Convergence

Convergence is some site for MONASH users to correlate their time tables/find out when other people are free. It was made by Karlgren's friend.

restaurant standards: 1228

MY. POST. WAS. DELETED.

As a result i will now upload all the images i was intending to post in it and remove my commentary!!!!!!!!!!! okay, i lied, i can't bring myself to not-write..

katherine made me a wonderful omelette and also some yummy oatmeal pancakes. they were so healthy seeming but not really but mostly very very delicious! YAY. she has now inspired me to cook more.

who could resist this smiling innocent face? ♥

I also recently went to a cafe in Box Hill called 1228! It is opposite the tramstop and is Steph's favourite cafe. Yes, we met at 12:28pm (though regrettably not on the 28th of December. additionally i was late, as is typical of me. shameful). 

Wong had the lunch special, a bento box. steph and i chose it for him because there were "so many choices". He refused to look at the menu after this, to choose a more suitable meal. Oh well, he seemed to enjoy it. I enjoyed his drink, it was tangy - Passionfruit Milky Tea! aww. Steph had lychee and I had honey, which INFINITELY SUBTLE YET COMPLEX. Their bubble tea is good and standard-price. They also had, under the jelly/pearl additions, "mango". Wong exclaimed over this, but sadly Steph informed him that it was probably "mango jelly". sadness!

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥
my restaurant review is failing.

I ate their special or something, it was "small". anyway it was REALLY DELICIOUS and i keep CRAVING IT. $8.50 for a large bowl!

They also had cute colourful walls and random triangles on the ceiling. Also, you order by ticking things on a piece of paper, which the waiters then come around and collect! 
All in all, a cute and cheap cafe with good/filling food, large serves and nice bubble tea.
RATING:  ♥♥♥♥♥ (make of this what you will)

I highly recommend it!

Man Journal, Part 1

First part of my man-journal. The guy whose name I forgot from Japanator coined the previously mentioned phrase 'man journal'.

02/07/10 - Friday
Meals:
Toast for lunch, doritos as snack, pizza for dinner, 3 slices of pizza at about 1:30AM

Sleep Time:
Woke up at 12:00PM. Slept briefly while ben was here at about 4/5 ??? Slept from 4:00AM to 2:00PM the next day

Notable activities:
Ben came over, woke me up at 12. Left at 6:45. Immediately after disassembled laptop to fix broken headphone jacks. Fixed both headphone jacks without soldering anything, but accidentally made one of the jacks think something is plugged in all the time, hence speakers don't work.
My brother is having a sleepover at our house today with some friends.
TPG has not switched over my internet yet :(
Played Fate/Stay Night for a bit at some point. Happy that voices work in this version of it.

Anime watched:
4? episodes of Trigun, 1.5 episodes of Arakawa Under the Bridge, 4 episodes of Lucky Star.

Anime notes:
Trigun: Is awesome. I like the characters alot, and their voice actors
Lucky Star: <3 Konata.
Arakawa Under the Bridge: The voice actor for Maria (Sawashiro, Miyuki: Kanbaru from Bakemonogatari / Girls D.M lead singer from Angel Beats / Canaan from Canaan / Selty from DRRR / Shinku from Rozen Maiden) has a hot voice.

the adventures of gingerbread

Once upon a time there was a small edible man. His name was Gingerbread*.

Gingerbread had a few bits missing. His buttons had been forcibly dyed by his former lover (the rain) whom had coloured them brown to match his eyes. Or rather, eye.

Good luck Gingerbread! I hope the rain doesn't destroy you. Sometimes relationships can be destructive like that.

Had breakfast with Vincent in a little cafe near Flinders Street Station. This was delicious! Rich, golden egg yolk amazes me. Hollandaise sauce almost feels like overkill (surely not).

Attempted manicure in white/silver for MGS formal. UHHH. As you can see, i'm good at this.

Vincent and I at formal! No, I did not go with him, he went with his girlfriend.

Lastly...I finally opened my jewellery shop! It is currently being advertised on the sidebar. Please visit it, I'm hoping to add more items soon...

EXAMS ALMOST OVER - imminent relief? one can only hope! ^_____^

* Gingerbread was discovered one day in a bush on my street on my way to uni.

**You can probably tell i'm trying to make my posts more picture-dense. Sadly this has made me write strangely...

Getting carried away

So, i was on facebook and i saw this image.

I wondered who the author was, so i did a quick image search using Tineye (search images which are identical but cropped of your image).

The text which was formerly on her chest/むね was "nitro super sonic" so i googled that. This is what I posted as a comment. Note that I added the person whose photo it was so i could comment...

Was bored so i did some digging on this pic.
Using Tin Eye, got some matches.

HQ one (note: quite huge image):
http://technotaku.com/blog/wp-content/thumbnails/6570.jpg

Site NSFW 18+ etc etc explaining what this is about:
NSFW!! http://www.neko magic.com/?p=1288 NSFW!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitroplus

So in summary, this is image is the mascot of an event (Nitro Super Sonic) which is held for the eroge company Nitroplus.

Yea ...i get carried away doing stuff like this lol

parents

Recently, many people seem to be going through parent difficulties. This is nothing new, of course. But it seems as though the independence gained through graduating high school and entering uni may lead to further conflict between teenagers and their parents, who may feel as though they have no control, while of course teenagers are just like, "why should they control me anyway?!!!"

Parental control is something that teenagers rebel against, even while inwardly acknowledging that their parents only want the best for them and may, indeed, know better. However while contemplating the relationship between parents and children, i began to wonder whether respect for parents on the part of the child was implicit or had to be earned. Or, to go further, whether children still had an obligation to treat their parents with respect even if they themselves were not respected by their parents. 

Some time ago, my father said to me, "I am not looking for equality in this relationship."

As soon as he said this, I immediately felt rather disturbed, as though a wrong note had been sounded in a chord. For even if there is no equality in a parent-child relationship at the point when that child is only a teenager, would there not come a time when equality (equilbrium, lol) was achieved? If we consider "capability to look after" as the criteria for "superiority", it would then seem that after that point the "superiority" would shift towards the side of the child, who (then an adult) would then become increasingly "superior"? I guess this means that equality would not be achieved for a while. The point I am trying to make is that although some parents do not anticipate their loss of "superiority", they are unfortunately doomed to become such. Similarly, it is expected and even favourable that teenagers should strive towards greater independence, in light of their increasing "superiority" as opposed to their parents' "inferiority". 

Not that I am saying parents are inferior, or anything. Nor that teenagers should ignore the advice of their elders. Simply, that perhaps parents and children should try to think outside of the parent-children relationship, and view each other simply as people...on second thoughts this might lead to bad things.

What do you think? Is equality between children and parents ever achievable, or even desirable? And if so, is teenage rebellion justified?

My first bilingual post (sorry for butchering your language)

New song and my favorite voice actor

On Monday of this week I became a fan of "c.cedille" [a band]. C.cedille is not famous. C.cedille's singer is Emily. Emily's voice is good. I like her new song, it's name is "Hidamari".

My favorite music is anime music [not really]. Yuu Kobayashi is an anime voice actor. Ms Kobayashi's song's name is "Hanaji" [means nosebleed]. Hanaji is not serious at all. Ms Kobayashi's voice is strange, but interesting.

あたらしうたとわたしのすきなせいゆう

今週の月曜日"c.cedille"のファンでした。c.cedille はゆうめいでんわありません。 ”c.cedille” のかしゅはEmilyさん. Emilyさんのこえはいいです。あたらしいうたがすきです、なまえは「
ひだまり」です。
わたしの好きなおんがくはアニメのおんがくもすきです。ゆうこばやしはアニメのせいゆう(voice actor)。こばやしさんのうたのなまえは「はなじ」(nosebleed)。「はなじ」はあまりまじめないです。こばやしさんのこえはへんで
すが, こえはおもしろいです。

link: Hidamari
link: Hanaji

/restart

I deleted my facebook. I will make a new one under the name drojf wongsta. That is all.

OMG

(she woke me up DAILY! don't need no STARBUCKS.)



and i was like

BABY BABY BABY OH

like

BABY BABY BABY NO

i was like

BABY BABY BABY OH

thought you'd always be mine

not that you were. really. ever. oh (NO!)

YAY

I was stalking alice and dana and felt that i too should post about my life in a similar style, ie, using abbreviated/changed names and more detail than i usually give. Hence, the title of this post, which is an acronym for Yi-Ling Ate Yogurt. (This is a lie, unfortunately, however I did eat some nutella this morning.)

Anyway, my life lately has been fun. I had an enjoyable time when SA unexpectedly accompanied me to Wong's house and exclaimed over how castle-like it was. This was also slightly embarrassing in that I realised how much i treat wong's house as my own.

wong: "There's a motion sensor that makes the light turn on when someone is outside the house."
yi-ling: "There is someone outside our house!"
Thus perpetuating the common belief that wong and i are married, even though if we were married wong's house would still not be my house.

I also saw VC yesterday! I wish that he did not give so many details of his relationship with JC (?). Hmm. However, it was entertaining in some ways. I then ran into VC (other) and other PLCs, as it was JL's birthday. Happy birthday JL! More importantly, I regained my umbrella, which made me feel rather contented and secure. This was strange as i have already obtained the meaning of life, however any rain-repelling device is a bonus i suppose. Which reminds me, WC gave me her veryshiny silver jacket, which is also waterproof! Although many people seem to dislike it for its intense shininess, I am very grateful as it is both warm and rain-repelling. Thank you WC.

My mother has asked me what i am doing. I think she disapproves of my blogging even though i do not do it very often : ( What a shock. Unfortunately this means that i must stop now and revert to reading harry potter fanfic. Additionally, I feel that i am unable to keep up this style of blogging sadly enough. : ( Nevertheless...

please scroll down to read about Wong's sad story about cancelled classes! We seem to post in swells or something, it is unfortunate.

Friday

Today, I went to my chem lecture. It was, however, cancelled, and I did not know that it was cancelled because I skipped the lecture on Tuesday.

I then went to the airport lounge to kill time before my biology lab. I met Freddo and Dave before I even could go inside the campus centre. We went inside and talked for a while. Then I saw OJ.

I asked OJ, "Have you had your bio lab yet?".

He replied "There are no bio labs on this week".

And the disciples returned to their villages to spread the message of Jesus then I was sad.

Anime Stats

A comparison of anime I and other people have watched. A side note to the actual content of this article is that it took me a long time to write. This was because:

I wanted to use graphs. I remembered google had some cool thing for it. I didn't remeber I had to learn how to use their (easy to use) language.

It was very late. Or rather is very late. It is 4:21. After some more editing it is 4:39.

This doesn't really relate to the "this was because part", but the will to write this post came from my love of anime and making charts.

You know how it gets late at night; you start with one dot point and can't stop!

Yes, the dot points are invisible

Before anyone complains, these stats may not be accurate. Now you can't complain. Except yi-ling. You can complain, since I pushed your post and image of your hairy mishap down the page.





It appears that Howard has watched episodes which are shorter than Hungy, as Hungy manages to catch up on Howard a bit in terms of days watched.


Howard has watched many Detective Conan and Doraemon Movies...

THESE ARE WRONG, THEY INCLUDE 'PLAN TO WATCH' OVAS.







Here are the raw stats. Note these are from MyAnimeList, and will only be accurate if the users update their list every time they watch something.

Anime Shared with me:
hungy:34 82.9
yi-ling:33 72.7
chewy:31 78.1
howard:11 38.2

wong http://wongsta.myanimelist.net
TV: 143, OVA: 17, Movies: 15, Specials: 13, Episodes: 1,399, DL Eps: 27, Days: 23.00, Mean: 7.8

Hungy http://spcogg.myanimelist.net/
TV: 94, OVA: 12, Movies: 8, Specials: 1, Episodes: 2,532, DL Eps: 0, Days: 42.78, Mean: 7.6

yiling http://frothy.myanimelist.net/
TV: 50, OVA: 3, Movies: 7, Specials: 2, Episodes: 972, DL Eps: 24, Days: 16.48, Mean: 8.0

Chewy http://chewybacca.myanimelist.net/
TV: 95, OVA: 14, Movies: 18, Specials: 5, Episodes: 1,778, DL Eps: 46, Days: 28.99, Mean: 6.9

Howard http://howardlee.myanimelist.net/
TV: 68, OVA: 2, Movies: 53, Specials: 9, Episodes: 3,415, DL Eps: 0, Days: 46.74, Mean: 6.4

Self Counted - number of ONA series incl dropped (and what they are)

chewy: 4
(Mobile Suit Gundam Seed C.E.73: Stargazer,The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya,Nyoro-n Churuya-san[haruhi],Hetalia Axis Powers)
wong: 4
(Hetalia Axis Powers,The Melancholy of Haruhi-chan Suzumiya,Eve no Jikan,Candy Boy, Haiyore! Nyaruko-san [it's listedin wrong category])
howard: 1
(eve no jikan)
yi-ling: 1
(Candy Boy)
hungy: 0 :(

BANGS EXPLODE

Hello. I feel the need to blog about a very distressing event in my life. This event took place approximately 30 mins ago, over a very short space of time.

But wait. If I think about it, it probably went back further than that...to the past few weeks.

"Gosh are you even able to see anything?" remarked one of my friends.
"I like the way it looks..." another told me.

"I feel stupid because one of my eyes is entirely hidden..." I thought.

And so, the fateful incident was set in motion. As I tooted away on my beloved rod (no sexual pun intended), I came to the conclusion that I would chop it off to a decent length, and expose my right eye to the light of the world once more.

and so, I rushed upstairs, eager to begin the process. I thought, "oh this won't take long!"

The first chop was rather satisfying. I peered at myself, thinking unwisely, "this is unsufficient i must cut more." And then... "oops!"

I was horrified by what i saw in the mirror:



WHAT IS THIS TRAVESTY OF FRINGES? Neither straight, nor even...too short to be attractive, yet indecisive in its length...and worse, it was two-toned due to my regrowth (visible even despite the slow-growingness of my hair)!

Additionally my (awful) eyebrows are now visible. WOE IS ME. (do you see my horrified expression)

Ahh. While there are those of you who feel I may be overreacting to this ("hair will grow back in a few weeks...don't worry yi-ling"), I do feel that my hair mishap is small compared to that of my brother, who in an attempt to cut his own hair has carved two lines into the side. He has informed me that he will tell people who ask him that "the hairdresser tripped". LOL

What is this?

ahem. please click this link.

music things

Hi. I've been guilted into posting by Viv's subtle message that "nobody else is updating" , and also by the profusion of wongposts that I see everytime i open this blog. Yes, I am aware that I haven't posted regularly for a while (or at all). Sadly, this is very unlikely to change. Ahem.

To give you a taste of life as a music student (since people always ask me what music students do):
I have 4 lectures a week, performance practice, a private lesson, orchestra rehearsal, choir rehearsal and an occasional double reed workshop (+ law lectures). All four lectures are rather boring, especially aural studies. Btw my homework for that consists of training my ears using this chord trainer. Try it! It is unexpectedly difficult, well I thought so anyway.

Last week at performance practice, I had a revelation. This revelation was connected to my longtime indifference towards cellos and preference for violins. Anyway, two piano trios were performing and the violinists and pianists were average, but in both the cellists unexpectedly stood out. And as I was listening, I suddenly thought...
CELLOS SOUND REALLY BEAUTIFUL.

Something about the mellow, throbbing melancholy of the tone captures the soul of the music and conveys its emotion. Violins are also amazing obviously but I feel that cellos resonate more with people's hearts, instead of being soaring and otherworldly.

I also like lower brass more than I ever thought I would. Interestingly enough it really fills out the sound of large ensembles.

HMMM as you can see I spend alot of my time doing music-related things now/watching anime. Law is also fun, though I ...still have not done my court report OHHH DEAR. : (   

Here's to another update in 1 month (hopefully less!)

You guys still play Maple Story, yea?

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2010-03-20/maplestory-gets-fullmetal-alchemist-tie-in-in-japan

What is going on inside my head.

At the end of Japanese class today, Inaba-sensei asked if someone could help her carry her stuff up to the fourth floor. Instantly, Stooph raised her voice and said "Daniel wants to!" (or something along the lines of that).

Anyway, Inaba asked in Japanese while we (1) were in the lift whether I had studied Japanese before. I said I had not...because I had not. Then (for whatever reason) she said my Japanese was good (referring to spoken 日本, since she had not seen our tests yet).

Inaba then asked student O the same thing, to which O replied "I haven't before but i've watch j-dramas, listen to j-pop (i think) and also enrolled in a jap school recently". I also noted that Inaba never said O's Japanese was good, for whatever reason (again, referring to spoken japanese).

At this point I realized that I could have said 'I watch a whole lot of anime' as a better response, since it would seem odd that I could speak well without ever hearing a word of Japanese. If she complimented me first, then asked if I had studied Japanese I would probably have said I watched anime.

While I was thinking about this, Inaba and O were having a good conversation about a certain j-pop singer (2), so I couldn't butt in and say what was slightly annoying to me.

I even thought about it later, to the point where I was deciding whether I should email her to tell her, then realized it would be stupid as most likely she wouldn't even remember about the fact in the first place.

I also ran the situation in my mind that I had actually said "I haven't , but I watched a lot of anime" and realized that I may have spoken with her about anime and not allowed O to speak about j-pop with the teacher.

Finally I settled on the fact that, if she was really thinking how weird it was that I could speak Japanese OK (3), then she would have asked specifically if i had gone to japan/listen to japanese music/watch Japanese media.

Anyway, the point of this banter is to have insight about the types of thoughts I have, and what i 'worry' about. And this is what I thought about today.　さよなら！

Notes:

1)(me and another student, 'O')

2)(again, i thought it was j-pop, i was too busy worrying about what had just occured)

3)(i'm pretty sure it's one of those social compliments, not a real one)

Unexpected Voices

Sanada, Asami - plays all of these characters:

Kanako Miyamae from Maria Holic

Matoi Tsunetsuki from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

Jun Sakurada from Rozen Maiden!

This is Sawashiro, Miyuki. She is:


Shinku "Reiner Rubin" from Rozen Maiden
Tarou "Maria, Mataro" Sekiutsu from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

The Dorm Leader from Maria Holic

Suruga Kanbaru from Bakemonogatari

References in Akihabara Majokko Princess

SCREW THIS POST GO HERE INSTEAD: http://awaffle.isgreat.org/2010/02/akihabara-majokko-princess-reference-list-aka-random-stuff-in-that-mv-where-kirsten-dunst-sang-turning-japanese/

I CANNOT TRUST YOU INTERNET

While the internet has been a great friend of mine the past ....10 years, it has let me down today.

I was reading a user's blog on myanimelist and the post was entitled 'Ten Worst Anime of 2009'. I was reading the 4-panel comics which the user had drawn in paint. THEN SUDDENLY A WILD SPOILER APPEARED.

What I was really upset about was that the spoiler was entirely unrelated to the ten anime which were on there - specifically it was for the Higurashi series - which i had watched the entire first season of. This gave me no chance of saving myself from the spoilage.

If you don't know, Higurashi is quite heavily plot based....so i was upset :(. If only I could drug myself to make me forget this event....or i can come back in 5 years time when I have forgotten this event ever happened.

This is the second time I have had an anime spoiled for me, fortunately the first time it was just the ending to endless eight....although I couldn't properly experience the shock value of the finale.