ideal sunny holiday a.k.a massive LJ cuts
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spiderpigLists galore to celebrate the two new Konata icons. I want to grow up (lulz) to be like Konata!!! >D So anyway, I was cleaning my LJicons file and to my horror, I have over 200 Ouran icons because just the seven of them can capture every single emotion known to man. It's crazy. I so need a paid account for all these excess Ouran icons (I probably can rotate them on shifts =A=;;), my Bleach icons, and the new batch of Lucky Star (a.k.a Konata I love you) icons.
I am an icon whore.
Book List
toushokan listo
3 out of 8 are can be considered "cyber-punk" or at least, technocratic enough to be chucked to that genre. Why? Partially because P.K. Dick (PK-ing!!! lulz) is probably the numero uno on this genre, and because I need some stylistic reference for the upcoming cyber-punk short story I'm going to write. The plot and characters are more or less settled, but I need some guidelines. It'd be a little weird if I write something C++ with Murakami's Kafka-esque style. Very weird indeed.
But hey, that's an idea.
I probably just sent myself into library kami-kaze mode with all the books I have to finish within 2 weeks. The Simarillion (which I always remember as "The Simallarion" for no reason) alone will gut me. This is rightfully nuts. I'll never see the light of day now!
things i plan to get before school starts
things i plan/need to do during the next few weeks
In this terribly summarized fashion, I'm extremely excited to head back to school - wherever 'back' is. This shounds terribly dorky of me but I love school a lot. Even when I get yelled at, lose hours of sleep, go paranoid over whenever that girl in the second row looks at me because I think she thinks I'm a dumbass, get yelled at some more, I still love school. It's an unrealistic safety net where the real world cannot taint you. Sure it can touch you and leave with you with scabs all over, but at least somehow, just the pursuit of knowledge keeps everything else out.
But most people kind of dread returning to school. Frankly, I'm not looking forward to this whole socializing thing. I'm a loner and I like it that way. It's not that I don't treasure my friends, but a certain amout of indoctrination has led me to firmly belief that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there and it's devour or be devoured. I get irritated when people say that it's because I'm independent. Bull-shit. My soul is inextricably tied down to this body of mine and vice versa. I am not a sentient being in the ideal sense - so don't give me bull-shit about how I can survive by myself.
I think I read this in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - "it's not being alone that I fear, it's the loneliness" - or something to that effect, because my anti-literary brain cannot remember quotes properly. In a way, that line is painfully poignant and reminiscent of my situation (what situation you idiot, you have no situation. you're just 19. you have no situtuation to speak of!) but I feel adverse to it at the same time. I don't entirely fear being alone - and sometimes I'm not afraid of the loneliness. Like now. It's like a wave-effect. The crests and boughs (are they called that?) of the waves. Right now I'm at the bough.
N.H.K. ni Youkoso Episode 4 is like me in Akihabara. It's the whole Rajikan experience where you just go "ZOMGWTFNOMORELASERS PEW PEW" upon seeing blocks and blocks of anime merchandise and figua. Purupururin~ That kind of madness.
Darker than Black! Is! Awesome! Sorry for the limited vocab that centres around "kickass" and "awesome". I'm sure once school starts I'll start using SAT words again. At the moment, I'm still chugging through the episodes so no concrete, sane thoughts yet. Otherwise, Yoko Kanno does another spectacular job with the soundtrack again!
Apparently I mentioned "rape" in my blog and that warranted an "R" rating. I cannot find this word.
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Geek concentrate!
So anyway, I geeked out and went for the Transformers Gala Premiere yesterday! I liked it - precisesly because of the Michael Bay type of explosions and patriotism and oodles of explosions and fantastic machine vs machine (I'd say mano-a-mano) battles. The transformation scenes absolutely rocked. Especially Jazz's. If you're watching it for a good plot, please give it a miss. Otherwise, sit back relax and enjoy 2 hours of metal butt-kicking action. My main gripe is that there wasn't enough Transformers. It's more of a THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAM WITWICKY movie than Hi We're Robots in Disguise here to Save The Earth.
Hullo there! That's Optimus Prime (WHO LOOKS KIND OF LIKE OPTIMUS PRIMAL WITHOUT HIS FACE GUARD!!) with my Nerd-Transformer shirt. I accesorize to movies. Dude.
My moo mini-cards! After so long!!
'mkay. That's one hell of a LJ-post and I bid you goodbye!
I am an icon whore.
Book List
Ouran (hmm English or Chinese? Japanese is out of the question because I'm broke :x) volumes 2-10, to satiate my rekindled Ouran fandomSadly, Kinokuniya is out of stock for books 2 and 4. The Chinese words send my head spinning. It's sad how I'm more comfortable reading Japanese instead. I AM TEH LAZY.300 by Frank Miller - in order to exploit the 20% discountFuruba 22-23.Hurrah! My Furuba collection is complete! winnarz.a random novel because Umberto Eco is too troublesome to read by itself. I need some whimsy to balance it off.I ended up going to the library.Kodansha's English - Japanese Furigana dictionary. Or should I save up for the English-Japanese/Japanese-English one? Hmm.Did not get this. Shall get it next time round.
toushokan listo
- The Complete Short Novels - Anton Chekov
- Babylon Revisited and other stories - F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? - Philip K. Dick
- Devils - F. Dostoevsky
- The Silent Cry - Kenzaburo Oe
- in Bytes we travel - Lin Hsin Hsin
- A Scanner Darkly - Philip K. Dick
- The Simarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien
3 out of 8 are can be considered "cyber-punk" or at least, technocratic enough to be chucked to that genre. Why? Partially because P.K. Dick (PK-ing!!! lulz) is probably the numero uno on this genre, and because I need some stylistic reference for the upcoming cyber-punk short story I'm going to write. The plot and characters are more or less settled, but I need some guidelines. It'd be a little weird if I write something C++ with Murakami's Kafka-esque style. Very weird indeed.
But hey, that's an idea.
I probably just sent myself into library kami-kaze mode with all the books I have to finish within 2 weeks. The Simarillion (which I always remember as "The Simallarion" for no reason) alone will gut me. This is rightfully nuts. I'll never see the light of day now!
things i plan to get before school starts
- Plastic files ala perversely cute San-X ones to go with the Engrish-laden ones.
Notebooks - lots and lots of lined notebooks! To fufil my notebook obsession! (Actually I just might forgo this and buy fullscap paper and lots of binders instead. Binders are technically easier to organize...). I already have an organizer, so I just probably need one to write all my assignments on.Restock stationery - a.k.a pens, pencils, erasers (I always lose mine!!), a ruler. Knowing myself, the ruler will somehow be of anime merchandise originnew messenger bag, because all the ones in my posession are either torn, or too small- NO MORE CLOTHES ;x because a true blue dork wears the same stuff over and over again
more socks. I need more socks.
things i plan/need to do during the next few weeks
- By 8th July
E&C entries - minimum 3 kthx!Class picnic- NUS Health Checkup
- Pay USP Camp fees + collect packing list
- Read 2 books
- By 15th July
Send Tessa offflesh out GPA(ss) characters + plothit 2500 word mark- flesh out GPA(p) plotlines --> drafts out
- Buy a frame for the FF poster <33
- Read 3 books
- By 22nd July
Return library books by 18th (probably renew most of the books :D() )- Start on GPA(p) second drafts
- hit 3500 word mark for GPA(ss)
17-20th away in camp
- By 29th July
- hit 4000-4500 word mark by 24th
Mail GPA(ss)+(p) on 26thstart purchasing school supplies- room spring cleaning
- Start e-bay selling stuff :D
In this terribly summarized fashion, I'm extremely excited to head back to school - wherever 'back' is. This shounds terribly dorky of me but I love school a lot. Even when I get yelled at, lose hours of sleep, go paranoid over whenever that girl in the second row looks at me because I think she thinks I'm a dumbass, get yelled at some more, I still love school. It's an unrealistic safety net where the real world cannot taint you. Sure it can touch you and leave with you with scabs all over, but at least somehow, just the pursuit of knowledge keeps everything else out.
But most people kind of dread returning to school. Frankly, I'm not looking forward to this whole socializing thing. I'm a loner and I like it that way. It's not that I don't treasure my friends, but a certain amout of indoctrination has led me to firmly belief that it's a dog-eat-dog world out there and it's devour or be devoured. I get irritated when people say that it's because I'm independent. Bull-shit. My soul is inextricably tied down to this body of mine and vice versa. I am not a sentient being in the ideal sense - so don't give me bull-shit about how I can survive by myself.
I think I read this in Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman - "it's not being alone that I fear, it's the loneliness" - or something to that effect, because my anti-literary brain cannot remember quotes properly. In a way, that line is painfully poignant and reminiscent of my situation (what situation you idiot, you have no situation. you're just 19. you have no situtuation to speak of!) but I feel adverse to it at the same time. I don't entirely fear being alone - and sometimes I'm not afraid of the loneliness. Like now. It's like a wave-effect. The crests and boughs (are they called that?) of the waves. Right now I'm at the bough.
N.H.K. ni Youkoso Episode 4 is like me in Akihabara. It's the whole Rajikan experience where you just go "ZOMGWTFNOMORELASERS PEW PEW" upon seeing blocks and blocks of anime merchandise and figua. Purupururin~ That kind of madness.
Darker than Black! Is! Awesome! Sorry for the limited vocab that centres around "kickass" and "awesome". I'm sure once school starts I'll start using SAT words again. At the moment, I'm still chugging through the episodes so no concrete, sane thoughts yet. Otherwise, Yoko Kanno does another spectacular job with the soundtrack again!
Mingle2 - Online Dating
Apparently I mentioned "rape" in my blog and that warranted an "R" rating. I cannot find this word.
62% Geek
62%
Mingle2.com - Free Online Dating
Geek concentrate!
So anyway, I geeked out and went for the Transformers Gala Premiere yesterday! I liked it - precisesly because of the Michael Bay type of explosions and patriotism and oodles of explosions and fantastic machine vs machine (I'd say mano-a-mano) battles. The transformation scenes absolutely rocked. Especially Jazz's. If you're watching it for a good plot, please give it a miss. Otherwise, sit back relax and enjoy 2 hours of metal butt-kicking action. My main gripe is that there wasn't enough Transformers. It's more of a THE LIFE AND TIMES OF SAM WITWICKY movie than Hi We're Robots in Disguise here to Save The Earth.
Hullo there! That's Optimus Prime (WHO LOOKS KIND OF LIKE OPTIMUS PRIMAL WITHOUT HIS FACE GUARD!!) with my Nerd-Transformer shirt. I accesorize to movies. Dude.
My moo mini-cards! After so long!!
'mkay. That's one hell of a LJ-post and I bid you goodbye!
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Date: 2007-06-28 06:15 pm (UTC)And I saw a car today (some almost ordinary-looking SUV) covered with Granado Espado decals! Like a whole piece of artwork!
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Date: 2007-06-28 09:13 pm (UTC)But....OMG! all those cards! what's it for?!?!?!
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Date: 2007-06-29 06:38 am (UTC)Ah! I WANT TO SEE THAT CARRRRRR!!!
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Date: 2007-06-29 06:39 am (UTC)The cards were a promo-gimmick from LJ and Moo.