Diverse Ramblings

Signatory

Last night I booked one of the places where Michael and I will be staying on our honeymoon.

When they asked me under what name, I was about to use mine, and then, with a grin, I gave my soon-to-be married name *grin*.

I've never been very keen on it, I mean, for a start it's almost twice as long as my current surname, no wonder Michael just uses a scrawl as a signature, heh. But it's starting to grow on me, I must admit.

I've had the same signature since I got my first passport when I was 11, so I suppose I'll have to make up a new one.

How does one design a signature?

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Now playing: Jesus Christ Superstar - Everything`s Alright
via FoxyTunes

Hum-along-able

Isn't it nice when someone who knows you well says to you, oooh, come listen to this song, and they turn up the volume, and you realise it's the song you heard on the radio the day before and loved and were disappointed that you only caught the tail end of it and couldn't work out what song it was so you could get it.

I'm going to miss my sisters!

P.S. it's even funnier when you realise that you actually downloaded the song a week ago but just hadn't got around to putting it in your playlist...

P.P.S. The song was Michael Bublé's Everything, I just love the chord progression!

Slightly Less Than Six Weeks

In slightly less than six weeks' time, Michael and I will tie the knot.

Eek!

Sometimes I think to myself "Wheee!" and sometimes I think "Aaaaggrrrrh!", but overall I'm very much looking forward to it. It's going to be quite an adventure, what with The Big Day, followed by Romantic Honeymoon, followed by Learning To Live With Each Other (Without Committing Murder).

Heheh.

Squiggle

More twists than Crookshank's tail

I have spent the last two weeks working my way through the Harry Potter series, culminating with the brand-new Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. (you can tell I'm busy, two weeks, oh the shame).

I very much enjoyed reading the seventh book - a real page-turner, and well-written as always.

I've had several friends describe that they found the book very emotional but I didn't see why... until I got to the last couple of chapters where, I freely admit, I cried at least three times.

I've also heard people criticise the final chapter of the final book - the sickly-sweetness of the "look how things turned out nineteen years later when everyone grew up". I think that it was a good move to do it this way though, given the nature of the books - it provided what the Americans like to call "closure" - you finish reading with a feeling of happy-ever-after and you know with finality that the series is over. All the questions are answered, everything is resolved, there are no loose ends. And (and this is the important bit) it definitely puts paid to any possibility of there being an eighth book. Otherwise Ms. Rowlings would have to spend the rest of her life dealing with people sidling up to her and sheepishly asking if there was, you know, any possibility... *grin*.

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Now playing: Michael Bublé - You And I

Rumour mongers

Received by email:

Thought I would inform you all that we just heard that last Friday a girl was nearly abducted from PAVI by a russian lady...

Her mother let go of her for a while and she was gone.. Luckily when the mother ran to ask security they locked all the doors and searched the place.. they found the girl in the bathroom with a Russian lady, who had already shaved off all her hair and was dressing her in boys clothes.. ready to take her..

Pls be careful coz this means there is probably a gang of ppl doing this!

So I did what I always do in such situations, and went to snopes.com, where, sure enough, I found the following:

Wanted to share something that happened today while shopping at Sam's club. A mother was leaning over looking for meat and turned around to find her 4 yr. old daughter was missing ...[snip]... They found the little girl 5 min later crunched in a bathroom stall, her head was half shaved, and she was dressed in her underwear with a bag of clothes, a razor, and wig sitting on the floor besides her. Whoever this person was, took the little girl, brought her into the bathroom, shaved half her head, undressed her in a matter of less than 10 min. Makes me shake to no end.

Read more about this urban legend here.

In the meantime, DO keep a very close eye on your children, DO make sure that you know where they are every second that you're out with them, and DON'T spread nasty rumours that cause a man to be interviewed by the police.

This is at least the third time in three months that I have come across an old urban legend dressed up in Maltese clothes, and these things really spread fast around here. (see also ether-wielding would-be car-jackers)