So I added comments via Haloscan.com. So now there is a Zonkboard/tagboard and comments. ... yes. Blah. I really hope I did it right because I'll feel like a doofus if it goes wrong and they say it's really easy. I finished the NatakuFrog picture. XD New layout is coming soon. XD YESH. I have much more art to do as well - not only my manga, but a commissioned piece for a group on campus. Oh, if anyone wants to beta-read the script for the manga, it would be muchly appreciated. Thanks~
Listening to: my roommate sleeping
I updated Whispered Nothings. Be proud of me. I am. Soon to update this layout as despite it being amusing, it's very dark. Mwah.
Wednesday 17 September 2003
Listening to: Judgement, Anathema
XD I've dyed my hair again. XD Yay! Thanks go out to Star Guide who helped me instead of doing her homework like she should have been. XD I'm so blessed to have good procrastinating friends. WHEE~ The Other Side is a great Flash animation site. You should go. ... I can smell your spicy brains, now GO! I must do my homework. It sucks. x_X
Listening to: FANS
I've done 226 quizzes. Not counting the two below and the ones I haven't posted yet. XD
Wheee~
My inner child is ten years old!
The adult world is pretty irrelevant to me. Whether
I'm off on my bicycle (or pony) exploring, lost
in a good book, or giggling with my best
friend, I live in a world apart, one full of
adventure and wonder and other stuff adults
don't understand.
How Old is Your Inner Child?
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I am 10. Like Taiki. XD
Listening to: Dangerous Game, 3 Doors Down
Aberrant Androgyne
Youre beautiful. Maybe too beautiful. But, this
group of stereotypes also seems to always have
some sort of amazing ability. So, youre all
that and talent, too, huh? Such a deadly
package wrapped in such pretty paper People
often underestimate you when they first see
you. Big mistake. You have a lot of power
packed away inside that fae-like body of yours.
Those who are your allies are blessed, those
who are your enemies are, well, screwed (and not
in the good sense).
Likeliness of being seme: 20%
Likeliness of being uke: 80%
Some fellow Aberrant Androgyne: Nuriko and
Hotohori (Fushigi Yuugi), Kenshin (Rurouni
Kenshin), Rosiel (Angel Sanctuary)
What Yaoi Stereotype Are You?
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<o> This just lends weight to my friends' theory that I'm the uke of the group. ... geh geh.
Tuesday 16 September 2003
Listening to: Pitiless, Anathema
Somehow this amused me. As did my Core discussion leader when he said something akin to, "Then the self becomes autonomous and lives in communities where it enters into personal marriages that drag them down into a personal hell." XD He's amusing.
Listening to: FANS, lovely FANS
I need to draw, very badly. VERY badly. I've been surfing DeviantArt.com and I feel bad about my art. I feel really bad about my art. It's ugly. FUGLY even. ...or not, but it's nice to bitch about it since people tell me that I'm too aloof or something... or that all the pent up feelings will cause my head to explode. O.o I could understand the last one. It certainly feels that way sometimes. But! I'm wanting to do a symbolic picture - you know, like smoke that turns into hands curling around someone's wrists or wind turning into clothes on a tree that's actually a person. Something creative since I just have NO creativity. ...
Oh My God. You have no idea how much I WANT this despite it's impossibly high price. Since there is no longer CNNHeadline News on TV, I've resorted to CNN.com. Yay for CNN.com. This is sad...I know the Nagoya area somewhat and I hope they recover soon. The Japanese economy just needs to pick up - the leaders need to find a working solution - but then again, America can't do crap with their economy either and Japan nearly depends on exports for their income... Damn cycles. Also we now have a new planetoid Juya, pronounced Huya, right in Pluto's backyard. Yay for space. Why am I writing so much about the news when I'm sure everyone else could just pick up a newspaper? I'm obsessed and I miss it terribly. ;_; I'm supposed to watch "Shakespeare in Love" but I don't have enough time so I'll have to do it on my own later.
Listening to: FANS, lovely FANS
Whoever ref'ed me for "L'Arc~en~Ciel Movie" you better not be pulling my leg. Is there a L'Arc movie? Is there? /bounces/ I would so pay premium price to go see a L'Arc movie! Unless it's Moon Child and then I'll give parts of my soul. XD Woke up this morning about fifteen minutes before I had to leave for class. XO Damn me and my oversleeping ways. School is killing me. Killing me. But I'm now re-"in love" with the band Anathema. Forgive me but I got crappy recs the last time I looked up their songs and now I'm in love with them again because I found their album Alternative 4. Yes, Anathema is an oh-so-sexy and layout inducing band. XDDD
XD Going to dye my hair again! Yay~
Monday 15 September 2003
Listening to: Cyberia [Deep Trance Mix], Lain
Doing a layout after NatakuFrog with Subaru and the Anathema song "Empty." Anyone take that and I'll be sad. I'm posting this here so I don't forget. Baka me.
Listening to: my keyboard rattling
 | Merry Brandybuck If I were a character in The Lord of the Rings, I would be Merry, Hobbit, heir of the Brandybucks and a friend of Frodo's. In the movie, I am played by Dominic Monaghan. Who would you be? |
I love quizzes! Quiz de pon!
Listening to: my keyboard rattling
Huge update to quiz page. I uploaded all my Memes there too. I swear this addiction is going to cause me to fail out of college...that and watching too much JuuKo, but I don't mind the JuuKo at all. XD Must go to the drugstore as Ravioli also wants to go and is getting antsy. XD
I have Choir today. XD Go Beethoven!
Sunday 14 September 2003
Listening to: What a Wonderful World, Vandread
Hey, I found the Friday Five:
1. Is the name you have now the same name that's on your birth certificate? If not, what's changed?
Exactly the same, except that I never tell anyone my middle name. I don't know why, I just don't. Actually...I don't think I've ever really seen my birth certificate...
2. If you could change your name (first, middle and/or last), what would it be?
I like my name. It's better than being named Tea with the middle name Bird so my dad could laugh at the pun.
3. Why were you named what you were? (Is there a story behind it? Who specifically was responsible for naming you?)
...I have no idea. I just know why I wasn't named what I wasn't. Kaasama wanted to name me Bond after some girl in a John Wayne flick that kicked arse, but Tousama was "NO" on that name. He wanted to name me "Tea Bird" (he wasn't a hippy though) because he was a warped and hilarious sense of humor. They weren't going to name me Mary because there are about twelve Mary's in my family and I think my grandmother vetoed my being named after her. ...Maybe they pulled my name out of a hat.
4. Are there any names you really hate or love? What are they and why?
Love: Priya, Diana, Helena, Ian, Touma, Sethe, Xander. Hate: none. Why? ...they sound pretty. Sethe is pronounced "Seth" with the Japanese pronunciation of "e" after it. I made it up for a character once and I just really liked the name after it. Illian is another good name. Priya is one of my editors for newspaper. I just like that name.
5. Is the analysis of your name at kabalarians.com / triggur.org / astroexpert accurate? How or how isn't it?
Did the kabalrians.com one. In some ways it was true, but really...I'm so inactive it hurts.
Kudos go to Hsiu for introducing me to this. Yay for you, my Doppleganger!
Listening to: Stray, Wolf's Rain
wG, I love you so much. XD This song rocks my world. And I'm craving your Rising Stars submission now that I know you're working on it. XD
Realized that the Peking acrobats were the very same featured in the Cirque du Soleil production Dralion. XD Was very happy. And I found this today in my e-mail bin and did the happy dance of joy! I have to go see it. I have to. Some time or another, a time will come when I will see SPAMELOT on Broadway and revel in the Monty Python goodness.
My mom just left me a voice message about how she bought me a purse and pair of sandals. XD I love my mother because she's so adorable. She buys me clothes and whatnot with the knowledge that I would never buy these things for myself. Ever. I'm still wearing sweatshirts and t-shirts from my middle school years.
Listening to: Getsumei Fuuei (Slow), Juuni Kokki
Wow, you have no idea how much this made me squeal. Went to the Hollywood Bowl today and saw the LA Philharmonic, the Peking Acrobats, and one kick-arse fireworks display. I had fun. It's early/late in the morning, but we drove on the bus back to campus through the red-light part of the Walk of Fame. I've never seen so many sex shops in my entire life. ...Never do I want to see any more sex shops in my entire life. Never. Saw a punk guy wandering around and I felt the compulsion to steal his shoes. Also went Crowd-Weaving with a friend and the Ravioli roommate. We've decided it is a sport and we shall become masters. By the way, Ravioli is one roommate and Emergency Barbie is the other (chair-tippy) roommate. Not because she's like a Barbie at all, but because she hurts herself so often and calling her Barbie is just flippin' hilarious. After all, Ravioli is the one who got Sorority Slut Barbie on the quiz page somewhere. Yay for Sorority Sluts.
Saturday 13 September 2003
Listening to: The Voices In My Head.
Around midnight earlier today I went to the neighboring college HMC for the ITR games. Don't ask me what ITR stands for, but I can tell you it was a blast. Basically you get a duct tape dagger, one or two people establish a storyline, and then you run around and stab people with your duct tape dagger to win. XD From about midnight to 5AM I was a denizen of Happyville who was prey to first no less than seven psychokillers who could and did kill at will and without remorse, second four vampires who could thrall and control their sired ones to obey their every command, and finally three Necromancers who turned the happy people of Happyville into piles of immortal rotting flesh thirsting after brains. :D I was a Necromancer. It's a big game of paranoia because you don't know who is "unhappy" (i.e. evil) and who is "happy" (allies). Those who are "unhappy" you stab with your dagger and send to the graveyard, but if you were happy and you stabbed an unhappy person you both died and had to go to the graveyard and die in the most dramatic fashion possible. Then we played three games of Capture the Flag, my god I love that game.
In other words, it was great entertainment for about 3 in the morning. XD I'm so going again.
Friday 12 September 2003
Listening to: beh.
I need to reread this series. I loved it.
Listening to: beh.
Dear God I feel like fainting:
"In BmB news, the comic is ending. I haven't made the official announcement because it's not going to end until next year--May, in fact. BmB will end, and a new series will begin, starring Fox and Collin. Why? Because I like Fox and Collin, and BmB isn't their series. It's just where they were introduced. I'd really like to work with them and their own cast of characters, just for a change. =) So, I shall end BmB in a nice manner (not the original angsty manner I planned, waybackwhen), and immediately get started on the new comic, which is still missing a title (although Av suggested Friendly Hostility, which I like). In fact, probably the day after BmB ends. You won't miss a beat."
While unduly happy that Fox/Collin get a strip, am sad because I really liked Cy and he's disappearing completely now that BmB shall end. The other reason I feel like fainting - I haven't eaten dinner yet and my sloth-like behavior/sleepiness due to low blood sugar levels is starting to pop up. That is a bad thing. I should eat, but now I have no time. Too bad.
Watched up to Episode 41 of Juuni Kokki today. If you don't want spoilers close your ears and walk away humming a happy tune.
XD XD XD XD My god that series kicks ass and so did Youko. Kicked arse and took names, she did. XD Yay for Youko! And Rakushun for setting stupid Shoukei right, he should rule the world and people should learn to listen to the hanjuu because they know so much more than we do. Look at Kantei. He's bloody brilliant (other than the oopsie back before with the Koukan, the Lord of Baku Province and the whole "let's go beat up Yo-ou because's she a biznatch" thing). But Kantei rocked my world with his coolness. XD Flipping around a gigantic iron pole-like weapon and taking out three guys like rag dolls. It would have been very sex!y had he been prettier. XD And I got to see Rakushun in human form two more times! Sex!y! He's brilliant, more so than anyone else in the series. One thing though...every time I got attached to a character they'd freakin' go off and die. EVERY. TIME. Example: the girl at the rike was getting spiffy and knew to keep "Youshi" a secret and then boom - deadness.
But the one I'm really sad about is Asano. I loved him. He was a Useless, Useless Boy, but I loved him. He was Yuuji Ueda and I loved him. He couldn't do jack other than fall off of cliffs into rivers and pick up firewood and then go temporarily insane, but I understood that he was the most human out of everyone. Youko had a place, Yuuka even had a place with Kou-ou (the bastard), but Asano was just there because he wanted to protect Yuuka (his girlfriend) and Youko (his best friend) and because he happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. So he gets completely forgotten in the series until the time of the Takuhou Uprising when he surfaces as a puppet of Shoukou (double bastard!) and Gahou (King Bastard) and Sekiyou (DIE). He's completely lost it by now because it's been about two years and he doesn't know the language, he's beaten because he's a kaikyaku and he's terrified of not knowing his place in this strange new world. He's acting like most of us would - out of self-defense and pure loneliness. Then he gets better and he starts doing things (even if they are rather unhappy things such as shooting Kei-Kei), but then he gets very cool and runs off to help Youko, Suzu, and Shoukei in the Uprising by bringing in the mercenary group from Meikaku. And he gets killed. KILLED. And by another double Bastard, to boot. I loved Asano, he was great because he was such a dork and so believeable and then he died... The worst part was that as he died, he met up with the people he was going to retrieve and they told him that they were already going to come - so he didn't even need to be out there. He died saying "So there really wasn't any reason for me to be here..." His last words were to protect the Empress of Kei and he died smiling as he always used to be in life back in Hourai. It just wasn't fair to him, but it was a beautiful ending since in his state he would never have been able to return to Hourai (Japan). Still...it was sad to see his grave at the end with the butterfly sitting on the gun he always carried. I loved him.
And then the Enho arc started. Yay. He was still smart in the old days, but just such a 'GAH' ruler. And Kouya turned out be a bastard although I really feel the need to squick him and Rokuta even if I know that isn't physically possible. Evil. Evil Kouya.
Rakushun needs to rule the world and make things better.
Thursday 11 September 2003
Listening to: beh.
I realized a few moments ago that today is the anniversary of the attacks. It's a completely contradictory thing to the quiz posted above, but I can still remember it so well... "Wake up, turn on your CNN, something bad has happened." I can still remember watching the North and South Towers falling and people screaming as they fell through the sky or ran from the ashes and debris. I remember the fear of the moment, knowing that war was coming, knowing that American politics would change, fearing the retribution we would take and 'they' would take in return. I suppose this fear is nothing new to people who have had to live with terrorism their entire lives and, in a way, I feel a guilt at knowing that they have to live in such darkness while I only had a brief glimpse behind that curtain. Maybe no one else is thinking about it today, Americans have a way of pushing ugly things out of the mind, or maybe people are sick of hearing about it, but I can't help but remember and mourn for those lost and those lost as a consequence by war or injury or pain. For me, it still hurts. I don't think it'll ever stop hurting until my mind pushes back the images of that man falling or the children crying for parents and siblings who would never come home again.
Color me sentimental.
Wednesday 10 September 2003
Listening to: beh.
The site has hit 2500 unique visitors and 2914 visitors with reloads! XD /does the Happy Dance of Joy/ Thank you! XD Must finish Nataku and The Frog to reward you good people with new layout-ness~ Yay~
Oh and spent almost all of last night reading Galileo's letter about how stupid hypocritcal people were. Yay~ I'm tired. x_X And courtesy of the Advertising Slogan Generator: Life Should Taste As Good As Penguins.
Tuesday 9 September 2003
Listening to: Hitomi ni Utsurumono, L'Arc
Found out that perhaps our bathroom may be haunted. Hmm. And now my roommates are talking about vibrators... ... I just freaked out the chair-tippy roommate by saying that perhaps our bathroom is haunted. XD Earlier today I was hanging my yukata in the bathroom to dry them out and the ravioli-roommate thought I had hung dead bodies in the shower. XD
She knows well my ways. Mwahahahahaha.
Revision of my earlier Taming of the Shrew (Biznatch, is what Ravioli just called me) rant: I'm just flippin' confused by Shakespeare. Dammit, I had all the perceptions wrong. FACK.
Listening to: Desperate Now, Stabbing Westward
There's a band I haven't had while blogging for awhile. The overcast sky went away and my Happy Dance of Joy was stilted. Today has been the day of bringing the wrong notebooks to class, as I nearly forgot my Japanese notebook, completely forgot my Writing50 notebook, and just didn't get any of my readings done on time. That will not happen again so long as I remember that I said this. Don't count on it. Joined the Concert Choir at school, but I'm not so sure how well I'll do as I can't hold a note very long.
Taming of the Shrew rant is coming up. I love Shakespeare, really I do, but I couldn't stand the Taming of the Shrew. Kate was cool. She was individualistic and complex, but by the end of the play she was so 'tamed' that she lost her own identity. I kept expecting her to have some aside or revelation that spoke of how she only seemed to be tame, but it never came. Then the play ended and the men were laughing about how obediate Kate had become. Did Petruchio ever love Kate for anything beside her money? No. Did Bianca reform and stop being the uber-psycho-bitch-slut? No. Did ANYONE become ANY better than they were before? Of course not. Sometimes, I really hate Shakespeare for conforming to the times rather than standing out against them as people claim he does.
I have laundry to do and I still don't really like Francis Bacon.
Listening to: beh.
Beh, is a song, I swear it is. It's overcast and grey outside. /does a happy dance/ Finally, weather I recognize! The whole sunny thing was throwing me of as my hometown is nearly always overcast and grey. XD The feeling of Home. Other people may say "tut tut" at such weather, but I say "BOOYAH!" with all reverence to the seasons. XD
I have 50 pages of Core to read. I hate Francis Bacon.
Monday 8 September 2003
Listening to: beh.
I was just about to blog and my roommate requested something of me: "I want wild mushroom ravioli, will you spit some up for me...I mean, whip some up /dies laughing/"
To this she followed up with: "I'm sorry, I'm been breathing in too many fumes today."
Just to clarify, she's was in a chemistry lab today. Earlier today my other roommate fell over in her chair slow-motion, and the chair is supposedly unable to tip. It's supposed to be reclinable, not tippy, but she did it. She hurts herself a lot. The same roommate with the mushroom comment just sang me a song about Spam. According to my chair-tippy roommate's boyfriend if you don't eat Spam, you're not Asian. So I'm not Asian because I don't eat Spam. I don't like Spam.
But. I love my roommates.
Listening to: beh.
Someone shoot me before the addiction takes over my braaaaaain. I've even been doing EMODE tests. /sniffles/ They don't give pretty pictures either.
SHOOT ME PLEASE! Oh, and~ Archive de pon!
Sunday 7 September 2003
Listening to: siiiilence
This page is turning into one huge quiz page. I need to archive. BWARGH. Last night/this morning I had the worst nightmare. Reason it was so bad? It was so incredibly unbelieveable and yet it scared me enough to wake me up three times. I hate it when bad dreams just keep lingering. Sort of a cross between X-Men (Evolution and regular) and real life, where I was a mutant and there was some war going on between these other two races and then they signed a peace treaty where we (the mutants) had to serve as peacekeepers, but then the shapeshifters turned on the humans and killed off the leader of the human party (I think they were human, they were only referred to as Enemy) and the mutants had to go to war and the shapeshifters started going after my family and were killing them so we had to all run away because my family was normal even though I wasn't and they were going to be massacred and we had to leave our house because the bad shapeshifters were going to come and kill us there, so to make it look like we all died already we were going to blow up the house and we had to leave all our pets behind and I was sad and scared and woke up freaked out. /breathes/ Although I had some good lines in my dream, not that I remember any of them. Of my family, only my cousins knew I was a mutant and had to use an imager to not look freaky to everyone else... So lines, yeah:
Cousin: Don't you have something to tell your parents?
Me: ....riiiight. Um, I have a secret to tell you, rather minor: a) I'm a mutant and b) we need to leave here before we all die.
Or something like that. As I think about it more, the images and lines are fading. Went to bed at 3AM last night... I still don't know why I'm awake right now. I have homework to do and I found a quiz to make me feel better after the bad dream. It sounds stupid, but it terrified me at the thought of losing my entire family to some war.
