What you see on my profile is mostly what you'll get, fandom-wise, except there's the occasional aside of rambles; a lot of them. I tend to beat around the bush, maybe.

TWSS.

Most of my entries are friends-locked because I'm embarrassed by the extent of my dorky-geeky fangirliness, sorry. :P If dorky-geeky fangirliness that embarrasses appeals to you, then go ahead and friend me. (:

Comment and I'll probably add you as a friend straight away. I'm easily swayed like that.

-- Rachna / rachu / falulatonks / moofoot

If there is one person or more on your friends list who makes your world a better place just because they exist and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

I will be out the rest of the day, I just wanted to show off my icon to give you guys an idea of what I've done in the last two hours since I woke up at 6.30. (too early.)

I know. It's amazing.

-- rachu

I stepped out of the bathroom tonight and saw my parents sleeping in front of the TV in the living room and my sister sleeping in bed listening to an audiobook on her iPod. It was only 10:27 by my watch, so it was funny/freaky.

Anyway, congrats, guys; after months of prodding (especially from people in school, too, who have never told me to watch anything), I've finally watched at least two episodes of Gossip Girl. I'm mostly worried that I won't remember a lot of their names, heh. I'm withholding judgment till I'm done with the first disc, but this looks entertaining. and crazy.

Ugh, I feel like I've lost all credibility. I'm going to watch Arrested Development before I go to bed. :P

-- rachu

1. My love for The Office episode this week can be summed up into three-ish words - active!angry!Jim. ♥ And damn it, Michael Scott in casual wear. When's the last time we saw him in a t-shirt? because I remember going a little heavy on love then too. Probably because it connects Michael to Dan from Dan in Real Life, and you know how much I loved Dan.
   
   No, seriously, Office was great. ( a bit more loving. ) I'm a little excited because they seem to building up to the height of an arc, and they're doing it great so far.


2. I never have anything to complain about for 30 Rock. Liz's joy from Jack taking her microwave idea was delightful. More work-related, behind-the-scenes related stuff!! I laughed a lot in general. For some reason seeing Liz!Leia again wasn't as great for me, but the awesomeness of Dr Spaceman never goes away ("between my medical career and this job"). And the Scrabble tiles! And the cussing (which I want to see un-beeped on DVDs). And "we should make t-shirts!" A+, guys.
   
   snoorella and I both felt awful for Liz by the end, though. She puts up with a lot and does a lot more and she gets called the c-word behind her back!! aw. D: I guess she gets a BFF out of Jack, but still: give me a hug, Lemon. and some of your clothes.


3. After seeing Jon Stewart + Jim Cramer on The Daily Show (which I loved mostly for the way it was presented - methodical and not finger-pointy and logical; argument construction points!), I watched Jon Stewart on Crossfire, so it's been a good day.


4. Our college turns 25 years old this year (I know, young!) and our sports day was a big deal because of that. People from the first batch to the last came to run around the campus with a torch passed on from year to year (o symbolism!) and the last principal did the final run and lit this big torch-thing on fire. It was very cool, even if original, because of the effort put in and the colossal scale it was played up to. The sports themselves were diverse and interesting. I didn't want all the games but I had a blast. We even went to the old IP classrooms to waste some time together for a while; that was fantastic. ♥ Fun!


5. Ricky Gervais talking to Elmo made my month. Adorable and hilarious - and their laughter!!

very sleepy, damn it.

-- rachu

OK, so there are reasons I still love Kelly Clarkson (despite the wane in interest in the last year or so) and one of them is her live performances. She is wicked awesome - and she hasn't changed a bit! A cover of Bette Midler's Stuff Like That There on American Idol eight years ago (here vs her Chivas live on tour last year (here) - I mean, seriously, look at those expressions. It's ridiculously fun.

I may or may not have banished PE to the same circle of hell as maths. I don't remember. Speaking of hell, I have the beginnings of a cavity. Damn.

Monty Python - Four Yorkshiremen
Rowan Atkinson - Welcome to Hell
John Cleese and Rowan Atkinson - Beekeeping

Oh, those Brits.

-- rachu

I'm very, very happy that TV show I was least excited about today was the one that left me the most satisfied and smiling. :D The Office's Lecture Circuit was one of my favourite episodes in such a long time - Jim and Dwight! Michael and Pam! Pam and Karen! And the other characters in the background but still present and used really well...wow. How fantastic. :D ( cut for lengthier lovin'. (twss) )

30 Rock was great, as always, but I feel like I'm getting repetitive saying things like that all the time. I had a problem, though - every time Jack's storyline came on I wanted to see what was going on with Liz and Jon Hamm, and every time Liz/Jon Hamm came on-screen I wanted to see Jack, so I was really torn. Alec Baldwin is unbelievably, undeniably fantastic. The last scene made me too happy. YAY. 'Ship, come forth! This episode was magnifico! Who cares if that isn't a word!!

Bones, you disappointed me. Grave Digger was such an awesome, affecting, thrilling thing, and you took that away from me! I was happy twice during this episode: whenever Booth called that ghost dude "corporal" (corporeal, get it?!?!) and at the end, for that damn one second hug. That was fierce, man, why didn't it go on longer?!

I was watching a few episodes of S1 of Arrested Development again and I was thinking about how freakishly well the show'd been cast. It's amazing. (Also, I love episodes when Michael and Lindsay and/or GOB get along, because I love how well they actually work as a family, which is surprising for how screwed up they can get.)

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I don't have anything else to say, except I've recently started making tea on my own, properly, and I'm finally starting to make me some really good tea. Really good. Seriously.

-- rachu

A long list of short things I loved from The Office - Stress Relief - ( behind the cut. )

Done. I wouldn't call it my favourite episode of all time, but I think this is the first time since Weight Loss or so that I was happy or in love with enough things about the episodes to quote it a lot. Oh, I miss you, show; even when you're right next to me.

First day of orientation and I'm bored already - mostly because I know this college and its campus, its rules, its cheers, its mass dances. I led the cheers and mass dances so many times last year. I led groups to stations where we played very similar games, because I was a freaking Orientation Group Leader. What am I even going to the orientation for?! I want to skip right to five weeks from now when everyone will start the cheer/mass dances without hesitation. That first time it happened with my old classmates, it filled me up with joy. fr srs.

I'm so exhausted, though. Bad thing about knowing everything is how committed I am to bringing up the volume and the enthusiasm of our little sub-group - I bet my throat will be hoarse by the end of tomorrow, at the very least.

I tripped over an uncovered drain twenty minutes into the day and scraped my knee. Everyone thinks it looks gross, but it really doesn't hurt that much - only if I get up after keeping my knee bending too long, or vice versa. I really hate injuring my knees. D:

-- rachu

Uh, 07V14 - on the off-chance that you will read this entry, I will miss you. I will miss you like I will miss food if I was ever kept away from food for years - which is nonsensical, but you know, this is me. I'll miss the lame jokes and strange lessons and how enthusiastic we are (though we always lose, heh) and the strangest in-jokes ever (poking games and tapping-on-the-other-shoulder games and never letting me sit next to certain people because we won't ever stop laughing and wind-blowing jokes/other scandals and all that crap). I'll miss our classroom and our chalk and our ever-missing markers and always over-flowing dustbins. I'll miss coming to school early and sleeping for forty minutes or finishing homework and group copying sessions. I'll miss the perpetually late birthday presents (love the earphones and the book voucher, btw) and eating in class. Mostly I'll just miss all of you.

The last two years have been so ridiculously fun that I'm actually getting mushy and sentimental about people I've known for only two years - and I don't get mushy and sentimental at all often. So thank you. Or maybe not, too, because this is the first time I've gotten sappy like this in ages, least of all on LJ.

I have nothing else of importance to say.

I find it so funny that ohnotheydidnt has found new limits to LJ.

-- rachu

just go right along - you'll start happening, too.
oh, the places you'll go!

Ridiculous amounts of love to everyone who wished me a happy birthday, and then some more to imprinted_soul, cold_campbells, snoorella and ten_tickled who promised me a shower of rainbow fish because she wished me a happy birthday a day early and then delivered.

You guys are too awesome - for walking around Orchard Road for four hours and having lunch with me and giving me a DVD of shows that I haven't watched in years, for living continents away and still wishing me a happy birthday in three different ways and then writing a list of reasons I'm "awesome" and still proclaiming it's early/not enough, for writing a list of 17 things you hate/love about me and trying to be equally nice and obnoxious, and for drawing me stuff. This year feels nicer already somehow, and maybe it's because I feel like I've got more friends than I've ever had. ♥

Doesn't watching Falling Slowly in Once feel epic and life-changing? Also - if you haven't heard of kinetic typography, watch this: Who's on First? It's both hilarious and great to watch.

I got the interview for the humanities scholarship I applied for - it's one week away. I'm terrified, of course, because I haven't got a clue what to do for it, but other than that - I'm excited. I like when things happen.

I've had a good day!! Here's hoping for a great year.

-- rachu

do you dare to stay out? do you dare to go in?
how much can you lose? how much can you win?

P.S.: Neil Patrick Harris hosting Saturday Night Live on January 10th? HELL YES, OMG.

...when i start feeling sick, i just stop being sick, and be awesome instead."

This is so freaking awesome, especially since gift-giving to LJ friends is pretty much impossible because I'm a couple of continents away from almost all of you. Taken from cold_campbells -


Christmas Gift Toy & MySpace Layouts at pYzam.com




I haven't found an upload of Psych yet. Darn.

-- rachu

HOLY CRAP I MISSED A DEADLINE FOR AN APPLICATION to something I really, really want. Or have considered for ages and would probably be stupid to not try for, despite minimal chances of getting in because of less than ideal results for subjects that don't really concern what I'm trying out for (but none of this makes sense to you!).

Something else I'm going to have to bloody beg my way into. Damn it.

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I have read Gone With the Wind and I think I want to watch the movie. Mostly I can't believe I haven't.

I'm reading Alexander McCall Smith's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency! I like it. The character and settings are very warm.

I really like Scream from the High School Musical 3 OST. Kill me. D: The sets for this one was cool, though. And Troy didn't prance around like a crazy person.

-- rachu

I watched Penelope last night. It's absurdly adorable (which is the best way I can think of to describe it) and I was pretty much grinning throughout. There was a break when Penelope ran off and I thought, "oh, it's going to be all predictable now" and then Reese Witherspoon came in and I love her, so it continued being awesome. And then there was James McAvoy with a piano and this hat (and this hat-putting-on motion which was hot), so, you know. It was fun times, yoz. I'm not taking it off my iPod for a while to come.

Let's hope prom goes the same way tonight ("fun times, yoz"). Ugh, I don't understand why everyone wants me to look girly. :P I'd wear a suit if I could, truly.

-- rachu

hee, this is pretty tame.

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No Chuck this week, how disappointing. I suddenly have the urge to continue watching Mad Men where I left off (after the first episode :P).

I'm going to study today. :D Important exams tomorrow, see.

-- rachu

Initial Employee Transfer thoughts ( behind the cut. )

I am in love with the fact that Will Arnett being in 30 Rock is no longer a big deal for me - he's just there and being awesome and he's a great part of the cast and he never feels like a guest star but I'm still happy to see him on the show. :D

-- rachu

edited to say: My love for Steve Carell is completely justified by this video - singing Let My Love Open the Door. Ignore the Dane Cook and look at Steve being sad and sweet and strumming on his guitar. ♥ I adore Steve Carell as Dan. I love him completely.

House this week was great. I think. :P Am I crashing the love train?

I loved the pants off of the acting, because LE and HL were fantastic this episode, and I actually liked Thirteen this episode, too, which is a big deal. The kiss was hot; I adored the way he kind of stammered "I don't know", looking miserable and lost. I wanted to kill the baby mama at the end, woohoo. But I couldn't really get into the episode because I really did close my eyes for most of the House/Cuddy scenes because everything seemed to be setting off a disaster -

- and I think I wanted to close my eyes for most of the rest because who the hell shot this episode?! I like this kind of camerawork in small amounts - actually I love it -and I love any shot that brings us up close to Hugh Laurie's blue blue eyes, but the camera kept moving and moving and I hated, hated, hated the excessive close shots. I like this kind of camerawork when it's used right. I like watching the movement of the entire scene in general, in any scene, in any show, which may be why this bugged me so much, but really, they zoomed in on the faces so much. Not even the faces, just the eyebrow-to-chin. And I hated it. It threw me off practically the entire episode. In fact, it opened with ten billion head shots and I sighed and resigned myself to forty minutes of artsy-hopeful-shots. I really liked Taub and Thirteen in the first half of this episode, for some reason, except I also had to hate it at the same time because of the way the scenes in the car was shot. All those random extreme close-ups, ugh.

The colouring in the patients' house worked for me in the cold open, but I hated it when they went in later because I would've liked it so much better if the set was in those tones, not the way the camera was filtered - that way when Thirteen and Taub were exploring the place it would've looked neater and less obvious. I liked some of the long shots, I enjoy those; I liked the occasional (very infrequent) well-placed movement, but everything else I hated. Even the long shots bordered on "a bit much" by the time we reached the end.

I know I have absolutely no right to trash talk cinematography, but basically, the camerawork annoyed me to pieces. And I hated it. It may also be why I didn't really fall for a majority of the episode.

Do all of my friends hate me? :/ I'm sorry. I liked the episode, really I did...acting-wise, ship-wise (hell yeah), and a-couple-of-characters-wise. Otherwise...camerawork. D: Really, if you couldn't tell, the only real complaint I have is for the camerawork.

Someone mentioned somewhere that one thing that'll come out of this season is Wilson and Cuddy knowing for certain that House loves them. If that's the overarching theme this season, I'm all for it. If it works well, I will worship the ground this season airs on. Meanwhile, someone teach the director how to tone things down. Keep things at a minimum, guy. What I mean is: ENOUGH.

-- rachu

I didn't post this before I left, so -

to all the Indians (/half-Indians) in my flist, happy Deepavali/Diwali! :D Have a BLAST. hahhahahhhahhahahahahaha.

to all the people who know what Deepavali/Diwali is, happy Deepavali/Diwali! :D

to everyone who caught me in my pre-trip giddiness - I had full reason to be excited, and I haven't had any reason to be disappointed yet. :D

and to all the non-Indian Singaporeans out there, you're welcome for the public holiday.

I'll be back in a day. See you then!

-- rachu

but i got a good feeling from holly." ♥

I was apprehensive about Baby Shower after I watched the promo for it, because it was pretty over-the-top, but everything toned down considerably after the cold open, which I was happy about. A lot of this week's episode struck me as totally right somehow - though not all of it - and I enjoyed it. :D

Michael/Holly is kind of the most adorable thing in the world - the way he hugged her and the way she kind of teared made me want to hug both of them, too. GAH, why so cute, people?! HAVE BABIESSSS. Please? For Michael? :D

Michael with babies is adorable and I really want to see Steve with Angela's baby now because of the stories she said about how he holds out her finger to Isabelle and she grasps it and he goes "AAHHHH YOU'RE HURTING IT" all fakely and fun and she keeps staring at him because he likes making faces at her egh so cute and how about Isabelle making yakky noises to John all the time like they're best friends or something and EGH SO CUTE I'm turning into KELLY.

The Jim/Pam tag was wonderful, too. I was expecting angst after the various depressing comments I found, but this was perfect - sweet in a sad sort of way, except not really, because even when they're out-of-sync they're too in-sync. Three reasons (of many) why people should not be worrying about them -

• "Is it just me, or are we off today?" No miscommunication problems there, my friends.
• The 'incident' at the laundry - Pam remembers it as the time "that crazy guy pushed (Jim)", and Jim remembers it as the time "that crazy guy yelled at (Pam)". Aw.
• "I miss you." Pam wants to be "home". Aw.
• (bonus!) THE ENGAGEMENT RING THAT SHONE WHEN SHE WAS FOLDING LAUNDRY. IT'S ON HER FINGER.

You worriers are crazy. And, you know, there are people who are just searching for reasons to say they'll break up, which is just sick and wrong and mean and I hate you. I hate you all.

Is it just me or are Andy/Angela getting a little cuter? Damn it.

I'll be missing next week's episode and won't watch it for another four or five days. Because I'll be in INDIA. OMGYAY.

-- rachu

Quick, background things about Weight Loss on rewatch -

( fireeee...D guy! )

I really like the episode. I'm not saying Season 5 will be great, but I am saying I am sad we have to wait an extra week to see if S5 is really going up a little.

-- rachu

Michael: "Does anyone have any idea what the number one cause of death is in this country?"
Dwight: "Shotgun weddings."
Jim: "That...is not what they are."

Oh, God, Dwight is planning on killing someone. At their own wedding.

It's late, I shall head to bed. Negative energy about the premiere will not harm me, because I have hot kisses in the rain.

Went to Nutti's today for dinner. We locked ourselves in her room and watched both the HIMYM and The Office premieres and grinned madly. I should really try to find a way to make episode-watching a group-type deal.

-- rachu