Thanks to midnightcolor, yumelia, pectus_pectoris, and amai_kaminari for the Snowflake Cookies. I'd send you one back 'cept I don't see it in the gifts page anymore and I've got no money (or paypal/credit card/whatever) to buy any of the others with, sorry.orz

And...I've got no money 'in general' which is why I'm not joining the card-sending this year. I don't want to fail more people this year than I did last, so I figured I'd sit it out altogether. Sorry, guys.~_~

Been to a couple of conventions, two of which I brought my nephew to. He seemed to have enjoyed himself, though not particularly with the cosplay. Under the cut (not, for those seeing this in multiply) is a pic of him in his Son Goku costume on the first event he went to. We fixed his nyoi-bo for the second one (which I can't find a pic from) but didn't bother to make his shoulder armor. I never quite appreciated Goku's armor until I saw him wear everything for the first time. It looked weird and obviously incomplete.

( And the Rest... )

So, so sorry for abandoning you this past month f-list, but please bear with me.~_~

P.S. This is a 'new-ish' fad among plurkers, drop me a question?

Ah, disjointed(?) entry's disjointed. let's see. I'm at Mineski (a computer shop) right now near sch**l, waiting for Nikki to...uh...I don't know what she's doing exactly, but I (randomly) invited her out to dinner. Must remember to come home early to teach nephew for his exam tomorrow, yes. Except I really don't feel like doing it anymore, 'cause his last major exams' results came out last Monday and he got two 79s and one 76. SO not good.>(

But I'm still bringing him to cosplay Goku next Sunday. I'm just fixing his top tomorrow (is what I should have done yesterday...) from an old polo of mine though, no more bringing him to a seamstress. And his nyoi-bo...is still a stick. I'll work on them tomorrow (I hope). Meanwhile I'm staffing on Saturday along with the rest of SIGIL as Mafia!Gokudera. Ah, I still need a suit/top/blazer/coat/whatdoyoucallthemreally. The meeting for which was last Saturday, after which we went to Galang Hospital for a KHR photoshoot. It's an abandoned hospital turned airsoft field and our afternoon shoot turned into a night shoot and it was awesome and TIRING. Here's a slideshow of some of the pictures and I'm the first one probably because I have "Welcome" spraypainted on the wall behind me. With an awesome skull, yes.xD

Lesseee....Here's the vid of Valkyrie Profile cosplay from Cosmania, where we won Best Group Cosplay, but the vid kind of sucks because the cameramen zoomed in at all the wrong times and all the wrong people.DX Meanwhile, here's the Allied Forces (which I kept calling Allied Nations.orz) skit of our Hetalia cosplay from Anime Overload Festival...uh...two weeks ago (I'm England in green) and The Axis.

Oh. Nikki's txt'd. Well...I've been busy over my best friend's newborn baby and cosplay, basically. Really busy. Like I'm somewhere in the neighborhood of 7k for NaNoWriMo busy.x_X

Stay safe!

I have no plot yet and NaNoWriMo starts in less than 5 hours. Shoot me for not having a life and messing up the dates and thinking November 1 is on Monday. Augh.orz

Forget plot. I don't even have a genre yet. And I blame the media fussing over how the weather would be on Monday for my thinking that November 1 is on Monday.

In other news...

What other news??! *is panicking over NaNoWriMo HARD*

Oh...right. Woke up today to a puddle at the foot of the bed. At a place where it didn't used to puddle before they started fixing our house.>_> Mom didn't make much of a fuss about it but, come on, seriously, wth. No electricity so I went back to bed. Woke up to clear skies, lunch, and a tutoring job with my nephew. Turned my laptop on, made a list of things to do--and have accomplished NONE of them so far, of course. I blame my hubby, YamaGoku fics, Cake Wreck (see below), and my nephew. Who is halfway through fourth grade and only has four leaves of his Math notebook filled (his worst subject), and would rather fix his seatmate's correction tape rather than do seatwork. That brat is going to make me age very fast.

But will hopefully make me proud in his upcoming exams.^^ And then he can cosplay Goku at M3Con (I'm bringing him to AME too, Meic.^_^). Before then though, I've next week's Anime Overload Festival to survive. A 7-member limit was placed on cosplay groups so we had to split our Hetalia group into two--and how exactly do you put Germany, Italy, Japan, Austria, Liechtenstein and Switzerland in a three-minute skit? Ideas, anyone?

What else...AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH at latest KHR chapter. OMG. Kokuyou = <3. Also, is it just me or does TYL!Chikusa look somewhat hotter than TYE? Which makes little sense 'coz he looks almost exactly the same to me, LOLOLOLOL. (Maybe it's the hat...)

Something random:



Why is the toilet paper angry?

From Cake Wrecks. I LOL'd so much (why am I so shallow?) and spent a good chunk of the afternoon back-reading a couple of pages of the blog (*adds to blame-list above*). Then went out for ice cream with my nephew and got rained on on our way back.>_>

( Late Memes )

P.S. Latest KHR episode. I snickered at Gokudera not caring to see his house TYL (you reeeeeally don't want to show us your place, do you, Dera?) and then =( at Yamamoto not being able to go back to Takesushi, but--squee-- Am I the only one who saw that YamaGoku moment at the park? Dera said he has no home (sad face here), that it's already been ten years and he has already moved (oh-lulz-grin), and then Yama's shown with this look (VERY wide grin then squeeee). They're living together TYL and know it!=DDD *SHOT* And haha, the Lochness monster has been caught!XD

Well, I'm back. Thanks for the few who cared.

This video was plurked by someone. It's SO cute it made my WEEK. Embedding has been disabled so please click the link--it's soooooo cute.

I've been really bleh this past month or so; I'm sorry if I haven't been posting much and/or neglecting you, f-list! I can't go into details right now 'coz Mom's insisting I go to bed but I'll try to be more productive starting next week. Thank you for being patient with me.^_^

Title: Bright and Decadent
Series: Saiyuki
Status: One-shot, complete
Rating: R
Pairings: KenrenXTenpou
Disclaimer: Saiyuki and its characters belong to Minekura-sensei, the Saiyuki Project, TV Tokyo, Dentsu and Pierrot, etc.
Warning: Non-worksafe, historical inaccuracies
Notes: Written as a gift for feait in 7thnight_smut (2009) and beta by meicdon13.

( Bright and Decadent )

my 'Niisan! and Kaoru!=D

I met the two of you at the same time around...7, 8 years ago? Definitely two of my oldest friends over the net. Thanks for sticking by me, my lovies. I love you guys!

Nikki messaged me earlier this morning that she's been stuck in traffic for more than 8 hours. I hope she gets/got home safe.>_< We're lucky we live in a subdivision that has a pretty nifty drainage system so we didn't get flooded, but Manila...looks like Venice. Only worse, and dirtier. I keep turning to the TV when there are News Updates. It's amazing and terrible.

Anyway~ I saw this meme a couple of times in my f-list but still forgot to include it with last night's batch. So, posting now~.

Anyone who looks at this entry has to post this meme and their current wallpaper.
☞ Explain in no more than five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
☞ Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on

( Under the Cut )

Er...Yeah. I owe those who actually care a life update. Um. I'll make one soon as something actually happens to me. As it is I've spent the last three weeks eating and sleeping and getting fat. That is all.

Meme time~.

Tagged by shin_michael

01. If you've been tagged, you must write your answers in your own LJ and replace any question that you dislike with a new, original question.
02. Tag eight people. Don't refuse to do that. Don't tag who tagged you.

( In Here )

Tagging my hubby, Avril, Meic, Goku, Amu, theskywasblue...is that 8 already? /lazy None of these guys have to do this though, of course.

And now for that Reborn!pic meme~

( Image heavy, bb! )

And now for some random rambling (or not. It's past 6AM. *yawn)~.

( This be SPOILERS CUT )

Bed now, I think. Ah, it's not raining...

Finished 20 minutes too late so I cheated by changing the Date/Time of this entry, hahaha. It's technically his birthday in my hubby's and lots of other people's timezones anyway~.=P

How cool and ironic is it that yesterday's today's episode of Reborn! in our local channel is the last part of the Storm Battle? Because~~

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GOKUDERA!!♥♥♥

Here, have a colored!drawing:



I drew something. Again. Colored it and attempted shading even. I'm as surprised as he is, yup. (It looks like Gokkun at least, right?~_~)

( I also made this... )

( Cut for bad 59 drawing )

xraaawrx's already back from A-fest. Where are you???=(

1.
leave me a comment saying "PINEAPPLES!!"
i'll respond by asking you five questions so i can get to know you better.
update your journal with the answers to the questions.
include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions

Questions from xraaawrx~!

( In here~! )

2.
Some pics of my thesis group, in case anyone's interested as to what the boys look like:

( From Justin's Cam )

3.
I'm having tooooons of fun at Disco. I'm still all iffy with my characterization of Gokkun and I really shouldn't keep on hogging Yamamoto like I am (people complained about it during the last HMD, ahaha...), but YamaGoku is just too, too sweet to resist. Or maybe it's just 'cause Yamamoto's the only one from Namimori there. We'll know once the Tenth arrives--we've finally got a reserve for him, hooray!!=D o/ I'm thinking of advertising the rp at hitman_reborn so we can get more cast, but I've kind of never pimped an rp before and dunno how to go about it...

4.
I've got three DW codes to dish out if anyone wants one. Just comment here or send me a private message or something and I'll reply to you with the code.^_^

5.
Yummy fics have been up at 7thnight_smut since last Wednesday although, lol, everyone who cares about it in my f-list would already know that, ahaha. Can't wait to get thesis done so I can properly start reading and commenting...is probably just an excuse.orz I hope not. Either way, I've definitely got to finish a couple of the fics before the authors are revealed. Or something.

6.
Er. Sleepy now. Good night/morning!

EDIT TO THE EXTREME!:
7.
I has Skype now too.^^ Add me: xcerpted.

So before I even tell my Mom (well, I tried, but her phone's off or something), before I even tell anyone else in the world outside that little conference room, I have to tell you guys that:

MY GROUP HAS PASSED OUR THESIS DEFENSE!!=D

My LJ friends have been my main source of support and have been the most patient and asdfghjkl; I love you guys! Thanks for everything!<333

(And to those who are wondering why I'm posting this at 3:54 in the afternoon when I said the defense is at 8-- we didn't get to start it until past 1pm! We were all here before 7am but our last panelist arrived around 10:30 due to flooding, and then our thesis adviser had a class until 12:30. Talk about a loooooong wait.orz But so worth it, I guess~, haha.)

From the KHR's latest Friending Meme. Welcome~~.

WE HAVE OUR DEFENSE SCHEDULE (FINALLY)! It's TOMORROW, AUGUST 22, AT 8AM. Please wish me luck, f-list!>_< And I swear to be catching up on you guys after, and finish my duties and stuff like that Thanks for being patient with me.orz

Fail!Hubby ♥ Fail!Wifey


I is now officially an uke, WHAT.DX *goes hunting for her (former) UKEs* Zeeeeen, Ten-chaaaaaaaan, Schaaaa, Dyceeeee--*ducks Dycee's metaphorical flying slipper*

Oh. Grabbed from my fail!hubby creativexwonder. Obviously. Pfffffft.

Anyway, I'm here at my college building's lobby, so hot and feeling a little woozy (or I wouldn't have agreed to being uke-fied) but not panicky, 'coz OUR DEFENSE TOMORROW MORNING GOT CANCELLED. Cancelled though, not moved to Monday, so they can still schedule it for Saturday. I hope not.>_<

Oh, for those on LJ, I'm the one in a red dress with short black hair in the pics on my previous entry (f-locked). For those in multiply-- pfft. I'll copy+paste them at the bottom of this entry or something.

Um. It's so hot here.DX So excuse phail!grammar and shiz. Byebii~.

That's Fuck the What, not For the Win.

Thesis Deadline. We managed to make it this time around. Last semester, we were an hour late and, as warned, were given an instant 're-defense status'-- that is, we only got to defend our thesis once. We failed our defense, but would have passed a re-defense had we one. This time, not only is our work better (IMHO), but we have the re-defense to fall back on. So I'm pretty sure we'll pass the course this time...I hope.

Anyway, my body clock is broken! Very badly. I thought I'd be dead to the world as soon as I got home, but I spent 3 hours from 6pm trying to fall asleep. Mom even turned on the air conditioning unit even though it's not that warm, but no dice. Not that I'm not sleepy--god, I am. I'm fucking exhausted. But I've spent most of the last week staying up late (between 3 and 6am late) so...*sigh*

Tomorrow's my group's "rest day" and I'll be either meeting with some of Team Corsivah or working on my 7thnight_smut assignment. It's weird to think that more than an entire month has passed since I last saw anyone (except Shamal) from the famiglia, and that 7thnight_smut's deadline is no longer even two weeks away. Thesis isn't done, far from it, but I might have some more time now to pay attention to stuff I've neglected. So I'm really sorry, and I'll try harder to follow your entries, my f-list.^^;;

Er...and sorry if this entry sounds kind of weird; I'm really sleepy. Junichi-san (or at least the person said he was 'juni') messaged me earlier, advising me to take Alaxan. That. Was weird. Maybe I just dreamed it?

Really sleepy now. I guess I'll go see if I can actually sleep.orz

Ja!o/

Got home a bit ago from PinoyWrimo's (NaNoWriMo Philippine Chapter) First Meet-Up for 2009. A handful of members and lots of talking. As usual, being the not-quite book nut that I am, I didn't recognize probably half or so of the titles/authors they mentioned.^^;; But it was fun! I went with Team Corsivah's Shamal and I don't know if he had fun though. But he said he did. So, maybe.

Anyway, minna, I need your help!! Please comment here with:

KY! DO YOUR FUCKING THESIS!

...or anything else that carries, more or less, the same message. I'm going to go to sleep now 'coz I'm soooo tired, but I'll be back working on it once I wake up. We've got four days left and I need all the encouragement (and threats, if any) that anyone would spare me, please!>_<

*sigh* What else..? Oh. This is a blatant rip-off from dia_aren_marie ("MEL, DO YOUR FUCKING PAPER" post).

That is all. Good night!o/

I don't usually make a post while in the middle of thesiswork but no one's online and I reeeeeally need to scream that:

I HATE BEING A GIRL!!D: D: D:

On her first. fucking. day. Oh god. It hurts so much.;___________; Last month I had to take the day off and it wasn't even half as bad as it is right now.

/brbfeelinglikebeingsawninhalf

Our deadline's been moved and I needed to cancel my game with the famiglia on Thursday. While my stress-levels are amazingly not running high from letting thesis rob me of a social life, I really, really miss Nikki and the famiglia. I suppose I'll just have to grit my teeth and wait it out. And try to get some sleep. It's my third night in a row staying up and I'm on my last Flash file to develop; my task changes to checking my other groupmates' work before we throw everything together. Something that'll take me the same amount of time, if not more, but not something I can do at four in the morning. The task requires an actually processing brain.^^;; So, I'll finally get some sleep tonight/tomorrow morning. Maybe.

Er...Sorry. I just really want sleep.T_T I'm a self-proclaimed hypersomniac for crying out loud.DX

Anyway, yeah, so so much for a hiatus. I still won't be around as much but there's no way I can keep up another week without the internet, haha. I was actually surfing on the side during the last two hours of our meeting yesterday. Just a bit.

Um. I'm rambling and I've forgotten whatever else I was planning to say. Will edit this if I do. Going back to work now.

EDIT: Now I remember. After Butamirate Citrate, Mom had me take Ambroxol for two days. Neither worked and finally, yesterday morning, she had Dad grind ginger to a paste and placed them over my neck and back on strips of cloth. I don't know if she added anything to the ginger and it took me a reeeeeeally long time to bathe for shower (I wasn't allowed to, and I pleaded to use hot water and had to wash my hair at the kitchen sink) but it kind of worked. I'm not coughing as bad and I feel really, really bad for the hundred dollars or so she'd spent on my meds).

But not probably as guilty as I would have had my cousin not told me earlier that their youngest brother's phone bill reached 5000 dollars. In one month. WTF. (His girlfriend had to move back here to the Philippines and he must have been calling her a loooooooooot.)

I’m naturally lazy, so I decided to force myself into a corner where I had to draw and train....is what I've been needing to do for awhile now, seriously. Thank you, Minekura-sensei!

So~ it worked last Sunday-Monday morning and I hope it works this morning. I've abstained from roleplaying with creativexwonder, surfing, reading fanfiction, and have even gritted my teeth and forced myself to stay offline (my sister using our internet is a big help on this). And it really worked! I was able to show something to my thesismates. Given, it wasn't anything impressive and looked like something that could be accomplished in three hours or four-- I still had to learn masking, shape tweening and a bunch of other basic stuff, and am a slow worker to begin with--but still, it's something! I was feeling pretty good about it--until, of course, I realized that I didn't accomplish anything but the controls the entire afternoon. Without surfing on the side, even (creativexwonder was about to go offline when I thought of poking my head into AIM). There is something about sch**l that makes me slower than how slow I really am. Seriously. Or maybe it was just really too cold where I was sitting. *coughs uncontrollably while sucking/biting on coffee candy and trying not to fall asleep*

But I digress (and wasting time, KY!). So, basically, I'm just trying to cut down on everything else until this is over-- on Wednesday, unless our petition for an extra week gets accepted. I half-want that since we'd be able to polish our work a bit more and half-hate it 'cause two days into it and I'm already experiencing withdrawals from lack of internet. But I digress again, haha.^^;; So...yeah, I've been scarce, will be until tomorrow night, I'm sorry and I'll get to reading back on my F-list as soon as I'm free.

Oh, and Mozilla managed to retrieve my 7thnight_smut research. IDK how but I'm not complaining. Will work on it and my khr_projects assignment after thesis submission too!