Hi all, it is I again ... so what is this thing about seeds of tomorrow, blossoms of yesterday? Yesterday I went to Bodhi Nite 2008 - an event that the unibuds (a uni Buddhist club) organise every year. This was my first time attending to such an event which consisted of free dinner (no meat of course) and a show.

I went with 3 other people and at the end two of us were left. They had a play which was not all bad but I have to say that singing wasn't that good and the talks with 2 Buddhists from some monasteries didn't help either. One talked for an hour because she also had a translator with her (who struggled endlessly with the seeds of tomorrow, blossoms of yesterday concept mixed around with today, yesterday and tomorrow) and the other one just talked and talked. So what did I learn from last night event? Something about Karma and to remember to bring an ipod with you next time when you attend Bodhi Nite next year ...

Will I go again next year? Maybe ... maybe if I'd skip the talk then it wouldn't have been that bad ...

 

*Warning* Some spoilers for those who don't know the original series/movie (animated)

Well, long time no been here – been too busy living to make any comments here…. and I’ve been wondering on today’s topic of choice: Transformers

More specifically, Transformers the cartoon and much loved series of legions of fans around the world. I have been watching the series, which has been great, as I haven’t seen it since it was last on TV over 20 years ago and I was a kid then and am seeing things in a better perspective as an adult. The realisation of how the series moves and evolves is interesting but also very bewildering. More questions tend to get raised than answered watching this show and many of them circle around how characters are introduced/fazed out.

As for introducing characters, that’s fine. I can take (and other people too take this view) that the new guys were in a different section of the arc that couldn’t be reached until (insert point of where new character comes along), such as one episode in series 2 – can’t remember exact episode but a cut scene shows Prime talking to Jazz or Bumblebee (someone known anyway) and in the background is no known characters – very amusing. And everyone’s name is spun off quickly while on the way to some heroic battle to save the ‘flesh creatures’ or energy sources and we the audience are meant to remember them all.

But the one thing that really is annoying me is the disappearance of introduced characters and the whereabouts of what happened to them… I know the story of the company wanting to have new characters for new waves of toys to be introduced, but heck why leave the old ones behind? What happened to them? Did they die? Leave Earth back for Cybertron? Leave for somewhere else entirely? Just go into hiding on Earth? Join forces with the Decepticons? WHAT HAPPENED TO SKYFIRE??? That is probably my most sought question I want answered, he was cool and bloody huge! The once friend and fellow scientist with Starscream, now Autobot ally made a large premise when introduced once he was found and then soon after dwindled to a much weaker character – the good natured side of him still there, just more wussy and nowhere near as strong as when he first appeared, such as in episode 9, when Megatron has made a weapon from an ancient power source, Skyfire gets found out by the Decepticons and Starscream takes him down with one hit – even he jokes about the ‘mighty Skyfire’.

Only up to series 2 anyway – which I am very fond of due to Blaster being on the scene, he is pretty cool. If there is one episode that is so hilarious, it is episode 52 Auto-Bop when Blaster and Soundwave have their big ‘battle’ at the end. What was the Decepticons planning on doing with the huge tower the humans were building? It is very sad though that Bumblebee doesn’t get used quite so much later on and the fact he becomes Goldbug. I really am miffed with the extermination of a number of valuable characters during the movie – from this result an episode in series 3 has Arcee yelling out to Springer (I think) that she isn’t a doctor to fix Hot Rod (Rodimus Prime) – sorry he will always be Hot Rod to me. This wouldn’t be a problem if the effects of the movie didn’t flow on through the series – they could have set up the movie premise just the way Dragonball Z did – an extension of the series with un-relating events that didn’t see fav characters die! I miss Ironhide, Wheeljack and Ratchet… mostly Ironhide, it’s funny how some characters seem to make an episode more enjoyable and there where a few funny moments Ironhide had (not meant to be funny, such as ‘City of Steel’ episode 19) that made the episode memorable – well it did for me. At least Blaster is around at the moment, for how long, I’m not sure and whether the series will be enjoyable once the 3rd series comes along is yet to be seen…

Dispite the fact that things have been nowhere near perfect lately, i've been having an amazing time. Sitting here waiting for Will to get off work at the moment. he recently got a Job at Dairy Queen. he just loves telling people about it too. I guess he's off training now because he sure has been gone awhile. 

I can't believe it's almost september. School will be sparting up again soon.

Dispite the fact that it's summer, I've been rather busy. The other day I was babysitting, before thet we stayed at Will's friend's place and saw thie real good horror movie called "one missed call" i reccommend it.

well, I cant' be online too long becasue people need to use the phone and we only have dail-up intranet here . (yeah, it sucks, but beggers can't be choosers)

Alright, so I got out of school yesterday ans was waiting for Will as usual, figuring it would be faster to go to his house before the choir concert than to go to mine since he had to do all these chores and stuff anyway. . . well he was nowhere to be found, which is very unusual. . . but anyway after much searching I called up his house and he wasn't there nbut apparently we have an appointment set up for us a 4 today, which. .  well I guess I'm missing the "Just us" meeting we normally have on thursdays. .  so then I had the office page him and there was no responce. .  so eventually I left to have him trail behind be by abotu a minute and a half. . aparently he went to a play. it ended at 55 after. Then we went to his house and got ready for the choir concert. Discussed prom with his mother. . . yeah. well we left early to avoid havign extra stuff put on us, wich usually happens at the last minute and becasue we have to take the city bus everywhere we really can't afford to be late becasue they don't run all that frequently.

. .  The choir concert went exedingly well, although we had much less practice than the other two, but everyone was in a good mood and it was refreshing.

gtg. lunch in a minute I will continue this post later!

TA for now!

I'm Back!

I have a paper due on monday and a presentation to do in Yoga as well. The presentationh should be fairly easy to do though.

I've been writing more poetry lately and found this awesome poetry site @ www.ergopoetry.com. It's awesome to recieve so many comments from people.

We are recording music in choir tomorrow.

Hehe, have just been onto Blogthings and done a quiz of 'Are you a good girl or a bad girl?'. As I have been called a bad girl practically every week over the past couple of months, I decided to take it and here is the results - it's funny, not that I really do bad things.. sometimes..I do bad things with bad boys

I had an absolutely amazing weekend that blew my mind, it was one of the best times I have had in a VERY long time... actually can't remember the last time I had that much fun.

I went to a Tae Kwon Do tournament and met some incredible people, though two people stood out to me to be the most awe-inspiring. Both of them champions, her a State and National champion, him a National and International champion and both wonderful people, who have amazed me both in their abilities and how lovely they are to talk to - I am still on a high from the weekend...

While I never will make it to their level, they were awesome to watch and have inspired me so much - I feel so privileged to have met and spent time with them and their club supporters. I really hope to meet up with them in the future again; it will be a real buzz.

So, things have been a little weird today, from the creepy dream I had last night to Will not showing up to school at all today. Apparently I can call him tonight. I'm worried though. Clyde wouldn't tell me why he wasn't here and all. . . . I just hope everything is okay.

People really need to start listening to me.

Besides that Will has been workign on his CP and I have begun my scholarly paper. I'm really starting to wonder how I'm going to get enough sources to prove a lot of my points but D'boy seems to think I canget it done fine so I'll just have to see what happens.

Well, that's all

Ta for now!

Vista Hands On : Use Vista for four months, free

You can install an evaluation copy of any Vista edition and use it for a minimum of 30 days without having to activate it. As several publications have already noted, you can renew this evaluation period a total of three times, extending the evaluation period to roughly 120 days. But this post contains a secret technique that no one has yet published: how to automatically "rearm" the trial period at the end of each 30 day period.

The not-so-secret technique is simple: Open an elevated Command Prompt window (type cmd in the Search box, right-click the shortcut, and choose Run As Administrator from the shortcut menu). At the prompt, type slmgr.vbs -rearm and press Enter. Restart your computer. Done.

The trouble with this technique is you have to remember to do it. If the 30-day deadline passes while you're away from your computer, you'll find yourself deactivated. Here's how to handle the task automatically:

1. Click Start and type task in the Search box.

2. Click the Task Scheduler shortcut and click Continue when you see the UAC prompt.

3. In the Actions pane at the right of the Task Scheduler window, click Create Task.

4. Open a Command Prompt window (it doesn't have to be elevated), and type the command slmgr -xpr. Make a note of the date and time when the initial grace period expires.

5. On the General tab of the Create Task window, give the task a name, click Run whether user is logged on or not, and select the Run with highest privileges check box, as shown here.

6. On the Triggers tab, click New and fill in the dialog box to create a One Time task using a date and time that is before the end of the initial grace period, as calculated in Step 4. Click OK.

7. On the Actions tab, click New. The default action in this dialog box is Start a program. Fill in slmgr.vbs for the name of the program and add -rearm in the Add arguments box, as shown here. Click OK.

8. Click OK to save the task. Enter your password when prompted (this is what allows the task to approve the UAC consent request on your behalf).

Repeat this process for the second and third rearm task, making sure to choose dates that are less than 30 days after the task you just created. As long as your computer is turned on when the scheduled date and time arrive, the task will run and you'll get your renewal.

by Ed Bott