Yee ‘O Lost Souls

Man I’m hungry. I’m not living in a third-world country but hunger is often an issue. sighs. Later I shall go out and get some food. Maybe.

I’ve planned to start studying today. So I took out my special study foolscape book. The cover is one of those black and flashy ‘college pad’ ones. The notes inside are all neat and in order. Very unlike the notes I bring to class which are all over the place. Besides, it’s important to feel inspired each time I open the book, right? Exactly.

Last night I think Kuja rebooted himself. I don’t know why. But when I woke up I found out MSN and Yahoo messengers have signed themselves in and my precious Kagen no Tsuki direct download had disappeared ]:’|…

But you see, I have to study and do well in this test because granny wants it.

I so want to go to that Disney on Ice show in April. I could ask it as my birthday present…or not. Or I could ask it as a way to celebrate my brithday since I’m like, here all alone you know. I want something else as my present :D.

Ta’ra!

I thought it was weird how the previous night the aircooler was not cool, but hot. Dry even. When I got up I realized that the water tank was below minimum level. I refilled it and now it’s cool again. I should remember to give my aircooler a name. I thought I had given it a name before but maybe I forgot again. Sighs. I’ll remember to give it my next available name. How does Gunter sound?

Anyway,  I have that test this Saturday and after yesterday’s lessons it seems the format was revealed to be the same as the final exam. People around here are so lazy. And I got my last sem’s results too, which was so long overdue. My economics paper is still pending. It appears, even long after he’s gone, that lecturer still manage to irritate me. I freaking hate him.

My results were decent but I’m not happy with it. Reminds me that I should study hard both for the exam and midterm since midterms here carry so many marks. 40% to be exact, at one seating. Making both the mid-term and final exam as the red zone where a large chunk of your future is at stake. And as the saying goes, staying strong in the red zone determines your pass or failure. Another thing about my mediocre accounting marks was probably because the lecturer wasn’t too impressed at my G-String Co. plc ltd suspense account example :/.

Now isn’t it funny that Me suddenly sms saying ‘just making sure you’re not doing illegal stuffs’. What illegal stuff could I, a law-abiding citizen of Malaysia, do? Bittorent aside, of course. Hehehehe.

Another thing that’s funny is that, whenever I BT, my download rate is highest from a non-seed. Example, I might have 80% but I’ll be downloading 15 kbs from someone who has 30% but only 1.2 kbs from a seed! The logic behind this just confuzzles me.

Aaah I have a boring class this afternoon. Not just is it boring, the lecturer is a complete incompetent. I hate him. HE CAN’T FREAKING TEACH!

But I already told my friend you see that we’re going to discuss about the group assignment today. siiighs. Fortunately there’s only three members in this group. Oh, it’s decided. I’m not going :D.

I’m hungry. Hunger has become a part of my life here. So much so that there’s just no distinction between foods. Junk food or proper food, food is food, they are consumable. God, whenceforth did I stoop so low D’:.

Ta’ra.

On my way home today, the first thought that came to mind was to sleep because I was so freaking tired. But when I reached the apartment compound I thought I’m hungry so I went and bought ice cream (Magnum Almond :D~). Then I proceeded to home. Then as I  sat down and ate my ice cream, I saw my laundrette slip and remembered that I haven’t picked up my laundry. So I went back down and picked them up.

Now I don’t wanna sleep anymore. I’m gonna shower and THEN I sleep. I’ll think about eating after I wake up.

This is also my mid-term exam week. I have accounting this Saturday and Company Law next Tuesday. Having learnt my lessons from my previous assignments, I’m gonna really study beforehand. Since I can’t study too early, or I’ll lose momentum when the time comes, I prefer to study one or two days before. Because when it comes to studying, I’m very inconsistent. Obviously I am not the studious type. Because I feel pressured due to exams and such, my mind will get too creative and force me to type stories instead of studying (Haruka is one of the many results of that).

But still, failing is not an option. This isn’t additional maths where getting 20/100 is a norm. This isn’t maths at all. I’ll just turn into a study monster if I don’t chill but I recover very easily from frustration so that’s a plus, right? And I mean, seriously, if you fail most of the time it’s not because you’re stupid, that’s called lazyness.

I’ve heard of people failing every subjects in exams. Get real. Nobody is that stupid. Unless they are naturally mentally retarded. I have no respect for people like that. If they had no intention of studying, might as well quit and do something else.

Today I found out that in East Africa, ‘Farah’ is a boys’ name. Isn’t that funny. Khaye said she found it weird when she heard girls go by that name here. If you think Mohammad Farah Aidid is familiar, it’s because its the name of some hotshot in East Africa.

Or you might heard of it in Black Hawk Down.

Either way, today was a hot day, but now it’s so cloudy. I foresee rain.

Ta’ra.

I spent one night at USTBOSH just for the sake of it. I get to shop for a bit so that’s a relieve. And it was fun. I wasn’t alone because someone was leading me on and that’s fun too, watching other people impulsively buying stuff for themselves. Hahaha.

I did scouted out a perfume I found interesting. I just told my mom to get it for me later hehe. Haven’t bought perfumes in a while. It’s interesting.

I wanna get my BT to run again. Looks like I have to get my firewall up since my BT likes firewall, as funny as that may seem.

Ta’ra!

I went to bed at about 4:24 pm right and woke up close to 10 pm. So now I can’t sleep…

I finished reading Hana-Kimi and I must say I quite like the ending. I won’t say anything though, just that, I believe more mangas should have ending like that instead of…

"This story of DEATHNOTE is end"

You know?

But to believe that that Nakatsu actually became famous. He’d wanted to become a famous soccer player to the point of being disowned (but he didn’t get disowned, his mom was just testing him)It kinda reminded me that I should stop loitering and took some substantial steps towards achieving my own dream.

Wait a minute! The special ending of Hana-Kimi showed stuff 3 years after the actual ending which means that its the year 2003. And 2002 was the year the World Cup was held in Japan (I was there so its hard not to remember). And don’t you think Nakatsu sounds a lot like ‘Nakata’? Well, I don’t think the author had much foresight at that time but its just interesting to note.

My own story is warpping up soon too. I kept saying ’soon’ but it just never seems to really finish. sighs.

I’m hungry.

Ta’ra.

I pulled another last minute all-nighter last night, doing four freakingly long essays! and from 2 am till 1 pm today was the LONGEST 10 hours of my life! The assignments are to be handed in before 1 pm and even at 12:15 I was still typing! God!! When I finished, I walked quickly to college, not caring that I spronated my ankle along the way. Thankfully I still manage to make it in time.

And then, out of a whim, I went to Sushi King and was reminded by why I didn’t like that place anymore. I was halfway into my noodle and I nearly fell asleep. Twice! After several more attempts, I decided to give up since the noodle was not that good anyway. I asked for the bill, paid and left. I was too tired for anything.

Geez why do I always get myself into this situation anyway? D’:

Last night while I was doing the essays I felt like every last bit of words that ever formed in my head was being sucked out in large doses. I was afraid by the end of the day I wouldn’t be able to write any intelligible sentence anymore.

Waaa I want my granny!

You see, you see, my granny is coming over to play tomorrow and I’m so looking forward to that. I had planned to go to KL after I submitted my assignments but it seems impossible now. I’m too tired it’s mafan.

I’m going to shower and go to sleep. Yeah I know it’s 3 pm but who cares. I want to dream of Hyde.

Ta’ra.

I’m currently in a female-lead samurai phase. I’m just saying it generally since lately I have a thing for female leads and samurais. I would normally prefer male leads especially the bishounen type. But it’s like a rule that if you want a story with lotsa pretty boys, it must have a female lead. And one with a bishounen lead would have lotsa girls. And…if you still want a male lead with lotsa pretty boys then that’s a shounen-ai genre already. Where you got guys and guys pairings. Geez!

Anyway, I would like to comment a little about female leads. I am currently reading this very nineties manga (the artist made several reference to bands in her side notes). It was produced around 1997-98 when L’arc en Ciel and Dir en Grey were at their peak. In addition, Internet and owning mobile phones were also considered rare during those times. Right, what I wanted to say was, this is one of those manga with a female lead and lotsa guys. The manga in question is Hana-Kimi.

Now how do I start this…although I find the main character appealing, I can’t help but think how out of fashion such a character is. You know those stereotypically impulsive, naive, emotional, happy-go-lucky, over-friendly type? The girls who just can’t stay still when their friends are troubled? Who are sad when people around her are sad, and just wants to make her friends feel better? Yeah, those. Tsukino Usagi from Sailor Moon is also one such character. A lot of Shoujo mangas in the nineties have characters like that. And they get recycled over and over again.

But since the early 21st century such characters are becoming less. You still see them occasionally but the newer characters tend to have a lot of attitude. And honestly, I’m glad of this change. I mean, it’s good to be thoughtful and stuff, but who is really that nice these days anyway? Furthermore, it’s tiring when the whole story is based on the character’s emotions. And I mean come on, that type of heroine is trying to solve other people’s problems through what? Tears and fancy words! Gaaah! If only it was that easy to move people’s hearts.

However, the new female leads are not without flaws. There are very few ones that I can totally agree with. Makino Tsukushi in Hana Yori Dango Live Action is one of them. The others sometimes are too forward, loud, too independent (Haruhi in Ouran, anyone?), too emotional (the ‘there’s-no-way-I’m-going-to-lose’ types) while others are just downright annoying. But one perfect character I like is Ran in Tsukikage Ran. The English name is Ran the Samurai Girl. I saw an ep on Animax and it intrigued me. A female samurai! And she’s actually very good and not in the absurd way! It’s because of her alone that I’m getting the anime, regardless of how old it looked (mid- to late-nineties). The art looked like it came from the Ranma era, but newer.

But ya know, it’s all in the name of evolution. All and all, the female leads are progressing into the right direction. So I’m pretty sure we’ll be seeing better female leads in the future :D.

And before you start questioning my orientation, let me just tell you that I’m just tired from all the brash, macho and overrated male leads. I believe that females have a lot more potential as good leads than they currently portray. It’s just those animators give them too big boobs for them to move around with and serve them only as eye-candy geez!

Err yeah, that’s my current phase. So look forward to Haruka, aye!

Ta’ra!

By my own firewall!!! I turned it on and it didn’t allow me to access my own email!! D: So now I’m back to turning it off. Geez.

Anyway, not a lot happened. Just that last Friday I pulled an all-nighter to finish this draft for an assignment and when I showed it to the lecturer the next day, I saw him for 15 minutes tops! And ten minutes he was talking to his colleague and he only went through my work for five minutes and he said they are ‘fine’!!

PISSED ME OFF! I STAYED UP ALL NIGHT FOR THIS?!!?!? So after that I went back and daddyo called. I had texted him the night before at around 2 am. He was in town and if he was free I want to go eat out. And he called and we made plans and then we went to Subang Parade where I had Japanese food at Sakae Sushi. And then I was happy.

We went to visit my uncle where daddyo picked him up and ditched me back at the hostel and left to play golf.

Right, anyway, I have three assignments due this saturday and I probably should get back to them. Maybe later on heheh. I’m hungry.

I remember that time when the Deathnote movie was released into cinemas, a lot of people complained that it sucks.

I feel quite differently.

I mean, it’s a freaking movie! You can’t expect it to follow the manga meticulously! Even the anime can’t follow every single detail! When I like something, I’ll get all the available versions because I want to see all the different re-telling of things. Hana Yori Dango was one of them. It doesn’t matter if you already know how the story’s going to end or what goes on in it. Because with anime, manga, the Taiwanese and Japanese live actions, everything can’t be the same. The original manga and subsequently the anime were released in the early eighties while the Live Actions were 21st century material. Nobody use beepers now!

Well except doctors, but that’s different!

Anyway, having said that, I am looking forward to the next Deathnote movie to be fansubbed. Yeah, yeah, I’m way behind but who really cares.

Oh man, my eyes…my eyes are getting droopy and what time is it? 9:31 PM!? It’s my nap droopy eyes. Not my sleep droopy eyes. Should I succumb?

I always feel sleepy after a shower and would often just go to bed even if my hair is wet. There’s no helping it.

I’ll make a more legible post next time.

Ta’ra!

p/s My BT was doing so well when the firewall was on. But now that it’s off, it’s slow. I wonder what’s wrong with it…

Back in my primary school days I was a big fan of Sailor Moon. Yeah, I am not ashamed to admit it. It was really a very good manga. But my knowledge in Japanese back then was not as extensive as today. I read though wiki (I’ve been hanging out at wiki a lot the past couple of days) and I noticed the names for the first time!

Sailor Moon’s real name is Tsukino Usagi right? If you break it down it becomes ‘Tsuki no Usagi’. Tsuki meaning moon, usagi being rabbit and ‘no’ meaning ‘belong’s to’ or possesive. The name becomes Rabbit of the Moon. It’s a pun! That’s not just it! The other names are puns too!

Sailor Venus (senshi of love)= Aino Minako = Ai no Minako = Minako of Love

Sailor Mars (senshi of fire) = Hino Rei = Hi no Rei = Rei of fire

Sailor Mercury (senshi of water) = Mizuno Ami = Mizu no Ami = Ami of water

Sailor Jupiter (senshi of thunder and trees) = Kino Makoto = Ki no Makoto = Makoto of Trees

Waaahhh XD! I didn’t know their names all correspond to their sailor senshi’s powers!

Ta’ra!

Yes, I am procrastinating. Instead of doing my assignment, I’m doing my story.

I was thinking it would help a lot if I have deeper knowledge on early Japanese eras. Like currency and clothing. But having to explain suffixes like ’sama’, ‘kun’ and the like are enough to stomach for people not in the know. I don’t even understand the feudal currency of ‘mon’. there’s ryu and bon or something. There’s weird coins too. And it’s against my policy to use too many complicated terms.

But that story is progressing so well I can’t help but just fall into the flow and sleep past 5 am every night XD. I’m just chasing my wu-wei you know, a Taoism term that refers to that time when the universe works for me. I read that in Fortune.

Anyway, right now it’s at page 23. Just a few more events and I will close the Shiroyama Arc. Shiroyama XD. Shiroyama Yuu. Aoi’s real name :D. Hehehehehe. His real name is Yuu. Yuu!! Yuu-chan! Wah wah XD.

And I put Aoi as the name of the brothel house. Hahahaha.

When the story is done, I’ll upload it somewhere.

Lately I noticed a lot of fireworks around here. Sometimes two or three at once. It’s fine occasionally, but IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!? Have some restrain, damn it!

Ta’ra.