Rushing holiday homework X hunt for X clamp

Haha yes i've not finished holiday homework yet =X *pulls out hair*

Bought alot of clothes in malaysia haha went to hatyai and bought more clothes XD so much for the economic reccession.. I feel guilty so i'll be eating only tofu and porridge for the next few months. and some potatoes too

Went hunting for X book 3 in malaysia which is seriously lacking in comic shops.. Found the whole X series from book 1 to 18 but shop keeper refused to sell me just book 3. oh well =( Didn't buy any new anime this time cos there was nothing special. Haibame renmei was the only interesting series which i didnt see on sale last year. Quite a depressing anime, so dont be fooled by the cheerful cover.

During band festival, i dropped by the comics connection at jurong point to buy X 18 and hopefully 3. I found book 18 english version and after looking around some more, i spotted X 18 taiwan version at an ulu bookshelf and it was placed at the top shelf. Haha tried reaching for it a few times when no one was looking. Then this nice guy helped me get it lol he also had difficulty reaching the book.
When i asked the shop keeper if he had any X 3 in stock, he said that chuangyi has stopped printing X series. I kinda expected that.. since you dont see much X around anymore but for some reason, i could feel my eye tearing up O_O it was so embarrasing X___X i think the guy noticed and he panicked a little and offered to help me call up the company blabla to ask. Walao i feel so stupid. I didnt know i would react so badly to somehting as minor as this HAHA -____-

1st day of band festival

Omg i'm so tired now and my arms are aching from all the extra workouts these few days.

I went to school specially on monday to take my saxophone home for band fest on wednesday. It was drizzling when i left the house around 8.30am and i planned to reach school, get my sax and leave before 9am, when the school uncle closes busstop gate. Haha i only brought my wallet and handphone aka no bag or umbrella.
Only edward and elaine were at the bandroom and they seemed disappointed that i was going to leave soon XD

I quickly got a new reed and dumped it, along with my wallet into the saxophone case. Then i realised i didnt have the scores... Thankfully Rini (librarian) came and passed me the scores blabla i put them in a black folder which i koped from my SL's stand =X like me, rini was also hoping to get out of school before uncle closes the d**n gate so we were rushing like mad. The two of us must have looked like crazy cos we were sprinting towards the gate in the rain all the while chanting 'uncle deng yi xia!! Uncle bu yao guan men T__T' We barely made it, uncle was kind enough to open the gate and let us through XD lucky!

But by that time i was panting quite badly.. well duh, cos i had to run a distance of roughly 1km all the while lugging my precious saxophone. I believe it's close to 10kg including the case and all that extra stuff. Ark horrible. My left arm was aching the next day.

Horrors of horror. I realised i left my ligature in the bandroom monday evening... No ligature= cannot play at all
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Speechless at the thought of having to make another trip back to school. And all that mad rush was for nothing -_____- In case you're wondering what a ligature is, it's that metal or leather thing with a screw to hold the reed in place at the mouthpiece. And please do not try to google 'ligature' for pictures cos you will be greeted by some nasty stuff.

So yea.. i went back to school on tuesday afternoon just to get that silly ligature. The bandfest ppl were coming to transport the percussion stuff to nie in a big lorry. No problem. But the terrible part was that we had to shift the drums and blabla out of the band room, down the corridor, down either a flight of stairs or a super narrow slope and winding before we reach the road where the lorry is. T______________T i stayed to help anyway, despite my aching left arm from monday haha. It was exhausting and i sweated like a pig. So now both my arms are aching.

Of a fangirl's ramblings and strange reactions-- Tokyo Babylon

"If you and I should ever meet again, let us live together for one year. My heart is the direct inverse of yours... you are kind, pure, and honest. And I'm sure that is how you will continue to grow up. Your heart will remain pure. So, if we should ever meet again, I will try my hardest to learn to love you. Just for one year... and after that year, if I can consider you "special", you will have won and I will not kill you. But if I decide that I cannot consider you special to me -- if I cannot distinguish the difference between you and that corpse, then... I will kill you. And so today... I will let you go."

Taken from wiki, what seishiro said to subaru.

Do you sense the beginning of a tragedy...?

CLAMP likes to play with the notion of betrayal. I don't know what it is that makes me so sad when reading X or Tokyo Babylon. Maybe it's what the characters experience which cause them to change so much. I feel terrible when such a thing happens. Sure, it's a good thing to grow and mature mentally but in the case of X and Tokyo babylon, i feel terrible after seeing these changes in the protagonists. Like how a compassionate and innocent boy turns to a angsty teen full of vengence for someone he loves(yes, present tense). Or even the other way round when a heartless and powerful guy learns to care for people around him. Because the heartless killer loses his 'invincibility' and becomes affected by others, often getting hurt or even dying in the end.

I'm a selfish and self-contradictory fangirl, am i not? T__T

After reading so much CLAMP stuff these few days i can feel my angst level rising. D**n the CLAMP world is such a cruel and complicated place. And omg i'm exposing myself to alot of shounen ai. Because i'm also rewatching prince of tennis anime. You know lah.. a team of good looking guys playing tennis. Sure to have some hints here and there. This is terrible cos when i come across such a scene, be it in CLAMP manga or POT anime, unprepared, i seriously get a shock and cringe involuntarily. The cringe often comes together with a gasp of real terror. Like when someone taps you on your shoulders while you're concentrating hard on something else. The sound which i make is more solid than a gasp, not as high pitched as a scream and softer than a shout. Go figure.

Scenario 1: On the living room sofa reading X manga while mum, also on the sofa, watches tv

Me: (gets to a part where Fuma does something 'bad' to Kamui) AAAAHHhhhhhh *shudders and shakes the whole sofa*

Mum: OI YOU CRAZY ARH

This is the cue for me to go back to my room to read cos mum will start poking me with her feet until i move somewhere else.

Wow, wordy post but i feel better after typing all these. Stay tuned to photos of bishies from the manga in the next post =D

Back from malaysia

Came back on monday afternoon and it was raining non stop. Cold~~

Didnt take much pictures in msia lah, just camwhored abit with my cousin. Hahahaha my ahgong's birthday dinner was held at a restaurant and close to a hundred people came, i'm not exaggerating X__X most of which i've never seen so i was there standing like a waitress while my mum went around saying hello. The dress i was wearing... was quite uncomfortable but it's not every day that i dress up like that so took some photos ^_^

My little cousin watches naruto and prince of tennis. Sad to say, both are a little overrated but she's still young haha hopefully she'll grow up and discover better anime or manga. I borrowed the 1st half of the POT anime back to singapore. It was too good to miss, since i only read some of the manga and missed out on the middle matches.

My adorable cousin! But super naughty. The cousin i borrowed anime from is his sister, P4 next year

I can only sigh and lament that some people really look bad in photos. More camwhore photos on facebook =X

Went to Janice's house to make onigiri today and watched her 1. add too much chili to her ramen and 2. wash+ cut her hair at jean yip.

Janice's seaweed face. We used this ultra salty seaweed bits to flavour the short rice

Ingredients all seto! And i'm going to eat everything, starting from the clear wrap =D

The end products, yummy!!! Plate on the left contains onigiri with pork floss fillings while those on the right are plain XD complete set of photos on facebook

*Edit: NOOOOOOOOOO HUNTER X IS GOING ON HIATUS AGAIN

X CLAMP overload

Was supposed to meet up with melesa and Kw yesterday but silly Kw refused to reply to our smses or msn nudges so the outing was cancelled. But i went to watch Bolt at plaza singapura with sherin and yz instead. Bolt was hilarious and quite worth watching =D Too bad the soundtracks arent that amazing but it's alright XD

Anyway, the main highlight yesterday wasn't watching Bolt. It was something i bought from comics connection. Wahaha i bought 15 X manga. Nope, you didnt read wrongly. I meant 15 volumes of X from CLAMP, not book 15 of X. =DDDD The books were on offer, priced at $1 each!!!

Warning: extremely long sentences coming up

Omg it was such a steal i tell you my eyes were popping out when i saw the $1 price tags on the books and i was like totally going crazy and gapping like an idiot until sherin and yangzhi came to ask what was happening. *breathes*

And then i was like 'lookie only one dollar it's so cheap and how dare they sell CLAMP stuff at only one dollar' while sherin went 'hahaha' and yz went 'oooh' and i was there deliberating whether i should get all the 10 books there because mum will kill me if she finds out. *pants*

Still we grabbed all 10 books and walked around the shop abit more while i tried to make up my mind which was kinda made up already anyway hahaha we went to the counter and that guy there told me that he had a few more in the storeroom and if i wanted to take them all. I wanted to say no but aiya no harm in seeing how many more he has so the 3 of us waited patiently while he went to take the books then he came out with 5 more books up to volume 17 which was the 'latest' X manga printed. That put me in a dilemma again because i wanted to stop after buying 10 books but yz and sherin were bad influence and kept telling me to get the books so after less the 2 minutes i said 'ok i want the books' and paid $15 for the 15 books and carried them out of the store. *cough choke dies*

Btw, they didnt have books 3 and 4. That was why i bought 15 books but the book number was up to 17. It's alright, i already have book 4 which Bao's senior found and gave to her and she gave it to me in exchange for hints about the physics test we took in sec 4 =X

I'm currently at book 10 and stopping cos it's seriously X overload. Too much emo and blood haha will stop to do chem and other holiday homework.. =(

So this was what i had previously ^^

A plastuc bag full of CLAMP goodies =D

It looks totally satisfying. Thankfully one plastic bag was big enough haha it would look weird if i had to carry 2 bags of manga home

Whee~~ a little old but who cares!

Only $1!! I will keep these plastic covers to commemorate this great bargain XD