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I am the World
Therefore No one can Stop me
Any who dare to try
Will be banished from my realm
No one can hold me down
fore
I am The World.

This is the reason I shouldn't procastinate. Aiyayayaya~
8:42 - need to type a one page paper on Jean-Pierre Rampal. I can do this. No biggie.

9:10 - HAH! see! I finished it! just need to do citations.... blurgh.

9:30 - whew. Now all i have to worry about is if the printer will work with me on this or not.... SUCCESS!

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Haha, for a moment there, I really thought I wouldn't get it done. I was panicking all over the place while my family was downstairs watching Law and Order: SVU (or was it SUV?) My mom doesn't even like those sort of shows yet she was downstairs glued to the screen as well.... makes me wonder if they were only doing it to mock me. hm.
In any case, I think I got a good amount of work done today. It's not even 10 pm yet! I guess this give me some good time to think about NaNoWriMo. It's already the 11th and I haven't started yet. Maybe I'll bomb out this year as well. -sigh-

I don't think it's writer's block, but more of a slump. I'm just not motivated... I think. Mmph. I'll think of something sooner or later. Hopefully sooner before the month is over.

It scares me how fragile feelings and people can be.

I plan to make it last until july next year. chances are it'll be gone by this december or january. I would say it would be gone by this month but...

I got sick. D: Still unsure if it's just a regular cold or something worse coughswineflucough but so far I think it's just a regular cold/flu. In any case, my halloween candy stash will be sitting on the kitchen table mocking me. -cries- not to mention i have to defend it from my family members at the same time too.
I started feeling sick on monday- but I thought it was just fatigue and I could get by if I stayed away from junk food etc. Heck, my LA teacher even passed out candy in her class but I stayed strong! Now it's just another piece of chocolate mocking me from it's place on the kitchen table...

gurgh. Feeling dizzy. Plus my fever just won't go away.

Alright! Goal for the week~ GET MORE SLEEP. Especially with the explore test being this week and all... Kind of exciting really.

In Gym we did the turkey trot which is basically this huge fund raising charity thingama-bob and it's like a race where we all run a mile with our entire period class and they give us places etc. I got 72nd place.... out of 120+ kids so I think I did okay for me. Mah sister got 30-something in her period class out of who knows how many. Good for her too I guess.... bah, I need to get better at this whole running thing though. There was actually a time (long long ago) when I could actually do the mile in 9 min. or less.... Now I just get 11 mins flat. *sob*

I feel so tired. I should go to bed earlier...But, geezus, since when has life ever been this busy for me?

okay, so less business and more along the lines of lazy anti-socialness. It feels like there are more things I want to do everyday building up and I just...don't do them. Shame on me!
Urf, it's late. Gonna go to bed. but I haven't been on in a while and I feel bad. Then again, my blogs usually last just a little less than a year before I end up just ditching the whole thing. I think I'll be working harder to keep on going because I really like it here!

How is everyone? I will work hard to comment more- I've been advoiding social contact for the last week, but my lurking period is over!

I want to see at least one sunrize in my lifetime. Because if I don't, I will never forgive myself.

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The sun will always rize
and with each rize
a new day begins.

So I can't help but hope
that maybe
just possibly
there's still some good in the world
to live and look forward to.

That fighting
struggling
and trying
isn't simply pointless.
That maybe
just possibly
we'll finally reach the end of it all
and it'll be bright where-ever
we end up.

Because if the sun
can manage to get up
each and everyday
Then maybe I
Just possibly I
can keep going too.

It's just a wish...
but maybe...
just Possibly...
it can come true.

1. What's one of the strangest things that has ever happened to you?

hm. This one time while I was walking to my bus stop, my mind was still half-asleep and I started imagining that the trees and shrubbery around me were sending me telepathic messages. The messages were basically going "go back! Danger! Warning! Turn back now~" and I imagined that this one old and crippled-looking tree glared at me. When I got to the bus stop though, it turned out we had a bus-driver sub and he drove like a mad-man. . .
To this day, I still wonder if it was all in my head, or if the bushes were really talking to me.

2. What kind of comics do you read?

Manga. :3 Plain and simple!

3. If you could see one band in concert right now, any band, dead or alive, which would it be?

Paramore, hands down. I would kill to see them in real life! I think they even came to our town once to do a concert. Maybe last month? But I didn't have the money to buy a ticket and my parents probably wouldn't let me go anyways. ; __ ;


4. What do you wish you could tell someone right now?

I wish I could tell my parent's friends not to come over tonight. =.=;

5. What's one of your musical guilty pleasures?

Musicals. I love musicals. West Side Story, Chicago, Rent, Wicked, Avenue Q (not Highschool Musical) I haven't even seen a lot of them before! But most of the people I know don't have the same interests as me. TT ^ TT

6. What's your current fandom/obsession/addiction?

ooh, that's tough. I have a lot of current obsessions going on right now... I guess Buffy would be my most current one :D Though it's probably going to change one I get my hands on the first episoe of Munto


7. Where would you like to go right now if you had enough money?

Taiwan. My friend's grandmother died the other day and a lot of people I know are still in mourning from the typhoon. I'd like to go and pay my respects


8. What color is your bed?

It's mostly white with dots and splashes of other colors. Unless you're talking about the wooden part, then that's brown.


9. What websites do you always visit when you go online?

LiveJournal, youtube, onemanga/mangafox.com, sometimes gaiaonline, tinerme (because it's soooo cute XD) and a bunch of others.


10. What was the last thing you bought?

....uhhhh.....I can't remember...?

11. Who do you really resent right now?

My LA teacher, but I guess that doesn't really count since she's a teacher. So I'll go with the idiotic freak that stole my pencil case whoever he/she is.


12. What were you doing online before you started this meme?

Reading my friends page and cleaning the house cuz we got company coming over tonight. -sigh-

Umm.... I tag kurikuribebi and squeaks_sk
and anyone else who wants to do it~

Dear WB

Haven't seen you in a while! It's been a long time, hasn't it? I believe the last time we came across each other was about....

a month or so ago. Hm. So not that long at all in actuality.

You're quite considerate this time to allow me to scribble down strange half-poems and phrases but never a complete story-worthy idea. It's either that or you're teaming up with my inner-sloth and making it so that I cannot write. Or type, in this situation as I don't like writing as much.(You would prefer typing over writing too if your handwriting was as horrid as mine.)

I think there was this one person's journal I was following (my memory fails in this department) and she posted a tip every now and then for aspiring and maybe non-aspiring writers. One of the tips was to not rely so much on inspiration.
Being still more of a youngin' than an adult, I had thought that that would not apply to me so much as I don't have to earn an income to survive YET. But I suppose that tip applies to everyone, adult or child.

I went to the library just the other day and checked out 5 novels(2 manga volumes; RODream v2 and Ouran v7, and Buffy TVS season2)  which I was eager to set forth and read as soon as I could. Once we got home I finished 2 and a half of the books in about 1 day or so.
While I was on my next book (the one I was half-way through with) my mom caught me and starting nagging at me to do stuff.

I interuppted her mid-rant and gave her my own rant on about how I was going to become just like this author and did not need to do my hw blahblahblah XD
My mom gave me an approving nod in the end and walked away. Hurrah! Success!

The point I'm trying to make anyways, was that I started to really think and I decided that I had stopped writing for a little bit and wondered if I was really cut out to be following the path of an author. I couldn't just sit around and read, wishing to be a writer.... I had to pick up that stupid pencil and start scribbling. No matter how horrid that handwriting got or how dead my muse became.

All in all, I'm not blaming you, WB, for my writing AWOLness.... It's the sloth's fault.

You are The Moon

Hope, expectation, Bright promises.

The Moon is a card of magic and mystery - when prominent you know that nothing is as it seems, particularly when it concerns relationships. All logic is thrown out the window.

The Moon is all about visions and illusions, madness, genius and poetry. This is a card that has to do with sleep, and so with both dreams and nightmares. It is a scary card in that it warns that there might be hidden enemies, tricks and falsehoods. But it should also be remembered that this is a card of great creativity, of powerful magic, primal feelings and intuition. You may be going through a time of emotional and mental trial; if you have any past mental problems, you must be vigilant in taking your medication but avoid drugs or alcohol, as abuse of either will cause them irreparable damage. This time however, can also result in great creativity, psychic powers, visions and insight. You can and should trust your intuition.

What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.

I'm quite happy today. Can you tell?
Hee~ <3

Oh how I've missed it. Didn't know that it had left me till it came roadrolling me flat~! (okay, maybe it was more like sludging into my mind bit by bit after eating 2 slices of wonderful caramel cheesecake- but it's practically the same thing.)


Donathon and the Cake Witch.

"I'm sorry, kid, but I can't help you here."
The man eyed the young boy with sympathy in his look. He knew what it was like to be in the spot the poor kid was in- but there was honestly nothing he could do to help.

With light-brown hair and the brightest pair of green eyes he had ever seen, the man felt somewhat sorry that a boy with such potential as the one in front of him, was stuck with the worst luck ever. It wasn't his fault that his parents were horrible people nor the fact that the kid seemed to be hopeless on his own. At first glance, anyone could tell that the boy was someone that would never last a day on the streets.

Donathon, or so the boy had introduced himself as, had came to the man begging for help in getting rid of his awful curse.... but he was just a regular curse-breaker. He couldn't do anything extreme, just the basic stuff. Advoiding those puppy-like eyes, the man sighed and rubbed his forehead, thinking of something he could do.
He was one of the weaker curse-breakers out there though. He was known to be the kindest one though (a fact that he held high in his heart) but kindness was useless when it came to such high-level spells. He was even considered to be like a mere mortal compared to the real Magicians.... a real magician.

"That's it!" he exclaimed. Grabbing Donathon by the shoulders, the man stared intently at him.
"I can't do anything for you, boy. But I think I might know someone who could." It was dangerous, deadly even, but the boy had potential. Talent he hadn't seen in years were reflected in Donathon's aura. If this one was lost, the world might as well be doomed.

"It's not easy, for sure. But curse-breaking wasn't meant to be easy in the first place.

"Which is why I'm going to send you to.... the Cake Witch."

tbc

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Can you hear the Old Witch cry
Her sullen Lullaby...

It falls upon Death's ears
and from Blind Eyes come the tears...

She sings her song for you
From her lips and out it flew...

It may not seem like much at all
when you hear her lonely call...

( can you hear her cry? )

Yikes. Where to begin? Lists... Lists are nice. Makes you organized too.

Things to finish SOON
1. Reflections paper (Due Wed.)  can't remember, but not due wed.
2. Penning the cover page of Alice [AND getting it on dA]
3. Getting the pencil draft of the second page of Target Lock done.
4. Finish editing my suspence story and send it in~
5. get a better idea for the other 'reflection' contest.
6. Finish Buffy Season 1 [3 more episodes- then on to season 2!]
7.  durrrr... Piano Theory HW?
8. White Chocolate Popcorn movie night <3
     a. Get the movie
     b. Make the popcorn.
     c. Force family to cooperate. (bribe with WC Popcorn if necessary) Check.

9. Stop scratching old mosquito bites. [they're scarring and getting itchy cuz you keep scratching!]
10. STOP. SCRATCHING. WOMAN.
11. Get knee-high socks to cover up bites and to stop scratching.

Now that thats out of the way!
This afternoon I went to see Ponyo with my dad. He found it to be a big disappointment.
I, on the other hand, thought it was really cute. Sure it's not as good compared to Miyazaki's other works, but it's just as rich and vibrant in the story as any of the others. The whole 'little mermaid' theme was a good touch. To me, it was kind of like a Disney Classic. Only Miyazaki style.
The VAs were amazing. English dubs have really improved over the last few years. Disney has done spectacularly well with Ponyo to the point where I completely forgot I was listening to an English dub and just got caught up in the story. I'm definitely going to go buy the dvd if it comes out (probably going to go to Taiwan to get it) so I can hear it in the original Japanese voices. I can even forgive the fact that they used a Jonas Bro and Miley's lil' sis! Tina Fey was amazing and the only thing I didn't like, was the Wizard Fujimoto's voice actor.
He seemed a little too... too.... I'm just unsatisfied at the performance his VA gave.

full thanks part 1 of 3 by *SERAPHLEI on deviantART

part two
part three

I didn't draw this, but I feel that it's awesome all the same ; ^ ;
Typhoon Morakot hit nearly a month ago so I'm probably a little slow with that news lol. I just saw this comic today though! TT ^ TT Taiwan x Japan forevahhhh-  

.... -cough- errr, Continue on your way now.

M'at school and I'm not sure if I'm allowed to be posting this at all.
I got grounded from the computer at home and there's going to be a 3 day weekend coming up. My parents always end up forgetting about their punishments but to be on the safe side.... I'm posting this while I can~
I might be able to sneak on later.... Maybe, but there's a chance!

Urgh. PE as always, is hot and sweaty and BRUTAL. Don't believe what anyone says about Soccer/Speedball being nonagressive. Ouch, I still think I have a gazillion bruises on my leg just from 30 minutes of running around with the other girls! (ow ow ow)

Gonna wrap this up before I get caught now.

It took me a while, but I finally wrote (and edited some) of the second part of my untitled story thing. probably nobody even knows what I'm talking about anymore   I had gotten fed up with being sick last night and decided to get some work done... if you can call this work that is. lol

Part One

( and Part Two.... )

It is getting near that time of year after all. Added to the fact that I've been around people who're sick for more than one time. It's a recipe for disaster (I've also always wanted to use that line!)

I've got a sore throat and stuffy nose, the usual symptoms and I had a slight fever this afternoon, but I'm fine now. I'm really starting to hack up a storm though. Right now whenever I start hacking, my stomach thinks that's a sign for it to start heaving too- but I manage to keep what little food I put in there down. So the only thing that comes out are the tears in my eyes from the strain.
Tears lead to more nose-stuffyness which leads to me trying to hold back some sneezes (cause my nose hurts from those awful tissues so no sneezing = no drippyness?) which of course never works as even if you hold them back, they still have to let the snot out so instead of one big spray, it's a floody drip. Some of the drip goes backwards which irritates my thoat and there you go!
A full crappy cycle. Isn't that fabulous?

Well I stayed home from school today (It was picture day! I'd rather miss school, get better and put up with catching up than to have a picture of me looking- and feeling- horrendous in the year book.) and I spent my time sleeping, eating mushy porridge, and catching up on a few comics, stories, etc. Webcomics especially.
 
I spent the morning/noonish "oohing" and fangirling over some APH comics that I missed the first time around or were newly translated and later caught up with MegaTokyo.
I came across MegaTokyo several years ago and back then I wasn't quite able to understand and follow it when the webcomic took a sudden dramatic/serious turn. 1-2 years later, I tried again and while I understood it better, I decided to wait a bit more. :3 Glad I did, because I can appreciate the drama a whole lot better now that I can understand/follow it.

( Spoiler - megatokyo )

Anyways. If you people out there don't know what Megatokyo is, I'll give you the link.
http://megatokyo.com/index.php  <--- READ AND BASK IN IT'S 1337N3SS (Probably got the 133t spelling wrong, but oh well.) 

It really isn't.
Well, I mean it's important to me and my life, but I won't absolutely die if I'm never fluent nor will I scream and celebrate when I can pass for a fob. It's just there in my life. Chinese to me is like apple juice. Love that stuff, but I could live my entire life without it and I wouldn't care.
Which is why when my sister and I dropped out of chinese school it wasn't too big of an impact. It was sad to leave my friends, but hey, more free time~
Then my mom came 'round armed with menacing paper, brushes and books.
Yep, she decided to have a go at teaching us herself. Today was just round one. I'm still recovering from the trauma that is 'learning chinese with Mom'. -shudder-
lol You can bet there was a heck load of complaining(whining). The good thing is I got out alive.... but thinking about next Sunday- ugh. Just ugh.
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okay! complaining/rant over!
ummm, Haven't been doing much lately. I'm busy with school as it seems to be the case with everyone else. (or if you're out of school, work.) Though I've been joining a lot of writing contests on Gaia. Before, I could really earn up quite a sum with roleplaying, but I'm getting really bored with all the RPs I see on there and making my own rp never work. (maybe it's cuz I don't doll the posts up enough... hmm...)
But in any case, I'm in like 5 or so contests and the prize money seems pretty hefty. and seriously?

I read some of the other entries on there and there are the good and there are the bad. After scrolling through story after story, I came to the conclusion that there are less talented writers compared to ....... the ones that make you wince with all the bad grammar and chat speak.
I can't say for sure which side I'm on yet though. I think I'm not too bad at writing, but my ego inflates and flattens really easily so I can't be sure. Right now, it all depends on the judges of those contests. If I win even a minor prize, I'll be able to go happy knowing I'm not too bad (better than the not-so-good writers) but still got a way to go.

What? You think this came on because of a certain boy? Of course not! He called me a sexist and a stereotypical girl (for which I am not!) So there.

I don't think it's too bad for a first try with a romantic scene + kissing.
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 Nana cried, a gentle, heartbreaking sound. She cried a lot these days when she was alone. Sometimes, she would even escape to the privacy of a random closet just to do so. She never let it show though. Nana had ways of clearing away those red eyes and dripping noses.

But today was a day where she found herself in another unfamiliar closet crying her heart out. It didn't seem like her tears were ever going to stop this time either. They kept coming and with each pang that seared through her body, a new wave of tears fell out. Her heart would never heal at this rate. Right now, she couldn't even keep her sobs under control. Fighting to gain control over her body again, her hand rose up to muffle her grief-stricken cries.

"My, so this is where the sound was coming from."
Nana's head whipped up and through her blurry, teary eyes, she saw a boy standing there in front of her. She was too far over the edge to care anymore though.
As she dipped her head down again to burrow into her arms and cry, she noticed with surprise that the boy had sat down next to her. Not expecting that, Nana found herself staring at the boy with her tear-stained face.

"You-"

Without warning, he stretched out an arm and hugged her close to him so her head could rest on his shoulder. He adverted his gaze and said, "Everyone likes to have a good cry. Nothing big..."

And, taking him up on his kind offer, she sobbed into his shoulder.
Several minutes later, her morose feelings were dissipating and she lifted her head shyly and sniffed the remaining emotions away.
"T-thank you...."

He didn't say anything and only smiled at her and reached into his pocket to pull out a handkerchief for her. She wiped the remaining tears away and blew her nose, a little embarrassed at how she must look right now. As she turned to express her gratitude though, he suddenly seized her lips.

Nana was too shocked to fight and soon found her own mouth moving along with his in pleasure. The moment seemed to last a lifetime as he kissed her tenderly and warmly. By the time he pulled away, she had completely forgotten why she was in the closet and crying in the first place.