Floating in my Dream Cloud

Oh, hai

2012-02-27T23:39:00.000+08:00

Well.

According to Blogger, the last post I created for this was back in 2011. Which was last year. Which means... well, which means I haven't updated this for a year. (No, actually, it's only been five months, if we're being pedantic.)

So.

Hai.

Catalyst that made me write this? Reading other people's blogs, like this one, or this one, or this one, or-- most recently-- this one. I guess that made me miss the blogosphere.

If I said I haven't been jotting down stuff, it'd be a huge lie. I've been writing down (mostly) a day to day basis at what's going on in my life-- the ups and downs; the hormone-induced-teen-anguish; the EVERYTHING-- I just haven't posted them up for public reading.

I guess most of them aren't really FOR the public anyways.

So.

Like I said, Ohai.

Kbai.

Random picture: This is Hippies. They are my source of happiness, craziness, and hilarity ♥

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Footnote: I really should update more often. *nods*

FOR DREEEEEEAM! (Yes, I'm Storm-deprived, can you tell?)

2011-06-23T16:55:00.001+08:00

Heheh, we're having koko now.

And I got into the Computer Club 8Dv So since our teacher so very kindly went off to do some important work, we have free time in the computer lab-- WITH INTERNET ACCESS! 8D

Too bad twitter/FB/LJ is blocked, else I'd be stalking my beloved five Stormy boys by now!

Speaking of Arashi! There's SO MANY THINGS I've been missing in KL! D8

Like last week, Tashii called me to tell me all about the Nino bash in Midvalley. Yes, Nino bash. Concert screening. Midvalley. Me. Nino-affair'er. NOT THERE D8 *shrivels up and dies*

BUT!!!!!! (See my excitement by the excessive use of exclamation marks? XD) Today! Tashii sent me something through PosLaju!

Dun dun dunnnn!

It's the Dome concert DVD! Aiyoh, pirated one of course! Seld-burned XDDD

I am so excited I think I can just EXPLODE INTO TINY BITS! 8D

I. Cannot. Wait. For. TOMORROW.

Ngeeee~~

Do you know how "Awesome"is spelled like?

T-A-S-H-I-I

<3

In Penang!

2011-05-29T19:03:00.002+08:00

So it's been a week in Penang! (I'm in a CC now, so my usual posts with pictures will not apply here XD)

Despite that previous hyperbolized nerve-wreck of a post, truth be told, I'm settling in fiiiine :D

My roommates are AH-to-the-MAZING! One's a Kelantanese, named Ja. Another is Farah, from Sabak Bernam, and the last one is a senior, from Kedah, Peanut. At first, everything was kinda awkward and we had that "we're still stangers" aura around us, but when this week was over, we got to know each other and that room is NOISY. ALL THE TIME. XD

Oh, and since Ja speaks in Kelantan dialect, you can imagine the first few days to be filled with, "Hah? Apa?" with blur faces to add XD NEVER fails to amuse, I tell you!

Cutting, because obscenely long posts are unbelievably long 8D

Letsee, let's start with the first day :D

23 May, Registration Day

Kaachan, Anne and my aunt drove me from Sri Malaysia hotel to the college in the morning. The place was packed with people! Thank goodness there were traffic police on duty to help settle in the crowd. *thumbs up to them for standing under the scorching sun to guide us to our parking space* THANK YOUUUU! :D

The registration went smoothly-- went into the library, had some papers signed, took a picture and I'm DONE! :D I was put into block B5, level 3, room 1. Met Ja during the registration process-- she was standing in front of me in the line. Hehe, I was pleasantly surprised when the facilitator said, "Ohh, she's your roommate." :D

Entered the Rec Room after that to collect my pillow. And there, I stumbled upon my other roommate, Farah. She was a few spots behind me. 運命かな~? XD And met with Peanut in the room. Also, since Peanut is our senior, she can tell us where to get the best food, some allowance-saving tips, outing tidbits-- y'know, the usual senpai-ish advices... all in Kedah accent :D Peanut's awesome that way! XD

After dumping my stuff in the room, my family and I all went to the city to buy some last last laaaaast minute stuff. When it was all over, kaachan went home. It wasn't a tearful goodbye; I guess she's used to me leaving for camps and such (: Tak moh la nok teriok teriok-- Ja taught me that! XD "I don't wanna cry a waterfall." Oh yeah, I felt sooo awkward with all the different dialects around me at first, but as time passed, the awkwardness faded off, thank goodness!

24th May, Second Day

We we're separated into our different modules today. Farah-Roomie and I were put into Module 1, Dila (a friend of Ja's) got into Module 2, while Ja is in Module 3. Under those modules are practicums; basically a tutorial group consisting of 24 people. I'm in group 1, also called H1P1 :D

Had an icebreaking session and by the end of the day and my prosopagnosia didn't effect me from recognizing them XD Letsee, I'll highlight the interesting characters in my practicum :D

There's Azman, the practicum leader-- he's part Aiba, part Sho, to put it simply. During icebreaking sessions and group activities, he plays around A LOT! But when he was chosen to become leader, and when there's work to be done, his personality changes into a responsible guy. It's kinda fun to see him change is personality so quickly XD

Lisa, the only open English speaker in my practicum. I'll be honest, it felt SO refreshing to hear English words after an onslaught of dialect XD She's an otaku, so most of the things we talk about is either anime or games <3

Zawani, also an otaku! I think she saw me doodling anime characters, so she guessed XD When the three of us were together, we can talk and talk and talk *goes on forever* XD

Atikah She's the first practicum-mate that I got close to. She's my opposite-room-neighbour. Sadly, she changed practicums, so now she's in Module 3 ):

Mori Eurgh, this guy. |D Gives me the flutters when I look at him. Ok, so his real name is Umar, but I like to call him Mori, since he's tall, silent and observant-- like Mori from Ouran! It's like... watching an anime character come to life! He changed practicums too ):

Other than that, there's not much that happened that day-- just a bunch of talks and speeches. I'm glad that we can bring out cell phones everywhere, so I ~~spammed~~ texted my friends when I'm bored. 8Dv

Oh! And let me tell you about the food! FOOD! FOOD! *cough* Sorry, I just looove the food here XD It's cheap (Neen would love that, won't he? xD) and absolutely U-freaking-MAI! (Oh-chan would love that! XD) I really have got to control my spending here; since I can buy whatever junk food/carbonated drinks whenever I want. *pats wallet*

25th May, Third Day/ 26th May Fourth Day

Eurgh, more speeches. More group-bonding moments. Kinda uninteresting to recall, so I'm skipping both this day and tomorrow.

27th May, Fifth Day

Today, something happened. During the mentor/mentee session, we had a personality test. One of my results was: "Leadership skills-- 1/100" *snerk* Even I was surprised by that number! XD Anyways, I agree with that though, I don't like being in charge-- I can do it, but I don't prefer to.

But THEN! After lunch, we held an election to choose who to be practicum assistant. And... I was chosen. OTZ. I mean, hello? I got a one-- A SINGLE DIGIT NUMBER-- for Leadership skills in the previous test, and I was chosen.... WHY? D8

And now I have to work with a guy. Because I'm from a girl's school since goodness-knows-when, this was what I thought: akshflakhflhk awkward awkward awkward. I can't even call out him name and I have to work with him. Blergh.

Yeah. It's that bad.

But now that it's been two days since it passed, the idea settled in, and since Azman-Leader does all the work.... *kicks back in chair* I'm fine. XD

Speaking of which, that dude is passionate about his work. When everyone else was settling in the weekend after a week of orientation, he called me up yesterday evening and said, "I'm thinking of holding a Chem tutorial with the seniors tonight with the rest of the H1P1 members."

I called up the girls in our group, and they said, "We want to rest."

When I told him about the girls' opinion, he went in a monotone, "Oh. Ok. Thanks."

Haha, the guy sounded so disappointed XD *pats him*

28th/29th May, HAPPY WEEKEND!!!!

I woke up late for these two days, because it was NOT a luxury I could afford during Orientation Week. Woke up happily at 8 (instead of at 5am) and went around the campus with roomies. Basically all I did on the weekends was laaaaaze around 8D

It was a very good day, yes. 8D

Tomorrow, on Monday, my lectures will start and I've read through the first chapters for Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. Sho-mama would be so proud of meeee! XDDD I can't wait to officially call myself a college student tomorrow!

Iyo Iyo Ashita da!

2011-05-22T00:50:00.000+08:00

Excited, yet nervous. Paranoid, yet optimistic.

I think I can't breathe. |D

I'm heading off to Penang tomorrow. TOMORROW MORNING.

Kaachan, and Anne-twin are sending me off (The Minis has school on Monday-- registration day, so none of them are coming with.) I heard my aunt is tagging along too, but I'm not entirely sure about that bit of info. We're heading off early to avoid any potential traffic or whatever.

That means tonight I have to sleep early. Grah, there goes my nightly puzzle solving for tonight.

*

Let's see...

I've cleaned my room. At least now it doesn't look like an area where Hurricane Katrina hit. XD

Smooooooth XD

I see the floor!

I've packed all my stuff-- clothes, notebooks, reference books (Thanks to Afiqah senior ;D), stationery, laundry stuff, personal stuff, xHD, lappie etc etc-- But I'm worried that I might forget something. That would be the worst case scenario, wouldn't it? It's not like I can drive from Penang to Kota Damansara to pick up whatever I've forgotten.

EVERYTHING is packed to the brim

I've taken down my Arashi posters, just in case the tank above my room leaks again. Ah, but I'll need to hide my Japanese magazines (especially that one magazine) and Arashi photobooks from the Minis. Especially Dila, who is infamous for scribbling over pictures.

Arashi no minna-san, I'll miss youuu T^T

And I'll need to charge Ashita, my DS, and Kioku, my phone. (Note to self, bring chargers) I'll play Layton until my brain melts out of my ears in the car XD

Mmmm, is there anything else that I had forgotten? This is not one of those times where a brain like Aiba's is useful. Oh gosh, it's tomorrow.

TOMORROW! D8

Last Outing in KL

2011-05-22T00:48:00.000+08:00

Went out with Tashii and Meena today as a farewell luncheon-- coined that term from Tashii's tweet ^^

We went to Amcorp Mall for lunch. Originally we planned this to be held on Friday, at Old Town White Coffee in Bangsar, but I had tonnes of things to do on Friday, so it was postponed to today ^^ And Amcorp was just convenient for Riida-Meena, thus the venue changed too XD

We basically sat in Ka Fei Dian (I think that's the cafe's name?) and chatted non-stop from the time all of us got together until we all went home XD We'd randomly jumped from topic to topic-- from Arashi to school to Kpop to gay people XD Told ya we're random!

I had assam laksa and teh susu for lunch, while Tashii and Riida both had nasi lemak :D

Oh, and since I came slightly early to Amcorp, I bought myself a can of grape soda. By the time I finished my sweet teh susu, my hands were already shaking-- SUGAR RUSH! XD

And, since I will be leaving for Penang, Tashii ~~gave~~ borrowed me (she learnt from the best: Ninomiya Kazunari! 8Db) this little gift:

Self-made Arashi photobook! ♥

Opened up to my two fave Sho pictures! ♥

Can I just say one thing? I LOVE IT TO BITSSSSS! ♥♥♥ Because I haven't seen these familiar faces in about a week (*cough* Layton and Luke took most of my time XD), the pictures all look so refreshing! (>v<)

By 3:30-ish, both Meena and Tashii had to leave off, so I went back to the LRT station :D Since Dad was still in his hi-tea event, I took the chance to try and ride the bus home. It was nerve-wrecking since I was trying it out alone, and the different buses did not help.

So I merely followed a girl into a RapidKL U89 bus. It had the signboard saying "Ikea/Curve" so it was close enough ^^ Once the bus driver came and started moving, the nerves has finally loosened up and I managed to take a pic of my journey! Haha, I'm making it sound so EPIC XD

And later, I met up with Lya in The Curve! :D Dad was still on his way from downtown KL, so I had time for a little detour XD Went window shopping with her there! I thought of not spending any more money, but in the end I bought myself a Japanese cushion and chopsticks in Daiso XD

Nyan~ everything was really fun! ♥ I'll go out with them again during my next semester break :)

They Remembered Me... o.o

2011-05-21T00:14:00.000+08:00

I went to my primary school today!

Why? Simply because Fifa has been telling me that Pn Sharifah, my standard six Science teacher, keeps comparing her to me. The thing is, I've left that school for nearly six years, and the fact that she still remembers me is simply heartwarming (=w=)♥

Drove myself to school, and met her in her usual place in the Teacher's Room. I don't know if it's just me, but she doesn't look different at all after all these six years! I sat there and chatted with her, with an almost friend-like air around us. Well, we don't exactly have the student-teacher relationship anymore, eh? XD

Anyway, she told me that her oldest daughter once attended KMPP, the same college I'll be going in a few days! She told me about the atmosphere there, the people, the campus, the rooms (I heard it's gonna be huge! 8D) Useful info is useful, yes. ^^

Teehee~ 先生の事がわすれないよ ^^

I... finished it T^T

2011-05-19T00:33:00.000+08:00

Like I said before in my previous post, I am currently very addicted to gaming. So the game that I JUST finished playing was Professor Layton and the Unwound Future.

To tell you the truth, this game wasn't even on my main gaming list. It was supposed to be a side game when I was playing The World Ends with You. But at one point, I realized that I NEEDED to solve at least one puzzle before I go to sleep. And yes, at that time, I WAS HOOKED.

My conclusion?

This game is just AMA-feaking-ZING!

Basically, in this one, Layton and Luke got a message from an alleged Luke-of-the-future. 10 years to the future to be exact. Future Luke requested that they come to the future (through a gigantic time machine in a clock shop) to solve the mystery shrouding Future London.

And it's me flailing! With picspam! Cuts away!

Mah, that's basically the main mystery, but as I progress, the mystery unfurls itself into much more layers with a deeper character development and interaction. Flashbacks and theories in cinematic form! Oh, guh ♥

The gameplay mainly rests on puzzles. And me being the puzzle aficionado that I am (well, I've reverted into one after Layton, all right? XD) loves it! I don't have to know a million random facts to answer the puzzles, I just need a bit of logic and maybe some simple calculations here and there. And the game makes me think outside the box, since most of the questions in the later part needs critical thinking to get the answer. You see why I love this game? ♥

Number two, I loooove the characters and the relationship in this! Letme just highlight my favourite characters in the game.

This is Professor Layton:

As in the game <3

10 years younger, in the flashback cutscenes <3

Teehee, I'll be honest, I have this little crush on him XD My favourite thing on a guy? Intellect. (Hello? Sho wifey here~!) And Hershel Layton is intellectual, alright! ♥ Plus, he's so nice and gentlemanly, it makes me giggle like a schoolgirl XD Oh, and his British accent! *giggles*

Then there's Luke, his apprentice:

This little guy is adorbs! ♥

And this guy is just... guh ♥

Future Luke is also one of my faves! Same reasons as Hershel, of course; smart, kind but with a little spicy tongue for comebacks! Melikes XD BUT! He has another side! And that side is this!:

HE'S EVIL D8 *dramatic music* Dun, dun, DUNNN

Oh yeah, random, but when he opens his hat, he reminds me of Ash from Pokemon a bit XD

And then, there's Claire :')

Awwwh, Layton's old sweetheart. That is SO CUTE!

Like I said, I love the characters' relationship. And the most obvious one is the relationship between Hershel and Claire, of course. I mean, it's simply because I never expected it! I've played the first game before (Prof. Layton and the Curious Village) and it bore no hints of the game having any fluff details. And suddenly BAM! I'm given this!

Hehe, random Don Paolo makes me laugh in that video XD

Is that awwwh or what? XD Or maybe it's just me~ teehee~

I played it for three days NON STOP. Not even for food. And at last, just now at 8pm I finally finished the game. And guess what? I cried T^T Yes, I seriously did! My friends can vouch for me: me crying? Not a scene you'd see everyday. But this one game did it! D:

Like I said, I looooved the relationship between Layton and Claire. But I knew that Claire was dead, due to a failed science experiment. However, in the middle of the game, there was an appearance of a woman that looked exactly like Claire in the future London! As the game progressed, I was told that the woman was supposedly Claire's younger sister.

BUT THEN! AT THE END OF THE GAME! There was a cutscene. THIS:

T______________T

Guh. How can I not? The BGM wasn't helping and Layton's cool and calm personality throughout the whole game was broken in that one scene D: Maybe I'm feeling more of it because I've played the whole game, but still! T^T

And as usual, there's this hollow and empty feeling as well as a satisfied buzz of energy in me after finishing such an epic game as this <3 I'm trying to slowly cover up that hollowness by going round and gathering info on more of the Professor Layton's series. Apparently, there was a movie made, and I'm going to watch it now! ^^

Signing off for tonight~

Twin Day Part II!

2011-05-18T21:51:00.000+08:00

I have a feeling I'll do multiple posts again today!

BECAUSE TODAY WAS EPIC ON AN EPIC LEVEL!

Shall we start from the morning? (Yes, I have this British accent in my head, I'll tell you why in moments ;D)

As this post suggests, I was out with Twinnie-Farah again today!

We planned this in our midnight call to, TER-bertembung somewhere. As it turns out, I needed to go to school to get my ex-principal, Ms Goh's, signature for matrix documentation. Since Twin's house is really close to the school I thought I'd give her a visit. I also needed to go and get my manga from Kiina's house, and since Twin knows the way, she'll be my tour guide there! XD

So! We planned to go out at 10. But as usual, Minis slowed me down. I reached school at around 11. Ms Goh is also quite a busy woman, so I was held back there up until 1pm. I wasn't there solely waiting; I'd have gone mad! -- I went off to Pn Nor to get her signature, but that made a mistake on my document, thus rendering the paper useless. Had to go back to the clinic and reprint and go back to the school. Met with Pn Lim, Pn Raja, and Pn Wan there too-- it was nice seeing my teachers again <3

So! Then I drove off to Twin's house. She came out of the house... with this:

...yyyyeah. Her sister finished matrix recently, so she's passing me down her books. And let me tell you: THESE BOOKS ARE FAR FROM LIGHT. OTZ.

Yes, I digressed. *cough* Back to Twin Day: The first thing we did was to buy ourselves drinks from our Mini Starbucks-- an small ice blended stall (outlet?) in front of the school. Twin had Mocha Blast, while I drank Tiramisu Coffee.

It wasn't Starbucks, but it tasted like heaveeeeen! *cough and it's twice as cheap too! XD

With a tiny fail!moment from me, (I pushed my seat back, making Farah's cup fell, and her whipped cream splat on the car seat. Shhh, don't tell mom... XD) Twin Day was officially started!

I drove my car out of the school compound, and Twinnie showed me to Kiina's place. Then we aimlessly drove around Selayang while chatting about the randomest of things. Random? I mean stuff like her NS camp teachers' marriage, durian, stalkers, big houses... well, you get it right? XD;;

By three, she needed to go home already, and at four, I needed to fetch Boy-Mini off from school. Since I still had one hour left, we decided to extend Twin Day XD She and I hung out in her room, watching random videos.

Oh! Let me tell you one thing: Farah showed me how to take off her contacts. And IT LOOKED SO DISTURBING D: I mean, it's like poking yourself in the eye and pinching the lens out. YES, PINCHING. I squeaked like a little mouse and skidded out of the bathroom. Ick. I never want to wear contacts ever D8

And I wore her PLKN outfit! Lookit! XD

Full fledged PLKN girl! Eheheheh

By 4:30, I had to leave since I need to send the Minis back home ): So I waved goodbye to Twinnie, and drove back home with a fluffy fuwa fuwa feeling~ :D♪

Cookies! noms

2011-05-14T03:06:00.000+08:00

Yeap, so Blogger crashed for a full day today, so I'm writing this at... *checks clock* 2:48AM. Mmmhm, nice, right? :Dv

So, so, so what happened today? Yes! *points at title* COOKIE BAKING! 8D!

I had this sudden urge to bake, so me being me, went off and scoured the kitchen to satisfy my baking needs. What I found was less than 200g of flour, maybe 1/6th of a block of butter, no baking powder and whatnot.

Looking at the recipe, my ingredients were far from enough!

But yet, I still went for it! XD Gathering all the flour, and all the butter, I ratio'd my way to making raisin cookies. (Because I wanted to make chocolate chip, but there were no chocolate chips at all! XD) Thankfully, in the end I found margarine, so I substituted butter with that.

Cookie in progress!

There were Fiqa!Fails everywhere: watery batter, egg accidentally smashed on the table, flour falling like snow... um, you get the idea XD

But! I survived!

And ta-da!

See? Cookies made it safely into the oven!

I cleaned while waiting. And let me tell you, the smell of cookies being baked is just heavenly~ Especially if you've been craving for something sweet since noon!

This was what it was supposed to look like:

But hey, I'm not on THAT level yet, so my standards would do:


...maybe I should have arranged it better XD;;

The results? Cookies were soft and crumbly, but it tasted good! It's not too sweet, and yet not tasteless either :D Kaachan and touchan loved it, so I'm just deliriously happy! XD

I'll finish off the excess batter tomorrow ♥

Doki doki suruuuu!

2011-05-13T01:42:00.000+08:00

Let me start this post off with this: I have less than a fortnight left in KL! >.< Uwah! How am I feeling? Mmm.... nervous, yes. Excited, yes. Looking forward to it, most defnitely. But.... this feeling: *clings to home* is there too. So, yeah, it's a massive storm of conflicting things all in once. Eurgh. /muntah pelangi

Kaachan came to my room today. She wanted to help me prepare for this whole matrix thing ~~because she knows her daughter won't prepare until it's the night before XD;;~~ So, kaachan was on my bed and started listing down the things I need to bring.

At first, it felt... well, normal. Like I was listing down items to pack for a balik kampung trip. But when she got down to spoons, forks, glasses etc THAT's when I realized, I really am heading away from home. Good god, Kitty, must you make it sound so sentimental? D:


Mah list! And it's not even complete yet \|D

I still have a lot more to do (Thank you kaachan for enlightening me on this! Else, I'd still be in front of the PS2, playing Kingdom Hearts 2 XD) like:

post the letter for the postponement of my national service (Blergh.)
gotta go take pictures and photocopy ICs for registration day
I still need to buy baju kurung (Geh, I hate wearing baju kurung. Sorry to say, but it's stifling and I'm more comfortable in pants and a shirt, thank you ^^)
I need to fix the laptop too:

the internal memory has gone down to from 300GB to 37GB after reformatting it, wtf D:
Oh, and the keyboard has missing letters, like R XDD

Missing R! XD;;

...yeap, and that conflicting emotions has returned after writing this. Kowai! :O!

Jump, come on! JUMP!

2011-05-13T01:19:00.000+08:00

Double post tonight, whoot! XD

Right now, I'm currently obsessed over games. Like, really, really. Even Arashi video downloads have been pushed back a step behind /bricked.

I'm playing Kingdom Hearts 2 on my PS. I just got 'upgraded' to Sora from Roxas. And I have to say, I LOOOOOVE SORA! He's the most adorable thing in the world! Especially since the beginning of the game, I had to control the emotionless Roxas, so getting to play as Sora is a huge leap! XD

This is Sora from KH1, which I didn't play XD
It was deemed too annoying since I can't skip the cutscenes


And THIS is Sora from KH2. Nyaaaan, I adore the costume change! ♥

Why, yes, it IS another long ramble ^^;;

This gaming momentum reignited when Chii introduced me to a DS game called Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors (999). It's a DS visual novel, where I play as Junpei and I need to find a way out from a sinking ship. Apparently, him and eight other people are forced to be in a game called the Nonary Game, created by a mysterious guy called Zero. They have to get out from the ship in nine hours. The catch is, they need to find Door Number 9 first >8D

The nine 'contestants' in the Nonary Game. That's Junpei in the red checkered shirt ♥

This game is actually more of a novel, where there're a lot of text to read BUT the way it's written makes me DON'T WANT TO STOP. Yes, it's THAT good. And since it's using a DS, background music plays in each of the scenes. Imagine reading about water bursting through the windows and having a fast-paced suspenseful music to back it up. 8D♥

Of course, it's a game so there are things we need to figure out puzzles to get out of specific rooms.

Also, the storyline is so well thought up, that each and every scene is significant to the true ending (There are six endings in total in this game-- I played them all! >8D). Even the names of the contestants has a meaning to it! And and and there's even some cute moments between two childhood friends, June and Junpei, that made me go awwwwwwwh ♥


Cap taken from game XD♥

Hmm, haven't got more to say... So, shall I end it with another picspam? This time, the theme is:

Games That I was Once Obsessed With

8Dv

Let's start from the very beginning:

C'moooooon, who DOESN'T love Pokemon? XD I've played Pokemon Red and won countless times!

And Mario is a classic too! I especially loved Super Mario Bros 3, because Mario has that cute raccoon upgrade! XD

Harvest Moon SNES! <3333
I remember leaving the computer on for a week, because my emulator doesn't have a saving option |D
I got as far as marriage, until the computer got too hot and I had to shut it down ):

And this one is Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life. It's my fave pairing! Ryan (it's what I always name my character) and Celia. This is a year after their marriage, I think ♥

Of course, I had a moment when I was in love with RPGs
This one's called Aveyond <3

kashfkasadjg My first ever TPS game love: Resident Evil 4. I mean, c'mon! You get to shoot zombies AND you get had a freaking awesome ~~eyecandy~~ guy like this:

Mmm, Leon S. Kennedy~ *swoons dramatically*

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass. I swear, I can't find a better Zelda than this one! *squishes Lineback*

And then I found this guy, Vincent Valentine in Dirge of Ceberus. His voice~ whoooo XD;;


The World Ends with You. Ohmigosh, this game gets my OCD going! You see what I have to collect in this?:

That's right. 100+ pins! 8QQQ *rubs monitor*

And lastly (I hear people sighing in relief XD But hey! You got till this far, right? XD) this:

I'm playing Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, a puzzle game in DS. <3
Their British accents in this is just... so much love! Especially Luke's! <3

That's it from me tonight, peace out and good night~! :D

TAHNIAH, so it says

2011-05-06T15:25:00.000+08:00

UPU results are announced today. I went and checked. I got this message on my screen:

TAHNIAH!

Anda telah berjaya ditawarkan program pengajian seperti berikut :

Y0150 - ASASI BAHASA INGGERIS (Bumiputera sahaja)

UNIVERSITI ISLAM ANTARABANGSA MALAYSIA (UIAM)

I had been thinking about choosing between matriculation and foundation for a while now. In the end I chose matrix. Reasons:

I'm more interested in Science studies compared to English. Don’t get me wrong, I love English, but I like Chemistry and Math more ^^
I heard from Kaachan, by taking Matrix, there is still a chance for me to go overseas. There are UK and Australia universities accepting matrix now, she said. On the flipside, if I take the foundation offer, I'll have to go with that university all the way till the end. I can't change it. ~~I really need to go and do my own research on these now 8D;;~~
I was thinking: with an English degree, I can only think of one job: Teacher/lecturer. And I am not one of those people who are able to teach well. (Twin-Anne can vouch for me!) I know there are more, but the job as a lecturer/teacher is the most obvious one, right?
I saw the campus in the KMPP official website. I quite like it ^^ I also read a post from an ex-KMPP blogger; she made it seem fun. Nevertheless I think I adapt to new situations relatively quickly, so either way, I think I can handle being in a hostel in Penang.

Aozora~ xD
Zati’s lil sister is there, btw! :D! So I can meet up with my Ocha whenever she comes by to see her sister XD Hahaha, kinda unrealistic, but it’s a thought!
I like the thought of being independent. I gotta wake up on my own time, plan my own study time (or Arashi time, if ever XD), gotta cook and clean for myself. I’m sure as hell I’m gonna miss A LOT of people in KL, but me leaving, it’ll happen sooner or later, right?

Lastly, I have just clicked ‘Terima Tawaran’ in the MOE webbie. There’s no turning back! GANBATTE, ME! *waves rainbow pompoms* :D

(Sort of) Class Reunion + Twin Day \o/

2011-05-06T00:06:00.000+08:00

Out again today! And this time, I went out with my classmates! No, no, it can’t be called a class reunion when only 16.67% of the class was present. *cough* There goes Fiqa and her love for percentages XD

Anyway! Twin-Farah told me about this reunion thing a week back. Usually I can’t come to these meet-ups since they’re on a weekday, but this time, I begged my mom to let me go! Why? Because after this, we all will be going our separate ways—matrix, colleges, universities etc )’:

BUT! Let’s not taint this post with melancholy, kay? XD

Who were there? Me and Twin of course, alongside with Mun, Veno, Jun, Daphy and Jazz :D Now you see why this can’t be called a class reunion? XD

Because it's a long post with lotsa picspams, I shall cut it :D

I went to Midvalley with Twin and met up with the others. There was a long discussion on what to do first—Veno wanted to watch Fast and Furious, Daphy wanted to go shoe-shopping, me and Twin wanted to go buy manga from MPH. In the end Mun, being Mun, settled us by deciding that we should go and eat first.

We went to Domino’s. (By the way, Sue Yin joined us for a while ♥ but she needed to go back to college early) I ordered myself a set meal of Baked Carbonara Rice and Fizzy Apple :D And since I was as hungry as a vulture, it tasted absolutely heavenly! While we were waiting for the food, Veno and Jun whipped out their cameras and snapped a few pics! :D The pictures below are stolen from the respective owners' facebook profiles. ~~Because Fiqa is always lazy to bring a camera to outings XD~~

Jazz, Farah, me and Sue Yin ♥

And across the table: Veno, Mun, Jun and Daphy ♥

Veno/Mun pair! XD

Farah/Fiqa pair! XDDD

We went walking about after that. Jazz and Daphy went nuts over clothes, while Jun sauntered over to look for hair-accessories/decorative items. Mun, Veno, Twin and I were just going with the flow with them :D After a while, we finally went to MPH. I bought myself (as usual) manga! But this time, Jazz and Twin bought some manga too! *sep* XD

And this goes into my collection! ♥

We went shopping for a while more before Mun, Veno, Jun, and Daphy went back to Kepong station. Me and Twin? We stopped by at KLSentral to get some Starbucks (simply because we failed to find Starbucks in Mid #fail |D) Again, I got myself my fave: Ice blended green tea latte ♥ Farah got Mocha :D

Twinnie plus mocha 8D

See the cup? It says, "Afiqa!" \XD/

OH! AND! The best part is, the cashier spelled my name right! XD I’ve had Afikah, Afika, and the most common one Afiqah. But this guy spelled it correctly with Afiqa! I couldn’t stop grinning when I saw that! XD (Yes, it’s THAT rare for someone to spell my name right!)

Twinnie and I headed to the Bank Negara building to wait for her dad. And both of us were excited over the pas pelawat. It’s used to pass through the gates in the building, like a Touch n' Go card for LRTs. Haha, both of us get excited over the simplest of things waaay too easily! XD

The awesomely amusing thing that is the pas pelawat XD Mine's on the right

...yyyeah, a camwhoring session XD

And random pix that I just wanted to post XD

OHMIYA COLOURED!
I simply CANNOT see yellow/blue combi and NOT think of Ohmiya XD

Heh, this was actually Mun testing out a DSLR option in Jun's camera. /lolface

Jun/Veno pair! XD

Twin being anti-camera, and me trying to make her face it.
In the end, the attempt failed and this was the result XD

Farah’s dad came over and sent me home 20 minutes after that (: Till the next Twin Day, right, Twin? XD

Doushiyoooo?

2011-04-28T14:50:00.000+08:00

Last night (last morning? It was 1:45am) I texted for my matrix application results.

Not 5 minutes later, I got the verdict:

Anda berjaya memasuki Program Matrikulasi 1 Tahun: Sains.

Tempat: Kolej Matrikulasi Pulau Pinang.

So... now what?

OTZ

Tools of my long-underused-trade

2011-04-22T23:17:00.000+08:00

I drew today! :D

Because Aimee tweeted me a link headed to DeviantArt, and the flawless works there made me feel like drawing.

So I did!

Took me an hour (with some reference-help from Google and DA) but I'm happy to say that I completed a real drawing since... last year? XD;;

A FAR cry from perfection, but click on it for a bigger view, iyw XD

Not perfect (bah, anatomy issues >.>;;) but I'm really happy with it! \:D/

And! And, and, and Aimee also offered to help me ink an Ohmiya art! *squuuuuuuishes her*

N: Wanna go out for lunch? | O: No. | Blatant rejection XD

I have never --NEVER-- line art'd my drawings before since I lack patience as well as I lack photoshopping skills. So when I saw this... I was... was... no words, just keyboard smash:

alskhflhla;galghsalk ♥♥♥♥♥

It's so... clean... and neat... and... kahsflkakhagh;la ♥♥♥

There are no words. I'm just exuberantly happy now :DDD

♥♥♥

Of Sijils and Ex-schoolmates

2011-04-17T23:18:00.000+08:00

Went to my school's Hari Anugerah Cemerlang yesterday!

It was sooo nice to see my schoolmates again!

Everyone seems to have changed a lot! We had to wear formalwear, so most of them looked much like Office Ladies XD Some of them had highlights, new piercings, make up on... and I'm like, whoah. Such a change from the natural look and uniform in school!

Loooooong, rambly, diary-like post ahead XD You have been warned >8D

I came early to school that day (LOL, such a change, right? XD) and there was no one that I was close to at that time. So I sat in my seat, feeling awkward in my blue baju kurung (Sorry, but I am most comfortable in my cargo pants and Tshirt usually.)

Later on, Mun came. It's so nice to see her again! We had a highfive and a, "Gosh, I miss you guys soooo much!" moment; she hasn't changed a BIT! Her bounciness was still there, and she still emitted that Mun-aura on her xD She was wearing cargo and striped shirt-- I wouldn't know HOW I would react if she came in a skirt like the others! :O We chatted for a bit, and soon the others came about-- Jun, Veno, Teela. Speaking of Jun and Teela! The three of us sat together, in a row, and it was like we're back in SC1 again! Nyaa~

There was a lot of talk about college and stuff. Teela is waiting for Matrix just as I am. Mun got third batch in NS, just like me. (She deferred, like I will do xD) JunJun told us a story about slippers and KTM, while Mun told us about fuzzy strawberry slippers. College sounds so fun btw! XD

The ceremony soon started, with the usual speeches from the PIBG human, Ms Goh, and the guest speaker. Pssh, I've attended enough of these ceremonies back in Form 3 and Form 4, I know the drill already! Haha.

Honestly, I didn't hear what the PIBG human was saying (Also, I didn't catch his name-- but he was a substitute for Dato Stanley Issacs.) Instead of his droning voice, I had... scenes from Ohoku playing in my head. I had to clamp my hand to my mouth to stop myself from giggling out loud xD The things that Nino make me think! At the worst of timings! Lol!

Ms Goh's speech was the usual analysis and presentation of the previous year's SPM and PMR results. Nino stopped coming into my head at this time, sadly, so I just stared into space. Then the guest speaker started her speech. She's an Old Girl (a term describing ex-St Marians from the KL branch school) and she talked about her time in school, her work and stuff.

We had performances after the first prize giving session. The school choir and this retro dance led by none other than Pn Rosmah. Fir was in it, and most of the people around me commented that she was amazing on stage! I just HAD to agree :D

Then, a second round of prize giving session (I took my certificate and my RM60! Hehe) and after that, more performances. This time 4Sc3's (Anne's class whoot!) choral speaking.

Sue Yin spoke next. And I was awestruck by her. She spoke so clearly, so fluently and so full of confidence. Though I didn't hear what she said. A certain someone --I won't mention names-- kept on talking and complaining about Sue Yin's Chinese-like pronounciation. D: I wish I told her to shut up. Sue Yin was great on stage *cue proud mom like face xD* Even though I'm not awfully close to her, but seeing her like that made me smile :)

Picture session next! I'm guessing it'll be in the school mag this year :D I hope I Don't look too weird! Coz I hate formally posing for photos XD

Oh, met with all my jrs that day too! Like Loi (who called me Afiqa-senpai! Hehehe I love that title LOL!), Afi, Ka Vei and Tasha. I didn't get to chat with them lots though. Haih~ too much going on. And kaachan was calling me to the canteen anyways.

I met with teachers in the canteen (: Like Mr Chew, whom I've been wanting to meet ever since before SPM started. I remember going to the Teacher's room with Twinnie-Farah to say sorry for being so inattentive in his class, but he was busy, so we can't. Ditto on SPM results day.

Anyways! Meeting him in the canteen gave me such a relief (No grudges fom him! xD!) He asked me about my results and stuff, and we had a nice chat for a bit. I thanked him for teaching me Physics, really and honestly. Met with Pn Johana too and same goes to her. After meeting them... well, you know that nice fuzzy feeling you have after doing something good? Yeah, I had that feeling. (Yeah, yeah, yeah, Fiqa's being sappy LOL)

I saw Pn Grace, but she was bombarded woth students (Yeah. Popular teacher there), so I didn't approach her. Went back to the clinic after that (: Had a nice time, honestly :D

St Mary's I won't forgetcha! XD

G to the A to the N to the T to the Z--- GANTZ!

2011-04-08T01:13:00.000+08:00

I KNEW IT!

I KNEWWWW EET!

I knew the three of us we're going to go "kyaaaah!" and "omgomgomgomg" and "Ninooooo!" and "MatsuKennnn!"

What I didn't know was that we'd be going, "SHOOT!! FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE" and "OMG. BADASS NINO. 8D" and "BROMANCE!!!kashfakhf!" and... uh, well, you get the idea XD

A lil cut for a loooooong post.

8Dv

You guys can skip this first part-- I only write it for a self-satisfaction XD Scrooooooll down for my thoughts on the movie, till you find bolded orange text XD ~~Because Yellow is a crappy colour to be put against a white background~~

SO! Let's start with this morning! Woke up the Mini-Mini, Dila, for school and after a quick nap, I started doing housework. Since kaachan let me go out for a trip on a weekday, I thought I'll give her the joys of having a clean house. In layman's terms, it is known as brown-nosing XD

And today, everything went smoothly. My chores (*coughiddenagenda*) were done in a mere few hours, instead of the usual three hours. Mini-Mini was cooperative enough to go to school without much of a fuss, as well as she didn't make as much mess as usual.

By 3, I had already started feeling jittery with anticipation-- spamming my Twitter in the process XD And at exactly 4:40, Kaachan came home to fetch me (Thank you, bonda, for taking the time from work to send your daughter off to watch her affair kill aliens on the big screen. *chu*) and sent me to Kepong KTM station.

The KTM has an amazing reputation of being slow and late and generally untrustworthy, so as I waited for it to come, my heart was doing a tribal drum beat, thinking that I was going to be late. |D But Tashii sent me a text with mumbo jumbo, and what do you know! The train came not five minutes after that! Arashian-to-Arashian-mumbo-jumbo has its qualities~ XD

So! I went off to Coffee Bean to meet up with Tashii first. She was already giggly and hyper over caffeine rush (Two mugs of joe. TWO! D8) and we chatted while waiting for Meena, aka Riida to come. By 6:50, we headed off to GSC, with the caffiene already starting to work its way into my system.

Riida was slightly late-- she got caught in the rush hour, so the both of us were in front of GSC, tortured and tormented with the high of caffeine XD The movie was supposed to start at 7:10, and by 7:22, and no sight of Riida, we got even more jittery! D8

BUT! When Riida finally came at 7:30, and when we rushed into the hall, the movie was just about to start! Awesome timing or what!? XD

SO!

Here starts the craziness!

As soon as Nino's voice appeared-- NINO'S VOICE, NOT HIM YET-- Tashii and I started giggling. Meena was seated one seat away from me, so I have no idea how she reacted |D We tried to muffle our giggles, but it was futile! NINO'S HOT AWESOME SELF PROJECTED ON THE BIG SCREEN! How can we NOT giggle?! XD

I spent the whole 2 hours in the hall with my hands clasped over my mouth, or my body jerking and cringing at the aliens' attacks, or squeezing Tashii's arm beside me! XD Oh god, the way my body reacts to Neen is... indescribable XD

What do I think of the movie?

I've calmed myself down a bit, so I hope I won't be TOO biased XD

Since I've read the manga, I anticipated for it to be just as climatic and suspenseful as it. I have to say, it wasn't as good as the manga. In the movie, Kurono is a university student (as opposed to a perverted, hormone-driven high school student in the manga LOL) so quite a few parts were changed. Not too much as to make it completely different from the manga, but I just needed to state that.

I found myself not so satisfied over the first half of the movie-- the director cut a lot of the climatic and suspenseful parts. One of it was the short battle between the players and Onion Alien. In the manga, it was shown that Kurono was running away from the Onion-papa with it chasing him with his sharp claws and gruesome face, adding suspense into every page. In the movie, however, the battle was cut short, and it ended maybe in 10 minutes? |D

The feeling of infatuation between Kishimoto and Kato wasn't portrayed well enough, in my opinion. I really didn't feel like Kishimoto was attracted to Kato as much as the manga, and it seemed... rushed. I couldn't really feel like Kurono was attracted that much to Kishimoto either. :/ If Gantz didn't analyse Kurono's performance as, "Stop staring at Kishimoto," there would be no hint at all that he liked her. :| That was a bit of a lowdown, I think, for some people who don't read the manga.

BUT! The movie regained itself in the second half. More of the second half were original script, instead of taking it from the manga. And this was a refreshing breather for me-- I didn't really have to compare it to the manga much :D

Yoshitaka Yuriko (Oh god, I LOOOOOVE HER! She's way too adorable!) plays as Kojima Tae in this. Her character is WAAAAY different from the manga, so I naturally assumed that she was an original character-- But I just checked, and Wiki told me otherwise. Oh well, it fitted well with the second half of the story, and maybe this kind of character is crucial for Part Two~? :D

Kato's backstory in this was well portrayed (Yay, MatsuKen!) and I could feel that he really loved his little brother, Ayumu. Spoiler, so highlight if you want to read, but when Kato died towards the end of the movie, I felt SO SAD for his brother T^T Guh. I SO wanted to scream when it happened, but of course, my screams were muffled.

Ah! And the with the aliens in the second half of the movie-- the two giant statues and 1000 armed Buddha (yes, armed, like with swords! 8D) was really well done! The fight with the two giants could have been a little longer though XD But! The fight with the Buddha statue inside the museum was just jaw-dropping... or squeak-inducing! I found my feet propped up on the seat, covering my self from the awesoooome CGs or grabbing on to Tashii's arm squeaking together! XD I wished I could reach out and grabbed Riida too! XDD

The CGs in this was purely amazing! And I could not spot a moment where I could say, "Hey, that's CGI!" like I usually do in movies. XD And the fact that most of the aliens died by exploding into gooey alien-blood made me go *______* The props-- X-gun, Y-gun, and a sword Kato used was just so similar to the ones in the manga, so MAJOR PROPS for that (LOL, unintended pun) The BGM did its job well; it added more depths to the scenes, like that part when Nino was snivelling as he cried for Kato when he was announced dead. Oh gosh, T^T *squishes Neen*

LASTLY! THE CLIFFHANGER AT THE END OF THE MOVIE = fhakfhakslfhaklhfalkh!! It really hit the spot! Ending it with an image of Kato, unhurt and still alive!! OMG LIKE WHAT THE HELL IS GOING TO HAPPEN!!?! skjhaskfhakfhkahf *cough* Perfect Answer is coming out in SEPTEMBER! And all of us Malaysians have to tahan until then! D8 *dies*

Conclusion: I'll give the movie an overall rating of 7.75/10 :D (Yes, I love decimals, so what. XD) Not flawlessly perfect, not godawful-terrible :D It could do more justice for the manga, but the original script really regained itself. Some parts that really made me laugh, made my heart sink T^T, made me smile, made me snigger. There were moments when I could just SQUEEE-- Tae/Kurono fluff, and Nino/MatsuKen bromance!! XD!!

Review over ^^;;

After the movie, the three of us camwhored with the GANTZ poster! MINI PICSPAM AHEAD!

Riida and Neen! OHMIYA! XDD

Tashii looking much like a CM model XD

And lastly, some Yama~ XD

We didn't manage to take much pictures since I had a curfew and had to leave ): Meena kindly sent me to Taman Jaya LRT station and I went back home, all jittery and still Nino-high! XD

PERFECT ANSWER, WE SHALL BE WAITING! 8D

Today, YES! TODAY!

2011-04-07T11:58:00.000+08:00

Yes, I'm on a Nino high now~!

GANTZ IS FINALLY GOING TO BE PREMIERED IN MALAYSIA!! TODAY!!

That means sexy badass ~~Nino~~ Kurono in tight full body leather suit killing of aliens with ~~MatsuKen~~ Kato! And we-- Me, Meena and Tashii-- will giggling and kyaaaah'ing and "omgomgomg!"ing and god knows what else we'll be doing in the dark hall later! LOL!

I'll be heading off to Midvalley and meeting up with them later there! *crosses fingers that touchan will come home early*

Signing off with THIS:

It's the poster that gave me anticipating fangasms for the past three weeks XD

Also, on a side note, I've written my first full fledged... (mild?) ~~Powerhouse~~Nino!smut last night. *looks at Tashii* 8Dv

New layout! :D Why?

2011-03-21T18:11:00.000+08:00

Because I was getting bored of the old one.

Because Kani gave me lots of blog layout links in Twitter last night.

Because my blog link is ClandestineYELLOW. So I must choose BLUE.

Because I had an crazy awesome flail-worthy spazzy MSN chat with Tashii last night. With lots of picspams.

And because IT'S OHMIYA. 'NUFF SAID 8D♥

Nino supports Yummylolly.com, because her pretty layouts are freeeee! XD

MY MAIL ARRIVED TODAY! AND THAT MEANS...

2011-03-21T17:25:00.000+08:00

...MY MINI SCENE UCHIWA AND PHOTOBOOK ARRIVED!

After three years of being in the fandom, THIS IS MY FIRST EVER UCHIWA! SQUEEE! 8D

CHIBI IMPACT: MAXIMUM 8D

Honest to say, I totally forgot that Lya sent me these things yesterday! Too many stuff going on, and the package was completely forgotten

And, that, added to the surprise! 8D

I went out of the house to pick up my brothers from school. It was a normal drive to and back-- maybe the most out of the ordinary thing was the fact that I didn't come across any rude drivers at all! XD Came back home with no anticipation, no doki doki suru. But when I went through the small gate, I saw something yellow in the mail box.

A PosExpress package.

There was no escape! I SCREEEEEAMED WITH EXCITEMENT! 8DDD Hugging the package close, I ran up to my room, shut the door and locked it. Then I calmly and carefully opened the package and let my hands run over the two new items for me collection ~ <3

First thing I did was hold the uchiwa in my hands, thinking, "This is MINE. 8D" Pssh, it's a first timer thing, leave me be! XDD

And I gently took the photobook in my hands next. When I opened it....

THIS WAS STARING RIGHT BACK AT ME <3333

SHO'SSEXYSMOULDERING EYES SMOULDER ME

After that, I took about a million pictures of my new stuff XD

And because a million pictures eat bandwith...

PICSPAAAAAM (Can you tell this is my current favourite word? :D)

What came in the mail!


Lya's note behind the Sho picture <3

The mini uchiwa is SO CUTE! XD

The back of the uchiwa :D

And, since it's a photobook, incoming photos! Guh, crappy phone camera quality is crappy

Chipmunk cheeks! <3

That sneaky looking smirk/smile~ *swoon* XD

Specs!


Riida with those forever chubby cheeks noms him


And my favourite Bartender <33

Shaky hands >.> But Chibi!Sho looks good in yellow *wiggles eyebrows* XD

AND NINO HAD CHEEKS LOL

Aiba is pretty pretty pretty from *checks book* 2003 <3

When I saw this I went, "That same hat over and over?!"

~~Then again, his mom buys his stuff for him at that time XD~~

Because that Aiba-chan in green made me smiiiiiiile

Pre-DoS days~ <3 *squishes his cheeks!*

Because it's Ohmiya. And because I'm addicted to them XD

*squishes!* <3

Ending it with this because Yoko's face amused me XD

Now excuse me while I go asdfghlklkhlhas over Chibi!Arashi for the nth time today 8Dv

Kinokuniya Flail!Fest!

2011-03-17T16:45:00.000+08:00

Flail!Fest with GorgeousTashii today! 8D

Omg, my first outing on a weekday since December! Ha! So, anyway, I'm gonna skip all the rambly boring stuff like the fact that my dad got us lost for 15 mins while trying out a new shortcut, or the fact that I was late (again), or the fact that Tashii went O.o at my BRIGHT GREEN AND YELLOW OUTFIT when she saw me at KLSentral XD

*cough* None of that, so I'll skip to KLCC straight. 8D Upon reaching, I gave her a tee shirt we bought in Port Dickson last year, and changed into it! Yeah, two giggly people in matching bright ~~powerhouse~~ ~~Nino~~ YELLOW-coloured tees!

Then we headed off to Kinokuniya, with one target in mind: GANTZ Visual Book. After a quick discussion, and because the Nino-force in us is strong, we finally decided to share money and buy it!

THE SACRED GANTZ PHOTOBOOK: (The following photos are stolen from Tashii's blog because it's her turn with Powerhouse now XDDDDD)

The cover! Taken from the time when the 20% off sticker was still there T3T

BECAUSE THIS PICTURE = asdfghjasfafljKAWAII!

DITTO HERE.

Can I just be bias and go sdfghjka over EVERY Nino picture in the book?

And this! IS JUST AWWWWH

The Duck and the Frog <333

Ending picspam with smouldering Nino <3 *death*

We decided to grab some food to eat at the Food Court because I hadn't had anything to eat since last night. Also, we needed a flail-spot. XD And that, was just exactly what we did! We sat in the Food Court for hours, chatting on mindlessly about anything and everything under the sun :D

Much later, after a refreshing drink from Juice Works, we headed off to the LRT. Again, we were blabbing non-stop XD Hey, when you put two fangirls together, LOUDNESS ensures! 8D Oh, yeah, on a side note, I bluetooth'd Tashii some songs, and each time a song was completely transferred, her phones goes in that sultry sexy Sho voice, "Sweet dreams, baby." And both of us, as a habit, would always, always repeat that line.

Now imagine two people in a somewhat crowded train, suddenly and out of nowhere went, "Sweet dreams baby~!" XDDD Kikikiki

In the train, Tashii and I talked mostly about fanfics; her still on going Mercurial Dreams, and a Papa!Kazu fic I requested. I AM EGGSAYTED FOR EET XDDDD

*

Went off to Giant after my outing! :D Tou-chan finally decided to get me new shoes, since my MatsuJun-coloured sneakers hurt my feet.

Guess what colour I got~?

AIBA COLOURED SNEAKERS!

The best thing was, the shop arranged Arashi coloured sneakers ALL IN A LINE. You have NO idea how hard it was to pick one pair from the massive pile of colourful rainbow shoes! xD In the end, it was a close battle between Nino colours and Aiba colours.

Aiba won!

Two reasons:

1) Aiba x any Arashi member makes me squee! So I can just change the shoelaces according to my member-ai mood that day XD

2) I have enough Nino for that day, thank you very much. I love my Arashi boys equally. /partial lie./

And because I had some extra money left in me, I bought the Ohmiya slippers. Why? BECAUSE THEY'RE OHMIYA COLOURED, DAMMIT 8D 'NUFF SAID.

*

At the end of the day, I jotted down my expenditures of the day in my ~~Accounts Journal~~ Nino Book.

RM116.

In one day.

The Nino in me died. D: I KILLED THE NINO IN MEEEEEE. I'M AN INTERNAL NINO-MURDERER! |D

*cough*

I have used up all my genkiness and my sanity for today, so off to sleep now! (Maybe you can tell with the sporadicity of this post)

Peace, out! XD

I'm a Proud Arashian :')

2011-03-14T13:25:00.000+08:00

The quake and tsunami in Japan brought out the best in so many people. So many people have helped and donated to it, and every single happy news brings a smile to my face-- even Bieber's 1mil donation and Lady Gaga's 5mil donation-- made me smile.

But this; THIS touched me so much, I can't sleep now.

Arashians from AROUND THE WORLD are joining hands to help out with the disaster. The mods in arashi_on put up a fund raiser/garage sale, with all proceeds going to Red Cross to help out the people there.

The thing is, it seems like everyone is pitching in. People are buying/selling/auctioning stuff for the garage sale. People are giving out their skills-- translating, icon-making, wallies etc-- if people are donating. The fansubbing communities are working together to put out some newly subbed vids with each USD500 mark in the funds. Even the disbanded sora_takaku is coming back specially for this!

You tell me how can I read that and not feel my heart soar into the sky?

From what I see, everyone really, truly cares!

This feeling of melted happiness is rushing through me now, giving me this warm fuzziness in me :')

This fandom is really, really, amazing. <3

I'm so proud to be an Arashian!

Massive Quake; Massively Worried

2011-03-12T00:40:00.000+08:00

An 8.9 Richter scale earthquake hit Japan today at around 5pm, and it triggered a massive tsunami across Northern Japan. Quite a few of the big cities that are in a critical status ): The death toll is rising significantly.

Really. I was antsy for the whole day today! Hani P.'s brother is in Fukushima (I told Kerol he was in Chiba, but I was mistaken), Raj just got home to the Phillippines last night, and quite a few of Refrain's teammates' relatives are in Japan. I kept thinking, are they okay? Were they hurt? Did they evacuate safely?

This one felt just so surreal, because prior to the event, I was chatting normally with Raj in MSN and Kerol in Twitter. When the news came, it affected them, and in turn, it affected me so much.

I worry for them for the whole day. I pray that Kerol's and Azu-chan's family members are alright! As well as the people in Japan, Phillippines, Indonesia, Hawaii and wherever else a tsunami/quake hits D:

Driving in the Morning. Oh Blah.

2011-03-10T15:41:00.000+08:00

Usually it's a call for kaachan to dish out an MC if she's not around to drive The Minis to school, but since Satoshi and Arip has exam today, I was to be her substitute.

So for the first time in months, I woke up and saw dawn rising! XD

The driving to school was a piece of cake. The driving back home... was not.

Little did I know that rush hour was up until 9 D: So slowly, the car crawled back home.

Arashi songs are on full blast from Kioku (Unlike Truth, my old phone, Kioku can't be plugged into the USB port-- instead of playing songs, it charges the phone, rendering it useless :/) and I was singing and dancing along to it.

I caught a couple of people staring at me while waiting for the traffic to move. XD Hell, I don't caaaaare; I was bored!

Went out of the house at 6:45am, reached home at 9:30am. D:

Nearly three hours in the car!

Conclusion: I don't want to send my brothers to school agaaaaain!

New Kitty in the Neighbourhood!

2011-03-09T22:49:00.000+08:00

There's a new cat in the neighbourhood, and it visited my house today!

I saw her skulking around the curb a few times, but ~~overly territorial~~ Momo keeps chasing her away ); She's white with an orange spot on her body and orange ears and tail <3 VERY much like Momo, I have to say. (A spawn of his? XD)

But today! While Momo was inside the house, and as I walked around the house at dusk, I found her creeping under the bushes. I tell you, I got really excited! I crouched, and held my hand out while waiting for her to come out of Bon Bon (It's a tree in my garden that I named when I was 12 XD)

It took a while, but she finally crept out.

And she was SO THIN. D8

Compared to the fat Gemomok (Gemuk and Momo combined XD), this cat was puny and scrawny D: So I quickly held her and ran off to Momo's bowl. Looking around to see if that ~~obsessive~~ protective cat wasn't around first, I then gave the new kitty a full bowl of cat food.

And she attacked it, the poor thing.

I managed to feed it two bowls before Momo came bounding over and the new cat ran off.I didn't even manage to get myself a photo of her.

Here's hoping that she'll come back soon! <3

Hacking the Human Brain

2011-03-07T20:34:00.000+08:00

Discovered an amazing new show today, in Discovery Channel! (Aptly named, dear channel, aptly named~ 8D)

Instead of turning off the television after watching my daily Mythbusters, I stayed and watched. So, I stayed in the living room for a while, flipping channels. And when I flipped back to DC, I found this show: Deception with Keith Barry.

For one, I saw the commercial for this particular show for quite a while I simply LOVE anything that has to do with the human brain (except, maybe, consuming it? LOL) and in this show, it focuses more on the prospect of... mind-reading, so to speak. He said that he uses subtle body language-- using certain phrases, or gestures-- to make people act as he wanted them to.

One of the 'experiments' that gave me goosebumps was this: what he did was that he quickly-- and I am stressing QUICKLY-- flashed a card in front of the participant, and asked for any random word. The guy said, "Apple."

When Keith showed the card, it listed five items on it:

Aeroplane
Pen
Paper
Lightbulb
Elephant

The acronym for the list, so to speak, WAS apple. He said that the subconscious brain picks up stuff in an alarmingly fast rate, and it's so fast that it doesn't even register in the conscious mind.

Which made me think, how many things get past us and we didn't even realize it? So many things that go unnoticed, are they actually stored in our brain somewhere? And does those little bits of information affect the way we think and act?

The human brain is a mystifying thing ~ <3

Collab project!

2011-03-07T00:51:00.000+08:00

Oookay, so I'm addicted to translating things now XD

Just got to know that my friend Tashii knew how to encode/typeset and time! So~ we're thinking of doing a collab for this :P

Trying my hand at Marionette Arashi ~Saikou no Kissu~ clip! :D Though I have no idea whether this HAS been subbed yet or not >.>

Expect it after my first project has been released by Refrain! \o/

Otsukare, me!

2011-03-06T02:40:00.000+08:00

Finally done translating!!

I started today, at around 11 till 12, then continued from 12 to 2:30. That's a total of 4 hours plus for a seven minute clip! Whoo! Maybe taking a fancam for a first project was a bit too ambitious, but!

I DID IT! YATTA, OKAASAN, YATTA!!!

8Dv

Ohmigosh, I really hope it'll be released soon! \o/ \o/ \o/

...ok, I'm off to crash on my bed now. >.>zzzz

WHOOOOOOOO!

2011-03-05T21:29:00.000+08:00

I got accepted!!!

I got ACCEPTED!

HELL YEAHHHHHH 8D

*cough*

Craziness aside, I'm starting on my first translation project! It's a fancam of an MC (How's It Going, I think?) in Osaka. One tiiiiny side of me went, "Fancams are hard to hear!"

As I tried to translate, I realize, that side was saying the truth!

BUT HOW CAN I IGNORE THIS:

Yeahhhh, that's Nino publicly groping Ohno 8D

OHMIYA FTW!! 8D

Osht. WHAT DID I JUST DOOOOOOO |D

2011-03-04T22:54:00.000+08:00

Remember back in my previous post about the meme I did? I mentioned that I would like to be a translator for an Arashi subbing group.

And just a few days after that, I saw Refrain_Subs asking for translators. I am a fan of Refrain's works, so instead of randomly choosing a comm that I barely like, I decided to join this.

I went of and posted my application just now. D: Omg, I was SO nervous on writing the private message, my hands were literally SHAKING above the keyboard.

Omg.I... don't know what I'm feeling now.

*hopes to be accepted*

Meme! YAY!

2011-03-02T01:31:00.000+08:00

One thing you should know about me, is that I absolutely love doing memes! xD Haven't done this in SO LONG, so I was psyched to see that I got tagged by Azu-chan in LJ today!

People who have been tagged must write their answers on their journal and replace any question that they dislike with a new, original question.
Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

To ze meme!

1. Make a list of 5 things that are in reach:
External Hard Drive, my squishy pillow, my DS, my sister's phones, and a basket of folded clothes. (I keep procrastinating to put them away in the wardrobe)

2. What is the most and least colour in your wardrobe?
Mostly yellow (YAY, Nino colour! <3) and the least: black. I have no black shirts in my wardrobe XD

3. What is one item of clothing you wish you could always wear?
Lolita cosplay 8D The only thing holding me back is actually buying the outfit-- takai desu yo~ T_T

4. Whose your childhood influence?
Definitely my family, and my two closest friends back in SK St Mary, Indi and Suzanne <3

5. What are you listening to right now?

Not actually listening to it (my music player is turned off right now), but I have Arashi's Don't Stop in my head :D

6. Who was the last person you hugged?
My seven year old little brother, the one I call Satoshi occasionally XD He was being cute sprawled on the sofa, so I glomped him.

7. What random song just popped in your head now?
The background music for the game Rhythm Paradise :D More accurately, it's the BGM for Rhythm Rally level. I digress, but I'm CHO addicted to this game! <3

8. What did you do today?
Get my sister ready for school, did a little house chores, watched Nino cry in an old clip, translated Arashi Marionette "Best Kiss" for Jazz, facebook'd and now updating bloggie with this meme :D

9. What was the last text message you received.
"Separate the socks and gloves we need for our trip" --kaachan. ...don't ask |D

10. What websites do you always visit when you go online?
Facebook, Gmail, arashi_on comm, arashi_no_jidai comm. Yahoo!Mail. In that order :D

11. What is your next big planned purchase?
Next planned purchase? Not in anytime soon, because I just spent RM90; bought myself Arashigoto photobook from Syara! <3 I'm waiting for the package to arrive at my doorstep~

12. If you could afford to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?
An Arashi concert!!! Because in RL, now, I would never be able to afford it! Meena even put it all in a really neat spreadsheet that is painfully realistic >.<

13. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
In five years, I'll be 23, so most likely, I'll be in university, or college :D

14. Where's your tattoo/Where would you like a tattoo?
Haha, don't have one, don't want one.

15. What are you doing this weekend?
Off to run a marathon with my ex-schoolmates on Saturday! I don't go to school there anymore, buuuut nak menyebuk! Besides, I realized that I miss my school T__T On Sunday, I'll be hanging at Chii's place, ~~leeching off her manga and SMAP videos XDDD~~ playing with her cats <3

16. If you could play any musical instrument, which one would you play?
Piano, definitely piano~ I think I may be influenced by Nino with his Niji perf <3

17. What's the one thing you need the most now?
Moneeeeeyyyy. I need this all the time!

18. Are you a creeper?
Nope, but I'm a stalker of friends in FB 8Dv

19. What is your dream job?
Right now, I'm not too sure of what I want to be :/ Hmmm, if not on a carreer level, I'd love to be a translator for Arashi's subbing groups! <3

20. What’s the one thing that you eat on a certain occasion?
DIM SUM! Mmmm, touchan rarely brings us out for dim sum, so they're a special treat~ The occasion? When touchan feels like spoiling his girls, hehehe XD

Tagging: My dearly loved AMNOS team-members: Nasha, Mawar, Meena and Tashii; Jazz Chuah; Zati-Ocha; Raj the Prinny-speaker (LOL); and ze bestest Indi <3

DS, you anti-sleep med! xD

2011-02-28T02:08:00.000+08:00

At 11 just now, I told myself that I'd go to sleep at 12. I was watching Arashi no Shukudai-kun.

At 12, I decided to extend my awake hours till 1.15. I was chatting with Chii about NDS games.

At 1:15, again, I told myself that I'll sleep at 1:45. Was downloading games from emuparadise while chatting with Tashii and Chii.

Now it's 2:05am and I'm still not asleep! The new DS games are calling meeeee...! D:

I downloaded a total of 17 games tonight alone! 8Dv Yay me!

FINALLY: Cosplay!

2011-02-27T21:32:00.000+08:00

Went to a gathering today! To a (very small) cosplay convention with my kouhai, Afi. She and I have been planning to meet up for weeks now, but either I have transportation problems or the convention gets postponed (it happened to this meet up for three weeks :/)

But! Finally, today, I got to go! \o/

It was held at SMK Tropicana-- yeah, I know, not a great place to hold a cosplay and J/KPop Dance Off, but it was originally planned to be held at Sunway Giza/IKANO Power center. But, like I said, since it got postponed, in the end it was held at that school.

Afi came earlier, since touchan was preoccupied with The Minis (semua tak nak mandi XD) So first off, I just sat in the canteen, attempting to call Afi. It took me quite a while, but in the end, she finally called me back, and I went round and round trying to search for her.

We kept going like, "Afiii, where are youuu? T^T"

"Do you see bunny ears?"

"What? Bunny ears? o.O I see an Orochimaru-- or some Naruto character-- and a foxface in the courtrangle."

"I'm at the first floor D: Senpai, where are you?"

...yeah, you get the point. In the end, I finally (yes, I realize there's a lot of the word 'Finally' in this entry, but that's exactly how it was XD) spotted her friend waving her bunny ears. She was just a minute walk away from where I was! *fail* First thing's first: commemorate a photo with Hunny-senpai!

I want to squishies Hunny <3

So, then we went and watched the Cosplay Competition. It was held in this.... media room? The place was long, but not so wide. It had a small stage where the cosplayers perform and three judges sitting in front to well, judge XD We all sat in the back. Here's a random picture of Zoro from One Piece which I shot XD The rest of the shoots were blurry, so I'm not gonna post it anywhere XD

Since this was a last-minute prep, there were only five people competiting. Afi a.k.a Hunny-senpai, didn't want to join. The first place winner was a guy who cosplayed as Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji *_____* He was so... omg. <3 Sadly, I didn't manage to take a pic with him; his cool aura made him unapproachable for me.But I did catch this:

Spot Sebastian there! xD *points above the redhead*

After that was over, Afi, me, Suz Syen, Suz Syen's friend and Afi's friend (omg, I didn't ask for her name! D: *fail* But the Chinese characters spell Ai Tu in FB XD;) went around stalking the school, going inside and outside the hall, up and down the stairs and across the hallways endlessly, chatting like no tomorrow.

But just as quick, touchan came to pick me up at 1:40. So I didn't manage to watch the JKPop Dance Off ):

I'm waiting for Comic Fiesta next! (^o^)9

And THAT is good entertainment!

2011-02-23T03:03:00.000+08:00

It's been a while since I watched American dramas, but after Indi kept going on about this drama on AXN, Hawaii Five-O, I definitely was intrigued. And to watch it, I want!

The bad thing is, it seemed like everything was against me watching said drama. When I was going to download the torrents, my laptop does (it's still in the ICU as I type this); when I bought the DVD, it wouldn't play in my dad's lappie; and when I searched for it online, episode 1 through 17 (out of 18 episodes) was on a pay-and-watch basis.

But persistence paid, I realized :D

So today, finally, I got to watch the first ep!

I have to say: I LOVE this drama! Even if it was only the first ep, I like the characters already. Well, Indi assisted me in that by sending me picspams/ficcage through FB XD Danny won me over with his fatherly character (I melt over these kind of characters! <3), but upon watching, Steve was soo easy on the eyes <3 I quite like Chin, but I haven't yet gotten over the fact that he was that guy on Lost XD

I stopped midway since FireFox crashed, so Chin's cousin hardly got an appearance ): (See? I told you H50 is jinxed in my laptop! XD)

The dialogue is so fun! It's like listening to Leon talk in RE all over again-- and the sarcastic comebacks can win me over, any day, any time. XD And the scenic view of the drama is just breath-taking. I have to remind myself to download this drama in HQ later! :D

TIE DEFIANCE <3

On another note, I was talking to Tashii tonight as well! And she recommended me really good music! M-flo. Yeap, that should spark a memory-- VERBAL is from m-flo, the guy who motivated Sho in making his own rap, Sakurap, happen for us fangirls <3

I have to tell you, m-flo's songs are catchy! The collaborations between other singers make the songs sound so fun to listen to!As I type this, I'm downloading one of m-flo's albums :D Imma introducing them to Twinnie tomorrow! XD

This is my favourite one from them yet: Love to Live By :D The music video made me smile too <3

<33

Good entertainment, yeap! :D

Curving at the Curve~

2011-02-20T23:48:00.000+08:00

Went off to The Curve today! :D

Twinnie-Anne and I went around looking to buy cardigans. There were a lot of stalls selling them inside The Curve. They all had an average price of RM40-50 per piece, and while one shop was selling one for half the price, the quality of the garment was terrible! Not only the cloth was thin, it was already fraying at the sleeves. D:

But then, much much later, purely by coincidence, Anne decided to stop by a stall near Tesco. And we finally found myself a cardigan which didn't cost a bomb-- RM30. Not a bad price, imho. The quality was quite good :D Twinnie got a dark grey one, while I bought myself a black one. The best thing about having a sister who's practically the same size as you is sharing clothes XD

My new cardigan! I love it to deaaath <3 And the two Non-no mags

Oh, and I bought Non-no too! Mainly because I saw the kanji Matsuyama Kenichi as L on the cover. The thing is, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there was Arashi's AU ad in page 3 ~Sho-kun's hair back in 2008 is <3! (Can't say the same about Nino's scruffy-dog-look though XD)

I admit: I went asdfghjllhOMGITSARASHI! when I saw this XD

And I definitely went asdfghjlklMATSUKENNNN when I saw this XD

And an ad on Bartender manga was just beside L's picture spread <3

And of course, no trip would be complete if I didn't buy myself manga! (Even if I was just going down to the nearest 7-11, manga is a MUST!) Bought myself Kaleidoskop, by Ho Seng Hui; Cinta Seindah Langit, by Ichikawa Sho; Perintah Cik Muda, by Furumiya Kazuko; and Maid Maiden: Wednesday, by Kaoru <3 I have yet to read any of them yet (Too busy flailing over MatsuKen in Non-no XD), except for Cinta Seindah Langit. Borrowed that one from Nesha before SPM, and I loved the story so much, I just had to get myself a copy XD

My haul for today!

Oh yes, and there was quite a bit of a commotion when I was buying manga (The manga-store was just beside the magazine store, so I couldn't help it!) Instead of anime, they showed Gantz on the screen! D: I went into panic mode, going, "Dowan, dowan, dowan!" while scrabbling out of the store muttering to myself, "Wait till April, Fiqa, April!"

Yyyyeah, I tend to overreact. (Hey, my friends can vouch me on that! XD)

I found out quite a bit later, it was just the trailer D: If I knew it was the trailer, I should've stopped and watched Nino and MatsuKen on the screen! Note to self: Stop overreacting! xD

Had a lot of fun today! :D *twirls happily*

Bloghopping

2011-02-20T03:46:00.000+08:00

I have this inane habit of bloghopping in the middle of the night.

The worst part is that I'm OCD to the fact that I absolutely loooove reading a person's blog from its humble beginnings to their latest post. Pedantic, yeah, I know. But what can I say, I'm a stalker at heart XD

Yeah, I'm known to stalk my friend Tashii's Wordpress for quite a while, but tonight, something crazy stirred up in me, and I went off to start reading all her posts from 2007. Yeah, I've read through all her post in that whole year. Tell me I'm not a crazy OCD human. XD

It's nearly 4AM here, and with the lack of sleep I had last night, I really should be going offline now. But I just discovered my schoolmate, Anis' blog, and her posts dating all the way back from 2009. My OCD-self is tingling and wanting to read, but my eyes will hate me if I continue to stay up.

I need something to pacify this disorder of mine. Aih~

Newbie Alert! waves excitedly

2011-02-20T03:32:00.003+08:00

Nah, the title is a lie xD

This is yet, another, attempt at a blog. Most of 'em died out because I haven't got the time to post (not to mention the crappy internet speed.) BUT! This time the internet has gotten a whole new upgrade~ Woot!

So.... that a reason to not abandon this blog?

I severely hope so =D