d i s t a n c e .

420. SERBIAN MUSIC!! :D

2008-05-16T01:45:15Z

OMG MOBY DICK!!!

This is a serbian band I've grown up with, but absolutely no one seems to remember except my family, who were the ones to introduce me to it anyway. I was looking at Eurovision videos for this year's contest and I suddenly remembered these guys, who I've absolutely worshiped for the past... 10 years, at LEAST. It took some searching but I finally found some of their videos (which I'd never seen before)~ and I also found a serbian site where I can buy their music!! :D Yay for olden favourites XD

The song above is one of their most recent ones. This song on the other hand is one of those I have on a cassette since I was 8 or something, maybe even younger. [linked because it might be a little inappropriate towards the end~ whatever did they need that footage for? :P]

Anyway, I'm so glad I found their stuff somewhere. Proves that they existed! So far everyone I've met from Serbia claims complete ignorance. I mean, WTF?! And I'm TOTALLY buying their CDs because they make me feel like I'm 6 years old again. :D So cute.

419. TOO CUTE. flails

2008-05-14T02:17:04Z

WaT have a new single out!!! :D Toki o Koete ~Fantastic World~ <3
The PV made me squeal repeatedly. Teppei is of course the main source, but to my surprise Wentz is also very cute. Observe:

ASDFASKLAGFDHGHA *_________*
A big, BIG thank you to hiroki_chan for uploading the single and the PV :) You have given me more reason to squeal ^^ and a new song to play on repeat. (As if Destiny's Play, Daite Senorita & Hoshi Wo Mezashite weren't enough :P)

Because yes, I am also being converted into a NewS fangirl (THEY RULE!!! *___*), although I first listened to them because of Yamapi (who I am beginning to worship) and Tegoshi -who has a surprisingly great voice- but I like all of them now. Shige has a cute smile, Koyama is a total dork, and Massu is cute ~~and squishy~~. And he sings well. Just GUH, I love them all. And most of their songs are so happy go lucky (Summer Time, Weeeek, Hoshi Wo Mezashite... <3) with the occasional exception, like Taiyou no Namida... ^^ *sigh* And Yamapi. OH GOD YAMAPI. I didn't like him this much when I watched him in Nobuta or Kurosagi, but I guess the awesomeness has started to pile up and I suddenly find myself totally pining over the sheer memory of the Daite Senorita PV. O____O

But of course, the definition of happy go lucky is indeed WaT. Who can forget the ~~attrociousness~~ dorkyness that is TOKIMEKI DOOBEEDOO?! For the sake of laughter and squealing please watch that video, it cracks me up every single time!! (Although when I listen to the song it's okay, but THE HORROR OF THE GREEN BACKGROUND AND THE FRILLY OUTFITS!! AND THE CHOREOGRAPHY!! *________* watch it please.)

Oh, also, I watched Zettai Kareshi #3 last night. My thoughts:

Why does that woman refuse to use Night in his intended way? That's what he was made for, electric appliance or not. Yes, it was an impulse buy and you should not have bought him. AT LEAST GET YOUR MONEY'S WORTH. >_<
I love Moko's acting in this drama. He's so robotic, exactly like what I imagine robots to be. And he cracks me up every time he doesn't understand something. :D So cute. ^^ On top of that I just can't place him as Tsucchi anymore, and I figure that's the best part about his acting. It's so natural and complete that he doesn't remind me of his old roles. :)
I was reading the Soompi thread on the drama and someone mentioned how Mizushima Hiro's character resembles Nanba from HanaKimi... Well, in some aspect that is true, but he is also very responsible and thoughtful, which Nanba was NOT, admittedly. But there is one major common point between the characters: they're both hot. Because they're MIZUSHIMA HIRO. ~~I'm still mad because he didn't get much screentime in this episode >_< MOAR MIZUSHIMA HIRO NAO PLZKTHX.~~
KAJI MASAKI!!! His role is so tiny (he must have had like, 3 lines and that's it)!! But he's there, and that's something. Yay for D-Boys & PoT infiltration. Observe the godawful hairdo of DOOM ^^ & Namikiri's evil glare in the second picture... *giggles*
I wonder what will happen now that Night has restarted... It seems like the perfect excuse to give him back to Kronos Heaven, but that's not going to happen because we need the triangle :P
The ending song is so sad... Especially for someone who knows the ending, which will probably be the same as the manga's ~even though the story has changed completely for the transition from manga to drama~ it's so melancholic...
MORE MORE MORE! ^_________^ #4 airs tomorrow in Japan!

Which reminds me that I need to watch Gokusen 3 as well. It's on ep 3, I already have the first one. YANKUMI :D

I'm also on episode 8 of Yukan Club, which is great so far. Typical jdrama structure, with episodes that focus on stories involving one of the main characters each time, great cast (Kat-tun's Jin + Junno + Kanjani8's Yuu + NewS's Koyama ~so far~ = Johnny's overload!! if Yamapi appeared in it I'd DIE from too much Johnny's XD), and KEEP THE FAITH of course <3 Gotta love that song ^^ it's one of my all-time favourites.
I want to finish it soon so I can move on to other stuff I have to watch. ^^ I have like 5-6 anime I haven't even started, plus Bleach which I want to catch up on. I hear fillers have started again. >_< How do they do that? HOW?! :P

And THAT was my fandom post for this ~~week~~ evening, Amsterdam post left to do! :D

417. decisions, decisions.

2008-05-05T18:26:57Z

I finalized my choice to go to Brunel.
I AM NOW OFFICIALLY GOING TO BRUNEL UNIVERSITY IN SEPTEMBER 2008 TO STUDY CREATIVE WRITING.

Clicking the "yes" button was done with a deep breath.
But it's over now. I am so glad it's done. ^^ Had to withdraw my app from Goldsmiths, but with all the crap they were giving me it serves them right. :P

Also,
I'm leaving for Amsterdam this morning.
Will be back on Thursday. Lots of randomness predicted for both the trip and after... ^^ It's going to be a lot of fun, hopefully. I just hope it doesn't rain *crosses fingers*~

Um, that's all I guess.
*has run out of things to say*
Bye bye~ ^^

413. Dennou Coil: A Coil of Children (and Awesomeness)

2008-05-03T01:57:53Z

This anime kicked ASS. It was brilliant, amazing, wonderfully written, so sweet, and it has the bizarre power of taking you both 20 years into the future and 15 years back into the past... Superb series. Superb. :D

Synopsis: 11-year-old Okonogi Yuko has just moved into Daikoku City due to her father's job transfer. The year is 2026, and the real world is now blended with the digital world; children and adults now wear the so-called "Cyberglasses", which allow them to see digital things such as screens, pages, and even creatures (observe the dog in the picture: it is Yuko's cyber-pet dog, Densuke). Most kids are expert hackers even by the age of 10, and all of their digital actions can be seen as graphics or real events in front of their own eyes since the digital world is, for them, as real as the real one. Their only enemy is the antivirus program installed by the city council, Satchii, a big red robot-like blob which is designed to look and sound friendly but will attack any digital item that is out of the mainstream. As a result, the kids end up running from it quite a lot. When Yuko and her sister Kyoko have a run-in with a mysterious black cybercreature (enigmatically called "Illegal"), Yuko's adventure in the cyberworld will begin, and change her life and that of those around her in many ways.

Now there's a big mystery behind everything you see in this anime, and even if I try to explain I will be baffled in my own words so I have to say only ONE thing to you all: WATCH IT. IT FREAKIN' ROCKS. The music rocks (if you liked the Yami No Matsuei OST, well, it's the same composer = EPIC WIN), the animation rocks (Madhouse :D), the script is something beyond this world, and the characters are also one of a kind... Since they're like 11-12, they're still children. The things that they do, even though they're serious and they affect many things on multiple levels, are still like a game to them, in the way that all children like to play when they're around that age, wanting to solve mysteries and stuff. They reminded me a lot about myself, even though (as always with anime characters) they carried a lot of baggage and they often thought in rather mature ways. But they felt real. They felt like children. And that's awesome, because for once these children were children. not some kids-filled-with-super-awesome-pwning-powers-that-know-way-too-much. Because face it, 90% of anime series have characters of that sort. And while they're fun to watch, they lose the realistic feel one might expect from characters sometimes.
So, yeah. Great series. WATCH WATCH WATCH. :D

Oh, also please watch THIS.
Cellphone rant for the masses... This dude rocks. *g*

412. absolute boyfriend review + evil muzzer™ rant

2008-04-28T23:15:13Z

Waaah, the Zettai Kareshi jdrama is super awesome!

EPISODE 1:

Mizushima Hiro makes me swoon! And he's great in his part too, you can see thoughts and feelings form in his somewhat awkward and clumsy mind, and that's so cute!! :)
The robot dude, awwwww :3 Gokusen 2 memories!! Tsuchiiiiii :D (He's still too dark though, he should steer clear of tanning salons for his own sake :P) I didn't recognise him in the long hair and the non-delinquent attitude, haha. He's fairly good in his acting, got me convinced from the get-go. And he's so sweet! ^^ Must say I've never seen him in a role like this before, so it's interesting to watch him.
The girl's accent reminds me of Maki Horikita a lot, particularly in the way she pronounces the "-shi"... I love Maki's accent, so yay for that. :D
And also allow me to say HAHAHA OSCAR GOT PWNED. ^^
That made me so happy. I always hated that guy's face since olden HanaKimi days, and later when he was villain #1 in Kamen Rider Kiva, and gave my Seto a hard time. >.< So yay for ~~what's-his-face~~ Kyo Nobuo getting his ass kicked. XD
And look what I discovered just now: KAJI MASAKI IS IN THE CAST!!! Tenimyu is invading everywhere!!

EPISODE 2:

I honestly don't get Riiko. She contradicts herself like a million times in one moment. She doesn't know what she wants, she is obviously very confused about herself, and she is an absolut idiot. Then again, that's what makes her a real person, and a woman at that, so her character is well-constructed and that I like. HOWEVER, she should not have bought Night. She knows the relationship will be dysfunctional, and oh my God she has Mizushima Hiro right there begging for attention ~_~ GRAB THE DUDE AND FORGET THE ROBOT, IDIOT.
But what's the point if there isn't some funny cuteness (that preferably lasts another 8-9 episodes) before that happens, right?
I want to eat those cream puffs. They look so oishiiiii <333
OH GUH. MIZUSHIMA HIRO. *____*

I'm going to keep watching this. It's too good not to watch. So funny and cute, uwaahh~ :3
_{And also, uh, MIZUSHIMA HIRO.}
(Am I becoming too much of a fangirl? TT_TT)

Now on to the muzzer™ rant (these are getting a little scarce these days, haha [/sarcasm])~
This morning while I was going to bed (this statement is ironic by itself) she randomly woke up and saw that I was still up and came in and started a whole speech about how I'm completely worthless and have developed an addiction to the computer (on which I have two comments: one, it's better than being addicted to alcohol or cigarettes, and two, it's not an addiction per se, because -and I have proved this during the past year- I can in fact live without a computer AND without an internet connection. if I take away her morning coffee she'll be dragging herself around all day. THAT's an addiction). True, I tend to stay up all night on the computer because I'm doing things online, things I don't even manage to finish, and most of the time I have at least five other things I need to do but never have time for. For me, for some of you and for most people on this site or deviantArt, these things are understandable. Perhaps my turning around of the biological clock would be frowned upon, but I'd get a sympathetic "I know what you mean". That means something to me. And I'm not about to go onto the cliche argument of how the generations now have a rift and there's no way my mother would understand something so ahead of her own time as livejournal, icons, Johnny's Entertainment or the crack found in Prince of Tennis and D-Boys, because let's face it, it's a fact. I will never expect her to understand this. However, I will not put up with derogatory characterisations and comparisons with my father (something she always does whenever I'm being lazy or bored and laying about), because it's my own kind of hobby and I feel like I'm making something, instead of just sitting there surfing. Essentially it is just surfing, but it's somehow more than that. It's hard to explain.

If you understand, thank you. If you don't, please don't start with muzzer-like comments because frankly, I've had enough. Don't go on about how "she's right, you know", because I do know, and I am trying to turn the clock around, and I don't need anyone to tell me that. I hate it when people tell me what to do or not do.

Johnny's rambles:

Something I've wanted to point out since I first saw the Keep the Faith PV (which by the way, KICKS ASS): Don't Kame and Jin (especially Jin though) look very tired? Jin has bags under his eyes that are super evident, and Kame as well though his are not so puffy. Also Jin's solo cam parts look like he's just doing this to get it over with, with a few usual grimaces and movements which guarantee the kakoi effect. Near the end he looks so exhausted, like he's keeping himself awake. *sigh* Those two should stop staying up late doing naughty things, especially on work nights. There's weekends for that, boys.
Is Kanjani8's Purin a song about what I think it is? Actual pudding?!?! I didn't like them much before but THIS SONG MAKES UP FOR EVERYTHING I SWEAR. XDDDDD *sings along* "Purin, purin, daisuki sa purin~~" *g*
I had a dream last night and it involved me and Ikuta Toma in uh, embarrassing scenes. *blush* I didn't know I liked him so much, lol. (There was also Oguri Shun, with very fuzzy hair and a weird hair accessory on his head. Later on for some reason it got curly. My subconscious is confused about Oguri Shun's hair, apparently. For good reason too, but that's another story.)

411. new layout.

2008-04-28T04:00:25Z

NEW LAYAUT.
katiedistance , yo!

Happy Easter to those of you who are Orthodox. Χριστός ανέστη, χρόνια πολλά, και του χρόνου με υγεία ευτυχία και αγάπη, etc.
I am SO not Christian, yet I like the feeling of something returning each year, like the tradition of Easter. Lighting the candles in front of the church is really fun, you mingle with a lot of people you don't know. Even in the slight rain, like last night. *sigh*

Uhm. Have spent most of my day looking at JE ~~pr0n~~ icons. And downloading DBSK photobooks.
It's been productive. XD ~~I feel a craving to read moar KAT-TUN gossip. D: From the olden wank days too, haha.~~

I'm watching Dennou Coil, and it KICKS ASS.
Also starting Zettai Kareshi jdrama tomorrow (because now I have the precise amount of energy required to finish this entry & crawl into bed).

Did manage to salvage my patterns, but barely (yesterday I slept from 10:30 till 4, alhtough I was woken up like a million times... then last night I slept at 2am and I woke up today at noon :D) ~ only to fuck them up again today. Observe the time plzkthx.
Eh well. At least it's manageable.

xmtx !!! I NEED TO SEE YOU! D: Sorry I was busy on MSN today, I was fixing this piece of junk :P

I want to give a proper welcome to my new friends: dinosunglasses , marilena_r , x_saru_x (I swear I think of you each time real person slashfics are mentioned, ahhhh), seanata , arsinoi , arakas , hiroki_chan , greek_dude . I hope I'm not forgetting anyone! :) Hi and hope I will talk to you a lot and learn stuff about you and become friends. I like making friends. :3

Now that I've got the DBSK photobooks I've been looking for (mainly the Bonjour Paris series, and some others), I will go on a D-Boy spree when I next have time. I want those scans where Araki and Zukki have sandwitched Seto and are almost molesting him, GAYNESS GALORE XDDD

MASSIVE CATCHING UP ON FLIST TOMORROW. I'll try, at least. :*
Hope all of you are safe and okay, talk to you soon. ^^

410. Epic fail.

2008-04-26T06:16:19Z

SLEEP PATTERN CHART OF 24-25.04.2008:
- Thursday, April 24: Went to bed at 7:20am of the following morning.
- Friday, April 25: Woke up at 6:30pm, stayed up until

NOW.

And the greatest irony of all is that my mind is on FULL ALERT (I comment like crazy and with long, eloquent answers on both dA and LJ) while my body is telling me to go to sleep.

I don't want to go to sleep. T_T I like my alert brain, it's been hibernating almost all day yesterday (the time I was awake, anyway :P) and I'm downloading things like mad and I don't want to leave things in the middle. Got to finish what you start, no?

Umf.
I wish I had something creative to say.

I need to listen to music.

409. The Continuation of Stupid.

2008-04-25T04:17:42Z

Goldsmiths decided it's also missing a reference letter. A letter no one else asked for.
And even if I reason with that [seeing that normally my application SHOULD have a reference letter in it but it's missing because the teacher I asked it from gave it to me one day later than the application deadline] they tell me this less than a month before I have to make my decision. The deadline's May 9. OH MY GOD WHY ARE THE STUPID PEOPLE ATTACKING ME?!

To top it all off, the reference letter I have has been emailed to me. No official stamps and stuff.
I'm going to forward it to them, and that will have to do.
And if it doesn't, FUCK THEM. I don't have time for this shit.

☆
In other news, I had a dream last night, and my GOD did it kick ass. :D
First of all it was set in Chicago of the... '30s? I think. Because people were wearing gangster hats and walking around with guns in their hands, lol. I was in a... bar? with a bunch of people that were my friends (not any that I know, though), mostly guys if I'm not mistaken, and we were talking and dancing and god knows what. And suddenly this chick in white ethereal clothes shows up (she was some sort of spirit) and tells me that I was going to die that day. She tells me this riddle I can't figure out and that my death is going to be an accident, or something like that. My friends generally freak out but I'm like, "d00ds, chill 0ut". (Well, NOT like that but I don't remember what I said.)
Mean while, in a director-montage sort of way, in a similar bar/pub/room sits William Beckett of The Academy Is... with bandmates (Butcher and Siska) and a bunch of fans (2-3 girls). The same chick goes to him and tells him that he's going to die that day and it's going to be during his last dance with the woman of his dreams/destiny/something like that. Like, he's going to die but it's not gonna be so bad. :P Sisky and Butcher (and ESPECIALLY the fangirls) are freaking out like ZOMGWTF but Beckett's all like "no matter what happens to me keep the band together... And I believe he mentioned something about Livejournal O_o*
In any case, the scenery changes and there's me again with my gangster friends walking towards some sort of pedestrians' avenue like the seaside lane we have in Thessaloniki (observe the funky paralia goodness), except the sky is a bleak gray, I can't see any sea anywhere, there's fog, and everything is either gray, black, or blue-ish. We get there, one short gangster friend of mine is brandishing a gun frantically, but I tell him to lower it because no matter what he does this is going to happen. I walk ahead and my friends are behind me. Suddenly a large group of people begin walking to either direction (not very crowded, but it's certainly a lot of people), I spot William Beckett in the distance, and I walk towards him because he's awesome and stuff, and the weird thing is that when I reach him he stops and looks at me like he's had an epiphany. Suddenly gunfire breaks out around us, there's panicked people running everywhere...

... AND THEN WE BREAK INTO SONG. :D

We stand there in the middle of gunfire, gazing at each other and singing... The words went along the lines of "I've been waiting for you/No you haven't" and "And we stand here, with the bullets flying around us/and we stand here, knowing that this is our last chance" or SOMETHING LIKE THAT anyway. The creepy thing was that the lyrics rhymed, and I can't rhyme to save my life.
Well apparently my subconscious can rhyme, yo.

Anyway, then a bullet hits me and goes through me and hits him and I wake up. I don't know if we survived, but even if we didn't, that was an awesome dream. Plus there was William Beckett and he's dreamy by himself ^^

* Fun fact: Beckett's band generally likes to communicate with their fans as directly as possible, which includes messages/blogs on MySpace, a phone number which they had for a period last year where fans would call and THEY would answer, and an official livejournal community where fans gather and discuss music and whatnot. I distinctly remember a reference to the community in the dream. Go figure.
That's all from my shaky subconscious and its sudden outbreaks of crack.

Brief mention of three things that are pissing me off at this moment:
I. Emma-stinkin'-Watson just got TWENTY MILLION POUNDS from the HP movies as a whole, since she turned 18 like 10 days ago. TWENTY FRIGGIN MILLION POUNDS. And I'm can't even gather 100 lousy euros to go get myself a scanner. I get pissed off at the unfairness of some people getting all the luck (especially when they don't deserve it). If you look at the bigger picture, IT'S OUTRAGEOUS.
II. My ex-boyfriend is ignoring me like I don't exist, when I am completely normal and friendly with him, like we used to be before we got together. Those were fun times, man! Don't ruin a perfectly fine friendship! >.< I swear he must hate me or something, when I didn't even TELL him what was wrong with him and why I broke up with him because it would break his heart. Suddenly I'm this evil person he doesn't even talk to. He ignores my comments on the YT vids he and the guys made, and on his "art" on dA, and from what I hear he's been acting like a downright diva. OH MY GOD GET A GRIP YOU IDIOT. He's like 100 times worse than when we were together, makes me actually say "thank God I'm not with that guy anymore", you know? *sigh* My problem with him is the fakeness of it all. (Then why do you bother, stupid Kath?!)
III. Certain people need to STOP TALKING ABOUT THEMSELVES. It's annoying. You meet up with this person, you have like a bajillion common interests, and upon conversation this person talks only about themselves and what they've accomplished and the things they like and cute family stories and BLAH BLAH BLAH~ leaving you---in reality, me---unable to form a single sentence that's longer than "Oh, me too." What is up with that? Stop it right now or I swear to Silvanus I'm gonna kill ya, and then I'm gonna work on ya. I fuckin' hate people like this. They piss me off.

That's a log of stuff for one entry O_o
Hope I didn't tire y'all.
Must go to bed... Bye nya!

#407. mayhemz.

2008-04-17T20:03:09Z

Elissaios and Alice together are an absolute disaster.
But that's not entirely bad... Lol.

Nya, generally speaking Alice doesn't fit in with a lot of people, especially the normal ones. But he figured her out after a point so he stopped being annoyed by her, and that's fine. As long as people don't stick to their first impressions, no matter how bad those are, everything is fixable. ^^

My mom is leaving for Serbia tonight so we're going to stay at my grandmother's for a few days... >.< That will put me back into a normal schedule, so to speak... That's okay I guess, I needed to change my sleeping patterns anyway. I hate this whole i'm-turning-into-a-vampire thingy, it wears me out like whoa. I have to start thinking of excuses to come home and use the internets :P I don't plan of staying there 24/7, that's suicide. :P

This is what I'm listening to and it's so cute omg. ^^
Teppeiiiiii ♥♥♥

406. SPAM!

2008-04-17T00:52:51Z

JPop for the salarymen.
This is so lively :D

I need Yamapi icons. *hangs head*

And I also need to STOP WATCHING THINGS ON YOUTUBE AND GO WRITE SOME FANFICTION.
Seriously.

405. Give me a break, okay?

2008-04-16T18:59:09Z

Remember the University of the Arts London ~~fiasco~~ story?
Add to that the letter I got today from Goldsmiths, in which they say they will consider me as an overseas student if I don't send some sort of form to them in a week, because the information on my application was unclear.

OH MY GOD, I'M GOING TO LIVE IN A COUNTRY FULL OF MORONS.

I'm Greek. I'm 18 years old and I have lived in Greece for the past 18 years of my life. What's unclear about that? Are you people doing drugs or something? Did your wives leave you? Am I an outlet for pent-up stupidity?

Every stupid thing has happened to me this year. I honestly feel like I've been run over by a thousand bullet trains.

On top of that my sleep patterns are completely reversed (went to bed at 6AM this morning and woke up at almost 6PM~ I'm talking vampire shit, yo!), so I missed a message from Kostas and he's angry at me for replying to him late.

Y'know, I like it when people ask things of me, it makes me feel needed and stuff, but when you're rudely demanding things from others, and on top of that you are completely disregarding them and whatever might be going on in their lives right now, I just get mad. And I don't like getting mad.

*sigh* Withdrew applications from UAL and Guildhall.
Still considering Brunel as my first choice.

There's CSI:NY on tv tonight. I'm gonna watch.
Adios.

404. NOT FOUND.

2008-04-16T03:06:03Z

(Could not resist the 404 joke, apparently. :P)

Broken hardware, I hate you.
My stupid DVD recorder has officially died and refuses to read DVDs.
And I really, REALLY wanted to look at/edit the pictures we took with Amy on Saturday (a photoshoot in which I was the model, zomg?!)
Plus she gave me all this stuff I want to watch, but no, my computer is a BITCH.

So far I've been thinking of it as a guy, but there's no way a guy is THIS cranky. So it's a girl.
And she's probably PMSing on me right now.

These days were pretty darn awesome. (Well, except for the major schedule screw-up on Sunday >.<)
Amy came on Wednesday, we met up :D there was much squealing, and then I took her to a podcast session with me... It was fun.
Thursday... I finished Amy's birthday present (a necklace and bracelet set, really pretty... Didn't take any pictures though, I forgot >.<) and met up with hyuuga_princess... She showed me her doujin WIPs and stuff, it was really nice. (Although seriously, one needs to also listen when in a conversation, not just talk about themselves... I'm just saying this out of good faith Nicky, don't get mad at me or anything, but I got the feeling like I didn't say anything while we were talking, I was only listening to you... >.< Not that you don't have extremely interesting things to say, but you hardly ever listen to other people... it's a bad habit. ~_~)
Friday we met up with Amy again, she came to my house and then we went podcasting again, she even participated in the recording yay ^^
then she came to my place and we stayed up ALL NIGHT doing stuff (exchanging files, music, icons, etc) and watching random things (like Kanesaki Kentarou's idol DVD ~~*shot*~~) 'Twas awesome :D We went to bed at like 8 @_@ and we had to wake up at 11. We did NOT. :P On a random note, Toma Ikuta *points at icon* was soooo cute when he was younger {y'know, Johnny's Junior days}... We were watching an old vid on YouTube and I didn't even recognise him haha~)
Saturday Amy, Alice, Mt and I met up (I hadn't seen Alice or Mt since... forever!), went to eat and then went to see a school band play (the members are Alice's and my friends from Drama Club last year)... They were okay... for a first concert. They still need a lot of work though (mada mada dane!!) and Alice and I volunteered to help. Und zen we ate sweet stuffz and laughed like hell.

Mt had bought a strawberry liquid soap, and wanted to show it to us. He opened it so we could smell it but then he couldn't get it closed -_-''... Upon trying to close it he made a considerable amount squirt out, and Alice said something along the lines of "don't expect him to listen to you" --referring to the soap, because she has the tendency to give a gender to inanimate objects lol~ :P

And Mt goes like, "it's a she..."
Alice: "Why would you buy a female item?!"
Mt: "... it's cheaper?"
BEST. QUOTE. EVER.

Sunday I was supposed to do a lot of things but didn't do much because my sister failed to wake me up... :(
Had a photoshoot at a friend's house with Amy, I was the model (like I said before), I wore wigs!! Haha, it was nice. One was the Rukia wig for my Bleach cosplay ^^ and the other was an orange wig which Amy is going to use for Orihime, but I wore it anyway because it's so long and silky and soft :D

There was an unofficial devMeet with the photographer dudes but I didn't make it because of the photoshoot. :( I really wanted to be there dammit. I hope there's a next time, because I'd love to see the guys' studio and maybe learn a few tips and tricks from the pros. ;P

And podcast #14 is officially done today! :D But it took forever. We had like 4 recording sessions, one for each part. Usually we do it in two sessions, but this time the timing was just awful. >.< I hope the next one will go smoother. Plus we have all these nifty things coming up in #15, a lot of positive changes and new ideas are being brought in and I'm pretty sure people will love it. ^~^

random: EDITED MYSPACE PROFILE. (well, I changed the layout). I still need to rewrite the profile text, it's been the same for a couple of years orz* :P)

*I really hate this emoticon thingy. I always read it phonetically and it just sounds stupid. However, the concept fits here. :P

That's all I can think of right now.
I'm surprised at how I managed to stay up again when I have been so frickin' tired since 2AM.
Even I am beyond me. WTF. TT_TT

PS: Shirota is losing face. Don't fall so low Shirotaaaaaaan~ I thought you were better than this!!! :(

403. what the hell gaiz?

2008-04-08T02:20:14Z

My mom brings in two envelopes today, mail from me that arrived at my old address.
One was a holiday card from bibsy (OMG thank you so much for sending me this, you're the best! *squishes*), and the other one was...

... the letter from University of the Arts London on auditions and stuff.

Which doesn't even make any sense because when I applied I used my current address not my old one, I moved here like 9 months before I'd even applied d'oh. I had used this address when I applied last year, but they rejected my application due to that stupid age restraint thing. Did they keep my old application for this year without letting me know? And why didn't they email me or something? First of all, trusting the Greek postal service is suicidal, and second, why the HELL would they use the old address when the new one is on my application for this academic year?

As a result, I cannot even think about applying there because the last auditions are, like, NOW.
Thanks guys. Thanks a lot.

Whatever, in my head I'm already a Creative Writing major, so screw them. I'll apply there when I finish this first degree, but by GOD they are IDIOTS. Not that I would audition now if I had the chance, I am sooo not ready for any sort of audition. I haven't done any theatre stuff in almost a year... I'm rusty. I need to brush up on things, and I can't do that in a rush and by myself.

Fuck it. Fuck it all.
But it annoys me because it's so freakin' RETARDED. I know the English are more than somewhat simple but not stupid-like-durrrrr. :P

But here's something that brightens up my face no matter what. Skeletal iraqi puppets with an accent!! XD

" 'alloooooooo! I am Lindsay Lohan!!"
XDDDDD I LOVE THIS MAN.

402. har. har har har.

2008-04-04T16:14:33Z

Three weeks ago I bought a mic+earphones headset for the computer, but the mic wouldn't work. I may have mentioned something. It was confirmed that it wasn't working, because I also took it to Elissaios's place to double-check it and it wouldn't work there either.
Well I took it to the guys where I got it from and left it at the tech desk to be looked at, and when I returned the dude said that it worked fine on his computer so it must have been a problem on my side, ie. my computer, sound card, settings, something.

I came home and plugged it in and it started working.
WHAT. THE. HELL.

O___o

But nevermind, all's good since it works. I don't care what was wrong with it. :P
I HAVE A MIC NOW YAY :D Expect voice-posts! ^~^

In other news, I am considering canceling my Guildhall application because I will not be ready in time without proper help. Kostas said he'll try to help me by asking around his uni (med school, orz) for someone who might be able to help me. If he doesn't find someone, which is what's most likely, I'm going to email Guildhall and tell them I can't be there for the audition because of an insane reason I'll make up at that moment, so cancel my application plzkthx.

I regret all that anguish and terror on the 15th of January when I was making my applications. Too much worry for nothing.
Plus it cost me my dad 45quid or something. ~~(Eh well, it's not like I paid it anyway.)~~

*sigh* Procrastination sucks.
Which is why we all do it.

PODCASTING THIS WEEKEND!! :D ZOMGYAY~

Also lots of RPG-ness planned: Exalted on Saturday afternoon, and DnD on Sunday afternoon. We're still unsure over which DnD party it will be, since we have two open fronts (1~ the initial DnD party that I started with, where people have started to get fishy and unreliable and damn annoying and this will probably be the last session with them ever, and 2~ a new DnD party formed by people I met at an anime meeting, with whom I've had two downright AWESOME sessions and would like to keep it up because they rule). It all depends on whether the dudes form the 2nd party are available on Sunday, 'cuz if they are we're totally playing with them. ^~^ If they're not, we're going to have to take the last-session-ever option, just to take those people off our backs because they're such IDIOTS. >:P

And one last thing:
AMY IS COMING HOME YAYAYAY :D
Missed you so much! *hugs*

#401. puddles of goo cannot think for themselves.

2008-04-02T00:36:28Z

I just wrote the following two paragraphs and I am very confused.

I walked into the busy coffee shop just as the sun outside was casting a magnificent golden glow over the river. In the faraway corner next to the window I spotted a dark silhouette sitting at a table, lonely yet graceful, a shadow with a powerful presence. I braced myself and walked over as calmly as I could, the people around me fading away as the silhouettee was the only thing that mattered to me. This moment, this day, this lifetime--he was the only thing that could ever matter to me.

I put a gentle arm on his shoulder as I approached him; he knew it was me so he said nothing. He kept staring outside the window, skeptical as if something was troubling him. The sunlight grew more crimson with each passing moment, and the light reflected on his glasses gave him a godly glow.

Who is this person? Whose eyes am I seeing this through? What the hell am I writing? :S

I wrote this while thinking of no one in particular, listening to 'Sarah' from the Prison Break soundtrack (Ramin Djawadi is GOD, I tell you). And this image comes to me out of the blue: river Thames at sunset, with the most magnificent set of colours in the sky, and a coffee shop somewhere overlooking the river.

*SO CONFUSED* This isn't Tezuka and Fuji, as much as I'd love that. It's not Harry Potter either, because my mind is so not there these days. It might be new. Like, completely new. Like, original story new.

That's just weird. In a good way, of course.

☆☆☆

Day was ok, spent it with Maria downtown having lunch and perusing bead shops~ we're going to start making jewellry... Random, I know. But I've always wanted to try this. So there, one more thing to add to my lazy schedule. :P

Am getting increasingly re-obsessed with Prison Break... It's on greek TV now and I watch it every night greedily ^^ I want the DVDs again. *must rent or buy them asap* And also, I need PB icons. NOW. *goes off to LJ comms*

My moodtheme was a success!! YAY! And I still have to post it to 3 comms~ will do it as soon as I finish this.
Damn, even though my day was okay, I feel quite shitty right now, if I do say so myself. I wonder what is the cause of this... I am not sure at all.

PS: entry #~~400~~ 401! Whoa! :D
[edit: I misnumbered this entry as #400. It is actually #401, because the April Fool's Writer's Block one is actually #400. oh well who gives a f***]

Writer's Block: Gotcha.

2008-04-02T00:32:36Z

What is the best April Fools' Day joke you've ever fallen victim to?

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Last year's Dattebayo prank... It was a good one, I fell so hard for that I devoted an entire entry to it. :P And then I realised the date. *facepalm*

MOODTHEME IS READY. :DDD

2008-04-01T05:23:56Z

I stayed up all night again, but it was totally worth it! :D
The Seto Kouji moodtheme is ready, ladies and gentlemen!

Feast your eyes :3 SO MUCH CUTENESS OMG.
I'm like, never taking this off. I'm so proud *____* I'm done, finally.

Posting this on my art journal and a couple of tenipuri comms, and going to bed at last.

SETOOOOOO ♥♥♥

I feel like a vampire, gaaaah.
I don't know whether my mood right now is productive, ecstatic, or just plain drained. :P

Maybe pleased is a reasonable compromise between the three? Doesn't show too much energy either, since I actually don't have any. >___>

PS: New icons over at angelkath as well :D KAT-TUN goodness!! Run along and save some ^^

398. LOVE LOVE LOVE ♪♪♪

2008-04-01T00:16:45Z

This has to be one of the best music videos EVER. The lyrics are (as always with TAI) made of pure emotion, and the video just brings it all out in the surface if you're too lazy to seek it out yourself. ABSOLUTE BEAUTY. I love these guys. LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM.

Happy April. Not in the mood for pranks right now. :P
Happy birthday to Fred and George Weasley, and who ever else is (un?)lucky enough to be born today. Must be awesome to celebrate your birthday on this day. ^^

I'm still in the process of installing things on my computer and getting the hang of things. This is taking so long. >_< but at least it runs smoothly now.

PS: This boy needs to stop taking pictures of him squishing fluffy things. I die from the cute. x____x

397. Is sharing really caring?

2008-03-29T04:37:46Z

What do you most hate sharing with other people?

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I. My possessions. Since I was a kid I didn't like to share my things. My mother called it "selfishness", but growing up I have found a way to rationalise it: I hate it when people wreck the things that I strive to keep clean, tidy, and pretty (because I am also a neat freak, zomg?!), or the things that I deem important or irreplaceable. It does not extend to each and every one of my possessions, but it's safe to say that a big majority of those falls under this category.

II. My friends. I tend to be very protective and to some extent possessive about my friends. I like to whole-heartedly give myself to the other person when I decide that they are my friends (because there's a process to that, as with most things), and I like to ask the same. When I devote myself more than the other person does, I feel betrayed. And I also feel jealous of the person who has "stolen" my friends from me.

III. Food. Though I don't look it, I love food very much. From the simplest sandwich to the most exquisite culinary creation, the smell and taste of food is precious and I enjoy it tremendously. So back off. Katharine doesn't share food. (haha Friends reference ^^ )

I HATE BILL GATES. HATE HIM HATE HIM HATE HIM.

2008-03-28T02:52:04Z

Now I don't know whether I'm blaming the right person or not, but he's at fault ANYWAY for building such a ridiculous OS which completely collapses at the first signs of an obstacle. The whole OS is a COWARD. >_<

The reason for this frustration is that my computer has presented me with its death certificate, sort of.
I mean, I don't know EXACTLY what's going on, but I'll tell you this: it won't log on to fucking WINDOWS except on Safe Mode. Which is what I'm doing right now. SAFE FUCKING MODE.

I hate this system. I hate the hardware. I hate living with the fear that my computer might or might not crash next time I restart it. Because that's what I did. I restarted the thing when it started lagging like a horse in the summer, and then it refused to boot. It restarted itself a couple of times, which had me panicking, and then when I turned it on normally it got stuck at the Windows XP loading screen for-EVER. So I turned it off and back on. Same story. I turned it off again and tried Safe Mode. And it worked. I tried burning a DVD with my documents for backup (because like most people, I don't do backup), and it failed 3 times. I turned it off, tried to turn it on again normally, didn't work. Went for "Safe Mode With Networking" which resulted in this moment's bastardized 800x600 screen with the added benefit of an internet connection.

What. The. Fuck.

I'm calling for help from my pc tech friends tomorrow, but they might not be available due to appointments and stuff, so I don't know if I'll manage to get it fixed tomorrow. And correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this is the only OS that can potentially harm itself. What the hell. >:( ASDFGHJKL. >_______<

The good news is that I still have a way to get to the internetz. The bad news is that my machine is not exactly 100% okay. And that makes me worry. And when I worry I get jittery, nervous, hyper, asthmatic, crying, and hyperventilating. It's NOT GOOD FOR ME.

I hate Windows. :(

drama drama drama. in all senses of the word.

2008-03-23T04:35:20Z

Moodkillers ought to die. I was in a perfect mood yesterday and it just had to be thrown off by the muzzer... Geez, can't a person have fun already? I know she likes to torture people mentally and everything, but enough is enough!!

Aaanyway. I don't want to write about that now. Not that my mood is any better, but I just don't feel up to it. It's same old shit anyway.

Instead, let me say how awesome Kurosagi is!! :DDD It's more awesome than I expected it to be! Watched 4 episodes already, and if it wasn't this late I wouldn't stop... I'm starting to like Yamapi a lot. He was great in Nobuta as well, and I can see bits of Akira in his Kurosagi acting, which makes me giggle. Bang is totally Kon but darker. Haha.

Umm, I'm sorry if my latest entries don't make much sense. I'm aware of that. But I'd have to type a lot and I'll have to feel like it in order to do so. There's a lot of hard stuff too that I just can't write about yet, or things that I can talk about but not write about... A voice post would be most handy now but the mic thingy I have doesn't work... I'll take it to be replaced Monday and then maybe you'll all understand what the hell I'm talking about most of the time.

私は残念偽りなくである! :(
( => I'm truly sorry!!)

In any case, I should really go to sleep now.
{I need to stop doing this, it's killing me. I wake up so late in the afternoon and get to do one thing and then I end up pulling all-nighters again and waking up the next afternoon. I like it when I wake up in the morning and do a lot of stuff... but I can't bring myself to wake up early for some reason. I have to try though. I really hate this reversed pattern, it makes me feel like a vampire. D:< }

PS: Seto moodtheme progress - 52%!! :D

if we know the way we're gonna die, through everything else we will survive ♪

2008-03-21T17:40:34Z

Random The Academy Is... lyric on the title. Hmmm.

The Seto moodtheme is at 23%!! :D Finished all A, B, and C moods this afternoon. Will do the rest tomorrow onwards.

Anime night tonight at Elissaios's place!! (Maybe some playstation too? XD)
Yay for lots of anime! ^_^

Also, Kamen Rider Kiva is the most random and unexpectedly cute jdrama ever. The effects suck, the plot is okay, but Seto is of course made of pure win and that fixes everything. :D EVERYTHING.

Uhh, that's all.
I'm in a good mood.

♪♪♪

392. cuteness :3

2008-03-21T04:08:07Z

THIS. IS. EIJI. No kidding! Toothpaste love~~!!! :D
I love this boy. I love this boy so much. ^_^

I'm making a Seto moodtheme. I've been thinking about it since I started stalking his blog and noticed how he makes all these cute faces, that I can totally make a moodtheme out of the blog photos he posts. So yay for expressive cuteness on this LJ as well ^^

Uhm, I had a whole bunch of unhappy evil muzzer (TM) stuff to rant about but I've had a nice all-nighter talking to funny people so I feel a lot better ^^ So no rant for now.

Also, Gokusen II rocks. I don't care how some people find it to be identical to season I, it totally is NOT. It's so different and more challenging and interesting and... 2 words: Akanishi Jin. That says it all. :D

I need a Jin icon. *ponders*
________
RL stuff: My sister left for a 5 day trip with her school!! I'll miss you Bututuuuuu!! ♥♥♥

The List Of Things To Buy.

2008-03-19T06:16:16Z

(Title Capitalised As Per Most Important Things.)

Here's a list of gadgets and/or other stuff I want to get my hands on *greedy smile*
Doesn't have to be immediately of course, I'll make the necessary prioritisations so that I do get them all in time.
This isn't a fully prioritised list. That will happen when I'm less sleepy.

~~Livejournal Paid Account~~ got it 19MAR08
~~Livejournal Userpic Add-On~~ got two as gifts 19MAR08 from meiosei and ib_rangerz... Thanks guys! ♥ ♥
Slimline Keyboard [for my desktop pc] - €30
Western Digital Passport External Hard Drive [w/o external power supply], 250GB - €100
PlayStation 2 Console - €140 (with memory card)
EPSON v350 PHOTO PERFECT Scanner* - €150
WACOM Bamboo Fun Tablet - €120
~~DeviantArt Subscription~~ got a 3month one as a gift from the_hp_goddess, thank you so much!!
Macbook 13.3" White (upgraded to sport a larger hard drive) - €1260
iPod (80/160GB - not sure which one yet) - € [price fluctuates]
CANON EOS 400D Digital Camera (or at least a wide-angled lens, my age-old dream) - € [300-1000]

*Elissaios mentioned last night that he has a scanner that scans negatives, so I might be abusing his until I get this one for myself. Therefore its priority immediately drops since there are other viable solutions at the moment.

This list will be constantly updated with the stuff I want, and the items I do get will be crossed out as I get them. :)

entry #389 (whoa!)

2008-03-14T17:16:11Z

Awww, it's White Day!!!
(Yes I still stalk Seto >:D I will ALWAYS stalk Seto~)

I wish we had such a tradition here too... Not that I gave anyone anything on Valentine's Day because we don't have that tradition either, but still it would be fun. (Here's a wikipedia link on White Day for those unfamiliar with japanese traditions and stuff.)

Met up with Kostas yesterday, yay for going out of the house at last! ^_^ I'm feeling awesome today, despite the fact that I slept completely arbitrarily and have totally turned into a vampire (went to sleep at dawn again, woke up at 4:30pm @.@)
I'll be meeting the guys from animeplanet tonight, so that will be fun :)

Hope everyone's well! ^^

[this is a totally random and pointless post. ahh.]