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January 18th, 2010


09:49 pm - Golden Compass
I've read there won't be a second movie for this... I guess I'll have to read the books after all.

Your result for The Golden Compass Daemon Test...

Multi-Faceted Soul

In a way, you are a truly balanced person. You have a good sense of self, but you have periods of worry and self doubt. You don't like to be alone a lot, but you don't like being constantly surrounded, either. You can be shy in some situations and bold in others. You can tell people how you feel, but you don't wear your heart on your sleeve. You aren't "TOO" anything: You aren't too shy, you aren't too aggressive, you aren't too extroverted, you aren't too introverted. However at any one time you can be any combination of these things.

You tend to adapt yourself to match the situations in which you find yourself. You may be quiet and sensitive with some people, or joking and loud with others. These are all facets of your personality. People tend to perceive you as they want to perceive you. They may even tend to idealize you a bit. Then, when you do something that doesn't fit their concept of who you are (like have an outburst of anger, or a fit of shyness, or make an insensitive joke)they can be shocked and surprised. Does anyone know the real you?

Your daemon would represent your multi-faceted and ever-changing personality, as well as people's tendency to idealize you. He or she would get angry when you did not, be calm and poised when you felt ruffled and anxious, and always be the voice of emotion and reason in your ear.

Suggested forms:
Swan, Elephant, Koala, Panda, Chameleon, Wolf.

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January 3rd, 2010


04:49 pm - The End of Time Part 2
There will be spoilers )
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January 2nd, 2010


09:48 pm - How time passes...
It's amazing, isn't it? You turn around and a whole year has passed you by in a moment. And other times it feels as if every second is taking the time to say hello personally before moving on. Time is such a strange and fickle thing.

I've just realized this while stalking the Doctor Who boards and someone mentioned that it's been 1 1/2 years since the series 4 finale. I thought that's impossible, isn't it? I just started watching Doctor Who this summer, didn't I? And then I realized that it had been last summer... all the things I did last year! No way it would have fit into a meekly few months, but there I was shell-shocked about the time that has passed, the year that whooshed by. That's 2009 for me.

There were so many things! Seeing David Tennant as Hamlet on stage in London, flying down to Bristol to see some actual filming on the last few episodes of the Tenth Doctor, flying all the way to Tasmania and absolutely falling in love with it! Visiting Japan to see the wedding of one of my best friends and enjoying the beauty that is Iriomote. Worrying about my job and my cat and working myself into quite a frenzy, which made me step out and enjoy a few days on my own on Yakushima or I would have crashed and burned. Getting fired only to have that taken back again (for now). And then of course the end of the Tenth Doctor over the holidays and New Year, which left me quite emotionally exhausted and oh so happy that it didn't blow completely as I had feared. What a year!

2010 it no longer looming on the horizon, but has actually arrived now. So quick! Another last year of the decade! It feels like time is passing so quick, but actually, when I look back there's also so much more happening now. I sometimes feel like there's not enough time to do all the things I want to do, but actually there is. If I keep going at this speed for another good 30 years, oh what a life I'll have! Oh there'll be ups and there'll be downs, but I believe that it will be worthwhile. Some dreams may never come true, actually some dreams are better as dreams, but some will, I'm sure of it.

I'm finally in a position where there's so many possibilities. Sure as student you think you have all this freedom, but actually you're restricted by your finances most of the time. Now I can step out for a week in Japan and actually stay at a decent place. I can just hop over to the U.K. or to Barcelona or wherever.

Actually I've been planning since April last year (one year in advance!) to take a cruise in French Polynesia, not any old cruise but a freighter to the Marquesas, the Aranui III. Something that would have been completely out of my league two years ago. And because of the current situation in the U.S. we will be flying over Asia, which means 3 nights in beautiful, wonderful, beloved Hong Kong (last time I was there it was still British), and on the return flight a night in Auckland (New Zealand!!!) and of course Tokyo (only time for a bit of shopping as we arrive late and depart early, but still). And there's Sweden in February! My first time there and Stockholm looks beautiful. The world is such an accessible and amazing place nowadays and I love traveling, I really do.

So yes, doesn't matter if I'll loose my job or not. I'll find something else if necessary and if I don't... well I'll see. I always wanted to learn Korean (actually not always, but the past few years), at least enough to get by. I have a guitar that is basically a virgin still, and so many books. So I will have something to tide me over between jobs. So much junk to sell on eBay as well... just putting it all online would probably take a year worth of 9 to 5. So I will not try to worry. Of course I will worry, but I'll try not to.

Hope is a harsh mistress, but in the end I think she delivers. Sometimes in quite unsuspected ways.

This is my reward.
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January 1st, 2010


12:07 am - 2010
Have a happy new year everyone!
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November 22nd, 2009


06:40 pm - Books
I haven't actually mentioned any books I've read March... I don't even recall half of the books I read by now, but I'll try a quick list:

4. Never let me go by Kazuro Ishiguro: The guy who wrote "Remains of the Day", which was also made into an excellent movie. This is a strange little book. It plays in the future, but starts of normally enough in boarding school. Thing is, the kids there are all clones, waiting to be harvested when the need arises. The main character is working as carer for those who have their organs removed one by one bidding time until it's her turn. Her story is told mostly in flashbacks but also slowly moving on in the current time. I thought it was an amazing read. The characters are difficult to like, but feel so very real. The whole mood of the book invokes a dark forest with mist coming in every evening, but also sunny spots here and there. 4 1/2 out of 5*

5. Beautiful Chaos by Gary Russel (Doctor Who): Wilf remembers an adventure he had together with the Doctor and Donna. This is a fan favourite and I did enjoy it. This book could actually be an important puzzle piece for the RTD area :) 3 1/2* of 5

6. The Stealers of Dreams by Steve Lyons (Doctor Who): In the future The Doctor, Rose and Jack end up on a planet where fiction is forbidden and whoever lies is on a steady path to madness. What looks like a dictatorship arisen from a need in the past, turns out to hide a very real danger. I really, really liked this! I didn't think I'd enjoy these Doctor Who tie-ins, but this was a good story on it's own and even if it's shorter than my usual reading material it does not feel hurried. Definitely one of my favourite Who books so far. 4* out of 5.

7. The Price of Paradise by Colin Brake (Doctor Who): The Doctor and Rose find themselves on a planet that should be Paradise but something makes it turn on itself. Together with a group of adventurers who were looking for this planet, they try to unveil its secret while staying alive. It's a nice adventure romp, with some sweet scenes in it. Enjoyable but not remarkable. 3* out of 5.

8. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss: This is the story of Kvothe and how he became one of the most powerful and most dreaded people in the world. It sounds like the usual fare at first, but the prose and the POV that stays mostly fixed on Kvothe, who's telling his own story, makes this refreshing. I think more than the story I actually liked the prose, it feels so fresh and fitting. There are quite a few things that seemed a bit rushed or even like fanfiction, but as this is the first novel, I definitely won't judge the author on them. I'm looking forward to the next part, which seems to be way overdue already. 4* out of 5.

9. In Tasmania: At the End of the World by Nicholas Shakespeare: This book gives a fantastic insight in the early years of Tasmania's colonization. The author, who himself moved to Tasmania, traces the history of his predecessors and through their involvement shows us the colonization of Tasmania. It's insightful, split into interesting chapters, but ultimately lacking a stronger red thread. It's jumping quite a bit, repeating points in different chapters and a bit undecided if it wants to be a biography of any kind or not. Still, if you want to know more about Tasmania, this is an excellent book to start as, through everything that happens, the love of the author for this island at the end of the world really shines through. 3 1/2* of 5

10. Bevor Sie aus der Haus fahren by Karin Mager: A book I found. It tells you how to manage conflicts. It had some interesting points, but nothing world changing. Still, not too bad a read. 2 1/2* of 5.

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01:57 pm - Stupid Doctor Who Speculation
After reading the first part of this short fic. I suddenly had an idea: What if Ten and Ten2 are actually the same person. I could see TWoM Ten actually go and cross his own timelime, just to end up with Rose on that beach. Doesn't that kind of make perfect sense? After Human Nature we know that he can actually make himself human if he chooses to. And I can absolutely see current Ten just destroying all the Daleks in JE without a second thought. Probably there's something somewhere that destroys this theory in a blink. But at the moment this makes perfect sense to me. And I love it!
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November 20th, 2009


11:41 pm - OMFG!!!
Expletives in the title, wonderful. But that's all I can really say after having seen this! He's gone completely bonkers!!! And I love it! Even though I feel like an old lady who shouldn't really laugh at that and who hides her amusement behind her hand. I can see the fanfiction community go crazy about this tidbit. So the Doctor does dance :)=)

Okay, trying not to explode with amusement and glee. Calm down self, calm down.

*grins like a maniac*
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November 18th, 2009


12:22 pm - The Doctor and Rose...
I've finally finished watching Series 2, after dreading the end so much and putting it off for quite some time. Right now I'm in a bit of a fatalistic state of mind, so I finally pushed through the last four eps of that series. It's so obvious on re-watch though, isn't? The Doctor and Rose, they were something special. I'm not versed in old Who, but I'm quite sure that he's never had a companion like her. He was actually teaching her towards the end. Not showing of like he did in series 1, but actually teaching her how to do things around the Tardis and obviously telling her stuff. Like the time that he dropped he'd been a father once before, and obviously some background about the Daleks, and at least some of what happened when she had the time vortex in her. I think her mother was quite right too, about Rose changing and adapting to the Doctor, allthough I don't necessarily see that as a bad thing.

And if some scenes, that were just too familar, too casual didn't give it away already, I think the sentence about the baby did. On first watch I thought he might have thought that she already moved on, but on second watch, I don't think that's the case. It's obviously done to give shippers something, but then it's done in a way, that if you combine what else happened in the episodes before, starting as early as School Reunion, there's really only one way to see it :)

Maybe someday I'll write a long review of Series 2 going from ep to ep and analyzing what goes on in each of them. Probably not, but who knows. I might have a bit of time on my hands in the future. Still rewatching Series 2 is not top on my list, because it's so damn painful in the end. I'll just keep moving through Series 3 now and hope that Series 4 is finally reduced in price so I can buy it. But before that, Christmas. I haven't dreaded or anticipated Christmas like that for a long, long time. That's a good thing by the way. Keeps my mind occupied.

Oh well, time to get off to work, only the afternoon shift today. One day at a time.
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November 17th, 2009


12:36 am - Underwhelmed
One word that summons up my thoughts on "Waters of Mars" and "The Plan". So much for expectations.

Spoilers for Water of Mars )

Spoilers for The Plan )
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October 29th, 2009


09:14 pm - Before I'm on my way halfway across the world...
let's have a bit of fun!

Meme time )
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October 1st, 2009


10:52 pm - Work Work Work
Lately it's been so busy...X_X

My colleague is currently on vacation for three weeks, so I have the office completely to myself. Somehow it feels like I'm doing really well, considering I'm doing the work of two people. I feel productive. But then I see how many hours I clock and realize that either I'm not as productive as I think I am or there is just too much work, really.

Tomorrow morning (6.40am!!!) I'll leave for a schooling in Berlin. It runs the whole weekend. I will be back home in the late afternoon on Sunday. And Monday morning it's back to work. So it's actually two running weeks without sleeping in and working until way past 7pm most days... I feel tired.

Tetley Original, which I recently bought at a Tesco in Poland, is currently saving me from madness. It tastes great with milk and two lumps of sugar.

I'm tired...
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September 15th, 2009


12:01 am - District 9
Just came out of the cinema and I'm a bit underwhelmed. That's why I hate it when we get releases so late. The hype builds up and then it can't meet expectations. It simply was neither as innovative as it was made out to be nor really entertaining. I can't really see myself re-watching it. There wasn't a single "wow!" moment, only a few cringe-worthy ones (fingernails...). It pretty much seemed to be a social critique not really hidden within an SF shell, without any real moral resolution in the end. I'd say Cloverfield was a tad better, even though it didn't live up to the hype either.
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September 11th, 2009


11:53 pm - e.r.
And in the end... it's not really over. Live continues in the e.r. even if we won't be able to be part of it anymore. I'll miss this sow, even if I've been a bit less than enthusiastic at the beginning of a new season, it always caught me again. I've been crying over it more than with any other series and it had some of the most shocking scenes in all of my TV history. I'd like to mention the helicopter. Twice.

But basically it was about the characters and bringing some of them back over the last season made me realize how much I liked them, even if I did dislike them in the beginning (Carry Weaver comes to mind). This series has been part of my life for years and years, pretty much half of my life, really. It's one of the reasons I started studying medicine (even though I never intended to work in an e.r.) and I kept watching and loving it even after I switched to Japanology. I'll miss it, I really will.

There's Grey's Anatomy now, but I think it's doubtful that it will keep going for as long as e.r. did or go out when it's still on top of it's game. So many series ended when they were so crappy it was painful already. e.r. didn't and I'm thankful for it. Even if interest waned, I think it kept an excellent level of story telling... sigh.

I wonder if Doctor Who will turn into a series that will accompany me for a large part of my life. It does not really fall into the drama category compared to e.r., but it has plenty of open spaces to be filled with additional drama by fans :) Let's see if it can keep up over the following years.

So yes, I can turn a sob post about the cancellation of e.r. into one about DW. Did you doubt me?
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August 10th, 2009


01:07 pm - See you later, Dalek...
Maybe you shouldn't name your car (or your computer) after evil beings. It might be tempting fate a little bit too much. Last week my license plate with DALEK1 on it disappeared. I have no idea if it was stolen or if I lost it, but I think it's the former. So if any of you should ever meet someone who has it or claims to have it, kick him/her in the shins from me. Thanks.

The result is that I spent an hour in a police station, paid 20 Euro to get a confirmation of loss from them and now have to buy new license plates for another 20 Euro. Yep, new ones. I paid for my DALEK1 plates but I won't be allowed to use them for a whole year. I'll get normal numbered plates for that time. And after a year I can pay another 20 Euro and then I'll get new license plates with DALEK1 on them.

"Why me?", is what I'd like to say, but that would be frustrating and nothing else. So I'll simply be sad and hope that my little pepper pot will last long enough to be reunited with his license plates.

It somehow brightened my day when I walked towards it an saw the license plate...
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July 27th, 2009


09:33 pm - OMG the depths of the internet opened up...
... and showed me this video:



It's even funny if you don't understand Japanese, so watch it!
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11:41 am - Waters of Mars New Comic Con Trailer
... that look on his face after he said "I don't hear anyone knocking, do you"... I am so going to cry that it's not even funny... WAAAAAHHHHH!
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July 17th, 2009


10:52 pm - Torchwood - Children of Earth
A bit late I know, I just came back from Japan so I missed the original airing but I've been diligently watching it one episode a day except for the last two, which I watched just now.

Here there be spoilers. )
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July 16th, 2009


09:02 pm - The Half-Blood Prince
Here there by Spoilers! )

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June 30th, 2009


02:09 am - Once again!
I'm off to Japan :) This time I'll head a bit farther south and will visit Ishigaki Island und Iriomote Island. They're pretty much next to Taiwan so it should be hot and wet and the ocean should be just the right temperature. I can't wait! And then there's a wedding of course! So once again it will be a bit busy, but that's okay, I guess :)
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June 25th, 2009


11:54 pm - Transformers - Revenge of the Fallen
I'm pretty sure there are quite a few people who were suprised how much fun the first Transformers movie was and who are/were looking forward to the new one. Well, unless you want to see 2 hours of Transformers fighting you will be disappointed. The few minutes were there's actually character interacting give you a tiny glimpse of what could have been and what I loved about the first movie, but it all gets drowned out in endless fights. The movie is 150 minutes long. Imagine that! It has around 20-30 minutes character interactiong and the rest, I'm not kidding here, is Transformer fights. So yes, the movie totally bombed for me. Terminator 4 was a masterpiece compared to this. Unless you're a total Transformer geek, this will disappoint. 1* out of 5
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