Catherine

kralia @ 2009-04-20T19:41:00

2009-04-20T18:43:29Z

Isn't summer just... marvellous?

kralia @ 2009-01-24T11:11:00

2009-01-24T11:13:38Z

You Are "ctrl"

Some people might try to say that you're too controlling.

And while there is a controlling aspect to your personalty, you like to think you're competent.

You are an expert in many fields. You tend to really know your stuff.

You tend to take the reins whenever it's needed. You like to lead, and people like to follow you.

What Keyboard Key Are You?

Soon I am going to have to start the day's astro revision...

kralia @ 2008-12-16T09:17:00

2008-12-16T09:21:37Z

I'm sorry.

The Sonnet

Deliberate Gentle Love Dreamer (DGLD)

Romantic, hopeful, and composed. You are the Sonnet. Get it? Composed?

Sonnets want Love and have high ideals about it. They're conscientious people, caring & careful. You yourself have deep convictions, and you devote a lot of thought to romance and what it should be. This will frighten away most potential mates, but that's okay, because you're very choosy with your affections anyway. You'd absolutely refuse to date someone dumber than you, for instance.

Lovers who share your idealized perspective, or who are at least willing to totally throw themselves into a relationship, will be very, very happy with you. And you with them. You're already selfless and compassionate, and with the right partner, there's no doubt you can be sensual, even adventurously so.

You probably have lots of female friends, and they have a special soft spot for you. Babies do, too, at the tippy-top of their baby skulls.

Your exact female opposite:

Genghis Khunt

Random Brutal Sex Master

Always avoid: The 5-Night Stand (DBSM), The False Messiah (DBLM), The Hornivore (RBSM), The Last Man on Earth (RBSD)

Consider: The Loverboy (RGLM)

Link: The Online Dating Persona Test | OkCupid - singles | Dating

kralia @ 2008-02-11T20:09:00

2008-02-11T20:09:49Z

43%

kralia @ 2008-01-25T20:23:00

2008-01-25T20:40:18Z

Oh fun pointlessness.

Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.
Step 2: Post the first line(s) from the first 20 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Bold/strike out the songs when someone guesses correctly.

1. She ionises and atomises (hmmm, how difficult)
2. Wow! Said the broken california down
3. I am gone, everybodys raging
4. Broken glass is luxury, friendly fires are alchemy
5. ~~You can't manufacture a miracle, the silence was pitiful, that day~~
6. It's gonna be OK, can't afford another day
7. ~~It's funny how I found myself in love with you~~
8. I will, lay me down, in a bunker, underground
9. Goodbye girl, because I'm lonely
10. Hey you, give me the dummy tits, forget the rest of the shit
11. And you were right to bide your time and not buy into my misery
12. With my eyes closed, I look closer, I'll always remember
13. I want to live life, and never be cruel
14. ~~Everything about you is how I wanna be, your freedom comes naturally~~
15. ~~I'm on it, get on it, the troops are on fire, you know I need it, much closer~~
16. If time is my vessel then burning love might be my way back to sea
17. Baby we can make it all right, we can make it better sometime
18. ~~Hiya Barbie! You wanna go for a ride? (lol)~~
19. This is a true story...
20. That's great it starts with an earth wait birds and snakes and aeroplanes

kralia @ 2008-01-15T20:19:00

2008-01-15T20:19:40Z

I taste like Bread.

I am a staple in almost everyone's diet. Friends like me are a complement to any other friends I get on with almost everyone, remaining mostly in the background, but providing substance when it would otherwise be lacking. What Flavour Are You?

kralia @ 2007-10-18T22:05:00

2007-10-18T21:05:53Z

Your Score: Sarah Jane

You scored 35% strength, 64% intelligence, 53% friendliness, and 52% escapology!

You are Sarah Jane. You are clever without being arrogant, adventurous without being impatient, and resourceful while still being naive enough to want to stick around with the old geezer. If The Doctor had favorites, you'd be it. Actually, he does have favorites - and you're it.

You and The Doctor have formed a fast companionship. You've far outlasted most of his other companions, though The Doctor would probably never admit it. Still, though, you could do without some of The Doctor's stand-offish-ness and the roughness of constantly fighting monsters. Maybe one of these days, you can put that journalism degree to use, and start having adventures of your own...

Link: The Doctor Who Companion Test written by lobotomy42 on OkCupid Free Online Dating, home of the The Dating Persona Test

kralia @ 2007-08-26T16:26:00

2007-08-26T15:26:15Z

Which Doctor Who are you?

this quiz was made by Auntie Krizu(:>)

I have no idea who that is.

kralia @ 2007-08-22T00:55:00

2007-08-21T23:55:49Z

I know it's old and immature. But I LOLed.

kralia @ 2007-08-05T19:43:00

2007-08-05T18:44:53Z

I found this in my junk mail folder, along with the viagra ads.

"I AM MR.LADDI OMAR.I WORK WITH THE BILL & EXCHANGE DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN
DEVELOPMENT BANK(ADB) OUAGADOUGOU ANNEX OFFICE, BURKINA FASO.I HAVE A BUSINESS
WHICH WILL BE BENEFICIAL TO BOTH OF US. THE AMOUNT OF MONEY INVOLVED IS ($11.2
MILLION US DOLLARS) WHICH I WANT TO TRANSFER OUT OF THE COUNTRY TO YOUR BANK
ACCOUNT. THIS MONEY IS OWNED BY A MAN CALLED KURT KAHLE A GERMAN BUSINESS MAN .
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/859479.stm HE DIED ON MONDAY, THE 31 OF
JULY 2001 IN A PLANE CRASH BUT NO CLAIM HAS BEEN MADE AS HE LEFT NO ONE BEHIND
TO PLACE A CLAIM ON HIS BANK ACCOUNT BALANCE AS HIS NEXT OF KIN. THESE FUNDS
CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED WITHOUT A NEXT OF KIN BEEN INTRODUCED OFFICIALLY.

THE PROCESSING STARTS BY PRESENTING YOURSELF AS THE NEXT OF KIN TO LATE [KURT
KAHLE]. I SHALL SEND TO YOU A TEXT OF APPLICATION FORM WITH WHICH YOU CAN APPLY
TO THE BANK AS HIS NEXT OF KIN. I WILL MAKE AVAILABLE TO YOU ALL USEFUL
INFORMATIONS WITH WHICH A SUCCESSFUL CLAIM SHALL BE PLACED ON THESE FUNDS. I
WILL BE GUIDING YOU THROUGHOUT THE DURATION OF THIS TRANSACTION SO AS TO ENSURE
A SMOOTH AND RISK FREE TRANSFER OF THESE FUNDS INTO YOUR BANK ACCOUNT, LIKE
PROVIDING YOU WITH THE ANSWERS TO THE QUESTIONAIRE YOU WILL RECIEVE FROM THE
BANK WHEN YOUR APPLICATION IS RECIEVED BY THE BANK. YOU SHALL BE ENTITLED TO 40%
OF THESE FUNDS FOR YOUR CO-OPERATION AND ACCEPTANCE WHILE 10% WILL ACT AS
COMPENSATION FOR THE SOFT EXPENSES YOU WILL INCURE IN THE PROCESS OF CONSUMATING
THIS TRANSACTION. SEND ME A REPLY ON RECIEPT OF THIS EMAIL THROUGH
ladi_omar00@hotmail.com URGENCY HAS TO BE IMPLIED AND DO PROMISE ME OF KEEPING
EVERYTHING CONCERNING THIS TRANSACTION STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL AND AS A TOP SECRET
FOR TWO WORKING WEEKS NEEDED TO CONCLUDE WITH EVERYTHING.

BEST REGARDS,

LADDI OMAR.

Las nuevas aventuras de Harry Potter, a un clic!
http://www.starmedia.com/entretenimiento/especiales/novedades.html"

Awwww. I feel like a proper member of the internet now, having recieved a "rich eastern man wants to give you all his money" email.

Oh here's another one.

"From The Desk of:
Mr Abdulsalam Idress
Chief Auditor,
African Development Bank
Burkina faso West African.
Phone:00226 78043538
Private Email: abdul_idress46@yahoo.com

Compliment Of The Season 2007 ,

I apologize if the contents in this mail are contrary to your moral ethics, which I feel may be of great disturbance to your personal life, But please treat with absolute secrecy and personal. I pray that this email reaches you in the best of health.

l am Mr Abdulsalam Idress the Chief Auditor, with African Developlment bank (ADB) Burkina faso West African.One of our customers Engr Ron Morris, with his entire family were among the victims of December 25, 2003 Air-Crash. For more about the Air Crash you can visit the CNN web news for the tragedy.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/africa/12/26/benin.crash/

Before his death, he has an account with us valued at Ten Million, One hundred and Eighty-Three Thousand US Dollars ( USD 10.183M).According to the Burkina faso Law, at the expiration of Three years if nobody applies to claim the funds a grace of thrity (30) days will be given before the money will revert to the ownership of the Burkaina faso government.

My proposal is that I will like you as a foreigner to stand in as the next of kin or Distant Cousin for us to claim this money, so that the fruits of this old man's labour will not get into the hands of some corrupt government officials who will later use the money to sponsor war in Africa and kill innocent citizens in the search for political power.

Please note that there will be no problem as my bank has made all effort through to reach for any of his Relation but all was fruitless. My position as the Chief Auditor in this bank guarantees the successful execution of this(Deal) transaction.
This money will be shared on agreed percentage which must be written in the agreement of personal trusteeship,once the funds is transferred to your account in your country or anywhere else.

If not interested please distroy the mail because of the confidentiality attached to it.I promise that this transaction will be done under a legitimate arrangement that will protect both of us from any breach of the law.
lf you are interesed and wish to assist me please contact me with the below information:

Mr Abdulsalam Idress
Telephone:+226 78043538
email: abdul_idress46@yahoo.com
Awaiting your soonest response today.
Best Regards.
Mr Abdulsalam Idress
(Chief Auditor)"

kralia @ 2007-06-17T18:07:00

2007-06-17T17:19:38Z

Well I watched Jekyll this morning that I taped last night.

It's such a pity. Because it could be so good. But it's not. It's ridiculous. From his wife, who doesn't seem to care one bit that her husband keeps randomly disppearing, to the weird psychologist who only has two character traits - sexy and with an ability to memorise keypad codes.

Jackman/Hyde are also extremely unbelievable. Like the silly knowing puns Jackman makes "I'm going to change in the car." And Hyde promises to be so rampantly evil, and then isn't. He doesn't actually kill the chav. He doesn't actually rape the chavette, because perhaps in further episodes we're going to have to develop some kind of empathy for him, and him being a murderer and rapist would just be too difficult to come to terms with, wouldn't it? And again with the daft puns. "I have a nice side... but he's not here now."

It had so much potential that was just wasted. Like Torchwood, actually.

Also this morning I finished watching Disco Pigs. Which was a great deal better than Jekyll but would have been even more good if perhaps the Irish accents weren't so strong and I could actually understand what they were saying.

kralia @ 2007-06-17T00:18:00

2007-06-16T23:36:00Z

Lucid dreams.

Weird things. I've had them in two types. First type is where you absolutely know you're dreaming and maybe with this knowledge you try to manipulate it consiously to improve it. This never seems to work. All it does it wake you up.

The second type, which is far more unsettling retrospectively, is when the idea that maybe you're dreaming occurs to you. And you think about this and look around objectively and come to the conclusion that no, this is definately reality. I've had this at least twice, both in dreams that were both incredibly miserable and entirely plausible. Like when I dreamt that I went to the wrong place when I went to see Radiohead, and by the time I realised I was in the wrong place it was too late, and I went home incredibly depressed and thinking about how stupid I'd been. And it just seemed too dreadful to have actually happened in reality. I was walking over the bridge in Whalley in the dark and I looked all around me trying to find something that didn't look real, but everywhere I looked everything was normal and I realised, no, this was definately not a dream. But actually it was.

On a completely unrelated note, I was also thinking about how many people are going to turn out famous when they get older. If I'm going to be able to say, I went to school with so and so who does such and such now. For instance, I bet Tomas really does get into the Cabinet. And I'll be able to say "Once I stayed at his house and we watched all 24 episodes of Lost and went to Tesco at 3AM for cherry tomatoes." And there'll inevitably be others as well. I don't know about anyone else, but I think definately some will end up famous novelists or musicians or TV personalities.

My mother was trying to convince me to do nice reliable electonic engineering with my life rather than chasing after research jobs in Antarctica earlier.

"You know, there are other places. Why don't you sit in a fridge with a few penguin magnets and take some drugs instead?"

I love her.

And now I am going to bed. Definately.

kralia @ 2007-06-12T17:31:00

2007-06-12T16:35:22Z

Ooooo Keystreet on Thursday.

I'm getting all hyped up about it now, and it'll probably be a massive disappointment.

First maths lesson today in a month. We did adding and multiplying fractions and I had the strange sensation of going back to memories archived in year four when I last did that. Except now it's not just nice, friendly numbers, no. X just has to be involved, doesn't it?

Nowthen. Imagine aliens. Who agrees with me that you can't just "scale up" a solar system and have bigger creatures and bigger planets and everything would just work the same? Think of elephants and fleas.

kralia @ 2007-06-11T21:47:00

2007-06-11T20:50:30Z

kralia's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 7
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kralia @ 2007-06-11T21:25:00

2007-06-11T20:25:59Z

So, kralia, your LiveJournal reveals...

You are... 8% unique (blame, for example, your interest in thom yorke's paralysed eye) and 15% herdlike (partly because you, like everyone else, enjoy writing). When it comes to friends you are normal. In terms of the way you relate to people, you believe in give and take. Your writing style (based on a recent public entry) is conventional.

Your overall weirdness is: 41

(The average level of weirdness is: 27.
You are weirder than 83% of other LJers.)

Find out what your weirdness level is!

When it comes to friends I am normal? How do they calculate that?

kralia @ 2007-06-10T16:02:00

2007-06-10T15:09:58Z

Yesterday's Doctor Who was excellent. Silly CGI monsters spoil it. Stone angels with scary faces win. Although it was too much of a predestination paradox. If the Doctor was only saying what the piece of paper told him he would say... where does it originally come from? But nevermind. All the "disconnected" episoeds were good, apart from that silly one with Peter Kay absorbing people and Marc Warren "having a sex life" with a concrete head. That one was just weird. But the one with the alien's eye was good.

I wrote that yesterday and it came back! Wow. Anyway I started trying to track down the alien's eye episode on wikipedia and got very annoyed when I couldn't find it, then realised it was actually a Torchwood episode.

Ha. Torchwood. Wikipedia has a whole section of Critism of Torchwood.

kralia @ 2007-06-09T18:15:00

2007-06-09T17:18:00Z

Cut for being lots of images.

The sun really is quite teenytiny.

Well we cycled 25km today and all four of my limbs will have seized up tomorrow because I also went on the monkeybars.

And, annoyingly, I've just got over one illness and now I'm developing another one which is extremely unfair.

kralia @ 2007-06-09T01:04:00

2007-06-09T00:06:48Z

How to tell if you're addicted to the computer:

Do you have a sense of euphoria at the computer? a little. at the start. not for long
Do you have a preoccupation with your computer both in the amount of time you use it and in the amount of time you think about it? not really. well. i say that at 1am updating this. so maybe.
Do you neglect your friends, family or work because of your computer usage? try not to
Do get angry when you are interrupted? always
Do you get agitated or frustrated when you are deprived of your computer? extremely
Do you find yourself lying about or “minimising” the amount you use your computer ie ‘I was finishing up some paperwork’ when you were in a chatroom or ‘I was just on for an hour’ when you were on until 2am? yes

kralia @ 2007-06-09T00:15:00

2007-06-08T23:18:58Z

Being in a weird caffiene/adrenaline induced mood when I got home today, I decided to go and swim in the river on the... and I'd like to say mountain because it sounds so much better, but sadly it's a hill. Anyway it was quite fun apart from midges, and diggers around the corner, and scrapey rocks in the shallows which I kept banging into.

Anyway the point is that the summer has now officially begun and it is warm and sunny and this is a good thing. And I may possibly go haybaleing tomorrow. I have no idea what this entails but now I'm rather excited about it and will be extremely disappointed if it doesn't happen.

kralia @ 2007-06-08T13:44:00

2007-06-08T12:50:33Z

Hmm well I just did my physics exams. And STUPIDLY forgot my pencil case so I got stuck with a weird foreign Casio calculator. It was like going into battle with a weapon you've never used before. It made me realise just how much I am attached to my own calculator.

So I was rather put off by this unfamiliar creature sitting on my desk, and also by Andy next to me who had finished the whole paper within an hour which was extremely disconcerting. And on both papers I worked out how to do a question about 2 minutes before the end, which meant a lot of OH MY GOD SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE which I got quite an adrenaline rush off.

Anyway I'm retaking this exam in January definately. With my own calculator that I know inside out. And my own black 0.7 pen.

But still... no more exams (until January)! Which is really quite amazing.

But I will be retaking 2 exams, namely computing and physics. Maths and chemistry... well, maths I'm pretty sure I've done well on (won't I look stupid when I get a C now) and there's little point in retaking chemistry, I'm not likely to get a better mark when I haven't even thought about chemistry for months.

And now let us never speak of it again.

kralia @ 2007-06-07T23:06:00

2007-06-07T22:10:05Z

I really should be going to bed soon. I will soon. Ofcourse. Why is sleep less important for exams than normaldays?

I just finished reading The Broken Bridge by Philip Pullman, which was a nice diversion from Catch 22, which is rather dull. I think Philip Pullman is best when he's just telling and story and not trying to make everyone hate god. But the irritating thing about The Broken Bridge was that for most of the book it promised murder and horrific secrets but actually all the end revelations weren't all they were hyped up to be. And there were a couple of untied ends. A book that excellent when you're halfway through but not so much at the end.

Right sleep now.

kralia @ 2007-06-05T20:30:00

2007-06-05T19:34:28Z

Well I very cleverly spilled lots of boiling water over my hand today and have been dipping my hand in water since then.

The burn seems to have calmed down now but as I have to wash my hair WITH HOT WATER now I may be screaming in agony for the next half hour or so. The things I do for my beauty.

Well it's not so many hours until my chemistry exams now. I think it's... highly unlikely that I'll get an A, let's put it that way. But I'm optomistically concentrating on "after 12:30 tomorrow I NEVER have to think about chemistry again. Unless I want to. Which I might."

kralia @ 2007-06-01T21:56:00

2007-06-01T21:36:49Z

Threadless designs that seem gender-specific:

Worked out from here, lowtech

Cut here for being rather image-heavy

Men like these:

Women prefer these:

Wow. I am sick of typing img src.

kralia @ 2007-06-01T20:31:00

2007-06-01T19:47:18Z

Something we were talking about yesterday - or at least, I was - the most depressing short term situation. Things like "your entire family dies" etcetera do not count because they are long term. It has to be something that you know will be over soon.

I believe there are few more depressing situations than D of E exped nights/mornings when it rains. Night, you're in a tent that's steadily getting damper and damper. The combination of the rain and the snoring of the person next to you and the rockhard ground and the freezing, freezing cold (even though you're wearing every item of clothing you brought) keeps you from getting any sleep. Then in the morning, having had about three hours sleep (if you're lucky), you have to somehow turn your entire camp into something that fits into a bag, while fiddling around with meths and trying to cook some food. Everything is soaked, and the tent is three times its normal weight because of all the water that's accumulated on it in the night. Your legs are aching because all the muscles you've strained over the past few days have seized up in the night, and you know that over the course of that day you'll have to walk miles only to come to another horrible campsite and do the whole thing again.

I'm sure it's much worse on, say, a two week Antarctic expedition but at least there you're, you know, in Antarctica.

Anyway I think I'm just about nearly done with Physics preparation now (won't it be hilarious when I get a C and bitterly look back on this).

kralia @ 2007-05-28T21:32:00

2007-05-28T20:34:09Z

She Wants Revenge - like Interpol, but silly.