Thursday, February 22, 2001

Today in PetCo I saw three greyhounds that some lady had brought in. They had the exact appearance and mannerisms of Santa's Little Helper from The Simpsons. These impossibly skinny little dogs, just darting around timidly and sniffing things.

And this afternoon I slept for about two hours, but it seemed much longer than that. I had this very long and disturbing dream, which involved, among other things, my needing to have some kind of surgery. Before the surgery was to begin, I had to have my breastbone broken. I didn't want to do it, and I asked for anaesthetic at least; but I didn't get any. It didn't exactly hurt (not as much as actually having your breastbone broken down the middle should hurt ><); but it just made me feel really unsettled. And then something happened and we weren't able to go through with the surgery. And then there were all kinds of scenes that involved running around and climbing through windows and things -- which I really was *not* too keen on, seeing as I had a broken breastbone and all. I remember being really pissed off that we might end up not being able to do the surgery at all, and I would have to go around for the next few months with a broken breastbone for NOTHING.

...Um, basically it was very disturbing. Not in the horrifying or scary way, just... sort of creepy. Ick.
i feel 11:37 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Tuesday, February 20, 2001

TV Misguided

*points to above link* kekekekekeh. "Wes Craven's League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 2000", indeed. XD

Today has been quite a day for birds. I saw huge flocks of seagulls on my way to and from school -- they seem to come out in droves when it rains. I also saw a robin in a tree at school, and a huge bunch of crows (murder of crows?) perched at the very top of a tall, bare tree near our complex. Creepy.

Also, one of my eBay purchases arrived in the mail -- the UK edition of Harry Potter Book 4. As well as a boxed set of the first three books, which I was not expecting. O_O Needless to say, I have to e-mail the seller.

Ooooh, one more link: X Handpuppet Theatre. Special guest appearances by The Wrathful Judeo-Christian God and The Disembodied Head of Kotori. XD
i feel 11:41 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Monday, February 19, 2001

CLAMP Male Character Matchmaker

# 1 Li Shaoran
# 2 Sorata Arisugawa
# 3 Gingetsu
# 4 Yasha
# 5 Eagle Vision
# 6 Ferio
# 7 Kakyou Kuzuki
# 8 Kazuhiko
# 9 Fujitaka Kinomoto
# 10 Kamui Shirou
# 11 Kusanagi Shiyu
# 12 Zagato
# 13 Lantis
# 14 Yukito Tsukishiro
# 15 Eriol Hiigarizawa / Clow
# 16 Nokoru Imonoyama
# 17 Shuiichirou Kudou
# 18 Subaru Sumeragi
# 19 Seiichirou Aoki
# 20 Fuuma Monou
# 21 Touya Kinomoto
# 22 Yuuto Kigai
# 23 Seishirou Sakurazuka
# 24 Kokyou
# 25 Ascot

Sorata's only number 2! Shaolan-kun's okay, but... SORA-CHAN! ;_; Kazuhiko's only number 8! Aoki-san's only number 19!!!

At any rate, I have a bit of a bias against selectors made by Val Sakurazuka. >_< She's demonstrated that her opinions are quite far removed from my own. Not to mention all the little language and grammar errors that at best are annoying, and at worst make for confusing questions. Like, does she not realize that "homely" means "unattractive"? Geh. >_<
i feel 11:35 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Monday, February 19, 2001

We had a holiday today, of course. And of course, I slept the entire morning. In the afternoon, I watched 1.5 episodes of original Star Trek: one half of an episode that had a bunch of Klingons in it (Klingon women may have been prettier back then, but they were a whole lot wussier ~_~;;), and "The Savage Curtain" -- that episode with Abraham Lincoln in it (I still can't believe he called Uhura a "charming negress" XD ).

I also seem to be developing a bit of an Oekaki fixation. I've been flitting from one oekaki board to another, drawing and leaving throwaway one-liner comments. I drew this, and this, and this so far. Actually, I've been feeling rather artistic all weekend. I'm CGing a pic I drew Saturday night while watching The Prisoner, ST:TNG, and SNL. Plus I quick-CG'd this yesterday.
i feel 06:07 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 17, 2001

We went to see Hannibal today. A lot of reviewers have panned it, but I personally liked it. Maybe that's because I never saw Silence of the Lambs.

......

...BRAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!
i feel 08:51 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 17, 2001

tatoeba - Satoshi Hiwatari shrine

Is it me, or is Hiwatari-kun a dead ringer for Draco Malfoy when he takes his glasses off? O_o

Noelle, thanks for the compliment. ^_^
i feel 02:09 a.m. within myself. yomigaere

Thursday, February 15, 2001

YES!!! Won and won! I just spent bloody fortune on a couple of Akazukin Chacha doujinshi! WOOHOO!!! ^0^

magic magic magic magic MAGIC MAGIC
i feel 12:46 a.m. within myself. yomigaere

Thursday, February 15, 2001

Must win Ebay auction.....
Must win Ebay auction.....
Must win Ebay auction.....
Must win Ebay auction.....
Must win Ebay auction.....

i feel 12:30 a.m. within myself. yomigaere

Wednesday, February 14, 2001

I slept soundly this morning. Very soundly. In fact, I didn't get up 'till 11:51, and I had a class at 11:45. Apparently no-one remembered to wake me up

Yeah, I know. The whole building must have heard me screaming obscenities at the top of my lungs. But my dad has been bugging me to use the alarm clock to wake me up. I hate that stupid alarm, I hate it, I hate it, I hate it. Ech.
i feel 04:40 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

gender-bending Eva doujinshi

Whoa. O_o Asuka makes a cute boy.

Last night I had a rather interesting dream. I think it was kind of like Phantom of the Opera, only instead of a Phantom the guy was a cross between Snape and the Doctor from Star Trek Voyager. It's hard to explain, but basically he was both Snape and the Doctor at the same time. And the girl was Lily Potter, I think. And it wasn't an opera, it was a supermarket. An abandoned supermarket, that for some reason had lights and refrigerators running and fully stocked shelves. I remembered thinking, as I was watching this dream, how cool it would be to have your own fully stocked supermarket all to yourself. I'm not sure exactly why I thought that.

.....

...And there weren't any songs or anything. And the guy wasn't deformed; I mean, he looked like the Doctor (and sometimes like Snape). So maybe it wasn't really like Phantom of the Opera after all. But then, I've never seen Phantom of the Opera, so I wouldn't know.
i feel 11:05 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Tuesday, February 13, 2001

Thought for the day: what if we still had to make food offerings to the gods, just like the ancient Greeks? What if every time you went to McDonalds you had to pour your soda onto the ground, and burn two of your McNuggets and a handful of fries?
i feel 11:34 a.m. within myself. yomigaere

Monday, February 12, 2001

Anime Quiz @ Animegenesis.com

I scored 45 out of 52 questions. Should I be pleased or disgusted with myself? ^^;;

Geh. It's freaking cold, and I got about 3 hours of sleep last night (or should I say this morning X_x). I was finishing my take-home essay thingy for my Mythology class. I basically had to evaluate Odysseus' character -- his bad traits versus his good traits, and ultimately what kind of person he was. One thing that I'm certain of is that if Odysseus could go to Hogwarts, he would be a Slytherin. ^_^
i feel 07:20 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Sunday, February 11, 2001

Spent most of the day in San Francisco. We got to have lunch in Japantown, and I got to browse the Kintetsu Mall and Kinokuniya at leisure. We went into the store that has all the CDs and LDs and DVDs. Japanese anime DVDs have such pretty packaging. ;_; The Ayashi no Ceres DVDs are GORGEOUS!!! I pray god that Viz uses the same packaging (fat chance :p). I also bought the Lupin III manga vol. 8, and Ludwig vol. 3.

Afterwards, Carlo and I were dropped off at the Metreon theatre while Mom went to have dinner with some friends. We were supposed to see Hannibal, and we arrived a whole hour early, but they had sold out before we got there. O_o So we saw Cirque du Soleil's Journey of Man in the Imax theatre. It was okay... nice costume design and settings, but altogether too short and lacking in Cirque-y stunts. Plus I recognized some of the music as having been recycled from Quidam.

Anyway, that movie was much shorter than Hannibal would have been, so we had a lot of spare time to wander around the Metreon. It's a really amazing place. We saw the X-Men Mutant Academy game at the Playstation Store, watched some of the Matrix and Fantasia 2000 DVDs at Sony Style, wandered through Airtight Garage (which is a stylish arcade-type thing) and generally stood around gawking at pretty and highly overpriced stuff. I love it.
i feel 11:45 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 10, 2001

Nandemonai nandemonai kimi no egao o! Aitsu ja nai koitsu ja nai boku ga mizukeru! Sekaijuu de boku dake ga shiteru, hora suteki na kimi sa!

I was finally able to find the Azuki-chan opening theme on Napster. ^_^ Azuki-chan is this cute little anime series I used to watch regularly on NHK a few years ago. Think of a cross between Peanuts and shoujo manga, and you wouldn't be far off. Anyway, the opening theme is really catchy and cute, and I've been listening to it over and over while CGing my Piper MOB submission. God, I love Napster. Without it, I would never be able to find super-obscure songs like this, not in a million years. Right now I'm also downloading the Tobe! Isami opening -- another obscure anime that had a cute theme song.
i feel 04:28 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 10, 2001

Soylent Green is made out of PEOPLE!!!
i feel 03:04 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Friday, February 9, 2001

KYAAAAAAAA!!! Akazukin Chacha doujinshi on Ebay!!! Yes!!! YESSSS!!!!!! Woo-hoo!!!

*plays Youkoso Magical School E at full blast*
*dances around like a lunatic*

WAAAAAIIIIIIII!!!!! *^-^*
i feel 05:21 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Thursday, February 8, 2001

Philosophy is stupid. Or more precisely, philosophy texts are stupid. Why on earth do the authors seem to go out of their way to put everything in the most confusing way possible, as if to ensure that nobody can understand it? Here's an exact quote from one our readings for class:

"In part because he is concerned to argue that the practical rationality of engaging in religious practices makes it rational to suppose that the beliefs they ground are justified, it is easy to overlook the distinct question whether this practical rationality also implies that is rational to suppose that these beliefs are rational."

I am not making this up! This is from the article written by our teacher, no less. At any rate, I can thank God that damn exam is over (without wondering whether it involves doxastic or non-doxastic faith). >_<

And now, something more pleasant... Gothic My Little Ponies. XD
i feel 11:21 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Wednesday, February 7, 2001

On the way home from school I stopped at PetCo. Together in one cage they had the two most gorgeous cats I've ever seen (aside from my own Tiggy and Shawn-shawn of course ^^). First there was this beautiful short-haired tortoiseshell with yellowy-green eyes. Yeah, tortoiseshell is a fairly ordinary color, but with this cat it looked really good. Then the other cat. If I hadn't known he was a cat, I would have sworn he was a wolf. HUGE creature, but very lean and long-legged, and with incredibly shaggy long hair. His legs and face were black, and the rest of him was this dark smoky grey color. *_*

The amazing thing is that these two apparently are sister and brother. Their names are Peanut and Smokey. If I'd had such beautiful cats, I would probably have come up with slightly more original names for them 9_9 (although Smokey is very descriptive of his color).
i feel 04:05 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Tuesday, February 6, 2001

A MILLENNIUM MOVIE?!?

SQEEEEEEEAL!!! And I thought nothing could top my hearing just this hour that Rik Mayall will be playing Peeves in the Harry Potter movie. Hee hee, Lance Henriksen mentions that he and Robert Patrick did a movie together before. A little movie called... Terminator? ^-^ (Okay, so Henriksen was in T1 and Patrick was in T2... minor technicality :P) There is a god! *^_^*

And no, that statement has nothing to do with the Philosophy of Religion class review session I attended this evening. ~_~;; Sitting around the teacher's nice little living room for an hour and a half, talking about justification and belief ek ek... and me just staring blankly, my mind like a slab of meatloaf that's been in the back of the freezer for weeks. Make of that simile what you will. Eccch. And now I still have all of Ovid's Metamorphosis to read by tomorrow. >.<
i feel 11:43 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 3, 2001

My God. How depressing. Right now Dad is watching "Walker, Texas Ranger". And alongside Chuck Norris, this episode guest stars Hulk Hogan. @_@ "Relics of a bygone era", says Carlo.

This afternoon we went to see The Gift. I was expecting it to be one of these cheesy psychic movies with lots of close up shots of the character's face with their hair blowing in the wind and electricity crackling around. Sort of a "Carrie" or a "Firestarter". Fortunately, it turned out to be more of a "Sixth Sense" type deal. I think it was pretty cool, anyway.

And I really love the trailer for Pearl Harbor. Normally I'm not terribly interested in those kinds of movies, but I think I would want to go see this just because the trailer is so cool.

Also, I made a guestbook where people can leave comments about weblog entries. Which assumes, of course, that there is anybody else reading this in the first place. @_@ Anyway, that's where the little link at the bottom of each entry goes now.
i feel 09:14 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Saturday, February 3, 2001

Thespark.com's Gender Test says that I am female. Glad that burning question has been answered, now I can sleep at night. One of the questions was whether "Black Jack" or "The Slot Machine" was a better name for a male porn star. Guess which one I answered. ^_^;;;;

I also placed my first two Ebay bids today. I'm currently winning the auction for an NTSC tape of Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death. I lost the auction for the Sandman Incarnations figure set.
i feel 04:02 p.m. within myself. yomigaere

Friday, February 2, 2001

Okay. This morning, during Japanese class, I amused myself by coming up with my own Survivor group. This was inspired by a couple of things. One was this Cartoon Network spot I saw a few weeks ago that spoofed Survivor, with Wonder Woman, Betty Rubble, Top Cat, etc. The other thing was Carlo talking last night about what he would do if he were on Survivor, and instead of "mastermind" he said "mastermold".

So, without further ado, let us meet our castaways.

Tribe Tikbalang
consisting of: