OMGOMGOMG OK I'm not freaking out anymore but I was freaking out about 15 minutes ago because Jakarta was just shaken by a PRETTY SIGNIFICANTLY FELT QUAKE!!!! To be honest I've never really FELT an earthquake so significant before. The last time I kinda sorta FELT one was in 2002 on my very first day of work, I felt the building swing while I was on the 26th floor, but this time, I WAS AT HOME, ON THE 2nd FLOOR, on MSN with a friend when I suddenly felt my house kinda rumble a bit, then I got a headache, BUT I STILL THOUGHT IT WAS PROBABLY JUST ME STARING TOO LONG INTO THE COMPUTER, until I heard some weird tinkling noises... and I turned around and saw my hanging lamps freakin' SWINGING... then weird tinkling noises downstairs proceeded to become mild CLANKING noises, WTFFF!!! I typed "FRAK!!! EARTHQUAKE!!!" on my friend's MSN, who is also a Jakarta resident just in time to see her scream "EARTHQUAAAAAKEEEE!" into my window LOL! I ran out to the balcony (so I won't get crushed under any falling ceiling???) and then I realized OH SHIT THEN I SHOULD PROBABLY WAKE MY PARENTS TOO??!! (and save my Takki pamphlets?? LOL actually IT DID NOT OCCUR TO ME AT ALL TO SAVE ANYTHING BUT MY FAMILY!) DOH!!! I can't believe I forgot to wake my parents!!! So I woke them, and the chandelier was still swinging, but I did feel the ground has DEFINITELY stopped shaking. My grandfather clock downstairs was making weird CLANKING noises though WTF?!

Seriously, I was never THAT freaked out over an earthquake before!!! My dad was like... oh it's probably a 5. But I just checked this earthquake watch website AND APPARENTLY IT WAS A FREAKING 7.5!!!! WTF??? And it's only 110 KM away from Jakarta NO WONDER EVERYONE I SMSed FELT IT (and was semi-freaking out) And it's the biggest quake to date in the last 7 days???

Ahhhh crap! Sometimes these kinds of things make you realize just how helpless and powerless you are when it comes to Mother Nature. All my life I can eat healthy, stay healthy, drive with caution, live a VERY SAFE LIFE, but when Mother Nature rages seriously there's really NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP IT.

Meh. I can't sleep now. Yes, I'm being a drama queen coz Jakarta doesn't usually get quakes so when it does I freak out!!! And usually when there is a quake I usually HARDLY feel it on the 2nd floor so now I'm quite @_@ about it!!! I was thinking of watching the news but Indonesian local news... meh... they probably won't broadcast anything until TOMORROW!!! CNN probably did!

I wonder if people who live in the quake-prone area are able to not freak out anymore because they're so used to it? O_O

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Posted on > 08/09/2007 00:33am by Nefretiri
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A friend of mine passed me a link to this HOMGWTFawesome flash BITCHSLAPPING game last night and SERIOUSLY, I'm still baffled at how stupid and WTF yet entertaining this game is! Only people in Japan can come up with this kind of concept... for a game!!!!

So here's how the story goes...

YOU play a girl named Reiko. You are a commoner. You live in the 19th century or so.
You married the eldest son (and apparently heir) to the noble family of Tsubaki Shouji.
Unfortunately, your dear dear husband DIED the day after you get married (WTF?)
Your husband's family HATES you to death.
They think your commoner blood pollutes their noble blood and does not acknowledge the fact that you are your husband's wife. They want to banish you.
But YOU, with your girlpower attitude, say NEVER!!! You are the rightful wife of your husband, and YOU WILL FIGHT BACK!!!

And so the battle begins... (the battle of bitchslapping that is!) And I mean it LITERALLY, coz you're slapping a bunch of bitches in this game!!!

First you meet the sister. She's probably the bimbo of the family, therefore she's easiest to beat coz she's nothing but a brainless head sitting atop big boobs.

YOU SLAP HER!!!

AND SHE SLAPS YOU BACK!!!

And that's pretty much how the rest of the game goes....

> READ MORE...

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Posted on > 07/19/2007 16:50pm by Nefretiri
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If you're wondering what exactly I've been doing these days, I'll tell you that I have recently found a new goal in my life, and said goal is: "TO BECOME THE WORLD CHAMPION OF FLIXSTER'S NEVERENDING MOVIE QUIZ" I've climbed from rank 1.2-MILLION-something to rank 70-THOUSAND-something in just a matter of days so that's pretty good right? I've cut down 2 digits!!!

...AND SOON I WILL BE NUMERO UNO MWAHAHAHAH *Dr.Evil laugh*

But after answering somewhat about close to 600-ish questions (and ready to vomit blood if I see another question that has anything to do with The Breakfast Club) something finally popped up last night that deserves to be commemorated here forever DESPITE that it is probably one of the most stupid and unchallenging questions I've encountered in the Neverending Movie Quiz:

THANK YOU FLIXSTER!!!!!!
YES, JENSEN ACKLES IS HOT
NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT! ROFL!!!!

SOON, MY FRIENDS... SOON... MWAHAHAHAHAH!!! Mark my words, this movie geek will become THE WORLD CHAMPION..... but before that, I'm going off to see Transformers for the 2nd time! AUTOBOTS, ROLLOUT!

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Posted on > 07/06/2007 14:20pm by Nefretiri
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OK, that wedding in Bali was basically the first wedding I've ever been to where the bouquet actually FELL ON THE FLOOR... TWICE!!! WTF?! I know that bouquet tosses isn't exactly "popular" in Indonesian wedding culture, I remembered when I was younger none of the weddings I went to had a bouquet toss (Yes, I started going to weddings as young as 4 years old LOL, I could make a career out of attending weddings) and only in the last 5-6 years (or at least I think the 21st century) that bouquet tosses became more and more popularly adapted by people who've been brainwashed by many many Hollywood wedding-themed romantic comedies in the likes of Father of the Bride, My Best Friend's Wedding, The Wedding Planner, etc. And even then, the MC probably had to take AT LEAST 10-15 minutes just to gather the single women guests around to PARTICIPATE in the bouquet toss. Because it seems that apparently NOBODY wanted to be next in line for marriage? But ironically EVERYONE is getting married so young and getting knocked up instantly not long after the wedding!

So anyway, bouquet tosses in Indonesian weddings is so unpopular, the participants almost always ends up consisting of: children between the age of 3-10, dudes, aunties, uncles, grandmas, grandpas... and to remedy the situation, most weddings decided to throw in a little "prize" to encourage the SINGLE WOMEN to participate, such prizes may come in the form of something like a cheap outdated cellphone, to something quite hip/popular/sought after such as an iPod, or even to a real bling bling diamond (perhaps a 0.000001ct diamond with bad clarity LOL) and those things really work, you know? I've been to a wedding where the "prize" was an iPod, and I found myself standing in line for the bouquet with A BUNCH OF DUDES who literally went NFL on each other when the bouquet flew in the air!!!

Personally, I don't like to participate in bouquet tosses either, unless it's really someone I'm really close to, then the bouquet toss is just something fun I would definitely participate in as a favor to my bride friend without having to be pushed or pulled to the front by a bulldozer. And pretty much like what happened at the Bali wedding last weekend, the minute the bouquet started flying in the air, all the girls around me were like, OMG INCOMING BOUQUET! RETREEEEEATTTT!!!...(BUT SACRIFICE NERE IN THE PROCESS!!!) And I remember distinctly that someone *PUSHED* me, but I was on my way diving forward anyways because I was seriously just being a good maid of honor/best friend and I COULDN'T LET MY BEST FRIEND'S BOUQUET GO *SPLAT* ON THE FLOOR, COULD I??? I mean, if I was a bride and nobody wanted to catch my bouquet I'd be so bummed! But that's pretty much what goes on in the few (many) weddings I've attended. The one in Bali last weekend was HILARIOUS though. It was like that scene from Mean Girls, when all the girls were doing their confessions at the gym and throwing themselves into the crowd, but when Gretchen threw herself, everyone cleared and so she fell right onto Karen? Yeah it was like that with the bouquet, it was such a perfect toss, it flew in the air right to the center of the crowd of girls but...

*SPLAT!!!*

Everyone pretty much dodged and created this clearing for the bouquet to fell right onto the wooden dance floor!!! WTF?!?!?! Well, I didn't have to "dodge" because I've conveniently found a spot where I'm 110% sure the bouquet will never ever even remotely pass nearby. So 2nd try... bride tosses the bouquet, again, PERFECT TOSS, but again...

*SPLAT!!!*

OMGWTF!!! This bride has HORRIBLE GIRLFRIENDS!!! (I'm not included coz I'm not that close to her LOL) Why won't anyone catch the damn bouquet!!! By the third toss, the bouquet was already pretty much falling apart and to tell you the truth, the bouquet did not fall just twice but THRICE, except that in the commotion I actually saw a good Samaritan who quickly picked it off the floor and yelled "I GOT IT! I GOT IT!" XD

All in a fun night's game of BOUQUET DODGE... til the next game in another wedding I'm gonna have to attend, and I'm guessing... soon! XD

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Posted on > 04/30/2007 19:03pm by Nefretiri
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I just went over to aibo's and OMGWTFLOL HOLY CRAP, ME TOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! Exactly yesterday too WTF have we really synchronized every single aspect of our lives including our crimson wave schedules?!?!?! Even though there's a whole stretch of ocean in between us?!?! That's just too weird!!!

But that means... ARGH CRAP!!!! (I've been worried about this for the last few weeks, I'll sms you later)

*bats eyelashes at aibo*

Did you say HEROES 19????

*bats bats bats eyelashes*

==33

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Posted on > 04/26/2007 17:07pm by Nefretiri

 
 
 
 

God, it's been way too long since I last tweaked b2evo! That would be when... that Theobro Cocoa CM came out, BECAUSE I USED AN IMAGE FROM THAT CM! Oh geez, didn't that CM air centuries ago? So yes, I've literally forgotten where to tweak and how to tweak a b2evo layout, and what's most baffling is that after weeks of going crazy on Dreamweaver and on FTP, what came out was virtually NO CHANGE in the positioning of my posts and the sidebar, so what the hell took so long?! I have no idea! It's probably like those taking hours and hours doing make-up and ended up looking like you're NOT WEARING MAKE-UP AT ALL!!!

Anyway, I am changing things. This blog WILL BECOME A NORMAL BLOG (God I make it sound like it was ABNORMAL previously LOL). Whatever Takki will just go to the front page of HT now, since I can't seem to find time to type as extensively about Takki as I used to. Which is very sad. Both aki and I are going exactly the same thing with being so caught up in our jobs, we can hardly even find time to catch each other on MSN, and even if we do, it's like we squee for 10 minutes then we have to roll into bed. Even when we do have time, it's just been TOO TIRING to do anything else than just plop yourself onto your bed or couch and mindlessly watch television or DVDs.

We're so busy we download clips, but we don't watch them until weeks later. On Wednesday, we just realized that they were on HEY!HEY!HEY! two days before, and NOT the following Monday. Then we also forgot that the same day was actually CD release day, until CDJapan mailed us saying "Yo, your CDs were shipped off today." (not verbatim, obviously) And the night we finally got the energy to actually browse around and check for what's going on with T&T, we found out that T&T are gonna be in a bunch of new magazines (our MAJOR weakness), and PLUS, they're starting a new essay on TV Guide.

That's just the way it is now. So it will just be my random musings too here like what aki is doing, writing whatever I feel like writing, whenever I feel like writing. Maybe sometime I'd still like to blog extensively for pages and pages about a certain 5 minute clip of T&T but don't expect much of it, as I still haven't been able to properly sit down and screech about ROMEO's ofuro photos XD I still love Takitsuba to death and they will always be my #1 beloved boys, but I just need this blog to change.

And no, aki-chan, you won't ever have to yell those immortalized "THIS IS BLASPHEMY!!! THIS IS MADNESS!!!" words here because there is no way in hell you will ever see Tom or Jensen or Jared plastered on a takizawa-hideaki.net domain because it really will be... blasphemy... and madness XD But thank you for that WireImage raiding session of Tom-Jensen-Jared fu fu fu fu... <3 Oiii uragirimomo, Jared shashin hoshii desu ka? ==3

P.S.
All my old Takki Thoughts posts are still all here including the Takirens. You can find them through the archives and the categories. Member-protected entries still apply.

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Posted on > 04/20/2007 15:34pm by Nefretiri
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