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Name:
Jamie
Age:
22
Interests:
Japan, Japan, Japan. And reading :P My world revolves around things Japanese
I am also a complete and utter addict of the tv show The West Wing, and a Josh/Donna shipper 100% ^_^v
Ever been to Japan?:
Yup, twice. First time, 6 weeks, summer of 1998, Nagareyama-shi, Chiba-ken. Second time, Fall 2001, 4 months, Nagoya, Aichi-ken ^.^v
Manga:
Okay, here goes, in no particular order:
Mars, Kanata-kara, Hikaru no Go, Inuyasha, Sekai de ichibandaikirai, Hanazakari no kimitachi e, New York New York, Massugu ni ikou, Itazura na Kiss, Gertrude no Recipe, Bleach, Koucha Ouji, Nanji nayamu koto nakare, Hot Gimmick,
and a TON more!
Fav. j-pop groups, in no particular order:
V6!, Yuzu, Porno Graffiti, Spitz, Kiroro, Misia, Something ELse, Fukuyama Masaharu, Chemistry, Gospellers, Kuwata Keisuke, Skoop on Somebody, Arashi, Kinki Kids, SMAP, Matsu Takako, Exile, Panicrew, Tokio
and again, a ton more
Fav. Japanese dramas:
Long Vacation, Virgin Road, Meguri Ai, Love Story, Namida o fuite, Aishiteiru to itte kure, Nemureru Mori, Koi wa aserazu, Bokura no Yuuki, Beautiful Life, Summer Snow, Long Love Letter, Asunaro Hakusho, Perfect Love, Team, PS Genki desu Shunpei, Hitotsu Yane no Shita 1 & 2, Oishii Kankei, Itazura na Kiss, Mukodono etc.
Contact:
e-mail: jun_inohara@hotmail.com
AIM: JunInohara (might still sometimes use old name, HikaShin)
ICQ: 146249241
MSN: sueyoshi03@hotmail.com
Layout: v. 8.0! Done by Jenna, as it says at the top ^.^ Those two lovely people are Hachi (Sakaguchi Kenji) and Mizuho (Matsu Takako), the two main characters of the Fuji Winter 2003 drama Itsumo futari de, which I'm really enjoying ^o^!
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003 :: Comments []
Proof That Some People Can't Let Go
Listening to: well, watching Law & Order
Weeeeeeeeee, as if you needed proof at all for my blog title anyway :P Allright, we now delve back into the world that is Jamie's Bolt Experience, or JBE, should you prefer an abbreviation.
Anyway, anyone who reads my blog knows that I left the Tv/Anime board because some people have blinders on and can only listen to one side of a story, so I felt it was in my best interests to leave.
Well, of course I ended up getting a few people msging me, asking where'd I'd gone (to the Movies/Anime board, where I'd always posted along with the Tv/anime board) and I told them it was mainly because a "certain person" on there was reason, that basically because everyone only listened and believed him and that he apparently couldn't let go of things that had happened In The Past and obviously couldn't put it behind him. I said I found this intolerable, and so left.
So I last got a msg of that regard about a week ago, and told that person the very same thing. I never mentioned that "certain person"'s name, partly because I dislike him a great deal, and partly because I was actually trying to be polite and not mention him directly. I mean, it's pretty much no secret it IS him. I don't tihnk the people on that board didn't know I didn't like him at all, I was just trying to be a tad bit discreet and not openly accuse him.
Finally, I then told him that I would, from now on should the oppurtunity present itself, gladly use his name. I hope he's happy! But what's worse about it, is that not only did someone "tattle" on me (when I don't consider explaining yourself "talking behind someone's back" to begin with), but then HE told me who'd told him, which I think is being completely uncool to the person. I mean, you're not supposed to TELL the person who it is that told on you. It's just not polite! Anyway, I msged the girl back and told her never to msg me again, and that she'd wasted both our time's in doing so.
Just goes to show, obviously some people seriously have Unresolved Ish that they drag about with them. Even if I knew that "certain person" was talking about ME behind MY back, I certainly wouldn't message them showing them that I was even thinking they still existed :P Geez! I wonder what he expected me to tell the people that asked: "Oh, I was in the wrong against Shay (his name, I guess I should use it!). He was always right and everything that happened was because I was immature and stupid, but I want to make the board a happy place again so I decided to leave"
*snort* Yeah, right.
Oh yes! I forgot to mention that on April 18th, the movie version of Louis Sachar's Holes will be released in theaters! ^____^ FYI, Louis Sachar is the author of the Wayside Stories books, if you remember those from your elementary school days, but he also wrote this book. Which, by the way, is a fantastic read! It's weird, but not so extremely as the Wayside books. I only hope that they do some bit of justice to the story, because while I think the cast looks great, the trailer left me less than enthusiastic, because it sort of made it look goofy, when it's not in the slightest. I thought about re-reading it before I saw the movie, but going to see Chamber of Secrets last fall was a perfect example of why that is a Very Bad Idea. That is, I hadn't re-read it until I saw it the second time, but that's when it became obvious what was changed or left out. Of course, it didn't change my enthusiasm for the movie (which i LOVE), but it's still annoying sitting in the theater and noticing every little thing that was changed :P
Anyway, I suppose I should close here ^o^
Monday, March 31, 2003 :: Comments []
Hisashiburi ni Update!
Listening to: Mejirushi no Kioku
Okay, I know I'm part of a Manga Blog, but I'm going to talk about a manga here anyway :P I've been collecting a series called Lovely Complex (Or "RabuCon" as the author so conviniently shortens it to). The interesting feature about which is that all the characters speak entirely in Kansai-ben. Now, I'm familiar (emphasis on familiar) enough with Kansai-ben (the -hen's, the -yakara's and so forth) that it's no huge deal getting through it, it's just more time consuming.
Anyway, it's a great little series. It's about this girl named Koizumi Risa who is UBER tall and this guy Ootani Atsushi, who is of course humorously short, and how their relationship forms. It's not mushy really, and it sort of reminds me of Long Vacation in the respect that these two people first become friends, and it's not until volume 4 that Risa says anything (at which point she's gomen nasai-ed to :P "kyuu ni sonna fuu ni kangaerarehen", Ootani says :P), and you know it's only a matter of time before things work themselves out. But it's just an enjoyable series. Wonderfully drawn, funny, and just enjoyable to read >D
HAHA >D Meg just flipped by Cartoon Network and Trigun is on, (well it went in to CM) and there was an ad for it, Cowboy Bebop and Reign and she just straigtens up (she was bent over turning the channel) and turns to me and says "DAMMIT! Where the hell is all the shoujo?! It pisses me off! >O!" *lolololol* Considering we don't even watch the Japanese anime they show on tv here (albeit occasionally for a laugh), it hardly matters >D But she has a point!
TALIA Have fun in New York! Take pictures!!!
Sunday, March 30th, 2003 :: Comments []
Wanted to blog, don't have time, sorry I haven't updated a lot lately =.= %@#$%%*&( school!!
Sunday, March 30th, 2003 :: Comments []
Wanted to blog, don't have time, sorry I haven't update a lot lately =.= %@#$%%*&( school!!
Friday, March 28, 2003 :: Comments []
Sen to Chihiro
Listening to: the tv
So I guess Sen to Chihiro won't be opening up here, which is too bad. The only copy I have of it is my Japanese VHS, which is perfectly fine for me, but I don't know if I could get some people to sit down and watch it :P It's not a HUGE deal, but seeing the ad for it on TV really thrilled me. I've very happy in this wider release they have "Miyazaki's Spirited Away". Seeing the ad, English and all :P, made me want to sit down and watch it again ^o^ My distant hope is that maybe the Normal Theater (a restored old theater downtown) will show it, as they showed Mononokehime when it came out here in '99. Of course...I'm not sure I'd want to go see it if they were only showing the dub O.o I'm not interested in sitting through it in that case. Might be snobby, but there you have it :P
Joined a manga blog, called inspired inkings with Meg, Talia, Kira and Rachael, if any of you are interested. It's not as though I won't talk about them HERE, but that one is specifically for that purpose ^.^
Darn it, I had more to write, but I've forgotten! I need to get stuff together for work anyway ^.^/
Wednesday, March 26th, 2003 :: Comments []
Melissa! Sorry about the comment in my blog >D My sister meant that as a complaint to me because I made a comment in someone else's blog at the same time I was skipping our independant study meeting with our teacher >D She didn't quite realize it looked like she was making a comment to your comment :P Sorry about the mix up!
Monday, March 24th, 2003 :: Comments []
;___________; my poor sister!!! I just found at that in July, Viz is releasing the first volume of Hana Yori Dango. I sympathize, for I have been there. I remember finding out while I was in Japan that Mars would be translated into English I was distraught. It's not a haughty, elitist thing, it's just sometimes you enjoy having certain things to a smaller group, and you fear a translation might ruin something about a series you care a great deal for. Intended or not, it does happen. MY SYMPATHIES TO YOU MEG ^^;; *glomp*
Monday, March 246h, 2003 :: Comments []
Nihongo Kaiwa
Listening to:Law & Order on tv
Tonight was Nihongo Kaiwa, which is my Japanese teacher's effort to have we students of Japanese interact with one another. It's not really a Nihongo kaiwa, as honestly, Japanese is rarely spoken in any substantial amount ^^
Anyhow, last week Thomas-sensei asked Meg and I if we had anything we could share, like photos from our semester at Nanzan, or the like. Especially, he said, he was clueless when it came to pop culture stuff, which I'm a bit embarassed to say is our forte :P Well, at least it's our forte in those pop culture things we like.
Actually, that's what kind of surprised me ^^;; Since most of the time I feel like I've got so much left to learn about Japan, that what I do know might be...well...a great deal :P That's not meant as a brag, merely that I thought the students in the Japanese classes here knew more about Japanese culture (not just pop culture) than apparently they do. Maybe I'm getting ahead of myself, and it has something to do with the fact I studied abroad....but at the same time I don't accept that explanation either, because even before going to Nagoya, I already knew a fair amount.
I dunno, maybe I'm expecting too much? Expecting others to be as interested in a culture that I love? I've been accused of that, but only on forums when I complain about people mis-using Japanese (usually it's the term "anime", or "otaku" and I argue from the stand-point of person studying the language, and end up with someone saying that maybe people aren't as interested in things like that so why do I get uptight, etc.). Anyway, I suppose it just struck me as odd O.O!
Sunday, March 23rd, 2003 :: Comments []
Meeting with Advisors
Listening to: The tv
Wow, I just love getting up to go see my advisor on a day I have no classes >) It's just lovely, really! Anyway, Meg and I went to see him, and just as we thought, we have an obscenely low amount of hours left to take (assuming we pass all our classes this semester, of course :P). In fact, I have only 4 hours that I need to graduate. Worst part is that they have nothing to do with my major. At the end of the semester I'll have finished all my requirements, but my uni says people have to take a certain number of hours to graduate. Even more aggrevating is that I have. I took 16 or 17 hours of classes at Nanzan, but study abroad only gets counted as 12 a semester, which means if they had all been counted, I'd be done with school.
Of course, if they don't cancel summer school (which is a possibility with all the budget cuts my uni has seen), I could finish up pretty easily then, but there's a Japanese Society and Culture class in the fall that I haven't taken, and I want to take anything I can related to Japan. Plus, if there's any way to get into it, there's a Theater class regarding movies that talked about Japanese anime and manga this semester, and if that teacher's doing it again, I think it'd be morbidly interesting to take, to see what this professor has to say. That and I'd like a summer break, honestly ^^;; I wanna go to Japan dammit!! ^^;;
Wheeeeeeeeeeee, so we gave Gryff a bath yesterday. Poor dog >D He just stood there, his legs shaking. I felt bad for him, since we have a porcelin (sp?) tub but nothing for grip on the bottom, since it's not a shower, so it's not as easy for Gryff or Blue to stand up in. But he was really good about it, and much easier to keep in control than North ever was. But he just looked so pathetic, like "Get me out of this tub!!!". Makes me wonder what he's going to think of the lake this summer >)
Friday, March 21st, 2003 :: Comments []
Lois Lowry's The Giver
Listening to: TV
So Meg and I went over to Normal West High School last night to see Lois Lowry speak. She wrote, if you don't know, a book called The Giver, which was published in 1993, and is easily one of my favorite books. It's not a book for adults, but plenty of adults have read it, and it repeatedly appears on the "Challenged Books" list, which amuses the hell out of me. Meg and I read it long before it started becoming a required read in many schools though, and we've always loved it.
The fun thing about the book is that it has a diliberately ambiguous ending, you're not sure what happens to Jonas (the main character), whether he survives or not....at least up until now. In 2000 a "sequel" to the book was released, called Gathering Blue, which was a fine book, but no Giver. But last night she announced that in the spring of '04, a third book would be released, entitled Messenger, in which Jonas plays a large part. In other words, Jonas lives :P Which makes me happy, because after reading The Giver the last thing you want to believe is that after all the trouble, and the struggle Jonas goes through, that he'd die. So I guess this means the end of the first book is no longer a debatable issue ^_-
Anyway, it was really interesting and really fun, and I'm glad we went to see her speak. The thing I find amusing, especially, is that apparently as a girl her family lived in Japan for several years after the end of WWII. Ah, it always comes full circle, huh? >P
After that, we headed over to Jason's house, where we watched 2 things. First we watched the animated parts of the game he was playing (Xenosaga I believe, I'm no gamer :P), which was fun. We did that a little last time, too. The funny part was, that after we watched that part, it was at a part in the game where you can't really advance until Shion (the female protagonist) goes and talks to Allen >D And since Jason's playing as Shion he kept saying stuff like "Where are you (he had to search for him on the ship), my Allen?". Meg and I were cracking up over it ^^
Anyway, we then watched Sliding Doors, which is a movie Meg and I both really like, but hadn't seen in a few years. That and it's not like this hugely overly mushy chick flick.
Dunno if anyone knows this manga, but one called Doubutsu no oishasan is going to be a drama this spring. My penpal Takayo loved the manga, so she told me to check out the drama to see how it is :P I've never read the series, but now I'm interested ^^;;
Thursday, March 20, 2003 :: Comments []
On Bleach and Gertrude no Recipe
Listening to:Mejirushi no Kioku/V6 (new single! ^o^)
You know, there are very few times where I desperately wish I lived close enough to Mitsuwa that I could have easier access to manga zasshi. It's mostly not an issue, as I'm generally a patient person, especially when I'm following a manga that runs in a monthly manga. But Bleach, my dear Bleach, why oh why do you have to run in Jump? Couldn't you be....a shoujo manga?! *lol* Then at least I'd only have to worry about it every two weeks.
However, I am limited to waiting for the tankoubon to be released, and I just got vol. 6 (which came out something like a month ago, IIRC). I haven't read it CLOSELY, simply because I've had very little time for anything fun, let alone sitting down and reading manga closely, but there's enough in there to really get me impatient for vol 7 ;.;
Of course, my favorite part was when the girls were asking Rukia if she suki'd "Kurosaki-kun" (irritates the hell out of me that she has to call him that at school, when IRL she calls him kisama, or better yet for the most part lately, just Ichigo. I'm SORRY, but my shoujo manga fan influences are alive and well in that respect XD). I quite enjoyed that >D , until she says "Tada no tomodachi" U___U Of course, there's narrative explanation after that, which I believe is a little more clear, but I haven't really read that closely either :P
Then, at the end, Rukia leaves....which makes me sad =.= Not only in the context of this story, but because, again, shoujo manga fan thing working here :P What I mean is, it's kind of heart wrenching, because you get a sense of characters being where they're supposed to be, you know? Being around the people they belong with, and then BOOM, they have to leave. *draws little IchiRuki pictures* Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat? Don't give me that look! Blame it on THEM *points to freakish amount of shoujo manga in her room* Anyway, I can't wait for volume 7 ^^;;
As I was saying about not having to worry about shoujo manga as much, since at the most it's published every 2 weeks, you'd think I could manage to somehow follow up on what's going on in Lala which is published once a month. Of course, I don't even have volume 3 of Gertrude no Recipe yet, and it's been out for a while, but I'm very distressed with the current issue. I don't know why Gertrude turned to dust and disappeared, but it's extremely upsetting :P especially because I read the good ending of Kanatakara just prior to that =.=
I just sit there thinking poor Sahara ;.; Now she's all alone, and I have no idea why, and where the hell is Gertrude and by god he'd better come back (of course I have this thought all at once >) ). Maybe my mom's right, and I tend to easily forget reality. Well, that's not true, I'm fully aware of reality, I just have a great love for the characters I read about, whether in books or manga :P There are days that I wonder how my mom goes through life, being able to detach herself so easily from a story!
Melissa! You shall have to be my Shanimuni Go Explainer Person! :P I have the first two volumes, but I haven't read them since I was in Nagoya. I've always been interested in reading more, but honestly, I've been following so many other series it sort of got pushed along the wayside!
Grar, gotta get ready to go to class :P
Wednesday, March 19th 2003 :: Comments []
The Merits, or Lack there Of
Listening to:Ai no katamari/Kinki Kids
Actually, I'm not going to write anything about the war :P Rather, not my personal view of it, as everything I have to say has already been said by someone else ^^;; But today one of my oldest and dearest net friends, Matze, and I had a mini-debate about the merit, or lack there of, of this war that is impending. Matze is German, I am American, so it was interesting :P And fun too, when you're debating with a person whom you know is going to respect what you say even if they disagree with it, and is willing to listen to what you have to say, and that you know isn't going to be reduced to name-calling or flaming :P
I think my left thumb is going to fall off. No, really! The last 2-3 days I have spent writing and re-writing sentences in preparation for my Chinese midterm, and then once I took it today I had to turn around and start practicing kanji for my quiz in my independant study Japanese class today =.= I think I'm developing a blister on my thumb!
Btw, those Japanese anime fans I mentioned in my previous post? I was referring to this family that I see every time I go there....and for some reason the daughters are always wearing these cat ear head bands, which boggles the hell out of me. WHY?! I mean, is it really that necessary? I'm all for freedom of expression and being yourself, but if they have even the faintest idea that somehow their coolness factor is somehow increased by it, they're kidding themselves. I dunno :P Maybe I'm anal, and I prefer to be the low profile fan. I know! I know! It's not my business, but I just don't get it, you know? It's like the Japanese anime fans who go to Mitsuwa dressed up during A-cen. You're not cool! The Japanese people don't think you're special! Just go there like a normal person would, and wear the costume where people actually think it's cool and fun!
Ah, but I'm sounding like the crotchety old fan, aren't I? >) Haha, oh well, such is my fate I suppose :P
Grar, it's already 3! Gotta get some SLEEP!
Sunday, March 16th, 2003 :: Comments []
Chinatown and Beyond
Listening to: Fly/Liv (except this time I have the REAL single, not just the MP# >) )
Whew, I am one tired girl! This is why I didn't update yesterday! Too much studying to do and too tired to do much else, so I'm taking the 20 minutes I have between now and having to take a shower before work to see if I can write a blog entry >)
Anyhoo, after a night of barely being able to sleep on Thursday (all of maybe 3 1/2 hours) :P Meg and I hopped into the car on Friday morning and headed to Kira's. Shockingly, we actually were able to follow the directions, only getting lost when we got to her street >D I blame this on the fact that when we've been to Kira's house before, we've driven there at night, and this was the first time during daylight hours :P So the front of the house looked different ^^;;;
From there we headed to Kira's school to pick up her friend Apple (who's from Hong Kong), who was bringing with her this guy named Anthony. After grabbing a bite to eat at a tollway oasis, we set out for Chinatown.
Now, let me tell you something. After maybe a minute it is fairly obvious that Anthony and Apple like each other and I got the lucky job of sitting with them in the back seat :P I swear, it was like high school. Neither one of them said anything obvious the whole trip, but it was 100% gag worthy >) Both of them are very nice people, but it was plainly obvious they needed to go out on a date together....alone *lol*
Anyway, took us a while to get to Chinatown (argh, the traffic!! the traffic!), but eventually we made it and wandered around for a couple of hours. I only came away with the VCD of Go (of which I am EXTREMELY happy!) and Meg with the VCD of My Sassy Girl, a South Korean movie we've both wanted to see. The drawback of which it is for some reason not only subtitled in English and Chinese, but along with the Korean dialogue, a split second behind that is a Chinese dub....WHY?! The subtitles are THERE for EVERYONE to read!! Why did they need to add the dub in along with the Korean?! Ah well, of course we'll still watch it!
Speaking of Chinese, I thought it was interesting about how Apply made the distinction. Where we would just say Chinese for either Mandarin or Cantonese usually, she made the clear distinction between saying Cantonese and Chinese (meaning Mandarin). ^^;; Interesting, I thought.
After dinner (which was very good!), we headed back toward Mitsuwa to go Karaoke ^o^ Which was very fun, even if this time the rendition Meg and I did of Ikinari Rythym wasn't so hot :P I gotta tell you though, being so close to Mitsuwa and not being able to go (because it was of course closed by then ^^;;) drove me nuts, after two months of not being able to go.
We then headed back to Kira's house and to bed :P Got up the next morning bright and early and went to Kira's Japanese class, which was pretty interesting. I feel bad for her, because there were a couple people in there that seemed a little on the obnoxious side (but then, my own class had a couple too, hell, to some ppl I was probably one of them >) ), but I liked her teacher a lot ^o^ And I think Meg and I managed not to f-up completely when both teachers spoke to us in Japanese (yes Megan, thank you for rescuing me on that one sentence :P).
From there we headed to Mitsuwa ^o^ Unfortunatly, the Mitsunaga Ryota single Always was sold out, much to my dismay. That was the one I was looking forward to getting the most, but ah well, little I can do about it :P
Anyway, we came away with:
*W Juliet 12-13
*Hikaru no Go 20
*Ohoshisama ni onegai 1-2
*Kare First Love 3
*Koucha Ouji 19
*Bleach 6
*Renai Catalogue 21-22
*Arisu 19th 6
*KareKano 15
And I believe that's it ^^ We got SMAP, Arashi and Liv's newest singles, so it wasn't a complete bust ^o^
Oh right, Kira had also bought for me the last new issue of LaLa which had the very final chapter of Kanatakara in it, which THANK GOD, ended well and appropriately and I'm happy ^_^ The current chapter of Gertrude no Recipe, however, wasn't so great ;________; Gertrude disappeared and I don't know why, and it's upsetting U______________U
Ah, I had a couple of more things to comment on, but I have to go get ready for work and I can't mess around any more :P It was just the scary people I saw at Mitsuwa anyway, and a mini-rant on Japanese anime fans in Japanese places :P
Thursday, March 13th, 2003 :: Comments []
Shall be gone for 2 days, in Chicago ^o^ See ya when Meg and I get back ^_^
Wednesday, March 12th, 2003 :: Comments []
Escaping Dogs!
Listening to: Fly/LIV
I very nearly had a heart attack today U____U It's seven months to the day we had to put North to sleep, and Blue manages to squeeze out the door as I was taking Gryffin out! I ran back inside and practically scared the bejesus out of Meg(who has a new layout! Go check it out!) who was in the shower, when I shouted up the stairs that Blue had gotten out. We ran around for an hour (well, eventually I got on my bike ^^;;) and then mom came home and looked all over. I must have seen and told more than 10 people to keep and eye out for him. Thankfully though, when we got home there was a message that someone had found him 45 minutes earlier ^^;; Guess it's a good thing he's got those phone #'s on his dogtags, huh? :P Ironically, the woman who found him used to have greyhounds herself ^^;;
I watched more of Psychometrer Eiji again last night >D When I watch it I feel like I'm watcing Bokura no Yuuki, the filler music is so similar >) Honestly, if you're reading this and you're a dorama fan, and you like series that are kind of silly but fun, this is one of them >) Or, if you're a Johnny's fan, that works too :P as Matsuoka Masahiro, Inohara Yoshihiko and Kohara Yuki. Or, if you've read the manga and like it, that helps >)
So, they found Elizabeth Smart! I think it's fantastic! It's never good news this amount of time after a kid is kidnapped, and when I saw it on the news I was amazed! Alive O_O after 9 months. Thank god there's something good in the news for a change, huh?
I can't waiiiiiiit for Friday/Saturday ^o^ Hanging around w/friends, karaoke, Mitsuwa, Chinatown ^________^ FUN! Although I should be studying for my Chinese midterm U____U
Monday, March 10, 2003 :: Comments []
Parareru, Parareru, Obasan ni na----re!
Listening to: TV
So Meg and I found out that this coming October we'll be aunts ^o^ My oldest brother and his wife are FINALLY having a kid! Woo! Thing is, they've decided to wait to find out the sex until the kid is born, which I guess is good, but I've always been the kind that enjoys a spoiler ^_- Bwahaha I have these visions of getting the kid to call me Jamie-bachan just to annoy the hell out of my brother and sister-in-law *Lol* Lord knows I'm going to be Eccentric Aunt Jamie anyway, if things work out *Lol*
Tonight, for the very first time, I watched The Matrix. Yes, that's right, I am the Last Person in the World to see that movie, and I'll be damned if it wasn't fantastic. I'm usually not one for a plot like that...what I mean is, where you really sort of have to think about what is real and that asks as many questions as it answers and so forth, so I thought I wasn't going to like it much. How gladly wrong I was. I loved Neo (and you can roll your eyes at me when I say, damn Keanu Reeves looked kakkoii), even if I thought he swallowed everything a little too neatly and nicely *Shrug* But it's something I can deal with. ^^;; So now I really AM looking forward to the sequel ^o^
Grar, I had more to write about, but it's gone from my head :P
Thursday, March 6, 2003 :: Comments []
All right, if this doesn't work (that is, if after I write this and try to view it it crashes IE) I'm moving to LJ or something, because it's ridiculous that I can't even blog when i feel like it! ^^;;
Anyhoo, Tacchan came over tonight and we made okonomiyaki ^o^ Then went to rent a movie, which was My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Ok...my opinion here, is that even though I liked it well enough, I really don't see what the huge hype was all about. So many people talked and gushed about how fantastically wonderful this movie was....and I just didn't see it. It was cute, the two romantic leads likable but....it just could have been better O.o\ I guess I feel characters weren't fleshed out well enough, they were more like charicatures (sp?) than real people ^^;; It was just too fast ^^;; But it was a nice enough movie ^^;;
Hyejin gave us the third volume of the Korean manga "The Kingdom of Winds" ^o^ Let me reitterate....I can't read the thing, not a bit, but it's something I want to see because it's her favorite series, and I like that she can share something of her culture. Looking through these three volumes we have now, I really, really wish I could ^^ It seems exactly like the kind of story I like ^_^
Okay gonna cut it short here ^^
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This gif of Jamie ddr-ing was made by Amy and it was edited from the ddring bunny. YAY AMY!
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+Kiripin
+Katherine
+Megan
+Talia
+Lauren
+Hilo
+Jenna
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+Annie
+Joy
+Kira
+Elizabeth
+Rachael
+Masanari
+Serge
+Cali
+Kevin
+Levi
+Jenni
+Sumudu
+Jenny
Links:
+Nagoya
+Nanzan
+Yoridori
+Anipike
+Pitas' Main Page
+Inspired inkings
+J-Ent
+Sengoku o togi zoushi
+Amemura
+Anime-Forums
+Media Miner
+WGN Radio
+Nakajo Hisaya
+Yamada Nanpei
+Uta-Net
+Engrish
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