Was in Sacramento yesterday to visit my neice and nephew with my other nephew. Nephew no. 2 is the 1-year old who I think is a bit bratty. Nephew no. 1 is a 5-year old who is really, really sweet. Like "you-can-have-my-little-activities-book" or "your-character-beat-my-character-in-the-video-game-so-you're-powerful" type sweet. I adore him. He's a fun little kid. Then there's my neice who is slightly autistic (she doesn't speak) but is also really fun. Ahhh, I'll miss them.

My sister had this scale that measures body fat percentage. Without saying how much I weigh (a lot) and what percentage of my weight is fat (also a lot), I can say that my non-fat weight, according to the scale, is slightly less than 110 lbs. That's the same as my sister who is 4 inches taller than me. That (meaning if I had 0-percent body fat) is also a perfectly normal weight according to the BMI. Personally, I find that to be a bit disturbing. Oh well. Too bad I don't really give a bleep about my health.

You guys could skip this.... I'm just thinking "out loud". Since the many people that inspired this do not read the blog and you guys don't really read theirs (I think, I mean, I don't usually read all their blogs), it'll just be me blathering on and on...

De gustibus non est disputandum.
I learned this phrase my first-year in Latin. It translates to "Of taste, there is no argument." I just thought of it because I've been reading about blogs that attack certain pairings, etc. and then people respond to those attacks.
First of all, I find it amusing that people are so protective of their fandoms. I mean, I don't like it when other people say how much they dislike stuff I like, but who cares? Having liked a lot of things that seem to be hit-or-misses with the people (Phantom of the Opera, X-Files, Hellsing, and PoT), I've learned that it's no use arguing. Discussion, yes. Arguing, no.
But what kinda bugged me is how much people seem to mix up canon with their own ideas (or the ideas being put out there). There are people who talk about how they dislike Tez/Fuji because there's so much of it out there, etc. Fine, fine, I agree a lot of the stuff out there isn't all that great and a lot of it is T/F. But then they talk about how it's not the canon pairing or how they hate it because people consider it the canon pairing when the canon pairing is actually ______(insert any other shounen-ai pairing here). Strictly speaking, isn't there really no canon pairing in PoT other than Sakuno having a crush on Ryoma and the Kamio-Ann-Momo triangle? Or am I not understanding the word "canon"?
I think a lot of people say they like Tez/Fuji without explaining why or simply because they're "aesthetically pleasing", if I use Laura's words. Personally, I don't explain it really because I'm too damned lazy too. I would like to think that people don't pair characters up just because they stand next to each other all the time, but there are a lot of baseless and random pairings out there. I mean, I've heard of TezukaXEiji, AtobeXEiji, and hell, TachibanaXAnn.
That said, I'm not going to defend T/F, which is the pairing I like best if there were going to be a shounen-ai pairing in PoT, sort of like how I'd prefer AxI for Hellsing over AxC. It's not like Yukiru, where I'd actually like them to be together at the end of the series and live happily ever after.
I really got into PoT because of the fandom that exists out there. Witty and insightful observations and oh-so-wrong comments by people made it easier for me to be okay with the shounen-ai/yaoi-ness of it all. But then it turns really ugly when people start attacking characters or pairings or other fans. I've been noticing it a bit in Fruits Basket, more now in PoT, and there were TONS of it in POTO and X-Files.
There's no one person I'm thinking about when I rant like this, but it's just a general trend I'm seeing. People have a right to do whatever they'd like. I just find that it takes the fun out of the fandom to have to deal with stuff like that.

Congrats Gloria!!!!!!!

Ooh, ooh, have fun with Sarah. Show her why California is better than West Virginia and give her a big one of these:

:-P

Babysat nephew today. He was sick again. He gets sick a lot. (He was sick just last week too.)

Rewatched a few episode of Furuba today. 1-4. Almost forgot how much I love this series. Kyou, Tohru, Yuki, Kagura, Hana-chan, and Uo are great, but I ****heart**** Gure. It kills me that that's Tezuka's voice. He is so evil... he and Ayame would get along so well with Fuji. Fuji and Ayame can share tips on how to annoy their otoutou-kun's.
Will have to rewatch Ha-san's eps. I wonder if I have Ayame's too.

Look, I fangirled about something other than PoT! If I get a chance, I'm rewatching Hellsing too. That'll give me something to REALLY fangirl over. *cackle*

GOOD LUCK Gloria!!!!!!!!!

Been reading a lot on episode 95... apparently, it's a Fuji-fangirl's dream. Can't wait to see it. When I read the manga version of the storyline, I was practically bouncing around in my seat because it was so exciting. :) :) :)
Hehehe, maybe Gloria, you should try and find it and watch it as a post-MCAT reward.

Did I ever mention we now have a fence? Yay!!! It's a chain-link fence, but a fence nevertheless. The uncle that is here from Hong Kong put it up. My mother pretty much promptly put him to work as he is now also fixing our stairs.... I thought he was just an architect and not a construction guy.... oh well. Very grateful, but also sympathetic as my mother roped him into doing all that stuff.

Yay to seeing you online again. Is Sarah going to your place soon? There's only a week left before she goes back to school, so it seems weird that she'll fly all the way out here.
To contribute to the Pokemon discussion, if I were a Pokemon, I'd want the inside of a Pokeball to be like the inside of Jeannie's bottle. However, no pink or purple. (Ooh, ew, flashback to Mizuki...)
Anyway, it might be a bit claustrophobic, since didn't they say way back when that Pikachu was afraid of being inside?
Hehehe, Yugioh is such an on-crack show. I read that the American version is very censored. I already knew that, but now I'm curious as to how it is in the Japanese version.

Reunion with classmates will not happen. I contacted 4 of them and three of them aren't in the area. Er... I've done my part. I can't be accused of being anti-social anymore.

I am beginning to dislike the Registrar's office. I've been contacting them for a week now, but still haven't received an answer. Grrr.

My printer is on crack. No, seriously. It likes to pull in 15 sheets of paper when printing or pull the paper in crooked. The only time it's printed nicely for me was yesterday when I was infected with the Blaster worm. So... take that rant as a warning NOT to buy the Lexmark X63.

I wish I were more organized way back when. I'm scrambling to find my high school GPA, and I've tried contacting the Registrar's office and my old high school, neither of whom has gotten back to me. Now trying admissions office as well. I wish it were enough to say 3-point-something, but I bet that won't fly.

Chris still hasn't sent me his notes... At this rate, he might as well just leave them outside his door for me.

Nice PoT Site

I just needed to keep this somewhere before I forget it. I spent about 2 hours on it already.

Looking for Kochira Hon Ikegami Sho stuff? This is the official site for it. English-wise, I don't think there's much info on it. This was the best I found. :(
But yay, the show's 11 episodes long and they just showed #9, which means I will actually get to see the 11th episode!!!
(In case anyone's wondering, someone's come here a few times searching for it...)

I am weird.... I got some sadistic amusement out of hearing "Ore wa Momochan" come on while I was eating a peach.

Grr... The friend that I saw at the reunion way back when called today because we were talking about trying to get everyone together for a class reunion. He called and told me about how he couldn't get in touch with anyone and asked me if I had the phone numbers of the other people. I looked a couple of them up online, and got their emails and one phone number. (Didja know UCLA gives out your email, phone number, and address to just anyone online?) Anyway, I told him I got them and I would email it to him, and at the very end, he just said, "Well, it seems like you have all their numbers and all, so why don't you call them?" Bleh. bleh. bleh. Darn it. How did I get roped into this?????

Stupid Microsoft. You're just making me want to switch to Apple so badly. Lucky for you, Macs are usually more expensive than PCs. I kept getting kicked off today because of this RPC thing, which I found out was a hole in the security of the system and had to install this patch thingy, etc. It was really annoying because before the patch, the machine kept having to reboot every five minutes.

Sorry, I left all my MCATs stuff at school. I shoulda given them to you before I left so that you could have used them. :-(
I was really bored at "work" today, so I read your blog. That's not good, because I almost started cracking up when I read your musings on the pokeball.
But corny is good in PoT. It gives you something to laugh at when they're playing.

Don't worry, Tam-Linh! You'll be back at school pretty soon with your T3 and all... That is assuming our connection don't get messed up. And yay for PoT not being licensed.. A-O would have stopped subbing if it had, right? I still wonder what language Taka-san would yell in in his burning mode....

Xanga isn't loading. :-(

Ganbatte, MJ!!!!! You can do it!

The election is a farce. What's your classmates' name? I want to see it on the ballot. There's like 100 candidates or something. You want to talk about corrupt? I've been listening to an anime song about "bouncing boobies", downloadable from Jen's website. (Have I ever mentioned how much I love her blog? :) :) :) ) It's also heard in some of the TeniPuri Radio shows as a commercial
chi chi chi chi oppai, boin boin
chi chi chi chi oppai, boin boin
moge moge
Ahh, innocent little me, I first thought the song was about balls (like tennis or basketballs)...
It's scary how funny I find the song. hehehe
And it's sung by Takahashi Hiroki... who is Kikumaru's (PoT) seiyuu. He sounds very different, deeper voice, so not so child-like, but.... It adds to the scariness when I can hear hints of Eiji in his voice. Kiku singing about bouncing boobies... hahahahaaa

Still feeling sick, but a little better today. Still, the coughdrops that you gave me back in December are coming in quite handy. Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)

Had sushi today (yes, even though I'm sick). Quite yummy. It was a buffet and since I've been sick, my appetite has pretty much disappeared, so I ate one plate of food while my sister had maybe 4?

Got the TeniPuri musical songs stuck in my head. fun fun. Now I don't even have to listen to the mp3, I can just play it in my head.

Dude, if I thought about sex as much as I think about anime (specifically PoT, this past semester), I'd be a guy.

My traveling bookmarks:

Blogs:
Aliditz
Gloria
Koji
Mako
Mme. X
Rachel
Tam-Linh - You're not so special anymore. :-P

Archives

I have just a little too much time on my hands this summer. You must be pretty bored too to be here. Anyway, this is a way for me to stave off boredom-induced comas until I find something better to do. Other things I'm doing: watching too much TV, rewatching old episodes of PoT.

Currently obsessed with:

Fruits Basket
Hellsing
PoT

Male Anime Characters:

First Tier:
Hatori (FB) || Alucard (Hellsing) || Fuji (PoT)
(Wow, Fuji made it there with the big boys....)

Others:
Ayame, Shigure, Yuki, Kyou, Haru, Momiji (FB) || Walter, Yan Valentine *cackle* (Hellsing) || Sesshoumaru, Miroku (Inuyasha) || Oishi, Eiji, Tezuka, Ryoma [Seigaku]; Shinji, Kamio, Tachibana [Fudomine]; Yuuta, Mizuki (because I love to hate him) [St. Rudy's]; Jiroh, Atobe [Hyoutei]; Nanjiroh, Karupin (all PoT) || Vash, Wolfwood (Trigun)

Don't know why I assumed that Karupin is male.
That's it for the ones off the top of my head. I'm sure there are more.

Female Anime Characters:

Current music:
80-90's HK pop
Jacky Cheung
Anita Mui
Alan Tam
Leslie Cheung
PoT Character Songs
Hellsing soundtracks
Phantom of the Opera
Les Mis