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2011-04-07 08:59 pm
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Meme time. And just to reassure people that I'm still alive.

Quiet and very self-assured, you tend to keep your own council. Pragmatic and practical to a fault, you are not one to worry about the finer points of philosophical discourse. In fact, because you are very much an individualist, you often finds yourself at odds with the established truth or the wishes of the majority. You will often earn the wrath of an employer by taking upon yourself decisions which are rightly those of your manager. You are not one to take credit unless it is deserved. Similarly however, you will also not happily give credit where it is not due. In a romantic relationship you can be very frustrating. While you do care deeply and sincerely, and are willing to work at a relationship, your confidence in your own abilities can on occasion make it difficult to see the world from a partner’s point of view. Quiet and stoic at times, you can drive a more emotional individual completely up the wall. You can become overstressed and fatigued without knowing it. Taking time to rest between bouts of hard work can help to prevent a breakdown later on.

WTF. That's one of the strangest psych tests I've ever taken. And creepily accurate.

Anyway, I turned 26 yesterday, and spent the day going to a job interview, then came home to a kiddie birthday party because my visitors are nephews and nieces. ^___^; Then the adults just sat around and told ghost stories. After we cleaned up, I passed out and woke up ten hours later. My entire body is still sore today and spent most of the day out cold.
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2011-02-28 07:27 pm
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On hairstyles.

A long, long time ago, one of my grand-aunts kidnapped both me and my sister for a trip to the hair salon and curled the hair at the sides of our heads and made us look like a couple of POODLES. My mom thought it was funny. We were probably 5-6 years old, and later on we both swore not to get duped so easily, and always made sure to part our hair asymmetrically to avoid those dreadful memories.

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Recently, however, my sister wants a perm - because our naturally straight hair now looks boring next to our mom who, after 40 years of keeping her hair VERY short, decided to grow it out only for us to discover that she has NATURALLY OCCURRING PRINCESS CURLS. You don't even need to style it - just twirl it a bit around your fingers, and it'll put classic shoujo heroines to shame. It made my sister weep with envy.

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My own hair, however, has some more complicated issues. Dinner table convo a couple of weeks ago:

Me: I need a new haircut. Preferably another short barber's cut or something.
Mom: NO! I told you to stop cutting your hair like that!
Me: But why? You've always had short hair, but I'm not allowed to? Why do you get so angry?
Mom: That's different! You're... you... end up...
Me: What?
Mom: You look like the teenage version of your dad! *suddenly looks embarrassed*
Me: :|
Mom: :|
Me: u___u
maaru: (Ecstatic)
2010-12-30 12:50 pm
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I am here to litter your Flists...

.... with my shipping goggles working on overload.
and before anyone asks, no, I have NOT been snacking on the heavily alcoholic slab of fruitcake in our fridge.
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2010-12-24 11:27 pm
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Happy Updates

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Scene at breakfast this morning:

Sis: I thought we're all gonna clean the house today, where's dad?
Mom: He went jogging.
Sis: Jogging? He hasn't gone out of the bedroom yet, right?
Mom: He went jogging an hour ago... in his dreams.
Us: O_o
Sis: Wow, that's... some distance to cover, eh?
Mom: *peeks into bedroom* Definitely. See, he's covered some distance already, he's managed to roll onto MY side of the bed.
Dad: *SNORE*

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Also, at 3 am this morning, I finished my evil fanfic. MWUAAHAHAHAHA. FINALLY. For the 2nd time. And posted! Now I just hope my giftee likes it. Thanks to everyone who encouraged me to keep going, I really appreciated it. :D

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and a couple of other random stories where I acquired my new baby, and today's insanity )
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And before I forget:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, FLIST! 

I hope you guys have a great time.
maaru: (why?)
2010-12-19 07:03 am

This fanfic is cursed and it wants to bring me down with it

So I spent the last two weeks typing up a Weiss fanfic (for a christmas exchange) while re-organizing my stuff after the JLPT insanity. This week, however, the fanfic gods decided to use me as target practice:

* Monday morning: My 8-year old laptop finally bit the dust. Well, not quite. See, it made a funny buzzing sound, then the backlight burnt out. So she's still actually working, but to see anything, I'd need a flashlight held against the screen in an strange angle. Spent the rest of the day transferring everything onto my Mom's Acer desktop.
If it was that simple, I'd be perfectly fine... )

I'll be back, fanfic gods! *shakes fist*
maaru: (awesome)
2010-10-20 12:55 pm
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Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney; Also, kanji finished!!

I am here to slow down people's flists.

It's bad enough I've been looking up 3DS promos everywhere and basically having the same reaction as most DS fans are but...



I just... WHAT. Layton and Phoenix pointing fingers around and at each other?! It's like two colliding fandoms that I never expected. /sob I'm still getting whiplash from the clashing designs, but OMG.

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In other news, I finished 2000+ kanji. It's goofy shirtless shinigami Party time!!!
(It's even more amusing that the women comes in to troll them right in the middle of the dance and they slink off in embarrassment afterwards)

Then it's off to grammar review and kanji compounds and more panicking.
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2010-09-11 05:23 pm
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Here's some fun and games for y'all


Here's a useless little meme thing I spotted on [livejournal.com profile] genkischuldich 's journal. Basically you put in your name and it randomly tells you if you're seme or uke.

gietheは『無邪気攻め』です。今夜も頑張ってください。
http://shindanmaker.com/46480 #semeuke

(You're an innocent seme. Do your best tonight.)  Ok. I laughed.

Combine that with [livejournal.com profile] sarcasmmonster 's recent challenge meme gives me this:

Comment with "<the answer you got from the previous meme>" and I'll tell you:

1. Something random about you. The translation of what you got.
2. Which color you remind me of.
3. My first memory of you.
4. What random character I associate with you.
5. My favorite thing about you.
6. What fandom(s) I associate with you.
7. Challenge you to post this on your journal.


Have at it, Flist.
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2010-08-04 02:06 pm
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Its one of those random little things...

So there I was, having the makings of a really bad day, when I decided I was crazy and depressed enough to go poke around the internet for one of those deranged anime series and...

I swear man, nothing could EVER prepare me for this:


Yes, nothing like a half-animated Miki with psychedelic hair.

AHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH<3


Cut because OMG WHAT IS THIS $#@W#^$@ )

This shit is awesome. Thank you, insane animators and whoever else was on drugs, my day is made.


maaru: (Felt a smile coming on...)
2010-06-02 12:29 am
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It's already wednesday and my muscles are still aching...

... from the sportfest last Saturday. Long period of inactivity + all-day exertion = whole body ache. Even my gluteus maximus hurts. -____- No, don't google that if you don't want to be scarred.

Anyway, I attended the sportfest because [livejournal.com profile] muning  stayed at our house from thursday night (my dad's little birthday bash) til saturday morning. She also gave me some new toys: an Orihime figurine (the bondage one, :D), Sieg-kun chibi figurine (it comes with a tiny baby! Awwww~) and a One Piece jacket! Thank you so much! -- I should photograph them (along with other stuff) so I can properly gush.

It's too bad that [livejournal.com profile] muning can't stay in the country longer - but at least a lot of people managed to meet up with her in less than two weeks. Have a safe trip and get home soon!

One thing I realize - on Sundays, I am either a Crusader/Paladin/Royal Guard for my sister's RO party (but really, I'm hardly useful other than extra defense) or a human Paladin for the GEET's D&D campaign. Does this mean I'm only good for roleplaying lawful good meat shields? Burly ones too.  Even my Shin Megami Tensei game jumped to Lawful alignment pretty fast when I wasn't taking any of my choices seriously yet.

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Kanji count: 1000 (yay! Halfway mark!)
Now, to get on to actually reading light novels.
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2010-04-29 12:14 am

Ok, Meme time so I can revive this journal

Pick 20 movies/anime/video games/comic books/literary works/television series and put their summaries from Better Than It Sounds and WITHOUT CHEATING have your friends guess.


Stolen from hyper_airis and greyrook 22. Hope everything gets answered. )
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2010-03-02 10:46 pm
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Disturbing Anime and Passport Shenanigans

I've just finished watching the entirety of Ayakashi Samurai Horror tales, and will probably start watching Mononoke for the trippy colorful vertigo-inducing WTF. I liked Sakurai's role here though.

Also am about to finish Aoi Bungaku, which is a very pretty series that came from classic literature pieces (was pleasantly surprised to remember that Hashire Melos! and The Spider's Thread were stories read out loud to us by our Japanese sensei some years back). What's cool though is that they got Takeshi Obata, Kubo Taito and Konomi (that Prince of Tennis dude) to design the characters. Though I got a lot of hilarity when I realized that Kubo designed the crazier story arcs. @___@ Nothing like a feudal era musical gore fest with iPods. Yes.

And I just peeked at the beginning of another horror series and, hello dismembered girls in boxes. I'm really in a morbid mood tonight.

Last friday, I finally got my clearance for my passport renewal, though there was some insanity near the Agency Director's because of my last name. I was wondering why it took a while for the guard to call me up from the queue, but, when my turn came, he called out my name in this horribly embarrassed, horrified and choked voice:

Guard: M*******! Is there anyone here with that name!
Me: Oooh! Me! Me!
Guard: Are you for real? You're not shittin' me, are you?
Me: eh?
Guard: That's my name too! WTF, we have the same surname!
Me: Whut, there's nothing wrong with that. You must be from L****e if you have that surname.
Guard: u_u Well, yes. But.
Me: My grandfather was from there!

Then I got ushered in to talk to the clerks about my clearance, but at the end of it, the clerk leaned forward and whispered,

Clerk: Did the guard take a while to call you here?
Me: uhm, yeah.
Clerk: All the guards here call each other by their surnames, he really thought we were playing a prank on him!
Me: I see.
Clerk: Yeah, we had to force him, "Just call it out and someone will answer!" and he wouldn't believe us.

So apparently, my surname is unique enough that the guard never expected to ever call someone else with the same name. The next time I came up in that queue, he resorted to walking up to me and saying, "YOU! You're finally cleared! *peers over my shoulder to look at my papers* Wow, it really IS your name!"

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Fandom was hilarious this weekend. But I couldn't participate because my sister is on vacation and playing MMORPG's with the internet access.
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Current Kanji count: 500. YES! 1/4 of the way there~
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2010-02-17 02:51 am
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Now I really, really want to learn painting techniques

So there I was, thinking about what to sketch in-between studying kanji. Of course, there's the Ichihime doodle challenge and other fanart requests, and there was the ever-increasing backlog of original art I've always wanted to do and then, I remember, hey, didn't they have a doodling program for the DS?
Of course there were, but I never thought of actually checking it out. )
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2010-02-11 12:25 pm
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Quick post

Ok, between translating spoilers and scripts, it was really chaotic yesterday. At least three shounen manga fandoms were screaming their heads off (Bleach, One Piece, FMA). Just imagining it makes my head hurt. TT_TT 

I'm going out today to pay the house bills and get passport photos. Hurray for sunlight! Then tomorrow, my dad and I are renewing our passports together. His car's under color-coding, so I guess we'll meet at the mall and commute.
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2010-02-03 01:49 pm
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2009-11-07 06:31 pm
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(no subject)

For its ninth year anniversary celebration, the University of the Philippines Anime Manga Enthusiasts leaps through boundaries as it turns the pages of time back to the age of feudal Japan! Get ready for a historical event as your favorite collegiate anime organization presents yet another timeless anime fair!


AME no Jidai
Making History
NOVEMBER 28, 2009
A-Venue Hall, Makati
1:00 - 10:00 PM

Cosplay Competition ● Dubbing Contest ● Tea Room ● J-Music Concert ● Fanart Contest ● Fair Booths ● Karaoke Contest ● and many more!

Presale tickets at 90 pesos, regular tickets at 100 pesos; purchase your presale tickets at the Level Up! Live event and the Anime Overload Festival on November 7-8, as well as other UP AME Booths!

For more information, contest mechanics and event updates, please check the OFFICIAL FAIR MICROSITE or the UP AME FORUMS!


The UP Anime Manga Enthusiasts (UP AME) is the first ever recognized collegiate anime organization in the Philippines. They are also the same group behind previous successful events such as the Una kAME!, kAME Ulit!, AME Matsuri, AME Gakuensai and AME 8th Avenue.
maaru: (Contemplating)
2009-11-07 05:53 pm
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I'm going to be a Godmother...

... to my cousin's illegitimate son with an underaged girl.


Frankly, I have mixed feelings about this... )


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2008-10-03 10:38 am
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Pisay Fire

I saw the pictures from [livejournal.com profile] riisha 's link. I originally thought it was the front building (near the flagpole area) and not the main one that got burnt.
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Is it bad that the first thing I worried about was the LIBRARY? I mean, when I was checking out all the pictures, I really had to go inspect the ones in the library to see if the books were damaged. But I remember the majority of times that I was happy in highschool were the times I spent surrounded by books.
D:
Then again, the faculty cubicles looked really bad. OOooh, that bamboo sofa, I used to sleep on that whenever I was running away from class (Funny thing, if you're running away from class and took refuge in the teacher's lounge instead, how come no one ever caught me? What was I THINKING? Hide where no one would come look?). Oh, and oooh, that's the cubicle I broke into to steal back a homework (It was homework, not an exam. And it already got graded. I just wanted it back). Oooh, that's the cubicle where people hid bread to cultivate yeast molds. O: Childhood memories.

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2008-08-12 06:32 pm
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Meme

from Riisha:


So, I'm like Don Quixote?

This bard doesn't look spoony at all. Yay.
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2008-07-12 02:29 pm

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I never thought that the trees in the middle of Philcoa could look magnificent when viewed from inside Jollibee before.

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I was driven out of my dorm room because the floor tiles made popping sounds and lifted themselves off the concrete. They're trying to reattach them right now.

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I'm supposed to be at the library, looking for a thesis topic, but I can't bring myself to even start the research. I HATE the fact that because I know only one Filipino language, it deprives me of so many potential topics to research on.

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Our house was robbed. Now my mom feels betrayed because it was someone she trusted that did it. Now I'll try to call home more because she keeps getting anxiety attacks. We're just thankful that nobody got physically hurt.

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EPIC is the word that I keep thinking of lately. It's what I kept saying out loud to myself during the start of the semester, and it seems to keep on going.

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Belated happy summer solstice, shioan.

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It's annoying to see people put down a character or a story that you like just to promote their own favorites. I might have done this myself in the past, but to see others blatantly doing this over and over again makes me wonder why there's so much hate.

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I want to marry Orihime. There, I said it.
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Because I teared up several pages before this panel.

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EDIT: Because I was wasting my own time by randomly looking at posts at [community profile] fandomsecrets I randomly jumped when I came across this:
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You're not alone, whoever you are. In fact, one of the EPIC things that I need to figure out right now is how to arrange a talk on HIM, when I don't even know if anyone would even attend. (And the best speaker recommended to us is an old priest dying in an infirmary). This old man is made of awesome. READ HIS BOOKS, ESSAYS, ANYTHING. He is my main reason for taking ITALIAN this semester, despite the fact that I'm still struggling with Japanese, am writing grammatical analysis on Slovak, and need a fucking thesis topic in Tagalog.
maaru: (Ecstatic)
2008-04-03 07:28 pm
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Hikikomori mode on! Amusing encounters at the book store

This is what vacation entails for me.

The other day, however, I mingled in a mall crowd after retrieving a cosplay costume left accidentally in someone's bathroom, and for some reason, I bought a small bottle of contact lens fluid.

That is not what was interesting, you see. Even though I was not supposed to spend anymore because of the danger of running out of money to get home to Laguna with, I walked into a booksale stall.

So I went into book-hunting mode, digging through piles and piles of old, secondhand books looking for any author or title that I wanted when this somewhat white, rich-looking girl of possibly early twenties brushed past me.

Holding a book titled Kushiel's Dart. And priced at only 95 pesos.

Of course, I immediately honed in and started to follow her around the cramped store, but she barely noticed me. This book was something that I have read before, and had wanted to collect the first trilogy of. But due to horrible luck, the only volume thus far that I have purchased was the second volume. Kushiel's Dart is the first, and IMO, the best in the series. So I trailed her like a hungry dog until, in a moment of indecision, she put the book down on a shelf and piled several other books on top of it in order to look under a pile. I immediately snatched... nay,  lunged at the volume. Her eyes locked onto mine in surprise, and I ended up smiling sheepishly:

Me: You.... you're not buying it, aren't you?
Her: Um, no....?
Me: *triumphantly* Then I'm getting it.
Her: *baffled* But... but...
Me:?
Her: But that book, it's... it's GAY.
Me:  ...............
Her: ...............
Me: I know. I read it before.
Her: ...............
Me: ................
(CUE LONG AWKWARD MOMENT)
Me:  v_v I really love the women in this book, y'know. A lot of them end up as powerful authority figures.
Her: ..............
Me:  ..............
Her: Um..
Me: Up to which volume did you read?
Her: Just that one.
Me: Oh. v_v read up to book 4 already.
Her: Does she end up straight?
Me: O_o Uhhhh, sorta?
Her: ..............

Cue another long, awkward moment, wherein I pretend to look through more books and she stares a hole in my back. Then, her friend shows up and they flee to another corner of the store muttering something under their breaths, and I swear I heard the word 'perverted' somewhere in there. @_@ After which, I walked to the cash register and promptly bought the book.

:DDDDDDDDDDD I got Kushiel's Dart for 95 bucks!!!!! Wheeeee! It has yaoi, yuri, het, gorgeous women and men and BDSM! And it's a fantasy book! I'm so gleeful, I speed read through the entire thing again today!

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In other news, I'm cleaning my room, sketching, downloading stuff and fangirling over a new episode of Weiss Thursdays.