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Ivo has been labeled many things: eccentric, mad, insane, stupid, intelligent, hyperactive, strange, weird and more.
However all these things fail to explain the anomaly that is Ivo.
He likes to use profile thingys as an excuse to talk in the 3rd person.
He would also like to state that V for vendetta is uncategorically awesome, much like spiderman, Gordon Freeman and cheese.
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[29 Oct 2009|12:36pm] |
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I have not posted in a long time.
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| Elect-Ricity |
[07 Oct 2009|01:18pm] |
25 things:
Once you've been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 25 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 25 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it's because I want to know more about you.
1. I'm writing this out in livejournal because it has an autosave function and this computer likes to blue screen at me.
2. Thanks to Jess tagging me in this stupid thing I've spent the last 3 days being extremely introspective.
3. The other day my brother pulled apart a ukulele that we bought in the Philippines when I was 8. I have put a shoelace through one of the gears and have been wearing it around my neck since.
4. I dance when the mood strikes me and it strikes me a lot. I dance in a tree outside Reid library, I dance when going from one place to another, I dance at the traffic lights and I dance down the freeway when I'm sure there aren't any cops around. Certain songs will cause me to drop whatever it is I am doing to go dance.
5. Thinking back I have probably about 8-9 years experience doing martial arts of some description or another. I would consider about 6 of them useful.
6. I size up everyone I meet reflexively and often figure out which order would be best to taken people down in when I walk into a room.
7. I wish I hadn't stopped playing piano. I try to get back to it but it's hard when I know it'll take a lot of time to get as good as I was.
8. I hoard Stuff. I like it when it stuff I own is more than just the stuff I own and has connections.
9. I like to acquire new skills.
10. I will stand up and sing and dance to the opening sequence from Gilmore Girls every time.
11. For the last 7 years I have kept a copy of Desiderata and a Code of Chivalry in my wallet. I've had to replace them once before for how tattered they were and will replace them again as soon as my laptop is working again.
12. I hate it that people don't care more about what's going on in the world. I don't mind if you aren't doing anything about it but at least talk about it. I hate the 'journalism' in this country. I hate the way people switch off when they hear something about a bombing in a country they don't care about. I hate that people don't know things that they should. I hate it when I don't know something that I should. I'm going to chill on the hate now; it leads to suffering, which leads to the dark side.
13. I believe the single most important thing a parent can teach a child is to question everything. Including their own authority.
14. I believe the truth is exceptionally important but lie more than I would like and feel like shit when I do. Even when they're little lies.
15. I have a love/hate relationship with water. I love the feeling of being in it but I irrational fears such as being worried that I will close my eyes in a pool and open them to find myself in the middle of the ocean or of sharks where there are none. Then there is the incredibly self-centred fear that is a hold over from childhood that I only ever feel when I'm swimming which is that I am the last survivor of my race and in fact everyone is an alien and I'm being held for experimentation and everyone I meet is an actor to test my psychological responses to things and that the experiment is finished and mechanical sharks are about to be released wherever I'm swimming and I will be eaten. Seriously. I'm not kidding.
16. I think seeing as how it's already here I'm going to post this on LJ as well. In fact I'll write and LJ entry at the bottom and post that in facebook too :P
17. It took longer for me to forgive my dad his infidelity than it took mum.
18. Unless I'm looking in a mirror I still think of myself as a little weedy guy. I'm always surprised at how broad I am across the shoulders. It all kind of takes away from the image I have of myself standing up to the bigger kids :P
19. I'm very often over-dressed or under-dressed but rarely in the middle. If I'm not sure about something I'll ask my brother and sister. I tend to pay more attention to my brother. No offence to my sister but he's got better style. Personally I feel most comfortable in good loose pants and no top.
20. Sometimes I will choose to dislike something that I could just as easily have liked because it's more fun that way. This doesn't bother me as long as I have some other justification that I can give people.
20. I will often play devil's advocate. It makes for more interesting conversation and it can cement ideas in my head and force people to be more articulate.
21. I like doing things that I get interesting anecdotes from because, let's face it, life is a series of anecdotes. And I win if mine are better than yours :P No not really. Still if that were my attitude it would be healthier than 'I win because I have more stuff'
22. I really would like to live in New York at least once in my life.
23. I try to listen to what people have to say if those I low opinions of because everyone has something to teach you, even if it's not what they think they are teaching you.
24. I'm an obsessive person. I develop obsessions which come and go. However I know the following things about myself: I will always be into comic books, I will always be into martial arts, I will always have a motorcycle and I will always be a member of the UWA Pantomime Society.
25. I'm generally (as in 99% of the time) the happiest person you know, but when I get dark I get REALLY dark. Not that it usually lasts more than a day or two, there's too much shit that makes me happy.
Now I suppose I said I would write and LJ entry proper down here. So I shall. However I'll make it quick because Stefan is waiting for me to go round his house so I can play Batman: Arkham Asylum, so let's start there. Holy Fucking Shit this game is AMAZING I've barely played any of it (as like 10 minutes if you ignore the cut scenes) and Stefan says it just gets better from here on in. At Brad's request I have been listening to The Hold Steady and I have to say every time I listen through this album I like it more. Last week was panto production week so between Monday 9am and Thursday midnight I got 3.5 hours sleep including a 52 hour stint of no sleep. We made a backdrop AND flats and it was fucking awesome if I do say so myself. The production as a whole was fantastic with many people saying it was their favourite panto ever. At the afters I passed out at some point, had "BALLS" written on my face and "cock goes here" with an arrow at my mouth. I also got topless although I don't recall this. At bump out we watched the most hilarious thing ever: Alice in Wonderland an X-rated MUSICAL Fantasy. It even had a sing-along part. Although I did sleep through half of it. There's more to say about this all but I'm in a rush as Arkham Asylum beckons.
However I would like to go through my other night as it was quite joy. On Monday having had fight club and Zen Do Kai I was still restless. So having a Kombatan Arnis grading coming up I decided to go train on the beach. I trained for about an hour and a half on Cottesloe beach in the shifting sands around my feet and the water coming up as high as my knees in just my old Thai shorts. The moon was full although because the beach has lights I couldn't properly appreciate it. However I did take great pleasure in the water, the feel of it, the sound of it, the sight of it. I practiced kata at different angles, finding the different gradients of the ground interesting to deal with. I practiced my strikings. I stretched. After the beach I went to the Peace Memorial Rose Garden on Stirling Highway. The roses smell divine. I'm looking forward to when the whole garden is blooming. I walked through slowly. Contemplating the garden and its purpose. I was saddened by the big "Picking Roses is Prohibited - Offenders will be Prosecuted" sign, I understand why it's there but I don't have to like it. I felt the same way about the wishing well. If you've talked to me in the last week you can probably guess what I was thinking about when I threw in what change I had. Taggers piss me off. After the garden I when to the DNA tower and chilled out to The Hold Steady for a bit and then The Matches to whom I yelled on my way home down the freeway. Anyway that will do for an LJ entry.
This has been an Ivo de los Santos Vekemans production.
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[24 Sep 2009|11:10pm] |
So on reflection I probably should have specified in my previous post that people don't need to worry about me. There was just a lot happening and I was having trouble making a decision I had already made. For any one not already aware I will not be graduating this year (well next march) as I had planned as I am not going to finish my final year project at this point. I am going to work as a postie starting late october and start a new final year proect next year. The main reason I think I lost motivation is that having been financially independent from my parents for a year going back to being financially dependent on them was not good especially because as time progresses fewer people my age are still being provided for by their parents. Although mostly it's the going back to part that made it an issue. Talking to mum about it went a lot better than I expected. I just had a shower and cleaned the shower and my fingers are prune-y. Just then between sentences. Haven't talked to dad yet, but I imagine mum has told him and even if she hasn't I doubt he would take the news worse than mum. Last night I missed rehearsals by like 5 minutes, which is annoying. Much like Brad and the bear question :P However I missed rehearsals for training which was great and I finally got around to getting my own Arnis sticks, also two training 'blades' a nok training knife and a wooden daga. Recently because of panto I've only been training about 6 hours a week and most of that is BJJ and Kombatan Arnis. Which is an interesting change given that the vast majority of my martial arts experience is striking. Hmmmm back to this post that I started this morning. Anywho. Training today was good. Had Zen Do Kai and Muay Thai. Feeling a bit unfit given the lack of training I've been doing lately. Probably going to skip the Grand Master's seminar for panto bump out, which is annoying given he'll only be here for another month and a half. Bought a book on Presas Style Arnis and Balisong (which is the Filipino term for butterfly knife) Also bought this weeks economist, will start on that tomorrow morning. Panto progresses well. Hopefully we will be making a full proper backdrop. Ticket selling is slow but it always is and people think we're related to the guild election. New episodes of How I Met Your Mother and The Big Bang Theory make me happy. Changed a tyre on a strange car a few nights ago. Took entirely too long. Coffee after rehearsals has been choice but there is entirely not enough gossip :P I need to cut my nails. Cleaned the shower this morning. Talked to Marius today, still need to talk to faculty. Will do application for post tomorrow. Writing a new poem, It's ok so far. Not sure if I can still finish it given the drive for it was solved. Seafood and pasta should be kept separate imo. Lack of reciprocation bees annoying. Tired now. Sleep.
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans :P
:)
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| The coming storm |
[17 Sep 2009|06:09pm] |
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I am not in a good place right now. Details to follow tomorrow hopefully or on talk to me on msn and I'll tell you now.
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[10 Sep 2009|08:59pm] |
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I will be on top of the DNA tower at midnight; if you are also awesome you might be there too.
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| Vigilantly |
[05 Sep 2009|12:15am] |
coming to you from Cameron Hall. I be watching Blade at the moment. It it win, as is Empire Earth which I am also playing. There was pizza before and it was delicious. To be perfectly honest I don't have all that much to say. I'm bare chested which feels good. It's rather warm in here. Blade, by the way, is ALL THAT IS MAN. Seriously. Let the right one in was brilliant. Dracula was hilarious. It was half terrible/awesome horror and half bad porn. I've had quite a bit of experience with solidworks now although still coming to grips with fucking ANSYS. Workbench does make it significant;y easier though. Have been re-reading Identity Crisis. Have read it probably 15 times now. Still can't get through the first issue without tears. Because it's fucking rip-my-soul-out-of-my-heart-that-was-just-ripped-out-of-my-chest brutal. I have a rant. Actually I have many rants. But I have one for right now. But I'm waiting until after the movie to have it. BLAH! I have training tomorrow at 10am so I'm going to break the rules at some point and crash for a bit. I'm in a very stressed but also quite happy state. Although as pointed out the other day it's pretty odd for me to not be smiling :D Eh. I'm off; tired and distracted.
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans :)
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| HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA |
[31 Aug 2009|11:40am] |
788 of 809 finishers You placed ahead of 2.72% of finishers in this event | 62 of 65 finishers You placed ahead of 6.15% of finishers in this category | 651 of 663 finishers You placed ahead of 1.96% of finishers in this gender for the event |
In my defence I fucked my ankle and didn't train for it :-P
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| On the running of a marathon |
[31 Aug 2009|06:29am] |
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So yesterday I ran the city to surf marathon. Today I am walking with a cane. For future reference 42.195 kilometres is alot further than it sounds. I didn't stop running at all for the first 14kms. A great way to motivate oneself by the way is to try and keep up with cute girls :-p Gu energy gel is amazing by the way. I do wish it had been available a bit more often. I was starving for most of the marathon. The group warm up before the marathon wsa pretty good. I finished in 5 hours and 36 minutes. I would have finished sooner but I hurt my ankle at the halfway mark and then completely fucked it coming out of King's Park (which was 30kms) so I limped the last 12kms walking a lot and running like a retard when I could. The only thing that kept me going was the follwing question: What would Hal Jordan do?
1- Leave power ring at home - Check
2- Grit teeth, force throught the pain and do it - Check
3- Pick up the hottest girl there - Nope, but 2 out of three is not bad.
The first 30km took three and a half hours. I stopped at a medical station and got my ankle wrapped, went another 300 metres but it just hurt more so I took the wrapping off. Taking it all into account I'm happy with the result. After I finished I had my ankle taped by a physio. Then I skipped free professional massages to go to rehearsals. The medals are good and so is the free T-shirt. Things that are incredibly irritating :
1- People who had run the shorter races cheering during the last 3ks about how there wasn't much to go. That would be true if i had done the 12k but after 38ks every step is taxing and every 50 metres is brutally painful.
2- People say you only have <insert distance> left which would be fine if they were right but most of the time they were not. Like being told there are 6ks left then finding out there are 8 or when some dude rode past and said only 4ks left then I got to a check point 500m away and they say only 4ks left.
It seemed like a good idea at the time.
I wish I was a fire bender, they're much more martial arty than the others. Also I want to Challenge people to an Agni Kai :-p
I have a sore throat and a head ache and I'm sore and I whinge too much.
Might be at uni later today.
Meh, that'll do for now.
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans :)
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| To Nick |
[30 Aug 2009|05:38pm] |
Why would I do something like a sensible person?
Yours sometimes ;)
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans.
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| To Me, |
[28 Aug 2009|02:57pm] |
Hey why is it that you can never decide whether a post is for you or to other people. This song is really catchy but you should probably listen to the other songs on this album. Also have to decided anything about the marathon yet? No. Well you should get on that the last day for registration is tomorrow. Lucky that the weather is going to be good that day. You should consider it a sign except that signs are dumb. But you know that. Also stop being unsure it's annoying. And all your self-idulgence is annoying too, infact this post is pretty self-indulgent. You should stop it. Also you should buy toothpicks and find someone to study with. Maybe you should go to another uni to study. That might help then you couldn't say, dance over to unisfa and the tav right now. Yeah I know you're thinking about it, don't bullshit me boy, I am you. To soundbite for a second "I am Buck and I will fuck you sideways". XD I miss reading new comics. And fuck DC, seriously Stephanie Brown is batgirl? Go Die. And fuck you for making Blackest Night earth centric and across the whole DCU I was looking forward to it being just a GL thing but no it has to involve the other Earthers. God Damn it. Not that it won't be good, I mean Geoff Johns is having a brilliant run piloting the GL part of the DCU. Although LOL at someone saying that all the different lanterns were care bears now.
HAHA. Side rant.
Work now.
Sincerely you,
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans :)
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| I changed my mind |
[28 Aug 2009|02:42pm] |
I've decided to write w hoel new entry :-p Anywho there be a crow attacking the bin infront of me. I'll leave it unless it starts to tip it over. I wish I was Thor or perhaps Odin. Stay the course. I'm a bit sweaty. The possibilty that I have been dancing is greater than zero but not more than one. On an entirely unrelated note my song of the day shall song that is awesome for teh dancing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ct4LE45oy8 Jason Mraz - Butterfly. Incidentally he was on Spicks and Specks and was awesome. Trumpets make everything better <---This are fact. I know from my learnings. I'm sure I had other shit to say but as usual my memory eludes me like a like a strategem for world domination without excessive plot holes or the creation of skynet.
Hoping to occupy the cage that is the reality of your perceptions again soon,
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans
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| Ho there! |
[28 Aug 2009|01:41pm] |
Greetings fine travelers,
I hope this finds you well. Unless you are currently plotting to commit genocide or some other despicable act (such as drinking tomato juice which is disgusting and should never have been made into a juice) in which case I don't wish you well. Well I wish you well, but not with you evily evil plans. Fight Club is on again which is awesome. Paper-Scissors-Rock-Lizard-Spock is awesome and I really should learn properly. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this on LJ yet and I'm too lazy to go back and check but I'm Dr McWeedy in Panto this semester. When I don't have rehearsals I'm doing about 10-11 hours of training a week which is really good, I would say that rehearsals cuts this down about 2 hours a week. Doing BJJ is awesome. I've had one lesson of Kombatan Arnis with Grand Master Ernesto G Presas Jnr so far and it was awesome. Fight club being on again is really good because it's such a different environment for learning and makes for a pleasant change, not that I don't enjoy my regular training but variety is nice. As is armbarring Nick. And apparently a really hot girl was checking me out when I was wrestling topless :-p I want a plaid suit. I've started applying to places for Vac work. Need to get my academic transcripts. Need to focus. Not going to be doing much other that Thesis, Training and Panto for the next 2 months. Have watched all of Greek, yet another stupid American dramadey that I started watching because I like the idealistic nerdy kids (because there's always one) and wanted to see him get a girl :-p I then found myself invested in the show so I had to keep watching and now seen al two seasons. Picked up some books at the charity book sale: The Art of Karate (has cool black and white photos), The Way Alone (which is about solo training), some book about doing circuits (the excercise kind), The Anatomy of Poetry (each page of which I turn and realise that my poetry is inferior). Also it's daffodil day but I have done anything for it because I'm a poor stooge. Heh heh Stooge is a good word. And Now I'm going to go order my academic record but I shall return and you will not notice a difference because obviously this entry will simply continue so telling you about how I'm about to leave seems somewhat pointless.
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[06 Aug 2009|04:01pm] |
So I thought I would post.Still using new August Rush icon just because. Have things that need doing. Wearing new shirt for the first time. Goes with jacket but not by itself. BJJ classes start this week, very excited. Have new shoes. New running shoes. First shoes with proper support I've had in about two years. Typing now to see how long I can go without stopping typing. I like the sound typing makes on the keyboard. Still have yet to finish To Kill A Mockingbird. Made a bet with Sam that he can't win a Pulitzer prize in the next 20 years. The loser has to streak around the Eifel Tower. The Eifel Tower is pretty. Possibly going to Canada next year. More specifically the Yukon. I hope I do it's very pretty and there is stuff to climb. The sound of typing is still god but my elbow hurts. Not hertz. But hurts. The National Campus Band Competition is progressing downstairs at the moment. The music from next door is good. It's some PNAU song. I would like to listen to it properly. Stephan just walked in. He just had a test, apparently it was fucked and the teacher has no idea how to write a good test. Damn. I stopped typing for a bit. There are currently 6 laptops in use in unisfa at th moment. The music from downstairs is loud. Tatcher is on the phone. I feel I should get a job. I have orange shoes. I need to look after both my shit and myself better. My internet presence is spread between my facebook and my helljay. Which is a great term that I'm pretty sure I hadn't heard until Other Tom sent me an SMS when I was in the Philippines, which was nice of him because not many people did. Stooges. I want a picture of the way I'm dress but I can't be bothered doing anything about it. I'm going to leave unisfa and go get a copy of solidworks soon so that I can do this fucking design properly. I'm very very excited about the part I got in panto. I get to wear a bedpan. The cast is quite large this semester. As in massive. This post is filled with gramatical errors. I wish I was better at writing essays. I want to see Up already. Yoda damn release dates. I wonder if this is long enough yet. Thatcher and his glorious belt buckle just walked in so I'm going now. Have a nice day :-) You are all beautiful.
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans....
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| Kofi Annan - |
[04 Aug 2009|10:00pm] |
"Sixty years have passed since the founders of the United Nations inscribed, on the first page of our Charter, the equal rights of women and men. Since then, study after study has taught us that there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women. No other policy is as likely to raise economic productivity, or to reduce infant and maternal mortality. No other policy is as sure to improve nutrition and promote health -- including the prevention of HIV/AIDS. No other policy is as powerful in increasing the chances of education for the next generation. And I would venture that no policy is more important in preventing conflict, or in achieving reconciliation after a conflict has ended."
:)
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| I now own August Rush XD |
[02 Aug 2009|01:35pm] |
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Not squeeing here, would break keyboard and possibly interwebs.
Have new icon. From ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jordansavas, actually there are alot of icons here from fandoms that people on my f-list would like, check her tags. I hope I've creditted the icon right I've never done it before.
Now have an August Rush tag. Only tag I have.
Also this is the review of August Rush from a site whose motto is "Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People"
http://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews/august-rush.php
Worth reading. In particular the second last paragraph. Ivo de los Santos Vekemans
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| Bufhejegit! |
[01 Aug 2009|01:59pm] |
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http://www.bigcozybooks.com/
I want a giant book. A giant blank book. At least a metre and a half tall. If anyone knows where I might acquire such a book please to be telling me.
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| Gregory |
[01 Aug 2009|08:24am] |
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I wrote some of this last night, while drunk and some of it this morning, while flags flew gently in the breeze, forever tethered.
[EDIT: Feel free to rag on this, I don't mind]
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Gregory stumbled through the daisies. He had been away for some time and was returning home. His tongue felt like horseradish, in the way that the stars were aligned against him. In one had, I forget which, he was carrying a map. Where the map once was covered it was now bare. This is because it was a future map; for the path he would take not the path he had taken. Deep in his legs he knew his journey anyway. Knew it the way the moss chooses to grow in the shade. His legs, full with the knowledge of his trip wanted to stop. Gregory, although knowing that these steps were his last, was in a rush to get home. He rushed past his steps which felt him very rude for not at least stopping to say hello.
Gregory stumbled again. He was having trouble staying upright for several reasons. One is the aforementioned desire of his legs to surrender, to cease movement, to stop and never move again. Two; in the hand that was not carrying his future map lay two tiny sleeping figures. Gregory was doing his darnedest to keep his hand flat lest he jostle them awake but he needn’t have worried as it was twilight and The Folk sleep between the first star and the night sky for fear of seeing some of the stars but not others. The third and final, oh, no. Wait. The third reason was that he was not Batman. The fourth and final reason was because his clothes were very loudly disagreeing in the way of palter from politicians in parliament - hey look, Paromeon - fundamentally opposed and entirely refusing to see the others' side. His bright orange bicorne considered itself cultured and his royal blue blazer considered it pretentious. His blazer felt uncomfortable over his tunic and the tunic felt it had no right to be on him. The tunic was in the process of convincing the belt buckle, as the only other bronze coloured item of clothing, to break away and form The Clothing’s Socialist Republic of Gregory. His mini-skirt fluttered distracting at the blazer and the bicorne turned up a corner in disgust and quite possibly jealousy. The bicorne also took issue with his lack of shoes.
And his tie. Well let us just say that there are some patterns that nobody agrees with.
Gregory stopped for a moment to feel the dirt beneath his toes. It was slightly moist but mostly it was connected, and never lonely. He felt some envy for the dirt then. The Earth. And then he felt connected and remember that he could choose to be alone and choose to be connected and he was green again.
Did I mention that Gregory was green? Gregory was green. It's a long story; one he considered as he stood in the daisies. He considered the many stories of his travels and travails, checking occasionally with his legs for details and sometime his feet for the specifics. As he pondered his tale he found himself wondering, "Have I changed? Am I the same person who left home all those sandwiches ago? Have I experienced any fundamental shifts? Has the weathering of time exposed my core?" He looked to his shiny toe nails for advice but they just shined. Just because someone is on an epic journey is no excuse to be a slob. He had a pedicure not 4 days ago.
Music began to play floating gently over the daisies. All at once the universe noticed the tie again and disagreed loudly snapping Gregory out from his revery. He began to run. Ever faster as the music became closer and the tempo of the drum was so fast that his brilliant legs could barely keep up. He was filled with the primal joy of the run. When he could smell the purple just over the horizon he knew soon he would be home.
Stopping briefly to check on his most valued possession Gregory remembered that these were his last steps. Then the drum beat flared like a house fire through a breaking window and he was off again. Gregory lost himself in, the wind on his face, through his tunic, under his mini-skirt across his legs and snaking through his toes. Gergor... ergor... rgo. O. And then he just was.
WOOOSH!
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Ivo de los Santos Vekemans
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| OMY OMY OMY! |
[30 Jul 2009|08:56pm] |
RYAN REYNOLDS IS GOING TO BE GREEN LANTERN!!!!!!!!
*dances* *dances some more* *dances until the end of time builds a time machine and goes back in time dances until the end of time builds a better, sleeker, more efficient not to mention prettier time machine goes back in time and waits for green lantern movie*...
...*more dancing*
XDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXDXD
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans wishing that his name was followed by:
"of Earth. You have the ability to overcome great fear. Welcome to the Green Lantern Corps. Your ring will guide you to Oa where you will be instructed in the proper use of your newfound powers as Green Lantern of sector 2814."
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[30 Jul 2009|07:34am] |
Stuff falls by the wayside. I spent 2 and a half hours changing a flat tyre in a thunderstorm after going to Wagamamas shortly before uni started again. Uni has started again. I made lots of people wear a suit on friday. It was awesome. I didn't actually even see most of the people but I heard about them. The best part was people I didn't know coming up to shake my hand. Also wearing a suit, which is awesome. For anyone who doesn't know I decided on monday to get a group of people to wear suits to uni then on monday night I made it a facebook event then on wednesday I made posters and got them guild approved and then walked around uni in and sandwich board. I've also had people come to shake my hand for jumping the moat and even had some people add me on facebook just because of it. Just saw this in a comment on Sheeba's LJ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at_f98qOGY0 it makes me teh happy. But not as happy as The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making; which is amazing and makes me squee alot. Like Alot. Saw the first and second episodes of United States of Tara last night. Good show. I have decided to run the city to surf marathon. Although I'm currently recovering from shin splints, I should be good to run again in a day or 2. Might have to avoid the beach for a week, running on the sand too early will make it worse. Yesterday I was orange, it was an orange day. Don't dance on shin splints you will hurt yourself. Or more spcifically I will because I dance when the mood strikes which is often. You should too. The weather is fine. A chill on the air, the stars twinkle and grow cool but refuse to fall from the sky. I've been introspective lately but don't feel like posting about it on here. I handed in my scene for panto late and not with everything in it that it needed. I feel bad about that. I'm going to learn the thriller dance. I'm hungry. I think maybe I shall have an omelette with 3 eggs, an onion, a tomato, maybe some capsicum and some (read lots) of cheese. Did I meantion everyone should read The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland In A Ship Of Her Own Making? In fact I reccomend it so much that instead of copy and pasting it from above I typed it out again. I'm sick of my mind. I need a little man with a spanner I can put in my ear to fix me. I have a lot to do. I really want to visit the catacombs in France. Hilariously when I told Danica about them she thought I was pulling her leg. Grand Master Ernesto Presas Jnr is coming to stay in Perth for 3 months and will be teaching our Kombatan Arnis class in that time XD Also there will be two classes instead of just one a week while he is here. The trailer-fest in unisfa made me very excited about several things; District 9 looks cool, Up makes me happy every time I see the trailer, 9 looks AMAZING OMG! Where The Wild Things Are makes me squee alot, every time I see the trailer. Ad I've seen that trailer alot. Continuing to be hungry and unshowered seems to me to be and unsustainable state of affairs so I think i'll do something about it and go now. Ok Bye bye. *waves*
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans exactly the same, just completely different.
PS The Big Bang Theory is an fantastic show (apart from the canned laughter, bleh) and this is the openning: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W-zNyHC4ok&feature=related
and this is that song in full: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFy5FN06_zU
and this is me bopping *bopping* and squeeing *SQUEE!*
We built a wall; We built the pyramids!
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[27 Jul 2009|08:50am] |
I own you.
Sincerely,
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans
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Yesterday we spent all day here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SM_Mall_of_Asia
In the process I aquired a USB to iPod cable (I can't find mine and I'm pretty sure the last time I charged Chiefly was at Ellie's house :P), trade paperbacks 1 to 6 of DMZ (which if you don't know is brilliant), the 6th trade of Y: The Last Man (which I swear I had but didn't get back when I got the rest of them back from Martha [so maybe I didn't have it but I'm pretty sure I did]), a hard cover of watchman (which is half Axel's and it's about time I owned a copy), a red t-shirt, 2 ties (one silver and stripey and one plain green emerald tie which is a best shade of green EVER <--hyperbole it is a gorgeous shade of green however) and lasty but most importantly I have a shiny new three piece suit XD In addition to this I today aquired a belt that brings me intense amounts of joy and may result in a lot of me pointing to my crotch for the next month or so. I found my dance again yesterday, Dancing In The Moonlight is a fantastic song. When we left Negros on sunday it was particularily hard on my Lola. She's 80 years old, skin, bone and muscle. She's small and frail. She's the font from which the strength in my family flows. She's basically indestructible. And every time we leave it is the last time she will ever see us :( We promised to come back in two years. There were tears from pretty much everyone. Randomly heard Let Me Be Your Hero today, that sucked. Leaving the Philippines tomorrow night. Will arrive back in Perth at 11am on the Wednesday and god damn I can't wait to get home. I believe I was going to go on some rant about me, so let's do that now. I am Ivo. I am Ivo de los Santos Vekemans. 22/M/Perth (generally Perth, Manila right now) Oh actually before I go on with this I was listening to the album A Mind Of My Own by Pez. Very nice album, good sounds. The Festival Song is a must listen for any festivalhead (which admittedly I’m not). The album really hits it’s stride at the end from I Wanna Go (track 9) to Heavenly (track 14). Hmmm I think I should stop abusing brackets (although maybe they enjoy it :-P) Anyway song for today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8vPAnrQuL0 and a song for yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JISdIUS8-c. Now back to where I was. Oh yes, me, clearly a very interesting topic. I enjoy more than most people; not just life in general I’m talking about specific things. I think that I enjoy a wider variety of things than most people. From international politics to Dr Who to motorcycles to different shades of green but I don’t think I’m indiscriminate. I like things that are good. Although I’m willing to over look something bad about something if it exemplifies something else really well. I think this affinity for paragons of specifics is what draws me to superheros. Incidentally on the shades of green thing, you have no idea how much I love shades of green. Especially when there are different ones contrasting each other in interesting ways, spending 9 days on the Negros and Cebu islands is a great way to see many different shades of green XD My favourite movie is August Rush. My second favourite movie is Boon Dock Saints. Read into that what you will. My favourite TV shows are Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Dr Who and Gilmore Girls. This fluctuates usually with BSG on top. My favourite books are the His Dark Materials trilogy followed very closely by Foundation (putting His Dark Materials above foundation did raise the ire of Axel who breifly decided we were no longer brothers). I’ve reread His Dark Materials again in the last week, it’s even better than I remembered. I think to fully enjoy it you need to know about the church and about theoretical physics (not in detail but some broad strokes) I ride a motorcycle. The reason I wanted one in the first place was because they’re cheap on fuel and parking is easy. I had actually decided to get a motorcycle months before realising that they were awesome :-P I believe you should question everything so I play devils advocate. I have a lot of energy. When there’s nothing to do I pace or stand on something. I dance in trees. In the last few years I haven’t been single very much and I don’t think I hang out with other people enough when I’m in a relationship which I think isn’t to healthy for me or the relationships. I was being mopey, now I am being awesome. It’s actually harder to write about me than I thought it would be also I’m feeling a bit lazy about this to be honest. I want to know how I appear through your eyes person-who-is-reading-this. What are your perceptions of me?
My sister and I have made an agreement to go to the beach every week early on Sunday morning for running and then swimming and we’re starting this week which should be fun. And by fun I mean we’re going to freeze our arses off. An Idea has been rolling itself around my head for the last year but I have been too lazy to implement it. Finding myself suddenly single and having only my thesis left to do now seems like the perfect time to do it. I have made a list. Currently it is an unsorted; this is the list as it stands in the order it was written but it will be sorted into categories when I get home:
To Kill a Mockingbird (book and movie, in that order)
Learn French
Scarface
Lord of the Rings (books I guess it was 8 years ago that I tried to read it so I should give it another go)
All Quiet on the Western Front
Lyra’s Oxford
The Plan (BSG)
Ulysses
The Iliad
Countries (I’m going to read the wiki entry on one country a day and do it in alphabetical order)
Finish FF XII (Should have done this ages ago)
Coheed in Cambria
TZU
Creedence
The Beatles
Secret History of the Mongols
The Last Emperor
Movie Marathons (I’m planning to have a bunch of these in the next month, stay tuned)
Dr Strangelove
Schindler’s List
JFK
Malcom X
Beach (going to each week with my sister)
Hot/Cold
Suits (op shops, tailors, also getting current suits fitted)
The Killing Fields
The Sting
LOTR: Extended versions, marathon of
August Rush (Must Own It)
Shakespeare
Dickens
Raeblais
Catch-22
Oscar Wilde
Asimov (you can never have too much)
Goethe
Kafka
Death Note
Dante
Australian History (should probably learn more)
1984
2001: A Space Odyssey (I told Axel I would give it another go)
Running (at night or in the mornings not sure yet)
Animal Farm
Rolling Stones
Sam Cooke
Pink Floyd
AC/DC
Johnny Cash
Madness
Plastic Ono Band
Black Uhuru
Burning Spear
Peter Tosh
Sinatra
Motown
Opera (as in at theatres)
Ballet (as above)
Amadeus
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
The Constitution (I just wanna know what the preamble says :-P)
Singing Lessons
Learn Arabic
Learn Maple Leaf Rag
Solidwords
ANSYS
Learn to Code
Learn some Economics
Learn to sleep less (apparently you don’t need that much)
Start playing piano again (although the maple rag thing would cover it)
Volunteer in some useful way
Give Blood (I’ve been lazy all year)
Learn to Cook more stuff
Hang up Bruce (punching bag, mine and Alix’s)
Die Hard 2 (the only one I haven’t seen)
Read Roger Ebert’s blog (Axel tells me it’s pretty good)
The Party (I figure I should watch it :-P)
Casablanca (I haven’t seen it)
Arthur C. Clarke
Discworld (I think I’m 5 books behind but I’m going to read them again from the start)
Ramayana
Rendezvous with Rama
Forsythe Saga
Jane Austen
Lost In Austen (looked cool but I missed it)
Learn simple stage/amateur magician tricks :-P
Pen Spinning
Playing with coins
Butterfly Knife Spinning
James Dean
Mad Max (only seen the first one)
Learn some grammar
Opus (Asimov :-P)
Prime Ministers (learn something about the past ones)
Learn to touch type (I remember there being a way to do this involving zombies)
The man from Snowy River
Keats
Bollywood
Iranian movies (apparently there are some pretty good ones)
Cannes Winners
Nobel Laurettes (Learn something about them)
Patches for my jacket (really gotta sort this out)
Organise household stuff
Bibbulmun Track
Learn to Sail (Danica was supposed to teach me ages ago)
Climb Mt Canlaon (although not ‘til we’ve all graduated)
Ong Bak 2
Avoid Nollywood like the plague
Dirk Pitt novels
Finish FF VI, VIII, IX (I’ve only finished VII and X)
Johnny Cash (I forgot this was already on the list :-P)
Metallica
Metal
Maus (read half of it, will start again from the beginning)
Art (galleries, I go sometimes but not often)
Learn Suits (as in about them)
Parkour
Archery
Manual Dexerity
Balance
Gaiman (haven’t read much sandman)
Banjo Patterson
Pet Sounds
MJ
Hip Hop Dance & Breakdancing
The Grateful Dead
The Doors
Flogging Molly
The Pogues
Robert Frost
The Kinks
The Clash
The Police
Jurrasic Park 2 & 3 (seen the first)
Jaws
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Layer Cake
The Matches
Mindless Self Indulgence
Offspring
Pharoahe Monche
Matchbox 20
Nine Inch Nails
Nirvana
GI Jane
Ice Age Marathon (only seen the first one)
Castle
Narnia Movies (SQUEE… *cough*)
Bones
Stargate (seen first 4 seasons)
New Joss Whedon show (whatever it’s called although I’ve heard it’s not that good)
Learn to free dive (Lachan offered but that was a LONG time ago, don’t know if the offer still stands)
Stand on the shoulders of giants (read old scientific papers)
William Blake
Emily Dickenson
John Milton
Edmund Spenser
Robin Hobb (reread Farseer trilogy and read the other two)
Mistwraith (reread from the start)
Sword of Truth (reread from start)
Sophie’s World
The Blues
Naruto
Web Comics (many that I have lost track of over the years and others that I’ve been meaning to read)
Citizen Kane
Learn escape artistry (Yorick stylez :-P)
Field of Dreams
Turn into Truck (Have been trying this for many years, may soon to close to a break through)
Truck Licence
Get full bike licence
Top Level Sports (watch major sporting events grand finals, superbowl motoGP)
The Sopranos (great show haven’t seen much)
Riddles
Marathon
August Rush (mentioning a second time on purpose because it’s awesome XD)
Pet Bunny and name it Wiz. Or a turtle name undecided.
Arcade Fire
Led Zeplin
SGA
The Hungry Caterpillar (I want to reread it)
Where the Wild Things Are (reread before the movie comes out, did I mention I’m excited about the movie? EEEEEEEEEEEE… I am excited. Ever so slightly)
Gran Torino
Dirty Harry
Watch all of the pokemon cartoons? undecided on this one
Disney Movies (I’ve missed a lot of them, including Hercules which apparently is great)
Narnia Books
Monk (good show)
Ali
George Orwell
Rumble in the Bronx
Other Jackie Chan (but not the crap he’s been doing lately)
The Lakehouse (Fuck you, I like this movie) :-P
Serendipity
Tenacious D and the Pick of Destiny (been meaning to see this for AGES)
A Series of Unfortunate Events (the books)
Never eat Balut. Ever ever ever. (it’s half formed chck cooked in it’s egg. Axel tells me it tastes like egg but fuck that for a laugh)
Band of Brothers
Racist Tintin. Heh heh.
Bridge to Terrabithia (I’ve seen the movie, I’ll watch it again then read the book. I can’t comment on the book but if you watch the movie and don’t cry then you don’t have a soul)
Andrew Marvell
Starman
Lucifer (after sandman)
Preacher
Fables
Tron
Stephen Hawking
Feynman
Tricky TV
Kamen Rider Kabuto (saw it on TV here looks like hilariously bad Power Ranger type TV)
X-Men Cartoons
Christina Rossetti
“On the Marionette Theatre” --> Heinrich von Kleist
Kid Confucius
Lily Allen
Kate Nash
Read Barney's Blog
I am such a dickhead for not LJ-cutting that list.
I am taking comments about who I am to you and things that should be added to the list. I don’t care how long it gets because I don’t mind not doing everything on it as long as I’m slowly working at it.
Ivo not-being-a-whiny-little-bitch-anymore-but-waiting-a-week-to-make-sure-it-sticks-before-using-his-awesome-full-name-again Vekemans
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It’s raining here in Canlaon. We’re leaving here in a few hours to spend the last 3 days in Manila. Pretty much because Astrid and Axel want to go shopping although I must admit I’m not entirely adverse to the idea.
Yesterday a real smile almost made my eyes, but chances are that like the recent stock market “recoveries”, the boy who cried wolf and a fire drill it was a false alarm.
I’m seem to be using the enter button. I think maybe this one last post and then back to walls of text as this feels unnatural. Shout outs to Lionel, Other Tom and Sheeba for being the only people that messaged me. I have been told to watch West Wing because I will fangirl it.
I really need to get the videos of me jumping the moat.
A few nights ago mum and I had a massive argument. It lasted for some time and touched on many different things. There were tears, mostly from me. Mum had forgotten about my heartbreak which is no excuse for some behaviour but at least explains it.
The hatred between the Serbs and the Croats is dumb.
I miss Ellie. A lot. Like an expat Aussie misses footy and meat pies. Like Lyra misses Will. Like a deaf, dumb, blind kid with an archery set.
I really want a meat pie.
Where was I? Oh yes, I miss Ellie. I miss her more than I missed my folks when I moved to Perth for uni. I feel suspended between breaths; caught between out and in. She’s in my thoughts constantly. I thought maybe distance would give me perspective. All it has done is make me think “Wow Ellie would love to see that”, “Ellie would find that hilarious”, “Ellie this”, “Ellie that”, etcetera etcetera. I miss the sound of her voice. I miss her smile. I miss her nose. I miss surprise hearts. I miss… …I miss her and I probably shouldn’t turn this into a list so I won’t.
My cons remind me of Ellie and when we bought them. I wonder what she did with the ‘I love you’ candy. I miss waking up next to her. Despite what she thinks she’s beautiful when she’s sleeping and beautiful when she wakes up. I miss seeing her on the other side of the moat and knowing that in a minute we would be holding hands. I miss her company. Damn it this isn’t supposed to be a list.
And I would walk five hundred more.
In Zimbabwe the queues for fuel have gotten to point where people are waiting 3 days for it. The exception to the rule is a hearse (or anyone actually) taking a body to a funeral can skip the lines. Soon there was a thriving trade in forged ‘I-have-a-dead-body-in-the-car’ papers. Because of this anyone claiming this had prove they were transporting a corpse by showing the body. Thus people have been borrowing the bodies of the dead to get fuel.
The dance has gone clean out of me. Even MJ doesn’t make me move and Yoda knows he’s been on enough lately.
I hate that my writing this will cause her sadness. I thought about locking the post so she couldn’t read it but decided that she if she wants to read that is her choice. I admire her courage, like Lyra refusing to look away from Pantalaimon as she was forced to leave him on the jetty of the dead. After all, ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’, a bitterly ironic phrase all things considered. It amuses me that neither of us will comment on the other’s LJ. I know she’s reading this and she knows I’m reading any post of hers that aren’t locked (I have no idea if she has locked posts about what is actually going on with her life but she would do that to spare me which is nice). Hi Ellie :-)
For anyone who hasn’t been able to tell it is entirely possible that I have been re-reading the His Dark Materials trilogy. I take back what I said before the parts with Mary ARE interesting and I have no idea how after reading the books last time I came to the conclusion that the Mulefa were birds. They are not birds. At all.
I feel like I’ve been cut in half and scooped out then stitched back up.
Ellie is still the first thought in my head when I wake and the last in my mind as I fall asleep; and it hurts because I know she’s not thinking about me and when she wakes and when she sleeps she’s thinking and dreaming of someone else.
A whole new type of Dark.
I still haven’t written my scene for Panto. I’m having trouble finding my funny.
One of my aunts, the dentist, thinks I should get braces. This is something mum has always wanted me to do. They think I should get them for aesthetic purposes but I kind of like my teeth.
Déjà vu strikes at unusual moments.
Point me toward the morning
Could someone point me toward the…
Apartment complex reeks
Of old take out Chinese
At night the ventilation speaks
Russian and Cantonese
I’m more machine than man now. But without the helmet, cape and voice nowhere near as cool as Vader.
Showering in cold water with a bucket is actually the best way to shower. Not that I’ll do it when I go home.
I daydream big romantic gestures. If I thought it would achieve anything I would parachute over Ellie’s house in a suit with a dozen roses and have a string quartet pop out of the bushes. I would get a plane to smoke that I love her in the sky. I would walk a thousand miles to fall down at her door. But I can’t because contrary to what Hollywood tells us these are the actions of a creepy stalker ex-boyfriend.
I want to stand on the shoulders of giants.
I keep thinking about what went wrong, what I could have done differently. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject. I know, shocking right? ‘What ifs’ do nothing though. Because the world is the way the world is. Which sounds pessimistic. But I am not a pessimist, I am the optimust optimist you know.
The food here is delicious but I haven’t really been eating.
Thumb Wrestling Federation is both childishly hilarious and incredibly stupid. It amuses me.
Walking in the rain.
All that precedes this was written before we left Canlaon. We are now in Manila and it is midnight.
Ways not to get over Ellie:
- Read my LJ posts from the last year and a half
- Read the massive comment threads from when we were flirting online
- Read her LJ posts from the last year and a half
- Be awake
So I’m an idiot but this is news to no one. You can see it right there in my disclaimer. Clicking on the Ivo tag didn’t help because October 26 isn’t far down that list.
Because lyrics posts are for losers I'm going to post a link to a lyrics post I made when I was being a loser although I'm kind of being a loser now anyway :P
http://v01d3d.livejournal.com/34822.html
Ignore the songs, unless you want to know what I was listening to when I was being a loser.
Actually watch the Kid Confuscius song because it's choice.
I wonder if she still wears the necklace. Either of them. The Green Lantern ring reminds me of her.
Vertical Horizon - Everything You Want done to Final Fantasy Advent Children
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwXaQ5hfV3w
I remember going to the atrium, actually I remember the entire night of our one year anniversary. I remember going to the beach for fish and chips. I remember, fuck this wasn’t supposed to become a list. Bah. Fuck it. Maybe if I get it out now it will stay out. I remember Ellie being inordinately happy to have broken my relationship record. I remember that she’s very pretty and she shouldn’t let anyone take that away from her. I remember her support during the last panto. I remember when we missed each other after a day apart. I remember a Terracon that filled my heart instead of breaking it. I remember giving Ellie things that became obsessions. I remember being made into a troper. I once exemplified 6 things in that quiz that I never bothered doing, I wonder if I’m still any of those. I remember going out of my way to spend as much time as I could with Ellie before I had to go to Sydney.
I’m sitting here wearing more sleeve than I’ve worn since getting here (I’ve been in a singlet basically the whole time) and I miss her. I miss holding her hand and I miss her company.
And THAT IS IT. I’m not going to do this again. There might be snippets of how I feel cropping up in posts. But her feelings for me are gone and now comes regrowth. My next post will be different. It will be about me and me going forward and I want input from everyone (yes that includes you). Look to its coming on your friends page on the 2nd day (1st if I manage it)
I will be happy again if I have to do it through shear force of will, Green Lantern style.
It’s gonna be a long winter.
Ivo
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[06 Jul 2009|02:21pm] |
So this song is basically how I feel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25URKL26I04
I apologize sincerely for the continued whinging but I need to not be in the Philippines right now. I'm wasting it and I can't help it. Every single thing makes me think about Ellie. No seriously every fucking thing. The rice fields, the His Dark Materials trilogy, the philippino obsession with love songs, the volcano, my uncle's drunken vow to quit smoking. I can't not think about her.
When I wake up it's the worst. I've woken up from the same nightmare that I had at terracon 2008. Not exactly the same the only thing I remember about the one last year is that Ellie broke up with me and I had to get her to come and comfort me afterwards. She had a similar nightmare that I needed to comfort her about a while ago. The only difference is this time I woke up and the panic didn’t leave. I've also woken up from dreams that we were still together only to wake up feeling horrible.
I feel like a Panzerbjorn without his armour. I feel like Tony Makarios only I have a pillow instead of a dead fish.
I really shouldn't look at facebook but I can't help myself.
I passed FEM and I got a distinction for relability engineering. So I now no longer have any exams left for my degree. In fact all I need to do is my thesis and 12 weeks vac work.
Dad is teaching me French again. On my request on the off chance I need to join the French Foreign Legion at ome point.
If I hear one more love song I'm going do some face conditioning with a moving bus. (Nobody freak out this is hyperbole)
I imagine I will feel better at some point like Marshall in episode 1 of season 2 of How I Met Your Mother. Right now I can't imagine not wanting to see her face and hear her voice.
Who am I? When did I become this whiny little girl? When did I start using the enter button? Why would anyone ever let Transformers 2 get past editorial? But seriously who the fuck am I? I think I will post later on who I think I am. And ask others what they think. Also I will post about the Philippines but later.
And will someone PLEASE fucking message me on the number 2 posts back so that I have some sort of contact with someone in Australia that I'm not heart broken over. Please?
Ok shutting up now.
Ivo de los Santos Vekemans
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[06 Jul 2009|01:00pm] |
Posted late because I didn't finish it until after I left Manila. The enter button has been used as a reward for all the people who sat through my previous epic whingefest. And I hate that this is the case but more is on the way.
Now the post:
Today would have been our 15 month anniversary. Well that's a lie, it would have been yesterday, but I wrote this (well the first part of this) post on the way here. [Ed. - so actually it was six days ago and it' now been 13 days ince Ellie broke up with me.]
Terracon was fantastic. Also painful. But at the time mostly brilliant. Went down with Ewan (no not like that, get out of the gutter). Got there late, around 6. Picked up some food cans in Bridgetown. Of particular awesome were the FULLY LOADED CANS! (cruise controlled for cool) On the first night I found myse
lf slightly (read VERY) inebriated after being given copious amounts of alcohol. Then there was dinner and spotlight. It was the worst game of spotlight I've played ever because I couldn't get my night vision to adjust and I was failing entirely at stealth. At some point I found myself out on a veranda with Ellie who also was apparently somewhat tipsy for a couple of hours. Stuff. The next day there was wood chop
ping which I did for 3 hours. I didn't actually take any of wood I chopped. I just chopped. And I thought. And then I chopped some more. Then I noticed this plant, strange plant. It did not fit the surrounding environment.
I remain convinced that is was in fact an alien ship of the biological variety. In the histories when they determine from the fragments of civilization where the invasion first struck I shall be vindicated. Then I c
hopped more wood. I do love to chop wood. The word love is annoyingly multi-faceted; probably this is a reflection of the emotion but still. Iron stomach was run by Brad, something I gather Peter wasn't too happy about.
It was zombie themed. With 3 stages. Infection --> the T-virus (in reverse) was red in blue so we had blue in red in the form of blue m&m's in tomato sauce. Death --> Uncooked death sandwich, 2 slices of bread, 1 slice of cheese, a raw egg, and about half a bottle of beer. I surrendered that round. I can't remember what the next round was called but it was brutal. Put some bailey's in your mouth add orange juice, mix, swallow. I know what you're thinking "Hey Ivo only the-most-awesome-person-I-know
de los Santos Vekemans doesn't that curdle?" Why yes, yes it does. So I do it and it's not so bad. I mean I feel a bit off but it's not so bad. So I've done half of it so for the other half I decide to gargle. This is not a brilliant idea. At all. Don’t try it at home kids. After this we had to run around the table ten times like zombies but to be honest once I’d kept down the curdled bailey’s I didn’t noti
ce it. The last round was the traditional coke and mars bars round, which According to Dave Cake is now 20 years old. For those wondering I came last which I do every year. I don’t do iron stomach to win, I do it for the free sustenance and because the rest of you are big girls. After iron stomach we played a game of starcraft the board game with the brood wars expansion pack and it was AMAZING! Also awesome.
Basically it was a lot of fun. The game took 7 hours because we were still learning to play (except Ewan who was doing the teaching) Scar won. Which is annoying because I was talked into not crushing him in the first round, although it was a dick move so I wouldn’t really have done it (unless it was against Ewan) So then after our incredibly epic game of epicness it was time for quiz night. Brad, Ewan an
d I suited up because we’re awesome. Having turned up late Ewan and I attached ourselves to the fresher table. They had chosen some lame name so I crossed it out and replaced it with batman. Each round we added something (although they kept calling us Batman) for example after the second round we were spiderbatman. I believe by the end we had become Zombie Jesus Cyborg- Spiderbatman from the future. In a stroke of synergistic brilliance Ewan cut out a bat symbol from a fantail wrapper and stuck it to the end of his flashlight. I then determined that we might, in fact, turn the lights in the hall off. So at the end of the quiz in which we came nowhere near first I signalled Ewan to hit the lights when our team was called (joint 5th I believe) and I shone the bat signal on the ceiling. The bat signal got the rather epic amounts of applause. My friends on the winning table, who by the way are amazing, gave me the DC encyclopaedia that they got for winning.
Following the quiz and suiting down there was zompocalypse which was preceded by a hug I was not expecting but enjoyed nonetheless. Zompocalypse was awesome and I’m totally taking some credit for convincing Trent to run it again. The first round was pretty easy with much running and dodging of zombies. The next two rounds were brutal. With a more concerted effort and some foresight we could have won the seco
nd round. The 3rd round on the other hand I fairly sure we were boned regardless. It was a lot of fun. At some point during the day I switched to Ewan’s hut because it was just him so we each got a double bed. Some wandering around follows. I eventually found my way to hut 20 where there was loudness Leonard and freshers. Ewan and I went back to hut 5 to sleep at some point but it was too cold, so we grabbed our stuf
f and went back to hut 20 but it was too loud so we went to hut 18 because they had both a fire and less noise. At some point there was an exodus from hut 18 so the only people sleeping in the main room of hut 18 were Ellie and I. I was on the edge of a mattress although there were two and Ellie was on the couch. Earlier that night I had organised, well semi-organised, well brought up the possibility of, a woo
d chopping competition for 11am the next morning. However shortly after I awoke after briefly talking Ellie held my hand and thus I pretended to be too lazy to get up for 2 hours because I didn’t want to let go. Then there was cuddles I wasn’t expecting, there was a massage and there was a cluster fuck. Also there was a lot of scaring Ben. He may also have been scarred :P Possibly also curling and sleeping on people I shouldn’t have been curling and sleeping on. There was the final dinner which w
as tacos :D I like tacos. Tacos are tasty. Apparently Rowan prefers hot dog to taco XP There was god elections and the slave auction. I bought Nick; in fact I outbid myself a couple of times to win. Together Brad and I bought Evan. For shaving purposes and we fully intend to pay up. We in fact plan on getting Nick to do it. After that I helped clean the hall and then I took a turn through the different huts. There were some interesting things going on, also some amusing things. In the end I played apples to apples in hut 18. Acquiring apples to apples involved much unnecessary walking around. Also tot
ally having board games nights in the future. Then I started a fire in hut 18 and went to sleep. I never actually slept in my double bed in hut 5 at any point although apparently Eesha did. The next morning was packing and then the good bye. Ellie came to get stuff and Gilmore Girls (which is a sort of stuff I guess but it deserves to be separate. We talked about the fact that we had been slow dancing on pieces of my he
art all weekend. She needed it and I wanted it. I let go my optimism and began to work on acceptance. Not easy btw. We hugged, held hands and she walked away. They left. I finished packing. I found Ewan and on the way back to his car I needed a hug, the tears came and I couldn’t hold them and if he saw he was kind enough not to mention it. On the way home we stopped at the bakery I had 2 pies a
custard and apple doughnut and an apple Danish. There was radio fun, rain fun and sitting in Maccas watching bands with hilarious/awesome hair play songs in hilarious/awesome video clips fun. Also left shoe fun. Then finally after waving goodbye to Fnics car on the freeway Ewan dropped me off home and I watched How I Met Your Mother to avoid packing and thinking about the weekend and by weekend I mean Ellie. It didn’t help that much but being amused and sad is better than being bored and sad. Hmmmm I wasn’t expecting this post to be so long.
Anyway Ivo de los Santos Vekemans over and out.
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| I am not Ivo |
[05 Jul 2009|12:25am] |
Ivo is internet-less in the Philippines and couldn't remember anyone else's number, and would like me to notify all that:
a) his phone number while there is (+63)9081875171
b) he has a utility belt and is now for all intents and purposes Batman
c) "Volcanic tidings from cloudy canlaon. Pig on a spit is basically delicious" which is all he could be bothered telling me to write so in conclusion: I think Ivo is a pretty cool guy. eh swashbuckles aleins and doesn't afraid of anything.
- Ellie.
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| Psyched for terracon |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mc954nt-7Io
Please note this has nothing to do with recent happenings (just so no one takes anything from the song) and everything to do with Barney Stinson and my love of Bon Jovi.
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| Three things that currently make me happy |
[25 Jun 2009|09:51am] |
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1. Trailer for The Last Airbender: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-trailer-the-last/51238
B) The last two episodes of Gilmore Girls
iii] Trailer for Where the Wild Things Are: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--N9klJXbjQ
A. Makes me squee.
ii) Makes me squee a lot and nostalgic.
3] Some of you MAY have some idea how much this makes me squee. There is a good possibility that I may in fact go out of my way to acquire that costume and a crown and a sceptre.
Four: Using silly numbering systems even though everyone does it. (Also seeing 4 written although only briefly so it's not worth an extra thing)
Also I need to August Rush again. Maybe tonight. Ivo de los Santos Vekemans - FOUR! FOR! FORE! heh.
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