December 31, 2004

No more leap year :o

Happy New Year's Eve!!!

December 27, 2004

Bits of Tid

Turkey turkey turkey. Because we didn't have it on Thanksgiving.

December 24, 2004

But I Have a Gas Fireplace...

It's Christmas Eve!

Christmas Break is halfway through!

I'm sure those are both equally appealing.

Tonight you should leave Santa something nice to ingest. Like, instead a cup of skim milk and those old oatmeal cookies you found in the depths of your cupboard, try a fruit smoothie and fresh fruit salad. It's probably more healthy, and tastes a lot better. He might give you a second gift for some originality.

December 23, 2004

*bzzt*

My area must have the worse power lines ever or something of the sort. We constantly have power flickers, where the power stops and comes back on. It resets all the clocks and shuts off televisions and computers.

Today we just had a one and a half hour bout of power outageness. wtf. I spent it all playing cards. It sucked.

December 22, 2004

Yatta

Almost Christmas Day. Yay. All presents are done. Yay. Chris' partay was fun. Risk!

We're all a happy community on Maple Story. Except for that gayass who stole our ore. n00b.

The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin.
-Jay Leno

December 17, 2004

Have some pelvic thrusting action.

Last day of school didn't really feel like school whatsoever. I got accompished my present giving-outings and got a few candy canes and chocolate! The assembly was pretty good for the most part. I mostly liked the music in most presentations. In class there was much Indian Rummy and Matrix.

Afterwards it was dashing through the asphalt to Jason's house. There we tried some Mario Party 6 which used a microphone, and were quite impressed, amused, and abused. Then came buffet and bloatingness ensues.

If you have not, all go to Jason's blog and download Grahbe Yahbalz. It should keep you amused for about 5 minutes. The title of this post is a quote from the song. *points up*. Yup.

December 16, 2004

Please leave if you have logophobia

This is really just for personal reference as it would annoy everyone else. We know what phobias are: irrational fear of something. We usually use the term loosely, like when saying, "I have acrophobia because I'm afraid of heights." Although (hopefully) you aren't actually irrationally afraid of it. The furthest extent for us might be paraphobia, but as I have no professional knowledge in these things...

The following a list of phobias.

In General
Claustrophobia: Fear of small or closed spaces.
Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces from Greek "agora" which eventually meant a gathering place for assembies.
Hydrophobia: Fear of water.
Nycophobia: Fear of the dark (or literally, fear of night) from the Greek word for night
Ochlophobia: Fear of crowds from the Greek word for crowd.
Anthropophobia: Fear of people and social situations.
Aerophobia: Fear of flying.
Emetophobia/Emitophobia: Fear of vomiting.

Infectious
Nosophobia/Pathophobia: Fear of disease, from Greek "nosos, disease" and "pathos, suffering; disease".
Carcinophobia: Fear of contracting cancer.
Cardiophobia: Fear of heart disease.
Lyssophobia: Fear of contracting rabies from Greek word for disease, "lyssa".
Toxiphobia: Fear of being poisoned from the Greek "toxon", a bow which eventually evolved into a compound "toxicon", a type of poison for putting on arrows.
Algophobia: Fear of pain, from the Greek word for pain.
Thanatophobia: Fear of death, from the Greek word for death.
Random Disease Fears: Cholerphobia, Leprophobia, Meningitophobia, Syphilophobia, Tuberculophobia
Necrophobia: Fear of death.

Get That Book Away!
Logophobia: Fear of words in general.
Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing certain words spoken.
Bibliophobia: Fear of books.
Glossophobia: Fear of speaking.
Papyrophobia: Fear of paper.
Theatrophobia: Fear of theatres and plays.
Criticophobia: Fear of critics.

Amish Is Good
Computerphobia, Cyberphobia, Cybertechnophobia, Telephobia, Technophobia: Fear of technology.
Anoraknophobia: Fear of trainspotters; fear manifestations of information technology.

No Place on Earth
Cremnophobia: Fear of precipices or steep places from the Greek "kremnos", an overhanging cliff.
Brontophobia: Fear of thunderstorms and thunder from its Greek root.
Mycophobia: Fear of mushrooms.
Potamophobia: Fear of large bodies of water.
Hylophobia: Fear of forests.
Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea.
Rupophobia: Fear of dirt.
Ericophobia: Fear of heathland, basically an expanse of barren, dusty, plain land.
Astraphobia: Fear of lightning.
Anemophobia: Fear of cyclones.
Lilapsophobia: Fear of hurricanes and tornadoes.

I Hate Tourist Traps
Hodophobia: Fear of travelling.
Nerophobia: Fear of change.
Xenophobia: Fear of strangers from Greek "xenos", stranger; foreigner. Used to categorize the following phobias which are phobias of a certain group of outsiders:
Francophobia/Gallophobia: Fear of the French.
Hispanophobia: Fear of the Spanish.
Russophobia: Or as it was before, Sovietophobia, for fear of Russians.
Germanophobia/Teutonophobia: Fear of Germans.
Polonophobia: Fear of the Polish.
Italophobia: Fear of Italians. (WTF sphegetti for dinner!?)
Sinophobia: Fear of the Chinese and their obviously lethal chopsticks.
Europhobia: A fear or distaste for the European Union.
Anglophobia: Fear of England.
Scotophobia: Fear of Scotland, from Greek "skotos", dark.
Cambrophobia, Hibernophobia: Terms considered to be for the fear of the Welsh and Irish, although there are no official terms recorded.

We Have Our Own Beliefs, Don't Be Offended If I Don't Like Your's
Islamophobia: Fear of Islams.
Judeophobia: Fear of the Jewish.
Christophobia: Fear of Christians, Christianity.
Theophobia: Fear of God's anger.
Ecclestophobia: Fear and dread of ecclesiasticism (things relating to church)
Pneumatophobia: Fear of spiritual matters.
Hierophobia: Fear of sacred objects or persons.
Teleophobia: Fear of design or final causes.

The Wild Kingdom Is Too Wild For Me
Hippophobia: A fear of horses from "hippopotamus", literally "water-horse"
Cynophobia: Fear of dogs.
Ailurophobia: One of the many variations for the fear of cats.

Everyday Life Is Just Too Much
Gynophobia: Fear of women.
Ergophobia: Fear of work from Greek "ergon".
Hypnophobia: Fear of falling asleep.
Pyrophobia: Fear of fire.
Sitiophobia: Fear of food, although its Greek root suggests it should only be used for the fear of bread or grain.
Phagophobia: Fear of eating. (Don't tell them about lysosomes. Seriously. Bad things will happen.)
Horophobia: Fear of clocks, especially clockfaces.
Cyclophobia: Fear of cyclists.
Deipnophobia: Fear of dinner parties from Greek "deipnon", dinner.
Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
Ombrophobia: Fear of rain.
Harpaxophobia: Fear of robbers.

Psychological Paradox
Polyphobia: Having several phobias.
Phobophobia: Fear of being afraid.
Panophobia: Defined as a causeless terror, where your fear has no appearant cause. Usually used along with Panphobia, the fear of everything.
Pantaphobia: The irrational absence of fear, from "pant-", all; everything, and "aphobia", fearlessness.
Paraphobia: A mild case of phobia.
Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of the number 13.

I Am a Rebel, I Need No Explaination!
Erythrophobia: Fear of blushing from the Greek "erythros", red. (I'm having trouble thinking of a rational traumatic event that would cause this phobia.)
Successophobia: The fear that success will cause one to forget their personal needs, as defined by Douglas Coupland.
Linonophobia: Fear of string. (WTF sphegetti for dinner??!)
Anthophobia: Fear of flowers.
Symmetrophobia: Fear of symmetry.

December 14, 2004

3 days...2 days...1 day...

This week has been pretty good so far. I went to the Holiday Run today and had a pretty good time. I won a thermos in the random prize draw :) Arthur's prize however surpasses mine as he received vitamin pills for teenagers. Arthur had (medical) drugs at school :O!

Saturnalia followed and went as follows:
- Snacks!
- Trivial Pursuit
- Halo
- Halo
- Halo
- Presentation
- Halo
- Halo... (While I ate dinner others were eating up Halo)

So I left a bit early. It was still fun, even though I barely participated in Halo.

Sushi last night was fun too.
Nori nori nori!

December 10, 2004

Keep on pushing

Alexander.
- Angelina Jolie perpetually covered in various snakes
- Everyone else was occationally drunk
- Naked boy wrestling
- Slave boy that could've easily passed as a harlot in physcial appearance
- Slave boy that danced like a harlot
_ Slave boy that was kissed by Collin Farrell probably because he looked like a harlot
- Ten minute topless sexual assault scene
- Collin Farrell kissing various other males
- Collin Farell turns the other cheek and raises the bar too high
- War elephants and horses!
- Scribe and his personal African ink cup holder

That sums it up pretty well.

One more week.

December 08, 2004

I'll Use This at the Next Dinner Conversation

The most Smarties eaten in three minutes with a pair of chopsticks is 138 by Kathryn Ratcliffe (UK).

The most valuable grass was a piece of sod from London's Wembley Stadium, sold to Ken Bates (UK) for 20,000 pounds.

The most bombed country is Laos. In between May 1964 and February 1973 about 5 billion pounds (2.26 million tonnes) of bombs have been dropped onto Laos.

The world's highest-ranking camel is BERT (USA) who was accepted as Reserve Deputy Sheriff for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in San Dimas, California. BERT stands for "Be Enthusiastic Responsible and True". He regularily goes on patrol with his handler Nance Fite (USA).

The largest condom was 72 ft tall (21.94 m)and was fitted over the obelisk in the Place de la Concorde, Paris, France on December 1st 1993 to mark World AIDS Day.

In the country sport of throwing dried cowpats, or 'chips', Steve Urner (USA) made the longest toss of cowpat of 266 ft (81.1 m).

Hence it is called trivia.

December 05, 2004

Don we now our gay apparel

With the prospect of Christmas approaching in two weeks, it's lifing my mood. Only 10 more days of school. 10 more days of tests and quizzes every other day.

We're getting a new fake Christmas tree, which is good. The last two years we got real trees, which was actually very pleasant as they released a nice scent into the house. However the loading and unloading into the house was a little annoying, and involved half of the main floor covered with pine needles each time.

During Christmas there's always this dinner thing where my dad's side of the family makes us host a dinner. And we have to serve them Chinese food. Because that's what they eat. Sometimes we force turkey upon them.

Of course there's going to be this aftermath of Christmas where you realised you have to do exams soon. And that the PA Day that's supposed to be right after the exams isn't because our calendar is defunct.