The public side of things

I clearly need something more constructive to do. :)

Funny tongue.

I want to share a few songs by Faithless that I think are really, really awesome. Songs that make my skin shiver and give me mad kicks when I play them loud on my headphones. If there's anything good from the 90s, it's them.

This song, Saxy Motion Feat. DJ Wout by Milk Inc. has been going around the net in this and I can't stop listening to it! There's something weird about it that makes it so pleasurable to listen... It's prolly the sax since I hardly have any music that has saxophone in it. :(

Saxy Motion (Feat. Dj Wout)

In other news, guys, I need a bit of computer advice. Looks like I'm getting some extra money this summer, so I think this year could be the one I'm getting myself a new computer. I'm helplessly in love with my iPod and if I could have that... Something that the iPods have, in a computer... I'm willing to pay for it! I know Macs have some limitations compared to PCs but the things I use my computer on now and most likely in the future is just drawing, writing, doing websites, fiddling with photos and listening to music... And blogging of course! In other words, I hardly play games on the computer since I'm a console kid at heart and World of Warcraft runs on Macs anyway. I just don't know which to get, an iMac or a MacBook? Laptop would be really swank and I could use it for work stuff and bring it with me when I visit mum (while keeping my old comp here)... But I have no idea how that would run WoW (since I raid and all, it would have to manage with decent FPS) so I'm a little hesitant. Another possibility is to get a desktop and drag my old computer to my mum's. I don't know. I don't really know much about Macs performance wise but I'd really like to switch... Any people here who use a Mac? What are your opinions on them? Do you regret leaving PC and did you stumble on compatibility issues with your Mac? Was it easy to learn to use one? I'm not a complete Mac newbie though, after all I created that media card for the local newspaper on a Mac and it was ridiculously easy, sometimes it felt like the computer was reading my mind when I was arraging the images and text in the card so at least that was a positive experience. It had OS 9 though and the one I want has X...

I wouldn't really want to get a mad über gaming PC since that would be money wasted just to play one game. :/

I wonder if there is a way to change a tag's name... I just realised that using the tag "boyfriend" to refer to my ex is kind of misleading. I hate tags, everything even in this blog reminds me of him. :(

When skimming a magazine (or book or newspaper) do you flip through the pages from front to back or back to front?
Submitted by enSue.

Back to front... I suppose it has something to do with me being left handed. :)

Tenerife 28.12.06-11.1.07

... I'm back and I've got photos! Too bad my camera broke down in the middle of the holiday so the rest of the photos I have were taken on my mobile phone and the quality sucks, so I'm not posting those. Besides, I took so many pictures that if I uploaded them all Vox would probably freeze my account, so I just tried picking some of the better ones that I liked!

Like I probably mentioned before, I stayed in Playa de las Americas with my boyfriend, his family, and his aunt's family.

Paella

We also visited the famous Loro Parque which was great fun; the orca, sea lion and dolphin shows were awesome!

Lionfish?

One of my favourite places there was the aquarium, I got my best photos there. Most of the fish there were unknown to me, but I did recognise some! My phone did a pretty ok job with the pictures considering how dark it was in the aquarium and all... But the fish there were so pretty! I wish the photos I took of the penguins and the Atlantic puffins were better... The puffins were SO cute! I even bought a stuffed little puffin toy from the store there.

Sea turtle

I wish I had managed to get pictures of the rare white tigers living there, but it was a hot day so all the cats were hiding somewhere cool... Too bad, I've never seen a white tiger before! The day after our Loro Park trip, the others headed for the sleeping volcano, Teide. I didn't go with them because I got sick enough during the road trip to Loro Park... The roads swirling around the mountains were crazy and my boyfriend had to screw the steering wheel like mad to stay on the road! I've never been a big fan of sitting in the car for hours, especially not when we're driving on a freaking mountain!

Hanging out at the beach

We also had a really nice time with my boyfriend, originally we were going to share the hotel room with his little sister, but when his aunt's family arrived there as well she moved to their place. I wonder why... >_>;; So, we had the whole apartment to ourselves! Not that we really needed all that space, but I suppose it was nice! Spending so much time with him didn't really help with missing him though, when I came back home yesterday I felt really weird being all alone in a quiet apartment.. Our neighbours in the hotel didn't sound like they had a very relaxing holiday though, in the morning I woke up to them fighting and in the evening we fell asleep to their arguing... It was a little tragicomic, but I hope they got things sorted out! :P

If you still want to see more photos, you can view them at my LiveJournal picture gallery (viewable only to my LJ friends). Most of them are the same pictures which I have here on Vox, the rest are miscellaneous snaps that I just took without thinking too much. :)

Now I'm off to school and then I will disappear from the blogging world again for a while as tomorrow is the release day of World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade. ;P I might be posting some WoW related things in my LJ during my long period of geeking, but don't hold your breath. And to my friends who are also going to travel to the Outlands, see you there!

Are you throwing or attending a holiday party this year?  Any ideas/tips to share?

Not really, but for once I'm going to have a memorable New Year! We're going off to Playa de las Américas, Arona, Tenerife with J and his family on 28.12 and arriving back in Finland on 11.1. The last holiday trip like this I did when I was 5 years old, with mum and dad, and I don't remember much of it so I'm really, really excited about this! I bet it's going to be a lot of fun. :) Expect a lot of pictures when I get back!

Ah, I haven't even packed yet. I have work today, tomorrow and on Saturday and then I have to rush to see my mum on Christmas Eve, then I really have to start packing and planning the trip. I don't even know what to wear! Aargh!

I love Vox, I really do. It's like the pretty Mac of blogging communities. I wish I could import my LJ entries here... :(

I'm so seriously emo right now. :( Like THIS emo!

What's on your Top 5 video games list?
Submitted by mileena.

1. Final Fantasy VII / VIII (I don't want to put these in separate places as they both hold so much meaning to me.)
2. Silent Hill 2
3. Tomb Raider
4. Resident Evil 2
5. Metal Gear Solid

So I felt like blogging a little here as well. No idea why I'm doing it here instead of LJ, but meh. I like Vox, but nobody reads it. :P And LJ has communities to which I am addicted to.

J is coming home tomorrow! I'm torn between going to meet in right away on Friday, or stay home and go for that BWL money run in WoW. I figured he might be busy with the homecoming, unpacking and all so maybe I should stay away from his way, hehe. But then again we really miss each other, so maybe I will go anyway. The choices, the choices.

On a completely unrelated side-note, Marabou's Double Nougat bars are from Heaven. I love them so much.

I'm not sure how many people keep up with their Vox neighbourhood but at least I have plenty of people here... So I would just like to direct you to a post I made in my LJ, about Six Apart adding some new "sponsored" crap there and even paid users can't hide from it. Being a paid user it worries me quite a bit. :| I don't want LJ to become so... Commercial.