Sunday, June 24, 2007

Off on Vacation

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know that I'll be leaving for my 2-week-long vacation soon. In less than 12 hours we'll be on a bus bound for LAX, where we'll fly to Vancouver to spend a week there, and then the following week will be our road trip down the West Coast as we drive back home.

I will have sporadic net access throughout, so most likely won't be able to answer Grabmails/Myspace mails while we're gone. However, if you have my email address, feel free to get in touch with me there, as that's easier to access on a regular basis.

I'll also be attempting to blog about our trip (with pictures!) every night, or every other night, as time permits.

To keep things simpler, I'm going to be limiting my entries to just one blog-- my Grab blog: http://blogs.grab.com/hellykwee
So be sure to check it out frequently :-)

See you all again soon!
Helly

Saturday, June 23, 2007

Turtle Love

I logged onto Myspace earlier today and while I was waiting for my page to load from the generic start page, my eyes caught a thumbnail of today's featured video. I clicked on it and couldn't stop laughing, I HAD to share. Here it is:

Turtle Love



The "battering ram" effect was bad enough, but wait till the end-- you can HEAR the turtle! What do you suppose he's saying/yelling? Do you think those are the noises he makes when he cums?

Anyone care to take a stab at "turtle translation" here? ;-)

(originally posted at:  http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/279765157)

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Lawsuit Happy

Every day while I eat lunch, I go to my "My Yahoo" page to read my web comics and catch up on a bit of news. Including news of the weird. Today's top story?

Woman loses in court after losing lottery

You can click on the link for the full story, but the summary tells it all:
A Dutch woman has lost her compensation claim for mental distress she suffered from missing out when her neighbors won a lottery windfall

Really makes you shake your head at people today, doesn't it? And how they'll sue over anything. Ah well, keeps the lawyers busy, I suppose ;-)

Anyway-- it got me thinking. If a woman can try to sue for "mental distress" just because she neglected to buy the winning lottery ticket, does this mean that I can do likewise?

Most of my readers know, but for those of you who don't: I'm a moderator at a games/community site called grab.com. If you're reading this, chances are you're no stranger to the wonderful world of community message boards, and the joy that trolls and flame wars bring about. Grab.com is stricter than most forum sites, in an effort to keep it a clean, family-friendly site. So as you can imagine, there's no shortage of fun for its moderators :-P

For some reason the really big headaches decided to explode all at the same time within this past couple of weeks. RPGers taking their little role-playing a little too seriously, folks taking flame wars WAY too personally, and of course, the usual rebels against authority. It's been one thing after another, seemingly nonstop. As Lisa and I once mused, we should collect stories of all the dramas we've ever encountered on the site, and sell them to television networks as soap operas. Because-- I kid you not-- you could not make some of this shit up! The things people get carried away over!!

So yeah... if we can't strike it rich selling our stories to TV producers, maybe we can strike it rich by filing a lawsuit for our "mental distress". What do you think? ;-)

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/279036252)

Monday, June 18, 2007

The -ology Survey

Swiped from Jenna and Kendra...

Mouthology
Q. What is your salad dressing of choice?
A: Ranch

Q. What is your favorite fast food restaurant?
A: McDonald's. I love the Dollar Menu!

Q. What is your favorite sit-down restaurant?
A: I'd have to go with Pascucci-- cheap, lots of food, good quality.

Q. On average, what size tip do you leave at a restaurant?
A: 15%. 20% if the service was excpetionally good.

Q. What food could you eat every day for two weeks and not get sick off of?
A: Toast. I've BEEN doing it for the past few weeks already :-D

Q. What are your pizza toppings of choice?
A: Ham, pineapple, mushroom, olive and tomatoes.

Q. What do you like to put on your toast?
A: Honey. Any kind of fruit preserves (but especially blueberry or strawberry). Sugar-- pure granulated white sugar :-9

Q. What is your favorite type of gum?
A: Spearmint Orbit. The commercials are pretty stupid but the gum is GREAT.

Technology
Q. Number of contacts in your cell phone?
A: 36

Q. Number of contacts in your email address book?
A: 50

Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer?
A: A view of the Earth at night

Q. How many televisions are in your house?
A: 4, including a multi-system one (runs NTSC, PAL and SECAM)

Biology
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed?
A: Righty

Q. Do you like your smile?
A: Yeup

Q. What's your best feature?
A: My smile? :-D

Q. Have you ever had any piercings poked into your body?
A: Nope, not even my ears

Q. Which of your five senses do you think is keenest?
A: Hearing and smell. They're both very keen, and I like to think it's a way for my body to make up for my poor vision (I'm astigmatic and very near-sighted)

Q. When was the last time you had a cavity?
A: 3 years ago

Q. What is the heaviest item you lifted last?
A: My son! He's around 40 pounds now-- why do you think we call him Toddzilla? :-D

Q. Have you ever been knocked unconscious?
A: Nope

Bull[shit]ology
Q. If it were possible, would you want to know the day you were going to die?
A: Not the exact day, but a ballpark figure, maybe down to the month and year.

Q. Is love real?
A: Yes

Q. If you could change your first name, what would you change it to?
A: There was a B.I.D. about this on Grab long ago, and my answer was: Elizabeth. You can refer back to the original entry for an explanation: http://blogs.grab.com/hellykwee/12082

Q. What color do you think looks best on you?
A: Just about anything except green. I like bright colors, they contrast nicely against my black hair (red especially).

Q. Have you ever swallowed a non-food item by mistake?
A: Haven't we all? Especially with the statistic about how many spiders the average person swallows in their sleep?

Q. Have you ever saved someone's life?
A: Not that I know of

Q. Has someone ever saved yours?
A: Not literally, but in a roundabout way, sort of.

Dareology
Q. Would you walk naked for a half mile down a public street for $100,000?
A: Sure, why not

Q. Would you kiss a member of the same sex for $100?
A: Yup

Q. Would you allow one of your little fingers to be cut off for $200,000?
A: Owie, no, I like having all my limbs intact

Q. If GoofyAuctions.com offered you $1,000 would you get your nipples pierced?
A: OUCH. Hell no.

Q. Would you pose naked in a magazine for $250,000?
A: Love Kendra's answer-- if a decent-quality magazine thought they'd want to see me disrobe, sure, why not?

Q. Would you drink an entire bottle of hot sauce for $1000?
A: Oh god. Anyone that knows me knows my aversion to anything spicy. But I might think about it for 10x that amount of money.

Q. Would you, without fear of punishment, take a human life for $1,000,000?
A: I might, if that person was Adolf Hitler or someone like that.

Q. Would you give up watching television for a year for $25,000?
A: Hehe, I essentially do already, anyway, so yes. Might as well get paid for it ;-)

Dumbology
Q: What is in your left pocket?
A. Fuzz (but not Fuzzy!)

Q: Is Napoleon Dynamite actually a good movie?
A: Never seen it, no inclination to see it

Q: Do you have hardwood or carpet in your house?
A: Used to have carpet, recently put down hardwood floors

Q: Do you sit or stand in the shower?
A: people sit in the shower?! Had to echo Jenna's answer here. I stand, too.

Q: Could you live with roommates?
A: I doubt it. I'm not very tolerant of the difficulties that come with communal living. But I have no experiences to draw on-- never had roomies before (unless you count the live-in boyfriend/husband).

Q: How many pairs of flip flops do you own?
A: About 4 or 5

Q: Where were you born?
A: Muenster, Germany

Q: Last time you had a run-in with the cops?
A: *chortles* OMG. Exactly 4 years ago *blush* Wow, has it been that long??

Q: What do you want to be when you grow up?
A: A truck driver. You get to drive all over the country, and even if you're stuck in traffic, it's okay, because you're already at work :-D
Seriously-- I want to teach college.

Lastology
Q: Friend you talked to?
A: Does Scot on his blog/profile count?

Q: Last person you called?
A: My dad to wish him a Happy Father's Day

Q: Person you hugged?
A: My little man

Favoriteology
Q: Number?
A: 7

Q: Color?
A: Orange

Q: Season?
A: Summer! Hate cold weather with a passion!

Currentology
Q: Mood?
A: Hungry

Q: Listening to?
A: The tapping of my keyboard as I type this ;-)

Q: Watching?
A: The clock-- is it time to go home yet?

Q: Worrying about?
A: Finishing this part of my project before I go on vacation

Randomology
Q: First place you went this morning?
A: Orthpedist's appointment

Q: What can you not wait to do?
A: Go to Vancouver and then meet all my friends along the way on my road trip home afterward. Especially Kendra and her little squishies!

Q: What's the last movie you saw?
A: NEW movie? Hell if I can remember. On TV? "A League of Their Own"

Q: Do you smile often?
A: Yes

Q: Are you a friendly person?
A: Generally, no. I'm more on the antisocial side.

Q: Now that the survey's done what are you going to do?
A: Go home! But first, I'm gonna make myself some toast...

(originally posted at:  http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/277823703)

Friday, June 15, 2007

Another test

A little time-killer. This one was reminiscent of the "Everything Test" we all took last week.
And the results of this one should surprise no one. How I got a PG-13 on the Everything Test while getting these scores on this test, is beyond me:

..> ..>
The eXtreme Relationship/Sexuality Test
Your overall dating experience is 36%.
    Your sexual experience is 57%, higher than 71% of other test-takers.

    Your sex-drive level is 78%, higher than 89% of others.
    Your morality index is 4 out of 10, where lower is less inhibited.

    The average scores are 33% dating and 42% sexual experience.    
    Find out how you compare!
Take the test!
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Feathery Friends

(I am cross-posting this to ALL of my blogs in an attempt to try to ID this little critter)

I'm not normally a fan of our feathery friends. Birds chirp and sing and caw waaaayyyyy too early in the morning for me, invariably waking me up. I hate having trees right outside the window. Being awakened from a deep slumber at 4:00am evokes urges to get a BB gun and shoot the darn pests right out of the trees. If only I were a better shot, though! ;-P

But this morning, on my way out to work, I came upon an unusual sight-- a small white bird was perched on the roof of my mom's car. I managed to get close enough to it to snap a couple of pictures:





It's a curious-looking bird, with its white feathers and orange beak (it looks less orange in the 2nd pic, for some reason that one came out more bluish than the first one, which matches the original color better). It's about the size of a small sparrow.

Anyone have any ideas as to what kind of bird it is? An albino sparrow? A cross between a dove (white feathers) and a pelican (orange beak)? LOL... I'd really like to know what it is... anyone? :-)

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/276596469)

Friday, June 8, 2007

The Everything Test

Following the trend after spying it on Scot's blog.
   

The Everything Test

    There are many different types of tests on the internet today. Personality tests,     purity tests, stereotype tests, political tests. But now, there is one test to rule them all.

    Traditionally, online tests would ask certain questions about your musical tastes or clothing for a stereotype, your experiences for a purity test, or deep questions for a personality test.We're turning that upside down - all the questions affect all the results, and we've got some innovative results too! Enjoy :-)

   
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Personality
You are more logical than emotional, more concerned about self than concerned about others, more atheist than religious, more loner than dependent, more workaholic than lazy, more traditional than rebel, more engineering mind than artistic mind, more cynical than idealist, more leader than follower, and more extroverted than introverted.

As for specific personality traits, you are romantic (71%), greedy (69%), horny (67%), intellectual (59%).
       

   
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Stereotypes
Prep85%
Young Professional50%
Old Geezer50%
       
           
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Life Experience
Sex35%
Substances8%
Travel44%
       

   
    ..>                                ..>
            Politics
            Your political views would best be described as Liberal, whom            you agree with around 39% of the time.       
            Socioeconomic
            Your attitude toward life best associates you with Upper Class.            You make more than 94% of those who have taken this test,            and 36% more than the U.S. average.
       

   
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            If your life was a movie, it would be rated PG-13.
            By the way, your hottness rank is 67%, hotter than 73% of other test takers.       

    TAKE THE TEST
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(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/273981081)

Thursday, June 7, 2007

My Profile Song (Männer sind Schweine)

Got a question about my current profile song, and I thought I'd entertain it here on my blog. The song is called "Männer sind Schweine", which means "Men are Pigs" in German, and it's by a punk rock band called Die Ärzte (The Doctors). It's very tongue-in-cheek, made even funnier by the fact that it is sung by an entirely all-male band. The song was a big hit in Germany several years ago, and you have to admit-- the tune is kinda catchy!

Here are the lyrics, with my best attempt at an English translation. Don't mind the boring sound of the English verse, you know how it goes-- things always get lost in translation :-D The player is attached here, so you can just click the play button and listen along while you read the lyrics :-)






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Hallo mein Schatz, ich liebe Dich
Du bist die Einzige für mich
Die anderen find' ich alle doof
deswegen mach ich Dir den Hof
       Hello my dear, I love you
You are the only one for me
I find all the others dumb
therefore I want to go out with you
Du bist so anders, ganz speziell
Ich merke so was immer schnell
Jetzt zieh' Dich aus und leg' Dich hin
Weil ich so verliebt in Dich bin
       You are so different, so very special
I always notice such things quickly
Now take your clothes off and lie down
Because I'm so in love with you
Gleich wird es dunkel, bald ist es Nacht
Da ist ein Wort der Warnung angebracht:
       It's getting dark, it will soon be night
So here's a word of warning to heed:
Männer sind Schweine
Traue ihnen nicht, mein Kind
Sie wollen alle das Eine
weil Männer nun mal so sind
       Men are pigs
Do not ever trust them, my child
They all want only one thing
Because that's how men are
Ein Mann fühlt sich erst dann als Mann
wenn er es Dir besorgen kann
Er lügt, dass sich die Balken biegen
Nur um Dich ins Bett zu kriegen
       A man feels very manly only
when he can give it to you
He'll lie and promise you the moon
Just to get you in the sack
Und dann, am nächsten Morgen
weiss er nicht einmal mehr, wie Du heisst
Rücksichtslos und ungehemmt
Gefühle sind ihm völlig fremd
       And then, the next morning
He won't even remember your name
Inconsiderate and unrestrained,
He's a complete stranger to emotions
Für ihn ist Liebe gleich Samenverlust
Mädchen sei Dir dessen stets bewusst:
       He equates love with giving you his seed
So girls, always be aware:
Männer sind Schweine
Frage nicht nach Sonnenschein
Ausnahmen gibt's leider keine
in jedem Mann steckt auch immer ein Schwein
       Men are pigs
Don't expect eternal sunshine
Unfortunately there are no exceptions
Because every man has an inner pig
Männer sind Säue
Glaube ihnen nicht ein Wort
sie schwören dir ewige Treue
und dann am nächsten Morgen sind sie fort
       Men are sows
Don't believe a word they say
They will swear everlasting faithfulness
and then disappear the very next morning
(Spoken)
"Männer!? Diese schrecklichen haarigen Biester!
Die einen immer antatschen müssen!
U-u-und dabei wollen sie alle nur das selbe
von einem Mädchen!"
       (Spoken)
Men!? Those awful, hairy beasts!
They have to feel up everything!
A-a-and they all want the same thing
from a girl!
Und falls Du doch den Fehler machts
und Dir 'nen Ehemann anlachst
mutiert Dein Rosenkavalier
bald nach der Hochzeit auch zum Tier
       And if you still make the mistake
of letting yourself get hitched
your knight in shining armor
will turn into an animal shortly after the wedding
Da zeigt er dann sein wahres Ich
ganz unrasiert und widerlich
trinkt Bier, sieht fern und wird schnell fett
und rülpst und furzt im Ehebett
       Then he'll finally reveal his true self
Unshaven and disgusting
drinks beer, watches TV and gets fat quick
and burps and farts in your bed
Dann hast du King Kong zum Ehemann
darum sag' ich Dir, denk bitte stets daran:
       Then you'll have King Kong for a husband
Therefore I say to you, always remember:
Männer sind Schweine
Traue ihnen nicht mein Kind
sie wollen alle nur das Eine
für wahre Liebe sind sie blind
       Men are pigs
Do not ever trust them, my child
They all want only one thing
They are blind to what true love really is
Männer sind Ratten
Begegne ihnen nur mit List
Sie wollen alles begatten
was nicht bei drei auf den Bäumen ist
       Men are rats
Approach them with great caution
They want to fuck everything
That has a pulse
Männer sind Schweine
Frage nicht nach Sonnenschein
Ausnahmen gibt's leider keine
in jedem Mann steckt auch immer ein Schwein
       Men are pigs
Don't expect eternal sunshine
Unfortunately there are no exceptions
Because every man has an inner pig
Männer sind Autos
nur ohne Reserverad
Yeah, yeah, yeaaahhh...
       Men are cars
that lack a spare tire
Yeah, yeah, yeaaahhh...


(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/273642286)

Monday, June 4, 2007

Missing the Unknown

Myspace is full of endless amusement. My email Inbox just vomited a bunch of "New Myspace Message" notifications all within the span of a single minute. No surprise, it was spam. But what amused me more was the lame attempts at making the messages look a little more personal than the flat-out spam they obviously were. I had 8 messages, all sent at the exact same time.

Two began with:
"why dont we talk much anymore? too good for me or something? hit me back sometime, geez."

Two had a similar vein:
"WHERE HAV U BEEN?! you keep ignoring mE dammit! LOL!"

As did this one:
"hey why dont you ever msg me anymore? well i found this site and i thought about u."

Three started off with the usual "nice profile" dealie.

And of course, all of them ended with the website they were trying to promote.

It made me giggle, and ordinarily I wouldn't bother blogging about it, but hey-- I wasn't aware that I was remiss in not talking more often to people I'd never heard of (and that frankly, don't even exist :-P).

Gotta hand it to the spammers-- at least the profiles weren't blank, they all had pictures and regular-sounding names to make them look like real people!

(originally posted at: http://www.myspace.com/hellykwee/blog/272370162)