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珠.
15 November 2009 @ 10:56 pm
Yesterday was Kittylab day! Alas, all my photos are with Guppy and I am totally zonked by meds today to blog coherently. Personally. I think it's strictly for big fans and kids only because it's a little too kiddy and the price is hella steep, but anyhoo. Lame as it may be, I kinda liked the idea of being able to "personalise" and find your "inner Kitty" through some DNA game (although that does stop you from enjoying the exhibits better, but they banned photography which nobody really listened anyway. Hello people paid $38 for this of course they're going to damn well take pictures of the place!). One thing I didn't like about the game however, is that when you lose you don't get to choose the accessories to adorn your kitty with. That's how my actually-would-have-been-cuter "Inner Kitty" ended up with an eye-patch as an accessory by accident. haha. I do find it amusing that our inner kitty ID turned out pretty accurate. Guppy got "Jack of all trades" for her inner kitty, I got "perfectionist" for my inner kitty. Go figure. The picture is a little small, but mine was a one-eyed punk rock-star like kitty.

But anyway. THERE BE LOOT
 
 
今の気持ち:: contemplative
 
 
珠.
I'm reading a book because of  the anime I've watched... again.... thus i conclude that Japan needs to start making more anime about subjects that will up my personal assessment  points amongst my imaginary intellectual peers, but need the right motivation to get into it. Hey, it worked for history, no?
No Longer Human

From cover blurb:
"No Longer Human is the story of a young man caught between the disintergration of the traditions of his aristocratic provincial family and the impact of modern western ideas. Largely autobiographical, No Longer Human explores Dazai's feeling of being "disqualified from being human" - a sense of loss and anomie that remains strong in Japan even today among those who struggle to reconcile their attachements to tradition with the necessities of living in a global economy."

I am currently 66 pages into this book and it's been digestiable so far. It definitely filled in all the gaps that the anime sort of skimmed past. I am intrigued!  Best thing yet, it's only 177 pages long with 10 - 11  point font!. Thank you historical emo suicidial scholars who don't launch into walls of text inspite of your propensity to... unlike current ficiton writers of epic dictionaries. Just saying.  *fist pump* Ima clear this book by tomorrow's morning traffic jam, yo.

Anyhoo. Anime Aoi Bungaku  (which is a series of short stories based off popular Japanese literary works) is slow paced but very different. in a good, Monster kind of seinen way, I suppose. Not too inclined towards the art much, but  I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series (it may work better if one waited for each story to complete its run and watch it all at a go though. I think it would have been painfully slow to wait a week when I was watching No longer Human ) .

The story that i'm really waiting for though is Hell Screen (Jigoku Hen) and The Spider's Thread (Kumo no Ito) by Ryunosuke Akutagawa. Regular stalkers to my humble journal would know I actually finished that book last year and loved his work. Although I think my favourite work of Akutagawa has to do with the batshit young lord and his faithful retainer whose name reminded me of Digimon. They left the deepest impression on me for the whole book... except I can't remember the title. 

Post verdict:  I thought the book was a little different from the anime. The book was actually more subtle and almost devoid of exaggeration/emotion at areas where I was expecting more thoughts from the author, which were the exact areas the anime took more liberties at interpretation. The book was ironically, slightly more unsettling simply because of the matter-of-fact way he puts things across, and the very lack of written thoughts that seem to emphasise just how detached the author is from reality.
 
 
 
今の気持ち:: interested
 
 
珠.
08 November 2009 @ 12:43 am

Ahahaha I just stumbled upon this anime called  'Miracle Train -Welcome to Oedo Line'  - and I canNOT stop laughing (I'm only currently 5 minutes into the show and paused just to write this btw) , but I may just follow this because it's about anthropomorphic TRAIN STATIONS after the actual stations in Japan (aka, characters called "Roppongi,  Shinjuku, Shiodome etc)  who goes about helping ladies in trouble and you know how I LOVE me some TRAINNNNNS I just hope it doesn't take itself too seriously because based on expereince the more serious it tries to be the more I will likely burst a spleen laughing my ass off. This will be like my guilty pleasure of 'moebishe!pwp' anime of the season till something else grabs me, maybe.  

That said, why not the Yamamote Line, producers? I would think that would be the more familiar line than the Oedo? It's got more merchandise than Oedo does, that's for sure...

*goes back to watch*

Post:  oooh, Edo-Tokyo Museum was on the Oedo line, that made me giggle because after the first thought that was going through my head (which was I must've taken that line back in August when I visited that place)  I just realised this where do I even start? potential of naughty jokes that can totally come from this anime's premise alone. Hmm, guess it must be past midnight over here now.  XD

Gooooooodnight everybody!  

Post post: YOU GAIS AI IS VOICING THE DOG which mean LP you must've known about this anime and watched it on the sly haven't you? XD 
 
 
今の気持ち:: amused
 
 
珠.
07 November 2009 @ 10:15 pm

This random feature caught my attention when i read it in Pash! Nov. 09. issue Brief scan of words and it says that it involes the staff befhind Baccano! (which I liked) And Natsume Yujinchou (which I really liked), plus from what I read at comments, two well-known seiyuus behind the voices for Lelouch of Code Geass and Light from Death Note (I don't know my seiyuus well enough to know if that is correct tho, blame lack of furigana) 


And because I realise that a whole lot of Japanese trailers tend not to make much sense and the words are too fast for me to read  (though I have to admit the lines are pretty clean and I don't mind the character designs one bit) , I decided to put my google-fu to use. 

Many unusual people gather here in Ikebukuro, Tokyo--- a youth who yearns for an un-mundane life, a hoodlum, a stalker denpa-girl, a young man who deals in information ‘for fun’, a black-market doctor, a high-schooler obsessed with magic, as well as a ‘headless rider’ riding a bike painted black.

These unusual people begin a series of abnormal stories that never fail to create headaches. But, although their personalities are all twisted— they still talk about love. 
 
It's definitely  piqued my interest enough to go into my Jan 2010 to-watch list. *notes*
 

 
 
今の気持ち:: curious
 
 
珠.
01 November 2009 @ 09:54 pm

Do be noting that I seldom take this particular bus number and haven't taken one since the office moved. Therefore I yet again must submit case file no. #654321 that I have the inclination to attract the strange and bizaare.  

So tonight some literally crazy indian guy got onto bus 93, sat down and started scolding something in a loud voice  - which I suspect was swearing in Hindi - that the whole bus could hear him, to the point where an indian couple in the seat in front of him actually upped and switched to the seats somewhere further front. I'm guessing they actually understood what he was swearing about. And yes there were empty seats at other sections of the bus.

And where was I, the magnet, as usual?  Stuck in a seat where I'd have to go past and THROUGH him to get out.  (think me at the back seat corner right, and him at the back seat dead centre).  

Just as I was panic!planning emergency evasive plans on how I intend to get past him and duck for the door once I reach my stop, he thankfully got off the bus after 10 minutes of swearing to himself... or someone. I have no idea I was trying to avoid eye contact.  

...maybe I need to stop choosing window seats. I usually get trapped by crazy people when I choose window seats.

 
 
今の気持ち:: It's not me, it's ME.
 
 
珠.
01 November 2009 @ 10:11 am



Dunno if you've watch this vid before, but it's a riot, plus it's got actual history notes in it! :D 
 
 
今の気持ち:: amused
 
 
珠.
31 October 2009 @ 07:38 pm

T'was a dark and cloudy evening...
 
 

Which became... )
 
 
今の気持ち:: contemplative
 
 
珠.
31 October 2009 @ 04:05 pm

I am admittedly  feeling.... a little spendy of late. That's actually a sign that I'm extremely bored, somewhat on/off moody broody  and in need of instant gratification... that takes 3 weeks to ship out LOLOLOL....

...haaa

I'll be (likely because my folks tell me everything last minute  shifting into temp quarters in the month of Nov and living out of a suitcase without home internet for awhile. There will be much woe and agony from withdrawal symptoms, but thankfully (?)  I am still a corporate pencil pusher -- If I'm desperate enough, I'd probably just stay back a little later, or sneak in an email check or two during lunch.It just wouldn't be a good idea to use the internet for personal stuff during office hours not even as a 5min quickie like a  smoking break that I am not entitled to, because I have appearances to keep up with (no, really, imagine me saying that with straight face).

Not to mention,  management from TCTSNBN just recently had some dramatic internet banning exercise, citing certain staff playing on their facebooks on office time and being  caught as reason to (At this point, I feel the strong need to highlight that I am facebook free), causing my work to slow down to a crawl for almost half to a whole day trying to explain and justify for myself and my minions to a bunch of before X Gen-ners how WE NEED THE INTERNET TO WORK and do my corporate ninjaing and stuff before getting mine reluctantly reinstated (I got my msn reinstated too as a bonus but that's a whole other story). So see, since I'm vouching work intregrity not just for myself, it's a delicate position I don't care to undo anytime soon and have people with nothing better to do to find something to jump onto and not let go.

Frankly, you and I know it's pointless to ban the internet. No doubt, people will be inconvenienced, but if people really do want to slack off the job it's naive to think that an internet / msn ban is your instant solution, because they'll just shift the conversation to email and you can't ban that unless you don't want a job done.  I mean, we once had this very bubbly KTV clique who frequently mass mails to their colleagues about non-work stuff (usually to jio dinner) which idk why people will then REPLY TO ALL instead of just the organiser and flood my inbox when I'm waiting for a huge file to be sent over from a client.... dotz.

So I'm not very fun at work. sue me.

p.s: It appears my temp quarters will be very near my office. I haven't decided if that is a good or bad thing, though I suppose I will come to appreciate it when I can escape the morning traffic route that is always jammed.

Did I just blog about work on a Saturday? Man... my ennui must be really bad. I should go out for dinner at least, see shiny things.
 
 
今の気持ち:: blah
 
 
珠.
29 October 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Couldn't find the animaniacs clip I wanted, but I remembered this too! :D




I expect to be busy stalking tomorrow to visit the journal, so am posting 45 minutes early, WHEE!
 
 
今の気持ち:: BOO!
 
 
珠.
26 October 2009 @ 08:40 pm
Dear internets, my folks are nuts, please hold while we attempt to reconnect the family line.  

When we finally settle down to the new place and the two old people can stop finding things to irritate each other about, I swear I'll know the perfect youtube video link to celebrate it.

Meanwhile, need filter effect.
 
 
今の気持ち:: apathetic
 
 
珠.
25 October 2009 @ 10:55 pm



Tickets have been booked, can't wait! Muahaha. But then with this, my wed/thurs Digital art night courses,  AFA09 ,the upcoming exam I don't have time to study for, and me likely shifting out into temp quarters and living out of a suitcase all coming together in Nov, I'm not expecting it to be a very fun month at all, but you can see how i'm trying to make the best of it.
 
 
今の気持ち:: excited
 
 
珠.
23 October 2009 @ 12:15 am

fffffff. One of these days I'll decide I'm too tried to do the fast paced tours I do on my feet and splurge for a ride on the Orient Expressssssss. / trains are love.

In other news, I enjoy watching mass hoards of people dancing in sync, but guppy will disown me if I ever go near line dancing, so I currently settle for watching well synced dance videos instead. Pleased to be ignoring the fact that it's currently post midnight and I should be in bed, I got home bearly an hour ago and I can't just go to bed like that.



I recently discovered K-pop youtube videos, and I'm beginning to think what makes them stand apart from the j-pop is they have snazzier dance moves. Then again I don't remember many J-pop that had the band people dancing. The last time I watched anything J-pop was Uverworld.... and I think they just had many pretty poses, wahaha. =P Taiwan /hongkong/Malaysia pop groups I don't know. Haven't had any new pop song from there that got my attention, and I don't listen to the chinese radio stations at all.... though I have this colleague who is absolutely crazy about Sodagreen. Maybe I'll search for a vid someday and see what is so great about this band.

I do think I am being a tad bit harsh on Chinese music sometimes because I keep hearing a lot of English cover versions of the same tune that for some reason become incredibly famous and overplayed on the airwaves. I don't even think I've really gotten into any chinese music post the 4 heavenly kings, although I suspect it was more because there were people around me who listen to a lot of their songs then. Also, Aarron Kwok's song ai ai ai bu wan  makes a damn good exam inspired tune since my secondary school days, that till this day 15 odd years down the road, I can still remember the complete modified lyrics version of "test test test bu wan". Ask me about it some day! XD   

In other random things I will totally forget I mentioned here next morning, recently I keep seeing some "find a Ukranian Beauty" banner ad on my LJ page and I'm like what gives? Then I suspect it must be LJ spy reading way  too much into the Hetalia posts spamming the F-list page. I mean, that's probably the only logical explaination I could come up with, but hey, at least they've finally stopped advertising dentist links!
 
 
今の気持ち:: weird
 
 
珠.
18 October 2009 @ 09:30 pm
Letters from Iwo Jima is showing on OKTO tonight, but it may end late and I have work tomorrow, so we shall see.

Meanwhile, animu random talk ... POT: Another Story OVA. I never knew that Prince of Tennis has fallen so bad it now has new rival characters  that are into fart jokes and toilet humour. (or maybe they should be considered  'old',  because they gave me the impression this school has matched with Seigaku before in another OVA which I probably have not watched.) Whatever it is, I don't like them or the other group that I do not know of either. I think somewhere along the height of POT explosion and 101 school teams later, it's really hard to come up with new characters with a 'cool' personality that is different from the other teams, or not a combination of some earlier popular characters. So the inclination would be to literally go south and into characters that are lame, comedic or 'bumpkin', so to speak.

That said, OVA2  had more redeeming value, because it has mini Atobe. haha.  I need fanart of both of him and Prussia together stat! I don't remember most of the rival team characters' names except Atobe, admittedly. Because when he first made his debut I was learning Son Keigo in Japanese class, so the name kinda made a strong impression on me. Not to mention after that he was super pink frills gay, so it was hard not to notice.

But given that OVA1 had all the lame new characters from new schools/provinces, i'm not sure if I really want or care to watch the other OVAs if it meant they're going to be Seigaku's opponents. Hmm. But it's a slow season and I am currently dry out of new things to watch. I may be migrating to docomentaries next. My bro just gave me a nifty link to a history channel that explores Cities of the Underground. Spiffy! :D  

Oh! But I did find something interesting just an hour ago though. This new series caled  Kimi Ni Todoke. Shojo fluff, totally your thing if you ever enjoyed Kare Kano before.

Post: Ugh. The movie is disturbing. Reading about history and war is one thing, watching it is a little...  and this right after flags of the father yesterday. Even being distracted from the show doesn't make it  less disturbing. Too close to home and history lessons in secondary school man, too close.
 
 
今の気持ち:: contemplative
 
 
珠.
17 October 2009 @ 09:02 pm


Went searching for obscure music I've heard of and loved in the past but for the life of me cannot remember the name / composer.

My google-fu astounds and delivers yet again!  ^_^ v
 
 
今の気持ち:: peaceful
 
 
珠.
16 October 2009 @ 05:51 pm

Because it's Friday and I read way too much into things: 

This passage from today's Today (the printed version) caught my attention, but not  quite in the way it's meant to: 

Excerpt: 

"Singapore -Holly, the world's first semi-cloned fish, has a friendly nature and likes to play with other fish...."

"The team of researchers from the National University of Singapore practically treats Holly like family, celebrating each stage of her growth with a meal. 

When Holly was born and started swimming the team went for a meal at a resturant in West Coast. When Holly produced eggs after mating, the team celebrated
over a seafood Chinese Dinner."

I... sure hope they didn't order fish. X_X
 
 
今の気持ち:: confused
 
 
珠.
So I wrote an epic wall-of-ranty-text and it got eated.

I suppose that's Karma's way of telling me it's a little TMI on TCTSNBN.

I suspected as much, honestly. It's hard to find another place that has the kind of shenanigans we do, ha.

Meh, i'm feeling better already anyway, time for TV, yo.  
 
 
今の気持ち:: contemplative
 
 
珠.

Still like it though, so it must really be the music's ground base I heart. =)  
 
 
今の気持ち:: contemplative
 
 
珠.
My constitution has been wonky these past two weeks because I think my female pipes are stuck, which of course has led to my face breaking out, ridiculous bouts of feeling hungry (and fat) and tired at random times of the day and my mood swings being all sorts of highs and woes, so to speak. Naturally, they all had to go somewhere.


Artist's 5 min impression of Corner of Woe.  It is a selfish corner.

In other news, I think there are a lot of things I need to buy, but I'm kind of holding back because moving is an inevitability and I really don't want to add any more load of things when I'm trying to throw things out. And because of above, its hard to get motivated to do anything productive but just sit around during the weekend. I'm trying to give it a decent spurt today because I'm feeling up to it I think, just to at least clear another drawer.

Among my most expensive things, I kinda think I may want to get another laptop to take around when i'm out and about. Jin was decent... well, for awhile, but its battery life started to go wonky, and I would lug it out and then realise it wouldn't start and get annoyed. At first I thought it was because I failed to charge it, but then i realise the battery has really given out. Carrying a spare batt and lugging its  heavy wires didn't help, and only added to its weight and gave me even less motivation for me to bring it out. I want a laptop that I can carry around just for fun the way I do my mobile and yet has better wireless detection than a mobile so I can surf decently when I'm out. (mobiles really dont cut it and was just too small and frustrating)  And of course, it needs to be good enough to run at least microsoft word and excel , watch youtube/veoh and have msn... and optional but bonus, can have enough horse power to run a minimum of photoshop. I don't need it to run real complex, memory eating software like premiere because I don't see myself doing such time consuming projects outdoors anyway. This is definitely a want and not a need, which is why I'm still hesitant. But I think I must really, really want it. I have the brochure sitting and facing me at the desk. It is a life-sized replica of the laptop on paper and i can't bring myself to throw it out. Yes I realise it is sad. Please refer to artist impression. XD 

My other needs:
Clothes: (I think I need them because I really have gotten fat. D= )

Shoes: (plan to throw out 99%, since i'm only wearing this one pair of shoes I last bought in JP this august and everything else is dead/leaking.

Furniture: (I definitely need to look into storage space, and i plan to throw out my desk which I've had since I was... 9? 10? I dunno... the drawer locks have rusted long ago, and the table, aside from standing, is peeling everywhere and in real bad shape. I suppose if I were a carpenter or actually had time to DIY I could execute an idealistic decoupage, but I doubt I'd find that kind of motivation or time. )

These things are not exactly wants, but needs, which is kind of boring.

 
 
今の気持ち:: blank
 
 
珠.
02 October 2009 @ 09:53 pm



I like Mid Autumn Festivals. Tis' the month of yummy mooncakes, bunny motif thingys galore, literally shiny things, TEA, and in this year's case, yay weekend.



Which is why it's unfair that as a nation whose majority population is made up of Chinese asians, we seem to be the only country that does not have a public holiday for this.  One of these days I will take time off around this time to be in Hong Kong or China or somewhere that has a holiday for this.  Ah well. 

Maybe it's the thought of the mid autumn festival and the lanterns that were hanging in my office to try and give the dreary office some semblance of 'fun', or maybe I was just that bored with sorting out this thing called the 'budget' , but I was unusually more pensive than usual at work today, and while moving numbers and items around, I am quite suddenly reminded of a tale told long ago to me as a wee little kid during our primary school years, and lo and behold, it turned out to be a story by a very wise philosopher in ancient China, so I leave you with said story as I sip my imaginary chinese tea... because I can't drink tea at this time or I won't be able to sleep, lolol. (I'll do bundle loads tomorrow, you bet. ) 

朝三暮四 : The story of 3 bananas in the Morning and 4 in the Afternoon

Zhuangzi told this story to his disciples to make a point:

Once a zookeeper said to his monkeys:
"You'll get 3 bananas in the Morning and 4 in the afternoon."
All monkeys are upset.
"OK. How about 4 bananas in Morning and 3 in the afternoon?"
Hearing this, the monkeys are content.

One should realize that sometimes a change in phrasing does not represent a real change. 

*sips and waxes lyrical* 

 
 
今の気持ち:: Lanterns!
 
 
珠.
30 September 2009 @ 11:33 pm
When random middle age lady chooses of all empty seats that it had to be the one right next to you, then proceeds to take out this ultra long toothpick that looks bloody hell like an earpick, which she then proceeds to  SCRAPE HER MOUTH/PICK HER TEETH WITH, then proceeds to shove even more food-on-a-stick in...

...you know it's you
 
And right about the time I was screaming in my brain WHAT IS THE FREAKING POINT OF CLEANING YOUR  TEETH WITH THAT EAR PICK  IF YOU ARE GOING TO EAT AGAIN AND GET FOOD STUCK IN IT ALL OVER?! , she answered my concave screaming by taking out her earpick and repeating her first action (aka picking her teeth). And every five minutes thereafter. All throughout my 20-odd minute journey home!!!  And then after picking her teeth, she dug her nose!

Good lord, woman! Why don't you just EAT your booger and we can all call it a day? *mental flails*


Also, I swear that woman can't keep her stupid arms on her side of the seat. And I really did NOT want to touch her, or any of my things to touch her things, for that matter, since I had no idea where she shoved the ear pick to and she was carrying too many bags.  (the sad part is she actually looks young (by that I mean early 40s or late 30s) and dresses rather decently. So much for image.)

I shall have to seriously review the need to get a driver's license. Or to budget for a taxi when I have to take the night bus home. 

Whyyyyyy.  
 
 
今の気持ち:: disgusted!
 
 
 
 

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