8:55 PM

My phone seems to take great pleasure in going BLAAAAARGH and dying, especially when the time comes to charge the battery. If you can't get me, it's probably because of that. No idea what's wrong with it, it said it was charging this morning, but when I checked earlier, it was dead. Blargh.

8:49 PM

Look, I can draw birdies!

I'd love to say something profound, but... birdies.

Friday

8:41 PM

I came, I went, I... took a nap from two to six, and now I'm going back to sleep.

I wonder why I never think of things like "sleep sufficiency" when it's during days that I have school the next day.

Thursday

9:26 PM

Well, um, I had my Chinese paper today, and I forgot to bring my dictionary when I went to school in the morning. So after my orals, I had to go home and get it, then come back. But I hung around for an hour or so at home, and had breakfast outside, so it was okay. *eyes* I hope I don't fail. But I think I will. And if I fail, I need to go for Chinese tuition, and it was hard enough shaking it off in secondary school. XO I mean, I was taking Chinese tuition since I was seven years old. >.>;;x Nine years of Chinese tuition. >.>;;;;;x

And while I was writing my Chinese essay, I realised towards the end that I was actually giving an account of a Mary Sue in the first-person role of victim and subsequent spawn. Of the Mary Sue, that is. The topic I was supposed to write on was "an event that helped me understand the meaning of life". She was the event; I figured that Mary Sues are like a natural disaster like that.

Ingrid: It's called Diabolo, by Kei Kusunoki and Kaoru Ohashi. They're twin sisters apparently, and they've got a site here. But there is /no/ info for the manga online. *eyes* I don't even know the main characters' names! In Japanese, that is. (and even looking up the chinese in my dictionary this afternoon... one of those words doesn't seem to exist. *blink*)

Watched Scooby Doo with Jo-chan today. It was okay, pretty funny, but I'm sulking a little that I didn't get a Chamber of Secrets trailer. Wah.

Public service announcement! KnMnM 18 is out in Chinese, and boy is it depressing. >.>;;x

Wednesday

10:34 PM

You know, re-reading it, the female character wasn't that bad. And justified in her reactions, I guess.

But I'm still immensely gratified that they killed her. Because I don't see how it could have been resolved otherwise.

I really, really like this manga.

8:48 PM

During the econs paper today, first the air-conditioning went out. Since the a/c in this school does that /all/ the time, no one commented, just "..."ed and continued doing the paper. T'was towards the end, or so, during the MCQ.

Then maybe ten, twenty minutes after that, almost all the /lights/ went out. We ended up completing the paper in near total darkness, with an extra three minutes after the lights came back on. It was an interesting experience, except I, uh, couldn't see my paper. (at least, not very well. /some/ lights were on.)

8:07 PM

Picked up a volume of random manga when I stopped by J8 for lunch. Late lunch. /Really/ late lunch. I was meaning to eat /before/ I went to school at one, but, uh, I didn't. So I ended up having lunch at 4.30.

Anyway. Random manga. Not random yaoi manga, but the two male leads are interesting and cute enough. I didn't think that I would like it, because the female that was introduced was kind of... pathetic and irritating.

Then they killed her.

Words cannot express how much that delighted me.

Tuesday

9:19 PM

See, mildly reckless is looking up at the sky and seeing that it's completely overcast, and thinking vaguely that maybe an umbrella would be in order, but don't look for one, anyway.

Pretty stupid is when it starts to rain heavily, and one leaves the house without an umbrella.

/Really/, /absolutely dumbfuck/ is when one is wearing jeans that trail to the floor while one is at it.

*eyes* I'm dry /now/, but walking to J8 was a cold and soggy experience. Sitting in Coffee Bean was an even colder experience, but it wasn't raining inside the place, so I wouldn't say anything about soggy. And I got my notes wet, too, but my econs notes dried out in the food court, since I was sitting under one of the incredibly hot and bright lights. /I/ dried out under one of the incredibly hot and bright lights, but I need a shower. Rained-on hair. Ick. Rained on clothes. Ick.

I'm mildly surprised to find that not only do I remember a good chunk of econs even though I hadn't touched it through the entire holidays, I still in fact /like/ econs. And tomorrow I have an afternoon paper so I can sleep in. Mmm, sleeping in.

Monday

9:08 PM

So I left KnMnM 16 lying around, and my mom saw it, and she told me that I was reading gay comics, to which my first urge was to say "no shit," but I just told her that it wasn't. Because, uh, I don't think I could convince her that Ishuca is a girl. And I think I have too much respect for him, anyway.

Want Wild Adapter 2. It's coming out soon, and WA1 was fascinating. *eyes* 'course, might help if I could read Japanese, but oh well. Bio today was so-so, I'll be lucky to get 20 for the essay questions, but apart from that it wasn't particularly hard. (except that the ones i couldn't do, i had the vague impression that i should have been able to do. blah.)

Chemistry tomorrow. Math tomorrow. Suuuuck. My hand hurts from all the crap I wrote during GP. My AQ was crap, and so was my summary, pretty much, but I think I got most of the points, at least.

Sunday

10:09 PM

Right, so three times today I've opened my textbook, and three times I went blaaaaaargh and gave up and went and did something else, see what I mean about study habits?

*eyes*

But /Jo-chan/ was reading Angel Sanctuary and twitching because she only had until volume 11. It must be this Angel Sanctuary vibe or something.

Saturday

10:06 PM

And chem is on the second day! You know, I have the worst study habits. /Ever/. Like the truly terrible time me and Aine decided to start getting into Angel Sanctuary last year. /Awful/ study habits.

10:04 PM

Tralala stayed over at Jo-chan's yesterday with Aine-chan, tralala, Aine says I kicked her in my sleep but I don't recall. Which, uh, is pretty duh, because I was asleep. Then when I woke up, I stepped over both her and Jo-chan to get to the cupboard where KnMnM was. Mmm, KnM. Cute. Cute, cute, cute.

Also scored Yorozuya 4 from Kino! Our collection is complete now, w00t. It's also cute, cute, cute. Studied bio, which is decidedly less cute. Kind of grasp cell division now, which is good. Kiiind of grasp genes and DNA now, which is also good. 'course, my bio paper is the /first paper of the entire week/, which is kind of... oh, fuck.

Wednesday

11:24 PM

So, uh, there's me going "Hmm, I'd better rehabilitate my sleeping habits if school is going to reopen with fecking common tests, on accounts of them being mostly morning papers, and the fact that it's very hard to write coherently when one is asleep, and waking up at 11 is satisfying but not particularly in accordance with normal school hours."

And here's me, awake and perky at 11.30pm. I suck. Whatever.

10:55 PM

You read Jane Yolen's Dragon series? I read them way back when. In Primary school sometime. And I made my Secondary school get copies when I was in the library then and actually, y'know, had a say. I loved those books. They made me cry. X.x If I could, I'd get copies, but I can't seem to find any...

Still looking for Ratha's Creature and related books.

10:21 PM

W00t. You did it yourself! And man, it's cute.

Kit, in the entirety of the series, they just hint at Ximen's "three years ago" thing. It sucks. *sulk* I like the two of them the most, I think, and they get the least air-time! Although, uh, I like them because they haven't done anything stupid, and I expect that's because they haven't got enough air-time to be dumb. And the cake scene was priceless. Funniest thing. /Ever/. XD

Borrowed more random yaoi from Jo-chan, and the first four books of KnMnM again. We watched Iron Ladies at her place earlier, because she wanted to, and Biology killed me, even though we spent a good chunk of time just talking crap about cancer. Iron Ladies was funny. Wierd, but funny, and kinda cute. It's based on a true story about a volleyball team composed of transvestites and gays that won the national championship in Thailand. It wasn't bad, the whole thing was in Thai with English subtitles. (rented evolution, too, because jo-chan said it was good. dunno, maybe watch it tomorrow.)

10:08 PM

The RK anime soundtrack 3 is /really/, /really/ good.

Which, well, shouldn't be news to me, at least, since I've had it for years. But it's really good. Yeah. I've been revisiting a few of the CDs that are collecting dust around the house, and I borrowed the FF7 soundtrack from Jo-chan again, with fullest intentions of, uh, actually listening to it, this time.

Tuesday

10:41 AM

Liz, it's because Google is sad at you for not actually writing any furuba fic. It's a hint, see. Hint. Hint.

10:28 AM

"We're running low on skin. I suggest we harvest another lesbian."

Monday

9:41 PM

Oh, Kit? Did you get Aine's SMS? Want to do lunch sometime?

9:38 PM

Scored Yorozuya 2, 3 and 6 from a manga store in Yishun. (it's getting kind of ridiculous. first kino had book 4 but /nothing else/, then they had books 1, 4, and 5, then checking back another day they had book 5 and nothing else...) It's addictive like crack. And the characters are terribly endearing. Even though APP is kind of almost gay like Ayame, but straight. And actually not very much like Ayame at all, if he'd just stop doing the hip thing.

Aine-chan took books 3 and 6, though. *sulk* Apart from that, I read through a great many set of bio notes (i like ac's notes better'n mine. but then my cell structure notes are nanyang notes, and nanyang notes are pretty crap), and I think we scored a few more volumes of random yaoi manga. The rest of a series about Japanese teenage idols or whatnot, at least, which is... really, really cute. And I have a couple of the one-shots with me, which are also... really, really cute. I think Jo-chan took the disturbing one with the 12-year-old seme... that was kind of freaky. And yet, /also/ cute.

And what rather amuses me is the existence of Shinsengumi yaoi manga. I mean... okay, Aine says it's historically supported, but... still. Shinsengumi gay. (i might have, but i think that means i'd go to hell. the art was quite pretty, though.)

Sunday

9:24 PM

Met up with Jo-chan and Aine-chan. Wanted to go to Seoul Garden, but it was dinnertime on a Sunday night, and looking for places to eat was already enough trouble, as it were, so we ended up with random stuff from the food court and sitting at the square in Taka. Aine-chan actually managed to score Yorozuya 1 from Kino in Chinese, but of /course/ the only other book they had was book 5. >.>;;x So we placed in an order at CC later.

We were /supposed/ to be studying, but didn't actually get too much of that done, instead we got a lot of random yaoi manga. Which Aine-chan took. /All/ of it. But hey, random yaoi. We're meeting up again tomorrow, and she says she'll give it back to us then. Yorozuya so far has been... fun. I mean, split personalities, random angst, and crossdressing. Cute.

Thursday

6:31 PM

They also like torturing Raiden, too. A lot.

6:27 PM

Chemistry. BLARGH. And in other news, while I really like that the horribly hot weather plagueing here for the past few weeks has finally dissipated, I like that it dissipated directly over my head a lot less. Got caught in the rain heading home yesterday. >.>x But hey, Chemistry. And rain. Mm, rain.

Been surfing Japanese MGS2 and DMC fanart sites on the side. Mm, fanart. You know what? Japanese fanartists /really/, /really/ like Vamp. I can't figure it out. I mean, I just wanted him to /die/, in the game. Really /die/. But they seem to like him a lot.

Tuesday

10:18 PM

You know what speaks badly about, uh, my ability to speak? Randomly skimming entries and realising that I don't have a clue what the hell I was talking about. And I said it.

9:51 PM

You know, as much as I'd like to be all PC and Zen about living as One with the Many Six-legged Denizens that have apparently decided to invade my house these few months, I'm... not.

That is, I'm getting /mighty/ sick of brushing ants off my arms and legs whenever I sit down at a single spot for any length of time. Usually it's this spot, but. Okay, so the ants I get are the small brown and cute kind which I don't mind removing without squishing, and they're tough so when I look down, they're generally crawling away, kind of dazed but okay. I don't mind the ants so much. But a whole bunch of other wierd insects have decided to move in, too, and those, I'm somewhat less tolerant of. If I catch any crawling across my computer screen, I tend to grab the Ty lion plushie that's sitting on top of my monitor by the head, and smack them one. Hard.

It would be funny if insects didn't ew me so much. ...Actually, it's still kind of funny. But also ew. I'm very sorry to my plushie, of course, but, er, what must be done must be done?

(the lion's perched on top of my monitor like the bear is! the bear has since been removed from monitor duty and is... *looks* currently humping the giant tarepanda on the bed. hm.)

7:40 PM

Man. Sound just should not travel that far.

Brought on by: Standing at the window and listening to the bad mix of very old dance tunes that the carnival next to J8 is playing. Including the tinny synth Star Wars theme. That's one mystery solved, at least.

7:28 PM

Kouri? *hugs*

Kit- In Chinese, the title is yin(2) se(4) yong(2) zhe(3), or, as we were walking back to my place and snarking, "the Silver... Brave Guy?" We're hoping the mangaka doesn't choose to cop out and turn the guy who looks like a girl into a girl. Well, Jo-chan has the whole set, so she might know. But.

Watched the first disc of Poor Prince. It was funny. Really wierd, but funny. And the main character is so adorable, you just want to do anything he asks of you when he gives that smile of his. Cute. /Cute/. And some bits were absolutely priceless. I let Aine have the set first, though, so I haven't seen any past the first few eps... maybe I'll borrow the set from Jo-chan. The manga set, that is.

Meimi, um, got my email?

Well, as the O-level period and the holidays to date have proven, I am entirely incapable of studying at home, and since there's no food left here anyway, I'll probably go to J8 for lunch tomorrow and study at Mos or Coffee Bean or somesuch. Anyone want to drop by and study with me, feel free. (jo-chan? aine-chan? except i'll probably be trying to rehabilitate my chemistry and biology, and not doing any econs yet.) Anyone want to drop by and say hi or something, also big on the cool. I feel pretty alone and kinda bored.

Monday

10:51 AM

Yesterday, we went out, and had ice-cream, and then got tickets for Spirit. 5.45 tickets. When we were at the mall at around 2. Ended up sitting in the corner of the cinema, leaning against an MiB display, trading around the manga and books that we brought to read. Jo-chan brought 'To Reign in Hell', Steven Brust, and I liked it. I didn't get the beginning of it much, and I was reading really fast in some places, but I liked it. Aine-chan also got a random manga with pretty art and a male character with "the bluest silver hair" that someone had ever seen, who constantly gets mistaken for a girl. It was fun.

The show itself was fun, too. Well, okay, some of it was /wonderfully/ stupid, but hey, horsies. I /like/ horsies. Aine-chan doesn't appreciate horsies enough. And the songs in the show were lovely. I don't know who the singer is (jo-chan suggests bon jovi. ?) but I thought he had a sexy voice. Aine-chan made a few noises to the effect of getting the VCD. I might, when it comes out.

Saturday

8:42 PM

I don't tend to rant, because I don't like splatting random serious negative emotion all over the blog, and besides, when I look back on it, I feel dumb. This is just me saying that I have a certain male friend that I've known for a while now, give or take a couple of years in between then and now for when he was without internet access. And I would like to do bodily violence to his person.

Not really because it's his fault, but his intent to be self-destructive is scaring the hell out of me, and the violent urges are probably mostly me being frustrated because I suggest (maybe not workable, but) solutions and alternatives, most of which seem to involve "just pick up and forget her and move on, dammit" in a few more words, and he just seems to be interested in wallowing in self-pity. I don't know. Maybe he really is trying, it just doesn't sound that way. And geez, when someone says they want to die, what the hell are you supposed to reply? "Don't"?

So he really /is/ hurt, but I can't understand it at all. And I've run out of things to say, because if the only suggestions I can offer have been rejected as him by non-workable, then I don't know what else can be done. Heck, I don't even know if he just wants to wallow. It sure seems like that, thus prompting me to really want to be able to smack some sense into him, but I'm scared that if I give him a piece of my mind, he'll, uh, kill himself.

I don't know.

3:38 PM

I finally got lunch, and then I read Atropos, which amused me very much, and now all is right with the world and I am filled with glee. /Glee/, I say. And, uh, I have tuition in half an hour. Shit.

10:12 AM

There's a funeral procession going on the road downstairs.

10:11 AM

So sometimes, 'fic ends up in the mailbox. Well, okay, 'fic ends up in the mailbox /all/ the time, but. And most of the time, I delete it without a second thought, unless it's by an author whom I know is good. 'cos otherwise, a lot of the time, it's bad.

And sometimes, a 'fic I deleted gets a lot of replies, which also end up in my mailbox. And sometimes, I go "hmm", and think maybe it's not a bad 'fic, and go to my trashbin to dig it up and take a look.

And most of the time, I'm wrong.

The moral of the story is, uh... fanfics suck. Or at least most of them do. But you knew that.

Thursday

3:57 PM

I'm very tired of people sending wierd messages to my voicemail. *blink* Most of the time, it's just background noise with no one talking. Just now I received two, one which seemed to be entirely composed of dialtone, and another that was someone going "Eh", and then hanging up. What gives? >.>;x

Wednesday

4:49 PM

Kit, yes, them. Meizhuo is the girl. Seriously. He's not skinny like Lei is, but he's got curves like a girl, just look.

It feels wierd to write or speak their names out in chinese sometimes, so I just call them, in no particular order, the girl, the geek, the jerk, and the other jerk. Points for guessing.

1:24 PM

/Oh/, and I got the most rocking, near wall-scroll size DMC Dante poster that's currently stuck up on my wall with blu-tack. Involves guns, swords, alleyways, and dust. Really gorgeous. Mmm. It's pre-empted the space that I'd hung my X wallscroll up in, but it kept falling off anyway, and I didn't have the patience to adjust it every time I went into the room.

Maybe I'll switch the X poster with the Pokemon one over my bed, and put that one into storage...

11:45 AM

Went cycling. I can still cycle, after not having touched a bike for at least four years! And then I can collapse in pain because I'm not used to that exercise. But I'm good now.

Had more ice-cream, and after cycling, went to Aine-chan's place where we watched some Meteor Garden. That show is addictive like crack, I say. It's /crap/, but /addictive/. So Jo-chan got it too, and then yesterday I went to her place and we marathoned it for 11 hours straight until 2.30am. That was pretty fun. Except I want to smack all three main characters, and thus, my favoured of the guys are the two who haven't done anything particularly stupid yet. Especially the girl (not the /girl/ girl, the guy who's a girl. i swear, he has a better figure than i do. which might not be hard. but oi).

Monday

10:19 AM

Oh, and I /finally/ got the ice-cream that I wanted.

And it only took looking in... uh, five 7-11s? But, mm. Ice-cream. Also went to Jo-chan's place yesterday (that's where i got my ice-cream. well, not at her place, at the 7-11 near her place), where I read Take A Thief (not bad. not great, but not bad, i guess. skif is cute) and borrowed a lot of stuff. So this is me with six Steven Brust novels, a volume of some series called Legend of the Five Rings, five volumes of random manga...

/Mm/. Steven Brust. Going cycling with Jo-chan and Aine later, too, and maybe we'll canoe. I would not expect to see me for some time.

10:04 AM

Well, /that/ was a waste of time.

I got up at 7am today to go for my Biology makeup lecture at 8. And when I got there, there was an unfamiliar teacher in the lecture theatre I was supposed to be in, with unfamiliar slides, and it was quite deserted, but then some guy I kind of knew was there, so we just sat down anyway.

And then my classmates started coming in. And then the question was asked, "Uh, are we supposed to be here?"

So it turned out that we weren't. Because the Year 2s were having a lecture there. And we vacated the lecture theatre and milled about outside for a while, until, by brain osmosis or temporary hiveminding or whichever, we wandered over to LT5 and sat down. For what, I don't know, 'cos there wasn't a teacher in there, either. And we just... sat there. And waited. Actually, probably most of us were waiting for 8.30 to come around, so it could truthfully be said that we waited until 8.30 and no one came, so we left. And, uh, when 8.30 came around, we left.

And I came home. I got up at 7am for /this/. >.>;;x

In other news, I have a balloon sword downstairs. Actually, it's Aine's balloon sword. There was someone in Bugis making those things, we looked, we went '...', and she got one. Pretty funny, actually, especially when we were carrying it around on the streets, because we were doing impressions of just about every sword-wielding anime guy out there. Although it kind of loses a bit of dramatic impact when you yell "Takatori! Shi-ne!" and throw the sword... and it floats.