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

Back and aching all over.

I've been mostly incommunicado to even people I know in real life who've messaged me or something recently (unless they were directly involved with what I've been doing this week), so sorry, you guys. I'll get back to you.

I'm going to bed now and hopefully I'll be awake and less in pain. :P

-- rachu

One of my lit teachers sent an e-mail plugging An Education and telling us about how it's currently in one of the cinemas in Singapore, which is awesome, because a) it's out here!!!!! b) I know someone who's plugging it!! c) IT'S OUT HERE!!1!

I'm thinking about going alone some time next week, hee. woohoo.

In other news, SixtyOne.com is still one of the best music experiences I've had in a while. Please check it out. I've found such great music from the site.

Speaking of music, one of the songs I've been looking forward to listening to ever since I heard it would be appearing on Glee will probably be released in a little more than a week, and I'm ridiculously excited. Even the 30-second preview makes me excited.

-- rachu

Hey, guys, this site is really awesome:
The Sixty One

Kind of like that Pandora thing that people seem to like, except a) not US-only, and b) with a lot more of the "i've never heard of this person/band before" variety. Just by trying to fulfill one of those random quest-things I've found three or four really pretty songs, and I think I'm a little bit in love. I love discovering music this way.

(When you sign up, you can say falulatonks referred you to the site. Because she did.)

-- rachu

OK, friends, my dad has given me a day to come up with one book that I want to read so he can order it cheap off an Indian website. :P I can't think of anything - most of my book reading/shopping these days is browsing on the spot and finding something interesting.

SO. Rec me something! Anything! Doesn't have to be something you think I'd like, necessary - but something that you liked/loved. Hit me.

Please?

-- rachu

There was a four-hour break between our morning assembly and the time I have to go set up for the open house at college (and the open house ends at 9 at night), and I actually came home to watch The Office.

Worth it. :D That was a lot of fun. I'm probably going to stay off the flist and message boards and all because I don't really want the inevitable negativity to be cramping my love for it (because even the flist is pretty regularly negative now, and I usually like reading all of it), but - yeah. Just know that I'm happy with it. And I'm smiling still now. I only ever cry at depressing things, so now I'm just grinning stupidly, because that wasn't depressing! And I am totally satisfied. Thank you, show. :)

I should have left three minutes ago to get back on time, but I don't even care.

-- rachu

P.S. That Jim/Pam proposal .gif has been posted three times in my flist, and I'm just going to add to that joy.


ETA (SO LATE.) Please tell me you've seen the 58 second video blog of adorable here. Hey, you guys, that is so tiny and fleeting but they will be that casually in love forever now!

ETA AGAIN The little thing about driving stick made me pause the episode so I could let out a sigh. Oh, these obstacles.

BECAUSE I'LL NEVER GET THERE ON TIME Oh hi, Robert Pine, Chris Pine's father/Jim Halpert's father.

Just finished watching The Brothers Bloom - the only thing I've wanted to watch that I actually got to watching this weekend, go figure - and loved it. ( cut for some rambley joy for film )

I love this! I understand Paper Moon is a fabulous con movie, too? When I get the time for that, I'm watching it. (It's after Coraline and The Thin Man right now.) So glad to have movies. Fandom is generally pissing me off.

The last time I felt about as dorky as I do now, though, is when I came out of Monsters vs Aliens saying the thing I loved best about it was its central, strong female character that made human mistakes but felt good things and had good friends and a good family and always did the right thing, and wasn't that a lovely person to put on-screen for girls to see among the dominant male characters and rather shallow female characters that are pretty much monopolising the kid-targeted entertainment today?

But whatever. Going to bed.

-- rachu

ETA On a note that you guys are much more familiar with: thinking about HIMYM this week has made me realise that Ted Mosby might kind of be made for me, and now I'm worried that everyone I meet thinks I'm douch-ay, because by far the most disliked character on the show is Ted. Right? This entry may be demonstrating more of my likeness.

And WTF is up with my sentences in this entry.

172 communication majors at the University of Quebec @ Montreal strung together this epic single-take lipdub of the Black Eyed Peas’ hit single “I Gotta Feeling” soup-to-nuts in all of two hours.

Dare you not to crack a five-minute smile.

-

I just love stuff like this. :D

-- rachu

Psych Theme Song
BOLLYWOOD-STYLE
here.

askjkasda next week we get Bollywood Homicide!!!1!

Oh my God, Psych, this is why I love you so much. You rock, don't ever change.

Dad: You know what happens at proms?
Bianca: Yes! We'll dance, we'll kiss, we'll come home; it's not quite the crisis situation you think it is!
Dad: Kissing, huh? That's what you think happens? Well I've got news for you - kissing is not what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long!
Bianca: Can we for two seconds ignore the fact that you're completely unhinged and discuss my need for a night of teenage normalcy?!
Dad: What's normal!? Those damn Dawson's River kids sleepin' in each other's beds and what not?
Bianca: Daddy, that's so not -
Dad: Listen, I'm down, I've got the 4-1-1. And you are not going out there and getting jiggy with some boy, I don't care how dope his ride is.
Bianca: Ugh!
Dad: ...momma didn't raise no fool.

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I love this movie. Only now do I realise that pretty much every other thing in this I enjoy a lot. And it's funny! And I even love Cameron and Bianca and Cameron's friend Michael in this - all of them work so well for me, especially compared to the way they're written/cast/played in the series. D: Ah, damn. I'll keep watching the show, because at least it's entertaining. I just skip all the non-Kat/non-Dad bits.

Beautiful music video, for Oren Lavie's Her Morning Elegance. It's stop-motion and I love it. :D

So tired. Pretty soon I'm going to be cranky. :O I'm not very good at being cranky, though.

-- rachu

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