some random observations...
Thursday, December 13, 2001 - 11:24 p.m.

...while watching Initial D: Third Stage. ^______^

First observation. The CG seems to have been blended into the regular 2D animation much better than in First and Second Stage. Which is very nice. Not only that, but the CG is just much nicer all around. Much better textures on the cars and the random observers on the road don't look all flat anymore.

Observation the second. Damn, but the characters are so frickin' pretty! ^O^ As inky pointed out before, they all look like they wear eyeliner now, 'stead of just Takepon. *grins*

Observation the third. My God, Kyoichi's a sexy bitch. *snerks* I don't know why I've got such a fascination with the EvoIII driver, but, there it is. ^^;;

Observation the fourth. Did anyone else notice the shoujo-esque feeling of the scene between Keisuke'n Takumi? The sun rising in the background, lighting the sky with the slightest tinge of pink. The fog providing a very soft lighting to the scene. The meaningful looks.

For example:
Keisuke: You're coming aren't you? Let's do it together *meaningful look*

Takumi: Wow... *practically starry-eyed*

*snerks* d00d, at this point, I don't even need my yaoi-tinted glasses. ^O^

Observation the fifth. I need to say it. Kai is so frickin' pretty! Wai! *goes starry-eyed* <_<; What, I've got my fangirl-ish moments, alright? ^^;;

And the corrollary to observation the fifth. *coughs* Kai reminds me of Aoshi for some reason. Boy is just begging for someone to fuck him silly. *nods* Bend him over his MR2 and fuck him 'till he can't see straight. *nodnods* And that scene where Kai goes to inform Kyoichi and Seiji about his race with Takumi... *grins* I can just see Kyoichi stepping up to the challenge. >D

Corrollary the second to observation the fifth. I love the way that the race with Kai and Takumi is animated. I thought it was pretty awesome in the manga, but seeing it fully animated and in color.... *sighs happily* ^______________^ Very nicely done.

Observation the sixth. Mogi's a fuckin' idiot. Jeezus Christ on a crutch! She knows it's a bad idea to go with Miki, and what does she do? She goes on a drive with him! *thunks head* Ugh. Idiot.

Corrallary the first on observation the sixth. Takumi's an idiot, too. *rolls eyes* The scene where he asks Mogi why she's trying so hard to make up with Takumi. I wanted to thwap the oblivious idiot. =_= And I'm firmly in DENIAL (yes, that was supposed to be all caps :P) about his entire, "I like you" speech. In the manga, I'm firmly in DENIAL about what he'n Mogi do on graduation night. DENIAL, I tell you. >_<

And those are my random observations on Initial D: Third Stage. ^_______^v

random kenshin comments ^^;
Saturday, December 8, 2001 - 12:43 a.m.

Heh heh. Long periods of time when I can't even blog, and now I'm doing it twice in one night. *blinkblinks* Or is that three times. o.O;;

Anyways. My random notes as I'm watching the latest DVD of Rurouni Kenshin.

When Sanosuke fights with Anji -
Damn, sometimes, I forgot how absolutely drool-worthy Sanosuke can be. I happen to think that Sano's eyes are the prettiest in the entire series. They just animate'm so well when he gets all focused. That part where Sano'n Anji just start wailing on each other.... Call me a freak, but it makes me wanna pounce Sano like nobody's business. *coughs* ^^;;

And is it just me, or can you not just see Anji having a bit of a thin for Sanosuke. But, Sano is so obviously hung-up on Kenshin that Anji knows it's futile to even think about it. If not for all the other rabid bunnies out for my blood, I'd think about writing something for that. :P

Did anyone else notice that Anji'n Sano both have no nipples? ^O^

Saitoh's fight with Usui -
*cackles* d00d, Saitoh is such a fucking sociopath! XD It's great! That part where both he'n Usui start cackling like loons is hilarious. Makes me crack up each time I see it. It's not that Saitoh is either 'good' or 'evil'. He's just got an over-developed sense of Justice and a completely Machiavellian view on it. The end completely justifies the means for him.

Really random li'l note. The smaller of the two Oniwabanshu guys is kinna cute. ^_____^ I can totally see him'n the bigger buy together. XD

Kenshin's second fight with Aoshi -
Just something I've noticed throughout the entire series. Whenever anyone refers to Aoshi, it's always: Oniwabanshu no okashira, Shinomori [pause] Aoshi. No matter who says it, if his name is being said, it's always got that pause in between. *giggles* Same thing goes with Saitoh, too. Whenever people refer to him, it's always: Shinsengumi sanban no kumicho, Saitoh Hajime.

Anyways.... In this episode, I can't help but notice that Aoshi is so deliciously tortured that he's practically screaming for someone to fuck him silly. I mean, really. All that angst. That hopelessness. That pretty pretty face. That oh-so-gay Calvin-Klein-model body posture. His single-minded, and tortured, obsession. Those scars. The long, loving, and lingering shots of his pert ass.... *coughs* Aoshi needs to get fucked but good. *nodnods* I really have no preference on who does it. No, I take that back. I really like the idea of Saitoh or Hiko being seme for Oniwabanshu no okashira, Shinomori [pause] Aoshi. XD~~~~ Don't ask me why, but I do. ^^;;

oh, my poor back....
Saturday, December 8, 2001 - 12:33 a.m.

I think I'm getting old. o.o; Either that, or I'm spending way too much time on my ass. :P

I went to go play some DDR tonight at the arcade. Now, I think I'm pretty good on 4th and 5th Mix. I can do some Maniac on them. I'm not awesome by any stretch of the imagination, but I can hold my own.

When we got there, they had the new 6th Mix. *falls down* d00d, the first two times we tried it, we couldn't figure the fucking thing out 'cause it was all in Japanese and had this new feature of 'freeze' arrows. *falls down again* My friend and I died horrible, horrible embarrassing deaths.

Luckily, one of our arcade buddies came and explained the game to us. So now, we know what to do. Not that it helped me all that much 'cause I was sucking harder than a industrial-strength Hoover. =_= Way too much timeon my ass at work.

oh! takeshi-sensei!
Friday, December 7, 2001 - 08:56 p.m.

Miz and I are hosting a fanfic contest. ^_____^v

what I did on my sunday
Sunday, December 2, 2001 - 11:25 p.m.

Today, I went to a import drag-race. ^______^ I got to see purty purty cars screaming down a 1/4 mile track as fast as their li'l tires'n big-ass engines could take'm. It was so fucking cool. *beams*

One of the first races we saw was between an Eclipse'n a Civic. Civic was fast. Eclipse was faster. 10:05 sec. And yeah, so I have a bit of a bias, but that's purty fast, ne?

As expected, there were a helluva lot of Civics. But, even though they were usually quicker off the line, once they got halfway down the track, the other cars would generally overtake'm. Except for a very bad-ass few. One Civic made the 1/4 mile in 9.65 sec. There was an RX-7 that made it in 8.98 sec. Then, in an exhibition run, this SC400 made the 1/4 mile in 7.59 sec, reaching 181 mph. O_O

The Eclipse raced in the finals for its class against an RX-7. If not for the near spin-out he had, it woulda been an awesome race. It was so sad, though. Not only did he lose the race, he also lost the championship for the event. Poor guy. After the race he came tearing down the lane the cars use to get back to the pits'n roared off outta the racetrack'n down the highway. Several of the cars seemed to be having trouble today. This purty purty NSX had trouble off the line and ended up limping across the track. What was hilarious was that when the NSX was being towed back down to the pits, this one guy was cussing and yelling up a storm. *grins* Seems the poor boy bet on the NSX'n lost his money. XD

A Skyline GT-R got smoked by a /CRX/. o.O;; And that's just wrong. A whole herd of Skyline GT-Rs, however, was enough to turn both me'n my friend into drooling idiots. ^^;v

Ah, but on the whole, it was a most enjoyable day. ^_____^ After the races, I went back to my friend's apartment and we made this huge pork-chop dinner that was so good and played Mario Party. SO much fun. XD I lost and ended up with no coins, but that game is just so bloody cute. Too bad I can't play the mini-games worth shit. ^^;;

separation anxiety
Tuesday, November 27, 2001 - 11:23 p.m.

I just hacked off about a foot of my hair today. XD I got it cut real short. Whee! I like it a lot, but it's kinna disconcerting. Some actions, now, are very second-nature to me. Like reaching back to free my hair when I put on my jacket or sling on my purse. Now, there's no need to, but I keep doing it. Kinna like pushing up glasses when you're wearing contacts. ^^;;

Ooh, I saw Harry Potter this weekend. ^_______^ I liked it a lot, but I can see why others might not. Of course, about half-way through it, I kinna got distracted by the boy who plays Oliver Wood. Excuse me a moment while I drool, please. XD~~~~~~ Oh, my GAWD, that boy was cute!

Speaking of cute. *grins* Episode II! Purty-purty-Ewan! XD~~~~~~~~~ Though the boy who plays Anakin makes me wanna slap him already for being a whiny li'l bitch. >p Oh, well. Just gimme plenty of purty Obi Wan eye candy and I'll be happy. ^____^v Life's great when yer easy to please. ^o^

And DAMN I wish my nose would stop running. >_<

you know it's hard....
Thursday, November 15, 2001 - 06:21 p.m.

Damn, but Crystal Method fucking rocks. ^____________^ Digital Assassins' remix of it is purty damn cool, too.

Just some random rambling from a tired mind....

I think I'm too optimistic. I keep thinking that I'll have the time and energy to write, but, reality shows me that that's not always the case. ~_~

I'm rather sad that I've finally gotten my PS2, and I haven't had the chance to play it a whole lot. It gets more use out of being a DVD player than a game console. Which fargin' sucks. ~_~

On a related note, I think my next PS2 purchase shall be Devil May Cry. XD I'm gonna get GGX, but for the Dreamcast. Which reminds me, I need to get a switchbox so I dun have to switch the cables in back of the TV all the time. ^_^v

If I have time this weekend, I'm gonna screw my courage to the sticking point and chop off my hair. o_o Gawd, it sounds silly, but the thought of that makes me kinna nervous'n scared inside. *grabs fistful of hair* o_o But, I want short hair, so what c'n I do? 'Sides, it'll grow back, right? ^^;

*looks outside the window*
Tuesday, November 6, 2001 - 06:22 p.m.

Is the world coming to an end? Look, I updated! ^^;;

I finally got off my butt and finished revising Innocence. It is now up. Yeay! Hopefully, that'll motivate me enough to keep writing the next part. Which is about a third of the way done.

I even went and fixed all the funky coding in the carwash ficcy. That wasn't much fun at all. ~_~

Oh, well. They're up'n they're running! Now to actually finish some of the ficcies languishing on my harddrive.

^_______^;;v

kosong okwangdae...
Monday, November 5, 2001 - 06:28 p.m.

...is a traditional Korean masked-dance troup that I had the honor of seeing last night in San Diego. ^______^ They are sooooo awesome. One of Korea's National Cultural Treasures was in it, too. XD

But, because I was in San Diego, it means that I wasn't able to fic or catch up on email. @_@;; d00d, I know I wished that the mls would get busy again, but did they all have to do it at the sae time? *whimpers about catching up to 150 emails...*

ooh, niiiiice.....
Tuesday, October 30, 2001 - 09:55 p.m.

I just saw Smallville. ^________^ Chock-full of cute young boys. I think I'm gonna like it. What? I've already admitted I'm a dirty ol'woman, haven't I? >D~~

And DAMN I've got a lotta email to wade through.... ._.;

strange dreams
Monday, October 29, 2001 - 11:32 p.m.

I had the trippiest dream last night.

I dreamt that I came home to find a bunch of my friends watching TV in my living room. Then the IT guy from my office came wandering in and started to fiddle with the TV wires. Next thing I know, I'm at a rave with my friend Cindy and we're watching this guy attaching photon lights to some weird contraption so he can do a light show. He finishes attaching the lights, turns to the DJ, and then turns back, saying, "Careful. This might be scary."

A couple of guy friends come by and I find myself in a room with Cindy and one fo the guys (can't remember who now) and a TV's there with text running on it saying, "Most of you may be scared by the sub-vocalizations you're about to hear. Hold on to your seats."

Then the music starts again and it's really cool. Kinda freaky, but cool. But then, it starts to get disturbing. Suddenly, I feel this overwhelming terror and I'm totally freaking out. My friends crowd in on me scared, too, and I feel like I'm being crushed. It hurts so I start to yell at them to stop, but they don't, they just keep pressing closer. Somehow, I manage to wake up.

But then, a shadow of a man rises up over my bed and settles next to me. I swear to God I felt the weight settle right fucking next to me. At this point, I pretty much know I'm not awake, but can't do anything about it. ._. The man puts his hand right over my collar-bones and I whimper. His hand starts to move up to my throat and I manage to reach up and grab the hand. I can feel the hair on the guy's arm and then actually wake up for real. o_o

I had to turn on a light before I could get back to sleep. *whimpers* Haven't been that majorly freaked out since I was in the 3rd grade. ._.

It's a dead man's party
Monday, October 29, 2001 - 12:03 a.m.

Who can ask for more?
Everybody's coming, leave your body at the door.
Leave your body and soul at the door.
Don't be afraid, it's only me.
Don't be afraid, of what you can't see.

^___________^

Busy-ass weekend, but soooooooo much fun. Friday was a bust 'cause I didn't get home from work until about 9 p.m. I was so tired that I went to sleep. Got up on Saturday at 8 a.m. 'cause I had to go in to work. Sort of. We got to finish painting a couple of murals at one of the city juvenile halls. One of the murals was about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other was on Cesar Chavez. ^___^v

Got done with that at around 4:30, took one of my co-workers home, and got home myself at around 5 p.m. Then, I sat and frantically tried to finish my Anji (GGX) costume by 7 p.m. Which I did. I had the hakama done, and bought a couple of fans last weekend, so I was concentrating on just getting the shawl thing he wears done. The armbands and headband I'll have to do later. I will have it done by the next anime convention, though. Whee! I must say, it looks pretty darn cool. ^________^ And, by the next con, I'll have had my hair hacked off, so I can even do the hairstyle. XD

At 7 p.m., my friend Cindy (yeah yeah, we're both named Cindy and have heard all the jokes already :P) came over, I got changed, and we headed over to my friend Christy's place to pick her and her boyfriend up. Whee! And off to Monster Massive we were! *dansudansus*

Christy was dressed in this white furry with furry orange wavy stripes outfit that she made. It looked so cute! =^.^= I was dressed as Anji, Cindy was dressed as a li'l kitty cat (which is perfect 'cause she's a teeny tiny li'l girl), and Brian (Christy's boyfriend) was dressed as Guile. XD He had his hair all up in spikes and had sprayed it with a fluorescent yellow. During the entire night, whenever black lighting hit it, it would glow this intense bright yellow.

Christy was getting lotsa hugs 'cause of her furry suit'n I was getting a lot of hugs 'cause I was putting my fans to good use, fanning random people that looked hot. I got two bead bracelets from grateful ravers. ^____^v I lost one of my fans, though. There was this group of Koreans that I ended up talking with and they wanted to borrow one of my fans, so I let them, but when I went back to look for them, they were gone. T_T I know better than to lend people my toys when I'm at a rave, but I can't seem to help it. I need to be less nice, I guess. :P

The rave ended at 2 a.m. - the fucking bastiges said it'd be running 'till 4 a.m. >_< - so we headed over to an after-hours club and stayed there until about 7 a.m. Went back to Christy's place and crashed until about 1 p.m. Got up, was lazy, made something to eat, and took another nap 'fore I headed home to shower'n pick up some videos.

I went back to Christy's to have dinner and watched this incredibly disturbing Japanese movie called Battle Royal. Don't get me wrong, it was pretty good. But hella disturbing and just plain fucked up. It's set in the future where only 15% of the population in Japan is employed and the kids're running rampant. They're not going to school'n terrorizing the teachers. So the government manages to pass this law that says that one junior/high school class every year is picked by random lottery and sent to this deserted island. Once there, they're each given a pack with enough food and water to survive for three days. And a random weapon of some sort; not just guns'n knives either. One kid had a pot lid and one kid's weapon was a bullhorn. o_O;; The objective of the three days is to be the last student alive. The last student is then free to go home. As you can imagine, it just got even more fucked up from there. ._.

If you can, try'n find this movie and watch it. But only if you don't mind just a wee bit of violence. :p

And that, boys'n girls, was my action packed weekend. Thank God that rollback was this weekend and we got an extra hour, 'cause otherwise, I'd be even more exhausted than I am now.

*cough* *cough* *hack* *hack*
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 06:12 p.m.

*starts singing* I'm especially good at exPACtorating, oh what a guy...GASTON!!!

*blinkblinks* NyQuil'n Korean traditional medicine.... Mmmm.... XD

Man, this flue/cold/thing had my ass kicked for the past few days. @_@ Didn't help that work was all crazy. Not only were we moving our office around because we were getting new carpeting, but we were getting all geared up for going public with our main campaign at work. *whimpers* I was working even while I was wracked with fever and chills and coughing my lungs out. ~_~

Finally, yesterday, I succumbed and slept for about 18 hours straight. Oh, yeah, that felt good. ^_____^

I think I'll be all recovered in time for Monster Massive, which is good, 'cause my costume is almost done. I finished my hakama, and it looks pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. *proudproud* Now, all I gotta sew is the shawl thing'n the forearm sleeves. Which shouldn't be too bad. I still have 3 nights. 3 nights with an hour, hour and a half of sewing should see this baby all done in time. ^___^V

And, d00d, there was a lot of activity on ff-yaoi'n yaoi-d. O.O Oh, well. Just means I can start doing my massive replies all at once. ^O^

*cough* *cough* *hack* *hack*
Wednesday, October 24, 2001 - 06:12 p.m.

*starts singing* I'm especially good at exPACtorating, oh what a guy...GASTON!!!

*blinkblinks* NyQuil'n Korean traditional medicine.... Mmmm.... XD

Man, this flue/cold/thing had my ass kicked for the past few days. @_@ Didn't help that work was all crazy. Not only were we moving our office around because we were getting new carpeting, but we were getting all geared up for going public with our main campaign at work. *whimpers* I was working even while I was wracked with fever and chills and coughing my lungs out. ~_~

Finally, yesterday, I succumbed and slept for about 18 hours straight. Oh, yeah, that felt good. ^_____^

I think I'll be all recovered in time for Monster Massive, which is good, 'cause my costume is almost done. I finished my hakama, and it looks pretty darn good, if I do say so myself. *proudproud* Now, all I gotta sew is the shawl thing'n the forearm sleeves. Which shouldn't be too bad. I still have 3 nights. 3 nights with an hour, hour and a half of sewing should see this baby all done in time. ^___^V

And, d00d, there was a lot of activity on ff-yaoi'n yaoi-d. O.O Oh, well. Just means I can start doing my massive replies all at once. ^O^

I need to learn how to drive better...
Saturday, October 20, 2001 - 11:38 p.m.

...in GT3! XD

I GOT MY PS2 TODAY!!!

Did anyone miss that?

I GOT MY PLAYSTATION2 TODAY!!!

XD

d00d, it was an adventure, too. First, I went to Best Buys, looking for the PS2/GT3 bundle. Alas, they didn't have it. ;_;

So, I went to another Best Buys. Didn't have it there, either. ;_; They didn't even have GT3 available by itself. ~_~

So, I went to Electronics Boutique, 'cause my friend who was with me said she remembered seeing one there. Didn't have it there either. T_T I was determined to get it, though, since E/B, at least, had GT3 available. Also had GGX. XD So, I went back to the counter'n said, "Alright. Gimme a PS2, GT3, and GGX."

The counter-guy blinked at me once, worked through all the initials and numbers'n then nodded. *grins* I was pretty giddy by this point. Then, I hear my friend and the other counter-guy talking about mods. My ears perk up at that, and I asked about it. Apparently, there are some pretty reliable mods available now that'll let you play Japanese import games. Woohoo! I told'm to put GGX back 'cause I want the Japanese-version of GGX, since it comes with these nice little extras, y'see. So, I'll be getting a mod for my brand-spankin' new PS2 in a bit'n looking for the import version.

^__________^v

On a side note: damn I hate being sick and/or having allergies. It's ridiculous how much my nose is running right now. >_< I really don't wanna get sick, or sicker, either, 'cause Monster Massive is next Saturday! Grar! I refuse to get sick! I will be well for the rave! *shakes both fists at the sky*

Now to go sleep to ensure my health. ^^;;