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Sunday, November 21, 2004
08:01 p.m.
I would just like to say that Sasuke is a power/revenge-hungry little freak. He is such a child!! Really, he should grow up and smell the traps. Honestly, how thick could you get??? His only saving grace is that he's HAWT! %D
What the hell do people use to get bloody screen captures!?!?! I have tried the "Print Screen" thing and it just doesn't work...in ANY program!!! >.
Saturday, November 20, 2004
01:07 p.m.
Alright, I've been kind of an ass with this weblog. I write more often in the journal I keep on my computer. "Why don't you just copy and paste it here then?" you may ask! Because I am UBER lazy, that's why %D
Recent news: I got an account at Sheezy Art, an online art posting site. I originally went there just so I would be able to see SJen's sweet anime pron. Now, however, I have discovered that I, too, CAN DRAW!!!! XD I have only really done two "portrait heads" so far, but I am going to try to work on bodies %D All of this is, of course, anime stylin's. You have no idea how nice it is to be able to draw...
If you would like to see my stylin's you can view them HERE.
Today, I will be going to meet Sora, a 4-year-old boy whose mother wants me to teach him English...though TEACH might not be the right word, more like hang out and speak English. It's a little tough to TEACH four-year-old kids anything; their attention span is about as long a commercial. I'm looking forward to it, though. I find that I very much enjoy hanging out with kids. :) They're SO CUTE! XD And they don't care if you're "not cool" or anything. They just want to have fun. I miss that teaching in junior high...I mean they DO want to have fun too, but most times they are not so interactive. ~_~
Wednesday, October 20, 2004
09:52 p.m.
I'm going to be a jerk and tell you all that I wrote something in one of my other journals about something that I can't discuss here for reasons of propriety and not scaring people. I just wanted to let you all know that, even though what I wrote was pretty degrading, it sounded GREAT!
I also had another spider in my apartment tonight. Not a big one, but one of a similar pattern. It jumped. It was damn fast. I got it though. That little bastard won't be growing up to be some three inch monster in MY apartment! No SIR!!
Another typhoon is currently battering this area. Whoopee doodah.
Saturday, October 16, 2004
09:34 p.m.
Today I spoke to my brother. He is always telling me about THIS website where there's all sorts of funny things to look at. So I went there to watch some stuff. I went though almost all of the flash animations they have. One of them was titled "I Like Bukkake". Well, watching the animation and seeing many Japanese people AND my assumption that "bukkake" was a Japanese word, I thought it must be something from Japan, but the video didn't give much info as to what it was -exactly-. Me being the curious little thing that I am, I had to go and look it up.
BUKKAKE is indeed a Japanese word. It basically means "cum shower". @_@ There's a whole site dedicated to it. There are even TECHNIQUES! Examples include "Paint the Eyebrows", "Nasal Spray", "Steamed Conditioner" and "Spittle Mix". Yummy! Apparently the practice began in ancient Japan when a woman was found to be unfaithful. She was brought out in public then all the men of the village would ejaculate on her @_@ As if to say if you wanna get your jollies from some other guy you can get them from ALL the guys.
Only in Japan...I swear there is some weird shite goes on in this country...
Also, I just got a call from someone I haven't spoken to since MARCH. He invited me to a "bounenkai", a kind of kiss-last-year-goodbye party. I'm so happy *_* I honestly didn't think I'd be seeing any of those people again. Especially Kazuma...if he's even there. *le sigh* Kazuma...shall I refresh your memory of the sexiest Japanese man I have had the pleasure of meeting?...yes I shall.
Wednesday, October 13, 2004
06:01 p.m.
Well, it's been a while, but I thought I'd let you know that despite the typhoon having come right over us, and desite the fact that it had been the strongest to hit Pacific Japan in 10 years, I was a little disappointed that it didn't even cut the power. I know that some homes were mangled somewhere in the Kanto area, but still. There have been not-so-strong winds in Victoria and Terrace and the power's gone out! You should see how close the power lines are to the trees here! The sheer number of power lines should have been enough to make power go out SOMEWHERE. I even lit a candle, just in case cos I was sure it was going to get very dark. Nope. Oh well, I should be glad that it didn't do anything.
Saturday, October 9, 2004
06:45 p.m.
I have only just now experienced and am still experiencing a TYPHOON. There have been many typhoons since I've been in Japan, but none has really come close to hitting this area with anything stronger than joe-blo winds and rain. THIS time, however, we are directly in its path as it travels along Japan. Tim and I were walking home from the Narita Airport speech contest (where our first years won first XD) and it got blustery with rain. If we had been any later getting home we would have been walking in the thick of it. I thought to close my storm blinds and good thing I did too. About an hour later it was PISSING rain and the winds were super strong. I watched the news a while ago while getting ready to watch Gundam SEED Destiny and they said the winds were in the vicinity of 40-60km per hour @_@ or something. Maybe that sounds a bit small, but it's not small when it's pounding your house! The eye just passed over us and the crickets even came out. Now it's starting to pick up again. It will no doubt be sunny tomorrow as always happens after a typhoon passes. I just hope the roof doesn't blow off ;_;
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
10:30 p.m.
Also, I bought a book last week, Abarat by Clive Barker. It was, for all intents and purposes, a single volume. I was enthralled as I read it. I finished it today, but, much to my dismay it had a "to be continued" at the end! There was no indication on the cover or anywhere else in the book, and who looks at the end before reading a book? Not I. Now I have to wait for ANOTHER installment in ANOTHER series. Currently I am waiting on the next segment in the Song of Ice and Fire series, the next Harry Potter and the next Abarat. I guess I've been into fantasy quite a bit lately. I think it's just because I need an escape from the humdrum of my current life.
I'd also like to send a shout out to COLLEEN!!! WHERE THE HELL DID YOU GO!?!? Your domain went down and now I have no email to send email to you with. I tried "thatbitch" and everything. ;_; Should I create a LiveJournal...can't get on your list if I'm not a member, can I... ;_; I miss checking up on you :P ^_~
Another shout out to Kestrel, whose anime music videos continue to amaze me and attract me to new music. I was blown away by her Utena music videos because EACH ONE was perfectly matched, song to clips to meaning. Yesterday I downloaded her latest, one using clips from Blue Submarine 06, paired with a song by Sylvia Tosun called "Sleepless Dark Water". I -really- like this song. I was lucky to find Sylvia's website and download a decent MP3 copy of it. You can't get the CD anymore apparently...if you want it, you have to pay $40.00 at Amazon. Psh, yeah right. Ain't paying that much for a CD that was originally $12.00.
Wednesday, October 6, 2004
08:36 p.m.
It's 8:30 on a Wednesday. Do you know where your money is? It's being spent on completely impulsive buys! XO I TRY to buy my comics now based on release dates that I find online. I kind of liken it to budgeting. It doesn't help though when you go to the mall on an off chance and...there before you are all these comics that you didn't know were being released!!! These aren't just any random comics either, these are ones that you are already collecting! Grr. I picked up MeruPuri 4 the DVD version of the last volume of Sonna koe dashichya iya!. I'd already bought the non-DVD version but Ai keeps pestering me to get the DVD so I did. ~_~ I also picked up a very boys' type comic called Judas and a cuteness comic called Gokkun! Puucho. Unfortunately both of these is a #1 in a series. Poo. I don't know if I'll continue them or not. Depends. I'll have to take closer looks at them.
I also went to the Tsutaya. I NEED to watch something other than PotC and HP. Until the package that my mom sent arrives, I'm at a loss. I wanted to rent some movies. While I was looking, the music that was playing caught my attention and after much hemming and hawing I bought the damn CD YES I bought the damn CD. It's called "Welcome to the North" by a band from Leeds called "The Music". It's really not bad at all :) Glad I bought it. I also rented Beetlejuice, Memento and Love Actually.
On Sunday I get to back to the mall and pick up two more comics! YAY!
Monday, October 4, 2004
05:22 p.m.
I am a complete neener head. Y'know how I said I'd felt cheated on the last episode of FMA? Said that it had only been half an hour?....THEY'RE ALL HALF AN HOUR YOU RETARD!!!! I feel a little bit dumber now. It must be all the flourescent lighting in this country.
Sunday, October 3, 2004
09:01 p.m.
WELL! A few days ago I was cleaning a bit and was rummaging through some stuff on top of the TV box that is under the stairs to the loft...I turned around to put something away (blank wall was blank) then turned back around and I (pardon the language) I shit you not there was a spider on my wall of tropical-jungle-like-you-see-on-the-discovery-channel sized spider ON MY WALL!!!!!!!! It was THREE INCHES in diameter including legs!!! I have NEVER seen a spider that big in my LIFE!!! I moved my bed away from the wall where it was and of course it moved,...I started to freak out when it skittered over the wall and behind my curtains..,if you can't see it, it seems more scary. I called Tim and asked him to help me cos he'd had the same kind in his apartment a few weeks earlier. So he came over with some bug spray and a shoe. We moved some stuff out of the way and were looking for it...I spotted it above my curtains and flipped, so did Tim cos he don't like spiders much either. So he starts spraying it and then it skittered over the wall some more and..get this...LEAPED FROM THE WALL TO THE FLOOR!!!!!!!! ----LEAPED----!!!!!!! I'm freaking out, crying and the whole thing by now, so Tim sends me out of the apartment. He sprayed it a lot, blinding it, and then whacked it with a broom which he sent me to get. He managed to whack it and it went into my trash can. Since it was crippled he took the bag out and searched the bag for it. When he found it he squished it with the end of the broom handle. And it was dead. This experience has traumatized us both so much that every time we enter our apartments we do spider sweeps. I looked up arachnophobia on the net and I think I'm a "monitor" type. I have to know where it is at all times. Freaky eh? So now I've had cockroaches AND giant spiders...I'm having a great time in Japan right now.
In other news, Full Metal Alchemist ended yesterday. I feel cheated out of an ending. It was only a bloody half hour!! Nothing really got wrapped up! Mind you I don't think the manga is even finished yet so they can't really do much I guess. Still, it felt like a bit of a cop-out. Next week Gundam SEED Destiny starts. I wonder if anyone's going to be having that available.
Saturday, September 25, 2004
04:15 p.m.
EDIT: NOT NOT NOT!!! HAPPY about episode 50 of FMA!!!!!
Large groups of young dancing boys on TV scare me. S'nice that they know how to dance and stuff and they ARE really good, but in large groups, scary. They could be used for some kind of enemy in a parody cartoon or something...@_@
Thursday, September 23, 2004
10:00 p.m.
You have been warned. I have exercised my "Peter Pan Syndrome" and acted like a 12-year-old with a new internet connection/website collecting all manner of fanlistings to join. WHEE!! There's a lot...but I was still picky. I only picked things I REALLY REALLY like. Well, okay...some of them ARE a little frivolous, but hey, I was B-O-R-E-D. I have no more movies left to watch - I've exhausted my teensy DVD collection (I've watched HP 1&2 and PotC at LEAST 50 times...EACH!!!) and not wanting to heat up my computer by watching something on CD...I had little else to do. Such is the life of a singleton with two friends living in Japan. Le Sigh.
I keep thinking I ought to make a bunch more fanlistings myself. One for Noir's "Secret Game" song, one for Norman Mailer's "Ancient Evenings" (LOVE the talking semen!!! XD), one for Hirakawachi 1-chome... that's about it really. I was disappointed not to find listings for any of the above. Maybe I'd do one for the Eye of Horus as well...hmm...oh the possibilities!!
I fell asleep last night at around 8-ish and woke up at 2:30 this morning. @_@ I also had a rather interesting dream, which I remembered quite a bit of and in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER no less!!!...
I was exploring a house with some other people and there were a lot of weird characters about. There was a room that looked kind of like an amphitheater. We followed an old woman into her house, or upstairs in the one we were already in and she was showing us all these coffins. She opened one up and I thought there'd be some dead person in it, but it was just a "prop". She did open one later, however, in which SHE thought for sure there was a person, but...GASP!!! IT WAS MISSING!!! So we were going to try to find out what happened to it and then I believe it progressed to this next scene...
I was at some sort of festival. I think it was meant to be some kind of sports day like we had at school. There was dancing. All these people were putting on a dance show for the audience. We were on a grassy hill, and there was a sort of make-shift gate thing that acted as a kind of "stage" frame. I didn't really want to participate because I didn't know the dance, but people convinced me to join anyway. I tried my hardest to immitate everyone, but it just didn't work, I screwed up a lot. We got to the point where we were sitting on the grass in lines of at least a dozen people and I was at the head of my line, much to my chagrin. They were saying to "watch for the clue". A gentleman in front of my line was making a heart shape with his hands, and because I'd been doing a gesture like that of open-handed prayer, I thought that was the next gesture and thus imitated him, but he shook his head and I realized that he was making the "clue". It was meant to tell everyone what shape to make when they all got back together in the center of the "stage" again. So the line broke up and everyone started doing other formations and arguing about who would introduce themselves. Some people stopped others from doing so rather violently, like shoving them back into a position under themselves. I bowed out at this point. They made the heart and everyone enjoyed the show. After this there was a party of sorts and I wandered around looking for things to do. There were several wooden "scaffolds" around the field and I went to investigate. I believe I climbed one and sat on my own for a bit. Came back down and some depressed fat lady whined at me. I found another scaffold on which another girl was not feeling so hot. Now I can't remember what I did for her. The third, and final, scaffold that I came to was draped in navy blue fabric. I couldn't find a way in, but every time I lifted the fabric I heard heavy metal music blasting. I thought it must be some party up there. I managed to find the opening and climbed up. There was an Egyptian man there (of the Ancient sort) with a sarcophagus. There was also a kind of smooth rock covered in hieroglyphics on the floor surrounding the sarcophagus. As I went around it, he was telling me the stories or describing the images that were carved onto the coffin, one of which was Sailor Moon @_@?? The next thing he mentioned was a harem and then this Egyptian woman was on all fours near me...maybe she'd been in the harem? She "walked" between me and the sarcophagus and because there wasn't much room on the smooth rocks, I had to lean onto her to keep from falling from the scaffolding.
Now, the rest of this is a little adult, and a little embarassing, but I must not edit. So if you want to read it, highlight it. I kind of tripped onto her and she undid one of the buttons on my dress (underwear maybe?) and I tried to do it back up, but I was suddenly lying on my back across the sarcophagus and she was in front of me between my legs. She came up and started licking my neck (shiver) and then she went down on me...stopping once to exclaim "watch out for that first bit" or something. The whole time I was thinking "oh god I don't want her to do that, it's gross, it's gross!!!" but while she was doing it it was okay @_@;; Pleasure was short-lived cos I woke up. @_@;;
And that's all folks!
Monday, September 20, 2004
11:36 p.m.
Well, I reformatted my hard drive today. The computer seems none the worse for wear, aside from brief spazzings here and there...I suppose that could be a bad thing. At any rate, it runs faster, and has more space...or did have until I installed Egyptian Prophecy on it. I had a bit of a brain fart with that game...forgot I'd have to start from the beginning because my saved games went down the tubes. Poo. At least I won't have to switch to the walkthrough as much...
I have stopped treatment on my plantar warts...I'm sure you wanted to know that. They didn't really bother me before I started the treatment, but as soon as I started to try and get rid of them, boy did they kick up a stink! I guess I should have just kept them on as not-so-irritating foot guests...?
I have come to the conclusion that parmesan cheese can bring a wondeful flavour to almost anything...especially when dealing with tomatoes.
Monday, September 13, 2004
09:51 p.m.
EDIT: I have changed the layout again. Surprise~
Here we are once again at the end of another sports festival. Nari-chu had it's annual "taikusai" on Saturday. Of COURSE I went, after having participated in so much of the planning and stuff (NOT...nor did I want to). Anyhoo, bright and early it started, with the "announcement-that-something-funky-is-going-on" fireworks and a bunch of stretching exercises. One of the teachers (whom I dislike a bit) warned me that I was standing on the chalk line of the track...so I move...and then later notice that she has all but obliterated a section of it on her own...gee...
The starting events were, of course, the races. First up, the first year's 100 meter race...which I ran in...and almost died, or at least almost fell over. Right near the end my legs almost came right out from under me. You could tell I don't run a lot. Then Tim and I helped out with a card race game and then there was the second year's 100 meter, which I ALSO ran in and almost fell over. Not to mention that I've got a rather painful plantar wart on the bottom of my foot...Suffice it to say I came in DEAD LAST in both races. Poo.
There were some other events that weren't very exciting...there's only one REALLY exciting event...well, no, there are two, but one is WAAAAAY more exciting. I'm a big fan of the boys' activities just because they're more...fun? Watching the girls dance is fine, but they all look like emotionless zombies, with no enthusiasm whatsoever about the dance they're doing. :T ANYHOO, the boys' events that I'm talking about are the human tower/shape building and the kibasen. They managed to make the big four tier tower again this year, good on em! Then there was the kibasen. Violent, but exciting. The guys make four person teams, three on the bottom to hold the fourth up on their shoulders. The one on top goes shirtless so that other tops can't get a hold on him. They go around trying to pull down the tops of teams on the opposite...team. Red VS White. There were three rounds total. First round=DRAW Second/Third round=WHITE SLAUGHTERED RED!!!! XD I was on the white team and we had some MONSTERS! Hideki and Jun and Koudai and Soushi...we had all the kick-ass guys on my team *_* I was so happy~ I was cheering so hard!! So exciting. Not so exciting when someone gets hurt though...apparently one boy fell on his head and later went to the hospital to get checked out :(
At the end of the day, the winning team was announced. I thought we lost because I kept looking over at Tim and he had this grin on his face. I avoided him like the plague after the kibasen because I didn't want to find out if we were going to lose from him. I wanted to find out when the students found out. It felt nice to be on the winning team this year. Last year I was on the red team and they lost. The captain of the red team from last year came back to watch the events and was sad that the red team lost again.
I was SO tired after that day, but I couldn't rest yet...the teachers' after party was yet to come. I didn't REALLY want to go...I just wanted to go to bed. The parties are okay if you're not dead tired. It's hard to sit and listen to Japanese you don't understand and jokes you can't laugh at. It's hard to not drink when everyone else is getting pissed...all they drink is beer, wine and sake, all of which I don't really like. Sake is okay if it's chu-hi...so next party I'm bringing my own alcohol...if I feel like it. I don't really like drinking in that kind of situation anyway. Blah. So got through the party. Next day I woke up to an entire body ACHE. I felt like I was 80 years old from the waist down. I used muscles to run that I never knew I had...ouch. It's better now, but damn...not doing that again for a while