Samurai JAM - Defender of Jam VS Marmalade

Hello 2010, Happy New Year Everyone!!

2010-01-02T16:02:00.000-08:00

It's 2010!! It's actually 2010! A whole new decade!! O:
Which means goodbye to the noughties...! You were great! But I'm determined that 2010 is gonna be bigger (figuratively speaking), better and so much more fun than 2009!! (And I consider '09 as the best of all the noughties!)
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So, leading on to more recent/non-reminiscent news!
IT'S SNOWING AGAIN!!!
...mmyeah. weirdly though I'm not too fussed. We already had about 6inches last week (which in the mean time has melted) So that was kinda when everyone went "ZOMGZZZ SNOOOOOW LETZ PLAY IN IT ANNZ STUFF!!"
So, this time round everyone's just sort of going about their normal lives as best they can.
...just, snowier.
Only now all the road signs are covered in snow so you can't read them; which is not a good thing, because [long story short] there was a gas leak near, though not related in any way to, our house. And of course, there is snow a big hole in the road right under my bedroom window. [*note: our house is a bungalow, next to the road, with no pavement or anything between us and the road.] Thus, un-readable road signs = possibility of car driving into hole where exposed gas pipes lie = possibility of kaboom.
Next to my bedroom... So, mum ordered me out of bed, and now, me, my entire bed minus actual bed frame, and my beloved DS are sleeping in the lounge with the cat tonight.
So I'm spending the night on my DS, playing a cornucopia of games, including Hotel Dusk, Super Mario Bros., Pkmn platinum, and also I plan on listening to Queen later, and, of course, I'm using it now to type this.
I <3 DSi!
'Tis all for now~
I may/may not post again a little later tonight with most scandalous tales of murder, nuns, and ghosts...!! But, that all depends on wether I survive being sneezed on by a cat, or wether I haven't eaten my arm off through pure rage as I have NO DAMN PP HEALY...THINGS in pkmn. (I'd tell them now, but for some reason, the DSi web browser has a word limit y'see).
BYYYYYEEEEEEEEEE!!! <3

Seasons Greetings!

2009-12-30T10:27:00.000-08:00

A very Belated Merry Christmas to everyone, and Happy Holidays!
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It's been... so long since my last post! I'm so sorry!! It's been the same on devART too, I haven't even uploaded a Merry Christmas picture.. D: (though tbh, that's because my computer has died a death, and I lost my usb >>). Well, I wish I could say it's because I've been busy with school work, or I've been out all the time in the snow... or even because I'm lazy. But no, in all honesty I have no idea why it's taken me this long to write this..! I swear I started trying to do so after I broke up for the holidays, but alas...

ANYWAY!!!

IT'S CHRISTMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!
(5 days ago... x'D)

Well, I broke up for the holidays on 17th, but that whole week was... madness! ("Madness?! This... Is... SPARTAAAAAAAAA" *ahem* orz.)
Monday was pretty normal actually...>> BUT HEY. THE REST WAS LOON. It's...! Tuesday (15th Dec) was the 6th form Xmas Lunch 8D.
Mon amis et moi went so loopy!!! Well, in fact, our friends group is about 5-6 of us, but really there's three of us (including yours truly) that are, in fact, wonderfully mad. :3 Anyway, I bought M a sticky reindeer thing for xmas, and the 3 of us spent the entire (extended!) lunch time throwing it on the ceiling, and racing to catch it when it fell down! x'D MOOHAHAHAHAA
And after much more of that hilarity on Wednesday, it got stuck to the ceiling. woops. It is important to note that our common room ceiling has a slopey wooden bit on the sides (where we'd been throwing sed reindeer) and a painty corrugated area on the top. It got stuck to the painty bit... 8D moohahaha
By Thursday, M et moi were determined to get it down! We snuck up into the art department, 'borrowed' some metre rulers, taped them together, and stood on a chair in the common room attempting to poke it down. However, it is also important to note that this was during a '6th form xmas breakfast' thing in the common room. With teachers. Though they didn't see us at all...>>
And then, was the most dreaded hour long awards assembly that bores you so much your eyes shrivel up inside your skull. However..!! At the end of the assembly, as with every end-of-term assembly, we had the "best-bits-of-this-term" slideshow. And, as it was xmas, there was xmas pop music playing! 8D
And then, came one of the randomest things EVER. The slideshow stopped. The music, continued. Everyone started singing along. We looked behind us to see some of our chums bouncing up in the back and dancing around whilst singing. Well, that was it! We 3 loons forced the rest of our friends up on their feet and started dancing. Soon most of the school was up, and the teachers didn't even care. I swear, our school is mad.
But anyway, we left school at 12.05 with the reindeer still stuck to the ceiling.
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Other than that, it's been late nights and sleeping in till noon for me! :3 It snowed for ages last week and we had so much snow!! About 6 inches or so, which is a lot for our area!
Christmas Day, we had me, mum, mum's boyfriend, my uncle, his wife, their three kids (my cousins) and my grandma. It was certainly interesting!!
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Recently, I've been having really weird sleep patterns..! Last night I didn't get to sleep until 9am this morning, and didn't wake up till 1pm... xD haha whoops!
Mostly it's because I've been staying up till 2ish watching late night films with mum! The other night we watched 'American Flyers'. It made me cry so much..! It's really really good though! It's become one of my favourite films! O: Please watch it if you have the chance!
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Well, tis all for now~! I'll try to post more often...! O:
GLAD TIDINGS TO YOU ALL!!!

Back on Track

2009-11-22T10:54:00.000-08:00

It's crunchy leaf time of year!

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I really like this time of year~! Although I love summer, there's something about the late November-December time of year. I'm not sure if it's the warm cozy nights cuddled next to the spare radiator in my room whilst reading manga, or the crunchy leaves, or wrapping up in scarves, or the fact I've brought my double duvet down from the cupboard and put it on my (single) bed along with my single duvet, or the fact the xmas lights are being turned on, or if it's the run up to Christmas... but I really love this time of year!! <3

I know it's a bit early to be talking about xmas right now, but I'm particularly excited about it this year! The family is coming to our house this year~! Usually we either all go to grandma's, or (as with the past few years) it's been just me, mum and grandma at our house. But this year! Everyone's coming! Uncle David, Aunty Jill, my 3 cousins, grandma, possibly coconut (mum's 'partner'). I'm so excited! I know it's not that many people compared to other people's family xmas reunions, but we have a pretty small bungalow type house so it's gonna be busy~!!

As for school, Xmas officially starts this Saturday (28th Nov), with our xmas fair! I'm going to be helping my friend (let's call her K), with our house stall!

(In our school, there are 4 houses, St. Hilary's = blue, St. Joans = red, St. Emilie's = yellow, and St. Francis = green. Usually we're all friends, but when it comes to house competitions everyone gets super competitive! St. Hils and St Joans are bitter rivals!).

I'm a proud member of St. Hils, the blue house; I'm really excited! I've never run a stall at the fair before, and I'm exciting about doing my bit for the house~!! At xmas fair, one of the main attractions are the house stalls, each house has a stall, and we can only sell items of our house colour; eg, hils can only sell blue things. Tbh I think Joans should get a handicap... I mean, how easy is it to find red things that are xmassey?! But, well, I'm biased as they're our rivals!!

I say xmas starts on 28th Nov... but for one form it's started early!! My friend L's (yes that is her name!!) form (year 9) have already decorated their form room! Not just tinsel and paper chains, but full on twinkly lights, xmas tree, fake snow, singing rudolph...!! It looks like santa's grotto! x'D

I think K and I decided we were going to decorate the 6th form common room on Monday morning though~! There's a mini xmas tree in the walk-in-storage-room/cupboard, and there's about 2 bix boxes full of decorations in the cupboards in the kitchen!!

Anyway, In other news; I popped into town yesterday (as in, local small town, not big city town), and bought some really great stuff! In Waterstones they had Maximum Ride the manga vol2, and Detroit Metal City vol 1!! <3>w<

Not only that!! But when we went into Bits 'n' Pieces (cool little indie games shop in our town), we found, in a glass cabinet of oldies games.... Advance Wars 1 & 2!!! Those games are super super rare these days! Almost Impossible to find! And I bought them!! =w= Now I have the whole set~! <3>

I am SO using my awds mug at school tomorrow!!

Speaking of indie shops, I found a really good indie music store in town too. Well, I knew about it already (the one with the creepy Elvis statue is something you can't not know if you live in our town!), but I'd never really been in before. Anyway, they sell lots of CDs and DVDs, both old and new, at srsly low prices! From now on, I'm going to buy my music from there over iTunes! deffinately! Really friendly in there too~!!

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Well, that's about it for now! But quickly, before I go, I'd like to say a big shout out to all of my devART watchers! I love all of you~!!

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Modern art, steals your heart <3

2009-11-11T02:16:00.000-08:00

stealing a moment to blog whilst in a free :B

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Hello all.

I'm currently at school, in a free, so don't tell head of 6th! ;D shhh~!

Anyway, I just had to blog about this, otherwise I might explode!!

Yesterday, we switched topics in 'Global Perspectives' to something that is actually interesting! Art. Well, Art and the Media but hey~!

Our first 'assignment' was to work in groups of 2s or 3s and make a presentation about one of the artists on the list we were given. Including pretty much the most influencial modern artists ever. Although, to my dismay, Antony Gormley was not on the list!!! D<<

Anywho. My group and I ended up doing Damien Hirst ( <3>

Only problem is, I'm like... the only person in the class that likes modern art. Not just that I'm the only one that likes it, I'm the only one that gets it!!

It's actually... ridiuclous. I mean srsly. It's annoying, and omg I don't care who reads it, but who'da thunk that even the most 'clever' people in my class, the ones with As and A*s popping out of their ears, can be so shallow, narrowminded, selfish and stuck up.

I mean, ok, not everyone likes modern art. Fine. Not everyone can understand it, because they aren't creative, or because they aren't visual (despite what those crappy tests we do at school say!) I mean, I showed them Banksy, and they said;

"well, I guess I can almost come round to that... I suppose"

...In a really stuck up 'oh that can't possibly be art as it's not realisitic, why that man must be an idiot' manner. (whereas I was sat thinking "kol kol kol kol KOL KOL KOL KOL KOL" ...lol way too much APH in my life xD )

But it's one thing to not understand. It's a whole other thing to slag off artists. In fact, it's disrespectful, rude and to be quite frank, disgraceful.

Not only did they insist on slagging off such geniuses as Banksy, Hirst and Gormley, but they continued with the stuck up 'oh that can't possibly be art' attitude that makes my head spin. I'm sorry, but once you learn to indulge in a world that isn't about grades, statistics, numbers and words on a page, and actually begin to look at the world from the point of view of an artist.....

ARGH. I'm getting pretty worked up about this.

Not only did they insult my favourite artists on countless occassions, but they patronised and looked down their noses at modern art as a whole.

Modern Art. The clue is in the title.

It's ART.

It can't be boxed or labeled.

You can't say "Oh I hate modern art" when you haven't even been to an art gallery.

And besides from that, they then proceeded to insult me.

You see, one of my friends insisted on expressing just how much she 'detests' modern art by reminding me how much she detests manga art; MY art.

"y'know what 'Jam'? I hate modern art sooo much that I actually prefer manga art to it"

the both of them then proceed to laugh.

For God's sake, I don't turn round to her and say "omg I HATE your book it SUCKS so much even though I've only read a little bit".

They were just so degrading and patronising and I want to run away to the Tate and live there for a few days living off nothing but green tea and muffins.

To further explain my dismay I shall show the difference in opinion of someone ready to actually open their mind to the world, and not close it off; to someone so involved in this mundane, structured world in which we live that they just refuse point blank to even try to open their minds.

My opinion on Damien Hirst:

"His work is highly influential and pushes the boundaries further and further, helping modern art to grow and flourish into the exciting, unique and thought provoking world we now know it as. Hirst’s work tells us that it’s ok to be different, in fact it’s great to be different! Art is beauty, and Hirst, along with many other modern artists re-affirms the truth that beauty is not perfection, beauty is what you say it is. Beauty can be both reality and the surreal; and Hirst’s work fuses the two together. For example, in “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living” Hirst takes reality and makes it surreal. His work is also awe inspiring and inspirational. Everything about his work sums up modern art, it’s fresh new, exciting, bold and daring. Let’s not forget, that one of the pioneers and masters of modern art, Pablo Picasso was pushing the boundaries himself. Most of all, his art shows imagination. In the words of Albert Einstein; “Imagination is more important than knowledge”. Hirst’s work sparks up imagination, you don’t have to always know exactly what an artist is trying to achieve or accomplish through their art, but what is most important is that it is imaginative. He challenges your own imagination and your own perceptions of beauty, helping to bring you into a new world, perhaps something you’re not completely aware of. His work is awe inspiring and enlightening. Having seen the shark, I know that his art takes you away from the boring, mundane world in which we live in, and launches you into another dimension which is both peculiar and exciting. Through imagination art can be anything you want it to be. And after all, art is beauty, beauty is imaginative and beauty is anything you want it to be, not what you are told it should be.
Art does not have to be paint on canvas.
Art opens your mind and transports you into a world more exciting, more interesting, more engaging more fun and more imaginative than this world ever could be. As artists we strive to do this, and if only a small fragment of people are transported into our world then; mission accomplished!"

...And that was the condensed version. Srsly.

Their opinion on Damien Hirst:

"It is pointless and simply disgusting, there is no imagery nor meaning in anything as far as we can see."

Their attempt to sound civilised with that 'one does not approve' attitude just made me laugh. I can't even take that seriously.

Don't get me wrong, not everyone likes Hirst, but if you have a negative opinion on something, at least try not to sound like a philistine who hasn't even tried to open their mind.
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So, now you have seen my headache... terribly sorry I've just gone on one massive rant-a-thon, but it just had to be said. End of. If you agree/have had similar problems, please comment, either here, devART, twitter... etc.

So long for now everyone!! c:

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edit: I just went on Gormley's website.

This man, IS a genius.

>>> http://www.antonygormley.com/home.html <<<

check out the works in progress page!! AMAZING!! <3

So long October, Hello November!!

2009-11-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

White Rabbits!

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And so, it's November! Where did October go? And more importantly, where did summer go!!? And... even more worryingly, why am I still being plauged by midges at night when it's autumn-going-on-winter here in Blighty!?

Well, aside from the strange bug related occurences (srsly our front door is covered in the buggers every night... it's really weird), October has been a really good month! I mean, really really good! And considering only one of the 4 and a bit weeks was a holiday, I'm kinda surprised! I used to hate October! I mean, apart from Halloween that is!!

But, looking back at my calendar as I change it over to November, it really was a fun month!! Starting with MUNCH and ending with Halloween, and of course Expo last week, it's been a month of firsts and a month of toasties.

[JAM's blog post has been momentarily interrupted as a MIDGE is buzzing around her...]

But srsly, why are the midges still here?

Anyway.

Happy Halloween to everyone for yesterday~! ;D hope everyone had fun and ate lots of candy~! Did anyone dress up?? I dressed up as an evil nurse/doctor thing and mon ami le S was a werewolf!! :D

Le SWOOOSH!! S and I had an epic glo stick fight!! xD

[left: me right: if you squint you can see S... I think]

Also, I'd like to say a massive big Happy Birthday to Cazakstann, my beloved attachment figure!!

Well, tis all for now mon amis~! I am off to watch 'Doc Martin' :B byee~!

JAM's first ever Expo!

2009-10-26T13:10:00.000-07:00

Souuu desu ka?!

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One treachourous bus journey later, after staying up till the early hours of the morning watching 'Brother's Grimm' and eating copious amounts of pizza, and getting up at 5am having slept about 3 hours or so, driving down to London, and queueing for about an hour, Tam, D-G and I, along with Tam's dad arrived at the Expo.

That's right folks! On 25th October 2009, I , JAM, went to my first ever Expo!! If I had to sum it up in one sentence it'd be this;

"Omigawd I have been missing out!!"

The whole experience is amazing!! I've always thought that when you're an manga/anime fan it's like you're in a whole other world that 'normies' just don't understand, and expo is something that just sums up everything about anime, manga, video games & sci fi; it's fun, colourful, friendly and there are lots of free hugs!!! At first it's pretty odd getting hugged by complete strangers, but after about an hour or so of running up and hugging people with free hugs signs, and asking complete strangers if you can take a photo of them, you really get used to it!

Everyone at expo is amazingly friendly! It's like, you go there and everyone treats you as a friend! Instead of getting stared at by chavvy kids in a bus station for wearing a domo hoody, I get hugged and complimented!! Even waiting in the queue is fun!! just watching everyone in the queue walk by in all their diff. cosplays is great!

This was only a small portion of the epicly long queue.

At one point we had Ronald MacDonald behind us, and Pacman walking past us xD it was ace!

Not to mention all the people walking past with free hugs signs! If you think one guy in the street with a free hugs sign is odd, then wait til you get to expo! there's so many it's just normal! you don't even think about it as odd at all, you're just running at them with your arms open x'D. And this happens even if you don't have a sign! We were waiting in the queue and a guy cosplaying as Haruhi came up and said "omg! DOMO!!!!" and gave me a massive hug!

A very friendly giant Kon who we glomped~! (btw that curly brown haired person in a humoungous brown hoody is me ;D)

Actually, at one point we were waiting in the queue and D-G said "I've only seen guys holding free hugs signs... I bet it's mostly guys that do it." and Tam & I were all "nawwwh! there're loads of female free hug sign carriers!" And so, a bet was proposed! D-G said that the first person to see a girl carrying a free hug sign would get £2. Moments later a girl walked by with a, believe it or not, free hugs sign! Tam and I started jumping up and down liek "THERE! RIGHT THERE!!!". In the end, both of us got £2 each. =w= There were also loads of people with signs saying something along the lines of;

"You just lost THE GAME"

You'd just be happily browsing and eating pocky, and they'd walk on by, and all of a sudden this huge mass of people would all say "auuurrgghh" in unision!

Another most wonderful thing about Expo is the cosplay. Cosplayers have got to be amoung the nicest people in the world!! They're all happy and friendly and will let everyone and anyone take their picture! All of us (that is, Tam D-G and I) agreed that it's better to come to an Expo in cosplay, and thus, I swore to myself that I will deffinately cosplay next time!!

The stores at expo are amazing too! There was a really vast range of stuff on sale, figurines, posters, self-published comics, big name manga, and loads of anime & manga merchandise!! From fans and cosplay accessories, to keychains, replica swords, and those ever-so-slightly-pervy mouse mats!

And let's not forget, of course, the yaoi stall. With an American guy behind the stall shouting out;

"YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET YOUR HOT FLAMING YAOI OVER HEERE!!! YAAAAAAOI!!!!"

At the top of his lungs every now and then. It was rather deafening. But pretty awesome!!

I was very very tempred to buy some Hetalia yaoi... but unfortunately, no RussiaxChina! (;^;) I thought it would've been a pretty popular pairing, but ... maybe I was too late?! Yeahhh yaoi was a biiig topic of conversation on Saturday!! Infact, all 4 of us (T's dad included) had one big discussion about yaoi and yuri on the way home!! x'D Specifically, about what to say to people at school if they ask what yaoi is. We've decided that yaoi is a chocolate flavoured drink... xD and GrimmIchi (Tam's fave pairing) is a type of evil cheese. UFUFUFUFU. I'm extremely tempted to yell out in to lunch hall "YAAAAAAAAAAOIIII" xD haha. Maybe I will, maybe I won't?

In the end, we all came home very hyper, bouncing off the walls clutching our 'tokyo toys' bags, amoung others, containing our day's finds!! In the end, I bought;

- around £17 worth of sweatdrop manga <3

- Twelth Night (as drawn by Nana Li)

- a Death Note

- Negima Figumate : Asakura

- Nendoroid Puchi : Churuya san (from Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu)

- apple yoghurt pocky

- strawberry pocky

- a haruhi headband

- a 'vote Petrelli' badge

- an L necklace

- a Mikuru keychain

- a totoro fan

- an art postcard & boomark from Soya Milku

I very almost bought a costume too, but due to unfortunate circumstances that included me loosing my wallet; that didn't happen... >.<

The artists' alley at Expo was awesome too!! they had these big long tables with lots of paper and markers to draw with! <3>

My rush-job entry xD

And actually, as i was happily drawing away, some zombies chased after some kids!! O_O

I looked up to see this guy!! I was liek "HOLYF******WHATTHEHELL!?!?!?". Interestingly, we saw him walking home afterward xD haha I bet he got some odd looks in the street!

Whihc swiftly leads me on to a small gallery of some of the best cosplays of the day, to give y'all a break from the mass of text! x'D

Halibel from Bleach

Grimmjow x2

Near from Death Note *squeee*

So I herd u liek mudkipz?!

Tam got attacked by an alien!!

Hetalia cosplayers!!! <3>

Blair from Soul Eater

Magical Trevor = WIN!

Agent Smith & Neo - The Matrix

These guys were actually amazing. They stayed in Character all day!! They had this awesome presence that made everyone stop and watch them when they walked by!!

EXCALIBUR!!! LEGEND!!

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All in all, I loved Expo so much <3>D

Well, this is all from me tonight, I'm signing off~! And remember folks...

Yaoi = a chocolate flavour drink.

6th Form Maturity [+munch]

2009-10-09T10:35:00.000-07:00

"Does the honorable delegate not agree?."

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[M&S Toasting to Toasties.]

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From starting our own political party, to making people snort sherbert and creating a psychology mascot in the form of the Romanian Orphan Child; we'll always remeber our headmistress' wise words;

"You are responsible role models"

Only, we're not.

The amount of sugar rushes I've had since coming back to school are just un-countable. Suffice to say, although I expected 6th form to be a lot different, I didn't expect it to be this different. I actually really enjoy school these days. Not only is it a daily gathering place of 5 or so loons [ie, my friends and I], but I really love the lessons too. I mean, PHSE sucks as much as it always has, and Global Perspectives is just boredom served up on a plate, but other than that I really love my subjects.

Last post, I mentioned how my psychology teacher has realised how crazy I am! And our craziness is just escalating and escalting. We're currently learning about attachment, and C*zakstann et moi are "ATTACHMENT BUDDIES!" (with me being the attachment child, and she the attachment figure :P ).

And we also have created a psychology mascot! R.O.C. ; Romanian Orphan Child, is our new psychology mascot! <3>

I was incharge of the visuals, while C*z manned the research :B

As you can clearly see, our lil mascot Romanian Orphan Child is drawn at the bottom, holding a little Romanian flag~!!

And in our psychology room is a mobile whiteboard (as in, it's not fixed to the wall, but you can roll it around on wheels). One day I wrote "Psychology rocks!!!" (cause I'm just that cool) on it, and ever since then it's been added to on a daily basis. And, ofc, R.O.C. was added as well (just in SUPER chibi-ized form).

But today............. trauma has hit.

Mrs R came up to us in the lunch queue and the convo went something liek this;

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Mrs R: I have some really bad news....

me &C: !?!?!?

Mrs R: The year 13s.... they rubbed everything off the whiteboard...!!!

m&C: NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

Mrs R: *nods* I almost went into panic when I saw it!!

m: Don't worry Mrs R!!! We'll just do it all again! And we'll make it even better!!

Mrs R: Will you draw the Romanian Orphan Child again?!

m: Of course!! and even better!!

Mrs R: good good...! I love the Romanian Orphan Child!!

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So, Monday's mission is to re-establish the epic-ness of the psych white-board!!

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As previously mentioned, my friends and I are crazy loons.

In our first week in 6th form, we started our own political party; N.I.C.I! This came about when S & I were bored and decided to open the dictionary at random and point to the a word at random. The words came out in this order;

- Nosewheel

- Invasion

- Concubine

- Imperialism

And so, N.I.C.I! was born; wiht out mascot being the glorious Nosepass.

ahhh there's been so much randomness that I can't even begin to explain it all!! I think today's highlight though, was watching M being ever so cool, and ever so clever, snorting sherbert. She said;

"Everything smells like lemons!!! It's like being a walking airfreshener!!"

Please, kids, don't do this at home.

So, please sit back and enjoy a momentary lapse in text before I start talking about MUNCH.

[btw; these were all taken from my DSi, so, sorry if they're a bit bad quality at times]

mini shuriken~

The 'noisy' common rooms white board. I like to take over white boards :B Oh yah, plus a surprise appearance from Sammy's hand!! O:

chikin maaaaan

Tim

Our beloved toastie machinnne~!!

My history folder. We're learning about Russian history with Miss Mawds, and as any Hetalia fans will know, this is Ivan/Russia-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_Powers_Hetalia

in my homework diary.

It is clearly stated that there should be "No grafitti" in homework diaries. Oh well.

PHSE work.

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So last weekend was MUNCH. Model United Nations at Cheadle Hulme.

Friday night, I was so nervous I swear I wished so much I hadn't signed up. By half way through Saturday, I was loving it. I can't wait to do another conference!!

At first, it's completely nerve racking (<<-sp!?). You watch everyone and after you finally come up with the courage to make a point of inofrmation, you shyly raise your placard. And then, the chair scans to room, and looks at you with a friendly smile on his face and says;

"Belgium! You have been recognised"

And you think........."shit."

You stand up, a bag of jelly wrapped nerves, and, shaking, you stutter out a pretty lame question, whilst desperately trying get your flapping mouth to form fancy UN terminology as you say;

"w-would the honarable delegate n-not agree..."

But then, after you've taken that first step; after your first LAME personal policy that you completely made up on the spot, and ended with "we would like to be here" in stuttered broken english whilst trying to remain calm, and after you make your first point of info, everything is just so much easier. You get completely taken in by it all, and begin to really enjoy yourself. It's also an amazing way to meet like minded, enthusiastic, out going people.

One of the highlights of the weekend was when 'the honarable delegate from the Vatican City' got a 'bomb' found under her chair, which was so-called placed there my Croatia, who was voted our most annoying delegate xD.

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And now, in breaking news.....

THIS

SWINE FLU

!!!

The swine flu epidemic has spread to our school, with about 15 cases of swine flu in the school; including our 3 head girls. Also, the other day, 55 girls were absent on the same day. To most people, this won't seem like much, but in a school with just over 600 students, were 55 is almost the size of an entire year, for 55 girls to be off on the same day, is a bit of a big deal.

Hand sanitisers have been placed all over school, making everything taste anti-bacterial.

More over, everyone is paranoid. =A=.

I hope all this will go away soon... and I hope everyone gets well soon! <3

***

So long for now all~!

U R PWND FOR GENEVA.

N.I.C.I!

It Never Ends DAMMIT!!

2009-09-29T13:25:00.000-07:00

The GAME never ends.

stupid bag thing.

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First off, can I say, sorry for making you all loose the game just now, but at least it won't be such a shock latorz.

Oh. My. Gawd.

It seems like almost a billion years ago since my last post! D:

Well, we are well into week 4 of le 6th form, and the craziness has ceased to stop. In fact, I reckon it's getting even crazier. Everyone is crazy. still. B)

Hmmm. well, to start with, I guess I should make some psuedonyms~ here goes:

- P.b.

- S (not to be confused with sma)

- C*zakstann

- M

- Fester

More creative names may be created... some day.

***

So, today, S and I went out into le village (a 6th form privalege) for le lunch. We bought the usual healthy lunch:

- strawberry milkshake

- monster munch

- salt and vinegar 'snack sticks'

- nintendo magazine

The nintendo mag caused much excitement, for a number of reasons. Firstly, because the freebie was a DS 'sock', which got me very exciteable at the fact of having something to prevent my DSi being scratched etc. Also, with the sock being black, it makes my DSi less noticeable when it's sticking out of my pocket. (However it doesn't prevent it from bouncing on the floor having fallen from my chair; as we discovered in psych). The magazine also made S very excited, which, being contagious, made me very excited, when we saw an ad for the DS release of Kingdom Hearts!!

But then...

Much tragedy and uproar was cause when THIS slid out of the glossy pages of gaming insight;

(pictured: an evil bag of doom and some bottles of J20 reduced to 25p each).

[Please excuse my duvet in this picture.]

It was one of those "I-can't-BELIEVE-I've-been-caught-out-you're-such-a-smo, yet also omg-that's-just-classic!! lawl" moments. (Much like when A and I got Rick-Roll'd IRL at a quiz night, then coincidentally lost the game).

Psychology was hilarious today as well xD 'Mrs R' finally cottoned on to the fact that I'm slightly odd~...! :3 And a queue formed to sit on Mrs R's magic chair thing. xD

Also, My History teacher, 'Mrs N'* is amazing!! she has us every monday, last period, and the 3.30** bell is officially our 'sweetie bell', so that we can get sugar-rushes before going home. Yesterday I actually got a proper sugar rush. I was trying to say something and it went a little like this;

JAM: "OH OH OH!"

Mrs N "yes [JAM]?"

J: "Is it cause... cause they didn't put thingymabobs on stuffs coming in from the Comumbadub??!"

N: "...........what."

J: "I mean... the.... the yknow!! the comammm.....!! ...uhm...."

N: "..."

J: "THE COMMANWEALTH!!! They didn't put tariffs on imports from the commanwealth!"

N: "..not quite"

J: "....the Empire?"

N: "YEAHHHH!!!"

orz. Just goes to show how crazy my teachers are.

(and yeah, I am aware I am incapable of spelling commanwealth... or is it commenwealth? iunno. I probably should. hm. oh well.)

***

'Tis all for now peeps! Expect more nyuuz blasts very soon!

So long for now, and remember;

U R PWND 4 GENEVA!!

*My Current teachers:

English lit:

- Mrs D = plays

- Miss T = prose/novels

Modern History:

- Miss M = Russian History

- Mrs N = British [political] History

Psychology:

- Mrs R

** Our school is quite small, and consists of a junior/primary school and infant school as well as the senior/high school; so at the end of the day, the bells are as follows:

3.15 = infant school hometime

3.30 = junior school hometime

3.45 = senior school & 6th form hometime!!

NB: junior/primary school = equiv. of elementary school

infants =kindergarten - early elementary school

senior/high school = equiv. of middle school and high school

6th form = last 2 years of education before university.

(6th form = year 12 & year 13. year 11 is the last official year of compulsary education, by law.)

Attention! : JAM is now a 6th former! :D

2009-09-11T13:24:00.000-07:00

So without further ado, I start my 6th form life with hopes and aspirations as big as the 5kg chocolate bar.

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I love 6th form!!

It's so much fun! Loads of people from our year have left to go off to other schools, but everyone that's left is really nice to one another! Not to mention the teachers are really nice to 6th formers too~!

And, on top of it all, the lessons are interesting.

I'm so glad I chose to drop Physics!! I now have beaucoup de frees, which I can use to do homework, study, and, if all else is done and dusted, play me some pokemon!! 8D

So, we all survived our first week of 6th form! So much craziness has happened it'd take ages to type up!! xD.

Our school is right next to a garage (avec shop), and a Somerfields. Therefore, at lunch we tend to go out and buy drinks and snacks. Upside is, omg! so yummy! Downside is however, we're all probably gonna be fat by the time we leave 6th form! 8D

Particularly as one girl brought in a 5kg bar of Cadbury's on Friday. Yes that's right. 5kg of chocolate.

The only way to break it up was to smash it on the coffee table in the "noisy" common room. There was chocolate. Everywhere.

Each chunk was about the size of your palm!! Everyone in 6th form was walking round nibbling on coal-sized chunks of chocolate! 8D omnomnom!

Also, as I have quite a lot of frees, I find myself talking to people I wouldn't normally have talked to last year, which is really nice!! Also, there are 3 new girls, rather than 1! 8D One of them, who we shall call... hrrm "A-n-y" (basing this off her msn name xD ), is very very nice (and gives amazing hugs!), and the two of us got talking after I saw The GazettE on her iPod! :3

Turns out, she's also an anime fan and we share many interests!! <3

All in all, 6th form really is great so far!! It's sooooo much better than high school, and deffinately better than GCSE years! I can't even stress enough how much better it is! I mean, it's so great to come home light and happy in the knowledge that you've done a good days work, and everything's great, rather than the depressing-ness of last year!!

***

After a week of 6th form, it's now the weekend! (or the end of it, at least!).

I haven't really done much at all this weekend! ><

But~ on Friday, me, mum, the coconut (mum's bf) and I went to blockbuster, and as I walked in, one of the pre-owned DVDs for sale caught my eye! It was;

"Paprika".

I recognised it from an old old front cover of NEO (way before I started reading neo mag).

And... omg. It is. AMAZING.

Just... simply amazing. After the first minute or so, I was thinking "I already love this film."

The story is amazing, the music is lovely, and don't even get me started on the animation!!! It's stunning, beautiful and over all GORGEOUS!!

Satoshi Kon (the Director) is now officially one of my idols, and I'm hoping to buy another of his films, "Tokyo Godfathers" later on in winter!

I just love it sooo much~!!

Also, I am now watching Sleepy Hollow, as it's on Film4!! (though technically, I'm watching it on my computer rather than my 'tv', because my 'tv' is being a complete poo head.). I really love this film so much <3.>

So without further ado, here's a quick list of some of my utmost favourite films ever.;

[in no particular order]

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Paprika,

Spirited Away,

Anastasia,

Death Note & Death Note 2,

Brothers Grimm,

Sleepy Hollow,

Nightmare Before Christmas,

The Corpse Bride,

Edward Scissor Hands,

The Prestige.

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You've probably realised that they're all either animations, Tim Burton movies, or something to do with the supernatural or illusion. :3

Also, (as I'm feeling totally fresh and inspired right now) here are my idols:

- Hayao Miyazaki

- Satoshi Kon

- Takeshi Obata

- Nana Li

- Tim Burton

<3>

***

'Tis all for now, tomorrow I have to go up on stage (><);; at our prize day!! (Everyone now in lower 6th has to go up, in congratulations for our GCSEs). Wish me luck~~!

Bye for now~ ☆

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6th form language:

The Noisy common room - The common room meant for 'socialising'; though it's often the quiter one when the year 13s/upper 6th are about!!

The Quiet common room - The common room meant for study; but sometimes it's too noisy to hear yourself when the year 13s are about! ><

Year 12/lower 6th - my year

Year 13/upper 6th - The year above, and last year of education before University in the UK

EPICK - 'good', 'awesome', 'amazing', 'great' etc.

AHOY! - A customary greeting

The Garage - The petrol station directly across the road from our school. It stocks snacks, sweets and fizzy drinks! :B

MUCC = EPIC WIN!

2009-09-04T02:17:00.000-07:00

"CatholicTV is now following you on Twitter"

Rest of life coming in: about 3 hours.

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Ok what?

I log on today and a little email from twitter pops up. "CatholicTV is now following you on Twitter".

What? I know loads of random companies and stuff randomly follow people for no real reason. But... CatholicTV? I'm not Catholic! I'm not even Christian!!

***

Anyway. More importantly!

Last night, as I said, I downloaded the album 'Shion' by MUCC. It took an hour y'know! A whole hour!! Anyway, even though I was planning on going to bed at 11, I ended up just... not. I was waiting for Shion to download so in the end I blogged and watched family guy. Among others.

But that album... is epic! I mean it really really is!! I downloaded it not really knowing what to expect... tbh I was just in the mood for heavy guitar 8D. But... after I heard the first song I immediately fell in love with them!! I've listened to the whole album god knows how many times now!! Sooo good!

Eventually, I ended up going to sleep listening to it on shuffle-repeat~

It was the best sleep I've had in months!! I mean it! <3

It's great to go to sleep listening to music, then wake up to it <3

***

So, for now, I shall leave you! Off to 6th form......!!

☆Byee~~☆

MUCC <3 + 6th form Induction Tomorrow!!

2009-09-03T15:03:00.000-07:00

Just a quickie [that turned into an average sized post] as I wait for 'Shion' by MUCC to download from iTunes (why does it take so long!?)

Days till the rest of my life: just under 1.

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'Sup!! 8D

I overslept again today!! I even slept through my alarm! The only thing that woke me up was mum phoning me at about 11.40 ish. I was so dis-orientated that I completely forgot she was out networking since 6! o:

Though tbh, I'm not surprised my sleep is finally starting to catch up with me!! The past few nights have gone as follows:

- 9.00pm till either 1.00am, 2.00 am or 3.00am : work on manga

(whilst watching whatever late night comedy seems to be on tv)

- after stopping manga work; 'go to bed' and spend about 2 hours or so on DSi.

- eventually; drop off to sleep.

Usually I tend to stop working at around 1.00-2.00am ish, because after 1.00 there is NOTHING on tv. Occassionally, you'll get a good film that finishes any where between 1 & 2, but any good programmes stop by 1.30.

However, having said that, on Monday night through to early Tuesday morning, there was a marathon of the entire first series of 'How Not to Live your Life' running on BBC, which went on till about 3.30ish.

That was pretty damn epic. I love that show. I mean the main character acts like a complete d*ck, but he's the sort that only acts like that, deep down he's quite loveable.

My fave episode is when he went camping with his crush and her class of kids (she's a teacher). And they got lost, and he ended up getting all the kids drunk!! xD classic!

But unfortunately, I don't think it's avialable in the US or anything...

srsly you guys are missing out!

[I really really love British comedy!]

***

So! Tomorrow, I start 6th form!!

Well, sorta, tomorrow's induction day, so officially we start on Monday, but hey.

I'm actually pretty excited about it now~. My inner self has finally given in to, and accepted that the holidays have drawn to a close.

But! That doesn't mean I can't still have fun~! Although I'm going to be working super hard these next two years; if I can get coursework etc out of the way asap, that'll give me more time to relax on the weekends!

(I just hope everyone else does the same!! Then we can relax together!!)

***

Recently I've been thinking more about my future.

Mum and I were talking about University and such likes, and we were talking about what degrees I could consider.

Mum said she always thought I'd do something academic, like History, or English or something like that. So she was kinda surprised when I told her that other than unless I did histoy I wasn;t planning on doing something 'academic'.

I decided a long time ago, that I'd probably either do History, or something artistic.

Right now, I'm down to two main contender for the title of "JAM's degree choice". These are;

Political History

Animation

I guess they're really quite different! haha!

Political History is something that really fascinates me, but animation is something I'm considering a career in.

Hayao Miyazaki really inspires me (*v*) I'd love to be like him!! <3

***

On to...

Artistic News~

Artistically, I'm really powering through! Last night I managed to ink all 35 pages, and then edit them with white ink (which smells SO good!).

Now all that's left is to screentone it, and add the finishing touches! <3

And, what with Expo coming up (need to buy costume!!), and Halloween coming up (need to complete costume!), and also that I just spent £13 on music, also I have a few friend's birthdays coming up... ahaha

But I'll screentone all I can with what I've got for now, and at least then I can work on the Xanthie manga whilst I'm waiting for more screentones <3

***

So, this is all for now!!

☆Bye for now~~!!☆

1st September

2009-09-01T07:25:00.000-07:00

Sprite flavoured lip balm = neccessity.

Days till the-rest-of-my-life : 3

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It's the 1st of September!! Oh my lordy I'm gonna be a 6th former in ...*counts* under 3 days!! Sweet Chocolate Moo Cow! My current state of mind on this subject is a curly wurly of excitement, nerves and a slight tinge of "d'awww... summer's over already??".

But today I'm now kitted out and ready to go go GO!! (I left it till 1st September to buy supplies 8D )

***

So today, I shall start off with delving into the more fun side of results day, and the following days. After the lovely results, we all mosied down to H's house for an after-bbq!! 8D

'Twas muchly fun! There was pink champagne, a most smexy evil board game master (we played atmosfear), 17 again, and some very suggestive sitting on couch-ness.

LAWL.

On Friday I went round to A's and watched Pokemon the movie:2000 (having had watched the 1st earlier on in the week), after we got extremely wet; or at least I did, by jumping in a massive bloody puddle. (*mature*)

Saturday we went to Buxton 8D!! And then went back to As house to watch "Pokemon the movie 3"!! (only the 4th one left now xD ).

After that we went to Samsi (Japanese restaurant) for le dinner~ miam miam!

***

Then.... yesterday happened.

Grandma phoned, and basically said that I probably won't be able to get into University with my GCSE results.

She also said many many other things... But that kinda depressed me for the majority of the day, until my friend who lives in Anglesey's mum called and said that [friend who lives in anglesey] got basically the same grades as me, and that we both worked really hard for them, and they're really good grades, and of course we can get into uni!!

Mum's bf coming round with tiramisu also helped MUCHLY!

***

So, in the end, now yesterday's over, I'm putting it all behind me and vowing to study like an astronaut in astronaut school studying for an astronaut scholarship to do a PhD in astro physics!!

....yeah I have no idea what that means either.

Basically, I'm gonna study A LOT.

We've decided now that the plan of action is this:

- Drop Physics, just stick with the 3 subjects all the way through (English lit, Modern History and Psychology)

- stick with 'World Perspectives', but don't stress over it.

***

So!! Today is today! And thus, this leads me on to two very important topics.

1) My new obsession

2) Future plans

1) My New Obsession

My new obsession is.... (*drumroll*) ........CHAPSTICK! [and various variations of yummy flavoured lip balm stuffs].

The weather over here has been changing very quickly from sunny to very rainy, and as a result of that, my lips have been getting very sore and chapped quicker than they usually do.

So, over tha past few weeks I've been all "omg I NEEEEED chapstick before my lips drop off!!!"

And today.... I gotz me some Sprite flavoured 'lip smackers' lip balmy stuff! <3

It smells..... SOOO good!! It's really light and refreshing and makes me think of summery sunny goodness, even when it's chucking it down outside! <3

Not to mention it's liek... really really soft and soothing, which is like heaven for someone like me who gets sore lips easily in cold weather.

When I bought it they had multi packs with aaaaall the different flavours!! Sprite, various flavours of fanta, coke, coke vanilla, coke cherry, etc. etc.

But I didn't have enough cash on me at the time ;_;

2) Future Plans

This isn't a "I want to settle down at the age of 'XX' and have 'X' kids and blah blah blah" This is just a simple "When I'm older and have a family of my own, I am going to get a cat as the family pet."

I luuuurve cats soo much~ I'll say now that I am deffinately a cat person.

But I don't want any normal cat. Ohhhh no!! I want a black cat with bright green eyes, and I'mma gonna call him BORIS!!! <3

I'm not joking. I really want a witches-cat-style black kitty cat called Boris.

It's just epic. end of.

***

So, all in all, things are deffinately starting to look up after the hiccup of yesterday!! <3

I've got all 39 pages of my M.I.C.C. entry planned & storyboarded, and up to page 23 in rough pencils~

I'm ready to go get 'em and be the best student EVER in 6th form, and I have my trusty Sprite flavoured lip balm at my side!

I'm good to go~!!

☆Byee for now everyone!!☆

The Pocket Mystery is Solved!

2009-08-30T13:22:00.000-07:00

I will be the 6th former munching Oreos whilst everyone else enjoys "World Perspectives".

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The pocket mystery has been solved!! Although the trouser pockets are fake, the jacket pockets are, in fact, pockets. Only, they were sewn up. Apparently this is to keep the jacket's shape whilst it's in the store. (They could write that on the tag or something |x )

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Also, another occurence of confusion has arrived! Apparently; we don't do general studies next year, ohh no. We study 'World Perspectives'. Just as useless, just as boring; basically the same subject, just with a different name.

I still refuse to take it >)

***

In other news.

We have been notified that there is going to be one new girl joining us next year. Just one.

Wayy over 30 of us have left, and only one is joining. We are going to be one small year group!

Embarassing for the new girl, but even more embarassing for the school.

***

More news!

Titanic is on channel five! 2 and 1/2 hours in and the panic is only just about to set in!!

Such a traumatic movie... Last time I watched it, I was in tears for hours and hours!!

I must say though, I really love the String group!! <3

***

Anyway, I shall leave you all for now~ bye byeeee

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**EDIT**

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Say hi to my friend Sodium('s hat) !!

School...! crap!

2009-08-30T04:45:00.000-07:00

The fugly see-through shirt mum got me for 6th form serves for one purpose and one purpose only.

Cosplay.

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School. That ...most wonderful of places is looming ever closer, and my days of manga making, watching pokemon movies and doing nothing particularly important, yet extremely fun with the best people in the world are slowly drawing to a close.

Shit.

Where the hell did summer go!?

I remember... prom, karaoke, camping, the cruise, seeing the hangover, seeing orphan, and then a sort of mish-mash of hide and seek, trampoline, orange-milk and mario kart. Oh, and Alton Towers and pokemon movies.

But why did it go so quickly!? whyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?!

Thinking about it, I wouldn't change anything about this summer. It's been the best summer ever...!!

...Until Thursday.

As many of you may know, Thursday 27th August 2009 was GCSE results day.

My results... we fine. Ok. good... really good, perhaps. But I'm pretty dissapointed.

I keep getting calls from my relatives saying;

"well done!!! you got AMAZING results!"

I'm not meaning to sound hard done by, I accept they were pretty good, but they weren't amazing. Straight As is amazing.

I got 6 Bs, 2As, 2 Cs... and then latin.

Lingua Latina.

Ouch.

I love latin. I've been more or less a straight A student in latin for almost 4 years. And I get a D in the exam.

How?!! How could this happen? We all (all 3 of us that is), compared our answers and translations after the exam and we all did pretty much the same. All 3 of us were predicted As, if not A*s, but all of us fell short of what we expected...

The staff suspect that there's been a dud marker around, and are sending them off to be remarked. ... Though thinking about it, I was only about 6 UMS points off a C (which is nothing). And my friend who wwas expected to get an A*, got a B... so there's something pretty fishy going on.

But, because of this mark I've had to drop latin, a subject I really love. And if it turns out the marker got it completely wrong, and I end up with something like a B, or even an A, I will turn post box red and have steam coming out my ears. (If this happens, stand by for a rant).

To make things even worse, Latin was the first mark I saw. So, I opened my results envelope, saw "Latin D(d)", and my whole world came crashing down around me.

Futhermore, straying away from the epic dissapointment [<<-understatement] of latin; in general, for someone who, all their life has been predicted As and A*s, a whole load of Bs is not so great... and really is not "amazing".

However, we realised what's gone wrong, and that is, I've spread myself too thin. All my friends at other schools have studied 9 subjects; getting 9 GCSEs.

We, studied 11.

11 friggin' subjects, so 9, and then, two mandatory headaches that go by the names of 'RS' and 'ICT'.

ICT took up every ounce of energy I had left last year. Every lunch time, after school and weekend wwas filled with friggin ICT coursework.

I CAN WORK A COMPUTER DAMNIT!!!

To say RS was a mandatory headache would be correct, but as for ICT... it's more like a mandatory MIGRAINE.

I spent hours and hours on something uselss; time which could've been spent on more important subjects.

At the risk of sounding childish, I can honestly say I blame ICT.

I've never felt this before, but I honestly, deep in my heart of hearts, wish I could go back and change my options for double science rather than triple, and fight not to do ICT; then, if all else fails, botch ICT in year 10 and drop it by year 11.

This is all proof of our beloved school's 'guinea-pig year', as I like to call it.

First, a little history;

My school was originally two schools, a catholic school and a protestant school; until in '99-'00, our head merged the two schools, making the 'ecumenical school community' we are now.

Most of the students that had been at the original schools, had to be allowed into the new school. But our year, which was about year 1 or year 2 at the time of the merger, was the first year where entry into the senior (high) school was not obliged, meaning even if you went to one of the original schools, you're not guarenteed a place.

Therefore, being the first yeear our school has 'hand-picked', we have beared the brunt of any new schemes or trials our school can think of.

Admittedly, there have been a few schemes (the whole mandatory migraine, etc) that have been going for longer than us, but they wait until we go through hell and back, and, of course, change it to make it fairer on the rest of the school.

Take sma, for example, two years younger than me and going into year 10 this September.

Started Mandatory Migraine in year 9, meaning by the time year 11 comes around for her, she won't have the migraine chasing after her, and will have time to focus on more important things.

Can you see now, why I want to throttle my school sometimes?

So, School, if you're reading, thanks for screwing me up! ^^

Also, our school is known for forcing it's students to do seemingly useless subjects (like headache & migraine) for no good reason other than to make the school look good.

The next of these ridiculouses, is General Studies.

Every 6th former I've talked to says that G.S. is a massive pain in the side, and is pointless.

Not to mention I was talking to 'K', whilst waiting for the bus one day (she's in the year ahead of me), and she was saying that she was up till 1am every night on the weekend, writing a massive long essay for G.S. and only after she got that out of the way, could she concentrate on her English essay.

I'm sorry but, I don't want an extra A level in some pointless subject that will zap up all of my time.

Thus, Friday, (aka induction day) is going to be the start of a very long and wearysome rest-of-my-life.

***

On a lighter note;

My 6th form jacket has no pockets. Meaning, it looks like it does, but they're just odd flap things that serve no purpose at all other than to fool you into thinking you have somewhere to put things; phone, DS, spare pens... but NO! 'Cause you don't!

Why?? I've noticed this more and more, women's suit jackets do not have pockets!! I mean, do clothes makers think women carry handbags around everywhere, thus not needing pockets? Is this some form of masculine dominancy thing, where only men are allowed to store things in items of clothing? Are women doomed to forever carry around a bulky bag?

My trousers have no pockets either. I mean... what the hell!? I mean, are we doomed to forever roam around school with no hope or storing anything anywhere but our lockers?! (Our school is tres small, so we can't carry bags around).

I mean what happens when....... *shudder* I dread to think.

So, a message to all designers of women's business wear;

"Women need jacket pockets too! You jack-asses!!"

I'm actually starting to worry now.... I need pockets to put things in!! You know, chapstick, phones. Pencil cases can't hold every thing you know!! D<<

mumblemumblemumble....

***

ANYWAY. When I've calmed down from rant-mode I shall share the hilarity that ensued at our 'after-bbq', and many more.

So long~

Current artistic situation :B

2009-08-26T03:10:00.000-07:00

Hoorah for manga! <3

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Ok~ as you may or may not know, I have been working on a manga about a girl called "Xanthie".

However.

That particular prject has been put on hold for now; as I am currently working on my entry for 'M.I.C.C.' (aka Morning International Comic Competition)

http://e-morning.jp/mimc/

So right now, I'm trying to focus all my creative energy on to this competition~ meaning Xanthie's manga will be put on hold for the time being.

The deadline for M.I.C.C. is 31st December 2009, but what with 6th form coming up, I can't really estimate how long it'll take me.

The page limit is 12-50 pages, and I think I'm aiming for something around the 40 mark (ish). Right now I have 14 pages pencilled and 10 inked.

So wish me luck!! ^^

***

Bye for now~~

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Ode to Dinky Box <3

2009-08-25T04:12:00.000-07:00

I swear I could get high off new vinyl smell~!

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My art supplies came in the post today!!!! <3

I love love LOVE dinky box soooo much!! They have great merchandies, and such fast shipping~ (even though I ordered them on Friday evening, they arrived today!! :3 )

>>> www.dinkybox.co.uk <<<

I can't stress enough how much I love this company!! They have all the best art equipment striaght from Japan~! Not to mention adorable little minitures!! <3

I swear to God I LOVE that smell so much! I could get high off it!! I just sat there for 5 mins like *sniff sniff SNIIFFFFFF* "mmmmm~"

ahahaha xD

That happened when Pokemon Platinum came too! The Giratina figure is much bigger than this lil zipper pull too, so it smelled great for at least a day!! <3

They should make a perfume that semlls like new vinyl figures!!

...Though having said that, if they did, you'd probably find me collapsed in my room~! hahaha I swear, you really can get high off it! xD

Aaaaahhhh~!!

But yes, If you're interested in drawing manga, or you love collectible vinyl figures, or you love little itsy bitsy zipper pulls and such, or you just love weird and wacky artistic figures, or whatever, even if you have no idea what I'm talking about, please please PLEASE, just VISIT THIS SITE NOW!!!!!!!!!!

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>>>>>>> www.dinkybox.co.uk <<<<<<<

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That is all.

Byeeee~! <3

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English Woes

2009-08-24T04:27:00.000-07:00

Aahh memories of pretending to be a submarine when I went swimming with sma are just flooding back to me...

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"AAAGHH!!! SAVE MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!

OH MY GOLLY IM BEING EATEN BY BOREDOM AGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!"

That, ladies and gentlespoons, was the sound of my inner monologue after reading the first few pages of a selection of, frankly, horrible books I'm meant to be studying next year.

Yes. For some reason, which, to this day I don't know why, I chose to study English Lit next year in 6th form.

Only, last year I hated English. I mean really really strongly. The time between autumn half term and xmas holidays particularly was like hell on Earth. I vaguely remember doing some mocks, but mostly the only thing I remember from that time was English.

My teacher was pressuring me and pressuring me and kept giving us really short deadlines, and wayyy too many practice essays.

To put it into perspective, around that time I....

- had just got back from a very busy school trip to America, and thus was jet lagged

- was desperately trying to study for the mocks, which were brought forward to before xmas just to fit in with a school inspection (gee thanks school)

- was doing all these A level standard essays and papers to try and get into a boarding school

- was travelling up and down the country for interviews/open days to try and get into sed boarding school

- Was typically been given at least one if not two practice essays a week from English

- was being hounded by both my ICT and English teachers.

And, to top it off, most of my friends were being complete shit toward me about the boarding school (which, in the end I didn't get in to anyway).

And, yes I am aware that some may be reading this, but to be honest, it needs to be said.

There was only a handful of people out of my, hmm about 10-12 friends or so that were actually supportive. (Though in all fairness to 'Li', we weren't so close at the time, so I'm not counting you in this... you were fine.)

And the only people who were actually supportive (out of everyone) were;

A, sma, 'E.J.' and my mum. Please to bare in mind that sma is 2 years below me, so I don't see her during school hours much, 'E.J.' isn't really in my '"close" friends group, and A doesn't even go to my school.

Sooooo, all in all that was a pretty shit time (at one point I was so tired I fell asleep in English... thank god my teacher didn't realise!). And I think I went into school in tears one day... hmm probably I remember a lot of crying... |:

And even after I managed to scrape by that horrible horrible horrible time with ridiculously poor results (I got a U in physics, a subject I usually average around a B+, As or A*s), English was still so bad that I had to re-do almost all of my coursework. Even so, mum abnd I really had to fight to let my English teacher allow me to do so.

So in the end, it's going to be very interesting this coming Thursday, results day, to see what my outcome was in English.

Other than the pressure factor, we also had really really bad books to read!

We had to read 'Turn of the Screw'. A book which, in my opinion, was written so boringly and was so dull I just stopped reading after the first few pages. The plot was, in actual fact, a very good and thought provoking idea. But, it was written dreadfully.

Our essay title for this monstrocity was

"Henry James successfully conveys fear and suspense in 'The Turn of the Screw'. Explain how."

Which just left me staring at a blank page thinking "It wasn't scary, and it didn't convey either of these things successfully at all, in fact quite the opposite damn it."

In the end, after I finally re-did the coursework, I made it up. The whole essay, I blundered my way through making up stuff just to please my teacher and fulfill the assignment.

Thankfully, I managed to get an A (I think), but it could've easily gone the other way.

To make matters worse, we don't use the English Lit A level at our school anymore; instead we use the Cambridge Pre U. This means, that I can either spend a whole 2 years stuck putting all my time and effort into something I really hate, or drop it and not get any qualifications whatsoever.

So, such is my dilemma. We're going to talk to the school and hopefully I can swap English for Psychology.

So in the mean time, I'm gonna keep my fingers crossed an hope I don't have to do English...

That's all for now, bye~ My next post will be happier, I promise! ^^

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PS:

Whilst I'm on the subject, I'd just like to say a big big big big big BIG massive humoungous thankyou to sma & A for supporting me through that whole boarding school thing! If it weren't for you two, I think I would've had a mini break down or something, so thank youuuuu!!!

Massive spider epidemic!?

2009-08-21T06:02:00.000-07:00

Welcome to 'Lazy Lunch', consisting of cooked bread rolls, and bovril.

Oh, and btw, what ever happened to Diagnosis Murder?!?! D:

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So, here's the story.

Last night, I was playing Advance Wars days of ruin on my DS. But as the light from the DS was the only light in the room, I kept getting attacked by small flying type things. So, in order for them to leave me a lone, even just a little bit, I switched my bed side light on.

...Only to find a great big massive spider on my wall!!

I mean, spiders don't usually scare me but, this was massive!It mustv'e been at least an inch and a half, if not more!!

So, after spending ages fumbling around trying to catch it in a cup (after it fell on my pillow whilst I was in bed); I eventually managed to catch it with ye olde cup and paper technique, and shoo it outside.

However...

Reading Kezzi's blog this morning (http://kezzikawaii.wordpress.com/) I find that she also was attacked by a large spider!

And! Talking to Sma, I found out that she was also also attacked by a large spider!!

Weird or what??

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In other news;

On Wednesday I went to ALTON TOWERS!!

At first, it was a really overcast day... but then it got reeaaallly hot! Not to mention there were loads of crowds!!

So there was epic queues that lasted for hours and hours ...!

In the end, we didn't go on that many rides, just based on the sheer amount of queueing which took up most of our time Dx

But we did manage to go on;

Oblivion

Enterprise

Rapids

Air

those swingy things in the kiddie part 8D

And I think possibly something else but... I forget D8... Oh yeah, and we wandered into the other kiddie section (where squirrel nutty is) and found this uber creepy barn thing..!

The idea was that there were these mechanical animal that start singing when you press the button, but we just saw "BIG RED BUTTON" and pressed it...

then these creepy animals started singing and it was really seriously creepy!! Dx

After Alton Towers, I went back to 'A's house for some more hide and seek, stepping on slugs and being fed strange things...

Again, I failed at hide and seek. I ended up hiding under the computer desk thing in the playroom type room... and, intrigued by the strange music I could hear, started quizzing A's brother asd to what he was doing.

As oer usual, I was found very easily. Probably cause I was talking xD

Ah! However~ I did freak A's brother...

I was hiding in a closet, and it was a very tight squeeze, so I'm kinda surprised no one heard the rattling...

When I was discovered I sort of defeatedly started saying "aww damn.. you found me..!!" but then A's brother jumped back in fear xD AHAHAHAAA >D

Later we decided to go on the trampoline in the dark, and despite constant warnings of slugs, I ended up stepping on a massive one... It squelched under my toes!! blech!!

And then I ended up doing it again and again..... D'':

A little later, A asked me if I was thirsty, and whether or not I wanted orange juice or milk.

I said I really didn't mind, so I'll have which ever...

He came back with a simply lovely drink! (please remember it was dark) At first it looked like milk...

...until I drank it, and it tasted like orange...

...And then in horror I realised it was a mixture of orange and milk!! BLECCCHHH!!! Disgusting!

So I shoved it back to him and demanded he drank the rest of it D<

And... he did!! I honestly didn't expect him to! (hope he wasn't ill D: )

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In other news, Although I have recently been working on my manga regarding Xanthie; Due to the Manga Jiman and M.I.C.C. competition deadlines coming up, I'm working on those now, thus pausing Xanthie ness... but don't worry! After I've done my entry for M.I.C.C., I'll get back to work on Xantheh!

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'Tis all for now, bye~!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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[note: M.I.C.C. = http://e-morning.jp/mimc/index.html]

Bondage Monkey shall live on in our hearts~!!

2009-08-18T07:32:00.000-07:00

Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelled like elderberries!

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I had the most randomest day yesterday xD.

We went to the park, like ya do, but A had found an old xmas present that was meant for Scarfy... so we ended up opening it yesterday... and it was this weird monkey thing... with stretchy arms that made a monkey noise if it hit something...

The idea is that you shot it into the sky and it made a monkey noise... so, basically, it was a flying monkey, with a cape and mask. But we called it 'Bondage Monkey' (aka B Monkey, aka B-mon).

Poor lil B-mon was abused so much yesterday... he ended up breaking!! Dx

In the end, what originally sounded like a monkey noise actually sounded like b-mon was crying!! D8.

So we did the usual; eat in the church yard thing, and go to the park. Oh, and we had these nasty chocolates (again from A's random xmas leftovers) that's BBE date was in Feb 09...

Mine tasted like... well, the only way I can put it is, it tasted like freeze dried astronaut ice cream that's been sitting around in the open air for a month or so.

(... yeah I eat weird things ok?)

Scarfy said his tasted like hairspray...! (o_o)

Aah~ But yesterday, I felt like such a kid again!! Take breakfast for example; I didn't eat at home, so I bought breakfast from the post office/shop to eat whilst I was waiting for my bus. I had;

- a mini milk (milk flavour)

- a liqourice straw with the sherbert stuff in it

- tizer

I swear those just reverted me right back to the age of about 5!! 8D

And then, when we were at the park, we went to this 'castle' 'ruin' type thing... (it's really small... I can't really explain it)

Anyhoo, so I sat on one of the turrets, and was all "I AM THE QUEEN!!!"; then S*cra joined me and I proclaimed "YOU CAN BE THE QUEEN TOO!!"

And the two of us shouted "WE ARE THE LESBIAN QUEENS OF THE LESBAIN CASTLE!!".

Then, as scarfy climbed on the other castle he was all "I SHALL BE TEH KING!"

But we just agreed that he was also a lesbian queen. A, however was merely a lesbian peasant 8D.

And, as I was storming scarfy's castle; I slipped, and grazed my knee!! Haha I felt just like a kid again! It was so much fun!!

But... then I realised that my knee was bleeding and covered in mud and grit and God knows what else; so I ventured off to the kiosk thing that sells ice cream, to get some antiseptic wipes of sorts.

This is roughly how the conversation went;

Kiosk man: Hello again~ what can I get you love?

JAM: hi~ uhmm you wouldn't happen to have any antiseptic wipes would you?

k.m.: oh, no sorry, for health and safety reasons we can't give any of that stuff out.

J: ohhh ok...

k.m.: why? what's happened?

J: oh! [big grin] I fell over and grazed my knee!!

k.m.: ... how old are you!?

J: eheh ^^; well, could I have a wet tissue at least? just to clear it up?

k.m.: uhhh... wet tissue... ok sure

Then as I walked away I suddenly realised; "for health and safety reasons..." They couldn't give me an antiseptic wipe for health and safety reasons.

So, lemme get this straight; by law, I can't get an antiseptic wipe to clear up scratches and grazes, just incase I hurt my self with it?!

I mean, I understand not being able to give out medicines but... an anti-septic wipe?! whaddya gonna do? Get high off it?! xD haha so basically, just to make sure I don't get myself high off anti-septic wipes, I've gotta leave cuts and grazes with loads of mud and other lovely things in it??

...weird.

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But, other than storming each other's lesbian castles, not being allowed to get high off wipes and killing a (to be honest) pretty creepy bondage monkey, we also got up to many other not-so-mature shannanigans at le park.

Liiiike, spinning round on the kiddies round-a-bout so fast till we all felt really sick, got bad headaches and couldn't wwalk straight; whilst some kids just watched and stared at us.

Oh yeah, and dancing the hare hare yukai to verrrry quiet music whilst (the same) kids stared at us!! 8D

Oh, and shouting "I'll go on top!!" as we all fought over the zip wire xD ahahahhaa ahh well, yesterday was certainly very odd and crazy xD. But deffinately fun and worthwhile~!

Well, I shall leave you for now~ But tomorrow, I'm going to ALTON TOWERS!!! 8D Whoo hoooo~!!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Sudden Brain Wave of DOOM!!

2009-08-16T06:13:00.001-07:00

I've finally solved the mystery of the gummi bear voice!!

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Something as been annoying me for a while. The voice of the gummi bear in "The Natural Confectionary Company" advert.

And I suddenly realised who is it/who it sounds like!!!

THE CRAZY PERVY 2ND BOSS IN THE IT CROWD!! >D

Well, that's about all for now... just thought I'd share! 8D

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Pub and GO!

2009-08-14T05:28:00.000-07:00

Love Hetalia so much~! Obviously, Arthur is the best!

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Ok, so a few days ago I downloaded Hetalia Character single: UK!!

<3>D

haha... this pic made me laugh so much 8D

To top it all off, the lyrics are so funny XD. for example; here are the lyrics for "Pub and GO!";

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My name is England.
My formal name is The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
It will come up in the test later!

Today it rains as well, yesterday it rained as well
Surely Tomorrow it will rain as well, but
I will not open my umbrella
Because I am
A British gentleman, gentleman, gentleman.

Pub Pub Pub and Go!
Fish and Chips!
I'll put a curse on that guy I hate.
Ms. Fairy, Ms. Fairy
Ahahahaha!
I'll keep marching forward~~!

I'm glad to have met you.
I mean, that is, I'm being sarcastic!
A face is floating from that wall over there!
Hard to Starboard! (Hard to Starboard!)

And then my sorcery is white, black (*cheers*)
Tea is obviously better than Coffee.
Hot-hothothothotho—!
First of all, pour the milk ahead.

If you sit down, you'll die
The chair of Busby
To hell in full speed!
Busby, Busby
Assemble, everyone – Unicorn, Pixie
In the Panjandrum, let's go – To the battlefield!

You guys, let's go!
Let's go? Let's go!

Pub Pub Pub and Go!
Fish and Chips!
If you drink you'll understand! You'll understand if you drink!
Ms. Fairy, Ms. Fairy
Ahahahaha!
I'll keep marching forward~~!

Abra Kadabra~!
Let's curse with all our strength~!
Abra Kadabra~!
Her Majesty the Queen, Hurrah!

Pub Pub Pub and Go!
Fish and Chips!
I'll put a curse on that guy I hate
Ms. Fairy, Ms. Fairy
Ahahahaha!
I'll keep marching forward~~!

(A-,Da-,Ra-,Ka-,A-,Da-,Ra-,Ka-)
Stupid (x31)
America you idiot!!!
(A-,Da-,Ra-,Ka-,A-,Da-,Ra-,Ka-)
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Yeaah~ ya gotta love Hetalia!! <3

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In other news; 'flipnote studio' has finally been released here in the UK!! <3

It's so much fun!! ^^

well, that's all for now~ byee~

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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The Adventures of Captain Jock and Doctor Poo.

2009-08-12T08:41:00.000-07:00

... And after I said I wouldn't eat chocolate till Halloween.

"You'll never guess her secret"~ no spoilers involved, I promise.

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SUPER LIFE UPDATE TIEM YEAH!

I realised after posting the other day, that I haven't actually posted about anything interesting... only about England and low calorie water. orz.

Ok~ so, on Saturday I went to "Quarry Bank Mill" (aka Styal Mill). 8D It is exactly the same as I remember it!! 8D nosrsly!

Styal is basically a big old cotton mill, which is now a big old cotton mill museum! 8D It's very popular with primary schools in and about our area for school trips. Either to do with mills, or Victorians, or even nature (there's lots of land to walk in). So pretty much everyone around my age in this area will have been to Styal at some point or another during primary school life. And if not, then ... then I don't know what. I seriously gained alot of reminiscing momentios whilst we were there..! It hasn't changed! :3

The best part was the water room!! >D Oh yeah, then "A" and I were extremely successful at [failing] being ninjas! bwahahaaa.

After dinner A, his brother and I engaged in a game of hide and seek! >D I showed off my glorious hiding talents... (In the end I just stood in a door way and said "I'M A DOOR!!" *fail*.)

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Monday was filled with baking an odd grey cake concoction type thing, getting a little wet, playing some more mario kart, failing again at some more hide and seek, and giving a cat a bath.....

I swear, seeing a cat being shampooed is one of the strangest things I've ever seen... and I've seen a lot of strange things! And the cake... it was actually pretty nice but, I think next time we'll follow a recipe or something!

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So this brings us to today!! >D

"There's something's wrong with Esther"

"You'll never guess her secret"

Today, we saw "Orphan"! It's actually a very good film! However, It's not quite as scary as I thought it would be... D: Fair bit of blood and gore, but other than that, it's not too scary. Very good though, and very creepy.

So guys and gals, life lesson; when adopting a child, don't adopt the 'mature' loner Russian girl who has no background history.

On the subject of scary movies however, a trailer was shown for "Sorority Row" which looks really good!! (not sure what it's certificate is gonna be though >: ...) [hopefully 15!! :3 ]

http://www.imdb.com/video/imdb/vi3933471513/

And after the guy in the train station told us the next train on platform 2 went to our stop, when it didn't, we ended up in Stoke...!! Thankfully, we got off there rather than ending up in London!! D8

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Just before I go, I'd like to give a quick plug to an amazing comedian 8D

Please check out the rest of his videos!! <3>

http://www.youtube.com/user/crabstickz#play/all

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In other news, please also check out the legendary adventures of Captain Jack and Doctor Poo~!!

haha There's many maaany more random videos showing David and John goofing around backstage~ haha more next post >D

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Okayy~ bye bye for now~!!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Low Calorie Water, what the HELL?!

2009-08-10T12:11:00.000-07:00

Seriously, you have got to be taking the piss?!

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Ok, I know I just posted literally about 5 minutes ago, but I just saw an advert (on the telly box) for 'skinny water', the "low calorie water~".

WHAT THE HELL!?

Low Calorie water?! It's water! It doesn't have any calories to begin with!! Seriously... what. the. hell?!

Ok, so basically it's water, with added nutrients that help you loose weight.

OH MY GAWD PEOPLE. If you want a healthy drink, then drink fruit juice or something.

Srsly........ low calorie water? *HEADDESK*

Omg... It's just... aggg.

well, whatever... bye for now.

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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(=A=) [+whaheyyy~]

2009-08-10T11:31:00.000-07:00

Omnomnom~ smashing cake Gromit!

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As I was travelling into [small town beginning with an M], I suddenly realised (having had to convince the bus driver I was 15), that sooner or later, I won't be able to pass as a 15 year old... *headdesk*.

I kow lots of 6th form colleges and the likes give students 'student IDs' for the use of getting discounts etc~! But, as far as I'm aware, I don't think my school does DX

Also, there's an advert floating around on the telly-box that starts with the words "it's exam result season!!". orz.

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It's [mini] rant tiem!!

England! England really isn't that bad... haha ok ok, so we've got our crappy public transport, our chavs, our stubborness, our rubbish-covered towns... But!! It's not all that bad eh?

Recently (actually having come back from the cruise) I've been taking notice of more and more day to day happenings and stuffs.

I've been watching alot of late night American comedy shows recently, but also English ones too... and tbh I really love the English ones! haha I luuurve Dead Ringers (why did it stop?!) QI, and all the other quiz type shows (8 out of 10 cats, Have I got news for you, etc.).

Admitedly, there have been times when I've been embarassed to be British, but in the end, I am proud to be British.

I'm also proud of the fact we have perfectly normal words/phrases that other English speaking countries (ie America) don't use.

Some examples;

lorry

bloody hell

pants*

w**nker (apparently Americans don't use this... is this TRUE?!)

taking the piss (my friend told me this isn't used in the US either.... I mean, srsly?!)

poppycock

fag

*pants as in knickers, or 'panties' as they're known across the pond.

And, of course, various other typical British things such as 'smashing' etc. etc. Also, I love cockney!! Haha we confused many passers by on our school trip to the US by talking cockeny. I remember us saying something along the lines of;

"right, so if we go up the apples and pears and..." "ohhh bloody hell I dropped my dog and bone!" "ohhhhhh! look at that lorry!" "Ohh hey turn the tap off!"

Yeaaaah... in America, a tap is a faucet...? I'm not sure if it can be also known as a tap but...?

Ohhh and the words 'rubber' and 'fag' caused ALOT of hilarity one night...!

So, you may/may not know, but in the UK, a rubber is simply an eraser, and a fag is a cigarette. However, in the US, a rubber is a condom, and a fag is a gay person.

Sooo you can imagine the odd looks we got when we ambled down the streets of Washington DC at night saying "oohh look! there's a fag on the floor... ohh and another. And another... woah there are fags everywhere!!".

And actually, something that seriously shocked and confused me is that, Americans have NO idea what a lorry is. I mean, ok I understand somethings, like the whole fag/rubber/pants thing can cause some mixups but... c'mon? a lorry!!?

[observe the above picture for a moment, friends.] THIS, is a lorry. haha sorry, but I can't get my head round the fact that there are those who do not consider this as a lorry..!

So, all in all, I'm pretty proud to be British.

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ps. The cake reference in the opening sentence, was a reference to a simply wonderful cake we made today. Mmmm~! But seriously, next time we should follow a recipe.

Bai bai for now~!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Track Three.

2009-08-06T07:26:00.000-07:00

Citizens rejoice! Your lord and master stands on high, playing track three.

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I've been reminiscing.<3

Ok; so after a marathon of 'Dead Ringers' (<3)

Also, a combination of sed song, insomnia and a recent Higurashi marathon lead to this;

http://comicbook-girl.deviantart.com/art/I-Can-t-Decide-132337077

wheeey~!

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Love The Master!! I mean, it's not his fault he's evil now is it?! But seriously, this is how evil geniuses are meant to be!! <3

By the way; that song is soooo depressingly cheery! I mean it sounds super happy but omg the lyrics..!!

"I can't decide

whether you should live or die;

Oh, you'll probably go to heaven,

please don't hang your head and cry.

No wonder why,

My heart feels dead inside,

it's cold and hard and petrified.

Lock the doors and close the blinds,

we're going for a ride.

Oh I could throw you in the lake,

Or feed you poisoned birthday cake,

I won't deny I'm gonna miss you when you're gone.

Oh I could bury you alive,

but you might crawl out with a knife

and kill me when I'm sleeping

That's why

I can't decide

whether you should live or die..."

etc. etc. See?! Isn't it cheery?!

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In other news; I vaguely remember someone (quite possibly 'A') telling me that there were kangaroos loose on Tegg's Nose!!

...Ok, I just read it the way most of you read it. haha.

'Tegg's Nose' is a large hill type thing near where I live; it's not a mountain, but It's big enough to get lost on 8D haha. It's popular in this area for scenic walks and such!

So... I wanna know, is it true that there are kangaroos up there? Or was it some other sort of strange animal let loose?

But more importantly... I wanna go on a kangaroo hunt!! yeaaahh!!

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Well, anyway; tis all for now~ bye for now!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Back to "Normal"

2009-08-04T08:11:00.000-07:00

Never fear! We still have a total of 33 days left of summer!

WAIT!! 33!? THAT'S NOT ENOUGH!!!

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Hello everyone! And Greetings from my back to "normal" life after being on that strange land of cruise-dom.

This year, more than ever, I'm getting that horrible feeling of "omg we only have XX days left till school! what have I been doing all summer?!"/time-is-running-out syndrome. It probably didn't help that I went from 4 days solid with a friend, to being completely cut off from the normal world for close to 2 weeks. So now that I'm back, I seem to have a slight mental block of anything that happened before the cruise... which has launched me ever so slightly into panic mode. I keep thinking stuff like "aaghhh!! I haven't done anything I wanted to do this summer! and It's already August!!". Then I remember that I actually have, and I've done a hell of a lot more than I usually would in summer. I've been to the cinema a few times, I've had a prom, I've been to a karaoke booth, I've been camping... and much much more that doens't sound much but really was a lot of fun.

In short, this summer, I've done a lot more than I usually do, and alot more than last summer. (Thinking about it, what did I do last summer, other than stay inside all day?!). Usually my summers are filled with staying inside all day doing really nothing, or being all alone in Anglesey with no one but my mother and grandma for company... Love them as I do, the beach really isn't much fun on your own.

However, it seems that my determination to go above and beyond in order to have the best, most fun filled summer ever, seems to be a bit of a double edged sword as well.

I was brought up with my mum saying stuff like "you can't see your friends every single day! you'll just get tired out!!" haha which was completely true really!! All my friends live at least a short bus ride away, if not a long one; so whenever I saw them, there was something in mysubconcious that's said;

"OMGLET'SGOCRAZYHYPERANDHAVESOMUCHFUN

INCASEWEDON'TSEETHEMAGAINFORAWEEK!!"

And, tbh I think it's still there, only a little more subdued. But!! I think, it is summer! I've finished my exams! Next year is gonna be tough! I DESERVE IT! Ahahahahh! I'm not a kid any more! I'll see my friends every single day if I want! I'll stay up late watching late night tv (which I'm sorry, but is waaayyy better than prime time!) and get wasted on gummi bears!! AHAAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAA!!

[you are currently witnessing a freak stream of conciousness as displayed by the one known as JAM. Please standby as she calms down and starts to think a little more logically.]

....I have suddenly realised that come 7th September I'm going to launch into deep depression or something...!! Hahaha. My fast life of late night tv and anime will be replaced by coursework and homework. My friends will be replaced by new students and teachers. Manga will be replaced by poetry and prose... omg I probably am going to go into depression after that! DON'T LEAVE ME SUMMER!!!

[It appears JAM is still in stream of conciousness mode. If not a little more saddening...]

*DEEP BREATH*

Ok. I'm good. Yeaaah so I was just reflecting on the repercussions of by double edged sword of summer fun... But, to be honest, even If I do have maaajor anti-climax syndrome after day 1 of school, It'll be worth it!! AHAHA! I'll never have a 16 year old's summer again, so I might as well enjoy it whilst I can!!

***

In other, even more depressing news;

Although I've known about it for some time, It's suddenly hit me that results day is in 22 days...

Most people I've talked to are, obviously, nervous about it, but everyone seems to be excited as well, to see what their results are...

As for me, I just want to climb into a very small cave and ignore the whole shizznay. I studied hard 24/7 for 2-3 months, I did the exams... and now I want nothing to do with it ever ever again. I'd rather just not know my results, and live a happy, blissful life in ignorance.

However. I'm gonna have to find out sooner or later... and like they say, "Curiousity killed the JAM". (...or was it cat?).

But... ughh. somewhere in a very tiny and pushed right to the back part of my brain, I can ever so slightly remember 'Ha' trying to organise a BBQ after our results. Now. 'Ha' is very clever. In her mocks she got all A*s, if not one or two As. (trust me I am not even going to go into what my mock results where... I was going through a very tough time ok!?)

So, unless she was hit by lightning and simultaneously lost every single one of her braincells, then her GCSE results are going to be the same.

So, here's the scenario;

everyone's given their envelope. Everyone opens their envelope. Everyone either cries of happiness or of sadness. I remain crouched in the corner of the hall clutching onto the unopened thing for dear life, as I rock back and forth with utter fear and dread. *shudder* Just thinking about what's going to happen makes me want to just drop down on the floor and lie there for a while....

I mean, I'm an optimist, but for some reason I just can't help but think the worst of these stupid things. I've always been predicted As and A*s, but in the past few months... ugggh. And I reeeeaaaally don't like the idea of opening it in front of everyone. To be perfectly honest, there's only two people on this earth I'm willing to open that envelope in front of, and neither of them will be in the hall.

So yeah..... BBQ is probably not such a good idea for me DX sorry 'Ha', the invitation is much appreciated, but I think I'dve passed out by then. (And I don't tend to do passing out...)

***

...Ok well that was joyous!! <3

Anywhoo!! I shall leave you with such lovely thoughts~

This is JAM, over and out!!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Are YOU Sweet Enough!? [MSC Lirica Baltic Cruise]

2009-07-27T15:50:00.000-07:00

I'm back from the magical land of MSC Lirica~! So prepare yourslef for a roller coster of an epicly long post~ <3

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Ok guys! I'm back~.

Back with many a story to tell. Stories of prizes, politics, and nice people. Brace yourslef!

The Journey.

Starting on 13th July '09 (Monday), mum, grandma and I travelled all the way down from rainy North West England to not-so-rainy Canterbury (South East England). The following day we were preparing to set off on a luxurious cruise around the Baltic; aboard MSC Lirica. Our trip was to take us all the way from Dover, to Amsterdam (Holland), Bremenhaven (Germany), Goteborg (Sweden), Tallinn (Estonia), St. Petersburg (Russia) and Copehagen (Denmark).

[all images are (c) to me; SamuraiJAM/comicbook-girl. For the full gallery please visit: http://comicbook-girl.deviantart.com/gallery/#Baltic-Cruise-09-MSC-Lirica]

So, on the 14th July, we set off from our over night stop of Canterbury and headed to Dover. (whilst taking photos of road-sode poppies and roadsigns along the way).

LIFE LESSON : book online, get a fast track ticket!!

Even though we booked online and got an "express" ticket, we still had to queue loads to get on the ship. Not as much as regular ticket holders though... the poor souls.

One of the best things about MSC cruiseliners is that they're an Italian country, and people from all over Europe go on their cruises; meaning you're with people of different nationalities; which is really refreshing.

Soon enough, it was dinner, and, as grandma didn't want to eat late at night, we had to eat in the first sitting (aka; at 6.15pm/18.15). Which was hard for me, as I usually eat late. So, becuase I really wasn't very hungry, and as we sat down to eat, the ship was already pulling out of port; I excused myself as mum & grandma ate their appetisers, and ran up the stairs from Deck 5 to Deck 11, with mum's backup camera (Nikon D40). All so I could get pictures of the White Cliffs of Dover as we were leaving. I thought that, as the next time we'd get such a view would be 6.00am, I'd never get another chance to do so. (I was wrong, but still).

Through a series of various events, I ended up running up and down those stairs about 5-6 times.

Which is when I met Bannister Man.

Bannister Man was, simply put, the guy who polished the bannisters. Most people of his rank in the ship; cleaners, etc; were pretty much ignored and taken for granted by most passengers... So their faces always lit up when you talked to them.

Although we never really talked properly, Bannister Man was always very friendly and smiley, and always seemed happy to see me... He was very nice; I didn't touch the bannisters because he always seemed to be working so hard...

So anyway, 'twas when I met Bannister Man. Now, on with the story.

Amsterdam

I tell ya, it's very strange at first, to go to sleep looking at sea, and wake up looking at windmills (the energy creating type <3) and cranes. So, our first proper destination was Amsterdam!! We didn't book any excursions for Amsterdam, so we just explored on our own~.

Moslty, we just visited Anne Frank's House, and had lunch. But we explored a little, took lots of photos and found the first case of grandma being classed as foreign. No special cakes, sorry...

There were bikes everywhere in Amsterdam. I mean. EVERYWHERE. you couldn't turn a corner or walk down a road and not see one!

Although we didn't really do much it was very nice to explore a little, I'd deffinately come back again!!

Bremenhaven

Actually, we didn't get off the ship when we were in Bremenhaven. Apparently there wasn't much to see there (?) So we spent the whole day sun bathing on Deck 11 X3

Gotenborg

Gotenborg was really nice, it was calm too. And everyone seemed really friendly! Again, we didn't do any excursions here, so we just explored on our own. Grandma was very concerned she wanted a really nice cake in a cafe... but she never got one... I: However, mum and I stumbled upon a very nice clothes shop, so now my wardrobe has grown slightly...

Another note about Gotenborg is the Pantbank.

This made for much hilarity between my mother and I. I wonder what it actually means?

As we were rushing back to the shuttle bus which would take us back to the ship, I saw an An Cafe t shirt on sale outside a shop! I almost had a panic attack!! haha~ I guess you really know you're a cafekko when that happens X'D

[At Sea]

The day after \gotenborg was a whole day at sea. Our hopes of the glorious 80+ degrees F baking sunshine in which to sunbathe and swim under all day were shattered when we woke up and saw that it was raining. Going up to Deck 11, we saw it wasn't just raining, it was chucking it down! I mean, proper, full blown ENGLAND type raining!! Not to mention the wind, it was so windy!! In the end it turned into a full blown storm, tunder, lighting and everything. I worked out, with the playground trick of counting the seconds from the flash till the bang, that the thunder/lighting was pretty much right on top of us; meaning we were sailing through the eye of the storm - there were even hail stones and everything!! So yeah.... bye bye sun tan~

Tallinn

After we finally managed to get out of that damn storm, we were greeted by 80 dgrees in Tallinn! <3 Our tour guide in Tallinn was very friendly and very informative! She basically told us the entire political history of Estonia; and let me say, those guys ROCK!!

They were always being captured by some people or another, first the Danish, then the Germans during ww2, and after that they came subject to Soviet Russia and communism.

However~ Estonia was hell bent on getting their freedom! The people of Estonia all managed to get their representatives in the Soviet Union to back out and refuse to join in with Russia. That way, they managed to become Estonia again, and not just a satelitte state. By the early 90s, they were on their way to freedom, but they knew that they had to get their own currency to do so. The only way of doing so was to stop the circulation of Russian roubles. But to do this, they had to go for months on only one months worth salary, until they could bring in their own currency. Because of all this, Estonia is very democratic and even the parliament, you can not only walk straight up to, but you can walk straight into the Estonian parliament, and even request to talk to an MP!!

Estonia's parliament. Compared to other parliament buildings, it's quite small. Not to mention pink! You can't see itt very well, but on top of the turret is the Estonian flag. The blue at the top symbolises Estonia's blue skies, the black is Estonia's land, and the white at the bottom represents freedom, meaning Estonia is built on freedom.

So, all in all Tallinn was wonderful! And I'd deffinately go back again!! Probably in the summer though... our guide said that in winter, -15C is mild. MILD!! -20C is about normal and -30C is a bit rough.

St. Petersburg

St. Petersburg was very interesting... In some ways, it was a bit like Disney land... Most of the palaces and such (such as the winter palace) had been burnt down or destroyed, so they had to rebuild them all; so there's this odd sort of feeling that what you're seeing isn't really real...

We were docked in St Petersburg for 2 days, so on the first day we went on a canal tour of the city, and we went to St. Peter & Paul's fortress, in the morning.

In Peter and Paul's fortress, we went into the cathedral (The Romanovs like gold. I mean, in a BIG way). There were all these tombs, or at least memorial type things in to shape of tombs, dotted about inside the cathedral, such as Peter the Great, and Catherine I.

Whilst we were in St Petersburg, all we ever heard about was "Peter the Great" and "Catherine I". It was as if everyone was in denial over the past 100 years or so. It was all very strange, none of us had visas, so we could only enter the country as part of a tour group. But the whole time, it was as if we weren't being told the whole story. It was a big contrast with Tallinn, where we were told the entire political history of the country, whereas in Russia, it seemed like some big cover up story.

On the second day we went to the Summer Palace and gardens in the morning, and the Hermitage in the afternoon. It was a full day's excusion... and it was completely knackering!! Our tourguide gave us these little black box type things and headphones... it was like a radio reciever or something... so she could talk and we could hear her over the noise of the other tourists. And, well in the end, my mum and I, along with a nice middle aged ish couple we met on the tour decided we'd had enough and took the headphones off. Haha! It was like being in primary school, I swear! Yknow, when you have the annoyingly enthusiastic teacher that no one really likes... and you have to go on a school trip/field trip that turns out the be the really boring sort, and the best part of the day was the gift shop? And you get the goody goody two shoes at the front with the teacher listening intently, then the naughty kids ambling behind at the front, talking amoungst themselves and ignoring the teacher (might I say, I am very proud to say that I was the latter, always at the back saying "I'm bored" and mucking about with my friends). Well, it was basically like that.... but without the exciting gift shop.

The man we were with (part of the couple that is) was very funny, and made us laugh (thinking about it, it was exactly like being at school!! haha!). Because we were so far at the back, our radio reciever things didn't pick up very well so they kept crackling. He said "honestly, it's all snap crackle and pop!!.... it's like listening to a bowl of rice krispies!!" So, from then on out, her name to us was "Rice Krispies".

Another one he came up with was "Don't look nbow, but in the next room, is an original, authentic Russian Barbie doll" (he was refering to the member of staff standing watch in the room.... you really had to be there to get it, but it was hilarious!!). haha yeah, we were deffinately the bad kids at the back XD

So, after the palace & gardens, and then after lunch, we made out way to the Hermitage. We were so worn out from the palace and gardens alone (we're not very good at playing tourist), a lot of us fell asleep during the half an hour coach trip to the Hermitage. And, to my horror, when I woke up, I realised I'd been sleeping not only with my head back.... but.... my mouth open!! I NEVER sleep like that! I swear! It was so embarassing!! And to add insult to injury, when I woke up, and realised this, we were stopped at the traffic lights, with a Russian public bus next to us and... loads of people on sed bus were staring at me!! It was so embarassing!! :C

So. The Hermitage. Something that, as art lovers, should have been wonderful... But, with ourt lame tourguide it was turned into a nightmare!! We were told we couldn't take water bottles into the gallery (the hell!?) so we went without water or any form of liquid hydration for about 3 hours. To make things worse, the place was pakced with other tour groups!! So, because of that it was hot. And then our tourguide kept walking and walking and we didn't get the chance to sit down often... So, basically, we were on our feet (already knackered) for about 3 hours, in stuffy, hot, crowded rooms, completely 100% dehydrated!! (Surely that's a breach of human rights or soemthing?) Oh yeah, and no chance of a toilet stop at the end, so mum and I almost got left behind. (That's surely a breach of rights?!)

And, to add insult to injury yet again, we spent hours looking at Renaissance pictures. Our tour guide said she'd give us the highlights tour, so we could get a good view of everything. Oh boy was that a mistranslation! We (meaning us naughty kids) were yet again, at the back not paying attention. None of us very particularly keen on the Renaissance, I mean it can be beautiful and everything, but we much prefer modern and abstract etc. So, so spend about 30 minutes in each Renaissance room was a complete killer!! In the end, we gave up even looking at the paintigs.

Don't get me wrong and say stuff like "philistine!!", because believe me, I've grown up with art and I've been going to galleries probably pretty much since I was born. Mum and I particularly, go to art galleries quite often, and even in an exhibit we really like, we would NEVER spend that much time in a gallery! Our guide was hell bent on throwing her views on art and giving her own commentary on every single damn painting. Art is there for you to make your own meaning of. You don't need to make a whole commentary for it, just appreciate it in your own way. And it's deffinately not acceptable to have other's opinions forced on you.

So, for us modern lovers, this was a nightmare! (the dehydration, heat and lack of seats didn't help). And! By the time we actually got to the modern art section, as in, the greats, like Matisse, and Picasso (<3) she literally just walked through and didn't say anything about them (we had funny man listening in every now and then to see what she was saying). We went to a massive room of Picasso paintings and d'you know what she said?! All she said was "oh... and Picasso was another artist who used abstract and cubism" and with that she ran to the next room. I mean! Another?! Another?!! Geez that man practically invented cubism!! She dragged us round for the good part of 3 hours looking at her favourite paintings, and then this? It was awful... And after Picasso, there was a room on Matisse (one of mum's faves). She didn't even say anything, we just walked through and weren't even allowed to look at any of them. Thankfully, we'd already seen the exhibit before, when it was in London... but it had some of his greatest works and we weren't allowed to see them properly;

One of his most famous pieces and we weren't allowed to see it. Thankfully we'd already seen it in London.

And (I'm using this saying alot, sorry) to add insult to injury yet again, as we were leaving, we walked past the entrance to a massive exhibit on... Japanese Art!!! I swear I almost cried!! There was no way I could've seen that exhibit, Even if I'd snuck in and gone super-turbo-art-lover-jam on it, I would've either

a) completely been left stranded in Russia on my own (no srsly mum and I were almost forgotten)

b) In order to see it and keep up with the group, I would've had to ran soooo quickly, everything would've been a blur, and I wouldn'tve been able to appriciate it properly.

However, there was a massive shodo (calligraphy) hanging outside the room, which I managed to get a picture of;

I don't know who it was by, or quite what it says, but I think it's very beautiful... It's just a shame I didn't get to see any more...

Anyone who's familiar with the animated film "Anastasia" (which, was not made by Disney! It was infact made by FOX :3 (which may I say is the best surname ever.)), will know of this place;

<3 <3 <3 !!!

I had to take this from a veryy veerrryyy small little open window in the Hermiatge. And, surprise surprise, our tourguide wouldn't take us into the square/plaza thing, and she even falied to recognise it was there. But still! I got the picture!!

Oh, I forgot to mention we went to see Swan Lake at the ballet on the first night. It was very good... however, it was a shortened version, and it was actually a student ballet. However, we payed top whack for it. I'm talking covent garden prices!!.

Copenhagen

After another day at sea, we docked in Copenhagen. We ...ended up not doing much in Copenhagen... Grandma desperately wanted to go to "Tivoli" which, apparently used to be nice Victorian style gardens... which is now some form of theme park... with VERY tame rides, might I say, even the big ones. But then again, I guess that's how it is when you come from a country that has the likes of Oblivion, and Nemesis (not to mention the SAW ride at Pleasure Beach, which I am desperate to go on!!). Haha but then, this is all coming from someone who lives pretty close to one of the country's biggest theme parks*, and if "Rita Queen of Speed"'s speed is classed as "illegal" in France, then the same might be said in Denmark. We... meaning I didn't go on any rides though... there wasn't really much time, they weren't as good as the ones back home and, I was wearing a skirt. (I didn't know it wa a theme park, ok?)

I did, however, get some candy floss. which was WAYYY better than the stuff we get at home!! This was actually.... FRESH! and...... on one of those cone type stick things!!!!!! At home, it's already made and in a plastic bag.... but when you see it made in front of you in the big machine thing and put on a cone stick thing.... ahh! it just tastes SOOOO much better!! haha brings back memories of my very early childhood! In England, we did actually used to have candyfloos on sticks that was made in a big machine in front of you.... but for some very strange reason, we don't any more... it's so depressing!! D':

So anyway! This Danish candyfloss was actually twice the size of my head!!! And I ate it all! ALL!! AHAHAHAHAHAAAA!! And I didn't feel sick after, either.... actually what I said was;

"...heyyy mum~ can I have some more?!"

and her response was, inevitably;

"NO!!!!"

aww.... but hey, it was sooo good~!!

***

So, after another day at sea after Copenhagen, we eventually arrived back home in Dover. And then we had a 7 hour or so drive back to the North West!! D':

We left Dover at about 11am ish, and by the time we'd dropped Grandma off and had a cup of tea and such (cause, yknow, in England you can't do anything till you've had a cup of tea. It's practically the law. I'm serious, it's true!), Mum and I ended up getting home about 7ish.

And like the typical teenager, I spent the whole night uploading photos to facebook, and the whole following day uploading the more artsy ones to DeviantART!

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The Ship

I can't blog about my cruise and not talk about the ship itself!! (gawd) So; As I've already said, we were staying on MSC Lirica;

The Ship itself was really nice~ Every night there were performances in the Theatre! Some were singing, some were dancing, some were magic... some even had contortionists!!!!! I LOVE those guys!! They're amaaaazing!! I wish I could be that bendy!! they're just so amazing!! <3

And one night there were two singers singing the Phantom of the Opera~ It sounded so good~ I love the version that was on the ship~ but the original and film version sounds kinda lame.... hmm it's probably just me, but on the ship, the woman sung it all high pitched and opera like, and the man's voice was so strong~ It was lovely!! <3

Whenever we had a whole day at sea, we had a "gala" night, meaning everyone put their best clothes on!! cocktail dresses and bowties all round~!! On our 2nd day at sea (between Russia and Denmark) we had "elegant afternoon tea" in "La Bussola" (one of the restaurants). It was...... so cool!!! It was like something out of a shoujo manga!! Like Ouran High or something!! It was soo nice!! And then two of the waiters came over (pretty much all the waiters in there were Indonesian btw) with a cake trolley and asked me if I wanted cake (they never asked mum and grandma come to think of it...) I politely refused, but they wouldn't give in..!! The converstaion roughly went like this;

(btw, they kept calling me something in Indonesian that I guess meant miss or something... but I forgot what it was!! DX so for now it's represented as this : [*])

"Hello, would you like some cake [*]?"

"oh, no thank you"

"awwww no, you want some cake!"

"oh, no I'm fine thank you"

(waiters look at each other)

"ahhhh!!! you keep diet?"

"oh... uhm no I..."

"you hold weight?"

"uhm... n- -"

"Are you sweet enough for it~~?! [*]~ [*]~"

".......... fine, chocolate cake please!"

"yaaay!! Here you go [*]!!"

...No srsly. that was the conversation.

All the waiters were very nice! Particularly our waiters, Budi and Khadak (I think Khadak was his name.... he never introduced himself and I only saw his name tag briefly DX )

One night, Budi made a rose out of a napkin and put it in a champagne glass on our table! haha Khadak got all excited! "Do you like it?! Budi made it!!!" he said~ haha.

On the last night, when we had special Baked Alaska, most of the waiters had to carry this flaming Baked Alaska around. It looked so cool! Khadak was carrying it for his and Budi's tables, he started laughing when he saw us all clapping!

The cleaners were really nice too!! I got lost a couple of times, and one of the cleaners helped point me in the right direction!;

"excuse me!"

"huh?"

"your cabin is that way!!"

"...is it? *looks around* heyy!! so it is! thankyouuu!"

I'm great at getting lost!! *thumbs up* He, along with one of the other cleaners always seemed to be in the cabin across from Grandma, so we decided they were either going to sleep or having a party... so we asked them.

mum "are you having a party in there or something?"

cleaner "..............NO."

".....yes, yes."

haha it was so funny!! Just the expression on his face!! XD

And of course, not forgetting Bannister Man!!! Whenever he saw me, he'd greet me with a big grin! haha it was really sweet~ When we were coming back from St Petersburg on the 2nd day, he was helping with getting everyone back on the ship, and when we ignored the arrows and walked completely the wrong way, he helped us in the right direction XD haha we're such doofuses!

And when we left to get off at Dover going home, he saw me off with a big smile! It's very sweet!!

***

So, now I'm back in L'Angleterre, where it's cold, and wet, and rainy... but there are some good things about England after all, it seems. Like, freedom of speech, and being able to wear religious items, and allowing people to be openly gay.

And a few other things too~ <3

So, After all that, I hope I managed to keep it interesting with the photos X'D haha sorry~ <3

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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*In the UK, there are quite a few theme parks, but the "BIG 3" as I like to call them are; Thrope Park, Alton Towers and Pleasure beach, in Blackpool. Thorpe Park & Alton Towers are part of a franchise, so are pretty much the same rides & such. Thorpe Park is down south, and the lovely most awesomeist Alton Towers is up North~ It's infamous amoung us Northern teenagers! >D

PUPA

2009-07-11T14:09:00.001-07:00

I'll start off with a mini Torchwood rant, just to get it out of the way.

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**WARNING! MAY CONTAIN HINTS THAT LEAD TOWARD SPOILERS.**
though technically, there are no spoilers as such.

"OMG", "NOOOO" and "IANTO!!!!!!" have been about the only 'sentences' that have been able to form in my head for the past 2 hours or so. ...until now. Having just got back from camping, I've been catching up on the Torchwood episodes I missed. And.... I can't even begin to explain.

Seriously, it won't make sense to non-Torchwood watchers and I'm guessing most Torchwood watchers have watched it by now.

Ianto... God, I sobbed so much in that scene. I mean, properly. The scene near the end of the last episode too. *sigh*... and now, I doubt there's ever going to be any Torchwood ever again. I mean how can they follow an ending like THAT!? Susie, Tosh, Owen, and now Ianto D':

Anyway, this is probably making no sense whatsoever for non-Torchwood fans, so rant over.

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In other, more JOYOUS nudes; I just got back from camping!!! Whee~ to be honest, I never knew camping could be so much fun!! And! Most importantly;

a) there was not a bloody backpack in sight

b) the toilets were actually sanitary

c) The food was good

d) It was relaxed

e) 'Twas without the pressure of trying to walk faster than my body could cope whilst sun-stroked and carrying a backpack.

[geez, that was a pretty long list; sorreh]

In short, I was surrounded by very lovely people (minus the chav incident) that actually cared I wasn't a good 100 yards or so behind with heat stroke.*

So! ya, I went camping to York with A, A's parents, A's brother (C), and A's brother's friend.

...try saying that 100 times.

The weather was glorious too!! SUNSHINE!!! It did, however, rain on the odd occassion, but overall it was very sunny and very hot and we had BBQs!!!!!

The campsite was like the Ritz in comparison to the horrideousness of DoE. Not to mention that there were (quite probably) a million and one little baby frogs hopping all over the place (sorta). They were SO adorable!

We spent our two days in York being very touristy and visiting the main attractions. On Thursday, we went to "JORVIK" the Viking museum. (Jorvik = York in Viking speak... I caught on to this, naturally, a good 10 minutes after everyone else). And we also went on an open top sight seeing bus 8D and walked along the city wall. Oh!! And spent about 10-15 minutes standing outside a model shop watching the model trains travel along their tracks, and questioning as to why, and where we could get, the miniture TARDIS hanging from nylon thread. And, of course, oggling at the pure skilled craftmanship on the life size model blue-bottle. Though, in hindsight, it was probably just a dead blue-bottle... but STILL. On Friday we went to the train museum!! 8D they had a Japanese bullet train (aka Shinkansen) which thus, induced a whole wave of me waving my arms up and saying "SHINKANSEN!!" every now and then to 'T'; which folled by being poked hard in the ribs by T, whilst he said "YAGU SAKI!" (which, means nothing really).

We also went to the York Dungeons 8D and I had something clinging to my back most of the way round XD

Nights were spent outside the tent, having BBQs, followed by 'roasting' (more like burning) marshmallows until they were black, over candles. And of course, 'C' doing the same thing to a tomato, and all of us watching in fits of laughter as he ate it XD

Which was then followed by searching for mini frogs, and chasing after each other with a pole-less swingball. Oh! and crawling along the driveway at midnight following a cat.... and bashing heads together whilst attempting to apply NINJA SKILLZ! .... yeah that PHAILED.

There were also a few interesting card games, including a trivia type game that put the glasses wearers, (A's dad, C & T) against the sighted, (moi, A and A's mum). We, the sighted, won! XD (of course!)

So, All in all, twas extremely fun and camping is now, officially, back in my good books!!

And now I'm off to Canterbury on Monday in order to get to Dover on Tuesday so that we can head off on our magical adventure cruise to the Baltic! So, as I said in my previous post, I'll attempt to log on at some point in our magical journey in order to update, and die at the sight of 100+ deviations and messages in my devART inbox. (srsly, I've been gone 4 days and it's pretty much almost at that point...!!)

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So, tis all fer now, enjoy the rest of July gaiz~!!

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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PS - sorry for lack of pictures. If I had a reasonable excuse, I'd give it to you. But it's 22.58 and I'm shattered, so I have no excuse. good night

*edit*

Did I forget to mention that A and I decided it wise to belt out Excalibur's song from Soul Eater, whilst 'the glasses wearers' were being asked a question on the matter?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDFUBz8l5jQ [It's says "whoever you like a king" but I swear it's "from united king" (as in UK)... well, make yer own mind up.]

*[To anyone reading this who has the foggiest what I'm on about: no, I'm not being melodramatic; you left me in the dust you slefish people.]

Happy birthday Kanon!! (+many more)

2009-07-05T02:46:00.000-07:00

It's actually July!! Already!

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Nyappy Birthday Kanon!!

Yes yes! Today is 5th July, meaning it is Kanon sama's birthday!! Nyappy Birthday!! As you may or may not know, Kanon is the super awesome bass player for AN CAFE!! So, without furthur ado, let's all wish him the best on his birthday!! 0(≧∀≦)0

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In other nudes, 1st July was canada day!! I'm not Canadian and don't actually have any connections to Canada... But!! I'd still like to wish a (belated) happy Canada Day to alll and every Canadian!!

(lyrics are here~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWQf13B8epw)

I'd also like to wish a big Happy 4th July to all Americans too~!! Hope you all had fgun with your fireworks and what not!! (nb: why don't we have a day?! D8 )

hrmm... I'm not sure what to post for 4th July... but, this'll do, right?

haha~ enjoyy!!

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So!! That just about wraps up all the celebrationy type things of the past 5 days or so!

In other other nudes, I'm off camping on Wednesday, and when I get back from that I'm going on a cruise!! Sooo, I prolly won't be online much/at all. Howeverrr I am aware that the ship has an internet spot; so, depending on whether you have to pay to use the wifi (if it's wifi) or if you have to pay to use a computer (or both, I guess); I'll see if I can log on on once or twice on the days when we're at sea all day long; Sooo you may or may not get some ver. random blog posts from the far off lands of the Baltic XD

I'll try not to eat the special cakes in Amsterdam!! X'D

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Well, tis all for now~ Hope ye all had a happy Canada Day/4th July, and Happy Birthday Kanon!! :3

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Cheesecake

2009-06-29T07:52:00.000-07:00

Prepare yourslef for EPICLY long post!

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First off; prom.

Prom was actually a mega success!! It was awesome! Admittedly, it was kinda boring at first, we were just eating and stuff... which was kinda pretty boring. HOWEVER after the music started playing everything was soo much fun!! Everyone else either;

a) went out into town for clubs etc

b) spent the whole night outside smoking

Meaning that we who were left could just have fun dancing and acting liek complete LOONS!!

We discovered that to dance properly you have to act as if you're drunk... XD haha it was the funniest thing! We eneded up doing the YMCA, macarana (and other cheesy 90s/80s classics)

our venue for the night

There were also these giant helium balloons shaped like letters that spelled out "PROM 09" but they were later re-arranged to spell "PO0" (with the R,M, and 9 sort of floating around). There were giant balloon pillars too which were also ripped down and attacked by us X'D hahaha... Yeaah I managed to get home with the 'O' balloon around my waist! And yes, I was sober!

Ah, yeaah that was another thing, because at our all girls school we are perfectly well behaved young ladies [<- blatant lie] loads of people brought 18+ year old boy friends and used them to buy alcohol (of course). As far as I'm aware there were a few "ID cards" floating around... if you get my drift.

So yeah, with us all being well behaved young ladies we expected people to get drunk, and we expected people to arrive drunk (when a girl who hates you runs up to you and says how beautiful you look you know she's drunk!) however... we didn't expect someone to go home in an ambulance! I won't go into details; but I hope she recovers quickly and isn't too affected by it...

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So, that was friday night. Theeeen there was Saturday night!! X'D Just as I was relaxing (?) after having got not so much sleep I ended up going to [insert name of large shopping mall] with 'A', his family and his brother's friend to see Star Trek!

THAT FILM WAS AWESOME!!

Seriously; I'm a big fan now!! I went in with an open mind because I tend to like Sci Fi anyway, and Zachary Quinto plays Spock B3

And I thoroughly enjoyed it! I mean I really really loved it! And may I just say, I love Chekov! I want to bundle him up in a little box and take him home! D8 His Russian accent was so smexy! he can't pronounce 'v's X3 love hiiim~

After seeing the film we all went to Pizza Express and ended up having a major game of sharades... 8D

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So, finally, this leads us onto Sundayy!!! Sunday was my birthday! (I'm 16 now!! D8 I feel old...) We went to 'lucky voice' karaoke booths! It was the FUNNEST thing ever! It also contributed to many happy and hilarious memories! XD I really really really HIGHLY recommend it!

[http://bars.luckyvoice.com/]

I found out about Lucky Voice via NEO magazine (http://www.neomag.co.uk/) and I didn't realise but we were actually the first ever teenage customers!! Usually they just get adults having a night out! So I was praised for being the first to have a teenage birthday party there! XD I'mma gonna start a trend!! 8D whee~

Everyone at LV are really really nice!! And there's this awesome 'thirsty' button you just press when you want some drinks! XD not to mention it's pretty cheap too!!

So, all in all 'twas an awesome birthday, and I'd like to give a big shout out and "thank you" to everyone who came along~!

And thankies for all your pressies!! :3

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So, for now, I shall leave you with one epic video~! enjoy!!

and yes, it's true... I used to know this off by heart X'D

hahaha!! Live long and proser everyone!! XD

STAY NYAPPY~!☆
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Whaa?

2009-06-25T07:01:00.000-07:00

What day is it? srsly.. is it Wednesday? No wait.. It's Thursday... right?

Uughh... I haven't been feeling too "nyappy" lately... for reasons that shall not be discussed. Uuugh... there's so much I want to do but I feel so lethargic.. I'd like to go have coffee in [insert town name] but everyone lives so faaar away!! And my closest friends either don't like coffee or are at school... darn, that "school" thing really is such a nuisence... 'S', if you're reading; I want a hug!!

( ; _ ; )

To make matters worse; tomorrow is the day of our prom! D8 I want to dance but rigght now I really don't know if I'm up to it... :<

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But! In other nudes, my first birthday card came today!! And recently I've been reading Death Note!! Yes... I have a whole PILE of books (as in manga >D) to read over summer!! Everyone keeps giving them to me! D8 (well, lending) I have, or at least had S's entire death note collection (now I have 8-12) and A sent me home from his house one day with a tower of quite probably all his manga... I'm sorry... But I've had S's stuff since early spring.. so it'll be a while!!

Yes, in it's full entirety, this is what I'm set on reading this summer:

Death Note v. 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 (though I've now finished 8)

Gakuen Alice v. 3 & 4

.Hack v 2 & 3

Naruto v. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 & 14

(all of which are A's apart from Death Note!!)

as well as pokemon diamond and pearl adventure v.1, which A gave me at least 2 motnhs ago after easter... (still haven't read it yet! D8 )

and some of my own novels;

Dracula,

The Secret History of the World

and The Da Vinci Code

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So I have some busy times ahead!!

Hmm... Btw; just before I wrap things up... I keep getting odd comments when people ask me about instruments... I say that I've just started teaching myself guitar... and (this is on one account) someone said "Oh, acoustic then, I'm assuming" and I replied "uhmm... electric guitar actually" and then there was this loooong pause till they replied "oh... well, good for you!!!" As if it was really amaizng that I should be playing electric instead of acoustic.

... So, my question for today is; Is it a girl playing electric guitar, or a beginner playing electric guitar that's odd? Because, loooaaads of people choose to skip acoustic guitar and go start as a beginner straight onto electric. And, it's no difference, decent acoustic guitars have steel strings, like the electric... not only that, but most electric guitars are easier for girls to hold (or at least I find this), and the necks are usually slimmer too, which is better as girls tend to have smaller hands. It's prolly just a minority thing, and even I think it's extremely weird for people to be saying this... but even so people keep saying these sorts of things... It's all very odd...I could never see myself playing acoustic... it's no way NEAR as fun as electric! Hahaha I guess I'm just crazy...

But still, of all the things I do that are considered odd for a person such as myself to do; ie, loads of people find it strange that I play video games, and that I draw manga XD; I thought that playing guitar was the most normalest of normal things ever!!

But anyway!! I am now adament to stay nyappy!! So all of you should too! Bye for now~!

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆
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PARK TIEM!!

2009-06-23T12:02:00.000-07:00

I seriously want... nay, need hair clips!! D<<

We went to the park today!! X3 It completely chucked it down!! My hair got ruinnnned!!

( ; _ ; ) *siiigh* BUT!! It was reeeally fun!! We went on the swings, and the zip wire, and the see-saw!! 8D It was AWSUMM!! XD

In other nudes... I hate my hair!! (as per usual) DX it's so ANNOYINNNG!!

**RANT TIEM**

I'm getting sick and tired of these "battle of the sexes things" It always annoyed me as a kid too! everyone in the play ground saying "boys are better than girls cuz blah blah blah" or "girls are better than boys cuz blah blah blah". But It's so annoying! I don't give a shit! Why can't everyone just be equal? geez it's so annoying! Someone always has to be better!

I'm also getting sick of "girl's games". So I'm a girl, and I have a DS; that must mean I want to play "imagine:babysitter" !!

Unblelievably; there ARE girls who play real games

I don't even like children that much!! I really hate the "imagine" games series. It makes me want to cry when I see little girls sitting around like princesses playing these silly games... They need to get out and roll around in the mud and go rock pool-ing and have bike races and see who can get who first with a water gun!

geez. let's face it... I'm a tomboy, right? X'D

But seriously, I think great games appeal to all audiences. Lux Pain for example, and antoehr, loads of games. I think instead of trying to produce games to aim specifically at girls; they should rather find other ways of widening the gaming industry to female gamers. Rather than making all girls look stupid and girly, they should include girls more... DX maybe I should go into advertising? XD

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Anyhoo. Rant over... for now XD

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆
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FREEDOM!!

2009-06-21T09:40:00.000-07:00

I'M FREE!

no moar exams!

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I'm free! I'm actually free!! ... It's very odd knowing I don't have to revise... at all!!! =D

whoooop!!! So, I'm free for about 2 & 1/2 months!! whoop~

...So what to do? I have many-a-plans of things to do; I wanna get out and have loads of summery fun!! whee~ I'm also planning on learning Japanese, and working on some manga!! (though I also need to get a summer job...)

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So!! Friday was my Physics unit 1 re-sit/ aka, my last exam! whoop~! Mum et her lover boy~ X'D went off for a romantic weekend in a castle somewhere in Yorkshire; therefore leaving me staying at grandma's for the weekend! XD It actually was pretty fun! We went to blockbusters, and ended up getting 7 DVDs out!! SEVEN!! Don't ask me know! XD this is what we rented:

- Slumdog Millionaire

- The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

- The Reader
- Yes Man

- Valkyrie

- Death Note [live action]

- Death NOte 2: The Last Name [live action]

Haha, odd that we got 7 DVDs! 7 is my lucky number, and lately I've had a few odd moments when I always group things in 7! hahahaa XD

Yeahh they were all really good! (well, except for The Reader... it was a bit long winded...)

I also treated myself, with it being the end of my exams! I bought NEO magazine as I do monthly (srsly considering getting a subscription sometime soon) [http://www.neomag.co.uk/subscribe.asp]. And I also managed to find "The Da Vinci Code" for £1.99 in a charity store!! And it was in brand-new condition!! A find or what?! Then, After I ambled my way into Waterstones, I was browsing the manga section of [insert name of town/village my grandma lives in]'s Waterstones thinking "geez! this selection is awful!! [insert name of hometown]'s selection is waaay better!" And then.. I spotted "Maximum Ride", the MANGA adaption!!!

I've loved Maximum Ride for forevers! So to see it in manga format is like a dream come true!! I knew I shouldn'tve, but I just couldnt resist; and told myself it was a treat for survivng exams!! So, I bought it! :3

And it's AMAZING!! The adaption is simply exquisite! I could just happily drown in the artwork! Not only that, but the adaption is so close to the original novel! The character designs are exactly how I imagined everyone! And Iggy... I love Iggy!! I always have, and prolly always will!! And the character design in the manga is just perfect!! I love him even more now!

Aaahh~! NaRae Lee just got another fan!! X3

I wuv you Iggy~!! <3

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So, that just about wraps it up for now~!! <3>

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆
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ps - Ugly Betty is back this Wednesday!! FINALLY!! Something is ACTUALLY on TV!!! (O∀O)

pps- Recently I've sorted out my twitter account and I'm all systems go!! So feel free to follow~ I'll prolly put a link on the linky l;ink section so keep an eye out!

Lux Pain + rant of a british gamer

2009-06-18T02:26:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 1 (OAO)<

exams left : 1
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Only one more day till my physics exam!!!

It's Thursday, and my last post was on Tuesday... In normal circumstances I probably wouldn't post; but this is epic!

This morning, (around 9ish) I finished Lux Pain!! D8 I was really really sad... I'm seriously addicted... Every night for the past month or so (maybe a little less? iunno) I've been staying up really late playing Lux Pain! It's just really really addictive!!

BUT!!

There is good news however! As, I was a little confused at the end, because I didn't have all the pictures in the gallery, or all the extra scenes... D': However;

**spoiler alert!!**

You have been warned.

Anyhoo, Apparently you have to play it over and over until you get everything! At first I was a little dis-heartened by this, but apparently there are different endings!! everything changes each time you play it, like what extras you get, etc. [source = lux pain forums, via the official web]

Someone said that you get more extras in the extras section too; like sound~ So I'm really excited now!

Also, when I played it, Honoka went on a rampage in the hospital; killed some, injured others and got herself killed! But the way you play it alters that... so if I play it again, she might survive!! yaay~!

**no moar spoilers past this point**

L to R; Nola, Liu Yee, Atsuki, Natsuki

Srsly if you're interested/haven't finished Lux pain and you read that and want to hunt me down for dishing out spoliers (however small) then you can't blame meh! I said spoiler alert!! :'D

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Anyhoo, I won't go into a loooong rant about how you shouldn't diss L.P. berfore you try it, just cause it's a visual novel etc; I understand that it's not everyone's cup of tea. But I'm just so in love with it!

bahaha If I was more confident with my art I'd love to draw a doujinshi! (not the dirty type though!! (oAo) )

Mmm yes yes, Akira and Mika would be so cute together... EVERYONE THINKS SO DAMMIT!

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... yes.... It appears I have shown you my more fan-girl-ish side... hmmm.

Well, Anyway, as the title says, brace yourself for a mini rant! X'D

I have a habit of picking out niche games (to the UK market at least). Don't get me wrong, I have plenty of mainstream games, like Pokemon, Animal Crossing, etc. etc. But quite a few, if not at least my favourite games are fairly niche; another code, Izuna, advance wars DS (although it's sequel has recieved quite a bit of pub in nintendo mag), and of course, L.P. Well, you at least don't here very much about them... And I always end up falling in love (?) with games that only end up getting realeased in the US! Take Trauma Centre for example. The 1st was a MASSIVE hit over here, I mean srsly! But even though "Trauma Centre : Under the Knife 2" was released in the US in June 2008, it STILL isn't released here, and, tbh, I doubt it ever will be!

If it weren't for the simply amazing little indie games shop in my town (which is pretty much the only highlight of my town... except for one or two others), I wouldn't have TCutk2! D'8 Tis AWFUL!

I mean; DS games aren't even area coded, so I could play a US game, an australian game, a japanese game etc etc all on my little EU DS... So it's not like extra extra work has to be put in to launch them here!All they need to do is make a few 1000 more batches and ship them out! But nooooo~!

Anyway... This little rant has been provoked by the imminant launch of "Shin Megami Tensei : Devil Survivor"

It's US release is 23rd June '09. But I'm guessing the European release will either be sometime next autumn, or just.. never.

But it just looks... so... good!! I waaaannntt iittt!! D<

I just hope I can find it on eBay/the net for a reasonable price without uggins of P&P cost thrown on top! D':

GIVE UK GAMERS SOME LOVE PEOPLE!!!

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Well, this all fer now me hearties!! wish me luck tomorrows~!!!

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆
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Lux Pain Official site : www.luxpain.com

SMT:DS Official site : http://www.atlus.com/devilsurvivor/

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**EDIT**

I noticed recently that my blog's side bar was a bit... boring! D8 So, I addded some stuff!! yaaay! Please be sure to check out all the links in the linky list~ :3

And also, say hi to my fish!! And don't pick on the green one! he can't help being radioactive...

(If you click anywhere on the fish gadget, a little blob of food appears and they swim toward it!!) :3

If It's Alive...

2009-06-16T09:46:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 3
exams left : 1

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"If it's alive it's biology, if it smells it's chemistry, and if it doesn't work, it's physics"

Ahh yes, the words of my physics teacher have been running round and round my bain all day and wreaking havoc, making me think such things as; "and if it doesnt't work? it's PHYSICS REVISION!!!!!"; whilst I try and buckle down to study for my last ever GCSE!

Yes, my last last last last LAST exam is a Physics module 1 re-sit this Friday!! (I didn't exactly fail the original, but I'm aiming for at least an A cause I'm doing in for A level!).

It's hard to work when I know everyone else is free though... ( ; _ ; )

But still, I'm just glad I didn't decide to re-sit my first Chemistry module too!!

The weirdest thing is how quickly the exams have gone though! I mean, the past few weeks have been hell, stress-wise, and it seemed like it would take a batallion of wooly mammals dragging me on a stone sledge till I eventually finished these stupid exams! [... don't worry, that analogy didn't make much sense to me either (@_@)]

But now that my final exam is only three days away, I'm looking back on the past few weeks and thinking, "is it... is it really truely almost over?!" I just can't believe I'm almost finished! I can taste freedom!!
Though to be honest, I know I'll probably get that really weird I-don't-have-to-do-anything-in-particular syndrome you get at the end of the school year and stuff. After Friday I have no more homework, coursework, revision or anything of the likes for just over 2 and 1/2 months! SWEET BLISSFULL PARADISE!
I honestly honestly can't wait!
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In other nudes, Saturday was the raft race at my sailing club~ I managed to rig a few of my friends into coming along and being pirates!! And, amazingly, we didn't win!!! XD But it was a lot of fun anyway.... Including many-an-innuendo involving oars and a fake beard... Cause my friends are just sooooo innocent! XD well anyhoo, twas a lot of fun, and we got vewwy vewwy wet! XD
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Well, that just about wraps it up for now~ See ya soon!!

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆
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Well, well, well, well, well~

2009-06-11T09:43:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 7

exams left : 2

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☆I ONLY HAVE TWO MORE EXAMS LEFT!!! WHOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!☆

(Yaay stars~!) Just a quickie to say "hello" and "OMG ONLY 2 MOAR EXAMS LEFT!!!" I serisouly cannot wait till these damn exams are over!! Tuesday was my last latin exams. Yes that's rtight... examS! We have 4 latin exams. FOUR. 2 literature and 2 language... DX. So on Tuesday we had the 2nd literature and the 2nd language paper (being the last 2). They went ok, but all 3 of us* agreed that the passages in the literature paper were a bit obscure...

Then, Wednesday (yesterday) was French reading & writing, and Physics module 3**. French reading was really hard; even our teacher said so (which is just worrying!) but the writing wasn't too bad. Only thing is... is that our french teacher was in the hall with us, and I swear to god he was staring at me.... I was finishing off really early (as was everyone else apparently) but he's kinda scary.... so I spent ages rambling on in french about nothing in particular and writing reeeally slowly! DX

Physics however was reeeally easy!! We didn't even have ANY calculations! And we didn'y have to draw any lens/mirror diagram! Crazyness!!!

Anyhoo, today was History paper 2; and my friends and I spent till about 8.30 ish till 1.15 ish having a MASSIVE cram session! Hahaha! It was actually really funny... But I guess you kinda had to be there! XD So, my history exam went pretty well.

And noooow, I only have 2 more exams!! RS next Monday, and Physics module 1 re-take (OvO) on Friday! Ireally can't wait till the exams end! But~! This Saturday is the raft race at my sailing club, and I've managed to get *most* of my friends come and be pirates! YAR HARR ME HEARTIES!

So that's it for nows~!

STAY NYAPPY EVERYONE~!☆

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* I've prolly mentioned this before, but there are only 3 students in our latin class, including myself.

**For those who may not know, we do our science exams in 3 modules per science (though most people only take 2).

I'm a Bannana Tree~ ☆

2009-06-07T10:53:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 14

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Don't you love it when you stumble upon something on youtube and end up finding an amazing band that you instantly fall in love with?!

I've literally just found out about Lolita23Q, and well, they're amazing!! They've instantly shot right up to my top 5 bestest ever bands! [being Queen, An Cafe, Mor ve Ötesi, The Pillows and now Lolita23Q - and yes, I am aware I have a strange taste in music!] nyoro~n!

And finding lolita23q was good for two reasons!! Not only have a found a great band! I've found a great hairstyle!! >3

Sou - I want his hair! >3

Yeah. I want Sou's hair!! >=3 (but brunette, of course~) Actually... mum said she's taking me to the salon the day of my prom (ugh - like I said, an all girl's school prom DX ), to get my hair done all nice and pretty. Not quite prom-ish but it's still nice and pretty. sides; i have short hair so it's not like you can curl it or anything... DX

So anyhoo, please out Lolita23Q~!

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In other nudes, the weather here is shit. which, yknow, sucks... ALOT. And... I haven't really revised much... D:

Anyhoo. Yesterday I was working at oxfam as per usual with 'P' [<- cuz I'm really imaginative when it comes to psuedonyms] and it was SO empty!! I mean seriosuly! We found a broken clothes hanger and... used thehook to pretend we were captain hook! XD cuz we're mature... We also made a 'watapillar' (pronounced like caterpillar) out of a blister I had on my finger XD

Oh yeah. Cause I'm silly, when I was practising guitar yesterday morning and got a blister, I ignored it. Meaning it was cut open... hahaha! It didn't really hurt but but got wool and such stuck in it DX

Speaking of guitars, I tried to convince my friend to get me a gibson for my birthday...

... no luck.

So if anyone reading this has a spare $4000 or so... XD jk jk.

Anyhoo~ I was going to launch in to a rant about something to do with abolishing private schools in the UK that was on some politics show this morning... But I'm too tired right now.. sorry, I'll do it some other time!

[note: don't worry! they're aren't even thinking of doing so; it was a debate... not news~]

'Tis all for now everyone~ And in the words on AN CAFE;

STAY NYAPPY!!

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Tired

2009-06-05T05:32:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 14

I'm so tired... mum's actually ordered me not to work today!!

Yesterday was horrible... It started off with the Chemistry exam from hell... I swear I must've failed it... And then at lucnh time I had to deal with some extremely precocious year 7s. I'm sure I've probably ranted on about this before (And if I haven't then prepare for many a future rant).

But seriously... the manners of these brats are just appalling!!! I went up to a group of them and very politely asked if anyone knew the time... One of them stood up ... stood right in front of me really really really close... and glared at me with that chavvy "wha you doin here bithc?!" look on her face. Then she stood right next to me and mimiced me... God I swear that kid needs a slap one of these days... My school used to be a great school; full of really nice kids, people who actually had respect for one another. Maybe I should be head girl and start a regin of terror!! I'm gonna sound like an old woman, but kids these days are just spoiled brats with no respect!!

Hmf... I'm at the risk of sounding like an old woman again, but It's probably because they've grown up with flashy phones and facebook and such... I'm not saying these things are bad but I swear these kids hit puberty at the age of 3... it's like they have no childhood!

Moving on, after that I got verbally harrassed by a group of tw*ts at the bus station last night (I won't go into details).

Ironically, one of them was wearing a 'Jesus Loves You' belt.

Ugh... anyway. I've also decided to write about my views on God, and religion... So iunno expect a link soon.

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Again, at the risk of sounding like an old woman again... I'm sorry, but there aren't very many bands as good as the likes of Queen. They were awesome. They were 10000000% artists, they wrote their own music and... the concerts!! I watched the Queen at Wembley concert on youtube... They were performers and there really aren't concerts like that anymore!! The first few clips were of all the fans going into the stadium. The crowds were massive!! Like a sea of people! literally!! And Freddie... man he knew how to play the crowd!! He had them hanging off his every word! It makes me really really sad to think that no matter how much I want it, I could do everything and still never be able to see Queen live in concert. Not properly...

I know Freddie passed before I was born, but I've listened to Queen for as long as I can remember! I know all their songs pretty much inside out!

*sigh* Freddie, wherever you are, you live on in my heart!

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Moving on, I'm sure you may have heard about the English government. WEll, basically it;s completely f*cked up. COMPLETELY.

I was watching the news at 10 the other night, and footage from parliament showed Gordon Brown saying that Alistair Darling is great at his job and is doing a great job of getting us out of a reccession.

Proof that Alistair's eyebrows have hypnotic powers.

Left: Sam the Eagle, Right: Alistair Darling

All the MPs are walking out of parliament now, showing that we are truly doomed.

Another thing, one of the MPs came out of parliament and told the newsman that Gordon Brown is perfect for the job, and no one else in the whole of parlaiment could do it as well as he.

We're doomed. We're all bloody doomed.

If only...

My friends and I have, of course, put together a plan. Our plan is to create the 'SUPER PM 1000'

A biological miracle of genius made up of DNA from elite politicians and other public figures. The list compirises of;

- Boris Johnson

- George Takei

- Barack Obama

- Dizzee Rascal

- Gok Wan

Unfortunately this is impossible. And although many of my friends and peers know me well for my strong views on Boris Johnson for PM, thinking about it, the best person to be our Prime Minsiter would have to be Sir Alan Sugar!!!

Gordon Brown: "well, Darling and I think we're doing a good job and - - "

Sir Alan: "Enough! you're all rubbish!"

"You're FIRED!!"

Classic. And of course, BJ could be his right hand man. Right, that's that then. But realistically, it has just been announced that Sir Alan Sugar is to join parliament!!!

"you're fired!!" Our new PM?

Well, tis all for now! I told you I'd put more pictures in!! *evil grin* >D

1st June '09!!

2009-06-01T09:39:00.000-07:00

Days left until last exam : 18

It's June!! It's Juuuune!! White Rabbits!! Pinch! Punch! 1st of Month!! =3 yeaah I love June!! Firstly, because my birthday is in June, and 2ndly because It means it's SUMMER!! It's also great cause theres a HEAP load more bugs in animal crossing!! (fish too...) And fireflies at night! =3 (in ac) And like it says up there, only 18 days till my last exam!! HOORAHH!

Today I am revelling in the fact I never have to do a maths paper, or any 'maths' ever again in my entire life!! GOODBYE QUADRATIC, SIMULTANEOUS, AND ANY OTHER SORT OF EQUATIONS!! Yes, after we get our results we're planning to meety up at my house and have a bonfire with all our old school notes!! I assure you that ICT will be first to go up in flames, quickly followed by English anthologies and maths study cards and past papers!!! I just hope, nay, PRAY Seamus Heaney isn't on the English Lit A level syllabus!! I'm sorry, I'm sure he's a very good poet.... *cough*... but if I read another poem about bloody potatoes, I swear my head will explode!!

Speaking of which my next exam is English Language, which is tomorrow morning... But thankfully, it's my only exam tomorrow, so I have the rest of the day to finish off making History study cards for paper 1... (almost a whole pack of cards on history paper 1... and I haven't even got round to history paper 2 stuff yet!!), finish off chemistry and maaaybe look at some poems for english paper 2.

... HAHAHAHA or not... Nahh I'll prob do physics... ANYWAY, moving on to more interesting stuffs than my boring rant about what I plan to study tomorrow afternoon (after eating some creme caramelle that it).

On Saturday I went out with mum, 'coconut' (her 'partner', aka bf) and 'A' to a nice Italian restaurant. 'Twas an interesting adventure... as we realised that on that particular street time was looping. Either that or the same cars were just going past agsain and again for no real reason... (making the time loop the most logical answer). Another interesting point was 'A''s meal... He ordered spaghetti carbonara, and well... It had an egg on it... but we couldn't really tell it was an egg... it WOBBLED!!! Until that is, he proded it and yoke spilled out... XD

As we were leaving, the Italian manager said to me "I like your hat!!". I wasn't wearing a hat... Mum explained that when Italian men like a young girl (in a completely NON pedophilic way) they say things to try and make them sound clever... only 99% of the time it just ends up stupid. Apparently, the joke was that he liked my hat... but as I didn't have a hat, there was no hat to like... which, apparently... is funny? Though to be honest it did make us laugh, cause we thought he was a complete loony XDD Still... not as bad as when I was a kid and they'd squeeze my cheeks and say "AWWW!! BAMBINA!!!!". Mum says that they like me because I look Italian..? But I'm 1/8th Maltese so... but even so my skin isn't THAT dark?

Bu whatever.

Like I've said it's been really hot this weekend. And today was no exception! It's so nice to wake up with the window open and it being really sunny and warm!!

With regards to my window... as the only part that opens is too small to get through, and as it opens on to a 16ft (or so) drop into the river, it's safe enough to leave it open all day and all night for weeks on end, so long as it's warm enough.

This is great cause it keeps me cool at night and, like I said, it's great to wake up to. Only minus is... MIDGES. They are everywhere!! I mean srsly!! I usually play on my DSi before I fall asleep, and the little blighters get attracted to light; and thus, to my DS... So, I try and bat them away but.... they usually end up getting squished by accident... ALL OVER MY DS!!! I swear I didn't even touch the thing and there was a giant green smudge across my top screen! Not to mention I have the white one, so ... yknow! Ugh!! It's awful! And as if that's not enough... they constantly harass me even when there aren't any lights!! I was trying to sleep last night, and I they kept flying into me!!!

Anyway; that's about it for now~ Enjoy the rest of the week everyone!!

This post ended up pretty long... sorry everyone!

From now on I'll try and add pictures to make things more interesting!

SOUP! =D

2009-05-30T04:04:00.001-07:00

Lately the weather over here has been heating up!! [FINALLY!!!]

So yeah, yesterday was soupy! Meaning, it was really close and muggy, and there was no wind, so whether you were in the shade or not, it's still the same temperature! Usually this sort of weather is annoying, but after the horrible weather of torrential rain, bitter cold winds and over all chilly-ness (basically, and average Spring to Britain, an average Winter to the rest of the world) we've been having recently, yesterday's soup was much appreciated!

So what else is new? Not much as usual with the revision and such, but as today's Saturday, I took up my usual 9-11am shift at our local Oxfam shop. (Part of the DoE = voluntary work; but it's really fun & great work experience so I'll probs stay on~) We were a little short staffed today, which meant I was going solo on the shop floor most of the time. It was weird cause, there were times when there was NO ONE in the shop, times when there were loads of people, but who didnt buy any thing (times when those people suddenly mass dissappeared at the same time) and then this one time when I actually had a queue!! Crazyness! Crazyness I say!!

Today's been one of those days where the little things make a really nice perk to the day! It's as if once the sun's out all these little 'nicey-nesses' pop up! Like, I bought this month's issue of NEO mag and it not only has a mini article on K-ON, but one about Ramune AND a whole double page spread about An Cafe!! Also, when I got home the postie came with a package for me! And what was in that package? Well! A free football curtosy of a promotional thingymabob where I collected 3 tokens from bag of this (really yummy) brioche stuff with chocolate goo inside!

However... although every things really nice and sunny and these nice little surprises keep popping up, I do keep getting small waves of loneliness when I'm in town running arrands and stuff... I can't have fun till the exams are over DX! I'm not saying I'm depressed or anything... but the other day I was running some arrands for mum and there were kids everywhere, hanging out with their friends, cause it's half term... It made me feel lonely... yeahhh spring half term is no fun when you're in year 11...

But!!! I can at least laugh at them starting Monday cause there'll still be in school all week XD Even though I have exams... :(

I also decided yesterday that if It's gonna decide to rain at anyone time this summer (which to me starts when June starts - even though technically it isn't summer till the 21st), then I pray it rains;

a) whilst I'm doing exams

and b) whilst I'm off in the Baltic

That way, I don't miss out on any sun! Though having said that, this winter was pretty horrideous (and yes I got that term from 'Wild Child'), meaning that this summer should be glorious! (touch wood!)

BUT ANYWAY!!! I shall leave ye all to enjoy the sunnyshine~ as I'm moving my revision stuffs outside to 'revise' (aka eat ice cream and read neo and then contemplate revising) outside in the glorious sunnyshine! x

ps - I know I reeeaaaally should of mentioned this a good few months or so... But yayy! I have a follower!! whee~ thank you oh kind and gracious follower!! *big hug*

Love Thy Neighbour As Thyself

2009-05-28T13:13:00.000-07:00

[and this time, the title is actually relevant!!]

I mentioned last post that my guitar strings had snapped, but I'm not sure if I mentioned about the 2nd string snapped too and the bridge lifted up? Anyhoo; I took it round to my neighbour's today and he fixed it for me!! I swear, if you're going to learn to play guitar, then make sure you have a neighbour who knows guitars inside out! Literally - he builds them!

Took him almost no time at all to fix it! Tuned it and put new strings in too! So I'm extremely grateful to my amazing neighbour right now! And since then, I've been practising more and I can already feel my fingers start to toughen up! whee~ I've been teaching myself to play the guitar part in Cagayake!Girls (the intro from K-ON!)

I didn't think it would be, but It's actually pretty easy! Basically, it's just power chords! WAHEY~

In other nudes; I realised today that my 3 favourite OCs [Original Characters] are;

An Alien

A Time Traveller

and A Ghost

XD I wonder what that says about me? But then again, it probably sums me up!! XD hahaha Arg~ I really can't wait til these stupid exams end! Honestly!! Well Anyway, that about wraps things up for now~ bye bye!! xx

"My G string broke" and other hilarious excuses.

2009-05-27T07:45:00.000-07:00

[again, the title doesn't have much to do with the contents]

Todays events have led me to remeber when we had a Norwegian student in our class... She played the violin and there was one time she really really didn't want to go to Orchestra practice. So, without realising what she was saying, she told our male music teacher; "um... I'm really sorry but, well, my G-string snapped you see, and..."

* * * * * * *

Yes... Well anyway, as I think I mentioned last time, I've started teaching myself guitar! only... well today I was tuning it and... PYANNNG!!! FWASAHHH!

Basically the highest (and thinnest, as in sharpest) string snapped, and well attacked my hand in the process... meaning I now have a nice lovely cut right across my knuckles! I talked to my dad about though and he said it happens to everyone; when he was my age, same thing happened, but it hit him on the face!! (looks like I was pretty lucky!).

So... yeah ... 'luckily' I had a spare but... mm.... that snapped too!!

( ; _ ; ) maybe they hate me? Which is annoying cause when I tried to put the spare in, it was right after I got back from 'town' with a beginners guitar book and some new guitar picks!! So, for now, I have a 5 string guitar. Hmm.... So yah, I got a really cool guitar pick from the music shop today!! It's a Nightmare Before Christmas one, and its like a hologram of Sally sewing~ so its moooves!! haha, it's cool~ That music shop is cool too! you walk in, and the first thing you see if just guitars! guitars guitars guitars!! They were all so pretty~ and all so affordable!!

Sooo other than the string incident and the pretty guitars, there's not that much that's been going on recently... just, yknow, revision... (ugh!)

So that's about it for now~ so long mon amis~!

Hey hey let's go~!

2009-05-22T11:52:00.001-07:00

[title=complete 100% random]

Not much has been happening recently... it's all exams and revision and such other gubbins. But I think we worked it out as only about 4 weeks or so left... ugh!!

In my spare time I've started to teach myself guitar (again). I used to attempt to do so when I was younger but... no such luck. But now I'm determined to make it work~ YEAH!!

Anyhoo, so it's half term right now, meaning we all have a week of studying and nothing else... so exams... nothing. So it's probably not a good thing that Pokemon Platinum version was released in the UK today!! XD (but It was delivered yesterday!! hooray!)

It's just... scarily addictive!! Really really fun though!! whee~

hmm... looks like it's a short entry this time round.

So I'll leave it here for this week (?) whilst I wait hungrily for my pizza...

Smiles all round~! :)

2009-05-16T10:03:00.000-07:00

I have a maths exam on monday, but even so today has pretty really good indeed!!
First off, I started volunteering at oxfam today (as part of the DofE scheme), which, to be honset, I wasn't really looking forward to... (getting up at 7.00am on a Satruday morning? no thank you!) But, it was actually really fun!! There's a nother girl about my age-ish volunteering there, so we man the till together, and have a laugh~
Half way through the morning, an extremely religious woman came in handing around flyers about repenting... We all smiled and then either shoved them in our back pockets, or put them upside down on the note paper pile.

I've only just got round to reading it; it goes on about how God will punish thee for they sins, Ie murdering, drug use, racism, basically anything illegal really. And then it says this;

"Occult involvement such as fortune telling, witchcraft and palm readings"

I won't go into my views on the 'withcraft' side of things but... the 'fortune telling' and 'palm reading'?? Not exactly an occult with malicious intent now is it? Perhaps it's one of those things, like science, that extremely over the top religious people fear because they do not understand it, or because it challenges God?

Perhaps I have been reading 'The Da Vinci Code' too much.

But, let's be all cliche and say "all things in moderation". Actually, one of the other volunteers at the shop said "We are not punished for our sins but by our sins". Meaning that the punishment is not from some holy being, but instead from the sins themselves and their repercussions. (maybe that's hinting at karma too?).

... ANYWAY! moving on from that lovely deep topic there, after that I met up with 'A' in town and we went to Game, like you do, to look at the amazing games we can't afford, and then to look at the really seriously crap games in the sale section that, regretably are the only things we can afford. Only!! In sed section of crapiness, I found a hidden gem; Elite Beat Agents!! I knew it was a really good game, as it's good really good rating, so, intrigued I picked it up. It was pre-owned so the price was at £12 something or other. Then I noticed the huge red sticker that said "SALE""" £4.95!!!" So I took it to the till and the guy said "That's £2.98 please, is that ok?" To which I relpied "Oh yes, of course that's ok!!"

And then proceeded to skip out of the shop~!

We then had fun playing tig in an ex-graveyard/churchyard. Y'know, like ya do.

Aaaaand tonight is EUROVISION!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I be goin ter a friend's house to have a eurovision partay!! XDD Y'know, like ya do.

'Tis all fer now lahvlies. Bye~

I GET IT!

2009-05-12T13:02:00.000-07:00

Alright! I get it! You want me to go on holiday! well tough! cause I can't... I have exams...
Yeeeaah tv these days is going crazy with ads advertising holidays all over, particularly; Dubai, Italy, and Malta!
geez! it's like it's trying to mock me!! :(
AAAANYWAY!
I had my first exam today!! RS! It went okay actually! hoorah!
Afterward, some of my friends and I met up in the music room... and ended up raiding the drama department's costume cupboard!! XDD we found... a faux fur coat, plenty of tweed jackets, a queen of hearts ensemble, a sailor suit, and loads more. It was the funniest. thing. ever!!
fweee~
hrmm thats about it for now... see ya~!

tesco stole mah money, oops no they didnt, brat camp, bowling, trumpet, pkmn, and then some.

2009-05-11T13:28:00.000-07:00

'Sup! It's been a long weekend it has!
Friday was our last day of year 11!! whooooooooooooooooo!!! NO MOAR SCHOOL! (ceptnowwehaveexams,butOHWELL!)
'Twas the day of Brat Camp '09! We ran around the school screaming and throwing around shaving foam, and silly string, and... oats... and of course, bras! (cause yknow, you're at an all girls school, it's your last day, what else is there to do cept throw bras around!?) Our head of 'year', Mrs 'W' held one of them up and was like "Has someone lost this?" and then, "yknow girls, daz washes whiter than white!".
XDD it was so funny!
The school then took us bowling, as a way of minimising damage to school property. But don't worry! I now have two years to plan for the end of 6th form!
Theeeeeeeeeen it was Saturday, and I met up with my friend, 'A' in town. Only... I went to an ATM but it stole my card (cause it was expired) and didnt give me my money. So then I had a mini panic cause the reciept said it took the money out... (@_@);. However, I went to the bank today to sort it out, and it turns out that the money's still there... STOOPID TESCO!! D<
SO aaaaanyhoo, I went round to A's house and he \taught' me how to play the trumpet.... It was really loud... (@_@);
ALSO! thanks to A, I now reaaaally can't wait till pokemon platinum for DS comes out in the UK! (22nd May) This is all because A brought me back a pokemon manga from his travels to the US, and it's scarily addictive! So now I can't wait till the games out! D:
Ugh... tomorrow is my first GCSE!! *nervous*. It's only RS, and thankfully, it's the 'Christian Perspectives' paper, which is a relief! (and no, I didn't choose to do RS GCSE, but at my school, it's compulsary...
I've been drawing Alien Boi Cherrie* more and more these days! He's so much fun to draw! and to colour too! So, there's more pics up on my devART page ---->>>>>
(click!!! click the liiiinkkk~!!!!) you know you wanna ;)
Soooo that's about it for now~ wish me luck~!!

*Alien Boi Cherrie = one of my most favouritist OCs! more info about him is over on my devART page, so check it out >D

***edit***
Last time I posted, It was 2 days before my French Oral. Well, I have great news! It went really well! Mr 'R' said it was the best he'd ever heard me speak french! XD yaaaaaaaaaaaay!

oh my, how I love Bank Holidays!!

2009-05-04T13:37:00.000-07:00

Swine fluuuuuu! SWIIIIIIINNEEEE FLUUUUUUUUU!
... no srsly guys calm down.
In other nudes; It's Bank Holiday Monday!! whoooooooo～!
My sister came round today! whoo!
And... she's staying the night X3
This Wednesday marks the beginning of the end...
MY FRENCH ORAL@ 11.25!! D8
oh.em.gee. *headdesk* And a week tomorrow is my first proper exam!! uwaaaaaaaah～…
I'm looking forward to Friday & our mystery tour though!! hmm... I have a plan brewing which involves flash, sculpey and a little bit of cash… AHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!! I can't say what it is though, not until after it's all finished >:3 so wait till July!!
***
My sis works with Orange Rock Corps & they're doing a project up in Manchester; meaning 2 good things;
a) my sister will be living nearby for 2 months.
b) providing I'm back in time, I can go on the project & get a free ticket to an awesome concert! HYAHOOOO!

Yes, it's true! This summer I am determined to make my holiday the BEST. EVER.!!! aharharhar!
I'm making a list too～ which already includes;
•Alton Towers
•pwning my friend with the best birthday present ever
•having a teppanyaki party
•Going on a cruise
•getting a job

And much MUCH more!! >D

oh golly gee

2009-05-01T14:35:00.000-07:00

It's all been kicking off hasn't it? With the threat of swine flu looming, I've been reading the paper more. (It's free on the bus). I swear yesterday there were only 4 confirmed cases here in the UK; till I found out today in history class that there's now 8!! Fuuuuu... It just seems to be getting worse & worse...
The first confirmed cases in the UK were on a plane from Mexico about a week ago; and since then most of the other cases were on that flight too. Yet they STILL won't track the other passengers down. *headdesk* Honestly! Anyone could work that one out!!

Well. In lighter news, Waterloo Road has been getting really good recently! I just want to give Chlo a big big hug! Hmm I caught up with Hetalia... hahaha it makes me laugh so much! XD
I can't believe it, but My last day of school is this Friday! We have Monday off because of bank holiday but after that it's only a few days!
So I got my legwarmers & flipflops ready for muck-up day! can't wait～
Our form teachers are taking us out on a mystery tour too!
But then, the following Tuesday is our first GCSE!! (•_•);
Urrrrgh... Well, that's about it for now... Oh! and It's actually officially been recognised that "Gordon Brown is becoming 'increasingly unpopular'".
ORLY!?!!

Vespa

2009-04-24T03:04:00.000-07:00

Vespa. And how I want one.

Y'know when you're designing two new characters who live in Italy and you want to know how old they'd have to be to drive a vespa? And Then end up surfing the net looking for pictures of vespa to help you draw them? And then you wind up on the official site and end up thinking "omigawd i want one of those!" So, then you google how old you have to be to drive one in the UK, and you find out you have to be 16 to drive a 50cc and at 17 you can drive a 125cc so long as you don't have passengers, dont go on the motorway, have L plates and take a CBT every two years until youre old enough to take the official liscence test. Sooo then you go and see if there are any training facilities in your area and it turns out there is one in your little town and you think "hey. If they hadn't changed the law, I'd be learning to drive at 17 anyway, and surely vespas are cheaper than cars, right?".

... Whaddya mean you've never had one of those moments?!

Well yeah, that was my morning. I want one... I want one so badly... It'd be awesome! I wouldnt have to take the smelly bus anymore!!!!! Though Id prob still have to take the train into Manchester... BUT STILL! Also, It'd be great for uni!!

*sigh*~ I've wanted one since like.... FOREVER! I We went to Florence a few years ago and it was like... Vespas... EVERYWHERE!! I mean... srsly! I really want one~!

Hmm... question is... a 50cc or a 125cc?

GAH! If only I lived in Italy I'd probably already have one! Why are laws so complicated...? D<

Curiosity

2009-04-20T07:45:00.001-07:00

"Curiosity Killed the Cat". Maybe not today, but curiosity has struck again; and made me paranoid and itchy.

Let's start from the beginning. As I was rifling down behind the back of my desk & bookshelf, looking for some cards, a horrible little silver thing darted past me and wriggled under the skirting board. "UGH!" I thought, "A silverfish!".

Silverfish are little insects that are harmless and like damp places. - we get them a lot in the spring/summer cause we live 'next to' a river.* Now, bugs and insects and such don't tend to bother me much; the bugs round here are all pretty harmless, so I'm not 'scared' of them really. [except for earwigs & centipedes - I don't care how small they are but they have great big pointy fangs!!!! (also, when we were kids, the boys at my school decied it would be hilarious to spread a rumour that earwigs are called that cause when you go to sleep at night they climb into your ear and all the way up to your brain... which, tbh, even though that's not true, they mustve got that name somehow, and it's still possible for them to go in your ear just a little bit which is just horrifying!!)]

But nonetheless, silverfish still creep me out, cause theyre so fast and wriggly and look like they could crawl into your ear...

So, in a bit of stupid curiosity, I decided it'd be fun to google them! I found them on a site called 'whats that bug'[.com], and I now vow never to google a bug EVER again. Because not only did I search earwigs, but I also (out of curiosity) looked at centipedes...

Centipedes.... I can't stand centipedes... One of the reasons I can't stand them is because, like I said earlier, they have great big pointy things, but also, I'm terrified of their overseas brother.... the MUKADE.

The mukade... *shudder*

They live in Japan (and so I'm guessing most of S.E. Asia).

They live in tatami.

They're attracted to carbon dioxide.

They live in pairs.

They live for up to 7 years.

They can grow to be anywhere up to a foot long.

They have giant poisonous fangs.

They can kill a grown man with sed gaint poisonous fangs.

So as you can see, they're pretty damn scary! I've never seen one, and I've haven't been to S.E. Asia (yet), but what I really want to do after 6th form and uni is go to Japan on the JET programme. I'm not gonna let these (horrible) insects stop me from going, but it is something I worry about... Which is thus, why I hate centipedes.

So, unless you want to end up like me, a paranoid and itchy bag of paranoia and itchyness, then don't google any type of bug. Ever.

And for your troubles, here's a picture & video about the mukade...

Answers on a postcard as to what the hell this guy is doing with that on his hand!! ...The loon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CL2hetqpfg

^ watch it... if you dare.

Apparently some of the ways to get rid of these monstrocities is to...

a) use a hell of a lot of chemicals

b) pick it up with chopsticks and fling it out the window.

c) bundle it up in a bed sheet and throw it in the washing machine...

So that's it for now... enjoy :)

*I say 'next to' cause it's more like we're about to fall into the river, more than sit happily beside it.

Cats make great alarm clocks

2009-04-16T05:43:00.000-07:00

This morning, as intended, having set my alarm for that time, I woke up at 7.30. But not to my alarm. No, twas my cat that woke me up this morning. As with every Thursday, my mum woke up super early this morning to go to her weekly Business Networking... thingy. So I woke up to an empty house (bar me & the cat). However, my cat gets kinda bored when she's alone, so inevitably, about 2 hours after mums gone, she decides it's time to wake me up. …At the time I intended to wake up. Weird huh? As I was groggily coming round, my alarm went off and I ignored it, and went back to sleep. 10 minutes later, my cat starts meowing again and wakes me up for good. Thankful for the early wake up* I enjoyed 2 hours of kids tv and animal crossing before starting revision at 10.
So there ya have it, cats make the best alarm clocks. I doubt they're very reliable.
And cause of that, even having had only about 4 hours sleep, I've (so far) been the most concentrated I've ever been when revising. EVER. (Though that might also be down to a steady supply of vimto and my mums chair, which I stole from her "office").
In other news, 'mikado' are now on sale in the UK!! 'Mikado' are the European version of pocky. (Actually, they're exactly the same, just with a different name. - They're still made by Glico). And They're FINALLY available here!! XD the advert is so funny... but the French ad is even better!
In other other news, I have realised a rather peculiar fact about myself. And it is this;
Over the past week or so, I have been watching an INSANE amount of films.
Tis really rather worrying. Thus, I have decided to make a seperate blog for my little 'mini-reviews'.
http://philms4u.blogspot.com
There's nothing up yet, but there wil be soon!!
Well, that's about it for now! So long!!

*I do not usually get up at 7.30am. However, as I now have to revise everyday; my free time is precious. Therefore, I get up early so I can have 2 hours free time before I start working. XP

DSiLOVEYOU!!

2009-04-04T16:18:00.000-07:00

HUZZAH FOR WIRELESS INTERNET I SAY!! HUZZAH!
But most of all, yaay for internet access from my bed!! My DSi came yesterday! yaaaaay! It's super duper special extra super awesomeness on a stick!! SRSLY. As a free gift, when you first register your DSi on the DSi shop, you get 1000 DSi points to spend on lovely goodies such as mini games and handy apps! There are also free things in the DSi shop too, such as an internet software (which I'm currently using now). So far there's not that much up in the DSi shop right now, but it's expected to be updated every so often. I do recommend 'Wario Ware Snapped' though. It was 500 DSi points, but it's well worth it! It's seriously addictive!! My friend and I had much hilarity with it earlier!! XD
I FINALLY broke up for the Easter holidays on Thursday!! Whoooo～!! We splattered a creme egg on the ground at school. (threw it out of the 3rd floor window).
Wednesday was our school's 10th birthday, so the whole school had a fun day! We watched a DVD, did karaoke, went on an inflatable assault course, bucking bronco, bungee trampolines, the lot!!Plus! Pizza for lunch! And jelly & ice cream for desert!! Ahhh twas a great day had by all!! Unfortunately though, we have very little time before the exams. We have our Easter ~holidays~(aka revision time) till 27th April, then we go on study leave on 8th May!! And the following Monday is our first exam!! (RS).
Ughf～ but, soon it'll all be over!! yaaay! Which reminds me, I have coursework to do... maaaaaaaah!!
Well anyway, bye for now everyone!! (^_^)

OH. MY.

2009-03-22T12:05:00.000-07:00

tent... walking... field... sleeping bag... cold, very cold... walking... backpack... heavy... WALKING! D:
O~su~! Hallo hallo everyone~ I'm back! Yesterday we started our practise expedition for our DoE - Duke of Edinburugh. It was hard... but it was also fun ^^ we're only doing bronze but... oooof! this is the first time I've walked (hiked) with a big backpack on... *shudder* oohhhh... just thinking about it makes my back ache... phewf~ Yeees.... last night was cold... so cold... ok, some tips for anyone doing DoE;

- make sure your sleeping bag is in check, no holes, no zip problems
- Always have a thick jumper! (even if it means tying it round your waist whilst you're walking)
- pack light! REAL light! remember youll end up with some part of the tent, or the stove, so youll need lots of room
- invest in a really good all seasons sleeping bag - my friend had one that was vacuum packed, so it sucked all the air out!! this'll give you LOADS of room spare in your backpack
- an inflatable pillow - both my tent buddies had them... *envyyyyyyyyyyyyy*
- water - you need lots of water. you can either take one big bottle, or two normal sized rinking water bottles. I did the later, which was good as I wasnt carrying a giant bottle in my hand all the time but it took up a little more space. Drink water constantly. Carry one of your water bottles in your hand, so you can get to it easily.
- Don't drink just when you're thirsty - drink all the time, because you actually get alot thristier than you realise.
- don't be afraid to ask to stop, take breaks regularly, and as soon as you start to get really achy or need to rest, do so; it's not a race - it's better to get there last and happy and well, than first and in pain!!

That's about it on my DoE tip list!! I'll prob write more when my mind isnt goo... hehe.
Just before I go, I'd just like to say; "Lux Pain 'lux awesome'!!" LOLZ
srsly though, it looks amazing!! [http://www.luxpain.com]
Bye for now all~

Why Hello, Again!

2009-03-15T09:49:00.000-07:00

Hello again!! Just a quickie before I get back to work... (=_=);;

It's been busy at school lately. We're getting a lot of homework and coursework too...

Yesterday I went to see Macbeth at the Royal Exchange (http://www.royalexchangetheatre.org.uk/page.aspx). It was AMAZING!! We studied it (sorta) at school in year 9, but that made it seem really boringg... However, this version of it was AMAZING! it seriously was!! It's not for everyone though, there was a lot of blood and a lot of violence. It was set in modern day, so there were lots of guns, which some people don't like. There was also some full frontal nudity...!!! Oh my... (O///O)!!

Recently I've started drawing my versions off Alice in Wonderland Characters... so far I've drawn Alice, the Mad Matter, the March Hare and the little mouse that sleeps in the tea pot... I hope that some day I can draw a manga of my version of Alice in Wonderland... MWAHAHAHAAAA!!

Well, that's it for now~ bye biiiiii~

A quick break, a hello, and away we go

2009-03-01T07:44:00.000-08:00

こんにちはとはじめまして!!『サムライ-ジャム』です!!私は日本語は少しはなせます。

Why hallo thar! After a long time of being blog-less, I've finally decided to get myself a blog.

I'll start off with a few likes & dislikes;

Likes - manga, candy, food, video games, drawing, art, big scary theme park rides, and summer

Dislikes - exams, school, maths, the cold, being ill

Fave anime/manga: Soul Eater

Fave Food & drink: Teriyaki, lots of candy, cream soda

Fave ride: Oblivion!!!!! (but nemesis and air are also awesome!)

Favourite season: SUMMER!!

Hobbies: drawing, reading manga, hanging out with my friends, people watching (in the least-stalker-like way), I am an obsessive soul eater fan, and an obsessive Heroes fan!

Life Goal: To travel the world & experience different cultures.

So, moving onto the blogness. Today is the first day of March, and already it feels more like spring by the day! The air is clearer, and it's very slowly getting warmer. To me, the sun always makes me feel good! Take today for example, Im'm bogged down with work, and it looks like there's no way around it, then all of a sudden the sun shines through the window (admitedly, almost blinding me...) and suddenly, everything feels better, clearer, brighter. So, be happy everyone! cause after the exams are all over, we have almost 3 months of freedom and frivolity in the blissfull sun!! HYA-HOOOOOOO!!

But in the mean-time, it's study study study study study study study. Even I myself am beginning to turn over a new leaf, and work flat out. I realised yesterday (having spent the whole day slaving over maths, and then spend the whole night watching the live action Death Note movie), that fun things, like watching the network premiere of an uber popular live action film version of an equally uber popular manga late at night, is a lot more fun after a day's work. I suppose, it's because you've more or less 'earnt' it?

On that subject, it;s time to talk a little about the movie!! So last night, I watched the live action Death Note movie ON TV!!! [note: this is a very special occassion, as it is extremely rare to find anime on english tv, even on sky, let alone one of the top films on FREE tv!!!!!] So, without furhter ado, here is a mini 'Death Note' review;

'Death Note' movie poster

It was.... SO good!! Amazingly, this is actually the first time I've watched a Japanese film that isn't an animation. There's something a little different about the way things are done in Japanese films, compared to Western films... it's hard to explain, but whether it's the acting style, or the camera work, I know that there are quite alot of westerners who don't like it, and I can understand why the style isn't always preferred when it's up against big-shot Hollywood productions. Admitedly, the special affects in 'Death Note' are a little rough around the edges; The CG work on Ryuk was very well done, however, I can tell that, had it been done in an American production, the CG would look more life-like... (In short, you could tell Ryuk was made in CG). However, I really liked the style and feel of the movie, it was such that you could tell it was foreign, and that I like. In some senses, the camera work and such made it feel more hand-made[?] (that's probably not the right term...) But it felt more as if the actors, directors etc. had really worked hard on this film, whereas you tend to forget about that in Western films. Another thing I'd like to note about 'Death Note' being on tv last night is, It was subtitled!!!!!! I LOVE YOU FILM4!!! I TRULY TRULY LOVE YOUUUU!!! I don't have anything against people watching dubbed films/shows, whichever you feel more comfortable with; but I feel I can't really appreciate the movie/show if it's dubbed, so I always watch it in the original language when possible. So, even if it was dubbed I still would've watched it, but I was so glad when I realised it was sub-titled!! (Though, it took me a while to realise.... I guess I'm so used to subtitles now that it's just natural!! haha I was a few minutes in and then I realised, "Oh!! OHHHH! oh thank god its not dubbed!"). As for the characters, they were all played really well! And Watari was awesome!! he was so sweet...

L is just the same in the movie as he is in the manga~!

And I loved L's eating habits... there was one scene, when he handed a load of sweets and cookies on a stick to Yagami-san (as in Light's father) with a sort of air of "care for a load of sugar on a stick anyone?" Another awesome scene was when Yagami and the rest of the Kira investigation team first met L;

[after Yagami-san etc. all introduced themselves]

L: "BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!"

Even more exciting is that 'Death Note2' is on next Saturday as well!!

Well, I better wrap things up for now! See you all again soon~

Byyeee~

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