tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2220155602215292472023-11-16T10:22:08.725-07:00Yours, AllieMy daily life in letters to no one in particular.Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-91802476174549537692010-05-25T23:03:00.002-06:002010-05-25T23:10:27.474-06:00May 25thI started reading a few mangas today. One, which I plan on continuing, is Fullmetal Alchemist, which I find highly amuzing. I started and finished the first installment today, and I fully plan on heading back to the library for more tomorrow.<br /><br />The other is Cirque du Freak. I'm not too sure about this one yet, but I figure I'll finish the first one and go for the second just to be sure that I'm not interested, or if it suddenly becomes interesting I might have to keep reading it. I find that the dialogue is really... not good. It's just to forced, like they're reading a passage from a book instead of talking.<br /><br />I also took out the first books of The Tarot Café and Avalon High. I plan on reading those tomorrow. I'm also planning on borrowing the first books of Bleach and +Anima from my friend.<br /><br />The story is: all of my friends are anime geeks and I've been feeling in a creative rut lately so I decided to start reading some, because watching isn't really my style. I think I'm getting the hang of it.<br /><br />Other than that, I'm procrastonating a French project right now, which I really should get to. Pancake breakfast tomorrow morning, Western Day at school. 13 days left.<br /><br />Yours, AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-40831755867595307322010-05-24T23:47:00.001-06:002010-05-24T23:51:46.447-06:00Still At ItAnother post, just trying to keep up my recent streak of posting. Not much new today. I bought the 3rd Dragonball omnibus today, so I can finally keep reading that, and I started reading XxxHolic online. I'm not sure whether I like it or not yet, but as soon as I figured out that Sakura and Syaoran were in it I figured I had to keep reading. So I'm about to start Chapter 16 tomorrow. Yeah, I'm reading unusually fast today.<br /><br />I just did a concept art for a weapon for one of my characters from the TV series I wrote about earlier. It's basically a bow that sets itself up in seconds, optimal for combat involving alot of moving between locations.<br /><br />That's about all for today, it was Victoria day, so I got the day off. I also had Friday off for the World Skills en lieu, so I had a nice long weekend. 14 school days left. I don't know if I'm actually going to make it...<br /><br />I hope you are all doing better than I!<br />AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-30059895438552377212010-05-24T00:51:00.010-06:002010-05-24T01:09:15.636-06:00Cosplay 2010In regards to my last post about Otafest where I said was trying to find out what I should do for my cosplay I have some ideas now:<br /><br /><div><div><div><div><div>5 Clow Cards (From Cardcaptors Sakura)</div><div>-The Sand</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTNEJXRjHEc10iEDql-P5Zk0DKzL1FVQOF9oWX_-HJN03N4_ekffsznN69rU62xn2psl00iEEZ-CWNST_7eq7xFwGMGe7HXeDTkh9qDyxnkjNED5PWPbKqnaKiuNVY8vgm4b_LqKszKmL/s1600/The+Sand.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474729069307110962" style="WIDTH: 90px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWTNEJXRjHEc10iEDql-P5Zk0DKzL1FVQOF9oWX_-HJN03N4_ekffsznN69rU62xn2psl00iEEZ-CWNST_7eq7xFwGMGe7HXeDTkh9qDyxnkjNED5PWPbKqnaKiuNVY8vgm4b_LqKszKmL/s200/The+Sand.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>-The Snow</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NrXYf1SORbwFql8y2OXXxJZ7kXmAnFDbP1JTwgmI0OR9Bm3FA6hukwgK8Vu0B0ADxW_gAZcvQmx1W-Xb-gJuR9FsuI6r9-Ce-6bzaoSKpUdwY1boUh12h3cVnaJ_mQ6JRG0CA9oAph28/s1600/The+Snow.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474729671471521410" style="WIDTH: 90px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2NrXYf1SORbwFql8y2OXXxJZ7kXmAnFDbP1JTwgmI0OR9Bm3FA6hukwgK8Vu0B0ADxW_gAZcvQmx1W-Xb-gJuR9FsuI6r9-Ce-6bzaoSKpUdwY1boUh12h3cVnaJ_mQ6JRG0CA9oAph28/s200/The+Snow.jpg" border="0" /></a></div><div>-The Arrow</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWUz4A0gLaAAjMpTxAIJp-Av_BXaXipxYXMon243T9qX00w7IpDX73QsQwKOeVU1G2ukOc0ASzDjJWH01rezw-516s3WszUyyfQpq-dCxJeNbUuVQxCJXis22kLEnoHzKoMjBl9h1vrxS2/s1600/The+Arrow.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474728159375224034" style="WIDTH: 90px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWUz4A0gLaAAjMpTxAIJp-Av_BXaXipxYXMon243T9qX00w7IpDX73QsQwKOeVU1G2ukOc0ASzDjJWH01rezw-516s3WszUyyfQpq-dCxJeNbUuVQxCJXis22kLEnoHzKoMjBl9h1vrxS2/s200/The+Arrow.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div>-The Wood</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobxSge5_idkeGipIwTNITNFSZyxi0gIcZkLKRv3A5m_CjPMUv3z6D2W1dJhrPAR2tc62nTZorm7MgNZlPAYIm4yt9QlTbAHx-lAhvtxo_NpT-5VfFo3pXymbkv9rYI5ck7S-PoNpnGv6m/s1600/The+Wood.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474729401299946434" style="WIDTH: 91px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgobxSge5_idkeGipIwTNITNFSZyxi0gIcZkLKRv3A5m_CjPMUv3z6D2W1dJhrPAR2tc62nTZorm7MgNZlPAYIm4yt9QlTbAHx-lAhvtxo_NpT-5VfFo3pXymbkv9rYI5ck7S-PoNpnGv6m/s200/The+Wood.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div>-The Rain</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfrCW6K8RjPvB-W4jaN5TgpfwI0UtxplUQYkWHJSLlt_w0z0-D-KDy0C_8bzozSHV_jVikC9idzLOmn8S-fMILc31AxqOMBfode6a5IMjuTpAnWnTPziQLYlzUglJfyDQw9GO396IA2ag/s1600/The+Rain.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474728643140032866" style="WIDTH: 90px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxfrCW6K8RjPvB-W4jaN5TgpfwI0UtxplUQYkWHJSLlt_w0z0-D-KDy0C_8bzozSHV_jVikC9idzLOmn8S-fMILc31AxqOMBfode6a5IMjuTpAnWnTPziQLYlzUglJfyDQw9GO396IA2ag/s200/The+Rain.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>Video Game Characters</div><div>-Faith (Mirror's Edge)</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbWBMXrdid-nO56VDIcY9T7JWs1k-IskPfrRx0hR8SYY-Ktpqk_WXisPAVw2nJ8huFY46gGhPHw536Eq2vY7W8riamIU9WwmWpeMnqM-jwKbx8WjXEzkL0u8mEOfYvO7nYaMSo-c-U6Of/s1600/faith_of_mirrors_edge.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474727726949416258" style="WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 150px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfbWBMXrdid-nO56VDIcY9T7JWs1k-IskPfrRx0hR8SYY-Ktpqk_WXisPAVw2nJ8huFY46gGhPHw536Eq2vY7W8riamIU9WwmWpeMnqM-jwKbx8WjXEzkL0u8mEOfYvO7nYaMSo-c-U6Of/s200/faith_of_mirrors_edge.jpg" border="0" /></a> </div><div>-Viola (Time Splitters: Future Perfect)</div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3itwUTalCy2Rwq0h_PAUvT6bt7UbCNbyOxHhBJAw7pffss-ph2CWacZYr0_tG1vOBYcDVRP99QYHzh8dvJZgbthDvD2VvYg-M0iccGrHjkVIqEUbMxz8NYM52yWMCnd8WDM_x9uHYLW3h/s1600/80px-Viola_full_Clear.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5474727198829819426" style="WIDTH: 76px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3itwUTalCy2Rwq0h_PAUvT6bt7UbCNbyOxHhBJAw7pffss-ph2CWacZYr0_tG1vOBYcDVRP99QYHzh8dvJZgbthDvD2VvYg-M0iccGrHjkVIqEUbMxz8NYM52yWMCnd8WDM_x9uHYLW3h/s200/80px-Viola_full_Clear.png" border="0" /></a><br /></div><div>I'll put a poll in the side bar, I need input! Thanks guys! </div><div> </div><div>Yours, Allie</div></div></div></div></div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-16777002648764339592010-05-23T22:57:00.002-06:002010-05-23T23:42:17.467-06:00Post-Ota ReportHello all,<br /><div><div><br /><div>So, yesterday I attended Otafest, an annual anime/manga/video game/general Japanese culture convention here in Calgary. This was my first time attending, and I must say I was very impressed.</div><br /><div>First and foremost, the cosplayers were fantastic. I was stunned by the vast array of characters, from Pikachu to Naruto (there were only about 3 of him, as opposed to the number my friends and I were estimating) to a few very special characters I managed to find. Namely: a hunter from the Left4Dead series (which I have recently become addicted to), Cinderella, the crew from South Park and the one and only Dr Horrible. I was so impressed by the costumes that I recruited the better half of my friends to dress up with me next year.<br /></div><div>The vendors had some pretty varried merchandise, from the classic mangas and plushies to fans, corsets, and even zori (Japanese sandals). Being a girl I must recount what I got: a beautiful fan, a hat with panda ears and the anger symbol (like the one on Kyo cat), a stuffed sushi, a stuffed rice ba<a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RS7EYHARL._SL110_.jpg"><img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 83px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 110px" alt="" src="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RS7EYHARL._SL110_.jpg" border="0" /></a>ll and a stuffed Jack Skellington! He is so cute ^^!</div><div> </div><div>There were Taiko drummers that we went to see, and they were fantastic. I'm going to post the videos to Youtube soon. I got to try the drums after, the power was fantastic!</div><div> </div><div>I entered the FanFiction contest!! I wrote a piece on Cardcaptor Sakura, a First Person POV from Touya during this clip: <a href="http://tinyurl.com/35hbq73">http://tinyurl.com/35hbq73</a> I'm really proud of my story, and I'll be posting it to FanFiction.net when I'm finished with this entry.</div><div> </div><div>I can't think of much else to talk about... I can't organize my thoughts! It was a fabulous exprience and I can't wait for next year.</div><div> </div><div>Yours, Allie</div><div> </div><div>P.S. I'm making an effort to write more often, have you noticed ;D</div><div> </div><div>P.P.S. I'm taking suggestions for my cosplay next year, I already have a few ideas, but I'd love to hear from anyone who cares to leave a comment! What's the saying: two heads think better than one? Imagine how well I could think with several heads...</div></div></div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-20392348656795362092010-05-21T21:30:00.002-06:002010-05-21T21:37:14.561-06:00*Insert Bad Title Here*Hey again!<br /><br />I'm posting a second blog in one month, this is kind of awesome. Anyway, a few interesting things happened today.<br /><br />I went out shopping with my mom today and ended up at the Dance Store. I managed to find a beautiful black hip scarf with gold coins and beads and a full set of zills! I'm officially ready for my performance in the talent show (which I made!). I just cut my music down to the required time, I'm still considering using another song completely because it sucks how I've done it. But the costume has come together, it's a tribal fusion costume, as soon as I put it on I'll take a picture and try to post it up here, it's pretty awesome.<br /><br />I also found an old bra, which miraculously is black, which I never wear anymore that I can turn into a wonderful belly dance bra with a little embellishment. I have so many beads hanging around that should be no problem. I just need to find time...<br /><br />I still need to write my fanfiction for tomorrow, I haven't started yet and I was hoping to get a few thousand words into it. Or do several shorts again, because I seem to do that best. Which reminds me, I need to e-mail the host of the contest and ask about how the categories work... I should do that now if I want a reply.<br /><br />I hope life is going well for everyone!<br />Yours, AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-83822157023123292752010-05-17T18:35:00.003-06:002010-05-17T18:56:54.033-06:00HelloAfter a long absence I figured it was time for a new post.<br />I've been working on a lot of writing projects lately, including a small book of short stories that I submitted to a school contest, which I took first place in. I've been working on several fanfiction projects on fanfiction.net ( http://www.fanfiction.net/u/1802223/BlackMasquerade if you want to check out some of my work).<br /><br />I've also hatched a plot and several characters that are forming themselves into a series of screenplays about 60 pages long. Yes, I'm writing a television series. Not that it'll be on television any time soon if ever, but it's turning into television format.<br /><br />As well, this month I came up with a very interesting plot for a thriller/action/drama movie, which I will start writing this summer.<br /><br />I have so many projects saved up! This is going to be a very eventful summer with all the writing I have to do, I have two stories on fanfiction.net that need finishing, the movie I've planned out and the TV series I've plotted. Not to mention my newfound infatuation with the TV show Castle, for which a fanfiction will more than likely come about sooner or later.<br /><br />Other than that, there's a fanfiction contest this weekend at Otafest and I need to write my story for that. It needs to be a single chapter and under 9,999 words long to be able to be handed in on Saturday as opposed to Wednesday (2 days from now).<br /><br />In more past news, I took 1st place at the most recent Provincial Archery tournament, which was a dream come true! I have the plaque on my wall and I finally earned a little bit of respect as an athlete in my club. For the record, I won first by 101 points.<br /><br />Tomorrow I'm trying out for the school's talent show, I'm playing piano for my friend who is singing "The Last Song I'm Wasting On You" by Evanescence. ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YkU8CKt3rU ) As well I'm trying out on my own with a self-choreographed tribal fusion belly dance. I'm very nervous, and I've been practicing nonstop for days. I will try to remember to let you know how that turns out.<br /><br />I took my Chemistry IB diploma last week, and I likely did terribly, though I probably did not fail. I still have my Alberta diploma in the middle of June this year, and all of my IB and Alberta diplomas (English IB, Social IB, Biology IB, Math IB and French IB) next year. It will be a busy year for me, and then I'm finally off to University. I'm excited about this becasue I've finally figured out what I'm doing with myself there.<br /><br />I'm going to get a BA in English specializing in Creative Writing at the University of Calgary, then I'll go to the University of British Columbia for my Masters in Creative Writing specializing in Film. Then... who knows where that will take me.<br /><br />As unrealistic as it sounds, I want to get into the film industry and work my way towards getting the show I've envisioned on the air. I'm very enthusiastic about this concept and this story and I want to see it through to the end.<br /><br />Other than all that not much is going on. I should sign off so I can go and do my homework, and maybe eat. I'm not sure about the last one yet :P who has time to eat? And this sleeping nonsense... it takes up far too much time that can be used writing and doing homework. Oh well, improvements to productivity to come!<br /><br />Take care all!<br />AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-78220858080833287762010-01-07T00:37:00.002-07:002010-01-07T00:42:31.667-07:00Heh... OopsI know, I know it's been absolutely forever since I last posted (it's not like anyone reads this anyway). But I wanted to share some good news <span style="font-weight: bold;">somewhere</span>. I managed to win on eBay today a reprint copy of the episode "Twisted Sister" of NCIS.<br />I truly couldn't be more excited, "Twisted Sister" is one of my favourite episodes of the show, so for that reason I'm happy to have it, and secondly, now I have something to study from, because I wrote a fanfiction for NCIS that I wanted to turn into a spec script that I could plausibly send in. I think, from an article I read on the interweb and a book my mother got me for christmas that I can actually do this.<br />So now that I have study material (well, not yet, but in 4-6 days :D) I can get to writing my script!<br />That's all for now. Back to school tomorrow (on a Thursday. WUT?!?!). Happy New Years and I hope everyone had a great Christmas (or whatever else you happen to celebrate).<br />AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-202693318148213962009-07-25T23:37:00.002-06:002009-07-25T23:55:07.197-06:00Special Picture for Trekky17<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHgFv8ReMp94IYykFeUbcSEUn1OPiGmxnDcBarOFKxNWFlshBY20WJYZh8gbFo0tsTQVwd6Kxx1n-JREGjxCews9n8IQ_8xJeKzBCL6vhjAwrdrsXz-_bq857HFMVrCowLriDT5YvdDf6/s1600-h/chekovandpuppies.png"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362643274952104754" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 213px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWHgFv8ReMp94IYykFeUbcSEUn1OPiGmxnDcBarOFKxNWFlshBY20WJYZh8gbFo0tsTQVwd6Kxx1n-JREGjxCews9n8IQ_8xJeKzBCL6vhjAwrdrsXz-_bq857HFMVrCowLriDT5YvdDf6/s320/chekovandpuppies.png" border="0" /></a><br /><div>I will give this one last shot....</div><br /><div></div><br /><div></div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-79348466437792880952009-07-10T19:55:00.002-06:002009-07-10T20:15:23.611-06:00The Wonderful World of PathologyFor my latest fanfiction for <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek: 2009</span> I created an OC (original character) who is a pathologist. Her name is Doctor Amata Gerald, she is 16 (human) years old.<br /><br />"But Allie, how can a 16 year old <span style="font-style: italic;">possibly </span>be a licensed pathologist?"<br /><br />Well, on the planet this young human was raised on, called <span style="font-style: italic;">Salthasia</span> (I will add, this planet was never incorporated in any work of actual <span style="font-style: italic;">Star Trek</span> fiction. This planet and it's people were completely created by me), the students are expected to have completed their education for their careers by the Salthasian age of 19, which would be equivalent to about 14 in human years.<br /><br />She became a pathologist because she never knew how her parents died.<br /><br />The story behind my endeavour into pathology was actually quite fascinating, and I will admit that I am not yet complete with my gruesome journey.<br /><br />I am only 16 myself, and I am <span style="font-style: italic;">certainly</span> not involved in pathological studies, nor am I particularly interested in pursuing pathology as a career, but I <span style="font-style: italic;">am</span> interested in the procedures and how one conducts a thorough autopsy.<br /><br />So I trekked (no pun intended) down to my local library and picked up a copy of "Dissecting Death: Secrets of a Medical Examiner" by Frederick Zugibe. I actually have yet to finish the first chapter but the amount of information given in the first chapter was more than enough to condone autopsies on the bodies of several Starfleet officers missing several concealed bits and pieces of themselves in my story.<br /><br />I will say that I plan on finishing the book which I simply must recommend for anyone suffering any odd fascination with the subject due to CSI, NCIS, and the like on television. I will compare the vocabulary and the voice of the writer to be very much similar to the speech patterns of Doctor Donald "Ducky" Mallard (on whom I based Doctor Amata Gerald's autopsy style, i.e. talking to dead bodies) of NCIS.<br /><br />That will be all for today, I know I never publish anything, but I doubt that anyone actually reads this blog anyway! If anyone does: thank you for sitting through my insanity, and I promise to give you another tidbit of said mental state in the future (near, mid, or far I cannot promise).<br /><br />Do Svidanya!<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Allie</span>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-60032736619475194772009-05-13T23:34:00.000-06:002009-05-13T23:35:22.415-06:00GoldPiercing gold<br />Slicing through blinding flourescence<br />Mysterious<br />Nothing known 'bout it's essence<br /><br />The gold<br /><br />Knowing depth<br />Within the golden deep abyss<br />Scalding heat<br />Eminating from only this<br /><br />The gold<br /><br />By its touch<br />I lose the breath from my own lips<br />Its soft attack<br />Smiling while it suffocates<br /><br />The gold<br /><br />Smiles through<br />And suffocates the new victim<br />I'm it's prey<br />I am a willing victim to<br /><br />The goldAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-90812060515636860152009-05-10T18:34:00.003-06:002009-05-10T18:38:26.436-06:00Pasha Markovic<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZ3GfsdVckR_wJZ_956_6epHMR38vbaWFz0rxKaWyBHe6pUpBTuNVtELrKUldHVI6AHUpKRznWgmso6SsP_oCrE8Rh6hK3s8917FMmMO5XLoaWI5hw00-QnKDKDhjKYnM6s8xjAaMLKXn/s1600-h/Pasha+Markovic.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334358352072822674" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 202px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaZ3GfsdVckR_wJZ_956_6epHMR38vbaWFz0rxKaWyBHe6pUpBTuNVtELrKUldHVI6AHUpKRznWgmso6SsP_oCrE8Rh6hK3s8917FMmMO5XLoaWI5hw00-QnKDKDhjKYnM6s8xjAaMLKXn/s320/Pasha+Markovic.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Pasha Markovic moved to Canada from Moscow, Russia a year and a half ago. His accent is strong, and woos many a teenage girl at his school.</div><div> </div><div>Pasha has a flair for the ladies, one could easily describe him as a pervert. He has hit on almost every girl at school.</div><div> </div><div>Pasha is not without his good side, however. He is a natural born artist, a troubled poet, and talented writer.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Likes:</strong> Women, wind, rain, and Russian Tea Cookies.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Snow, people who stifle his creativity, and ignorance.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Aspirations:</strong> Own his own art gallery, backpack across the world.</div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-84391462017953709512009-05-10T18:29:00.004-06:002009-05-10T18:34:04.220-06:00Kameyo Fujimoto<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsShyxrEKuwWWTiAW0hzzkzmwCm13JYJZBrUivDWCjKuYM33GgRJ9LL_yxUNZCOaEJXYJKTfTD3MsfLB_p7fOwWLU1XsOCLE551PsgQiEYqBtNloy8qRg7Gx-Mgx_AHu6oO2yUq-CeRJI8/s1600-h/Kameyo+Fujimoto.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334357204401381698" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 230px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsShyxrEKuwWWTiAW0hzzkzmwCm13JYJZBrUivDWCjKuYM33GgRJ9LL_yxUNZCOaEJXYJKTfTD3MsfLB_p7fOwWLU1XsOCLE551PsgQiEYqBtNloy8qRg7Gx-Mgx_AHu6oO2yUq-CeRJI8/s320/Kameyo+Fujimoto.jpg" border="0" /></a><br />Kameyo Fujimoto, also known as Kame, moved to Canada when she was five from Tokyo, Japan.<br /><br />She is a punk/goth dresser, she enjoys black clothing with bright bursts of colour, usually pink.<br /><br />Kame is a loud person, she wants everyone to know she is in the room. She loves all kinds of people, and has made it her lifes mission to hug every person in the world.<br /><br /><strong>Likes: </strong>Hugs, people, black, shiney and colourful things, and being able to run.<br /><br /><strong>Dislikes: </strong>Silence, people who hate hugs, mean people.<br /><br /><strong>Aspirations:</strong> To hug every person in the world, to become the owner of an Indi fashion boutique.Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-56970614019681017822009-05-10T18:16:00.002-06:002009-05-10T18:29:04.538-06:00Zuri Vermulakonda<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpKulufBy6TGEgXH5NYVQ8Mp_fINTTLTTJG7CrFmxoxwkEtcMNC2tz4Vy35YlCcya_LiGtnCPbqmQA8kKvxjJdzjyAHDfTSr3DAh6_LHbtB-Hr96NGVwXWC3QC8mzuE0Tkuqc0RAQjJkb/s1600-h/Zuri+Vermulakonda.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334353910747644882" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 182px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUpKulufBy6TGEgXH5NYVQ8Mp_fINTTLTTJG7CrFmxoxwkEtcMNC2tz4Vy35YlCcya_LiGtnCPbqmQA8kKvxjJdzjyAHDfTSr3DAh6_LHbtB-Hr96NGVwXWC3QC8mzuE0Tkuqc0RAQjJkb/s320/Zuri+Vermulakonda.jpg" border="0" /></a> Zuri Vermulakonda was born in South Africa. She and her mother moved to Canada five years ago when the aparthied became to much to bear. Her father remained in South Africa.<br /><div></div><br /><div>Zuri is the most socially integrated of her friends, she is a cheerleader, and knows all the best gossip. She refuses to hang out with the popular girls, and chooses to be with her group of misfitting friends.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div>Zuri's mother is a nurse at Vancouver General Hospital, where she takes care of Timothy Lewis, Avalon's father. Avalon and Mrs Vermulakonda knew each other long before Avalon started at Zuri's school.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Likes: </strong>Dancing, music, swimming.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Silence, lack of conflict, being asked for help.</div><br /><div></div><br /><div><strong>Aspirations:</strong> Become a professional dancer or cheerleader.</div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-75659166949092083812009-05-10T18:11:00.003-06:002009-05-10T18:16:44.269-06:00Dylan Evans<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfaOT0DwbSKagBYZ8YWbB7DwuTGfTIqilPp8UPIz37pv5Dj0nuAeLDx-YoGDVdcvsB6W1L-_Me1Ff-MVw8lm_faAgr0az9vSlh26Mgns_QWZeCyvi_6pgVikSKyPvb8ztSiUYdybvLOnDB/s1600-h/Dylan+Evans.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334352389223205218" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 274px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfaOT0DwbSKagBYZ8YWbB7DwuTGfTIqilPp8UPIz37pv5Dj0nuAeLDx-YoGDVdcvsB6W1L-_Me1Ff-MVw8lm_faAgr0az9vSlh26Mgns_QWZeCyvi_6pgVikSKyPvb8ztSiUYdybvLOnDB/s320/Dylan+Evans.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div>Dylan Evans is Aeronwyn Evans' twin brother.</div><div> </div><div>Unlike his sister, he is not obsessed with the fantastical. He is obsessed with fire.</div><div> </div><div>A pyromaniac at heart, he knows everything there is to know about flammable substances and explosives.</div><div> </div><div>He is a world class prankster, his jokes often involving a low-grade explosive or a well controlled fire. He keeps his jokes so small scale because he DOES understand that if he gets caught he will have to pay for the damages. The less damage caused, the less he potentially has to pay. He has never been caught.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Likes:</strong> Fire, explosives, fireworks, and rock music.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Dislikes: </strong>Sitting still, sleeping, and baggy clothes.</div><div> </div><div><strong>Aspirations:</strong> To become a stunt co-ordinator.</div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-82152790741881637272009-05-10T18:05:00.002-06:002009-05-10T18:10:55.958-06:00Aeronwyn Evans<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYvC0XxHl5BMwuLpURuS4lta79yDOKWBXgD4rN1zBf3lTgoAsQ3I7dY2vgqgAoTVnzM7RP_uAWn3mqQMwb98Z4BRSIPM8wpu77RfyOL1FR4h-zHIN20PNtprMwKSpC_UOZZEz2gS2oU3L/s1600-h/Aeronwyn+Evans.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334351107542249522" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 240px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglYvC0XxHl5BMwuLpURuS4lta79yDOKWBXgD4rN1zBf3lTgoAsQ3I7dY2vgqgAoTVnzM7RP_uAWn3mqQMwb98Z4BRSIPM8wpu77RfyOL1FR4h-zHIN20PNtprMwKSpC_UOZZEz2gS2oU3L/s320/Aeronwyn+Evans.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>Aeronwyn Evans and her brother Dylan have lived in Vancouver all their lives. Their parents immigrated from Ireland twenty years ago. </p><p>Aeronwyn has a flair for the fantastical; anything elven, vampiric, or magical is her speciality.</p><p>She rarely speaks, except on occasion to make an allusion to a fantastical or mythological phenominon.</p><p><strong>Likes:</strong> Mythology, Lord of the Rings, witchcraft, tarot, and simple things in nature.</p><p><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Reality, normality, and vanilla.</p><p><strong>Aspirations:</strong> To be a fantasy writer.</p>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-60415401620622881742009-05-10T17:58:00.004-06:002009-05-10T18:05:45.104-06:00Rafiq Nejem<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfZ5iDU8J2attD2AjeVGveWwwey8x40bhZ17AL4hOBSIwWZ-Xhtl65rb164uAUt9eurAWn5j1UE4U6kyg_ESzq5QVjgAQv4zpI8MQjT-T2MEgdgXff0Mwlj3gVDmfGme2oPzoGp3_Nczz/s1600-h/Rafiq+Nejem.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334349077816169074" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYfZ5iDU8J2attD2AjeVGveWwwey8x40bhZ17AL4hOBSIwWZ-Xhtl65rb164uAUt9eurAWn5j1UE4U6kyg_ESzq5QVjgAQv4zpI8MQjT-T2MEgdgXff0Mwlj3gVDmfGme2oPzoGp3_Nczz/s320/Rafiq+Nejem.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>Rafiq Nejem, also known as Rafe, was born in Iraq months before his family fled to Canada. He is a Muslim man, and he is constantly persecuted for it at school.</p><p>Rafiq is sympathetic to everybody, because he knows what it is like to be hated. He is always there to listen to everyones problems and he always gives advice to people to help them solve their problems.</p><p><strong>Likes:</strong> The ocean, football, rainy days, and visits to farmers markets where he can find fresh fruit.</p><p><strong>Dislikes:</strong> Ethnocentrism, hatred, inequality, dancing.</p><p><strong>Aspirations: </strong>Become a counselor.</p>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-3941272443396073632009-05-10T17:49:00.003-06:002009-05-10T17:58:00.061-06:00Avalon Lewis<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKw-PpffL-oIpowyQs8KlcWvFt-Vg5c2td8whBBty9P2rZ94t84SEjuXPSNW2zahVgFsWFd08DIuO6uMV7xgwFizd4l18np4jxSqCZ1eiyw7i9LYZkE7U7NsuIw5rWHfcJXrrf1qsJwJo/s1600-h/Avalon+Lewis.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334346926122691378" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 320px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 265px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQKw-PpffL-oIpowyQs8KlcWvFt-Vg5c2td8whBBty9P2rZ94t84SEjuXPSNW2zahVgFsWFd08DIuO6uMV7xgwFizd4l18np4jxSqCZ1eiyw7i9LYZkE7U7NsuIw5rWHfcJXrrf1qsJwJo/s320/Avalon+Lewis.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div></div><br /><p>Avalon Lewis, aslso known as Ava, is the main character of my story. Her father was shot before the story began and is now in a coma at Vancouver General Hospital.</p><p>Ava spends most of her time brooding over her fathers case, still being investigated and only turning up dry leads. Ava dreams of one day being able to catch her fathers shooter and exact her revenge.</p><p>Ava was born in London, England, where her parents met. Her mother died shortly after Ava was born, leaving Ava's father, Timothy, alone to care for the girl.</p><p>Ava lives alone now at the age of 16, under the Independent living program (a program in Canada where older minors can live alone instead of going to a foster home) with a Tabby cat named Ziggy.</p><p><strong>Likes:</strong> Sweet potatoes, murder mystery novels, yoga in Stanley Park every morning at 5 a.m. before going to visit her father.</p><p><strong>Dislikes: </strong>Talking in excess (except to her father), being the centre of attention, fast sports.</p><p><strong>Aspirations: </strong>Catch her fathers shooter, become a travel writer.</p>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-26838788626895048032009-05-10T17:47:00.002-06:002009-05-10T17:49:37.082-06:00CharactersAlright, so I will admit that I got frightfully lazy and chose to find pictures online that looked like my characters instead of drawing them. I want to warn the readers that I do not know who any of these characters are, save Souske Sagara of Full Metal Panic, so I don't want to have any mix-ups with any of them. These are not the actual characters, they are look-alikes!Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-81791516125972104552009-05-10T14:34:00.003-06:002009-05-10T14:46:28.054-06:00Projects GalloreWell, I've decided after a <span class="blsp-spelling-corrected" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0">schizophrenic</span> writing spree that I am going to begin work on writing a mini series. By mini series I mean a series of of screen plays that will end up being a show. I may or may not try and use it to create a show on YouTube, but it will get written.<br /><br />I will be posting updates on this project to see how far it gets. The pilot episode is being gestated (thought through before execution) and will be written soon, as soon as my characters have been developed.<br /><br />My character profiles will be posted here quite soon, I will be sketching the people and posting the pictures of them here as well, so whoever actually reads this will be able to see how the process goes.<br /><br />Just so everyone out there knows, I have never done any production work before, so this is a purely new experience for me. I will be writing the first season before any possible production happens.<br /><br />Train of thought change: If I can't find anyone to actually act these out I will try and do a radio show/podcast thing with it... that would work easily! I need to figure out how to pay actors for this though... meh, all my friends are probably willing to work for food :D so that shouldn't be a problem.<br /><br />So, aside from that I wanted to write about a new Application I added on Facebook this week. It's called Save the Planet. Basically what happens is you go on and play games to earn virtual money. You then take the money and spend it on various causes: Ending world hunger/thirst, helping homeless people, ending child abuse, saving the rainforest... all kinds of nice things! Then, annually, the creators of the app will do math to convert the virtual money into a real amount of money and write a cheque to each cause with real money to help. It's a great project, and I think that it really makes up for the materialism of the Western world and gives us a chance to help people less fortunate!<br /><br />So, that is all for right now. I'm working on those characters so sit tight and I will have them up soon. Then I will see what I can do about production of this thing. I will do <em>something</em>. I promise!<br /><br />Da Svidaniya,<br />AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-17936064220824606892009-05-07T22:23:00.002-06:002009-05-07T22:26:14.744-06:00Keeping UpI seem to be the only person from my group of friends that has kept up with blogging. Not that I do much of it, it's just nice sometimes to put something up.<br /><br />I have nothing to say tonight really, I have no inspiration tonight. I've been quite sad today really, and I really wish I could be less sad.<br /><br />I know why I'm sad, but I won't tell anyone, for some reason. Oh well.<br /><br />Yours, Allie.Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-78712566112344999962009-03-22T19:35:00.003-06:002009-04-09T17:07:05.075-06:00New Background!<div>Well, I finally got a perfect background AND I made it myself! I found the website pimp-my-profile.com and I love it! I finally got a background completely dedicated to Timothy McGee from NCIS. The background in the picture was actually created by the user bmwf on seanmurray.freeforums.org. I was trying to make the background and the picture just fit!</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div>The Alberta Indoor Archery Provincials were on this weekend. Needless to say; I failed miserably. I have been going downhill exponentially over the last few months. I scored my highest score with my new bow, a 154, then rapidly sank to only being able to score a 25. But, I managed to pull up my socks high enought o score a 150 for the double round (consisting of 60 arrows) It was sad, but it got me 4th out of 6. My friend, Rachel, who finished 5th in our category lost to me by 2 points, after we thought she beat me by 2 points. An addition error occured that caused her to loose four points. She did beat me in the extra eliminator round though. She did fantastically for her first tournament and I couldn't be prouder of her!</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div>Despite my loss, this week has been good. No drama between my friends, no deaths, no injuries... just 2 feet of snow. And that should melt mostly by tomorrow, so I'm not too worried. Then again, looking out the window I notice that the precipitation has restarted. I can only hope that it melts, I hate winter with a passion. I would much prefer summer! No hoodies, nice shoes, and warm sun! Plus, a little spare time to try and overcome my writers' block.</div><br /><div> </div><br /><div>Speaking of which, I have been completing some fanfictions lately. All based on NCIS, unfortunately and only one is really worth mentioning, in my opinion. I guess I should put a link for it: <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4821367/1/">MAGIC LINK!!</a><br /><br />Other than that nothing new to report.<br /><br />Do svidaniya,<br />Allie<br /></div>Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-71734982908632785292009-03-06T15:15:00.003-07:002009-03-06T15:45:33.891-07:00Miley Cyrus' AutobiographyHello all,<br /><br />Allow me to warn you in advance: this post will not be pleasant.<br /><br />It has been brought to my attention that Miley Cyrus has (or is) writing an autobiography. May I be the first to say <span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">WTF</span>?!?!?!?! The is 16 years old, stars as a 13 year old on a television show for 8 year olds... what does she have to write about? <span style="font-style: italic;">"Oh... today on the set I dropped my hairbrush. It was mortifying!"</span><br /><br />I have read interviews and seen her on tv, this girl was obviously thrust into the spotlight far too early in life. An interviewer from <span style="font-style: italic;">Seventeen</span> magazine did an interview with Cyrus and said: <span style="font-style: italic;">"You're very mature for your age!" </span>To <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2008/0804/miley_cyrus_vf_0430.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 295px; height: 340px;" src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2008/0804/miley_cyrus_vf_0430.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a>which Miss Cyrus responds: <span style="font-style: italic;">"I know."</span> Did your parents ever teach you to be humble?! You say <span style="font-style: italic;">"Thank you!"</span> when someone compliments you.<br /><br />On top of her lack of modesty have you seen that photo running around? Yeah, I mean the one right next to this. Was she even 16 when this was taken? This is wrong. Have some class! Put a shirt on! It's not that hard.<br /><br />Then, while I was looking for this photo I found another one, featured below. I realise that the self-respect rate of teenage girls has gone down but this is revolting. She is in the limelight, so she should at least act like it. She is doing nothing but embarrasing herself in my opinion.<br /><br />I am not famous. I'm not even particularly religious! But I can say with complete confidence that I don't go parading my bare body through the proverbial town square! Where's your self-respect? You're mentoring 8 year olds, is this how we <a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/miley-cyrus-on-myspace_366x436.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 366px; height: 436px;" src="http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com/images/gallery/miley-cyrus-on-myspace_366x436.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a> want them to grow up??<br /><br />Back to this autobiography, I was going to gripe about. I read a few exerpts from the wonderful Interweb and I am horrified. I know what she spent all this time writing about! Her failed love with Nick Jonas. Needless to say, I find the Jonas Brothers justa s insuffereable as Miss Cyrus herself.<br /><br />An exerpt for you:<br /><span style="font-style: italic;">In the beginning, we'd play basketball in my backyard, or play Nintendo at his place. His family always made yummy Italian food for dinner. I love to ride my bike, and </span><strong style="font-style: italic;">he would walk along next to me as I</strong><strong style="font-style: italic;"> rode, singing "My Girl." But instead of "My Girl,</strong><strong style="font-style: italic;">" he'd sing "Miley, talkin' bout Miley."</strong><span style="font-style: italic;"> Wow! I was so in love. Do you know what i'm talking about? The kind of love where the sun could shine or not shine all day long and you wouldn't care. The kind of love that makes you want to jump in the pool in December. The kind of love that makes you want to dance in the rain. (Who am I kidding? This is L.A. It never rains!) </span><strong style="font-style: italic;">This was the most magical journey of my life and it was a total rush.</strong><br /><br />Now, regardless of the fact that she used the terms <span style="font-style: italic;">"</span><span style="font-style: italic;">Do you know what I'm talking about?" </span>and <span style="font-style: italic;">"Who am I kidding?" </span>this was terrible. You are 16 and your talking about <span style="font-style: italic;">the kind of love that makes you want to jump into a pool in December.</span> Some may say I am bitter because I've never had a boyfriend. That might be true, but if I had the conundrum of having to spend the rest of my life with one of the Jonas Brothers I'd hang myself from the nearest rafter! But in her case this "love" cannot be true. Are they still together? No. It couldn't have been <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> great for both of them if they're split now.<br /><br />I will stop now before I get into how bad of a singer she is. She's obviously trying that old sex appeal trick in her videos... No. I promised I would stop. Enough starlet bashing for today. She is young, and should not be publishing a <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-style: italic;">memoir</span></span>. My god... wait until you have something besides a fluffy teenage romance to write about.<br /><br />Good day, all. Hope any of you who managed to read this all the way through are not mortified at how much hatred someone of my shyness level can hold.<br /><br />Yours,<br />Allie<br /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alex/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /><img src="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/Alex/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot-1.jpg" alt="" />Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-70274871446237450052009-01-23T10:58:00.003-07:002009-01-23T11:09:06.985-07:00Finally I'm Getting my Groove On...Hey there,<br /><br />I finally got my groove back and wrote something. Yes, it is a fanfiction but it's not half bad!<br /><br /><br />The story is based on the TV show NCIS. The story centres around Timothy McGee, a Probie Agent, who thinks he finds love in an online computer game. Little does he know that the girl he is falling for is only fifteen years old, AND has semi-clairvoyant powers which lead her to become a new youth agent at NCIS, working as an instant human BOLO database. A Navy Lieutenant has been murdered and his son is a prime suspect. When the son proves to be an accomplice in a planned mass-murder at the high school where our young agent, Kitty McKinnon, went only a few days prior to her being hired by NCIS, the team gets involved and McGee's life is put in the balance. The story is <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4792639/1/">here.</a><br /><br />I have already written a published sequel as well. In this story, Kitty McKinnon's parents are murdered in a meticulous early-morning killing spree. There is no useful evidence at the scene, and before long the bodies of more of Kitty's loved ones begin to pile up. McGee is taken hostage by the killer and Kitty must risk her life to save him. Will she end up dying in his place? This story is <a href="http://www.fanfiction.net/s/4804193/1/">here.</a><br /><br />These stories are some of my best work and I'm working on a brand new story at the moment that may outshine even these! Please give them a read if you are so inclined and drop me a review (the link for reviews is at the bottom of the story page).<br /><br />Other than those, my writing is going slowly. I'm doing a lot of free writing, developing scenes and characters in one page descriptions. I don't have them with me at the moment, but I will post one of them as soon as I can.<br /><br />See you around!<br />AlL!3Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-74198112527949689092008-12-30T13:12:00.002-07:002008-12-30T13:30:41.196-07:00101 Books to Read Before You DieSo, yesterday I was looking for a list of book to read before I die. I was specifically looking for a 41 book list that my English teacher had brought into class that she was working through, but I found this longer 101 book list instead. I found this on another blog I found on Google called Carlo's. This list is apparently from South Africa, so a few titles are written in Afrikaans so omit (or try) the ones by Dalene Matthee. I'll let you know if I can find those in an English translation. I'll also let you know if any of the others are in Afrikaans that were not mentioned on the other blog.<br /><br />1. The Lord of the Rings Trilogy - J.R.R. Tolkien<br />2. The Kite-Runner - Khaled Hosseini<br />3. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen<br />4. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee<br />5. Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling<br />6. The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver<br />7. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho<br />8. LIfe of Pi - Yann Martel<br />9. The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown<br />10. The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy<br />11. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden<br />12. Spud - John van de Ruit<br />13. The Power of One - Bryce Courtenay<br />14. The Hobbit - J.R.R. Tolkien<br />15. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis de Bernieres<br />16. Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts<br />17. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte<br />18. The Catcer in the Rye - J.D. Salinger<br />19. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte<br />20. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams<br />21. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />22. Disgrace - J.M. Coetzee<br />23. My Sister's Keeper - Jodi Picoult<br />24. The Time Traveler's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger<br />25. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks<br />26. Catch-22 - Joseph Heller<br />27. The Pillars of the EArth - Ken Follett<br />28. Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchel<br />29. Cry, the Beloved Country - Alan Paton<br />30. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />31. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry<br />32. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time - Mark Haddon<br />33. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens<br />34. Atonement - Ian McEwan<br />35. Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand<br />36. The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck<br />37. The English Patient - Michael Ondaatje<br />38. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy<br />39. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie<br />40. Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br />41. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon<br />42. I Know This Much is True - Wally Lamb<br />43. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth<br />44. Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell<br />45. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy<br />46. The Clan of the Cave Bear - Jean M. Auel<br />47. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera<br />48. The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupery<br />49. The Secret History - Donna Tartt<br />50. Possession - A.S. Byatt<br />51. Perfume - Patrick Suskind<br />52. The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende<br />53. Chocolat - Joanne Harris<br />54. The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency - Alexander McCall Smith<br />55. Q & A - Vikas Swarup<br />56. Dune - Frank Herbert<br />57. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame<br />58. Fugitive Pieces - Anne Michaels<br />59. River God - Wilbur Smith60. Little Women - Louisa May Alcott<br />61. Lord of the Flies - William Golding<br />62. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe - C.S. Lewis<br />63. Mort - Terry Pratchett<br />64. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br />65. The Blind Assassin - Margaret Atwood<br />66. East of Eden - John Steinbeck<br />67. The Name of Rose - Umberto Eco<br />68. The Other Boleyn Girl - Philippa Gregory<br />69. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne<br />70. The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy<br />71. Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier<br />72. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding<br />73. The Shipping News - E. Annie Proulx<br />74. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll<br />75. Animal Farm - George Orwell<br />76. The Red Tent - Anita Diamant<br />77. Watership Down - Richard Adams<br />78. Magician - Raymond E. Feist79. Middlemarch - George Eliot<br />80. The Day of the Jackal - Frederick Forsyth<br />81. We Need to Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver<br />82. The Magus - John Fowles<br />83. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro<br />84. Agaat - Marlene van Niekerk<br />85. The Cout of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas<br />86. The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher<br />87. The Color Purple - Alice Walker<br />88. The Beach House - James Patterson<br />89. Doctor Zhivago - Boris Pasternak<br />90. Kringe in 'n Bos - Dalene Matthee<br />91. The World According to Garp - John Irving<br />92. Northern Lights - Phillip Pullman<br />93. Middlesex - Jeffrey Eugenides<br />94. Shades - Marguerite Poland<br />95. Kane and Abel - Jeffrey Archer<br />96. Fiela se kind - Dalene Matthee<br />97. Story of an African Farm - Olive Schreiner<br />98. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl<br />99. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton<br />100. Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe<br />101. Winnie the Pool - A.A. Milne<br /><br />Carlo's Blog mentioned that this list was from Exclusive Books. I have no idea what that is, but that's where this was originally found.<br />I have already read the Harry Potter Series, The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and I must say all three (or technically 9) books deserve to be on this list.<br />The Harry Potter Books are beautifully written and exceptionally well imagined.<br />The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe was a remarkably imaginitive piece, and it was very symbolic (as my mother never fails to remind me after we have finished watching the movie) of the story of Christ's sacrifce. I prefer to look at this book as an entertaining tale, not a recreation of my bible, but others may see it as my mother does.<br />Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was terribly humerous, and truelly painted a picture in ones mind of the scenes that were described and later carried out in movie form.<br />I am starting to plow through this list with Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, and I must say I was up until 1:30 this morning reading this book, it is enthralling and very picturesque.<br />I prompt you to read through this list as well and let me know of progress and you're thoughts on the books. Bon chance!Alexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-222015560221529247.post-71482963138832716032008-10-11T14:03:00.002-06:002008-10-11T14:13:34.935-06:00The Wonderful World of High SchoolWell, I finally started high school in September. The classes are great, the teachers are great (with one exception...) and the homework is not as bad as everyone says it is. I will, however, probably be saying different things next term when I start Pure Math Honours.<br />The mixture of homework and exahustion (I believe I may be coming down with a cold) has left me no time to write. I have been trying to squeeze in the time to do a little creative writing here and there, I joined teh creative writing club at school so I can get a whole lunch hour in each week, and I am staying up far to late for my liking just so I can get a few messily hand written pages done in the hopes of finding THE muse.<br />Seeing as it's Thanksgiving weekend I will be thankful for something. I am thankful for the long weekend so I can catch up on some much needed sleep, I am thankful for my mom because she's my best friend and a wondeful cook, I'm thankful for my brother because he is finally being nice to me (he probably hit his maturing stage by now. Yes, he is younger than me) and I'm thankful for all my friends for keeping me sane. I'm sure they all would say the same thing to me.<br />I found neat new background. Anyone who has been watching my blog earlier will note that is probably the first white one I have ever had. Yes, it is. I'm trying to lighten my blog and my writing experience. Positive thinking should keep my hectic life in more order.<br />This is all for now, I'm thinking of posting some paragraphs I've written or some poetry. I want to actually prove that I can write things besides rambling blog entries on my frustration.<br />More soon.<br />AllieAlexandra Muellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10360206719744962410noreply@blogger.com0