Picspam because I'm bored. :P These were taken last April during a family trip to Hidden Valley Springs in Laguna.

( The scenery is absolutely breathtaking. So much green! )

Finally got to vote in an official "Tales of" character ranking poll. My vote went to Natalia (it was between her and Farah, really)! GO GO NATALIA! \o/

Which reminds me, I haven't watched the anime yet. orz


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Lately, I've been listening to Byousoku 5 Centimeter's "One more time, one more chance" an awful lot. :/ I suppose it's not as bad or brain-breaking compared to other songs I've listened to on loop before (like a certain Swedish song) -- it's very good, actually, but... ugh, it's so depressing, and so powerful in a way that it'll make you think of all the "what if"'s and "what could have been"'s in life. And all this is coming from someone who doesn't have any romantic hang-ups. XD;

Happy Halloween, everyone!


Is it just me or is today particularly gloomy? And cold? D:

We'll be leaving for the cemetery in a short while to offer flowers and prayers for my grandparents. And yes, we always celebrate undas a day early to avoid traffic and huge crowds. Don't ask me why we go there late at night, though. 8D;

GRADUATED.

... I feel like I can take on anything now.


Oh, and I had strawberry cheesecake and creme brulee for dessert. Today was exceptionally sweet.

So instead of finishing my frog skeleton project (which has been collecting dust and ants for the past week), or studying, or doing anything productive, I've been catching up on historyyy Hetalia! Er, if ogling at fan videos and art counts as "catching up." I regret nothing! :D

Ugh, why is everyone so cute?! DX Thanks to that my favorite characters are pretty much undecided, although Italy (and by default, Germany and Japan and Romano), US, England, Greece, and Spain are pretty high up on the list. I-I think that's 1/4 of the cast already. 8D; And why are majority of them main characters?!

By the way, does anyone know the URL to the Hetalia character ranking meme? I've seen it floating around on blogs, but can't seem to find the actual link. :/ I need to do some extreme sorting!

( and to make this post slightly more useful: video recs )

( needed to get this off my chest )

Now that's out of the way, I've been on another Sengoku Basara kick lately (it easily takes the cake as my weirdest fandom ever)! :D Which lead me to these fabulous SIMS2 videos:
- Caramelldansen?!
- Maeda KG is in DESPAIR (some very traumatizing imagery here)
- PARTY AT MASAMUNE'S HOUSE!!
... They're going crazy. XD;

Lastly, the most adorable caramelldansen ever! Nagamasa/Oichi! <333

And yes. Everything I know about Japanese history, I learned from this game. It's kind of sad.

RP recs, anyone? I'd like to try out a muse, so even dressing rooms are fine. :)

Since I'm on the subject -- why isn't there a multi-fandom RP based on Ouran?! D: Where players choose to be hosts, customers or crazy managers...? Because if I'm going to be stuck somewhere for an indefinite amount of time, it'd be a host club. Although people don't necessarily have to be stuck there, I DON'T KNOW.

I usually don't post this type of meme often, but oh well, why not?

One little compliment can make you feel amazing. So give me a compliment, anything in the entire world, even that my shoelaces are pretty. Put this in your journal. And once you get some comments, put that entry in a memory or tag and when you are feeling down, just go to that entry and this will remind that you're not so bad in other people's eyes after all.


I think I might have this slight fixation for Persona 1's MC (ack, decade-old fandom... =_=;). I've been looking for fanart of him and Maki-chan, but fansites are really far and in-between. :/ Maybe I'm just not looking at the right places...

And I can't seem to stop watching this Zetsubou-sensei OP parody. ペルソナアアアアッ!!

OMG, a Tales of the Abyss anime by Sunrise, even?! It looks so gorgeous! *A* I'm totally watching this!!

Guy's gynophobia looks funnier animated! XD; I also have to wonder if they'll make the ending more bittersweet than it already is.

Allison & Lillia: Ep. 13 is finally out, meaning the Lillia & Treize arcs will start next week! :D I hardly noticed the time at all, honestly, and now I'm excited for the second half all over again! But I think I'll lower my expectations for it a bit since I found the Allison arcs disappointing. I did like the Allison/Will moments, though, and those left such an impression on me that... they're all I can remember, out of everything else that happened. 8D; So I can look forward to a good portrayal of the Lillia and Treize dynamic, at least.

Nabari no Ou: Shijima's already in the anime? Seriously? Er, I quite dislike the anime, for reasons even I don't know, and stopped watching around the third episode. But since catloli is one of my favorite characters, and you really don't see much of her, I'll try to catch up or maybe just watch this ninja school arc.


... I really should stop being critical of the few shows I watch. :|