B l a c k F e a t h e r s , v 4 .1
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April 30th, 2005 (Saturday) 12:55 p.m.
Feeling : Queered

I slept at 5am, and woke up at 11am. WHY?!?!?!?!

Also saw the first episode of Trinity Blood. I don't know if it's just me trying to be some anime expert (I can't stand people who go OMFG COOL at every and any anime), but aside from background, world settings and the ending theme, I wasn't impressed

Mini-review: Trinity Blood #01 "Flight Night" "Humans eat animals. Vampires consume the blood of humans. So somewhere out there, there has to be something that feeds off vampires..." The above is a line (spoken by the main character) I thought rang out particularly loud for the first episode I just watched. Trinity Blood is adapted from the manga of the same name, drawn by the artist who did 'Angel Sanctuary'. Gonzo has, of late, been really fond of every series being revealed with some great war at the very start. Trinity Blood is no exception. It also has some mech designs not that different from what we've seen from 'Last Exile'. I also noted that for this episode, the animators seemed like they were busy with something else other than 2D animation... The main character, Abel Nightroad, might seem like an original personality among a world of angsty, dark and serious vampires (other series, animes' characters included), but as a more general character, I found him disappointingly similiar to Yami no Matsuei's Tsuzuki. Both are usually happy-go-lucky yet harbor a dark side that lingers on the other side of the spectrum, love sweet things, and start out broke waiting for their next pay. What I do enjoy most about the series, is the combination of the Roman Catholic's grand architechture (or background) to mechs / futuristic themes, as odd as the concept might sound. The backgrounds are quite a bit to take in considering the series seems to want the splendor of that era reflected, yet aren't too overwhelming. Overall, the world this series is based on looks like the Dark Ages of the future, with their only light being the Church. Oh, that and the ending theme (audio + visual) is one of the best I've come across. A little angsty, but hey I'm a sucker for such. Though it's mainly Engrish, the atmosphere makes that little flaw minute! Side note: Why does Abel NightRoad's seiyuu sound like that annoying farmer from Samurai 7?! I don't mean the sound of voice, but his accent goes a little 'off' sometimes and I just think of that other character.

Ah yes, yesterday I heard my classmates talking about a bossy guy in another group. First time I've really heard any opinions of Japanese on another person.

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April 29th, 2005 (Friday) 11:22 p.m.
Feeling : Knowledge-thirsty

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Anyway, I told Mom about the whole issue, and to my shock, she was all, "Oh... I was expecting that." O_O Okay, so she does know me through and through. *hugs* (#^o^#). Don't know if I've already mentioned, but I sent her a Mother's Day card in advance, writing 'Happy Mom's Day. I love you, but you already that.' and gave her a pleasant surprise. ^_^_^_^_^

Had a group meeting this morning with Miyo-san, Yano-san and .... I forgot the last girl's name (damn faulty memory). It was supposed to be a session of the director (Miyo-san) explaining the storyboard to us layout artists, but in the end, I was refining the camera angles and stage actions of the whole thing (despite me saying I hate doing storyboarding). In the end, it came out pretty good. : ) Managed to get the shots looking more dynamic. ^_^ Now for the layout... =_=;

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I should go get some beef tomorrow.

Oh... it took a while, but I've finally remembered to comment on the train crash. People from elsewhere don't seem to get how serious Japanese are being punctuality. Every train, every bus... they all come on time. Even if the locals forsee being late for a minute, they contact the other party and all. Anyway, I hadn't known about the accident until a day later. All I can say after seeing the photographs is, "That was a train?" Flat stuff. o_O Oh, and the apartment fared astondingly well.

You know... they should send spies to go take a look at some of Singapore's teen chatrooms if they think this is bad.

You know... the freshwater jellies in Palau look pretty cute (in fact most ichibi' jellies without long tentacles are cute), but I'm still terrified despite the fact they can't sting... Talk about yer baseless phobia. -_- Technically I should be more terrified of sharks since my father was smoking something weird when he took his 2 year old daughter to watch Jaws 2, that had her traumatized enough to start drawing nothing but sharks chomping up stick figure people, BUT I think sharks look pretty darn adorable. O_O Reef sharks!!! <3

{¦ D Sycia's word of the day... MOAI!!!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

As you can tell, :D Been spending more quality time with Wikipedia~! I <3 the place!

Wanderlust wanderlust wanderlust....

Australian English:

I wonder if it's just a mere coincidence that 'cut' in Australian English and Japanese both mean 'angry' or 'upset'... Very odd...

light globe – although "light bulb" is sometimes also used, most Australians don't realise that "globe" is not used in this sense outside Australia. <-- o____O

thingo or thingamajig – a placeholder for an object whose name is unknown or forgotten. <-- Wait... I use this term a lot.. I don't think I got it from Auzzie...

... and kinda think of it, I've hardly ever seen the word 'biscuit' used over the internet... Usually it's 'cookie', for which I get the impression of a large, thick, round cookie (mostly looking like a choco-chip one)... Or 'cracker' for the thinner variety that can consist of salty ones~Whereas with the term 'bisuit', I think of a much broader variety of snack food, sweet salty, thin or thick (meaning both 'cookie' and 'cracker' impressions lumped together)... etc etc... Interesting... o_O

And hey... I use the word 'capsicum' over red/ green 'pepper', 'cos 'pepper's also that table-top seasoning.

*Looks* Very very very interesting article... I guess it's true... Singaporeans use a mix of both American, British and sometimes Australian English due to the variety of foreign TV media. I often worry about which to use when typing stuff on the internet and it's come to the point I don't even know if I'm spelling right, wrong or haywired. My dilemmas:

~our / ~or (e.g honour / honor). With common words like 'colour / color' and 'flavour / flavor', I'm fine, but stuff like 'favourite / favorite' & 'savoury / savory', I get confused. :|

~re / ~er (e.g centre/ center). I use both spellings unconsciously though I very well know '~re' is British and '~er' is American... o_O Sometimes, depending on the word, I do get mixed up. Like 'fibre / fiber'.. >_o; ~ce / ~se' (e.g licence / license). While for words that can be nouns & verbs (like 'advice / advise' or 'practice / practise'), using which has never been a problem, standalone nouns are proving somewhat problematic for me. 'Defence/ defense', 'offence / offense'... which in the world do I use?! ARGH!

~ize / ~ise (e.g realize / realise). ¯_¯ This is something that gets to me every time. I generally favor (<-- :o I just used U.S spelling!) '~ize', but since there are just SO many words out there that can be spelt both ways, and I don't have the mental capacity to remember them all, well... -_-;

For own reference: Misc Spelling Differences. *Hits self* So this is the reason why I spell it as 'jewellry' (incorrect combination of both Brit and U.S English). Duh. Also... the Brit spellings of words: 'Kerb' (curb) & 'loth' (loath), I've never known. And now I also know why some people gave me a weird look when I write out the word 'storey' to describe the floor of a building. o_O

'built-in / inbuilt' ^o^ But damn. I keep adding a hyphen (wrong). That's got to stop. See? Another instance of a warped combination of Brit and U.S words.

"To Americans the word 'whilst', in any context, seems very archaic and/or pretentious." <--- O_O;

Bleed'in long entry today huh... If you've read the entire article, you'll know just how jubbled this journal is, riddled with spellings, grammer, volcabulary and punctuations from various English dialects... -_-; Gomenasai. The internet = melding pot for people all across the world, so... >_<

More articles to read up:
+ British words not used in American English
+ American words not used in British English
(For the above 2 links, I found that a lot of words I use interchangably, and that I go O_O much less at the British list of words ^o^)


Random: What the heck is 'irregardless' (American English, considered incorrect)?! o_o; I can imagine those not fluent with English to form such a word by mistake but....

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Thursday, April 28, 2005 11:57 p.m.
Feeling : Sleepy

Okay, my stomach is completely A-okay after the night's 2-hour snooze oO What a fast recovery, though I'm still pecking at food. At least I don't feel like playing them more than putting em into my mouth.

About 5 or more helicopters were hovering over Chiyoda district (where my school's located) the whole of this morning. What gives?

I fear politics...

Spring's nice, but... the explosion of insects is disturbing, especially when you're trying to cycle and they keep smacking into your face / glasses. -_- Not that I flip out and fall off my bike or something, but it still surprises me when something black/ brown/ yellow/ green pops outta nowhere and tries to go, "NYEHEHEH" at me. Can't count the number of times I had to take my glasses off and blow away the things while riding.

Oooohh... I've finally rediscovered this file. Italian English.

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April 27th, 2005 (Wednesday) 10:21 p.m.
Feeling : Weird

Well... thanks to my super-connection (Japan <3) I got the Bleach's 29 RAW within an hour. Had gone to bed at 2am, woken at 6am, did some work before going off to school at 11am~

Also... a list of things I ate for today....

5 small butter biscuits for breakfast.
A cream-cheese bread bun for lunch with milk tea.
Half a Katsu-don for dinner.

Had half the Katsu-don and nearly puked, bloated. Apparently after deciding it didn't need fiber OR water, my body is now trying to reject food. And is succeeding. From yesterday I've been feeling so tired of eating (though I barely did any). So what am I going to live off now... sunlight?

Had a gastric + stomachache combo attack right before dinner, yet I could barely eat anything.. Odd. The attack was one heck of a ride. Couldn't tell which hurt more, lol.

On the bright side, Mom's wish from long ago for me to lose weight could come true... But gee... it's odd to look at food and feel sickened for the first time... o_O

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April 26th, 2005 (Tuesday) 10:43 p.m.
Feeling : Full

Today's weather has been crazy, if not nice. The morning was HOT, then a shower in the late afternoon dropped temperatures 10 degrees. Weeee~ Sycia is happy, at the very least.

Currently listening to "BB" Station. I wonder if it's mere coincidence that right before it plays a programme called 'Enka Samurai...' ..... Ack. So much static over the transistor radio... Still it's great hearing Morikawa and Orikasa.

Also found out Ishida is being voiced by the same guy doing Sasuke (Naruto)... no wonder his voice sounded so familiar... (was too lazy to check it up).

Had a sandwich for breakfast, one onigiri for lunch, then dinner was an onigiri and a maki... strangely enough I felt too full to proceed with the sandwich purchased along with them. o_O

Also got BitTorrent for the first time. People tell me WinMX is user-unfriendly but BitTorrent is.. -_- If Sis hadn't explained stuff to me, I'd have been frustrated enough to get the program off my computer. Still, it is a pretty nifty thing.

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April 25th, 2005 (Monday) 10:58 p.m.
Feeling : Contented~

It's a beautiful cool and windy night... Perhaps I should take wing. Haven't done so in quite a while.

Made an LJ icon for Sis last night prior request. First real attempt at one.

Haven't slept 2 days, but I'm happy I'm finally done with what I was working on. ^_^

"All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night
in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find
that is was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous
men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible."
- T. E. [Thomas Edward] Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia] (1888 - 1935)

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April 25th, 2005 (Monday) 12:35 a.m.
Feeling : Glad~

I have people telling me there's a largely angry & false reply was written, but I don't care enough to bother indulging in such unnecessary things unless someone gives me a good reason to. ^_^

Lastly, on the tone of the subject, I'd like to thank you, yes you know who are are. Thank you for all your support and very useful tips on this in the short little conversation we had this morning just now. : ) *Hugs* It really just made me step back and laugh. *muacks~*

I've been listening to "BB" Station and listening to the seiyuus cross-voice characters is wwwwweeeirrrd. Orikasa's as Chad (???) and Orihime, Morikawa's as Gin <-- pretty darn good & creepy, but he ended up laughing halfway through.

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April 24th, 2005 (Sunday) 09:55 p.m.
Feeling : Amused

And I opened up my ICQ this morning to find a few messages from someone who I thought I specifically told to get out of my life, sounding like he was getting ready for a revenge-fueled vengeful attack (something like 'So you want me out of your life? Fine. Look forward to my posted reply' or the like). Well, not my problem, none of my business any longer. This time I'm not going to stand for the same old angry bashing from the ugly again. Such anger. Tsk tsk. Then again I should expect this of someone who admitted he would inflict harm on me if he could not 'have' me. It's not the first time I've been threatened like this anyway.

Strange. Perhaps the message "Get out of my life" somehow wasn't made clear enough that time. Someone please tell me how to make it even clearer? Though I should probably give thanks for being reminded to get rid of one username from my LJ-friends' list. Ah~ and from ICQ, address book.... what else was there? Tagboard?

In any case, goodbye. Again. Have a swell life (^.^)//

Original entry I had typed, with the apparently
incomprehensible phrase 'Get out of my life'

EDIT:

Wait. I just realized how I could make that phrase even clearer. Have to speak in his language, so here goes:

I do NOT love you.
I NEVER have,
& I NEVER will.
So GO AWAY.

Halleluja to whoever somehow got convinced that I do. You people have only read his side.
Now, if this doesn't get across, it didn't get across. Refer to a deleted anonymous comment. NOW I am convinced STUPIDITY is as infinite as the universe.

I am really stumped. I say GET OUT OF MY LIFE, and SPECIFICALLY BAN his username from my LiveJournal and he still becomes persistent enough to start posting anonymously, taunting me like he's won an invisible, purely personal victory like a persistent troll, that I am 'hiding' or 'running'. Like a failing attempt to grab my attention. Which is not only thick-skinned and lame, but also quite lowly. I delete his anonymous comments, he posts some more. Delete more, get a longer message each time. Time to turn on 'Friend-Only comments'~

I must be missing something here but why do I have to listen to what he has to say anymore? Someone give me one GOOD reason why. Because I sure as hell can't imagine any. The situation now reminds me of a young brat throwing a tantrum over a toy he can't get. Really, I've never met such a pathetic individual. Oh well, no matter. This only further compliments my final desicion.

For simpletons, GET OUT OF MY LIFE means:

Do not post on my blogs. ANY of them.
Do not post on my TagBoard.
Do not message me.
Do not email me.
Do not stalk my online/ real-life friends/ family/ animals/ plants/ living organisms/ natural material.
Do not bother my online/ real-life friends/ family/ animals/ plants/ living organisms/ natural material with stupid cryptic messages just to catch my attention
Do not attempt to contact me through ANY MEANS.

.... is the above even comprehensible by someone so dimmed by self-delusion and denial? I might be missing a few things, but if stupidity holds through, I'm sure I'll see more of him doing things in the future. Meaning more additions to the above list.

Then again, I shouldn't be bothering this much. ^_^ After all I never trusted him enough to give him me address, or phone number again anyway. Time to ignore completely~ <3

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April 24th, 2005 (Saturday) 11:08 p.m.
Feeling : }: |

Okay... Basilisk was boring. Dead serious animes = dead bored Sycia. Sure the animation's nice, but I was all *yawnnnn*. And it's strange to see the end of the main characters at the start of a series. o_O It's not something that's done often, so I'm queered. It also undermines the question of 'what WILL happen to them in the end', killing any form of curiousity... Well... that's for me at least.

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Been into Bleach lately, so I was just thinking of what an original character of mine would look like if she was in the Bleach world. Out of fun, and with a more serious intention for myself.

This is toptier. {¦ D

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April 22nd, 2005 (Friday) 11:18 p.m.
Feeling : TGIF

[angst]
Cried some after getting home... my heart aches eternally.
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Also read through the latest Bleach chapter (apparently the issue itself comes out earlier for some other countries). I've never liked Byakuha, but he's won my respect in just one picture frame.

And.... DIE AIZEN... What do you take Rukia for anyway?! >_<

Right after class this old guy pushing a cart along the road, selling baked sweet potatoes caught my eye. Followed (stalked?) him around for about 15 minutes snapping quite a few pictures. Will put them up from tomorrow.

... :o Just dug through my drawer looking for something, and found 'I Love You' stickers I received sometime during my first year here. o_O Brings back amusing memories.

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April 21st, 2005 (Thursday) 09:13 p.m.
Feeling : :|

Bayu-chan dropped over for a surprise visit. Had dinner together and he's still pretty... um... happy, about BL.

Having nothing to say of late, mainly because I'm frustrated at my handicap when it comes to drawing humans. : |

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April 20th, 2005 (Wednesday) 11:06 p.m.
Feeling : Listless

Bleach 28: XD The ending.... Wait-ll you see Kenpachi and his league of 'gentlemen'. *Cracked up at that point*

Cuttlefish are CUTE. >_< Why do they have to be so CUTE. *Jumps at picture of one*

Group gathering: Apparently I'm the one who put in the most time into my backgrounds. We scanned in our image backgrounds and added the characters in to see how the colors would go together. Well, actually, I did the scanning in, coloring of characters and composition since the other two people in charge of backgrounds don't seem to know much of computers (I'm surprised. I'm there fumbling with a super old version of Photoshop in Japanese, on a Macintosh, and there they are being all "WHOA WHOA WHOOOAAAAA" just cause I can find my way around and slap some cheap shadows on the ground).

Other things: People can't seem to imagine Singapore being smaller than Tokyo. o_O

:D I'm going to that presentation of the Blood TV series~! *CELEBRATES* Originally wanted to register online, but I got too lazy and decided I stood little chance of going in the first place since only 200 places were open. This morning my homeroom lecturer asaid anyone wanting to go to this event (he didn't specify 'Blood', but I guessed it the moment he wrote it on the board). Well... one of my lecturers IS in I.G Productions, and whatever our lecturers have been involved in (anime productions) we've been encouraged to go and give our support. It's not so much an anime-based event, rather an event to announce HOW the animation is going to be managed. Definitely come in useful for someone who wants to create her very own one day.

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April 18th, 2005 (Monday) 09:55 p.m.
Feeling : x_X

:O Just watched Jurassic Park. Having trouble believing it was made 12 years ago... o_o Still, the moment the first dinosaur came onscreen, I experienced the awe and pure ecstacy the movie gave me the first time I saw it~ <333 I believe that if I were with the main characters at that point in time, I would've been reduced to tears.

Stayed up all night, not sleeping a wink to finish some backgrounds only to have Yoneda-san skip school and have my efforts put to a bit of a waste. Meh.

Joyce and my DVDs arrived (from Amazon.co.uk). The outer covering of my Lord of the Rings Extended version box set looks a little worn, but I'm not being picky. Probably won't have a chance to start watching it until Golden Week.

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April 17th, 2005 (Sunday) 11:06 p.m.
Feeling : Full

Sometimes, works of Nature prove too funny. Like the ocean sunfish. o_O Why. Why in the world did a fish with such a bizzare form evolve???? It's cute (awwww I wanna swim with one~) ... but... o_O

And heck. I thought the term for a group of crows was bad (murder of crows), but ravens are... conspiracy / unkindness?! >_____< For jellyfish it's 'smack' *imagines.... dies*???


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To note, I've also gotten Roy Mustang on all official quizzes from the manga artist... Though I don't bother with the cunning part.


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Frankly... I'm not into Byakuya at all... That and I'm afraid of fangirls... *shivers*

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April 16th, 2005 (Saturday) 07:55 p.m.
Feeling : Contemplative

o_O What a dream. Maybe I should complete the Samurai 7 series. Kyuuzo was in, taking me places in the Samurai 7 world.

Just ran into some other girl living on the same floor, while making lunch (common kitchen). We talked a little... where we come from, what courses we take, general view on the country etc etc... common questions to people you don't know and all that... I've nothing against her but I honestly hate this type of formality. Oh nevermind. I hate meeting with new people anyway. Anti-social and loner by obvious choice (though it doesn't show online). Self-introductions just feel so.... so.... fake. I'd prefer to skip it and discuss other topics/ do something that cannot be achieved without them. You can probably tell I'll be feeling extremely out of place at social functions like parties (formal or not). I don't like talking much to strangers, much less being around any. Most of the time spending the energy to open my mouth seems more like a huge waste for nothing. Of course brooding in a dark corner or simply walking on out such occasions would prove to be bad (unless I've been dragged there against my will), so I fake an acceptible level of sociability, something that disgusts me greatly, and takes hours to get rid of the bitter taste. Mother (who's a social butterfly) and Lil Sis (likewise) are probably scratching their heads at how someone can be so... 'alone'. I wonder what they see in other people.

But putting such dreary stuff aside, I love my siblings and mother. I'm still working on figuring out how I should see feel about my old man. Strange... in the past I saw my siblings as more of pests (and they grew up terrified of me). I wonder where / when the <3 crept in from. Definitely before I left them.

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."
- John Bowring

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April 15th, 2005 (Friday) 11:59 p.m.
Feeling : x_X

Well, I finally feel a lot less sh*tty. Though looking back at what I typed this morning I'm terribly amused at what I'm capable of saying.

Didn't sleep the entire night because I was feeling restless and bothered by it all. Dragged feet to school this morning and got laid more background homework despite Yoneda-san saying us background designers could get the weekend off... *mumbles*

Waited to meet Joyce at my station for about an hour and a half, basking in the sun and enjoying the spring breeze and falling sakura petals~ We sat around talking for quite a bit and discussed living together if both of us landed working positions here.... (Sycia goes <333)

.... now.... *faints from exhaustion*

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April 15th, 2005 (Friday) 08:15 a.m.
Feeling : ...

Inner voice says: I shall be calm. I shall not frown. I shouldn't be annoyed. I cannot allow myself to be ticked off.

YET I AM.

Alright. I've been nice. And polite. Well, since it doesn't do any good anymore, I might as well not hold back.

I have been shutting up on MY part because I felt it was partly MY fault someone had to get upset because I rejected him. Then again, taking a step back now, I look at myself and ask, "Why the fuck are you feeling sorry?"

I have HAD IT. You are free to 'pursue' me if you please, and I even wanted to give a chance to a NORMAL friendship once more because I felt obliged to be nice. But after I have said, "NO" three bloody times and you still give me fuck'ing crap, you expect me to still be nice. Congratulations! If you wanted to test my limits. I've presented you with a fine result. Be happy! Be very very very HAPPY! Finally, after so many people telling me to just ignore you (and me being stupidly nice to not take their advice), I've finally succumbed! WOW!

Attempting to get _closer_ to me while I was back in Singapore. Asking me my phonse number while I was feeling drunk (or high). And now you turn online to stalk me. Trying to infiltrate your way through a nice network of people I know or gain support (or worse, pity?)? What do you want to know next? The brand of toilet paper I utilize? Who the hell do you think you are, snooping around? This is the 2nd, and FINAL time you betray whatever little bit of trust I have left in you. Apparently you have not learnt since the last incident. Oh yes, I know your kind. Obsessive, persistent and absolutely dim. The fact you only realized you've been rejected RECENTLY exasperates me to kingdom come.

Let me conveniently eliminate one of your choices by saying, GET OUT OF MY LIFE. I have had enough of your possessive shit, thinking you own me or the like, though you keep claiming you don't think that way, your actions seem to prove otherwise.

Do not bother leaving me another 'cryptic' message that's suppose to make me rethink things through. Do not even try to explain unless it is your intention to make me VOMIT. And do NOT tell me you're going to remain a FOOL and try to 'wait' for me. I no longer care, nor want to.

I might regret spilling all this out when I'm feeling nicer, but this is what I feel INSIDE. RAW and a little held back.

Good day. I hope you find someone out there who will accept you. Like I said before, you are a good person, and I am a selfish BITCH. Go find a better mate.

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April 14th, 2005 (Thursday) 03:27 p.m.
Feeling : ..?

:þ~~~ Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Box Set... coming my way (thanks Joyce~~).

"Intelligence barred. . .quarrelling, sulking, anger, silences of
withdrawal, accusations and tears. Above all, intelligence forbids tears."
- Doris Lessing

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April 12th, 2005 (Tuesday) 09:04 p.m.
Feeling : ¬.¬|||

I don't know if a lot of people get this, but I seem to receive this manner of treatment very often from around.

Person is frustrated.
Person sees Sycia.
Sycia notices person is frustrated.
Sycia tries to be nicer to person.
Person takes advantage of kindness & blasts negative emotions at Sycia.
Sycia tries to understand that person is just having one of those days.
Person continues blasting at Sycia like everything is her fault.
Sycia remains a wall, taking in every single thing, never retaliating..
Person tries biting Sycia's head of (metaphorically)
Sycia dots.
Person continues on.
-End of day X-

Repeat process on day Y.

Unlike some who might think this is the characteristic of good listener, I hate this. Anger wrongly directed. Frankly I am getting quite sick of being treated like a ragdoll. When I've had enough I will start yelling that they might as well blame me for even existing in the first place & do push me off a tall building so they'll feel better.

And no Batsu-kun, don't you dare think you're included in the lot of em~ : )

Just saw the first episode of Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicles. Eh.... the voice acting seems awfully weak in Sakura and Shaoran... Nice background music (though overused). Currently I'm just weirded out by the lengthy proportions of the characters (same feel as the manga, but I thought the manga was weird too).

"Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your mouth is moving."

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April 11th, 2005 (Monday) 11:44 p.m.
Feeling : :o

Apparently there was a big earthquake (pt 5) in Chiba (prefecture right next to Tokyo)... Sycia, who normally can feel / hear pt 1 earthquakes, was asleep at the time. When she sleeps, even if a bomb dropped somewhere near her, she'd NEVER wake up~ :D Then again, I just felt one at 3:35pm too... Thought the very very VERY slight tremors were just my imagination then the big one came wooo~

*Reads latest Bleach chapter* AIZEN YOU *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP* GET YER HANDS OFF RUKIA!*()!&$!(^!!*U^&!$&* >____< *Ahem* Can I please jump into the comic and rip his heart out.

.... I just KNOW I sounded lesbian there... >_<

New photograph up. Looks a little sad, bye bye sakura~

Didn't eat anything for about 30 hours and was feeling pretty cold. Ate dinner and am now feeling too warm... :o *Loves food* Need cocoa powder too~

So warm the last 3 days and today it's suddenly 10 degrees again~ Yay~~~~~ but rain is aaaaargh~ wet ground littered with a ton of rotting sakura petals ek.

*Looks at NewType Magazine*
Eh... in pieces... had to take it apart to scan the below article.... now it feels like a newpaper.

When news of the FMA movie came out, I only knew of the Japanese title: Shanbara wo yuku mono. I had to translate the title into something English so just slapped 'Conqueror of Shambala' on all the news articles I translated. o_O This month's NewType issue revealed the official English title is just that. :D :D

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April 10th, 2005 (Sunday_ 11:55 p.m.
Feeling : Bleaaaaah~~~

4 sakura pictures up. These were taken around where I live~ Very nice place compared to most of Tokyo~

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Slept at 6 am I think. Bah. Stupid habit of staying up... *hits self* Woke at 2pm.

Also almost forgot that today's the 10th (= the day most anime magazines are released). Raced down to pick up Animage only to get disappointed by the lack of content (nice posters though <3) So I got Newtype as well (normally don't get it, but I'll make an exception this month). Then spent 4 hours translating... *dead*

News from Japan: May Newtype articles touches on more in the Fullmetal Alchemist movie. - Major spoilers - Do not scroll down unless you've seen the whole series. - 3 pages on movie info: Also, please refer to translator's notes for more info. *Very large images, about 230 each. Translator's Notes: ----------------------- Page 1* - '3,000 ri to see big brother' is a minor title spoof from a famous old anime '3,000 ri to see mother'. Ri = a Chinese form of measurement and is1 ri equivalent to 2.44 miles. Page 2* - The untranslated orange section at the left talks about the Fullmetal Alchemist attraction Universal Studios Japan. With some pictures on merchandise, and at the bottom, 3 screenshots of the short animated clip specially made for the attraction and shown no where else. Page 3* - The untranslated right is a little 'diary' on the director's 10-day trip to 4 European countries. - Now excuse me while I faint from exhaustion... x_X Sources --------------- Newtype May 2005

And you know what? Even though I spend this much valuable time translating and shit (getting nothing in return), some still have the goddamn nerve to demand more. *Breathes slowly* Hmpf. Bloodsuckers... like some *bleep bleeeeeep* mosquito in my room now...

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April 9th, 2005 (Saturday) 10:40 p.m.
Feeling : Drunk, high, stoned, WOOT!

Night sakura~

The best picture from yesterday. Even then it still looks a pretty bad one. =_=; The real thing is much more beautiful. Was snapping pictures for 2 and a half hours last night but my camera, being a .... digital camera, could not capture the beauty and grace of sakura at night. That and I was playing a cat-and-mouse game with people parking their vehicles IN FRONT of the tree (>_<) A total of 46 pictures taken, but all were just... terrible (including this one).

Today is just one of them days I woke up feeling like a comet could head Earth's way I wouldn't give a damn~ WOOT! Hell someone tried to have a serious conversation with me on various subjects and I just couldn't be bothered. :D Lalalalalala~ Just drank some salad dressing too~ Ooooohhhhh yeaaaaah life is good~

If the weather reports are right, tomorrow's the last day for them sakura in Tokyo... it's going to rain the day after, meaning most of the petals will be bye-bye~~~ :o Awww~ Still have a few pictures to show though

Your Inner European is Irish!

Spirited and boisterous! You drink everyone under the table. Who's Your Inner European?

Nooooo~ you don't say~~~~ *dances to Irish drink'in music*

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April 8th, 2005 (Friday) 11:01 p.m.
Feeling : x_X

Tired... x_X

Came back from school to have sushi, then spent about 2 - 3 hours cycling around enjoying the view of sakura at night (it's quite something) till about 9:45pm. Beautiful evening, wind carrying plenty of pink petals along. If only Mom were here to see it all too... :( Tried taking pictures of cherry blossoms in the dark, but eh... limitations of a digital camera made themself very, very clear. Felt sinful and had a huge hot fudge sundae somewhere along the way (lol, felt a tad sick from the sheer amount) too~ Mmmmmm~~~

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April 7th, 2005 (Thursday) 10:33 p.m.
Feeling : Joyful

Ack.... trip to the park was nice, but I'm left with my system clogged up by pollen and whatever else was in the air over there. x_x There were.... a LOT of people. Kinda felt like the morning rush all over again, but that can't be helped... sakura only blossoms for a few days. Thank goodness today was one of the earlier ones... the wind was blowing so hard that if I'd gone a day later, all the petals would be gone~ The early morning was cold, dark and cloudy... Wished with all my might for a clear sunny day, and what'dya know... at noon the clouds were gone, and it was 23 degrees with an azure sky all over Tokyo.... :o

Snapped... many, many photographs, but only chose a few to put online. For one... it was TOO BRIGHT this afternoon, so the color balance of many snaps were just way off. Secondly, there were just too many people getting into the frame at odd places (eg half a head, a random arm etc popping up at one side of the photograph argh)... oh well... tired... very tired, still have some homework... (oh dear).

BUT! In any case. do enjoy the photographs. I'm saving one last one (I think it's my best shot for today) for some other time ; )

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And do leave a comment whether you love/ hate the pictures. : P

In other news, I just found out one of my animation lecturers IS AN ANIMATOR FOR THE HAGAREN MOVIE. She usually does freelance, and was called on by BONES to work on the movie. O_O Imagine my mental shrieking when she showed us a sample of the frame cut being used to make the Fullmetal Alchemist movie *screams some more* Okaaaaay, the studio is near my home, I know one of the animators working on the movie... :D :D :D :D :D *All smiles*

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April 6th, 2005 (Wednesday) 01:47 a.m.
Feeling : Sleepy

I can no longer draw with a mechanical pencil. o_O Can doddle and write with em, but everytime I wanna draw, I either get annoyed at how stiff the lines are, or the lead just breaks before that.

I love encyclopedias~ Had a whole collection of em since 5~ Still made use of them up to the day I left home (encyclophreak?). I think it's safe to say they made up for more than 30% of what I knew as a kid (more than 80% of all I knew about the natural world was from them, and thanks to that I formulated the theory of evolution without reading up anything on it, but by piecing what I knew of species together). The only thing I wasn't happy about it all was that the entire set of them was made way back in.... errr.... a long time ago. Entries were outdated. The world changes, countries develop, new wars are fought, new volcanoes erupt, animals go extinct (thanks to the plague), etc etc. Then there came the internet, a world of practically limitless information. But to find an article of something on it is tiring since the bits of info just float about aimlessly and sometimes you really doubt its credibility. Now... well... online encyclopedias... updated information with updated pictures free for the public. I could spend hours at Wikipedia and still want more (haha.. bookworm gone nuts). It's a great concept; all that is known, avaliable to everyone, for free. *Š´“®* Aside from Nature / animal associations, this is one that I'd like to support had I the means / money.

And while indulging in Wikipedia, I found this very long article on Singlish. o_O Reminds me of the time Zyzyfer and I were in a bus and he couldn't understand 2 guy sitting in front of us despite the fact they were speaking English (or Singlish):

"Due to its origins, Singlish shares many similarities with pidgin varieties of English, and can easily give off the impression of "broken English" or "bad English" to a speaker of some other, less divergent variety of English. In addition, the profusion of Singlish features, especially loanwords from Asian languages, mood particles, and topic-prominent structure, can easily make Singlish downright incomprehensible to a Briton or American."
- quoted from Wikipedia > Singlish > Politics

I personally don't find Singlish as disgusting as the government seems to; it does reflect on the cultural richness and unity of Singapore, and should be seen with that amount of value in mind. However people shouldn't be happy with just that. Flexibility with both local lingo and proper English is something of an ideal to me. After all, the only ones who can understand Singlish are Singaporeans.

And freak I didn't know there were THIS many 'You have 2 cows' jokes. o_o;;

Personal favorites:
Australianism: You have two cows. On a 72,000 Acre plot... Somewhere.
Corporation > Chinese: You have two cows. You have 300 people milking them. You claim full employment, high bovine productivity, and arrest the newsman who reported the numbers.
Corporation > French: You have two cows. You go on strike because you want three cows. You go to lunch. Life is good.
Matrixism: There is no cow.
Pessimism: You have two cows. They're going to die eventually.
Vegetarianism: You have two cows. You can't eat them, but you can feed them mass-produced grain, the harvesting process for which kills several thousand small field animals. You ignore this.

Interesting little article on lactose intolerance. A little different from what I thought though: Far more Asians have bad effects after consuming dairy products because traditionally, Asian dishes don't contain much dairy products, hence the 'deficiancy' leads to the intolerance while Europeans (and all their white descendants) have a diet rich with dairy stuff and don't get much of a chance to grow intolerant of milk. I'm one of the 10% of Asian lactose-tolerant people; love milk, and cheese, and ice-cream~ ^^

.... hmm... need... Flight of Dragons movie... argh... that animation was one of my favorites (fantasy, dragons, haha) It's old, and not very well-known... : | Had it on VHS till well.... the fungul invasion. *Remembers the theme song well* And wow.... I still remember the names of the characters... (mostly only dragons only though lol). WTF Ommadon was voiced by James Earl Jones?! O_O Need... this... animation... must... get...

Oookkkkaaaaaay.... that's a lotta animated films I watched when young. Well... there's my inspiration for this field~

.... *gets irritated* Here I am, trying to search for reigon 2 DVDs of my favorite animated classics because I don't own a VHS player, and there they are, only avaliable on Reigon 1. Great, so I can't get em legally. *goes in front of RIA build and yells* I'll just have to download them FOR FREE. Bah. And movie makers complain about P2P sharing. *mumbles* Who the hell came up with this stupid reigon code thing anyway?!

If all goes well, I'll be snapping pictures of sakura tomorrow... also considering if I should stay till night to capture the beautiful cherry blossoms after dark.

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April 5th, 2005 (Tuesday) 08:44 p.m.
Feeling : >: (

Wooo... the new Bleach opening is nice, animation and music.... but... the ending is... WEIRD. Looks like it was made just to please fangirls *shivers* Random sakura flying around Byakuya any bish-y character is just... too overused. That and the song was waaaay 'happy'.

... fan pairings are just... weird... you get to see how perverted or twisted some really ordinary people can be.

Did quite a number of image-boards at school today with Yanou-san and I-san. Talked an usual lot to them too.... o_O And got quite amused with cultural differences. We were supposed to draw a tree where a character was to sit down and take a rest. I thought an ordinary one was just too plain, so got creative and drew a weeping willow to look all pretty and peacful with the branches swaying in the wind. I-san (Korean) looked at it and said we should use the purdy willow, but the rest of our Japanese classmates freaked out... why? Japanese find willows scary. Apparently it's in spooky tales where some lady ghost in white appears beneath it at night and all... o_O But.... willows ARE pretty especially at night... Oh well. Since the animation we're making is targeted at Japanese, that got thrown out (I'm so amused by this little incident). While the Japanese look at us foreigners strangely for thinking weeping willows are beautiful, we wonder what the fuss is over a _TREE_.

Also recently heard of the government here 'reviewing; their testbooks to 'play down' on their role in WW2. I have a feeling it's because of the stupid local pride of old men who think the younger generation shouldn't look at the 'incident' as something wrong. Riiiiiiight. Germany and Japan... allies in war, but look at how they look back at what they've done and the difference unsettles...

"Those who do not remember mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them."

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April 4th, 2005 (Monday) 08:55 p.m.
Feeling : A little blue~

I have a thing for British accents. :o

Looking at flowers in spring makes me smile. They mark the beginning of the new beautiful endless cycle that wakes the land after a reign of cold. Anyone getting the idea of sending me flowers anytime after reading this better think twice though. Flowers removed from the whole plant may retain their beauty, but not deprived of their primary purpose (develop into fruit / seed to continue the cycle) are nothing more than useless pretty shells to please the shallow. What a terrible, terrible, terrible waste.

o_O So many people (Japanese and English fans) think fullmetal-alchemist.com is the official English site for the anime (even though it's barely updated aside from the latest breaking news). Content has been .... stagnent...

Kyowa-chan was right... The Emporer's New Groove is hilarious~ ^o^ Great script going on.

Must... get... Lord of the Rings; Extended Edition Box Set... Woo... sweet... 8,800++ yen going bye bye

Bwahaha~! Thief snatched a poop bag from a woman walking her dog... XD XD

When you come to a point of your life where you keep blaming yourself and pinning every little thing gone wrong to some negative point somewhere in your personality... I wonder if that can be called mid-life-crisis... or calcium deficiancy...

"If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel."
- Will Henry (1873 - 1948)

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April 3rd, 2005 (Sunday) 08:58 p.m.
Feeling : Hungry

Little random thought.
Why is the world 'mourning' for the Pope (or more specifically, people he led)? The religion says he's gone home to God, so why are people sad? If anything, they are crying because they've 'lost' a great man, but isn't that, in actual fact something that is selfish? If everyone 'goes home' (so to speak) shouldn't 'death' be celebrated over the passing into 'heaven' to God?

... religion can be really strange sometimes...

Slept well (was half-asleep while typing yesterday's entry out). Got outta bed at About 1, and on my way to get lunch, got distracted with photo-taking (flowers, spring thing). Also went outta my way to go take a photograph of a toilet seat that I'd seen yesterday, on the road. It was still there lol~

Today's random photograph of the day = shots from yesterday's Tokyo International Anime Fair:

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Oh yes.... that crazy policewoman from Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu ROCKS!

Off for dinner, and later, going to trace the Ichigo & Rukia pictures I snagged yesterday~

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April 2nd, 2005 (Saturday) 11:02 p.m.
Feeling : Tired...

Oops. Forgot to add: I had the theme song of Secret of Nimh playing in my head all through yesterday morning for some strange reason, and in class afterwards we were shown that animated film; O_o I already guessed from the opening credits. But ACK. DUBS. DUBS are evil. No matter what language they're in, dubs are EVIL. Japanese dub for Secret of Nimh and characters' personalities changed. Nicodemus sounded kind instead of weak, Mrs Brisby got an exceedingly annoying voice, Mr Ages got less grumpy and Jeremy was far less crazy / clumsy. Bleah. *Goes to watch the original*

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Just came back from the Anime Fair....

.... Woke up at 9:56 this morning... problem is, I was supposed to meet Joyce at 9:30am, Shinjuku. -_-; I had only waken up to the sound of my cellphone vibrating (Joyce had called). >___< So sorry...! Raced like a madman and ran to meet her in 40 minutes. Had a quick breakfast and went to Tokyo Bigsight for the exhibition. Oh... on the monorail there, we were approached by 2 Englishmen who were trying their upmost effort to ask us something in Japanese.

Englishman: "ijh w iu g hnwgkhw gigu wyhu........ Tokyo Bigsight" <-- (Sycia could make out nothing aside from 'Tokyo Bigsight')
Sycia: ".... It's okay, we understand English..."
Englishman: "OH!" *Insert look of shock, then relief* "Does this go to Tokyo Bigsight?"
Sycia: "Yeah, it does."

GAH crowded place... -_- Blaring music... meh. 2 things I hate. Either way the moment we stepped in, large paper bags with the huge pictures of Ed & Al (2nd movie poster for FMA) carried by almost one third of the crowd greeted us (picture of the upcoming Naruto movie on the other side). Sycia got one pretty quick... people were everywhere giving it out, not just at the Aniplex booth.

Oh yes... Pierrot was having a sort of seiyuu stage show too. Takeuchi Junko (Izumaki Naruto from Naruto), Inoue Kazuhiko (Kakashi from Naruto) and Morita Kenichi (Kurosaki Ichigo from Bleach) were onstage reading out messages from fans or something (too crowded, couldn't see and the performance was for a limited audience). More seiyuus might have appeared, but pierrot staff came to shoo us away since we weren't 'qualified' to see the performance, even from afar... Ah yes there were some nice posters of Ichigo & Rukia up (both as Shinigamis) and I took some shots of em. Probably will trace them & recolor (maybe make a wallpaper too?).

Found the BONES booth after a long time searching. SMALL. o_O However, there was the raw pencil drawings of the 2nd movie poster and a couple of frames of Ed from the latest trailer (woooooooooooo....). Kinda ARGHED by the fineness of the lines... Gotta do some more lineart practice. I'll start with that Ichigo and Rukia thing.

Blood the Last Vampire by Production I.G was an animated feature film made back in 2000, that was rather hyped about. I liked what I had seen of it, but always felt it could've been brought much further (in short, there wasn't enough in it). And I just found out today that there's going to be a TV series on it. O_O Sweeeeeeeeeet... It's still in the early stages of production, but still.... *sparkles*

Also saw the English dubbed version of Hellsing being aired on the big screen. Felt like throwing my stink'in shoe at it for the HORRIBLE dubbing quality. Flat voices, slow, retarded, STUPIDLY CHEESY lines with fake tones that don't help a damn bit.... Cripes. Animations like stuff from Dreamworks or Disney have GREAT dubbing. Why? Because they hire actual actors / actresses, the only ones who seem capable of delivering a believable performance. In Japan, voice-acting is as big as acting in itself. And because of that, seiyuus truly become their characters just as any actor would with his. So animes REALLY shine with an audio standard that matches, or even surpasses America's best animations... So why... WHY the hell does the US HAVE to screw up dubs with voice-actors who can't 'ACT'?! RAAH. Secret of NIMH may have had its characters' personalities altered, but at LEAST, the seiyuus' performance still made them believable. Dumb English dub of Hellsing had the a cornered vampire priest pleading with Alucard in a monotonous, SLOOOOW voice for his undead life like he was asked to do that take 2056 times. *Flips a table and huffs off*

There were a few cosplayers around, I was particularly disgusted at a guy trying to be Gash. Yes, disgusted.

Also, 3D animations from companies from other countries were compiled and aired (Softimage, Maya stuff shown at Siggraph and more). VERY few Japanese atually paid much attention to the groundbreaking, jawdropping animations (I hate 3D animation, but was completely blown away by this... COMPLETELY). Was sitting through the whole thing with Joyce about 2 times over, and a few other foreigners came to watch (left after a bit) but no Japanese ('cept for the guy manning the booth) came to watch such wondering stuff. Do they only appreciate dinner-plate-eyed girl / pretty boy 2D animations?

Dinner was fried stuff (I blame it on a plush of a fried prawn that just made my stomach snarl every 15 minutes). Ordered a tad too much but thank goodness for cabbage salad to neutralize the onslaught of oily food.

Photographs will be up tomorrow... too tired now...

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April 1st, 2005 (Friday) 10:11 p.m.
Feeling : Hmm

Today marks the beginning of my 3rd year here... Time really flies... o_O Must... get... job... here... RAH

New colors for the blog, opposite from what was here before. Hope it's not too blinding...

Must... watch... Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy..... Never have I seen the world being destroyed in such a humorous fashion *laughs at trailer*.

Going to the Tokyo International Anime Fair tomorrow with Joyce... There will be 3 booths with FMA-related items; Aniplex, BONES and some guy (character designer?). According to the official movie site, the trailers will be playing at all 3... Is that why the maintainers quickly took the uploaded new trailer off so quickly? Because they wanted to show the never-before-seen clip at the anime fair and get all the fans excited before uploading it online? Well... looking at the quality and choice of scenes in it... sure seems that way.

MONDAY. SAKURA. PHOTOS~!!!!!)$&*(!&^$(!&^!!! ^___^

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
- Socrates (469 - 399 BC)

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