I feel like having a moment of self promotion here, so I'm gonna whore myself out here.

Well, as some of you may not know, I like writing, and reading, and I also have a Mibba account to satisfy that hunger I have.

Since this message will be short and sweet--like me!-- I just wanted to tell you guys to check it out, read my stories, and if you have an account, tell me what you think! I love getting feedback and opinions on them, so once again, check out my Mibba account! If you don't have an account, you can just tell me what you think down here, 'kay?

Link: http://member.mibba.com/81277/ (or knowing me, that didn't work so copy and paste! XD)
Or if you'd like to know, my username is Controlled Poison, so check it out!

Hehe, moment of whoring and promotion is now done! Everyone can get on with their lives now!

Thank you all!

and as usual... at 6 am i had to wait an extra half hour for my sister even though she needs to get to school earlier for the early classes.

while waiting i realized... oh shit! i didnt put any hair ties on my wrist and whenever i forget, i get cafe duty.  i told my mom my problem and she gave me hers...

finally my sister came out

traffic was typical and it was nearing 7. my iPod didnt make even half the trip though... bummer.  but this was sign number 2 that my day was going bad, sign 1 being the lack of hair ties.

i got to school at 7:10 am... 40 minutes later than usual...

skipping to guidance... it was stated that my 1st period would be having cafe duty, and i called it.  at that moment i felt like i could see the future.

skipping to 1st peiod...

turns out since we were going to be going out for class my teacher switched the cafe duty days... finally my day was starting to look up, or so i thought. one of my lab partners was absent today, making me stuck with an irresponsible team member.

skipping to aiea stream... we had to walk down a steep bank or the stream and i knew something bad would happen... suprisingly i didnt fall... until we came to a point with water under rocks that had grass on it.

i slipped and one pant leg got wet... great day to wear slippers huh?  further ahead i slipped and sunk my other leg into the water but it no longer bothered me.  marvin, a classmate slipped and stepped onto my slipper, making me fall forward... in order to balance myself, i grabbed gabriel's shirt from behind... i got mouthed off by him.

we ended up going farther than 2/3 of the rest of the class, even the teacher.  going back, it was just me and ashley since the guys decided to climb the rocks up.  i was behind her and at one point, she let california grass go and it slashed against my right knuckles... needless to say, it hurt like a bitch...

back at class i had a few more scratches...

skip over to period 2... my 2nd period is media and we had to finish shooting our psa or public service announcement, based on alcohal. my person gets drunk with a best friend in the dream scene, and i get angry when a friend laughs when i trip. i push her, and she pushes me back, hitting my knuckles. i fall to the floor hitting my left side hard and act k.o.

we repeat this even after school ends and we finally decide to go home. one friend decided to ask if i was ok and i couldnt help but be sarcastic with them.

at home i had to feed all the dogs and of course with one good hand i manage to drop the wet dog food spilling it.  im cleaning it up and my mom comes down.  all she does is walk around me, put her cup in the sink and leave, nice huh?

needless to say, i had a crap ass day, how was yours?

Back with a vengeance

Singer's health scare can't silence Avenged Sevenfold

By JILL LAWLESS, Associated Press Writer Jill Lawless, Associated Press Writer – Thu Oct 16

AP – This is a Friday, April 17, 1998 file photo of Millvina Dean, 86, a living Titanic survivor.

LONDON – Millvina Dean was only 2 months old when she was wrapped in a sack and lowered into a lifeboat from the doomed Titanic. Now 96, the last survivor of the tragic sinking is selling mementos of the disaster to help pay her nursing home fees.

Rescued from the bitterly cold Atlantic on that April 1912 night, Dean, her 2-year-old brother and her mother were taken to New York with nothing but the clothes on their backs. Before returning home to England, they were given a small wicker suitcase of donated clothing, a gift from New Yorkers to help them rebuild their lives.

Now, Dean is selling the suitcase and other Titanic mementos to help pay her nursing home fees. They are expected to go for $5,200 at an auction of Titanic memorabilia Saturday in Devizes in western England.

Among the items are rare prints of the Titanic and letters from the Titanic Relief Fund offering her mother one pound, seven shillings and sixpence a week in compensation.

But the key item in the sale is the suitcase, said auctioneer Andrew Aldridge. "They would have carried their little world in this suitcase," he said Thursday.

Dean has lived at Woodlands Ridge, a private nursing home in the southern city of Southampton — Titanic's home port — since she broke her hip two years ago.

"I am not able to live in my home anymore," Dean was quoted as telling the Southern Daily Echo newspaper. "I am selling it all now because I have to pay these nursing home fees and am selling anything that I think might fetch some money."

A spokeswoman for Woodlands Ridge said Dean was too tired Thursday to speak to The Associated Press.

She said rooms at the nursing home cost between $1,000 and $1,550 a week, depending on the level of care the resident needs, but declined to discuss Dean's situation, saying it was a private matter.

Although Britain has a free health care system, private providers offer more comprehensive services for a fee. In the case of nursing homes, state-run facilities are available and cost much less than private ones. But they are more spartan and offer fewer amenities, such as shared rooms and no private TVs.

Local authorities often pay a portion of the costs of private nursing home care based on an individual's assets; anyone with more than $39,000 in assets has to pay their own fees.

In 1912, baby Elizabeth Gladys "Millvina" Dean and her family were steerage passengers emigrating to Kansas City, Mo., aboard the Titanic.

Four days out of port, on the night of April 14, 1912, it hit an iceberg and sank. Billed as "practically unsinkable" by the publicity magazines of the period, the Titanic did not have enough lifeboats for all 2,200 passengers and crew.

Dean, her mother Georgetta and brother Bertram Jr. were among 706 people — mostly women and children — who were rescued by the steamship Carpathia and survived. Her father, Bertram Dean, was among more than 1,500 who died.

Dean did not know she had been aboard the Titanic until she was 8 years old, when her mother, who was about to remarry, told her about her father's death.

She has no memories of the sinking and said she preferred it that way.

"I wouldn't want to remember, really," she told The Associated Press in a 1997 interview.

Dean said she had seen the 1958 film, "A Night to Remember," with other survivors, but found it so upsetting that she declined to watch any other movies about the disaster, including the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic," starring Leonardo Di Caprio and Kate Winslet.

Dean began to take part in Titanic-related activities in the 1980s, and was active well into her 90s. She visited Belfast, Northern Ireland, to see where the ship was built, attended Titanic conventions around the world — where she was mobbed by autograph-seekers — and participated in radio and television documentaries about the sinking.

The last American survivor of the disaster, Lillian Asplund, died in 2006 at the age of 99. Another British survivor, Barbara Joyce West Dainton, died last November at 96.

Aldridge said the "massive interest" in Titanic memorabilia shows no signs of abating. Last year, a collection of items belonging to Asplund sold for more than $175,000.

"It's the people, the human angle," Aldridge said. "You had over 2,200 men, women and children on that ship, from John Jacob Astor, the richest person in the world at the time, to a poor Scandinavian family emigrating to the States to start a new life. There were 2,200 stories."

Caption: Joel Madden
plays a DJ set at the Trojan Evolve Party at The Roxy
Boston, Massachusetts ....

JOEL MADDEN is convinced his baby daughter HARLOW is destined to follow in his musical footsteps - because she is already showing a talent for tunes at just nine months of age.
The Good Charlotte rocker admits he could one day be hitting the road with Harlow - his baby with Nicole Richie - performing as father and daughter.
He tells People magazine, "I have a feeling she's going to be musical because she loves instruments.
"She has a little piano that I took the legs off and put on the floor. She lays there and just bangs it."
But Richie is hoping Harlow becomes a dancer instead: "She's going to be a dancer. I'm going to put her in ballet (classes) when she can start walking."
But they both agree on one thing - Harlow will get to choose.
Madden adds, "I just want to give her the option to try whatever she wants."

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Nicole Richie's Militant About Mom Duty

RAMEY PHOTO

Call it the year of the comeback: Britney cleaned up and is releasing a new album. Paris is running for prez—sort of. And Nicole now spends her time pureeing green beans and sweet potatoes for daughter Harlow, according to a new People profile.

Hollywood's gone soft, and we couldn't be happier. It's not so sexy, but there's something really sweet about the fact that Nicole obsessively chronicles her kid's every move.

"She has notebooks and notebooks full of the first time she [Harlow] rolled over, the first time she laughed...Everything she's ever done is in that book," says boyfriend Joel Madden, who claims the Good Charlotte tour bus is a no-party zone these days.

So are you on board with this new and (potentially) improved version, or do you miss the wild ways of Tinseltown's onetime terrors?

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JOEL MADDEN - MADDEN TAKES ON PLANE PAPARAZZO

Caption: Joel Madden
plays a DJ set at the Trojan Evolve Party at The Roxy
Boston, Massachusetts ....

Nicole Richie & Joel Madden: 'We're So Blessed'

She purees her own green beans and records her daughter's every smile in a journal – making her "the best mom I've ever seen," Joel Madden, speaking in PEOPLE's latest cover story (on sale Friday), raves about girlfriend Nicole Richie.

Richie and Madden just moved into a new L.A. home after spending the summer touring with Madden's Good Charlotte band, and are in the midst of organizing an Oct. 19 walk in L.A. to help end family homelessness. But when they spoke with PEOPLE, what they really enjoyed talking about was their 9-month-old, Harlow.

Nicole: "Harlow's a delicate soul. She studies people. She's very coy. People say that she and I make the same expressions. But everyone says she looks like Joel."

Joel: "I'm cool with it, as long as she doesn't look like me in a wig when she's 16. I like that she looks like me – it's my get-out-of-jail-free card."

Nicole (on maternal responsibilities): "I think my sense of self is still the same. But I don't do things, we do things. I work around her."

Joe: "Nicole is completely dedicated. I do whatever she tells me to do. I'm cool with that. She's really good with the baby. I'm really good with finances. All of Harlow's education and all that stuff, I already have planned."

Nicole (on marriage plans): "When we get married, everyone will know. It will happen when it happens.

Joel (on having more kids): "If it could be as easy as Harlow, sure."

For the complete story – including how Richie re-organizes her routine to accommodate Harlow's needs and prepares the baby's meals – pick up this week's PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday

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Okie, so, uh, I know that Halloween is super duper far away, but I still feel the neediness to ask you creative jack-o-lanterns this oh so charming question.

I wont try to make the question all flashy or word it all pretty, cause when people do that, half the time I dont even know what the hell the freakin question is! All I end up thinking is "Wow, this is such a pretty question. This dude worded it perfectly. Wowzers!"

So my question is, "What should I dress up as for Halloween?"

I know, I know! Dress up? What are you, twelve? No! I just likey dressing up for Halloween! Its fun and makes me feel like Im 5 all over again!

It could be anything! A puppy, a box, a piece of candy, you!

Just tell me and maybe a sentence or something as to why you chose that costume...

Sooo... uhh, thankies and voice your pretty opinions in the comment box below my beautiful words.  Down below, folks! Thankies again!!

Avenged Sevenfold's Biggest Fans?

               They inspire many to be creative whether it’s writing music, drawing, or acting. They like to include lots of artwork whether on the CD case or in their videos. And when making a video, they tend to leave a viewer satisfied.

               One group of kids enjoy Avenged Sevenfold so much, they create their own videos, using Avenged Sevenfold’s music. They lip sync, act, and use digital media to make their video’s look better. They themselves have about 2000 fans, having begun around August of 2007.

                There are three main members of the group, however some of their friends and family chip in to help. Scott is the “lead vocalist” and Matt and Jake are the “background vocalists.” If you don’t find them funny, you might at least enjoy their dance moves or effort to deliver something people all across the world might enjoy. Upon making their videos, they also got a chance to meet the members of Avenged Sevenfold, as seen by the included images.

You can find them on Youtube under the jake2matt channel, or you might even come across one of their videos simply by searching for Avenged Sevenfold video's through Youtube. For easy access, here’s the link to their channel.

Really wild.

According to sources, over-enthusiastic audience members near the stage surged forward and broke barricades, causing security personnel to form a human chain to hold them back.

Several people were injured during the stampede and other artistes backstage were reportedly alarmed.

Avenged Sevenfold's bassist, Johnny Christ, remembered the incident as being 'quite crazy'.

The 24-year-old told The New Paper over the phone from his home in Huntington Beach, California: 'Obviously at such a time, we hope no one will be hurt, and I don't think anyone was.'

He added: 'We won't necessarily encourage (them to go wild). We want people to have fun and go crazy, but not at the expense of hurting anyone else.

Calm down

'Whenever we feel it's getting out of hand, like usually we'll get people falling and being trampled on in the mosh pit, then we make sure to tell them to calm down.

'Avenged Sevenfold fans are really a different breed of concertgoers, no matter which continent you go.'

The boisterous reaction at SingFest 2007 was also an unexpected surprise for the hard-rocking quintet because they were told to mind their P's and Q's when in Singapore and not do things they normally would - 'like running around with our pants down', Christ joked.

'We heard Singapore is strict on everything, but when we showed up, we didn't see too-harsh laws, so it was really fun.'

So is rowdy behaviour - from frequently intoxicated fans and the band members themselves - par for the course at Avenged Sevenfold's live performances?

Only occasionally, Christ insisted.

He recalled two instances when singer Matt Shadows was swinging the mic by the wire and it hit the band's guitarist, but the latter recovered quickly and the concert 'went on great'.

Also, on Christ's birthday last year, his bandmates surprised him by getting dancers and strippers to appear on stage at a gig in Atlanta, Georgia.

As for extreme acts of fandom, he shared: 'Yeah, there are a few (female fans) out there who take kindly to us I guess.

'Girls usually talk their way through security (to get close to us), but guys charge without asking questions.

'Occasionally, there'll be some kid who finds his way up on stage, grab the members and then stage-dive.

'Sometimes we're worried (about what they might do to us) and it's at the back of our heads, but so far it's all good.'

Now that Avenged Sevenfold is returning to Singapore on 24Oct to headline its own concert and play tracks from its successful albums like City Of Evil and Avenged Sevenfold, Christ suspects the band will behave a bit more badly the second time round because it will have 'more free reign and a longer set'.

But will Shadows be in top form by then?

Avenged Sevenfold - which won Best New Artist at the 2006 MTV Video Music Awards - had to cancel the remainder of its US tour because he strained his voice after being on the road for 11/2 years.

Shadows didn't require surgery but is currently resting at home and 'not yelling and screaming'.

Christ is also taking advantage of this forced vacation to relax at the beach, and is confident the five of them will be back on their feet in time for the Asian leg.

He said: 'Of course, we're bummed about it, but we were doing one show (at a time) and it came to a point where it was obvious we wouldn't be able to finish.

'But (Shadows) is taking care (of his voice) and we'll be starting rehearsals in a bit because we're excited to get back on tour.'

FYI

WHAT

Avenged Sevenfold

WHERE

Max Pavilion

WHEN

24 Oct, 8pm

TICKETS

$95 from Sistic (63485555 or www.sistic.com)