Malaysia Made D-Listed!

Mention of Malaysia at my favorite guilty pleasure website D-Listed. Not the kind of publicity you want, but is usually isn't anyway on D-Listed ;)

Coolest Gymnast @ Beijing

Oksana Chusovitina! At 33 years old, she's competing in her fifth Olympics. Her first was the '92 Barcelona games - that's the year the youngest gymnasts competing at these Olympics were born! It's truly admirable that she has been able to remain competitive for so many years, and in the face of adversity no less. Check out her full bio at Wikipedia.

This year she's competing for Germany (previously for the former Soviet Union and Uzbekistan). She's a vault specialist and qualified for the vault event finals this Sunday. Looking forward to seeing her perform. Go Oksana!

Masam At The Olympics

So I stayed up to watch live feed (courtesy of nbcolympics.com - fabulous coverage!) of the Malaysian women competing in the badminton doubles last night. They lost to Korea, and the vibe I got from them the entire match was just so ... *masam. Dirty looks, lack of encouraging words between each other. Maybe I'm reading this wrong because I don't watch badminton usually? Just seemed like a complete lack of camaraderie between the two. Am I completely off on this?

*sour

S4E10 Revelations

I seriously thought that was it. Season over. And the whole postponing of the remaining episodes until next year? Just a trick like with Starbuck dying. Totally had me! Until I remembered all the loose ends. At that point they were panning across the disappointed faces on earth. To end there, now that would have been too cruel.

I'd always wondered how they would reconcile the whole finally being on earth thing. Never once crossed my mind that they would get there before everything was said and done.

That said, I liked it. Things moved fast as they have all season but this time it actually made sense, and I think it had a lot to do with pacing. The best episode of the season I feel. Makes me all the more miffed that I'm going to have to wait close to a year. Again. I can has Razor Pt 2 pls?

My prediction for the final cylon this week: I really dunno anymore.

Works On My Machine

It really did. But it didn't work where it counted so I was the recipient of the following: http://www.buildsonmymachine.com/.

I love her friends.

Cupcake Adventures 1

My first cupcake attempt today - Strawberry Thyme Cupcakes from http://coconutlime.blogspot.com as suggested by PpFt. Love the idea of steeping the thyme in the milk although I really didn't taste it much when the cupcake was done. Used the buttercream frosting recipe instead of the recommended one and added the juice of half a lemon - delicious!

Oh, and you absolutely have to cut the strawberry garnish in the shape of a heart, otherwise it doesn't taste the same. Srsly.

S4E8 Sine Qua Non

Erm ... what? That was a complete setting-the-tone-of-things-to-come episode. And setting the tone quick, like now! Just about every major plot turn and revelation was handled abruptly, having the effect of making the whole Romo Lampkin thing a bit ... indulgent? Maybe the episode would have made more sense if I hadn't had to wait 2 weeks in between. Kind of 'potong stim' by the time tonight's episode rolled around.

My prediction for the final cylon this week: Romo Lampkin's cat. Wait ... oh snap.