It Started with a Journal

If anyone is on Dreamwidth, my name there is sarea. I actually always use DW to post and just crosspost to LJ because LJ is still where most people congregate. But I'm going to start including a DW footer with my posts, as perhaps eventually I'll just migrate there. Frankly I like a lot of things about DW more than LJ, not the least of which is that their entry length limit is a lot higher than LJ's. I don't really give a hoot about any of the recent changes LJ's made, but a lot of other people seem to, so whatever, I'm flexible. I probably should have just gotten sarea_okelani there too, to avoid confusion, but I've always wanted just plain sarea. LJ's "sarea" has made a total of two posts since they created the journal in 2001, and hasn't even made a single entry since July 8 of that year. -.-

This is one of the most heartbreaking things I have heard about recently. I can't help but follow all the reports about it, because it makes me so, so sad and angry. RIP, Danny Chen. You seemed like one of the best sort of people the world should have.

Jade and I want to see this movie "Haywire" that's coming out in another week or so. It's like Alias meets Salt meets Mr. & Mrs. Smith (well, the trailer's opening scene) meets City Hunter! Many A-list male celebrities... though the female lead not as much.

I've watched 2 more episodes of American Horror Story. Unfortunately, as corianderstem warned, it's already gotten away from being freaky and is on to being kind of hokey. I watched the "Halloween" two-parter, and it felt more like Buffy meets the X-Files than anything truly scary (perhaps appropriate since one of the writers was James Wong). Very different from the first 3 episodes, which freaked me the hell out.

The bad news is, apparently there's 12 cases of drug-resistant TB in India and this is how mankind will perish. The good news is, while I'm still alive and able to play Pandemic, I now know what to name one of the diseases.

I had the BEST dream last night. I dreamed that I was Ga Eul. And you know what that means, right? I got to be with Yi Jeong. It was AWESOME. You envy my brain.

Happy 11/11/11! And it IS happy, because it just so happened to fall on a Friday, which makes me very happy indeed. I am done with The Longest Week Ever!

Last night, adelagia and I saw a pre-screening of The Muppets movie, and you guys, IT WAS SO GOOD. I was totally not expecting anything much from it, despite knowing that Jason Segel was nutty over it and he wrote (or rather, co-wrote) it. It was hysterically funny and I loved all the cameos. Personally, I'm not a Muppets fan. The Muppets and Sesame Street were both very pervasive things that I couldn't help but be aware of growing up, but I never watched either of them with any regularity (consequently, I often get them mixed up; case in point, after the last Muppet was introduced, I was thinking, "But there's still so many of them that aren't here yet... oh wait, I guess those are Sesame Street characters"). Still, I really enjoyed the movie, and I bet if I were a Muppets fan, I would have enjoyed it even more. As with Pixar films, I thought the material could be appreciated by adults a lot more than kids (there were plenty of kids in the audience, but they laughed at things like a Muppet running into a door, rather than actual funny things >.>).

I finished Goong. It had great promise but ultimately I feel lukewarm about it. It had such good leads and such a good guilty pleasure storyline, but it focused too much on unimportant storylines and didn't take full advantage of their utterly adorable heroine and hot hero. Unlike It Started with a Kiss and Boys Over Flowers, they seemed to actively resist putting their two leads together, focusing instead on keeping them apart. I totally understand that to a certain extent, because if you put them together too early, you don't have a show anymore. But ISWAK and BOF both toe that line MUCH more successfully, giving us plenty of the main pairing while keeping them believably apart. Goong, on the other hand, actually gave us very little of the leads together, and kept putting them with other people, to the point where it was hard to believe that they would feel something more for each other than those other people. I mean, why would they? They're opposites and "don't get along," but we don't actually get very much of them getting used to each other's eccentricities, the way we do in ISWAK and BOF.

ISWAK is still my favorite Asian drama. I also really like BOF, but the trouble with that one is that I enjoy the subpairing much more than the main pairing, and obviously there's less of the subpairing. Kim Bum and Kim So Eun are so ridiculously attractive and good together (see my icon!). ( A few more images. )

I am attempting to create a setup where I can connect my netbook to my big TV, so that instead of having to burn DVDs, I can just watch stuff through my computer. Usually I transfer video files to DVD because I'd rather watch them on my TV than having to sit at my computer. But once I get the right audio splitter, I will be DVD free! Only problem at that point would be that I wouldn't have a remote or anything, and the cable is too short to have my netbook actually near me when I'm watching TV. So if I want to adjust the video in any way, I have to actually get up and go to the computer to do it.

Tomorrow... Puerto Rican food with corianderstem! Woot!