"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: my guardian angel got his spanking, now he's back to full-time duty. ^_^
Friday, July 5, 2002
*sweatdrop* it's past time to archive...
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 12:19 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: For Real - Saiyuki op theme #1
Random Thoughts: Spartacus mailed+Sirius dedicated a pic to me+I'm at Jean's house=good things :3
Friday, July 5, 2002
Wai~ *sparkle* Sirius from Bishounen Paradise dedicated a watercolor pic to me! It's so pretty~~ If only I can figure out who it's supposed to be. Or maybe it's an original character?
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 12:03 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
Damn, I can just feel the Fates laughing their heads off at me... I really don't need all of this right now! This is an inconvenient time of my life for all of this to happen! Who's my guardian angel anyway?! He needs a good spanking! -_-
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 01:19 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: There is a reason I don't talk much to anyone. I get misunderstood too often...
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
Wonderful. Just wonderful. First my mom is in the hospital, and I'm home all alone trying to pretend nothing matters to me, and then Jean (my best friend! for 8 years!) blames me (over her blog!) for something I didn't do. I think I'll crawl in bed and cry my heart out...
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 01:16 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
Random Thoughts: It's better not to be too happy; that way when life lets you down, you won't have to fall too far.
Tuesday, July 2, 2002
I haven’t been online in a while, and there is so much to say. I guess I should begin with today. I didn’t go to bed until around five o’clock this morning, because I was up reading Ruins of Ambrai. I toyed with the idea of staying up until 8 or 9, when I was supposed to be getting up, but since I had volunteer work today, I shuffled myself off to bed after some lemon iced tea in the kitchen (yummy~). I woke up around 8:30, groggily shoved myself into the shower, and then immediately went back to bed to doze until 9:30, when mom woke up. I didn’t eat breakfast, just drank another cup of lemon iced tea (that stuff is incredibly good), and mom drove me off to Children’s Hospital Oakland. I met the nurse practitioner in the Neurosurgery clinic, Sue, who gave me bunch of stuff to do. All day, I labeled patient files, researched recent articles on hydrocephalus in the medical library, and Xeroxed those articles (page by tiresome page), and made copies of packets of patients of cancer (as a favor for a different department in the hospital). Around two o’clock I went out and bought a measly hotdog, then continued to work my butt off. Around five, I called mom and told her to pick me up, not because I was done with any of my work, but because the rest of the office (all two of them) was leaving for the day. I’d done 7 hours of volunteer work in one day. I’m going back tomorrow to finish what I didn’t today, and the secretary Shirley invited me to come on Wednesday, when one of their neurosurgeons was seeing patients, and I could see how the clinic usually worked.
I came home, mom cooked some food for me, and I had an early dinner/really late lunch. There was a message on the answering machine for my mom, from a nurse at her radiologist’s office, who said that since because of the radiation therapy on her cervical spine, she couldn’t eat or drink anything, she should come into the Alta Bates ER room to receive some liquids by IV. So, I convinced my mom to go (she’d had nothing to eat since yesterday morning), and I asked Sherry to drive us. We got there, and true to the form of Alta Bates ER, paperwork came first, and we waited 3 hours in the waiting room before they settled my mom in a bed in ER. It was by then nearly 9:30, and Mom insisted that Sherry and I go home. She was to be assigned to a room in the hospital, because she needed IV for a couple of days. We left, came home, and I had some late dinner at Ivy’s house. When I finally stepped into the house, however, I didn’t feel like going to bed, so I called Maryam up to see if she wanted to walk. We walked, and I just got home about half an hour ago.
I’m not too worried about my mom. It’s a gut feeling, I guess. I know she’s not in any danger, so therefore I’m not panicking about her being in the hospital. I probably should be more worried, and I feel kinda bad that I’m not, but Mom’ll get better and be home soon. It scared me for a few days when she coughed up some blood, but that’s just her esophagus raw from radiation. She complains a lot about being hungry, though. It was exactly how I felt when I had shingles and couldn’t eat anything.
Cody’s Books looks like a place where I’d really want to work at. I’ve kinda given up on the idea of the vivarium. It’s a cool place, but I’m not sure I’d ever get used to the people there. Cody’s is more to my kind of work experience. Both need a work permit from school, I think. Such a bother. Since I’m only going to be working at CHO Mondays and Tuesdays, I have the rest of the week free, as well as most of the evenings. I can volunteer at a Berkeley lab too; my mom has so many connections... ¬_¬; It sounds interesting, but I’m not sure of the hours yet, since I really want to get a regular job too. I mean, at least a regular job pays. I wouldn’t even mind minimum wage.
Today was really really warm. Steaming. I could hardly breathe when I was outside. The worst part was that there was something wrong with air-conditioning in the Outpatient center, where the Neurosurgery clinic was, so it was just as hot inside as out. Fortunately, I had many chances to make my way to the main hospital, where it was quite cool inside, so I didn’t suffer too badly.
I was able to prove something today. Sometimes it is said that pain is the only real thing in life. Though I could partly understand its implications, I never realized how true the saying might be. I mean, when you’re hurt, everything around you snaps into sharp definition. You notice the tiniest details around you. The sudden increase in sensitivity dramatically contrasts the haze that was life before you hurt. And in opposition, when you are happy, you feel like you’re floating on a cloud, everything feels quite surreal, and your senses registers nothing but your own happiness, or what you think is happiness. There’s nothing like the sudden flare of pain to bring you total awareness of the world around you, reality as is seen past the parted curtain of obliviousness. I quite believe the saying now, that nothing in life is real except pain. Not because I have a tendency towards depressing and pessimistic things (which I do, mind you), but because I reached this conclusion based on a scientific explanation by the twisted logic of my twisted mind (my logic is so warped even I don’t know how I reach usually reach an answer; probably gut-jumping)
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 12:42 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
*twitch* er... I didn't get digicam... sorry ka-chan... I don't know what I'd do w/ it if I ever got one. *twitch* You want me to translate w-inds lyrics? *sweatdrop* all of them? .... You know, I really have better things to do with my time than to remind myself how sucky my Chinese is... but fine, I'll do it. I can have one done by your birthday. But you'll have to choose which song. Oi, I'm not going to see 6 movies in one day! When do you want me to come? Thursday? Friday? I can probably stay till Monday or Tuesday. And why CAN'T I help you choose your b-cake? And turning 17 is great! You can go see R-rated movies now without your parents, and NC-17 rated too.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 04:18 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Wednesday, June 26, 2002
Went to Children's Hospital Oakland today for interview with volunteer head Barbara. Got position in Neurology department office. Mostly office work. I start next Monday. After I finish the initial 64 hours, Barbara says I can do other in-patient floor work simultaneously.
Saiyuki is curiously addictive. I can see why so many people like it. And that is why I'm searching like mad for sites where I can dl the manga.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 03:38 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Tuesday, June 25, 2002
-_-; my cat scratched me on the face, so now my left cheek is bleeding. Stupid cat, need to clip her nails soon. Why can't she be like Hiroshi, sleep on my bed all the time, let me hug her when I want to, no running around the house after flys, etc. Oh, that's right, I need to take a picture of Hiroshi and uploaded it onto my compie.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 12:26 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Monday, June 24, 2002
Mwahahahahaha~~~ Ne, Vinita-chan~ Check this out! My AIM convo with a friend who's definitely NOT comfy with shonen-ai!
SirRicECookER: oh yea
SirRicECookER: you know the pic on your blog?
SirRicECookER: the main pic
SirRicECookER: just curious, but are those two GAY?
KuroiTsubasaKei: oh those
KuroiTsubasaKei: not cannon
KuroiTsubasaKei: but some like to think they are.
KuroiTsubasaKei: NOT CANNON
KuroiTsubasaKei: canon*
SirRicECookER: what's not canon mean?
KuroiTsubasaKei: canon means that it's strictly from the series
KuroiTsubasaKei: if its not original, thought up by the author, it's not canon
SirRicECookER: oh
SirRicECookER: ok.... i guess
KuroiTsubasaKei: I just like the pic because those two are my favorite characters in the world, and I like sleeping and the pic was just soo cute
KuroiTsubasaKei: ^_^
SirRicECookER: uh....ok. (scratches head)
*otaku-laughter* Oh god, poor Eugene, he's so confused... XD XD
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 11:38 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Monday, June 24, 2002
Went shopping with Sherry today. She drove us down to the nice factory outlets in San Leandro. I love the Ann Taylor Loft. They always have something on sale. There were several skirts that I really wanted to get, but I didn't dare spend too much money on it, so I ended up getting a red top (so cute; it's this amazing blood red color), and a belt (yeah, I know, so when do I ever wear a belt? but it was so cheap!). I also got a present for Maryam, for her b-day, though not at the Loft. It's perfect for her trip to Irvine.
I talked with Sherry today, about how bored I was, and she suggested I go see if that pet store down on 5th street, with all the lizards and snakes, are hiring. That place is really cool. I'm also going to try a couple of book stores.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 11:27 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: Chinese is so hard to translate when the writer is being whimsical...
Monday, June 24, 2002
Er, Ka-chan, about that Chinese translation... you have to view the characters in Chinese Simplified. (Go to the View button on the brower, click Encoding, then select Chinese Simplified, you should have that). Roughly it translates to something like: "A similar piano melody, it is gently released with the background music, like spider silk, slowly wrapping about one, until the listener cannot pull free. A sensitive heart, cannot help but be invaded by a deep and sad beauty. Soft like trickling water, strong and passionate like [something, sorry, don't know what it is, mom can't help either], delicate like a dragonfly alighting on water, sad [actually, something more like a deep quiet sorrow, close to angst], [something], a rhythm and romance like waves and [art/pictures]...... Sinking into stories of others, there is unwitting joy and grief" ... Okay, basically, whoever wrote that (damn good writer), is saying that music (or a particular tune) is so beautiful, so mesmerizing, it expresses everything (sorrow, joy, anger, passion, etc.) in itself and you cannot help but to be caught up in the story that the music tells; you cannot help but experience the moment of beauty. Something like that. God I'd love to be able to write like that. What's this all about anyway, Ka-chan? Some of the phrases even had my mom stumped.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 11:00 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton
Random Thoughts: So tired... =_=
Monday, June 24, 2002
So, I came back from Dad's place yesterday. We can go only so long before we get on each other's nerves. ¬_¬ *cough* anyway, saw Insomnia. It was super good. Can't wait to see MIB II. Am tired because I just came back from the YMCA. Fun-ness~ Can't wait for Thursday, because we reserved the racquetball court! <3 <3 <3 XD XD
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 10:46 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: {none}
Random Thoughts: {none}
Saturday, June 22, 2002
To the victor goes the spoils!~~ In my case, teriyaki chicken~~ XD XD Yumminess~~!
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 09:23 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: Photosynthesis - Core of Soul
Random Thoughts: Green grapes are good.
Saturday, June 22, 2002
Played cards with dad. Beat him seven games in a row. Victory~
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 09:21 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: Duvet - Boa [it's not that I'm still listening to this song, just that it happens to be playing...]
Random Thoughts: "yea~yea~yea~ just the way you are~~" - Amazing Kiss by Boa [damn lyrics stuck in my head]
Saturday, June 22, 2002
*gasp**laugh* I found this page a long long time ago, and never had a chance to link it or anything, but I'm reproducing the entire thing, right here, for the enjoyment of my readers! *laugh* It's too funny!
* * * Laws of Japanese Animation * * *
Version 4.0
Compiled and edited by
Ryan Shellito (rshellit@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu)
Darrin Bright (dbright@oboe.aix.calpoly.edu)
#1 - Law of Metaphysical Irregularity
The normal laws of physics do not apply.
#2 - Law of Differentiated Gravitation
Whenever someone or something jumps, is thrown, or otherwise is rendered
airborn, gravity is reduced by a factor of 4.
#3 - Law of Sonic Amplification, First Law of Anime Accoustics
In space, loud sounds, like explosions, are even louder because there is no air to get in the way.
#4 - Law of Constant Thrust, First Law of Anime Motion
In space, constant thrust equals constant velocity.
#5 - Law of Mechanical Mobility, Second Law of Anime Motion
The larger a mechanical device is, the faster it moves. Armored Mecha
are the fastest objects known to human science.
#6 - Law of Temporal Variability
Time is not a constant. Time stops for the hero whenever he does
something 'cool' or 'impressive'. Time slows down when friends and
lovers are being killed and speeds up whenever there is a fight.
#7 - First Law of Temporal Mortality
'Good Guys' and 'Bad Guys' both die in one of two ways. Either so
quick they don't even see it coming, OR it's a long drawn out affair
where the character gains much insight to the workings of society,
human existence or why the toast always lands butter side down.
#8 - Second Law of Temporal Mortality
It takes some time for bad guys to die... regardless of physical
damage. Even when the 'Bad Guys' are killed so quickly they didn't
even see it coming, it takes them a while to realize they are dead.
This is attributed to the belief that being evil damages the Reality
Lobe of the brain.
#9 - Law of Dramatic Emphasis
Scenes involving extreme amounts of action are depicted with either
still-frames or black screens with a slash of bright color (usually
red or white).
#10 - Law of Dramatic Multiplicity
Scenes that only happen once, for instance, a 'Good Guy' kicks the
'Bad Guy' in the face, are seen at least 3 times from 3 different
angles.
#11 - Law of Inherent Combustability
Everything explodes. Everything.
First Corrallary - Anything that explodes bulges first.
Second Corrallary - Large cities are the most explosive substances
known to human science. Tokyo in particular seems to be the most
unstable of these cities, sometimes referred to as "The Matchstick
City".
#12 - Law of Phlogistatic Emission
Nearly all things emit light from fatal wounds.
#13 - Law of Energetic Emission
There is alway an energy build up (commonly referred to as an energy
'bulge') before Mecha or space craft weapons fire. Because of the
explosive qualities of weapons, it is believed that this is related to
the Law of Inherent Combustability.
#14 - Law of Inverse Lethal Magnitude
The destructive potential of a weapon is inversly porportional to its
size.
#15 - Law of Inexhaustability
No one EVER runs out of ammunition. That is of course unless they
are cornered, out-numbered, out-classed, and unconscious.
#16 - Law of Inverse Accuracy
The accuracy of a 'Good Guy' when operating any form of fire-arm
increases as the difficulty of the shot increases. The accuracy of the
'Bad Guys' when operating fire-arms decreases when the difficulty of
the shot decreases. (Also known as the Stormtrooper Effect) Example: A
'Good Guy' in a drunken stupor being held upside down from a moving
vehicle will always hit, and several battalions of 'Bad Guys' firing
on a 'Good Guy' standing alone in the middle of an open field will
always miss.
First Corrallary - The more 'Bad Guys' there are, the less likely they
will hit anyone or do any real damage.
Second Corrallary - Whenever a 'Good Guy' is faced with insurmountable
odds, the 'Bad Guys' line up in neat rows, allowing the hero to take
them all out with a single burst of automatic fire and then escape.
Third Corrallary - Whenever a 'Good Guy' is actually hit by enemy
fire, it is in a designated 'Good Guy Area', usually a flesh wound in
the shoulder or arm, which restricts the 'Good Guy' from doing
anything more strenuous than driving, firing weaponry, using melee
weapons, operating heavy machinery, or doing complex martial arts
maneuvres.
#17 - Law of Transient Romantic Unreliability
Minmei is a bimbo. (* Note: The Minority Opposition in Ohio disagrees
and thinks all men who like this stuff need to get out more. *)
#18 - Law of Hemoglobin Capacity
The human body contains over 12 galons of blood. Sometimes more.
#19 - Law of Demonic Consistency
Demons and other supernatural creatures have at least three eyes,
loads of fangs, tend to be yellow-green or brown, but black is not
unknown, and can only be hurt by bladed weapons.
#20 - Law of Militaristic Unreliability
Huge galaxy-wide armadas, entire armies, and large war-machines full
of cruel, heartless, bloodthirsty warriors can be stopped and defeated
with a single insignifigant example of a caring/loving emotion or a
song.
#21 - Law of Tactical Unreliability
Tactical geniuses aren't...
#22 - Law of Inconsequential Undetectability
People never notice the little things... Like missing body parts, or
wounds the size of Seattle.
#23 - Law of Juvenile Intellectuality
Children are smarter than adults. And almost always twice as annoying.
#24 - Law of Antagonistic Americanthropomorphism
The really nasty 'Bad Guys' are always skinny Americans.
#25 - Law of Americanthropomorphistic Intellectual Inferiority
The stupid 'Good Guys' are always big Americans
First Corrallary - The only people who are more stupid than the big
dumb Americans are the American translators. (Sometimes referred to as
the Green Line Effect)
Second Corrallary - The only people who are more stupid than the
American translators are the American editors and censors.
#26 - Law of Mandibular Proportionality
(from a_hicks@lvc.edu and utmwilliams@msuvx1.memphis.edu)
The size of a person's mouth is directly proportional to the volume at
which they are speaking.
#27 - Law of Feline Mutation
(from a_hicks@lvc.edu)
Any half-cat/half-human mutation will invariably:
1) be female
2) will possess ears and sometimes a tail as a genetic mutation
3) wear as little clothing as possible, if any
#28 - Law of Conservation of Firepower
(from utmwilliams@msuvx1.memphis.edu)
Any powerful weapon capable of destroying/defeating an opponent in a
single shot will invariably be reserved and used only as a last resort.
#29 - Law of Technological User-Benevolence
(from utmwilliams@msuvx1.memphis.edu)
The formal training required to operate a spaceship or mecha is
inversely proportional to its complexity.
#30 - Law of Melee Luminescence
(from utmwilliams@msuvx1.memphis.edu)
Any being displaying extremely high levels of martial arts prowess
and/or violent emotions emits light in the form of a glowing aura.
This aura is usually blue for 'good guys' and red for 'bad guys'. This
is attributed to Good being higher in the electromagnetic spectrum
than Evil.
#31 - Law of Non-anthropomorphic Antagonism
(from utmwilliams@msuvx1.memphis.edu)
All ugly, non-humanoid alien races are hostile, and usually hell-bent on destroying humanity for some obscure reason.
LOL it's hilarious! Oh, and in reference to Minmei... I'm not sure what the series is called, but it's true, the idiot girl defeats an entire armada of green ugly aliens by singing a love song in the middle of space... Anyway, here's the link to the place, if you want to give the owners proper credit.
Daremo's Anime Page! Enjoy!
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 06:47 p.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
Playlist: Duvet - Boa
Random Thoughts: "I am falling, I am fading, I have lost it all..." - Duvet
Saturday, June 22, 2002
I <3 the lyrics of Duvet~~ "I am falling, I am fading, I am drowning... help me to breathe..." XD XD XD It's so neurotically beautiful and depressing... *sign* You can just imagine some poor psycho girl (who just happens to be the main character of an anime series) singing it... Ok, no, that's Lain.
I'm at work right now (brought a burned cd to listen to on the computer), and since it's Saturday, there are no calls for me to answer and I'm bored as hell. I spent an hour drawing weird and strange designs on a piece of nice printer paper *takes a peek, grimaces*, got tired of that. The cd is already on its second run, so it won't hold my attention for long (until it gets to Chemistry's "You Go Your Way", that is, XD). So, a fellow worker told me I could go online as long as other people don't find out (there's only one other agent in the real estate office I'm working at...). And here I am, blogging...
To amuse myself, I'm reading Vinita's archived entries. *giggle* yeah, sure, Vinita-chan, you don't dream about every guy being gay... ehem... >_> Anyway, it's only exactly 2 weeks til Ka-chan's birthday. And I still haven't gotten her birthday present... -_-;; It's cos I don't have any money~~ XO I have to wait until July to get my allowance, and I only have $20 from Dad. *pout* I usually spent more than $20 on Ka-chan, so that's not enough, not to mention if I'm going to buy anime/manga goodies for Ka-chan, there's no way I'm not going to buy anything for myself. I still have to finish collecting YYH, after all (that and others). I want to start buying Kodomo no Omocha. I read volume 1 at Borders. It's so funny! I nearly bust a gut trying not to laugh at the store. Ugh, oh yeah, I also read El-Hazard vol.1 there, and it looks like even though Ifurita is the same as in the OVA, Makoto is still falling in love with Wanderers' version of Rune Venus, the itty-bitty goody two-shoes. I think I prefer the OVA versions... How'd I get from Ka-chan to anime... heh, scratch that.
Speaking of Ka-chan's birthday, what should I get her anyway? Should I bring her all the dled manga I have? >_> naw, that's just cheap... I'll probably have to go to R99 for some manga. Her birthday's on a Saturday, so that means if I want to spent quality time with her I'm going to have to arrive on Thursday or Friday, and probably stay Sunday too... Except if I stay Sunday, I'm gonna have to go to church with her... >_> and after that hers and Daniel's piano lesson. XP Last time I stay for her piano lesson, I fell asleep on the teacher's couch, and they put a blanket over me, cos me and Ka-chan stayed up really late... I can't remember what we were doing, but it coulda been anything from staying online long past the time her parents said we could be online, to sparkling over her magazines, to talking about random stuff and listening to music. I also coulda been reading manga at her. At her, as opposed to to her, because she never really listens, just quietly looks at the pictures and waiting for me to turn the page and talking myself hoarse. I don't know why I bother, but she seems to get the gist of all the stories anyway, so I guess something is getting through to her. Ne, Ka-chan, PLEASE don't get fruit or taro root layered cake, PLEASE. It's just too ABC a thing to do! I mean, be a normal person and order a chocolate or mocha flavored cake, ne? Cake and fruit is NOT a good mix. Cake and ice cream is okay, though.
Ack! I just remembered! I have to bring entertainment! But I haven't gotten my membership at Movie Image yet. I guess I'll just have to borrow on my neighbor Sherry's account again. Hope she's reactivated it... >_<; Ne, Ka-chan, you have to tell me what you want. There's all sorts of anime there. Have you ever seen Lost Universe? It's also by the creators of Slayers. There's also CCS, if you... but I'm not sure if it's dubbed or subbed. Didn't check. No KKJ, sorry. Ne, you wanna go see MIB II with me? We can go the weekend of your b-day. I've never seen a movie in SF before. ^_^ (just as long as we don't have to take the bus. Busing in SF is scary)
I've reverted to Kazaa again, but I don't feel like it's as fast as AG. And there are less songs too. It only gets up to my regular speed when I'm not doing anything else on my computer. How sad.
I read some more BOI last night (part of the reason I was so reluctant to get up for work this morning), and I was a little nonplussed to discover that the series seems to have a trend of Anotsu-obsessing Rin... So now instead of having an air of Manji/Rin, it feels more like Anotsu/Rin... O_O It's so confusing~ I hate it when mangakas don't give out clear-cut answers like that, leaving the whole thing up to the reader. I know it's supposed to be a bloody sword-fighting series, but all the morality in it is twisted. This is why I like Clamp so much. They're so clear-cut. Sakura goes with Syaoran, Touya goes with Yukito/Yue, Yasha-oh goes with Ashura, Sorata goes with Arashi, Lantis goes with Hikaru (and Eagle), Subaru goes with Seishiro, etc. and so forth. Uh, I'm not sure about Angelic Layer yet. The characters in that series are just a tad beyond the usual Clamp weirdness for me to understand. Not to mention the whole new relaxed artstyle is throwing my Clamp-sense off. Comparing RG Veda and Tokyo Babylon with Card Captor Sakura and Clover and Chobits, and one can see how much the artstyle as changed. RG Veda was full of art, so much detail was put into everything, leaving almost nothing to the imagination. That was when Clamp was still a ten-women group. Then Tokyo Babylon came and the art-style was simpler, as well as the group having less members. With CCS, the artstyle was simple, but pretty and cute, with less "color" in the blacks and whites. Clover and Chobits were... well, the art was still good, but the artstyle in Chobits and Angelic Layer looks a LOT different from the style in Clover and CCS. The characters' eyes are so... "full" anymore, smaller, and more normally proportioned. With only 4 people in Clamp, I supposed there's only so much they can do, but in X/1999, there was quite a bit of detail and effort put into the art. Then again, I supposed if the series is more serious, the art's more detailed, and if the series is relaxed, the art is more relaxed (and sparse)... ... Was I going somewhere with this train of thought?... -_-; Er... yeah... I just kinda digressed into a lecture... Hm, it's a little past 11:30 now. Ivy should be coming to take over my shift anytime soon.
Keiko's eyes were glued to the computer screen at 10:41 a.m..
"It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature, and everlasting beauty of monotony." - Benjamin Britten
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Friday, June 21, 2002
Heheh, ok, maybe I cheated a little on one of the questions... but I like the result.
Ack! Woe is me! *feigns dramatic faint* Fanfiction.net is shut down for *checks* HARDWARE UPGRADES!!! NOOOOOOoooooooooo!!!! My only source of boredom alleviation! Gone! How will I EVER pass my time??
In case you couldn't tell, that was a case of mockery/sarcasm.
Ugh, feeling just a tad more than woozy... did that make sense? @_@ Anyway, here's what I did yesterday that's straining my eyes so much today (and thus, giving me a headache. What a brilliant deduction!) Eugene came over about midday yesterday, lending me Blade of Immortal 2-11 minus 5, which I immediately began consuming, because, after all, everybody is a consumer. Er, digressing. Anyway, when I got to book 4, Dad called, I arranged my little stay at his house, and went to take a shower before he arrived. Right in the middle of my shower (well, it was more like towards the latter end), Eugene comes back and repeatedly rings my doorbell. That bastard. I had to get dressed in a hurry, and by then Eugene had IVY come downstairs and knock on my door. Turns out he and his friends wanted to borrow my basketball. Why does everyone want to borrow my basketball? It's not even fully inflated! But Ivy solved that problem cos she had one of those pumps you use for bikes. So, they left, I went back and started reading BOI again. Dad comes, I go, bring all the volumes of BOI with me, as well as a disc Eugene lent me that had chapters of Shaman King on it, dled from Manga Screener(<--linked). I got to Dad's place, and started reading Shaman King on his laptop. There's a definite disadvantage to staring at a laptop screen as opposed to a moniter. At least to me. My head was pretty woozy by the time I finished. Then I finished BOI book 4, and wished I had book 5. Dad took me to dinner at China Village. Spicy food! Woohoo~ ^.^ Anyhow, came back, took walk with dad (cos he insisted that we need to exercise after we eat...), came back (again), and I decided to watch HuanZhu Ge Ge. I watched it up till I was too sleepy to stay awake, and by then I'd finished episode 7. And that brings me to today, where the slightest movement brings waves of pain to my poor lil head. Ugh... need... Advil...Liquid...Gel...Caps...... So why am I still staring at a computer screen? Cos I'm an idiot and a bored one at that. Dad's currently out, but he promised to drop me off at Borders in the afternoon, so I can read the manga there. ^______^ I have such a nice dad! (okay, not usually, but when he hasn't seen me in a while he tends to let me do whatever I want. I expect that'll change in a few days.)
Ch' I just went to check my hotmail account (mostly to empty the brimming junk mail folder), and there were 21 messages from Hotmail Member Service telling me my account was too full and would I like an upgrade.
I'm at my dad's place right now. After about two weeks of disappearance, he calls me up yesterday to see why I've been repeatedly calling his house. Anyway, mom says I can stay over for a while, which I'll do, because dad gives me a lot more free rein than mom, who's always telling me to do this and do that. v_v Dad just lets me do whatever I want. Nice.
A while ago, I discovered, to my infinite dismay, that I like the color yellow. And coupled with my growing realization that this new layout is rather too sombre, my subconscious has started designing a new layout, all in butter yellow... I've got to keep this layout up for as long as I can though.
Oro... The last chapter of Hikago wasn't exactly a cliffhanger, but still enough for me to wonder about what's going to happen next.
Oh yeah, Eugene's uncle's going back to China (O__O Lucky...) and he might be able to get some stuff. I wish I could go back to China... *sniff* Then I could maybe dissuade my idiot cousin for following a girl to college... It's not fair~~ he promised he'd come to the U.S. for college! *pouting and totally ignoring the fact that immigration is at an alltime low ever since 911*
Anyway, Eugene also said he got Blade of the Immortal from book 1-11! Missing book 5 but oh well, can read that at Borders. They have lots of manga.
LOL I was looking for quotes, and shamefully I've resorted to Yahoo search. But I found some quite interesting music quotes.
:: A good composer does not imitate; he steals. - Igor Stravinsky
:: Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains. - John Philip Sousa
:: People whose sensibility is destroyed by music in trains, airports, lifts, cannot concentrate on a Beethoven Quartet. - Witold Lutoslawski
:: Music was invented to confirm human loneliness. - Lawrence Durrell
:: Composers shouldn't think too much -- it interferes with their plagiarism. - Howard Dietz
:: Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite. - Thomas Carlyle
:: There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between. - Sir Thomas Beecham
:: Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. - Red Auerbach
Gah! Audiogalaxy has been forced shut like Napster!! *sob* Now I'll have to go back to slow Kazaa... assuming it's still alive, of course.
I read Angelic Layer today~~ XD XD XD Only the first volume, but it's so kawaaaiiii~~~ Of course, usually anything Clamp is good, so I'm not suprised. I AM surprised that Angelic Layer has already been released in the US... along with Mars, Juline, DRAGON KNIGHTS!!! O.o Ok, I totally didn't expect Dragon Knights to be out already. I mean, the author wrote Lumen Lunae, after all. Anyway, a whole bunch of stuff has come to the US without me noticing.
