Love(less).

Short post.

As you might've noticed, the blog has been devoid of any relationship posts lately. Blame this on me being out of school for the last couple of weeks, and seeing friends a lot (who have been away for at school too for a while) instead of socializing avec des garcons.

I am kind of still emotionally preoccupied with the guy from school whose moved back home for the summer, so that's partially to blame for my lack of mingling with the opposite sex. But mostly, I miss my good friends and I'm enjoying seeing them again! :)

That is all.

Favourite wastes of time

Admittedly, I am a huge procrastinator. Not huge physically, obvz, but huge as in "my capacity to". I can procrastinate for even the simplest tasks. Like planning my course schedule for next year, or doing the laundry. Anything. In fact, I have such little determination that I have missed classes because of my laziness/ability to procrastinate getting ready or finding my purse/book bag, etc. It's really that bad.

For anyone who is not as adept as I (I'm not proud of this, at least not totally) at procrastinating, here are some of my favourite things to do that facilitate my procrastination. Enjoy (as much as I do)!

1. Team Fortress 2. Seriously, I've mentioned this before (I think), one of the BEST VIDEO GAMES EVER. I'm not a big video game fan, but this is so addictive and fun and not as nerdy as might be expected. According to Wikipedia, it is a "team-based first-person shooter multiplayer" video game. Basically, there are several classes (medic, soldier, scout, spy, heavy, pyro, demo, engineer, sniper) that you can choose to play, and your team competes against another to complete missions (capture the flag, standing on checkpoints, etc). It's simple in theory, but amazing. My favourite class is spy. You get to sneak around and fulfill any childhood aspirations you had to be James Bond (becoming invisible, sapping sentry guns and backstabbing opponents). Sounds great, right? Youtube it to check it out.


2. Shopping. This is self explanatory, I think. While commuting to school, I have the option of subwaying to several major shopping districts. Needless to say, I have been late (and/or missed) to class because of this. However, I have a great closet to show for it :)
   
3. Wikipedia. My intellectual side likes to read and research things. My lazy side hates doing school-related reading. Wikipedia allows me to learn without scholastic pressure!


4. Youtube. I love finding funny things and forwarding them to friends. Like, Charlie Bit Me. Comedic gold!!


5. Running. This is my healthy waste of time. So, technically, it's a complete waste of time (my heart and thighs :( appreciate it).


6. Television or movies. I won't lie, I'd do these things even without motivation. I love television. I'm not one to watch just for watching, but certain shows I can schedule my life around. And I love movies.


7. (Sort of) Blogging. I haven't gotten that into blogging yet, but I can see this happening in the future... :P

That's all! How do you waste your time and/or avoid completing projects?

Daisy for "Daisy".

For all who might be curious, my pseudonym was inspired by a perfume I came across and basically love-at-first-smelled in Sephora (love!). Not surprisingly, I'm talking about Daisy by Marc Jacobs. It smells delicious (not delicious like food, but delicious like you wash your laundry with Gain and you can't stop sniffing the linens).

According to Marc Jacobs (the brand, not man), the fragrance is meant to be "happy and youthful". Its top notes are wild strawberry and red grapefruit with floral notes to follow (gardenia, violet, jasmine), finally, its base includes musk, vanilla and white woods. It's not overly sweet like many perfumes that are fruity or citrus-y. Overall Daisy is a sheer, "sunny" scent that isn't overpowering or headache-inducing. Its my daytime scent that I think is suitable for class, shopping, and basically any other casual affairs.

Plus, the bottle is cute, right? I'm not a huge perfume fan, but I lurvvve Daisy. I'm trying to think of other scents that I've bought into... Light Blue (by Dolce & Gabbana), is all that I can readily recall. My preferences are a bit juvenile, I'll admit, I generally prefer light, citrus or floral scents that don't give me a headache (most perfumes make me dizzy :( ).

Sooo, what are your favourite fragrances? Have you ever tried Marc Jacobs' Daisy?

Karma

I was at the supermarket yesterday buying supplies for my parents' (second) barbecue of the summer. I couldn't find fresh corn in the vegetables and fruits section, so I asked one of the attendants. As he turned to answer, I realized I knew the guy. It was the cool kid from my elementary school, that all the girls wanted to date and all the boys wanted to be soccer buds with. Hahahaha, anyway, he recognized me and asked what I was doing with my life, I told him briefly about my schooling, etc., and he told me that basically, he worked full-time at the supermarket. OMG, sometimes, I'm handed these types of really enjoyable moments I wish I could stew in.

I wouldn't be as proud and cocky about it if we hadn't been in the positions we had been in several years ago in elementary. I was in a gifted program during the last years of elementary, and had to transfer to a different school. As a "brainer" (this was the clever slang the normies, :P, used), I was made fun of and excluded just because of the class I was in. Vegetable Boy was among the people who acted superior and overall douchey to all of us (the gifted kids). Needless to say, karma's awesome (even though this isn't real karma, that is to say this isn't how karma really works).

It's funny though, looking back on my experiences and the non-violent bullying I faced, I'm generally glad about how my life has turned out. I mean, as shitty as I might do in life (with grades and what not), at least I can expect a semblance of a successful future. Come to think of it, of all of the kids from my elementary school (outside of gifted), I only know of a couple who've gone on to any type of post-secondary school. Not to say that in order to be successful you must go to college or university, but these were kids who always ragged on us for being academic, etc. It's just funny how life turns out.

PostSecret.

Cinematic experiences.

I love movies. Like, a lot. Actually, I'm a bit of a snob about my movie preferences. It goes so far as that I have certain friends and people I know who I completely ignore in terms of their film suggestions (because I know that their favourite films are She's All That or Step Up). I'm willing to watch cheesy, non-thought-provoking things and really enjoy them, but I cannot stand movies that aren't aware of their inanity.

Take, for instance, Honey (Jessica Alba, dance film, dance teacher overcomes sexism and misogyny to raise money for her dance studio and the impoverished kids in her neighbourhood). If it were to accept that it offers nothing intellectual or moral, I would not have such a grudge against it. Instead, it insists on itself like it can provide some profound epiphanies about life and self. No, and no.

Things I hate:

• Dance movies. Footloose, Step Up, Save the Last Dance, Honey (: !), and so forth. These are all ridiculous. The acting is worse than mediocre, and the plot is completely reliant on the choreography (which is at the best, sub-par to a well-directed/choreographed music video).
• Teen comedies. Namely: She's All That, Jawbreaker, Say It Isn't So. There are good ones (Clueless, more for nostalgia than actual quality, I think; Superbad; Mean Girls).
• Napoleon Dynamite. Overrated, overacted.
• "Spoof comedies": Scary Movie (all of them), Not Another Teen Movie, etc.
• Many other things... movies that take themselves too seriously, movies with singers or models as headliners (when they can't act, which is usually), movies with the Olson Twins, etc.
• The Notebook. On its own, it's a decent film. Taken with the hype it comes with (it came out when I was in high school--filled with girls who'd give anything to have a paramour like Noah, *swoon*!), and suddenly I loathe this film.
• Donnie Darko. Not as profound as one would make you believe.

Things I like:

• Robert DeNiro. The Godfather, Taxi Driver, Cape Fear, Awakenings. Brilliant actor, in my opinion (and the Academy's, and Scorcese's, and a boatload of actors who credit him as an influence; so if you disagree: Suck. On. That.)
• "Subtle" humour (as in, not slapstick or sitcom-like comedy): Juno, others I can't think of.
• Satire (Borat!)
• Judd Apatow (and related films): Knocked Up, Superbad, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, 40 Year Old Virgin, etcetera.
• Dramatic films that aren't just pretentious. Atonement, Shindler's List, The Pianist, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
• Fight Club, Snatch, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, Almost Famous, American History X, Scarface, Psycho, Sid and Nancy, No Country for Old Men, Enchanted, The Silence of the Lambs, The Shining, Trainspotting, Chicago, A Streetcar Named Desire.
• A lot of other films that I've forgotten for some reason.

Anyway, what are your favourite movies? Why do you think that people still watch films like Scary Movie?

Cheers,

Daisy.

Steaks and corn(y conversations).

Apparently, a string of decent weather days forces my family to react by having a barbecue. Food was good, family was the usual (stressful, passive aggressive, nostalgic, nice to see-ish, etc), and I feel blech from eating it.

I hate that, but lately (as in, the last five years), I've been too self-conscious about what I eat, when I exercise, my caloric intake and how many I've burned on the treadmill, etc. Not good, and really annoying, I think. If I conversed with my friends about my self-esteem and lack thereof, I'm sure they wouldn't take it well. My buds are not that feminine supportive. Really, it's like having a group of guy friends that would prefer to call me a dumbass and punch me in the arm. Oddly, I think I prefer this, because it stops me from getting mopey. I can just blog it out, and move on (usually). Sooo... I've blogged it out. And, I'm over it (-ish).

Hmmm. What else to say. I went shopping with an acquantaince but wants-to-be-my-friend from my university, and it was, aside from boring, depressing. She lives fairly comfortably, and I have student loans and tuition fees to care about. Needless to say, after visiting Lacoste, Holt Renfrew and a plethora (pfft) of other stores that I can only afford when my parents are funding the shopping spree, I was less than chipper (on the inside!) =( Also, I hate the inane conversation that most girls (that I know, who aren't in my close circle of friends) like to occupy themselves with. How many times can you say, "No, I do not think that such and such is into you." or "I think that top is a bit too "Dirrty" for daytime". Seriously.