Sunday, January 15, 2006
20:11 ~
Good candy:
* Fruit slices. The thin, flat ones. Almost all flavors are good. Mmm.
* Chocolate truffles. All good, but raspberry and mint are my least favorite.
* Chocolates with things in them.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
02:08 ~
Thought I'd give a bit of a list of things I've watched or am watching.
Japanese
Yakitate! Japan of course
Tsubasa - Have it all, need to finish watching it
Aim for the Ace LA - Got hooked on this pretty quickly, but the releases are sooo slooow.
Mai Otome - I'm not going to try to explain it.
HYD LA - Finished it. The only HYD I'd really watched/read much of. Was a bit strange.
British
Brainiac Science/History Abuse - Watched all that's out, I think. Sort of like Mythbusters in that they love blowing things up in pursuit of truth.
Lost! - Where they drop people in the middle of nowhere and they have to get home. Pity there weren't more episodes of this.
Mole - British Mole was fun. Needed to be more series of that too.
Cluedo - I've found myself watching more and more mystery stuff. Utoh.
Murder Most Horrid - Dawn French in murder mystery parodies. See comment above.
Make Me a Million - Millionaires team up with teams of two novice entrepreneurs to get a business started. Reality show.
Dragon's Den - Millionaire panel sits in a room while people pitch business ideas to them and try to get money out of them.
Deal or No Deal - British version is a bit friendlier and less flashy than the American version. But Howie Mandel is funnier.
Space Cadets - Reality show. Bunch of British people think they're going up in space, but they're not. There's supposed to be a sequel where they trick people into thinking they're going to Mars.
Airline - Someone put Airline episodes up, so I've gotten some of them. Silly really, since TLC or Discovery or whichever station it is (A&E?) shows them here eventually anyway.
How To Pay Off Your Mortgage in Two Years - Or something like that. This guy takes couples and families and sees if he can help them pay off their mortgage in two years. It's actually more interesting than it sounds.
Shipwrecked - Reality show. Like Survivor, in reverse. Two teams, each on their own island. Every week a new person is 'shipwrecked' and spends 3 days with each tribe. At the end of the week, they pick which tribe they want to join. At the end, the tribe with the most people wins. But it's a piddly little prize considering they'll have to split it like 20 ways or something! Awful lot of work for 5 months for a couple thousand pounds.
Life on Mars - Sci-fi crime drama. Detective gets hit by a car and finds himself in 1973, trying to solve crimes with stereotypical chauvinist borderline corrupt cops and old crime-stopping technology. Interesting.
Hyperdrive - Sci-fi comedy. The Office crossed with Red Dwarf. I'm undecided.
Japanese/British
Takeshi's Castle - UK style. There's been no new ones posted in awhile though. :(
That's not a comprehensive list by any means. I didn't include random documentaries and things. But it's the most notable. So, go check 'em out.
Monday, January 02, 2006
17:02 ~
I read 8 more books than last year. Go me. Which was 29 more than 2003. Wow, I am getting 1337. Or reading more kid's books and manga or something.