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Wednesday, August 20, 2003 @ 08:54 a.m.

This is an early post because the insomia had kicked in and beware, it is a long one. ^^; It is my sis’ birthday and it was because of me that we cannot eat out. ^^; I told them for us to celebrate next time since I am not in a good condition to go eat outside and the drugs are zapping my appetite. They might just buy some food to eat here for tonight.

I had a bad dream last night then well, courtesy of the drugs, suddenly thought why I am not fond of US cartoons anymore. First of all, the plot is never ending for it tends to be episodic. I was still ‘stupid’ then so I don’t know otherwise so imagine my disappointment when a good cartoon ended with no definite ending like Visionaries or notice it in Archie comics. I don’t know that one, it was shown here when I was still in the elementary. Next, if all of the plots are explored, they usually resort to mutate the characters like in Superfriends, before you know it, they changed the heroes to animals or other kinds of creatures, Batman had a mutated catwoman, Inhumanoids is scary for one touch from that loony huge creature can make you look like him and he was fond of the heroine ^^; and many others.

There wasn’t much anime/manga here when I was in the elementary/high school and I think it is somewhat like a really underground hobby. My first encounter with an anime is when it was still shown before the martial law here [late 1970s]. I was still young then as in I’m not studying yet so I might be 2-3 years old and my brother likes to watch mecha anime – Voltes V, Daimos and many others that I don’t know the names but I know what it was when I saw it again. He had even a cabinet with lots of stickers on the mecha and even sentai so I had seen Mask Raider Black before – the old one not the one shown here, some group, which was like Powerrangers/Bioman and even Ultraman. The president who became dictator got scare of those mecha for it is more on freedom so he banned those.

I still manage to watch some anime once in a while during the martial law. My brother, my ever-so-influence, rent some anime at a local video store. The days when anime can be rented at a cheap price since nowadays, they are usually sold so one have to be pretty careful which anime to buy or regret it later on. The one I really remember was Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and there are some monster movies like Godzilla and the like. I think there was also Akira since when it was shown in AXN, I seemed to have seen the ending with my brother. Then we managed to get hooked on the US bases channel [which was here before] that I was able to watch Lensman and this magical pink haired girl movie with Peter Pan. It was when a local channel [2] had re-opened [80s?] and they don’t have much programs so they are showing anime movies galore at night and I remember it was New Year or Christmas then. The ones I remembered were Windaria, Lensman [a different version] and this really weird space anime on reincarnation. By the way, everything is English dubbed. I forgot where I had seen Captain Harlock – Galaxy 999 (?)[the one with a train and a pretty blond girl + a boy] and Dr. Blackjack. Was the Last Unicorn an anime? Then in some other stations, after the martial law, showed some anime which never finished its run here – Candy candy, Astroboy, the girl who was pretending to be a prince from same creator of Astroboy [I would remember this because I wasn’t able to watch what happened next since I had to be confined in the hospital for typhoid fever], space type of Saiyuki wherein the sanzo was a pretty woman/princess, etc.

Then, we had cable and there is this Chinese channel which showed anime like Captain Tsubasa, Saint Seiya, Shulato, Ranma 1/2 , Slayers and others. It was more recently in the late 90s, I forgot, wherein there is a surge of new anime like Yu yu Hakusho, Voltes V [complete], Daimos [complete] but then I had seen the ending before and bro and I don’t like the ending, Sailormoon and etc. There were a few sentai wherein only Bioman had ended. I heard a rumor that the dubber company had deliberately delayed giving the stations the tapes so that reruns would be shown. These are now Filipino dubbed and anime became a hit that it became a fad then went back to become the afternoon cartoons here. Western cartoons are usually on Saturdays. Of course, with the Internet, there had been an increase of fansubbed or bootleg anime cds being sold here.

My first encounter with a manga was when I went to my cousin’s house and saw a very thick Japanese comic. I browsed through it and didn’t get anything. The only one I know is Doraemon and I cannot remember how did I know it was Doraemon. ^^; That art in that comic magazine was not that good as I see it today. I went to Hong Kong before and found the pink haired anime with Peter Pan manga but it was in Japanese so I didn’t bought it. I still didn’t know where to buy Chinese translated ones and it is ironic that when we learned where to buy, I haven’t been to Hong Kong eversince. Then, after I had my transplant, I got hooked with Sailormoon and even found a manga of it vol 14 at a school supplies store near by high school. I bought it and learned that anime and manga stories don’t necessarily have the same story. I already have Internet [as a gift after transplant] so I got ahead of the story. I had bought the whole set and then got hooked with a different store, bought some more manga – Clamp. The moved on with many other shoujo manga like Fushigi Yuugi, Angel Sanctuary, and etc. My first shounen manga is Rurouni Kenshin then after shoujo, I think I’m shifting to shounen manga with a little bit of One Piece [I got most of it from the net – Chinese translated if the chapter is good], Bleach and Black Cat, and of course, GetBackers.

Hehehe...well, just like in fishkeeping, I tend to go to the extreme to what my brother had influence me into. ^^; He would have to but then, he doesn’t have time for them anymore eversince he had married. I just emailed an anime/western movie store and I already got the catalogue. Mm, pretty fast to already have Scrapped Princess and Last Exile. PoT is already at episode 80 while GB is on 36. Mm, each vcd would cost P100 and I remember at my brother’s friend, it would be at P80.

About GB, most of the characters here have issues. In the future chapter, it seemed that Akabane had a past, maybe why and how he became what he is today. Shido had some ‘insect’ people after him so have Kadzuki [He really looked like a girl ^-^] who is out on revenge for those who killed his clan. Ginji tried to hide his anger because of a certain incident in the past that he had made his persona, Raitei and the one who raised him seemed to be some important guy. Ban had always forbid him to change to Raitei but Ban never tells why. Emishi’s clan seemed to have been wiped out by certain group. There is something with Himiko when she turns 17 but as usual, Ban ain’t telling what it was. Ban was seen to have killed her brother and it was hinted that it was because of her being a voodoo child. In short, almost everyone there had their own secrets and past lives that makes them intriguing to me. Also, the characters are quite distint like you would know their characteristics like Emishi is the Joker, Shido used to be a loner until he found Madoka, Kadzuki likes to eavesdrop and sometimes too close with Jubei that Ban and Ginji would think something else is going behind ^^;, Akabane is a cold hearted killer who acts a bit like Hisoka of HxH – doesn’t kill those who entertain him and well, it is now adult-Gon and Killua = G and B. Hehehe Well, Akabane, Ginji and Ban are the ones in the series who haven’t shown their powers to the full extent. Jubei is the typical samurai, uses old language [according to a site since I didn’t notice it in the Chinese] and is too serious that only now, he is trying to have a sense of humor, I think from Emishi. Himiko who changed from hating Ban to somewhat cooperating to him to asking his help when she is in trouble to I need to get out of this alone or else, Ban would continually annoy me again since he rescued me again. Characters from the past arcs have a tendency to come back again in the future arcs as the authors put more background on them or well, just something for the plot. Volume 22 is out in Japan so that means, it would be a matter of time before the Chinese is out. I am curious about Kyouji – the mirror guy who also seemed to know a lot of things and was from Babylon, where super powerful people lived.

Let’s just add that gaming is also my brother’s fault. The first ever electronic game for us is the game-n-watch which I was good at. Now that I think of it, I’m good at solo/one-player games. The first one was making people cross the bridge, next the octopus, then, Donkey Kong and a Mario Brothers. Then, we got an Atari to play zap comets, space invaders and the like. When we had our first computer, there are some games in there and I never finished those games that I notice that I’m very bad with adventure games especially those that need the character to jump because it was always too short. The one that I had finished was Carmen Sandiego world [I suck at the US only since I have no idea about history and specific facts in the US] and this game, I forgot the title wherein I went into a fantasy world ala FY with Western mythical creatures and solve the mystery, somewhat my first RPG. Then, the last RPG-like game I played on the PC was a horror game. My sis and I played it and she was the one who finished it since I was in the hospital, I think my kidney almost rejected. It was solving the mystery behind the mansion wherein the guy there from the past, killed all of his wives. From sis’s story, it was pretty scary at the end.

Back to consoles, we didn’t got the family computer but the super family computer which was a mistake since it was a flop that there are only very few games available on that thing. The game we finished there was a Disney two player game with Goofy and his son against pirates. Then, we got a fake Sega console which was a gift, we got to play X-men and Shinobi but never got to finish it because the last part is a killer and there isn’t any memory cards then so we have to keep on repeating everything all over again until we stopped since it was futile. Then, we got a playstation. I was the one who used it frequently until now. My first game was FF7 – first RPG on a console and I got hooked on PS1 because games have stories and there is a high percentage that I can finish them. ^-^ I played FF5 last night and got killed thrice by an enemy. ^^;; Time to look at the walkthrough [cheat]. I don’t like the story of this FF compare to the ones I had played before. It seemed more like a chore than enjoying the game. FFX-2 [English ver] would only be released on December. I guess that is why I haven’t seen it yet in game sauce. Mm, maybe I should buy my PS2 by that time but then, that would be after my sponsor had his honeymoon. Just read in a blog that Chaos Legion is pretty hard. ^^;

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 @ 05:59 p.m.

The one I asked for help on the GB had answered back. I hope I didn’t scare her from all the questions. ^^; Argh, two more and a half days more of antibiotics. I think it is somewhat a blessing on disguise for the antibiotic then to made my brain hyperactive that I actually thought of how to do some more of the avp. The antibiotics before tend to be a depressant that dulls the brain. @_@ I had re-discovered by love for grape juice – Welch brand.

There is another blog raving about Last Exile and I’m getting curious about it. The Snape-looking guy, Alex Lowe is whom the fangirls like. There seemed to be a bit of shounen ai there. ^^; I wonder how long will this anime be and well, it seemed to be addictive. It is made by Gonzo, perhaps AXN will show it but then, they haven’t shown Full Panic yet. Last Exile is already licensed by Pioneer. Scrapped Princess had a sudden twist. I thought the guy who took care of Pacifica would live but he got killed when he helped Pacifica and others get out of the town. Shannon had even found him but Shannon closed the guy’s eyes. Poor guy. It was futile since outside town, they were caught by Chris and his people. It amuses me that the woman with Shannon was walking around in the rain with a Japanese umbrella. Mm..isn’t this a fantasy-type anime?

Monday, August 18, 2003 @ 06:46 p.m.

I made a mistake last Saturday of doing moving the fishes at night. I think I overtired myself and well, the right shin wound before is acting up. Not good since I must have strained my weak bone there. I really have to be careful since it isn’t the same as before and I cannot stand/walk for a long period of time without resting/sitting a bit. Well, the fishes seem to be doing okay though the convicts are still traumatized. I would need a net barrier for the flowerhorn since the aggressive one kept on picking on the other.

I was surfing over the net on search about how to take care of the flowerhorn fish and I stumbled upon a couple of articles about it being hybrid which meant that a certain species of cichlids being crossed to produce this one and it might not be genetically stable. No wonder I had never found anything about flowerhorn cichlids in the aquarium/fishes book that I have. It is produced basically for profit and some even manipulate the fish so that it would have a certain characteristics which would make it sellable like stunt its growth to make that mark of ‘good luck’ in Chinese stay the same and some cut the tail. I also learned that some discus are also hybrid to produce a certain kind of color strains for display purposes.

The parrot fish which I used to have was also a hybrid. The article said that is why the parrot fish doesn’t not always breed successfully and has a tendency to die early. I do see some of the parrot fishes nowadays being colored artificially from red to blue. The ones my brother bought for me before were pretty small that they are grayish and I did wonder why my parrot fish is white while the ones being sold are really reddish. Anyway, I managed to grow the ones I had pretty big. I think of 10 only 4 were left and I sold them since I wanted to have a different theme for the aquarium. The ones in the tank now aren’t that good of a species to be sold. By the way, it was my brother who somewhat passed over the fishkeeping hobby to me for he had fishes ever since I’m still in kindergarten. I somewhat went overboard that I had lots of aquariums. ^^;;

Have you ever heard of the anime called Last Exile. I found a wallpaper of it and it looked good that it is now my wallpaper of the month. In the wallpaper, there is a guy who reminded me of Snape of Harry Potter. It must have been the hairdo and a woman who looked like a teacher but the outfits are of course, fantasy-sci-fi type. I had read in a blog that it was good and well, I remembered that I was planning to research on the series. The story is about a boy and a girl who wanted to cross-over a certain area [forgot what it was called] and there is a war between two nations. Their village is somewhat in the middle, I think. It reminded me of Windaria. ^^; Anyway, in this world, they fly by airships which made me thought of FF4 and FF9. They managed to carry an errand which would change their lives since they would get involve in the war and that included their village. The Snape-looking guy in some of the screencaps, reminded me of Shannon because of the eyes.

Asher asked about Ban’s personality. First of all, Ban is a pervert, the groping kind and had a bit of imagination in that department. He is quite poor and the only thing he seem to own is his car, a Volkswagon bettle [?] forgot what it was called but the one that looked like a bug and basically his clothes + infinite supply of sunglasses which I read before are jagan-eye protectors. He doesn’t like people being maltreated and can be pretty mean at getting back at them but then, at present time, it didn’t come to a point of killing someone. He had a huge ego so he doesn’t like being put down and well, he had a tendency to brag how powerful he was. He also likes to insult for either humor like the ones here or just to irritate people. He also has a tendency to name-call people, for example, Shido-monkey trainer. He also tends to be quite selfish and greedy for his own good that instead of earning money, his schemes made them even more poorer. ^^;

Ban’s powers are his jagan/evil eye which can make anyone he wishes have a nightmare/good dream within a minute which might be long or short depending on the victim and the ‘snake’ which he can call out anytime. Within 24 hours, the jagan can only be used three times and he cannot use it twice for a certain person. The ‘snake’ is not a real snake since it seemed like an illusion. He can use it to give his punch an extra impact and at times, he would call it out with a chant, which can wreck something up pretty bad. He got both of his powers from his grandmother, a very powerful witch and since she was a German, Ban had 1/4 German blood so that gave him an excuse to have blue eyes. He grew up with her and was later on, lived with another witch who was his grandmother’s friend I think for a short time and became independent. Most of his past is unkown except for a few encounters with others and well, Ginji doesn’t know about Ban’s past either and only knows about it when people who are out to get Ban kept appearing throughout the series. He seemed to have a bad past for there was a scene, which his mother called him a curse and if ever she knew about it, she doesn’t want to give birth to him.

Ban has a tendency to know a lot of things and has some good background on art that he immediately knows certain art items. He can also play the violin. He likes to bully Ginji around. The reason why the two team up is unknown since their personalities is different for Ginji is happy-go-lucky, too trusting and not so intelligent. Ban had fought with Ginji’s alter-ego, Raitei at a certain time and after that, they had teamed up and had been together up to the present time.

Saturday, August 16, 2003 @ 04:46 p.m.

Out of the blue, I thought that if ever I’m going to make a GB summary site, maybe I could ask those who have already have sites regarding the names and maybe overview of some parts which I didn’t understand. I had already emailed to one person before emailing the other one. *crossed fingers* Anyway, if I didn’t get a reply, I will still continue it with my usual name calling them. Oh ya, there would also be that person [forgot what the gender was] that gives out short summaries in the ml which I cannot follow much since I seem to be very far behind. I’m thinking of a descent title but then, I was never creative with titles.

Ya. ^^; But then, I should really be focusing on the avp already hehehe. Last night, our neighbor went to our house to ask me to grow some triops. Triops are somewhat like miniture horsecrabs. They had failed growing it and their aunt was able to grow them but died prematurely. I did had a bit of ego-boost since people who went/peeked into our house would see the fishes and thought that I must be a really good breeder. ^^;; There are some and the most successful are the convicts which are basically like rabbits. Okay, that ego will burst if I failed to grow these triops which supposedly even kids can grow since they are sold in toy stores. They are also quite expensive at 295 pesos for a kit. @_@ That is one manga with extra change – of course, bought in HK. But then, a manga bought here would about 300 pesos, the last time I asked.

Today, we got the cracked aquarium fixed. I would do a bit of moving fishes. Hopefully, they won’t get too stressed and die out on me. ^^;;; I had the two empty aquariums filled to see if there would be any leaks. If all goes well, I would move my discus to a bigger aquarium, move the convicts to a much bigger aquarium, move the guppies from a tupperwear container to where the discus were and put mom’s two new fishes, flower horn which was supposedly lucky according to feng shui, where the convicts used to be. Flower horns are of the same species as the convicts and discus but they seem to be pretty mean though. Convicts can be pretty mean though like if I put my hand inside, the babies though the tiny hairs are food.

Well, not necessarily beaten but just imagine a hair being tugged. ^^; They have a tendency to be jumpy as well as the discus. For the convicts, I could more or less understand and it was my fault for moving too much before but then, I had no choice. Every Saturday, there is a special article on our newspapers regarding cactus. Today, there was about this guy who loves cactus and landscaping. He had made a small cactus garden on a big clay bowl. It was really nice. My plants are doing well and somehow the cactus, which I thought would die, had managed to live and grow some healthier stems. ^-^

There was a blackout in some parts in the US. I hope Unicorn managed to see the play with her friends. It is nothing new here since we are so used to it. There are the occasional brownouts and blackouts would be basically about twice at the disposed president’s time. The first was because of jellyfishes while the other is the usual breakdown of the plant or something. It is already dark here and it would rain most probably. I kept on saving this since I don’t want to regret not doing that in case, of an electric disruption. Here, it is the usual circus regarding the mutiny before. I was a bit amused when the editor asked that the senators were busy grilling almost everyone during a session, the president is down south making speeches and our central bank governer was suspensed, so who is running the country?

There would people of course say that why don’t you just get out of this country if you complain too much. (Not that I’m complaining since I don’t go out too much [traffic, etc] and is a bum [taxes that goes in pockets, etc]) Easier said than done. Relocating would need money to start all over again. It is just like saying why do the squatters go back to their provinces where they can almost grow anything? The usual reason is they don’t have the money for the trip back. I do think that there are increasing poor people. At night, when after going out, I usually pass by the church near our area and I see people sleeping on a certain part of the street [where there are a lot of school supplies stores] which was near a church, on the church doorsteps and even at the circle/island in that area. *Side note: As predicted, a short electric disruption in a second* I don’t see them there before. I can go on and on about the problems in our country. Hehehe

Wow, I managed to make this long without an anime summary.

Friday, August 15, 2003 @ 06:17 p.m.

Well, I would have to drink the antibiotic but in a different brand though same stuff. It seemed to work pretty fast since I cannot sleep last night, a bit of headache and slight tummy ache. So, I managed to finish my pending summaries today before I’ll be ‘malfunctioning’ again. The sums are in your mailboxes. ^-^ I had fun doing the YnM sum and I had downplayed the snips of angst there. Gomen, Unicorn. Mm, I would try my best when we would get to the angst drama part in later chapters.

In this paragraph is what drugs can do to a person when it causes one insomia and extra hallucination. I have been thinking of new ways to show the avp like half-body or whole body of the angel and stuff. Then, I had figured out how to connect the title that sis want to the avp. I had made a tentative deadline for myself. This month, I should finish the preliminary things I need – pics to put in. Next month, make the flash of everything with that side thingie from Asher. Then by October, I would just be finishing everything and details if I didn’t go pass the deadline for September. I had also been re-thinking if I would post guesswork GB sums here. ^^; If it was in a different site, it could be better since I can make it pretty long to do the series justice. Ya, I’m pretty hooked to it lately. Speaking of GB, is there a different range of being a pervert, Asher? Like, from the really sex maniac to the groping guys to well, just looking at pictures. I was quite curious with Ban who is much like Onizuka of GTO but then, maybe Ban is doing it behind the scenes. ^^; He never did declared it like Onizuka that I’m a virgin and all that. Oh ya, while you are at it, send me a copy of your suicide paper, I’m curious. Okay, I just love reading stories so no need for the analysis, just the story of your interviewees.

I am not, you cold-hearted snake guy.

^^;;; Not you, him! *points to Ban* The sea-urchin guy!

Hit a nerve, huh, Ban Midou, Mr. Sea-urchin?

Ban: Kat-sama, would you want a massage?

Thursday, August 14, 2003 @ 06:01 p.m.

We got our cable back yesterday and well, PoT is gone. It was replaced by some contest by phone. I went to the official site and tried to find any news about it. It is purely Chinese though at the message board, someone said about it being shown on 9/1 though the channel that person said wasn’t the same. ^^;;

I just learned that the won’t heal wounds indeed have germs and it is the type that can only be killed by the evil antibiotic that I hate to take – the insomia/hallucination antibiotic called inoflux. Darn it. The alternative is a drug that had to be injected. Not good news. Just when I had recovered, the relatives of the germs are back. And my cold was about to be okay...

I have downloaded some more screencaps of GB - might replace my animated gif[s] here. Wai...Ginji is so darn cute. Too bad there are no pics yet of Ginji on Ban’s head yet. I wonder if there is any chibi Ginji stuff toy out there. I’m just jealous when the characters were able to do cuddle him. And yes, I think his alter-ego as Raitei is pretty cool, too. Just learned that the artist liked a little BL. @_@;; Okay...so that kissing scene was his idea. ^^;;;

Ginji: I cannot believe that Ban...

Ginji: Ouch..Hai...^^;

Ginji: Yummy...

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 @ 05:01 p.m.

Sniff...sniff...sigh, I think I’m going to have a cold. My throat is sore and I have been sniffing a bit. Generally, I don’t feel too good. I was going to start the YnM sum and after I typed the first word, the computer hanged. It is a conspiracy. ^^;; The cable is still dead. I will try to finish it by this week, Unicorn.

Oh ya, the teen anime which seemed to be a boy with lots of girls in wowow. The title is Onegai Twins. I do not know how it is related to Onegai Teacher, which Asher planned to buy.

Hehehe...*gulps some water* And yes, it seemed that the terrorist wasn’t captured yet. I did think it seemed impossible though there are still rumors that he was captured, being hidden, whatever. I think the people in the military had conflicting comments about the terrorist. Well, nothing to watch so I don’t have anything to write about. ^^;

Monday, August 11, 2003 @ 05:05 p.m.

My surfing has been interrupted by a short brownout. I did hear something exploding outside and after a while, the electricity came back and well, my cable is dead. It is one of the downsides of this cable. I really doubt if I could watch PoT tonight.

I visited Muraki today and well, he is getting frustrated with that wound on the arm since it won’t heal. We went to visit to his derma friend to ask if a certain procedure is okay. Well, that procedure is going back to a certain place called the o.r. [operating room] They called it, granulated tissue. The derma had to say that it is something like cancer but it isn’t cancer. ^^;; Thanks a lot. It seemed what was on my forehead which as I have wrote looked like pimples are also of the same kind. The procedure is getting a piece of the ‘meat’ to culture and somehow determine what was causing it. It is certainly not fun to go to the o.r. after a month or so after just going there.

As usual, anaesthesia then slicing and clean, etc. It is really bloody this time and yeah, it took time to make that part numb. I felt like I’m in some horror show and parts of my flesh being sliced off. Well, I’m being morbid here but yes, the color of blood is really nice especially when it is still fresh. I just don’t want to see it from my body. ^^;; I would come back by Wednesday for Muraki to clean it. At that time, I wanted to upgrade Muraki to Akabane status – Akabane fights with scalpels and well, he likes to see blood.

Hehehe. Well, that wound didn’t hurt that much anymore now than the last few days. The wounds kept on sticking on the bandage and just imagine the ‘fun’ I have when I have to re-dress it. ^-^ Wee...

News here: Aside from the talk about how to arraign those mutineers/rebels whatever they are called, it is about terrorism since that hotel in Indonesia got bombed recently. I just read the newspaper today that the terrorist who walked out of the jail, though a certain guy claimed to have a tape, which said he was brought out by a helicopter, got caught yesterday. That’s good and well, there are still many speculations if it is just a publicity stunt by the president who seemed to want to go against her vow of not running next year for presidency. Just like the ones running for governorship in California, I think we would have a very colorful election next year and well, it might be the first time that it will all be computerized.

In OP anime, Chopper’s past is revealed wherein a quack doctor [ I think he is a quack since most people are scared when he tried to cure them.] had befriended him. They had added some new scenes that are not in the manga wherein Luffy directly asked Chopper to be a member of their crew by enticing him that there are a lot of singing, dancing and you can have lots of fun in adventure. In Yugioh, Yugi won his match and was lost in some sort of maze while Hazaki kept on calling for him to help her in her card match with a penguin, I think. ^-^;;

Sunday, August 10, 2003 @ 06:58 p.m.

Yesterday, I went out after going to the office with sis and her fiancé to the designer to pick out new colors since one of the ones picked before was not available. It took hours on deciding on the color from the ones that are on the samples. Later on, the designer helped us and altered the designs a bit so that my gown would be unique. Bwahahaha!

Speak for yourself, well, I just hope by then, the red pimple like thingies on my forehead would be gone by then. Sniff. Then, we went to a bookstore, which had a monthly sale. I browsed some artbooks and it seemed that there are many ways of using tracing paper to copy. One is just as Unicorn told me, shade at the back and trace again. There was one wherein put it on a window and hopefully, the tracing paper draft can be seen through the new paper. There was one just scribble on the tracing paper and using it like a carbon paper. I got curious about this since I saw a Jap program on how to watercolor and well, he was drawing on the paper while the tracing paper was above. I couldn’t understand how he done it. ^^; There was a book on drawing flowers with pastel. It was nice but I’m not too intent on buying a very thin artbook, which is quite expensive. I bought two how-to-draw manga books [remember to remind me to bring it when we meet, Asher] and a photoshop book. There was a woman who even asked me which how-to-draw is best to buy for her kids. ^^; I showed her the ones I had bought and told her the other ones have a tendency to assume that you are already good. Shd did say that the kids are total beginners and well, they did leave her to choose by herself. I was the only one in that section who was also looking at how-to-draw books for I was looking inside if it is a good buy. I try not to buy something just from the cover since there are those, which are sealed.

After that, we went to sis’ friend’s designer since sis is an entourage for her friend. The dress beadwork is very different in the drawing because it looked more sophisticated in the drawing with the beads at just one side with a design but the actual one is just scattered beads around and left one side, empty. ^^; Sometimes, I think that when the drawing is very nice, the actual dress isn’t that nice. I guess it is the same as a manga and an anime. If the drawing is really good, it had a hard time being converted to an anime with that kind of drawings. Of course, it is also true, the opposite. A very good example is Hunter x Hunter.

I told sis’ fiancé about that date in the last entry and he asked if the girl was a socialite. I told him that I didn’t know since it wasn’t mentioned but she could be. He said that there are really girls who are like that since his father had encountered one. She ordered a steak and never bothered to eat it. Sis argued that even so, it was a first date and a blind date so she should have been a bit thoughtful. He agreed and well, it is a major turn-off.

Then, we met with his parents to eat at a Chinese restaurant. We ate a set menu for four and it is mostly seafood. It was good and special mention to the mango pudding. Yummy. Today, I had already *^^;;* I just noticed that I forgot to disconnect my internet. Darn, lost 27 minutes of Internet time. Oh well, good thing I saw it. Back to subject, I already finished the summary homework. I still owe Asher the last FF6 sum and Unicorn the YnM sum. I would try to finish them within this week. I would have to write a deli sum, too. Three more chapters there and I would have already finished the site. The getbackers sums here would be done when I have more free time. Oh ya, I have to really get working on that avp. So, those are my ‘projects’ as of now.

Hai!

Friday, August 8, 2003 @ 08:29 p.m.

I had finished reading the two chapters for summary. Sis would do the rest. The two chapters are almost exactly the same though so I just browsed through it. It was basically about power and politics in a business organization. I should be finish now but after I cleaned the large aquarium, it is almost mid-afternoon already and I had rested a bit while reading the newspaper.

I have read about a date from hell. The writer is a guy. He was asked by his ‘friend’ to blind date a girl at a certain bar restaurant. The girl came and was nice. They ordered some lobster bisque. I have tried it before but maybe it was just the place but it doesn’t taste good since it has a fishy taste. Anyway, the girl just took a spoonful and that’s it. She then ordered mashed potato, mozzarella + blue cheese sticks, a steak and for dessert, apple pie. She claimed to be on a diet. The guy then looked at the menu and to his shock, it is a very expensive place and he had limited funds so he just ordered a salad and prayed that his money could pay for all of it.

*Drool* The dishes came and the girl only a few bites and claim she is finished and doesn’t want to eat the apple pie either. He was shocked since she didn’t even tried to eat all of the food she ordered and the girl said that she doesn’t want to pack it since she would look cheap. Of course, the guy had it packed since the money he spent on it is his savings. The girl had also took the receipt which he thought she would volunteer to at least pay half of what she ordered but no, she only commented that it is still too cheap. With a tip since his father told him to always give, he had used up all his money. After taking the girl home, she quipped that he should be a more gentleman by also ordering red wine for her steak. ^^;;; Well, they never met again.

For the last two days, while waiting for some new program next week, the channel showed two episodes of Prince of Tennis so that would be a total of four episodes of Jin vs Ryoma match. It is very long because it had a lot of Jin’s flashbacks. I was thinking like go back to the game, I want to see the game. First, the flashbacks, Jin is very good when he was still a kid and he showed some show-off teens that he can be good at what they do. His hair is really awful. It is a brown mushroom hair just like Duo’s [Gundam Wing] gundam creator. ^^;; So, his hair now is really an improvement. Kawamura is his childhood neighbor and Jin had this belief that no one can defeat him. With that, it is pretty obvious who would win the match. The way Jin plays is like a wild animal and after watching it a while, it is really cool. He can immediately change the direction of where he would shoot the ball. Ryoma had a hard time at first but at a certain point, he manages to score.

The others were sure that Jin won’t let him get another point and as Ryoma was going to hit the ball, Tezuka’s words echoed in his brain about having his own techniques and encouraging him stuff so he managed to fight evenly with Jin. The two kept on smirking at each other as they tried to boast who is better than the two. Everyone is almost open mouth watching the game since it is really a cool match as everyone is engrossed. Tezuka was the only one who was calm. I was thinking again that he is glad that Ryoma is improving and maybe intently watching for ways to improve him more. Anyway, Ryoma wins with a shot for revenge for everyone whom Jin bullied. After the game, Jin quit tennis even though Banji tried to keep him with the game. I guess Jin’s purpose for the story is too make Ryoma discover his hidden talent. Taiji was crushed since he idolizes Jin and doesn’t want him to quit. Jin said that it won’t do him any good doing that so Taiji decided to also play at matches and told Ryoma that one day, they would play. Ryoma with his usual line, still too far [Mada mada dane – not sure but he always say that line so I assume it is this one]. Later on, it turned out that the woman with Kawamura was Jin’s mother who is only 33 years old. Everyone was shocked that Jin’s mother is quite young. There is no preview, they only showed the matches with Yamabuki team. I guess it would be a new season by Monday. The opening showed only Jin and Ryoma’s match.

About the GB sums, maybe I would just put them here part by part and really short ones. Whenever I read it, I had a gut feeling that something important was being said and I have no idea what they are talking about. Sigh. I just couldn’t resist not telling this story and I’m not that confident to put its own site with a lot of it seems and I think like what is happening in PoT.

It seemed that having someone to draw for one’s story, it can be critized. I can more or less get what was being said. In GB, the writer of the story and the artist are two different people so I always write author/s. The author was commenting on his drawing like, can we really publish that in the magazine [nude pic], doesn’t he [character] became really cute here like a girl, during a scream- you wrote it with ink, would the readers understand your handwriting, and regarding this girl, he looked boyish, she is suppose to be cute. That what one get if someone else is the author hehehe The artist always make comments for every chapter he made. I find it interesting that in a kimono, one have to put in the right flap of the robe first before the left because if it is the opposite, it would mean that person is dead. He had done the latter first and learned about it after it was published. ^^; He also write comments about every main characters he draws.

Hehehe...

Thursday, August 7, 2003 @ 11:19 a.m.

I have finally finished the two homeworks which are due today. It was actually suppose to be finished last night and I have to finish it before lunch time to give it to sis’ fiancé since that time would be the only time he can browse over it. Another homework but I THINK it would be fairly easy since it would be just summarizing 5 chapters to 5 pages. I was a bit whining and sis’ fiancé told me so the deal is off. *cries*

Sniff. Well, at least, I could say I had worked for the half and it is more like he is paying me for a job than say, I got it the half price for free. Oh ya, because I was extremely in pressure yesterday I forgot to rave that I had finished FF6 the other night. Yohoo! At first, I didn’t know how to exchange the death ones with the other characters just like in FF8, which was automatic if a character stays dead for a limited period. I managed to finish the 3 bosses and the main boss without having to use the last three characters, which haven’t fought yet. Kefka with wings really reminded me of Sepiroth in FF7. After the battle, they showed individual clips of the characters. First, an item which usually represents a character on a balcony with their names then more of that person regarding what he will do in the future or well, just about that person, as they try toget out of the crumbling place. It was pretty nice and at the end, it says, you...to thank you for playing the game. Then, more clips of the airship flying throughout the land as they see people are rebuilding again. After saving the system file wherein you can always just go there to few the fmvs, they have a new one called the lovers. It is on Celes’ theme and I liked it. It would make a nice addition to Asher’s tape. It is more on Celes when she was rescued and was in a play. There are also other characters’ battles and moments. This game would be pretty nice in full cg. Last scene was after the first destruction of Kefka of the world and Celes was all alone in that island. Obviously, it is more on Celes and Locke’s love though Locke was never shown in full view...at most, side view. ^^; I do regret not completing the characters for I wasn’t able to get the yeti and had accidentally left Shadow. ^^; So, I didn’t get to see their individual scene in the crumbling castle.

In PoT, Momoshiro managed to win after hitting a powerful shot that made Kiyosumi lose his racket. Many were amazed that they didn’t know Momoshiro can be this powerful while Tezuka was happy of course, I only think so since the guy never smiles or anything as he comments that he finally showed it off. After the game, Momoshiro is in pain as Inui tries to check his left foot. Kiyosumi is very embarrassed for losing as Banji teased him that Kiyosumi lost to an injured person. The others are telling Ryoma to be careful since Jin would be his opponent. Ryoma didn’t listen to them as Momoshiro told the others. Ryoma is already determined to avenge the rocks hit on his face by Jin. The game starts and Jin doesn’t want to shake his hands with Ryoma so he just showed off his racket to him. The referee cannot do a thing either since he was scared of Jin. It seemed that Jin thought of tennis as a lowly sport or something and had a deal with Banji regarding something if he won. Maybe he can quit, I’m not sure. Banji told Taiji to watch the match closely. Ryoma served and Jin managed to hit it and after one return, they were surprise as to why Ryoma is near the net and with a shot, Ryoma hit the ball right to Jin’s face that Jin fell down. Ryoma pointed to him with his racket and told him not to look down on tennis. Jin was furious as he vows to destroy Ryoma. So next episode would be more on the two.

There will be an OP colored poster in Jump. They are eating noodles at Sanji’s noodle stand. Want to have. ^-^ The OP rerun is now at the start of Nami/Arlong arc. In Jump, nothing much happened in OP since it is focusing on the Skypiea’s legend in short, the true story about it. Hopefully, the chapter with the colored poster is good.

Wednesday, August 6, 2003 @ 05:10 p.m.

I’m still doing some homework for the PS2 deal. I’m a bit stumped since I have a hard time thinking on marketing stuff. ^^; It is really not my forte. The computer kept on hanging so there goes what I had done so far. Sigh. I just read a review on Chaos Legion and it wasn’t very good but the one on tv said it was. I think I need to research more on this. I managed to see some Ghost in the Shell techniques. There are pictures usually background that are made manually. They use watercolor and they just use the computer to lessen the manual drawing of cels. The artist did lament that there are some colors that does not come out good in the computer compared to the usual way of coloring. I did learn that Innocence :GitS 2 will be out by next year. The poster is of a girl which seemed to be Makoto[?] all broken part with a beagle looking up.

In PoT, Momoshiro had a hard time with Kiyosumi and was losing after Kiyosumi imitated his dunk shot. Well, it has been twice already when a game with Tezuka can improve one’s game since Momoshiro remembered what Tezuka told him about using his right foot for his left foot’s injury is acting up. Regarding Nanjiroh, it seemed that Seigaku’s arch rival is Yamabuki that during his time, even though Nanjiroh managed to beat a player, most of the games were lost. Preview: The next game would be Ryoma vs Jin. Nothing much happened in Scrapped Princess. Everyone who tried to draw Pacifica, always ended up with a very ugly fat version of her. ^^; The soldiers are searching for her. Raquelle hangs around them to protect her while Shannon is still lost.

Monday, August 4, 2003 @ 09:49 p.m.

Well, thanks to your link, Asher, I have found that organ piece of the vampire Neclord in Suikoden. ^-^ When I was playing the game, I even stopped playing for a while to listen before I kill him. Hehehe I forgot to mention in the last entry the reason why I watched Resident Evil since I’m not really fond of horror movies. The reason is of course, it is based on a game. I could not play the game because I’m scared to play it. There is a difference from fighting mutated animals like Parasite Eve to mutated humans or zombies, which eat people. If I remember correctly, there was even a part showing how they become zombies and start eating. ^^; I was reading the walkthrough and it is a bit funny as the author said to run away from a certain undefeatable zombie and you won’t survive her/it. Then, there was also a variation wherein the zombies can become invinsible. It does seem fun but well, I’m...

Ya. ^^; Well, my visit to Muraki was okay. The wounds are slow to heal since my body is like that and these skin infection kept on appearing because the immunity of skin is very weak and my skin is super sensitive that a little bump there would end up a scratch or wound. That is something that we cannot do anything about. He said that I could wet them already to clean but cover them up again. He would see me again next week to see how the wounds are. Since he is a bit talkative, he mentioned that he doesn’t recommend for his son to take up medicine since it is very hard. For example, he was on a day off and was playing golf. His cellphone rang and he answered it, thinking that it was his wife but it was a patient who said that he/she was in the emergency room, asking him to come quickly to operate on his dislocated shoulder.

Since the patient was pleading and all, he decided to cut his golf playing and went back to operate on him/her. After operating him/her, he/she said that he/she doesn’t have any money to pay so he/she would go home to get money. Muraki didn’t buy it since from experience, there are already countless people who did that to him and they never return. He told him/her to call home and get the money. He did say that in really emergency cases like a bullet on a person, he would save/help the person first and if he cannot pay, well, it is just thank you but in this case, not. Well, I think he does have his point but I was wondering that there are many doctors in that hospital so why didn’t that patient just ask anyone of them if it hurts too much? Either because Muraki is good or well, he/she was thinking of fix-and-go. I do not really blame him since if it kept on happening before, one cannot easily believe like before and try to be nice. What do you think?

The weekly OP is indeed a rerun where the weekly OP left before, the climax of recruiting Sanji arc. Nothing much happened in PoT. Taiji was interviewing Ryoma and he commented that he doesn’t play with the team because he is short. Later, he learned that Ryoma is also a player as Ryoma told him, it is not really a hassle when one is short. Nanjiroh was spotted walking around the place and when asked by Mamoru [reporter], he said that he is just resting and not going to see his son play. Mamoru learned that the coach of Yamabuki, Banji and Sumire had some sort of feuding over him. Nanjiroh did saw Banji and they doesn’t seem to be quite on friendly terms but it is hard to tell since Banji is always smiling. During the game, Oishi managed to overcome his trauma over their defeat during the doubles last time and they won the first doubles. I wondered why they immediately skipped to singles when it was usually two doubles and 3 singles matches per game. Next match was Momoshiro and red haired Kiyosumi [the one Ryoma hit a ball on the face before] and it seemed Kiyosumi is already starting to irritate Momoshiro as Kiyosumi seem to pretend to forget who was the one he is playing against as if he was looking down on Momoshiro. He did want to play against Ryoma. Lastly, it seemed that Jin’s teammates also dislike him. Jin would bully Taiji and even taunt the double team like thanking them so that he could play against Ryoma. Ryoma was also intently watching Jin since he also wanted to play against Jin.

Sunday, August 3, 2003 @ 10:20 p.m.

I forgot to mention in the last entry that I liked Lee Wang Heom’s Last Night which is a song for Moon Child. It is in English and accomapanied only by a guitar. The lyrics are nice but it does seem that he is singing it to some dead girl. ^^; The video was cut in the end. Today, mtv is still in Chinese and I guess it is good since there are a lot of Japanese videos here and I even managed to watch half an hour of Jap videos this morning. I saw that nice beach song again which was shown in wowow. The title is Sea of Love by Southern All Stars. It just made me want to go to a beach. The other one was a song by Bump of Chicken [weird group’s name huh? But they did like One Piece ^-^ They sang a song for the latest OP movie – Sailing Day] and I have no idea what the title of the song was. It was near the chorus when it became catchy.

I did saw a Korean mtv by Rich. I guess the attraction to Korean mtvs are the short stories within the video. In this one, the girl looked at the watch and a guy is marrying at a church. Later on, the girl kept on running and went by this jogger. They tried to out run each other and suddenly, the girl mugged the jogger to get his rubber shoes. ^^; The guy seemed to have a hard time saying yes to all the questions of the priest. The girl passes by a market and then a fish monger suddenly, chased after her but he missed her. Back to the wedding, the groom ran out from the church, leaving the bride bewildered. The groom and the girl met at a street. The cars are running fast here and I didn’t notice any stoplight. Well, whoever made this story is really a sadist. The groom crossed and was hit by two cars so he bounced back and forth. ^^; The last scene was the girl looking at him as he went to the emergency room. Very weird.

There are others. One is a girl whose bag was snatched and she ran to chase the thieves. The thieves were not happy that inside the bag was just a brick. The girl caught up with them and took her bag back. The leader of the thieves followed her and saw her threw the brick at her ex-boyfriend’s wedding car. Then, ran away and well, the leader followed her and I think they ended up together. Another is two boxers are after a girl and they always try to outcompete each other, etc and in the end, the girl died and the two boxers became friends again. There was one wherein a girl was accidentally blinded in the photographer’s studio. He felt guilty about it and he liked the girl. In the end, he donated his eyes for her. It maybe sweet but for me, [sorry, Asher, since she liked it.] it seemed a bit morbid like cannot they just find someone else’s?

I am feeling much better one day after the antibiotic treatment. Hopefully, I won’t need it anymore. I would have to see Muraki tomorrow and in the afternoon, I would be at the office since sis would be on her wedding field trip. I would really have to do the avp again which I stopped doing during the treatment since my brain is not working properly, said I wrote before.

Question: Does your brother/father like to shop? It was what my mom and I discussed since usually men including my father and sis’ fiancé usually doesn’t want to. Sis’ fiancé would walk a bit but later on, while she shops, he would sit down. Now, it is a contrast with my brother. If ever possible, my brother would always go out with us when we go to malls and even after he married, he would go with his children to malls whether to shop or to those arcades. My mother said that my brother is an exception or rare specimen and claimed that men don’t usually like to shop. So, I’m asking this question. ^-^

In OP anime, everyone is fine after being cured by Dr. Kureha and Chopper. Luffy and Sanji kept on chasing Chopper for their food. Kureha told Nami that Chopper was born as a blue-nosed reindeer so the other reindeers always left him at the back of the pack. He had accidentally ate the human fruit which can make him more human so the reindeers drove him away. He was lonely so he went to the village but the people thought he was a monster so they also drove him away. He had a strong distrust for anyone because of that. In the end, Luffy and Sanji was raving about Chopper being able to walk on two feet, can talk and mutate from small to big. Chopper was sad that they are calling him a freak like the others until Luffy shouted that he wanted him to be part of their crew. Next would be Chopper’s past.

I wasn’t able to follow much on Yugioh since whenever I switch to that channel, Yugi and that guy are still playing and as of now, Yugi is winning. I was more on OP. Tonight, I saw in BBC about a showcase of China for 2008 Olmpics. It was cut and I remembered that we had that channel so I switch to that channel. It is a huge temple like building wherein at the 5-6 circular hallways/alleys, the participants are showing different sports per song. It seemed to be somewhat like a concert since there are audiences watching it. It does look spectacular with the play of lights on the place. Sis kept saying that it seems quite early for 2008 is still five years to go.

I watched Resident Evil the movie tonight. Hehehe, hopefully, I won’t have any dreams about those zombies. ^^; I usually just don’t look during the zombie fight scenes. I had skipped some parts when I ate dinner and well, a scene was peaking out a small opening at the elevator door with her head out. I immediately switched the channel since I don’t want a head chopped of if it ever happened. ^^;; The story was a chemical was broken and the computer instead of telling everyone to get out, locked them all in and killed all of them. Next scene was the girl waking up, naked at the shower in a mansion. She saw a note saying I would make your dreams come true. She opened the next drawer and they were guns. She had amnesia. She took something to wear and went out. She saw a civilian policeman when suddenly, many troops in those infiltration type of clothes crashed in. They forced the two to the secret lab underneath the mansion and their nightmare begins.

With the two wherein I returned watched again, are four of the troops [3 guys and 1 girl]. I guess the others are eaten. They were attacked by zombies and no matter how many bullets they shot they kept on attacking. One of them became zombie food. They kept on running away from the zombies and a little girl voice suddenly talked to them. It was the computer. She told them that there was a mutation among the people inside so it sealed everyone in. The chemical, which broke can make people zombies and the only impulse is the feed. The sure way of killing them is to shot at the head. Inside the tunnels, one of the troops got separated from the others and the girl troop was badly hurt since she was bitten. They managed to reach the main research laboratory. The main girl remembered seeing an experiment on a rabbit which looked huge and was given something to counter the chemical.

She immediately went to search but it was gone. Then one of the troops had his own flashback. He and the main girl knew each other and planned to steal the chemicals – the one that causes mutation and the cure. He was the one who altered the computer to lock all of people inside the lab in. He planned to sell the chemicals and be rich with the main girl who was sleeping while he stole it. He also tossed one of the chemicals in the lab and it is the one that caused the mutation. In short, he was the cause. He asked the main girl to go with him but she refused when a zombie bit him at the back. He managed to escape and locked the others in. Then, the girl computer’s voice is back saying that she is a bad girl. While the guy went to where he hit the chemicals, he was attacked by mutant rabbit which evolves whenever it eats new dna. The main girl asked why it didn’t tell them about it. The computer deliberately hid it from them since it wanted them to become rabbit food. It said that it would only tell the code out if the wounded girl troop be sacrificed since the cure wasn’t sure to be effective anyway. The main girl doesn’t want to so she just destroyed the monitor so the computer would shut up.

Suddenly, the rabbit is trying to get in where they were. A door opened and it was the one whom they got separted with at the tunnels. He was the expert code breaker so he was able to break in. They went to the train as they break the code while the main girl gets the chemicals. They rode in the train and the main girl gave the cure to the girl troop. The main girl prepares to shoot her if she mutates but it seemed that she is okay. The rabbit was on their train as it tried to rip everything apart. The breaker code guy was eaten. The policeman was scratched on his arm and it entered the back door. The two tried their best to kill it. Using some pipes, the main girl trapped its tongue on the railings as she told the policeman to open the trap beneath it. He did but he was barred by the girl troop who became a zombie. I guess the cure didn’t worked. He had no choice but to kill her and as she was thrown back, she hit the button. The rabbit fell down and got fried. They closed the gate again and they were safe.

They rested a bit in the mansion. By the way, the lab was sealed off. Then, the wound of the policeman had started to mutate. She was about to give him the serum when people in white the type for disinfection, grabbed him and was going to operate on him. The girl was operated on as the people said they are going to bring them to Raccoon City. Next, she woke up alone in the operating room. She removed all of the tubes/needles [huge] from her. She used the needle to get out. The place was deserted as she walked around the city wherein there are a lot of cars had an accident. A newspaper had a headline, the dead walks. She immediately took a shotgun from the policeman. The end. I am now reading the game version and it seemed that resident evil 2 & 3 [game] is where her adventure continued at Racoon City.

Saturday, August 2, 2003 @ 09:22 p.m.

I went to the office this afternoon since sis and mom went out to buy/look for things for the wedding. It is the pillows, blankets, and other things to bring when sis goes to her fiancé’s house and since it is their old house, we don’t have to buy appliances. It is the tradition for the guy to pay for the wedding ceremony and party while the girl will pay for all the furnishing in the house especially if it is new. Oh ya, did you know that starting in July 29 to Aug 27 is called ‘ghost’ month in Chinese it is actually the 7th month in the Chinese calendar. It is believed that during this month, ghosts roam around the world to create mischief so one should not get married or start a business among other things. It would supposedly be bad luck.

When I kept on reading GB, sometimes I really had an urge to make a site on it. Well, maybe just a summary not quite detailed for the detailed stuff. ^^; Let’s just see. Oh ya, there are a lot of fillers in the GB anime and there are some quite famous seiyuu there, too. I’m still waiting to see how long it will be. I asked again how much a PS2 again. It is much lower than before. The package had 20 games free. Maybe I would wait until Chaos Legion [English] is released. Also, prioritize which games to buy first. I need to check again for the ratings of the games that I have interest in.

Naruto is boring me since nothing much is happening there except training. I’ll skip summarizing it. I’m not sure what happened to our MTV but today, they are only showing Chinese videos and a few Korean/Jap videos. I don’t know if it is permanent or temporary. I managed to catch a special on Lee Wang Heom [Not sure if right spelling] which is more on his trip to Japan to promote his album since he furnish the song for Moon Child, a movie which also starred Gackt and Hyde. He is quite a talented musician – write his songs and can play a guitar, violin and piano. He even had to learn a bit of Japanese since he had a Japanese single for the movie. Well, he visited Kawai piano store and I saw the transparent [fiber glass?] grand piano, which Yoshiki had. The saleslady told him the price. It is 8 million yet and that would be equivalent to about $49T or PhP 2.7 million. Very expensive. ^^;

Friday, August 1, 2003 @ 08:24 p.m.

Hehehe...I found myself searching for GB merchandises. ^^;; I had been showing sis chibi Ginji so that she would know him if ever, she goes to HK. While reading, I got to be fond of that cute guy especially when he hangs on Ban’s head. So cute. I might be able to get a new volume of GB since these authors really work fast. I looked at the release dates and I can estimate they release about 4-6 volumes per year. This year is still 3 volumes. Ya, I’m hooked. Sometimes, just looking at screencaps make me want to buy the anime already. Jubei [re-edit old entry, I got the wrong name. ^^; ] looked great there. It seemed that in the anime they had removed an arc. It is now close to what is in the manga so they might end it near the marine red [wine] arc. So, that would be about 30+ anime.

Hehehe...let’s see. If only I could read all of the details in the book and I would have made a site for it. There are a lot of growing sites about it already. In Pot, most of Fudomine team members got into an accident so they weren’t doing well. They are competing against Yamabuki. Kippei backed out of the game since he is more concerned of his member’s health. Jin who was the one who told him about the accident, continued to irritated them by saying a lot of nasty words. Then, Seigaku came, Jin welcomed them.

It seemed that they would be playing against the Gyokuin whose members were defeated by Ryoma single handedly. They were narrating how great each player were and got cold feet that they backed out by saying that they all had a stomachache. Jin was there again and said some nasty words that Seigaku isn’t that great and a lot more things which made Momoshiro really angry that he ran to punch Jin but he stopped when Tezuka shouted for him to stop. Later on, the new comers learned that the Yamabuki group is really good and I’m not sure about this but have defeated them. It was a double with Fuji and Kawamura, if I remember correctly. I’m not sure again but it seemed that their weakness is that they only had one good double team. Sigh, my Chinese is really bad.

Thursday, July 31, 2003 @ 09:00 p.m.

I forgot to mention that there are many fun stuff in GB. There are some spoof comic which I think was written by fans or the author/s with their assistants. In the 20 and 21 volumes, they have a fan gallery just like in OP wherein fans can draw GB and it get published. I think it will be one of the ultimate boasts of an otaku, “look, my drawing got published in a manga” which many, many people buy even internationally. ^-^ Just like OP, the author/s make comments at the side. I did found this game in the manga but then, my Chinese isn’t good and somewhat had scanlated it, I tested as to who am I in GB, here. And I got Ban. I played a bit and tested my sibling’s birthdays and well, we all got Ban. ^^;; Very interesting. It is basically adding the numbers in one’s birthday.

The weekdays Yugioh are indeed reruns. It is where I first saw weekend Yugioh so it is basically a rerun for me. It was the part wherein evil Malik controls a lot of people just to fight with Yugi.I managed to watch the ending of Digimon Tamers. Just like the others, the digimon returned where they belong in order not to distort the their ‘worlds’ and they promised that they would return again. The main boy then saw a tunnel of light in a cave which gave him hope that they would come back. The replacement seemed to be reruns of One Piece.

It is a bit of ‘half’-rerun in PoT since they are on a running spree again. Good thing the channel’s signal came back. As usual, only the ‘star’ players are left so Inui told them that they have run at 55 seconds and the last one would have to drink the new version of the drink – grayish and bubbly like rootbeer. It freaked everyone and they quickly ran. By the way, they also teased Kawamura about having a girlfriend. So, they are running the last lap, Momoshiro asked why Fuji is running fast since Fuji really wanted to taste the new drink. Fuji smiled and said that he wanted to see the ‘pain’ of others when they drink it. ^^;; Well, they managed to finish the lap in about 54 seconds. Kunimitsu told them that they shouldn’t be sitting around for they would have a match. It would be Ryoma vs. Fuji. Fuji managed to outscore Ryoma with his special techniques. Fuji’s pose reminded me of a flying swan. ^^; I don’t know what it was called but Ryoma just cannot get a score which irks Ryoma. Oh ya, they had a bet. The others bet on Fuji and only Momoshiro bet that Ryoma would win.

In today’s episode, Ryoma managed to think of a way to counter Fuji’s shot using the net. So, their game became more intense. Inui told the others that for every fifteen minutes, the other players would have a game. I’m beginning to think that Inui is their real trainer. ^^; Momoshiro was no match for Tezuka who finished him off quickly that even Ryoma-Fuji match isn’t even finished yet. Kawamura’s strong shot made it hard for Kaidoh to use his special snake shot. Eiji bet that whoever is the loser would have to drink Inui’s juice, which made Oishi do his best. The other matches are stopped because it is already raining hard. Ryoma and Fuji doesn’t want to stop but Sumire made them and even pinched both of Ryoma’s cheek.

At the locker room, Fuji is really challenged by Ryoma and asked Tezuka if this is how it really fell when playing against Ryoma. Tezuka said yes. Momoshiro walked home with Ryoma. Ryoma told him that there are two really scary people in Seigaku. Momoshiro corrected him by saying that it is three. At night, Yuuta was in the gym and Fuji called him up to ask him and tell him that he had played with Ryoma. Mizuki entered with that shocking violet shirt and took the phone to talk to Fuji about stuff. Fuji immediately hanged up the phone. As I read in a site, Fuji can really hold a grudge against those who made him angry. Hehehe Mizuki was irked by it and told Yuuta to train harder to surpass Fuji, much to Yuuta’s dismay since he had just finished. In the preview, back to the tournament and it seemed that something happened to Fudomine.

Oh ya, I kept on forgetting to say that Ryoma really reminded me of Rukawa [Slam Dunk] he is really good at his sport, loves to sleep, had fangirls and anti-social. Fuji seemed to be a bit like Kenshin [RK] just imagine Kenshin with short hair. Hehehe. And well, Kenshin is also a genius swordsman and well, Fuji is the genius tennis player. They always smile and act somewhat goofy but when they do what they do best, they become dead serious – the eyes seemed to be the same. Oh ya, they looked a bit girly or well, Fuji when he was a kid.

Fuji: Want me to whack you with my tennis racket?

Ban: She is now being chased by Kenshin and Fuji and then being beaten to a pulp...oh..that hurts.

Ban:*sprouts pointy devil hair* .... and then they...

Wednesday, July 30, 2003 @ 05:36 p.m.

I more or less finished coloring the bleach pic. It temporarily didn’t relieve me of headache yesterday. I begin to think if it is reading too GB which is the cause. I suddenly remembered that before, I complained that the authors like to cramp a lot of stuff in a page, just like Angel Sanctuary. But then, maybe it is the antibiotics. Oh well, whichever, it comes and it goes. I have to do some homework for sis’ fiancé since we did have a deal. I think he had one more term and a thesis to go.

I think one’s opinion on which is better manga/anime version of GB, varies. Just found a GB blog but it is more on the volumes that I already had. I did found out that my favorite chapter is episode 39. hehehe Let’s see, my favorites in GB aside from Ban and Ginji are Akubane who is basically like death – black hat and strench coat and needle guy, Jubei. There are really a lot of interesting characters here. Dang, it made me wonder about the anime version. Oh ya, just heard that in fall, Saiyuki Reload will be animated.

In Scrapped Princess, since I had missed last episode, I am guessing here. Well, I do guess a lot here since it is in Japanese. The siblings got separated. Pacifica is with another guy whom I thought was Shannon but it wasn’t him since he had earrings and his hair is flat, unlike Shannon’s, which are a bit spiky so, I call him Ran temporarily. ^^ He was the guy with Pacifica on the card that they advertise on channel. Leo and Winia [ Pacifica’s friend] found her and were surprised that Pacifica had amnesia so she doesn’t recognize them. She is even working with Kidal whom I think was the musician whom they have fought way back. It is a play with mascots. ^^;; Raquelle was wandering around and found a certain guy whom he knew, was he Armalite have to check, then they found the others. Raquelle had decided to keep Pacifica that way, to spare her of hardships which doesn’t make Leo quite happy. Shannon is also wandering around and was followed by a woman whom I think he had fought with before, which irritates Shannon as she kept blabbing on something about a Peacemaker.

In the ad, I remembered those huge mythical creatures which Shannon and other enemies can make reminded me of Rahxephon’s creatures, forgot what they are called. ^^;; I then remembered that the creators are the same. Baka. The other anime is as a suspected, but it seemed to be a Tenchi Muyo/Love Hina variety since there is only one guy and lots of girls. In this episode, two girls are trying to get his attention but the one who wasn’t chasing, got his attention. It made the two jealous and I think they hit him. It wasn’t shown. From a lake nearby, a girl was spying on them and with her is another girl.

Jin went to Seigaku school to search for Ryoma. I think schools in Japan are very lenient in security unlike here which even had bodyguards on each gate but then, I did went to a public college before for research, they just let anyone pass. ^^; Jin punched Arai and one of the trio until Ryoma came. Jin then took his pink ^^;; racket and hit some balls on Ryoma, then a pebble and Ryoma have to go to the clinic for Jin had hit him with many pebbles at the same time. His sempai teammates are worried but Ryoma said that it was nothing. Momoshiro cutely, twisted Ryoma’s head to show them that his face says, he will handle this problem personally.

Time for running and well, Inui had a certain glint on his eyeglasses. Hehehe They have to run the lap within one minute and he gave the freshmen his new drink, something-tea. The trio collapsed and in the end, only the star players are running since they don’t want to drink it. At the last lap, Inui told them that whoever is last will have to drink a pitcher of his tea. They ran like hell. Momoshiro and Kaidoh reminded me of Zoro and Sanji [in one of the ending of OP] they kept on pushing each other. In the end, it was a tie. Inui was a bit disappointed and said, since maybe no one win or lose, maybe they should all drink it. They all replied that he drink it himself. Ya, Inui can drink it and it seemed Fuji, too. Then, Ryoma, Momoshiro, Inui and Eiji followed Kawamura to find him with another girl. Then, Jin appeared and after some argument, he poured the juice on Kawamura. The others are very angry. Momoshiro is getting ready to face of Jin as he walks by but it was Ryoma who made him trip. Ryoma smiles and introduced himself again. Hehehe Preview is a Ryoma vs Fuji game, which I hopefully can see if the signal on the channel would come back later on...it is dead as of now.

Tuesday, July 29, 2003 @ 03:59 p.m.

Hehehe...I’m not doing much lately, mostly things that doesn’t need to think – watch tv and playstation. I am at the climax of FF6. Yipee.

^^; Ya, I really thought that I have to re-climb that tower since I cannot defeat the main boss in that tower. I had everyone reflect all of that boss’ magic. I left it to do something else since I’m sure I would lose anyway and when I returned, it’s dead. Sometimes, I was on the verge of defeat and luckily, the boss died.

In PoT, Ryoma got tricked by his dad to teach some people tennis. It turned out that it was his fangirls. Ryoma looked really bored but it was a good thing that Sakuno in her overzeal had hit the ball to the forest. Sakuno tried to get it back but it fell at Ginka? School and the guys there are bullies. They tossed a basket of tennis balls so Sakuno would have a hard time know which one is hers – the one with sd Ryoma. Domoka saw that the guys were hiding the ball so told Ryoma about it. This made Ryoma want to challenge all of them for all of their balls. In short, Ryoma creamed them.

Jin had made a cameo here. The one who looked like Hisoka [HxH] and he was bullying some guy to give him money. Then, he saw Ryoma played and he was curious about Ryoma. Then, Inui in civilian clothes went to spy on Ginka and saw them really tired and exhausted. He concluded that they must have trained really hard so he better train his team much harder – invent a new juice. ^-^ Ryoma slept at the car with all of Ginka’s tennis balls. The preview is well, another training and the Inui juice is colored red – before it was green and grey – from the looks of his teammates, it must have a very ‘nice’ taste. ^-^

Monday, July 28, 2003 @ 03:15 p.m.

It is the day after the weekend ‘coup’ attempt. There are just some disgruntled young soldiers who wanted to make a media appeal of their grievances. Sure enough, their escapade will bring the economy down. There are still many rumors as to who is behind them. Could it be the government to make the public forget about the terrorist escape or it was the opposition since the SONA [state of the nation address] will be held today. It ended peacefully and well, we are again in international news, which made investors think twice before investing in this country.

I’m still on antibiotics. Sigh, 5 more days before it is over. My brain is not working well as I hover over having a headache and wanting to sleep. I do not like this feeling. I also got my new dosage of manga since mom was able to go to HK. I think I over-read them [20+ volumes for two days] that my brain kept on flashing scenes from the manga. I got to give it a rest. ^^;

Hai, I did plan to read only one a day but I cannot stop since I wanted to know what happened next. Well, Getbackers is fun though the last part was hanging, though I know Ginji will be able to get his electricity back. The most fun is the when Ginji got hospitalized, his friends visited him but they ended up fighting since Ban kept bragging that he is the best among them. Poor Ginji, got tossed out of the window but luckily, electricity wires caught him and he rejuvenated. ^-^

Well, I finally got the last volumes of Gravitation. I do not like the XMR stalker of Shuiichi who became their manager. To make the story short, Yuki managed to face his trauma and well, they are together. The end. M no N ended with a marriage though the girl’s mother doesn’t really approved but later on, she did. It is kind of scary for their children to look exactly like them. I think I like the author’s short stories. Bleach is fun, too. I think the next part would be more on training as they are going to save Rukia in the other world.

Anime update: In Yugioh, more on Kaiba and his brother’s past when they are still in the orphanage. Ryouji and Hiroto managed to save Shizuka from some rhino creature. Yugi is still playing cards and is in danger of losing. In Naruto, more fighting with the bad guy who was later killed by another person. Not much plot happening there. In One Piece anime, Zoro managed to get a coat and finish of the army. Luffy and co. managed to go to the doctor. Chopper’s Chinese dub sounds really cute. ^-^ Oh ya, in Hng, it is Sai vs Akira’s dad in Internet go.

Yugioh will be shown everyday starting today. I don’t know if it will be new episodes or reruns to take over the HxH slot. Greed Island arc is indeed boring. In the end, they fought with some traumatized guy and managed to show him the ‘light’. After that, Gon looked into the sunset and lots of speech. The end. So basically, the oav/ova is about how they went to greed island, learn about the rules there and meet people.

Friday, July 25, 2003 @ 08:13 p.m.

Hehehe...because of my jumping into conclusions, I removed that sum of Love Letter from yesterday’s entry. I thought that they had killed off Eun ha and it turned out not. It is a happy ending and well, I am not quite satisfied with the ending. Andrew’s prayer of saving Eun ha was granted in return, he will become a priest. Together with Woo-jin they operated on her and she is alive. Woo-jin had already backed out since his father advised him to through his letter wherein the details to save Eun ha was written. Sis said that she wanted Woo-jin to end up with Eun ha since he really love her and it seems more than Andrew loves Eun ha. I think so, too.

It made me wonder, whom would you want? The guy who loved you too much but you don’t love him or the guy who loved you so-so and you loved him too much. My sis would say that it would be better if it was the former. I somewhat thought the same way when I watch MVP Valentine. And from that really spoiling mtv of theirs, which the channel shows, the guy would really do everything for her. I wonder if he just donated something.

And so, there are many flashbacks on Fuji and Yuuta which made Yuuta realized that his brother really care for him. Fuji made it seem that he had revealed his weakness by saying that he hate a certain shot which Mizuki trained himself to counter against what was suppose to be Fuji’s favorite shot. After the first point, Fuji told him that he was only bluffing for he would never reveal his weakness. Mizuki was devasted that his plan was wrecked. After the game wherein Fuji made Mizuki lose miserably, Fuji told him that he better take care of his brother. Yuuta then decided to use his own technique to become stronger and thanked Mizuki for all his help. Meanwhile, Fudomine had won their game and some people realized that Kippei used to be someone famous. There are only four teams left for the finals. The ones I know are Fudomine and Seigaku. I wasn’t able to catch a glimpse of the other two, maybe Yamabuki since the coach whom Sumire knew was there.

Anyway, Fuji managed to get Yuuta to come home since their mom would be cooking his favorite dish and sukiyaki? by their sister. Some place, Eiji was really disappointed that they had lost as he watch the sunset. Oishi joined him to help cheer him up. Eiji shouted that they will not let it happen again so that they would be the first in Japan – doubles match. At the bus, everyone was wondering where the two went off as Tezuka told them they are fine. At the back, Momoshiro, Kaidoh and Ryoma had been sleeping. The trio is scared of Kaidoh if he wakes up because of their noise. The fangirls are drooling over Ryoma. The three are then woke up since they are at their stop. Next episode will be teaching Sakuno to play tennis with Ryoma and yes, those chibi Ryoma on the tennis balls are very cute. ^-^

Thursday, July 24, 2003 @ 07:02 p.m.

Regarding the pus sample, yup, I had some germs again which is on the skin. I didn’t get it much since Muraki was using doctor jargon words. In short, infection so drink antibiotic for 10 days. I wonder if that is the reason why sleeping bugs are flying around here.

The other day, I saw the different scenes of Scrapped Princess and well, I thought wowow would show it all over again since I had been quite forgetful to change to that channel at that time, it is once a week. It is a bit confusing when they use a different wording for when it will be shown as if like Tuesday then there is a variation of fire, earth, water, etc. I wrote the wordings [kanji] for dad to translate and he said it must be Japanese since it didn’t mean anything in Chinese. I went to the site and yes, it is the usual schedule of Tuesday.

They also have a new anime which I thought was a special but it turned out that the other anime had already finished so the new one is the replacement. I think it is somewhat of a school love story type of anime. Then, I decided to search on Scrapped Princess to just basically know what the heck is happening in that story to be able to follow the story more closely. There was a prophecy by some god, Mauser’s prophet, Grendel that if ever the queen bore twins, the girl must be killed since at her sixteenth birthday, she will destroy the world. They had her tossed down a cliff when she was a baby but miraculously, she survived.

I think that someone found Pacifica [girl’s name] and hid her since he doesn’t want to kill her. He was able to protect her until he dies. The man had two other children, Shannon [swordsman] and Raquelle [magician] who swore that they would protect Pacifica so basically, they are running away from people who wanted to kill Pacifica. On their way, they met Leo who had proposed to Pacifica, Chris who was ordered to kill her and Winia who became her friend. They are still continuing their journey to wherever and well, being chased. From the last one I saw, I think things got complicated than chasing around. There are some quite powerful people from the religion of Mauser and there were the kingdom people who are after them. Too bad this one doesn’t have subtitles – Chinese/English.

[re-edit: removed love letter part]

In PoT, Ryoma tried to think of something to counter Yuuta’s outside shot and managed to by creating a new shot called B-shot wherein the ball bounces like letter B. Mizuki told Yuuta to try to hit Ryoma near his left eye so that he would lose. Yuuta couldn’t do it and decided to play against Ryoma in a fair match. This was after boasted that Yuuta just thought of his brother as his rival, but he will be the strongest player. In the end, Yuuta lost. When they are shaking hands, Ryoma just have to say that he won because he was too weak. Yuuta tried to resist strangling him. Sumire went to Mizuki to tell him that using the outside shot for a long time can make his bone permanently damaged. Mizuki doesn’t care. Sumire said that only Ryoma, Tezuka and Fuji knew about this. Mizuki dressed up and snub Yuuta for not doing what he was told to. At the other side, Fuji isn’t happy anymore since his eyes are open. hehe He apologized to Tezuka for Tezuka will not be able to play anymore – meaning, he will finish Mizuki off especially since Mizuki had tried to corrupt his younger brother, Fuji won’t forgive Mizuki.

Wednesday, July 23, 2003 @ 09:20 p.m.

This will be mostly anime update. In CGT, yes, it is the final episode. ^-^ Takeshi’s hidden goal was to train Kouya as he had promised U-ya before U-ya died. They played and well, it became a bit corny as Takeshi said goodbye to U-ya and does he have to say I miss you? My sis is here and she might think I’m watching some yaoi. ^^;; Kouya beat him and that’s it. In the end, the two are flying for a hug. I’m beginning to think as if they are lovers. Good thing it stopped from jumping. Oh ya, this had been in Yugioh ending song, too but at least there is a girl there with Yugi’s other buddies. The credits have the ‘what happened to them’ scenes but evil channel had cut it off but I see what I really want to see. In the end, many people wanted to go to Kouya’s club and he became their mascot to lure people. Takeshi have bigger dreams than be a gear champion, he became an astronaut. Yippe. Then, it was cut there.

The golden pair had lost since Eiji had lost steam when the match was too long for him. Then, it is the start of Ryoma and Yuuta’s match. After the friendly shake hands, Ryoma just have to boast that he is a better player than him which irk Yuuta. Everyone was talking about Yuuta being the brother of Fuji so he went to another school to develop his talents on his own. Mizuki Hajime then trained him with a special technique. On to the match, Yuuta managed to get one point and then, it is Ryoma’s turn to serve. His special serve was caught by Yuuta since Yuuto learned of Ryoma’s techniques through Mizuki. Well, Ryoma managed to adjust and scores. Tezuka [Kunimitsu] is quite glad that Ryoma immediately improved himself after their match. Ryoma managed to tell Yuuta that his talent is too far so Yuuta got more angry and used that special technique which was to hit the ball really hard that it got stuck on the fence. There is a flashback on Fuji and Yuuta. Oh my...why did when I see young Fuji, I kept remembering CCS’s Sakura. ^^;;; He is cute though and with his usual close eyes grin. Oh ya, he noticed the change on his brother and is not quite happy about it. I guess that is why Fuji would later on cream Mizuki.

In Yugioh, the group were separated. Almost everyone are alone except for Honda and Otogoi since they tried to save Shizuka [damsel in distress #1] and Seto Kaiba with his bro, Makuba since Makuba immediately clung to his brother so that they won’t be separated. The kid was controlling everyone with monitors and all. Yugi is playing cards against this weird guy. The others are just lost for now and well, Mazaki [damsel in distress #2] is busy calling for Yugi to save her from some creatures chasing her.

There is an avalanche in One Piece anime and I wasn’t able to watch the duel between Dalton and Wapol. Sanji sacrifice himself so that Luffy and Nami would not be buried in the avalanche. Wapol then caught up with Luffy and wanted to duel with him. In the manga, Usopp managed to get Sanji back and re-group with Nami. Luffy then saw Robin and asked her to take care of Aisa as he goes up the beanstalk to beat up Eneru with the golden ball on his hand. Then, Nami’s group met with Robin. They decided to get away and well, Nami is not happy that they missed Luffy on their way down. Eneru is angry that his ship is not working properly anymore and started to blast lightning in the land, maybe to sink it down to ‘blue sea’.

In Naruto, some guy with a huge sword are trying to kill the old guy whom Naruto and his group was tasked to protect. Kakashi managed to deter the guy but got trapped inside. Individually, Naruto and Sasuke weren’t able to do much so they worked as a team. Sasuke tossed giant boomerang type weapon as the guy evades it and it returns – it changed into Naruto, ready to kick the guy. Very nice. Ah, the Greed Island arc of HxH is really quite boring so some guys are after cards and stuff as Gon and Killua tried to get more of them and met Biscuit. The more interesting part are Phinx and Feitan managed to finish the game since they basically killed the ones who have the cards. Shalnark with Shizuku and Coltopi? [one with hair covering the face] went into the game and explained some things on how to win in the game and I think he mentioned that the objects can be returned to the real world. Okay, don’t quote me on that, I’m not sure. The final scene was someone calling Hisoka who just took a shower. Ya, another fangirl service, he just loves to take showers. ^^;;

Tuesday, July 22, 2003 @ 12:24 p.m.

There is a storm in this corner of the world right now. I just read that there is a special event for One Piece [only in Japan, of course] wherein they made a ship to look like the ship in OP. It is somewhat a publicity promo for the anniversary of the station, which shows OP. This ship will be on a cruise and the OP cast would be there to greet the people of 300 and it is only from July to August. They would show some special previews and sell limited goods. Cool.

Ya. I forgot to update on the pictures layout. Well, the studio had a meeting last Saturday and when my cousin was asked where is sis’s album. He replied that sis wanted him to re-do everything. My ego uncle immediately called and told my mom since my sis weren’t there for sis to go personally to the studio and finish the album already. In short, they made it as if it was my sis’ fault that it came out too late. On Sunday, when we came home, sis learned about it. She was very irked that she was being blamed for it so she called my uncle and told her the whole story. It turned out that he didn’t know the whole story about the chances sis gave cousin and cousin did say that he can do what sis said but it turned out he cannot. My uncle tried to say that he didn’t know sis would be getting the studio which I think is a stupid alibi if ever that is the reason he eat and run at the party. Sis confronted him that because of what the studio had done, she is quite embarrassed to her fiancé’s family since she was the one who asked them to take the studio and it didn’t deliver the service.

In short, my uncle is in the losing end and he tried to rebut her arguments, he must be thinking that he is talking to a timid girl like me, but no, sis outtalked him. Sis did want to become a lawyer before because she likes confrontations and defending/prosecuting stuff. My uncle proposed a meeting and sis told him to do so that everything would be cleared up. After that, sis felt more relieved that she spoke out all of her frustrations about the pictures and she was even writing down her list of ‘evidences’ to be used if there is a meeting, just like a lawyer. Hehehe She would make a good partner during thesis defense. Basically, from the picture layout, sis already gave cousin a list of what should be grouped together and how to do it. It wasn’t followed for instead of making the ceremony in bigger pictures, they made it smaller ones and the shaking hands with the guests are the one’s bigger. Also, there is no picture of her fiancé’s parents except at the ceremony – there was a layout of him with sis’ parents. ^^; Another complain is that there is too much of the names of the couple as if the one reading easily forgot it for every turn of the page – her fiancé’s comment. In case you want to see, go here.

Last night, my sis gave me an optical mouse. ^-^ It is now plugged in on my computer. Mm..very light compared to the other one I used before. And yes, she got my cellphone back from bro who had upgraded it. He only said that he is going to upgrade the sim card but it turned out he also changed my cellphone. It is now a 8310 colored bloody red [ one of my favorite colors] to match the dangling thing’s color which my father gave me.

In CGT, I wasn’t able to catch the first part. Sigh, it was a bit about Takeshi. Baka. When I turned on the tv, panting since I walked really fast from office, he was lying down on bed and I thought he was sick or something. It just seemed that he is having a flashback of when he was still young and kept on following U-ya. U-ya did promise him that when he returned to Japan, they would have a challenge but U-ya never came back. So, I think he is thinking that U-ya just returned in the form of Kouya. At Kouya’s group, Kouya is having the jitters and it is just the yes, you can do it, we are here so off he went to meet Takeshi. The show flashes to all of the characters that had appeared in the show, watching the final tournament. The next episode would be the final game.

The golden pair managed to trick the opponent of just making Oishi hit the ball while Eiji is just in front so the opponent don’t know which way would the ball go. Yoshirou’s partner told him how to know where the ball is going and this made Yoshirou mad since he didn’t know and well, he is the team captain. There was a break and Eiji is quite tired that the others got concerned. Meanwhile, Ryoma got bored and went under a tree to sleep. He was disturbed by Kippei and Ibu of Fudomine and learned that the golden pair is having trouble. During the games, Oishi is the only one playing while Eiji is just standing there since he is dead tired. Oishi managed to hold it long and Eiji managed to recharge his batteries. It is Yoshirou’s group turn to panic.

In Love Letter – Andrew managed to be true to himself and would quit being a priest for Eun ha. Now, Eun ha is in a dilemma because she wanted him to be a priest as something for Andrew to go to for she is dying. Eun ha doesn’t want Andrew to know she is dying because she wanted to spare him the pain. Okay, that would be a good thing to debate on, if one is dying, is it better to tell your love ones or not. Eun ha just decided to escape somewhere. Andrew was devasted and well, one thing led to another when Woo jin’s father confessed that he was the indirect killer of Andrew’s father. Of course, if someone told you that, one would be quite angry and could not forgive that person at that moment. The father committed suicide and well, Woo jin blamed Andrew for it and vow to revenge.

Andrew went to a drinking spree. Eun ha learned of his situation and went to spy on him but later, left. Andrew saw her running but she got away. It was then, he decided to quit being a priest and just move away some place else. He told his friend nun that he was an orphan before and it would have been better to stay that way since everyone had left him. Woo jin managed to intercept a letter for Andrew which would show where Eun ha was. Woo jin kept on pursuing Eun ha and she isn’t quite happy about the way he treated Andrew and well, using her for his revenge. Woo jin and Andrew’s deaf younger sister met with Andrew to give him a picture of Andrew which she painted. Andrew thanked him as he bid her farewell. The sister told him that he should meet with Woo jin one last time. This might end this week and the next preview shows Eun ha going to the hospital because her heart is failing her and it was the first time that Andrew knew that she is dying.

Monday, July 21, 2003 @ 09:53 p.m.

I’m re-typing this for the second time. Baka, the computer hangs and I forgot to save – yup, it was a long one already. ^^;; Okay, where was I...oh yes, last Saturday, my brother was the one who fetched me. We went to his house to eat dinner then we all went to their favorite hangout in Rockwell – Powerplant mall. We went to the bookstore except bro who went somewhere else. I was a bit pre-occupied with chasing/following my nephew to the children’s books section. When his mother came, I managed to escape and wandered on my own. I found the vol. 1 of the how to draw manga wherein Unicorn gave me some scans of it. I asked sis-in-law to buy it since I don’t have enough money. I later found out that my bro paid her. I will show it to Asher when we meet again. Hopefully, this book won’t end up with the others that I had bought which were at a bookshelf, gathering dust. ^^;

Then, we went to the arcade. I played some shooting balls to hit something and somewhat like pingpong, which is sliding a disk to the hole of the opponent. I don’t know what it is called. After that, we went home. I tinker with their computer to organize some stuff there and clean up the desktop. Then, when sis came back from the wedding, we taught bro how to make a business card in his computer. He wanted to change the color of a logo so I told him that I needed Photoshop. We searched through the stocks of sis-in-law, which weren’t sold because she fears the raids. Then, sis got some mp3 tracks, which might me of use and I got some programs, which I might use. There is no serial code for the photoshop so that had to be done tomorrow.

We slept late and well, I wasn’t able to sleep well since I’m quite sensitive to noise and I’m not use to the bed. The room is facing the street and the air conditioner is making noise. So, in the morning, I had a headache. We played monopoly with the kids but it ended up with only the two of us since they got bored. Then, sis went out with her fiancé to their godmother as courtery of formally asking her to be the godmother and that she would go to the designer to measure her dress since she would be going to the US for a period of time. Then, she would go to Pampanga [province] to see a bed, which was said to be done quite good.

Since bro, his wife and nephew went to their office, I just watched tv, browsed on the book and drew a bit. Niece is having a tutor session. Mmm...from the drawing, the niece looked old, bro looked okay but I ended up having him with Meteor Garden Dao Ming Shi’s hair [It was an old pic] and sis-in-law is close but it was hard to recognize since it was also an old pic. Then, we ate lunch. I was able to install photoshop and colored the logo. I also played with it a bit and made a purple background – mountains and clouds. I deliberately made it into their wallpaper. Hehehe ^-^ After that, bro ordered us to have a nap. I was able to sleep a bit but the washing machine outside the room is making noise. I played a bit with their gameboy until it ran out of batteries. Later on, I went home when sis came back.

I managed to borrow sis’ fiancé’s optical mouse. Yup, Unicorn is right, it is much easier to use. I guess I would buy this one instead of a tablet since I’m not sure if I can really use a tablet. Today, I cleaned a bit on one aquarium and thought that not putting a filter would be okay. Obviously not. ^^; I was thinking of cleaning it later on after I went back from the office since sis went to one of their wedding field trips. I’ll put the anime summaries later on since it is late.