This Version Shi no Yume v.1 Sweet Shinigami Layout Designed by Kauru and Keiko Best viewed at 1024 x 768 Me Name: Keiko Yuu (alias) Age: 16 Email: silverkitsunekei@yahoo.com AIM: silverkitsunekei Weblogs Kauru - Innocent Masquerade - One of my best friend's. Kawaii blog! Wonderful graphics! Kauru - Jean T.'s Live Journal - Um... Kauru's livejournal. Maryam - Ri - One of my best friends' blog. Eugene - I don't know... you might hate this guy's guts... Sherry - Aquarium - Pretty layout. Vinita - Tsubasa - Wai~~! This has got to be one of my favorite blogs ever! Go look! Go look! Links K & K's Collective - Kauru and my site. Visit it, I dare you...<--Sorry, unlinked right now because I'm suspicious of who's viewing this page... Bishounen Paradise - Kauru's Community/Club More About Me Birthday: 3.23.85 If anyone wants to send me a present... Favorite Color: Blue, almost any shade. The only reason this blog isn't blue right now is cos I haven't had time to make a new layout yet. Interests: Books, anime/manga, art, and many others. Zodiac: Aries Element: Fire Loves: Pretty things, sleeping, my cat, listening to music, sleeping, drawing, reading, sleeping, duets, lying on a grassy hill and looking up at clouds, did I mention sleeping? Hates: Getting dirty, tests, people who nag, politics, non-fiction, daddy-long-legs, cities where you can't see the starry night sky, ugly things. Current... Manga: Hunter X Hunter, Yami no Matsuei, DNAngel, Gravitation, Petshop of Horrors. Anime: Dragonball, Dragonball Z, Pokemon (heheheh...). (Basically everything and anything that's on tv right now.) Books: The Scarlet Letter (for school), Starship Troopers, The Door into Summer, various fanfiction, when I have time. Music: Digimon songs (namely Maeda Ai), Do As Infinity, Michelle Branch. Waiting for: 1)The new library to be finished so I don’t have to walk so far from home anymore. 2)The Captal’s Tower by Melanie Rawn, the conclusion to the Exiles series. 3)My allowance. Looking forward to: A new violin teacher (Yay! Ben agreed to take me as as student!!!), bedtime, the weekends, my art class every Saturday, Winter Vacation (cos my mom says we might go visit relatives ^_^). Favorite... Manga: Yu Yu Hakusho, Hunter X Hunter, Yami no Matsuei, Petshop of Horrors, Mobile Police Patlabor, RG Veda, Ranma ½. Anime: Vision of Escaflowne, Gundam Wing, Fushigi Yuugi, Digimon, Yami no Matsuei, Cardcaptor Sakura, Kodomo no Omocha. Couplings: Touma/Seiji (*dreamy sigh*), Kurama/Hiei (they’re perfect for each other), Heero/Duo (very dynamic), Chichiri/Tasuki (awww...), Yamato/Taichi (*another dreamy sigh*), Subaru/Seishiro (wow... what a obsessive relationship...), Daisuke/Ken (mmn...), Satoshi/Shigeru (Shishi!!), Yasha/Ashura (*sniff* so sad...), Noa/Asuma (Kawaii~~!!), Sakura/Syaoran (I know they’re a bit young...), Shinji/Rei (I can hope, can't I?), Van/Hitomi (alas, it is not to be... why did Hitomi have to go back?), Lantis/Hikaru (I thought, and thought, and finally decided that I liked Lantis with Hikaru better. :P), Sorata/Arashi (Sorata was so devoted...), Satsuki/Yuuto (I bet the damn computer killed Yuuto cos it was jealous.), Tenchi/Ryoko (I’m pretty sure they ended up together). Ice Cream Flavor: Mint Chocolate Chip, Kona Chip (yum...). Food: Anything Chinese, spaghetti, pizza (as long as it's not oily), roast beef sandwich on light rye with everything except tomatoes and with extra onions and dijon mustard (occasional sprouts too). ^_^; CHOCOLATE POCKY STICKs!!! Pastime: Sleeping or reading or drawing. Time of Day: From 11:00pm to 6:00 am. Words: Esoteric, nocturne. Music: Classical, J-pop, and J-rock. Bands: Glay, Savage Garden, The Brilliant Green, Two-Mix, Legolgel, L'Arc~en~Ciel. Singers: Gackt, Sakamoto Maaya, Kotani Kinya. Seiyuu: Seki Tomokazu, Toshihiko Seki, Ogata Megumi. Songs: "Missing You", "Asrun Dream", "Oasis", "Kuroi Tsubasa", "September Rain", "Glaring Dream", "Jikuu Ryouku", "Melody", "Yubiwa", "Rhythm Emotion", "To the Moon & Back", "Crash & Burn", "Gravity", "Spirit Dreams Inside", "Iris", "Uninvited". Anime Songs: "Eden", "Wild Wind", "Aoi Jiyuu Shiroi Nozomi", "Wild Wind Boys", "Cruel Angel’s Thesis", "Velvet Underworld", "Beautiful Alone", "Tokimeki no Doukasen", "Butterfly", "Kaze", "Moon Fighter", "Ashitawa Atashino Kazega Fuku". Can You Say... Random? Must have been a sloth in my past life. Want to be a sloth again in my next life. (Or maybe a bear, so I can hibernate!) My first anime love: Shiryu from Saint Seiya (I was only 3 at the time ^_^;;) My current anime love: Ishida Yamato. I'm a sucker for: Red hair (real red hair, not dyed) and the colors silver and blue. According to Select Smart I am: Date Seiji or Hashiba Touma - YST(wild victory dance) Ken - Digimon (I thought so...) Takaishi Takeru or Ishida Yamato - Digimon (whoa, brothers...) Owner of Crests of Reliability, Courage, and Friendship - Digimon (my first three) Chichiri or Tasuki - FY(Wow, both my favorite characters) Kurosaki Hisoka or Tatsumi Seiichirou - YnM(Yep, I’m a miser... ^_^;) Hiragizawa Eriol - CCS(Woo hoo!) Li Syaoran or Yue - CCS(Wow, all the coolest guys...) Duo Maxwell - GW(Yata! Though I wasn’t really surprised.) Van Fanel or Folken Fanel - Tenkuu no Escaflowne (brothers again... what is it with me?) Ryoko or Yosho - Tenchi Muyo(Finally a girl!) Kishuu Arashi or Nataku - X/1999 (anther girl!) Quotes "A women with a mole in the pathway of her tears is destined to have a life full of them." - Kaji, Neon Genesis Evangelion. "Let the flames burn brighter, Touda, burn away my eternal life with the dark flames of hell..." - Tsuzuki, Yami no Matsuei. Genral Links Anipike - THE place to find links on your favorite anime and manga. Pitas - I love pitas ^_^ Fanfiction.net - Wow. Whoever came up with this is a genius. (Speaking as a lover of fanfiction, of course. ^_^) Wishlist 1. Mobile Police Patlabor manga by Masami Yuki (yep, the entire 30-some volumes!) 2. DSL 3. Cardcaptor Sakura manga 4. A new violin 5. Money! 6. More free time!!! 7. More sleep... 8. Music video of Utada Hikaru's song "Distance"

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I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: I Wish - Morning Musume Feeling... fine Monday, November 19, 2001 Morning Musume is weird... They keep on changing members, yet they still topped Utada Hikaru in sales some time ago. I saw the Harry Potter movie last Saturday. It was pretty good. It was just as good as the book was, which means it wasn't spectacular, but left a pleasant buzz behind. My favorite scenes were the Quidditch match and the winter scene where Harry lets his owl fly into the sky. *glows* I love scenes like that where the camera sweeps in and captures the glory of flying. Other than that, my weekend was sorta normal and less than satisfactory. I didn't finish the picture in art class like I wanted to, so I had to go to the art teacher's house today to finish it. It looks absolutely beautiful! *goes googly-eyed and sparkles appear in the background* Yes, I know I'm just praising myself, but if you could see it, then you would know what I'm talking about. My teacher's having the picture framed, and as soon as that stupid art show's over, I can bring it home and put it on my wall. I wish I could scan it and put it up online, but I think it's too big. Oh well. Thanksgiving this week. I was going on a guilt trip about whether or not I should spent it with my dad because he was sick, when he just up and disowns me cos I didn't call him. He says he might have heart problems, and he asked me to call him every morning and every night to make sure he was alright. I forgot one day, and the next day I call back, and he starts yelling at me. I think he's just making a big deal out of nothing. Disowning me! Ch'! What's with that? Just cos I didn't call him one day. I'm definitely spending Thanksgiving with my mom. Also cos her friends promised to bake me a pumpkin pie if I spent Thanksgiving with my mom and her friends. ^-^ Pumpkin pie's my favorite kind of pie. Keiko stared up at the clouds at 08:42 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: Paradox - W-inds (^_^ yeah I'm stilling listening to this song) Feeling... happy Monday, November 12, 2001 Wai~~!!! I've said this before, but I love Paradox!! So cool!! And I found the lyrics to it too!! Too bad there weren't any translations. ;_; *goes crazy over the song* Oh, yeah, Ka-chan, I'm NOT in love with W-inds. I'm just in love with their music and the voice (who is it? Ryohei?). Also, Ryuichi is kinda creepy looking... saw him on Hey^3 the other day and got totally freaked out. Now, Keita and Ryohei, on the other hand, are CUTE! I kinda prefered Ryuichi before when his hair was crinkled. It definitely improved his looks. Keiko stared up at the clouds at 10:02 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: Paradox - W-inds Feeling... smug (cos I got Paradox!!) Monday, November 12, 2001 On second thought, I'll just run along to Ka-chan's website for lyrics. Hopefully she has them. Besides, what are best friends for, ne? ^_~ Keiko stared up at the clouds at 09:49 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: Paradox - W-inds Feeling... exalted Monday, November 12, 2001 Yata! I finally got Paradox!!! I've been waiting to get W-inds songs for forever! The last time I searched for W-inds on Kazaa, I found only Forever Memories and Feel the Fate. Paradox is such a kakkoi song! Inari I wish I could speak Japanese fluently so I could sing this song! I'm definitely going to get the W-inds cd I saw at Kingstone Bookstore the other day, whether Jean wants it or not. ^_^ *runs off to J-Seek to find lyrics to Paradox* Keiko stared up at the clouds at 09:41 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: I Wish - Morning Musume Feeling... a little out of it *blinks* Monday, November 12, 2001 Ugh... I'm in a fanfiction-induced stupor... Pokemon flavored... with a good dash of Shishi... Keiko stared up at the clouds at 09:28 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: {none} Feeling... sick and pissed Sunday, November 11, 2001 I feel so sick! Ugh! Sore throat and runny nose aren’t allowed to mix, I'm sure. It’s the worst combination. On top of that I have something close to a migraine. My week has been moderately miserable. It started out bad and just kept on getting worse. On Monday, I go to school, and for some reason, everyone is rather mean to me. Nothing much happened that day except for our Statistics teacher changing our seats, and I got stuck with 3 seniors who I don’t know if I could get along with or not. Not to mention since Statistics was for not-so-smart seniors who probably couldn’t get into Calculus and I’m a junior in the middle of it all, I wasn’t sure if my group mates were even smart or not (i.e. handy in a group test). Other than that, I was fine, except my room just got repainted after a pipe leak from upstairs over the weekend, and my room was still a mess, which meant I couldn’t sleep in it for a while, so I had to sleep in the living room in a sleeping bag. The floor was way too hard. The next day, I find (happily) that my group mates are kinda smart after all, so maybe I won’t have to worry, but to my utter dislike, government class gets worse and worse. One Wednesday, I start feeling sick, just a sore throat, but it was really uncomfortable. I wanted to go home after my morning classes so I could sleep or something, but I’d promised Karen that I’d go over to Franklin Elementary School to coach some beginning string students. So, I go with Karen to the school, and it turns out I’d have to handle the little buggers all on my own, since the strings teacher was home with a sick kid. The little group of six 4th-5th graders that I had staring up at me adoringly (or rather, at my violin) the entire period were rather nice. I haven’t seen anyone so enthusiastic about playing an instrument as those six kids. I was indignant to discover that only one planned to play the cello, and none of them wanted to play the viola. Oh well, can’t have everything. I was a little dismayed that none of them had their instruments yet (I ended up showing them my violin and telling them about various parts of it), and more than a little dismayed when it became obvious that they were too eager to get their hand on my violin. I didn’t want them to play with it (Karen told me not to give them my violin), so I had to make up some lame excuse about how they were too small to use a full size violin. Fortunately they bought it. After I was done I had to catch a bus home. By then my little sore throat had developed into a full-scale headache and I was too dizzy to walk, let alone carry myself, my (heavy) backpack and my (really heavy) violin case. I went home, I did some math homework, my dad picked me up for a last violin lesson before my exam on Saturday, and my teacher yells at me for not playing well. Ch’! Who could play well when they’re about to collapse? Then my teacher had to go and remind me that besides the three pieces I prepared for the exam, I was also to be tested on scales, arpeggios, chromatic scales (ick), dominant and diminished sevenths (eep!), and double stop scales. Oh what a way to ruin my mood. Just last week I was actually feeling optimistic about the exam, now I was back to frantically practicing and worrying myself to pieces. What a horrible day that turned out to be… Once again, I was reduced to sleeping in the living room. On Thursday I woke up so sick my mom let me stay home. That didn’t help that much, since I couldn’t sleep comfortably anywhere anymore except on my own bed (ahh, my nice 6-inch thick futon...). I was groggy, had a really bad migraine, and a sore throat that hurted like hell. And there was no medicine at home! How was I supposed to get better w/o medicine?! I was really weak, and barely had the strength to keep myself breathing. I had to stop and catch my breath every time I moved. What was worse was that I had I.S. classes that day too, so I had call and cancel them. I got a little better by Friday, so I decided to go to class. Baaaaaaaad decision... Halfway through second period a dizzy spell hit me so hard I could barely keep myself from slumping over in my chair. Barely made it home in one piece, and for some reason, the world kept on spinning around me in a surreal way. Of course, that meant I couldn’t practice violin like I’d planned to. I felt a little better by afternoon, and practiced a bit that night. And even though my room wasn’t ready and there was still stuff all over the lower half of my bed, I slept curled up against my pillow in my room that night. Other than the fact that I had a vivid and terrifying nightmare that just had too much plot to be a dream, I slept rather well (more about that later). The next day, I woke up feeling a lot better than I’d felt for the last few days, and was actually able to sit back and relax. My mom went out with a friend and left me at home to do some final practicing before my exam at 4:12 at Hayward. My dad was supposed to pick me up at 2:00 so that we could go and pick my piano accompanist up and get to Hayward in time for me to warm up before my exam, but noooooo. Like always, my dad got here half an hour late, with absolutely no good excuses (he didn’t even apologize!), and we went on our merry way. It took us more than an hour to get to Hayward, because of the stupid traffic jam (it was Saturday and raining for Inari’s sake! What the hell was everybody doing out there on the highway?). I’d started out nervous and agitated, and by the end of the car ride I was downright depressed. I think I did really well on the three pieces I prepared (well after all, I did spent more than 2 months on them), and I did good on scales and arpeggios, but rather bad on the dominant and diminished sevenths (I don’t get them! They’re weird!). I thought I did rather okay on the sight-reading for someone who hadn’t prepared for that, but I really blew it on the aural test. At least the last half of it. I don’t know what a cadence is! I don’t know the difference between a melody from the classical period and the baroque period or the impressionistic period (I didn’t even know that was a period!). Argh! Makes me pissed off just thinking about it. Anyway, I thought that was that and I could finally go home and sleep or something, but my dad told me he wanted to drop by his office so he could get something. Except his office was all the way on the other side of the bay and I was starving after about 7 hours with no food. I’d expected to go straight home and then my mom would take me out to dinner, but my dad insisted on going to his office. I nearly had a fit in that car. The really horrible part was that there seemed to be traffic jams on every highway in California because it took us over an hour to get to his office (still raining, mind you), and over 2 hours to get back home. I almost threw a tantrum. I mean, I was stuck in that car with my dad for over 3 hours! I can’t stand him for that long! It didn’t help that I was really hungry (and I get bitchy when I’m hungry) and that we were both in a bad mood. I nearly screamed myself hoarse yelling at my dad (him yelling back at me as well) about how stupid he was to take me on that detour. When I finally got home, still huffing from the hundredth argument I had with my dad, my mom was waiting for me. She said since she knew I was hungry (I called her on my dad’s cell phone and ranted at her about how hungry I was, for the lack of better things to do), she bought something that would hold me up until we get to the restaurant. Guess what it was... one measly little sandwich. No, not even a full sandwich. HALF a sandwich... As soon as I was finished I was demanding more, but by then we’d arrived at the restaurant. Dinner was good, at least I wasn’t hungry anymore. While I was gone for the exam, my mom had cleaned up my room for me, or, at least, she’d moved everything back to its original places. I’m not going to even mention the stacks of books and papers left sitting on my other futon... At least I could sleep well. Didn’t have any nightmares last night. I suppose that was good, except that the nightmare that I’d had the night before kinda left my hanging, and I really wanted to know how it would have ended. The nightmare that I’d had was really bizarre and realistic. It had a whole bunch of weird stuff like a scene in an orchestra, Terry from Batman Beyond, Ookido-hakase from Pokemon, and a mummy monster from The Mummy. I can explain the last three, since I'd been watching some cartoons on Friday, but it was still really strange, almost like someone went through my mind and digged up all these things, then created a story complete with a plot as a nightmare for me. When I woke up drenched in sweat, it really left me at a cliffhanger. I slept well last night, though, and today was quite relaxing. I did my biology homework already, so I'd have time to other stuff later. No school tomorrow, not that it makes much of a difference to me. I'm gonna stay up late to watch Disney version of Hercules on channel 20. It's not until 2:00, for some reason. =_= I'm already getting tired though, so maybe I'll just set my alarm clock or something. Keiko stared up at the clouds at 09:43 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: Everything You Want - Vertical Horizon Feeling... sleepy Friday, November 2, 2001 Ack! I just read Kauru-chan's blog and I noticed something very scary: she's starting to sound like me!!! Seriously!I mean, sneaking around printing pretty bishie pics behind her dad's back, going totally into J-pop, and now she talks like me! I must be rubbing off on her, though I don't know how, since I haven't seen her in months... Keiko stared up at the clouds at 09:42 p.m. I want to be a bird, to soar through the clouds, to feel the wind in my face, the sun on my back, to be an angel in the sky; but I'm not an angel; these imaginary wings of mine are stained as black as soot, and I am forever grounded, forever looking up at the sky, forever yearning for something that can't be mine... Playlist: Yesterday & Today - Do As Infinity My favorite part of the song (and in my opinion, the only good part of the song) starts at 3 minutes and 33 seconds and lasts till the end. Feeling... {none} Friday, November 2, 2001 New month, new page. I wish I could say that. Kauru says she tries to archive every month. I just seem to archive whenever the entries get longer than that column on the left, or whenever the page seems long enough and I remember to. Anyway, I'm kinda worried about chamber music for school. Karen's making the groups this weekend, and Phyllis says that she already knows what group she'll be in: she'll be with Gene and Jonah. Predictably, it'll be a quartet, which means one other lucky person will get to play with the best in the orchestra. Maybe Moon-Young, or one of the two really good freshman guys who scored right below Phyllis and me on the audition. I have a feeling that I'll be forced to lead my own group, which I am vehemently against! I don't like that, since I never seem to get any really good or challenging music to play. Maybe I can email Karen and voice my opinions... Too lazy... I should go do something about Chinese SAT IIs... I should study... I don't wanna study... I feel like I'm prepared enough, seeing that I'm Chinese and I grew up speaking and writing Chinese, except I keep on having these horrible visions of myself missing one single question on the test and live in shame for the rest of my life. I suppose it's too much to ask of anyone to score perfect on the test, but still, I feel like I ought to at least try. Ah, quit worrying, Kei-chan, I'm sure I'll do fine. I just hope I get enough sleep. Amazing, the things I worry myself to pieces over these days... Keiko stared up at the clouds at 08:35 p.m.