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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.

Today's thanksgiving and we're leaving for the whole shabang in less than an hour or so. I woke up at 8-ish (which is a bit of a record for me on a holiday) cuz my stomach was acting up and I spent a good 20 mins in the bathroom. . . At least it didn't get clogged this time.

Anyhoo, I spent the morning lagging around and finally flopped over for a nap. Woke up around 10-11 and decided to get to work. Dad was making a weird roll thingamabob with fish. It wasn't bad, but it kinda gets.... rock-like after half an hour. lol Mom was rushing around because she was still missing some of the ingrediants she wanted for her dish. She wanted to know if I wanted to come with her, but I passed.

( My Recipe for Candied Yams.... )( Read more... )


-sob- perhaps one day I'll be able to cook good enough that I don't cringe every time I look at my ...creations.

On a different subject, I've got glasses now! (cheers!) and while I feel self-concious wearing them in public, I like 'em very much. It's somewhat pleasing to the soul to know that I now have the nerd-look all down.




fweee~ Also, my dad took of the toilet seat from our bathroom downstairs and it's just.... seatless for now. I guess.




Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

Never read Coraline at night. EVER.
(or anything remotely creepy for that matter.)

Well as soon as the computer is up and running my mouse tends to gravitate toward the 'internet explorer" icon. When my homepage pops up I go straight to my email or, if I had started a roleplay the day before, I would go straight to gaia. After my email (or gaia) I usually hit onemanga, mangafox and mlia. Sometimes I go to youtube to catch up on anime or over to zomganime.com too. Once those things are done I finally head over to livejournal. Usually I double task between LJ and my homework though. :3 either that or I procastinate like crazy.

Another segment.

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XiaoYa looked at the gray sky, her face the epitome of worry. She wasn't quite a fan of storms as they usually meant leaking roofs and destroyed crops. They came across as an annoyance to her, really. Biting on her lower lip, she wrapped her coat around her tighter. She should get home fast.
Quickening her pace, her cotton bag bumped familiarly against her legs in a gentle rhythmn. Thump, thump, thump.... She always carried it around to the point where if she couldn't feel it swinging around her twiggy legs, she would feel uncomfortable and nervous. Besides, Kae had given it to her as a gift those many years ago and she treasured it.

Almost tripping over the bag on her way to the entrance of the house, she gave herself a moment to compose herself. It failed though and her face instantly brightened up as she noted the number of shoes at the doorway. One hand fingering the smooth wood of the door before flinging it open with a bang.
"I'm baaaack~!"
Clopping in, she shook herself off like a wet dog (A habit the whole family generally disapproved of as she always got them wet as well) and slipped inside. She could hear voices coming from the kitchen so she charged forward. He was here, for sure!
Slipping accross the floor, she entered the kitchen making quite the spectacle.
"XiaoYa!" her mother's voice rang like a viscious bell in her ear. "You're getting water all over the place!" Oops.

As her mother scolded her, she kept twisting this way and that, scanning the room for- There!
Aunty with her warm smile, Fong Gege always yawning and him...
"Kae!"
Her mother sighed and moved out of the way as XiaoYa launched herself at the unsuspecting boy. There was a garbled shout as the two fell over. Aunty fretted about, wondering if they were alright and Fong Gege laughed. She didn't care though, he was here now and that was all that mattered.

"Yaya, get off of me please." Kae mumbled under the weight of her.
"No!' she smiled. It was good to see him again and she was happy.

Yesterday I decided that I was going to write at least 500 words everyday to excersize my slowly degrading brain.
I'll write about half here and finish up my 500 on regular paper later. (Also- I just <3 the yawning sakura-chan icon~ d'awwww-)
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Her hands fingered the calligraphy brush slowly, as if afraid of breaking it, and very gently lowered it....

...onto her upper lip. She carefully pursed her lips and tilted her head, wobbling back and forth as she fought to find some kind of balance. When she felt satisfied with her position, she hesitantly began to let it go. Slowly....slowly.... and success!

Yaya felt like giggling with pride, but held herself back as to not disturb the pencil. Father always did say practice made perfect- and she always practiced as much as she could, just not in the areas Father wanted. Besides, now she could show WangLei that girls could do it too. She's surprise each and every one of the village boys- Kae too!
She'd laugh in their faces as they stare at her in shock and wonder. They'd rue ever snorting and saying that she couldn't. In a flash they would come crawling to her on their knees and begging her to forgive their incompetence. And she'd forgive them- because as wonderful as it felt to see them groveling on the ground, she was a generous, intelligent and beautiful lady and all generous, wise and beautiful ladies forgave the idiocy of men.

They didn't forget though. (which was why they were seen as smart after all...)

A sense of pride surged through her. As meaningless as this skill was, it still was worth every minute.

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.