more ;

Went out to good old Tuesday Sushi like them old days :) gosh I missed them hehe. Esp the ever so rare creature Jazzie and the Green tea ice cream and the ever impressionable hongstar. Fill up on friendship before the chaos happens for them. So even though we wanted to hang more, there was work to be done (on their part)

Good luck for all those suffering through swotvac :(

Far out anime and manga always makes me cry. Ao no exorcist is funny and soo sad too :( people say that the main character resembles the main character in Fairy Tail. I hate the younger brother T_T

So between the shooting of this vid and the this posting now, I've finished another book called "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

- Lyhnn

building ;

Today is the second last day of my cert and tomorrow I'll have assessment to hand in, an oral presentation and to finish that all up we have a class party lol

Gosh there's a guy in the other program with a cute smile lol

Today is more on the bookish nerd side of stuff. I just record these to keep myself updated when I look back. So today's might be a bit boring. I didn't have much to say today also I was procrastinating my assignment by recording this LOL

- Lyhnn  

edits ;

Hello :)

New blog layout because I'm unpredictable ;)

Today was the most enjoyable cert day so far. this chick just very good at talking lol with her random talking of beloved chicken and ridiculous shit lol she's been here before but I hadn't really warmed up to anyone at that time so today was fun because I was chill.

took an hr to edit. pro.

jks it's shitty level :L

- Lyhnn

thriller ;

Hello so I delivered despite being tired as shit and by the end looking like I was high.


**SPOILERS** You missing out if you haven't watched those. watch the vid and you'll know what i'm talking about ;) but yeahh its good to go into them without knowing anything aka no **SPOILERS**



watch momento, it's good then if you like it go watch fight club *drools*


- Lyhnn

nauseous ;

LOL bloopers from last time I vlogged



Been super tired these days, waking up at 7 for the cert while going to sleep late. lol my fault really =/ but holy shit this morning I woke up and I was nauseous, dizzy and groggy. I felt like I wanted to vomit. I was scared because when I'm sick I never get that I-need-to-vomit feeling so what the hell was happening I was thinking is this because I've been getting few hours sleep a day?? why? how? what's happening??

but god today was horrible, dizzy and light-headed most of the day.

So this was condensed from an hour yesterday:


need to finish this book.


- Lyhnn

clockwork ;

All these vids are unlisted lol
Anyway super tired today but wanted to vlog because I haven't been blogging and I finished my book


one take is hard to get

as always sorry for that nasally voice :(


- Lyhnn

chrysalids ;

             

I was watching a LanaMckissick video when OMFG look at the first comment LOOK at it!!! Goddamn was it so hard to remember the author ? A very very famous one at that :L One job MrTizzman1! You had one job :L


Hi

It's been two days since I finished necromancer and since I was thoroughly disappointed and unsatisfied I really wanted, needed something I knew was a really good book so I read chrysalids by John Wyndham. Like I said I already read this in year nine and I really liked it. It's only 200pgs also.

The story is set in a world centuries after some nuclear disaster and the world has reverted back to ancient times where people do not know about fuel or phones and only had farms and horses and the only thing that survived the disaster was the Bible(far out really??!!) and a huge part of the world was still contaminated so they live by the Bible because they do not know how else to live. Also they thought the world was flat and that God created the disaster that killed the ppl centuries before.

Our main character is a normal boy but he's different, in his world physically different will get you killed but his ability is not physical and he finds others like him living secretly. There's a lot of secrecy and fugitive like stuff in here.

Right off the bat I read like half of the book within a couple of hours. It flowed so well and didn't drag and when I thought I should skip a bit of the text, it picked right up again. At times it was really stomach churning and I just wanted to know more and more. Such and excellent read I felt that it read exactly like how classics should read. A PAGE F*CKN TURNER

When I read this in year 9 i thought it was an alternate world kind of novel by the first 50pgs so i hated it because I don't like steampunk =/ but its so awesome after 100pgs so good.


ARGGHH THIS IS WHY I LOVE CLASSICSS IN SCI-FI

As always my reviews are horrible but I highly recommend you happily go read some reviews if you thought this is your kind of thing.


- Lyhnn

neuromancer ;

Hello I spent the majority of today finishing off my book. Book review. Always spoiler free lol I mostly do these so I remember what they're about. 

Neuromancer. This was one of the books that I was keen to read because a lot of people rated it really well and it was a pioneering book of its kind. William Gibson created a world in the future where people can hook up their conciousness into the Internet, known as the Matrix in this book(not related to the Matrix movie franchise) and it reminds me a lot of the anime called ghost in the shell. The society fits into the 'cyberpunk' genre which is defined by, I quote 'A science fiction subgenre involving a oppressive futuristic computerized society' 

Chiba, Japan is where the streets have a dark kind of wayward feel to it. Your go to for all things shady. All types of sketchy deals and underground black markets. The other places travelled in the book show how the rich are indulgent, people can be cloned, cryogenically frozen, lifespans extended, bodies technologically enhanced and AIs exist. Also drugs (labelled derms in the book) are prevailent everywhere and is a reccurring theme because the main character is nearly always using. 

What is amazing for this book is that William Gibson was the first to use the word 'cyberspace' relating it to the internet so in a way he coined the word for the meaning as we use it today. Gibson predicted how the internet would evolve into this matrix that he created. This book was published in 1984 and I googled lol the internet was created in 1974. 

Protagonist is a hacker for hire (in the book this job is called being a cowboy) until he screws over the the wrong people in the already shady line of work and he ends up unable to hook up into the Matrix which is his life and he's like idgaf about everything and everyone doing derms in Chiba trying to find shady surgeon who can fix his disability. He is then blackmailed because he used to be and trained under the best of the best. Throughout the book we follow him doing derms through to be blackmailed and yeahh I also didn't catch much from the blurb on goodreads so I went into the book knowing nothing but that there was a matrix. 

Despite it being really well recieved I didn't like it =/ maybe it was be because this protagonist is one of those what do you call it anti-protagonists? Antiheroes? Like you're not suppose to like them. He has no distinct features and typically really unrelatable. A lot of the characters were unrelatable to me, even the chick. The setting was good. I kept finding myself getting bored while Gibson was describing something. I kept having to read over and read and read over it. It didn't keep my mind preoccupied or maybe It was because my mind wanders a lot lol. Another thing about this book that made my mind wander was that there was a lot I didn't understand I barely grasped concepts like oh he's going to do that so that blah can etc. 

I feel like I definitely missed out on something good here. I contemplated reading it through again just then just to give it one more shot but then I think I'll come back to it in the future to see how I'll like it then. I could have been expecting too much of it =\ 

My reviews are always bad that's why I don't dare post it on goodreads but happily go read some reviews if you thought this is your kind of thing.

Onto Chrysalids. Do you guys remember reading that? i did in year 9 for required reading. I didn't like it at first but then I thought it was awesome afterwards like wow cool. So this time I'm reading it again because I forgot some parts but I remember some of it and I loved it. I think I will buy it soon. 

- Lyhnn

unwind ;

Hey

Uglies by Scott Westerfeld arrived today YAYY was so happy!! :D

tagged book = bookreview/summary/book-related

Unwind by Neal Shusterman

I read this in year 9? around there. The cover caught my eye. and the blurb guaranteed that I'd be reading the book by the time I got home from the library.

I don't remember much but from what I can recollect, the setting was that after some apocalyptic event of sorts parents could sign away their teenagers to be organ/body part harvested, until they turned 18. The story was told through the eyes of 3 teenagers from different backgrounds and how they struggle to survive after they run away from knowing that they're parents signed away their bodies, this running away is of course not uncommon and the 3 desperate to survive stick together and encounter all sorts of things.  

It was a good read, I remember it was one of the best I had read so far, it aws so awesomee and to this day I still rank it highly.

I was watching science vids around yt and then somehow I found a "unwind - short film" vid on the side bar and I definitely remember the book, so I thought the short film might be about it so yes it was.

This scene is from the start of the book. The film makes it so much more sinister and all the details are true. They are kept awake for the unwinding.

In this video, this person is being kept awake for their unwinding where her parts are being recycled for people. In the book it was a bad guy and it was written from his perspective.

When I joined goodreads I few months ago I found that the author had sequels which I didn't know about because I thought the ending was one of those "left to the imagination of what happens now" but I want to reread unwind and then continue with the sequels.

I might actually buy it.

- Lyhnn

flesh ;

                           

I read Hunger Games in 10.5hrs. It's been a long time coming. When I read the blurb, before the whole thing blew up because of the movie, I gave it a pass. I mean, not that it's post apocalyptic, dystopian setting didn't appeal to me but because I didn't like the fact that it looked like it had quite a bit of romance in it and I do not like my scifi and romance together. Well I don't like the romance to be the main focus. I don't want it to subtract from the main plot. 

Anyway it started building quite a buzz after that, with the movie and all that so I decided after a lot of  persuasion I had another go this week. I got hold of it earlier in the year but only got up to pg14 before I latched onto  a more interesting read. 

At first it was again boring. I just kept thinking 'okay just finish it quickly so I can move onto better books' it was boringgggg until like 90 pages, then it became more interesting but even then It didn't pick up as quickly as I wished it would. People say its addictive and brilliantly written and even that it doesn't drag but I still found that in comparison to others I've read the plot didn't move quick enough or I just wasn't that drawn into the characters Suzzane Collins created. It was addictive and exhilirating when the Games did begin but in contrast with other reads, it didn't leave much of an impact. 

The book overall was quite alright. I guess my being well partially better read in scifi downgraded my score for this book because I've been exposed to many other different novels of the genre but I can understand why other people find it really good and I will finish the series. 

A few days before starting Hunger Games I read Ray Bradbury's scifi classic Fahrenheit 451 and initially I was slow reading that novel as well but it became really good after a while. It's a short read with a totla of 221pgs but Bradbury really did a good job of fleshing out the characters and the main character is easily relatable esp in contrast to the other inhumane elements in the novel.

Fahrenheit 451 gave a more lasting impression than Hunger Games, to me anyway. I remember more of the plot and details in Bradbury's than HG even though I read Bradbury first. Even though I read Fahrenehit 451 in slow short periods of time during a course of 5 or 6 days compared to HG where I read for 1.5hr on monday and then picked it up yesterday and finished after another 9hrs, it's funny how I had to sometimes flip back to certain pages in HG because I'd forgotten certain things during those hrs and with Bradbury's I remembered even through the days. I think it's because HG didn't stick or put too much detail in idk but it was just action and I think a tad too much violence for me and not enough plot development. Bradbury didn't have much extreme events in comparison to Collins but still it was more impressionable than HG to me. I think it explains why Bradbury's is a classic and classics are always such an awesome read :) 

Don't hold my word for the books though I might just have eccentric taste and my opinion on HG may be bias since it had a bad first impression  

I feel really refreshed and now regretting that I didn't borrow more books. I want to dig into another book lol esp more Bradbury :D

- Lyhnn