Strange why these weren't posted earlier...

Burial -- Gojyo & Hakkai <3>
Burial -- Final Chapter
New arc -- Even a worm <1> (Yiick. What kind of chapter name is that?)

Slowpoke me actually did all these within a calculated total of 12 hours. Therefore, people, believe in miracles.

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Hora, I see stormy in Explosion... the magazine. ^^

Am seriously considering the option of making sunset my bedtime. For people like me who -lives- only at night, making dawn our appointed worktime is an absolutely tremendous milestone.
See, you sleep at around 5p.m, then you wake up -- 100% naturally, without artificial alarm or whatsoev4 -- at around 3a.m.
Your maths skillz finally come to good use! and you calculate that you've slept *gasp* 9 sweet hours! Then you come to realise, as the night hummed sanguinely around you, that oh my gosh I can actually concentrate on my homework!!!
Bereft of all distractions that can only exist in their puny daytime schedule, you set down to work, and work. And work. And after 1 sparkly hour, you discovered Oh-My-Gosh-ly that you've just produced more work in one hour than can be possible in a normal whole week's time!!
The next(same) day, you march to school, confident that no evil lecture can ever induce you to sleep, because at 8a.m, your biological clock has been up and at it for 5 cheerful hours; how can you possibly fall asleep "in the middle of the day"??

You know, there must be a catch somewhere... Well. Actually I can see one already.

Still, I am going to try it someday next week again. And hopefully it lasts. (Until the catch unveils itself in great proportions, that evil...)

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4 books are not enough. Oh, the twisting, wrenching, entwining, writhing contortion you convolute yourself into when you realised you wanted to check out 7 books from the library. But you only have 4 slots.
Oh the swirling whirling corling fwining kwirling twisting twisties roller coasters pringles ruffles

...*leaves room and picks up random snack*

(Deep sigh)
I had to forcibly abandon 3 books. Quite a struggle, that was.
Even though you know you may not finish them all, it is nevertheless rather painful to think that, 3 weeks after, the book may be on the shelf no more.

Luckily, for the time being, I've put computer languages on the backburner. Or else I'd have a couple more books to struggle over. (Don't think nobody ever borrows these books. They do, especially the ones you have in mind. *scowls*)

Ah, what the hey. I've decided to forfeit the Soiree concert 'cause I don't feel like travelling 1 hour there and back. (read: previous night's dawn-to-morning awake-cycle is taking its toil...)
Now don't give me that look -- $5 -can- buy me a manga after all. But I just didn't feel like going. >_> I might even fall asleep on the bus and overshoot the venue...
*Points left/above*
That's my sprightly sprig of parsley. It may or may not look like parsley, since I always try my darn hardest to avoid them when eating. *high-fives parsley*

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Oh man, a Jumanji Saiyuki Gunlock episode has appeared -_- ...#7. Remember it. Then try not to watch it if you're not free. You won't lose much except a few genuine (demented) laughs.

(Since I'm blogging everything under the sun today...)

I don't think much of the new Blogger. First time I tried to post under the new system, "there were errors". *sticks out tongue* Well okay, bugs you can forgive in the early times. But now you can't see your past entries in the same page as the "create entry" page either. *sticks out 2 tongues... oh, wait*
(And yeah, I -do- have a Blogger blog, just that it's not public.)

Last word: Yeah. If the newest Saiyuki scans looked particularly blue to you, well, that's 'cause I took those pictures in the morning. When the sun shines.
Usually I take them at night (refer to "s.C. only moves at night" logic). So the camera settings... I didn't change 'em. Somehow the white balance was off @__@ , and the sun... ...the sun was really attacking the pages that day.
(Thus s.C. fiddles with the Colour Balance and the Desaturate option for the first time in her PShop's living memory.)
Enjoy. O r E l s e . ^___^

(Long entry, I know. Don't forgive me.) ^_____^

You know, 10.00p.m. was the planned bedtime yesterday. Why, I was even prepared to blog about how there would be no more 4a.m. nights starting today, and how the world would seem a permanent shade brighter simply because I could keep my eyes open in lectures the whole day.

But nooo.

A (20+18)GB IBM external drive somehow -had- to land in my possession via a classmate.
"That Saiyuki video you were asking for is in there. I had problems burning it into a disk, you see. *apologetic smile* There are other stuff in there that you might be interested in, too. =)"

Hell no why do you have to sound so apologetic -I- should be the one friggin grovelling at your feet thanking gods I have such a resourceful friend like you toukakoukan dude now I can get to watch the saiyuki summer illusion thingy abeit 2001 SUBBED

Woo. Because I watched Tenipuri Perfect Live a couple of weeks ago Raw and it was comprehendibly incomprehensible. I did get that "fall down" joke though. *raise arms in achievement*
So... yes. I watched Saiyuki Summer Illusion "on the movie" 2001 -- the movie being Requiem.

Like Perfect Live, this video showcases our 4 seiyuus (plus Kou's seiyuu, as the host) before and during the event, and in this case, they were to introduce more exclusively to the live crowd the then-upcoming Gensoumaden Saiyuki Requiem movie. Gosh, the seiyuus are just as I have always imagined them to be.
Except Seki-san. Yeah.

He who voices Sanzo is a sprightly character. This is the first time I've ever used "sprightly" on a person before, because my aberrant visual connection tends to associate "sprightly" with "sprig", as in "a sprightly sprig of parsley!".
But I digress.
My impression has always deemed Seki Toshihiko a composed person oozing friendly authority. He actually would be exactly that, except his Sprightliness all but cancelled them to a -- not minimum -- but rather a lower level.
Still! ...suteki. Cool.

To sidetrack a whit, the May issue of Zero Sum actually featured a little manga on what-goes-on in the live recording of a Reload episode. These kind of strips appear often, but this one especially tickled me, not least because it reveals that poor Namikawa Daisuke (Kami-sama's seiyuu) had an aching great time trying to keep up the continuous cryinglaughing that is Kami-sama. Kekeke. I'm still grinning as I type this.
To mention a few lines (and the exclamation marks)...

^___^ It was about the same in the S.Illusion video -- Hirata-san even kicks out his legs (unintentionally) when acting out live a squabble with the bakazaru. That's what I call a passionate in-character effort ^__^
And, oh yeah, Seki-san is... cute. The kawaii cute sort of way. He even called Hirata Hiroaki "Hiro-chan" XD
Hiroaki is teh Lame. Really funny. Good comic timing. Just as I expected ^^
Hoshi-san... hey he didn't spike his hair up like he does nowadays *grinz*
Ishida-san was even more lively than I perceived him to be X3

And their live acting of parts of the Requiem script was simply skillzful. Sounded like the real thing, even without NGs.

No, I didn't even imagine this entry would be made this long; the first 3 paragraphs were supposedly the stopping point (I had promised myself the bedtime of 11p.m, 'see). Apparently the rest just sauntered in without invitation.

Of cause, the SI video was not the only force in that 38GB drive that deterred me from sleeping at 10. And the only thing I can say now to prevent an extra 10 paragraphs from materialising in this entry, is that I told you China/Chinese sites provide exciting grounds to dig for manga/anime treasures... she even has even Reload #21-#25 subbed, in Chinese of course. That's enough reason to gawk, since English subbed ones are coming along nicely at a cheetah's pace of... thus far #13?14? Heh.
And there are many other stuffs. I shall force myself to stop.

By the way, I've uploaded the ZS scans painfully without FTP. I'll just leave the image page and translation updates for another day. =3
http://free.hostdepartment.com/s/sapphirewings/image/zsjun_01.jpg
http://free.hostdepartment.com/s/sapphirewings/image/zsjun_colour01.jpg http://free.hostdepartment.com/s/sapphirewings/image/zsjun_cover.jpg
Change the page numbers where necessary. Scans without translation is better than no scans at all, methinks. X3
[EDIT:] Ok, fergerit. I don't think it worked. >__<

At least this meant I -could- sit in a chair all day and do my long-due work. I just might.

================= Wheeeeeeeeee ^o^ ^o^   (<-- speed lines)

*glances below*
Geez... when I said "tomorrow", I didn't think it'll be 2 weeks later. 'taku... *glomps computer anyway*
I can't remember -- nor would I bother to try and remember -- that massive amount of stuff I had in my head that night, but one of them was something along the lines of Yes!!!!!! We won VJ!!!!!!!!!!!! It's over!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!one111111 and a whole lot of gleeful stuff that needed the mood then to blog about.

So I guess y'all were saved from one long entry, yup ^_^

But! Enough of word spam...

The Hot Men.

What type of TeniPuri fan are you? (With Pictures! :O)

Yessu! X3 X3 X3 X3 X3 *touches Tezuka ::sizzle::*
I mean, do -I- watch PoT for the tennis? You mean, that tennis where the 150mph ball takes around 10 seconds to scream/swerve/spin across 1000 frames the court so that players can conveniently power up for /their/ special shots? ...or that tennis in which Ryoma seem to win with such consistancy that there's little point in watching except for the numerous epiphanies he's been enlighted with?
(Actually, all sports manga/anime are fleshed out this way... I don't have the right to complain do I? ^^)

But bisshies maketh PoT. I just love the way Tezuka's hair is a regular J-pop style, naturally too. Lucky bastard. XP Then again...

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ph34r teh Chibis! XDXDXDXD *ackchoke*

*eyes glittering* Kaidoh is teh ky00t! So cute! So cute! So cuuuuute! ...wahahaha! *falls off chair*

Uh, freak @__@
Before I regain coherence, remember I said I want to do more CGing after the season ends? Kmpth I've just snitched a particular part of the Tezuka v.s. Atobe match and digitally erased off the former's glasses. ('cause I'm fitfully curious how he would fare without this intellectual-looking accessory.) He lost -the- look immediately. (Does that mean I go for 2D guys with glasses? Sanzo? ^____^) But off course, with calibre of his likes, he remained terribly sexy.
I've somehow lost that CG of Kouryuu amidst the explosion of my other images. =þ
So I'm going to try CGing Spectacleless!Tezuka to make up for it.

Why yes, of course I remember I haven't posted the previous Saiyuki translation yet. ¬_¬   In fact I remembered it when I was scanning in this month's Saiyuki, heh. But the ftp server has failed on me again, so I'll try to upload them (the pictures, I mean) through the site itself. Tough. -_-
The translation? Anyone has faith in me doing a 2-shot translation? *grinz*
The new arc tells some tales of golden eyed people. Interesting. Plus the usual fare of ethereal coloured pages. Huzzah.

Somehow... I've managed to... drain... all my energy into... this entry... *hiss*

Several days without using computer. And when I -do-, I encounter this.
Learn from it people; homework ain't so scary after all. [/trying to convince self]

*chuckles*
Shall have a lot of stuff to blog about tomorrow.

Perhaps you are still reading this blog, or perhaps you have given up on your computer altogether ^^;

But you can't hide the fact that you're 81! Muahahaha oops a little typo there...
Happy birthday chewsy! ^^ ^^

I swear, when softball and the competitions are over for the year, I will indulge myself in CG-ing drawings. I will immerse myself in it. Grrrrr. Well, one may /just/ stop to think about the ramifications of it on studies...
Don't mind me, I'm quite inspired today.

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Thrust a couple of baseball mangas in softballers' faces and what do you get?
You get a person who claims she has become drawn to manga because of them.
You also get a person who specialises --NOT!-- in chinese spending 1 hour diligently reading the vol#1 chinese tankoubon because "it is very nice". And re-reading it again to make sure she got the plot right. ...which is "still very nice". ^^;;
And you get almost the whole team pawing over the books... plus a "nearly-confiscated one because the teacher caught me". (And of course you get the smuggling episode a few days ago.)

The power of manga. I never knew. o_O

::gawks at all the downloaded tenipuri doujinshi::
Kaidoh is such a tremendous uke. *snerk*

And I've found a delightful use for my graphic calculator.
Can you say... fanfic? X3

*chuckles* And I thought I was gonna fail this one.
[Minor EDIT:] Gosh, I tried again, this time half-closing my eyes and selected answers randomly. Still obtained the same results ^^;;;

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Fullmetal Alchemist in chinese. Though either the site's down often, or there are lots of broken links...

*makes happy sounds* Cute Kaidoh fanart! Ky00t Kaidoh fanart! XDXDXD

Stormy: Yeah, no doubt I'm a nerd too, though I strive more to be a geek ^__^
I obtained a copy of Life of Pi! Ooh I love Cheng San library kekekeke ^^^^
I've almost forgotten -- ever since CompassPoint has had its own branch of library -- that the Cheng San branch is the nearest haven for science and astro books. Woodlands unquestionably stands out with their trove of reference books, but when it comes to the borrowable ones, CS has the most interesting call no.#500+ books around.
In addition, I found a comic copy of <<第一次的亲密接触>> quite by accident. Since my memory vaguely remembers it being mentioned/talked about/recommended some time ago, I read it. Even though the plot itself is a tad cliche, the story itself comes through terrifically. And since an english version is on the net somewhere, I doubt there are serious copyright issues to deal with *grinz*.
So read it here if you've got the patience, heh.

Enjoyed immersing myself in library vicinities today. A prerequisite to nerd-ification? ^^p

Cracking up is when you hear William Hung's massacre of "I Believe I Can Fly", delighting yourself in a whole new understanding of the term "off-tune", crowing along to the wondrous porpoising keys he sang with, and collapsing back against the wardrobe slapping your thighs and cackling to yourself.

While mum had to come in and double check on my sanity, I had to convince myself he doesn't sing like this on purpose. But heey, who knows? Heck, even I can't come close to his talent of disfiguring perfectly fine tunes ^__^

Classified: Exchange of revealing text messages between 2 teenaged smugglers   sold to ABC Times for 1 million pounds (dirty words not included)

1 missed call.
Hmm.

Smuggler #1: What did you call me this morning for?
Smuggler #2: I want them!
#1: So impatient haha later lah!
#2: I want them for econs lect.. Where r u now?
#1: Gp lesson. I'm having pe at third period and a break at fifth period.
#2: I go find u, which class rm u at.. My teacher not here.
#1: A302. You coming here?? My teacher is in the classroom!
#2: U smuggle out k? I go there by 8.25am. K?
#1: Crazy! 4 of 'em so bulky how to take them out without being seen?
#2: Can la.. Pls! Pass 1 first then. Hide behind u!

At this point, smuggler #1 considered her options. Several failed scenarios flashed through her mind as the GP discussion went on in the background. Then she spotted her Mickey Mouse jacket hidden in her bag.

#1: I try lah haha

So s.C. first stuffed one comic into her skirt pocket, then proceeded to put on her MM jacket, covering the awkwardly jutting book perfectly.
Ah. What the heck.
And she took another manga and stuffed it within the inside folds of the jacket, an arm reaching across and holding the book in place like... ...like she was holding a stomachache in. At least that was what she'd like the teacher to think.

#2: Hey, i'm at the staircase there. 2 bks? Haha..

Coming, coming.

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Okay, I don't know if the teacher actually realised my brilliant plot or not, since when I stood and changed my direction slightly, my jacket flapped a little and might have revealed part of the book just when she was looking in its direction. -_-

*grinzgrinzgrinz*
Now I seem to see my H2 manga everywhere [even in the toilet(!)] -- wherever softballers happened to be, that is.   ze power spreadeth!

Unsightly gaps have been appearing in my manga bookshelf as of late.
. Detective Conan #1-35 -- Status: On Loan.
. Captain Tsubasa #1-31 -- Status: On Loan.
. H2 #1-4 -- Status: Well, yeah... on loan.

But it's fun to share the joy of manga all round. Therefore, let me not weep but rejoice! Tralala
Though, I do still want my Saiyuki books back. ;_;

I never knew handphones can actually hang. Gah, mine just hung on me. *shakes phone*

My rusty sprinting was put to the test this afternoon, when different CCAs pitted against one another in the Sports Day heats of 4 x 100m. Actually, it was already the finals ^^;;
Ha, softball girls got second, after the touch ruggers.
From what I hear, we were actually leading/holding through the first 2 runners, until... ...until the 3rd sprinter from touch rug breezed past all and sundry. Since I was the second runner, I could remember my hardly-concealed surprise when right after I passed the baton, a runner just zoomed by and... I mean, she just zoomed by. She was horrendously fast even around the bend. (I don't know if the eavedropped-fact that she's a national hurdler is true) She even made up enough ground, which their first 2 runners lost, to overtake all and thus put themselves in a comfortable lead by the time their 4th runner took her turn.
Hm, whatever. Anyways, I managed to uphold my personal record of tweaking/pulling one or more leg muscles during any 100m sprints. itte'te'tte~~

I had a thought... ...and so yeah, why not put a bit of effort into exploring the seach engine?

...and this is why I love Chinese manga/anime sites. China/nearby regions seem to have the good manga, which we are yet to have in our bookstores, conveniently translated and published in manga magazines. And then people somehow will post them up. ^_^

Yup, the above links to Death Note, the strip I'd so eagerly talked about before. (Did I not? I was sure I did) You should try read it ^^
'talk more about it next time.

If lecturers don't stop showing us extremely small and faint prints e.g. via visualiser for us to copy, myopia cases in Singapore will continue to rise.
And they were wondering what had gone wrong. >__O *squints*

If I didn't already have a natural talent to waste time like I can, I would have been highly irritated that nearly the whole of yesterday (including the waiting) was spent at a useless "softball national trial", where they seem more intent on assessing your "mechanic skills" (read: sec one selection tests?) rather than on how you can react and think -during- a game itself. Granted, they later clarified that this is sort of a youth trial, where they spot potential players to be groomed. (So that explains all the secondary school kids there...)
But hey, do you honestly look for such superficial criteria in potentials? I would have thought that one's composure or game-smartness should outweigh mechanical skills even at their (secondary school) stage.
It's akin to, let's say, picking out photo-journalists who can hold a steady hand on their cameras in peaceful circumstances, but who might know only how to panic when faced with real war scenes. Or even, the common phenomenon where a person has all the theorical knowledge of a subject in his grasp, but who cannot reproduce it under assessment conditions.

Nyah. And we thought there might even be a chance to play against national players... we got cheated! :P

Speaking of which, I haven't exactly forgotten my primary school ambition/secondary school joke of becoming a national footballer in the future. *winkz*
What makes it even more real is that a few years earlier, a softballer I know quitted her school and proceeded to be involved in football, which lands her... somewhere there right now.
I'm envious, no doubt. ^_^

Oh yes, before I forget, I have to write of this visual and aural phenomenon I experienced yesterday in Kallang, where the trial was.
The roads were suitably deserted the last time I checked -- nobody really "just pass by" this region.

...and then there were coaches and cars. Hordes and hordes of 'em. Traffic was a standstill the next time I checked. I asked of the event.

"5566 fans, apparently."

Okay, wow. That's a pretty strong magnetic pull to -- I was told -- the Indoor Stadium. I didn't even know 5566 are having a concert that day -_-

The (female) screams were audible even about 1km from the Indoor Stadium, when we were walking across an empty carpark. Now that's some magnetic field strength for you. Quite incredible, really. ^^;;;

Now dad is asking if I might sleepwalk and fall from the window sill, since my mattress is right next to the window, which I have a habit of opening wide day through night through day. I also have a habit of sleepwalking "when I was young".
*squints* ...perhaps?
But... why should it suddenly happen if I haven't (been found) sleepwalked for all this while? ...*closes window just this slightly*

Ohmygodohmygod. I've just committed the greatest sin one can ever (wish) upon a book: I wrecked the cover and the first few pages. I had put my deadest sleeping weight -- while dozing in the car -- on the book, taking no care (actually, I didn't even know) of how my arms were crossed heavily on the book. Thus after an hour on the road and while in a shuffle to get off, a word describing horror escaped my lips when I realised I had disfigured the paperback. So now when you view it breadth-wise, the pages are in a rough zig-zag fashion of sorts.

The book was bought in England by her Dad, my friend told me, so the cover is unique to what you would find in local bookstores. x_X

Luckily -- as lucky as the current situation can permit -- the paperback isn't -too- paper-ish; I could just manage to bend it back to a half-normal state without crease lines. In fact, I think it can recover. ^__^ So until it looks normal enough, it stays flattened under my heaviest-hardest-covered 1 foot book.

The title is The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, by the way. You may want to venture -- and I said this word for context -- the site, for it is fun; the book is intriguing so far as well. I now have 3 fictions on rotation in accordance to my mood. ^^;;

Oh. Oh right -- I'm back!! And with me comes this. ^^p   I decided to concede to my inadequacy and succumb to some form of reliance X3

[EDIT:] By the way, the site is down at the time of writing (which makes the content of this entry almost invalid), but I'm still posting this whole entry up 'kay! >__<
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Heehee, I enjoyed doing this is narrative form, though I had to rush through the last part coz I wanted to finish it by today (and now it's 11.32 pm). And also because there's some downtime in the site, so you can't really access the pictures yet (I'll post 'em as soon as I can =p). There's a short concluding chapter in this issue too, so watch this space! (I don't know when I can use computer again ^^;;)

Next up, to work on the layout and to update many, many links...