black market love

One week of school left, then study break, then exams, then SUMMER (work, beaches, hallelujah sunlight), then university doesn't start until March, yes free month!

My time's being eating up successfully lately by study, procrastinating and more study, since I'm determined to get good marks because I want a scholarship. But not the one through NCEA, no way I'm doing scholarship exams for 3 subjects, just Art History. Even so, most of my study will be last minute, like always. XD I can't seem to ingest it otherwise.

Also, I've started watching Aishiteruze Baby and Bleach, and I'm loving both of them. AiBaby is so cute I almost had a heart attack, then I watched it with friends and we couldn't stop squeeing. The girly-ness is disturbing. And I finally started reading Fullmetal Alchemist (*is slow*), and I must read that. Hopefully interest in TeniPuri will come back with Nationals.

( short story - this is not my sister )

In the newspaper there was an article on the aesthetics of the Olympics, but I figure it lost its true brilliance when the men stopped wearing speedoes in the swimming. I mean, the beach volleyball has women in bikinis dancing (could we call that dancing?) to Dirrrty, why can't the swimming have speedoes? Can't someone invent streamlined speedoes?

Anyway... RARRR, YOU LOSE, SERBIA! The last 40 seconds of that basketball game took 9 minutes. DICKEL IS THE MAN. The referee was an absolute ass. XD Despite the fact that we've lost what? the other 2 games, WHO CARES, it was brilliant (well not really, they could've done a hell of a lot better). Except when the hell is the tennis and soccer and GYMNASTICS on? Probably 3am, everything good seems to be on at 3am. Bastard timezones.

Exams are the week after next. I fear my brain might die. No wait, it's already dead.

THE KOREAN MOVIE OLD BOY IS BRILLIANT. You have absolutely NO IDEA what is going on until the last half hour, where everything starts to make sense.

I bought the first 2 volumes of xxxHolic, which I shouldn't have, but I love it, so that's okay. Watanuki is such a loveable dork, Yuuko is so amusing; and I hate the fact that they cost $5 more than Tokyopop volumes. I also bought Tokyo Babylon volume 1, reading it almost makes me cry knowing what happens in X. I DID manage not to buy Fruits Basket 4 and GetBackers 4, so I have some reserve, at least. i read those at the store.

This is perhaps my favourite painting, because it draws out such an urge to write in me - it's by Kandinsky, so different to his later abstract works. I wish I could find a larger version of it online, have to keep looking. >_<;

Lately I have seen too many movies/documentaries that I can't really afford thanks to the Film Festival, including Born into Brothels, a documentary about children growing up in the brothels of Calcutta which was surprisingly funny yet moving, without feeling like it was trying to capitalize on your sympathy; and One Missed Call, Japanese horror/satire which I thought was brilliant, even though the end made the whole cinema go "WHAT THE SHIT?" very loudly. XD Cracked up in so many parts. Am now afraid of ceilings and cupboards, and jars with foetuses (don't ask). Still need to see Tokyo Godfathers.

( AniPuri 144 )

I want to write deep philosophical crack about midgets and Hanamura's clevage and phallic symbols. K, I am going to sleep now. XD

My mum doing the IQ test on tv:
"Wheel A turns clockwise, Wheel B turns anticlockwise, where does the bucket go? ... WHO FUCKING CARES?!"

I love my mother. ♥ I would do the test, but ER's on now.

( Icons, including tenipuri!sims, and screencaps )

Add @ 10:48pm: Gorgeous wallpapers here! I love the X, Angel Sanctuary and Count Cain ones. ♥ So beautiful.

Adorable Hyotei chibis, a photo of my keychain. <3

Finally saw 116-117. EEEE.

Akaya is so evil. He wasn't that evil in the manga! Poor elf. The whole thing with Fuji, An and Tachibana made me laugh so much. WTF was with the grip tape? >_>; Marui is so adorable.

Rarrr, I really need to write Rikkai fic (like Jungle!JaBun <333), but my brain's too stressed to think properly. Once I get my assignments done I'll be able to write, but right now they're completely eating my sanity. Why oh why do they have to be worth so many credits altogether? (just in case I completely lose my mind before the exams and cannot pass, rarr. XD)

lechaco, I LOVE YOUR HAIRCUT. <3! Fucking Javascript wouldn't let me comment. XD I can't wait to see more pics of you as Yukimura! <3

( Drawings )

morphaileffect, happy birthday for yesterday! <3 And thank you for seeding the episode - it didn't finish because my computer was having issues, but there are 2 people seeding at the moment (I think XD) so I'll try and download later.

i am so tempted to write oldpeople!rikkai. i am imagining akaya whacking sanada with a cane, marui sending himself in diabetic arrest due to cake, and yukimura dozing off every 2 seconds in a wheelchair. by some miracle of time and space, they all end up in the same nursing home...

Tried to post this last night, but the internet went ga-ga on me. ::whacks:: I MUST find out what's wrong with it soon. I got tired of angst and fluff, so I wrote gen Rikkai crack. Today must finish 2 drabbles, because from Tuesday I'm busy as hell. Holidays my ass. XD Anyway, enjoy!


He ambled down the corridor, keeping an eye out for Marui; yesterday, the red-haired boy had tried to sell him off to a deranged, overweight third year in exchange for cake. When Akaya had seen that said third year was holding a knife, a fork, and a salt shaker, he sure as hell hadn’t stuck around to see whether or not the rumours of cannibalism were true.

( Akaya's Brilliant Day )

Why are alphabet books so stereotypical? Why not expand a child's vocabulary with such delightful terms as "F" is for "Fedora", and "D" is for "Decaf"?

I think I need a copious amount of sleep. XD Except I need to start my essay on naturalism, which is extremely... well, not difficult, just frustrating, since all the definitions of naturalism on the net and in the library come from the 19th century when it was separate from realism.

My History teacher is from northern England and said that Elizabeth I's Privy Councillors were gobby. What in the name of god is gobby? XD!

It's so amusing reading about the NZ accent - basically, it says we're lazy so we skip letters and make things shorter. Good on us, I say.

Sick today, so got doped up on Panadol and various other medicines and watched Slam Dunk in Cantonese, CNN and the History Channel. W0rd. AniPuri 115 finished downloading, and so I squealed over that for quite a while; Hannah's Inner Mind Dialogue went something like this:

"ChibichibichibichibiOMGSOCUTEEEEEchibichibichibiOMFGGAYLITTLEMIDGETSchibichibi..." etc.

Can't WAIT for 116 and 117. (Translated) RIKKAI LURVE~! *____*

Made two new icons: Ban-chan's Ultimate Gay Top and the Revelation of Yumiko.

I am loving Yagyuu and Niou right now, thanks to this and this. They're such a fascinating pair, because there's so much to investigate into with their switching. Must... not... write... fic... ::chains self to SanaYuki for the time being:: XD!

I LOVE our current English assignment: creative writing. HALLELUJAH! Not only that, but we have so much choice this year (well, four, but that's four times the choices we've had before XD). I'm doing the one where you have to write the first chapter of a novel - seems really interesting.

Slam Dunk is... so... WEIRD. Hanamichi kept head-butting every 2nd person he came across. I think I like Prince of Tennis better - the boys are prettier. >D!

I had such a lazy day today - got up at 12, watched some DVDs, fell asleep outside in my hammock chair, etc. 'Twas very good - I felt so relaxed, which is unusual for me. ^__^ Going shopping tomorrow, with whatever money I still possess - Wild Pair has bloody cheap (well, $50, but that's cheap for them XD) skirts at the moment, and I need new clothes for next year. Watching The Gift at the moment - that movie is bloody weird. Nothing else on.

Ou, I found the best LotR quote in the Sunday Star Times review:

"The film takes an eternity to end, settling on an overly teary-eyed epilogue that should provide enough ammo for anyone who wants to write a thesis titled 'A Ring of Pink: The Homoerotic Overtones of The Return of the King'."

I think I have said enough about gay hobbits for now. XD