So in the aftermath of the econs exam- aftermath. After/math/. All the major papers left are math. Hardy har har. You hear the teachers walking up and down the aisles, the rustle of papers and various bits of stationery being bumped around the tables, the thumping of hearts- and the song of the birds, from outside the exam hall. You think: My hand hurts. And outside, the birds are singing.

Then the teacher announces "-and that, Ladies and Gentlemen, concludes our morning entertainment for the day." and you want to really, really, strangle him. It's funny during lectures, dammit, even if most of your classmates don't get why you worship your econs lecturers for their sense of humor. But after a bloody exam where your papers have flown into your face /three/ times- while you were writing- flown off the table more times than that because the pens or cards you put on top of them were overwhelmed by the blasted fan, which, coincidentally, also whipped your hair up and out even though you took the trouble to properly pin it up that morning when you just leave it be normally, so that it's just a constant menace whipping around your head while you're trying to write *takes deep breath* and you can't even reach a hand up to hold it down or tuck it back into the pins so that you can concentrate on the exam because you're too busy trying to hold your paper hostage from the wind- and, to think you were boiling yesterday when you're being fanned now- In any case, it wasn't very funny.

Not very funny was also when I asked my econs tutor for extra foolscap at the start of the second paper, and he came back with it- when I was about halfway through with the extra paper that a teacher kindly brought me after I wore out my arms waving like an idiot. Time limits. They don't, I think, compensate you for time spent waiting for extra paper. Spent half the way home complaining to JM, the other half trying to keep my hands still from post exam nerves. I kept having the urge to tear up something, which would look really weird on a public bus.

But come to think of it, why am I even online now? During exams even if I am online, I make it a point not to blog, because that thing is, that thing about non-recognition being non-existence, and even if I was online there's no trace of it so hah! Self-denial is definitely a river that flows backwards. Singaporean river, yeees. Or something.

...don't mind me. I'm just a teeny bit out of sorts..

*yakyakyak*
Father:..sometimes it bothers me that you have your own way of doing things, until I realise you have your own mind.
Me:...(unspoken: Dad? You the same person who's raised me for almost seventeen years?)

Choking and dying. Because, really. Whoever you are who was searching for that, I love you. ^______________^ The twain are almost inseparable, though, so I'd just search for one or the other. ^____________________^

And then there was this. Everybody's heard the joke about Minnie divorcing Mickey because of Goofy, right? Um. In the mental devastation that was me right after Physics paper today, I was wondering: so if Disney's done it with Square, what would an Angel Sanc/Disney RPG Kingdom Hearts style be like? It would never work, of course, Angel Sanc being what it is. But imagine the pain that could be wrought..

But speaking of Angel Sanctuary, I need- or someone needs to come up with a good description of it so that I can describe it to rather pious Christian boys, who are probably squeamish at the thought of homosexuality, let alone the themes explored therein. Trying to explain it to someone today on the way home, while also trying not to disturb his sensibilities too much made it sound rather lame, which it isn't. He seemed rather disturbed, even at the watered down version. In retrospect, though, coming up with a version of Angel Sanc that wouldn't have disturbed those sensibilities seems rather impossible.

Ah well. My brain is dead. I go study econs now.

..so if when the price of one good goes up, the demand for the other goes down, that means the two are complements..

..and with Cloud and Sephiroth one goes up and the other goes down..

..I believe we've just proved that the two of them are complements. You know, instead of substitutes. When one goes down the other goes up, so by definition they are complementary to each other.

Proved it by mathematical induction yet?

Nah, they're not in the set of real numbers.

This was probably funnier at the time, given that the two fangirls in question had brains that were not working properly due to exams and class and all, but.. beats the time I was trying to study summation of series and ended up with one page in my notebook full of Gundam Wing pairing equations. Yes, I'm a complete and utter dork, I know. I go back to the books now.

That ready-made Indian pancake stuff inflates like puff pastry when you microwave it. (I am a firm believer in the subtle art of microwavable cuisine.) But it stops if you, alarmed and believing that it might possibly blow up and destroy the microwave, sic a piece of cheese on it. Roti Prata and cheese. Not bad, actually, although it didn't taste a thing like the real one you get from Indian shops.

This time, it was Monstro. You know, the whale? Yep, that's one of the levels in Kingdom Hearts now. When I first saw it I thought Moby Dick, until I remembered about Pinnochio. But the /inside/ of the whale. It looks like what would happen on the morning after of the Square/Disney orgy, when the participants woke up, looked at who was on the other side of the bed, went blarrgh.. and then proceeded to go get drunk again, dress up in Vincent's clothes and dance around little pretty fires. Psychedelico. And the more I see of Riku, the main character's best friend, and the successor to the Square line of Sephiroth/Seifer/Kuja/Do-I-really-have-to-put-that-slimy-git-Seymour-here villains. He even looks like a young Sephiroth.

..but one thing I don't like so far in this game, is that the females- meaning the "princesses of Heart" seem just to wait around and wait for their True Loves, or your main character, to come and rescue them. I think most of them- some of them, at least, had more spunk in the original movies.

Blarrrgh econs. (but still better than math. Or physics.)

So.. I was watching Meia play yesterday, and I heard voices. (I still can't believe Squall's voice actor is going to be Angel's, darnit.) But he was extremely hot. (coughs) Grew out his hair, called himself Leon, and appears to be hanging out with Yuffie and all. ..but you know, the funniest thing? Gunblade, meet Keyblade. (You meet him, and he beats you up. The main character's weapon is a gigantic key.) What I want to do, though, is to find out what on earth he was doing, as a sort of advisor to MICKEY MOUSE. I mean, of all Disney characters.. okay, so he was the one who started off them all, fine. But still. Advisor to Mickey Mouse. Although maybe not so much advisor as paid consultant. Or something.

And I'm kind of wondering at why he seemed to be hanging around Yuffie. All sorts of crossover pairings from hell are now canonically possible, it seems. (Square, what on earth were you thinking?!) Aeris was there, too, but her hairstyle looks a little funny in the current PS2 style. (Her actress, now, her actress is going to be MANDY MOORE. >_>;;;;)

..but all that wasn't really what I wanted to talk about. What I wanted to talk about was, was Cloud. He appears, you know. He appears to have woken up late, groped around for clothes, and taken Vincent's. He also had/has (it's morning, the game was yesterday and I am extremely groggy) a bit of waist armour that I took for a skirt on first viewing. It wasn't, of course, but it is nifty. (not to mention placed to protect a really strategic spot.) ...then Cloud beats you up, of course.

..after that, though, you get attacked by the three-headed dog from Hell (literally, and anybody who makes Kero-chan jokes will be shot) who has really bad breath. Or vomit, or somesuch thing. Irritating battle, though for some reason I was rolling with laughter. (Maybe because Meia was swearing and going "This is so not funny!" at the tv, and Donald Duck and Goofy kept dying and resurrecting, and each time they did they called each other's name- at least Goofy did, I seem to have been too busy laughing each time Donald came back.. and anyway. They were altogether too perky for sidekicks to a kid who wields a big key and keeps dying. The sidekicks, not the kid. The game ends if Sora dies.)

Or maybe I was laughing hysterically to ward off the sheer HORROR I felt, when, taken by surprise, Cloud gets stepped on by the big doggy (you don't see that, though) and then Hercules comes in, and YOU SEE THIS SHORT SCENE OF HERCULES GROPING CLOUD'S ASS. Okay. To be fair, that was probably the best way, as Meia tells me, short of dragging Cloud by the hair, to get an unconcious Cloud to safety. Still. Hercules! Groping! Cloud! ...I was screaming at the TV and Meia and Jo-chan and Meia's mom were all looking at me like I was crazy. (Maybe I was.)

..just that, you know, Cloud is my favorite FF protagonist, and watching him get.. well, watching that was both a painful and unexpected sight. He talks to you after the helldog fight, and you find out that he's searching for some "light" wonder what, or who it is. Sephiroth? Zack? Tifa hasn't appeared yet, although I saw Aeris about forty minutes ago..

...so, um. Kingdom Hearts. Bastard lovechild (though, given that Hercules/Cloud scene I am starting to wonder, about the "love" part, at least) of Square and Disney.

...who tops, I'd like to know. *scampers*

Went out to study for a while today. The Star Ocean EX vcd set is out, but I didn't get it because I was rather short on cash- and I am saving to get my own PS, deshou? There's a whole bunch of anime in the cabinet downstairs I haven't watched, anyway. (Excuses, excuses.) Star Ocean 7 came out a while ago, but I didn't blog about it because it rather disappointed me. By which I mean, it ended. Without bringing in even Chisato, or Noel. Or giving much of a resolution to the plot. Spend about five volumes developing characters, and then *blam* it ends. Watch me grouch. There was a rather cute Dias side-story, though, so I'm not entirely sad.

And.. my classmates have been telling me math jokes.

Question: Why doesn't x trust y?

..Because y has always plotted against x.

Why doesn't 6 trust 7?

Because 7, 8, 9.

Wah. But I'm having lots of fun researching on ancient mythology. There's an awful lot they leave out of children's books, you know? For example, the origin of the word "hermaphrodite".

See, one day the Greek goddess of love, Aphrodite, was bathing, and the Sky God Zeus sent a bird of prey down to steal one of her favorite slippers. His reason for this was that he had a son, the Messenger God Hermes, who was rather desperately in love- or actually, more like in lust with Aphrodite. In return for her slipper back, Aphrodite slept with Hermes, and they had a son.

..the son wasn't like the mother, except that he was also dazzlingly beautiful. He had many suitors (given the Ancient Greeks, I'd expect male as well as female, but the males don't feature much into the story.) One of them, a nymph, had been spurned repeatedly, until one day she surprised the youth bathing, and clung on to him tightly, all the while praying to be united with him forever. The gods granted that request, and thus they became one person, sporting both female and male attributes.

I feel really, really sorry for the poor boy.