Interludium

- I posted a grand total of 25 LJ entries for the entirety of 2006.

- I only finished 3 games for the entire year. Suikoden V, Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana and Final Fantasy XII.

- a good 70% of 2006 was spent playing online games. Mostly Lineage II, with a spattering trials for World of Warcraft, Zera, D&D Online and a bunch of other titles I didn't find very interesting.

- I probably finished watching more anime series' than I recall, but the only one that comes to mind right now is Mushishi and Jigoku Shoujo.

Haha, okay. I can't really think of anything to post here, I just felt the need to post on January 1, since I normally always do. I'm about to leave for the New Years party with the relatives, so don't really have much time to post.

Though old friends should already know this, every year we hold a New Year's play on our father's side of the family (the children and grandchildren perform) and at the same time, everyone is required to dress up depending on the year's theme. Last year we did Mulan and had a Chinese dress code. This year's theme is 50's vintage, since we're doing Grease as our New Year's play. My brother's (Carlo) costume is awesome. I end up laughing everytime I see him. It's so FPJ. >:3

And leaving. A good new year to all!

Was making something for my sister's gifts to her bearers (ring, coins, etc.) and I needed to use my table for it, which I found buried under piles of stuff related to work and wedding preparations. I kind of went DDDDD: looked around and realized the entire area was a mess, which made me go DDDDD: even more.

This is the place in the house where I practically live in. I go to my bedroom merely to sleep/change. My computer's here, as well as my PS2, and the table I use to keep work-related files in (but which I don't really work in). So yea, welcome to my life. XD

It's not as messy when I look at it from the photos, but when I turn around and look at it again it still makes me go DDD: And I swear the walls aren't as sickly green as the photos make them out to be. >:E

The combined mess of my normal living/work mess, plus wedding preparations + holiday preparations + 3 siblings arriving home for the holidays.

( ... )

re: the locked bathroom door

The good news: I was not dumb enough to lock myself out of my bathroom!

The bad news: I was dumb enough to think I'd locked myself out of my bathroom. (That explains why I couldn't unlock it!)

As it turns out, something suddenly caused my doorknob to get stuck, so you now have to apply more force to turn the knob. A whole lot more than I'm used to having to do so, which is why I thought it was locked. Seriously. You would have thought it was locked too!

ARGH. I JUST LOCKED MYSELF OUT OF MY BATHROOM.

And for some reason, I can't seem to unlock it. =/

The way the lock on our bathroom doors are made, it's virtually impossible (if you use doors like normal people do!) to lock yourself out. Geh.

*is kept awake by the sheer stupidity*

ETA: If they need to break my bathroom door down (which I really doubt), I want first dibs with the axe damnit. Besides, I should get a new door anyway. I cracked it the other day.

Geh. Where is everyone when I need someone to whine bitch talk to? *glares forlornly at her Gaim*

So I thought I'd add an additional 512 ram on my PC because it was slow and annoying and it was about time I put in more memory anyhow. As it turns out, since my old system had RDram on it (which was phased out), I had to completely change my processor and motherboard too. Other than wincing at the amount I ended up having to spend, I'm rather satisfied with it, as I was due for an upgrade anyway (it's been 4 years).

I'm also due to reformat my PC. The nice thing about having all the computers in the house networked is that I get to back up all my files on everyone else's computers instead of having to burn files to cd. Currently waiting for 20gbs worth of files to finish transferring to my sister's PC before I transfer another 20 to my dad's. I want everything done and over with by tomorrow morning so I can work properly.

Also, the shop where I brought my PS2 to be fixed called to tell me they can't get the parts for my PS2 model anymore. Blah. It was with them for a month and they just find this out now. =/ I can either bring it to another shop and hope they can find the parts and probably wait another month or 2 before that happens, or I can buy a new PS2. When it comes to money, I can be very patient. XD

Needless to say, 2006 apparently isn't a frugal year for me.

SHARE THE BUCKY LOVE!

Yes. I post only to pimp, but this is to be expected of me.

I demand that anyone with a sense of humor go here now and sign up:
http://www.kingdomofloathing.com/

I recall ririkit pimping this to me before, but that was when I'd just started MUDding, so my account got deleted for inactivity soon after. But I play now, thanks to a bit of successful nagging from lecheflan, so now I pimp.

The Disco Bandit boogies to and fro, hither and yon. Whence comes she? No man knows. Whither strikes she next? All men live in fear of her and her Moxie. The description for the disco bandit was too good to pass up. The 'avatar' for your character doesn't change when you wear equipment, that is just a very badly edited version of me slapping on my gear to the stick figure avi. Yes, that's a frilly skirt. She clubbers her opponents with her Gnollish flyswatter and that is a pail on her head to ward off enemy blows, as well as to butt heads with persistent Knobs. The hat is my Hovering Sombrero familiar, thusly named Tacochip. The game insisted on calling all my familiars (I only have 2 so far) Grog. Grog the Mosquito. Grog the Hovering Sombrero. So I had to rename the Sombrero.

Pros:
♠ The crack. It entertains immensely. You swallow the bottle of pills. Your weapon shimmers briefly and becomes engorged.You acquire an effect: Engorged Weapon <-- best game effect ever.
♠ Limited number of adventures per day. This is one of the things I love most about it. It makes the game addicting, but the limitation means you have no choice and won't be spending countless hours in a day playing it.
♠ Have I mentioned the crack?

Cons:
♠ Limited number of adventures per day. T_T Yes. We all know when I get addicted to something, I get addicted.

Now go hither and play! It won't require more than an hour or two of your time at the most.

Current pimp count: 6

RL stuff:
(Yea, I talk about boring RL tidbits more now because I have no interest in fandom currently.)
01. Ruined two routers in the span of 1 minute. I mistakenly plugged in the power source for the modem into the routers. >.> Never fixing cables again when half-asleep. Not only that, the brand spanking new Linksys router we got to replace it has the most hateful relationship with PLDT's DSL servers. I had the crappiest connection for the two weeks that I had it. Running on a D-Link now (thanks to silverhakai for the tip-off that PLDT and Linksys don't mix) and it's working just swell.

02. RL friends will be familiar with my tendency to misplace my cellphone. They are prone to receiving SMS messages going, "Oh look! I found my phone finally," a good day or two after they've sent me their message. Misplaced it again last week, but found it again a few hours later inside our refrigerator. I swear I don't know how I ended up leaving it there. Thankfully I have a habit of opening the fridge even when I have no plans of getting anything everytime I go down to get a glass of water (which is every few hours).

Phone messed up that evening and I couldn't send/receive text messages for a while. Was kind of going "Oh no!" already, because the last thing I needed was to have ruined something else again right after the routers by yet another stupid mistake. Thankfully leaving the battery out overnight seems to have fixed the problem.

03. And uhm.. a general hello to my flist? I'm sorry, I don't even bother to visit LJ anymore save for my feeds filter (it gives me my daily Bucky fix), so if anyone needed something and I have ignored, it's because I have been very neglectful of anything LJ related. Over 1 month of LJ comments backlog included. Anyway I'll just spilled water all over myself wtf get to those comments one of these days. Yea.

EDIT: Backlog complete! So alright, I deleted most of it, but some of them didn't really need a reply, especially one that was this late.

Network's down. Finally had time to try figuring out what was wrong, so I was able to connect the PC downstairs so I can at least go online now. I have to skip 325 to the last post I read on my friends list. I'll try going through it tonight, will probably just add posts I want to comment on to my memories so I can get back to them once we have the network back up (I think we need to change our hub router) and reply to them accordingly.

So to anyone that needs to get in touch with me, I'll be around even less until I get the connection back on my PC. E-mail especially, won't be replied to until I get the network back up.

To everyone I owe icons to, I've finished some of them, but still have a dozen more to go. I'll post everything at the same time. I should have my connection back by then, seeing as I can't make some of the icons without first hunting down the images for them.

Edit: So I didn't finish reading my entire backlog after all. But after all that reading, I'm going back to working with much greater enthusiasm. Mostly because it means I can use my PC again. I hate using someone else's computer.

I was cleaning up my phone's address book and was deleting Sheila's old number and got the sudden urge to call her. Didn't bother checking the time, and it turns out I called her up too early (7:30am I think it was, since they're on DST right now), so I ended up being her Sunday wake up call. ^__^ Love you, hun. *is killed* She pretty much got back at me for it since we ended up talking for a full hour and 20 minutes. My phone bill is going to be hell this month. >.<

To RL friends: Brother's home until December 7. As per usual, he'll be using my phone while he's here, so if you need to get in touch with me, landline, LJ, e-mail and AIM (w/c I'm hardly on these days) is the best way to do so.

AND AND, lots of love and sparkles to dreamlessness and bakadoushi, because they feed my InuTezu fangirl! *sparkles!*

And caillen's brother bought her the Juuni Kokki PS2 game! I love her brother, I do. <3 Die of envy all you JK fans who don't have the game! I can borrow it from her. >D >D *gets smacked*

Hmm. I'm done proving to the world how incapable I am of simple brain process at the moment. Sleep! I should make a Jirou!sleep icon.

Guess who's addicted to sugar now? Damn you, Isa.

http://www.candywarehouse.com/pixstixbul25.html

They sell pixy stix by the bulk. ;_; So my brother will be coming home for a visit in a few days, and my mom is still in Portland with the sibs. She's coming back early December, so I'm like thinking, hooboy! I'm so making them buy me an entire year's stash of these things. So I did. Except now my sister's just called and she refuses to buy it for me since it's unhealthy. O.O Wah! My mom wanted to buy me some (I love my mom!), but my sister is the evil biznat incarnate she is! Boo. *weeps*

*dies!*

isachi!!! *glompssnuggles!* I got your package. OMG you really sent me pixie sticks, didn't you? *is so amused*

I'm trying one of the strawberry ones right now and dude, I'd love to know how Ryoma and Gakuto managed to down one of these in one go. O.O I've been trying to eat it for the past 5 minutes and I'm not even halfway through it.

Gakuto is utterly envious, as his stash has ran out. *snerk*

And damnit if I get addicted to these you're providing me with an entire stash to last me a year! *glareglareglare!* (must now figure out if any of the local candy stores have it)

Alright. I've now made it halfway through the tube. Go me! I think my tastebuds have died.

I'm so sleepy. ;_; I've been up all night, and all day, working. I'm done now, so I can actually crash for the rest of the night, but I can't because I really want to get my bio rythym back into some semblance of normal (especially since my work is during the day!). So I'm going to force myself to sleep at at least 12mn. (Any earlier and I'd be awake again by 1-3 am, because my bio clock hates me.)

If people are wondering why I'm not on in AIM but replying to LJ posts/comments like crazy, you know why. ^^ *has 7 more hours to kill but probably can't carry a conversation very well at the moment*

If I end up flooding my LJ, I'm sorry. Forgive me? I rarely do that anyway.

So I was up all night working on a deadline, and ever since 11am I've been falling asleep on and off, catching about 5-10 minute naps here and there.

Now I always have dreams when my sleep is light, so I just thought I'd say, that I now dream in subtitles.

Honest to god. My latest dream was about me asking my sister to make me a cappuccino. She makes great cappuccino. The subtitles were in yellow.

Dear Anime-Otakus,

Please stop spending so much time subbing Prince of Tennis. I want to see more Tantei Gakuen Q. Now. The raws have me gaping like a rightful idiot at them.


Yours truly,
Soon To Be Smited By TeniPuri Fans

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That aside, I've now got a few days worth of not downloading anything to make up for. The download list is not pretty.

But first, I've finally gotten around to reformatting my PC (yey!). I'm still in the middle of reinstalling all the programs I'll be needing. Have gotten a new 80gb drive. It completely owns me. The old 40gb one is still being used for my OS. The 80gb is purely for storage. sofar says it won't last me very long, until I run out of space. (Oh, and I've upgraded the processor and motherboard too, but that pales in comparison to my delight on the increased storage space.)

Back to reconfiguring and installing programs...

Can anyone recommend an anime series for me to watch? New or old. Doesn't matter whether or not you think I may have seen it. Just drop titles on me, as long as you think it's worth watching.

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You know the biggest problem with that drabble meme which I knew I was going to regret the moment I posted it, was that the lot of you requested mostly from series' I swore I'd never write for. ;_; Not for lack of wanting, but just because they're series' (games) I don't think I can ever write well enough for. Evil people. ;_;

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My cat has mastered the graceless art of falling off the window sill. This does not amuse me at all. Especially when she gets her claws stuck on the window screen and is therefore hanging in mid-air by her CLAWS! >_< I am just thankful there was actually a chair there to support half of her weight so her claws weren't taking her full weight. *twitchtwitch* Blasted cat.

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To anyone who got the Saint Seiya Hades series from me. Finally got around to getting the fixed version of episode 13. Tell me if you want me to reburn a copy of the last CD.

( for the oushi, because your GetBackers files take up more CDs than they should and I would like to give the person who gave them to you a good kick in the ass... )

And to the person who got drunk with one glass of margarita. Are you feeling better yet? You'll never live this down, you realize? XD

caillen and sofar were over last night and now they've gotten to watch the Hyotei Sex Gods at play. All is good in TeniPuri world. Except the Athene refuses to acknowledge the greatness of dance 70's disco-pop on crack.

You must all read Jen's latest entry on Get Backers, because I haven't gotten around to watching more of this series, but for those of you who do... The Kazuki fans will most especially be amused, I'm sure.

Last night was great fun. It was great seeing everyone. But the Lyn should have come. =/

I started doing that OotP meme that lyntek wanted me to take, but then decided I didn't want to when the second question got me into this mini-rant about people's reactions to blah blah blah. But hell YES, he's got a damned right to be.

Anyway, Soldats finally finished subbing ManKin, so I've downloaded everything and after almost a year since they went on that long hiatus (and I stopped following the R-B releases), I finally got to watch the entire series. Which is to say... was as disappointing as they said it was when the anime ended last year. How badly they veered from the manga you cannot imagine. It was horrible. o_O The first half was alright, but by the time the second season came around it just becomes something you watch for the fun of it. And because i like Hao. And Yoh. And Ren. I hope the manga doesn't end that way. =/


I also finally told my mom I was getting another cat. She didn't protest at all, which was a bit of a surprise. All she said was I'd better be sure she was litter trained. Not a problem. My biggest worry is that Calyx (my current cat) would have a fit when I get Murray (the new cat) and I'll end up having a hissy cat fight right in the living room. Not good.

Can anyone who owns cats help me on this? I'm really not sure if Calyx would be very happy about having another cat in the house, after being lord of it for the past two years. She always has fights with the cats outside when she manages to get out of the house. Is there anything I can do to get them used to each other first? (Or maybe I should just have them declawed and defanged. :P)

They're both female cats too, and around the same age. Calyx has been neutered, Murray hasn't been. I don't think it matters that they're different breeds (Siamese, Persian respectively), but Calyx is a really prissy cat, with a tendency to be vicious. She's also a coward. Maldita ang walang hiya.


I am craving chocolate popsicles. Of all the things. I've never craved chocolate popsicles. I don't particularly like them even. Grr. I also want some avocado, but that's normal. I like avocado.

PS. I hadn't realized KnMnM had finally ended. 24 volumes, wonderful. I think I stopped getting it at volume 12. The Angelique manga has also ended at volume 11.

The only time I get to watch Survivor is when I'm at my cousin's place during the day and the time that it airs, because he's a Survivor fanatic and I normally couldn't care less. Except the very first episode of this season's Survivor that I saw was the one were Rob double-crossed his alliance to vote Alex out and Rob absolutely rocks my world! I can wibble over him and fangirl over him because darn it, he deserves the fangirls and HE DESERVED TO WIN!!! Poor poor Rob baby. You're still a winner to all of us, because you played the game exactly the way that it should be played. <3

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Had the PC reformatted and have burned videos to cds, which means I have space on my harddrive again. Enough space in fact, to be able to transfer all the data on my E: drive to C:, so now that I can install PC games on my computer again, they're all getting installed on the second drive. I'm playing Pharaoh, which Lyn dumped on me months ago and which she said I should play after I obsessed over Emperors (w/c I can now play on my computer now too!). So now I'm addicted. Go me!

The last assignment just about killed me. It took me two days to finish, and I'm only on the second age! ;_; If I keep lagging like this I'll probably have to listen to Lyn and try playing the game on easy mode. Yea, yea, I'll even announce it here if I give up and switch the difficulty level to easy. Oh the utter shame.

I've just discovered that my LJ likes to piss on my filters. And on my friends' filters and probably on my friends' friends' filters as well. Poo to you. I will fix this when my brain isn't practically screaming at me to collapse in the nearest corner and sleep into next week. I haven't slept in over 24 hours, I shouldn't have any problems falling asleep. Except that I do and it's frustrating, because I'm too tired to do anything remotely productive, but I seem to be obviously too tired to sleep either. :/

I've received the Sirius/Harry FQF challenge. None of my bunnies are biting. Damn them. :/ It involves letters and secret admirers and everything I wouldn't have written in a million years if left to the whim of my carnivorous bunnies.

I'm off to do something productive now. Like bang my head on the wall to defy the PTB that refuse to let me sleep.

Check out Penny Arcader's strip about the newly released GBA SP.

To caillen and lyntek: Since I wasn't able to tell you about the replay yesterday, the next replay for the Malaysian Grand Prix is at 12:30 am on March 27. I know it's a really bad time and Athene will be at work so she probably can't record it for me and I'm not sure if it'd be convenient for Lyn. I would have just gone over to Eks' house and watch there (yes, 12:30am and all), but the wench won't be home at the time.

(And gee, my amount of leechiness just to get to watch this race is embarassing. I've now asked my sister if I could maybe ask GP (her boyfriend) to record the race for me if neither panget or lyn can record it. XD)

daeas, nieshka and eksdj. Make sure to keep April 11 free, will you? So far, it's the only day Sheila can go out, since her cruise has been extended and her flight leaves before my birthday (12th I think).

My phone's gone missing, by the way. I haven't lost it, I've just temporarily misplaced it again. So if you've been trying to get in touch with me through mobile and I haven't been replying, that's why. ^^ I just misplaced it this afternoon though, should be around here somewhere.

( the difference between vegetarian and vegan )

( enneagram test results )

For some reason, my pc is screwing up my fonts. Not all my fonts mind you, but mostly the small fonts I use to create my icons. Grr. I had a series of icons I was supposed to work on tonight, but oh well. I tried the fonts on Corel and even in MS Word, they're still showing up jagged and pixelated. Mind you, I don't know what went wrong with it. I've tried deleting and reinstalling the fonts, but that didn't fix it. So anyway, these are the icons which I did finish. They're all requests from certain demanding people.

for caillen (who wanted a Tsume/Toboe icon)
01. 02.


for geilheit (who wanted a Meijin and Sai icon)
03.

Edit: And because I couldn't very well leave a comment in caillen's post because of the GS3 spoilers. I hate you. I really do. For tempting and taunting me with GS3 spoiler posts I cannot read. And for playing DMC2 right this very moment. :/ Wench.