Monday, January 10, 2005

Oh nooooooooo Finally got a copy of manga Reload #4 (yep, I figured I ain't gonna get A Free Copy from stormy you see...), and saw this interesting pose... which when coupled with this interesting umm activity from the latest zerosum, makes me imagine that Gato is actually more aah active then he lets on. ...Yeah? Gato you, Two-Timer, You!!! *dies* Zakuro genuinely makes me smile. In a ghastly way, though. But he's just so cute... And! Nice hair colour - not the anime!purple and neongreen eyes. And oh, the Kubo & Toki I was referring to in the previous entry is in this page. I wonder if we're supposed to know the other character on the left, since he looked to be drawn very nicely... Yes... this entry is picture spam. But only because I've gotten too rusty in writing due to the month of cantonese -_- (I can't even speak English/Mandarin fluently now, as some amused classmates can attest to.)

12:01 a.m.

Friday, January 7, 2005

Windows - Version Really Good. Just a fun link to an unfortunately truthful flash interactive... ...before I get away from the computer and lock myself in the room before father comes back from work. I'm gonna be desperately avoiding him. I'm gonna be pretending I fell asleep in a lit (and locked) bedroom. While I'll actually be reading WA/ZS/books in there. I hope he goes to work tomorrow so I don't have to face him. (Damn, stop rambling, s.C.!) By the way. I found Kubota and Tokitoh (of Wild Adapter) in vol.1 of Saiyuki when I reread it just now for the 1st time in ages. Aah, Minekura [insert :3 phrase/praise] again.

09:31 p.m.

Thursday, January 6, 2005

After almost a month of living in small houses, it's tiring to... travel... around my own relatively-big house. I mean, seriously. Lemme sleep it all off now...

11:55 p.m.

Sunday, January 2, 2005

(Why is Ryan Giggs being so brilliant -and- scoring all the goals only now when I'm not in front of the TV to watch the matches? 3 games in a row! Stop it already till I get back!) Seeing the success I had with keeping my resolutions last year (though right now I do have 6 new sets of drawings in front of me as atonement), I might as well resolute not to make any this year. Then again, I'm sure I'll break -that- resolution with ease. Caught Kung Fu Hustle yesterday. It seemed like an amazingly short film, and probably was too, at the length of 99 minutes. The story ended just when I was expecting more to come. But that's not a bad thing; it ended when it should. Dragging it on wouldn't be nice. I'm very glad to have watched it on the big screen in its original language (dubbing takes the fun out at times, esp in comedies), and there was at least one scene in which I had tears in my eyes -- from laughing. (The last time I was reduced to this state had been when I watched the video of 03S32's orientation skit. OMG THE HORROR PERVERSE AMUSEMENT.) But -that- female character's existence strikes me as a bit obligatory. *looks up thesaurus* ...Contrived. (I'm not saying anything lest I spoil anyone.) It was a marvellous film (CG, acting etc), nonetheless. AMD is back! With new and improved hand-drawn backgrounds. It's looking very pretty indeed. §Æ¯À¡C My dream threw this word at me this morning. I don't know if I've seen this word before somewhere, or if my mind made it up on the spot, but that's the close pronunciation of "hazel" in cantonese. ...I'm quite certain that's ZS calling for me from across the sea. My biggest fear now is going back and finding ZS all snapped up -_- Of all the issues, you just cannot miss the one with opening colour pages of Saiyuki! I went to a bookstore yesterday; there were japanese magazines, but no jap manga magazines. Actually, there were no manga, period. Perhaps I should hire a ...mercenary to buy it for me first. ¬_¬

11:06 p.m.

Thursday, December 30, 2004

It suddenly got colder on the 28th. Mornings of 7 dCelsius (and supposedly in some areas, 2 dC??) and nights of 9 dC followed in the next few days. Incidentally, my mother got very sick "for the first time in decades", so our stagnant states in the house presently (as opposed to wandering around HK for the whole day) might have had something to do with the subconcious decrease of surrounding temperature as well. I think of that Christmas Eve I spent with a sea of reportedly 400,000 people on the streets for the Christmas countdown, and then I try to imagine a quarter of that number who has fallen victim fatally to the earthquake+tsunami disaster. I can't quite imagine it. Looking at the maps that pervade printed news, online news, or just plain TV news these days, it seems like sg has been snugly protected by both Indonesia and peninsular Malaysia from resulting waves. Can you imagine if...? The island would probably float across the sea if a tsunami hits. (No, of course it wouldn't; was trying for an amusing imagery here... gosh, how surreal.) But as it is, everything still goes on... and I'll be collecting my IC tommorrow... eh.

09:25 p.m.

Saturday, December 25, 2004

Adult obesity rate in Hong Kong (as of Nov. 2002): 29% =========== Apropos of nothing (since the stat's slightly outdated I shall ignore it), I would like to venture that Hong Kongers are quite a fit bunch. And why? Because the train (MTR) stations are full of stairs. And MTR is a major way of travel in these areas. Having been spoilt in S'pore -- where all stations have escalators leading from under/aboveground platforms to concourse level -and- after which to ground level -- I was naturally a bit ruffled to find myself walking 631754 times since 9th Dec up and down flights of such stairs to get to ground level. Okay, I kid. Maybe it was 841933 times. Keeping in mind that thus far, my mother and I have spent HKD$600 in travel fares between us -- most of which are train fares -- you might just (not) want to imagine how much stair/slope-climbing I did. But I repeat: I am -spoilt-. And damn lazy. Don't want to scare anyone off HK ok? =) Anyway. Right, it's a special day today. ...It's exactly 11months till my birthday! XD *gets pounded* I mean, Merry Christmas, all! (Though the day's almost over.) Happy Boxing Day then! (I don't celebrate it -_-) ...Happy New Year! in advance =D I mean to chronicle events of yesterday; it was a marvellous night of fireworks and laser display and -other- displays. And crowds. You could almost -- almost -- try lifting your feet off the ground and you might just be carried several metres away. Was very tempted to try exactly that, ...but. Ah, but I can't write further since my cousin needs to sleep now. Might edit this entry (to a longer one) when I get the comp to myself. >=) Oh! And I got myself chibi Hughes and Al keychains! (squeals) They're very cute!

10:58 p.m.

Friday, December 17, 2004

Have been waking up with terribly asymmetrical hair of late. Do I blame it on the "Eastern to Northeastern wind" or should I put it down to the various (change of) shampoo I used for the past week? It's hard to get a decent internet connection here, having shuttled back and forth 2/3 places of residences in the previous coupl'a days. At one place, my cousin uses the comp as frequently as I do at home, so I can't really go online for as long as I'd like without feeling guilty about taking up her time. (Here I watched a good half of Princess Mononoke for the 1st time) At another place, my cousin has computerS of up to those monstrous 1280x1024 resolution (he's a game developer after all, or something), but I don't stay there. (Here I watched several episodes of the new Yugioh series for the 1st time. Anime must run in the family.) And -here-, I basically can take over my aunt's comp since she goes to work regularly, but her computer "has a very virus-y virus" that the abovementioned comp-saavy cousin "couldn't handle. Or he was just eager to go on his date." Which is why I ended up trying to purge her computer of the virus, and which is how I now get some internet access in return *cackles*

11:00 a.m.

Thursday, December 9, 2004

Today I embark on The Journey in elusive pursuit of the first photogenic passport photo ever taken of humankind. I mean, I'm off to Hong Kong. Er, to get my IC. Annnd, maybe get a nice passport shot on it? (Pleeeease! Make it at least nice! I'm beeeging myselffffff smile don't. Sneer. Or look weird.) The december translations. As you will see if you clicked the link, it was a very rushed job. Yet I still have no time to finish the January issue! It's because... it's because stormy you came down to my house yesterday! Yes that's it. *blameblameblame* Heheh.XP ...See y'all in the land of 16 degreesC. Cold enough to chill, not cold enough to have snow. What the heck then...?

12:53 p.m.

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

Spiffy label, isn't it? It's flashy and red and it says "POISON". So click on it. Go on, see the full picture; I'll be waiting for you at the other end to reap some sympathy. ...So. Did something look familiar? Did the word "Raspberry" ring a damn noisy bell? (If it didn't, there's always yesterday's entry to rake up the memories.) Did it suddenly occur to you that the label is pasted on my prescribed pack of uber-Raspberry-Lozenge-that-Numbs-the-Senses! stating "poison" in 5 different languages? ...I -knew- I had a reason to fear it. At least peel off the label before trying to pass poison to me; I would think that's common courtesy. Wait, I still have that epileptic expression around somewhere... ah, here it is. Handy picture to have around Reload translations? Coming along nicely ^__^ I'm just anal about certain phrasing and stuff. By the way, from http://www.minekura.com/diary/new.html#20041201 we actually learn that apart from his facepaint, the other parts of Goku in this month's ZS cover are colour-pencil-coloured. So that would explain the difference in strokes and subtlity of colour then. (Minekura made it look like some Photoshop filter -_- where does her talent end?) And she speaks of a returning character. ...Masaka, Zakuro??! I want to listen to the vocal album~~~~~~

09:10 p.m.

Monday, December 6, 2004

O O o 0 0 O ~~~ O O o o 0 0 O ~~~ I've probably swept up more medicine in the past few days than I can ever hope to amass in a lifetime. If I were patient, I might even have colour-coded the above circles (yes they represent symbols of the medicine I'm taking, can you not seeeee~~?) for your discerning purposes. But pitas is not blogger, and I am not patient. See, there are pretty little tablets, and then there are pretty, little tablets. I refuse to talk about the big ones, which I think are the most intrinsically ironic medicine to prescribe to one who has a flaming sore throat. My medication has been a tale of 2 halves, because the 1st prescription somehow managed to miraculously work naught on my sickness; you might even say I got worse. Those first 6 circles and the ~~~ are the members of this prescription. ...Ah, legend: O - awful(ly) big tablet o - pretty(,) little tablet 0 - pill that should look longer but that's how they made the 'zero' on the keyboard .shrug. ~~~ - liquid medicine! It's always the small tablets and the pills that have colour. Hence 'pretty'. You would've thought they were precipitates of transition metal compounds or something. So on top of being hard-to-get-down, the big white tablets get to look boring. The 2nd prescription is more vibrant. Hey, you even get Raspberry-flavoured lozenges! Heavy-duty things they are -- almost 7mm of length ('cause they're circles with length! ... ...aww nobody's laughing ;_; sorry... inside joke), and that's why it gets the bold treatment for its symbol. That's plenty to suck on. Perhaps even too much, because on my 2nd dose, I realised it made the back of my tongue/roof of my mouth -completely- numb. I know the lozenge's supposed to relief my sore throat, but...? Ah well, scary drug. (Fear teh raspberryPink!) Even the cough syrup is an electrical shocking punkish pink. But I'll rather dye my hair an electrical shocking punkish blue. 'Kay, I'm running out of steam. ...And my brain's fried, can you tell? Oh right. I've put up the ZS scans. ...I guess I'll vow to put up the translations <-plural!!!! in the next 2 days then. 'Cause that's the number of days I'm left with Okay, I vow to put up the translations in the next 2 days. <-I didn't copy and paste from the above sentence, so I should sound sincere enough. Brain fried I imagine I'll regret posting this entry; you should be glad I'm not sick often. =)

Not light-headed @ 10:43p.m.

Sunday, December 5, 2004

It's been, what, 3 days since the end of chalet? Yet fever still persists, fluctuating in temperature that can peak at 39.4 degreesC/103F. Spent 80% of those past few days simply sleeping Inflammation seemed to have clawed permanent scratches in the throat. Unlike normal sore throats, this particular one has bared all fangs and is simply out to get me (and my sleep). Dry cough as well. And has just acquired a slight cold. (Could it be influenza?) I'm almost suspecting it's dengue fever or other illness of similar maliciousness, but hey, if that were so, I would be stuck in bed wouldn't I? Will be re-visiting the doctor tomorrow. I've not been this sick since... forever? And until yesterday, I can't remember the last time I visited a doctor. They now have Big Big tablets for you to swallow. >_< And I'll have to give the cycling trip a miss tomorrow...

08:27 p.m.

Sunday, November 28, 2004

*chortles* I don't know... it looks terribly like Goku on the ZS cover. And it probably is. ...So did he join Gato's tribe or something huh huh? *grinz* The picture looks gorgeous though, with a more subdued style of colouring compared to Minekura's usual technique (i.e. you can't really pick out the whites in the drawing), if this tiny picture is anything to go by. (Gee, lookit his left hand. "Yooou arrrre the One," sayz it.) Feathers look fantastic. =========== I tried out a tablet today! (Two, to be exact) *molests tablet* Since I'm short of time now (preparation for a marathon of chalets), this is what happened today: 1) Heard that WMan will go Jpop (e.g. "bloody-like") for her prom. Gotta extort photos from her next time. 2) Games! w00t 3) somethingfsmax7 thingy demo: 3D animation software thingy. Cindy also has some 3D rendering thingy from her programming classes. Will lend me. w00t. 4) Said she'll also lend me FF8. w00t. 5) Of course I'll lend her my burnt anime ^_^ 6) Tablet! Oh the distance (not displacement) we went to find it/them. (might elaborate next time) 7) Found that I walked in front of Cindy for about 90% of the time. Usually it is others who walk in front of me. So... I guess we're both walk-behind-others-because-it's-comfortable sort of people. The reason I noticed the 90% is precisely because I wasn't comfortable at all. Ok, hectic days ahead. Which means fun.

11:45 p.m.

Saturday, November 27, 2004

Current mood: Many thanks to Charlie Brown(c) for this... expression, which most appropriately reflected mine this morning, when I realised I had missed yet another chance to meet up with the friend who up to this day holds my Saiyuki Gaiden tankoubon hostage. (sniff sniff) Nevermind, the day will come. (Hopefully tomorrow... but nah.) =========== To-Do List: ZS translation and scans Read (too... many to... choose... from ::drools:: >_<) Draw Try out CGing Write (am particularly guilty of an abandoned a very dormant fic ::slaps self::) Clean up hard drives Shred entry proof and lecture notes and pop them as confetti. Sit and wonder just -why- the class chalet and softball chalet clash. Manga collection is still strewn all over the island -- poke people with sharp pointy stick threaten with SMS of Doom. Gain some weight. Woe! The things I have to accomplish! and these are just 10 of 'em. Take meh back to school where the hours are short and classrooms are cosy and LTs are tropical and tutors are pretty! ::insert green-faced emoticon:: Project Gain-a-bit-weight got off to a splendid start an hour ago when father brought home pizza for dinner (as a birthday meal). Unwittingly ate 4 slices -- essentially half the pizza -- sprinkled muchly with cheese topping (yes, that sounded more unhealthy than weight-gaining but.) and washed down with a packet of Ribena. By the way, Animax is finally available here. But set-up looks rather off-putting (digital set-top for the analogue one?).

08:48 p.m.

Thursday, November 25, 2004

What goes up and doesn't come down? Age. That's another rung up the ladder then. So too for maturity. ACCCCK????!!! No! No! NO! *scream* I missed this year's TVB Anniversary Show!??!! *shriek* Mum... mum... ???!! What, you caught it?? And you didn't tell me it was on??! A few days agoooooo??? Oh good grief! *screamchoke* You... can't... do.. that.. to. me. Exam? What exam. It was on a -Friday-, for goodness' sake. Not like every other year right smack bang in the /middle/ of exams. I watched it every year despite exams. It actually cheers people up, you see. Why, I am in fact feeling weak now. Repeat times... I can't find the repeat times... Heck, it probably -has- repeated. ::hoarse cries; flashes claws; chants 'full of hategrief':: At least I got 10% of the laughs from the post event interviews and backstage shots I just watched. 10%. Just an optimistic estimate. And omg he cries! he cried! *cough* My major problems are often trivial compared to others'. Television angst. (If you must know, Rurouni Kenshin's "It's Gonna Rain" is playing in my head on infinite repeat right now. And I've not even -heard- that song for eons.) And phan~ Thanks for a great day out. Don't mind me k? Hope you remember it as a nice day. By the way -- this is very peculiar -- my Saiyuki Reload #3 seems to have vanished on the way home @_@ Did you happen to see it? I can't remember where I last put it!

11:21 p.m.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

Was watching a FIFA u-19 women's world championship match yesterday. Even though the match itself wasn't particularly nail-biting, my heartbeat and breathing most definitely got faster as imagination ran with the action. A girl can dream, can't she. :) Nah, no dreaming allowed. I'm gonna make something happen if I can help it. But first, there are the Further Maths and Physics to contend with tomorrow...

12:56 p.m.

Sunday, November 21, 2004

Friday: Visited lithotripsy-ed uncle in hospital. He looked weak and in pain and seemed like dropping off any moment -- which he couldn't do, because excess sleep was not good at that stage. Instead, it was I who fell asleep in a chair after a couple of hours of standing around, plus the 7 hours right before this that was spent in school. For some reason, my body didn't want to stay awake that day -- even during the chem exam my eyes threatened to grant me some respite of darkness (which would be inviting, though unwanted). So having then slept early that night, I woke up at 9 a.m. the next morning -- yesterday. (New record! \ToT/) Then -that- night, I was doodling on the whiteboard in my room when the damncursedfreak thing fell on my foot. 5 kg of bulk and it has the decency to drop from height and attack my foot with its splendid metal edge. ...Mm. Granted, said height was 7 inches. (My whiteboard is aligned in a non-conventional way but right this instance my foot doesn't want to deign it an elaboration.) But that didn't eradicate the 2cm x 1mm evidence that was the impacted area of me foot. That's a very SMALL area, => huge pressure, => thank goodness it was only 7 inches. Luckily, I have brilliant tolerance for pain. Or my foot was already too numb. Either way, I dropped onto my bed and again suddenly fell asleep (and missed the football matches that night). And I woke up at 9.30 a.m. this morningyay! v(-_-)v To find that I can't control a football without wincing. (whinecomplainwhine) Tomorrow I'm making sure I do. not. wake up too early in the morning, or morning weirdness will carry over till night and spawn strange pointless entries like this one.

11:59 p.m.

Wednesday, November 17, 2004

I can't stay off the computer for long. I have to write something. Anything. Okay, I sinned. I forwent studying chem yesterday (more like: I have little will-power to study) and instead had fun (fun!gasp!illegal!) doodling this. Silver graphite on black! (More unromantically, 3B pencil on new black sketchbook <3) <disclaimer> It was then that I realised it was my first time drawing Goku, nevermind a Seiten Taisei. So what had started out as a bored sketch, ungraciously turned into a mulling session over what "goes on" from the neck down. After ignoring strange vibes that goes suspiciously like "draw him topless! like in the latest gaiden chapters!", and after consulting the canon (and hopelessly complex) dress code, I decided to just grant him some clothes that don't look any bit heavenly and thatisallkthx. Oh, and that... ahemnyoibou was an aberration. Thanks for ignoring. ^__^ </disclaimer> Goku looks tall in there, doesn't he. o_O Btw, before you think Flatland is a dreary book of incomprehensible language syntax, lemme tell you it's the first book in a long time that made me laugh out Loud. Yes! I laughed at a mathematical book. *geek*

09:50 p.m.

Saturday, November 13, 2004

Flatland is a really great book. *must... resist... urge... to... write... Flatland... fics...* Am very impressed by Edwin Abbott's simultaneous storytelling and fact-telling. And as a bonus, put in a dash of none-too-inconspicuous Victorian era bashing, and you'll get me quite wordless here for a review. *therefore... must... WRITE... to purge... wordlessness! ...* I had even been taking down notes of ideas that surfaced randomly in my head -- all from the enlightenment(!!) that is Flatland. <- I don't even -want- to (sad to say) attempt to do the same for schoolwork [aka syllabus aka conformity aka I-know-it's-useful-but-I-don't-want-to-learn-it-like-this!!] *chaunts ::you profess to see, whereas you can see nothing but a Point:: ack dies from double meaning* It is all tooooo tempting to write some obscure prose based on Flatland. Seriously, I have this whole page of ideas on... things. *waves paper* ¬_¬ Some other time perhaps. ...But that's only because I've started a few chapters into the sequel Flatterland alreadyohhhhhhhh! *casts VectorSpaceLinearTransformation Statistics to Abyss of Gloominess under desk* Sigh, I have no words. ----------- L and Raito are touching each other more and more. *hyperventilates* ...well yes, they are fighting. But that doesn't make a difference. (Plus: "Foreplay!Close Contact! Raito put his hands on L's shoulders!") I'm not a RaiL 'shipper, but it's getting very hard to ignore.

11:47 p.m.

Tuesday, November 9, 2004

Eh. Was going to write happy birthday Gojyo for today's entry. But it turns out that it's I who have a present. Oooh, scanner! X3 Now, on the box this was one of the "minimum requirements" I caught: 400MB free hard disk space. *frowns* Are you suggesting I must have at least 400MB of -free- space before I can plug/install the scanner? Errm. ¬_¬

11:53 p.m.

Sunday, November 7, 2004

Choice and Destiny. She. And Chemistry. Books or Birdsong. One is destined to choose the path of the latter, if One is She. s.C. dares you to try and comprehend the above garblelittle spillover from Thursday's AQ.

11:00 p.m.

Saturday, November 6, 2004

There comes a time, when you finally realise you can bear it no longer. You have to confront, combat, and destroy. Oh stupid HAIR I'm telling ya stop poking my eyez!! *pokezstabbed*   Argarawaragh So I got a haircut. Which is as nice as the previous one. Confidence in hairdressers elevating. Life is looking up. The devastating trials of everyday teenage life, part #699354 -- The End. ----------- [EDIT:] This had me choking on my glass of water, in a very matter-of-fact way. DeathNote x PoT crossover... I would just love it to be canon.

09:32 p.m.

Monday, November 1, 2004

Mum has finally decided to learn English. I'm so proud of her... as in, I -know- she has a talent for learning things/languages -- as shown through her willingness and success in learning phrases and roads as a bus captain -- but she just kept hesitating to go on and take lessons. Strangely, I think she was convinced by my relatives' (esp. by grandmother...??! well, she had once lived in Canada after all) claims that English is easy to learn -> yeah the same relatives who flew over recently. I couldn't give her my own vote of confidence 'cause I don't really remember how I learnt it... and I had been disastrous in it anyway. Heh heh heh Now, if only dad would go and learn Mandarin. *loopy grin*

10:36 p.m.

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Watched Blackburn v.s. Liverpool yesterday, and... Can one really break a leg that easily? It was not a hard tackle, nor was it a two-footed challenge; granted, high velocities were involved, but it was merely a couple of trailing legs at worst, yet you can see so clearly how Cisse's leg just... bent... snapped just like thatomg. Never one to believe the worst, I simply thought at first it was his shin-pads that went out of place/shape. Or something. o_O You can be sure I ceased my own little dribbling exploits (around furniture) immediately then. Actually, watching yesterday's Blackburn was like watching the Wales side I love (i.e. not that... kind of football played against England recently -_-). It was full of passion, determination, and sudden burst of runs down the wings (was it my imagination or was the ref nutmegged? @_@) aka Bellamy/Davies/Giggs/Koumas on their day. Is it possible to start supporting a team 'cause of their manager? I found myself (nearly) screaming YEEESSSS!!!!!! every time Rovers looked close to scoring... but I couldn't 'cause everyone's asleep yaddayaddayadda *points* Mark Hughes da man. Spent $20.00 at Kino yesterday (Ha! Take that! You can't gimme no loose change now!), just because I'm such a sucker for nice foolscap cover designs even though I have one stack of foolscap at home and I'm not even using those during this period and. it adds up with ZS to give a perfect 2 0. Which led me to predict how a certain match yesterday might end with a 2-0 scoreline. Portsmouth fans you can stop laughing now. (And oh Arsenal you lucky sods) I can't seriously deny myself a dosage of Saiyuki at the expense of "this Critical Period of Time", so I got ZS yesterday. A good decision, really, since it cracked me up (kinda), and a lot of giggles/sniggers were involved. w00t! No! Gojyo spoketh a line of Kansai-ben! *pokez for Hirata-san to say it* And Hazel is truly getting too exotic for words. (Huh, wrong word? No I don't think so...) Uh, eccentric. I meant eccentric. He and Fye can go be brothers.

04:32 p.m.

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

When studying gets too boring and More Important Things need to be drawn. This is what you get if you "scanned" a drawing using a digital cam under less-than-desirable conditions. But I'm pimpin' the joke, not the drawing =P This is also a... something that's dying to be done ages ago. Gods, I'm so unoriginal. XD Was hoping it would serve as a little good luck charm (priestly charm) for tomorrow's pract. ...Instead I have just killed myself laughing. (That's why it's half-done.) Hope I did Gato's gun some justice; remembered it was a revolver, 6-round, and damn big. So I drew it as big as I hope is logical. X3 And lookit how Hazel's head swells up when he said that!! (Compare the size of his hands with his head.) *dies, part #2* May the charm (together with my good intentions) watch over y'all during this exam period. *nods*

11:19 p.m.

Sunday, October 24, 2004

On accounts that the spider episode disgusted quite a couple of my classmates, I've decided to transfer that entry over to my EJ. You have now been suitably warned. ---------- I waited and waited for Elfen Lied to fail me. Now that I've gone through 13 whole episodes, it still didn't. (Thus it never will, since 13 is after all the last episode.) Elfen Lied had been an anime I downloaded on impulse on its first release, raw, because of its beautiful-looking title. (Nice sounding too, if you know to pronounce that second word as "Leed". German.) I don't mind blood/gore and violence so much, but excessive nudity, pink-haired girls who act cute, pink-haired girls who have horns/chobits-like ears, pink-hair girls in general, have always had some repulsive effect on me. (It's the pink and Cuteness.) Elfen Lied has all that, but for some reason I can't fathom till even now, I was hooked on it from day one. But of course, if you've got "blood" and "pinkhaired girls" in the same frame, it definitely says something about not being your typical cutesy/hentai anime. I liked it so much I'm now looking at its manga, which is said to have a slightly deviant plot near the end. I'd like to think it's the diclonius/girl's (Lucy) glare that did me in. It. is. even. cooler. than. Sanzo's. That says something. (Hail the Glare of teh Pink!) Furthermore, she is voiced by Kobayashi Sanae, who also did Hikaru no Go's Touya Akira, so I was swept away by Lucy's I'm-a-girl-but-my-voice-is-sure-huskily-sexy alto-ness. That stare, you can already see in the first frame of the opening theme... And the opening theme! It is quite, quite fantastic -- both the art and the song. Getting incoherent I sense... But the opening theme was a great hymn(?)choral(?)opera(?) piece of Latin lyrics. Was entranced by the song (and possibly the whole anime) on first listen. (w00t! I've just finished BT-ing the OST!! *kiss*) But because of the above-mentioned factors that would repel me from an anime, I thought that somewhere down the road it would eventually let me down. But it kept going, and going, and... ...I'm just going to say I'm very fortunate indeed to have accidentally downloaded an anime I wouldn't -even- think of watching if it had been introduced to me via sypnosis. And the ending was good and complete. *sigh of relief and thinks of Saiyuki & FMA* Elfen Lied is very heart-warming in all. So if you don't mind violence and blood and dismemberment -- and there are a lot, a lot, alot, alotalot of those -- I'll recommend it quite highly. Sigh. First paper tomorrow... if practical can be called a "paper"...

07:45 p.m.