---
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*

---

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

---

( and a couple of other random stories where I acquired my new baby, and today's insanity )
---

And before I forget:

HAPPY HOLIDAYS, FLIST! 

I hope you guys have a great time.

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.

---

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.

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!"

---
Fandom was hilarious this weekend. But I couldn't participate because my sister is on vacation and playing MMORPG's with the internet access.
---
Current Kanji count: 500. YES! 1/4 of the way there~

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.

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.

Just finished reading: History of Scanlation

That was emotional, even though I was just a bystander throughout the years (I got into manga in highschool, but latched onto scanlations around beginning of college, around 2002, via an equally bored friend in a dormitory). But hey, it was epic to realize that the old scanlation groups really made a contribution to how people view manga these days.

( Nostalgia trip.... Oh wow, you mean I've been addicted to manga THIS MANY YEARS ALREADY?! )

So, I was supposed to make this huge, fun post detailing the one month program I attended in Japan.

However, Monday afternoon, just as my plane landed in the Philippines, my uncle, mom's oldest brother, died of a heart attack in our home town.

I suppose I won't be able to talk about it yet. My mother's practically in hysterics because she's glad that I'm finally home, but she's sad that at the same time, her brother's gone forever. T__T And I lost an uncle who loved to scare all the little kids for fun. His family's coming home from all over the world (wife in Israel as a caregiver, eldest son works in a luxury liner as an ice carver, eldest daughter is a teacher in Canada), but the worst is that, his youngest daughter, my cousin Rincess, grew up without ever seeing her entire family all together at the same time. They were hoping for a reunion next month when his wife will be coming home permanently after all these years, so it was heartbreaking to see Rincess sobbing in front of the coffin saying, "I wanted us all together at last, why did you have to go now?"

I saw the pictures from riisha 's link. I originally thought it was the front building (near the flagpole area) and not the main one that got burnt.
.
.
.
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.

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!

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

I forgot to thank everyone for their condolences last time. Thank you guys.
---
I have finished my last paper, despite hours of fretting and feeling frustrated over a horribly careless and inefficient partner. I feel thankful just by finishing it. Hurray me, hello vacation! Oh wait, must settle some AME stuff first..
---
Hello pencils and computer games! Pencils for some stuff I promised myself that I would continue/start drawing. Computer games because my sister insists that I play Pangya with her. Oh well, at least I have an mmorpg to play every now and then, and it's a very laidback game.
---
I busted a keyboard temporarily by banging out a paper on it for 10 hours straight. It was supposed to be the keyboard I use for playing Pangya.
---
Ok, so I took the quiz three times... But the first time, I got a seiyuu that had five different names, the second one I didn't know at all, but hey, third time's the charm!

C.V. - Miki Shinichirou (三木眞一郎)

You are a dark, secluded person. There is someone or something you have devoted your life to fulfilling and will do whatever is necessary to achieve that.

OH YES, OH GOD, YES YES YES!! YOU OWN MY SOUL!!! I LOVE YOU.
/end fangirl rant
*cough* And to think, I open up the weiss calculators every five hours or so since I got them last night just to hear him count in German.
---
Some more memes I keep forgetting to post:

^_^ interesting.

You're One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest!

by Ken Kesey

You're crazy. This has led people to attempt to confine you to a safe
place so that you don't pose a danger to yourself or others. You feel like you pose a
great danger to the man (or maybe the woman) or whatever else is keeping you down. But
most of the time, you just end up being observed. Were you crazy before you were
confined?


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

I only saw the movie... WHY?





yay?