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Saturday, June 1, 2002 10:16 a.m. Oh, and Gabriel? Regarding this comment about "How Girls Waste Time" (from here):
#58. Talking about virginity and also on the subject of losing it
I choked and died. Saturday, June 1, 2002 09:40 a.m. Hmm. Computer club now. Have been floating in a cocoon of non-responsive contentment- playing games, reading, watching anime.. I finished Nazca, and am starting Gatekeepers. Longer report when I get to my computer at home, but they're interesting, if in different ways. Haven't watched past the first fifteen minutes of Gatekeepers, but I'm beginning to suspect that it was made by a former producer of hentai anime suddenly switched to the children's show department.
I've also been playing Baldur's Gate 2. (Jo-chan, finally got to see the Drow elf Drizzt you were talking about, but only for a short while. I think he probably features more in Baldur's Gate.. but what were those novels you were talking about called again? Wanna read..) It's a pretty addictive game- but what can I say if I enjoy wandering around in a fantasy world full of mythical creatures and mesmerising scenery? I even like the battle system (I'm horrible at games, usually), although I think it's not healthy for me as a person, because I keep reaching out automatically to hit a non-existent 'pause' button whenever something I don't expect happens to me /outside/ the game. (That's what I do whenever I run into enemies in the game.)
Anyway, more fun with tests!
Saturday, May 25, 2002 01:49 p.m. Oh, happy joy free.
By which I mean exams are over. It's really weird, though, when you worry about said exams very much, then suddenly someone ups and tells you they don't count at all except as backup in case you want to take S-papers and you flunk the year-end exams?
But enough of the exams. I've finally finished reading KKJ, which is.. very cute and sweet. (Baka na Aine. It's a Ribon series!) Although I did rail at the ending a bit for being a little too.. easy? Contrived? I liked it, but I guess I was hoping for a little more besides "SUGAR! SWEET!". Probably due to the fact that I was on an Angel Sanc kick when I was reading it- and they are two very different, series, even if superficially there might be a little bit of parallel in the endings. And lots of gratitious religious imagery in both.
Speaking of Angel Sanctuary, though, anyone notice that Lucifer has a bad case of father complex? I noticed it.. when I was supposed to be studying for Physics.. but, with one of my friends yakking away next to me about Star Wars, this popped into my head: "I am your father, Luce." So Lucifer's Luke Skywalker, fine enough.
But that makes Michael Leia.
I think I have to blame that one all on Alexandra. Met her a couple of times (most of my papers were afternoon ones and I came early to school so I could study) where upon we Talked, and came up with some very wrong stuff. Example of said wrong stuff:
Alexandra: My friend was thinking that Keiichi would become a Dragon of Earth.
Later we amended it to include Nataku (who's shorter than the both of them, right?) between the both of them, all of them holding hands and singing songs and chasing after a very hassled Kamui.
Er, I think I need tranquilizer. *skips off to catch up on reading blogs* Friday, May 17, 2002 07:47 p.m. Just one thought: Wonder how the word 'mug' came to mean 'studying one's guts out' rather than a cup or a robbery? In my school, at least. Friday, May 17, 2002 07:11 p.m. Eee, I think I died. But otherwise, only eight more days to the end of common tests! (Three- two and a half, actually, days to the /start/ of common tests.)
I don't know whether to feel happy or sad.
Both, probably. One good thing about those before-the-holidays-tests: I get to go off before they pass out them results! After the holidays is an entirely different matter entirely, though, but.. oh hell, I'm just happy to have them over.
See, I do make up my mind occasionally. Anyway. I have this stack of anime that's just sitting on my desk doing nothing- and I haven't been spending much these days, so when I next see Meia I'll be able to pay back the money I owe her, buy some of the nice stuff I've been eying- oh, and my cds from CDJapan came in, the last Angel Sanctuary Drama CD, Zazel's DxD, White Kiss, and the FFX piano soundtrack- I want to talk about them, but there's so little time!
Me study now. Wednesday, May 8, 2002 02:02 p.m. I have died and am probably in hell right now. The way to hell is through school. You have to do a lot of chanting and waving around of overdue homework and math/physics equations first, though. And I hate windows NT and I probably had stuff to blog but school ate it and I have to get off now to do common test studying-
In other words, the only mildly amusing thing that happened today was the guest speaker at council investiture today going "..it is very hard to kick the balls between the two posts, but if you want to score any points, you must kick the balls." (he used to be a soccer player, apparently.)
It was a long and repetitive speech, something to the tune of good leaders are not born, good leaders are made.. goodleadersarenotborn..goodleaders... I was alternating between being bored and cowering under the depradations of this insistent large flying insect that kept bothering me.
Anyway. Now. Study.. Saturday, May 4, 2002 08:53 p.m. At Meia's place watched Fruits Basket but is late must get home or face Parental Displeasure- but...
Eeeee Star Ocean meets Gravi....
(Meia says, "I want..") Saturday, May 4, 2002 09:20 a.m. I've had one night of sleep, but I'm still really tired. Spent much of the last afternoon sewing cheerleaders' costumes, which are due for the track and field meet /today/. And we were just making the guys' costumes. The girls were lucky enough to get the tailor. Anyway. I"ve discovered that my straight stitch is ugly as the wolf, while my button-sewing skills are ugly as the wolf on a bad hair day but bite just as hard. Which is to say that the buttons will probably stay on. Probably. No real problem there, except for the aesthetics, but I don't think anyone will be looking close enough to see the stitching on the vests, so that's fine. What I'm worried about, is the hemming. Because I had to do some of it (hand-sewing being too slow) on a machine. I haven't touched a sewing machine in /years/. So it might have been the machine being old and cranky, or the thread being of rather crappy quality which kept breaking- even though, with hindsight, it was probably me- but the machine didn't sew the things properly. Which is to say that one of the seams ended up looking like I had sewed lace/trimming on it, because I was in such a hurry I forgot to check the bottom part of the sewing machine for double threads. Eheh. I had to go before all the vests were finished; the way things are going, it doesn't look as if I'm going to be in time to help with the pants. (Why are we sewing pants? Why am I even helping with the cheerleaders' costumes? I have nothing to do with them! I am not even going to be at the track and field meet!) Which is, I guess, good, because if I had anything to do with the pants, they'd probably fall apart while the cheerleaders were doing splits. And I'm not joking. Friday, May 3, 2002 12:47 p.m. Kaori lent me Animage, for which I bwee and fall down at her feet to worship. Animage! The only thing better would be Voice Animage (is it still running, though?) with a Koyapi centerfold. (Just kidding. What would his wife do to him, I wonder..?)
Although the more I read the more things I find that I want to buy. Like the Star Ocean EX drama cd- which Jane, whom I ran into at break, says is available at HMV (why didn't I know?!). The catch? Um, sixty- or more- dollars. Probably more, given the prices HMV charges. Wah.
Oh well. On a totally different note, I think that being in a girls' school for four years has perhaps left me somewhat unprepared to deal with chauvinistic people. See, GP class. Male classmate presents an article (I'll type it up or post the link later) dealing with some Singaporean man's views that Singaporean women, that these women as a whole, because they tend to be highly articulate and highly achieving, are not gracious, feminine, and basically the type of women that he thinks he wants to marry. So the boy presenting asked the class: So, do the men want more submissive women, or less? (Something to that effect, I cannot remember his words exactly.)
I think the crux of my problem with dealing with people like these is that our fundamentals are so different. I take it for granted that women should be granted the same rights as men, that in a relationship dominance and submissiveness depends on the people in the relationship themselves- it's a private thing and there are no set roles. Whereas he, which can be seen from the way he very rudely excluded half the class from the discussion- by addressing the question to boys only, which could also have been inferred from the way he conducted the discussion- assumes that men have the right to choose the women that they want.
Excuse me. The ways in which we think are so different that it's not even funny. And the assumptions made by the original man mentioned in the article- that women from the rest of Asia (specifically Malaysia, Japan, China, Thailand- interesting that he didn't include Hongkong) were more docile and less demanding and more gentle- if I were one of them, I think I'd feel insulted, not thrilled that a Singaporean man likes me because I'm gentle and willing to "peel prawns" for him in public.
Grrr. I think I'd better stop here, I'm getting too emotional. Monday, April 29, 2002 09:49 p.m. "Take that, you ballsacking balls!"
~My only coherent thought during physics practical today. Yes, I am very easily amused. It makes life easier. To explain that comment, though, we were supposed to measure how well pingpong balls bounce on different surfaces, an experiment which involved bouncing pingpong balls off blocks of material placed on tables.
They tended to bounce into the lap of the guy who was sitting next to me, see. (Uh, his own ball, not the one I was given to experiment with.) He was a little frustrated, I was secretly quite amused.. and that line popped into my head.
I'm sorry. It was a difficult practical, okay? The human eye is not made to catch accurately the trajectory of pingpong balls on the rebound, which makes a practical like that one hell to do. Sunday, April 28, 2002 07:24 p.m. Bought Naruto doujinshi today! The first story featured Kakashi-sensei.. in an apron with ribbons. The doujinka appear to like him a lot, because he appears all throughout the anthology. Seme-child-abusing!Kakashi, Uke-Kakashi, Fatherly-Kakashi, Matchmaking-Kakashi.. and also blushing-Kakashi.
I'm happy. Apart from the fact that I can't figure out why Iruka/Kakashi seems to be such a popular pairing. They're both central figures in Naruto's life, but other than that..?
Anyway. Also read Hanakimi 15, a rather disappointing volume. It's full of gratitious fangirl service and sparkles, but it also gave me the feeling of too little butter being stretched over too much bread. Not I think it's bad- Nakajo-sensei is good at making us care about the characters, and it has a lot of depth for such an airy concept. A lot of depth for a series where the plot was basically over by book one. Oh, hell, I sound condescending. I don't mean to. I like Hanakimi, and I fangirl over it. Just that I really hope sensei wraps this up before it becomes dull and insipid.
Well, back to researching about water usage and consumption for me. Sunday, April 28, 2002 06:59 p.m. Saturday, April 27, 2002 09:19 a.m. I was perfectly happy a moment ago. Just sitting here in the corner of the computer lab, trying to type with fingernails that are suddenly too long (so that I have to hit the keys of the keyboard at a funny angle) and bugging Kai to go do stuff. There was this piece of paper on the table, next to the monitor.
Then Tracy came over, and she flipped open the piece of paper. Guess what it was?
Exam schedules. I have Chinese and F Maths on the same day Iyaaaaaa~aaaaaa... *runs away screaming and pulling at hair*
oiiiiiiiiiiii!!!!!!! - - - TrAcY
Which goest to saith, um, ignorance is bliss. Or something. (Iyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...)
hee hee.... (that was Tracy. Bad Tracy.)
bad anie...
Meh. Saturday, April 27, 2002 09:19 a.m.
Wednesday, April 24, 2002 10:01 p.m. And speaking of research, I find it both incredibly amusing and infuriating when, in the course of research for project work, I stumble onto sites that insult my country without giving any explanation, and bash the US without giving reason, and then are hosted on a free /American/ webhost and have an email address that goes, "xxx@usa.net" (or .com, I can't remember.) Grrr. Wednesday, April 24, 2002 09:07 p.m. Stayed home today, because I was sick. Flu, I think. I've had this before. First I get a sore throat, then I cough and sneeze and find it hard to breathe, then there's phelgm and maybe somewhere in between all of those I get a fever. I didn't go to see the doctor, because I've been through this before and Western medicine doesn't help much, while we always keep bottles of the nice-tasting Chinese medicine in the fridge for this.
Mmm, medicine. My only complaint with it is that it's thick and sticky and I don't get to wash it down with water because mom says it's better if I let it stay in my throat.
So I didn't go to school at all, but surprisingly, I got more work done than I would have if I had.
Anyway. Had a rather interesting talk with my sister today; she was reading Inuyasha and had just got up to the part with a rather creepy villain who is interested in Inuyasha. A very creepy, male villain. She thought it was wrong, because they were both men. So I asked her what was wrong, two men loving each other.
"It goes against the laws of nature! Animals know this, and that's why there are no gay animals."
No, I said. It doesn't go against the laws of nature, there are gay animals. I remember reading in the papers once about this zoo where they had an exhibition on gay animals, or something of the sort..
"Two men liking each other in the way that a man likes a woman is just wrong."
Why, if it doesn't go against the laws of nature, and if it doesn't hurt anybody?
"It's just wrong."
And I left it there, sort of, because she had more or less convinced herself that "gay" was wrong because "it's just wrong!". How do I argue with something that's not rational? I don't see anything wrong with homosexuality in the same sense that I don't see anything wrong with heterosexuality or bisexuality- I believe what you do with yourself is your own business, as long as it doesn't hurt anybody.
And yes, I am a yaoi fan, but I can't really say why I like reading about men, or boys, in love with each other so much. Thing is, I do like fiction and pictures based on heterosexual pairings too- I think I'd like anything as long as it's well written or well drawn.
I'll probably go have a talk with my sister again later- after I've done some research and am better prepared to answer questions. And my point in blogging this? ..I don't know. Tuesday, April 23, 2002 06:46 p.m. To: My Umbrella.
Stop trying to eat my hair whenever you get the chance. It's not funny, and what would you do with the hair, anyway? You have no digestive organs to digest the things, because you're an inanimate object, and what would you do with the hair then? Let them hang around like grisly trophies? I'm going to be the only one to see them. And, I may have arms that are wimpy like chicken wings, but they're /my/ arms, and if you try to wrench them off when the wind blows again, I will take great pleasure in defenestrating you, decapitating you, then feeding you to the rubbish bin. Piece by piece.
Thank you.
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