It’s been a while, eh? And the once a week blogging? Na uh. That didn’t occur. So I thought, I was overdue for a periodic update. :] Much ramblings to be said and done.

This year, has been incredible- everything from dreams and wishes coming true, making new friends, exploring ARGs (alternate reality games for the non-geek)- and participating in them and just appreciating life more in general. The next part will be just some ramblings on current things floating around in my head.

1. Movie to see soon: Easy A!
I keep seeing the previews of this film, and I must say I really, really want to watch it. Basic plot: Girl helps boy out with problem, rumors start and she uses it to her advantage. Phew. That’s what the movie is about in 15 words.

It stars Emma Stone, who you may have seen from the film Superbad. It appears everyone who appeared in that film, has gone onto many more successful films, for example, Jonah Hill (most recently seen in Get Him to the Greek starring with Russel Brand, aka. Katy Perry’s fiance), Michael Cera (Scot Pilgrim vs. The World, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist- a good film! and Juno), and Christopher Plasse (Red Mist, the bad guy from Kick-Ass).

2. Second movie on my wishlist to see this year, is Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. :] Can’t wait, have seen some exceptional trailers and I think the movie has one of the best film posters around. Check it out:

Isn’t it haunting? Hogwarts, which for Harry has been a second home for him is being destroyed. Poor Harry, the most heartbreaking events keep occurring to him (Sirius’ and Dumbledore’s deaths, the struggle to win the fight against Voldermort)  and he keeps trudging forwards.  Hero? Yes. But thats the inner geek inside of me talking.

3. New Glee Season 2! Its on tonight, however I won’t get the chance to watch it due to commitments. :[ But from the promos, the second season of Glee, promises to be as good and maybe even better than its first season.

4. Music on my mind, currently include

Teenage Dream by Katy Perry

Mine by Taylor Swift

Dynamite by Taio Cruz

Secrets by OneRepublic

Like a G6 by Far East Movement

and Double Vision by 3oh!3 -- I highly recommend this song. Catch upbeat tune, after I heard it once I think I replayed the song another 7 or 8 times. :]

Well, as I end this blog post I won’t promise any regular updates. Perhaps more sporadic ones, until next time!

-girlwhoruled.

From this year, I’m aiming to post here in my blog at least once a week.

Stay tuned. 

PS. Two updates in one day!?! I just saw I haven’t posted my last blog, its been in draft. So happy reading!

My imagination runs away with me, the audience is left breathless.
The next stage is, this..
The difference between both worlds..
Showcase the difference
The feelings erupt spontaneously
The viewer learns about the character’s life.. and they become part of it too.

Two places I’ve been regularly going into while on the internet, have been GaiaOnline and Neopets. Yeah, yeah both have similar target markets, yet Gaia has the look and feel of being more suited to older teens. Gaia is currently finishing up its post-Halloween festivities which involves all Gaians (people/users) to choose a side- B.O.O. stands for the Benevolent Order of the Overseer aka. the good guys vs. S.I.N (Sentinel’s Infernal Nation or the bad guys). Personally, I always side with the good guys. ;D A little repetitive, but with the promise of some unlockables/prizes it’s up to the participant to decide if a little time and clicking skills are worth it.

Back on Neopets, they have a new plot called Atlas of the Ancients, set out in chapters (story mode) which lets participants follow the adventures of the good guy hero, his sidekick and smart/damsel in distress to save Neopia and its residents, the Neopians. Not too bad, colourful, bright and engaging- however a little let down due to the simple plot steps. One or two clicks to finish a stage (in a chapter) of the plot. As a Neopian who was around for the Altador Plot (Dark Faeries Plot) which involved timing, and various steps to follow, it was one of the best plots the Neopet’s team came up with. Overall, not bad.. 4/5 stars.

Until next blog post (which hopefully won’t be another three weeks :p) — Sparkles. xx.

Another late blog post.. yeah, yeah I know.

Soo, it is Friday, the 16th of October.. 8 days after the 8th of October- where I predicted Cafe World users would jump Restaurant City users in one week. The result? Cafe World sitting on 17.6 million while Restaurant City is lagging behind on 16. 7 million users. Oooh.. the people at Zynga, behind Cafe World must be doing several happy dances around their office.. they’ve only opened shop for around two weeks compared to Restaurant City which has been open for 2+ months. Over the 8 day period Cafe World users jumped from 8,586,747 users to 17,665,512 users- an increase of 9,078,765 users and on average 1,134,846 new users per day. Incredible. O.o

However, I must admit- I’m slowly getting tired of Cafe World. Maybe I became too addicted and suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I also jumped ship, I’m playing more of Restaurant City, its more easier to get through the levels however you also got to take care of the staff. The staff back over at Cafe World are robots, I tell you! No rest break, they don’t eat and they don’t need to be paid. Mwahha. I’m using my poor Facebook friends as free slave labour.

I got out of the house the other day and went shopping for the whole entire day. Always, always the best exercise. (: I hope they consider it as some type of sport one day, I mean.. the lengths people will go to, to claim the best shopping bargain. For a long time now, I’ve been trying to find some type of cute locket and managed to score one for $3, in a shiny gold colour. The silver lockets though look the best. My friends should just have a sign hanging around their neck’s labelling them “shop-a-holics”. I wouldn’t be surprised if they one day bought out the whole mall. Plus the wind wasn’t doing us any favours either, another dust storm soon seems possible. Only 3 days left of my holiday and I’m still furiously catching up with my work. Ugh. It should be illegal to have to do work on your holiday. ’till next time!

-Sparkles.

BE WARNED: SPOILERS for the movie, “Knowing”

I finally sat down and watched the movie, Knowing, which stars Nicholas Cage last night. Ever since I’d seen the previews on tv and missed watching it at the movies, I have really, really wanted to watch this movie. The plot opens in 1959, where a girl places a piece of paper filled with numbers and other drawings into a time capsule. In 50 years time, the time capsule is to be opened at her school and future students will each receive a letter, containing a drawing of the future, from students 50 years ago. The protagonist’s son, so cliche, receives the paper filled with numbers and the protagonist starts to figure out the numbers may stand for something. The numbers listed, detail the co-ordinates (longitude and latitude) and date (d/m/y) of every major disaster that has happened, and will occur.

From Wikipedia.org, “The 23 Enigma refers to the belief that most incidents and events are directly connected to the number 23, some permutation of the number 23, or a number related to the number 23.” Numbers have always held intrigue in society, take for example the movie The Number 23, with Jim Carrey. He becomes obsessed with the number 23. And you know what? It’s amazing the amount of things 23 can be linked to:

- Humans have 23 pairs of chromosomes.

- Titanic sunk on the 14th of April 1912= 1+4+5 (month)+1+9+1+2 = 23

- December 23, 2012 is when the Mayans said the world would end

- The letter W is the 23rd in the alphabet and has 2 points down and 3 points up

- The first Apollo landing on the moon was at 23.63 degrees east; the second was 23.42 degrees west.

The number 23, is the real-life equivalent of the list of numbers, that predicted the dates of disasters in the present and future in the movie Knowing. But hey- it could just be pot luck, that the number 23 is connected to many events and situations. But if you regularly start seeing the number 23 everywhere in your life, you could be contributing to your own Observer Effect (from Wikipedia.org “refers to changes that the act of observing will make on the phenomenon being observed.” By just always trying to find the number 23 in your life, it then just pops up often. So don’t get too obsessed over the number.

Well back to Knowing, good plot, good cast, worst ending. Aliens, end of the world scenario, oh, and the protagonist doesn’t save the day. Pfft, we all harbour a little hope inside that even though sometimes in our big, bad world a little good can still persevere. On an interesting note at the beginning of the film, the protagonist discusses if life was just a series of chemical accidents (no purpose to life) vs. there’s a purpose to us being here, right now living. I’m still sitting on the white picket fence deciding what side I’m on. But theres no purpose in driving yourself crazy, just trying to decide what your answer may be to the above question.

Remember, time is the greatest teacher, it kills all its students. No matter the answer- maybe its just better,

…not “knowing”. ;D

Other sources I got information on the number 23: http://forum.realsurf.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10077

One way I tackled this problem is to write on yellow sticky notes the night before. Usually some type of advocating to my future self, to do something besides use the computer and internet message. Basically a short, sweet guild trip. I then place the obvious yellow sticky note in a place I’ll see it aka. on the computer, somewhere either on the monitor or on the computer tower, near the on button. 

I haven’t developed any other good methods yet which will help drag me out of the immersive  cyberspace world. Nagging friends/parents work about 75% of the time, yet two reasons why this method isn’t the best is: ONE: it isn’t self-motivated, which decreases the chance of me getting off the internet and increases the chance of an argument about the computer/internet in the near future. And TWO: The other party must initiate the nagging, which also again could lead to an argument with a parent, spouse, friend or pet that hasn’t recently been fed.  (By the way, I don’t own any pets, just to let you know. I barely keep myself in good condition, let alone some poor pet.)

I would love to hear any of your solutions to my problems concerning computer/internet addictions. Leave a comment below!

–x Sparkles.

P.S. Sorry no pretty pictures with this blog post. I promise if I get time to fix it up soon!

I’ve always loved Polaroid pictures, I think they capture an ionic abstract moment in time and preserve it forever. The viewer is then always actively encouraged to then ponder the image, make up any story with their imaginations. As people too often say, “A picture tells a thousand words”.

Even Breathe Me by the singer Sia, uses a bunch of Polaroid pictures in her music clip, to merge moments in her past with her current reality. It’s an absolutely enchanting song, just listen to the words. If you want to watch:

In other news, NASA is bombing the moon with missiles. To find water. Seems like a good plot for a movie/novel, I must say the people at NASA have a lot of time on their hands.

“And at the last possible minute, the missiles were launched into the cloudy night sky. Spotlights flashed around the compound, shadows running away in fleeting glances behind. If everything went according to plan, the moon would be completely destroyed and Earth would turn into the new breeding ground for chaos, which laughed maniacally. And no one would be the wiser, species would flourish, others die out. Yet he didn’t seem to care, the one person who could have stopped all this from occurring. No, he did it for money. Money is the root of all evil, he mused..”

However I was also pondering about the disturbance of the moon. These missiles are going to take out a portion of the moon, when they crash land, sending up a massive dust cloud. Will this have any impact on earth? Or is it an insignificant amount? Will the moon’s gravity be affected and in turn earth’s volatile oceans? Well, for one I will be very interested in what NASA finds out and achieves.

-Sparkles.

P.S. Restaurant City users have risen to 16.2 million, Cafe World users to 10 million users. ;D Will we see a take over soon enough?

One thing that occurs regularly in my life, is that if I see something that I can fix, I fix it up until it’s all running along smoothly then leave it. I leave it because generally it becomes overbearing, boring or tedious. For example, my love of real-life simulation games as I have mentioned in a previous post, I try to make heaps of money and quickly progress through the game but when everything is just perfect or near perfect, theres nothing worth going to the trouble to upkeep. The point I’m trying to make is this blog, well I’m trying my best to .. ok, fine not really- yes, I have been slack about posting. Thats going to change, well hopefully.

Yesterday I went and saw, Fame, you know, that movie-based-on-the-remake-of-the-original movie, movie? It was okay, maybe 1 1/2 stars out of 5. The story revolves around 6+ people and follows their ups and downs during their four year stay at an elite New York Performing Arts School. The story moves swiftly, and I think because the film focuses on too many people, the moral of the story is lost. Just under two hours running time, it’s not enough to cover all of these characters- which have so much potential! You would think that after two hours of watching a movie you would learn the characters names and ambitions, yet again, everything isn’t given.. depth.

Fame just appears to be the three High School Musical movies squished into one movie. But it’s not all disappointing, its got a good soundtrack with catchy songs such as Baby Remember My Name, Try, Out Here On My Own. As well they used the song Black and Gold by Sam Sparro, which appears be a perfect song for a dance routine in the movie. 

“Remember my name,
Fame!
I’m gonna live forever..”

On an upside I saw the film preview for the movie, The Box. Okay, so it doesn’t have an original name, yet the plot behind it is unique. Starring Cameron Diaz, it’s based on a couple who are struggling with financial problems. The bad guy, the typical black, pinstriped suit with the bowler hat comes along and offers them a solution. They are presented with a box, with a large shiny red button in the middle. If the couple chooses to press the red button, someone they don’t know in the world will die because of their action. On top of that they get a million dollar payment. If the red button isn’t pushed…*suspense* I won’t tell you… check it out,

P.S. I think I’ll keep an eye on Cafe World’s Users- it jumped from about 6 million to 8,586,747 million users in about 1-2 days. At this rate, they’ll probably jump Restaurant City Users (currently sitting on 16, 171, 098 users) in perhaps a week at best.

Lets see what happens.

I’m curious.

-Sparkles.

** I tried to make this blog post longer than usual, to make up for my lack of posting!