Sunday, August 12, 2001
Now Playing: Melodies of Life [The Layers of Harmony] - Shiratori Emiko [FFIX]
Aaaah...peace. Everyone else left because they went out to eat at a Thai restaurant. It's been awhile since I've been alone in the house, and I miss it. *_*
...I was cursing quite a bit in yesterday's entry. I don't think anyone else can piss me off quite as much as Nont. There wasn't anyone around I could rant to, and I was getting really sick of just holding it in. I feel better after letting it out.
I saw Rush Hour 2 with family yesterday. XD Fuuun~ I never watched the first one, but it's been a while since I laughed that much and that hard. *niko* I particularly liked the outtake at the end where Chris Tuckers' parents called during filming and asked if they could talk to Jackie Chan. XD XD XD I wanted to watch it with Meli and Keiko on Thursday, but they called last minute at 4:50 saying that they were watching the showing at 5:05. >_< I normally would've been able to get there in time, but the gas tank was nearly empty, and I didn't have enough time to fill it up and still get to the theater on time. *sigh* I was kinda annoyed that they didn't translate some things at first, but Meli told me it was just unimportant stuff that was left untranslated, so it's ok. *niko* She also told me that she kept on laughing before anyone else in the theater, thanks to being able to understand what was said before explanation. XD; When Zhang Ziyi first appeared, I was like, hey, it's the Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon chick. She must really like those evil bitch roles. XD; When I watched the movie, the theater was packed, but Keiko says that theirs only had about 25-30 people. o_O I'm also going to watch Legally Blonde and The Others with a ton of friends today. Should be lots of fun. XD XD XD
Also went to Computer City after the movie to buy Kaasan an optical mouse, because she never cleans out her mouse at work so it hardly works anymore...^^; How can anyone stand the trackballs that you use with your thumb anyhow? I can't control them at all! Anyway, while there, I was looking at some Japanese language learning software with a picture of a girl on the front. One of the words it said on the cover was "bishoujo." XD XD XD If it had shown some guy and said "biseinen," I'm sure I would've ran to the car to get a throwaway camera. XD
Nont dragged me and Nick to Wal-Mart yesterday because he wanted to get some stuff like boxers. >_o Thought I'd look around the clothes section for the heck of it, and saw this longish solid color tank top that I really liked. It had lace ups down the sides of the lower third of the shirt, which I thought was rather nifty. But the fitting rooms were closed, so I didn't get it. ;_;
But! We got FFIX while we were at Wal-Mart! *kira kira* I watched Nick play, because I was a bit too tired and didn't feel like playing. (It occured to me that this was my first chance to ever play a FF game before Nick, but oh well.) The begining of the normal battle music sounds like the FFIV battle music, which struck chords of nostalgia. XD FFIV was the first RPG I ever played, and it's still one of my favorites. *niko* And I quickly decided that I really really like Zidane and Garnet. <3 <3 <3 Unless they do something monumentally stupid, they just might just be my favorite FF couple. They're just too FUN. X3 Vivi's just too cute too. :3 I luv watching Zidane's monkey tail~<3 And Zidane has personality! Just watching him for a couple hours, he's infinately more interesting than Cloud or Squall. Badass personalities are fine, but Zidane's so much more fun with his nice outgoing chilvarous playboy personality. "I promised the princess I'd kidnap her!" X3 And it's just going to make his future angst scenes that much more fun. XD XD XD I'm glad they decided to switch back to a more old-school style for this game. I've missed it~. I always liked the fantasy settings more, and I think Nobuo Uematsu works better with fantasy than futuristic. I really ought to play FFVIII before FFIX though. Maybe if I tell myself I won't play FFIX till I beat FFVIII, I'll actually get through it. Nick says he really like FFVIII...but it just didn't draw me in during the first couple hours like the other games did. (Well, FFV wasn't terribly interesting in terms of plot, but its gameplay was FUN. Never did finish it though...I got discouraged all because I missed one of the pianos.) I'm sure it'll be fun to play, but I'm just having a hard time getting started. *sigh* It's a shame I've already been spoiled for three major events in FFIX. ;_; I tried to avoid them, but I kept stumbling accoss them. ;_;
--Vinita procrastinated at 12:41 p.m.
Saturday, August 11, 2001
[Bitchy Rant Mode]
Nont came home last night, and he's been effing pissing me off at every chance. He seems to think he's such a wonderfully nice brother who works so hard so he has all the right to tell me what to do and lecture me like my parents do. His lecturing is that much more irritating because he's a such a fucking hypocrite. He goes on and on about how I'm such a lazy bum and how I should do something with my life. For fucking sake, I'm _sixteen_ and it's my last week of summer _vacation_. I'm a teenager in _high school_, and I think I have _some_ right to be enjoying my life now. Hell, part of the reason that I was sick for half the last school semester was because I was working so hard to make up for what I missed in five honors classes during my run-in with encephalitis and I was fucking stressed and fucking depressed because I was worrying about failing and not going on to the next grade with my friends. The results of my spinal tap show that quite well, because even after I was mostly recovered, the pressure in my spinal fluid was still on the extremely high end of "normal." I've had to deal with a lot of shit this year. It's not pleasant to have a brain swollen for weeks at a time, to be constantly feeling like you have a concussion, to be constantly dizzy and having fainting spells, and be constantly having extreme vertigo and can't even walk straight. Dammit, after all that, I _need_ a rest. I shouldn't have to work as hard as he does because _I'm_ not 26 and being payed 60,000 a year to work. I should be having FUN, not working my ass off. And Nont has NO RIGHT to talk to me that way. He's so hypocritical, it's ridiculous. When he was my age, he was in TAMS being lazier than I've ever been, going to parties, getting drunk, and having sex. He was part of the "Royal Order of Bums." He was in several fraternities in college. Now what does that say about him? Hell, the only reason he's not still in college and nearly failing his classes is because he didn't want Wiriya, who is almost five years younger than him, to graduate before he did. If Mom wants to lecture me on being lazy, fine. She's my mother, and I know she worked hard when she was young. Heck, she was already in college when she was my age and graduated from med school when she was 22. But I won't take this crap from Nont.
And then there's the fact that he can be such a fucking annoying chauvanistic ass. At least, even though Dad and Nick are like that, they don't shove it in my face. But Nont's constantly going on about how it's a woman's duty to clean the house, cook, and other similiar traditional female roles because men are above that. And then he reverses it when convenient and goes on about how because he had to deal with pain like a man, I should too, because my pain is nothing compares to whatever he's gone through. WTF. Even when I was suffering from a spinal headache after the tap, which is, according to even doctors, incredibly painful, he was still being such an ass. He goes on about how I'm being bitchy at him and acting as if he's done nothing wrong. Of course I'm being bitchy. It's hard _not_ to be bitchy when one's brain is banging against the skull without nearly enough cushioning, and some idiot is constanty around being a total ass. Saying that I'm acting like I have PMS, as he always does when I get mad at him. And hell, he made Wiriya _cry_ last time he was home because she got sick of listening to his chauvanistic idiocy and started arguing over it. And that really pisses me off, because Wiriya's honestly one of the nicest people I know. And last time he was home, he tore apart the bookshelf I spent four hours organizing. Because he wanted to put his own books there, so in case some chick he knew came by, it would impress them. And he says that only pregnant women are so nitpicky about such things.
[/Bitchy Rant]
Congrats to those who made it this far and read the whole thing. You must be bored.
--Vinita procrastinated at 09:49 p.m.
Saturday, August 11, 2001
Now Playing: Ring to Eternity - Hattan Amika
Nyooo...I can believe I blogged _4_ times Thursday. XD Another ungodly long entry this time. X3
I woke up at 7:10 today and had four hours of sleep, because I was in effing PAIN in my dream. Something about jumping over a trap, which was a deep hole completely lined with very sharp metal spikes. But I almost fell in because some bratling bitch decided to "have fun" and "joke around" and "playfully" shove at me as I'm jumping to see what would happen, thereby throwing me off balance. The only reason I wasn't impaled by spikes at the bottom of the hole was because I managed to grab hold onto some spikes near the rim. With several spikes impaling my hands and fingers and it effing HURT. >_<
Do I have some kind of mind-masochism tendancies? Hope not. >_>; I watched Cardcaptors again this morning. And shit, they actually left three scenes of "Li" blushing over Sakura in this episode. Which probably left some little kiddies around the nation going "What the...?" because until now, they've cut every single little indication that he's crushing over her BAD. o_< And now they have him blushing over her every other time they show him. What is Nelvana thinking now?
Oooh...scan of Kenshin OAV article here. My thoughts: "Goddamn, that nose stands out." "*sees chibi Kenshin* Ick! Tell me that's not how Watsuki's drawing now! He looks so OOC!" "He's got an _Adam's Apple!_ XD" "Wow. Really detailed ears. Even though it doesn't actually look like a human ear. >_>" "GEH. They're talking about Samurai X."
Bad me. *thwack* Bad me. *thwack* I think I _really_ squicked Nat the other night when I mentioned anal sex. >_> We were talking about the Gender Test at TheSpark.com (The front page picture is both hilarious and disturbing XD) and its question about whether "Blackjack" or "Slot Machine" was a better name for a male porn star. He said "Slot Machine" was a stupid name because men don't have "slots." And I pointed out that yes, they do, and I'm betting that a number of women who chose "Slot Machine" (which was more popular among females X3), thought about gay male anal sex. And then *SQUICK* *sigh*
Speaking of squick! Obana Miho. Andante. o_O *shows Natsu and Mel together in bed* And the next panel reveals that they're kyoudai. O_O Well. It started out kinda slow and took a while to interest me, but I can now say with certainty that it's grabbed my attention. And knowing Obana Miho-sensei, it's probably not going to let go.
And I don't suppose anyone who has access to Netscape would like to be uber-nice and contact me and tell me whether or not my weblog actually works on Netscape? >_> Nat was telling me that for him, my blog works on IE, but not Netscape. I have three browsers on my computer, but I no longer have Netscape, and I don't feel like downloading it just to see if my lack of html knowledge shows that much. -_-
On another note, I talked to Cindy, also known as the "Future Husband-Beater" and "Pokemon Nazi," last night, and she apparently had fun messing with Nat's mind, since he didn't know it was her who talked to him on AIM till she told him. XD; Too bad she didn't save the conversation. >D Had fun talking about the religion selector too. She got Atheist/Agnostic and Secular Humanist too. :3 Great minds think alike! XD And then we talked about Irritating Narrow-Minded Religious People who rant at us and try to convert us and tell us we're going to Hell when we say we're not religious. -_- And we laughed at the "Harry Potter is the Spawn of the Devil!" people. >D
I need to add links to all the blogs I read. :3 Maybe I'll get off my bum and do it when I make a new layout. And maybe I can bug Meli for her Photoshop CD. *niko*
Called Neechan around 9 pm last night, asking her when she was coming home for the weekend (and taking a break from her job as a grad student, or rather, from dissecting maggots and mutating fruit flies)"
Wiriya: Oh, I forgot to tell Mom and Dad that I'm going to my friend's lake house near the border to Oklahoma. <3 It's at Lake Texoma. In fact, we're already halfway to Dallas, where we'll be stopping first~<3 I'll be home sometime on Sunday. <3
Vinita: Oh God, it's "I'm going to Mexico tomorrow~<3" all over again. o_< Last time, you ran off to Mexico, and I became Mom's little
pin cushion because she was SCARED I'd run off to MEXICO at the LAST MINUTE like CERTAIN PEOPLE. >_<;
Wiriya: Well, I didn't think it really mattered that much. <3 Mexico's so close anyway. <3 And it's not like I'm even leaving the state this time! <3
Vinita: Wiriya, we live in HOUSTON. Dallas alone is FIVE HOURS and HUNDREDS OF MILES away. You could cross a few COUNTRIES in the amount of time and distance you're covering.
Wiriya: Well, it's not like it's *my* fault some countries are so small! <3
o_< I'm starting to think Neechan's inherited some weird wanderlust from Tousan. And I'm the victim because I'm the one left home with the parents.
--Vinita procrastinated at 12:21 p.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2001
Now Playing: Yuuki wo Tsubasa ni Shite - Yagami Taichi/Toshiko Fujita [Digimon]
Song title translates as "I'll Turn My Courage Into Wings." (As Yamato holds your hand, Taichi? X3) I swear I ought to make a Taito layout one day using this song. XD
Talking to Nat on AIM:
BrimstoneG: Cindy acts very differently when she's on the internet.
Chibi Miyu: You're talking to Cindy? o_O
Note: Cindy and Nat almost never talk in real life.
*snip explanation of "o_O"*
Chibi Miyu: Ah. How's she different?
BrimstoneG: She just behaves differently.
BrimstoneG: She acts more like you.
Chibi Miyu: ...as in...?
BrimstoneG: Calling me dumbass.
Chibi Miyu: *adjusts halo atop the horns* I would never do that!
BrimstoneG: LOL
^_^;; Hmmm...I don't think I've actually called Nat a dumbass before though, have I? Stupid, oh yeah. Heck, I call myself names worse than "stupid" all the time. ^^; And I called him a cheapass because he would rather download movies on his computer than see it at the big screen. Of course, I don't think that was really his point. ^_^;;
I was flipping through the second issue of Animerica that Nont bought way back in 1993, and it made me realize just how OLD it was. Among the anime listed as the top ten bestselling videos was Bishoujo Senshi Sailormoon. The first series. The first tape. @_@ RG Veda #6 was a top selling manga. And Hime-chan no Ribon was #7 in TV ratings. (It took me a moment to realize why "Ribbon of the Little Princess" sounded familiar. O_o) My, it's been a long time.
It kinda scares me that Nick whisper-curses when he's playing computer games. Loudly. I can hear him from downstairs. And he doesn't even realize he's doing it most of the time. Kowaaaai.
--Vinita procrastinated at 09:27 p.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2001
Now Playing: Himawari (Sunflower) - AiM
*piku* Someone keeps coming back to my blog from the pitas members page, of all places. o_O Admittedly, three out of four of those times was within a one hour timespan in which I was in an edit entry frenzy, but it still seems kinda strange. o.o And someone else came from Shiori's tracker, which I'll try not to think about too hard.
And the tracker registers my browser as Netscape. >_> I don't even have Netscape and haven't used it for years; I'm an Opera girl. :D Though Opera can't take some of the too-complex frame-dependent and java sites. Including lots of layout-fanatic anime ones. *sigh* It also can't take those little things (great at descriptions, aren't I? ^_^;) that you hold the pointer over to scroll up and down. So I have to switch to Microsoft IE sometimes, which is overall slower and less convenient than Opera (I <3 Opera's window tabs XD). *sigh* Mr. Tracker seems to know what he's doing in all other aspects though. ^_-
--Vinita procrastinated at 11:35 a.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2001
Now Playing: Suteki Da Ne - Rikki [Final Fantasy X]
Brace yourself. UNGODLY long entry up ahead. XD
*sparkle* New Kenshin OAV coming out this December~! According to Weekly Jump, it'll be an original story titled Seisou Hen (Passing of Time Saga). It's a continuation of Tsuioku Hen (Memory Saga), the first OAV, and it'll be the conclusion of the anime. I want to see it~! Tsuioku Hen has always been one of my favorite parts of Kenshin, and the OAV was done so well~! XD I've got my money on the new OAV being about Kenshin's wandering years. XD *belts out Hidaka Ken's Caravan image song* o/~ Boku wa caravan~! o/~ XD XD XD
Of course, I never did see the end of the TV series...I think the last episode I have is 72? Though I hear the fillers just go down down downhill from there, so I'm not exactly dying to see it. >_> And I stayed with the SASSE ML until Kenshin ended, but I never saw the last few manga, because the story and art just got worse and worse. >_o I wonder what Nobuhiro Watsuki's doing now? I never payed attention after Kenshin ended...I kinda lost faith in his writing by the end of the Jinchuu story arc. :p Besides, IIRC, the story premise of the manga after Kenshin didn't interest me in the least, and Watsuki was always talking about how he was sick of drawing pretty boys and wanted to make lots of ugly people. @_@ Oi! Watsuki! Don't you know that the girls squeal over the pretty boys?!
Turns out Tidus in FFX isn't being played by Ishida Akira, which is a shame, because I was looking forward to hearing *cough*drooling at*cough* That Voice (Kaworu~! Kei-kun~! X3) during every battle and important scene. At least it would've redeem Square a bit for giving Tidus such a hideous character design. XP At least Yuna's pretty. I like her green and blue eyes. Everyone should listen to Suteki Da Ne, FFX's theme song. *sparkle* It's the prettiest song I've heard in quite some time. Catsy has it up for download right now. Get it while it's hot! I heard Rikki has a vocal remix of Aerith's theme song on her single. Must have. *_*
And while you're at Catsy's, you can giggle at his entry on the headline juxtaposition that was at CNN.com a few days ago. It CAN'T be missed. He even took a screenshot for posterity's sake. XD; And I know Lucas is a terrible writer, but "Attack of the Clones" just takes the cake. Nick's friends speculate that, maybe if he gives it an ungodly bad B-Movie name, the movie will turn out ok. *_* I wanna know what Lucas was smokin' at the time. XD; Maybe it was those (very expensive) Japanese dried hallucinogenic mushrooms I've been hearing about. U.S. News and World Report says it's been a hit with the tourists. XD;
I've only seen the first two episodes of Star Ocean EX (subtitled!), but I've been religously downloading the weekly episode trailers. I really can't stand what they did to Precis' character design. XP They made her look like a 10-YEAR-OLD LITTLE GIRL. This alone irked me. But then they're still having 20-year-old Ashton BLUSH and GUSH over how CUTE she is, and I hate them for that. XP *sigh* I want to see Ashton (as Seki Tomokazu! X3) be a barrel fanboy. XD "Barrel...Colorful Barrel...Barrel BARREL Barrel BARREL Barrel BARREL..." XD XD XD And then there's Dias played by Koyasu Takehito and Claude (I used to think he was an ore boy!) played by Yuuki Hiro and Bowman played by Matsumoto Yasunori. XD And Leon's voice is so appropriate for the cute bratty genius boy he is. XD I like Celine's voice too. <3 I hope they have an vocal album. <3
Harry Potter fans go here. Akane and Ryuuen are making a relay comic, and I love it to bits. X3 I really shouldn't be spoiling myself silly, but it's all just too much fun to resist. <3 The link's in the updates page. Akane also has tons of other cute HP fanart. :3
I used to think Atashi wa Bambi was kinda neat, what with Sen-Is-Mine, Yes, I-Am-Gay, Lookie-Lookie-I-Can-Be-Very-Familiar-With-Sen *leer* Yaezou and all. Now I don't know. >_< I still wish someone would translate it though. *sigh* It's a shame Girl Crazy was so SHORT. -_- *perks up* Well, at least Azuki Ryou's back! <3 I want to see Touwa-kun druuu~nk! XD XD XD
Meli got the TokyoPop translated Clover manga. XD I know everyone hates Mixx and their "Chix Comix," *cringe* but I think I heard that the Clover translation team did a pretty good job, right?
Twig is right. Chobits has NO RIGHT being as cute as it is. X3
The Time Stranger Kyoko ending. @_@ I haven't seen the new Ribon yet, or even the next to last one (It'll probably be about a month till I do. ;_;) But the translations on the TSK ML made me go "What the HECK?!" I agree with Erin. The thought of Sakataki/Kyoko hellspawn scares me, but Hizuki/Ui?! o_O Ph34r. It occurred to me early on in the series that they might get together, because I was entertaining the thought of Hizuki crushing on Kyoko (well before Tanemura-sensei started dropping hints about it o_O) but I knew there was no way they were getting together. But when Ui made her first concious appearance...well, she's a spoiled brat. I liked her more when she was in a coma. :p And then Hizuki sometimes acts like a brat himself. A tackle-glompable one (the scene where he was strolling along, singing, and running over there-but-not-there Kyoko had me in stitches XD), but a brat nonetheless. I <3 Hizuki, just not with Ui. >_> I don't know what scares me more - canon HizukixUi, or that I've been entertaining the idea of HizukixKaren. When I saw the pic of them standing together asking Sakataki to play Uno with them, the first thing I thought was, "They look so CUUU~TE together~! XD XD XD" So. Um, yeah. And the more I think about it, the more I like it. @_@ I like Toba. Toba's sweet. (Even though when someone on the mailing list was wondering what kind of attack he has, the first thing I thought was "TOBA BIRD CRAP SHOWER~!" Which was probably inspired by Cliff screaming "The birds are crapping on us!" during last year's orchestra trip when we were on a riverboat passing under a bird-filled tree. XD;) But he has this glaring problem of not being given a personality. ;>_> Him and the other half of the Strangers. >_< KKJ was so tightly-woven that it seems nigh impossible to fic about anything but before and after series, but TSK has been left WIDE OPEN. I hope for many a TSK fic. And then there's Sakataki. Acting like Chiaki. Which is just WRONG. Ecchi screaming fangirl wrong, but still wrong. XD; Of course, when Keiko called and I told her about it, we both cackled over it. XD;
--Vinita procrastinated at 08:08 a.m.
Thursday, August 9, 2001
Now Playing: Lose Control - L'arc~en~Ciel
Oh my god. <3 Skimming through Fanart in Fabric just now. I'm not really one to look at cosplay pics, but they're just too CUTE. <3 The costumes are really nice too. It's a shame the parents didn't try to make Sakura's second movie princess costume a little more accurate; I really liked it, what with the longer skirt in back and all. But I do like how they did the ribbons on her legs. :3
--Vinita procrastinated at 07:18 a.m.
Tuesday, August 7, 2001
Now Playing: Waltz - Pierrot
*sparkle* Shiori-san linked to my blog~<3
Everyone say OTANJOUBI OMEDETOU~<3 to her!
Congratulations on becoming a legal adult! *niko*
It's nice to know my blog is interesting enough to be linked to. <3
Oooh~ I'm looking forward to the Kamikaze Crash blog. :3 It'd be fun to join, but I'm afraid I would make a terrible RPGer. ^^;
--Vinita procrastinated at 06:08 p.m.
Tuesday, August 7, 2001
Now Playing: Yuugao (Moonflower) - Hidaka Ken/Seki Tomokazu [Weiß Kreuz]
I feel baaad about procrastinating even the tiniest bit this week, but I'm feeling so depri~ved of blogging and other fun things. ;_; I didn't even meet Keiko and Meli Monday afternoon because I decided I ought to take the tests I had planned on taking instead... Demo! I took my Algebra II final this morning, and I feel so happy that the worst is over with! Now I just have four more finals to take...^^;
I decided to add some of my contact info despite the overwhelming paranoia of Niichan-tachi finding out about my blog. >_> It seemed kinda odd to me to have a personal blog and absolutely no contact info. ^^;
I've been watching the new Cardcaptors episodes the past few weeks. As nice as it is to see the pretty art, along with Yue and Eriol animated, I can't help but feel the urge to just press the mute button. >_> And scream because even though I haven't seen beyond the first 11 episodes of CCS, it's quite obvious that Nelvana's butchered poor CCS to death. And poor Suppi... But besides that. I can't help but giggle everytime I watch the dub... Does anyone else think Sakura's incantation to make the Candidate/Bird Staff grow sounds very very ecchi?
Sakura: Surrender the wand; the force ignite! RELEASE!!!
...but maybe it's just me. >_> I can't remember the dub Novice Sakura or Eriol incantation, but I'm pretty sure it didn't sound quite as ecchi to me. ^_^;
And I was watching Digimon last Saturday. They were showing the angsty episode where Ken reverts to his normal self. And a Very Evil Thought struck me. Ken and Daisuke in a quasi-Subaru/Seishirou situation. Ken cradled in Daisuke's arms. "Boku wa...kimi wo..." *faint* o_O
I don't want school to start, but I do. I want the social life that comes with school, since I don't really have one now. I miss everyone~! ;_; But I don't want the workload because I like being a lazy computer-addicted bum. :p It's hereditary. Plus I'm going to be a junior. And everyone tells me it's the worst and hardest year. And then there's the PSAT and college application stuff that's been hanging over my head. ;_;
And I'm afraid of getting the exact same teachers as Wiriya and Nick, because they'll expect me to be so smart and do so well. Teachers, classmates, family - all of them expect me to be so smart and get all A's, and I feel so...inferior. And then there's the reputation to follow - parents who attended the top medical school in Thailand, Nont who won a nation-wide competition and graduated cum laude in college, Nick who got a perfect score on the SAT, and Wiriya who was in NHS and dozens of other school-releated stuff, got a very near 4.0, and goes to Rice. ;_; And I can't write worth crap. Whenever I look and Nont and Nick and Wiriya's writings, I'm always amazed at how good it is, while my writing is so unimaginative and obviously repressed by the by-the-book style of writing taught at school. And then they're always talking about how moving around so much expanded their minds, and they don't think they'd be nearly as smart if they had stayed in one place, while I'm just sitting in the background thinking that I only moved once since I entered school.
--Vinita procrastinated at 05:09 p.m.
Friday, August 3, 2001
Now Playing: Wild Arms Ending Part 5 (Credits) - Naruke Michiko
Dad wants to get DSL. XD~
Wild Arms was such a fun game~<3 I know some people really don't like unrealistic characters with gumdrop heads, but they're just too cute. XD And it has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time! I worship Naruke Michiko's music composition skills, and along with really good synthesizers, there's a live orchestra, acoustics, and chorus~<3 I really like the whole "Western" motif; it fits the game rather nicely. :3 And dang! The opening! The guitar! The whistling! I can hardly whistle, much less carry a tune and put FEELING in it! I want the soundtrack~...but...but! I've read that the so-called OST is only ONE DISC, and it had only a little over half the songs in the game, because Sony was apparently too CHEAP to make it a double disc set. T_T* And the music was one of, if not the best part of the game! I downloaded a bunch of Wild Arms mp3s last winter, but I accidently deleted the files when I deleted the file download archives in Filehound. And now it seems the place that I found them is gone, because I can't find it anymore~ ;_;
Iyaaaa...you know you're sleep deprived when you sleep for 12 hours straight and wake up still tired. Two all-nighters in a week does not do a body good. >_o
Yesterday I went to take some more tests. And saw Mr. Modine. Twice. I'm working on Algebra crap. *knock knock* It's Mr. Modine! Pressing his face against the window. It's the counselor's lunch break (which lasts a freaking 90 minutes -_-*), and I'm wandering the halls talking to Meli on my cell phone. It's Mr. Modine! Strolling along happily, whistling, and waving at me. ;>_>
I need to get someone I know Harry Potter-obsessed so that I have someone to watch the movie with come November. >_> Maybe if Meli saw the pretty pretty anime-style fanart with many a pretty bishounen found at Fish Garden? Maybe if I pointed out that Harry anime-style looks uncannily like Hiiragizawa Eriol? XD *sigh* (Probably not...) I guess I could just watch it with family, seeing as how Nont's read all that's out now, Nick wants to read years 2-4, and Wiriya sparkled and asked whether she could read the first book when she saw that I had bought it. (According to Wiriya, there are booger-flavored every-flavor-beans, and there are vomit flavored ones coming out this fall. Now there's a sign that something has gone too far. >_>) But it's so much more fun to watch a movie with friends~ ;_;
It's odd that I noticed Harry Potter before it ever became popular in the U.S., but I was reluctant to read it because Harry looks JUST LIKE Tim Hunter from The Books of Magic comic book series (anything created by Neil Gaiman rocks), and I swear it looked like they were trying to do some Books of Magic ripoff. >_> Actually, to be precise, I thought it was a Books of Magic ripoff once I really looked at it for a moment and realized that it wasn't Tim on the cover (What often amuses me is when HP fans call The Books of Magic a HP ripoff. Since The Books of Magic mini-series ran in 1990, before the HP idea was even conceived. And then The Books of Magic series began in 1994, two years before the first HP book was published. >_>) So I ignored HP until I read an article by Neil Gaiman saying that no, he doesn't think HP plagarizes The Books of Magic, and it's a completely different story. So I cut HP some slack. And then came the fanfic that sealed my doom. An ongoing CCS/HP crossover fanfic where Harry IS Hiiragizawa Eriol. Which gave me insight on the HP universe while at the same time letting me cackle at the thought of Harry being Eriol. And since then I've been wanting more HP and more HP/CCS crossovers. ^_^;
Actually it's kinda odd in general how I often glance at some series first, think it looks bleh, and ignore it. And then later I take another look and get obsessed with it. ;>.> This also happened with Fushigi Yuugi, Digimon, Card Captor Sakura, even Kamikaze Kaitou Jeanne, and probably other stuff I don't remember. ^^;;
I really want to read the rest of HP that's out. But I should really get my studies over with before I sparkle and cackle at the last three books.
--Vinita procrastinated at 08:19 a.m.
Tuesday, July 31, 2001
Now Playing: Larva's Theme~Waltz - Kawai Kenji [Kyuuketsuki Miyu OAV]
Yes, I'm still alive. ¬_¬ And I finally got around to archiving; the page was getting a bit too long for my liking, what with my piddly little 56k connection. I've been cramming for tests and finals the past few days, because I'm reeaally running out of time. ;>_> My fingers have been twitcing to do some blogging ever since I decided to swear off playing on the computer for a few days. I never knew blogging could be so...addicting. *_*
I really love the music for Miyu. <3 I normally don't really listen to anime BGM because most of it's pretty forgettable, and I usually prefer vocals, but sometimes the music just makes me go "Oooooh...preeeeetty!" *sparkle* <3 <3 <3
Anyway, I went to school today planning to take an Algebra test, two Algebra quizzes, a World History test, and two Spanish quizzes. So I take the Algebra stuff first to get it out of the way. I think I did well on the quizzes, but I have a feeling I didn't do so well on the test, even though it had the same material as the quizzes, because my brain decided it didn't want to do math anymore. I blanked out. (Don't I always? XO) So...I'm a bit worried about that. ;_; Three hours after much graphing (geh) and many many logarithms (geh²), I have to wait for almost a freakin' hour till I can talk to the counselor so I can get the other stuff to work on. (It's freshmen orientation day.) It turns out that that the other stuff WASN'T THERE. I studied 9 FREAKING HOURS for those three piddly grades, and I can't even take the tests?! >_< So now I have to email my teachers or something so I won't have zeros for my grades. By the time I take the tests, I'll probably forget half of it. >_<*
I feel a bit better now that that's outta my system.
Looking at my last entry, thinking, waitasecond...I forgot all about Swan Lake. ^^; Swan Lake was the second thing I ever obsessed over, and my very very first anime, though I didn't know what anime was at the time. (The first thing I ever obsessed over was Cinderella. Though I wasn't like most girls, who wanted to be the Pretty Pretty Princess. I wanted to be like the Fairy Godmother, because she used kickass magic. ^_^;; I remember dancing and twirling around with my ever-so-nifty silver sparkly star wand while everyone else watched Star Trek: The Next Generation.) Now I find it really amusing that it was a shoujo anime. :3 An 80s shoujo anime, but shoujo nonetheless. Even back then, I was a shoujo maniac. I just didn't know it. X3 I must've been three years old or something, because it was before The Third Obsession, The Little Mermaid (I watched it pretty much every day. Scary, ne? <3), which came out in '89. And then that obsession was killed off quite ruthlessly when Nont brought home Project A-ko. *sigh* I was so obsessed with anime that I didn't care about Swan Lake anymore, and told Nont it was ok to record another anime over it. ;_; (At the time, I *still* hadn't figured out that it was anime. ^^;) The Swan Lake anime was based on the Tchaikovsky play of the same name...it's a shame I don't remember much about it. But! I was searching for stuff on Swan Lake on the web, and I found someone who's willing to trade/sell a copy of the tape. *_* (Other than that, all I found was an Ebay auction for it ending at $20 and dozens of people searching for it. ^^;;) I just might decide to get it...I found $60 while I was cleaning my room a couple weeks ago, so I'm feeling a bit happy about the money situation. <3
--Vinita procrastinated at 04:24 p.m.
