Yee ‘O Lost Souls

Anime watching has a negative impact on my creative process. Although it has increased my desire to drink milk and read books.

Tis funny.

Anyway right now I am not in the state to be drawing my comic or writing my stories. It’s when I’m playing game that ideas often flow inside me. I thought watching anime and such would do the same, but I guess it didn’t. Sighs. In the end, I didn’t get to finish my second playthrough of Suikoden V. That game is insane. I’ve read that you need about 70 hours+ if you wanna complete it with all 108 stars of destiny. In addition to it on itself is a long game. It certainly does feel longer than the previous Suikoden games. Somehow I felt the shortest Suikoden game was between Suiko 4 and 1, and longest Suikoden V.

Or in the case of Suiko 4, the game ended before I even realized it…

I miss those fruitful days lazying around my room. sighs.

On an unrelated matter, somehow I feel that I’ve been descriminated against…by my own race.

So a new semester, new subjects, new lecturers, (new idiots) and new timetable and such such.

One of my lecturers is a Malay man. On his first class, he went around and asked each student where they are from and such. He made small jokes here and there so I thought he wasn’t that bad. I was really in no mood that day so I decided to keep quiet most of the time and speak only when spoken to. In other words, keeping my cool (cold) at an all time high.

Then came my turn. He asked me where I’m from…in Malay.

I stared at him for a while.

Then said "Sarawak." he asked which part, I said "Kuching." then commented he has yet gone to Sarawak.

Yeah, like I care.

So, ‘Sarawak’ and ‘Kuching’ were the only two words I said to him. Not to undermine his English with his plentiful of ‘thats mean’ and other crap that’s not even worth mentioning, but I wondered what went on in his head at that time.

Why did he only speak Malay to me? Is it because I’m the only Malay in the class? That he wanted to be friendlier to me? Is it because I look like I can’t speak English? Does he think Malay students like me in a crap uni like this can’t speak English well?! Was he actually having pity on me!? DON’T MAKE ME LAUGH!!

huff huff huff…

I’m sick and tired of being undermined like this. Is it any wonder now why I strive to dress my best when in class or outside of home? I try my best to avoid the stereotypical black and white veil. Short sleeves paired with jeans are a no-no. Three-quarters are just sleazy. It must always be long sleeves, not too big, not tight, and pants that are easy to walk in and clean sneakers with socks. I NEVER wear sneakers without socks. It doesn’t matter if people don’t look at your feet. It just matters! Whenever I dress I try to exude the image of ‘casual smart’. Too casual and too smart is not appropriate for everyday wear.

People say to not judge a book by its cover.

I think that’s just lame. Who doesn’t judge a book by its cover? If the cover is boring I would probably never buy it. And I buy a lot of books. So I know.

But there’s also this thought.  If you want to be taken seriously, you must first take yourself and other people seriously. The way people dress these days, I’m starting to wonder if they are really…

sighs

Crap lecturers…fear my evil.

Ta’ra.

p/s I just checked my HD. I found out I have only about 5.16 Gigabyte of free space! Moooommmyyyy!!!!!

By Sean Covey’s ‘effective teens’ standard, I’m currently your all-time slacker. And as the slacker I am, I blame it on my abundance of free time, my God-sent connection and the ample of anime available online!

ha~ sometimes blaming other things for your own problems are SO much better, don’t you agree? After all, the biggest hypocrites are the so-called non-hypocrites. *cough* ahem!

Anyway. I have finished ROD The TV and Ouran High School Host Club (OHSHC). Both with 26 eps. Obviously OHSHC has a better air to it although ROD has a more concrete story line. I guess that’s probably why R.O.D became mainstream and Ouran is only known to those in the know (or just like bishounen animes a lot).

Either way, about the ending, both animes have good endings.  Not just decent, acceptable endings, but really good endings. Well Ouran’s is better. In fact it’s one of the best anime endings I like so far. For a moment I thought it was going to be Hana Yori Dango-ish. You know, super handsome sons of super rich families having fun and liking a very poor, but lively girl kind of things.

It nearly went that way in the end but only for one ep and a half. But then this story was not made in the early nineties so the super rich families in this series have adopted new ways to educate their children (in the cases of the heroes themselves, they have pretty much far surpassed their parents). So although there are still arranged marriages among the students in Ouran, the heroes themselves have none.

The ending is very good. I give you my Yee O’ Lost Souls Guarantee^TM!

That said, I plan to abuse someone’s lappy with a burner to burn them later. In fact, I have a lot of animes to burn. Hehehehe. For now I’m taking a break on store-bought animes, be it VCD or DVD. The subbing gives me a headache.

Oh man! I just realized I missed another ep in Ouran! Hhahahaha! Maybe because I lined them up accordingly and skipped the opening and ending scene that I missed them. Like, just now I found out I missed ep 20! Before that I missed ep 18! Hahahahaha! So even after watching it till the end, the last ep I watched was ep 20!

Hmmm. This kind of feels…good too. Next time I may just purposely skip one ep and go back to watch it after I finish the series.

Hehehehe.

Anyway, if you have time, go check out both these animes. I’m also following Alice Gakuen but it’s currently at episode 17.

…

I need to find something more constructive to do…

The slacker signing off!

Ta’ra!

Yes I have found a new addiction! TADA~!

Before anything though, let me tell you I have never bought Jacob’s in excess before and this is the first time I tried Jacob’s craks. I mean really! I even had dreams of these long before I even tried them. It’s a funny feeling.

Anyway, it first started innocently. I occasionally saw Audrey eat them Jacob’s Bites cheezy cheddar in class and thought they are not bad. I mean, I never liked my crackers plain. I like them with cheese. But these small crackers are very light and smooth and cheezy. And not dry as I expected. I like!!

What I do is put away a pack of that while watching anime (which I have been doing a lot lately). I just finished Gakuen Alice all the way to episode 17, the whole of Midori no Hibi on DVD and right now R.O.D The TV.

As you might already guess….I am too free. Especially since I have only four subjects this sem and two days off; Wednesday and Friday. It would have been better if I had Monday or Thursday off instead of Wednesday so I can have a prolonged weekend. But oh well.  At least Monday I have an afternoon class and no class on Friday. Hehehehe.

This weekend I plan to go back to USTBOSH pending of course I could meet Farah at the airport. Which depends largely on what time she will arrive in KL and how long does she have between her arrival to her next flight to Kuching. She has some wonderful treasures to give me. *rubs palms in glee*

Either way, I’m really loving R.O.D right now. The previous R.O.D had only one paper magic user. While the series have three! I have to say, I am torn between the three sisters. They are all awesome. But my favorites are the youngest and the middle one. The middle one Maggie is what you would call a ‘gentle giant’. She’s very tall, very reliable but she’s the most childish of the three (and the most weird). She blushes each time she gets praises or ‘thank you’s and will weep if she doesnt get even just one book to read a night. Oh yeah, to emphasize her weirdness, whenever Maggie finds books she wants to read, she will create a ‘nest’, some enclosed space (like under the table) and spend her time reading. That’s why she chose to live in the small room under the stairs (kinda like the room Harry Potter was in initially). She specializes in making animal forms with her paper powers. think huge birds and dogs.

The youngest one, Anita, as opposed to her two elder sisters, despises books. It has something to do with her past apparently, but although she starts off as being quite a brat, she is actually very lovable. Energetic and loud, she was somewhat popular at the school when she first entered. Her powers doesn’t have any specific form although she uses a lot of cutting. So in addition to controlling papers and texture, she often makes them knife-sharp and hurl them at enemies.

Okay okay you guys are prolly bored already by now. Anyway, the anime is pretty good. I haven’t reach the end of it yet, but I’m liking it so far. So go get it! hahaha

Ta’ra!

I’ve been doing a lot of pest control these past few days. But last night really took the cake! I opened my wardrobe and found a big, mean-looking cockroach. Normally I would scream in terror and have someone else take care of it.

But this is dorm life and you have to take care of yourself.

So I bravely took to a hanger and PAK PAK PAK around the wardrobe.

I somehow managed to make it fall off the wall of the wardrobe and landed on its back, immobilizing it for a while. I think I even smashed some bits out of its abdomen. Eew.

Then I freaked out and called out to my homies. Just as my homies arrived the roach got to its many little feet and I went around PAK PAK PAK again.

Homie 3 screamed.

I screamed (because she screamed!).

Homie 2 shook her head.

Then I immobilized it again and Homie 2 picked it up with a tissue. Then I told her to just throw it out the window and she did. And that’s the end of that.

Now I wouldn’t just put my clothes back in the hanger rack just yet. That’s where the roach was, in the hanger rack. Today I finally bought a roll of 6 sheets white mahjong paper. I have planned to cover the whole inside of my wardrobe with mahjong paper before and this seems like as good a time as ever.

Prior to this roach, I have exterminated two or three small roaches before, one just as I was sweeping my room upon arrival from USTBOSH. I think I might have an idea on where these roaches come from. Will take care of that later.

Anyway, tonight we’re going to have a party. For what, you say? Well, do you even need a reason to have a party so long as you have cake and food??

Hahaha. We’re going to have a belated birthday party for homie 2, the brave roach exterminator :D. Well, that’s just an excuse anyway. But she still got her name on the cake. Wahahha.

Ta’ra!

p/s Oh yeah, just now I went shopping and got Katan a new battery. His old one is defective. One thing that surprised me was how much the salesman look a lot like Dragon (Wee Lun). Hahahaha. But nah you’re cuter la Dragon.

Hello! It’s been a while eh? Anyway, I came back to KL on the 3rd of January. So now its been um 6 days or so. But before that had a barbeque on the first with Totchi and others hehehe. Man it’s been forever since I last saw Hanum! It may be a bit late to say now but, thanks to everyone who came! I really appreciated it!

The next day after the bbq we had a small gathering at Bing. We had an impressive guest list at first then a lot of people bailed out at the alst minute, so in the end there were only me, Totchi, the paedophile and Japan girl. But upon arriving I realized it was for the best too since Bing was pretty packed with people. And since we had only four people (three, initially) we had to settle at the smoking area. Uuughh.

Either way we had fun.

So like, I flew back on the 3rd, right? And was supposed to register and whatnot on the same day. But all we pretty much has to do was take the timetable. Nothing more. Nothing less.

I’m telling you, this uni is seriously f*cked up.

But I didn’t go to the uni on the same day. I actually went the next day on my way to the bus station, on my way to USTBOSH at BB. Yep, I spent approximately one (1) night at the hostel and I’m already off to my second home. Mostly because my classes only start the next week, which is this week, and well, its just so much better at home, ok? Besides, I’m overdue for some shopping!

When I’m at USTBOSH I made it a point to come back with AT LEAST one manga be it imported or not, and one DVD. But I came back with a lot of mangas and a lot of DVDs so I’m very happy :D.

Over my weekend at USTBOSH I got to meet up with two friends. On Saturday I went out with Hanum to Times Square. Yay Hanum!

And on Sunday I went out with Farida to KLCC. Farida and Hanum are two total opposites when it comes to being on time. Hanum always appear a bit earlier than said time, so twice already she caught me without me being ready yet. I supposed being in Japan for about 2 years could do that to you.

While Farida on the other hand, can come as late as two hours from said time and can still grin at you like nothing’s wrong!

To be honest I was really pissed off coz I had to loiter around for two hours! I mean, I, too, left BB at 12 and we’re supposed to meet at 1 something. But before proceeding to KLCC I had to go back to the hostel all the way in Puchong first to get a letter for my sis’s card. I had to spend a lot on taxi ride to and from just so I could arrive on time!

But look at what I get?!?!?!

Of course, Farida is not the one to blame (well not wholly). It’s her annoying friend. Before she arrived I already told myself that if Farida was bringing a friend with her, I will be rude to her friend on purpose.

And that I did and that the friend deserved.

You see, Farida could have made it on time if not because 1) this is her first time commuting in KL, so she 2) took the wrong train all the way to Port Klang, and was accompanied by 3) her FREAKING FRIEND HAD TO MEET UP WITH HER BOYFRIEND ALONG THE WAY!!!!

Gaaaahhh!!!! Doesn’t her friend know anything about courtesy!?

Farida was partly late because she had to wait for her friend to meet up with her boyfriend.

And it doesn’t just end there.

From when they arrived, her friend strike me as someone who is quiet, moody and not the type who would voluntarily introduce themselves to other people’s friends. That’s fine with me because I’m the exact opposite and I have a thing against people like that.  In addition, she wasn’t as friendly and she’s boyfriend-centered, apprently.

Need I say more?

The whole time she was with us, she was on the phone, SMSing her bf until at one point her freaking BF called up Farida asking her why did we leave his GF alone.

WHAT THE FUCK?!

Apparently his GF lose track of us for a while but we are nearby. Is there a need to tell her BF about that too?!

Several times I plotted with Farida to just ditch her and go somewhere else but Farida wouldn’t give in :P. So instead of her being annoyed, I made it OBVIOUS I was annoyed with her and wasn’t going to accomodate for her annoyance even one bit! So the whole time I pretended she wasn’t there and purposely talked to Farida very excitedly in Sarawakian because she couldn’t understand just to make her feel left out.

Which works, apparently. And to further my annoyance, she quarreled with her BF at about 5 pm that day and refused to talk to him. So her BF called Farida instead and annoyed her.

Some people just don’t get it!

Her BF even said he’s going to come to KLCC to meet up with her and will come ‘no matter wat’, quoting his half-assed, hormone-induced, ego-filled SMS.

Well even though the BF said he’ll arrive in two hours, I wasn’t going to just stand around waiting! No way! This is MY outing! So I went around, shopping and stuff, dragging her and her sour depressing face. By this point even Farida was fed up with her.

I was nice enough to stay until 8:30 pm at which point the said boyfriend was one hour and a half overdue on his 2 hours arrival time. But you know what? still the BF insisted on coming. Seriously, even if he DID come, WHAT is he going to do? This place is about to close soon!

Then we went back without anymore talk of the said BF. Apparentlym after I reach home, Farida SMS me saying they caught up with the BF at KL Central. He took his GF away and Farida went home alone.

Obviously my rudeness to her was well-deserved.

Morale of the story: Even if a certain boyfriend is not yours, he can still give you trouble.

Farida told me she respects her two friends, both the girl and her BF, but my advice to her was, don’t stick to people who get you down. I heard they are soon to be homies. Good luck with that.

Ta’ra!