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Holidays

So I’m going away for the holidays. Before I leave, one more icon - Edmund from Chronicles of Narnia.

Credits: imsomniac

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Past and Future

Recently my mother decided to clean up the study room, so in one afternoon we cleaned it up. Actually it was mainly my mom doing the job, while my siblings and I pored over the past. Things from ‘another life’.

There was the TSF box. We used to have our ‘detective team’ like those in Enid Blyton stories, along with the neighbour kids. And we called ourselves The Secret Five. It was silly, and funny to read the stuff inside the box. Back in those days, while we had great times together, new neighbours came. And how we tortured them! We kept them out of our secrets, built a whole stack of paper airplanes to shoot them, brought them to ‘court’ when they peeked into our ’secret hideout’ made of boxes out…

I feel really bad.

Anyways, that was one past. There were so many stuff, all the cute little soft toys, and our paper dolls. Ones we made. My mom accidentally threw a whole stack of them away, and we did go back to the huge green smelly garbage can in broad daylight to search, but it was useless. There goes all the beautiful, beautiful, beautiful stuff cut out from magazines.

But they are a past, and I doubt I’ll ever play them again.

Now we look to the future. It’s sad, but pretty much expected. Alias will end - really end - by May 2006. In other words, season 5 will be the last season ever. Well … it’s … sad. But I’m thankful for Alias, which has traveled with me nearly four years of my life, and letting me look forward to something each week. Unfortunately, all good things come to an end.

RIP, Alias, when that dreaded last day comes, when the curtain falls along with the credits of the series finale in May 2006 (which seems like a million light years away, but time passes fast). I will miss you.

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Alias Changing Timeslot + Spoilers

Looks like ABC has decided to put Alias after Lost on Wednesday nights, 10 pm. That means I’ll get to download and watch it a day earlier.

But behind every decision there is a reason. And I don’t think the reason is about gaining more viewers from a Lost lead-in. Looks like the show is getting a little um… not for kids, shall we say? And kids are less likely to watch tv at 10 pm.

I’m not sure about the next episode ‘Bob’ (which in fact, is Sark), but there are rumours that Sark is showing skin. Okay, that is not good. The press release makes me more cautious than ever.

“Bob” - After Rachel has a fling that inadvertently compromises a mission, she and Sydney are forced to team with Julian Sark (David Anders) to prevent a deadly micropulse bomb from getting into the hands of a dangerous mercenary. Meanwhile, Jack and a former lover — an MI-6 agent — fight for their lives after being captured, on “Alias,” WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.

Guest starring are David Anders as Julian Sark, Caroline Goodall as Elizabeth Powell, Michael Phencie as Lukas Basarov and Ntare Mwine as Masari.

Jack and a former lover? Sounds pretty interesting, but I have my reserves, being a J/I shipper. I’ll probably have to ’screen’ the episode before downloading. Won’t be nice to let my little brother nor my mom (both of whom watch Alias with me regularly) see anything bad - skin or not.

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Icons

After fiddling around for awhile and having it turn out to be…..quite unexpected, I decided to post it anyway. It happened mainly because I just had to use some light textures, and they did not match with the bottom picture. So I sort of added another light tex to the bottom pic. My brother again, because he’s the sweetest thing.

Credits: Imsomniac, colorfilter

I made this one some time back, using a screencap from ‘Because of Winn-Dixie’. Initially I took the screencap while trying out different programs. And it did come in handy.

Credits: Okay, this is bad. I don’t know who made the film brush at the left side, nor the gradient I used.

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Episode 7: Fait Accompli

As usual, we have a couple of flashbacks. Then Syd and Renee are in some university in Rome, trying to get an access card. Syd is in disguise again and telling Renee where to look for the card in the basement place. Suddenly, Professor Choy (from season 1) appears and recognizes her! So much for disguises. Syd improvised quickly and incorporated the number of the box Renee is supposed to look for in an answer to her former professor. So they get the card and Renee asks Syd who the professor. Her answer? “No one. Someone from another life.” How true!

Anyways, Sloane confessed about meeting with Dean and stuff and he wants to doublecross Dean. And Dean wants the access card so meets with Sloane in Dubai, some racing horse track. Everybody except Jack and Marshall go there and eventually they capture Dean.

Dean is tortured with some kind of Marshall thingy. Syd has to comfort him and question him. There’s some kind of Glenheim tower satellite thingy where Dean’s organization communicates and does stuff. Obviously Dean works for bigger people, a set of twelve things which is another Alliance all over again.

Meanwhile Sloane is met up with this guy who tells him to kill Dean (to prevent any further spilling of intel). In exchange, Nadia’s cure. Nadia is awakened awhile and fine, but becomes a zombie-nut again soon.

With the satellite thingy, they discover that Dean’s organization and the whole thing is actually in the government itself. They need a password to bypass the security and stuff. The thingy will expire in just 6 minutes, so Syd goes. Unfortunately, Syd is too late. Sloane has killed Dean, and it looks like suicide.

Peyton the girl working under Dean takes over Dean’s organization, and the guy meets with Sloane again and tells him he needs more favors before he will cure Nadia.

In Syd’s house, Jack is building a crib. Syd sits there watching him. They finish it, and push it towards the nursery room, only to find it is too big to fit through the tiny door. Nothing to do but well…..”Get me the screwdriver.”

Rating: 7.5/10

It has been quite a long time since such a nice episode. The way they tortured Dean, using music, the mission at the racehorse tracks that was cool, the fact that Sloane is being bad again, meeting up with history (Professor Choy) and best of all - the Jack/Syd scene at the end. It was hilarious, that crib scene. One of the best J/S scenes ever.

One thing though, I feel cheated that Vaughn did not appear, even though Syd and him were all over the promotion pics.

Next episode, Sark is back. Sark fans are going crazy all over the boards. As for me, well, not excited in any way. Indifferent. And Rachel hooks up with Sark. Ugh. Somebody save me.
Preview clip: Just click the ‘Watch the preview of the next episode (even though the top still says ‘Fait Accompli’, which is plain wrong)

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First ever Tutorial

Go to my lj for my first ever tutorial. It’s sucky and simple though.

Codename Alias’ LiveJournal

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Another icon

I got bored (again), so I made an Aslan icon.

Credits: Screencap taken from throw_elijah, texture from liminalstate, and brush is a poster tape (I forgot where from) and tiny text from colorfilter. Plus Trajan as the font.

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Episode 6: Solo

Rachel’s family is ‘kidnapped’ by the CIA for witness protection sort of thing. So of course Rachel is really sad. And starts crying.

Sloane continues to meet Dean and tell stuff. Dean wants to find Vak, some weapon designer. So Sloane makes that into an APO mission. They have to find Zigza Zidane (I know, weird name) first, though. Syd gets Renee to get Zidane and he blabs about some intel someplace. So Syd, Dixon and Tom go to some India place where there’s this Chinese general about to marry an Indian girl. So Syd goes into the general’s office and speaks some yucky Chinese (but not so bad) and Marshall tries to unlock the safe. Unfortunately, the frequencies are jammed and stuff so Rachel runs out and gets the receiver closer to the building. She sees a guard and bolts in fright, getting rescued by Tom.

Now Vak is on a oil-rigging thingy in the middle of the South China Sea, where he sees no one but a girl per week. And Syd can’t go, cause she’s pregnant. So the only person is Rachel. Everyone doubts her ability (except probably Jack cause he sent her), but fortunately Syd will be on comms.

Rachel gets to Vak and successfully steals the thingy, but at that moment, her former friend from the Shed arrives. Dean did not believe Sloane and had personally sent the girl to get the thing. Rachel does some lousy fighting, but is successful in the end when Dixon and Tom save the day in a helicopter.

In between those action scenes are some Vaughn-mentions. Syd even plays a Vaughn tape to her baby at the end. We also get to see a glimpse of Nadia in coma, Sloane watching her.

Rating: 6.5/10

I am hating Rachel more and more with each episode. Blond character that seems so…just arrgh. Nothing exciting about her, cries every episode just like Syd some seasons ago. And Vaughn and Nadia will be in the next episode. Hopefully the next episode will be much better. I want more of the old people in action.

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Cat Rescue (or rather, Scaring)

There was this black kitty (unlucky??) that was so scared on the fourth floor. It didn’t want to come down, so the rescue team set out. As usual, it was headed by GL.

According to eye-witnesses, the cat jumped out of the balcony and landed on the air-con jutting out at the third floor. Somehow it came back, into the laundry room. Then I went along with my sis and bro. The cat - boy, was it fierce! Stared with murderous glint in eye (or perhaps I imagined it). At any rate, it kept making weird humming sounds, especially when GL prodded it. The black cat was cornered and scared.

Then we stood at various places around while GL scared the cat away from the laundry room. We stood just at the ‘junction’ and the cat dashed out madly. Pass our useless roadblock, into another corner. But at last, Jan used a broom and sort of swept the climbing cat into a box below, which was promptly closed. The box was brought down and the cat released.

the cornered kitty (in the laundry room)

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Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events

This movie is, like, ages ago, but I only watched it yesterday on DVD with GL and the rest of the gang. I would say it is not bad. Quite good, in fact. Watch it, if you have the chance, but I think it’s just another of those watch-a-few-times-and-never-wanna-watch-again kind of movies. That’s my just opinion, no offense to the die-hard fans.

The changed RWIR icon.

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