YouSayToo Awards - Tengu

"Working on your computer can be lonely. There's no shame in admitting it. But you know what? Things are looking better, because now you can get yourself a brand new blocky little friend in the form of Tengu! Tengu is a USB-powered guy that lights up and lip-syncs to music, or your voice, or whatever noise happens to be around at the time. Tengu has many different facial expressions that you can match to different music. When there's no sound he'll simply fall asleep, and as soon as he detects some noise he'll wake up again. He's ready to party, but he never makes a mess! Any powered USB port is just fine for hooking the little guy up, so go ahead and get Tengu! Imported. Wipe clean.

* Included: Tengu, USB cable

* Mac and PC compatible

* 1.75"w, 2.5"h, .5"d

* Plastic, electronics"
~http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?navAction=jump&navCount=49&id=14803464&availableOptions=availableOptions

I just want to thank YouSayToo.com for the prize of a "Tengu", as described as above! I entered into the "Awards" competition on their website, well, I really was after the $1000 top prize - but unfortunately I didn't win... but I did scrape the top 10 which I must thank a lot of people for, largely my real-life friends. They know who they are, and probably don't even read my blog... so whatever. Thanks guys! Special mention to Xanapus (whose blog is here) because he is someone I met online who I know voted for my blog, and I votes for his back! I came 9th and he came 10th, so we were basically at the same place - it really was like one or two votes separating us!

So it's awesome to win a prize, and the Tengu is pretty cute - right now it's singing along to my "Moulin Rouge!" soundtrack. Thanks heaps YouSayToo! 


P.S. I don't know what the fuck is up with the font in this post, it's refusing to be normal - so you'll just have to settle for how ugly it is. I have no idea why.

Telephone

I dedicate this post to the FANTASTIC AND AMAZING LADY GAGA and her new music video for her song "Telephone", featuring Beyoncé, who plays a significant part in the video. It's more of a movie than a video, and is worth checking out even if you're not a fan. Go to http://www.ladygaga.com/telephone and be amazed.

On a less than cheerful note, I'm currently fucking depressed because literally and truly as I write this, Lady Gaga is singing her heart out for her concert, "The Monster Ball", in Auckland right now! And guess which GIANT monster/fan is missing it? ME! My life is well and truly, considerably very miserable - and that is a sad, sad time. Just really hasn't been much of a week and very tired, cranky - at least work was good today, nice and busy and the new staff have grown on me - they're cool! The manager I'm used to is also back on for Saturdays for a while which is exciting. Kinda.

Nothing really happening in my life apart from school. This is my life:

• Monday - School, Vinnies Meeting, Run
• Tuesday - School
• Wednesday - School, Run
• Thursday - School
• Friday - School, Vinnies Meeting, Tennis Lesson, Run (Maybe)
• Saturday - Work
• Sunday - A day off, usually doing nothing. (because I have no friends)

The only things I missed out were things like showering, eating (which is frequent, I'm fat), being depressed - you know, the usual. Anyway Sunday is tomorrow and I am home alone on a Saturday night, that's a bit pathetic, I'm not just imagining it. Right? Sunday I have no plans, apart from retrieving my PS2 games from my friend Lisa's flat who is moving to Ruby Bay - so far away, so sad! (half hour drive)

Well thanks for wasting your time reading this, and I apologise for linking to it via Twitter, and also for it being automatically posted on YouSayToo.com. Give me money. Thank you.

The Cycle Goes On

The never ending circle of hell that is school, work, breather, school, work, breather... has continued to carry on and torment me. I miss the summer holidays! Hard to believe they were six weeks ago! Such a joke! I'm not really in much of a blogging mood lately, one thing I am excited about is the YouSayToo.com awards - remember me rambling on about that? My prize is finally on the way, as YouSayToo e-mailed me and said it was coming from L.A. and would take approx. 2 weeks. It's a silly prize, but still - it's just cool to win something for like, the first time ever. I never win! So I'm super excited.

School's a literal nightmare and I need to stop writing this f-ing blog and do my work, cause there's a FUCKLOAD of absolutely boring shit to do, and I am NOT happy. That is lé fact. Murder me please.

Survived Year 13 Camp (+ YouSayToo Awards)

My last school camp ever is officially over, which is very upsetting I know (except, not reaaaallly). I admit the camp wasn't as bad as I thought it would be, but it was a LOT more boring then I thought it would be. The only real activity we did was go for a swim with some seals at, wait for it, 8am in the morning. Literally, I got up at 7am and by 8am I was in an uncomfortable wetsuit on a boat, freezing, being hauled out to sea and then was basically forced into the water and swam around with a bunch of seals splashing around. It was fun, and there was some cool things underwater, but ultimately - it was just fucking cold. Needless to say, if this is my last ever camp (if all goes right in life), I'll die a little happier.

Now, the big news in blog world is that I came 9th in the YouSayToo(.com) Awards! That means I win a prize! I've literally forgotten what prize I wanted to win, it was some BS little thing that plugs into the USB thing and lights up to music or something. I honestly don't know and can't really remember, and I hate to sound ungrateful... but I am, so I will be, I wanted to win the fucking top prize and get $1000 dream gift! Have you SEEN the blog that won the awards? I mean, some stupid "Hampster's Diary", or whatever the christ it was? Uhhuuuum. Right... well Obviously you have seen it, because it was the top rated and WON! Seriously, I read one post and just thought "What the fuck?" and gave up on it. What a load of shit. No offence to the author, but seriously. Anyway, obviously everyone liked it a lot more than my blog because I had to run around Twitter and Facebook like a mad man begging my friends to rate this blog and promised them things (they're not getting) in return. Literally. Anyway, what is truly good about winning the award is the promotion I will (hopefully) get and having more of YOU! YOU being my lovely readers that give me attention and make me feel good about myself.

(Click the title of this post to see my anti-religious rant. If you're offended by the prospect of that, go away.)



May I just add one more negativity-filled rant? Now look, this person subscribes to my blog and may read this... but in all honesty, to the person who won the $500 and is donating it to their church... WHAT THE FUCK?? Churches are horrific and religions are oversized cults. I've been going to Catholic Schools all my life, barely my choice, and have hated every second of it and although there is a lot of goodness to religion, I think there's so many fucking sick, hypocritical elements to it and injustice. I mean, have you read the bit about women?? And about gays? And about any women that are promiscuous? All I (and K.G.) have to say is, suck it.

(P.S. If you were that blog winner, I am sorry for going so hard on you! I understand the money was for instruments, and not for some paedo priest, I just have a bone to pick with religion, Christianity/Catholicism especially.)

...until Friday

Well the day has finally arrived, well not yet but tomorrow, close enough! I have to go to school camp tomorrow! I fucking hate camp! Well the one positive thing is that it is the LAST school camp I EVER have to go on! For some fucked up reason our school has one every year and it's compulsory. Last year's camp was so horrific, I never get over it. Literally. So miserable. Anyway, I won't be able to blog again until Friday which is very depressing! AND the worst thing about it is that I will be away when the YouSayToo.com awards are drawn so I won't be around to encourage voters! But seriously...

PLEASE CLICK HERE!!!!! 
(and then click "Rate It")

I really, really, REALLY want to win a FUCKING prize for the awards, I've literally never won anything (read my whinge about that here) and I need you readers to just click on the link (the big one) and then click "Rate It" on the YouSayToo.com page. If you want to be literally a DREAM, sign up (create a profile) and THEN rate it and instead of just +1 rating I'll get +3. The competition is almost over so I need all the ratings I can get! Please spread the word and get all your friends to do it. I've never wanted something so badly! (Well, I have... but not recently. I've gotten what I wanted. ;D JJK... ish).

Anyway, not a lot else to report on so I'll do a 'Celebrity of the Week' soon. :)

YOU MUST DO THIS.

PLEASE go 2 http://tinyurl.com/yegjakp & click "Rate It". I could win $1000! Thanks!

It would mean everything to me!!!!

The Final Leg

Well considering it's my LAST chance to enter for the YouSayToo.com awards, I know this will most likely be read ON YouSayToo.com, but seriously, could you PLEASE click "Rate It" on my blog? I have never won anything in my life (well, apart from like, $4 scratchies from my parents) and that is not a lie! So being a finalist on the YouSayToo Awards could be my lucky break, and who could deny a hard working student in their senior year at highschool with a Saturday job? Do you know that, that is less than 20% of the population in that same situation! A working secondary school student? So that makes me in the 20% of hardest working highschool students in the country. So for the love of god don't be stingy and even if you're my competition, live a little, please.

Now, enough of grovelling, my day? Well, it's Day 3 of school for 2010 and so far it's been... well, pretty boring to be honest. School camp next week at French Pass, Tuesday-Friday and I only found out today that all of the payments DIDN'T EVEN COVER FOOD! So now I have to pay an extra $40 on top of the original $175 payments, it's like a joke! The worst thing is, I don't want to go on this fucking camp! I HATE camping and I hope you fucking die if you try and convince me that "I'll enjoy it" or "Just be positive and it'll be ok", look. I fucking hate camping. I hate all the boys at my school, and of course the boys and girls are seperated to within an inch of my LIFE. Well I mean, some are ok, but very few and very few I want to sleep on the floor on sick mattresses with, literally.

Actually I've gotten myself so angry I don't want to blog.

To all and everyone making me go on this school camp, go fuck yourself.

P.S. Sorry for swearing so much.

Taking a (deserved) Breather

So I have school beginning on the 2nd! And today is the 27th... do you lot know how miserable and depressed I am about that? To give you an inkling... VERY. I hate school, always have, always will, sure work may be worse, but school is still very, very, very bad also. I detest it. I haven't been to school since the end of November (because it's New Zealand's summer holiday) so I am crying on the inside (and out) about the prospect of returning. I had to go this morning to confirm my subjects. Literally walked in and... 

"I don't want to change anything." 

"Good, no one wants to see you. Bye."

"Bye"

The end. The uniform shop was a very different story, I was trying to make them NOT sell things to me that looked like I had just came from a weight-loss ad shooting (aka. in ENOURMOUS clothing that I'll "grow into", at 17 and a half, yeah right). 

So now I don't have a lot planned for the day... will head to my friend's place where Sophie, Lisa, Christie and Reece are all living now. I feel so left out! But then again... they're all broke so... it's a tough life. Maybe I should stop whinging about living with my parents, it's not as if I'm deprived, well... it is, but I'll stop complaining anyway.

P.S. Can everyone who reads this please vote for my blog? You just need to click here. THANK YOU.

My Favourite Sites

I think it's time to stop writing random shit about my life that no one actually cares about, and attempt to give some credit to some websites that are exciting enough for me to get absorbed into. I'll give you the "insider's scoop" into my internet life. I can sense your excitement and joy.

http://www.hotmail.com

Obviously, I use hotmail because... like I can afford a pay-for web address?

http://www.twitter.com
I don't know why I love this site so much, but I do and I'm an addict and it's a great place to chat with someone if you're bored, it's like texting online and it's just cool. Plus, when you get followers you feel like people like you and you feel popular which is quite a bonus.

http://www.facebook.com
I know this is against the grain... but I think Facebook's shit and Bebo is a million times better. I know it's not nearly as popular as FB and Myspace, but FB is boring and Myspace is too complicated for me to deal. Anyway, because all my friends are on Facebook, I feel obliged.

http://www.jade-nation.com
This is the greatest fan site ever for Jade Valerie (ex singer of Sweetbox, how many times must I say) and also singer of ETERNITY∞ and Saint Vox. She's my favourite singer in the world and hence, is worth recognition. The forum on this site is a pretty active forum about Jade and all the works/projects and names she works with. Love it.

http://www.thefashionpolice.net
I literally love this site! They showcase ugly, ridicules and funny outfits (and of course the occasional GOOD thing) but it's really just funny because they demonstrate just how STUPID designers can be trying to be "unique" and they honestly make me LOL with with the commentary sometimes.

http://www.trademe.co.nz
It's New Zealand's version of eBay and is good for me because it deals with NZ dollars and NZ people so things aren't to expensive to buy and ship, hence why I love it. VERY popular in New Zealand.

http://www.perezhilton.com
Look, I hate this cunt and I really don't want to give him any credit... But the facts are, he has a good, quick-to-read blog with all the latest celeb goss which I soak up like you wouldn't believe... so I guess I gotta give the guy some credit for getting this site together. Still, I hate him.

http://www.bebo.com
Ok well I don't really use this that much anymore, but I used to as Bebo was "the craze" in NZ a few years and everyone had it, but now it's totally neglected but I admit... I still use it for the occasional look around, and I have some cool "Group" pages I made that people still go on occasionally.

http://www.formspring.com
For some reason, getting and answering anonymous questions is very exciting and hence, this is why Formspring exists. Simply, for that reason. If you have an account you can choose to reveal yourself, but considering you're probably just asking inappropriate things (to which, I am guilty)

http://www.yousaytoo.com
This site is a great site to bloggers as you can link up your own blog to the site and your blog's feed (posts) will be posted on YouSayToo for all bloggers to see. It's a great way to get your blog out there and have a chance at an audience. Also, there's tonnes of other blogs to look around at and lots of reading material to be had for the deprived.

There you have it, I probably forgot somewhere really huge but generally, that is where I am at! (and I didn't even link to my own pages, talk about selfless!)

YouSayToo, Rate This (Positvely!)

Call me desperate and undeserving, but that won't stop you giving this a positive rating on YouSayToo.com now will it? Oh look YouSayToo is even tagged, wasn't that generous of me and not intentionally made to get me on the posting time line. Anyway, my day started off nicely enough but then turned to crap when my friends dragged me to the river... and then my inner demons are shown in their ugly full form.

I have the worst self-esteem in the god damn world.


I love swimming but if I had to show my body to anyone, I'd cry of shame. Can't be bothered going into it and getting a load of bullshit replies (unlikely on this little corner of the internet)

Ok so I forgot I was writing this blog, it's been 15mins since I started. Nothing much has happened, I'm bored and in a terrible mood. Might go and read a trashy magazine or Britney's bio... maybe just watch TV. Whatever, this blog is hereby pointless.

Sunday (Except without 'Sun')

Well it's Sunday, which although a lovely weekend and nowhere as bad as Monday, is still a pretty boring day by my, and I assume the world's, standards. Well I'm actually annoyed at myself right now for two reasons, one being that I had an awful dream last night (and a familiar person was in another, AGAIN) and the second is I have fallen for god damn Lady GaGa! Damn her for being so unique, having amazing music and being a truly brilliant individual in respect. So now I am no different from anyone else because the world loves her, although not everyone seems to recognise the thought and skill behind her 'wacky' outfits. Stupid fashion magazines slagging her off, it's like... "Does she look like she's trying to be stereotypically 'fashionable'? Because, she's not." Not that I can talk about fashion with my $50 jeans and $20 hoodie jackets. I'm so cheap. But so would you if your parents were stingy with money and you had to pay for your own clothes working with minimum wage pay. And only working one day a week considering I'm a student. It's a hard life!

By the way, I'm going to start adding more pictures into my posts because... I need to, and it looks better when my posts show up on YouSayToo.com, a site I have my blog signed up to and being the attention-seeker I am (not, but people think I am so might as well roll with it, as Kourtney Kardashian once said  "If you can't roll, roll out.") by getting more views.

What I have to actually report on? Not a lot, I'm always distraughtly tired after a day of work (aka. yesterday) and have another day tomorrow so this is my re-coup day which, believe me, I deserve. I will probably go and catch up some friends, and maybe someone else... But who knows. And to be quite frank, who gives a fuck.

I laughed when I was reading NW Magazine and they had a "Celebrity Confessions" section, and one was from Kathy Griffin saying "I'm afraid of Oprah Winfrey." I laugh every time she mentions Oprah, Ryan Seacrest or Gayle King (aka. "Oprah's boyfriend", haha! Can't be bothered linking them.).

(Pictures: Lady GaGa's "Monster Ball Tour" official promo pic which keeps fucking up the first parahraph and Kathy Griffin's 2009 auto-bio "Official Book Club Selection".)

Edit: I removed all links because they didn't show up on YouSayToo.com which, if you haven't guessed yet, I'm sucking up to, to get some readers.

YouSayToo Can Suck It

I am offended! I had a +25 rating a few days ago and now it's slumped down to 22. Do you know what that means? That means someone gave me (as if I am Jesus) a negative rating. Who the christ would do such a thing & deter readers from viewing my oh-so-witty material. It's a sad day for human kind.

I realise it's unwise to bash YouSayToo.com considering that is where most (aka. all) of my readers are coming from, unless you're the occasional Twitter stalker but I don't think there's too many of those around.

If you didn't come from YouSayToo or Twitter, I literally have no god forsaken clue where you came from. Whatever. I have nothing to blog about because I have done nothing today. Except for watching Kathy Griffin's "Strong Black Woman" on YouTube. Yes, I linked it for you. Considerate, I know. Yes, you should be grateful. And also for my labelling/tagging my posts.

And yes, you're welcome.