A city of the Land of Lost Delight

eccentric_eye @ 2006-07-14T02:13:00

2006-07-14T06:13:31Z

I need to see this movie, and soon. I'm experiencing a Johnny and Orlando withdrawal.

EDIT: I saw this movie on Friday night. I found it kind of confusing coz I couldn't follow the dialogue, and some parts of the movie I found were stretched too long. But overall, it's not a bad movie - how can any movie with hot guys be bad? :P My fave part of the movie is when you see Orlando's wet shirt ripped off his back... I almost drooled. As hot as the guys were, I still prefer them with shorter hair, clean cut and, well, clean. (Not that it'll make my mind clean; it's already corrupted for good).

r.a.n.d.o.m.

2006-07-10T21:50:42Z

Some random pics I haven't gotten around to posting yet:

Saw this metal pole (not a stripper pole, no) when out for a walk in the neighbourhood with my friend. It doesn't look like a chimney or a satellite thing at all, just some weird metal pole. I attempted to take a couple of pics of it, but both turned out to be blurry despite my efforts to keep the camera steady! My friend's reasoning was that it was an alien transmitter! The inhabitants of that house were transmitting 'top secret' info to the aliens from outer space! And it has a shield surrounding it that prevents humans from taking clear pics of it to forward to the government. A plausible reason, that. You decide if this reasoning is bullshit or not.

Spying on the backyard neighbour. Well, I was actually testing how good my camera zoom lens were, and how clear the pics turned out. My conclusion: It brings out detail clearly. For example, look at the neighbour's man-boobs. With a shitty camera, you wouldn't be able to see it, would you? No, I think not. I sure hope the lawn mowing exercise will help eliminate the unsightly man-boobs (or moobs, as a friend of mine would say).

A motorbike front wheel in front of my old elementary school. I actually tried to have the entire motorbike fit in the picture, but I pressed the camera button too early. At least the biker didn't beat the crap out of me for trying to take a picture of him! And he didn't try to hit on me either. I think. The biker looked at me, but he had on his helmet and sunglasses so it was hard to tell. I think he was old too, so I hope he didn't try to hit on me!

In a pet store. The angle of the fish tank makes it look like a filmstrip, which I didn't notice until afterwards. I find that accidental pics usually turn out interesting.

If only the words of this t-shirt actually applied to me. Maybe someday. :P I should have gotten this as a present for a certain friend of mine who actually has hordes of men after her, lol.

I thaw a wild wabbit! Not one, but two! When I showed the pic to my mom, she freaked out and thought the pic was taken in our yard and that the rabbits were eating her plants. These rabbits were actually at the end of our street, near the park, which is their 'hood.

Can you identify this Kryptonite-coloured substance?

polish hooker

2006-06-19T04:33:59Z

I was bored and was looking through some of the pics I had saved on my computer and came across a picture I intended to photoshop. Once I saw the picture, I remembered a whole bunch of things about a certain horrendous landlady and decided to incorporate it as a part of the picture once I photoshopped it.

Messa, if you're reading this, make sure you're in a place where ppl won't mind if you laugh when you see the picture (assuming that you will find it funny). I have no idea how close of a resemblance the photoshopped picture is to the actual person; it was just a wild guess on my part. Here's the pic:

Sad life she leads, eh? Come halloween, she will get the fright of her life!

Btw Messa, let me know how close I was to depicting her! I can't remember if DID had pale blue eyeshadow of the '80s or not...

childhood stuff

2006-06-17T05:54:33Z

Sometime last week, I looked through the clutter in my room and hunted out all my childhood things that brought back memories, mostly good ones (since my selective memory chooses to forget the bad ones lol). I've taken pics of some of the stuff I found. Please don't be alarmed by what you may see - just remember that it's all part of the past and that I'm not what I used to be, thank god. So here goes:

All my pogs that I still have. The bottom 3 are the slammers. I wonder how many Leafs fans would hate me for having a Sens pog (middle). In my last post, I mentioned the Pocahontas pogs, and how much I hated her and the movie (except for the racoon character who was cute). I assure you that I don't have the same issues I used to have. Now, I feel indifferent to Pocahontas and am totally bewildered as to how I ever came to hate her with such a passion. I love Lion King (the first ever movie I saw in the theatres!), and my fav pog is the "Ed" one - he was one crazy ass hyena, lol.

Some cards that came out of the cereal box long ago that I still have - the bottom is the racoon from Pocahontas, and there's Pop from the Rice Krispies. Why did ppl love Pop so much? I loved Snap best. He had a nice chef hat. I hated Crackle though (here I go again with the childhood hatred) because he had ugly hair (wtf?!) - it looked like a yellow tomato splattered on his forehead. Whatever happened to the Snap!Crackle!Pop! commercials? Or Tony the Tiger (they're grrrreat!)? Corn Pops, Toucan Sam (Froot Loops), Honeycomb, Apple Jacks, or even Pop-Tarts? I thought those commercials were corny back then, but now I actually miss them... Anyway, see the top card is a Pink Ranger card - one of those changer cards where the picture changes when you angle it differently. The picture changed from that cheesy fight-stance to Kimberly's face.

A Transformers sticker!! This sticker is older than me! Also found were some ninja turtles stickers that were in this old Photo Album I used as a sticker album.

Some worthless cards (either baseball or some other stuff) and an Animaniacs toy and Sonic the Hedgehog toy. I remember thinking Sonic was cool, even though his spiky mane didn't make sense to me (it continued on forever) but he had cool powers.

Prepare yourself for more childhood issues:

Yes, Sailor Moon and Hello Kitty. I hated both as a kid (oh, do I wonder why... /sarcasm). If I hated them, then why do I still have these stickers in such good condition? Well, my friends loved both, and these stickers were given to me, so I thought it polite to keep the stickers... er, not really... I guess I wanted to be "cool" for having shitty stickers. I dunno, who the hell knows...

This is the sticker album (a separate one from the Transformers sticker album) that holds the Sailor Moony and Hello Shitty stickers. This album was given to me on my 7th birthday party by the first guy I ever liked, and probably the first guy friend I had. I wonder where he's at now...

My sticker and pencil collection. I collected all sorts of things including rocks and pebbles, stamps, beads, and keychains. My keychain collection is the only one I keep up with now. I have keychains from many places all over the world, most are gifts from ppl I know that travelled to different countries/cities. The collection continues to grow every now and then.

Top right: seashells from Goa, India back in 1996. The broken one is the first ever seashell I picked up for my collection, and probably the prettiest. A few years after returning home, I dropped the shell by accident and it split in two. Below the shell is a casino coin. At the bottom are glow in the dark stars and planets I used to have on my ceiling. And the most embarassing for the last - the two pink objects - one comb and a tiny suitcase. Now, since I hated Pocahontas, Sailor Moon, Hello Kitty, and numerous other characters, you expect me to hate Barbies. Right? Right. After the age of 4, thanks to my older brother's enlightenment, I have hated barbies (and wanted to butcher their hair off. violent child, wasn't I?). However... (brace yourself)... those two pink objects are barbie objects. Yes. I kept the suitcase because it was handy to keep little things in (like fake jewels, little notes on pieces of paper, etc.) and not because I harbored a secret love for barbies underneath my violent dislike for them. The little comb was kinda cute so I kept it. I liked tiny things so that's why I kept the comb, and not, once again I repeat, because of any supposed affection of barbies or barbie products on my part. Seriously.

Lastly, one of my favourites. A shot glass (jealous much, Messa?) for Tequila. See, it does say Tequila on the glass! Not only that, it says "Mexico". ¿Magnífico, no? No, I don't use this shot glass for alcohol consumption (I use another), but this merely is just for decoration. The other item is a little bottle with a penny in it. My late uncle gave me and my brother one each many years ago (I was about 6 or 7). On our walk home from our uncle's, I dropped mine (I insisted on cradling it in my hand rather than handing it over to my dad for safekeeping) and it shattered to a million pieces. Needless to say, I was devastated because it was the one cool thing I had. Soon after we reached home, I badgered my brother to see if he would give me his. After thinking about it, he finally relented and said that I would be able to have it - for a cost of either $1 or $5, I can't remember. Either way, he ripped me off. Nice brother, eh? :P lol, now he won't sell me stuff anymore (because I'm not stupid enough to pay him for anything anymore); he's likely to give it to me free of charge.

Time to end this post now.

the good ol' days

2006-06-14T20:40:50Z

Yesterday night, my brother and I were talking about all the shows and fads that were popular way back in the 80s and 90s. My brother remembers more 80s stuff than I do, but I do remember some things like watching the Knight Rider, He-Man, She-Ra, Skeletor, a bit of the Transformers, Alvin and the Chipmunks, the Ninja Turtles, Sesame Street, arcade popularity, cabbage patch kids, Mr. T, etc., etc., etc.

However much I remember stuff from the 80s, I recently had a realization that I am more of a 90s kid. I came to this realization after looking over this meme:

You know you're a 90s child if:

You've ever ended a sentence with the word "PSYCHE!"
(I do remember ppl using that word, but I’ve never used it)

You can sing the rap to "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air"
(only after the part “my mom got scared and said ‘you’re moving with your auntie and uncle in bel-air’” god, I love that show. must burn a copy of the dvds!)

You remember when Kurt Cobain, 2Pac, River Phoenix, and Selena died.
(nope)

You've worn skorts and felt stylish
(ew, no. other girls wore it, but I thought they were so fugly)

You yearned to be part of the Baby-Sitters club.
(YES! I read as many of the BSC books as I could lay my hands on! I remember wanting to be Mary-Anne [her boyfriend sounded so cute] and Dawn and Stacey and Kristy and Claudia… lol, all of them in little ways, really. hmm, I also thought they were a little too mature for their age. parents would let 13 yr old girls babysit their children? come on. I still own a couple of those books… And I also remember reading the Baby-Sitters Little Sister series)

You use to love playing with your MY Little Pet Shop
(Sounds vaguely familiar but I never owned one… I remember really wanting that toy science lab thing where you could create cool concoctions in beakers…being a mad scientist was cool back then)

You know that "WOAH" comes from Joey from "Blossom" and that "How Rude!" comes from Stephanie from "Full House"
(no, I don’t remember Blossom, but I remember Stephanie)

You remember when it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons.
(hell yeah!)

You had the hots for Sam from Clarissa Explains it All.
(who the hell is Sam?)

You got super excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school.
(don’t remember Oregon Trail)

You wanted to change your name to "JEM" in kindergarten
(don’t remember JEM either)

You remember reading "Goosebumps"
(yeah man, and I still have some of the books. I also remember watching the tv series lol. R.L. Stein looked ugly in the intro to the show)

You danced to "wannabe" by the Spice Girls, Females: had a new motto, Males: got a whole lot gay-er. (so tell me what you want, what you really really want.)
(ew, no, I hated the Spice Girls. I also hated Hanson and the Back Street Boys too.)

You know the profound meaning of "Wax on, wax off"
(hahah, yeah I loved the Karate Kid movie… also remember reading the book)

You have pondered why Smurfette was the only female smurf.
(vaguely remember the Smurfs, but I think I was too young to wonder why)

You took plastic cartoon lunch boxes to school.
(yes, a pink Muppets lunchbox. I still have it somewhere in the basement)

You remember the craze then the banning of slap bracelets and slam books.
(I love slap bracelets! I wish I still had mine… but I don’t remember slam books)

You still get the urge to say "NOT" after (almost) every sentence...Not...
(still do that sometimes)

Where in the World is Carmen San Diego? was both a game and a TV game show.
(OMG, I loved that show!)

Captain Planet.
(I wanted one of those rings!)

When you were little you watched Erueka's Castle and Fraggle Rock almost every day.
(nope…)

You knew that Kimberly, the pink ranger, and Tommy, the green Ranger were meant to be together.
(yes. I was upset when Kimberly left – no one else was good enough for Tommy. I hated the replacement Pink Ranger coz I thought she was trying to steal Tommy, lol)

You remember when Super Nintendos became popular.
(nintendo all the way! SNES is nothing compared to neil’s nintendo.)

You remember watching home alone 1, 2 , and 3........and tried to pull the pranks on "intruders"
(only remember the first two, the 3^rd one sucked ass. the 2^nd one was cool coz it took place in NY and in an abandoned house. but the 1^st is a classic. too bad macaulay culkin isn’t that cute anymore)

You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up"
(yes, ppl used to say that all the time lol)

You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
(not quite)

Two words... Trapper Keeper.
(why does this sound familiar?)

You ever got injured on a Slip 'n' Slide
(lol no, but I’ve always wanted to try one)

You wore socks over leggings scrunched down
(hell no. but I did wear leggings… and stirrup pants. oh, how I used to love those pants, lol)

Miss Mary Mack, Mack, Mack, all dressed in black, black, black, with silver buttons, buttons, buttons, all down her back, back, back" SHE ASKED HER MOTHER MOTHER MOTHER FOR FIFTY CENTS CENTS CENTS TO SEE THE ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS ELEPHANTS JUMP OVER THE FENCE THE FENCE THE FENCE he jumped so high high high he touched the sky sky sky and he didnt come back back back til the forth of july ly ly he jumped so low ow ow he stumbed he's toe oe oe and thats the end end end of the elephants show ow ow
(I think I skipped to that song, but other ppl sang it, not me)

Crocadillie oh my! Croc croc croc! Hey chiko chiko, chiko chiko chock! Follow, follow... follow follow follow follow ONE TWO THREE!
(I totally remember that, but can’t remember where from)

You remember boom boxes vs. cd players
(lol yeah!)

You knew what it meant to say "Care Bear Stare"
(hahah yeah, I think it sounds gay now)

You remember Alf, the little brown alien from Melmac and Vicki the Robot from "MY Little Wonder"
(Alf! that ugly brown thing!)

You remember New Kids on The Block when they were cool
(er, no)

You knew all the characters names and their life stories on "Saved By The Bell"
(I remember that Slater’s hair was so ugly. and Screech was so weird. I think I thought Zack was the nicest looking guy on the show. but I don’t remember their life stories)

You played and or collected "Pogs"
(I still have my pogs! Mostly Lion King and Pocahontas ones. I hated the Pocahontas ones coz I hated her for some reason)

You remember Strawberry Shortcake when she didn't wear jeans and she wore a dress.
(I hated her. with or without a dress)

You used to pretend to be a MIGHTY MORPHIN Power Ranger and you owned a Skip It.
(I wanted to be the Kimberly, the Pink Ranger, coz I thought she was so pretty. and I thought the Skip It was cool and wanted one, but I feared that I would trip and fall on my face)

You had at least one Tamagotchi, GigaPet or Nano and brought it everywhere
(I had a Tamagotchi! omg, those things were so popular)

You watched the original Care Bears, My Little Pony, and Ninja Turtles
(yes to the care bears and ninja turtles)

All your school supplies were "Lisa Frank" brand.(pencils.notebooks.binders.etc.)
(I had those little tiny sized notebooks of hers, still do somewhere I think)

Yikes pencils and erasers were the shit.
(hahah yeah and I remember the commercial for it… I only had one Yikes pencil, but the eraser didn’t work properly)

You remember when the new Beanie Babies were always sold out.
(yeah… I never saw any interest in them though)

You used to wear those stick on earings, not only on your ears, but at the corners of your eyes.
(yes! on my ears and face, not the corner of my eyes)

You watched Legends of the Hidden Temple.
(nope… but I do remember watching Kung-Fu: The Legend Continues)

You remember a time before the WB.
(yes… but I also remember watching the looney tunes on the WB… stupid company’s gone downhill now)

You've gotten creeped out by "Are You Afraid of the Dark?"
(oh, I loved that show… but the Tales of the Crypt Keeper creeped me out even more)

You thought it would be so cool to be Alex Mack.
(not really. I only remember watching one episode of that show, when she turned to water or something)

You know the Macarena by heart.
(yes, the dance, not the song)

"Talk to the hand" ... enough said
(LOL yeah)

You thought Brain would finally take over the world
(I think I hated him, he creeped me out with his overlarge head. my god, what kind of kid was I, hating everyone? I probably had issues…not that I don’t anymore lol)

You always said, "Then why don't you marry it!"
(hahahha, no, but my then friends used to say it all the time in a nasty tone)

You remember when light up sneakers were cool.
(oooh, I wanted a pair of those L.A. Gear shoes)

You remember when you rented VHS tapes, not DVDs.
(oh, yeah. thank god for dvds!)

You remember when gas was $0.95 a gallon & Caller ID was a new thing.
(yeah! caller ID is the greatest invention. and i remember a time when gas used to be $0.48 a gallon!)

You remember when you recorded stuff on VCRs & paid $3.50 for a movie.
(hahah, I still record stuff on VCRs… and I do remember cheap movie tickets)

You remember when you called the radio station to request songs to hear off our walkmans.
(I think so…)

Post this in your blog if you remember these days.

No pics today, but next time.

soon the darkness came and overtook our senses

2006-06-11T04:38:04Z

Inside Joe Badali's, an Italian restaurant downtown T.O. - this is the wall behind me from where I was sitting, as reflected by the mirror in front of me. Blurry, but nice colours. The yellow is a picture frame containing lemons (real ones?). Next to it are boxes of pasta inside another picture frame, and beside it are canned tomatoes, I believe. The pasta and canned tomatoes seemed dull next to the lemons. And I like the colours of the little overhead lamps.

Candle on the restaurant table. It kinda looks like a gas stove, with the bluish tinge at the base of the flame.

The ugliest, most interesting floor with mismatched colours. That's my foot at the bottom of the pic, along with my friend's feet on the left (which reminds me of a nurse's feet, dunno why). Why the hell does it look like I only have one foot? One foot with only four toes...does my camera view me as a 4-fingered cartoon character? Come to think of it, why do a lot of cartoon characters have less fingers than us humans do? Perhaps as an indication to little kids that those characters aren't human? To separate what's real and what's not? Maybe the characters are sexless mutants (created by sexless mutants themselves)?

I really MUST go to the CN Tower at least once in my life. Seven years - and $10 - ago, I was supposed to have gone there and tested my fearlessness of heights. I find it a sad thing that a Torontonian like me has never been to the CN Tower, especially since I've lived in the city all my life. Now, the tickets to the tower are like 25 freaking dollars apiece! Still, maybe one of these days I'll go and be scared shitless of the Glass Floor.

The Wayne Manor!!

No, not really. Although with those pillars, it's likely. This is the Union Station, a very nice building... it could very well be the Wayne Manor though, it's a huge building, and has an underground tunnel leading to the... subways (not the cave, unfortunately).

Inside the Union Station. On the left and right are booths where I presume you buy tickets for train routes to other cities in Canada. The right of the picture shows a stairwell leading to the Batcave...

hot.hot.hot.

2006-06-11T00:05:44Z

My name is Melinda, and I have a problem. An addiction. For the past year or so, I have been addicted to this... bottle of liquid that burns every time I taste it. It's a good feeling, this burn. My tongue burns for minutes afterwards, and no amount of water gulps can cool it down, but it's still worth it. I always consume copious amounts of it, and I go through bottles quickly. Surprisingly, my mom doesn't mind that she has to buy more bottles every time I finish one.

Naturally, now that I have a camera, I had to take a picture of the label of the said bottle. Here's what it looks like:

Yes, hot sauce. Authentic hot sauce, made from scotch bonnet peppers grown in Jamaica. This hot sauce can be found in your local supermarket (hopefully). Now, that's hot.

Blog #1

2006-06-09T18:40:28Z

So I now have a photoblog. One where I can post random, eccentric pictures along with my thoughts on them.

I dedicate this blog to Messa, who insisted that I create one (I suspect because she was sick and tired of me emailing pictures to her. Fear not Messa, I shall not spam your Inbox any longer, thanks to this blog). This is Messa's hand:

I also dedicate this blog to the future subjects of my photos that I have not yet captured on camera. I should also mention that any posts with people pictures will be friends-locked due to privacy reasons.

Here is a picture of the door to my room, of what appears to be an incomplete Canadian flag. It's really one half of what used to be two flags.

It is a sticker that I put on my door long, long ago when I was once a gullible young child that loved every country in the world (save for Dumbfuckistan). But as I grew older, I learned the secrets of the country that opened my eyes wide. In hatred, I ripped off the flag of a country that many so loved dearly. A country that I do not care for any longer. This country goes by the name of Cornia. Cornia, with its flag of a corn-on-the-cob in the centre. What a stupid, shitty flag. A stupid country with a stupid name. Oh, how Eyeleen, Hag-Eye and all those eye folks would hate me for saying this. Not to mention El Tonne Poudlard and his superior attitude.

That's all for now. More to come!