Love the show, love the characters...but why oh why couldn't it have a damn storyline?  It's so hard to watch it knowing that it's never gonna end up anywhere...As much as I enjoy it, thanks to spoilers I already know it's only gonna be gag after gag until the unsatisfying end...  *sigh* Kinda feels like I'm watching School Rumble again...

Just spent a silly amount of time checking out Kappei Yamaguchi's blog.  Love his pics, especially all the ones with other cast members (lots of OP love :D )

 

 ^^ Finally got my new site up and running!  Thanks splash for hosting and FTP help! :D  Sooo much cooler than stinky GeoCities!

It's not terribly different from my DA page, but it has a few pieces that aren't in my DA gallery.  I'll still love and update my DA, but this site is more for my own enjoyment since I can control whatever I want on it.  It's also a nice way to reach those who don't use DA -- I know they're out there.  ^_^

I feel a little proud of myself for successfully registering my site with NARUSEARCH .  Even while using translators, it's still a bit difficult for me to fill out those forms.  Anyways, I just hope I can figure out what to do from here on out on updating descriptions and whatnot so I don't look like a fool.

Too bad, I wanna register with DIGI LOVE NET too but I think they're not accepting at the moment...and even if they were, the community seems to have dwindled down.  I tried visiting lots of my favorite old Digimon fanart sites but almost all of them were closed :(

I also want to try OPSE but I think I should build up my One Piece gallery more before I do. 

Yeah, I guess I'm hoping to somehow get in touch with the Japanese drawing community through this site.  I don't think they're big on the DA scene...especially when a lot of their own fanart is floating around in the galleries of art thieves :/

Ahhh just read spoilers!  I can't wait until this week's Naruto chapter to come out.  Who'da thought Gaara's such a nice guy? XD

Ah yes and today was my first day working as a full-timer at the lab I've been with for the past year.  Exciting~

No worries, I've been able to save more than half my files off that damn DVD.  I just kept popping it in and out of a different drive and it was able to read different parts of the disc to copy onto the harddrive.  I'll just keep it up until I'm able to retrieve everything.  :)

Anyways, decided to pick up on Zetsubou Sensei again.  I didn't realize they were running a third season, Zan Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Still as odd as ever.  I still like it, but I really wish they'd cut back on all the new female characters.  The ones from first season were plenty interesting. 

Arghhh It pains me that they animated SUCH a cute Nozomu x Kafuka scene for the Zan OP. 

( SO cute T_T )


I mean, I love it -- it's freaking adorable -- but it sucks since I know that this show is pure MADNESS and doesn't even have a real plot and will obviously never get anywhere pairing-wise.  Then they had to mess with me again in ep. 8:

K: Sensei, how about finally deciding on a woman?
N: Hmm, that's right.  With whom should I--?
K: Haven't...you already made up your mind?
N: ...Yes.

I don't know why I still look for pairingness in a crack show like this...can't help it though.  There's just something about the way these 2 very opposite characters work together.  Man, I wish Zetsubou Sensei had SOME kind of story to it! TAT

I'm sad.  An old backup DVD that held almost all my art/PSD files from the past few years won't work!!  Damn it.  There was lots of artwork that I never even posted online which I wanted to put on the new website I'm working on... guess I can't now.  What really sucks is that the info is there on the DVD -- like, I can see the filenames -- but my drive just can't read it!  So I can't open the files, I can't copy them... they're just trapped on the disc...well, I was able to rescue a few readable files...but I probably lost about 100 other files...

*SIGH* 

Well, I'll try to look at this as an opportunity to draw newer, better pictures.  I'm just about ready to dive into the commissions that've been waiting.

Aw what the hell?  I was just randomly looking through domain name prices and when I went to GeoCities to compare, I find out they're closing!  Right when I was considering working on my old site on GeoCities again...  what a coincidence.  Well, I guess it's a good opportunity to start out fresh.  I don't plan to make a new site soon, but I'd like to do it sometime in the future...I love how sites like LJ and DA make blogging and sharing pics so easy, but I still like the control you have when you build your own site.  Meh, I'll think about it...looks like I could get my own domain name for about 10 bucks a year...hm....worth it....?

Alright, well that's enough wasting time for today.  Can't believe I'm retaking this exam tomorrow...wtf...

OH MY GOD. JUST TOO AWESOME:



I can't believe how GREAT the animation looks!  I've always loved Ranma 1/2 but always found it hard to stomach that old animation (except for the OVAs and movies).  This is just SOOO gorgeous!!!  I can't wait til it's released! 

Lol, now all I hear coming out of Ranma's mouth is Usopp.... Gotta love Kappei XD

 What's up with all this bringing back of old anime?  I LOVE IT!!

on Mayumi Tanaka's singing.  It puts me in such a good mood.  Her voice is so energetic and charming~ 

I never appreciated it when I only knew her as Kuririn's seiyuu, but after Luffy I was just like wow...  That woman can really belt it out! And after checking out some of her live performances for Sakura Taisen I was just blown away...  she's so awesome.  Too bad it's hard looking for songs sung by her...this woman needs more appreciation!

Wow, how many months has it been?  It's easy to stay away from this when you're busy, so I'm actually forcing myself to do this now before I lose all interest in LJ.  I don't want all my old posts to go to waste.  So here's my attempt at getting back into writing in this.

OMG I can't believe I never knew that my 2 favorite artists sang a duet together.  Ken Hirai and Crystal Kay singing James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend"???  TOO AWESOME.  Arghh I can't find a download anywhere so I'm considering buying the concert DVD just for that performance.

Anyhoo, I've been holding my breath since finals ended, but I just got my grades today and I'm glad to say that I'm now officially graduated from college!  Ahhhh such a relief!!!  Now I can go to the Philippines tomorrow without anything bothering my mind :)

I wasted nearly 2 hours this morning exploring trails I'd been wondering about.  The first one ended up taking me even longer to get to class and the second one lead to the middle of nowhere and I ended up turning around and walking back to campus. 

One interesting thing I saw on the first trail was this tiny woody area full of dome-shaped houses:


Haha aren't they cute?  They remind me of the houses in Dragonball :P


Ugh I tried getting a double shot at Starbucks today.  It woke me up, but now I can't focus for squat.

Pretty much what I'll be doing for the next couple of studying hours.



I never thought this scene was amusing until the dubbed version.  WTF, Light XD

Huh, graduating college can be a pain....not only the schoolwork, but the paperwork just to get the heck out. 

Since I started preparing, I've had to change my major by turning in some form that required several signatures from different departments, get a degree check, consult with a counselor, declare part-time status which required another form, register for graduation, register for commencement, rent my cap and gown...all of which had their own deadlines, something that I'm very, very bad at keeping track of.  Well, I think I'm finally done with all that business...still haven't found someone to sublease my apartment to, though...but aside from that, I guess all I have left to do is just pass these freakin' 3 classes and I'm outta here. 

Aughhh gotta pass, gotta pass...I'm getting more and more nervous as finals draw near.  I've been slacking like crazy this quarter that it's really iffy. >.<

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And then after graduating...what to do.  I think, think, think I'll still try for med school by the end of this summer even though I really probably have <1% chance of getting in.  Geez I didn't even get an internship this year...ridiculous.  Back-up plan is nursing, which will require a few extra classes which I can probably finish in less than a year since they're mostly introductory courses.  And all the while, I think I'll try to just look for some job to keep myself busy in the meantime.  I attended a career fair a couple of weeks ago and there were plenty of companies looking for lab people.  Of course, they probably have huge waiting lists by now...  Hmmm what to do, what to do... 

Any post-graduate people on my f-list care to share experiences after graduating college?  I'm just curious about how other people deal because I don't think I should be having this much trouble deciding, should I...?

Hm, what a disappointment that Dragonball Kai will have different OP/ED themes.  "Cha-la Head Cha-la" has gotta be one of my most favorite OPs ever!  Oh well, DB, DBZ, and DBGT had their own different singers so I guess DBK might as well have its own too.... ahh but who can top Kageyama Hironobu?  He sings with so much of the...I dunno....spirit(?) that the show conveyed.  Yes, it's geeky of me to say, but it's true!  That guy was always singing with so much, uh, emotion and yelling random things...  He was awesome.  Well whatever, it'll be interesting and nice to have something new.  :)

Ugh I wish I could eat meat today.  Tengo hambre.

Today I remembered one time in high school, I heard my friend playing a DAI song in her car that I liked the sound of.  I couldn't remember the song at all anymore, except that it was a rare song in which Ryo Owatari actually sings in with Tomiko Van as the backup vocals.  Today I searched for DAI info to find the song, and found out that DAI actually reunited back in September 08 and they're gonna release a new album this spring!!  Wow, what a pleasant surprise that was :)  Haha, when they broke up back in 2005, a friend of mine was bummed that he never got to go to one of their concerts...well it's good that now he has another chance, if he still likes them, that is.  I'm looking forward to their new album~! :)

Haha okay, that's the last post for today.  I'm just trying to put off doing physiology work... ^^;

Haha, she mentioned in her own blog that you can find lots of her new "Come Back to Me" music video on YouTube, but when I checked, they were wiped out.  ^^;  Oh well, managed to dl it anyways and I think it's MUCH better than "Easy Breezy."  I hate how they made her look back  then in "Easy Breezy," but now she looks much more mature and, hmm, refined(?) in the new MV. 
 
I love her new hairstyle, it looks just like Videl's haircut at the very end of DBZ when she's an adult ^_^  So cute.

Exodus was kind of a disappointment, but I hope this time her new English album will be successful...!  Things are looking good so far, I think...

Dang it, since I always fall asleep in my comparative physiology class, I missed the announcement that there would be no lecture today.  So yeah, I went to class today and no one was there, which made me miss the bus, so I had to wait around campus until the next one came....sooo I ended up leaving campus the same time I would have if there had been lecture.  Gagh what a waste of time. 

I'm so close to being done with my renal lab report right now.  Still at 25 pages...I'm so close to being done, but right now I'm feeling the most lazy.  I was cranking away at this thing the whole weekend, and now that I'm standing right in front of the finish line, I just wanna stop and lay down! 

I am burnt oooooooout~~   x___x