clockwork carnage

except for you and me, love, everyone's the same

2011-08-11T19:09:00.003+08:00

Hello hello!

It's pretty irrelevant to announce my holiday in Australia since I'm going back home tomorrow, but, well, an update's an update I suppose.

I've been in Gold Coast for about...5 days now? Yeah. It's just my mum and I on this trip since my brothers couldn't make it and none of my friends were able to follow. It's been pretty cool so far; I went to Movie World and Sea World with the special VIP card deal thing. I wanted to go to Dreamworld as well but mum said it wasn't really worth it since it was part of another deal which didn't have any other attractions we liked. It'd be more worth it with more people, I suppose.

Mum started getting little aches and pains after a couple of rides on Lethal Weapon (in Movie World) so she stopped going on rides since she was worried about getting injured when there's no one to drive the car or take care of her properly. I went on the rest of the rides on my own, but I had loads of fun! My favourites were the Superman Escape and Scooby Doo Spooky Coaster in Movie World and the Jet Escape in Sea World. I also loved looking at the penguins and dolphins at Sea World! We also saw a polar bear; he was adorable! Such a lazy thing, haha!

I also saw sharks and--oh speaking of which, I have successfully bought a shark plush toy! I got him at Carrara Markets, if I'm not mistaken. He was 20 bucks so mum was a little skeptical but he was the only one left and I thought he looked rather dashing so, I bought him. Which was good, because when I went to Sea World a few days later the shark plushies they had just weren't as lovely as little Fassy, so I felt even happier about getting him when I did.

That didn't mean I didn't buy plushies at Sea World, but more on that later.

The only place in the resort we're in that has internet access is the rec room (which is connected to the children's room) so mum and I have been spending time in here daily. The wi-fi password is printed out in this little receipt printer in the children's room so being the lazy people we are, we usually just sit in the children's room. During which my mother has been the victim of various children's life stories while I scroll along on tumblr. It's really quite amusing, to be honest with you.

I've got to go soon since the guy is going to close the room up for the night. I'll probably make another post when I get home on Saturday--maybe with pictures too. No promises though.

Oh man I haven't read Erik/Charles fics in a week all I've been reading is this really depressing novel called Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin (it's about a man in a love affair with another man I think you can understand why I bought this book) and even then I've stopped reading it because do I really need more depressing ships in my life

I'll probably finish reading it on the plane/in the car and silently cry my eyes out

So unless I unfortunately perish in a plane/car crash or suddenly become unbearably frustrated with my mother that I run off to Sea World and dunk my head into the shark tank, I'll see you all soon!

I'm not after fame and fortune, I'm after you

2011-06-29T23:16:00.020+08:00

I was listening to a few Rise Against tracks that I don't listen to as often as the others and found From Heads Unworthy to be a little Erik-centric, as geeky and stupid as it sounds (I feel stupid saying it but I need to say this somewhere now don't I?) Anyway, it's been a long while since I've updated, huh?

Long story short, I got into a spot (or, well, a bit of a black hole but whatever) of trouble and mum's done her traditional banning of the computer, as well as threatening me to send me off to my father if I don't lose 5kg by the end of the month. But I'm obviously a horrible child who's far too used to these sorts of punishments and have found my way to sneak online, so here I am. No regrets, just love.

So anyway, things have been reasonably okay. Mum's not as angry with me anymore and I've managed to bargain to use my Windows comp to work on my convention stuff by promising to only use it for 2 hours at the most and doing 2 hours on the treadmill. I'm getting used to this new pattern, but it doesn't mean I like it. Mum still likes to make me feel like a shithead these days, and my brothers still feel a bit awkward around me. I'm confident I can lose 5kg by the end of the month but I'm worried that they'll make me lose a bigger amount by the end of the next with the same punishment because honestly, I'm sick and tired of this. I even found myself wondering why I even bothered begging to stay. But I digress.

On a much happier note, I've received a few packages since my last post! Finding stuff in the mail with your name on it is such a magical thing; I'm tempted to get a few tumblr friends' addresses to send stuff back to (sending stuff is fun too!).

The first package is from my lovely co-captain, Noni! ♥ It was a much bigger package than I had expected and idk I had the most ridiculous smug grin on my face when it was handed over to me which I find to be happening to me far too often lately because I seem to find it harder to differenciate which one of my grins are stupid or really stupid. Anyway.

yeah I know you people follow this blog for the books I buy I ain't givin you no address nosiree
So I opened it and

did I get the wrong package
oh wait what's this

I'm not going to lie; the package was so incredibly neat it was unbelievable.
So, putting the little koala plush with the small stack of plush toys next to my computer (the 'important' ones, like the Layton and Luke dolls and the mini giraffe plush Dawn bought me), I sliced the tape open with my emerald sword of justice
aka my totally heterosexual green sparkly scissors
ANYWAY

Good God this woman is spoiling me LOOK AT ALL THESE ADORABLE THINGS ksdhfs look at those precious erasers and envelope and the pencil dear god I haven't used one of these types since primary school *~*
Also I now use the notebook on the right for doodling in Japanese class *model student alert woop woop*
AND THEN underneath these wonderful things lie even more wonderful things! shut up my vocabulary is horrible I know

LOOK AT ALL DEM DOUJINS
ARE THEY BEAUTIFUL
OR ARE THEY BEAUTIFUL
can't make up your mind? well-

THERE YOU GO
Aaaa aaaaa aaaa Noni you are truly spoiling me nnngh
Suddenly my RyoMina doujin collection is that much bigger *u*

Thank you very very much for this lovely gift, my dear! This was such a treat I can't even comprehend--I've gotten a few things together to send to you but I've yet to figure out how to package everything. Hopefully whatever I've packed would be sufficient to pay back this super duper package you sent me ahh thanks again!! ♥

Today I received a smaller package in the mail! In this case, however, it wasn't a gift but a purchase I asked my brother to make for me. I really ought to get a Paypal account of my own one of these days...mum doesn't see the sense in it though, since both of my brothers already have an account. Anyway.

I'm not even going to bother trying to explain how big it is by comparing it to the tablet
also yeah censor lol I like posting pictures of the unopened product ok
on the topic of opening, here are the contents

My brother (the one who helped me get this in the first place) told me after he ordered it that Vestien (the artist who drew it) was...excited? because we were the first international order, so she said she'd throw in a drawing or something. I completely forgot about it when I opened it, so seeing that adorable Erik and Charles next to the handwritten message was such a pleasant surprise! It made me smile and giggle like a teenage schoolgirl--which I am, technically, but let's put that aside.

Onto the main reason as to why I had this package in the first place--

They are
SO
CUTE

I literally lost my shit when I first saw these babies up for sale on Tumblr, and I lost my shit again when they were all in my hands. I got a whole set plus extra Erik and Charles buttons. Extra because when I really like something I tend to get two of them so I can put them on different bags lol .

In this case, however, a pair of the Erik and Charles are put onto my pencilbox which I will take a picture of some other time because I can't be arsed to take a picture of it now and plug it in and wait for a fucking eternity for the photos to load in iPhoto while it slightly lags my entire comp. But yeah I'm quite satisfied with them there they are so fucking cute

The rest, I've put with the rest of my buttons (I used to leave certain buttons on certain bags but now I've removed them and put them on and rearrange them whenever I want to use the bags/buttons). Speaking of which, here's my collection-

I'm a huge sucker for buttons, if you haven't noticed.
Also you can very well see my 'if I like it I'll buy two of them' ultimatum working with my Layton buttons lol.

That's pretty much it for this entry. I'll put down a list so I'll remember to make a post of them some other day--

Dawn's birthday
5th viewing of X-Men: First Class with Dawn and Kikkun
Trip to Kinokuniya+Isetan exploring

I see I've gotten new followers for this blog! Hello there, how nice of you to stop by!

hearts have been misguided, lost somehow

2011-06-28T23:11:00.006+08:00

This song has been on repeat for about two hours now, haha. It's The Dream Is Over by Story Of The Year, for anyone who's still keeping track of my music tastes, or, hell, future me when I'm looking for old songs to listen to. It's a good song! ~~also it reminds me of my two current OTPs but you didn't need to know that~~

After a couple of days staying cooped up at home in front of the computer, I finally went out today (it's past midnight but whatever) for an actual outing! By 'actual outing' I mean by 'not just tagging along with mum on errands'. Anyway, Maz, my big sister figure, picked me up and brought me to KLCC to watch X-Men: First Class! We went there because KLCC's TGV showed their movies for a longer period of time compared to other cinemas. Or maybe it's just TGV. I don't know.

Today was the fourth time I've watched this movie on the big screen, so I was close to memorising most of the lines. It was Maz's first time watching though, so I didn't say anything unless it actually came to the part. Watching the movie with her was extremely fun! She kept looking over at me to see my reaction to the more bromantic parts, which was funny because I'd either be smiling like an idiot or sitting there poker-faced due to over-analysing the scene. We kept whispering jokes and making fun of shit during the movie, which probably pissed the other viewers off a bit but, well, haters gonna hate. I had shitloads of fun watching it with her, basically!

After that we met up with Nora, her younger sister, at Starbucks and went up to Kinokuniya together. I had been there a few days before, so nothing new was in yet. I didn't want to leave empty-handed though, and I only had RM50 to spare (since I needed some for lunch) so I bought volume 8 of Moon Boy (which is pretty damn hard to find in Borders), issue 8 of POPCORN magazine and the latest issue of Gempak. I could have gotten the last two from any old magazine stand, but I wanted my Kinokuniya RM50 stamp. I only have one left before I can redeem my voucher!....It's a little unnerving how little time it took to achieve the amount of stamps I have though.

Moving on, we then walked around, went to Isetan to get some goodies, and we all went back to my place. We all chilled for a bit until I called Jo to ask about who's sending me to Japanese class, and then planned with Maz to send me since he wasn't free. We ended up leaving the house 2 hours earlier so we could hobo around Gardens. Nothing much really happened; we chilled at the Starbucks in Borders, Nora and I went to the art shop to see what they had (Copics are still so goddamn expensive ugh guess I'll just stick to Kurecolor) and that's...pretty much it. I got a bit tired at one point, probably because I wasn't used to doing so much in one day, haha.

After about an hour or so, we went back to the car to face the rush hour jam that awaited us. I went to Japanese class, which was enjoyable as it always is, and Jo picked me up and bought me dinner. And then I ate, showered and went online. The end.

I had an awesome day, and I have my lovely big sisters to thank.

And now I'm really fucking tired because it's 3AM and I woke up early today and I don't know I'm just really fucking tired kdsfhfdsk it was worth it though

you're part of me now and I've only got myself to blame

2011-06-19T12:48:00.004+08:00

I've been listening to my (rather limited) The Darkness tracks lately. I still really really like this band, their songs are so catchy and well-put together! The title of this entry is one of my favourite lines from Growing On Me, which has been on repeat for about 2 hours now.

Speaking of music, I've got quite a few tracks/albums I want to download. I tried out quite a bit during my studying period, and I've got a growing list of music I want on-the-go. I'm going to have to clean up my desktop before I even think of downloading anything though. It's absolute chaos at the moment, since I still haven't sorted out the doujins I downloaded about a month before, not to mention that fanart-saving spree I had yesterday....I have far too many folders, I swear. I'm going to have to look through them all and delete some.

Oh, that reminds me, my fanart-saving spree...You won't believe this, but I've started this rather horrific obsession with X-Men: First Class. Maybe 'horrific' is over-exaggerating, but it certainly isn't that tame of an obsession.

I went to watch it last Wednesday (the 8th, if I'm not mistaken). Mum and I went to watch it with Kikkun, her sister and her sister's friend. I went in with no expectations at all, since I was never that much of a fan of Marvel's work, though I do appreciate them. Anyway, as I watched, I found it increasingly difficult to not ship Erik and Charles together, and after one point I simply stopped trying and shipped them as much as I wanted. I think I've figured out what kinds of pairings I go for, in general.

Tragic ships.

I know, it sounds sappy, but I've narrowed it down and that's really what I've found to like. I mean, I love my angst just as much as the next person, but it's just...I can't put my finger on it. It just appeals to me. If I had to really put it down to words, I suppose it's the fact that even though they want to be together, they have to go through hardships and are, in the end, forced to go separate ways. This is pretty much Erik and Charles in a nutshell, but it applies to my other favourite ships too, especially Ryoji and Minato.

Back to X-Men: First Class. I've only watched the movie once, but I've already read over 20 fics of them, saved nearly 30 pictures and followed 5 blogs dedicated to the same pairing (and another 5 that draws fanart of them). Here are some people I highly recommend you follow, should you have a tumblr, of course.

rev; writes lovely Erik/Charles fics, and just a tip: you might want to read their tags, because they're beautiful
noelle; the artist for all those adorable and hilarious X-Men: First Class strips, need I say more?
silveray; draws amazing fanart, and their little doodles of them are absolutely adorable
cristina; has a lovable drawing style, and their recent shark!Erik and labrat!Charles (which I've personally dubbed as Mr.Shark and Mr.Adorable Labrat) are adorable as fuck
kaciart; more lovely Erik/Charles fanart! their art in general has a nice flow to it, and, obviously, their X-Men fanart are just love

I honestly would not mind blowing all my money on rewatching the movie again and again until it stops showing in the cinemas. My love for them will probably die down after a while, but it'll probably start up again once the DVD comes out.

If you were looking for a review, then I'm sorry, but I don't have one. Some people may not have liked it all that much, but 'witness the beginning' held a lot more meaning to me than the obvious.

It's...1.15pm at the moment, so I'll just do a quick checklist of what I want to do today just for my own reference

finish rewriting Normal Days
finish rewriting Soul Phrase chapter 2/start on chapter 3
start on Mii-kun's birthday present
continue 111 followers artwork (original, Masato siblings)
continue drawing the Professor Layton mug design
clean up my desktop/set a new wallpaper

I'll probably make another post later today to talk about some irl stuff/post some art I've done over the months. Until then, have a nice day!

so I was looking at the stats

2011-06-11T13:07:00.002+08:00

And I saw pageviews for the very first post I made on this blog
Holy shit

I was such a weaboo back then ugh, please, look no further.

the party for everyone's souls

2011-06-05T11:38:00.004+08:00

Fun fact! Last Wednesday was, in fact, my last paper for O-levels. I'm rather slow at processing events as they occur, so the feeling of freedom just kicked in. I was rather...brain dead, on the day itself and for the past few days.

Quite a bit has happened since my last post, so to summarise:

-Shaqil's surprise birthday party, in which everyone went to school in pyjamas.
-Deeba's birthday party, where I met old classmates/friends and realised just how much I hated my old high school
-a rather last minute trip to Kinokuniya with Dawn on the same day
-trial examss
-last day creys/lunch with batchmates
-Mother's day/Mum's birthday
-C2AGE
-last-paper outing to Tropicana City Mall with Kikkun, her sister and Sid
-pet exhibition at Mid Valley Megamall with mum and a family friend's daughter
-Jo's birthday
-successfully dyed my hair purple
-watched X-Men: First Class, Kung Fu Panda 2 and Super 8 (all three were amazing)

That's...that's pretty much it. Other than that, I've been mostly studying or...studying. Urgh I'm so glad that's over; hopefully I did well enough for me not to have to go through it again askhf

Mmm I'd like to write out some stuff that happened, so I'll start with Shaqil's birthday. I don't know much about how it came to fruition, but I came out of class one day and Dawn just rushed up to me saying "Hey, it's Shaqil's birthday the day after tomorrow, so we're all coming to school in pajamas." It was a pretty cool idea, and Ms.Emma allowed it so we all agreed on surprising him with, well, sleepwear. The day after, Kikkun, Dawn, Danny and I went to One Utama to look for a present for him and some decent boxers for Danny. Yes, he made three girls help him choose what boxers to wear.

It was fun.

We got a little bit of something to eat at Jusco food court place downstairs after that. Danny got this...fluorescent blue bubble tea (which he claimed was fairy-flavoured lol trippy bitch) while Dawn got a California roll from the sushi section and a box of fresh takoyaki. I got myself a box too, and I don't remember Kikkun buying anything for herself until we went to Beard Papa for coronets. We got one each and it was, ugh, so good.

Shaza, my brother's girlfriend, was kind enough to pick all of us up and take us back to my place. When we got back, Danny tried on his boxers while I set up Guitar Hero because what else do you do when friends are over. Then Danny decided that it was a good idea to prance around the living room in his new boxers.

And...that's pretty much it. We chilled and everyone went home. The next day, we all went to school in our pajamas. I usually wear this really long nightgown thing but on the day itself I wore some pink pajamas with teddy bears on them. I got these when I was a kid okay I'm a little surprised how they managed to fit

I also brought my Layton and Luke plush toys lol

Everyone else wore pretty much the same thing. The guys wore t-shirts and boxers (hence Danny's shopping thing the day before) and the girls wore, well, pretty much what I wore.

I have no idea what's going on in the back there

We still had class that day, of course. Going to class in pajamas was amazing; you have no idea how comfortable it was ughh

the ice-cream cake we got from Baskin Robbins yum

It was a pretty fun day. That's all I have for now. This post has been in progress for 3 days why am I such a procrastinator

two weeks

2011-04-25T15:27:00.002+08:00

Two weeks until my exams. The big boss exams. The final boss exams. My O-level, also known as the exam I've been studying for for the past year.
I'm a little nervous, yet at the same time I'm kind of like come at me bro
Kind of sick atm so I'm going to keep this short and simple before I go take a nap.

I went to Kinokuniya on Saturday with Dawn and got new things, and I still haven't blogged about my Nabari no Ou purchases from a while back...so I'll blog about them after my exams. And I'll buy more things. More and more. I just...can't wait to get this over with. So many things I want to do.

Thank god my math exam is one of the last papers I have ugh
For all the other exam-takers, no matter what type, all the best, and for the others who aren't...all the best anyway!

where truth and lies cross

2011-04-07T19:03:00.003+08:00

Hey guys! It's been...a while. AGAIN ugh god hopefully these really late entries are only because of exam crunch time. Well, it's not crunch time YET, technically. But you know. Exams are exams.

So over the past week-oh! it hasn't been a full week since my last update! That has to be some sort of achievement, right? Writing in here helps me remember things and makes me appreciate what happens everyday, so I try not to keep to big a gap between entries. I'm only getting by by looking back on my tweets.My life isn't very extravagant, but you know. Stuff counts. And I rather like writing anyway. Plus it gives me more of a reason to use my camera haha

Oh dear, we've gone off track. Let's see..on Sunday I woke up early and helped my mum around the garden, since my maid wasn't around for the weekend. Since we had to feed the pets too, I thought I'd give my hedgehogs a bath. I also took pictures of them!

This is Kyoya! He's the first one I got. He's pretty tame, though a bit of a dumbass at times haha. I once brought him into the house to play with him while watching tv with Kikkun, but then he tried to squeeze under couches and we had to move everything to get him lol
He used to be a lot fatter and heavier but ever since I got the girls he's been their bitch lol
Out of the three I have, I love him the most.

The basin I bathed them in. He's so tiny!

The other two girls I have are both albino. I can really only tell the difference between the two by their temperament, as well as Amora's little black marks on her ears. Amora is also pretty tame; she doesn't make much of a fuss and her fur is really nice compared to Kyoya's haha.

And then there's Emmy, who I tried to take a picture of but couldn't.

She's very...feisty compared to the other two. She's pretty much the boss of the three. Whenever she's in her box, she'll spike up and tackle whoever tries to join her.
I was cleaning her spines with an old toothbrush and wanted to take a picture of her but...she bit me. Hard. And she didn't let go until my mum took hold of her. Emmy didn't bite hard enough for the skin to break though, so they're just...really deep teeth marks.

Ouch

Later that day, mum took Haddy and I to Amcorp. I was a bit skeptical at first, because well, I'm always following her to places and I kind of wanted the day to myself to clean up my room (which is still messy god damn), but I went anyway. It was a lot more enjoyable with my bro there too, though god knows why he wanted to come along.

We did the usual, hanging around, looking at books at Books Xpress or however it's spelt. I found the 5th volume for The Saga of Darren Shan manga and bought it. I read the first bit of it online and I rather liked the story (though weird as it is that the author and the main character have the same name uhh) and the art was pretty okay. I've been kind of wanting to start a collection for it anyway, so I started with volume 5. I guess I'll have to buy the rest now lol orz

My mum went off to meet up with a friend of hers while my bro and I were at the bookstore, and she called us to meet her at the Japanese restaurant nearby. Majority of the incentive to go there is for this restaurant anyway. So, as my brother and I walked there, I stopped by the figurine shop right in front of the restaurant to see what they had. They had an Aegis figma and a few other, but then I saw....

THIS MOTHERFUCKER

God you have no idea how much shit I lost when I saw the dot eyes. I couldn't stop smiling. My brother started making fun of how I was just you know losin' my shit over this thing but I was too busy, you know, losin' my shit. Then we had lunch and I had to bargain with my mum to buy it for me. And, as you can see that the background is of a messy-ass room, I got it!

It's so fun to play with omg all the stupid shit I did with him. I took a few stupid pictures when playing with it, but I'll post them next time.

On Monday, I attempted to clean my room. Well, I mean I did, but there's still a lot more boxes left so I haven't really 'cleaned' it orz. I sorted out my old/new sketchbooks and ah, so many memories! I found old messages from friends from back when I was in my last year in primary school, and from teachers too! It was nice looking back on them. Though it wasn't very nice looking at shit I used to draw back then lmao

the sketchbook with my most favorite cover

On Tuesday, I bummed around online for a bit. I read the Layton manga and holy shit it's fucking hilarious I hope someone translates it online/officially because I would totes buy it.

leftovers and fried noodles, yum

Other than that, just tumblrin' and drawing...Then I came across this:

You have no idea how much I love this video. NO IDEA. I didn't particularly like Miku's voice in this song so I went to look for the niconico douga cover. If anything, this is what I always do with VOCALOID songs. Unless it's DECO*27/Akiakane.

Other than that, nothing much else happened. Studied for a bit and then had dinner. I started reading the first book of A Series of Unfortunate Events and finished it in the same night lol. I have the whole series (I got it as a birthday present a few years ago, I think) so I thought I might as well read what I have.

On Wednesday, aka yesterday, I was supposed to have Kikkun and Dawn come over and go watch SuckerPunch together, but both Kikkun and Dawn couldn't come over due to parents being...pretty unreasonable, by the sounds of it. So I was pretty down because my mum was being pissy with me that morning too, and for a completely stupid reason (I didn't go to her when she called the first time, then she started ranting on my exams and...yeah).

She was a lot more civil later, and she took me to the hairdresser to do our hair since she wanted to do hers as well. We talked about Business Studies in the car which wasn't too bad. I had my hair trimmed and I dyed whatever was already bleached to purple. The purple is visible, but still pretty dark. I missed dark hair sob.

And then...today. Fucking finally this is why I don't like leaving too big a gap between entries. I didn't do much in the morning; just bummed around and studied for a bit. Mum went out to see my grandparents for this project she's doing, so I was home alone. She came back to pick me up and we went to The One Academy to see whether the papers I'm sitting for will be enough to be accepted. Apparently I've got enough to get in, but I'll need 3 credits, which means I have to do a little more than just pass for math. They also said that there's no limit as to how many students are enrolled, so mum and I were pretty relieved, since we thought that we had to hurry to secure a space before I lose my chance altogether.

After that we visited the gallery a couple of doors next to it, filled with assignments done by the students themselves. The content changes every now and then, so it's always nice to step in and see what students do. A lot of the stuff is very inspiring, and I even found one with some Tumblr references on it! I really wanted to take a picture of it but no cameras were allowed so all i can do is just type it out here.

Mum and I had lunch and came home, and here I am. Nothing much else to say, and I'm sure whoever's reading this is glad to hear that. All that's left is...to post art I guess ahaha.

Original+digital (Yae, Ryelle)

Fanart+digital (Professor Layton, Luke and Clive)

Fanart+traditional (Professor Layton, Persona 3)

Original+traditional (Cyan and Bistre)

close-ups:

Aaaand that's it! Phew!

there is a hell, believe me I've seen it

2011-04-02T12:31:00.001+08:00

I feel like it was just yesterday when I updated lol my sense of time is so weird it's already April! I wish I could update more often ugh askhf well anyway, good news is, I managed to find a plug for my camera, so I've taken the liberty of adding a couple pictures to the last two entries I posted :)

There's nothing much to say about the past week, except for the fact that I went to sit for my IGCSE Malay Speaking exam at British Council and that I had an end of term celebration. The end of term celebration wasn't too fun, but the Malay Speaking exam is definitely something to talk about.

As it was my first exam, and the only one where I had to be in a room alone with the examiner, I was pretty freaked out. I've been practicing with my mum with roleplays, conversations and topics to talk about a couple of days in advance, but that was it. The exam consisted of 2 roleplays, that of which will be handed to you before you're called in to the exam. You're given 15 minutes to prepare what you want to say, and if you're familiar with the language, it's not that hard to do. You then have to talk about a topic of your choice (this you have to prepare in advance) and the examiner will ask you spontaneous questions based on your topic. After that is a short general conversation (eg. your background, family etc).

Contrary to what I expected (stern old men and women), the people there were really nice! The people who helped me register were the kind of people you'd expect to be working at a high school carnival, but of course they did their job efficiently and it all went smoothly. My examiner was a nice lady too! Overall, I think I did pretty well, so I'm really happy I went through with it.

The party is nothing much to talk about. It made me pretty down, to be honest. But anyway, now we're supposed to have a term break for about two weeks, but this week we (Group 3) have workshops and tests to do, so we only really get a break next week. I sat for my English test today (both papers) and my shoulder is hurting a little from writing so much asdfhksd it doesn't help that I was a few minutes late too

And now for some random pictures

My desk space while I was making cards about a week back.

Sam's card design, since she likes Kingdom Hearts.

Ms. Jenny, our English teacher, told us to make a story in point-form to see how we develop our essays. Sam Chan didn't take it very seriously, as you can see here.

This post has been unfinished and unposted in my tabs for a while, so I'm just going to stop here and post. Will probably make another one by the end of today, hopefully. orz.

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Nanashi Shion
It is, haha, but I don't speak it very often, so I was very nervous. English is my first language.
Oh dear, I hope your family over there will be alright ;3;
Thanks OniShi~!

make no mistake, we're not afraid

2011-03-22T17:22:00.010+08:00

I wanted to write another entry with pictures but it seems that our old (and only) memory card reader has finally kicked the bucket. So I'll just update without pictures for now :I
[EDIT]: Added pictures!

Well, I've completely failed in trying to update more while mum was gone. It's been, what, almost two weeks since my last update? This is fucking ridiculous ugh

Obviously, lots of things have happened in these past two weeks. Such as my exam phone call that I mentioned in my last entry. I had gotten a call from British Council, notifying me about my Malay Speaking IGCSE exam on the 27th of March, in other words, this Sunday. They called me two weeks in advance, and I'm guessing they give different dates to different candidates, because on the actual site the date is actually a stretch from 1st March to...30th April, I think? A pretty big stretch, anyway.

So my exam is this Sunday. I'm pretty nervous; it's been a while since I've spoken Malay, and even though I've practiced with my mum in the car, it's still my first exam, and it's...idk pretty scary I guess. I got really restless after the phone call ended ie. pacing about my room, lying down, getting up etc etc. The guy that called me was really nice and was very patient with all of my questions.

Besides that, I've been having a few tests here and there at school, mostly math. I'm doing a Business Studies test tomorrow, paper 2 since we did paper one a couple of weeks back. Paper 2 is pretty much just bullshitting all over the paper and trying to fill up the space with as much shit as you can, so here I am. Practicing. Yeah. Totally legit.

In other news, Rise Against's new album, Endgame, is pretty damn epic. I haven't gotten the physical copy of the album yet, but I simply couldn't wait to listen to their new tunes and hacked my way into finding a download link. Architects, Help Is On The Way, Wait For Me and A Gentleman's Coup are my favorites ♥

This was all before mum left for her business trip to Cambodia. During her absence, I had a couple of birthdays to attend to, such as Samantha Chan's, Yun Fern's, my grandfather's and Maz's. I made cards for Yun Fern and Sam; Random OC for Yun Fern and Kingdom Hearts for Sam. It's always more personal when you make the card yourself instead of going to a store and buying one. I'm giving my grandfather his card tomorrow. I'll try and take pictures of the cards I made and upload them here later (I'll notify the changes in my later entries).

Yun Fern and the cake we bought from a Japanese bakery about a block away.
Can't believe she's actually studying in this picture srsly

It was also Mikado's birthday, and I still haven't drawn anything for him yet. My thumbdrive doesn't work anymore, so I can't transfer my art files from my laptop to my main comp, so the only art I can offer this time are these:

Background for my Twitter, Tumblr, and a slightly modified version for this blog. It's the same girl on my avatar; her name is...well I haven't named her yet but she's going to be my...mascot? idk lol but I'm going to use her around here a lot.

Quick birthday sketch for Sam Chan on her birthday. I posted it on her FaceBook wall with my birthday greeting. I wanted to draw Roxas for her but his hair was annoying me so much I opted for her favorite female character, Namine aka the most plain character Squeenix ever designed

(click through for dA link)
Venn on a swing. I think I've been drawing him pretty serious a little too much. He's a kid after all, so he deserves a happy picture now and then. Even if it looks really girly.
The dot shading was really fun to do.

I've taken one picture of my purchases from my latest trip to Kinokuniya (mentioned in this post), but I'll compile more pictures of them when...when idk I'm missing so many things here why is everything dying

Tomorrow is technically my last day at this school. After this is technically a Study Break for the students taking the May exams, so I'll still be going there lol. We're having this event tomorrow after class to raise funds for Japan earthquake/tsunami donations. It's pot luck for food, so Kikkun, Dawn, Sam Chan and I are going to go grocery shopping at Giza tomorrow and come back to my place to make curry udon and whatever else we decide to make. Maybe while I'm at Giza tomorrow I can find a shop that sells thumbdrives. I really need one ok.

There's really not much else to say...Or, well, maybe there is, but I just can't remember. Oh well.
Before I sign off, I'd like to announce that I now have a banner! It's on the sidebar on the right, along with a few of my other links. I might remake the banner later, idk but this is what I'm using for now.

Banner trade, anyone?

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Nanashi Shion - Ah! That's so good to hear ;u; I'm glad your family is alright; I got worried about people who weren't even related to me, so I can't imagine what it must be like worrying over family members.
Yes, I do hope they manage to solve that and keep it in check. The people who've gone to the plant to see what they can do are all putting their health at great risk. The Japanese are such amazing people; there are so many stories about ordinary people doing amazing things. It's so heartwarming ;u;
Thank you very much! I'll do my best!

nothing more, nothing less. just you and me.

2011-03-11T19:18:00.005+08:00

Holy balls it's been over a week since my last update asdfhldghl
Loads of things have been happening; the Japan earthquake/tsunami disaster, my unexpected exam phone call...honestly, I feel like I'm missing parts of what's happened over the past few days. I've not been writing in my little notebook to record everything, so I'm...missing bits and pieces. It's a little unsettling.

Last week...The only thing I'm sure of what happened was my Business Studies test, which wasn't too bad, I suppose. After that Kikkun, Sam Seow, Yun Fern, Maiz and I followed Renise back to her place for a study group session. Renise lives down the road from my house, but I'm not particularly close to her in terms of relationship so...I only went because the others were.
We ate some...tom yam noodles thing which were super good/spicy asdfhgl too bad I didn't take a picture of it. We ate while watching The Proposal, then Renise brought out some epic Oreo cheesecake that we all ate together.

Kikkun, Sam Seow, Renise and a bit of Maiz
I always seem to take pictures of Kikkun looking like a hobo
Sorry bro

Maiz and Yun Fern
What the fuck is Iz doing

So then we finally settled down to study. After a while, we started talking and got in a circle, and they started talking about...god knows what. I went on Tumblr for a bit. This was at about...4pm? And I found my dash flooded with prayers/well-wishing for Japan, and pictures depicting the incident. I began to get worried for all the people I know there; the Otsuka family, Toshima-sensei, favorite artists etc. There was also the warnings of other countries getting affected by the oncoming tsunami. I started panicking and telling my friends what had happened through Tumblr, but then I got upset because, well, they didn't really seem to care about the innocent people at risk or my own concern over the people I care about. A little after that, I went home.

I told mum about the earthquake and we watched the news together when I got home. I think I spent like, what, 4 hours in front of the tv waiting for more news? Anyway I then asked my mum to email Kyoko-san to ask whether they were okay. Thankfully, she replied the next day. Fixed some minor grammar mistakes.

Hi!

Thank you for your email. Please be assured that we are all safe! The Otsuka building shaked a lot and the some glasses and china tea cups were broken, but that is all. Takao came back from his office in Kawasaki (16km far from here) by walking, it took 3 hours and half. Opapa was in Shinagawa and he had problems to coming back home, so Michiko and I picked him up, but it took us 4 hours to drive there and back ( normally it takes 30 minuites) . Koji came back from his Saitama office by bicycle. Nobu walked back from Yurakucho too. So everyone in our family are safe. Thank you for concern about us and please do not worry. We are all happy to be safe together!
Love Kyoko

I was so relieved to hear this over breakfast you wouldn't even know asdghldsg I've only met them once during that one trip to Japan but they are such lovely people and ughh god I want to see them

On Tuesday, my 2nd brother Jo left to fly to Kota Kinabalu, then to Haneda. I managed to write a short letter to the Otsukas before he left and gave him a couple of my mugs to give to them, one for each household. He called me on Wednesday to say that he was in Kota Kinabalu and was about to board the plane for Haneda. He said that there are food shortages in Japan now, so he bought some food to bring along just in case. Yesterday my mum received an sms from him saying that he's arrived there safely and is going to go out with his captain, as he figured that 'being on the ground is safer than on the 12th floor' which...scared me a little, to say the least.
It goes without saying that I'm not asking him for anything while he's there. Just come home in one piece, that's all.

Yesterday I went to my Japanese class, and since I missed Tuesday's class (due to some aunties coming over and a really bad traffic jam just outside my house) I was a little clueless as to what they learnt. Yamaki-sensei came in (I'm beginning to see a pattern in this: Youko-sensei on Tuesday, Yamaki-sensei on Thursday) and she started talking about the earthquake in Japan. She explained the basic happenings and then said that her family is alright but that she has not been able to contact one of her friends, so she's worried. She then carried on with the class in her usual super-genki self, and I had a lot of fun. Her classes are always fun.

Anyway, I just wanted to get this all together in one post. Tomorrow mum is going off to Cambodia for a few days so I'll post some more updates (like my exam phonecall urgh) in the next few days. This topic is just really important to me, so I'm just going to....yeah.

Take care!

a patched-up, crazy, matryoshka

2011-03-09T22:59:00.000+08:00

Ugh. so much for updating more often! Welp, gonna type as much as I can for as long I can be online (which is half an hour, since I'm...grounded ugh) so here we go

Last Thursday, I came back from Japanese class, had a shower, and set on doing my homework for the next day. I somehow started getting uncomfortable in my lower regions but left it as it is. I continued doing my work, but the discomfort escalated to pain, so I took some painkillers. It didn't work. In fact, it just got worse. Soon I was crying to my mum asking her to help and...yeah. It wasn't pretty. I wailed and cried and my mum was freaking out because nothing was working. So in the end my mum gave me a sleeping pill for me to calm down and, well, sleep.

Next day, I skipped school to go to the doctor's with my mum. Turns out it's inflammation at work. CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT THAT'S LIKE asddfhlghhlasg so yeah
I'm okay now, but the pain/uncomfortable feeling comes back from time to time. When that happens, I just take a nap.

OKAY NOW THAT THAT UNCOMFORTABLE TOPIC IS OVER let's move on to something else
School, okay. Um, nothing much to say, really. Lively break times with Kikkun and Dawn, class...that's it, really. I do have some pictures though.

Flipped through my Business Studies book today to find this stupid doodle I did last year.
I thought I was a fucking genius lmao what a retard

Also found this today from back when Mr.Dominic asked us to design an ice cream for children (we were learning about product development). I went ahead and drew Inazuma Eleven children snacks lol
Okay I have to admit this one was pretty genius actually no I'm still a fucking retard

I was looking through at my other pictures and found some I don't remember taking
Then I saw this
Dawn looks like a Korean popstar here
no actually that's how she looks like all the time

I know it's not healthy, but I started drawing on my left hand in class and decided it was kind of fun. I drew this with a Permanent Fine Sharpie, so lol not good for your skin. I rather liked this one though.

Another one done the next day. I started listening to a really nice cover of Matryoshka (I've listened to the original before, but the VOCALOID voices just weren't working for me). The cover is by ベェェェェジュ, and you can listen to it here.

And while we're on the topic of my weird drawings, here's some traditional stuff I drew in my sketchbook from the past few days.

Random Matryoshka-themed character and random doodles with markers.
The bottom right doodle is particularly important to me. Try and guess why.
If you guess right, then LOL SORRY I DREW IT FROM MEMORY;;

OHHH MY GOD I'M 5 MINUTES OVERDUE okay uh one last drawing before I go. First finished digital drawing in a while! That felt more pathetic than it already is.

click for the dA link where I spewed more useless comments for it

OKAY GOODNIGHT Y'ALL

the first of the third

2011-03-01T09:31:00.000+08:00

So it's first of March already. I feel like I haven't done shit this month nnngahh goddammit
I think the only thing I crossed off my to-do list this month was 'pick up orders from Kinokuniya'. Speaking of which, I haven't talked about my purchases yet, have I?

I'm currently typing on Samantha Chan's laptop at school, because uh, I'm grounded and mum doesn't have work so I can't sneak onto the comp when I get home. So no pictures this post, soooorry. That also means I'll post my Kinokuniya purchases next time. Or the one after that, I don't know.

On Saturday I went to a classmates' barbecue along with some other classmates and friends. I hitched a ride with Dawn, since I didn't know where the barbecue was held at. Kikkun didn't come because her cousin went to visit her, plus her mum was convinced she was sick so she couldn't go either way. It was fun being in the car with Dawn though. Oh, and Danny too.

We went to Giant to get some stuff for the barbecue (apparently what the bought before wasn't enough?). We got meat and some other things, like butter and...coal? Charcoal? Doesn't sound too prepared, does it? WHAT HOUSE DOESN'T HAVE BUTTER I MEAN SERIOUSLY WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK CYNTHIA

So then that happened.

And then we went to Cynthia-Cynthia's place is where the barbecue was held at-'s place and set things up. No wait, more like threw shit around. We brought in the stuff we bought and helped the others cook. It was fun being in the kitchen with everyone-I helped cut capsicums and wash vegetables hahaha. It was a little hectic, but then we all found ourselves downstairs at the barbecue pit.

It was loads of fun, basically. It was by the pool, so some of them jumped in. I initially didn't want to get my clothes wet because I didn't bring a change of clothes, but after a while I jumped in too. Then a little while later, EVERYONE went in.

Dawn was having 'that time of month' so she was worried on going into the pool but in the end she jumped in as well. Then she came out and she started whining like WHY DID I DO THAT AAAAAAAA and I was just like lol bro chill

I followed her back upstairs to dry off and she was looking through Cynthia's wardrobe to find a change of shirt and kept giving her girly ones. Then I bullied her the whole time she took a shower. I dried my pants with Cynthia's hairdryer outside lol so classy

A bit of a boring post but I wanted to update while I could. Happy first of March you guys.

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noni
I UPDATED BRO albeit a little useless post but y'know
I love my shelves! I'm a bit worried it won't be able to fit my books if I keep on buying more (which I will, since I have so many collections I've yet to continue and a new series I want to buy!!)

Dawn? Do you remember that one time I told you about me going to a friends' house and they started fangirling with me about manga/yaoi/Gravitation? Dawn was there and I fangirled with her the most. She's a little more mature than I am but she's very friendly and cool. She hugs me a lot too so I forget about our age difference sometimes

Thanks bro! Lined paper always seems more...comfortable to work with but then it's annoying when I draw something nice and there are bloody lines EVERYWHERE

here, there and in between

2011-02-25T00:23:00.000+08:00

Yo! It's been a while since I wrote, hasn't it? FUCKING DUH IT'S ALMOST MARCH can't believe my last post was on JANUARY 1ST god what

I've changed the design of this blog, so it's a lot more picture/drawing-friendly. I'll delete my 'art blog' a little after this, so from now on, I post all my doodles and crap here. I'm also thinking of drawing a banner since the blog title font looks so...out of place? idk it's been a while since I had a banner and it sounds like fun anyway so why not.

I've moved into my new place! I rather like my room; it's a lot bigger than the ones I've had before, and I get a big bookshelf for all my precious books!♥

I haven't sorted them all in yet, but that's all the manga, doujinshi and artbooks I have. Oh, and the magazines too lol I have too many books
I also have a pretty sweet desk space. This was the layout before we put the curtains in.

It's a pity though, I liked my calendars and speakers there. With the curtains on now I can't leave them there anymore so :I gotta find a new nice home for all of them.
Also, I somehow wound up with two 2011 calendars after I bought GELATIN's latest issue, which had a free calendar (it's the one on the left). The Durarara one, I got in Japan. And speaking of Japan...

YEAHHHHHH

Jo got me these babies on his first flight to Japan. He initially said he couldn't find any Layton stuff for me, but he found these last minute so it was a huge surprise when he whipped them out of his suitcase! Aaaaa I love them ♥

School's started up again. I've made a couple of new friends (or rather, I've become more sociable with the acqaintances I already know) and they're awesome! I've been hanging out quite a bit with Dawn in particular. She's turning 20 this year, but so short and small! She's really cool and she's into Persona 3, thanks to me! :3c

I also got a new camera about a week ago, so I took some pictures of some friends!

From left to right, Samantha Seow, Pari (Kikkun) and Dawn!
These guys are awesome. I got Sam and Dawn to play P3 so it's fun fangirling about the nitty-gritty bits of the game lol. Kikkun is just my irl bro forever. God knows what she's doing here

Aaand that's Yun Fern and Danny! Danny is Dawn's younger brother and Yun Fern is just...Yun Fern LOL she hangs out with Sam Seow a lot. She's cool. They're both cool.
We all kind of ship them

Aaand this is Kevin. At Giza. He caught me taking pictures of shit and he wanted one himself.
He's a cool guy-a little gay, but I ain't complaining
He was really weird that day though

Kikkun and I had a nice break at Starbucks on...Tuesday, I think? Yeah we chilled there and ate while waiting for her brother to pick us up.
Green Tea Cream and Chic'o Cheese is what I usually get. Kikkun got a doughnut because...I don't know she wanted to be a hobo
Speaking of which she looks pretty homeless here

Danny being a fucktard a few tables away from us

That's all I have for updates. And, let's see, oh yeah! Doodles and shit yeahhhhh here you go

lame lined paper doodles of DeadKnot mmm ballpens

I was playing around with solid black and green. It was fun.

A Venn version. We learnt about venn diagrams today in math, and I was a more than a little awkward whenever my teacher said 'venn' orz orz
I tried to make him a little less 'cute' in this. He specialises in making bombs, so the background....god you know what I suck at explaining my shit drawings let's just move on and end the entry

Wow okay maybe I should just put 2 posts on one page all my posts are so long (probably because I can't shut up). I want to try and update more, so uh yeah GET READY?!

あけまして, おめでとうございます

2011-01-01T22:09:00.002+08:00

Well, it's been a year, how about that! Happy New Year, everyone! One more hour and it'll be over for me, but since I have time, here's my yearly thank-you post (if you don't remember, I wrote one last year because I am a huge sap) as well as my new year resolutions post.

But well, I'm going to add a few new lists to this yearly thing.

things i've achieved in 2010

-made new friends
-drew my very first doujinshi
-started a new multi-chapter fic
-finished Professor Layton and the Curious Village and Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box
-drew about 10-15 on-the-spot commissions at Comic Fiesta, all in one day, and all were finished
-went to Japan and spoke with Japanese friends in Japanese-and both parties understood, for three days straight
-scored the highest in Business Studies
-received only A's for English assignments

things i haven't achieved in 2010

-create a good-quality first doujinshi
-improve in Mathematics
-lose weight lol
-study as hard as I wanted to
-pick up bass again
-finish P3P (girl's side)
-increase confidence, got even more paranoid as a result

in 2011 i'm going to:

-pass my O-level exams like a boss
-improve art improve improve improve!
-create my oneshot original doujinshi
-pick up bass again
-finish my new multi-chapter fic by the end of the year
-lose weight

new people i've met in 2010:

-noni; it started with just a chat on darazu, where you asked for requests and I requested Minato. I was so happy when I received it, but I didn't think much about actually getting to know you, since I had a mentality of good artists not wanting to befriend a noob like me. After that, there was a discussion on darazu about which Durarara BL pairing we'd go for, and I remember how I played it safe and agreed with the KidaxMikado vote, while you stepped up and said IzayaxMikado. I honestly thought I was the only one who shipped that, so I instantly went crazy and fangirled. We got each others' email addresses and started chatting on msn, and it all went downhill from there. Thank you for always listening to my rants, rambles and fangirling, and for entertaining my fangirling on some fandoms you aren't in, even getting into new fandoms with me. I love talking to you very much, and I'm so very happy that I got to know such an amazing person this year. I still have that Minato drawing in my saved folders, haha! All in all, thank you for being awesome, I LOVE YOU! ♥

-darazu; well, its a whole bunch of people, but thank you all for being super amazing. I love this community, though I rarely log on nowadays. They've gone from the English room on a different darazu site to one they established themselves, and I'm proud to say that I'm part of the original group. Cheers to all!

-onishi; we haven't really talked much nowadays, but its always nice to hear from you. Thank you for always talking to me when you have the time and for always reading my blog, haha! You've grown so much in terms of drawing this year-you should be proud! Happy new year!

-sam chan; though you may be quiet, you're one of the few people I've met irl who I can relate to in terms of thoughts and wants. Thank you for encouraging me and helping me with convention stuff, and I'm sorry if I ever neglected you or hurt you. Let's do our best this year!

people who've stuck with me since before 2010:

-kikkun; first of all, thank you for staying with me these past few years and putting up with all my shit. Thank you for being an awesome best friend and for always being there for me when I needed it. You've grown so much this year-you studied hard when you needed to, you actually listened to math lectures and you even started drawing! Amazing drawings, at that! I'm rather jealous, actually haha! Even though I feel like we've drifted a little bit this year, the feeling always goes away when you're around. Thank you for making me laugh like a complete retard, because really, no one else can make me do that, and it's amazing. I love you bro! Here's to a new decade!

-lemmy; my one and only baby bro! Thank you for being such a sweet guy and for always acknowledging me as your 'Nii-sama'. I remember how we'd always sit together back in primary school and draw stupid stories and play with our stationery while ignoring class. Thank you for sticking with me through all my endeavors and helping me along the way. You've grown into such an amazing guy; I'm proud of you! Nii-sama loves you; here's to a new decade!

-deebs; unfortunately, I've only seen you twice this year; but they were such enjoyable times, they really were. You had to study for PMR so you had to skip out on stuff, so I understand. Thanks for always being the one to text me about fandom stuff and for always hugging me when I see you. You're the only one who does that, you know! Hopefully we'll be able to go out and meet more next year, I miss you! Happy New Year!

-maz-ane; even with recent events, I still consider you my one and only big sis. Thank you for always being there for me and for always being the big sister I never got to have. I'll always remember you drying my wet hair in a huff, and that one time when you decided to put makeup on me, and those times when I was home alone and you and nora would kidnap me and take me to sunway. And most of all, thank you for the pep talk you gave me when I broke down before CF, I really needed it and it felt like I had a real big sister with me. I love you very much, and happy new year!

and of course, my by-blood family:

-mum; the strongest woman I've ever seen. Thank you for always believing in me, and for always telling me never to give up. You can be strict and snappish sometimes, but I know its only because you love me, and that you're only human, no matter how strong you are. Thank you for supporting the things I love and catering to my every need. Thank you for the meaningful praises you've given me on my drawings and essays, even if part of me doubts what you say, haha. Thank you for raising me to be who I am now, and I hope I've become someone you're proud to call your daughter. And most of all, thank you for being the coolest mum I've ever seen, and for being one I'm proud to call my own. I love you very much, and happy new year!

-haddy; my oldest brother. Thank you for always trying to bring me out and for always trying to do things with me. After the past year's events, its such a relief to see you so happy and bubbly. It shows how strong you are, and I'm proud of you. Thank you for all the simple things you've done for me this year; it means so much, from the short errand drives to the random hugs you'd ask for. I love you very much, and happy new year!

-jo; my second-oldest brother. It's been a harsh year for you-so harsh I have no idea how you deal with it. Thank you for spending time with me when you could and for always entertaining my fangirling. Thank you for making the most lamest jokes that make me laugh, and for the random hair-ruffles you'd give me. I love all the things you've done for me, and I hope the next year will be better for you. We're all here for you, just remember that. I love you very much, and happy new year!

And thank YOU, dear reader, for reading this blog and making it reach 5000 hits (another 100 and it'll be 6000!!). I'm truly grateful and thank you so much for reading!

And to finish it off:

fandoms that started in 2010:
-Angel Beats!
-Are You Alice?
-Bakuman.
-Durarara!!
-Inazuma Eleven
-Professor Layton

fandoms that have persevered to this day, and hopefully beyond:
-D.gray-man
-Code Geass
-Evangelion
-Kuroshitsuji
-Nabari no Ou
-Persona 3

Well, it's already midnight. Family breakfast tomorrow, so I better get to bed. Happy New Year, everyone!

IT'S GONNA BE FUCKIN' EPIC

Comic Fiesta 2010

2010-12-21T01:05:00.000+08:00

I'm currently recovering from fatigue after the past couple of weeks packed with stressing and planning, but I felt like I needed to type this down. Comic Fiesta 2010 , though stressful for me due to printing problems, was somehow the most memorable Comic Fiesta.

DAY 1

I woke up early and went with mum to the printing shop. I gave them the USB with the files and left it with them, along with my and my mum's phone number in case they needed to call. I left it with them, went home to wake up my brothers and the three of us piled into the car to drive to Berjaya Times Square.

Everything was smooth sailing until I got a call from mum saying she got a call from the printing shop, saying that none of the pages (except for the cover) are able to print. She got really pissed and started yelling at me and my brothers over the phone, which made my eldest brother really miffed that he was involved and started insulting me which I thought was completely uncalled for. He dropped my other brother and I off at Time Square and drove back to mum to help her.

After that I kept getting text messages from him asking which files are what, what programs I used etc. But for a few good hours, I was able to enjoy myself as I shopped. I met baby bro and his friend there, and it was really good to see them. They're growing taller every time I see them, I swear. My brother and I met up with Maz and Nora too, and at that point I had already given up on my doujinshi. I kept telling my brother to forget about it and to not stress out on it any longer, but he continued on.

I stopped by loads of booths and bought loads of things (around RM 250 worth of stuff!), especially CYANPARADE'S booth, where I bought literally everything. Wrat was there too, and I was lucky enough to get one of all the last postcards and posters! They were all such nice people, so warm and kind ;u; I got kidchan, wrat and kunisaki's autograph. Kidchan even drew something for me which was such a pleasant surprise! She even wrote 'For: Nie' at the top with little hearts asdfgghj why are these people so nice

By the end of the day, my mum picked us up and she was still pretty damn pissed. We went home and my brother (the one who stayed home) handed over a thumbdrive with the files as well as already-printed and aligned copies of the doujin. We went to the printing shop and they all printed successfully. I can't explain this feeling, really. Call me a big sap, but I'm very, very greatful that so many people;my mum, my brother, the guy at the printing shop who kept his shop open past closing time just for us...

I hugged mum and she wasn't angry with me anymore. It felt like the end of an episode, really, haha. After that, we went to pick up Sam for her sleep over and got pizza. At night, we drew up a price list and watched Angel Beats!. I completely underestimated it; it was really good! Also, I fell in love with Naoi the first time I laid my eyes on him, even more so when I watched the episode that exposed his backstory. Also HATTED-CHARACTER LOVE

DAY 2

Sam and I stayed up until about 4am watching Angel Beats! so I was a little groggy. We got up early to make some sushi and eat breakfast. Sushi because it was supposed to be what we're supposed to survive on while we're manning the booth. Kikkun came by a little later, and then we set off at around 9am. Mum dropped us off and I have to admit, I felt pretty boss leading the group with my bags and asking random strangers directions. I felt cool shut up.

We got to our table and set up, all the while the booth next to ours, which came earlier to set up (Wolf Brothers) kept staring at my Persona 3 merch. We talked for a little bit, and she was really nice! She even bought my doujinshi 'before it sold out' which was really flattering though I felt kind of sorry for how crap the inside is :I also, a booth attendant (at least, I think that's who she was LOL) came by and literally GASPED at the doujin and bought a copy, which was a really nice start of the day. The doors haven't opened yet, so it was great to already have sales.

The day went by pretty well. People bought stuff and I put up commissions. The commission thing was kind of hectic because at one point loads of people stopped by to ask for one, but it was a good experience :) One guy came by with a picture of his OC and asked for a commission, and after I was done he asked whether he could give me 2 extra bucks for it because he really liked it. I was literally asdfghjaghthank you at that point asdfgh such nice people!!

After drawing all of my commissions I quickly left the booth to stop by CyanParade's booth to give Wrat my Layton+Luke phone charms as gifts. She seemed to really like them and the rest of the booth owners were looking on as well, which was embarrassing yet ego-stroking at the same time haha. I'm glad I managed to give something to her, who knows when she'll come back to Malaysia!

Mum came by later to give us the sushi (we were SO HUNGRY by then). I told Kikkun and Sam to go get food for themselves but they stayed to help asdghj my teammates! Before mum came by Maz stopped by to give us some bottled water and some cookies/chips she managed to smuggle in sob she's a real big sis, I swear ;u;

Naili and Iman came by to see us near the end of the day, and it was nice seeing them again. We talked, walked around a bit and we packed up. Sam stayed to finish her commissions since her dad was picking her up, so Kikkun, mum and I headed off to the car. We dropped Kikkun off at her house, went home and I collapsed on the couch to sleep.

I can't thank everyone enough for how they've supported me during these two days. Looking at all the things I've just wrote, I've realised how much people pamper me and how I was cared so much for. Even before these two days, Noni cheered me on relentlessly and my brothers, Maz and Kikkun checked on me sometimes to see if I was okay.

Just, thank you, everyone. Thanks for the memories of Comic Fiesta 2010. See you next year!

dou-jin-shi!

2010-12-12T01:11:00.001+08:00

A friend of mine wanted scans of some doujinshi I got in Japan, so I decided to just post pictures of the covers here so she can choose. I may scan all, but only if I get requests. Scanning isn't a fast job you know.

left to right, up to down:
Bakuman, Summer Wars, Durarara!!, Persona 3, Inazuma Eleven

Bakuman doujinshi! I was very happy with these since they're both by my favorite Bakuman doujin artists. And I got them at the second-hand doujinshi store too herp
They're all ShujinxSaiko/TakagixMashiro.

Summer Wars! I actually got the one on the left online, but since the one on the right was by the same artist, I thought I'd just put them together :> I got the one on the right at the same second-hand doujinshi shop.
They're both KazumaxKenji/KenjixKazuma works either way lol

Durarara!! doujinshi! I got these babies at Animate, Ikebukuro. Fitting, hm? *geeks out*
Anyway, they're both pretty thick, and for pretty good prices, so I couldn't help myself. Plus they were the only izmk ones there.
They're both IzayaxMikado.

Persona 3 doujinshi!! I got these babies at Mandarake, Shibuya. Great store! It was kind of funny how it was underground and looked a little dodgy, but an awesome place! It was the only place I went to that had P3 doujinshi, so I was happy. They were selling these for 200yen a pop too, which was a BARGAIN if I do say so myself.

Anyway, top left is a gag comic, right is RyojixMinato, bottom left is an AkhikoxMinato anthology, the one next to it is RyojixMinatoxJunpei, and bottom right is Persona Music Live trio gag comic.

I'm disappointed at how I only got one doujinshi that's purely RyojixMinato, but the doujinshis they had in the store didn't look worth it. I bought quite a bit after all, so this was the best out of the lot.

Inazuma Eleven doujinshi! I bought quite a bit of them LOL
I bought them all from different places (Animate, Mandarake, second-hand doujinshi store).

Two top left are KidouxEndou, next to it is GouenjixEndou, top right is a gag comic/all character, two bottom left are HirotoxEndou, next to it is general Break Team, and the last one is a gag comic/general/all character. Last one came with a bag that I could cut out into a clear file sob its so cool

That's all for now!

are you ready yet? FUCK NO

2010-12-09T11:07:00.000+08:00

Butchering my favorite songs mmhmm yep
Well anyway, Comic Fiesta is 8 days away and I'm both excited and really nervous asdfg SOMEONE HELP ME

I kind of want someone around just to keep me company (excluding my brothers, though they do check up on me working from time to time orz) but everyone...doesn't want to hang out with me FOREVER ALONE COUGH

I've worked up a schedule of drawing 4 pages of the doujinshi per day, my deadline being next Tuesday. That leaves me plenty of time to touch up on things after that, so I think that deadline is okay. Phone charms shouldn't take long to do since they're pretty simple and I like coloring (and there aren't several pictures in one goddamn canvas asdfg rank up respect for comic artists)

I won't be updating this blog very often because this is my 'full on blog' where I type everything like crazy, so if you want more updates, go to my sketchblog. Where there are warm up doodles and somehow-daily updates.

If anyone's interested, we will be selling our merchandise at Comic Fiesta 2010, Day 2, booth A1-3, Nymphalidae. I'll make a page for the list of merchandise we'll be selling soon. Thanks for reading!

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@bone-kun
T-Thanks bro!! I'm quite happy with it myself, but I wasn't too sure it'd be good enough to sell ;u;
I don't really like Hamuko tbh, but she's a'ight. And since P3P came out this year, there's bound to be people wanting to buy stuff related to her, so....*business studies student*
Asdfgh thanks bro!! I need all the luck I can get!

are you ready yet? not so ready yet

2010-12-05T12:56:00.000+08:00

Some updates:

Yesterday Honsbridge had this Christmas Bash thing, and I was in charge of the Japan booth with Dawn (idk we had this...christmas all around the world thing). Ms.Emma told me to come at 1pm when she told the others to come at FOUR. FOUR PM. WHY WOULD SHE DO THAT. I was there alone with Stanley for three hours! Arrghhhasfdg

I brought my laptop and tablet along though, so I at least had to do some work. I forgot my plug at home though so my mum had to drive over to pass it to me. Work work work until everyone arrived yayyy

I brought a cotton candy maker (one of those kiddy cooking things) and it was...pretty fun making them lol ;u; Dawn bought sushi, green tea and decorations sob I felt bad that she had to get so many things;; She was freaking out too lol it was kind of funny how she tried to blow the balloons with her heavy breathing alone

There was a performance and Secret Santa present giveaway near 7pm, and by that time I had to leave to pick up my mugs. Ah, speaking of which, I haven't shown the mugs here, have I?

full design:

I'm quite happy with how they came out! irl friends and family seemed to like the mug, so hopefully others will too! I've made 20 mugs for this design, printed, paid and ready to go.

I've also printed the bookmarks I've got so far:

megane!Minato and Hamuko

This morning my brothers and I woke up early to send mum to Central for her overseas 2 week program. I really wanted to work on the doujin today, but I found out that I left my tablet pen at the party. Thankfully, Sam picked it up and now its with her. Hopefully she can come over tomorrow and pass it over to me (as well as hang out lol working alone is sad okay)

I need a spare tablet pen. My current one is about to bust and well, if I ever misplace my pen like yesterday, I still need to work. I'm probably just going to play Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (I finished Curious Village on Thursday LOL), write Japan report, study and try cleaning up my room. Emphasis on the 'try'.

Luke is fucking adorable I love this child asdfg

Guess that's all for now :)

lol fuck it

2010-11-24T16:23:00.000+08:00

Holy shit it's been a MONTH since I've updated;;
I meant to save the next post for my Japan trip report but I have...no time nor energy to sort through the shitload of pictures I have to make an entry orz. I will make those reports though.

Comic Fiesta is just around the corner, and I've managed to squeeze in a spot for a booth on the second day! I've been busy with a lot of convention stuff lately ie, going to Central Market to look for merch-making shops, finding a good printing shop, having to constantly draw and keep track of homework...its hectic but all in all pretty fun :) I seem to be the only one doing the work though;;

I'm doing bookmarks, phone charms and a doujin (hopefully!). I found some mug and eco-bag printers in Central Market and mum wants me to try making them but...I'm still kind of skeptical about it because let's face it-it's embarrassing for a newbie like me to draw something for an item that people are supposed to use on a daily basis. I mean, if I was someone awesome like KidChan then sure, but...well you know lol

In other news, I've started playing Professor Layton! It's really fun so far, and I love how the art style has an old British cartoon feel to it :) Also, Luke is just adorable ffffffffuck you level 5 and your lovable shotas

I better get back to work, so that's all for now :)

waking up to the sounds of trains in the morning

2010-10-22T09:19:00.001+08:00

Wahhh its been a week! I told myself I'd make a post for each day this week but I've been too busy/tired to do so wahhhhh;;

I've been in Japan for a week now, I went for the tour with my mum and now we're staying with Kyoko-san in Ebisu, my mum's old friend along with her family. They're all such nice people! Just a heads up, there are no pictures in this entry (for one thing, this laptop had no more disk space) so I'll just add them when I get home on Monday or something.

Kyoko-san is a very nice, warm person! She's also really energetic and funny; her English is also really good! We first saw her at the last hotel the tour group was staying at in Ikebukuro with Nobuyuki (Nobu for short). Such a nice woman ;3;

Papa-san and Mama-san are Kyoko-san's parents-in-law and live downstairs. Papa-san can speak English a little (enough to communicate!) but when my mum told him I could speak Japanese he started talking to me in Japanese so lmao

Mama-san can't speak English so I try to speak to her with the little Japanese I know orz

Oh Kyoko-san and her husband, Takao-san, have an adorable dog living with them named Fio! I don't really know what breed she is but she's such a smart little thing! Kyoko-san actually sat down with her and told her that we were going out and to take care of Papa-san and Mama-san and she walked away from her and sat right next to Mama-san, like she understood! So cool!

Michiko-san, Takao's sister, lives upstairs with her children, Chihiro and Nobuyuki. It's really nice how they all live in the same building yet have their own privacy :) Michiko-san is pretty shy and a little more reserved than Kyoko-san, but she seemed pretty excited when she found out I could speak basic Japanese (because her English wasn't as good as Kyoko-san's) haha.

I arrived at Kyoko-san's house on Wednesday evening and was introduced to everyone there. Nobu was pretty fun to talk to. I told him I liked Durarara and he knew what I was talking about, though he doesn't really watch anime or read manga. He's a nice guy! Also pretty cute haha (though the shirts he wears are hilarious sometimes) He's...22 years old, I think. He plays the guitar and DJ's sometimes so its pretty cool :) He also printed out a map of Otome road, which I have yet to visit, which has a lot of otaku goods, apparently! He's so nice ;u; and his English is really good too! (he says 'hohoh' instead of 'souka' sometimes which is asdfgh so cute)

Yesterday mum and I woke up, had a little breakfast and took the trainIkebukuro with Kyoko-san and Michiko-san. I had the address for Animate so we all decided to go there together. We had lunch in Ikebukuro (curry riceeee) and went to look for Animate. It was actually right in front of Sunshine City but we went through the alleyways. Thing is, in the alleyways we found a board with all the art manga-ka's drew for Animate's 10 year anniversary! It was amazing seeing their traditional work up close hawawa it's like I could see their line of work by looking at them *w*

When I went into Animate, I felt like I was in heaven. So many things! The first floor had calendars and two whole rows stacked with anime-packed food (there was even a milk carton for milk candy for Shizuo wwww)! It was an amazing experience. The top floor had a Prince of Tennis event that I went to check out just for the heck of it. Then I went down floor by floor and it was BLISS. Mum, Kyoko-san and Michiko-san went to Starbucks and left me at Animate for an hour so I was blissfully left to my own shopping and ogling.

One of my favorite floors was the DOUJINSHI and CHARACTER GOODS floors! The doujinshi floor caught me by total surprise! I mean sure, anthologies I can understand but there were actually doujinshi that you could buy at cons there! I bought 5 doujinshis, 3 Ina11 and 2 izmk ones eeheehee I was so happy! And they came up to about 500-1,000 yen each (the izmk ones were pretty thick so they came up to about 1,000 yen each) which is like, RM40 for me. That's WAY cheaper than the ones I buy online which come up to about RM90-RM100 each. I brought all my stuff to the counter and it all came up to about 3,500 yen (about RM140) which kind of made me want to buy more lol (there were some EnHiro doujinshi there but....too scared to buy them). I kept wandering around on that floor and sometimes found myself in the R18 section asdfghj////

The character goods floor was amazing too! There was one whole hugeass shelf stacked with Ina11 and DRRR goods (TELL ME THAT'S NOT A COINCIDENCE) and I wanted to die like srsly. So many things! There were even Izaya and Shizuo plushies asdfgh and Shinra's Celty mug! I bought a whole box of DRRR strip posters (mum isn't too happy about the price...but I bought it already so wtv) and a DRRR 2011 diary! The lady at the cashier gave me a whole bunch of DRRR candy with stickers included as a complimentary gift wwww SCORE

After that I met up with mum and the others and we walked around Ikebukuro for a bit before boarding the train back to Ebisu. Just for my own reference, the Yamanote line doesn't need me to change lines so it's easier to go from Ebisu to Ikebukuro and vice versa. When we got back we rested for a bit then went out to a Chinese restaurant nearby with everyone. It was really nice, though Chihiro couldn't make it until after we finished ):

After that we went back for a bit to rest and went out again for karaoke! Chihiro studies music and is really good at singing so it was really nice to listen to her :) Chihiro is really nice to talk to as well (she's 25, same age as Haddy) and really funny hahaha xD She asked me to draw something for her and I doodled Anri and Mikado, she then drew a little Celty and a stickman holding a stop sign which was asdfghjkl SO CUTE and funny lmao ;u; I want to draw a proper picture for her before I leave (she kept that piece of paper asdfgh)

Today I'm heading over to Shibuya then walking down to Harajuku. I'll try and blog more later. That's all for now!

the truth never set me free, so I'll do it myself

2010-10-09T16:26:00.000+08:00

I got Paramore's Brand New Eyes CD the other day. It cost like 40 bucks lol ow I bought a pair of slip-on shoes at the same price phft
The songs are nice haha. I wanted to find a RADWIMPS CD but...Rock Corner doesn't rock that much.

I hate how I can't reply to comments here lol so here are some replies for comments on recent entries: (skip the grey text to move on to the actual entry)

(September 27)
bone-kun: LMAO your comment is so long! ;u; I love long comments asdfgh wish I could reply to it properly. I update pretty late lol, mostly because I know if I make a post it'd be pretty beefed up (because I just can't shut up phft) And thanks! Didn't expect it to get that high ;u; Yes I know, you charicon xD I hope I get a puppy too! I've always wanted one ;u; Oh god that one. There were these two little girls in that photo shop (connected to the comic above it lol) and whenever one of them blew bubbles, one of them would should 'Fire Tornado!!' and my heart just stopped at that lol

your rubber grip breaking apart? your tabby pen is shedding lmao *derp derp*

(October 4th)
P2: Yeah you can! If you get them when they're on the shelves (the ones on the right as you walk into the Japanese section), they're 20% off if you buy with any other item. You may want to call Kinokuniya and ask if they're there before you go all that way though (their number is 03-21648133) and the ISBN numbers for each item are

Soejima Shigenori artbook: 9784-0472-67473
P3P Official Guide Book: 9784-0472-63598
Reborn! Colore!: 9784-0887-48351
Durarara!! no Subete: 9784-0486-87935
also for anyone interested :)

So..it's another week until I head off to Japan! Uwah I'm so excited asdfgdghj /foams
On a not so exciting topic, I'm turning 15 tomorrow. In other words, I'll be the same age as a generic teen shonen main character. Maybe something interesting will happen after this? haha

I'm not really looking forward to my birthday tbh. I mean, I asked my brother for a Guitar Hero game for the PS3 (which he got me right after I told him about it holy shit) but I was just kinda putting it out there.

But yeah, I get more and more bitter as the day passes by. Guess this is the checkpoint where I start hating my birthday? idk I find planning stuff to do for my own birthday kind of conceited. Just once I'd like friends to plan something for me, even if it's not on my birthday itself, but that doesn't sound possible at this point, so...guess nothing is happening tomorrow. Just hanging around the house playing Guitar Hero and having dinner with family I guess. Maybe I'll plan an outing after PMR...and after I get back from Japan.
*let's change topic*

I dyed my hair the other day-well, I bleached some parts so I guess it's hightlighting? Anyway, the color was supposed to be purple (it said so on the box) and it came out...green-ish? and blue. My bro says the box was pretty old so it's starting to fade a little as I wash my hair. I got a haircut too, kinda looks like this-

orz

other than that...what else? nothing much, really. Just been bumming around. I joined the Persona Pairings Week 2010 and have been trying my best to get the entries in on time, so I've been pretty productive, I guess.

Nothing much else to say, so I'll stop here.

2 hours and 15 minutes....and counting.

maji de kansha!

2010-09-28T08:14:00.001+08:00

Hey guys, it's been a while, hasn't it?
A lot of things have been happening, but I've ei○ther been too tired or too busy to update here. I woke up a little early today and have a little time before class, so let's review some things.

First of all, this site has already hit 2,000 hits! It's actually 3,000 hits (since I first started this blog. I added in the counter recently orz) haha

THANK YOU SO MUCH, WHOEVER'S READING THIS BLOG ♥

[Masato siblings from DeadKnot]

Now then, let's get on with the post.

Let's start with the most important-the booth registration for Comic Fiesta. The registration deadline was supposed to be 4th October, but as I've found out, all places have been taken. I was...extremely devastated at that. I actually cried trying to get my brother to wake up to send me to class. Getting a booth is really important to me because I've been planning on it since last year and I've always, always wanted to contribute to Comic Fiesta. It took a bit for me to accept it but yeah. I could still register (but I'll be put on waiting list), so I did and I'm now waiting for my answer.

Whether we get the booth or not, I'll be fine with either. If we get the booth, then awesome! If we don't, then I'll have more time to shop and eat at actual restaurants during the event, which I've always wanted to do but haven't been able to. I'll take whatever comes at me, I guess.

Other than that, I have some exciting news to share!

I'M GOING TO JAPAN!

I'm so excited! I'm going on the 15th of October and taking a package trip from Reliance, starting from Kansai and ending in Narita. After the package, we're staying on for a bit in Tokyo to sightsee/meet mum's Japanese friends/shop. Big bro can only make it for the last part of the trip though, so it'll just be my mum and I when we go there.

It's going to be autumn when I go there, so I also can't wait to bundle up in thick jackets ;u; I love cold weather! Mum told me to check out some events that are happening when we're in Tokyo, and I found out that Durarara is having some sort of seiyuu concert?! I sort of want to go, but tickets are expensive! 6,400 yen each! (around Rm300) holy shit

I think I'm going to enjoy myself very much over there. I'll take as many pictures as I can and blog all about it! So excited ♥

Trip-wise, I went to go see a Shetland Sheepdog breeder a couple of weeks ago! I went with my mum, big bros and their girlfriends, so it was a pretty fun road trip! The guy was in Janda Baik, so the ride there was pretty long. Then we had to wait for the guy for an hour (we were supposed to meet up with him so he can take us to his place) but it was worth the wait!

There were these Shetlands running around everywhere! The place was about 2 acres (holy shit) and the guy bred loads of other animals, so the place was pretty much like a zoo! It was awesome! And the dogs running around so freely and following us were so asdfghjkl happiness ♥

We really wanted to get this one puppy, but with my maid being difficult, we couldn't. We need her for when we move back to my other house, so no puppies until that happens orz;;
(If anyone's interested, the guy's name is Murzafa or something along those lines. Somthing about Juara idk but apparently he's pretty 1337 )

Crap I have to go now. Otherwise I'll get my phone taken asdfgh have some stupid comics that have no punchline

oh and this happened to my tablet pen--

I'll blog more later. Have a nice day, everyone!

"No problem", the words come out so light, but in return, it's gone to the air?

2010-09-04T22:35:00.000+08:00

I need to come up with titles that aren't completely unrelated song lyrics
Anyway, I finally took some pictures of my Kinokuniya purchases! I've been meaning to do this post but I kept forgetting to orz;;

WARNING! PICTURE-HEAVY

aren't they beautiful

From left to right is the Persona 3 Portable Official Fanbook, Shigenori Soejima's artbook, Reborn! Colore! and Durarara!! no Subete. The Reborn! Colore was the only thing that I bought without ordering it lol, I wanted to get this Inazuma Eleven Special book (I have no idea what it was but it was the last copy and I had a feeling it was an anthology) but mum said no comics (she was kind of suspicious of the Reborn! Colore book since it was so small OTL)

First off is Shigenori Soejima's artbook! The cover is amazing, isn't it?

The first thing I liked about the artbook was the sheer quality of it. I mean LOOK AT IT. It's got a freaking fancy semi-see-through sheet over it with the artbook name on it (that's right, if you remove the sheet the cover is Aegis only bitches). And the COLORING holy shit. I don't like Aegis to be honest, but this illustration is just amazing.

Inside were all the illustrations he did over the years (2004-2010) for ATLUS, and also some other works he did beforehand. I'm not going to take pictures of all the pictures because I want you all to support this manly man and buy this artbook yourself. Also the camera I'm using isn't very good but ANYWAY

how can you not love this image

This is one of my most favorite official images for P3. Aside from the fact that it looks downright amazing (like all Soejima's work), it's also one if not the only official picture that shows Minato smiling. You can't really see it very well, but most fans know which picture this is. He looks awesome when he's being his usual badass self but man, how can you resist that sweet smile of his? /loves forever

even his doodles and rough drafts are amazing phft

I love these pages! I have this thing with rough drafts done by artists that I like, idk maybe it's because I like the sketchiness/messiness? Anyway, I love his doodles, they're so cool and-WAIT WHAT'S THIS-

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ASDFGHJKL OTP!! And he drew them in the correct order hawawawa I don't care if Minato is technically older than Souji, he clearly has a prettier, smaller frame than manly-built Souji.
They look so cool here adsf and DID I MENTION THE HEIGHT DIFFERENCE I did now hahaww

Soejima's artbook was overall, amazing, just as I thought it'd be. Very happy with this purchase:)

Persona-read the title of the book yourself it's big enough

Everyone's critical hit eyeshots uwohhhhh

This fanbook has everyone's bios, as usual, and along with the bios were some 'blog entries' by the characters themselves (besides the MCs of course), which were pretty cool :D There were loads of things I didn't understand, but one thing's for sure, there were a lot of fanart/staff art stuffed into it xD

Case in point:

my life is complete

Yeeeeah since I don't understand most of the book I'm going to just spam you with pictures and my fangirlism.

early designs!

That first P3P cover attempt looks interesting, but I'm glad they went with what they went with what they did. tbh I rather like Hamuko's earlier hairstyle, but eh, her current hairstyle suits her too :)

why'd they put Minato in purple-does this mean they're not sure lol

These are all the extra illustrations in P3P that weren't in the original game (either they were in a cutscene, a sprite or not shown at all). They're all so pretty adsf wait what's that in the bottom right--

it's circled for a reason

From the Yakushima arc SCOOOOOOREEEEEEEE!!! Shirtless!Minato is adsfghjkl I can now die happy. He's a lot less skinnier than what I expected! But still-DAT WAIST FFFFFFFFFFF

Then there were other things but I didn't take a picture but then there was this totally cool thing at the back which was really unexpected-

can someone please play this for me/help me play it

A Burn My Dread piano sheet adsfghjkl this is so unexpected! There was also a piano sheet for the opening song in P3FES <3 I LOVED this even though I can't play piano to save my life or, well, play piano. Period.

And also, if you turn the book over there's a bonus comic!

you will now die for this book

On the right is this huge-ass poster of the cover SCOREEEE though I think I ripped it a little on the left side-BUT ANYWAY

Couldn't really translate it, but this is what made this comic totally worth putting in the book

sorry for the side shot orz

This is...basically what my planned P3 doujin is going to revolve around. P3/P3P based with BOTH Minato and Hamuko. This made my hope for Minato rise like crazy, because it seemed like everyone was starting to forget him with this new, bubbly female protagonist. And yes, pairing Hamuko with Ryoji still pisses me off.

This was also a really happy purchase! It came with a poster and I can reread it as many times as possible and not get bored of it :) I'm a nerd like that stfu

This entry is far too long already, so I'll make a new entry for the Durarara!! no Subete and the Reborn! Colore! some other time. Maybe I can translate the character's bios too idk, but I won't do the entry now.

Also, to my Nymphalidae bros, Comic Fiesta's booth registration is open until October 4th. We need to meet up and decide on tables and days, so let me know when you're free, yeah?

Aaaand that concludes this entry, mitai na.

can't turn back now, meteor boy

2010-09-02T22:46:00.000+08:00

Long time no see, dear blog of mine
Haha that last post is...SO TAME compared to how much I've been fagging over Inazuma Eleven. Today, for instance, I killed time by trying to see if I could remember everyone on Inazuma Japan's current team. I remembered everyone, their hairstyles AND their hissatsu techniques am I a nerd or what lol
I'm up to episode 80 and allow me to state my love for this show with POINTS heehee

-ENDOU MAMORU. Holy shit this boy. He makes me feel so motivated and happy because of his sheer sense of never giving up (never gonna let you down, never gonna run around and desert you--) ;u; He's such a good kid. And he's adorable to boot. His hairstyle makes him look like he has little cat ears if he takes off his bandanna adsf HOW CAN YOU RESIST

Also, he's shippable with almost everyone in the series lol. So far I ship him with Kidou, Gouenji, Hiroto, Kazemaru and Tobitaka (though this one is mostly one-sided). But seriously, he's shippable with EVERYONE.
and I still think his Fist of Justice is obscene. IF HIS LEG GOES UP THAT HIGH HOW CAN I NOT MAKE THAT ASSUMPTION

-Besides Endou, this series is overflowing with amazing characters. I love loads of them, they're all beautiful in their own special way ;u; Fubuki with his split-personality dilemma, Hiroto with his love for his father, Tobitaka with his change-of-leaf...I could go on and on, but there are so many characters like this.

-Because the characters are so lovable and positive, it becomes really painful to watch them get beaten down. All the characters go through some pretty tough stuff (which is realistic tbh) and watching them get depressed and demotivated just really bums you out. But then when they get back up and fight again, you feel more motivated than before! It's amazing I tell you, amazing.

-The animation! The animation is amazing at some particular points omg. Like that part with Fubuki and Someoka on the roof, the wind movement and Fubuki's shiny, looks-like-he's-about-to-cry eyes is just bawwwww so pretty *sucker for flowy animation*

Okay that's pretty much it. I have a list of how much I love each character (mentally lol), but maybe I'll make a post about that next time. But seriously guys, watch this, you won't regret it. You may think this anime won't really be your thing, but just try it out and you'll see for yourself. I've said this like 5 times in the span of this post, but that's what this series is-amazing.

Now I shall spam you with this because I don't like an entry without pictures orz
HirotoxEndou, in that order please.

so today I realised

2010-08-19T13:42:00.000+08:00

that people actually read my blog. Okay so I didn't only realise TODAY, it's just...well...

This blog has hit 1000 views! Holyshitfuck! I thought that was normal for a blog but I put in that pageview counter on the group blog on the same day (if not a couple of days after) and it hasn't risen as much as this blog :O

Anyway, thank you very much to whoever reads this blog! My friends, lurkers, or people who just happen to find this blog on google (I've seen this link on the front page when I search for things OTL), thank you all very much for reading! Here's a little something as a show of thanks-

So on with the post-it's been a week since my last post holy hell
Quite a few things happened. Mum came back on Monday and..things happened. Next couple of days were confusion, trying to cheer her up and whatnot, but we're fine now. Don't want to go into detail, so that's all you get haha

Fandom-wise, I've gotten into a new one! Haha yes I have hoho

INAZUMA ELEVEN!

It's been kind of popular and considering it's a kid's anime, that's pretty awesome. I've heard of it for a while but never actually tried it until noni urged me to. I didn't know what I was missing haha! It's very entertaining and Endou is too cute to be true rahhhh and every episode is so uplifting ;w; It's pretty deep at some parts too so it has it's share of angst. Which I like.

It's kind of over the top at times and it never fails to amuse me haha xD I love the characters to death (except for a select few) and moe over Endou like crazy. He's just too cute omg I don't know why I love him so much but I do. I'm not the only one that does though. The more characters that come in to the show, the more Endou's harem grows haha it's amusing as fuuu

OTPs is KidouxEndou, GouenjixEndou and a little KazemaruxEndou, and maybe HirotoxEndou depending on how he's like. I've only seen fanart of them so idk we'll see :>

Other than that...mm, nothing much. Haven't been drawing on the com much lately and I should really get the izmk doujin done soon. I have a bunch of things I need to draw too (belated birthday presents, kiriban, requests, ending series tribute...) :I Work work work rahhh

That's all for now. I am so hungry it's unbelievable. This is the most half-assed post ever so I'll blame is on that.

your life is AIRBRUSHED and filled with FLORA/FAUNA, where INVADERS MUST DIE with a STING OPERATION

2010-08-13T16:49:00.000+08:00

Whoever knows what the title relates to wins a cake

Soo last night I had a weird case of shivers. It was so bad to the point that my teeth were chattering quite loudly lol, it'd be really funny if not for the really uncomfortable feeling that went along with it (I did get in a LOL though).

Went to big bro's room and told him to help me do something about it (he was playing Starcraft so he was like lol not my problem at first) then went to other bro's room, who didn't answer at all and his door was locked. So went back to other bro's room and made a point by flopping on his bed and shivering as loud as I can (which wasn't that hard, really)

Bro got a little worried and told me to walk it off, gave me his hoodie and told me to walk around in circles in the upper family living room. Then he left me to do it, then I flopped onto the couch and fell asleep lol resistance FAIL

Woke up and shivers were gone! But fever appeared! :I Told bro about it then he said 'hm it's quite hot actually' and I was like I CAN FRY A FUCKING EGG ON MY HEAD YOU JACKASS in my head. He told me to...sleep? Yeah. I slept. Like on an actual bed this time. And I felt uncomfortable so I took off the hoodie. Then I went to the bathroom and got a small towel (should really be a handkerchief) and washed it, folded it and put it on my head when I slept.

Wonderful idea. It cooled my head. But not for long. It started warming up and I had to turn it over myself since I was alone in the room. I couldn't sleep OTL so after a while I actually fell asleep and woke up from time to time to move the towel a little.

Today? Same thing happened. I'm at the fever stage woohoo. And while we buka puasa just now bro was making fun of me about it sobbb

Anyway, enough of my sobstories, here's a tag.

Last album you bought/downloaded?
♣ Anamanaguchi - Power Supply
I love the tracks these guys come up with ;_; if you haven't heard their stuff, DO IT. I recommend Airbrushed <3

Last movie you watched? Did you like it?
♣ Salt with my mum, auntie farah and big bro (same one). It wasn't as bad as I expected it to be, which was a nice change xD

Three things that are super-annoying at the moment?
♣ headache when I can't take painkillers because I'm FASTING GDI
♣ how I have like 4 wips at the moment and can't close any of them because then I'd lose the layers :I
♣ TOTAL LACK OF IZMK REQUESTS/FILLS ON THE KINK MEME seriously people Shizaya isn't the only pairing available! D<

Three random facts about yourself?
♣ hates snails
♣ likes to stone and look up in the sky like a hippie, especially when it's raining
♣ gets stupid (and somehow brilliant) ideas at night. Blames it on the Dark Hour.

What makes your skin crawl?
♣ Clanging cutlery together/teeth scraping against cutlery
♣ALSO SNAILS

Name two items nearest to you:
♣ keyboard
♣ charging PSP

Top five words/phrases you use?
♣ LMAO
♣ omg brainwave
♣ OMG WIN
♣ bitchplz
♣ FUCKYEAAAA

Two things you're excited for this year?
♣ COMIC FIESTA 2010 fuck yessss
♣ SEEING OLD FRIENDS AGAIN because they'll all be busy with PMR for a while ;~;

Your favorite ice cream flavor?
♣ CHOCOLATEEEEEE

Guiltiest pleasure?
♣ fetish for headphones. I have a drawer full of them sob

The most played song on your ipod?
♣ WORLD END by FLOW (1126 plays lol holy shit)

If you could rescue any animal, what would it be and would you keep it?
♣ A PUPPY and of course I'll keep it they're called puppy-dog eyes for a reason

Worst movie you've ever seen?
♣ Twilight Saga: Eclipse. Haven't watched the Last Airbender yet but Eclipse is still by far the worst lol

Best way to relax?
♣ lounging in my computer chair while it rains and the only source of light is the computer screen and the grey sky outside :)

Favourite quote/lyric?
♣ kanpekina ikikata nante deki nai kara
kanpekina ikikata nante shitaku nai kara
bukiyouna boku wa bukiyouna mama de
(Since there's no way to live perfectly
No one can live perfectly, and so
I can be clumsy, and I so I am)

Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter?
♣ Winter

Say something to the person who tagged you:
♣ no one tagged me, I just jacked this off chancake's LJ lol

Just love for the world that we aren't able to rescue

2010-08-09T18:40:00.000+08:00

still no semblance to the title lmao

Short post, but with some art;;

So uh I'm having some trouble with the doujin. It's nothing too big, just uh...what Mikado should wear. I don't know whether he should wear his gakuran uniform from back when he was...god knows where (some place that looked like Inaba in P4 lmao) or his current raira uniform.

I could've used noni's drawings of them but it just didn't feel right using her drawings in my blog
Doujin process is going pretty well. Now have some warm up doodles-

foxy-loxy mmhm

have some diabetes

random fanart of WTRP mascots
just because

Well, that's all for now. Better get back to work xD

new layout!

2010-08-08T12:10:00.000+08:00

changed the colors and background, so now it's a little more gothic than the hippie flowers I had before lol
Quite happy with the new layout actually! Reminds me of Toboso Yana's website design, with more pink haha

I also have a webclap now! You guys can write whatever you want there, just click on that rice cracker icon xD

Also, I put up a link page! I have more links to put in, but for now that's all I got yo

Oh and went to sleep last night with big bro blasting Anamanaguchi tracks on his Blackberry. He's such a geek lol but the tracks are funky as hell, listening to them now lol gdi

That's all for now, just some updates. Have a nice day, whoever's reading this :)

we're left to wonder why he left us all behind

2010-08-05T23:42:00.000+08:00

notice how my titles almost never have any semblance to my actual post? heehee

getting to work on that izmk doujin, finally! Noni and I are making gakuparo(gakuen parody aka mixing Mikado and Izaya's school timelines together)-themed doujinshi and it's quite fun! Still writing out storyboards now but it's nice to discuss panelling and scenes with someone :) She's done a couple of rough drafts already and they're PHFFFFFT SO MOE

Still trying to get the hang of drawing Durarara (though I doodle Mikado a lot in class it does not count as actually drawing lol idk) so uh yeah here's a crap practice warm-up of izmk-

Haha I SUCK holy shit but I still want to do this doujin ;;

I've just finished the first page! Inked, toned and ready to put in dialogue, I'm so happy! Granted I had to stay up until 5.30am to finish it because I was afraid Corel would crash and my layers would vanish like Yoite ;w; It was so tiring, but I did it! Thank you to everyone on darazu that cheered me on while I was practically dying doing it lol.

This is all very exciting, I hope I can maintain this drawing speed (if not speed it up) so I can start on that P3P doujin. For once I already have both doujinshi plots planned out, so I really, really want to finish them :)

I'm getting second thoughts about the plot for the P3P one though, it's kind of angsty and uhh I only get to draw Minato (which is the only P3 character I can draw decently without shaming the entire fandom OTL) at the end :/ Maybe something lighter with more Minato? idk help me lol

Okay wait that means I don't really have a fixed plot for P3P hmmm;;;

On other notes, Naili and Iman are supposed to come over on Tuesday! I haven't seen them in so long, I miss them <33

marvelous, so marvelous

2010-08-01T00:17:00.000+08:00

Today I woke up at 7.30 to have breakfast with my family (including grandparents, cousins etc) at Lotus. It was pleasant, and I got to see Rowena's new NintendoDSi and mess around with it for a bit.

Then went home at around 10 to welcome Deeba into the house (she arrived when we were on the way back). I planned for her, Kikkun and Ten-chan to come over and she was the first to arrive, so we talked...a lot. It's been so long! We had so much to talk about (mostly DRRR!! related) and it was just all-in-all very nice to see her after so long. Missed seeing Deebs in person and seeing her do weird shit because I'm normally the one that does it lol

Then Kikkun arrived! Hung around on my com and showed Deebs my picture collection (asked her to guess a pairing to see if I had the folder and she guessed 'Dotachin' and 'Kinra' which I do not have lol). Ten-chan arrived next and the four of us watched some videos on my com. SO much fun, I haven't laughed that much in so long. Too long.

Then we went downstairs and watched Durarara. Mum and my brothers had to go out to do some stuff that's house-related so we had the house to ourselves :) Had a small fangirl moment with Deeba (kind of crazy lol) then we all got kind of distracted for a bit. Played Tap Tap Revenge on Kikkun's iTouch and it's really fun! I went up against Deeba and beat her the first time, but Deeba being Deeba she demanded a rematch and she won by 10,000 points LOL PWNED
Also tweeted some of my fail Japanese on Kikkun's twitter via her iTouch. Kind of confusing how I have to type it in romaji first but it's still cool :)

Then mum and my brothers came home, with pizza! We stopped a bit to eat and continued watching Durarara, then Ten-chan had to leave ): We stopped watching Durarara and Kikkun (tried) to do the summer homework that she brought along. I did a bit of it already but I just didn't want to study when friends were over (unless its a planned study group) so the three of us got distracted. Mum went out to Amcorp and my brothers went out...god knows where lol. Then Kikkun went home, then Deeba not long after. After Deeba left, it started raining like crazy. Like, right after she slammed her car door, the rain just started pouring.

I was home alone, and in the nice weather (nice and cold mm) I went online for a while. Mum came back and we bummed around for a bit, then we watched A-Team to see if the quality was good. After watching that, we went upstairs and I went online.

Niconico is a Japanese Youtube, basically. And I've made an account there before, but I've had some confusion logging in. I finally got in (feeling stupid now) and searched for the first tag I could think of-'persona 3'. Then, regarding the last post, I had a really good time looking around for videos (going to look for more after I finish this post), and that video was the icing on the cake.

Then I decided to edit my posts because I made a new tag (Minato love lol there needed to be one) and found on comment on my 'reading day' post. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the author for New Game Plus commented on it! It's always nice when random (and not-so-random) people comment when you least expect it, but I was ecstatic. That, now that, was the cherry on the icing. If you get what I mean.

Today might just be the best day ever. I had so much fun and I just can't think of anything bad that happened today. I'm so happy. Thank you to everyone who participated in today's events-you helped make it great :)

niconico pimping

2010-07-31T23:42:00.000+08:00

I finally managed to get an account on niconico and found THIS BEAUTIFUL THING-

Excuse the text rolling off the screen;; they're all comments.

Okay the only reason I didn't play P3:FES is because, well, I hate using Aegis. SO WEAK I swear. But that video is probably idk the last battle? Aegis's personas were all lvl99 HOLY SHIT and they were giving shadow!Minato a huge amount of damage though it didn't look like it at first.

But of course my favorite part is after the battle when you beat him. I've been tweeting nonstop about it I bet it's annoying everyone lol

Anyway, kind of freaked me out at first. I love Minato to DEATH (punz) but it still creeped me out when it showed his intestines and his skeleton and...urgh, so creepy. BUT THEN OUT OF NOWHERE THAT BEAUTIFUL FACE OF HIS POPS OUT AND STARES AT YOU (with glossy eyes and a partly open mouth at that!) and....I just died. I really. Could just. Die. Happily.

SO worth getting an account. Now excuse me as I go look for more videos.

NICONICO FTW

It's reading day!

2010-07-20T10:53:00.001+08:00

I've dedicated today just to reading! New Game Plus, a personal favorite of mine, updated after a year of hiatus! That's AkihikoxMinato, so I looked for RyojixMinato ones as well and there are quite a few new ones! I'm so happy! The fandom is finally reviving!

New Game Plus is now complete with the current chapter though, so I'm rather bummed about that. So I made myself a schedule on what I would read. First I'll read the Ryojinato ones, and then read New Game Plus all over again! I love the fic enough to do that, yes.

Mmm now that New Game Plus updated, I'm wondering what's happening to The Aeon, the SoujixMinato fic that started my love for them haha. If I'm not mistaken it's only a couple of chapters before it finishes. Ohh man I really hope it updates, as much as I'd hate to see it end.

These are all my favorite fics. Do take the time to read them :)

Persona 3

Dreaming - AkihikoxMinato
Hatred - AkihikoxMinato
Just A Little Nap - AkihikoxMinato
New Game Plus - AkihikoxMinato
Another Life to Live - RyojixMinato
Believe It, Or Don't - RyojixMinato
Last Words - RyojixMinato
Someone Like You - SoujixMinato, RyojixMinato
The Social Link Trilogy : The World, The Death, The Aeon - SoujixMinato

There you go :)

On an unrelated note, last night I had a dream that I was running away from my mum in a big, lush building and for some reason I was scared shitless of her finding me. Then I tried to hide under a bed but she found me already, then I woke up. HOW WEIRD IS THAT SOB I hate it when my dreams screw with my mind.

oh god

2010-07-16T18:10:00.001+08:00

screw you blogger lol I had to edit that post god knows how many times
now it's still screwed up so now idk I don't give a shit

drop the gun (pull) drop the gun (the) drop the gun (trigger)

2010-07-16T12:07:00.000+08:00

Past few days have been uneventful. Mum's gone to PD for a week and is coming back...tonight, actually. Anyway, uneventful, save for my outings with my brothers.

On Monday (or was it Tuesday? all the days are blurring together), Jo and I went to Kinokuniya together and I got Kino no Tabi's artbook (expensive!), Number book 5 (fffyeah) and Persona 3's Design Works Artbook!

P3, Kino no Tabi and NUMBER purchases :>

My most favorite illustration in the Kino no Tabi artbook-

EPICCCCC
KINO I LOVE YOU <3>
Speaking of clothes...the summer where you go to the beach with S.E.E.S had Minato wearing swimming trunks, but you can't see the illustration for it because, well, you just can't. So when I saw this--

SINCE WHEN WERE HIS TRUNKS MID-THIGH
legslegslegslegsminato'slegsrabuitsumoooo
Oh and the winter clothes are really nice too! Out of all the seasons, I love their winter clothes the best. So stylish~Even Junpei looks good!

But of course everyone loves a good fur jacket. Junpei pulled it off well, I'll give him that.

Minato's clothes remind me of Yoite's ;A; Polarneck and double-buttoned jacket...So stylish, but makes me want to cry because BOTH OF THEM DIED DAMN YOU FANDOM D<>

Yukari's clothes look really nice too, though I have no idea how she's supposed to stay warm with her shoulders exposed like that;; Hmmm Minato wearing a blue version of that with Ryoji's scarf.....heehee, gotta remember to try that out.

Mitsuru's looks great, kind of reminds me of horseback riding attire. It's got the proper color combination as Yoite's clothes (and the jacket looks kind of similar too) :>

And Ken is either wearing really short shorts or nothing at all lol, but he still looks nice. Blue version of that for Minato...hm.

LOL that somehow became a fashion review;; Ahhh what else is there...oh yeah
I went to watch Despicable Me with my brothers last night and it was nice. The movie is very family-oriented and sweet. Before the movie started we were given a pleasant surprise when Scott Pilgrim's movie trailer started playing. Big bro was saying how watching that trailer on big screen was so worth his 10 bucks. Then idk I think that was the highlight of his trip lol.

Then we went to Chili's in Bangsar (it was about 11.30pm when we finished, I had Japanese class beforehand so we had to get a late show) to eat dinner. We wanted to go to Murni but it was already closed, and Chili's being partly a pub closed at about 12 so we managed to get a meal in. It was good, minus the semi-eerie atmosphere of an empty mall and open air entrance right behind us. It was nice having an outing with my brothers and I, all in all :)

That's pretty much it for daily life. I've started reading Durarara!!'s novel from the beginning (well, vol. 1 hasn't been translated yet so I started at vol.2) and there were some things the anime left out, like this line when Shizuo was talking to Celty about his strength and his family-

"Even my brother, who quarreled with me a lot, was really caring. When I lay there unable to move after trying to lift that fridge, he was the first to run and fetch an ambulance screaming, not to mention he took care of me until the docs arrived......ahhh, I had a caring family, I really did. I don't feel like I've ever been neglected. On the contrary, I was raised happily in a warm family."

K-Kasuka screamed? He really doesn't seem like the type to do that...Shows how much he cares for his big brother ;w; Though I'd be pretty damn freaked out if my brother was smushed by a fridge when he's 9 years old lol but then again I wouldn't have existed yet;;

That's all I've got to say for now.

bekkamu

2010-07-13T21:36:00.000+08:00

Went for Japanese class today. I got a different sensei this time, maybe Tuesday's sensei and Thursday's sensei are different? Anyway, it was a lady this time and it was fun! She drew local food on the board (nasi lemak was onigiri before she wrote 'RM1.00' lol shows how cheap we are) and called the small 'tsu' that connects syllables for words 'baby tsu' ;w; So cute.

Oh and the magazine she was demonstrating with was a football magazine, so when she suddenly asked who the guy on the cover was, a classmate answered 'Beckham'. Then we proceeded to spend the next few minutes learning how to write his name in hiragana lol;;

Nothing much happened today, really. I need to work on merch and finish the last bit of summer break homework. I'm still writing the main arc for DeadKnot, so it's getting there. In the meantime I'll just try and make a short doujinshi for either DRRR or P3P, since that's more likely to sell lol no self confidence;;

I also have to start thinking of small items such as badges/bookmarks/stickers etc. My mum suggested painting on chopsticks, but idk lol.

I still haven't been able to bro out with anyone but my blood-related bros. I love my bro-bro's, but they don't exactly join in on my ramblings on how pretty Minato is. I'm getting more and more bored of the internet nowadays (F5 is my hero sob) so yeah;; someone come online and chat with me please ;u;

Oh and pimping these songs out:

-Rolling Girl cover by Akiakane
-Lost Story cover by Akiakane
-Hope by Hatsune Miku
-Nisoku Hokou by Hatsune Miku

OH AND

-Invaders Must Die by The Prodigy

That's all for now :>

haha fuck my life

2010-07-11T17:01:00.000+08:00

Been feeling kind of down lately. I mean sure, DeadKnot is fun to work on, but I just feel...bleh. Maybe I'm wasting my time and no one will buy it. Maybe I should just use this time I have now to draw up a P3P or DRRR!! doujin that people will most likely buy because it's a popular fandom.

Oh and I had that nightmare again lol. The one where I 'woke up' and found out that it was already CF, and I didn't prepare ANYTHING and the table was already set up and paid for. And that horrible gut feeling of disappointment and self-loathing. Then I woke up and found out it's still July.

I had this exact same dream last year lol. Except I got it a little later than July. Maybe in a few years I'll get the same dream on New Year's ;;;;

Our travel agent isn't answering the phone and hasn't called us at all for our Japan trip. Chances are, I'm not going. Mum's trying as hard as she can to get us to go, but idk now :I

I'm getting doubts about going. I don't think I deserve to go. I've gone to enough places all over the world since I was a kid and to not go to just one place isn't going to kill me. I think. Maybe I'll go there one day after I finish college or something.

Idk maybe this'll all blow over once my depression period is over and I'll want to go, but for now that's what I think. If travel agent gets us the dates we want, then we go. Take the chance y'know. But no dates then I'll just wait a few years to go.

Trying to get used to OpenCanvas but considering how much of an epic fail I am, it'll probably take me another year and a half to get it right haha fuck my life.

P.S: If I ever treat you badly or be a total douchebag to you, please forgive me.

It's official

2010-07-10T22:18:00.000+08:00

No one reads my blog lol FML

DeadKnot progress

2010-07-10T14:55:00.000+08:00

DeadKnot is a personal project of mine so idk if I should post it on the group blog lol.

Anyway, I'm up to page three of DeadKnot @_@ I mean, they're still sketches but they're pretty much done. Kind of weird how fast they're coming along;; (though it's probably really slow to some people who draw AND ink 3-4 pages a day lol crazyy)

I need to either get used to MangaStudio or download ComicStudio to do tonings/inking /whatever. I have a feeling DeadKnot will have to be separated into two books because the first part is more...feelings and shit? Then the second book would continue on and will get on with the story. I don't know whether the whole second part will fit in though, so...epilogue book? Urgh I should really do proper storyboards;;;

I started drawing some cover ideas and this one is the only one that didn't look retarded. Or maybe it is retarded but I'm not seeing it lol /retarded eyes

Hatsube and Futaba
I had to flip the thing vertically so many times to get it to look decent OTL;;
Quite happy with Hatsube's hair. His hairstyle has been pissing me off for a while now lol (his last one involved a ponytail which made him look rather girly and that was obviously rejected lol)

EDIT: THIS MOTHERFUCKER CRASHED WHILE I WAS CLEANING IT UP

Layers are gone and the damn thing is still messy and I can't do anything about it.

Fun fact! A 'dead knot' is also called the Euro death-knot. It refers to one of a few offset knots used to connect two rope on rappels longer than 25 to 35 meters in length.

You'll understand why I chose this name when you read the story ngaha;

Anyway, I'm rather excited to finish DeadKnot! I have other doujinshi to do as well (I have no idea what's happening to Dreamscape) but this one is the most important to me, as I've been having the character designs and name in mind since....2007? ;; OTL

I wish I could color better though. Kino no Tabi (Kino's Journey) has always had really pretty illustrations and COLORS holy shit. I want to get the artbook really badly but it's RM150 D: It's a 96-paged artbook but is it worth it? :I

Never read the novel or watched the anime, so maybe I'll start doing just that for the holidays...Though I still haven't finished reading Durarara!!'s novels OTL;;

Totally unrelated, but I think Kino's the only girl character I will ever moe over lol
(probably because she looks like a moe boy with a gun lol)

Oh and I went online and got this note on dA:

---

Thought Dollars was only fiction? It’s not.

We live by the quote “There are no rules or restrictions.” At the same time, we desire to improve ourselves, others, and our communities.

By having no leader, we are all equal, giving Dollars unity.

Our numbers are quickly growing world-wide. Join us today. The password: baccano.

---

aklfsd whoever wrote this sure knew how to get to fans, because it sure got to me haha

That's all for now :3

INVADERS MUST DIE

2010-07-07T10:54:00.000+08:00

this track is so addicting lol it's like my new get psyched song
Hello again, I have come to make your life miserable with this blog entry of mine. Of course you have the opportunity to press 'back' and shield your precious eyes from this retina-burning journal, but I'm just going to assume you're reading it.

Yesterday, I went to Japan Club with my grandparents to check the place out. It was a pleasant trip, my grandparents were in a good mood (they were singing Cantonese songs in the car lol) and when we got there we went to the Japanese class office (it's called Teikyo lol like KATEIKYO!?) to get me registered for a class. I filled up the form and lent them my IC to photocopy and then they told me they needed 2 passport photos of me and payment. So okay la, I went to have lunch with my grandparents there (there were Bakuman manga you could read on the bookshelves hngaah and it's up to date too) and planned to go later with my bro to get it done.

My mum had the photos.

There were no passport photos of me at home.

Their office closes at 6.30. My first class was supposed to be on the same day. At 7.

My mum finishes work at 6.30.

My bro and I were already on the way to Japan Club when the guy called and asked whether I was coming. I said yes, and asked whether I could give him the payment and give him the photos later when my mum came and whether I could join today's class. Guy says I can't register without the photos wtf.

And we got kind of lost too. So we went home and when my mum came back she was all 'why didn't you go to the class' I don't think she understands that I can't possibly go for a class when they won't let me REGISTER without my damn passport photos. But yeah she kept going on about it and looked at the sheet with the payment/schedule and whatnot.

Then she says I should do a placement test to go on to Beginner 2 instead of starting Beginner 1, and save like RM1000 (because each level costs that much). Sure, makes sense. So I'm going to ask to do it today. And if that guy gets all anal about THIS, then I will fucking stab his face with my phone. Bro says I need a new one anyway.

He says to check out the LG Lollipop. It's a flip-phone. Kind of hard to resist but I don't really get the 'instant silence' mode lol

Anyway, wish me luck on the test!

I want to get P3P in English NOW so I can use Hamuko and name her 'Minato' and date MENZ kyahahahaha
shut up I know it's cheating

IT'S OUT IT'S OUT DEKITA DAZOOOO

2010-07-06T00:38:00.000+08:00

PERSONA 3 PORTABLE USA RELEASE
IT'S HERE IT'S HEEEEERE!!

Now I can actually know what everyone on MShe's side says! (not that I've been playing her but still) Once I date Ryoji (which I will goddammit) I'll be able to fill in the plot holes for my P3P doujinshi! Wewt!

ALSO HELLO DATEABLE AKIHIKO-SENPAI
Maybe I can name Hamuko 'Minato' instead kuha~NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW

I NEED TO GET TO A SHOP AND SEE IF THEY'RE SELLING THIS YET
if you preorder you get Junpei's cap lol Altus
I wish Atlus would give out Evokers as preorder items. That would be so cool.
Not to mention saves a bunch of time for cosplay props lol

Anyway, I just stayed up to count down the minutes to the date. It's like 1.20am now (I got distracted with drawing that hideous thing above as well as...some other hideous things)
Sooooo goodnight! And may all your dreams be plagued with mini portable Minato's, because mine definitely will.
(put him in my pocket and take him eeeeverywhere eeee)

nie アウト!

ugh

2010-07-03T00:44:00.001+08:00

I want to write a whole list of things of what she did that was completely unethical and unfair to me today, but I can't. Because she's gone through my phone before, what more my computer? And she wonders why I keep it locked by password. Hmph.

Had a horrible day today, with the exception of the grocery shopping trip with my brother included where we watched catfish have their guts scraped out.

Funny how she can give money to her son's friends when she's so stingy with her daughter. So funny it's tearing my sides up. Really.

The bright side is, I finished my P3P entry, as SHIT as it looks, I'm done. Now will you excuse me, I have a date with an IzayaxMikado fic. Anyone who disturbs me will not recieve a happy smiling azn.

I will fucking stab you with my stylus if you disturb me, in other words.

bloodshed at teatime

2010-06-29T21:44:00.000+08:00

excuse my weird titles lol

Durarara!! is over D: I wanted to dedicate a whole entry to it but it ended up being so long my com lagged and blogspot started having errors on saving lol
I'm really sad that I won't be able to look forward to watching Durarara!! every Friday. And my term break just started so PHFT NOW I HAVE NOTHING TO WATCH
I want to watch the series all over again but streaming is such a pain. I'll wait for the DVD haha

I'm going to spend my term break reading the novel I guess haha
THEY BETTER MAKE A SECOND SEASON FFFT I WANT TO SEE MORE IZAMIKA

That aside, I had a really fun day today.
Mum fried me yesterday for not getting my Sociology textbook so Jo and I went out to get it today. I went to the University Bookstore and saw Mr.Dom there buying a whole load of textbooks lol shit

Talked to him for a bit and left with my book. Then Jo said he didn't have anything to do the rest of the day, and he wanted to go get the next few books of Scott Pilgrim so we went to Borders :D Have I mentioned how much of an otaku he is over Scott Pilgrim lol HE DOWNLOADED THE OST WHO'S THE NERD NOW

So it turned into a fun day out. While we were there I got book 2 of Tegami Bachi and book 7 of Code Geass. Jo only managed to get book 5 of Scott Pilgrim lol (he only has book 1-3) and he payed for all my books ;A; (as well as my textbook!)

Then I got a message from mum saying to get tickets for Toy Story 3 tomorrow. After we got the tickets we went to Suncomic (Jo went to check out the game shop next to it). And I showed him the PuchiEva gashapon machine that I moe'd over and he BOUGHT ME TOKENS ;A;
It was my first time playing gashapon so it was really exciting! And I got a super cute Shinji figure on my first try! I only managed to get enough tokens for one try so I'm quite happy with what I got :> He's so small and cute <3>

Oh and I just researched on what exactly was PuchiEva all about and apparently it's this SUPER CUTE EVA NDS GAME FFFFT WANTTTTTTT

's all I got for now.

FANDOM ALERT

2010-06-25T19:28:00.000+08:00

First of all--

MIKADO'S COVER SONG
IS
SO
CUTE

The song is super happy lol. I was kind of expecting him to get a softer song, but this is still cute nontheless :3
When he actually starts singing (as in when he stops the hay hayy part lol) its a very likeable song :D
His commentary killed me of course.

Also, his outfit-

Okay I couldn't find the picture on its own so here's a doodle
sorry eyerape

AND THEN WE HAVE----

BAKUMAN CHAPTER 91

SPOILER WARNING

I think this is one of my most favorite chapters, aside from the chapters where Miura tells Shujin he can work with someone other than Saiko, which pissed him off (fanservice yesplz)

First of all, THEY GOT THE COVER

beautiful, just beautiful
I'm so getting a copy of that

And then the chapter. It actually convinced me that Road Racer would get more votes than PCP, but then Bakuman just slaps me in the face with this.

OBATA-SENSEI, OHBA-SENSEI, YOU'VE DONE IT AGAIN
I can't help but get a warm fuzzy feeling inside whenever they succeed at something
That's the beauty of Bakuman I guess

422 VOTES HOLY SHIT
daaaaamn that's impressive
not to mention totally slapped me in the face when I thought they wouldn't get 1st place lol
The last panel is so cute

And then there were Team Fukuda's plans for Road Racer and Akina's batshit crazy rant (and Eiji's paper eating like holy shit they weren't kidding when he ate manga)
Then Hattori read out the graph of the age groups that voted the most to Ashirogi Muto and Saiko wanted to see it to 'show it to someone'. Shujin immediately thinks he wants to show it to Azuki, but then Saiko bring both Shujin and Hattori to a graveyard.

Sa-
SAIKOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO~~~~~!!!!

SAIKO I LOVE YOU LIKE A THOUSAND BURNING SUNS

Singapore trip stuff

2010-06-21T14:59:00.002+08:00

I went to Singapore on Friday morning last week :)

My brother was doing his flight simulator there for a week so mum and I went there to spend some time with him. He had a day off on Monday and wanted us to stay 'till then but my mum had work and she said it's dangerous riding the bus on my own :/

Oh yes, we took a bus! We usually drive there but since it was just mum and I this time we tried out Odyssey. It's pretty good!

My seat on the bus.
The space for each seat is actually pretty spacious, but it only looks cramped because I like keeping my bag with me.
AND IT HAS A TV
AND A GAME CONTROLLER LOL
It feels kind of like an aeroplane on wheels lol

Oh and there were quite a few Japanese passengers on the bus
Two were sitting in front of me and a couple of them sat at the back (they were talking so animatedly hahaha it felt like listening to a drama cd)

PLEASE DON'T JUDGE ME ORZ

So then we arrived and met up with the auntie I'm staying with and ate lunch at the Golf..Club? Auntie said it was something along the lines of it being THE golf club or something lol

THE MOST DELICIOUS FISH'NCHIPS I EVER HAD OUTSIDE OF AUSTRALIA (BECAUSE THAT'S LIKE THEIR FOOD)
Look at that fish man. So good.

And then we went to KINOKUNIYA in Takashimaya (you all had this coming)

THE KINOKUNIYA THERE IS FUCKING HUGE
I mean, I managed to find the manga/japanese section on my first try (because I'm a freak that can somehow smell manga)
But after that when I had to go look for information counters/the cafe my mum was at/etc I kept getting lost. In Kinokuniya. It was so weird lol
It was also really crowded. The Kinokuniya here is usually so quiet and spacious lol I'm not used to so many people here xD

Oh and I FOOOOOUUUUND

JA JA JA JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA~~~~~N
I swear my heart stopped when I saw these babies. T-There were all on ONE SHELF! And not only that, that TOP SHELF too!
I wanted to buy them but decided against it. If I bought them I'd just be buying them for the illustrations (as nice as they may be), and I thought that if that's the case, I'll just wait and save up for the artbook(s?) that are sure to come :)
But yeah, seeing them on one shelf was heaven

I did buy some stuff though,
-book 9 and 10 of Evangelion (ChuangYi). They didn't have book 8, but they were cheap so I got them anyway
-Book 1 of Durarara!! (the manga) because I really wanted it okay
-P3P comic anthology which has no Minato in it but it's okay, I'll cope somehow
-Comic Blade AVARUS because I wanted to buy NUMBER book 5 but they didn't have it, so I got this because the art in there is always pretty
-Shonen Jump NEXT because it had a Bakuman poster-I mean artists I've never seen before
-Dengeki Bunko

Anyway, after that we went to go eat at the food court downstairs

Modanyaki omelette noodles with karaage chicken because I'm azn like that
Sooo good
And lmao that's my shopping over there

But yeah, the next day we pretty much bummed around the same way, met up with my bro, ate lunch at NYDC..Then went back to his place to stay over with mum
Then the next day we went back.
I have loads of other pictures but they're all mostly pictures of buildings that I'll probably post after this just on their own
I seem to now have an obsession with taking pictures of sidewalks lol damn you DRRR

All in all, a pretty good trip. Mum was really grating at times but yeah, whatever.

Over and out.

I swear when I level up I WILL FUCKING KILL YOU

2010-06-15T23:46:00.000+08:00

Kind of bummed about blogging because the one person that reads this has no internet BUT I NEED TO RANT ABOUT THIS

A couple of weeks back Maz gave me the jp version of P3P, so I started playing it. I'm playing Minato first because I've never actually finished the game, and the PS2 game slot I have is made of fail and I can't get past the boss because of my low level and my low ability to take damage. So I have to start all over again, which is fine with me. I'll finish P3 and P3FES during the term break. THEN EVERYONE WOULD FINALLY STOP CRITICISING ON HOW I FANGIRL ON A GAME I'VE NEVER FINISH AKLFS

So yeah. I've finally got the hang of fusing personas. It's actually quite fun! Even if most of the personas I get are fanservicey like Nekomata or Lilim (lolol NGE sob), they're good personas. Classmate-kun is such a douche though.

I love P3 and everything, I mean, being able to see Minato's face UP CLOSE ALL THE TIME in P3 while a blue ball acts as your cursor is HEAVEN. All the characters have girly blinks so its kind of funny.

SO ON WITH THE RANT. But this is only for P3 since I haven't gotten that far in P3P yet.

DEATH.

OH GOD I HATE WHEN HE FOLLOWS ME AROUND. IT'S SO GODDAMN CREEPY. Mitsuru would go "Be careful, I sense Death!" and I'd look around for the exit like crazy and then I HEAR CHAINS CLINKING TOGETHER. IT'S SCARY SHIT OKAY.

A-AND THERE'S THIS ONE PART WHERE I WENT UP THE NEXT FLOOR IN TARTARUS AND DEATH WAS JUST....STANDING THERE. WAITING FOR ME.

And then came that annoying "Death is a hunter unbeknownst to its prey" thing. It's got cool lines but it's annoying that you get such a draggy death scene lol

Oh and btw the opening theme for P3P is SO BEAUTIFUL UP CLOSE SOB. ALSO MINATO IN THE TITLE SCREEN IS....SUPER PRETTY. SUPER PRETTY. SO PRETTY HE WOULD WIN MISS UNIVERSE IN A HEARTBEAT. BY MY VOTE.

Hamuko is cute too but to me she will forever be ham child lol /bitchslapped

On a different note, DRRR!! is going to end in two more episodes SOB FOREVER
I know there's going to be a second season for it shut up

nifty shit

2010-06-13T00:07:00.001+08:00

Man, blogger's new design option is SO COOL. It reminds me of webs, but way easier to use orz

So say goodbye to the black and red retina-frying background Clockwork Carnage has always used since it's birth and say hello to the super girly pink and white flowers WOOT! :D

I may redesign the other blogs too, I'm not sure. Nymphalidae...Still not sure whether I should edit that since it's a group doujinshi thing. Better consult my homies first before I go crazy and put more gay shit in our already gay blog.

Soooo today I went to my brother's paintball tournament in Bukit Jalil to, well, support them, as well as take videos of their games so they can look over them later (what do you know, I'm not just an azn mascot). It was only half-day, so it wasn't bad, compared to the other tournaments I've been to. We went back, got food, ate, and chilled.

And then it turns out (well, everyone probably knew this way before I did but nobody tells me anything, whether or not I ask ;;; ) that Jo doesn't have shoes for the games tomorrow. So mum, Jo and I had to go all the way to OU to get a new pair of shoes for him. Then I met someone there who I really could've gone without meeting.

We got his shoes then we went to eat. Then I wanted to go to MPH. To get Gempak, because well, we were already there, so why not? I hate missing issues. But no. They can go all the way to OU to get shoes for Jo, but when I want something that's in reach they tell me I can't have it. I'm just being a whiny bitch, as Deebs says, so whatever.

Oh yes and now I'm afraid of mirrors. Thanks to creepypasta.com. And some of my darazu friends who shared their scary stories. I'm so freaked out, why oh why did I have to read those stories at NIGHT?! /shivers

Hopefully pixiv will make everything better.

Whatever you do, don't look in the mirror. Just...don't. Scary things live there.

And it's not you.

because to me, you're still a friend of mine

2010-06-07T20:18:00.001+08:00

Uhhh title is very DRRR!! related lol but I'll try not to make the post the same.
It's been a while hasn't it? How are you all?

It's been a rough couple of days for me. Mum seems to be getting more and more irritating and I seem to be more prone to breakdowns. Class is my only salvation, other than days of being home alone. But I'm surviving.

I hear it's the start of school holidays? Do any of you want to go do something? Do keep in touch!

Mum started us on this diet thing this week. It's currently killing me, because day 1 is fruits ONLY. I wanted to punch something so bad but I was too tired to :/

Nothing much else to say. Have a nice day, everyone.

everything sounds insanely cool until shizzy shows up lol

2010-05-30T18:03:00.000+08:00

So I was reading the character name trivias (SHUT UP I LIKE STUFF LIKE THAT ORZ) for Durarara!!, and after reading Mikado, Kida, Izaya, Mairu and Kururi's name trivias I was in the 'omg so cool' mood until I got to Shizuo.

PEACEFUL ISLAND SERENE MAN

LOLOLOL HIS PARENTS WERE A BUNCH OF HIPPIES

Also, Kasuka's means 'obscure'. So different compared to PEACEFUL ISLAND SERENE MAN LOL

Speaking of parents, the Orihara's choices of names are insanely cool. I wish I had good naming skills like that lol

Also, KidaxMikado is officially canon (but everyone already knew that). Because, well, Ryugamine Mikado means 'Dragon Peak Emperor' (which probably explains why he's so self conscious of his name lol so flashy) and Kida Masaomi means 'Loyal Vassal'. They're meant to be together ffffffffffff

Of course, I didn't translate all that myself. You can find the character name trivia here.

I'm currently typing on my mom's unused laptop. No one was using it so I jacked it. Now I can go online in my room woohoo :D

Okay my brain is officially dead. Gonna go read me some Durarara!! then get something to eat. Have a nice day, everyone.

DRRR!! causes good hyperventilation, yup, mmhmm, definitely.

2010-05-19T08:37:00.000+08:00

Happy belated birthday to the ever-legendary Kikkun! I'll buy you a proper present next time we go out 'mkay?

Oh and BREAKING NEWS!
I'M UP TO DATE WITH DURARARA FFFFFYESSSSSSSS

Some things to highlight that I absolutely enjoyed from my journey from episode 13 to 18:

- Izaya's 'kitaaaaa~~!!' whenever Saika logs into their chats is SO AMUSING I WANT A MESSAGE RINGTONE OF THAT RIGHT NOW HNGGGG

- S-since when did Mikado start calling Kida by his first name...? I only noticed this when he starts whining 'Masaomiiiii' MIKADO STOP BEING SUCH A TRAP

- Kida's 'Man, I'm such a bro' was so...unexpected. KIDA KNOWS OF THE BRO CODE LOL

- You guys probably don't remember this but when Mikado talks about the weather it just made me want to hug my screen. He's SO CUTE when he's trying to talk to Anri ahhhh

- Shizuo's 'korosu korosu korosu' mantra is SO GODDAMN CUTE HNGGG I NEED A MESSAGE RINGTONE OF THAT TOO

- Also Shizuo's cute little motorcycle jumps were so cute oh my god why the hell is he so cute he shouldn't be that cute I mean look at that hot bishie face he has he shouldn't allowed to be so cute ahhhh

- Wow shit Anri is actually pretty cool. The whole thing with Saika and her eyes was expected though, considering the amount of fanart of her looking like that. I really wanted to see her slash some peeps though 030

- Kida's ending in episode 17 was SO COOL. He should swear more often. His 'chikushou' owns my soul like srsly. The close-up on his eyes and the yellow theme was style.

- Mikado and Kida's online chat icons!! They're ADORABLE!! I thought they would chat how Mikado usually chats (maybe that's only for his chats with Izaya and Celty?) but NO, THEY GET THESE SUPER CUTE ICONS AHHHH

Oh, and the big boss for me was.....

WHEN IZAYA QUICKLY OPENED UP A ~*PRIVATE CHAT*~ WITH MIKADO AND TOLD HIM TO 'BE CAREFUL'

ORIHARA IZAYA YOU SLY LITTLE THING YOU

Okay I better get to class now lol have a nice day everyone!

Too much fandom

2010-05-15T13:23:00.000+08:00

Quick post lol
See how much text I can fit into my 'quick post' this time

Soooo mum fried me. Again. For not doing extra work. Went through her lectures, threats and whatnot and yeah. She considers me doing work not doing anything. Uh okay.

So I started tuition last week right. And I was doing my English essay homework (from tuition) today and realised that...Most of what I write in essays are....part of my fandoms OTL;;
I was supposed to write something ending with "I will never forget the funny creatures I saw that night." My inspiration? Summer Wars.
I got this booklet of English O-level past papers and I had to write about 'running away' (well, I chose it orz) and....uh I wrote basically on what I remembered of this NaoyaMC fic (MC runs away from home because his parents were fighting and goes to Naoya-oniichans apartment heehee)
Oh yeah and I once had to write about 'a time when I felt awkward and out of place'. I wrote Mikado's POV from when he first arrived in Ikebukuro. My mom thought it was good OTL

Maybe I should tell my mom where my inspiration comes from so that some of that 'manga is bad for your brain' mentality goes away. Maybe. She probably won't take me seriously though lol

Oh and idk why but I tried going on GoGoAnime to try for the umpteenth time to try and watch DRRR!!. I tried the other versions, as usual, and suddenly...

VERSION 2 WORKED.
IT WORKS
It's a little blurry at first but WHATEVS

Aklfasdafsf it just HAS to start working when I'm banned from the com (mum's out right now btw hahaha I'm so fucked if I don't get off now)

Have a nice day everyone.

Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly)

2010-05-11T15:11:00.000+08:00

First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM ♥
Will probably post tomorrow on what we'll do for her so let's move on to what I'm spazzing about at the moment-

SHIT COMPLICATION HAS SUCH AWESOME LYRICS ASKFSKDLSD
The lyrics basically say that life is an empty canvas with reality staining it black, and what you draw on to it matters. I'm not really good with explaining, but UGHH the lyrics are SO inspiring I wish I had the ability to translate everything asklfks

I'm gonna advertise the piano version now. HERE HERE HERE
The piano version is so uplifting when it gets to the chorus ;_; It's the same feeling I get when I listen to If It Means A Lot To You (the last 1.20 minutes of it when they all sing together). Fuck man, I-I think I'm gonna cry.

Well, before Nie gets into her wannabe inspirational artist mode, let's talk about, say, what happened today!!

I got up when my mom was just about to leave for work and saw her off (I usually stay in bed and get up a little bit after she leaves and have a shower. I usually can't get back to sleep after she tells me she's going lol.) Wished her happy birthday and everything. Oh and before she left she went through the mail and something I ordered came in and I was forced to open it in front of her and let her see it OTL (the spazzing of the contents will come after this, rest assured). Then Haddy left and I had a shower, got dressed and...went online.

I need to do something else in the morning, I know.

Then I read my mail (the contents) a few times and decided to wake my brother up. Woke him up and went to class. Went to class, saw Kikkun, and then we did this presentation in English. We were supposed to sell a product and we chose Kick-Ass. We did pretty well, considering all we did was talk about how good it was without any material besides some pictures I printed out. Stanley was an annoying little shit while the others (including us) presented our product. But ah, whatever, people like that exist in this world.

Had a Chic'o Cheese and a Green Tea Cream Frap for break 8D I think I'll make that my regular now kthx

Then Maz picked me up (sending the same message three times in the process) and sent me home, and then I had a bit of lunch while watching Glee with her and Jo. I kind of felt like they were my parents lol

Now then, onto the contents of the mail I received this morning!

As most of you reading this blog may know, I'm madly in love with Summer Wars, and of course Kazuma. Most, if not all of you will also know that I'm not the type of fangirl to claim that my favorite character is 'mine', 'my future husband' or anything like that.

Oh no, I'm the type who pairs her favorite characters. Hence, Kazuma goes with Kenji, the moe moe math geek protagonist :)

AND THAT BRINGS US TO TODAY'S MAIL!

KAZUMAxKENJI 'neverend, supernova' by ignis ai
AKLFSKDS IT'S SO GIRLY HAHAHAHA LOOK AT THAT COVER AND TELL ME THAT'S NOT GIRLY
It was packaged so nicely wtf lol. The doujin was in a plastic that was taped closed (the plastic is like those you buy prints in), then that was taped onto a piece of cardboard (so it won't bend I guess) and then the whole thing was wrapped in 2-3 layers of BUBBLE WRAP. LIKE HOLY SHIT THESE JAPANESE PEEPS SURE TREASURE THEIR DOUJINS LOL
*as if I don't lol*

It's set a few years after Summer Wars and Kenji goes back to Ueda to visit the Jinnouchi family with Natsuki. Everyone greets him with open arms and he starts crying for a bit like the moe little boy he is. And then he meets Kazuma, who's like, half a head taller than him? Lol, and apparently he's ENGAGED now. To some random chick I dunnu
Then fluff ensues and a lot of love confessions at the end OTL IT'S SO GIRLY xDDDD
The art is nice, the inking and screentoning is kind of messy but it has a nice feel to it :)

Random page
Oh and at the very beginning of the doujin it shows Kazuma (the Summer Wars younger version) in the sunflower field talking (most probably to Kenji), saying that he loves him (but the 'suki desu' is scratched out, something loads of doujinkas like to do lol).

KAZUMA-KUN TTLY TOPS BTWWWWW <333333 style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nyVkoMdZ2zY/S-kSL2m1ZJI/AAAAAAAAAuw/d1ovsnLSpd8/s400/P1030775.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5469923217264436370" border="0">

That thin. But I guess all doujinshi are supposed to be that thin. The doujinshi we sell in Malaysia are just fat. Like the people inhabiting the country lol

There's another doujinshi coming, but I'm not going to tell what it is~! Kikkun probably knows what it is already, but dude keep it hush-hush mm?

I got so high over getting it this morning I did a quick half-assed KazuKen pic

WOW SO HALF-ASSED LOL
I did it in like half an hour lol was rushing to get ready for school ;;;

Okay I think that's enough of my shit for today.
Have a nice day, everyone.

Oh and Haddy can't download episode 13. He can't find it. FML.

Remember those walls I built, well baby they're tumbling down

2010-05-07T21:09:00.000+08:00

Too much Glee OTL;;
I can't stop rofling at Finn's high face when he sings the mash-up lolololol it's like watching Minato do getdown
Quite a bit happened in the past few days. Nothing too life-changing or Durarara!! like (though, let's face it, I wouldn't mind that xD ).
SUPER LONG POST IS SUPER FUCKING LONG

Kikkun and I watched Kick-Ass on Wednesday :D The only shows were on at 11.25 and at 4.25, so we were like FUCK THAT and went for the 11.25 show. Our class finishes at 11.30. Heehee.
It's our second time watching it, though we didn't watch it the first time together. Still kicks ass *PUNZ* heehee. Hitgirl is still cool wtf

Oh and I'm convinced that based on the Minato illustration you see at the end of your battle (the exp stats/gained items screen) , Hitgirl has Minato's lips. LOL GDI HE HAS GIRL'S LIPS MOE ATTACKUUUUUU how can he still be able to be badass remains beyond my mental capacity

After the movie Cineleisure was crawling with schoolkids. I know I'm a schoolkid myself but they were all wearing their uniforms, so that's all I could call them lol. There was this one kid Kikkun thought looked like a shota Allen (our Allen) and we...sort of followed him around lol.

The kid was watching Avatar (but all we saw when we looked at him was outer space lol). He walked around Cineleisure eating his cup noodles LOL it was kind of cute. I bought McDs takeaway because I thought Jo was coming to pick us up soon. He didn't. So we walked around a bit until I got fed up and sat down at McDs and ate. Kikkun said 'cuz we're PEDOPHILES' so loudly there I swear I bet the heavens heard us lol.

Pretty much it for Wednesday...Then Thursday pulak I went to Jusco with my mom at Mid Valley Megamall. Jusco sale. And it was my day off too fuuuuu-
I got quite a bit for myself though. At good prices too hawyeahhh 8D

-Yozakura Quartet (20% off)
-Cencoroll (20% off)
-Library War (20% off)
-Studio Ghibli collection box set (70% off scoreee)
-Shonen Jump (for RM10 only!! and it's in JP haw yes bakuman adssss)

Quite happy I went :) Mum was happy I spent time with her so bonus brownie points (why do they call them brownies anyway whats wrong with cookies idk) for me. Though I was fucking hungry in the morning because mum and my blood-related bros went out for breakfast while I 'slept in' (meaning I got up when they left and went online lololol). Mum said she'll buy my breakfast from Village Park. She calls me saying they're going to PapaRich and that they're going to pick me up. I didn't want to go.

SHE DOESN'T BUY MY BREAKFAST FUUUUUUUU

I finally ate at like, 2pm. This is not healthy mom. Ten-chan's sms about Nando's didn't help much when I was hungry.
HAH I ATE NANDO'S TOO SUCK IT BETCH

Mmmmmyeah then went home and fangirled with Maz and Nora for a bit (mostly Maz since Nora was on her phone talking to herself lol) with my new Jump magazines until my mom sent me to tuition. Form 5 English class. I was like 25 minutes late lol. My teacher is pretty cool :)

And finally TODAY!
Went to class as usual, went into my emo modes a few times (fffffnowIfeellikesuchanassfordoingthat) and then started telling everyone there this stupid joke I got from Maz. What's the joke? I'll tell you in person. Heehee.
Then Jo picked me up and we went to OU to meet up with Maz, Haddy and Shaza to pick out my mom's birthday gift. I had tuition in an hour so I had to eat there, Maz helped me get McDs (Jo paid) fffff such a nice ane-san wtf

Then Haddy sent me to tuition. BM Form 3. What was his name...Wai Yip was talking quite a bit to me. Compared to the others la. Meaning he just asked me a few things then kept quiet. I'm the mysterious main character when it comes to tuition. I need to get out more often, I know.

It's finally over! That's everything that happened in the past three days. Tomorrow I have a Business Studies trip to a rubber factory. Not looking forward to the smell. Looking forward to the bus ride though. I love trains and buses. Trains rock more than buses though.

Oh and before I sign off, have a random fail on the Dollars chat today-

I want to see Kida in episode 17 FUUUUUUUUUUU
Gonna ask Haddy to download the episodes for me fuck this I can't stand it anymore

mayday, there's bloodstains on his shirt, mayday, they say he's gone beserk

2010-05-02T18:32:00.001+08:00

Random lyrics I found to get a title.

Truckloads of thanks to Kikkun and Ten-chan who were there when I went all emo and, well, yeah. I'm a lot better now, thanks to you guys. Love you both :)

Got back from Singapore yesterday. Got some revision books and shit. I only went for two days so I didn't really get much other than the books and a few things like these really awesome pair of pink and black Audio Technica headphones I got at HMV :D I can't find the camera so no pictures at the moment :/

Oh and no trip is complete without me getting more sketchbooks :/ I really need to stop. Srsly.
Mum and I went to Takashimaya a few times (naturally, freaking azns) and my favorite Omu rice place is gone :/ Ah, well, at least my taiyaki place was still open. Cute fish-shaped red bean buns come to papa.

Being in Singapore never ceases to amaze me with their modern buildings and shops. Now that Durarara!! shoved its way into my life I couldn't help but to play pretend, and think I was walking around the streets of Ikebukuro, with flying vending machines, information brokers and headless bikers. I'm such a child, I know. Riding the MRT was my favorite part of the trip. Call me weird, but I absolutely love train rides. Car rides come second. Don't ask, I just do.

I also got back to reading Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice. Shut up, I like taking a long time reading my books. And all I have to say is that Anne Rice is definitely a fujyoshi. And a shotacon. And a brilliant writer. Now all I'm curious about is why my brother (who makes fun of my so-called 'yaoi phase' constantly) is such a big fan of her lol XD Has he been on my side all along idk

Also, at one point I thought of Lestat, Louis and Claudia as Izaya, Shizuo and Mikado respectively. Then everything went crazy lol. Loving this book btw

I'm in a good mood at the moment. I'm home alone, on the com pixiving and chatting, with a plate of Japanese pears next to me. Plus, it's raining. The weather has been so bloody hot lately, it's about time it rained and cooled it down a bit.

Ahhh I think I've bored you all long enough. Have a good evening, everyone.

Oh, and happy belated Labour Day. And Golden Week omedetou (No Jump updates fuuuuu-)

no one said life was easy, or fair for that matter

2010-04-25T21:41:00.000+08:00

but it's just a choice of picking yourself up and going on your way.

forget the ones who didn't believe in you

forget the ones who hurt you

forget the ones who said 'you couldn't'

because you can. but the question is, will you be able to forget?

forget and stand

stand above the rest

stand tall and proud and do your best

fire up the engines, we're burning rubber

we're leaving this crap behind, one way or another.

----

Ignore the jibberish I just wrote, it probably doesn't make sense. And it's not supposed to rhyme if you're wondering.

Dedicated to my best friend, who brought more joy to me than any of my family or past friends ever had, and who I have to constantly fight over for (hence my hate for my old school). You're awesome, man, don't ever forget that.
We'll pull through this crap together, yo.

This is Nie, signing out. Goodnight.

when life gives you lemons

2010-04-24T23:05:00.000+08:00

you demand insurance.
Life is shit right now, so I'm sorry if I make yours shitty by being...well, shitty.

short post is short

2010-04-20T22:13:00.001+08:00

but I still have to tell you guys this
So I was listening to final battle soundtracks for P3 right (the battle with Nyx)
and then on the Burn My Dread version of the final battle, I saw the highest rated comment, with 25 thumbs up, saying

MINATO DIED FOR YOUR SINS

Evangelion+Persona 3= ULTRA WIN

Hello from Melaka

2010-04-09T22:45:00.000+08:00

Heehee I sound so lame xD
So yeah. Paintball tournament in Melaka. Not mine, my brothers'. And Maz and Nora are here too! Nora's sharing a room with me :) She's on the phone with a classmate right now. She just said 'you can stick your ass to the chair for a very long time right' LOL NORA WTF

Oh yeah, and I'm using her PURPLE LAPTOP. PURPLE. LAPTOP. yeah.
We ate seafood for dinner with the whole team :) Then suddenly a plate of this dish I didn't recognise got plonked in front of me and I asked what it was.

IKAN PARI.

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

I didn't eat it. Sorry dude.

I checked for DRRR!! 's latest episode and it's FINALLY UP but no subs D< So I guess I'll just wait until I get back onto my com (why is typing on this laptop so weird OTL)
Nora just went 'NO NO NO NOOOOOO' and then 'I LOVE MY SHORTS'
Why does that remind me of Deebs IDK.

Soooo we went to this mall nearby.
And there are like, three McDonalds there. Srsly. It's like dude ever heard of other locations. And there's like KFC, A&W, Burger King and god knows what else there lol. I bought a new dvd fom Speedy. It's called Element-something lol. Oh Element Hunters. It has some-

WAIT NORA'S SPAZZING OVER A PERSONA 3 CD.

Okay it's over. So the DVD has some crying kid on the cover. It's the whole bittersweet smile thing. And the art style looks like P3/DevilSurvivor/DRRR!! and it looks like a brunette version of Kida xD
Shut up Nora decided for me.

When I get back do you guys wanna go karaoke? Maz knows this Japanese place (its got english songs too) that I've been wanting to go to. How's Tuesday?

ciaozah

YOU GUYYYYYYS

2010-04-06T21:52:00.000+08:00

THAT BLOG.
I CAN ONLY PUT THREE TAGS IN A POST.
LIKE WTF RIGHT.
*CLEARLY IN TOO MANY FANDOMS*

So yeah, I'mma continue blogging in this, well, blog.
Whatever I post there will be......iunno. Just crap (art) for now.

So what's new....?
OH OH

♥HOUROU MUSUKO♥
or, you know, Wandering Son

I've heard of this manga for a while now but I just started reading it like, what, two days ago?
It's so moe like omgggg
It's about this boy who wants to be a girl and a girl who wants to be a boy, and both of them therefore like to crossdress.

SO MOE

's all I got for now.

SO LISTEN

2010-04-04T17:42:00.000+08:00

I ain't gonna post much here anymore.
Unless it's stuff like HEY GUYS LET'S GO OUT AND GET HIIIIGH
Y'know, stuff you guys ought to know.
'cause I'm starting to get active on LiveJournal, connect with the geek community y'know.
Plus I also have that other blog, the Macabre Maniac one. I post...like, everything there orz
This blog will still be here, but mostly because I can't bear to do so with all the posts I beefed it up with.
Still gonna post shit up on the group blog though.

So if you guys are bored or whatever and still want to read my ramblings-
you know where to find me.
(though really, who the hell wants to read that? >w> )

ukenma is love,
nie :)

KHR 284

2010-04-02T10:43:00.000+08:00

ENMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA♥♥♥♥

Holy shit why is he so cute.

I'm even willing to say that he's cuter than Tsuna.

Shit why is he so cute.

Oh, and he SEWS?!

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE ♥♥♥

his fail is adorable like woah

*SEIZURES*

SO MOE.

SO, SO, SO MOE.

I want to see more of him and his cute messy hair and bandages ♥

*dies*

here you go.

2010-03-27T23:53:00.000+08:00

Okay so no one will care how much I hated today because my life is just sad like that so let's just skip on to other things...
Like...
Oh, some pictures I found on pixiv for Ten-chan and Kikkun.
Here you go guys. Sorry couldn't find much.

Noctis first.

It's okay, we all know you're a tsundere little girl inside.

Yup that's more like it.

One more sane picture of him before-

BAM

Okay yeah now onto couples...

Double the moe y/y?

Yeaaaaaah I've been wondering who that blonde guy is-care to tell me, Ten-chan? *lazy to wiki*

Just in case you guys didn't save this picture.
That's all I got for today...I'm shifting all my anime (that means Durarara lol) spazzes and pimps all onto the Macabre Maniac blog btw.
....Please visit and leave a note ;_; please?

Oh and someone posted this on their dA journal.
I think it was the Mikado fanclub I joined.

Yup, definitely.
MAJONEZ LOLOLOLOL

Diiiiiizzy

2010-03-26T07:21:00.000+08:00

I think I'm losing too much blood but not drinking enough water.
's what my mom says.
Not like anyone caaaaares though

So I had this really scary dream
But it had nothing to do with Shadows or Minato dying or Durarara!! ending. Oh no.
It's kind of fuzzy but...I dreamt that I went to some...event thing in Ikano of all places. I went downstairs and saw Ace department, and I saw Pari's mom. Yeah. And at the back of my mind I thought 'They're moving on Wednesday' and something suddenly compelled me to run over to them (I saw the rest of the family there)
But when I said hi, they all stared at me and asked who I was. Pari just continued staring at something on the shelf.

It was scary okay. And to wake up to this horrible dizziness isn't comforting at all. I have to stay completely still so I don't fall over or feel like I'm falling over.

I haven't posted in a while, and.....maybe it's better if I kept it that way.
This month is going to be hell.

Reporting to you live from the worse place on earth.

My art website, Macabre Maniac is up. Not like anyone cares but...if you ever visit, please leave a note in the guestbook, no matter how short or stupid it is.

SECONDED LIKE ITS GOING OUT OF MOTHERFUCKING STYLE

2010-03-20T23:15:00.000+08:00

Aaaaah people on kink memes never cease to amuse me.

Hello everyone, it's been a while hasn't it?
Hm? Why am I suddenly speaking like an anime translation? .....I'm listening to P3 drama CDs without translation bitches. And holy shit Minato's voice is so manriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii his doudemoii was a huge shock for me lol

Anyway, there's really nothing much to talk about...I feel like a geek, listening to drama CDs while saving pictures on pixiv, then sorting them carefully into each color-coded folder....same old, same old, really.

I think the only interesting thing that happened this week was that I went to watch a last minute movie with my mom at Cineleisure and bumped into Kiku and her cuzzins (more like she tackleglomped me while I stood there and thought about whether or not they still sold NGE tickets ;;; ). We planned to see it together and...tada! We, coincidentally, watched the same movie, at the same time, in the same cinema! :)

....That sounded better in my head, I swear D:

And another thing is...DURARARA EPISODE 11 BBY YEAHHHHHHHH
Basically Mikado-centric, showed how he started the Dollars group as a joke but then turned into something big...I was expecting him to show more badassedness, and he did, but I still found it incredibly cute how he suggested to the Dollars members that they do good things like picking up garbage and painting over graffiti xD So~cute~
He showed his badassedness by sending texts to all the Dollars members at the same time when...okay you know what I don't think I can make sense out of this sentence. Go watch it.
Oh and Celty went crazyyyy~

That's...pretty much it.

does anyone know where I can find translation to the episode Luck track? QAQ I've read it before but I don't know where-

2010-03-16T08:57:00.000+08:00

Good morning everyone~

Lol no one's been updating their blog :/
Nothing much to say, really....I've been having this annoying sore throat since yesterday. I talk fine but it's just...weird. And today I started coughing and it feels like I want to throw up, but...yeah.

I was thinking of getting everyone together to watch a movie. Alice in Wonderland in particular. How about this weekend? I wanted to watch NGE as well but it seems to end on Wednesday :/ Plus the only show available seems to be at 1pm only...So I guess NGE is a no-go for us :/

Ugh, sorry guys, I have to go; English homework calls.

*flees*

holy shit my room's a freaking library

2010-03-08T08:25:00.000+08:00

~~~ヾ(＾∇＾)おはよー♪

good morning everyone~
so liek, I'm bored, so I took a few pictures of my proud collection of books in my room...I've always wanted to list down everything I had anyway so...

My table~
I usually draw and work on Dreamscape's pages here.
My DS and PSP are charging on the right~
And there's my small PS2 at the end of the table! P3FES is almost always in there xD

Magazines and artbooks, and a few doujinshis :)
From left,
2 anime magazines (jp),
cosplay magazine (jp),
Shonen Jump issue 47 (jp),
Chinese Illustration Now,
Hanger issue 1,
POPCORN issue 2 and 3,
KAMCAO Artbook Vol.1 (msia),
GENESIS Artbook & Garden In My Room file by toounit(spore/msia),
GIFT prologue 2008 (msia),
The One Academy artbook (msia),
Muted Colors by KIDchan (msia),
REQUIEM Artbook by toonikun (msia),
Le Beau Monde and La Vie en Rose original doujinshi by Kunisaki/Sou (msia),
Tsuna's Troubles 6927 doujinshi by PotatoBuns (usa),
Keep Your Eyes on the Sky High and Six Hours Distance USxUK doujinshi by nairchan (thai),
HERITAGE anthology (msia),
VERGE artbook by Puppeteer (msia),
Style School vol.2 (jp),
Devil Survivor Material Collection (jp),
P3P Official Guide Book (jp),
07-Ghost Seal and Postcard book (jp),
Pita-Ten Artbook,
Fullmetal Alchemist Artbooks Anime and Manga,
Code Geass Artbook, Animation Guide and CLAMP designs (jp),
07-Ghost Official Fanbook (jp),
Kuroshitsuji Artbook (jp),
Nabari no Ou Artbook (jp),
Pandora Hearts Official Animation Guide (jp),
D.Gray-man piano sheets vol 2 & anime artbook (jp).

Then right next to the artbooks are my DGM mangas :)
I have up to volume 14 of the English version and 13-18 of the Japanese version.
Also the Gray Arc guidebook and REVERSE novels, both in Japanese.
Then there are my Senpuu Tengi novels, also in Japanese.
Above them all are my J-Mini DGM figures :) Pasted on the wall is 2009's DGM calendar.
The rest didn't fit into this picture but after Senpuu Tengi there are my DGM anime dvds and the PS2 game Kakei-nee helped me get xD;;

After that is KHR!
You can see the DVD boxsets, and the English version up to book 13, and random Japanese versions (19, 20, 25) and the KHR novels :)
Standing on them is police!Hibari and doctor!Mukuro ≧▽≦
Oh and the two 1827 badges on the right are there because the pins don't work very well so I can't fasten them onto anything without them falling :I So they sit there.

Everything else after that doesn't have as much of a collection as DGM and KHR lol.
After KHR novels from the left are
Persona 3 book 1-5 (jp),
Persona 4 book 1 (jp),
Bakuman book 1 and 2 (jp),
NUMBER book 1-4 (jp),
Loveless book 1-8,
Hetalia book 1 and 2 + Anime guide (jp),
Code Geass manga book 1-6 + CG official doujinshi (jp) + anime dvds.
That blue thing there is a bowl btw lol.

Bookshelf. It's right next to my table.
BTW the collection on my table are dubbed 'elite'. I love these series too but there's just no space on the table for them :I
From top left there's
Kuroshitsuji (jp) ,
07-Ghost,
Kingdom Hearts,
Pandora Hearts,
Nabari no Ou (jp) ,
Tegami Bachi,
Neon Genesis Evangelion,
Pokemon,
Beyond the Beyond,
xxxHoLic,
Tactics,
Strawberry Marshmallow,
Yoki Koto Kiku,
Silver Diamond,
Moon Boy,
Disgaea,
St.Lunatic,
Gunslinger Girl,
Death Note,
Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei,
Fullmetal Alchemist.

My other bookshelf, right by the door.
Damn should've switched on the flash.
This is my miscellaneous shelf. It's got my yearbooks, PS2 game folder, how-to artbooks, and the rest are all Japanese study material. And look! There's my edamame keychain!~

The shelf underneath.
English JUMP magazines, local Gempak magazines and local comics.
Local comics:
KAORU
Helios Eclipse book 1-8 (malay) + 1-8 (English),
143 Kaoru's Cake House light novel (malay),
Kaoru's Cake House (english + malay),
DAISUKI (malay)
BEN
Le.Gardenie book 1-3 (malay),
Fatal Chaos book 1-4 (malay),
The Fishes (malay),
Naive (malay),
INNOCENT (malay),

Aaaand the rest couldn't fit. But I have all of Keith's Wasabi books and quite a few of his Lawak Kampus books. All in malay.

Uuuh that took quite a bit of time...
Haddy went to get my Persona 3 artbook yestertday! I-It's beautiful QAQ
Oh how long I've waited for this artbook to fall into my hands...
Minato why so cool QAQ

Holy crap I'm hungry. Gonna go eat breakfast now, then watch all the Durarara!! episodes I missed before class :)

ROAR OUT LOUDER

2010-03-06T23:57:00.000+08:00

Latest Bakuman chapter was...just...so sweet ;_;
Okay so ShuSai is definitely my OTP but with the whole Miyoshit marriage thing + the annoying first name basis really pisses me off while reading the series, so recently I haven't really liked reading Bakuman.
But, of course, you know me; there's never only one pairing I like. There's always one pairing I love to death, but there are always, without fail, side pairings.

And that, my dear readers, is EijixSaiko.

I didn't need to crop this page because I think every single part, every single panel, looks amazing. I don't know if it was just me but Obata-sensei's art has been lagging a bit lately (in Bakuman, anyway, idk about the others) and this page just brought back all the love I had for this amazing artist. Don't ask, it just...did.

Keep going, our real life Ashirogi Muto.

some photos~

2010-03-05T17:08:00.001+08:00

Wow it's March already shit i really need to start on my P3 doujin ffff
Uh, okay I'm just gonna...spam you with random pictures of our new school.

what you see when you come in
[this was taken before the Twin Happiness event so its very...Chinese-y lol]

Our class. Well, the biggest one anyway. I didn't see a point in taking pictures of the others;;
Sometimes I wish we had desks..

Kiku, Ten-chan and Joshua :)
Dude you look so high in this pic it's hilarious.
Ten-chan I have...no comment for you.
Joshua just looks like he can't be assed to smile for the camera.

Ten-chan being manrii

At Kiku's haus working on the poster for Twin Happiness. Kiku's inking it in.
That's my bag on the left. I know Kaoru likes drawing Alivia but...I'd really prefer to buy an ecobag with Bennett on it. Bishies ftw baby.
Kiku I still don't understand why you were wearing our school PJK uniform.

Almost done.
Holy shit this is the fugliest thing I ever drew D:
No I will not tell you their genders.

Clearly not taking this poster seriously lulz

So then the event happened and it went great, and the logos I drew were printed on t-shirts! OAo
There was also this effing cute kid there.

Thank you Zee for passing your pretty-genes on to your little bro.
FFFFFFF THAT'S MAH SHIRT YO /fa-king-su-pah
It's so big for him hahahaha so cuuuuuute <333

So yeah that's all for the photos...
Um, nothing much else to say.
Oh I really want to watch NGE 2.0. Apparently it's ONLY SHOWING IN CINELEISURE D:
Shitshitshitshitshit I really, really, really, really want to watch it. But no, I need to watch the first two movies first. The ones that came with my anime boxset anyway.

NGE : Gakuen Datenroku

2010-02-28T22:31:00.000+08:00

I thought I'd give it a try. I mean, it's NGE. I've refused to read the actual manga online so I can buy and read the actual tankobons and complete my collection /geek. I've read Angelic Days though....Yeah I really didn't like it.

Anway, Gakuen Datenroku.....First things first.

The art.
Is so awesome.
I swear, every colored page blows me away. It's amazing.
The art even makes the purposely screwed up characters look handsome. Imagine how godly Kaworu looks. Oh god the art is so good I could eat it.

Now I want to buy it to use as reference :I NGE why do you do this to me.

Nothing much else to talk about...Kiku's being all angsty and went off a while ago...:I I really wish I could do something for her when she's like this, I really do.
But, well, nothing much I can do now that she's most probably in another place, someplace I'll be visiting soon.

Dreamland.

I'm thinking, "let's just disappear,"

2010-02-25T08:36:00.000+08:00

Exactly what I'm thinking right now :I
Wow, haven't been online in the past two days...loads of stuff in my inboxes...

Anyway, main point of this post; my mom went all anal on me. And just when I was about to sleep too. She saw me working on the poster thing for Saturday and she seemed FINE with me drawing, probably because she was like 'oh no you don't have to hide your drawings from me' when I went and told her I can't do shit in front of her.

But then while I was in bed I sms-ed Sammy-chan asking about the paints she wants me to bring and my mom pretty much GOT UP and asked me everything about what was happening. 'Who are you smsing?' 'What do you need to tell her?' 'Isn't it a bit late for you to be smsing her?' but okay, I answered them all, sent the sms, and went back to sleep. Then when I got a reply from Sammy-chan my mom suddenly asked me questions again, and then she went all anal.

Why? Because she thinks this event on Saturday is a big waste of time. She says she's getting a deja'vu of my preparation for Comic Fiesta, and yeah, she even said that she doesn't think I should do that anymore. Then she starts talking about how I don't study and shit but fine, I can deal with that. But then she starts ranting about how I don't talk to people and blames it all on Honsbridge. She says that after the two weeks she was gone she hasn't heard one word from me. And also that week off we had? Yeah everyday she'd ask to go out but I was just really temperamental that week, and I must admit, that was my fault. She says I 'might as well go back to normal school where she doesn't have to pay so much to lose her daughter'. She says that she's going to talk to Domi-chuu and ask what the hell is going on. And she even said after this semester she's moving me to SMKTTDI.

I don't know la..This may just be the 'I'm pissed because I had to talk about our situation with your father and now you're just going to have to lie there and listen while I scream at you' sort of moment. But I really don't know...I'm beginning to not know when my mom is being serious or not. Just a few days ago I had this breakdown telling her that I can't do what I love to do most in front of my mom because she thinks what I'm doing is crap. And yeah she was all comforting and understanding but then last night she was all 'All I do is see you draw, draw, draw. You can't pass tests with just drawing. And since you draw so much I'd expect you to be damn good at it'

Wow, thanks a lot mom. Now you're not the only one who doesn't know how your family thinks.

You're not for this world, This world is for you

2010-02-22T15:30:00.000+08:00

I've decided to make a post as un-anime related as possible :I

So let's talk about my next love....music!
How about....

♥ MADINA LAKE ♥

Oh GOD why are their songs so catchy D:
I've been listening to their latest album, Attics to Eden on repeat for the past few weeks :) It's a bit pop-ish, but I like them quite a bit xD

I've been listening to one song in particular, Not For This World.
Title sounds depressing doesn't it? It's actually part of the chorus, which goes like this;

You're not for this world,
This world is for you
And now is the time.
(There's no tomorrow!)
So make the most of every day
While you're alive
(Stand for something!)

Is it crazy of me to think that this song is really positive? lol
I love how the moody parts are sung with a deep, droning tone and once the chorus comes they all sing happily lol. I'm really bad at expressing songs sorry ahahahaha....

....OKAY GIVING UP ON THIS POST /FLEES

WHAT THE FUUUUUUU-

2010-02-19T09:52:00.001+08:00

OMG ALL THE UPDATES ARE WHATTHAFACKKKK WORTHYYYYY

Everyone's busy with their little friends so I'm all alone today in this big house with an art block and an empty room-but I digress.

Let's start with Bakuman chapter 74

THIS GUY=

ORI-ORI-ORI-ORIHARAAAAA!? OAO
And that's not the only thing about this guy! His appearance...Doesn't he remind you of...

........!!!!!
ATSURO!?
AHHHHHHH DEVIL SURVIVOR AND BAKUMAN ARE MERGIIINNNNGGGGGGGG

And is it just me or is this panel really hot

On to KHR...

ALALSKFLAMSFLAMLFGMLADGOEOTMAL;ENMGTAOMEGLAETOAOMGLSMOFAM;LSDMFLAMGOEANOALMGLANSDOGNAOMETLASNFGOAMSLGFMALGMOANEINI

CANON G27 !!!!!
I NEVER THOUGHT IT'D HAPPEN!!!
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH <333333

......Okay that's all I got.
Not feeling very well, sorry...

THEY'LL NEVER TAKE US ALIIIIIVEEEE

2010-02-18T12:15:00.000+08:00

HAHA I MADE A JOKE kiku-chuu will probably be the only one that gets it though OTL;;
And alskfalmflam why is the text so big in the last post D: Screw it I'm not going to bother editing it.

Anyway, I'm bored, and I have homework to do. So let's do a MEME! 8D
Okay so it's the same one with the completely useless character part but WHATEVER, I'M FILLING IT UP.

EIGHT CHARACTERS I LIKE:
01: Arisato Minato (Persona 3) you had this coming
02: Mashiro Moritaka (Bakuman) this too
03: Hibari Kyoya (Katekyo Hitman REBORN!) i still love him okay aslkf
04: Orihara Izaya (DURARARA!!) cellphone shinigami ftw baby
05: Gilbert Nightray (Pandora Hearts) giru is always love
06: Gauche Suede (Tegami Bachi) he's hot okay. and he has a cool hat /hat fetish
07: Shirogane Naoto (Persona 4) s-she's a girl version of minato souji can date how can i not like her D:
08: Rolo Lamperouge (Code Geass) he still makes the list okay >I

FOUR CHARACTERS I'VE ABANDONED:
09: Ayanami Rei (Neon Genesis Evangelion) Not many likeable characters in NGE besides Kaworu actually....:I
10: Red (Pokemon) He was the first bishie I ever loved ;_; But then I moved on to other things..gomen yo, reddo-kun.
11: Lenalee Lee (D.Gray-Man) She used to be so cool and useful but then she went all mary sue on us and became the sad little shit she is now. No panel time for you!
12: Gokudera Hayato (Katekyo Hitman REBORN!) I sort of drifted off deradera and moved on to Hibarin lol

FOUR CHARACTERS I'VE NEVER LIKED:
13: Sakura (Naruto) Bloody annoying piece of shit. I'd take Lenalee any day if compared to her.
14: Shirley Fennette (Code Geass) She causes so much trouble oh god. And she's so full of herself. Peh.
15: Takeba Yukari (Persona 3) She's okay during battle, I mean, she heals and attacks okay but...she's just so...okay nevermind.
16:Suzumiya Haruhi (The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi) Yeah I don't get what that whole hype was about :I

FOUR CHARACTERS THAT HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST:
17: Shizuo Haiejima (DURARARA!!) Shizzy <33
18: Kaworu Nagisa (Neon Genesis Evangelion) I haven't met him yet, in anime or manga, but I can tell he's going to prove as an interesting character :)
19: Dotachin (DURARARA!!) He has a funny name :)
20: Akagane (NUMBER) Iunno he seems pretty cool 8D

SIX PAIRINGS I LIKE let's put in the relatively new ones & ones that didn't get enough love
♥ 1: Izakado (IzayaxMikado) from DURARARA!! what its hot
♥ 2: KawoShin (KaworuxShinji) from Neon Genesis Evangelion lololol iunno they look cute together
♥ 3: GuriRe (GreenxRed) from Pokemon omg my childhood love is back
♥ 4: Soujinato (SoujixMinato) from Persona 4/3 i don't know if anyone will understand the love i have for these two ;Q;
♥ 5: NaoyaxMC from SMT:Devil Survivor i will forever have this brocon fetish aslflaskf
♥ 6: GauchexLag from Tegami Bachi because they're so fucking cute ahhhhh

THREE SHIPS I'VE ABANDONED
♥ 7: EdxWinry from Fullmetal Alchemist yeah during my shojo phase stfu
♥ 8: MistyxRed from Pokemon still during shojo phase
♥ 9: 5927 (GokuderaxTsuna) from REBORN! couldn't think of anything so just put this here again..

THREE SHIPS I'VE NEVER LIKED
♥ 10: ShizzyxIzaya from DURARARA!! idk everyone's going for it but i really just prefer them as just bantering friends. idk.
♥ 11: Minari (MinatoxYukari) from Persona 3 sorry yuka-tan, but he's taken. just, not by me :)
♥ 12: DebiruYuzu (MCxYuzu) from SMT: Devil Survivor apparently she's really annoying so...no. Besides, why have her when you have the hottest brocon onii-chan evar?!

TWO SHIPS THAT HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST
♥ 13: AtsurouxMC from SMT: Devil Survivor they remind me SO MUCH of Ryoji and Minato ;_;
♥ 14: Shizukado (ShizuoxMikado) from DURARARA!! iunno they're quite cute i guess lol

The questions:

#1. Why do you dislike #11 so much?
I don't dislike it that much..It's just I can't really see them together. Yukari seems to like Minato a lot but..Minato doesn't really care OTL;; Unless it's an important Social Link. That's why he's best suited with either Ryoji or Souji, they're the only ones that understand his Wild Card status :)

#2. Who do you know that ships #13?
No one :I None of my homies play SMT, except for Nainai, but she doesn't play SMT:DS so...:I I think I can count on her to like NaoyaxMC though...

#3. What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3?
I saw this one strip comic thing on pixiv which was the most adorable thing ever. Red was wearing this comically huge shirt and shuffled over to Green and then suddenly he takes his huge shirt and throws the front part over Green :) So now they share one shirt HAHA SO CUTE AKDLASDML

#4. What is your favorite moment for #1?
When Izaya goes all "I've been looking for you" in chapter 8 ;Q; And you can clearly see that Mikado is going all kirakira just when Shizzy-kun got all jealous and hit Izaya with a trash can/compactor/whatever. Yes I still believe they're in a love triangle stfu.
Oh, and when Izaya and Mikado first met was cute too. Mikado was blushing the whole time hohoho~And the end of that chapter....WALLPAPER HAH 8D

#5. How long have you been following couple #6?
Ever since I first started reading Tegami Bachi :) They're just that cute.

#6. What's the story with #8? What made you stop caring?
When I saw that one episode where Red and Green were particularly canon. I was like SCREW MISTY, GREEN IS RED'S SEME. I was a pretty scary Pokemon fan actually....

#7. Which ship do you prefer--#2 or #4?
OH MY GOD THIS IS SO HARD D:
Um, um, Soujinato I suppose. Probably because I know it'll never happen unless P5 has them both in an extra boss battle ffffyes. Though it'd be interesting to see how they interact, both being Wild Cards. They'd most probably be able to relate to each other a lot, like having the stress of dealing the correct social links, training and so on.

KawoShin is cute but...If I remember correctly Kaworu made Shinji break down. Now, as much as I love my angst, I still prefer my pairings to understand each other completely. KawoShin's understanding comes later though, if I'm not mistaken.

OTL RAMBLING D:

#8. You have the power to make one ship non-existent. Choose from #10 or #12.
DebiruYuzu please :I

#9. What interests you about #14?
They remind me of a nice father-son relationship :) LOL so Izaya's like the completely dangerous boyfriend Shizuo wants to keep away from his son Mikado WHUT
WHY DO I COME UP WITH THESE THINGS D:

#10. When did you stop liking #7?
Iunno, when I found out Elricest was a lot hotter...?

#11. Did your waning interest in #9 kill your interest in the series?
Hahahaha of course not. I still love the series just the same. And I still enjoy the cute 'Juudaime!' parts xD

#12. What's a song that reminds you of #5?
Sweetness by Jimmy Eat World. I know I have an explanation for it but I'm not gonna write it. You guys listen to it and think about it yourselves :)
NaoyaxMC <3333

#13. Which of these ships do you love the most right now?
IZAKADO PLEASE :))))

#14. Which do you dislike the most?
DEBIRUYUZU kana...

#15. If you could have any of these pairings double date, who would they be?
SOUJINATO AND NAOYAXMC OH GOD YES *Q*

#16. Have #2 kissed yet? Elaborate if yes.
TH-THEY HAVE ACTUALLY!!! OAO
Sorry not gonna elaborate :) Because I don't know the details myself.

#17. Did #4 have a happy ending? Do you think one is likely?
They never actually met lol :I But if I had to think of an ending for them...no, it wouldn't be likely. Not a happy one, at least.

#18. What would make you start shipping #14?
If Shizuo starts proclaiming his role as Mikado's protector HAHAHAHA :I

#19. If only one could happen, which would you prefer--#2 or #6?
KAWOSHIN PLEASE QAQ They deserve a better ending from what I can tell...
GauchexLag is...always there LOL

#20. You have the power to decide the fate of #1.
I...really don't know what to do with this :I I like the situation now; Izaya stalks Mikado, Mikado gets all kira kira when he sees him, Shizuo jumps out of nowhere and throws random vending machines at Izaya...I like the situation as it is, thanks :)

write me an endless song

2010-02-17T12:20:00.000+08:00

I LOVE THIS VIDEO.
I CAN'T GO A DAY WITHOUT AT LEAST HEARING THE SONG.
I SWEAR THIS IS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING I HAVE EVER SEEN.

I have the urge to go buy more P3 merchandise D:
DAMN YOU ATLUS AND YOUR PRETTY PROTAGONISTS!!!
Hahaha I stayed up until like 2am playing P3 :D I got up to May! Aren'chu all proud of me?!

Oh, and speaking of blue-haired characters, I seem to have come across something yesterday as I was playing P3...

All the blue-haired characters I've seen have either died, close to dying or destined to die.

I'm serious. Don't believe me? Okay fine, let's look through some examples;
btw I'm not even gonna bother looking for female ones. Lazy.

Minato Arisato
Persona 3's male protagonist
He's in a coma, sure, but that's almost as good as dead. P4 hints that Elizabeth left to free him from the Seal, but for now, he's the pretty little Barrier Maiden that sacrificed himself to save us all.

Takagi Iida
(Devil Survivor's protagonist)
Yeah okay I figured out a name for him already. Anyway, he seems to die in the end, and all I can say for sure is that Naoya had to do with it. Who killed who, I don't know. Let me play the game and spare me the spoilers, please.

Mashiro Moritaka (Saiko)
(Bakuman)
He collapsed at one point in the manga, so this counts. He's willing to risk his life for the sake of manga, sounds cliche, but it's the truth.
He's nice and healthy now though :)

Kanda Yu
(D.Gray-Man)
Didn't expect this one, did you? His curse feeds on his life, which makes him heal faster but bring him closer to his death. He 'died' in the Ark but Allen, being the good loving wife that he is, saved him. Though I should think his curse still lives on.

Li Xingke
(Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2)
Our Kanda Yu lookalike. He coughs out blood a lot during the anime, so you can all pretty much tell he's going to reach his limit soon, but he doesn't die.
And okay fine, maybe his hair IS black D< .....That all sounded better in my head D: 's all I got for now.

PAPAPA RA PA, PAPAPA RA PA-

2010-02-12T21:10:00.000+08:00

IMMA SCATMAN!

Lulz, okay, so um, today was fuuuucking tiring. Business Studies today was torture, but it had nothing to do with the teaching or anything. It was my Goddamn running nose. Had to leave the class to blow my nose three times in the span of like, what, two hours? Ugh, wasn't comfortable at all. Kiku-chuu was telling me to sit out the class but I had to be the whole 'tragic, self-sacrificing main-character' and stay in the class until it was over. Psht, and you think things like that happen in mangas.

On a random note, I thought of Yae (the main character of nocturne) a lot today. I never really liked her design very much, it's very plain, but really, neither does Kou, I just designed the two of them so that their designs contrast. Yae is the red, Kou the blue, that's why they're partners. Cliche, I know, but this is my story, I'm the one playing God here, if you don't like it, don't read it.

I really don't know why I suddenly broke into my serious-about-manga mode orz. Anyway, today we stayed back really late and did some stuff for the Twin Happiness thing. And then we bummed around. A lot. So much that we suddenly brought KH into the mix.

RikuSora will always be my childhood love ;_; Well, in the game department anyway. You all know my very first childhood love was GreenxRed/GaryxAsh/ShigurexSatoshi from Pokemon xD

My past loves are all coming back for some reason.

Also, getting back into the Neon Genesis Evangelion thing. I never finished the series, most probably because my brother knew that in book 9....*laughs* no, you know what, I'll show you guys when I get a hold of it. I'm going to finish it, whether you like it or not :)

So many things are happening...I need to get so many things done.

I need to get the Valentine's/CNY Ryojinato pic done dude did you vote three times or something and also try to get the First Story of Dreamscape done, if not done, then at least do some work on it.

Will post something on the Nymphalidae blog.

Ja, ashita he.

ofuuuuckkk

2010-02-11T08:51:00.000+08:00

Uh uh, yeah, so um, I'm really scared right now.
So um, while Jo was away I used his printer to print out Ten-chan's first story...
....AND NOW IT WON'T STOP PRINTING IT!! D:

Now that he's back I suspect he tried to print something important out because he left a very nice message on my FB wall about me printing out fanfics and to stop wasting his ink. I-I didn't know that was gonna happen!! I used it because my printer keeps saying there's no paper when there's like a whole bunch in there!!
I'm so fucking scared. He's gonna kill my ass, I know it. And it's not gonna be pretty.

Urgh I really hope he's not pissed enough to tell my mom about it. He was decent enough to keep my BL fetish a secret for the past, what, 3-4 years? I know I should have faith in him and I know I should deserve it for using it without his permission but....

Bottom line is, I don't want my mom to find out.
I've been having doubts about her liking to have a gay friend, I think her mentioning that 'Dahlia's brother happily declaring his sexuality' in an sms to her mom has something to do with it.

Anyway, I'm screwed. Or not. Depends. We'll see.

Oh God this is all because I used his printer while he's gone FFFFFFFFFF

OH MY GOD spazzes

2010-02-10T14:09:00.000+08:00

I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T POST UP THIS PAGE

HIS RABURII UKE IS HIS WALLPAPER
and they just met!! stealth like fuuuuuckkk
AND ALKSALMFDSLAMLFAML
ARE YOU IMPLYING HE SHOULD LOVE YOU okay so maybe not but let's just roll with it 'mkay?
IZAYA NEVER FAILS TO DELIVER FANSERVICE.
ORIHARA IZAYA = LOVELOVELOVELOVELOVE <33333

And while we're on the subject.... *blog readers go ofuck*

IT'S RANDOM SCREENSHOT TIEM!

HAHA I love this screenshot :D
KIDA WHY SO ANGRY :D
Mikado just looks...scared lol.

Ala, okay okay, we give KidaxMikado some love also.

....Yeah I didn't realize that at first either xD
Don'chu just love how innocent Mikado is?
Though it wouldn't hurt to give him a cooler hairstyle...But he's supposed to be a normal sheltered kid so it's okay I guess hahaha xD
OH AND THE COMPLETELY OBSCENE CAT IN THE CORNER IS....me.

He has his cute moments, of course.
I DID NOT PUT IN THE BLUSH BTW~

stalker!Izaya :D
You can clearly see I'm having way too much fun lol
More Izaya-pimping.

HAHA, I MADE A JOKE :D
you guys don't get it do you...?
THIS'LL REFRESH YOUR MEMORY.

cellphone shinigami!Izaya
Just doing his thing.

THIS SCREENSHOT NEVER FAILS TO AMUSE ME xD
Mikado is just...stoning lol.
And only one person can chuck a garbage can at Izaya...
OH, DO I SENSE JEALOUS SHIZZY!?

Btw this is Shizzy-kun;

Of course, the blood isn't part of his features.
He wears glasses and a bartender's suit; I like! :)
And there are A LOT of IzayaxMikadoxShizuo fanarts on pixiv...
...His real name is Shizuo if you haven't figured it out yet.

Shizzy-kun is super strong!
Watch as he Shizzy's everyone.

This is against a bunch of people at once....

....And this is one-on-one.
Yeah you don't want to take him on now, do you?

Okay...Pari just went offline.
So I'm just gonna go.
And I dunno, work on the 3rd page for Dreamscape.

's all I got for now.
*surviving blog readers sigh in relief*

[generic reaction towards this entry]

I am the "'who" when you call "Who's there?"

2010-02-09T08:34:00.000+08:00

Aren't you scared? Well, that's just fine!

Oh God, I have adored this movie ever since I was a kid.
I was sorting out my playlists (major playlists are named after Rigged Crown's characters) and found my Nightmare Before Christmas OSTs :) Still in love with This Is Halloween, even after so many years haha~

Playlists
The ACID playlist has all the hardcore awesome tracks
The MUSE playlist has all the other awesome tracks that aren't hardcore or metal.
The VENN playlist has the 'childish' tracks, like Coheed and Cambria and the Nightmare Before Christmas OST (the only 'childish' songs I have have rather creepy lyrics, so it fits Venn's character perfectly :)
The RYELLE playlist has all the female-sung songs I love.

And, of course, the NIPPON! playlist is updated too. I put in DRRR!!'s OP and ED in there YAYYYYY~<3333>

note to self: use the com every day.

2010-02-06T23:25:00.000+08:00

Because everything piles up when I don't.
I switch on the com, I find 72 deviations in my dA inbox, four manga updates (Durarara!!, Bakuman, KHR and xxxHoLic) and A WHOLE LOT OF OTHER SHIT I HAVEN'T CHECKED OUT YET D: obviously has too many accounts OTL

Now, onto my usual manga update spamming...
Bakuman is finally back to it's true self :) I love the Fukuda Gang meetings hahaha they're so cute xD
But there needs to be more Ashirogi LOVE! >(
...And this is the first time ever that I feel like I don't want the next chapter to ever come.
I DO NOT WANT TO SEE THE ASSWIPES THAT BROUGHT THAT CLEAVAGE-SHOVING BETCH INTO THE WORLD D< no not obata-sensei or ohba-sensei, i'd kill to see them in person :D

AAHHH
AND I JUST FINISHED READING DURARARA!!

IZAYAXMIKADO FANSERVICE WAAAAAIIIII <33333333333

FIRST MEETING.
THE BLUSH IS NECESSARY.
LOVE TRIANGLES FTW HAHAHAHA~N
IZAYA WHY SO HOT

AFTER IZAKKUN LEAVES.
AAAAHHH MIKADO WHY SO LOVESTRUCK
Kida does not approve! *heeee~*
*SUPREME LOVAGE*

WHY ARE THERE NO ENGLISH FANFICTION OF DURARARA!! ?!?!
I WANT MY FUCKING LOVE TRIANGLE GODDAMMIT
IZAYAxMIKADOxKIDA PLEASE.

.....Okay now I'm way too lazy to crop and edit the KHR pages ;;;
The art is getting sharper and cleaner, that, I'm happy for :)
And Tsuna-tuna seems to always get into 'those' positions a lot. Do you guys remember his first fight with Mukkkun? Byakuran is like 'Oh, well, this seems like a trend so I'll do it too~'
I have no problem with harem as long as Hibarin is there to provide 1827 fanservice.

Uwah, I see another Durarara!! update~

D.GURE APPUDEEETOOOO~

2010-02-04T18:14:00.000+08:00

IT UPDATED AHHHHH

LONG HAIRED BAK AHHHHHH SO CUTEEEE *A*
Kanda is still very pretty and uke-ish in this chapter....
.....Which is why I'm scared to look for any more fanart of him sobbb D:

Anyway....

WHAT IS THIS ANNOUNCEMENT;

AN OFFICIAL D.GRAY-MAN ARTBOOK!! FINALLY!!
I thought Hoshino-sama would never release an artbook of her own ;w;
And the cover! It's so pretty! I think it's a remake of an old drawing of hers before the character designs were finalized; it's a nice touch :)

OH GOD I WANT THIS ARTBOOK SO BAD.
AND THERE'S AN A3 POSTERRRRRRRR
AH AH AH AH I WANT TO GO GET IT. I-IT'S NOT A COMIC SO MY MOM SHOULD UNDERSTAND RIGHT?! D:

......'s all I got today.

Farbe-sama's blog...

2010-02-03T18:56:00.001+08:00

....It's tab never seems to close.
SHE UPDATES SO OFTEN AAAAHHHHHH EBURIDAE RONGU RAIFU ASHIROGI MUTO DAAAAAAAAAA~
if you don't get the joke, its the real P4 Junes song in Japanese. Everyday long life, Junes~! is how it goes.

Yeaaahhh I don't know why I'm writing. I really, really don't.
Oh, wait.
....'kay sorry I just sneezed.

Soooo Pari came over today again and played Dissidia....I-I got that game so I could understand my ototoubun better and she's like whooshing through the game wahhhhh my brocon pride is getting raeped D;

Yeah still don't know why I'm writing.

Anyway, I was supposed to do a card commission my mom asked me to do like a week ago (procrastination haunts me) lol and I was supposed to give it by today...And I didn't start on it at all xD;; I ended up showing her the intro for KH1 and KH: Chain of Memories ;;; I can't remember the 2nd intro...This is so weird. I remember I really liked it...I can't seem to find my game for some reason.

Oh and I managed to finish it an hour after she left :) I drew a new picture and markered it in so I still have the initial design moe boy in winter clothes pfffttt so I'll ink that and scan it too...maybe.

.....MOVING ON!

I just looked at the tab with Devil Survivor's official website. A video was loading and I didn't even know lol can't hear over the DELICIOUS TOMATO SONG

This is what I saw in the dialogue;

Man
Stop your yapping and shut your cakehole.

WHAT.
OH MY GOD THAT'S HOW THEY'RE CENSORING IT!? WTF!?
AND SINCE WHEN DO CAKES HAVE HOLES AS A CHARACTERISTIC?!
I DON'T GET THESE AMERICANS!!

Oh and I was looking at the character bios on the same website and....

NAOYA OFFICIALLY CLAIMS HIS PLACE AS MC'S SEME.
BROCON FTW BABYYYYY :D

OH FFFFFFF

2010-02-01T00:42:00.001+08:00

FFFFFFF I JUST REMEMBERED D:

I have to prepare a Valentine's AND a Chinese New Year greeting FFFFFFFF and I don't wanna cram both into one because... don't know how ;;; hearts and tigers? OTL;;;
So um, I was thinking fanart...But I don't know which one OTL SO MANY ;;;

And I also have to make my uncle a card...>A> For his birthday......D:
Oh, and not to mention I have to finish my contest entry on time so I can stand a chance to get buttons and a sub...

SUDDENLY I HAVE A FUCKLOAD OF THINGS TO DO OH GOD D:

Aaaah going through GreenxRed fanart on Pixiv at the moment. Red seems to act a lot like Minato...OMG CROSSOVER TIEMMM 8D
....As if Neku and Minari (DS MC) weren't enough.

soshite-

2010-01-31T22:57:00.000+08:00

OTL why I am using Japanese phrases I have no idea D:

Uhh nothing much to say. I finished my business studies letter (phfftt its super long but so full of fail) but as for the revision questions...uh, I didn't finish it. I didn't get the last question. Ah, whatever, I'll see what I can do about it tomorrow. Cross that bridge when I get there....kana..i really have to stop doing that

Aaah nothing much else today. It was a better day at the paintball tournament today than yesterday. It was muddy, sure but it was somehow...better. OTL;;

......And Pixiv is suddenly showing me all these awesome GreenxRed fanart I just can't resist. I GAVE UP POKEMON SO LONG AGO WHY IS IT COMING BACKKKKKK D:

AND WHY IS RED SO HOT ASLKDF

toiuwakede-

2010-01-31T00:39:00.000+08:00

Urgh I just got back from my brother's paintball tournament a few hours ago. It was so...not cool. It was so bloody HOT (I swear I ate like two popsicles in the span of like thirty minutes) and I had nothing much to do. I wanted to do some of my homework there but there wasnt exactly a table where I can work on, so I didn't bring it.

And it's a good thing I didn't, because guess what? IT RAINED.
IT RAINED LIKE ALL HELL BROKE FUCKING LOOSE.
There were like fucking rivers there. I take one step and half my foot is enveloped with diluted mudwater. I take another and it splashes onto my pants. It was hell.

I really don't want to go again tomorrow, partly because I want to finish all my homework so I don't have to worry about doing them during the next few days. But ugh, the thought of my mom lecturing me about how I 'don't support my brothers' later on is daunting. I mean, I'm not sure if that would happen or not, but I just can't do anything in front of her anymore without thinking that she's going to use whatever mediocre deed I do as a point in her lectures to me if I actually do screw up.

And telling her that I want to 'finish my homework'? Don't even mention it. She'll say 'well, that's your fault, you should have finished it already', yeah well, I was too busy sweating like fuck in the damn sun because I wanted to cheer on my brothers in their debut. But she won't understand that. She'll probably say that I should've done it ON THE DAY ITSELF but pfftt yeah okay.

I love my mom and everything, but sometimes I just wish I could go back to the days where I could just do what I usually do and not worry about it being something she'll lecture about later.

Anyway, forget about it. Whether I like it or not, I'm going tomorrow. I guess I'll just wake up early tomorrow and get the most important homework done. Ugh, well, at least Jo helped me get past that part in Crisis Core. I can finally move on thank GOD. Now I just need to fix Kurogane's screen (DS) so I can fully enjoy my long-anticipated SMT:Devil Survivor and 358/2 Days.

Pointless post is pointless lol

BAKUMAN 100%!

2010-01-28T22:37:00.000+08:00

Bakuman got the cover this time! Aaaahhh I want to buy the latest Jump so bad~~!!
The cover, oh, man, how I love the good old NiizumaxSaiko rivalry :) And Shujin is like YEAHHHHHH at the back lol I SEE WHAT YOU DID THAR :D

And the color pages! So cute!! It looks like Farbe's* style FFFFFFF SO BLOODY CUTE AHHHHHH <33333>

.......WHY.
WHY DOES THIS PANEL LOOK SO DEVIL SURVIVOR-ESQUE.
FIRST IT WAS DURARARA!! (gonna make a post of that tomorrow) AND NOW IT'S BAKUMAN.
DEVIL SURVIVOR IS INVADING MY LIFE AND I HAVEN'T EVEN PLAYED IT YET.

Moving on.

That's it for this weeks chapter. But I was looking around Orz-san's blog and found....

THIS.
C-CROW?! H-HOW-W-WHEN---WHAT IS THIS I DON'T EVEN-
IT EVEN HAS THE ARTIST'S BIO/NOTE!!

EIJIIIIIIII

OKAY I HAVE NO IDEA IF THIS IS FAKE OR NOT.
CHANCES ARE, IT'S A LIMITED EDITION.
.....Okay, so it's Crow. I kind of want it, but not as much as I want, say, a doujinshi by Farbe-san or Orz-san. Or a Detective Trap manga. That'd be pretty cool. Not as cool as a doujin but still cool.

*Farbe and Orz are Bakuman doujin-kas. Farbe's style is very similar to Bakuman's and can be found here. I call her Farbe but her Pixiv nickname is Tanio so I'm not sure which is her penname...

just a note

2010-01-27T22:29:00.000+08:00

Chains of Fate has changed its name to Rigged Crown: Our Chains of Fate. I don't know whether this means it'll have other versions later on when I finish this one, but we'll see.

Also, I posted some stuff on nocturne on Nymphalidae, so do check that out; I don't think I've ever explained them in bulk to anyone. If you have a comment on any of the characters, do write it in the chatbox. I'm a delusional child who dreams of BL stories so do say if you think something or other should change. I won't change it based on your whims, but it's something for me to mull over and consider, and please, be nice.

I also put up a tag system so if you want to look for posts of a particular project...well, I just made it easier for you. Be happy!

More info on the characters will be coming soon (there's like six more characters OTL;;) !

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Is it just me or is everything going really slowly nowadays? Seriously. I find myself checking the time for classes and actually finding myself to be 30-45 minutes behind for class to finish. First week I was here, by the time I checked the time for classes it was already 5 minutes before we pack up and leave.

Guess that's why we have Starbucks Tuesday and now, Pocky Wednesday. I have to get my DS screen fixed so I can play Devil Survivor and 358/2 Days without that stupid buggy thing (lol buggy the clown) D: MY GAMEPLAY MUST BE OF UPMOST PERFECTION YES I AM OCD STFU

Ugh I want to go out D: And I can't even go out this weekend because I have to follow my brothers to their paintball tournament to guard their stuff and catch really bad photos of them playing. Next weekend, next weekend...

Tomorrow's Thursday, so there should be some KHR and Bakuman updates by tomorrow or day after.

Gonna sleep now, ciao~

If you're listening, sing it back

2010-01-27T00:04:00.000+08:00

W-WHY IS THIS SONG SO CATCHY QAQ IT'S LIKE NOW OR NEVER (BUT OF COURSE NOW OR NEVER IS THE CATCHIEST) D:

So um, yeah, today was, as Kiku-chuu puts it..Starbucks Tuesday. Srsly have no idea why it has to be Tuesday but meh, as long as I get Starbucks.
Thing is, I don't go to Starbucks for it's coffee. I either go for their chocolate frap (lol) or their orange lollipops. YEAH NIE IT'S CALLED STARBUCKS COFFEE FOR A REASON D:

Ate dinner just now with my bros. I told Haddy we were having chicken balls and he went all OHMYEFFINGAWDDDD :D H-He's supposed to be the most sane of us all...

Also talked to Kiku-chuu and Ten-chan today online. Ten-chan is now officially part of the Nymphalidae party yayyy~!! 8D Please treat our little newbie well, she writes awesome shit. OMG that means she's like the Kakei-nee of our group OMGGG~ xD

We are planning something EXCITING for Comic Fiesta! Not telling what yet, so Ten-chan, Kiku-chuu, you don't say anything yeah? :)

Oh, and special thanks to Ten-chan for ARTRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGEEEE!!! 8D IT'S SO ROUND AND NEAT AND EASY TO USE AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH <333333 ILUUUUU

And another special thanks to Maz onee-sama who was nice enough to put 358/2 Days AND SMT:Devil Survivor straight into my DS! <3333333 I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER I SWEAR FFFFFFFFFFF <333333

Oh and I made a MangaBullet account yesterday! Check it out here~

boring post is boring OTL;;

GOD DAMN YOU SMT~~~~!!!

2010-01-24T23:12:00.000+08:00

GOD DAMN YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
YOU AND YOUR PRETTY MAIN CHARACTERS AND THEIR BOYFRANS

WHY DO YOU ALWAYS KILL THE CUTE ONES?! WHY MESS UP A LOVELY BROCON RELATIONSHIP!? FUUUUUU---

I swear I get weak in the knees every time I hear a cute boy say 'onii-chan'....I SWEAR I AM THE WEIRDEST PERSON ALIVE OTL;;; D:

Aaaahh someone has to officially name the main character for Devil Survivor~~!! I can't just keep labelling him as MC or Shujinko (especially shujinko because it makes me think of fem!Shujin...omg whuttt) ! D:

REST IN PEACE JIMMY

2010-01-23T23:08:00.000+08:00

Rather late, just found out about it, but better late than never right?

On December 28, 2009, the great, awesomesauce drummer from Avenged Sevenfold, Jimmy “The Rev” Sullivan, passed away.

According to resources, he was found dead in his home, at the age of 28, and left behind a wife. It's sad how young he was when he passed, even more so as his passing happened merely 4 days after Avenged Sevenfold had come in second place on Ultimate Guitar's Top Ten Bands of the Decade, losing the top spot to Metallica, which, in my opinion, is very impressive.

My condolences to his family, friends, and beloved band members.
May he rest in peace.

Couple Meme

2010-01-21T10:00:00.000+08:00

Taken from dA :D

SIX PAIRINGS I LIKE:
1. Yullen (Kanda Yu x Allen Walker) from D.GRAY-MAN
2. Ryojinato (Mochizuki Ryoji x Arisato Minato) from PERSONA3
3. ShuSai (Takagi Akito x Mashiro Moritaka) from BAKUMAN
4. Tekiriko! (Tekirai x Toneriko Furoribanda) from NUMBER
5. Soujinato (Souji Seta x Arisato Minato) from ATLUS
6. GilOz (Gilbert Nightray x Oz Vessalius) from PANDORA HEARTS

I put in the ones I loved the most, but I have so many others..Like
1827 (Hibari Kyoya x Sawada Tsunayoshi) from REBORN!
Akinato (Akihiko Sanada x Arisato Minato) from PERSONA3
AgiAki (Agito Wanijima x Akito Wanijima) from AIRGEAR
Viritaba (Virid x Futaba) from BEYOND THE BEYOND
SebaCiel (Sebastian Michaelis x Ciel Phantomhive) from KUROSHITSUJI
LuluRolo (Lelouch vi Brittannia x Rolo Lamperouge) from CODEGEASS

Especially the first two but...there's no 1827 love in the manga in recent chapters and I'm sorry Aki, but I find Souji hotter to pair with. Minato is just so easy to pair lulz so prettyyyyy

Moving on..

THREE SHIPS I'VE ABANDONED:
7. 5927 (Gokudera Hayato x Sawada Tsunayoshi) from REBORN!
8. RoyEd (Roy Mustang x Edward Elric) from FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST
9. Elricest (Edward Elric x Alphonse Elric) from FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST

THREE SHIPS I'VE NEVER LIKED:
10. ShinjiAki (Shinjirou Aragaki x Akihiko Sanada) from PERSONA3
11. LaviYu (Lavi x Kanda Yu) from D.GRAY-MAN
12. RikuRoku (Riku x Roxas) from KINGDOM HEARTS

TWO SHIPS THAT HAVE PIQUED MY INTEREST:
13. FukuSai (Fukuda Shinta x Mashiro Moritaka) from BAKUMAN
14. EijiSai (Niizuma Eiji x Mashiro Moritaka) from BAKUMAN

Saiko's like a second Minato OTL xD So easy to pair with. But Shujin is number 1, of course.

1. Why do you dislike #11 so much?
I...don't know, really. I don't seem to like the best friend relationships that much. Also, if you ship LaviYu sometimes it's kind of hard to tell who's the seme, and that makes me uncomfortable. I love Lavi and Kanda's friendship, but if it goes beyond that then I'm sorry, no thanks.

2. Who do you know that ships #13?
No one D: I don't think anyone does lol. W-What's wrong with pairing the cute main character with the next coolest guy!? (same experience with P3)

3. What would be your ideal scenario for couple #3?
Shujin and Saiko experiment with BL fanservice and end up with a manga so gay it should be published in Comic Blade Avarus. The manga gets popular and ends up getting an anime and serialization. On the day Shujin and Saiko are supposed to marry, they ditch everyone and elope.
*griiiiiiiin*

4. What is your favorite moment for #1?
When the Yullen couple reunite after Allen revives the Ark and everyone. Super Yullen LOVELOVE! 8DDDD <33333

5. How long have you been following couple #6?
.......a few months LOL xDDD Watched the anime with Kiku-chuu and loved them instantly.

6. What's the story with #8? What made you stop caring?
I found Elricest to be hotter. Then when I dropped that I moved to DGM. D.GRAY-MAN PUSHED EVERYTHING OUT OF THE WAY OTL xDDD

7. Which ship do you prefer--#2 or #4?
Ryojinato FTW. As much as I may love Tekiriko and it's gayness, there's not much story to it-at least, not yet. Tekirai pretty much just butchered Toneriko's mom and sister when he was a child, and now Toneriko is dead-set on avenging his family by killing him, though signs show that he's starting to fall for our dear Number 1.

But it's nothing much compared to Ryojinato. I may crack the inappropriate joke of Ryoji living inside of Minato for 10 years as a reason, but their relationship is subtle and cute. I seem to have a thing for opposites attracting. Ryoji is flirtatious and cheerful, and almost always smiles. Minato, however, is quiet and likes to keep to himself, he rarely smiles but when he does its the sweetest thing (please ignore my blatant adoration for him kthx lol).

Whether you get me or not, the answer is still the same; Ryojinato FTW.

8. You have the power to make one ship non-existent. Choose from #10 or #12.
#12 RikuRoku, because it's so obvious that Riku only talks to Roxas because he wants his real best friend back, Sora. Their talks are brief and hardly very fanservice-y, and all Riku talks about are the keyblades and Sora. Sora, Sora, Sora, Sora. That's all Riku cares about. So Goddammit leave Riku alone and go to Axel.

ShinjiAki doesn't bother me at all. It's like LaviYu; I like them as friends. Only.

9. What interests you about #14?
I like how Eiji goes all "Ashirogi-sensei!" whenever Saiko's around lol xD I also like how he has great expectations for Ashirogi Muto, especially Saiko, and tends to vote for them first xD
And that part when they first met was cute. Him saying that Saiko had the eyes of a shonen character was...cute :D

10. When did you stop liking #7?
When I found out about how hot 1827 is 8D

11. Did your waning interest in #9 kill your interest in the series?
Yes, quite. Sorry FMA.

12. What's a song that reminds you of #5?
Now or Never by Chemistry :) One, if not my most, favorite Jap song at the moment. I just can't imagine Now or Never without P3 or P4 in it.

Plus, the song's all about not giving up and memories making a mark on your heart. Rather befitting of a pairing of Wild Cards, hm?

13. Which of these ships do you love the most right now?
#5 Soujinato, due to this amazing fic trilogy I've been reading. You can read the first, second and third part in the links. Trust me, they're amazing. Sad, but amazing. Who knew the Wild Card pairing was so hot? *A*

14. Which do you dislike the most?
# 12 Rikuroku. I think I've explained this one already, so there.

15. If you could have any of these pairings double date, who would they be?
.....Ryojinato and ShuSai.
Ryoji (happy-go-lucky, flirtatious) + Minato (quiet, eats a lot, pretty)
Shujin (same as Ryoji) + Saiko (a little more talkative than Minato, shy, pretty)

Oh man, my two most favorite ukes ever~<333
YES SAIKO IS PRETTY STFU

16. Have #2 kissed yet? Elaborate if yes.
If Ryoji lived in Minato for ten years and didn't kiss him I would rage.

17. Did #4 have a happy ending? Do you think one is likely?
Mmm, I really don't know. It's torn between...okay, I have no clue what may happen *headdesks*

18. What would make you start shipping #14?
I don't think I'll ever ship EijiSai, really. I'm too busy shipping ShuSai. Now, Fukuda and Saiko...There's something there.
But still, ShuSai FTW.

19. If only one could happen, which would you prefer--#2 or #6?
#2 RYOJINATO PLEASE!!! D: The way P3 ended was so sad, the least I would want from it is for Minato and Ryoji to be together forever~*or get thrown into p4's world omg that'd be hottt*

GilOz has so much fanservice it's pretty much HAPPENING OTL xDD

20. You have the power to decide the fate of #10. What happens to them?
Shinji ships Akinato and likes stuffing Minato full of food (because it's cute). The end.

THAT WAS FUN HAHAHA 8D

BEYOND THE BEYOND

2010-01-20T02:04:00.001+08:00

READ! There, Beyond the Beyond

It's so cuuuuuuuuuute PFFFFTTTTTT QAQ <3333333 style="text-align: center;">

BAAAAWWWWW <33333>

I...just...can't hate Kiara xD She's just so...LOL xD
And lovelove Virid's sleeping position <3333>

BAAAAAWWWWWWWW SO CUUUUUUUUUUUTEEEEEE
Virid does that so often it's hard to think that he used to be the rougher twin lol xD
AHAHAHAHA THEY'RE SO CUTE HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE
Though as much as Virid seems like an uke (cuddling and following Futaba where ever he goes..)....*gestures at next picture*

YES PLEASE :D virid oh u
ONLY THE SEME CAN HAVE HIS MIND IN THE GUTTER!! *okay well this isn't completely true but just bear with me lol*
VIRIDXFUTABA LOVELOVE <33333 style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 158px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nyVkoMdZ2zY/S1XjywS1-cI/AAAAAAAAAjs/IYfSITd1vsk/s400/Beyond_the_Beyond_Vo%2330B877.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428495386961902018" border="0">

WELL DUH IT'S QUITE OBVIOUS ISN'T IT :D
I don't think Virid wants the wounds on his arms to heal lol xD
I also think he loosens his bandages on purpose 8DDD
though that might be just me and my by-birth insanity OTL;;

If you're looking for something cute to read (and if cute means stoner characters, more-than-friendly gestures and moe little boys), Beyond the Beyond is for you! :)