Was listening to: The sweet, sweet, guilt-free sound of the modem dialing up…

TADAIMA!!!!

*frantically recreates shortcuts to chat programs*

I’m back! Did you miss me? ^______^ DO YOU KNOW HOW HAPPY I AM TO BE BLOGGING AGAIN!????! Ahhhhhhhh the beautiful feeling of being online without a worry about school! TWO WEEKS HOLIDAYS!!!! I swear, the next week at least is going to be fully bludging, to a sickeningly indulgent extent. 2 months!!!! 2 months of maths, physics, chemistry, english, and legal studies on my desk, facing the computer. It got to the point where I had to either go online and splurge, or I go and throw my computer out the window. Driven nuts!! NUTS I TELL YOU!!!! >_<

This is me:
Sees the computer:
Voice in Head: You know, if you just go on just that *little* bit, it won’t hurt…
Me: …. go away.
Voice in head: Don’t you feel bad about not even saying hello to your friends for so long?
Me: … >_<; *attempts to concentrate on work*
Voice in Head: It’s so easy just to plug the line back in… just reach down and…
Me: *severely bashes up Voice in Head*
Voice in Head: *continuously mimics the noise of modem*
Me: *devises ways to murder Voice in the most painful of ways*

Do you see? Absolutely mentally exhausting, arguing with yourself when you KNOW that the voice is absolutely right and you’re DYING to just listen to it and relent for at least a LITTLE WHILE. Tortorous. I admit, it got off on a rocky start. Just two days after the announcement, I couldn’t help but sneak on just for a *little* while, after seeing a gorgeous picture of Count Cain (more on that below) a few days prior. But it wasn’t for long. After that, I mustered up whatever shreds of decency and discipline I had and set off to work. Lasted a week, and came to a bit of a compromise, I did go on on the weekends and late at nights, but kept chatting to a minimum.

However, one thing I’m glad is that it’s all over. After 13 1/2 hours of exams, I don’t give a shit anymore (for a while at least). If I fail my exams, then I’ll fail with a smile on my face, because I known I’ve given all I’ve got. As a note, I reckon it’s INHUMANE, for teachers to be setting exams that last 3 hours without a break!! Horrid spending half the school day WITHOUT A REST, doing one maths exam that bloody long. Bah. Anyway, according to the schedule, after this two week break, the next term of school (10 weeks) will be alot less stressful. Only 2 assessments; a Legal Studies one (although that’s a huge project thing) and an English speech. Compared to this term’s 4 assessments and 7 exams, next term should be somewhat of a breeze.

Here’s my to-do list for the next two weeks. None could be garunteed except No.1.
1. Bludge and procrastinate to a sickening extent. XD
2. Probably rewatch anime like Fruits Basket. Would try to also get my hands on Chobits as well.
3. Work on shrine… *crosses fingers* unless I get too lazy. Likely.
4. Winamp skinning!! Fun they are, though very tedious.
5. Figure out how Paintshop Pro 7 works. In a very newbie, “pressing everything and see what happens” stage.
6. READ MANGA! WEEEEE!!!

SITEY STUFF NOW!!! New layout featuring Count Cain (yeah yeah, more on that below)! May I present, Act 6 - “God’s Child”, named after vol.6 of the manga. Not much change in style, however did pose a change as the skin is unsually “silent”. My layouts all have some kind of text on it, either from poetry or song that suits the layout. I couldn’t find a suitable text for the layout, thus kept it wordless. Gomen, tis graphics intensive. No downloads for this layout, I have to solve a bit of space problem (more on that below).

^__^ As I mentioned above, I saw a *gorgeous* image of a bishounen; Count Cain from the manga by Yuki Kaori. I first spotted it on a winamp skin, and KNEW I had to find more info. Although drawing style of the manga is a bit rusty (manga started in 1991) in the beginning, the story is still good. Set in olden time England, lots of beautiful costumes and scenery too. Lots of angst. However, big warning; it is quite twisted. Makes manga like X/1999 seem as innocent as CCS. Especially from vol.2 onwards.

Speaking of manga, I’ve read up to chap.5 of Yami no Matsuei. OMG, I nearly fell out of my chair from the sheer dejavu when reading about Muraki and Hisoka. Astoundingly similar to Tokyo Babylon. They even have a sakura tree with corpses under it!!! Innocent little Hisoka seen as the “cute toy” of Muraki, the memory blocking, the doctor thing (although Seishirou was a vet), the tying up and blood (oh wait, that didn’t occur in TB… happened in X though XD). I admit that the plot moved faster than TB, but I still like Seishirou more than Muraki. He has more personality and more subtly evil, as opposed to Muraki’s all out evil insanity. But after seeing a CERTAIN image Trinity sent…. I don’t think I have the guts to read on. @_@

Eeep, I’m severely running out of space. Was down to my last 4mb. Went through my domain with FTP, realised how much unlinked to junk there is. Like, 6mbs alone of past free layouts and wallpapers, that for some reason I didn’t delete. Now, I have and yay!, up to 11mb. Good thing, I don’t have anything major planned that requires uploading to iNET. Nevertheless, I stil want to upload things, and 11mb can barely fit 3 mp3s. My yearly plan won’t end till August, so for the next *4 months* uploading needs to be at a minimum or I get something of my stuff hosted. When August approaches, I’m thinking of perhaps changing from e-starr to another host. I’m looking into HostRadius, the prices are reasonable and I’ve heard good things about them. However, it only offers 3gb transfer for 100mb. E-starr offers 10gb. From my webstats, I go through approx 3gb of transfer a month, so it’ll be way too tight for comfort. But we’ll see.

Listened to a whole lot of mp3s, most being Japanese and anime. There are quite a few I’d definitely recommend, but there is no way I’m going to upload them (think, I’m on a 56k modem AND only have 11mb left). Would anyone be interested to know? If so, I could easily type a page up, with my ratings and recommendations. If not, then well, I can’t be bothered. XP Sigh, if only I had a bit more space, I’d upload a few of my favourites.

Speaking of music, thanks to my obsessed Jrock fan, NOW I’M FREAKING OBSESSED TOO. >_< Actually wouldn’t have been, until *someone* had to remind me about a certain Gackt pic, and we spent approx 40min looking up Gackt shrines and galleries! Shrines are scary places as they are very good at brainwashing people. It was hard to get used to the deep sounds of Jap. guy voices (hey, in relation to guy voices, I almost exclusively only listened to Darren Hayes’ and that’s not exactly deep ^^;; NOT THAT I’M COMPLAINING!), but I’m adjusting. I like Gackt’s “Vanilla”, very chirpy and summery sounding (until I looked at the English translation of the lyrics… O_O) and “Birdcage”, Malice Mizer’s “Syunikiss” and L’arc en Ciel’s “Butterfly’s Sleep”. I plan to butcher my modem and download heaps more to listen to. Ahhhh…. *hugs internet* ^__^

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This is more like part 2 of this entry, reserved for a WHOLE BUNCH OF PLUGGING AND SOCIALISING, thus making this a very long entry.

Eeeeeee!!! Anthy is gone again!!! And just when I was having fun checking out her lovely blog skins. -__-; But I understand, school work and all. Sigh, her thoughts were very insightful.

O_o Zeruel has left too? Shame, his stuff was also amusing to read. But I guess everyone has their own reasons to move on eh? And his kickass domain… 11 sites…. gone… ;__; Would be sorely missed too. Sigh, always a shame when excellent collectives die. Like belldandy.net that was was so mad! And a whole heap of others that either close down or become permanently static. There is really just a handful of really excellent ones left.

Hi Trin!!! Ooooh new domain ne? Poor you, exams coming up, I KNOW HOW IT FEELS!!! Hi Jay!!! Hi Ka!!! Hi Diana!!! Hi Tas!!! Ooooh Hellsing layout, groovy. ^__^ Nothing much to say to you people, SEE YOU IN CHATS OK?????

Very nice original CG bishounen layout!!! I like very much. ^__^ Also, don’t feel like you have to sound “sophisticated” or whatever, just be yourself and find your own style. Being cramped into a style that’s not “you” is not only awkward and uncomfortable, it’s no fun. Besides, your stuff are interesting in it’s own right. BTW, your art is really improving, the recent ones are really good, especially the shading! As a general note, does it not suck how anime characters have such ENVIABLE HAIR???? -__-;

‘Ello Daimira!!! Interesting new layout (definitely CAN’T live without music), sorry to see your collective having to go on haitus too. BUT CONGRATS ON FINDING THE JOB!!!!! Money is good. Yes. *nods* Your mentions of pipettes and things… eek reminds me of titrations and annoying measuring experiments that you have to get JUST RIGHT and which I always fail to do. DAMN YOU ELUSIVE BOTTOM OF MENISCUS, DAMN YOU! >_< Remember how you recommended me a whole load of Jap. artists a while ago? Well I agree with you, Maaya Sakamoto’s got an excellent voice, I love “Gravity”, the song from Wolfs Rain.

*appaluse* Good for you Samatha, for not entering that competition. It is disturbing and quite sad to think how even things that are serious and deserve grave respect and thought, are turned into a commericalised revenues of sorts. If teachers and educational organisation use money as an incentive to motivate kids to learn about past events, then how can they criticise young people for being unfeeling to what had happened before?

Lovely new layout Rhian!!!!! Oooh cool bishie person with knife…. no wait, samurai sword. When I first glanced at it, I thought it was Kenshin. You know, I just found out that Mazohyst came from that Dir en Grey song! My fav. song from them would be Cage, but then again, that’s the only song I’ve heard from them. Thank you for the Illuminati mp3 on your site, I muchly like that song. ^__^ Actually, from all that I’ve heard, I really like Malice Mizer’s music.

Hoi Iris! lol, finally you’re blogging again! XD I guess finding time to blog and more importantly something important to blog about is difficult….. BUT GOOD TO SEE YOU’RE ALIVE!

And finally a BIG PLUUUUGGGG to Fiona, just for having to suffer through the past two examination hell as well. Just a note, she may be gone for a while playing Castlevania. Though knowing her, she’ll be online.

HAVE I MISSED ANYONE? Hope not!!! TO ALL YOU LOVELY PEOPLE WHO COMMENTED BELOW, thank you very much for your kind encouragements! But seriously, I need to end it here, this entry is getting ridiculously long. I’ll add anything I’ve forgotten in the next entry.