This just in: Dad just got an email from the Nova Scotia nominee program confirming that our application for Canadian citizenship has been approved! YES!

I am now a permanent Canadian resident!

I guess that for every downside, there really is an upside. The downside today was HEX not working. And as I'm writing this, it still isn't. It sucks. I practically live on HEX nowadays, so the fact that it's not working makes me feel like a marijuana user on withdrawal. To all you facebook junkies out there: just imagine if Facebook had shut down for a few hours and you couldn't get on it. Just imagine it, if you aren't too afraid to.

It would throw the whole universe (because, let's face it, the whole universe is logging on facebook) into chaos, I tell you. Absolute CHAOS.

(And for the record, if facebook had shut down, I still wouldn't be going on myspace. Myspace sucks)

In other news, Imma gonna take down all my stories from fanfiction.net, because I don't have the drive to update them or  continue writing them anymore. Sorry folks! :-( Even their re-written drafts are going nowhere. I must make a fresh start. must, Must, MUST.

oh oh, and another thing. This drawing on Deviant art made me lol like crazy. Before you click on the link, consider this question: why did Molly and Arthur Weasley stop having more kids after Ginny?

This drawing by koenta will answer this for ya. Yep yep it will.

My laptop is being majorly suplada. I mean, what is the point of having a superfast wireless laptop (which runs on Windows Vista, no less) when you can only do squat on it? Supposedly it's so advanced that it blatantly REFUSES to play whatever music cd or dvd I stick in, it DOESN'T let me install a Vista-compatible version of Photoshop, it will NOT let me scan photos in, and half the time, it takes forEVER to connect to the internet because it can't identify the networks. 

Put my new, sleek and shiny laptop right next to my brother's pretty battered old one. Bro's laptop's pretty slow and runs on an older version of Windows, but it HAS Adobe Photoshop, it LETS you play dvds and music cds from 2005, it CAN scan in pictures (as well as do a million of other useful things) and it never, ever fails to connect to the internet. 

Frustrating and nerve-wrackingly annoying? Heck yeah. I guess this is what a guy must feel like when he's dating a girl who is really pretty and is everything he could ever dream of, but who is too uptight about her clothes that she won't go out and do something fun, like go paintballing or having water-balloon fights or mosh at a rock concert.

Sometimes though, the guy must feel pretty lucky having a gorgeous girlfriend. And I guess I am too. I can't sound too ungrateful; my parents gave me this laptop for a grad present after all. And it's a really good present. It just can be a bit of a drama queen sometimes.

In happier news, Pita has informed me that my Browniebear has grown out his hair over the summer. Meow. So I guess he really does deserve to wear his "Hello, my name is Sexy" shirt now. 

Monday, July 30th Bangkok Time

7:39 pm: Ev and I have a mini discussion about Snape on MSN messenger

7:40 pm: entered the livechat home page, I didn't log in yet

7:49 pm: In my excitement, completely forgot I had to log in properly for this to work, dangit.

7:50 pm: logged in

7:58 pm: Event manager says: JK Rowling is about to arrive

8:00 pm: J.K. Rowling: "I'm here and I can't wait! Bring on the questions!"

Of course, I nearly died when she typed that.

I asked if Lily ever reciprocated Snape's feelings, and also asked if the trio returned to hogwarts to finish off their seventh year. I also asked about Parseltongue: Why was Ron able to open the Chamber of Secrets? (I always had the impression that being a parseltongue was a gift, rather than something that could be learned.)

I didn't get to chat with her, per se. There was a little box below the chat window where you could submit your questions for consideration and that was it. Still, it was pretty amazing, to think that she was sitting somewhere in England, typing those very words at that very moment... It was like being in the presence of Dumbledore.

Of course, I copied the chat as it was going. The Leaky Cauldron website's already got a full transcript, but I'm saving my own copied one on my computer. It feels much more special that way. As if it wasn't special enough!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was made of AWESOME.