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Mom: Now they're predicting fourteen inches.
Jeff: Fourteen inches. That's two feet!
Mom: ... One foot is twelve inches.

Brightest bulb. He is not.

I've marathoner quite a bit Doctor Who via BBC-A. Second two, episodes 6-8, and then..they had a marathon this evening for The Waters of Mars. Jesus Christ, how can you guys stand EMO DOCTOR. Wtf.

Have been sulking a bit for the usual reasons.

Mom made a birthday cake today. She took it out of the oven and promptly feel asleep. After a couple of hours I gave up and iced it myself...only to discover she had left the oven on the entire time.

Then I had to endure having Jeff and three of Drew's friends join in on singing me Happy Birthday. I'm sure they had the best intentions, but....when I see them, especially Jeff or Jim, they're a solid, in-my-face reminder that my dad is dead. I don't want to include them in my special memories.

Tom's turned into a Hulk kitten. Seriously, he is super muscular and makes these crazy jumps. A radioactive spider must've bitten him. He's scaling walls.

This video makes me incredibly grateful for my penchant for never being without my camera. It's the last birthday I had with my entire family. The last time they'll all be there to sing to me. It hurts, but it's something I would never give up. My wish didn't come true.



Man, I am so the kettle if I get grumpy when the Doctor's sad.

On the bright side, my birthday party this year was the best one I've had since grade school. I'm grateful to have such wonderful friends both in real life and online. Yes, I'm using the word grateful twice in this post. No other word gets it right.

The recent Kubo interview states when the current arc ends, so I thought it would be fun to speculate what is going to happen between then and now, plus what the mini-arc that follows might be about ...

( some spoilers for recent Bleach chapters )

Stumbled into this when it was shared in the comm I'm in. I'm not a big fan of serious story, especially with Japanized middle eastern name =_=, but woah....the artwork is awesome !



( Rant...... )

Finished 00 Raiser. Yay~
Video on YouTube and photos on Flickr.

Ugh, Christmas is getting less enjoyable. I feel like we're obligated to buy presents rather than buying because we want to. I would rather receive nothing and give nothing. .^^;; There's nothing I really need anyway. "Had" to go buy my 5 cousins each a $25 iTunes gift card. They'll arrive before Christmas Eve, which is when we're doing the present exchange.

Will be sleeping over at my cousins' house tonight. Actually feeling lazy and don't really want to but cousins from out of town will be there too, so ya. Can't be the party crasher.


I think this every time I heard it but man, my diary is a really good song!!

El ex detective ahora metido a proxeneta Eom Joong-ho está preocupado porque varias de sus chicas han desaparecido. Aunque primero piensa que están huyendo con su dinero, cuando se da cuenta de que todas las chicas tuvieron al mismo cliente antes de desaparecer se convence de que ese tipo se las está robando para beneficiarse él de su trabajo. Tras dar con él y darle tal paliza que ambos son detenidos por la policía, el tipo confiesa como si nada que ha asesinado a todas las chicas, y dará inicio a una carrera entre Eom Joong-ho y la policía para encontrar pruebas que le inculpen de dichos crímenes.

El cine surcoreano tiene muy buenos thrillers en su haber, género que se le da particularmente bien. The Chaser, estrenada en 2008 con gran éxito de crítica y público, es un gran ejemplo del buen hacer del cine de este país en este tipo de cintas. Como en la célebre Memories of Murder, el director se basa en hecho reales para relatar los brutales actos de un asesino en serie que acabó con la vida de más de una docena de personas.


The Chaser cuenta con una media hora inicial muy muy potente, luego se diluye un poco y hacia la recta final vuelve a remontar con otros veinte minutos también brutales y luego unos minutos finales algo más flojos. Quizá no se pueda decir que sea una película irregular, porque mantiene muy buen ritmo durante todo el metraje, pero sí que se nota el momento en el que el asesino es detenido (esto pasa durante la media hora inicial) porque es cuando está libre que la película alcanza sus momentos más álgidos.

Y es que The Chaser se beneficia de tener muy buen reparto que ofrece unas interpretaciones muy correctas, Kim Yoon-seok, el protagonista, Jeong In-gi, el policía, Seo Yong-hee, la víctima, Kim Yoo-jeong, la niña, todos están estupendos, pero Ha Jeong-woo, que interpreta al asesino Ji Yeong-Min, se come absolutamente la película con su interpretación de tipo normal que guarda un monstruo en su interior. Cada vez que este chico está en escena, con sus caras de bobo o sus miradas y sonrisas increíblemente terroríficas y siniestras, ensombrece todo lo demás, tanto que cuando la película se centra en algo que no es él, pierde fuelle.


También como en Memories of Murder, el director opta por enseñarnos los defectos de la justicia coreana y la incompetencia de las fuerzas del orden, aunque si bien en la película de Bon Jon-Ho el equilibrio entre este enfoque y la resolución del misterio era perfecto, en The Chaser se le de más importancia de la debida en vez de centrarse más en la intriga o en la vertiente psicológica del asesino que son las partes más fuertes del filme.

En definitiva The Chaser sería un thriller más que recomendable, brutal como suele ser el cine asiático en comparación con el estadounidense, que podría haber sido mejor, pero teniendo en cuenta que se trata del debut de Na Hong-jin como director, el resultado es bastante, bastante bueno. Habrá que recordar su nombre para ver si nos vuelve a regalar alguna joyita similar en el futuro.

LO MEJOR: Ha Jeong-woo, quien nos regala una interpretación alucinante y se come la película él solo.
LO PEOR: Memories of Murder dejó el listón tan alto que va a ser muy difícil que otro thriller esté al mismo nivel.

Tsubaki Biyori: Future project of t3rribletrio! I got the book in the mail today and it's just SO CUTE!! The scans really didn't give it justice. GOD.

TEASE PAGES:
( Warning: ADORABLE OVERLOAD (BIG PAGES ARE BIG) )

Oofuri cosplay again at FanimeCon, y/y?? X.D
And maybe more people will recognize us this time around, hehe.

So happy~! Finally! It's about time. =.333333

Er, hopefully I can make it out to Fanime. =.x


In other news, birthdays. I haven't been keeping very good track lately...
Happy belated birthday to oheelee and happy birthday to picaaa!

Forgive me, but...

OMGOMGOMG *dies*

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2009-12-19/ookiku-furikabutte-tv-anime-2nd-season-green-lit

This news from a little while ago is also responsible for making me tear up. But yeah, I'll be back later to post a real post XD;;

It should be here in a few hours. I'm excited, anxious and a bit sad that it'll be the last episode we'll get to see for a long time.
It'll be 9 more months of waiting until hiatus ends. I'm not sure what I'm gonna do in the meantime. XD I'm sure I'll find something to keep myself occupied though.

But yeah, I'm expecting some BIG things to happen in this episode. MAJOR, MAJOR, BIG Things!!
Can't wait! But I have to...cuz I wanna watch it while I'm not fighting drowsiness. So, I'll probly watch it when I wake up tomorrow morning.


And really, I should be packing for my trip on Monday but I'm being a bit of a lazy bum...so will do all that last-minute tomorrow instead. hehe^^

Video link: Kamiya Hiroshi He was trying to signal "daisuki" with his eyes  (14.05),  and it was received as "iyarashii" ---> LMAO !!!! (I would have died if he stares like that XD XD XD )

Hey there, minna-san, how are you? Good? I hope so...

Dad just gave me an offer for a Christmas present that I have been wishing for for so many years now. He came home and asked "are you still in contact with your friend from the Philippines?" to which I replied I was and he made the offer "how would you like to go and visit her?" Of course I was stunned so couldn't do over-the-top squeeing, just replied "I'd love to". He then declared once I have all details in regards to how much a flight would cost, how much accommodation would cost and the additional spending money, that will be my Christmas present. Of course, I don't have to use it right away, so that will give me plenty of time to get everything together (I still need to get a passport!).

So yeah, still in shock otherwise I would be going crazy right now, but it looks like sometime next year, I will be having a holiday in the Philippines, and while there, I'd love to meet those of you from that area. I will do my best to get around to all of the areas that you live in.

Okay, and the shock is starting to wear off and...

OH MY GOD!!! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!!! I WILL FINALLY BE ABLE TO GO TO THE PHILIPPINES!!! I AM NOW ABLE TO START WITH MY MEETING OF INTERNATIONAL PENPALS!!!! OH THIS IS SO FLAMING AWESOME!!!

Okay, got a little of my excitement out of my system, so now while I am temporarily calm, I'd like to ask for a bit of advice for an Aussie tourist.

Where can I stay? What are the rates? When is the best time of year for a tourist? Those are the basics, but anything else you can tell me would really help out.

About to psyche out again, so I'll end this entry here while I'm still coherent.

That's it for now, minna-san. Ja ne!

So, er, as it turns out I think as long as I get my documents ready IN FIVE DAYS, I'll be in Japan for 2 years starting April 2010, on scholarship.

Studying tourism in Rikkyo University.

I am a bit... at how they decided to inform me on the 18th (and I saw the emails on 19th SAT) when the deadline is 25th. Every single official document takes 4 working days!!! Everything will be terribly girigiri. Because they said they will inform successful applicants at the start of Dec so I was already thinking that I'm not selected so obviously I didn't prepare anything... Maa. Nevermind. Just that I've already planned timetable for honours... so now? I have to replan again. Sigh. Sigh. I hope I have enough points to bid. Because there aren't much things that can fit into my tt...

MYYYYY THROOOOAAAAT HUUUURRRTS.

Ironically, I was much more eloquent about that on facebook. As opposed to real life, wherein my tongue hurts so much when I move it that I can't speak.

It's...a conundrum.

Omg. I just have to say this! Can you imagine how much fucking engery this song's giving me?! I've been listening to the song like the whole morning already and I can't listen to anything else atm! I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE RELEASE DATE! (I'll be going to Joost's tonight, so I hope I can update something now!)