No. 11

BAWWW

2009-12-08T06:15:50Z

Tonight I had meant to send out virtual gifts especially the freebie one to everybody but found out to my woe that it was gone. I had wanted to send everybody my greetings for the holidays with one of those snowflake cookies that looked real nice.

And so, I'm wishing all my LJ friends happy holidays and thank you all for friending me and giving me permission to stalk your journals although I haven't been very active in a while in LJ but I'm making effort to change that You guys are all wonderful ♥

chin_chin_kun @ 2008-11-10T20:50:00

2008-11-11T05:09:38Z

I am finally going to continue my studies. It's just for a year of vocational training in Nursing. My first day is tomorrow and I'm kinda nervous and anxious, it's been two years since I graduated from high school with no continuing education within those years. This school that I enrolled to actually has started their classes a week ago, so now I have to do double study to make up for the stuff I missed. Which means I have less time for being online doing fandomy stuff. ಥ_ಥ No matter, I will manage. Procrastinators have their ways.

chin_chin_kun @ 2008-10-31T17:14:00

2008-11-01T00:25:54Z

So. My mom and I got back here in California a few days ago. I feel tired and sleepy and just plain lazy right now. So many things happened during our one month stay in the Philippines and I'm not sure I could recount and put them all into writing.

Now that I've had my vacation, it's time to work on school matters and get my enrollment started. Hopefully the school I've got my eye on still accepts students.

meme

2008-08-30T02:52:54Z

Uh, a random meme ganked from kye_kestrel:

Meme:

I am 5'4 or shorter
I think I'm ugly.
I have many scars. (They're mostly scars from my reckless childhood)
I tan easily.
I wish my hair was a different color.
I have friends who have never seen my natural hair color.
I have a tattoo.
I am self-conscious about my appearance. (Especially my hair, I really have to tie my hair down during windy days)
I have/I've had braces.
I wear glasses.
I'd get plastic surgery if it were 100% safe, free, scar-free.
I've been told I'm attractive by a complete stranger.
I have had more than 2 piercings.
I have had piercings in places besides my ears.
I have freckles.

Family/Home Life:
I've sworn at my parents.
I've run away from home.
I've been kicked out of the house.
My biological parents are together.
I have a sibling less than one year old.
I want to have kids someday.
I have children.
I've lost a child.

Embarrassment:
I've slipped out a "LOL" in a spoken conversation.
Disney movies still make me cry. (This is not an embarrassment to me, though)
I've snorted while laughing.
I've laughed so hard I've cried.
I've glued my hand to something.
I've laughed 'till some kind of beverage came out of my nose. (I remember this one, although it wasn't a beverage. It was a grain of rice that for some unexplained reason ended up on the wrong pipe)
I've had my trousers rip in public. (My trousers didn't rip in public. I unknowingly walked around wearing trousers that has a hole by my butt.)

Health:
I was born with a disease/impairment.
I've had stitches.
I've broken a bone.
I've had my tonsils removed.
I've sat in a doctor's office with a friend.
I've had my wisdom teeth removed.
I've had serious surgery.
I've had chicken pox.

Traveling:
I've driven over 200 miles in one day.
I've been on a plane.
I've been to North America.
I've been to Niagara Falls.
I've been to Europe.
I've been to Africa.
I've been to Asia.

Experiences:
I've been lost in my city.
I've seen a shooting star.
I've wished on a shooting star.
I've seen a meteor shower.
I've gone out in public in my pajamas.
I've pushed all the buttons in an elevator.
I've been to a casino.
I've been skydiving.
I've gone skinny dipping.
I've played spin the bottle.
I've crashed a car.
I've been skiing.
I've been in a play.
I've caught a snowflake on my tongue.
I've met someone in person from the Internet.
I've seen the Northern Lights.
I've sat on a roof top at night.
I've played chicken.
I've seen the Rocky Horror Picture Show.
I've eaten sushi.
I've been snowboarding.

Relationships:
I'm single.
I'm in a relationship.
I've had feelings for someone who didn't have them back.
I've told someone I loved them when I didn't.
I've told someone I didn't love them when I did.
I've kept something from a past relationship.

Honesty/Crime:
I've done something I promised someone else I wouldn't.
I've done something I promised myself I wouldn't. (Like skipping meals, which is really bad)
I have lied to my parents about where I am.
I am keeping a secret from the world.
I've cheated while playing a game.
I've cheated on a test.
I've driven through a red light.
I've been suspended from school.
I've witnessed a crime.
I've been in a fist fight.
I've been arrested.
I've shoplifted.

Drugs/Alcohol:
I've consumed alcohol.
I've smoked cigarettes.
I’ve smoked pot.
I regularly drink.
I've taken painkillers when I didn't need them.
I take cough medication when I'm not sick.
I've done hard drugs.
I've been addicted to an illegal substance.
I can't swallow pills.
I can swallow about 5 pills at a time no problem.

Death:
I'm afraid of dying.
I hate funerals.
I've seen someone dying.

Random:
I can sing. (In the showers, yeah!)
I've stolen a tray from a fast food restaurant.
I open up to others too easily.
I watch the news.
I don't kill bugs.
I hate hearing songs that sacrifice meaning for sake of being able to rhyme.
I fucking swear regularly.
I am a morning person.
I paid for my mobile phone ring tone.
I'm a snob about grammar.
I am a sports fanatic.
I play with my hair.
I have had "x"s in my screen name.
I love Spam.
I've copied more than 30 Cd's in a day.
I bake well.
I don't know how to shoot a gun.
I am in love with love.
I am guilty of tYpInG lIkE tHiS.
I laugh at my own jokes.
I eat fast food weekly
I believe in ghosts. (I've never seen one, and hope I never will)
I am online 24/7, even as an away message.
I can't sleep if there is a spider in the room.
I am really ticklish.
I love white chocolate.
I bite my nails.
I play video games.
I'm good at remembering faces.
I'm good at remembering names.
I'm good at remembering dates.
I have no idea what I want to do for the rest of my life.

Manga updates

2008-08-02T21:27:23Z

I've been catching up on a few manga that I've previously left off for a while. Beware the spoilers.

Kobato. drop 6b: It's been a while since I read Kobato. that I had to go back the previous chapter to reacquaint myself with the current events. This half of the chapter really shows how kind Kobato is. I couldn't help sharing her pain when I saw her tear-streaked face. And, Fujimoto to the rescue! It seems that these two are building a good relationship.

Naruto 411: ~~THE COVER!~~ Haha, the eight-tails has the most interesting personality among the Jinchuuriki bar Naruto; I hope he sticks around for a bit. I don't believe for one second that Sasuke's going to die like the last page seems to imply. How many times did Sasuke 'die' in his previous battles anyway? Kishimoto will of course make his favorite boy pull out a genjutsu or a new jutsu out of his ass to get himself out of danger. Geez, I know Sasuke's not supposed to die anytime soon, but I'd really like to see him get beat up for once. He's getting too cocky. You'd think that the guilt of killing his brother would humble him. Anyway, I'd really like to see more of Naruto's sage training--wonder how that will go?

EDIT: Oh, oh, I forgot to mention--Konoha Gakuen HS special: More, please?

...(sigh)

2008-07-09T22:50:06Z

Insurance Guy,

Where are you in the last few days when I'm trying to call you?

meme

2008-06-26T23:05:12Z

Meme stolen from _leareth:

The Big Read thinks that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them ;-)

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2. The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4. Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
5. To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6. The Bible (Read this when I was a kid)
7. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8. Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9. His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11. Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12. Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13. Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14. Complete Works of Shakespeare
15. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16. The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17. Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18. Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19. The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20. Middlemarch - George Eliot
21. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22. The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23. Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24. War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26. Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27. Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28. Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29. Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30. The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32. David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33. Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34. Emma - Jane Austen
35. Persuasion - Jane Austen
36. The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis
37. The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38. Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39. Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40. Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne (I should have read this a long time ago considering how much I love this character)
41. Animal Farm - George Orwell ( I WANT to read this one)
42. The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (I tried to read it, but I didn't even finish because I wasn't as hooked as I was on Angels and Demons)
43. One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44. A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45. The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46. Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47. Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48. The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49. Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50. Atonement - Ian McEwan
51. Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52. Dune - Frank Herbert
53. Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54. Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55. A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56. The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57. A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58. Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60. Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61. Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63. The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64. The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65. Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67. Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68. Bridget Jones' Diary - Helen Fielding
69. Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70. Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71. Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72. Dracula - Bram Stoker
73. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74. Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75. Ulysses - James Joyce
76. The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77. Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78. Germinal - Emile Zola
79. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80. Possession - AS Byatt
81. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82. Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83. The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84. The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85. Madame Bovary - Gustave Flauberti
86. A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87. Charlotte's Web - EB White
88. The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle(I remembered reading this back when I was in grade school and really liked it)
90. The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92. The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93. The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94. Watership Down - Richard Adams
95. A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96. A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97. The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100. Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Hmmm, only 9? Guess this is a good time as any to start on those to-read books.

chin_chin_kun @ 2008-06-09T16:00:00

2008-06-09T23:18:18Z

...

...

I saw something amusing and baffling in the news today. Apparently, John Lennon has a statue in Cuba. And they have guards rotating shifts to protect it. Because its glasses have been stolen twice now.

chin_chin_kun @ 2008-05-23T15:02:00

2008-05-23T22:12:17Z

I feel good today, had a good breakfast for a change. Lately I've been scrounging in the fridge for breakfast, but today I cooked an omelet with mushrooms, onions, and cheese. After that, I have a lot of time to re-read Tasogare no Kishi, Akatsuki no Sora and watch anime episodes of 12k. And the weather's nice too, not too hot like it's been last week. Celine, have you been very busy lately? If not, there's a very good novel I'd like you to read.

late night post

2008-05-14T07:29:46Z

Am making a late night post. Celine, this is for you since I told you you should post more in your journal, this is just me setting an example.

I just finished watching Sweet Home Alabama starring Reese Witherspoon and Josh Lucas. I caught a snippet of this movie years ago while I was surfing through channels but I wasn't able to watch the rest. The movie had enough romance in it that would make you smile, but not too much that would choke a horse. Celine, I'm not too sure if my memory serves me right, but wasn't it you who told me about this movie?

On other stuff: Dear CLAMP, I left off TRC ever since Fai's backstory because I got enough of the crazy and lame. But then flist alerted me to your latest blunder. I know that being over-the-top is your forte, but seriously, this induced brain-breakage of the WTFery kind. Now I'm afraid of what you guys would actually come up to resolve the issue between Seishirou and Subaru--please spare us the horror and get your act together. And I realize my music of the moment is in contradiction with my feelings for CLAMP atm but the song came on just as I was typing. LOL

There, see, I did my job, now it's your turn Celine.

chin_chin_kun @ 2008-01-22T22:10:00

2008-01-23T06:12:09Z

Wee! I now have a new series to lose sleep over!

Discovered Clover by CLAMP a few days ago. Been hearing about it quite a while actually, but it hasn't been until recently that I decided to give it a go. I fell in love right up from Volume 1.

And so, I also have a new shiny pairing to support and possibly worship to OTPness---Gingetsu/Ran. Seishirou/Subaru still comes in number one of course, but Gingetsu/Ran is coming second. Unfortunately, Clover fandom is quite obscure with little fics and icons here and there. BUT I will continue to hold out for CLAMP to pick up on where they left off with Clover ~~Gohou Drug X/1999~~ and hopefully when that time comes, the fandom will revive.

Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles: Manga Seishirou vs. Anime Seishirou

2007-05-14T22:47:34Z

Was surfing through the net yesterday when I came across a screenshot of Seishirou from the anime adaptation of TRC. I looked through more screenshots and decided that I'll most probably swear off the anime version forever. Anime Seishirou didn't do enough justice to the Manga Seishirou. The ears were too big, his right eye seem to be working, and his voice is BLAH.

I don't think I'll even consider waiting for their version of Subaru should the anime go so far as Chapter 124. ::shakes head::

Anyway, I'll just hope for more Seishirou appearances in later chapters. CLAMP's still holding out on Seishirou and Subaru's history...