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Welcome [01 Jan 2020|12:00am]
Hello all,

The fact that you are here probably means that I've just posted this, linked from my profile, or you are looking at my journal from the root URL.

This post is to make a few things clear after "mistakes" have been made and further considerations on my part as to what should be done about this journal of mine, along with whatever other web applications of similar nature.

1. I will lock my entries most of the time if I categorize them as work, school, rant, or any combination there of.
2. For the majority of the time, I will not lock entries regarding anime, doujinshi, sales, or any other topics not mentioned in the first statement.
3. If you are interested in keeping track of my life on the fandom front, feel free to add me to your friends list. However, this action might not be reciprocated. Please do not ask about this.
4. For those who know me personally and have known me for ages but have nothing to do with my obsessions, I will have to ask you to find me on FB instead. This is not the place meant for you for the sake of your well being and for the sake of mine.

Thanks for taking the time to read through all of this.

Out of country in June [13 May 2009|12:53am]
I will be out of the country in June and will not be able to attend AE this year. I was hoping to check it out since it's at a much better venue but it's unfortunate. Will have to wait until the year after I guess.

And with so much going on in my life right now I am just not prepared to attend it anyway.
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Doujinshi Sales [07 Mar 2009|11:27am]
I can't believe it's been half a year since I've done this... After keeping a tighter watch on my spendings I realize I really am not saving much so some things (no matter how good they are) will have to go...

Details about purchase:
All prices are in USD and have not included shipping. I can only accept payments through PayPal and would prefer if they were not made through credit/ debit card. If you would like to pay with card then please be prepared to pay the additional Paypal charges on top of the total. In addition, payment should be made within a week after I send you the email with the details. Please do let me know if you need more time. Otherwise I may open up the book for the next person who wants it. If you are interested in any of the items, please leave me a comment with items you like to buy, your email and your country of residence (shipping calculations) on this entry or send me an email to rainedrops @ gmail . com

As a reference, shipping to US and Canada for 1 book is typically 5 USD.

Bleach Doujinshi )
Gintama Doujinshi )
Macross F Doujinshi )
Neuro Doujinshi )
Prince of Tennis Doujinshi )
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日本語の練習 [03 Feb 2009|11:16pm]
私の目に、あの事件はもう終わった。多分、貴方もそう思うでしょう。私は後悔していない。ただ前に進むしかない。今、私は夜に寝られる。平気な顔で皆と一緒に笑える。辛い時があるかもしれないけど、頑張って見る。そして何時か、私の心から貴方の幸せを願うことが出来る。だから,逃げないでください。もうあの言葉を言えないから。逃げるでも何も変わってないよ。

これから、ただのいもうととして貴方を応援するよ。
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미안해 [01 Feb 2009|06:24pm]
ごめんね皆!
Some may have noticed I've been absent for quite some time. I've had a difficult month of January and am still in midst of recovering.
其實結果我早已經有所預感。之不過聽到原來係咁0既原因同埋之前所發生0既事... 真係好唔甘心﹗但係唔甘心又點啊﹖失去0左0既機會就唔會有第二次。但係到最後俾我再講一次...
오빠... 아직도 좋아해.

いじょう! It will be very rare for me to have 4 languages in the same entry in the future but it was fun typing this one =)

On an unrelated note, how come the yen appreciated so much! It's making my shopping difficult! =_= On the other hand maybe it's just the USD...
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Save me from this addiction... [06 Jan 2009|07:07pm]
Sorry... I seem to have nothing better to say these days.
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~Merry Christmas~ [25 Dec 2008|12:54am]
Though I haven't been online much outside of work, I'd like to wish everyone a merry Christmas. Thank you for your Christmas (and D.Gray + PoT) card [info]glowinglotus! I received it just at the right time ^^ I had intended to send out cards myself this year but ended up working myself to death (not quite death but I was quite ill for the past few days).
In any case, I hope everyone can enjoy the holidays! I'm definitely having a white Christmas here, maybe a little too white for my liking. I'm sure we've had something like 2 feet of snow by now. I'm physically trapped at home by it ^^;
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Can't reply your message [06 Dec 2008|11:24am]
Hey [info]ayutachan
Just wanted to post here to let you know that I can't reply your message because you have some security thing set.
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The public post [26 Oct 2008|09:36am]
I feel like I've disappeared from the online community. As a matter of fact, what happened to my old habits of "boiling" anime's and drama's? Some things I thought would stay with me forever in the past I feel like I've just dropped them all.

Anyway, that's not the point. Some time in the future I swear I will catch up with everyone.

Recently been downloading music (Rain, Jay Chou, JJ Lin). I haven't listened to Chinese stuff for such a long time. Out of curiosity I downloaded Jay Chou's newest album because it's got the name of my sun sign: Capricorn XD I can't say I'm all too impressed. I think I kind of grew out of his music quite a while ago. I mean... there were some decent songs but not as captivating as before. JJ Lin's Sixology on the other hand... I also haven't listened to his songs for a while but from what I remember of his songs, it seems like he changed styles, and changed for the better? There were some pretty good songs in there.

A coworker also sent me the top 30 songs from the Oricon charts for some week in October and I went to dig up some information about those too.

Yesterday was much fun. I had dinner with a couple of my coworkers who I call "family". It's a very dysfunctional family mind you. Anyways we were unfashionably late and didn't get ourselves out until 12:30 ^^; We also bumped into another coworker of ours who was at a birthday party (and I probably knew 1/2 the people at that other table). The world is a small place.

After lunch today I'll have to start working on my other "full time job". Yes, I know, it's a Sunday.
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Bi - Rainism [19 Oct 2008|06:31pm]
Love Story is seriously the best song in that album.
I had it on repeat for a whole day.
After such a long time of not listening to his songs (or anything Korean for that matter), it was almost refreshing to find that he released a new album 3 days ago.
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Something from a magazine [12 Oct 2008|10:33pm]
I still feel like working 2 full time jobs but today I went to get my hair coloured. While sitting there with a magazine in my hand, I started reading about the cover story. It was about 2 stars in HK and about their relationship. I must have had a very interesting smile on my face when I read this as I related it to someone... Here's what I read:

To stop a guy from playing around... )

I wouldn't have been so amused with what I read if it hadn't actually made me relate to someone I knew.
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Periodic mini sale [13 Sep 2008|12:50pm]
Getting close to time to pay for web hosting again... which means fund-raising time ^^;

Details about purchase:
All prices are in USD and have not included shipping. I can only accept payments through PayPal and would prefer if they were not made through credit/ debit card. If you would like to pay with card then please be prepared to pay the additional Paypal charges on top of the total. In addition, payment should be made within a week after I send you the email with the details. Please do let me know if you need more time. Otherwise I may open up the book for the next person who wants it. If you are interested in any of the items, please leave me a comment with items you like to buy, your email and your country of residence (shipping calculations) on this entry or send me an email to rainedrops @ gmail . com

EDIT: As a reference, shipping to US and Canada for 1 book is typically 5 USD.

Gintama Doujinshi )
Neuro Doujinshi )
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Zettai Kareshi [10 Sep 2008|10:10pm]
I like... RARELY watch Japanese dramas. I'd say this is the second one I watched entirely. I saw an episode of it while in Japan. Actually I didn't know the drama's title at first but the whole robot thing made me think of Zettai Kareshi. Then I found out it actually was Zettai Kareshi ^^;

Anyway, I don't know their real names so I'll just use their character names. Soushi's character is completely different from the manga ^^; And Night was so stiff I didn't really like his character much (then again, he is a robot so there's not much we can do there). And the drama was okay throughout until the very end. I cried a bucket again ^^; At the end I appreciated Night's character that much more. He loosened up, wasn't robot like anymore and was really cute ^^/ To be honest, comparing the drama and the manga, I actually prefer the drama's story more.
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Best of Ranka photo shoot [07 Sep 2008|09:04pm]
I've picked out some of the best photos from that photo shoot from each of the 2 photographers.

Ranka cosplay ahead )

For the rest of the photos, please visit my cosplay website.

I don't know when, if at all, I will get my hands on the Tomoyo ones... Sadly I was the least impressed with myself during the Tomoyo photo shoot.
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Another random cosplay picture [26 Aug 2008|01:18am]
I am so grateful to all those who helped me out with my photos on Sunday (directly or indirectly). Here's one picture that turned out particularly well... This was the hardest pose of the entire photo shoot. I'm glad it didn't show my face because I was in some pain there (or perhaps that would have been perfect for this shot anyway ^^;) It's only physically possible to do so many things in real life LOL. We had no wind indoors either XD Oh, but the one major thing I was lacking was that hot body of his ahahhaa.

This is the pose I tried to attempt.


And here's the real deal )

The darn wig is REALLY messed up. I am going to wash it out, cut and re-style the darn thing before going to my next photo shoot... There was always hair in my face no matter how I posed.

EDIT: I've posted the remainder of the cosplay pictures from this photo shoot on my cosplay website. Check out the rest of the pictures there =)
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Thoughts of AE2008 [24 Aug 2008|10:04pm]
In all honesty I am extremely tired! I didn't actually do much that pertained to the convention itself other than go through the artist alley and the vendor's area. I'm glad to have met [info]felys_sho, [info]kurot, [info]pockynomiko and pockynomiko's friend (which I am so stupid for not having asked for her name) at the artist alley. There was also some other amazing artists there and I was really impressed in general.
The vendor's room this year was arranged very differently. In my opinion the layout's a lot better than what they had at SFU. [info]sekitx2, seeing that line up on Saturday, you must have been busy as hell and making some good $ there. Thanks for showing me that sexy Gokudera folder... You knew I just couldn't resist it XD

EDIT: Oh, I got this comment quite often about my cosplay this year. Apparently I change my look so much from costume to costume that people found it hard to recognize me... XD

A picture of my Friday costume.
Ranka from Macross F )

My Tomoyo on Saturday.
Tomoyo from Tsubasa Chronicles )

And to end off...
Omake Reborn pic )
A lot more photos need to be processed and I'll be posting more cosplay pictures when the photographers are done with processing them.
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Stressed [18 Aug 2008|12:07am]
Cosplay deadlines are totally stressing me out right now.
Why are the damn wigs so hard to work with. *screams some colourful curses*

Oh god... and ComiKet just passed by too... =_=|||
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Randomness [29 Jul 2008|11:45pm]
Been staring at images of FF Versus XIII lately and I just can't help but to say that the main character has Sasuke hair ^^;
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So... after reading 30 pages of this... [14 Jul 2008|08:20pm]
I'm speechless...

I was looking on the forums for clarification as to why AE could not be held at SFU and of course... could not grasp the full picture. You should see how many angry people there are (and for those out of town especially). I have no idea how it came to that. SFU gave their side of the story but as far as I see AE execs have yet to come up with a reasonable response. If the dates mentioned in SFU's explanations are indeed true then AE execs are indeed incompetent.
That aside people in the community are trying to help bring this thing together, suggesting venues and such. My 2 cents is that it'll be extremely difficult to find a suitable venue now that can meet all the requirements (not to say this is impossible). The execs just need to get the priorities straight. If I had to some say in this I would hold the con on the same date and at a possibly smaller venue. They'll have to cut some events or limit the amount of participants because of this and no doubt anger some people again. But the big picture is... the con is still a go right?
Some people have looked into UBC and it looks like there's a chance there. Personally I would prefer UBC over SFU any day XD SFU just isn't very pretty (or the parts I've been to).

I'm surprised I flipped through all those forum pages...
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Some doujinshi for sale [05 Jul 2008|10:40am]
Um... it's reached the point where they won't all fit on the shelf space I have for it anymore ^^;

Details about purchase:
All prices are in USD and have not included shipping. I can only accept payments through PayPal and would prefer if they were not made through credit/ debit card. If you would like to pay with card then please be prepared to pay the additional Paypal charges on top of the total. In addition, payment should be made within a week after I send you the email with the details. Please do let me know if you need more time. Otherwise I may open up the book for the next person who wants it. If you are interested in any of the items, please leave me a comment with items you like to buy, your email and your country of residence (shipping calculations) on this entry or send me an email at rainedrops @ gmail . com
Bleach Doujinshi )
Gintama Doujinshi )
Neuro Doujinshi )
Reborn Doujinshi )
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