like, half an hour later. Still havent started on Facebook. I mean banner! awehflabef. (Been preoccupied by Facebook.) Don't know if will ever get started properly.


I tend to sound out TINASB as "Tee-nasp" in my head!

It's like another half hour later, I still haven't started, and I just scared myself with a spark from the plug.

Thursday is the fourth day of the week

Wil:

My sister made cookies today. They are SO good. They're cooling off on a rack that's sitting right next to me and I can't stop grabbing them and munching away as I please.

You should make a nice pretty banner for TINASB (pronounced 'tin-ass-bee') so we can put it up and personalise our blog a bit more.

I might go help my sister make more cookies...

Yay for exam results coming out! They make me happy! and balance everything out ^_^

I'm currently watching Resident Evil (the CG one) and the pharmaceutical company that's making the vaccine for the T-virus is called WilPharma :P WOO! XD

Fifteen minutes later:
Hi I'm back! I've just finished mixing cookie dough! *exciting*.

OMG my internet is on dial-up speed! blah it's annoying because i'm downloading games and it's taking over like two hours!

You should come over! I've got heaps of games on my computer like Game of Life and Roller Coaster Tycoon and stuff.

How has your day been today? and seeing famous people? you never replied to my txt message!

I think the word 'frivolous' was the perfect word to describe our blog.

Mission Completed!

P.S Is there still cake left at your house? :P

"Even later ramblings" second cousin.

Wil:

Lovely blog post Megs. And yes, I was quite excited about our anon. commenter. I hope they will be a TINASB regular.


I just spent the last hour with my sister and brother discussing code words to use during emergency situations to communicate our states of distress or need of help. This arose due to last weeks incident when the pan caught fire in the kitchen. When I was trying to contain the fire I realised that I would need someone else in the kitchen, perhaps with a wet towel in case the whole pan itself caught fire or the fire itself worsened. So I screamed out my brothers name in a very panicked state and all I got was a "yeah?". I yelled at him to get up here but quickly remembered that he was crippled so I yelled at him to get my sister. I hear him calling for her from his computer and he yells back to me, "she says in a minute". "In a minute" is clearly NOT an option during an emergency.
So thinking about that experience I thought that maybe it would be a good idea to have some codes in place so that if someone was in trouble and needed immediate attention, they screamed out this code and everyone would drop everything that they are doing and listen for further instructions from the person who has initiated the emergency calling.

A "code black" is the highest emergency distress call. Situations where you would use this include the house being on fire. I mean sure you could just yell "the house is on fire!", but what if the house was on fire, the ceiling was caving in and the computers looked like they were about to blow up any second? You yell 'code black' and tell everyone to get out of the house. You see, just simply yelling "get out of the house" doesn't do much because most people don't take me seriously in this house. My brother would probably be like "go away, i'm playing a game!" (ignoring the fact that the houes is on fire and the ceiling is falling apart). So by stating a 'code black' emergency, I initiate a 'no questions asked, just get out of the house' response.
We hope to never have to use a 'code black' in our lifetime.

We also came up with a couple more codes such as 'code white' and 'code plus' for various other situations such as having a break in. We're now in the process of organsing what we would do in a civil emergency such as what to do if our house gets destroyed by a tornado and where we would meet or leave notes at etc.

And since I seem to be the only one who knows first aid (which is so important) I might hold a little first-aid session for my brother and sister at some point just to teach them the basics. I'll use my 'First-Aid: Skills for Life' manual which I got from my first aid course that I did in October. You should come along!

Woo! This post has been a little less frivolous!

Mission Completed!

Even later ramblings

Megs:

EXCITING NEWS PEOPLE, we have our first anonymous commenter!!! I didn't even have to badger/coerce this person!! Wooo. And yes Miffy, you're partially right, this is indeed what happens to pre-medders, but we still have med to occupy our minds, although we'd rather wish we didn't, so we talk about frivolous things, like beavers or oysters, instead.

Anyway, Dear Wil,

Hell, why are we making rules up for each other? I vote that we can post 19824738715 times a day if we want/even physically possible/somehow end up with that kind of time.

Although actually, I kind of like the idea of a set of rules. Because list making is fun! And it gives it kind of an official and very important feel. (Omg what is wrong with me?)

The Rule Book/Page aka The This is Not a Sushi Bloggic Oath:

1. No editing of the other person's post.
(We established that at my house when we were making this.)

I hereby swear by sushi, butter chicken, ice cream and Wil's turtle that I will adhere to the above rule.

Okay, so one rule makes a pathetic list, but it's still very authorative and important. We can add more later I think.

My mother and I cleaned the house this morning!! We changed the crappy curtains downstairs so they're now not crappy. And used the vaccuum cleaner to clean away the dead insect/arachnid graveyard hidding at the bottom corner under the table. I'm regretting not taking a before/after picture earlier, because having to put the dead insects/arachnids back and changing the curtains again just to take that photo would be inconvenient.

And then we had Vietnamese for lunch.

^_^

Today I saw that lady who grabbed me by the wrist at Glenfield and started rubbing products on me when we were there (remember her?!) thrust a brochure at me and I took it. I swear, I'm always accosted by salespeople/bums on Queen Street because I pretend to look interested, or I feel rude. >_< But luckily I hurried off this time. Phew!

I'm still full from lunch. My eating patterns are whacked. I don't think I could eat any more icecream at your place, though if you have some left I'll oblige. Candy is good, I'll have that.

PS. You make my house sound unstable, crappy and ancient!! It isn't folks, okay. Just because it rattles doesn't mean we're expecting a letter from Extreme Makeover Home Edition people any time soon (they have to get back to us... :P)

PPS. Dude, you should come up with a spiffier name for your textbook, like This is Not a Japanese Textbook (Pardon, je ne pas parle francais, and that's the only French I know, except "Regarde le garcon la bas" and "il est mignon" [I'm really sorry for butchering this language with my spelling]).

Peas out!

Evening ramblings

Wil:

No there isn't a rule against blogging in the earlier hours of the day, but the real question is: are we allowed to blog more than once a day? Or is it strictly a one-blogpost-a-day thing?

Dude, you need to come over to MY house. I might fall through the floor at your house. I can feed you. However, we have no more ice cream cos we ate it all...
We have candy though. Come for candy, at least!

Yeah, next house party theme: sushi. Come dressed up as your favourite filling, wrapping yourself in a white sponge mattress rolled up in black cloth. Instant sushi costume. Our house party would be yummy in more ways than one.

You know what? I've gone completely off-course with my French grammar text book. I've pretty much ignored it for the past couple of days. I won't have it finished by the end of the month D:
Are you still doing the cover page for it? I realise that I haven't given you the text for the cover page yet. It's going to be something horribly boring like 'Le guide concis de grammaire francaise' (The concise guide to French grammar). Yeah just use that and storm up a pretty Frency cover for me :D

Megs! Go clubbing with me! Break the house rules and sneak out! :P I'll definitely get you home by 4:30am, no worries about that. Just sneak back in quietly and nobody will have known!

I wonder when i'm going to get my bond back from Carrington College. I want my money back! Apparently we're suppose to get a Carrington Year book type thing too but I'm not sure how they're going to get it from us now that we've all moved out.

I'm finding it hard to use the word 'frivolous' in my posts now. Ha! I just used it!

Mission Completed!

Early ramblings

Megs:

I was wondering if it was too early to be blogging, but since when did we rule that blog posts were made at night? :P You're probably still asleep! You should wake up and come over.

I'm sorry but I laughed when I read about succinate and that Health Sci has ruined your life. I guess Biochem has just brought out the worst in me in general. You will now see things like pyruvate dehydrogenase lurking in every corner!!! Ready to jump out and decarboxylate you. We could make that into a movie, you know. Us shrinking into midgets and being attacked by enzymes.

I can't believe I just suggested that. I think Biomed has ruined my life too.

Ha I have a tendency to do what you did with people and names. Then I remember their names like 3 days later. Fail! Be glad you're not famous (yet) or it would happen to you like every single day.

Yay for imitating sushi! If you make some you should wake up and come over and bring that too. XD I do hope the recipe is what you mean, because sushi aren't very fun to imitate, they don't make very interesting noises. :P Sorry! That was frivolous.

Sigh. I suppose I should clean the house. OR even better, I could trash it and press Ctrl+Z, and it'll just look nicer by comparison.

Had way too much food today...

Wil:

Greetings!

First off, I agree with having those keyboard shortcuts in real life. My life 'ctrl-z' button would be worn down to a knob by now, probably.
Plus, does anyone else think of 'succinyl-CoA' or 'succinate' when they see the word 'succintly'? Ha. Health Sci has ruined my life!

Today has been an awesome day. I had dinner at my friends place because he's leaving for Copenhagen tomorrow for some international youth forum on Climate Change held by UNICEF. Some other people from North Shore City Council (NSCC) were invited as they worked with him and his mother, as she worked at NSCC as well. I actually knew some of them too as I had worked with them before when I was in high school. This lady came up to me and she was all like "Wilson! It's been such a long time since I last saw you. It's good to see you!" and I smiled and said hi back but for the life of me I could not remember who she was and whether I had ever seen her before. It was rather embarrasing for me!

I had some sushi today. It was very interesting. The filling consisted of avocado and seaweed salad. It was so good. I'm going to buy some seaweed salad and try to imitate this sushi.

I really have nothing more to say. I would really like to go to sleep but I have some jobs to get done.

My post really has been frivolous and pointless.
Mission completed! :D

For the sake of summarising

Megs:

Ugh, I leave the computer for like two minutes for the bathroom and then have to tell Michelle to get off when I get back. It's like leaving your sandwich out on the deck because you can't take your sandwich indoors with you for whatever reason, birds come and attack it no matter what.

And the internet broke just now, so it's like your sandwich falls apart. Geez! Good thing this blogspace thing automatically saves its drafts. Come to think of it, lots of MS software does that if your computer crashes halfway through your assignment or something. Yay, advancement of technology! Next stop, teleports and time machines. I've taken to getting OCD and pressing Ctrl + S about ten times in a row when I'm using photoshop, just out habit. Though I tell you, every time something does crash it happens after I forget to CtrlS for a bit. Ugh.

Wouldn't it be great if these buttons were available IRL?! If you stuff up something you could be like CRAP, *restart* and go back to where you last saved! And it would be even better if other people didn't have to notice. Life would probably be perfect actually, if slightly neurotic.

(Hee, I like this, "Draft autosaved at 13.03" just flashed at the bottom).

Other shortcut buttons which should be available in real life:

Ctrl+Z
Ctrl+F (for finding stuff)
Ctrl+A
Ctrl+C
Ctrl+V (the above three for shifting heavy objects, like for when you're moving)
Alt+Tab (for jumping to different places)

ANYWAY, on blogs, which is what this post was meant to be on :P I've never blogged properly for long, because I get bored or busy and then lose interest entirely. But that was for stupid three-lined journal entries which nobody read like when I was on GaiaOnline and Myspace... ha XD I feel like I'm meant to be summarising my life in a few words! Which is hard! Though this will be easier because I'll just put what I can't be bothered texting out to you. Wil!! You still have to tell me what your freaky dream was about! and then the dream that followed that one! You're like two months overdue. Imagine if that was like a baby or something.

Was about to enter some rant here, along the lines of making our own contribution to UrbanDictionary to reverse the defamation of the symbutton of sushi, but I think that'll do. Well do you reckon we should? I suppose whoever gets there to read our entry would have to read the other one too.

Hey, what about defining symbutton? Now that's definitely something we came up with. Well I did. :P

Anyway, to succintly summarise life in a few words, or at least what I've done this summer so far... you know most of this:

-Thrown out 13kg of clothing
-Weighed self with 13kg of clothing and realized have gained 15kg minus 13kg
-Had a split-second panic about wasting time not studying
-Printed out sheet music (audition for AYO)
-Not practised for audition
-Restaurant Citied

We need a new vacuum cleaner! Can you bring one next time your over, which is hopefully soon? :P Thanks!

I had butter chicken today at Albany mall today! It should be an accomplishment. The guy at the counter told me it was "One hundred dollars". And then he said "Five dollars!" when I grabbed a straw for the drink. I said, "You're not serious!!" Ha. I hope he thought I was fooled. Tricking someone to think you were tricked... doesn't serve any particular purpose. Never mind.

This post is really long and frivolous, I should end this here. So much for succint and summarised. What's nice and conclusive? Eat your greens, midgets! Have something fatty as well, that'll clear the sinuses. Curtains mango fishcakes.

This is not a sushi blog: How its name came to be.

Wil:

The name of our blog is "This is not a sushi blog". For our sparse audience, this title is rather meaningless and frivolous (duh). One might wonder how such a dynamic duo such as the Dream Team (Megs and Wil Inc.) came about such a peculiar name for their own little spot on the internet.

Well it begins with a piece of paper on which we did our brainstorm to think up a title for our newly conceived blog. One word written down in scribbly 'Wil' handwriting was 'pushi', which was a common result of trying to type 'sushi' while using predictive txt messaging (major fail on the mobile phone companys part!). So for the majority of this year, 'sushi' was fondly known as 'pushi'.

Incorporating our love for pushi, I wanted to name our new blog "The Art of Pushi". Being the street smart boy that I am, I decided to google the word 'pushi' just to make sure that it didn't have some vulgar or foreign-ly offensive meaning that we weren't aware of. Well, it's safe to say now that Megs and I aren't too keen on the word 'pushi' anymore thanks to Urban Dictionary. Google it.
I then made the suggestion of simply using sushi: "The Art of Sushi", but then it sounded misleading, as it implied that our blog was going to be about, well, the art of sushi, which it clearly was NOT going to be. I said to myself, "Our blog isn't going to be about sushi!". It was at that point that Megs (your genius is showing..) suggested that rather trying to name our blog on what it was going to be about, we should name it on what it wasn't going to be about. So that's where the name of our blog came from: This is not a sushi blog.



P.S, Megs has the most annoying keyboard ever (well, more like annoying asian settings) back on her home computer.

'This is not a sushi blog' is born!

Wil: I'm finding this very exciting. This is a blog that will link Megs and Wil when i'm down in Fumedgm (Dunedin) where we'll share our daily joys and experiences. Our friends can also read this and see what we're up to: mainly my Bucklame (Auckland) friends catching up with what I do in Dunedin because i'm important like that :P
Basically this blog is for us to rant about crap and share art and fun things like "poetry". Well, that's more for Megs cos she's arty like that but for me, this is more an outlet to bitch about the world. It's true.



Megs: I'm hungry! :(



Wil: I really am sorry I can't take you out for butter chicken. This is a bit awkward, communicating with each other via this blog when you're sitting just 1 metre away from me. This blog will serve its proper purpose when i'm finally down in Fumedgm!


Megs: Or just at your house, which will be in about 15 minutes, or half an hour, or something.
Ha you know what we should do, we should hide when your sis gets here, though she'll probably be mad. I did that once when I was 6 and a mate came over :D That was fun! Anyway. Woo!!



Wil: Let's end this now.


Megs: Pineapple