B l a c k F e a t h e r s , v 4 .1
Picturelesque

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September 30th, 2005 (Friday) 09:19 p.m.
Feeling : Hmm-ed

Also downloaded a teaser trailer of Final Fantasy: Before Crisis because I'm tempted to make a wallpaper of the 2D characters. ¬___¬ Okay Square people, the cellphone thing is getting old. Advent had it for no apparent reason, and here in Before Crisis, it's just too obvious that you're trying to shove it into people's faces...

At school, less and less people are coming to classes. Rather disheartening to the teachers, but I'm happy with the change. Those who can't be bothered to take things seriously gone = no more excess noise and distractions.

Also, Bakakozou released its Bleach 51 earlier than any other group o_O Our last Bleach episode went out with a bang. ^____^ Thanks for the hard work on the last episode guys~~~

Also, we're taking up a new series (or at least, one side is) and our encoder found a promo video on WinNY. I was rather eager to see it, then he told me it was from a DVD included with an anime magazine. -_-; Sycia has that magazine, and the DVD. But she never bothered to even watch the DVD because she wasn't interested. She's currently feeling blonde because of this. The encoder went nuts upon realizing I have the stuff in the highest quality and is trying to teach me how to rip it. Hmmm

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September 29th, 2005 (Thursday) 08:46 p.m.
Feeling : Drowsy

Okay, about that dream I had on Monday night... on Monday morning, I had woken up feeling extremely sick of life. Don't ask why. I was just suddenly extremely tired of everything, and just yearned an escape. That's probably why I was so happy in the dream that came later that night. I was finally free of all commitments and bonds, free to roam wherever I wanted. Then of course I woke up, blinked, and groaned really loud upon realizing it never was. But as the day progressed, I started looking at the dream as a sorta little refreshment for a tired soul. A fading oasis in a scorching desert. No I'm not suicidal. I've got stuff to do here before I can be rid of these chains that bind my wings.

Application for Ghibli got rejected~ Well, it is like the Disney of Japan. Not going to get down.

First live giant squid caught on camera. Fabulous... my heart was racing when I saw this in the headlines. And in happened within Japanese waters. : ( The poor thing lost an arm and was trapped for 4 hours though.... D ¦{ RAH. o_O Beautiful though it is, I don't think I ever wanna run into one of these cephalopods in the water though... No thank you o_o;;;;; If I did, well... a good jab in those eyes if it gets too friendly.


Your power is: Transformation
Explanation:
Unlike everyone else you can change your body materia and transform into anything (e.g. an animal). This can be used in good purposes for infiltrating evil headcuarters or adjust your physical abilities by transforming and therefor do better in battle. If turned to the evil side, a transfomer could manipulate the "good guys" by looking like their loved ones and break them down.
As a person you are dissapointed with life. You have not so many interests anymore and has become depressed. Of course you can be happy, but your happiness subsides quickly and don't last very long. You isloate yourself from people since you think they would only hurt you, but some part just wants someone equal who understands the pain. When you transform it gives you freedom and you can be anything but yourself. You often pity yourself but don't let people come near and know what's going on with you. But the thought of opening up and risking being betrayed is too strong and intimidating to even try.
Negative aspects: You carry much hate tothe world and yourself and in the long run this could lead to dangerous thoughts (suicide/cutting/killing) though the last one is least likeable since you would probably just have too much guilt.

What Power is Compatible With You?
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Hmmm~ I won't deny most of this.

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September 28th, 2005 (Wednesday) 11:06 p.m.
Feeling : Calm

Yeah, I'm over the invasion of privacy a few days ago and can finally blog on my stayover at Yumi-chans'.

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Set off at 6:00am on Friday morning, after rush-checking the FMP: TSR 9 translation, and reached Chiba station at 8:00am, an hour earlier than arranged. Then again it's a habit of mine to arrive extremely early at a meeting location I'm not familiar with. Walked about for a while, then Yumi-chan surprised me wit a hug when she arrived (maybe she had the impression all foreigners do that? hehe). I do not mind though it's not a custom of mine. There was a young woman with her, her aunt Kimiyo-san. She's pretty... genki o_o; Like a 20-year old though she's nearly 30. Now there's a truly young heart... : ) We sat on a 4-car train from Chiba to Oohara. 2 rows of seats face each other unlike in the trains in Tokyo, so the 3 of us had another middle-aged woman sitting with us at one point. The biggest difference with Tokyo felt here was that anyone just talked to anyone else. Stranger or not, and not one of these incidences I witnessed at the Chiba station and on the train involved anyone asking the other party for directions. Nah. It was all more causually like simply starting a conversation about the weather etc. Back on the train, the other woman was smiling while I spoke of my country to Yumi-chan and her aunt, and blah blah. At one point Yumi-chan said she cleaned her room up the day before, and actually found grass growing somewhere in there. At that point the rest of us (stranger woman included) just burst out laughing, and from there on after, the woman joined in oour conversation. The 1 and a half hour trip to Oohara station felt very much like sitting on a train through Hokkaido. Nice rolling plains of harvested rice or wheat, greenery all around, little quaint houses and all, minus the livestock.

Oohara station was larger than I thought. Yumi-chan's home being 15-minutes from it, I got to see a little of the main street getting ready for the festival later on. Her home's cute, traditional and very very very different from anything I've seen here so far. Well they do live in the countryside and carry out their own farming. Even have some chooks. :D Was stuffed with lunch, then shown around their farm, came back to show the family my photography of various places in the world, all the while feeding mosquitoes thrice as large as any I've seen before. In the evening set of to the festival (though not before being shoved 1000 yen by aunt Kimiyo : | she stuffed it down me), walked around the festival grounds, bought choco-banana and saw the farewell parade (more like a mad-run) where so many people from 20 over shrines in the vicinity gathered with their omikoshis and ran around in a particular school's field before stopping to throw that 1-ton thing up and down at least 10 times. Walked around after that and had buttered potato. O_O The stall guy slapped a whole large potato into the paper bowl, with another half balanced dangerously on top, then a good block of butter, some mayo and a tad of salt. O_O I can now understand why Joyce loves this little treat. :O~~~~ Though after I was done with it, I could barely walk. Yumi-chan's cousin's family came over with their dog and we headed back to her home for dinner, something I couldn't really take after that buttered potato thing. After that had a few noisy rounds of Nintendo64 with Yumi-chan's younger cousins (boys in pr 4 & 6). Slept in Yumi-chan's room with the air-conditioning on for a bit, and before lights-off, found out she was ever bullied in school because of some odd deformity in her left arm. Also, I'm the first friend of hers to ever stay over at her place :o In fact I was invited.

Morning was the sound of a typhoon descending on the Kanto plains. Breakfast was leftovers, but I don't mind. Cousins came over again for more games and lunch was Japanese curry with nice potato harvested from their farm plot. Very nice people. Totally different from the stone-cold fishes in Tokyo. Yumi's dad, who had been suffering from a very bad back since before I came, didn't talk to me much until I was about to leave, and said to come over whenever I wanted. o_O Nice, but 1,620 yen for just going there kinda bites. Nonetheless I enjoyed myself immensely, and am rather grateful for the warmth of her family. It was nice, they're not city-dwellers so seemed much more open and friendly, yet I still felt awkward. Guess nothing beats one's own family.

Photographs later.

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September 27th, 2005 (Tuesday) 03:47 a.m.
Feeling : ARGH

... slept at 6pm and woke up at 11pm, absolutely disappointed that I was still alive.

Had a rather vivid dream that a super-strong earthquake rocked Tokyo, and I managed to wake up by it (rare woo). I was trying to fly out of the danger zone into some park, but somehow even the nearest one was surrounded with skyscapers so everyone with me at the time there (mostly kids) were crushed (I couldn't fly high enough in time). Very realistic since I felt everything from a rain of debri knocking myself out of the sky and tumbling down to earth, then a complete white-out. The last thought I had before that was, "Shit... what about Mom..?"

The next part of the dream was beautiful, I was back in the old house at Upper Neram, in my old room just looking around. I knew I wasn't alive, and was expecting someone. He knocked politely before entering. God, a God, Allah, whatever you want to call him, with an earnest expression. I can't describe exactly how he looked in the dream, but o_O definately a white guy, and wore deniem (???). Upon seeing him I was all, "Oh, you again." And we talked for some before the worried thought of my Mom dawned upon the conversation again. By that time we were no longer in my room, but walking amongst the ruins of Tokyo, unseen and undisturbed. People were pulling out mangled bodies and in total despair, yet strangely functioning a a united force in trying to save survivors. I lent a hand, but only to the confused spirits still stuck in the rubble. Pulled them out and sent them on their way (what? I became a shinigami?). Being beside that man was nice, everything felt fine (well, aside from that nagging worry about how Mom would break down when she got wind of this), and his presence was undoubtably very comforting. Yet this wasn't the my first time with him. We've met before and spoke like old friends (but I recall saying that though I couldn't recall him while I was alive, he was never really forgotten. I wanted my memory of him to never fade from then). After waking up at 11pm and arghing that it was only a dream, I promptly flopped back to sleep to wake at 2:50am. Can't recall what we talked about, but I was feeling very very different from my usual self in that dream...

The last time I had a dream of a major earthquake killing me, was a day before that Indonesia quake that triggered the Sumatra Tsunami. This time, I wonder what's gonna perk. I just heard about a strong quake in Peru...

As for why I'm disappointed to be alive, no gripes with life, but after mentally abandoning all binding chains to the mortal realm and feeling free for a few moments, then waking up like it never was, is bleah.

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September 24th, 2005 (Saturday) 07:58 p.m.
Feeling : ....................

I have to get pissed off after a very nice stayover at Yumiko's household. Some smartass of my family had to forward my email to some MTV Asia representitive for job opportunity purposes, and included MY BLOG URL IN IT. I don't know how fucking happy some people are to let a potential future employer looking into your most personal thoughts and imaginations, takes on life and shit, but I sure as hell AIN'T. In fact I'm wonderfully cheesed off right now I want to personally RIP the perpetrator's frick'in throat out, regardless what the hell he or she means to me. My blood is boiling and I'm rearing my ugly repitilian head. HEAR THAT MTV ASIA PERSON? LOOK? BE DISGUSTED, THEN LEAVE AND NEVER RETURN. Or if you want to continue seeing such ugly inner thoughts, never EVER attempt to contact me.

Unless you are a close friend or family member who ALREADY knows me and what I am capable of typing, or are a complete stranger over the internet I will never come into contact with in real life, GET OUT. You are intruding on a personal diary. An offense I WILL see to be punished, myself.

As for you, dear offender who so freely gave away the link to my personal diary, go to hell. I never thought one of my family would be so STUPID. But dear me, I must have attained part of that faulty gene to have thought this way.

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September 21st, 2005 (Wednesday) 09:47 p.m.
Feeling : Tired.

Could barely keep awake last night translating Bleach, for obvious reasons. I take back saying that I preferred a filler episode with Kanonji to some boring flashback episode. I take it back. Stupid Kanonji nearly got me throwing the computer out in frustration with his Engrish. Damn you fansub watchers get it easy. Imagine the agony of trying to translate crap into anything remotely sensible. >_< I can count the number of times I just wanted to give in to slumber, but somehow managed to hang on till 6am. I hate Kanonji for the trouble he gives us fansubbers, and I'm not alone in wanting to bitchslap him silent. *rallies other fansubbers*

Also saw Madagascar last night. Interesting, but somehow forced. I do like the "New York Giants" bit though. Also, I love good sushi. I would seriously have a diffcult time choosing between fresh, good authentic sushi and beef. Did do a small analysis of the storytelling though...


Your wise quote is: "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising everytime we fall" by Confucius. Yes indeed, you see true strenght can only be seen when a person has "fallen". Only then one can tell how they will handle it. Just don't make others fall so you can know who they really are. You on the other hand may be a very quick recoverer and don't let people bring you down. You are your own, and you're find with that. Emotional issues is something you handle rather nicely.
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I don't suffer from insanity; I enjoy every minute of it.

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September 20th, 2005 (Tuesday) 09:45 p.m.
Feeling : Determined, yet sleepy.

Hmmm. After that little SNK nostalgia trip, I went to read my KOF 4-frame comics again. Now this time, I understand everything written. Back in the day when Purpleflames.com was a Yagami Iori shrine, I could only guess and fill out the speech bubbles. I seem to remember the 4-frame comics section being the most popular, and many were sad when I announced I wouldn't be doing any more. Maybe, just maybe, when the anime comes out, I'll start scanning that truckload of 4-frame comics and translate them correctly this time. :D

Managed to wrap up my Econte and finally moved on to the animation layout. It's fun, but thinking about the work that comes after that is really daunting.

Lately been craving salad too. Japan makes great salads. :3~ Ugh. This can't be good for my body. The last time I tried so much greens, I lost a lot of blood through my nose and got constipation. -_-

"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'rain'."
- Michael McClary

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September 19th, 2005 (Monday) 11:53 p.m.
Feeling : Tired

Made a wallpaper 2 days ago from a magazine picture of the new TV series 'Blood'.

Download: 1280x1024

Also did a survey passed on my Purpleplexed-chan here. : ) *hugs ya*


You're a gryphon. You're very powerful without needing to brag about it. Creativity is one of your strong suits. Your outward personality may change drastically according to your mood, which is not always a good thing. You're a loyal guardian when you choose to be and you're aligned towards *good*.
What mythical beast are you?
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Hmm. :D I like griffons.

And I nearly forgot... ARRR!!!
Sorry. XD It just happens to be Talk Like a Pirate Day.

"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable,
than risk being happy."
- Robert Newton Anthony (1916 - )

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September 18th, 2005 (Sunday) 11:29 p.m.
Feeling : x_x

O_O Back from Tokyo Game Show 2005.

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Woke up slightly late and had the train delayed on me so Joyce and I set off from Shinjuku later than intended. Got an expensive to heck bento from Tokyo station. Though we got there half an hour prior to the opening time, we still didn't manage to get tickets for some SEGA x BLEACH event (seiyuus of Ichigo, Gin & Byakuya were to come & promote the upcoming PS2 VS game). Walked around, saw plenty of Advent Children cosplayers (the Cloud ones looked perfectly fine if you ignored the girls' faces, and I find that guys CANNOT cosplay him lol). We also saw the technical demonstrations of Final Fantasy 7, Metal Gear, etc etc for Playstation 3 (that airing nearly killed me had I not stuffed a wall of tissue paper into my ears to cushion the sound). Previews for upcoming games looked good too. All of the tempting me in. :X

But eventually, we did make it to the Bleach event. ^_^ Managed to watch among a standing crowd. :3 They just talked a little to promote the game, then Byakuya's seiyuu had a round with Gin's seiyuu on it. :D That was fun to watch, though. Then we were off to see the SNK's special seiyuu talk show... The guests? Kusanagi Kyo's, Yuri's and Yagami Iori's.... O_O Can you say, a dream come true? They even did a rather long live performance in character. :D :D :D And LO AND BEHOLD. I also saw the trailer for the King of Fighters anime. O_O SWEEEEEEEET. COOL ANIMATION. O_O Sycia was fangirling when Iori took down some new character. KYAAAA~! >:D Brings back right fond memories of back in 1999... Yagami Iori's like an old flame heh, I can't wait to see the anime... ^_____^

Also, I've come to the point of not caring whether 2D or 3D animation, claymation or stop motion, colored or monochrome, manga or anime... I DON'T CARE how they do it, I just wanna be goddamn TOLD the whole FF7 stories in LINEAR format! >____<

I left TGS with a bad headache from the loud blarring previews / trailers and the immense crowd, but that thankfully subsided as night set in, or that yakiniku dinner would've been in vain. ^___^

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September 18th, 2005 (Sunday) 01:14 a.m.
Feeling : Sleepy~

This photograph makes me cry for some reason, and it's not because I'm sad...

^____^ Autumn is my favourite season. Crisp, cool, absolutely breathtaking.

Also saw March of the Peguin. o_O Was that supposed to be a documentary? They failed to touch on a lot of factual areas, spiced up the stuff by forcing in emotions (which I felt they did quite effectively) onto the animal subjects, and cut out the bits of the young being taken and killed several ways... O_o Seemed more like a supposedly moving movie aimed at capturing people who just 'love animals' beause they're cute or something. That said, I would also say I love animals, but more of the respectful side of love. I respect them the same way as (perhaps more) any other person. Glomping animals not your pet to me is downright rude; like you're just jumping on a stranger out on the street just because he / she looks good. But in any case, I enjoyed the Antarctic landscape shown. Music was a little repetitive, but I guess that's the film's main theme... Funny thing is that the editors didn't cut out the sound of the cameraman walking through the snow in some shots :x

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September 17th, 2005 (Saturday) 11:49 a.m.
Feeling : Happy~ ^_^

Still relatively happy. ^___^ Drank a tad to sink myself into deep sleep last night and am VERY fresh now (though that champagne tasted bad).

Wooooooo... Hellsing OVA. ^_^

Also, I'll be going to the Tokyo Game Show tomorrow. Why? Um... *searches for a reason* Anyway, Joyce is working at one of them booths since Friday... wonder how many oddball cosplayers she'll see today : )

I just read something that made my day. ^o^ Well, not so much for me, but that person I'm truly happy for~

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"The truly happy people don't need a reason for being so."

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September 16th, 2005 (Friday) 10:13 p.m.
Feeling : ^_____^ Happy

Ever had one of those days you felt so high in the sky, NOTHING could ever take you down? ^_^ Sycia is having one of those days. I had turned in at 12am last night, then awoke at 7:30am to complete my storyboard, all fresh and awake. ^__^ Class starts at 1:20pm on Fridays, so I could leave at 11:15am. (I should do this more often :D)

The sky was lazuline, the air was crisp, and it was barely above 27 degrees C. ^___^ PERFECT WEATHER. I was so happy, I was practically bouncing to school on tiptoes~ Why was I happy? I don't know. Why do people need a reason to be happy? Adults strive too hard to seek meaning in everything. Friday class, the one I happen to dislike the most, went on like a breeze, and I emerged from it smiling. Even as I went to see my course manager and top-teacher for storyboard consultation after school (for about the 4th time, after each of which I had to spend hours rethinking and redrawing my storyboards again), I felt no tension or biting anxiety. And what do you know, they actually APPROVED my storyboard. O_O Even if they did have anything against it, I have a feeling it wouldn't have dampened my mood. ^_^ Treat life well, and it'll give you the same in return. I had to try so hard not to skip all the way home (with a 1-kg portfolio XD)... it's been a good day, it was a great evening, it's a fantastic night. o(^—^)o

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Open Your Mind ~ Chiisana Hane Hirogete ~
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Wind blows through,
passing beyond an azure realm.

An ivory feather floating playfully down by chance,
so free & untainted... let me hold you.
These hands have the strength to defend dear ones. (Open your mind)

Open your heart (always dreaming)
Set your wishes adrift in the wind, to far away (Open your mind)
You possess hidden wings (Yes, you do too)
to head for a free land.
Yes, everyone does...

When the breeze shimmers, set out,
because there's no need to be afraid anymore.

On the other side of those scattered clouds, light's overwhelming.
You can see something ahead of that straight path.
Breath deep, feel the wind's aroma, anytime.

A surprisingly limitless blue world...
Tiny wings, take a deep breath,
head for the skies; those wings can be flapped.
That is the future; the key to open up
a new tomorrow.

Open your mind.

Open your heart (always dreaming)
Set your wishes adrift in the wind, to far away (Open your mind)
You possess hidden wings (Yes, you do too)
to head for a free land.

Open the gate (no matter which)
I'll always be here by your side (Open your mind)
Stretch those invisible wings wide (and catch the wind!)
The time to take flight has come.
Yes, for anyone...
to the sapphire sky

Somehow I get the nagging feeling that death might come claim me in a while, but I'm too happy to care at the moment. ^0^

I want to see the FF7 storyline animated in 2D as maybe an OVA special. That would give the whole things a lot more depth. :O *Goes rushing to Madhouse to propose that*

Its rare that I ever feel truly happy for someone without any ulterior motive to make use of it one way or another to my own benefit (harhar, welcome to reality), but so rarely, it does happen. I'm truly happy for someone. ^^

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September 15th, 2005 (Thursday) 08:12 p.m.
Feeling : Somewhat tired...

Definitely feels good when a professional animator who was involved in many animation series and movies (FMA movie too) gives you an 'A' for a project :D

I swear to god Kubo Taito MUST be lurking around the communities, enjoying the WTF reactions of his fans. : ) The latest chapter knocked me off my seat! :D :D :D OMG OMG OMG!

Was just TCing Fullmetal Panic: The Second Raid episode 8. Not an active member of the FMP fansub team (was offered a place but I'm not into the series) but translation checks are a breeze, and since Kikyo's not avaliable, I'm filling in. Meantime Lumin-kun's helping TC Bleach for us. Equivalent exchange! Anyway, Tessa pissed me off this episode. God she needs to be slapped over with a whale. >_<

Also, I keep wondering why peope dare to give me FTP admin access when they barely know me... How do they know to trust me? : |

And something else I forgot to put in yesterday's entry... I now know why I keep getting Sephiroth as personality quiz results...

[Osiris] but yeah..so like..where are we suppose to meet
[Sycia] : Atop the big hill aka felled Mickey Mouse head
*Osiris throws sycia off cliff*

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September 14th, 2005 (Wednesday) 11:02 p.m.
Feeling : Tired

Well, watched FF7: Advent Children (3D) and FF7: Last Order (2D). Ended up with a very long rant, but basically, the break-through 3D animation of the former was still not enough to tear apart my extreme biasness against 3D animation. I still don't see the bleed'in point of trying to animate realistic people when humans are there, existing, and ready for filming. If they do stuff like Pixar, animating clownfish and the like where it's simply not possible to do with live-action film, I'd have nothing to say, but there's simply NO REASON to render and animate the characters in 3D if they want them so real. Don't gimme crap like 'special effects'; with computer CG so advanced today CG can be seamlessly weaved into live-action.

Last Order was cool, but Cloud looked.... happy. O_o And Sephiroth looked generally... normal. Not cold or anything.

Also, I want Sephiroth's hair and sword, kthnxbai. Not that keen on the guy himself unless we're discussing plans to destroy humans.

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September 12th, 2005 (Monday) 10:34 p.m.
Feeling : :O

I hate Mondays.

Anyway, I was supposed to drop by Yumiko's house this afternoon, but thank goodness she finally thought about it sensibly and brought her laptop and installation discs to school instead. Something was wonky with her CD-drive (-_- are all laptops fated to have this problem?) but I managed to install Photoshop for her.

Also, she had asked her parents and they agreed that me going all the way to their home in Chiba was just too time-consuming, and if I wanted, they'd let me stay the night over the 22nd and 23rd of this month, in time to take part in a small festival in the area. o_O I feel like I've been invited for anything homestay. Alright, I'll go. : ) Looking forward to snap some pictures of her chickens~

Also, I've seen a bit of Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children from the full clip (no time to watch the entire thing) and uhhh.... ¬¬; 98% fighting? Very gamish and impossible logic going about with sense of reality lacking in some areas... I'm glad they didn't bothering trying to make the characters too realistic, but eeeeh.... well... the eyes of most of them characters freak me out. It's like they've got inbuilt lights shining out from inside. o_O Also, why is Cloud riding his bike through a background shot on film, that I recognize to be parts of Hokkaido? XD And please, no one ask me for the clip. ¬¬ It's not like I've got subtitles with it anyway.

Got something to say about the character design and animation, but I guess that'll come later when I'm done watching the darn thing. But before that, I need to observe the camera-work for them numerous fight scenes for some ideas... -_-

The early bird may get the worm, but
the second mouse gets the cheese.

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September 11th, 2005 (Sunday) 11:14 p.m.
Feeling : Hmmm

Oh yes, apparently my Mom paid to get the internet and phoneline working again. For how long I don't know, so I don't see the point. Then again my lil Bro needs the internet to do his work. So Mom called me last night and said not to go out today. Why? Presidential elections and the threat of terrorist attacks. Huh... alright... I cannot imagine what bored terrorists might want to bomb such a monotonous society, but alright... Wasn't planning on going anywhere either...

Suddenly I'm not just translator, I'm typography checker. :3 Fonts and colors, yaaaay~

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September 10th, 2005 (Saturday) 11:10 p.m.
Feeling : tired

Well, chicken rice for lunch. <3 What the heck, I was given a cheesy Singapore keychain (made in Japan). It's just VERY strange for a Singaporean to be given a Singapore keychain from Tokyo. I told the cashier I was Singaporean and she suddenly switched to Chinese (she's Taiwanese). So quickly she did it I didn't even understand her first sentence. That and of course, I don't speak Chinese much.

Then to Roppongi for Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. 6:00pm show was the earliest one not completely taken. Even then we were sitting in the 2nd front-most row. There were foreigners in the theater so it wasn't completely DEAD quiet. The visuals certainly helped me understand more about logic (or lack of it) of things like the Heart of Gold and all. Zaphod Beeblebrox, though good-looking, isn't as charmingly dumb as he is in the radio show. Arthur Dent's personality is somewhat toned down (maybe the voice-work on radio just HAD to be spectacular) : ( Fort Prefect with American accent is... o_O Things have been changed pretty drastically in the movie, but I think it worked out relatively well. Looking forward to the sequel if any. Also read a little of the movels by Douglas Adams and was terribly amused. Might get them :D

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September 9th, 2005 (Friday) 11:00 p.m.
Feeling : Tired

I hate Friday's class. The teacher sickens me.

Anyway last night... came back exhausted, plonked on bed and woke at 2am. Then stayed up to do an image board (background) and some character sample for color testing.

I'm scheduled to go over to Yumiko-chan's place on Monday to help her install her PhotoShop CS academic version. Apparently Adobe Creative Suite (educational version) didn't come with a manual so she didn't know how to set it up. (the average Japanese is so hopeless at computers). I had asked her to bring her computer (laptop) to school with the discs so I could help, thinking she would mind me intruding her house, but she wasn't too keen to lug the heavy thing to school and mentioned in passing she'd be thrilled if I could go over to her place. Which I am quite eager to take a look at... But the trip there from my place costs a hefty 3,140 yen (US$31) for one-way. From school though, it's just 1,640 yen. I don't mind the 6 hour train trip in total, since I do want to see the Chiba prefecture a little. Yumiko's so happy I'm coming over she said she'd ask her dad to buy muh tickets. o_O Well, always wanted to look at her house and the farmland around it....

Tomorrow, Singapore lunch and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. *Dies of exhaustion*

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September 8th, 2005 (Thursday) 11:12 p.m.
Feeling : o_O

What's so effing funny about a sign?

Wish some people would stop taking everything so personally. Just because someone doesn't agree with what you think doesn't automatically make them an enemy. -_-

Saw a spider building part of its web ona sleeping woman's hair in the train lol. Suddenly spiders look so purdy to me... :o

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September 7th, 2005 (Wednesday) 11:23 p.m.
Feeling : Grumpy

I retired at about midnight (very very rare) and woke up a 4:30am on Tuesday. -_-; Don't know why the heck I did, but had a nice dream of flying through the Himalayas anyway.

Translation went well, but lack of sleep has made me extremely irritable today. Frigg'in strong winds as the typhoon passes threatens to tear trees down.

Tried the chicken rice at that Singapore restaurant today. o_O Early I had been speaking to a Bako-chan about Bah Kut Teh and how much I wanted to have it. Appeared on the menus. :o Along with stuff like laska and stuff. Interior even had the right furniture. And for the record, the place was like a shophouse, on the second floor complete with the fitting windows. As lunch hour approached the tiny place started getting jam-packed. It's a good thing I went early x_X. Though the stuff wasn't exactly the same as the real thing, brought back fon memories of nice, cheap food. Uh... chicken rice set was.... US$8.50.

:D~ I wanna go there again.

Well, family's internet connection has been cut off too, so now I've no way of contacting them, cept waiting for a call from one of their cellphones. Hm.

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September 5th, 2005 (Monday) 11:52 p.m.
Feeling : Thoughtful

First day of school, felt rather displaced.

Typhoon and rain hit hard last night and this morning. Lotsa places flooded (including my district but luckily not my area), and the humidity has shot straight up to happy levels. I don't know if it was because of the rain and excess moisture, but Hasegawa-san was trying to turn on her lightbox this morning while talking to me and the switch just blew up at her fingertips. O_O 2 fingertips got covered in black soot and the powerpoint the thing had been connected to go up in a blaze of sparks, smoke and a PUFF! -_- After that, Nakano-san plugged in her lightbox to the powerpoint I was using and that one just got blown too, then we tried to use an extension cord to make use of a point somewhat far away from us and THAT bloody hell got shot to hell as well. What the *censored*? 3 entire power points (2 sockets each) got disabled, 2 lightboxes were literally blown up and stuff... -_- Sycia was protected by an invisible veil (though she still gets static shocks a lot) but the ones physically closest to here were pretty unfortunate.

Had a nice chat with the fansub guys, everyone's a lot more eased up now though I still have to... mediate stuff a little, but otherwise we're all good now. ^_^ *so happy* The voice chat was somewhat confusing but otherwise OK. I don't get what's the point with showing pictures on the internet. I'd like to keep my real life - life detached from my online life as much as possible. : | Not that I'm confident in showing myself either bleah. I was also told I sound American. o_O? Where did my British accent run off to?

Was shocked to find a Hainan Chicken Rice restaurant near my school (I suppose it was newly set up during the holidays) that specifically wrote 'Singapore' on the signboard. IMMA GONNA TRY IT THIS WEDNESDAY. I will also return, reporting the insane prices to make the whole of my native island scream in a string of complimenting unbroken Hokkien vulgarities~

And that spider in my fridge? It was curled up in the same spot for 2 days in there, with the temperature set to about 2 degrees. I opened the door up this morning and it dropped out onto the floor. I gave it a little blow to nudge it and the little thing struggled a bit, reanimated itself rather unscathed, and scurried away beneath the fridge. o____O (wooo breath of life) Harly thing. I didn't know they hibernated. Either way it's earned my respect so I won't be squashing no bugs.

"When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport;
when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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September 4th, 2005 (Sunday) 11:09 p.m.
Feeling : :O

I'm boned. Woke up at 6pm AGAIN. It's a good thing school will force my schelude back on track. Though on the bright side I slept 10 straight hours, missing daylight almost altogether.

And The typhoon has arrived. Weeeee.

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September 3rd, 2005 (Saturday) 11:33 p.m.
Feeling : :O

I love my portable hard disk. T_T And it pays to be literate in Mac and Windows.

I did finish the Ghibli piece by Friday morning, but I had somehow 'lost' myself while doing it (I knew what I wanted to set as a picture message when I started, but lost it when I was done). Some conflict within the sub group and radical changes that came after that helped keep me awake for the last part of the morning. After posting the darn thing (finally), went to the clinic to find it close again (dammit the 2nd time I went there). -_- So to make my trip downtown not completely useless, I got that microphone, for free (point system from BicCamera). Then came home and promptly died till 2am in the morning. Stayed up till 10am, then slept till 6pm today. -_- Dammit. My internal clock is screwed, again.

And I'm glad petrol prices are rising. It's a dying resource no one treasure so this is the only way to get people using to sparingly. Cars should go electric! But I would rather take a bicycle. >: ) I LOVE MY BICYCLE.

Also I am getting *censored* annoyed with Katrina whinings. Taiwan, Philipines and Japan get whammed by typhoons 20 over times in a single summer and that adds up to far more damage. Please count in earthquakes all year round for Japan so save your complaints who's more compassionate. I'm saving my money for the coming typhoon kthnxbai.

Also, can SOMEONE tell me how a spider got into my fridge and set up its web it there? I open it up and see this nice happy guy hovering over my water reserves o_O Silly guy. There aren't any insects in there! Mind you the power's on, switched to the coldest. -_-;

That makes 2 species of spiders in my room. Duh? I don't mind living beside them but them around my food makes me a little uncomfortable :/

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September 1st, 2005 (Thursday) 10:31 p.m.
Feeling : Determined

Collected last term's results from school this morning. It felt very odd to be up so early and walking around once more. Hotta-san seems more chatty now. Perhaps the group (Miyo-san, Yanou-san, Tobari-san, Yumiko-chan, Yoshi-san) got her more sociable. Either way though I'm not part of the group, I still mix with them as if I were, and was getting some advice from Miyo-san about them damn storyboards... -_-; They seem pretty far behind, but I'm not getting on any better either. The storyboard just kills me, ad I won't be able to do it until after Friday.

I hadn't slept all night again, but Did allow myself 5 hours after getting home at 3pm. I'm all geared up for work now. : |

Right now I have to complete that other piece for Ghibli. Ganbare Sycia. Ganbare. Gotta go for a medical checkup tomorrow too.

"We have been God-like in our planned breeding
of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have
been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves."
- Arnold Toynbee (1890 - 1975)

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