Tuesday, 30 June 2009.

This morning someone called. They sounded remarkably like Awa. I greeted them with an enthusiastic 'HIIIIII'. (What would you expect?) They hung up on me. They called back. Apparently it was Kathy's form teacher.

*dead*

Awa, you should call more often. >>

Anyway, that idiocy pretty much sums up how I've felt lately. The school has decided which of its students it considered exceptionally gifted, sticking them in some labelled group or other with their incredibly consistent bad naming skills, and I'm not one of them, much to my shock/horror/dismay/emo-ism. (If you don't know me well and you're reading this, I wouldn't be surprised if the past sentence made me come across as an insufferably arrogant delusional maniac. Don't worry. I come across as that to myself a lot too.)

I've ditched my manga project.

I've ditched the second manga project I originally took up as a replacement for the first.

I've explored the Hetalia fandom and found it small- what would you expect?- so I'll probably move on to something else soon if I don't stay to finish my fanfic. (Hopefully I'll actually finish this fic, as opposed to previous ones.)

Of course, if I do post my fanfic anywhere, I'll probably become part of the fandom for once and make a couple friends. Isn't that what hopeless people do, make friends online?

Don't mind me, I'm just being emo. And I have orange juice in my eyes from rubbing my eyes while eating oranges and although it doesn't sting anymore it's clinging to my eyelashes and obscuring my vision by making my eyes tear.

You try being cheerful with orange juice in your eyes.

No, really. I dare you.

>>

This post is actually partly just to prove to myself that I DO have the sticking power to keep up with writing a blog, even if my mangas all meet dismal premature deaths.

Also to promote Hetalia.

Hetalia is a manga. In yonkoma format. Online. (yonkoma=4 panels, vertical, read top-to-bottom.)

Basically a cross between a manga and a webcomic, and IT IS AWESOME.

So awesome that when they put it in volumes, it sold like millions of copies, (perhaps I exaggerate?) even though they could just read it online.

'Big deal', people might be thinking. For a manga, yeah, you can get it all online anyway. But how many webcomics would you buy volumes of?

It is very politically incorrect. NO REALLY. The characters are all anthropomorphic personifications of countries. This can sometimes get a bit overwhelming. Especially with all the blatant shonen-ai undertones throughout.

Imagine a Germany/Italy ship. No really, imagine it. Is your brain broken yet?

I thought so.

The author is a guy, oddly enough.

(Tsundere, yandere, you name it, they've got it, and IT IS SO DAMN CUTE.)

Obviously, my brain was broken rather a while back, and so you shouldn't mind my rambling. It's not the first time I've been promoting a manga series to the world at large. But I should stop now, before I descend into incoherency.







When I get bored of Hetalia, I guess I'll sound out the Suzumiya Haruhi fandom for music and fanfics and icons and stufffff.

Have you ever noticed that some manga are popular in two distinct ways?

In one group you have DBZ, Naruto, Furuba, Inuyasha, etc, and your perfectly normal average non-otaku has a decent chance of having read a little of at least one. In the other group, Azumanga Daioh, Suzumiya Haruhi, Lucky Star, maybe Evangelion, they're more like cult favourites. Everyone who's an otaku has some knowledge of at least one, but if someone's going to just read one manga, it won't be one of them.

(Yoru-senpai, if you're reading this, you're a blatant anomaly in the face of my painstakingly-researched-and-thought-out conclusions, and I desperately hope you're the only one of your kind around.)

Hetalia definitely falls into the latter category. If it counts as popular at all. It certainly has an enthusiastic fanbase, but yes, small, painfully so. As does Vivi's precious Touhou, I guess, since she tells me it's so popular.

{ 7:41 pm }

Friday, 26 June 2009.

aaaugh

I'm still sleeping IN THE DAYTIME RATHER THAN AT NIGHT

DX

I hope I'm just awake enough for the Math Olympiad tomorrow!! !!!!

So yeah, there's pretty much nothing going on at all, on account of having been to the US and thus being 'strongly advised' to stay at home. The only thing I'm allowed to go for is the Math Olympiad, and that only if I don't have a fever. So I've been stuck at home, MouseHunting, chatting with Shasha and Joey and Onion-san and Yoru-senpai, reading old detective novels, sleeping, and lying awake all night trying to go to sleep when one ought to go to sleep.

I restarted the manga I was working on. I've got the tiniest bit more practice now, and a better idea of how to go about things.

....I wonder when they stopped letting you bring rulers and compasses and stuff to the SMO. I'm pretty sure it just says 'writing implements' on the email saying what to bring.

Oh well. People were probably using them for shortcuts or whateverr.

Ri-chan and I are both exceedingly bored, as can be evidenced by our new game of secret-agent or whatever one would like to call it. I just hope everything works out fine, or I'm going to feel bad.

*feels bad preemptively*
*shot*

But seriously, I have no idea how things are going to turn out.

As for the Math Olympiad, I'm really quite relieved. There were all these people saying things like 'Easy' and 'That wasn't so hard' and 'I just managed to get the last question', and I was just sitting there facepalming because it wasn't easy, it really was that hard, and guess which idiot couldn't solve the last question. I was half-expecting not to get into the special round at all, but here I am. Let's hope I scrape a gold.

And special thanks go to ZE for lending me his Math Olympiad Class notes last sem so I could study, or I'd have done rather worse than I have.

*is shot again for talking too long about SMO*

Tell me, is Shasha more likely not to pick up her phone because things went well, or because things went badly?

{ 8:24 pm }

Wednesday, 24 June 2009.

I AM BACK.
BACKBACKBACK.

Back to my only-temporarily-non-tornado-devastated room and senile computer and stacks and stacks of manga. (no actually, I brought those with me. xDD)

I qualified for the Math Olympiad Special Round, against my expectations (first round was harder than usual). I wonder if Ri-chan made it. She should hurry up and get back from Indonesia so I can ask.

Obviously, I've been very busy over the past 10 or so days, doing such assorted things as driving a boat, reading a poem at a memorial service, vacuuming a garage, climbing a tree, accustoming myself to the ridiculous serving size of the food in US hotels, taking a walking tour around Harvard and exploring the underground tunnels (they're more hi-tech than they sound) under the Harvard Business School, gorging myself on candy, trying to prevent my hyper sister from playing at being a stripper, exploring the Boston subway system, participating in a dramatic and ultimately unsuccessful robbery of a bag of candy belonging to a cousin....but overall, I suppose there are two things to emphasize.

1. On our first night in Texas, I had just finished stuffing myself with steak when a rather ominous announcement came over some loudspeaker system telling us to all head to some ballroom in the hotel basement and stay there because a tornado had been sighted near the hotel.
So we spent about an hour in this ballroom- I was freezing, and there was a little kid near us in just a swimsuit, too- with the sound of wind coming and going. The power was coming and going too. DDX
So at the end, we emerged from the ballroom, only to see---
the hotel, just like it had looked before. ^___^;;;;;

It was still a rather exciting experience though.

2. Chocolate-flavoured Skittles. CHOCOLATE-FLAVOURED SKITTLES. *overreacts*

Oh well. Hi, everybody~~~

^^

{ 1:38 am }

Sunday, 7 June 2009.

FRIDAY PWNED!! xDDD

We met up to go to the playground near RGPS. But everyone was a little late, so I went to look for them and would have ran right into Awa if not for the part where we were separated by this huge zebra crossing. xDDD

Then we called Ri-chan and she said she could see the club from where they are, so we just walked a bit more and saw her and Shasha just by the entrance. Then we had lunch~~ and then we LEFT TO GO TO THE PLAYGROUND!!

We walked two bus stops in order to only have to take one bus. My EZlink is in a parlous state. ^^;;;;;;;;;

I was a bit hyper, and thus this Hwa Chong guy at our bus stop was starting to look very confused. Don't worry, Mr Hwa Chong guy, yelling death threats at Shasha at the top of my lungs just means that I had a little too much ice-cream.

So then we got on the bus and stood around. And got off at the 7-ELEVEN, because I had to top up my card, but their top-up services were OUTOFORDER. DDX

So I got a Big Gulp of everythingmixedtogether to share with Shasha and Ri-chan. It tasted like Skittles. Awa got her own thing, on account of being 'saliva-conscious', but then again you can't blame her, with a little sister like hers.

From there, we walked to the playground!!~~ The dogs don't remember any of us, although they were as particularly friendly to Awa as always. They mostly just barked though. The parrot which Sabrina or someone tried to teach to swear is still there, and it greeted us with the same old nasal shrill HELLLLOWWWW!!~~~

They've knocked down the building where the minimart used to be, though. TT____TT

So I got on the swing first! And then the chains kept hurting my shoulders so I got off, and played on the flying-fox-thing. Not the sandpit though. We know first-hand why nobody should play there, on account of having taken the dogs out for walks so many times and observing where they tend to choose to...make a mess.

Then we all went off to find the other playground, but some of us started melting midway so we changed course for the vending machine by the road. Then we wanted to go somewhere with aircon, so we hopped on a bus to go to KAP, but we decided to get off at my house instead. We accidentally got off one bus-stop early though. DDDX

Then there were all these orange signs and things taking up THE WHOLE PAVEMENT so we had to walk on the road for a little with all these cars and motorbikes and buses and vans and pickup trucks whizzing by at something like 100km/h. DX

Then we got back to my house and everyone had lemonade~~ Also Ri-chan did a good job of cleaning out the leftovers in the fridge, namely tandoori lamb.

Ri-chan: THIS CHICKEN IS SO GOOD~~~
Edith: It's lamb, not chicken!!
Ri-chan: ...oh.
-five minutes-
Ri-chan: THIS CHICKEN IS SO GOOD~~~~~

^___^;;;;;;;;

Then we played truth-or-truth and sat around and msned Onion-san. And generally enjoyed ourself.


Also yesterday I watched Max have some sort of dance exam in the SCGS auditorium and then we went to McDonalds with his mom and had chicken nuggets. The fries were all limp and staleish though. And he completely vandalised my sketchbook. Eleven-year-olds are...T_T;;;

{ 1:32 pm }

Wednesday, 3 June 2009.

~The movie wasn't bad, although we ended up watching Angels & Demons instead of Terminator. Claire's idea. (Claire Yip, that is.)~

Yesterday was...>_<
Math Olympiad.
All I can say is, I hope I pwned Sean.

And now, the obligatory survey-thing to round out the day~

Part One �
School
[x] You have come back to your locker, and then forgot what you wanted from it.
[ ] You forgot your locker combo.
[x] You said hi/ smiled to a complete stranger in the hallway.
[ ] You've winked flirtily at a complete stranger in the hallway.
[x] You've made a sarcastic remark to the teacher behind her back.
[ ] You've had a crush on your teacher/ one of the staff.
[ ] You've forgotten your gym clothes more than five times.
[x] You have worn something to school either inside-out/backwards/tag sticking out.
[x] You've had a food fight at lunch.
[x] You've written a message on your desk.
[x] You've written a flashy message on the white/black board.
[x] You've chased after the bus in a flurry.
[x] You've been in trouble on the bus.
[ ] You've played turn-off-the-neighbor's laptop in the lab/classroom.
[ ] You've sucked up to a teacher just to spite them.
[ ] Your locker looks like it's been hit by a tornado.
[x] You've kicked/socked/slugged/punched your locker in frustration.
[x] You've made up an answer to a question the teacher asked you when you weren't listening.
[x] You've gotten locked out of your own school.
[ ] You have at least 5 different hilarious slogans you thought your team/school t-shirt should have.
[x] You've screamed randomly in the halls/classrooms/lunchroom.
[ ] You've dropped something coyly onto the hallway floor, meaning for other people to find it.
So Far: 13

Part Two � Home
[x] You've snuck out/broke into your house.
[ ] You've played in your backyard after age twelve
[x] You've slid down the banisters.
[x] You've played skip-the-stairs or tried to jump long distances.
[x] You've accidentally locked a room before.
[ ] You've broken a door before
[ ] Your bedroom has a dent in its wall where you've kicked it
[ ] You've played a house prank on your brother/sister/parents.
[x] You've broken valuable objects
[ ] You've sat in your driveway for no reason whatsoever.
[ ] You've blasted music which neighbors got annoyed at.
[x] You've attempted gymnastics in your house.
So Far: 19

Part Three � Strangers
[ ] You've hugged a stranger
[ ] You've kissed a stranger
[ ] You've winked at a stranger.
[x] You've smiled at a stranger.
[ ] You've went up to a stranger and had a deep, meaningful conversation
[x] You've acted drunk in front of a stranger
[x] You've pushed a stranger.
[ ] You've punched a stranger.
[ ] You've asked a stranger for his/her number
[x] You've danced in front of a stranger.
[ ] You've used a catch phrase to a stranger.
[x] You've sang crazily in front of a stranger.
[x] You've frowned at a stranger.
[x] You've gotten mad at a stranger.
So Far: 26

Part Four �
Friends
[x] You've told a joke and were the only one who laughed.
[x] You've acted bipolar in front of your friends.
[x] You've laughed hysterically in front of your friends.
[x] You've played a hilarious prank on your friend(s)
[x] You've fallen in love with a friend.
[ ] You've slowdanced with a friend.
[ ] You've boogied with a friend.
[x] You've mistaken your friend(s) for somebody else.
[ ] You've tickled your friends so hard they cried.
[x] You've slipped an ice cube down your friend's back.
[x] You've rode piggyback on a friend, or vice versa.
[x] You've had a completely intelligent conversation with a friend.
[ ] You've played lovers with your friend(s).
[ ] You've slapped your friend's butt.
[ ] You've slapped your friend across the face.
[ ] You've exchanged clothes with your friend.
[ ] You've break danced with a friend.
[ ] You've had a fashion show with a friend
[x] You've done an extremely crazy dare with a friend.
[x] You've called your friend a different name, for example, "mom".
[ ] You've trashed your friend's house. (I assume just the kitchen-and-dining area doesn't count)
[x] You've poked your friend in the stomach and laughed hysterically.
So Far: 38

Part Five �
Clothes/Appearance
[ ] You've had piercings besides the locations of your ear.
[x] You've worn only one color in your outfit.
[x] You've worn more than ten colors in your outfit.
[x] You've worn something to a place and changed before you got home.
[x] You've done an absurd hairstyle.
[ ] You've dyed your hair an unnatural color.
[ ] You've tried to make a fashion statement.
[x] You've worn something out of place
[ ] You've been a clown for Halloween
[x] You've worn unmatching shoes
So Far: 44

Part Six � Misc
[x] You've been fully in the water with your clothes still on.
[x] You've been to a country where you are the least associated with
[x] You've petted a dangerous animal
[ ] You've played ding-dong ditch.
[ ] You've egged a house.
[x] You've gotten lost at a mall.
[x] You've screamed your heart out.
[ ] You've sang your heart out
[ ] You've danced your heart out.
[x] You've imitated a different religion/ethnicity
[x] You've tried the British accent.
[ ] You've tried the Indian/ Asian accent
[x You've tried the southern accent.
[x] You've eaten something so spicy you cried.
[x] You've put a weird, quirky status message up for anything
[x] You've walked out of a store with an item without knowing it was still in your hands.
[ ] You've burst into song in a public place
[x] You've drawn a stupid picture of your enemy.
[x] You've walked someplace and then forgot why you were there and what you were doing
[ ] You've swallowed gum on purpose.
Total Amount: 57

There's 100 total.Whatever you have, its your percentage of insanity.So, are you really insane?1-20% = Yawn―boring21-35% = Normal36-50% = A bit insane51-70% = Pretty insane71-90% = Insane91-100% = Flipping insane

So I'm a bit insane. Oh well. AWA I BEAT YOU AHAHAHAHAHA

{ 11:40 am }