jason mraz is pwn.

gaby sent me this cd of hers she had of jason mraz live. it's like all the songs are recorded live. so got all the screaming and stuff and his talking to the crowd. :) love love.

Then i was listening to it today, and suddenly got this opera part in the middle of the song.

(9:31 PM) alan - the end o:	wth!!! is jason mraz singing opera
(9:32 PM) GABY:	um no obv
(9:32 PM) alan - the end o:	no meh? i rem yvonne told me before he did
(9:32 PM) alan - the end o:	Coyote
(9:34 PM) GABY:	its not him la hel-lo its a women woman
(9:34 PM) alan - the end o:	why not! if kurt sang u would think it's a woman too right
(9:34 PM) GABY:	.... big diff
(9:35 PM) alan - the end o:	im telling u jason mraz sang it
(9:35 PM) alan - the end o:	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKlS-QvhNXY&feature=related
(9:36 PM) alan - the end o:	GO WATCH
(9:36 PM) GABY:	oh my shut shit
(9:36 PM) alan - the end o:	TOLD YOU SO x12897123

owned.

but the point is, jason mraz is awesome. yea.

the end of LOST

DON'T WORRY NO SPOILERS IN THIS POST, ONLY IF YOU WANT TO READ THEM, THEY'RE ALL IN WHITE.

So, minutes after finishing the finale of LOST, here I am, writing a blog post, reading through forums to get a better idea of what the heck went down. There are certainly LOL posts such as this in a thread of 'What questions/mysteries were answered?" and someone said
""We learned you can fix a jet with duct tape! ""
(This is SLIGHTLY spoilerish i guess, so read it at your own risk)
Which was just lol if you actually watched the episode.

An epic series of 6 seasons which was certainly a popular series winning several Emmys and lasting so long despite its enigmatic nature and high budget, finally ended.

I'm not going to tell you how it ended, because out of context, it's going to make no sense and not be good. But was the ending good? Read on.

-Spoiler begins, highlight text to read if you want to know-
The ending of the flash sideways being the afterlife was actually semi-predicted earlier on in the middle seasons. I recall reading a particular theory that the island was afterlife some seasons ago, and i guess he wasn't that far off.

Is it a good ending? I don't know. There are still many questions unanswered of course, like how the hell did MIB suddenly become vulnerable and can be killed when bullets can't stop him (neither can knives)
How did Ben suddenly get out from under the tree??
Why did Charles Whitmore want to get to the island so badly, and why use Desmond?
How did he know all about Jacob/MIB and know he can stop MIB with pylons etc.
This was one of the biggest plot hole IMO, he goes through so much trouble to get to the island.. and then tries to run away no wait, HIDE IN A DARK ROOM from smoky, and dies. lame.

Other questions:
What exactly is the light? Why does pulling a plug out put out the light? Why doesn't Jack die to the electromagnetic radiation since Desmond is supposed to be the only one who can pull the plug?

the rest are all minor questions like
What are the numbers?
Why did Jack's neck start bleeding during the afterlife flashes at the same time when Locke pricked him on the island?
Why did Egyptions build the statue?

Well ok i can go on and on, but i won't. I thought the ending was satisfactory - not good, but satisfactory. But what i'm unhappy about is the reaction to the ending!

Now i'm on the forums and people are going 'omg lost writers you suck you wasted 6 years of my life' and 'what a joke ending ' and yada yada. But seriously, WHAT DO YOU EXPECT? I actually started a thread there suggesting a 'create your own answer' kinda thing, let's see how it goes.

Though I am satisfied with the ending, if I had to give a viewpoint :
I would have preferred Season 6 to just be an entire season of answering questions with flashes to previous seasons (Think the Adam/Eve = Jacob's Brother/Fake Mom scene in 'Across the Sea' )
This gives the sort of 'ohhhh' feeling that many 'complicated' movies have when the plot twist comes and it explains the whole story with flashes to the beginnning of the show, usually with some sort of narration.
I guess this would have placated most fans by giving them what they all seem to want ' answers to their questions'.



-Spoiler end-

Well, the end of a great series, some may like it, some don't. What matters now is.. what am i going to watch now that there is no more LOST ever!!! zomg. :(

who says playing computer games is a waste of time?

I have defended gaming before in a previous post, but never really had any concrete proof that gaming is GOOD, just that gaming isn't bad. Like i could still play games and still do well in my studies, because it's all a matter of time management, and non-gamers still do other stuff as much as i game such as watch tv, go out, etc.

But today, i can say one thing - I have benefited in a measurable way from gaming, more specifically, from playing World of Warcraft. In what ways? you might ask.
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KACHING!!!!
WOOHOO!


Ok as some of you might know from this post, I've been trying to sell my WoW account for awhile as I'm going to uni and i'll stop playing WoW. So i advertised everywhere i could think of - HWZ forums, classifiedadsonline, friends, blog, facebookmarketplace even!

I got my first offer within a day of putting the ads up, but that person never really made any offers, and the 2nd person who offered wanted to just buy one character instead of the whole account and it complicated matters.
Negotiations broke down and he stopped contacting me.

So it's been almost 3 weeks since that last offer. And so i wasn't really thinking about it. And those who follow my blog will know that my account got hacked like two weeks ago, and only got restored last tuesday.

And it all started with this sms on wed morning.. i just woke up to go to work and was still all sleepy so i thought i was dreaming:

"Hi, I saw your account on Singapore classified and was wondering what prices have been discussed with you before. I am no good when it comes to setting prices however i can negotiate with whereever you currently have your targets set."

So i just told him about that previous offer for $400 (i would have gotten much less actually, long story) and came up with an imaginary previous offer of $500+.

Then he replies:

"I could probably go for $600 for the whole account"

:O
So at this point i was about to eat my breakfast and obviously with this kind of shocking news early in the morning i was jolted awake. So as i was thinking about what to reply him another SMS comes in:

"Sorry I meant to say 700. iPhone predictive text doesn't seem to work properly quite often"

And another SMS within a few minutes, i still haven't replied:

"However, this pricing is slightly flexible if you have any specific price you would like"

WIN WIN WIN .
Imagine jackpot machine sounds going off in my head. At this point, it was clear that he could go higher because of that 'however' message, so i said something like "Hmm 700 sounds good but i heard my account is worth about 800..." and i did some breakdown of what i had on the account to 'prove' it.

"750 is my final offer :) "

OK SET was what i said. or something to that extent. hahahaha.
so i just arranged to meet him at Serangoon Macs for the transaction, and borrowed bestie's laptop (she came along too) . So he came with this friend too, they're both aussies i think, should be expats? Did the whole transaction rather smoothly, without much conversation.

and KACHING!! I am $750 richer!!! wahahha.

So, who says playing computer games is a waste of time? I earned about $500+ from it! (because WoW has a subscription fee of about $25 a month, and i've played for under a year)

And i've learnt alot of real world skills from playing WoW too because I frequently lead my raids, so it teaches me organization skills, man management, leadership skills, etc.


And now, time to wait for July 27th for Starcraft II :)