Gah, this looks really squished viewed from my main page. Haha. Oh well. I don't really mind.

Sorry I haven't been able to keep up with notes and comments again! I've been going out and making preparations for Fanime. And exercising since I've been feeling like a vegetable lately. Legs hurt from running but daaaamn I feel alive.


I rarely share non-cosplay stuff here, but perhaps I should every once in a while.

Here are some photos I took when I first got my DSLR. It's a Canon EOS 400D which I named Julian. I just used the kit lens for these shots. Nothing fancy. All I needed was a bit of sunshine.




I got tagged for this meme again! By a lot of different people, actually. But I don't mind, it's fun to do anyway.

1. My dad introduced me to alcoholic drinks when I was in 6th grade. To "train" me, so he said. "How are you going to impress your future dates if you get drunk before they do?" I was about to object, but I got a bottle of beer shoved into my mouth. I guess that's why I've become the kind to enjoy a can of beer or a glass of wine cooler on random nights, apart from social drinking. And during those times he took me and my friends to bars, I did learn a bit about kinds of cocktails and alcopop. I enjoy the fruit-flavored sort. It did nothing to boost my tolerance, though. China has had to take care of a drunken Jin more than once.

2. I used to be part of a band in high school. We'd just play for fun and sometimes got invited to perform for school events. I played guitar and sang at times, but looking back now, I don't think I was very good. Hahaha. Oh, the shame. I was dumbstruck when a few girls asked me to sign posters during the band show at our school fair. Maybe they were just being nice, or playing a trick on me, I don't know. But it doesn't really matter either way. The best part of being in that band was our practice sessions in that familiar studio, goofing around with the guys, the post-practice pig-out meal and hilarious conversations that always followed.

3. About the only environment in which you might find me singing nowadays is when my friends do karaoke. Boy band songs from the 90s, YEAHHHHH. One song I never fail to get a perfect score at is "Mmmbop" by Hanson. HAHAHAHAHA. (Tell me I'm not the only one who went "OH MY GOD IT'S A GUY" over Taylor Hanson.)

4. One thing you won't find me without is my iPod. I like that it's small and easy to carry around, which is why I opted for the Nano instead of the Classic. I can live with 8GB of memory. Remember that poll I posted a while back? Black won, but I decided to get a red iPod Nano anyway. I'm glad I did. It's beautiful and I bring it with me everywhere. It helps a lot especially when I'm sitting around coffee shops waiting for my driver to pick me up. I need to learn to drive. /rant I can watch anime on it, whoo.


And yes, I do like to name my things. My laptop is Alphonse (with Edward the tablet and Hoenheim the external hard drive), my cellphone is Quincy, and as mentioned above, my camera is Julian. They are my friends who have feeeeelings therefore they must be given names. Hahaha. As ~VCrooks said, kind of like a zanpakutou. Why yes I am a huge dork, thank you for noticing.

On a related tangent, my friends like to come up with weird names for me too. My favorite out of the lot would be Seme-taichou. (CAPTAIN SEME! HOHO!)


5. I may not look like it, but I'm a complete sucker for chibis.


6. Yeah, you read correctly earlier...

7. Another thing I'm a sucker for: strawberries and strawberry-flavored things. Strawberry-scented things are nice to smell, too.


8. I used to be addicted to Ragnarok Online. My friends and I would play all day and night during weekends, and when we went back to school on Monday, the guys and I had a little corner of the classroom where we'd discuss the rare items we managed to get, how many levels we went up, the things we'd hunt for next, and other interesting things that happened while we were playing.

At one point I tried botting _{(hahaha I apologize to my friends from Level-Up Games)}, but mostly out of curiosity. I wasn't really one of those hardcore serious players who'd participate in PvP and WoE. I just enjoyed exploring environments and discovering new monsters which would more often that not beat my ass back to Prontera because they were way past my level. I even liked reading item descriptions, even on the regular drop items. I just wanted to bot because I was intrigued by the whole programming bit, and the extra cash for potions didn't hurt either. I'd run the bot and follow him around with my main character to see how he'd fare. I felt so accomplished when I wrote up a code for a perfect battle priest bot who would teleport and heal himself when his HP was low or if a monster dealt too much damage , pick up the proper items, had the sense to sell trash items when he got overweight, and could even respond to certain phrases. Yeah, I'm a geek, I'll shut up now.





I can barely contain my excitement. And I haven't even left the country yet! Which reminds me, I better do that soon. Haha.

Miguel *merkymerx and I will be there for all four days. Even though we know a lot of people will say Naruto and Bleach is overcosplayed, we don't really care because we love those series and we're bringing along those particular costumes so we can participate in the massive gatherings. That's bound to be an experience. I also kind of want to attend the Black and White Ball, but I don't think I have time to get a decent suit made. Ah well. We'll try to take part in as much as we can and make sure to write up a full report with lots of pictures!

Looking forward to meeting up with DA friends, goofing around with CAPSLOCKERS (if my tendency to be a little shy at first does not get the best of me) and maybe running into some anons.

To the people I'll be meeting - My memory and cognitive skills are spectacularly BAD so feel free to knock me on the head and introduce yourself if you spot me. Also, I tend to be a little quiet upon first making an acquaintance with someone. I'm afraid of scaring people away by hastily showing them my true self. _{It has happened a few times already, I think.}

I shall be keeping an eye out for you, =DynamiteBreakdown. I think we're having pizza with =Bubydub and the rest of ~OMG5 on Saturday. How I am going to eat pizza with my Ulquiorra makeup still eludes me. I will truly be the saddest emo clown in the world. And to top off my emocar look, I shall be bringing... a shuvel.




These are oooooooooooold but they never fail to make me laugh. I rediscovered them recently. Can't stop LOLin'.