| Achieving 7 Greatness |
[Sep. 3rd, 2009|05:13 pm] |
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Fabulous - that's how I feel at the moment, along with some strange giddiness that'd probably scared most of the people who walked past me just then. But I think it's hard to contain happiness - especially those that just suddenly burst into live inside you, and also, why should I contain it within myself when I can share it with the world.
My sense of upbeat-ness may come from:
( S'all about me! XD )
'Nuff said.
Later, people! *bounces off* |
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[Jun. 17th, 2009|05:43 am] |
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How does one know she is home? Sight? D'uh! Smell? I guess. Siblings? Love'em or hate'em, chances are you're stuck with them.
For me, at risk of sounding corny and well-rehearsed, is love.
I mean, what else could make one jump right into weeding the front porch the first thing in the morning after returning and enjoy every second of it? Or what else could make a perfectly sane girl turn into a pyromaniac-to-be over the pest (WATCH MY FLAMES!!) just because she's part of the family and when dad says: 'jump', I ask: 'how high'? Or what else would make a BMW find its fate rested in the hands of a girl with a mind to tear up the town with her rusty (but awesome, I say!) driving?
Family love is crazy. <3 |
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| Hapy new year?! |
[Jan. 1st, 2009|08:47 pm] |
Happy new year everyone!
I should obviously be revising - but clearly, I'm not doing that. I think it's gotten to the point that I really, really want to revise but I'm physically so distracted that I could go read about which beta-blocker is better for which adrenoreceptor and just read the words and not make any connection between them. Also does anyone, at all, understand that it's not helping when you're stressed enough as it is (even though you're not having a breakdown yet) that others stress for you? Just because I'm not having a nervous breakdown does not mean that I don't take my studies seriously!
And as a end of year treat, I had a Ga-Rei Zero Marathon. It was good.
As a prequel, it follows the on-going series of Ga-Rei quite well. The beginning of it was a bit confusing - it used the voice of 'Tohru', a character found only in the first episode of the anime, to introduce the protagonists, Yomi and Kagura. He sets the scene by demonstrating the difference between those who cannot 'see' without aid and those who 'see' and those, like Yomi and Kagura, who 'see' and belong to 'lineages'. The remaining episodes explain the forging of Yomi and Kagura's relationship and, through a series of tragedies as well as complications involving sucession (as is common when 'lineages' are involved), the becoming of Yomi - the 'antihero' - by the hands of a boy who should've know better (in my opinion, at least).
One of the lines that really struck me was: 'Will you kill someone you love, because of love'. This pretty much sums up the entire 12 episodes. It makes me wonder who loved Yomi more - Noriyuki who tried to find justice for her and argued against his family but stood frozen when Yomi asked him to kill her as she lost control or Kagura who, as Yomi's 'last treasure', unconsciously burdened Yomi with her ideals but in the last moments, remembering her love and duty to Yomi as well as what she stood for, killed her.
I'm obviously fangirling over the bitter sweet love of Noriyuki/Yomi as well as the tinge of shojo-ai/sisterly love between Yomi/Kagura (Isn't it great to know that there's a girl out there that you can share everything with?) My brother would complain that I'm turning into an otaku (it's a bit late to complain, don't you think?).
Right. I shall stop before I waffle on longer about another manga and start making manga-reviews (which is quite tempting) out of all my entries.
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| Are most men really that contradicted? |
[Sep. 18th, 2008|09:13 pm] |
Or is it just certain men in UK?
I have nothing against British men, I do know some very nice guys but I'm beginning to think that these nice guys are considered 'oddballs' or a very, very small minority. Blame me for never liking the typical party-going, pub-crawling, alcohol-drinking 'soul of the party' a.k.a. the heartthrob or the cool guy; personally - I'm not much of a risk taker - I'd much prefer the 'Boy-next-door'. It is not that I don't want or think I can handle my heart being broken (I think, but then again, who wants their heart broken in the first place?), rather I feel under pressure to be someone else to actually catch his attention in the first place! This case is especially true for the UK cute/hot guys that I've had the pleasure of meeting - take note, 'meeting' not 'knowing'. It seems to me that most young adults here consider going to pubs or clubs are the reason to be and it is quite flabbergasting that all guys that are considered handsome party hard. When did partying hard = cool?
I might be a dreamer and old-fashioned (I'm sure many of my fellow sisters out there would agree though) but to me coolness is:
A healthy guy (i.e. preferably no smoking and definitely no drugs. I don't care what misguided teenagers think that drugs can heighten the spirit of a party or makes you feel better, drugs are NOT cool),
A sober guy (not that he can't drink or get hungover once in a while, after all we're human and it's bound to happen sometimes but all he can think about is drink and party, where's the fun in the other parts of life? And if all he can think about is alcohol when we're together, I would have serious doubts whether he actually enjoy my company),
A guy with a good realistic dream that he's working on (I'm not asking when he wants to have babies or whether you want to be a rock start or not, it's more like 'I want to be able to sustain myself 2 years after I start working and in 5 years time, I want to take care of my parents' need as well and one day if I can retire, i want to visit this place.'),
A guy with a dorky side (Call me a weirdo but nothing gets to me more than a guy that's occasionally self-conscious),
And a guy with a passion for something (like photography or jogging or anything...music is okay too I guess...but the type of passion I'm talking about is when I could ask him why he likes the song he has to have a better answer than 'it sounds good and everyone likes it and it's played in the clubs' - those are things even I could say.)
From reading a certain article from a well-known magazine in UK, I am inspired to make this post. I am quite astounded to find that while most men are quite willing to embrace the liberty of women these days, they're beginning to lose respect for those who still uphold certain values of the previous generations and these men who enjoy the 'benefits' of today's culture still oddly hold onto certain chauvinistic traditions. Below are my interpretations of what they're trying to say.
( Five men were interviewed and the magazine claims that they have 'vowed to reveal - apart from their identities': )
Comment!
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| End of Summer? Part 1 |
[Aug. 27th, 2008|03:49 pm] |
After 2 weeks or rather 16 days (I think) of intensive TV-junkie-ing. I'm back to the land of, i guess, relatively normal living beings. The Olympics are over and summer vacation is coming to an end - what a depressing thought. I keep wondering though: what have I achieved this summer?
I'm still one of the biggest manga-junkies i know. My addiction to the surreal is not even funny. I keep wondering whether it's time to mellow out and start finding something more realistic and worthwhile (?). Most shoujo manga talk about falling in love in high school and how it's all fluff with a bit of tumble -- I'm past that, age-wise and mentality-wise. I don't expect these things to happen to me anymore and often find myself completely dumbfound at those who do (I mean, c'mon, how likely is a guy going to be hot and cool and listen to all your commands, like jumping off the rooftop).
I'm jobless. Whereas many of my peers are busy working their bums away to get internships and placement and co-op and all those works that will boost their competitiveness in the near future, I don't even have a CV/resume. That's very, very worrying on my behalf. And when I get back to UK, I'm not allowed to work yet, considering that I don't have a NI number (booo). So I'll have to get my NI sorted, and then my CV. And hopefully this will be done before Christmas
I have yet to make friends in Maple land. It's not that I'm loner (much); it's that I've been too lazy or shy to find some. After all, where do I start?! I'm not exactly complaining as I've quite happily disappear from internet and bask in the attention of my family. But yeah, friends here would be cool. I must work on that.
I shall continue later when I'm in a less contemplative/negative mood. XD |
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| Returning after an University academic year!!! Ahoy~ Make way! |
[Jun. 24th, 2008|02:59 am] |
After a lengthy absent which I have absolutely no excuse for, except my laziness. I'm back, older...but hopefully not too jaded. I can't believe it's been a year since I've actually done any proper writing. I swear, if not for a certain someone, I might have already given up on writing...well, not completely but semi-permanently. She is truly one great girl and a hard taskmaster! But I still lovvvveeeee her because she's that great!
Well, after some hounding, this is what I've produced. For all you NejiTen fans out there!!
Title: Valiant Youth
Rating: K
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| Self Torture |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|10:41 pm] |
First of all, I would like to announce this:
I'VE MADE IT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF BATH FOR PHARMACY!!!!!!!
How cool is that? I've dreamed about going there...and had nightmares of actually not making it there. But now, or rather nearly a month ago, my fears of actually put to rest! I made it to Uni, after all! And Pharmacy, no less.
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| Drabble dump! |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|01:59 am] |
Title: Waltz (Winner)
Challenge: Repetition Bonus: bitch-slap, breakfast, bandage Word Count: 382
Title: Leader Challenge: Suicide Bonus: sword, eyes & old wound (I guess) Words: 228
Title: Stratagem Challenge: Jealousy Bonus: Full moon, fireworks, rage, fire Rating: T…bordering on M Word Count: 140 Note: Bitten by a Nejiten bunny! Not the most original idea, I know, but I thought I would give it a try on something more…heated.
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[Apr. 12th, 2007|06:06 pm] |
I was counting the weeks since I've last written a NejiTen fic. It wasn't as long as I thought it would be. But I guess when plot bunnies hop into my lap so willingly, there's no choice but to write it out. Many thanks to
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) miss_wildcatt
for beta-ing it and actually giving me the motivation to get it done in record time.
The fic shall be uploaded onto ff.net soon. I normally do things the other way around, but why not do things differently once in a while?
Title: Dressed up
Rating: T
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me!
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| Newest obsession! |
[Apr. 11th, 2007|09:41 am] |
SAIUNKOKU MONOGATARI!
I don't know why, but I really enjoyed the story because:
a) The leading girl is not completely helpless (well, Haruhi in Ouran isn't helpless either, but still) and is obsessed with money;
b) living with Laid-back father (who isn't as laid back as I thought) and exiled prince turned bodyguard;
c) Paid by the scheming elderly adviser sr (the most dodgy one of the three);
d) to change the airhead Emperor (a bit like Tamaki in Ouran, but better) who isn't so confused about what he wants;
e) so that his flirty imperial bodyguard and directionally-challenged adviser jr. (who is the adopted son of her overly-adoring uncle) can have work;
f) meanwhile meeting with mysterious higher ups (including her straight face uncle and her shy but protective uncle, mentioned above, and the mask-covered head of dept. who is good looking enough to seduce men); A bipolar Jougen (1st place in the Imperial exam), an eccentric 2nd place who thinks he has 2.5 bosom friends, some very strong women, a villain (?) I can't decide whether I should pity him or hate him;
g) there open ended finale of the anime...I'm hoping there's a season 2
*sigh*
I should be studying...but for some reason, I just can't! And hence the moaning here. |
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| I miss everyone! *wails* |
[Feb. 22nd, 2007|11:07 pm] |
I'm once again in school...and LJ is once again unblocked. The mysteries of men's mind.
I'm procrastinating, proud to admit it. I've done Fitter's work. She is a legend as the British saying goes, although it's not in a good way. She is such a crap teacher, I don't know why she's still teaching. I think it becomes a very apparent thing that something is wrong with her method of teaching when half the class fails her section in the mock paper and gets nearly full marks for Mrs. Taylor. Well, I guess she is quickly becoming a 'constant' in my life...the sun rise from the east, 24hours a day, 60 minutes an hour, 60 second a minute and Mrs. Fitter doesn't change, stop talking or think she's wrong, ever.
I've got a present from Tim for V-day. I'm really thankful that he actually got me something and I feel a bit like an ungrateful bitch (which I probably am) for complaining. But he sent me a LOVE POEM along with the stuffed puppy he called 'Woody' which I've renamed as 'DUB' <--that's as close as I'll ever have the toy go to 'Woody'. There's also a snow dome with glitter and a bracelet. *sigh* I'm just hoping that I'm reading too deeply into this and he just means it as a friend because I don't really need a guy now. I know I do moan about it but it's more out of habit than out of need. I don't have enough guys in my social life at the moment that any interaction not involving female and overflowing progesterone and estrogen is welcomed more than ever.
It's time for bed now, the teacher is doing her round...and room mate's gonna sleep so I'll just finish this entry really quickly.
Teahouse 2 is in its final stage, I think. I'm hoping to post it really soon. *nods*
I've read Rurouni Kenshin again - the manga still is still as good. But the OVA is depressing...and I guess bittersweet at its most. *sigh* I prefer the manga ending to the OVA ending though, where Kenshin and Kaoru are together and living together happily ever after. The next manga I'm going to reread is Sailor Moon. Ahhh, the golden age of shojo manga. On another day, maybe this weekend, I'll rant more about Kenshin or maybe SM (If I finish that then). |
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[Feb. 4th, 2007|11:31 am] |
The school, for some reasons, has unblocked LJ after blocking it for about a week. It still confuses me how their minds work, but I'm not complaining. This week has been quite shitty; after all the exams, you would think that the teachers would give us a break from work - but no, two assessments and one competition. Granted, I did enter the competition myself; so I have got no one to blame but myself, but the two assessments, I don't think pushing them back a week or two would hurt that much. =x=
So, in short, I've been stressed beyond my normal capacity and had my annual breakdown. To be quite honest, it wasn't really a breakdown from stress; it was more like shame from losing my temper at a friend. She's been really stressed too and came in to ask for help. She was so stressed that her brain had completely shut down. I know I shouldn't have lost my temper, but it's quite hard when you're stressing yourself and someone you know who's going to do way better than you in the end comes in and stresses at/with you too. It completely escalates the stress meter. Things were not pretty.
But on the other hand, on a...errr...happier note, I've finally got some drabble ideas onto the computer. I haven't had it beta-ed but hopefully, there aren't a lot of grammatical mistakes. *crosses fingers*
I've unconsciously fallen into an Ino obsession. All of a sudden, she's really great to write about. At the moment, I live to explore her relationship with Sakura. I swear, when I look back at what I wrote, I keep getting this feeling that it's going to turn into a shojo-ai. *cough* I must be reading too much NANA.
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| Happy belated New Year! |
[Jan. 16th, 2007|05:16 pm] |
I swear, if there's a lazy ass award for updating, I'll probably win it. Sometimes, I just can't be bothered. It's been months since I've updated my LJ again! I am definitely making this a very bad habit. So, I suppose resolution of this year is to update more often!
At the moment, I should be revising but I just can't. My brain is half dead. I've *got* to complete my mock paper for heading in on Thursday, or else there's no effing point for me to do it with my exam next Tuesday. There'll be no chance on earth that the teachers are going to finish marking the paper, even though there's only six of us in the Chemistry class. But things are just not going my way (I know, that's life, but I need to rant about this.)! I've planned to do some revision tonight (not working so far) and then some tomorrow morning because for once, I've got a free on Wednesday; and then I'll do my mock paper under exam condition by giving my half of my lunchtime. It sounds perfect! However there's the stupidest bi-weekly meeting that is compulsory for College 2 students to go tomorrow. I'm not happy. Apparently, we had to go last week too because the head of year thought it'd make the school look bad if the year below (who had *mocks* compared to our *real* exams) couldn't turn up. So now, we have to go twice in two weeks to sit in complete bloody silent for half an hour and trek there in the cold 20 min to and 20 min back. I haven't mentioned that the time is taken out of my lunch break, have I?
I'm also bloody annoyed that the Manga sites that I go to is not working...or it might just be FireFox decided to go bonkers on me. I' m worried about my friend who I think is having some problem with diet. *Gosh 118lb is fine!* And another friend seems to be stressed about school work too! *If he decides to take over, might as well let him or tell him to screw off*
Okay, finished ranting.
New Year Resolutions: Update LJ more often; get my drabbles out of my notebook (I probably need a kick to get started, but still); become a professional fangirl (half a joke) and let boy trouble find me (half a joke). Oh and foremost: Get to the university that I want to. |
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| Half Term |
[Oct. 28th, 2006|09:24 pm] |
Half term is nearly over! *wails in despair* And to be quite truthful, I haven't been as productive as I should be. However this is probably one of the most interesting half terms of my life.
The time's being changed to day as we go into the Winter hours. All in all, it's a fun Half term. |
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| Ramblings |
[Oct. 21st, 2006|11:53 pm] |
Wow...once again, it's been ages since I last updated. I should seriously do something about the school's stupid internet system - they block too many sites!
This term has been rather stressful with UCAS application and all those so far. But I must say, I still enjoyed it, even though I'm absolutely exhausted now; thank goodnes for the entity called: 'Half Term'. For the next couple of days, I'll not think about UCAS and only get some work/revision done and focus more on actually updating my journal. I've got mutiple entries in ff.net which i've yet to put into this account...and there's still some under-developed drabbles sitting around my notebook that's waiting to be written or just posted online.
Wow...that's a LOT of rambling. *phew, takes a deep breath* |
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| [The Sannins and the White Fang] [only_secret] |
[Jul. 20th, 2006|10:26 pm] |
Title: 20 Secret Not-So-Secret Disasters that shaped Konoha
Author: Only Secret
Character/Pairing/Group: The Sannins and the White Fang
Rating: PG15 (for a bit of bad word here or there?)
Note: This is where I try to explain why Naruto's world is the way it is. To sum it up: Konoha would not be the same without them.
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| More update! |
[Apr. 13th, 2006|02:19 pm] |
OMG! It's nearly a year since my last update! I should be very very ashamed...but strangely, I've actually have a pretty valid reason not to be able to update! I've changed schools and my school blocks LJ (don't ask me why they do it, but they do.) So, I've finally manage to come up with ways to handle this problem. I'll update when I can, i.e. when I'm at home during the holidays. So after all my babbling, I think it's good time to put more of my fanfictions down here....(one of these days, I might start putting really short drabbles that are lying around somewhere)
Title: Caught in the Moment- Baby Sit
Status: Complete
Rating: K+ (max)
Summery: A moment for Tenten to think about her teammates…and get a well deserved rest.
Title: Caught in the Moment- Knowledge
Status: Complete
Rating: K+
Summery: Naruto seeing...learning things in the morning before meeting with his team. Vaguely NaruHina with NejiTen and SasuSaku
That's it for this time. |
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| Caught in the Moment |
[Jul. 26th, 2005|04:31 pm] |
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Next Chapter!
Title: Caught in the Moment- Rain
Status: Complete
Rating: K+
Summery: Hinata thinks about Naruto on a rainy day. Vaguely NaruHina
( Rain )
Ha! Another done! |
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| Caught in the Moment |
[Jul. 14th, 2005|07:19 pm] |
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Next one up! This is written aroudn 257-8ish, therefore it's semi-canon.
Title: Caught in the Moment: Strongest
Status: Complete
Rating: K+ (max)
Summery: Moments before Sakura's encounter with Itachi
( Strongest )
So...how did you like it? There's a word in there that made Sakura righteously cocky...so, hope you spot it! |
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