SQUEAL.

Thanks to this totally awesome person*TackleGLOMP!!!* I can now view Xtv series and see my beautiful Karen in full color motion *^__^*

Kerianne, how I could miss those lovely K/A scans and fanart? Thanks!!

I keep forgetting to say this. Lany, if you’re reading this, you need to check out this site and this one on hide. Lany’s a HUGE J-Rock fan. Totally into Plastic Tree. Worship Plastic Tree. Would sacrifice herself to her tree if Ryutaro asked her to. She’s also a huge Ryutaro fan ^_^ She tried to get me into the whole J-Rock thing, but my problem is I’m not obsessed with music like I am with movies. I love music, but I mostly I listen to songs I don’t know the title of and I have little energy to figure out what the title is or who the band is. I do like some J-Rock bands though.
Dir en Grey – my ABSOLUTE favorite. They only have two CDs out as I know it (like I said, I don’t follow music) but Gauze and Macabre are fantastic. They're the only actual original Japanese CDs I have and they cost a small fortune but it was worth every penny, espeially Gauze. It's one the best CDs I ever heard. I can’t read Japanese so the songs I like are number 3-6, 9, and 11, but number 4 is my favorite. For Macabre, number 3, 6, 9, 13.
X Japan – X. Do I need any more reason? That music so full of energy. Yoshiki on drums is insane Also really love Dahlia and Endless Rain.
Luna Sea – Just gorgeous. One the best bands out there ever. Storm, Breathe, and Eye for you are some of my fave songs. Gackt – I love Gackt. I adore Gackt. My mom loves Gackt. I guess it’s because his music has a Cantonese flair to it, especially Mars. I adore Mars. If there was a CD I would buy to add to Dir en Grey, it would be Mars.
Pierrot – Finale was the first J-Rock CD I heard and it more or less converted me. It's still one of my favorites. If you can get Finale, get Finale. GLAY – FANGIRL SCREAM I LOVE THIS BAND!
hide - It’s an absolutely must in life to listen to Pink Spider and Bacteria. Truly tragic about hide. He was an amazing bass guitarist.
Plastic Tree – It’s funky. Seriously, Lany, it’s funky. It’s a little of everything from rock to seventies folk. It lacks the power of Dir en Grey or Pierrot, but it’s definitely different and really good if you’re in the mood for something that’s totally unlike the stuff I already mentioned.

I love Germans. I love my cousin's wife. I simply adore Satsuki-chan. I really need to find out if my cousin and his wife are willing to take me with them on their annual Honeymoon to Germany this summer so I can see her. I want to go to Germany badly. Just as much as I want to go to France. Damn, sometimes I wish I lived in Europe.

I want to rant about Japanese racism. Maybe another day. When I'm feeling more rational about it.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Friday, February 1, 2002, 12:58 p.m.

No longer starving so I deleted the below whine. It did feel good after I posted it though XD

I'm much happier now. I'm listening to HK movie themes on this site and they have the theme song for The Killer!!!! *squeals* It's so sappy and sweet! *bawls* Man, I love that movie. John Woo rocks because he makes action movies that are dangerous close to being chick flicks. I adore chick flicks. Satsuki-dear, remind me to rent "Sense and Sensibility" one of these days. I'm such a hopeless romance and when it's a period piece with Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman, I'm a complete sucker. So yes, getting chick flicks where people blow each other apart is just gold. Malice, you should check out the theme song for A Better Tomorrow. Leslie Cheung has one the most beautiful voice in Hong Kong.

Maria, that totally sucks about the Amazon.com and the credit card. I'm glad you don't have to pay Amazon and hope you don't have to for the other one. But that sounds stressful enough. I hope the rest of the week doesn't go as badly.

*laughs* Ammie-darling, you have X11 in bed with you, I have it at my desk with me ^_^ Lord, is Daisuke ever BLOND in it! XD I can't wait to see him in the episodes, especially Ep15. Augh, Kim, those stills you showed! HE'S SO ADORABLE! He and Seiichirou have such a family resemblance when they bare their teeth. Karen could so mistaken one for the other when they're doing that. Actually that would solve the problem, only Kerianne would thwap me. As for Arthur's comment: "Oh, the one who's having an affair with Kasumi" *SNORTS!* That's too funny! A family man just can't cut himself up with a kitchen knife for a soapland hostess without everyone thinking he's sleeping with her, can he XD And that gale pun is just as bad as the DNA one where the acronym means National Dylexic Association *grin*

Sarah, did you get my last email? And I like the layout *lol* So you're giving Sam new food now?

April 14th, gotcha :D About your question on why people are obsessed with disproving or proving the Bible, as someone is infactuated with Christianity, I think it's because people want to know if there is a hell or not. If there is a hell, a Christian would want to prove the Bible right so they can convince people and warn them away from hellfire. If not, a non-Christian can argue there is no punishment for them believing in something else.

Epeeblade, I'll take your point on the Bible canon. It is chosen by people, and there is the Persian myth about Lucifer that's way different from the Western one and who's to say which is the right one?

A rant on "success": Failure isn't necessarily a bad thing. I don't think society gives failures enough credit and they certainly give "success" too much credit. What does it mean to be successful anyways? Or to "do well in life?" I'm so sick of people measuring success by how much money you make or how many degrees you have or how smart you argue your point on your blog. Anyways, I always had a soft spot in my heart for characters who fail, which might explain why I like Chinese female movies characters to Western. The West seem to have this idea that girl-power means the girl has to beat the guy in everything and be perfect and all sucessful and win the case. With Chinese cinema, she's just human, has her flaws and good points, fails and has her moments, but she's a person. We all fuck up, some more than others, but does that really matter? Does it matter if you finish university in six years or three? Does one mean you're smarter. Probably, but who cares? If I wind up in a fastfood resturant for the rest of my life - and I probably will - so my family will be disappointed and some people will point at me and say what a failure I am and some might even disvalue everything I say because I have sunk so low. I've just got to live with it and try to make the most of my life, no matter how bad the hole I digged for myself is. I still have my friends, can still squeal over movies and books and mangas, listen to music that makes me want to weep, have moments where I realise that yes, breathing is a talent (Charles de Lint reference!), I don't know. Being a failure isn't all that bad and being successful is far too overrated. Anyways, if I have kids, I won't say to my baby, "oh, you're so perfect and you're going to have piano lesson and dance lesson and you're going to be so smart and become a cheerleader and go to university and become prime minister of Canada." I'll just think instead, "hey, you have 50% of becoming a drop-out and a drug addict and terrorist and breaking my heart, but I'll still try to love you anyways."

Lika frolicked in the snow at Thursday, January 31, 2002, 11:05 p.m.

In an effort to eliminate the favoritism that runs rampant in blogworld, Jae and I are going to buck the trend and eliminate all side linkage to other blogs

O.o

GET OFF IT!

Btw, to those you read my last post, please don't take the World Vision comment seriously. Or even the whole post seriously. I'm just hungry. Really really hungry. I would dream of burgers, but after Buffy found the finger in the meatgrinder, well, let's just say I hope "Chewy" wasn't one of the bad penis name Megan was talking about.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Thursday, January 31, 2002, 02:17 p.m.

My poor darling *HugsTight* It's so sad about Misha. He sounded like such a sweet cat too. At least he had a good home with you and he's past pain now. *hugs again* Take care, Alison.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 29, 2002, 04:40 p.m.

Otanjou-bi Omedetou Gozaimasu!
Alles Gute zum Geburtstag!
Bonne Fete!!
HAPPY BRITHDAY MARIA!
And here's 156 other ways to say it ^____^ And hell, why not. My own language (Alison, see if you know this dialect, despite awful pinyin and yes, I know I got the wrong pinyin for pinyin itself >_<): Ah-Maria, Seh Yeek Kwai Lack. May the muses be kind to you this year. Have a wonderful time with Bob, darling *hugs*

ali, about the email, Ammie already asked the question: When is your birthday, dear?

My math has slipped badly. Young Mikey Boy and Dottie were trying to help me with a math question in my computer 101 class. I didn’t do brackets first and Mike was like, “wrong order. You do things in the bracket first” and I said, “Oh right! FOIL!” He replied, “BEDMAS.” Oi.

Ammie, I owe you tons of seashell bras and hobbit yuri for this one. I almost wept for joy when I saw it. Now I feel bad about all the snarky remarks I made about Subaru-lovers this week. Forgive me. *laughs hysterically* About those beaver tails, we don’t eat their tails. Canada values their beavers and moose too much to actually eat them. It’s a kind of donut shaped into beaver tails, add cinnamon, apple, cream, or lemon. Absolutely delicious. Sorry, I couldn’t resist leading people on. I thought it was the tail of a beaver too when I was first introduced to one and I saw the donut itself. One of these days, I’ll get the courage to try moose droppings.

Malice, I owe you lots of gay elves for that lovely post on John Woo. Actually, I do owe you something and I swear, I’ll get to it. Had a hell of a weekend where I was stuck teaching 12 kids in church about the fruit of the spirit. This week lesson: Self-control. Which is beyond ironic. I don’t know who needed more self-control, the brats or me, who was screaming and threatening them and one more parent complain to me telling kids they’re going to suffer in hell if they don’t shut up and listen and ah, forget it. I'm just not having brats.

Anyways, back to John Woo, Malice, you and Jenni are the only people in my blogland who shares my love for Hkmovie, so thanks, especially since it was about Once a Thief. You beat me to it. I was going to write about it myself since I came across this site. It was an excellent essay on John Woo until I came to the OAT review: This film is proof that even John Woo can make a really bad movie. WTF? It was fun, innovative, and just damn creative. Especially those wine bottles and the dance to get the key. Plus people were speaking French. I’m a sucker for French language.

Continuing with the review: And the worst aspect of this movie-- nobody grows in this movie. Get off it! Woo made this movie after Bullet in the Head because Bullet he depressed the hell out of himself. It depressed the hell out of me and I only watched it for two hours. Make me spend a couple of months actually filming and making it and I’d need something like Once a Thief to save my sanity (actually, that’s how I was introduced to John Woo. Watch Bullet, was seriously affected, then watched OAT and cheered up).

Anyways, the movie isn't a I-know-the-meaning-of-life one so the characters don't need to change. Leslie Cheung was adorable in it. The guy has the best smile of all the HK stars. Lucky Cherie. Seeing him slide backwards on the floor firing a guy in each hand was too cool. And Chow Yun-Fat is so much more likable when he’s playing a funny character than when he’s playing dole-faced Crouching Tiger dud. After The Killer, this is probably my favorite Chow Yun-Fat character. The movie kicked ass.

Anyways, here is a much better review on the movie.

The really funny thing is I loved Hard Boiled, where they spend ALL the last half hour killing innocent and not-so-innocent people, just one slaughter after another and it was probably the most violent thing I ever saw. Supposedly made Die hard look like Disneyland. Anyways, I saw The Matrix about a year ago and I didn't like it. One reason was it was too violent. I guess the violence struck me as needless or stupid or whatever. I didn't understand the movie. Didn't care to. Characters weren't interesting and the story itself uninvolving. Which is annoying because everyone at church had an orgasm over it when it came out. But I did love Face/Off (Broken Arrow and MI2 sucked). Gorgeous gunplay. If you're going to be violent in a movie, you make as well make it look pretty.

Taryn, don't change your layout for a long, long, long time.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Monday, January 28, 2002, 01:33 p.m.

BLISS.

Kerianne, does national holiday sound good to you? And a rant on birds since it's finally appropriate ^__^

You know, I'm glad I can change my mind and the way I look at things. I'm glad I can admit I was wrong. It used to annoy me that I would say, "you know, you're right" a lot because it seems like I was spineless and unable to stick to my guns. But after putting up with Mumsy, who I adore, really I do, but she drives me up the fucking wall sometimes! It wouldn't hurt her to change some of views and habits to make sharing a life with her easier. She cannot never accept that she's wrong, which sucks because most of the time she is. I told her because my sister-in-law was tired of her dropping in unannounced that maybe she should phone first before she visits. My mother threw a fit! You would have thought I committed murder with the way she shrieked at me. She said she was perfectly right to drop in whenever she wanted to and that a daughter-in-law should also be prepared to talk to her mother-in-law and entertain her and stuff like that. It's impossible to get her to see things differently. I tried, from getting to her see that sleepovers don't encourage girls to be sexual active to capri pants do not look good on 22-years-old. She won't listen.

So I admire people who hold fast to their beliefs. I also admire people who are able to put their beliefs aside when they realise they're wrong.

My view on the Sakurazukamori Subaru thing is that is very possible for him to go psycho. It just won't really be him because he has allowed the Sakurazukamori nature to take over. The real Subaru couldn't kill anyone conscientiously.

Whoohoo! The calender made it to you. It's going to be time to celebrate soon, isn't it? :) And the Somali cat looks like a rodent, which is kind of cute. One of my co-workers had this Egyptian cat that had no hair who thought he was a dog. It was funny seeing a cat run around and jump like a puppy. The cat I really like is Benvenuto from The Magicians of Caprona. I adore that cat!

Seeing you write so much about Chinese movies makes my heart sing. Write more! In French :D Oh boy, I REALLY want to watch Savior of the Soul. I'll get a credit card to buy the VCD if I have too. I know it's a classic. Taryn, don't keep me in suspense. What did you think of Happy Together? I can't think of a more beautiful couple than Leslie Cheung and Tony Leung. I'm so glad it's THAT Tony Leung. Such a shame I can't get my hands on it.

CONGRATULATIONS! I'm glad you passed your Master exam Azure! *hug* And speaking of exams, how did yours go, Anna? They should be over by now. And I'll get to your emails soon. I know, I owe emails and criticism. I'm just so swamped lately. Sorry!

*laughs* Sorry Jeannie, couldn't resist. Okay, Wolvie is very Canadian, and he looks damn good in that picture. Love the clothes. I'd love to you and Linh again soon. Hey, Linh, more Charles de Lint books, with birds!

Ali is right about them beavers. They are awesome creature. Especially their tails. Just delicious. Do you have beaver tails in the West, Ali? I hope your winter is colder than ours. I'm still furious we haven't hit minus 30 yet *fumes* I want my Bonhomme de Neige!

So yes, I took that Care Bear test. They said that if more than one window popped it was because there was a tie. Well, five freaking windows popped up when I press the enter key. I can't even name five Care Bears. So I'm Lucky, Sleepy, Wishful, Grumpy, and Cherry. Go figure.

Another big response to Ammie coming soon. Because she's special.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Saturday, January 26, 2002, 12:20 p.m.

Hey you two, the revamps looks cool, especially the layout to this site *^_^* And Jimmy doesn't look Mexican on the motocyle at all. Maybe a little bit Peruvian though *ducks*

Alison-dearest, don't worry about the Asuka issue. It gives Kerianne and I more time to delude ourselves Seiichirou and Karen will live through it *hugstight* I'm so sorry about Misha, dear.

Hey ali! I hope everything is sorted and I'm glad you're feeling better :) And you still owe me a response for that email.

I figured your "send me love letters" included C&C. But don't worry. I'm not going steal it from you. I take back my last entry. I'm not going to categorise what kind of feedback I want because that's just stupid. Telling folks what kind of comments you want is stupid. Complaining that people don't label what kind of comments they want is stupid. Trying to divide fanfic for "fun" and "serious" is stupid. So that comment on if giving up fanfic means you can't have fun anymore, come on, you know me better than that. Sorry that I was such a bum in the last entry. Anyways, the answer: When I write for fun, I take it seriously. When I write seriously, I have fun.

The price of stamps went up. A lot. How am I suppose to support my airmailing addiction? Well, I could get a job O.o Charles de Lint is the next thing to a god and you all have to read Moonlight and Vines.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Wednesday, January 23, 2002, 01:09 p.m.

My bi-monthly long response to The Ultimate Babe:

First off, for your viewing pleasure Leelee Sobieski, so you can compare your babeness. If you want my opinion, and don't you all, you have the better smile, one that makes the clouds roll away, and there is a goofiness to you, but that only adds to the charm, what Brian calls Chingmy at brns.com "chipmunk sexiness." So it's all good ^______^ Only I just found out Miss Sobieki is younger than I am and I now feel very old o.O

Margaret Mahy may be the better writer, but I like DWJ better too. She has a sense of humour and if there's anything I crave for in a novel, be it romance, drama, horror, whatever, it's humour (Stephan King was great at putting in humour and still freaking me out.) Of course The Author of humour will be L.M.Montgomery. Rilla of Ingleside was a war book, and while I cried and felt pain for the characters in the novel, there were scenes that made me laugh so hard I had to spit out my food. The most amazing thing about humanity is that no matter how bad everthing is, you can always find something to laugh about to keep your sanity.

Montgomery was a very wise woman.

So is Ammie. Someone who's that cheerful and crazy and sweet has to be extremely wise. Or just insane. Or pure evil who's planning on overtaking the world. She does work in a library after all. Think of all the books on dark arts, witchcraft, and Lenin you can get. Only she works in a Children's Library, so scratch Lenin. Hey, you know Yuzuriha and Keiichi is about world domination! You said so yourself, Ammie. The world will be taken over by genkiness in which we will all be sent to camps where wires will pull at the corners of my mouths and make me smile and we have to say "Hey, diddily-oh!" when the Flanders-lookalikes poke us with hot irons to check up on our genkiness levelness and okay, no more Simpson Christmas specials for me.

Sats indeed a very good kisser and glomper, but I'll wouldn't mind by glomped and kised by you either. Or Alison. And Bigwig, but he's fictional (No, He's Not! He's NOT!). Mostly, I'm not aching to be cuddled. I'm sure it'll be fireworks when it happens, but until then, I can celebrate Valentine's Day without having to hate couples. Unless the couple is wearing sealskin fur that some poor seal was skinned alive for, that would be a different, but I digress. I would jump you in three seconds flat should I meet you on the streets of New Zealand. I'll try not to flatten you completely, but I can't make guarentees *grin*

As for your arts stuff, you do have talent. And creativity! Those bunny ears were inspirational, I swear XD EarringedKeiichi is one of my favorite X fanarts and looks professional. So he'll never get a tarot card or a trading card. He's got that art you made of him and seriously, the art is better than some art CLAMP got out on Kamui. I'm really glad you got so much nice comments on it ;D Talent never equal easy. Nothing worthwhile ever is. I just wish it was *bangs head on keyboard*

Gotta run. More later, babe! Especially Sakura Board and ML-wise. If I do recall correctly, you've been calling me names. But you’re forgiven for the “Legless” comment ROTFL!

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 11:22 p.m.

*SCREMS* SHIRLEY! SHIRLEY! SHIRLEY! *SQUEALS* I want a Shirley Blythe of my own, a brown boy who quiet, sedate, dependable, with what Montgomery calls "quiet humour". The less talked about of Anne's children, he's the one that captured my heart years ago and kept it. I want a Shirley to court and marry and molest. So much do I want him that I'm going to write a Mary Sue fanfic about us getting married and getting Susan's blessing. Don't worry all Montgomery-fanfic reading folks, I'm not going to post it on any Montgomery fanfic list. This is just to amuse me.

Speaking of fics to amuse, Anna, about a Lestat fic, I can't shake the fact that Lestat is very gay and I would rather put him with Yuuto, but hey, fire idea good so let's have Karen and Yuuto married, Lestat has an affair with Yuuto because half of Tokyo has had an affair with Yuuto, and Karen, finally sick of it, decides to wreak hovac and Lestat seeing her all flamey and angry and beautiful, is reminded of Maharet and Makare and falls in lust with her only she of course threatens to burn him if he comes near her. I don't know what happens at the end except that David Talbot has to die *cheers* Anyways, Onee-sama, glad your exams are almost over. I've missed you! And yeah, send me that Sorashi#1. I'll get around to reading it sometimes.

ali-dear, unless you can't help it, don't ever be someone you hate. You're smart and level-headed and braver than I'll ever be. You'll adjust to whatever you have to change. You'll do just fine in whatever path you choose *hugs*

Taryn, I would beat you within an inch of your life if you did turn S/K, but as that will never happen, there is no need for threats of beating. Seriously, ask Ammie and ali, I adored any sweet things they had to say about S/K (tie-tying forever, Ammie-darling) but the moment it looked like they were thinking of switching side I freaked out and had to be reassured that they were indeed staying in the S/S camp. Like McDonald's needs their Harvey, I need my fellow S/Sers. I need them and worship them and adore them. So yes, I love you, you dear S/Ser you, and don't you even think for a second I want you as anything except an S/Ser. Except maybe a bunny-molester, but that's a whole different fandom altogether. And it's illegal.

As for the S/K pic, yup, me and Alison have been orgasming over it for a year now, since Ammie sent a copy to COF over a year ago. I'm hoping CLAMP will be nice and give us another one. Or a Daisuke/Keiichi one. Hey, you never know! The XTV is splitting from the manga right?

Two more days until the next Asuka issue. Talk about feeling like death warmed over.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 22, 2002, 11:32 a.m.

I love you S/Sers. I had a field day with the screencaps. AllDirty!Subaru inside Kamui indeed *snicker* After all, it was S/S-loving Ammie who first showed this picture to the world, not I don't appreciate Alison scanning a clearer picture of it *hugs both* I love talking S/K with Alison but after a while, we both get sick of agreeing with each other, so it's always a kick to get S/Ser, and S/K hating ones at that, to indulge us once in a while ^__^

Singapore has automatic flushing toilets? That is beyond cool. Even Gum-Chewing Addict Me would venture to Singapore just to see that. Well, and to raid Kinokiniya. And stalk Alison. BTW, I'm a very considerate Gum-Chewing Addict. I always paper my gum and throw it in the newest garbage cans, so Singapore shouldn't fear turning into a colorful array of sticky polka-dots while I'm there.

Ottawa has suffered a warm winter. The canal has been closed to skaters and Winterlude postponed. Winter just isn't winter here without skating (or falling in my case) down the canals looking at ice sculptures and eating beavers tails and drinking hot chocolate as you do so (yes, we Canuks are multi-tasking kind of folks.) Anyways, I hope the temperature drops to minus 30. I want my beaver tail and hot chocolate on the canal!

The Papery is one of my favorite stores. It has pretty papers and stationaries and envelopes and books and flowers and stickers, you know, things that the words "dainty" and "exisquite" were invented for. It's kind of an artsy store with silk ribbons and pressed flowers and scented candles. Has old-fashioned handwood floor and plays "nature" music and while I'm not really fond of new-age things, I like the atmosphere of the place and the adore the things they sell. Only of course the stuff is freaking expensive. I swear, the place never has sale. I would love to get a job there just to get a discount. I'll go on a buying rampage.

Kim: Chances are there are no sexy Catholic priests at your church because they are afraid of you molesting them ;)

Lika frolicked in the snow at Monday, January 21, 2002, 12:24 p.m.

Things I learn about New Zealand, thanks to The Changeover:
1. In schools, they are called formers and prefects
2. We Canadians have accents
3. They dissect possums in science class (That totally rocks!)

The book was AMAZING. Ammie, I loved it! *hugs* I really need to get a hold of you on chat so I can discuss the book with you. BTW, did you get my last email?

I read Margaret Mahy’s The Haunting when I was around nine or ten. It's been ten years but I still remember Troy’s room to this day, sinister neat with handwriting in the notebook that clinical and unnatural. Mahy’s really good at burning pictures in your mind. I kept seeing this weird world where the sunlight seem fake and the telephone poles twist and bend though they were straight and the horrible grin of the face on the stamp in The Changeover. The moment you read her book, you’re into that world. I have yet to meet an author that sucks you in completely like she does.

Maria: I don't know what the outside perception of Canadians are, but I'm sure Canadians are not despised for thinking we know everything. If anything, I think people regard us more as harmless sheep. Or undeveloped Americans *grin* As Laura said The Changeover, Canadians are just Americans without a Disneyland XD

Satsuki-chan: I had to ask Kristin if her first HP fanart layout was Draco/Harry, so don't get upset over me thinking your Remus was Draco. Draco/Harry is so popular that until told otherwise, all blond/brunette couples are Draco/Harry. At least with Snape/Black, there's no blonds so you can’t mistaken them for Draco XD

Anyways, about the whole Snape/Black thing, it’s not I really want romance. I see potential for an interesting storyline: Dumbledore tells both of them to !shut-up-get-over-yourselves-and-work-together! in which they both snarl and seethe and grit their teeth and somehow get over their issues with each other and learn to put up and trust the other and hell, why not, maybe even become friends.

For me, the term “couple” doesn’t always mean a romantic one. Dumbo and Mickey from John Woo’s masterpiece The Killer are one of my favorite couple because there is something special between the two of them. Mickey belongs to Jenny, no question about that, but at the same time, it’s his non-romantic relationship to Dumbo that I adored (though if you want to throw them into bed, I’m not complaining *cheers*) So yeah, Sirirus/Remus can get it on and belong to each other but it’s really the possibilities for Sirius and Severus I’m looking forward to.

Alison: Is it true that you can get fined in Singapore for not flushing toilets?

Lika frolicked in the snow at Sunday, January 20, 2002, 10:12 p.m.

So Mumsy tells me that when she was 22, she had three children. Her way of telling me how much more matured and hard-working she was than spoiled, pampered me. ”Well Mumsy,” I replied, a touch of irritation in my voice but a most unditiful-daughterly grin on my face, “if you really want me to go out and have three kids right now, I can do so." My mom swore and told me to go to hell *beams* She should figured out after 22 years that I don't give sympathies where she is concerned XD

I like being pampered and spoiled. Much hugs and kisses to Linh, Jeannie, and Sue, (Sue, yahoo, not msn) who did that and took me out into natural sunlight where I did not melt. Better still I got a Montgomery bookset *hugs Young Mikey Boy and Sue* and PJs for my pains *hugs Linh and Jeannie* Jeannie, sorry about missing you! I’ll go to the CBS tonight and pick up a movie so I’ll see you then. Phone call from this darling and another from Lany, and I'm afraid all future birthdays will pale after this one ^__^

Alison: If you redo his eyes to be brown/gold instead, you can have a Fuuma voodoo doll ^_~

Metamia: Executives wanting to close down fansites are stupid. I wouldn't have gotten into anime if Lany hadn't surfed online and found some anime sites. I can't see how companies are losing money due to fansites. It's not as if they're selling anything or we're replacing merchandise with it. In fact, seeing that other people have plushies and cards and books that makes me want to buy them. It’s just as bad as those artists and musicians and actors who say they "hate their fans." And thanks for the translations! *glomps*

ali: Thanks sweetie! *hugs* BTW, still waiting for an email response.

Kerianne: It’s a good thing you didn’t buy the book! I love the Chrestomanci series. Of course I can lock myself up in my room with a bunch of books and stay there forever. Why I’m a happy single gal. Books, net, and movies satisfy me better than a mate would. Plus I’m not into kissy-fondle-gropey (unless it's Sats). Enjoy the book, dearie!

Azure: *laughs* Thanks Azure-honey. You lost weight over school? Yet another proof that education is not about empowering the mass but breaking them down! I hope school doesn’t kill you.

Epeeblade: It makes no different if hell is a place or a state of being. Even if it isn't a lake of fire, it’s depression and unhappiness for eternity because you didn't accept Jesus Christ as your saviour and that's still mean. As for “everything that is good comes from God”, I know many godless people who are wonderful, happy people. Surely there are some good that's not from God if so many godless people are good. Rejecting God, knowingly and willingly does not equal rejecting all that's good about life.
Regarding the idea of Bible context, you might as well say the whole Bible does not apply to our times if you’re going to pick a passage and says it only applies to that time and place. Every word is God inspired so there has to be a significance to it.

Taryn: You are one hell of a swell person. Funky person thanks you muchly for the screencaps amoung other things. And I always did like your views on religion, mainly because I agree with them. Well, more than others *grin*

Malice: *BIGHUGS* You’re just one of the coolest people I’ve ever known :D I dig the second chapter! Thankyee! Take your time with the mittens and Chunking Express. I’m overdue with something artsy myself. BTW, according to the Almighty Alison, the short Tony Leung is the same Tony Leung in 1. Happy Together 2. In the Mood for Love 3. Bullet in the Head 4. Tokyo Raiders 5. Hard Boiled Wow, what a list. And he was voted as Sexiest Newcomer by People magazine too. I need back issues, dammit! I worship Leslie Cheung but I'll take Tony Leung instead, which doesn’t matter because both are in Happy Together. I could tear my hair out about having not watched it >_<

Ammie: I’m out of time but I’ll give you a massive response later. For now, I’ll just say I Hearts you like there's no tomorra ^__^

Lika frolicked in the snow at Saturday, January 19, 2002, 10:50 a.m.

(Social blogging to follow shortly, but this was too good to wait. It's from my African Studies class and made me realised how self-righteous I really am.)

Another belief system lambasted to dust. The whole time I thought forests were being degraded in various African countries, being cut down and burned for firewood and desolated forever and turned to a wasteland, I was wrong. Forests in various parts of Africa, especially in Kissidoujou where people said degradation was at its worst, the forests are there because villager put them there. Satellite images spanning over fifty years, old archived reports and pictures, eye witnesses, and interviews with local elders have proved this to be the case. The area would be savannah if humans hadn't gave Mother Nature a helping hand and planted a few trees. But people can't see past the evil farmers burning the bushes.

Villagers aren't as stupid as I was lead to believe they were. They know they need the forests to provide wood, protection, resources, and soil perservations, so they plant them around their villages. Their methods of planting them is simple and mindblowingly effective. They flourish quickly, naturally, and with little hindrance. You see, villages do burn bushes, but that's to protect the forest from bush fires, and it helps the soil and helps their rice plants. Nothing is wasted, everything is used for something else. The fire actually prevents larger fires that nature herself would have created if those villagers hadn't burned the bushes in the beginning. In fact, Kissidoujou is really a savannah. It's the villagers to transformed much of its terrain to forests.

The people are living well, without the aids of "charity" and people who think their know the environment better than the inhabitants there, who see them burning bushes and think they are deliberately vandalising their own land when really, they are doing the environment a favor. Those villagers may not hold a master degree in Environmental Studies, but like my parents, my mom who stopped school at fourteen and my dad who left school to work at a peanut factory at ten but both who knows more about the environment and plants and sanitation and actual useful stuff than my secondary education will EVER give me, those people actually live on the land and understand it. They make it work, more than my views of "they're destroying the trees and too stupid to fix the problem and therefore need to be educated by wiser folks such as me who's been to school and who are the only one who can save them from their own degradation" ever will. Those people are doing just fine on their own.

Folks, don't believe everything Green Peace and other Environmental and Scientific Organisation tell you, especially if it's at the expense of the intelligence of the people who actually live in the region.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Thursday, January 17, 2002, 05:44 p.m.

I'm so happy! *squeals* One of my old school buds just called me to wish me Happy Birthday and I'm so freaking happy :D

To All The Darlings Who Wished Me Happy Birthday, I love you all *sniffle* Thanks-you so much for remembering! ThankyouThankyouThankyou! I'm so touched. This is one the better birthdays I've ever had, mainly because this is the only one where someone other than Young Mikey Boy (You are YOUNG!) and the high school dear actually remembered it was my birthday *hugs everyone in her overemotional sappiness*

I plan to spend the special occasion watching a hord of John Woo movies. I have become a gunplay whore, with all the bullets and shells and blood splattering and bodies moving from the impact of the blows, all while sobbing my eyes out because I'm so moved by all the male-love in the story. My new favorite couple is Dumbo and Mickey Mouse, loaded with semi-automatics in a church, no less. Male bonding always works well while you're blasting your opponets around the statue of the Virgin Mary (AH! You killed the bishop boy! How could you kill the bishop boy!?)

That is my birthday without my one true love: tolerable, even pleasurable (especially when cars blow up :D) but ultimately unsatisfying ;_; But it's better than most! Alison, you'll let me know how it is going with Misha, please. And Howl's Moving Castle is fun and games done in style. I thought the characters were hilarious, especially Howl, who so much like Yuuto, only STD-free, and Sophie who knows how to keep him in line.

Ammie-darling, Eight Days of Luke isn't sad, but there is a touch of sadness at the end, especially with Astrid. It's realistic. They're going to have a happier life but there's a feeling of nostalgia that I would feel if I was in their place. I love Astrid and and Mr. Wedding, and the whole idea of being "grateful." Actually, the book reminded me a lot of Great Expectation. I'll make a list of comparisons one day.

Oh, and I spread your love across my parent's house yesterday *beams* Tiny gold hearts everywhere until Mumsy threw a fit and I made my nieces pick up them up for me and seal them in a special envelope for a rainy day when I might need them. I'll use the big pink one soon, and ah, do I sense a theme? The fortune read something to the effect that my heart will see me through ^^ And the song is just smashing, even with the lines: They're no bloody use to anyone,they no bloody use at all! *shrieks with laughter* That made my day *hugs* Thanks! :D

As for the single thing, sing it to them, girl. Yeah, I wouldn't mind finding a mate, but I do detest it when people pity me for going all 22 years with no significant other. I'm perfectly happy being single, picky, John Woo insane, and best of all, I still have you guys *hugs everyone again* It's MORE than enough ^__^

Kerianne, may said friend be locked up in a room and exposed to hours upon hours of Teletubbies and The Price is Right and nonstop tickling *scowls* I hope your day went without other injuries, and that the cake was good ^___^ I do rather enjoy sharing a birthday with you *beams* And that CLAMP is nice to us in the upcoming issue. AUGH!

Kim, your mom is indeed uber-cool and mother of the baby is so not. Augh! Let's hope someone in the government smartens up and things work out for the kid. Really hoping for that. You're such a neat girl, and yes, cream in the middle if your want. Or chocolate sauce, It's your sandwich :D BTW, I am Seishirou/Fuuma fangirl. Ask Alison if you don't believe. She's one too. Seriously. As for the fic, BRILLIANT *screams with laughter* PET POODLE! You're evil, totally and irredeemably evil and I love you for it XD

Maria, may it snow long and hard in Iowa. Though I must confess, snow loses it purpose for me after Christmas. But you can always go skiing and snowshoeing and snow itself is a beauty, dainty thing to dance in. Thanks for your well-wishes. I knew a certain someone's birthday is coming up too ^__^

Take it easy, Onee-sama! I hope the exams goes well. Told you I look 12 for my 22 years. But the young thing is good :) Just watch me grow rapidly old when I turn thirty XD The guys who were disappointed at the art exam are hilarious.

Jeannie, why stop at Hugh Jackman's shirt? *grin* And THIS! Here let me help you, take the D from Days and put an L instead was TOO funny XD The CBS is a riot. I'm going there to return a movie and hopefully see babe ^__^ And I will walk through the fire, the point of no return, and I will walk through the fire, and let it Thanks for the well-wishes on bunnies, my dear! Speaking of which:

Lapine Vocabulary, because we all know it's our deepest desire to talk to rabbits (and today is my birthday)
El-ahrairah: The rabbit's Paul Bunyan
Eli(l): enemies
Flay: Food
Flayrah: Lettuce
Frith: The Sun God
Fu: after
Inle: Dark, therefore Fu-Inle is after dark
Homba: Fox
Hrududu: Motor vehicle
Lendri: Badger
M'saion: "We'll meet them"
Narn: Delicious
Ni-frith: Mid-Sun, or noon(aren't rabbits sensible creatures?)
Rah: Leader
Roo: Probably like the Japanese "kun"
Tharn: Hypnotised with fear, Deer caught in the headlight, absolutely petrified, as rabbits are apt to be in the novel. Remember it, folks, for I will use it often.
Thlayli: GOOD GRIEF IF YOU HAVEN'T FIGURE OUT THIS BY NOW I'M GOING TO HURT YOU!

I will later entertain you with accounts on how rabbits eat their own pellets, kick and scratch and bite and rip each other apart during fights (Bigwig being the prime example *beams*), and to curb population problem, absorb their own fetuses :D Or I can write an essay on John Woo instead. Maybe I should do the John Woo essay.

Jeff: Don't hurt her, you maniac!
Johnny Weng: No, I won't hurt her. I'll blow her head off!
--The Killer by John Woo

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 10:34 p.m.

Happy Birthday to you
We share one it’s true
But you’re not yet legal
And HA! I’m 22!

^____^ Kerianne, my dear, may the year bring you all sorts of good stuff better than that lame song. Have an awesome year, darling, and all the best! *hugs*

And happy third birthday to Blue Rose Falling too. If you like fairies, you have to read this.

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 10:02 a.m.

SHRIEK! TACKLE! GLOMP!

Saiyukis, mangas, Margaret Mahy, pencil boards, a T-Shirt so people never mistaken who my true love is!! (Expect Polaroid’s because the shirt is perfect fit ;D) *BOUNCES* I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! Wow. You people know how to make a girl feel good on her birthday ^____^ I'm going to be bouncing for days :D

Off to school so social blogging later, but first to Alison: I'm so sorry to hear about Misha. I hope he takes to the medication *hugs*

Lika frolicked in the snow at Tuesday, January 15, 2002, 09:52 a.m.