Random Quoties =D

Hey, guys! This is a bit of a random post, I know...but hopefully you're all cool with that. This is a lovely collection of quotes I've heard, been a part of, or picked up, through friends or teachers or movies...Read, enjoy, and take 'em to heart.

"Anybody who criticizes you is a wimp. So be you. And be you loud, and be you strong, and be you to the maximum."

"If I could be any part of you, I'd be your tears. To be conceived in your heart, born in your eyes, live on your cheeks, and die on your lips. "
[Unknown]

"I like the floor. It's the only thing that seems real."
[Abre los Ojos]

[regarding magic]
Xander: You can't just go "librum incendere" and expect...[the book on his lap bursts into flame]
Giles: Xander, don't speak Latin in front of the books.
[BtVS]

"Whether there is freedom and love or not, in death everyone is equal. I hope that death is not your end. You adored the light, so you will never fear the darkness." [Summer Palace]

[kiss scene in Abre los Ojos]
Senora Molano: EW!!
[Entire class cracks up]

"Just changed the name of my iPod to "The Titanic" so whenever I plug it into my computer it says 'The Titanic is syncing' "
[from www.boardofwisdom.com]

Krisnelly to Rishabh: Don't make me angry, otherwise I'll punch you in the uterus!!
Rishabh: ...........
Me: ...........*starts laughing really hard*

"Dawn, the hardest thing in this world is to live in it. Be brave. Live. For me." [BtVS]

"I didn't discover choral or classical music until I was 18 years old. My very first experience singing, at hearing these close harmonies around me...the dissonance was so exquisite. And so when I finally started composing, when I was 21, I filled my music with those dissonances, those vibrations, because it just makes me feel...I just want to die in that moment." [Erik Whitacre, choral composer]

"Per aspera ad astra" (through hardships to the stars)

"The righteous shall walk a thorny path."
[Lindsey, Angel]

"You're not *friends.* You'll never be friends. You'll be in love until it kills you both. You'll fight...and you'll shag...and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love is not brains, children, it's blood--blood screaming inside of you to work its will!............I may be love's b**ch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it."
[Spike, Buffy the Vampire Slayer]

Carissa: What's up, mah babymaker?

"Overhead transparencies are like underwear. When you run out, you've gotta wash them!"
[Mrs. Ross. ♥]

Mr. Woodworth: You need more FIRE and less PANTS!!

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss."
[Douglas Adams]

Come to the edge.
We might fall.
Come to the edge.
It's too high!
COME TO THE EDGE!
And they came, and he pushed, and they flew.
-Christopher Logue Croyez-

[Katy, Kristen and me inside the girl's dressing room>Fall play]
Kristen: Let's dress up in other character's costumes, then run around and see if they notice!
Male voice over intercom: That's...not...nice.
[3 seconds of complete silence]
*laughter with legit tears*

[Chang Gung University Cafeteria, Taiwan]
Me: You got everything?
Milena: Wait, wait, I need to get a pair of those tweezer thingies...
Me: ...don't you mean chopsticks?

Frankenstein Monster: I am accustomed to pain.
Van Helsing: It lets you know you're alive!

Annoying Chinese telemarketer: [Speaking Chinese] Hello. Do you speak Chinese?
My mom: [Also in Chinese] No, I can't.
*She hangs up*

"Inspiration comes in the middle of the night when you should be doing homework." ~Amy Lee~

Mr Stemmler: Does anybody else have the word "UNDERGARMENTS" in the first five words of their DBQ?

"Be nice to other people. They outnumber you 6.8 billion to one!"

Eileen: What a butt!!

"When life gives you lemons, use them to squirt lemon juice into the eyes of your enemies."

"...some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast. It's how life IS."
~The Truth About Forever by Sarah Dessen

Name Change!!

I am now officially known as...ACHMED THE DEAD TERRORIST!!!

No, not really, although this video is certainly worth seeing (warning: foul language):

If you took the time to watch that, hope you enjoyed. Many thanks to a friend for showing me this amazing clip =D No racism, please. Remember that extreme Islamic fundamentalists are very much the minority in this world, so I don't want to hear or read anything about how all the Muslims on earth should be nuked. 

Okay, back to business. I have officially trashed the title "The Phantasy Lives On" as the name for my blog. Yes, yes, say it out loud, the old one was cheesy. I don't really mind your titters. I had originally started this blog for different reasons and then I found myself moving in this direction. And merely changing the title of the blog is a breeze compared to moving all the irrelevant entries into a separate blog. So I took the lazy way out. The name might change again, but I'll do my best to make this one stay put for good. Watch out for a different URL, though, that might also change. So now...*ahem* Welcome to Inkblots, etc.! Hope you like my noob black and white banner!

Don't choke, don't choke...

Now I feel like the British teenager Kanye West chose as his single person to follow on Twitter (but hopefully without that huge onsurge of followers Mr. Teenager got from that event). Let me explain the full story: Several months ago my mom proposed that each month I choose a new novel to get from Amazon.com and she pays for it, provided the final price is reasonable. I guess since I'm more of an English/arts person, she wants to keep me in civilized company where books are concerned. It might sound weird and old-fashioned to some people, I suppose, but I love reading and at the time I hadn't gotten any new books for ages, so I was really excited. And so it began...

Fast forward a few months. I happened to see a novel on Amazon by this more-or-less-obscure author and got interested, so I bought it. I didn't leave a review for it on Amazon until a few days ago, but I did manage to find and follow her on Twitter in the meantime. And guess what...half an hour ago she tweeted with a thank you for my nice review! She doesn't know me personally, of course, but since I took the time to give a genuine review...

It was just sheer coincidence that I was following her on Twitter and happened to see her tweet on this. She didn't mention any reviewer's names in the tweet, but I was curious and checked it out. And holy moly, it was my review for her book! She currently has 768 followers and has tweeted a lot about her writing schedule, other reviews for her books, etc., so you can understand my surprise. It was all I could do to not start squealing and hopping up and down. Hopefully I'm not coming across as shallow. It's just really cool to have a mini-celeb acknowledge you and thank you for what you had to say. Good thing that there's nobody home but me now...

Changes and Storm Clouds

I ended up changing the URL for my new music-review blog after creating it and because of that, the earlier link doesn't work. Here's the new link: http://playonrockonliveon.blogspot.com/

[Edit: Apparently Blogger doesn't like this new URL either. Click on "Go to blog homepage" and it will show.]

So I've been home for a couple of days now and...I'm not actually in the best mood. My mom's been bugging me about the things I still have to do for college applications. I haven't been in the mood to finish up my summer assignments and right now my tummy is bothering me =( So all of this adds up to a rather grumpy Amorailuv. Argh. I hate deadlines of all kinds.

Home Sweet Home

Hello peeps,

We arrived back home yesterday around midnight and naturally I was hyper and awake, so I stayed up late to unpack and do this and that. I love visiting Taiwan, but this time I think the weather got on my nerves earlier. Even though we were staying 3 weeks instead of the usual 1 month, I was glad to get back home. It might be hot here, but at least the nights are cooler than before and we aren't baking in the muggy humidity that is Taiwan in the summer. And no mosquitoes that leave hard 1-inch welts on your arms and legs! I came back bearing real scars from some of the worst bites...

I just caught myself scratching one of them. But Taiwan is a really awesome place to stay during the summer. Here are the more interesting parts of my journey this time:

A fireworks display for a local celebration in Keelung (pronounced "Jee-long") gone wrong. The hillside caught fire. Even then, they continued to shoot them off. Silly of them...

The Taipei 101, currently the second-tallest building in the world. We make lots of treks to Taipei during our annual stay in Taiwan.

I've only seen this kind of handicraft in Taiwan. A dragon, made completely out of drinking straws.

This Disney mural is only a minute's hard walk away from my aunt's apartment, where we stay each summer. Aladdin seems to have gone bald, though...

One of the coolest rings I've ever seen. It's literally a small adjustable belt, not just one solid piece. I would have gotten this, especially because Taiwan's a great shopping place with amazing prices, but I was broke and couldn't afford it =P

A halfway-decent sunset in Danshui (pronounced "Dahn-shwey"). This place is famous as a sunset-watching spot.

So here's the drill...

Hello, peeps! I'm on vacation still and I'm heading back two days from now, the 28th. Then I have roughly two weeks until school begins. This summer has flown by so fast, I seriously wish it could have gone on longer. In those two weeks, I will hopefully get some more material online, hang out with friends, visit at least one or two colleges if they'll let me and deny the fast-approaching *terror* that is my senior year of high school...

INTRODUCING MY NEW BLOG for music reviews! Yeahhhh, Amorailuv has successfully managed to somewhat organize the chaos that is her online life! *round of applause* So this blog will contain my modest input and opinion on this song and that artist, this genre and that....I just created it today, so I only have an intro post up there. Feel free to check it out and Follow me!

Go to my new blog here <3

Amorailuv returns!!!

Hello, peeps! Sorry for disappearing off this thing for so long, I've been busy as hell for the past several weeks. Anyhoo, I'm currently camped out in my aunt's apartment in Keelung, Taiwan for three weeks...and I'm returning on the 28th. My daily schedule includes trying to stay cool in Aunt's non-AC'd apartment, slapping at mosquitoes, visiting places, finding amazing things at amazing prices not available anywhere else, pretending to be completely fluent in Mandarin chinese, and pretending to be working on AP Spanish summer work and writing notes for summer reading. Huzzuh =D


In an attempt to organize myself, I'm considering setting up a different blog for music reviews, recommedations, etc. Remarks?