Kyuu! Archive-November/December 2007

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almost there?
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*Electronic Landscape(Web Art/Design) - Assignment 2-Javascript, Web-Art Presentation(next week)
*Critical Issues in Design - Essay Assignment 2 (deadline extended!)
*Visual Language - Project 4/5(Final -2nd drafts for Project 4 1st drafts for Project 5 is due next week for critique)
*Typography - Project 4 -Historical Poster design(drafts due next week), Final Term Project (due end of this month)
*Arts and Ideas - Annotated Bibliography for Research Essay
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Assignments left: approx. 8

Well…it’s getting there….slowly. I was happy to finish the poster design for the competition I wanted to join in on. lol though honestly, I’ll laugh if I win (reason being that I’m only a first-year). I’m nearly finished my stuff for my Web-Art Presentation for next week though. Essay, well…I can’t say, I ended up being sick today because of the “monthly” (ended up throwing up my lunch 3 times before I got home) so I don’t know if people got their essays back or not. The sad thing was that I missed my Japanese tutorial and more sentence structure lessons T_T My lecture today was hillarious though, we were learning directional/dimension words, and my professor made up this song to help us memorize it. I didn’t actually sing along but I did record it on my cellphone xDD (When I get a chance to I’ll upload it and share it, cause it was cute-ly hillarious xDD).

On top of all that I’m planning to enter the Ontario Japanese Speech Competition as a rep. for my university in the beginners category. First though I gotta get past the internal applications before I could even try to enter. I was thinking of either talking about Visual Kei (music vs. style) or Tea (culture) . Arghhh it’s so hard to decide Dx the time limit for beginner speeches is only 3 minutes too so…not too much to say. Anyone want to help me pick? xD (V.K. or Tea. I like both and I can talk a lot on both which is why I suck at deciding xDD).

Last note, I’m pre-ordering Alice Nine’s Alpha album yayyy~ and J-xyz also got more shipments for Stacked Rubbish (1st edition + DVD) yipee time to start making Christmas lists >D (next to the Macbook, I wanna get Alice Nine’s upcoming photobook, but then no one knows if it’s going to be an FC-only item. I hope not anyway. It comes with a pocketwatch! <-freebies make Hikari happy) . Lately I’ve been hearing a lot of people got in contact with Gaze-members outside of the lives, such lucky people x333 *extreme envy*
-The necklace I ordered from Visual Shoxx finally came in today too. I ish will take a picture and post it xD-

***APPX.  22 days left of school for this semester! :DD***
||November 6,2007||

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tired and stressed
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*Electronic Landscape(Web Art/Design) - Assignment 2-Javascript, Web-Art Presentation(next week)
*Critical Issues in Design - Essay Assignment 2 (next week)
*Visual Language - Project 4/5(Final Critique next week)
*Typography - Project 4 -Historical Poster design(due next week), Final Term Project (due end of this month)
*Arts and Ideas - Annotated Bibliography for Research Essay, Fieldwork Assignment
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Completed: 5/12
Assignments Left: 7

ughhh, honestly I am really tired, and stressed, and incredibly sleep deprived. Over the last 2 days I only got 6 hours of sleep (not each day, I mean in total *dies*). I want to sleep early, really but there’s just way too much work to do in the next/last 2 weeks. So I end up sleeping through about a third of my lecture on Monday. I should just not go to that class really, we usually analyze web-art there to get ideas for our assignments, but then the lecture is at 8:30am. Since it takes me nearly an hour (45mins if lucky) to get to school I have to wake up at about 6:45am and be out of the house by 7:15-20am. And going to sleep at 3am (2:30 earliest) for the past few weeks is…not good x_x I ready to drop dead anytime. The first thing I’m doing after these 2 weeks of torture/hell is sleeping, a lot of sleeping (so sleep deprived my eyes hurt now too).

On a better note, I was surprised to find that I won an Honourable Mention + $50 honouriam for the poster competition I entered. Seriously I didn’t think I’d win anything for 2 specific reasons. (1)I’m a first year that knows $hit about proper design practice and (2) I made so many mistakes when I was printing and mounting xD. Nevertheless I am happy about that because it’s a huuuugggeee achievement and will be a great add to my portfolio and resume b(>u<). (every little achievement counts from here on in).

Anyhoo I go back to work now, lots of work to do x_x Goal is to finish my essay by the weekend, get it peer edited and what not and finish my historical poster (mounting and all) by the end of this weekend before next Monday. With my studio courses I make a firm that if it’s not done by Monday it won’t be finished. I guess you can say it’s my way of stopping myself from over-procrastinating. and…yes lots to work I go work now. Going to try and sleep early today. need sleep - oh, I don’t drink coffee cause I hate the taste (I like cappuccino’s though). I want some H.K. milk tea but then I really won’t get sleep, have to be careful not to over-exhaust myself (which the tendency of every design student). Japanese mid-term tomorrow. ( isshoukenmei yarimasu =u=;; )

Side note: less than 2 weeks till Alice Nine’s Alpha album release >u< (maybe 4 weeks till I get it in my hands xD *is excited*)

[EDIT]Almost forgot, I updated my radioblog playlist in my navi(left). Added some Alice Nine songs and more Gazette xD (took out a few too). Also added 4 anime themes. OP/ED for Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei, OP for Ouran High School Host Club and 3rd OP for D.GrayMan (the anime is finally going back on track with the manga!). I encourage you guy, if you have time, to watch Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei (it’s awesome and hilarious xDDD).[/EDIT]
||November 15,2007||

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Break at last
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1. Put Your itunes, windows media player, winamp etc on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
4. Put any comments in brackets after the song name
5. Tag some lucky people to spread the disease

If someone says ‘is this okay?? you say?
FLOW - Colors

How would you describe yourself?
Jinn - Kaidoku Funou (O_o;; )

What do you like in a guy/girl?
LocoRoco - Demo Stage theme (xD yes I’d like them to be cute like LocoRoco)

How do you feel today?
Miyamoto Shunichi - Kazaana

What is your life’s purpose?
Yui Makino/Miyu Irino - Yume no Tsubasa (aww <33)

What is your motto?
Miyamoto Shunichi - Anges

What do your friends think of you?
Sakai Mikio - Callin’ (O_o;; )

What do you think of your parents?
Alice Nine - Armor Ring

What do you think about very often?
Chobits - Let Me Be With You (xDDDD)

What is 2 + 2?
The GazettE - Calm Envy (yes 2+2 = Gazette >D)

What do you think of your best friend?
Miyamoto Shunichi - Saigo no Kiss

What do you think of the person you like?
The GazettE - Gentle Lie (er…o.k. xDD;;; )

What is your life story?
Surface - Yume no Tsuduki e

What do you want to be when you grow up?
The GazettE - D.L.N. (I don’t know what that might mean xD)

What do you think of when you see the person you like?
Alice Nine - Blue Planet (:3)

What will You dance to at ur wedding?
MISIA - Tobikata wo Wasureta Chiisana Tori (lol I probably could)

What will they play at your funeral?
The GazettE - Wakaremichi (lol)

What is your hobby/interest?
Naoto Suzuki - Polovtsian Dances And Chorus

What is your biggest fear?
Orange Lounge - Love is Orange (xD)

What is your biggest secret?
The GazettE - Zetsu (I love Gazette..wait, no that’s not a secret xD)

What do you think of your friends?
Tenpei Sato - Akai Tsuki (I think they’re all prinnies? xD)

What will you post this as?
The GazettE - Kare Uta

I pokes everyone on my buddy list who has not been poked xD
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lol that aside, I’m finally done the first semester of university! yayyyyy. This week’s 3 days of hell is over, and I seriously mean it was 3 days of hell Dx I thought I’d die from studying for my exam last night. But it’s done and now I have a month off >333 So, things to do during the break:

-Assignments (1 essay and I actually need to do touch-ups on my web project
-Winter shopping (I needs a new coat)
-hangout with high school friends (because I miss them T__T)
-start on costume for Anime North (otherwise I will forget xD;; )
-Finish revamping portfolio site (yesh…I meant to do that ages ago)
-Update other sites that have been neglected ehehe….
-Finish some Gazette transcriptions (I want to finish doing Chizuru, garr it’s been there for ages x3. and just for fun I want to transcribe Ruri no Ame-Alice Nine-)
-catch up on anime/manga/gaming x3 (especially games because I haven’t touched most of them since September)

so much to do so little time lol.
J-xyz also finally e-mailed me back, and Alice Nine’s new album is on it’s way to my house :D It’ll take about a week or 2 to get here, but I will patiently wait. *is excited* I’ll probably put some of the songs on my radio blog when I get it n_n
|November 30,2007||

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it came!
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It came it finally came!! Alice Nine’s Alpha album(Ltd ed.)!
The mailman woke me up this morning with the doorbell, and then I thought, “zomg! it must be here!!” I jumped (literally) out of bed, changed my pants (but not my pj top) and ran downstairs to the door (I was like “waiiiittt dun’t leave!” xDD). My mom wasn’t home so yes…but I got to it first this time yayyyy!!! (as in this is the first time my mom didn’t sign for my packages xD). Gosh, I was so hyper (well I still am now) had to fight the urge to just pull the package out of his hand lol.

And…yesh, I just opened the whole thing a couple minutes ago, lol I hugged the thing 3 times before opening it xD I’m keeping everything even the plastic wrap the cd was in xD. PSC is smart, they made a case for the cd booklet and the cd so that the pretty booklet wouldn’t get damaged (because normally cd booklets are put inside the cd case). and yep…now I’m going to go watch the dvd that came with it x3 I’ll be back later and upload Alpha to my radio blog so you can all listen o(^o^)o

yep..just wanted to post my hyperness for you lol. actually I posted on my Japanese blog first xD

[EDIT-10:05pm] I watched the dvd today and it was awesome to see the clean pv’s for Cosmic World and Blue Planet n_n Luckily one of my old dvd players could play the dvd so yes..I was happy because I thought I’d never get to watch the dvd because it was coded in a different Region *wants a region-free player x3* If my computer could read the dvd I’d rid it too rawr lol (I’d scan the booklet too but I don’t want to bend it since I only have one copy xp). Anyhow, I’ve been listening to the cd all day today and my favourite new song tracks are definitely Cosmic World, 9th Revolver, Aoi Tori and Kousai ^^ I’m so happy today lol.
Just for you guys I also uploaded all 12 tracks of Alpha to my radio blog so you can listen to the whole thing (1st 12 tracks are the album tracks) Some of them are repeats of other things in my playlist(Jewels, White Prayer, Number Six, Blue Planet) but that’s o.k. I’ll remove them later on :p Enjoy! n___n If you’ve never heard Alice Nine you should x] [/EDIT]
[EDIT AGAIN]Cat and Ayame tagged me xD
1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.
2. Share 7 facts about yourself: some random, some weird.
3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post and list their names and link to them.
4. Let them know they’ve been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.
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I. I love The GazettE and Alice Nine
II. I also love Reita and Nao 8D
III. Visual Kei is love
IV. I like to collect random useless things like paper, fortune cookie fortunes, pretty candy wrappers and boxes. Oh and any packaging that was used from things I buy online that come from Japan x]
V. I currently have a chibi animal/people/fruit-head drawing fettish. I also have a fettish with drawing Devil Nao chibis on my notes when I’m bored in my lectures xD
VI. I tend to fangirl squeal at things that are extremely cute/sexy(VK sexy)/funny
VII. PSC will take over the world. I guarantee it >D
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I tag everyone who has not been tagged (I’m so lazy xD)[/EDIT]
||December 6,2007||

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J-Rock Choice Awards
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I think I’ve listened to Alpha at least 10-20 times through this week xDD. It’s an awesome album. I kinda want to order Stacked Rubbish too now, but I think I want to wait for Gazette’s next single that’s coming out in February :3 That plus I’ll probably be relatively poor after shopping tomorrow for the cute winter coat I saw last year (it’s still there last time I checked xD). Anyhoo
J-Rock Choice Awards! vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote
And when I say vote I mean vote for Gazette (and Alice Nine :D). I already voted, so I tells you now to vote x3 Some choices were hard because it was either something I’d never seen/heard or something I liked too much (Like for best song. choosing between White Prayer-Alice Nine- and Burial Applicant-Gazette- ackkk *brain damage*). Just goes to show how little I still know about the j-rock world xDD. On that side note, I was a little bored this week so I spent one day listening to and watching some pvs and songs by An Cafe, 12012, Plastic Tree and Girugamesh. lol but I have to say none of them can top my love for Gazette and Alice Nine xDDD. Miku vs. Donald Duck <–Youtube it if you’ve never watched it xDD (so cute)

Oh, I also started reading a new manga series called Vampire Knight. and zomg I love it, it’s sexy and it has pretty art >u< If you want to start reading any new manga series, I say read Vampire Knight x3 (I can pass on a scanlations site for it too :3). I’m thinking about cosplaying Yuki Cross from Vampire Knight, but that’ll depend on whether I can get the right blazer to modify. well, I do have one, to modify but I wear that one casually so I want to buy another one like it just for cosplay-sake. And..yes, if I can’t pull that one off I’m just going to do Lulubell from D.Grayman.

And..yep, now I go back to finishing my Chizuru transcription xD
Oh and go visit my new blog buddies blogs. DarkChii (and Alice Nine fan) and Ellie (a Gazette and Reita fan x])
|December 13,2007||

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random blogging
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Ellie tagged me (and wow…this is a lot of questions xDD):

1. Do you still have pictures of you and your ex-bestfriend?
Never had an ex-bestfriend. My best friend is still my best friend :3

2. Who’s the last person you had a sleepover with?
Ooo…that was 2 years ago, for my friend’s birthday. And it was at her house ahaha

3. Who was the last person to disappoint you?
My mailman? when I thought Alpha was arriving on Wednesday but it actually came Thursday xD

4. When was the last time you cried?
Not recently, that’s all I can say n__n;;; unless you counting crying from too much laughing xD

6. Are you ashamed of your past?
we all have regrets, but I don’t want to let those drag me down because it has “past” after all :3

7. Where does your grandma live?
Depends on which one you’re asking about :p

8. Who’s always there for you?
God and my friends x]

9. Who was the last person you yelled at?
I dunno >>;;;

10. Dislike anyone?
arrogant, ignorant people and anyone who calls Visual Kei jrockers emo or girls Dx

12. Do you ride roller coasters?
yep x]

13. When was the last time you saw your best friend?
I don’t remember xD;;;

14. Do you like to sing?
When no one is around, yes x3

15. Would you date the person who last posted this?
nope, but I loves you anyhow x3

16. Are you happy right now?
yes n__n

17. Do you regret anything that you have done?
who doesn’t?

18. Do you trust people?
sometimes too much

19. What is something you say when you are mad?
… <-literally

20. Have you ever cried from being so mad?
yes (and I’ll say no more than that)

21. Do you like messages or comments better?
there’s a difference? xD

22. Whats your sign?
(o’ v ‘o) unless you’re asking for something else xD (the question can be interpreted in many ways lol)

23. Have you ever seen your best friend cry?
nope

24. Are most of your friends guys or girls?
it’s pretty even

25. Last piercing you got?
haven’t gotten anymore since I pierced my ears when I was five. and I honestly don’t plan to get anymore

27. Have you ever tee-peed someones house?
wakarimasen yo (. ___ .)

28. Whats your favorite beverage?
any kind of tea (except for strong herbal teas)

29. Do you have any enemies?
I have no idea (but being hacked once makes me think otherwise >>)

30. Would your parents be mad if you got suspended?
You’ll never see me again if that happened

31. What does your 5th text message in the inbox say?
which inbox? I’ve got more than one e-mail xD

34. Have you kissed somebody in the last 2 weeks?
yes……………………………..my stuffed animals xD (o.k. it’s more snuggling than kissing har har~)

35. Miss someone?
my high school friends T.T

37. Is there someone you want to fight?
violence is bad children

38. Do you know what you want to do with your life?
Current goal is to be a graphic designer, backup is to teach English in Japan and then next to that would be to work at PSC >3

39. What are you doing tomorrow?
I have no idea xD (I should start on my essay xD)

40. What will you do Sunday?
church, then Christmas lunch yayyy!~ (huge amounts of food make me happy n__n)

41. How long does it take you to get ready to go out?
10mins

42. Do you have any piercings?
ears only

43. Where’s the closest hoodie to you right now?
in my room on the 2nd floor (I’m in the basement xD)

44. What place do you think has the Best French Fries?
can’t choose, but it’s definitely not McDonalds

45. When’s the last time you played the board game Clue?
eh…….6 years ago?

46. When was the last time you kissed someone?
realistically, I don’t know

47. Who did you last get in an argument with?
I don’t remember (_ _;;;)

48. Do you think you could live without your cell phone?
yes, because I never had one till this year xD

49. Where is your dad right now?
at work

50. How many people do you know of named Adam?
1? >>;;

51. How about Stephanie’s?
4?

52. Do you do your homework?
of course. my education requires money. to not do homework would cause the university to eat my money

53. Are any of your friends cheerleaders?
nope, preppies scare me

54. What was the last thing you burnt?
candle? (because I was lighting it)

55. Have you ever gone on a date with someone for their looks alone?
never been on a date

56. Who was the last person you texted?
one of my friend’s

57. Whos the last person you added on MySpace?
momo! *le poke*

58. What was the last picture you took?
Me, in my cute new winter coat n__n (it’s on my Japanese blog in case you’re curious lol)

59. Would you ever dye your hair red?
maybe, but then my parents will chop my head off

61. Do you want a well paying job or a job you enjoy?
both

62. What did you wear today?
clothes

63. When were you last on your phone?
today

64. What were the shoes you wore today?
didn’t go out today

65. Do you like math?
generally, yes xD

66. Are you currently in a relationship?
yes, with The GazettE and Alice Nine….in my head x3

67. Do you like hugs?
yep <3

68. Where do you want to go to college?
I’m happily in university already n__n

69. Have you ever fallen asleep with gum in your mouth?
no Oo;;;
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I have no idea how many people to tag for this so I’ll just tag all my blog buddies xDD
Wow, this past weekend we had a gigantic snowstorm so I spent almost all of my Sunday shoveling snow x__x there’s still a lot of snow outside right now >>
Christmas is next week yayy!! Gotta think about what to get next to the mac I need to go buy xD Gahh, I wanna get Zekkeishoku now x3 but I wanna get Guren first xD there’s way too much stuff I want to buy hoho~ I need some jrock posters too (I don’t have any T__T)
||December 19,2007||
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Merry Christmas!
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well, it’s late but Merii Kurisumasu!~ x33
 
not too much to get nowadays since I usually just buy whatever I want xD. But I an still waiting on my mac pro x3 (I want a macbook but, that’ll have to wait T___T). I got a whole lot of chocolate though ahahaha~ *is a sucker for sweets* I had a french toast, ham and eggs breakfast on Christmas morning yayy~ lol as soon as my mom said French Toast I was like. French Toast = Kai~~ x333 (mmm…I want Kai-cooked French Toast xDD). Been ages since I last had a western-style breakfast :3 (more or less).
 
So, today was boxing day. zomg, it was insane. Downtown was massively packed x___x betcha that’s how it normally is in Hong Kong and the shopping districts in Tokyo too xD (they’d say our crowd is nothing compared to theirs lol). Didn’t really buy much. Games here and there were crappy and I didn’t want them (nothing good). EB Games downtown at the Eaton Centre was also packed to the point where there was a line-up just to get inside Dx (so didn’t go there because of that). I did finally buy the USB cable for my cellphone so yayyy~ Now I can finally upload wallpapers and ringtones :D I already uploaded the original Chizuru ringtone I had and a better quality version of my Reita cell wallpaper x3. gahh, uploading ringtones took forever because apparently Sony Ericsson phones from a lot of Western dealers don’t allow you to use mp3’s as ringtones unless you pay for it (and that is downright retarded imo). Luckily S.E. put out a program to fix that so…yayy~ *is happy*
 
Oh, something retarded happened while I was shopping with my parents today too. Some girl walked by me and my mom and I guess I dunno she might’ve bumped or brushed against her or another person beside her, but she dropped her cell on the ground and then she just yelled (and it looked like she yelled at my mom) “you f**king dumb b*tch” My mom turned back and wanted to say something but I told her not to. Seriously retarded, no matter what happened, it was that girl’s fault in the first place, she was holding her cell in her hand while walking. IN A CROWDED MALL. zomg there is so much logic there right? *sarcastic* >> Why the hell would you hold your cell in your hand while walking (unless you’re talking on the phone), it makes no sense. The girl needs anger management classes ne =____= dropping your cell on the ground is not a big deal everyone does it (hell I’d dropped mine a billion times). If it breaks so be it, it’s still your fault. *sigh*
 
Oh wells, people people never learn~ Anyhow, My brother and I are planning to get a bass soon :3 wanted one for ages x3 (and I mean this is before the time of me loving Gazette too lol). Hopefully we’ll be able to find one on sale while it’s still boxing week lol. Oh, and Gazette’s Guren album can be pre-ordered now!!! yayyyy~ but but, only on CD-Japan, GuruGuru and Brand-X T___T *cries* I gotta wait until j-xyz gets it, unless…I could get someone else to pre-order it for me n___n *wishes she knew how to exchange money at the bank or had a credit card* 
*sighs*~~~
Oh I made the Cosmic World fanlisting a couple days back, join it! x] surprisingly there aren’t a lot of Alice Nine song fanlistings. lol now I have the terrible urge to make more FL xDD
||December 26,2007||