Moved --->

I'm trying out Wordpress again. If it doesn't work I'll move back here again but for now, further updates will be on my WP blog - http://infinitesoliloquy.wordpress.com/

She makes me laugh - on the issue of racism.

For those of you who haven't watched Natalie's videos, go watch them now at --> youtube.com/communitychannel
She has a wicked sense of humour! She can really turn those awful situations you find yourself in sometimes into a hilarious parody.

Update on life - Zelda and Harry Potter HBP

I actually feel quite mad at my mother at the moment because she chooses the very day my friends and I organized to go see Harry Potter HBP to go to Sydney. I've been trying so hard not to do anything wrong the last couple of days (and enduring stupid endless chores - for god's sake, it's called the holidays). I know I shouldn't be blogging but I am anyway. It's one of the senseless, self-contractradicotry things I just do. Let's hope I don't spill out any more negative energy as I have already. Sigh.

Barely been on the internet, except to check email, last two days. It's quite a feat for me which I know is rather sad and pathetic but I have no excuse really. I do feel rather miserable and pathetic at the moment. Mainly because I've gotten back into play Zelda: Twilight Princess on the Wii. I did start the game a few months ago but I got stuck at a certain point and I just couldn't be bothered to find a way out of it. Until now and I've discovered it's quite fun again. I looked at a walkthrough of it online and heck, I'm not even half-way after the last two days of quite hard-core playing - that is, only stopping for food breaks and when mother comes home.

I discovered it's quite epic now. Well actually, spectacularly epic. Spectacularly epicly long. I'm actually quite a fail as a video gamer even though I do enjoy playing video games. It's just the fact that I spend at least more than 30 percent of the time looking at a game over screen. That is where a certain level of skill is required to play the game. The cool thing about Zelda though, that differentiates it from older games (like this Mickey Mouse one I used to play on my brother's playstation one - doesn't that make me old - where everytime you lose all your 3 lives, you'd have to start all. Over. Again. It extremely sucked and we never really beat it) is that when you die, lose all your health or whatever you just start again from a nearby point in the game. This was good for me since I managed to be quite susceptible to many great failing things from falling over cliff-edge ridgety bridges (you know, the ones with only rope to grip on) and steaming lava to a remarkable display of ineptness at fighting and sword-wielding from a horse.

Hm, I actually feel a bit better now that I've written it all out. Writing can really help sometimes when I feel like crap. I still shall be rather sad to have to tell my friends that I can't go now.

It's done and completed.

I finished reading Beauty Pop Vol. 10. The very last one. I feel really sad now - not the ending, just me feeling quite bereft that another amazing series has come to an end. This is exactly why I've been avoiding reading Volume 10 since it came out several months ago. Ugh, I hate this. The ending was all good though in the typical happily-ever-after style. I love it. I know it's kind of overrated these days, people just having happy lives at the end of movies and books because there's just something dreadfully wrong with an ending where no one dies and nothing truly devastating happens. But no, the Japanese are all for it :) Actually they're all for a lot of random, sometimes *gasp/stare* cliche events and characters, totally condoning the Western media and it's quest for subtlety. It's awesome, just getting the ending you want sometimes. Even though it's cliche. Manga is coolness.

Better research this time.

Alright, so the last time I ordered books online, it ended up being a total shipping costs disaster from Amazon UK. Apparently it's at it's worst now as I've got a friend who orders books a lot from overseas (mostly Amazon) and she noted that the shipping costs have risen a lot recently even though the UK and American dollar has gone down.
So, I've decided I'm going to put a lot more thought into ordering a book this time. Here's my research on Political Philosophy by Adam Swift (2nd Edition) in paperback at all the online bookstores I would order from.
*all prices are in AUD
Amazon UK - $48.25 incl. shipping
Book Depository (UK) - $30 and free shipping
Angus & Robertson (Australia) - $56.95 not incl. shipping
Fishpond (Australia) - $37.21 not incl. shipping
BetterWorldBooks (USA) - No stock
Gleebooks (Australia) - $40.95 not incl. shipping
Readings (Australia) - No stock

The Book Depository is pretty cool, they have free worldwide shipping so there's a greater range of books for UK prices which is a lot cheaper than the RRP in Australia. I might just end up ordering from them. BTW can you believe that Angus & Robertson sell this paperback for $60 freaking dollars (when the postage is added). Honestly, it's absolutely ludicrous.