Liquid Eros Translators

Is anyone watching this? It's hilarious! I love it!

In other news I'm somewhat behind at 28/80. BUT I noticed that the line spacing is fine at 2 instead of the 1 1/2 I currently have, so it's actually quite a few pages more. I'm not gonna change it now though, because I want to finish this as soon as possible. And that means aiming for 3 pages in the old line spacing is good for me, even if I don't manage to actually make it.

So, like, instead of writing a response to Pixar's latest, I thought HAY, TEN AND ROSE CAN DO IT FOR ME. And then I went into the corner to writhe in my own dorkitude.

Spoilers for WALL-E, not really for Doctor Who. Ten/Rose, G.

( Love and Robots )

Today around 1.15pm, at the kitchen:

I walk in.

Dad: Ma, look, your daughter's home.

Mom + Brother: *stare*

Me: Uhm... am I not supposed to be home?

Mom: No, just that sometimes you're not.

Brother: Sometimes? She's never home!

Me: =_=;; yea okay.


so much for enthusiasm for seeing me at home. *rollseyes*

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To these people:

flowerchorus :
Haha it was a surprise but thank you. :) I owe you so much! *hughughug*

currynana :
lol you're like my personal cheerleader! XDDDD *hugs* Thanks, i'll try. :P

teh_o :
awh, thanks senpaaaai ;_; i'll try to hand in all! hugzhugzhugz. It's just one of those seasonal blues i'm having every term i guess. aha..

jtyy239 :
*sisterlyHUG!* lol you coming over and going "OMG YOU PEOPLE AH" really kinda did motivate me a lil XDDD yeah i wanna graduate with you toooo tho i did hear DG students usually graduate later than the other majors. DDD: but yes we'll work it through! *hughughug*

Thanks to laevatein, I've found something quite wonderful - Dr. Horrible's Sing-along Blog. A Mutant Enemy Productions film written by Joss Whedon, staring Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion. It's a one week only internet miniseries about Dr. Horrible (a would-be super villain). The final act (3) airs tomorrow and it'll be only available until midnight on July 20th.

( You are about to view content that may not be appropriate for minors. )

I finally finished the bee-movie for the conference. between vista being total shit and randomly rejecting programs i am trying to use (photoshop, photo impact, greetings workshop, nero, emule, lexmark printer, hp printer, microsoft word, adobe reader, muvee, and several i can't remember atm, to date) and learning a new program or 5. It came out about half as long as i was expecting but it's done and no longer hanging over my head so it'll do.

final planning meeting tomorrow (tonight really) OMG less then a week to go. so much to do so little time and nearly no money =/

but i have a feeling, a very strong one, that I am going to fail this term.

:(

I have backlogged assignments, the ones that i do hand in are below par, and these days i keep getting to class late. and people are noticing. meaning, group works are going to be hell for me cuz firstly you NEED a group (aka friends). I don't even have that.

i'll tell you a secret:

the one thing that motivated me to not fail all this time were my classmates.

i wanted to graduate with them.

all of them, be it any are my friends or not at the moment. but now i just feel more and more left out, to the point that i feel if i don't graduate with them... it's... ok.

maybe failing a whole term wont be too bad. no one will notice i'm gone anyway. (aside from maybe tali and simone who i disturb every now and then) ...sometimes i think it's better if i'm not a part of the class.

sigh.

anyways.

back to my very cacat Maya 3D shit. mine is still like this:


while everyone else's are done textured with super lighting all done. Jason would smack me if he could. I have a feeling he wants to every time he sees my work. =_=

I'm such a failure. I disappoint too many people at one go.

RE: Victory of Eagles. ( Vague spoilers )

Current Count: 24/80

I've set myself a target of three pages per day. If I can keep this pace, I should be able to finish before I leave for Japan and have time to get some friendly critics in and re-write it once. I know it's not sufficient to re-write it once, but I don't really care. My prof will take at least a month to check it, so when I'm back from Japan I will have to re-write it again. If I feel up to it, I might even hunt down a few more articles while in Japan. I don't really care how he'll grade it. I'm sure it will be in a range that I can willingly accept as I have no intention at all to continue in academics. Not now anyway.

Somehow I'm conflicted between feeling good that I already have so many pages of hard facts with no blabla in between and feeling bad that I only have so few pages yet. I hope I'll feel better once I hit 40.

You have no guiding animal. You are your own guide as you look to your pride and strength as sufficient to get by. You are a born leader, silent and strong, always striving to be the best. But it wouldn't hurt to lighten up a little.

What is your Rurouni Kenshin Spirit Animal?

Hmm... that's good since I LOVE AOSHI!!! (No I didn't try for it. Swear.)

I'm tired. I mean, it's to be expected. It's 2am and I'm awake. And alive. Although sleepy.

I got into it with the old fuck in Z's band. I'm officially DONE with the band. I hate double-faced folk. I mean, really, he's like 50 or something and he acts like he's 10... and a LITTLE BITCH WITH A SKINNED KNEE!! I mean, wtf?

Ah, nvm. It doesn't matter. Old people piss me off.

I had a small breakthrough when I was talking to Z and I realized that the teacher I hated the MOST in the world (still do) was the ancient crone who taught 4th grade. She retired the year after I moved to 5th grade, and all I could say at the time was, "WHY AFTER I LEFT?!"

Now, I realize that the wizened crone negatively impacted my sense of the elderly. I mean it. Old people make me crazy and they always have. I hate their friggin' behavior, bitching about the youth when they're no better than the kids most of the time! GAH!!!

I'll stop.

I caught up with Fullmetal Alchemist and I'm surprised that they actually about to close business on this one too! I mean, SURE XXXholic and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, are ending, but that FMA is ending too... it makes me giggle. Ah... ever. It takes forever.

I was also thinking that I'd LOVE it if Minekura (Saiyuki; Wild Adapter) finished off Bus Gamer. Is that so much to ask?

I was talking to someone recently about the differences between the XBox Elite and PS3. Apparently all of Squaresoft's new releases will be exclusively for XBox, which technically doesn't impact me since I give a shit about FF. On the OTHER hand, all of God of War releases and stuff from that company will be exclusively for PS3.

Now... it's 600 for a PS3... and it's 500 for an XBox Elite. Let's face it... I'm better off with an XBox. But... the games *I* like are all on PS3 and being released on it. So, I'm baffled.

It was the same issue I had between the PSP and a Nintendo DS. But GoW won me over. PSP it is.

I need more games for it though...

not everyone can retire before 40.
uncle tatsun... why must you be liddat one...

sien. =_=

*need to rush to college now*

Apparently I have the browsing habits of a guy.

Someone I follow on twitter mentioned a site that tries to estimate your gender by looking at your browsing history and whether the sites you've been to are visited more by guys or girls. Interesting, so I tried it out.

...And according to this site, the likelihood of me being female is only 5%, and the likelihood of me being male is 95%. ^_^; (I bet it has something to do with all of the tech and gadget related sites I visit. ^_^)

Here's the link if anyone else wants to try it out. ^_^

I am waiting for my sister finish using the shower.

So I'm on the chair with nothing but a towel on, facing my computer.

Suddenly my dad comes in, asking why am I up so early.

I gasp!

AND HE IS STILL LOOKING MY WAY

Then I realised he wasn't wearing his glasses. (translation= almost blind)

=_= *phew*

*Sinks lower in chair, replies to dad so that he would go away faster*

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Put that aside.

OH HOW I MISS THIS.

BB YOU MAKE MAI WURLD GO ROUUUNNDDD!

As I predicted, my mother dragged me to see Hellboy 2 on OPENING DAY. It wasn't THAT packed, but there were a lot of people.


Although I was excited about a new Hellboy, it was nothing compared to my mother, who practically VIBRATED off her seat in nerdy joy. She LOVES Hellboy. (Don't ask me... I dunno. She's WEIRD.)

( SPOILERS ALERT )

Basically, it was OKAY. Worth a matinee ticket (here... a dangerous 5.50!) instead of full price admission.

Following the movie, my mother, D and I went to Pizza Hut, where a young waiter was WAY to interested in talking to me. This was only made embarrassing because BOTH my mom and D eyed me knowingly. Yes, I blushed, but it was because they were looking at me WAY too hard! I mean, I gave him the SAME attention I give any one, but he KEPT breaking into my conversations with my mom and D, thus making things worse.

My mom's repeated, "Well, he's cute." DID NOT HELP.

D and I ditched my mom following my mealtime humiliation and made our way to the local game spot. I set us up for 2 hours of play. D settled on Call of Duty 2, which has to be one of his favorite games. I gasped and GLEED over Ninja Gaiden. It's gruesome gameplay kept me occupied for the full 2 hours. THAT'S what I'm talking about!! SHAMELESS BUTTKICKING! No impersonal guns. Just pure swords, staffs, and WICKED claws. LOVE IT.

I then dropped D off and went home.

My PSP
In the interim, I completed the "Hero" level of God of War: Chains of Olympus on my PSP. I'm gonna tackle "GOD" in a while. Need some time to recover and forget stuff, but the PSP version is SO easy and, at the same time, SO hard that it's annoying. Everything is easy to find; but racking up red souls at the first half is annoying as hell. It's SLOW going. I love the game, though, so it's hard to get me to stop playing it. I just love vicious buttkickings.

I'm having issues with Crisis Core, so I may be returning it. I LOVE the look; I HATE the game play.

I don't know what other games to get for the PSP. I'm gonna have to look around. I mean, my favorite games are action-adventure like:

• Onimusha
• God of War
• Devil May Cry (leastly...I don't really like it all that much)
• Twilight Princess
• Ninja Gaiden

If it's not like that, I just can't get into it. I hate "military games" and anything with zombies or ZOMBIE-ISH things (yes yes, I KNOW the "zombies" in Resident Evil 4 are NOT "zombies" but parasite-infected people who can think and react appropriately. Smart zombies are STILL zombies. Ask Ving Rhames.)

Demons are undead creatures of a different sort. THOSE are fun to massacre.

That being said, nothing else is going on. I finished reading 1-8 of a children's book series called The Boxcar Children. I was a bit shocked that I didn't remember how, well, WHITE BREAD the series is, but it's still pretty good. The mysteries are adequate for the age it's meant for (3rd graders. I can read one book in like an HOUR max.) and the kids are likeable. Well... you'd have to read them to get it. The best things are probably how much GLEE they get out of camping and whatnot. I personally LOATHE that shit, but reading about it makes it SOUND fun.

I've also been reading other stuff, and recently I finished off Basara. Ah... I loved that manga series. I mean, it makes perfect sense I would, seeing as I love Saiunkoku Monogatari, Juuni Kokuni (12 Kingdoms), and Utawarerumono. It's been called Shakespearan in scope, which, I assume, refers to the Romeo&Juliet aspect. Still, that Shuuri overcomes his pride and Sasara overcomes her hate... well, the process is just awesome to behold. Yeh, Sasara cries a lot, but, damned if she doesn't have REASON to, unlike most female characters who bawl at everything. Between having your twin and father killed, your village slaughtered, your friends and mother captured, while you're pretending to be a "destined boy" to save the world? Well, seriously, I'd cry too.

I dunno. I just love long, COMPLEX storylines. Recently, I was introduced to Bara no Tameni (For the Rose), and BAA will be finishing off that translation (I hope. >_<;;) AH, josei is so complicated, but I love it any way.

Any way, if any one is worried, my health is adequate. I dunno wtf is wrong with me. I think it's mainly my anemia flaring up. If I'm worrying anyone, I apologize. I'm trying hard to get better! (I wish I were better. I'm sick of being sick!!)

That's my report! Ja ne!

Positive achievements for the day: put in the long-delayed textbook order for the new course I'll be teaching in the fall. (I already ordered books for my other courses, but I had to spend more time pondering the new course.) I have a lot more work to do on developing the new course (on the Hellenistic World), but it's a start.

Above-mentioned disappointment: I was supposed to have Dish TV installed today. I was really looking forward to it, as it was going to allow me to have digital service comparable to what I have now from cable, on two TVs, with DVR service available on both, for less than I'm now paying for cable TV. Alas, it turns out that the honking big tree in my front yard is smack in the line of sight from every angle. Unless I get a tree service out to hack off about a third of the tree, I'm not going to be able to get a clear satellite signal. So, no satellite TV for me. I suppose I could try DirectTV and see if they're any better, but at this point I'm too frustrated to go through the whole process of changing services again with yet another company.

I tried calling Comcast to see if they might have a better offer than what I'm getting now. They were singularly unhelpful.

So, since I was most disappointed about the DVR part, I'm looking into Tivo, which involves more of an upfront cost, but would give me more DVR flexibility. Comcast's price for having DVR available in two rooms is just outrageous, and it doesn't have a good option for transferring recorded programming to a computer or ipod, which Tivo does.

Either way, it seems like I'm stuck paying too much for cable TV when my package deal expires next month. Meh. This calls for a drink.

At last looked up for one of my all time favorite songs: Ofra Haza "Im Nin'Alu". (Well, better late than never.)



and direct link to the song on YouTube

Btw, there's also an old version of this song (from 1978!), but I prefer the one from the PV (from 1988) much better.

UPD. Wiki page for Ofra Haza (Deutsch Wiki page and Russian Wiki page)

banyak ini punya budak fanboy/girls...

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okay i think this is enough posts for one day. 8D

The conversation that started as so:

Brooding Frood says: (10:54:39 PM)
hey..

Brooding Frood says: (10:54:42 PM)
you notice..

Brooding Frood says: (10:54:50 PM)
both our dp...got same expression...

[ n i s a ] says: (10:55:00 PM)
i cant see your dp