I am back at work after three long days. Three very productive days. I usually update like once in two days, and I couldn't last week due to technical errors with FF. I was a little flustered at first, only because I was eager to post ( and get reviews of course..I live for reviews..can you believe this? Its..uhm addictive), but in retrospect, this inability to upload had been a blessing actually because I got to review my latest chapter, give it a critical read like a beta ( I should have but I don't) redo it and come up with the next two chapters simultaneously. Wow. The amazing mysterious ways in which our brain works. I swear I was just a medium, and someone else was channeling me to write the story out...whatever it is, Im just happy to be the first person to read the story..every time. And like my fellow readers, I laugh and cry and get frustrated just the same.
A movie later and lots of coffee and earl greys later and me writing away on my kitchen counter in my jammies no less - 3 chapters for the week! Whoo hoo. Now I can afford to actually sleep early this week.
Speaking of reviews, I had my first review of chapter 23 ( 0r 34) from Zulfiqar.Ohmgd. To say that I was stoked is putting it mildly. It's one thing getting reviews from any number of people ( who I really appreciate just BTW), it's another when you kinda follow their work as well. I felt so honored. Now if i can just get Oracle Vas to review mine, I'll probably combust. ( maybe not a good idea..)
Right..enough crap for the day.
Vamplover signing off and wishing that all the girls out there had a wonderful women's day. ( Isn't it a tad discriminatory though? We actually need a woman's day? So the rest of the year go to the men then???)
xoxoxoxo
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Friday, August 7, 2009
Ahahhaha..
I finally got a review for my first smut. I must be a bad writer because no one reviewed it..it's not too graphic or it's too graphic? I wouldn't know now would I? Perhaps I was too technical. Oh well..no matter, while it was quite fun writing it, I couldn't quite bring myself to using certain words..I don't know why that is..reading it from the many "smut" stuff I have been reading on FF is obviously very different to actually penning it. Probably a result of the subtle brainwashing I've had from the way I was brought up ( not that I am complaining of course)..where certain words are just deemed ermm...sinful.
My sister reviewed my 2nd baby - Tripod. To say that I am elated is understating it. She liked it so I am overjoyed! this is impetus to write more.
It's a long weekend. Hopefully no more margaritas this weekend. My liver has no tolerance for alcohol I have to say..one and I'm dizzy.
two and I start talking shit.
best margarita I've tasted in town: Cubana, Rafiki oh and how could I forget: Polana ( I got pissed at first round)
Shittest so far: Cape to cuba.
I better go now..
the pen and papers are calling.
I finally got a review for my first smut. I must be a bad writer because no one reviewed it..it's not too graphic or it's too graphic? I wouldn't know now would I? Perhaps I was too technical. Oh well..no matter, while it was quite fun writing it, I couldn't quite bring myself to using certain words..I don't know why that is..reading it from the many "smut" stuff I have been reading on FF is obviously very different to actually penning it. Probably a result of the subtle brainwashing I've had from the way I was brought up ( not that I am complaining of course)..where certain words are just deemed ermm...sinful.
My sister reviewed my 2nd baby - Tripod. To say that I am elated is understating it. She liked it so I am overjoyed! this is impetus to write more.
It's a long weekend. Hopefully no more margaritas this weekend. My liver has no tolerance for alcohol I have to say..one and I'm dizzy.
two and I start talking shit.
best margarita I've tasted in town: Cubana, Rafiki oh and how could I forget: Polana ( I got pissed at first round)
Shittest so far: Cape to cuba.
I better go now..
the pen and papers are calling.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
A buaya is a buaya is a buaya.
I have a problem with people. I put too much faith in their goodness too easily.
You want to be hopeful that people are naturally inclined to be decent and honest people.
Because that's how we should all aim to be shouldn't it?
And yet...
And yet..
you come across people who just ..what can I say, yank that hope away from you. You can't help but feel that maybe this crap about keeping "hope" is futile.
Life is. ..full of shitty people whether we like it or not. we must just deal with it as best we can and hope we don't bring ourselves to those levels.
You want to be hopeful that people are naturally inclined to be decent and honest people.
Because that's how we should all aim to be shouldn't it?
And yet...
And yet..
you come across people who just ..what can I say, yank that hope away from you. You can't help but feel that maybe this crap about keeping "hope" is futile.
Life is. ..full of shitty people whether we like it or not. we must just deal with it as best we can and hope we don't bring ourselves to those levels.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Back to school
Whew...
haven't seen this website for ages.. I guess I have been penning somewhere else..
I used to love to write. Even with my hideously crap grammar which I have recently realized is one of the many silly phobias I have. Probably why I only wrote for my own private viewing before ...kesian kesian.
Anyway, one my favorite haunts on the WWW is fanfiction.net. Thanks to JAG shipper - i found this site some 9 years ago. Do I feel like a loser because I ship TV/movie romance?No.. my thoughts and feelings are mine, so whatlah if I do..we all do silly stuff to entertain ourselves. This happens to be mine.
So anyway, ever since I saw Twilight ( Although to be quite honest I loved vampires eons ago with Lestat and the gang), i got hooked on the Cullen family. So baliklah to FF to get my weekly dose of TWI based FF stories. I tell you, there are so many talents out there... I've cried buckets and laughed so hard reading FF stories by 14 year olds, 30 years olds 50 year olds...
I'm a movie buff. I collect DVDs so i can watch them again and again...( Obsessive much?) SOme of the recent movies I recommend aside from Twi ( only cause Jasper is so smokin in that baseball scene..damn and Pattinson does Edward's sex hair sooo unbelievably well..sends shivers down you know where...lol) is the movimentary( is there such a word?) MILK ( Franco and Penn kissing you say? Oh God..I never thought I'd say this - because I'm straight and I avoided Brokeback Mtn for obvious reasons, sheesh..their liplocking scenes were *squee*-a-licious. I couldnt help but go aaahhh everytime they traded spit. Such is the power of penn hey? He was good there and so was Franco. Oh yes.. I musn't forget - franco's backside..totally worth my R45 ticket!! ), Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Anyway, I'm digressing. I was talking about writing.
Yup, thx to Twilight, I have been visiting FF.net again as a reader, finding my angst, romance, dare I say it - smut *gasp!*, humor , friendship fix in the FF twi world.( some are so much better than the books..I should know, I read it in one go, and the books are part of the 'benda benda cantik' sitting on my bookshelf these days)
I feel compelled to cite this powerful quote below:
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Imagination put to words. That to me is where the power of written works lie. Watching a movie, you get the audio and visual input simultaneously. Not to say that movies made aren't great works of art themselves. They are. But written imagination is well simply magical. How with the tweaking of words put together in a sentence or a phrase, then a paragraph can evoke such 'real' emotions from the reader. Magic.
I was so blown away by this that I've gone back to school. Not literally.
I am back in writing class 106 with Mr Nama or maybe it was English form 5 with Cikgu Uzaimah.
flexing my writing fingers with my cheap BIC black pen and from time to time, the keyboard. Writing. and absolutely loving it.
Grammartical errors be damned. ( but I'm learning too! so not all is lost). So far I have written approximately 72 0000 words...and going strong, I think. I am sure Mr Nama would be proud, even if my text contains a lot of expletives. (wooops)
of course, it helps when you write about things you like...and i happen to like the very thing I am writing about..hehehehhe...nasib baik lah.
visit me : http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1972933/vampirelover44
signing off now,
vampirelover44.
haven't seen this website for ages.. I guess I have been penning somewhere else..
I used to love to write. Even with my hideously crap grammar which I have recently realized is one of the many silly phobias I have. Probably why I only wrote for my own private viewing before ...kesian kesian.
Anyway, one my favorite haunts on the WWW is fanfiction.net. Thanks to JAG shipper - i found this site some 9 years ago. Do I feel like a loser because I ship TV/movie romance?No.. my thoughts and feelings are mine, so whatlah if I do..we all do silly stuff to entertain ourselves. This happens to be mine.
So anyway, ever since I saw Twilight ( Although to be quite honest I loved vampires eons ago with Lestat and the gang), i got hooked on the Cullen family. So baliklah to FF to get my weekly dose of TWI based FF stories. I tell you, there are so many talents out there... I've cried buckets and laughed so hard reading FF stories by 14 year olds, 30 years olds 50 year olds...
I'm a movie buff. I collect DVDs so i can watch them again and again...( Obsessive much?) SOme of the recent movies I recommend aside from Twi ( only cause Jasper is so smokin in that baseball scene..damn and Pattinson does Edward's sex hair sooo unbelievably well..sends shivers down you know where...lol) is the movimentary( is there such a word?) MILK ( Franco and Penn kissing you say? Oh God..I never thought I'd say this - because I'm straight and I avoided Brokeback Mtn for obvious reasons, sheesh..their liplocking scenes were *squee*-a-licious. I couldnt help but go aaahhh everytime they traded spit. Such is the power of penn hey? He was good there and so was Franco. Oh yes.. I musn't forget - franco's backside..totally worth my R45 ticket!! ), Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Anyway, I'm digressing. I was talking about writing.
Yup, thx to Twilight, I have been visiting FF.net again as a reader, finding my angst, romance, dare I say it - smut *gasp!*, humor , friendship fix in the FF twi world.( some are so much better than the books..I should know, I read it in one go, and the books are part of the 'benda benda cantik' sitting on my bookshelf these days)
I feel compelled to cite this powerful quote below:
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
Imagination put to words. That to me is where the power of written works lie. Watching a movie, you get the audio and visual input simultaneously. Not to say that movies made aren't great works of art themselves. They are. But written imagination is well simply magical. How with the tweaking of words put together in a sentence or a phrase, then a paragraph can evoke such 'real' emotions from the reader. Magic.
I was so blown away by this that I've gone back to school. Not literally.
I am back in writing class 106 with Mr Nama or maybe it was English form 5 with Cikgu Uzaimah.
flexing my writing fingers with my cheap BIC black pen and from time to time, the keyboard. Writing. and absolutely loving it.
Grammartical errors be damned. ( but I'm learning too! so not all is lost). So far I have written approximately 72 0000 words...and going strong, I think. I am sure Mr Nama would be proud, even if my text contains a lot of expletives. (wooops)
of course, it helps when you write about things you like...and i happen to like the very thing I am writing about..hehehehhe...nasib baik lah.
visit me : http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1972933/vampirelover44
signing off now,
vampirelover44.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Reality check.
I went for a test today.
I was pretty sure what the result would be, but it was a nerve wracking 15 minutes nevertheless.
Which goes to say that being 90% or even 99% sure about your partner's status based on what she or he says isn't proof enough.
I was lectured by a concerned but good friend yesterday for taking someone's word of their status as gold. Stupid, I know.
Never. Again.
We have to appreciate the health given to us.
It means taking the precautionary actions. Always be 100% sure.
I was pretty sure what the result would be, but it was a nerve wracking 15 minutes nevertheless.
Which goes to say that being 90% or even 99% sure about your partner's status based on what she or he says isn't proof enough.
I was lectured by a concerned but good friend yesterday for taking someone's word of their status as gold. Stupid, I know.
Never. Again.
We have to appreciate the health given to us.
It means taking the precautionary actions. Always be 100% sure.
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