Thursday, June 21, 2007
The Story Thus Far
I was blog-shopping when I came across Basuki-senpai's lament about: BAN! JESS! WHERE ARE YOU??? Yep yep. So I was about to post a comment, which turned out to be quite long, and I decided to make an entry myself. Since I'm free and all. MUHAHAHA. So, here are the few reasons why I haven't been online much, or Mapled:
1) Went out with Anita and Jess on the day my exam went kapish. :) We met up and had dinner at Hawker's Cafe because I had a craving for the Teh Tarik there. Turns out the Kon Low Mee I ate there not bad. I just left out all the veggies. LOL. And I remember it got so cold my eyeballs were icing over can??? After the fruitful dinner we got our warm butts off the chairs and made our way to Hoyts to watch Bridge to Terabithia. HOMIGOSH. I bawled my eyes out lah. Really, really hard. Man, it's hard to hold back sobs in a cinema. SIGH. BUT IT WAS SO SAD. And totally not what I had expected. It was THAT much more special and THAT much more meaningful and THAT much more enchanting than Narnia, which, if you ask me, pales in comparison with respect to emotional depth and metaphorical beauty. I have a love/hate relationship with weepy shows. I love that they're always so heart-rendingly and moving, and yet I HATEHATEHATE to feel sad. REALLYREALLYREALLY hate to feel sad. I'm a happy-addict, ok? Sadness and tears and melancholy are just so NOT my thing. I can worry, I can be joyful, I can be angry, I can be emotionless, I can be confused, I can be in awe...I don't even mind nostalgia. I JUST CAN'T STAND BEING SAD.
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Ah. I feel better after that rant. (Maybe I'm just pissed cuz there was this girl who STOLE my fave seat on the tram home. ARGH. LOL.) Basically, I really really LURVE Leslie's sense of style. So Japanese-street-fashion-meets-Western-chic. I can't believe I'm taking fashion tips from a, what, 10-year-old? T^T I went home in a totally dejected state. The fact that my MP3 player was out of GAS made it WORSE. I mean, I could have at least listened to some uplifting music. BUT NO. That was denied me as well. I had to settle for being glad my exam was over. Meh. Ok. I was content with that. HAHA.
2) The next day: Took the time to tidy up my room, from the messy computer desk, to the floor, to the cupboard, to the bed, the store room and finally, the dressing table. ARGH. Took me almost half a day, I swear. And I spent the next half of the day slacking in front of my computer watching SAIUNKOKU MONOGATARI. Oh man it rocks. My top 3 most fave characters are Ryuuki, Ryuuren and Sakujun, in that order. WAHAHAHHAHAHA. That show has so many bishounen, no wonder after every episode my mouth feels dry. *wink*. Oh, and to make matters worse, I got sad because of what happened to Sakujun. WTH. So what if he killed alot of people??? If Shuurei had come into his life earlier, maybe he would have turned out like Ryuuki, who had Seien for company. To be honest, I can't fault Sakujun for wanting to kill his power-hungry family. Even if it was in cold blood. Heck, if I was raised iin a family like that, I'd be corrupted too. What I really admire about Sakujun was that, even after living amongst so much greed and hatred and manipulation and hate, he still managed to learn how to love in the end. And that, my friends, is the greatest achievement of all. Faith, Hope and Love. "...and the greatest of these is Love."
1 Corinthians 13:13.
It's easy to love once you've experienced it, right?
Well, what if you were never loved?
:)
The other characters are easy to explain. I think. I love Ryuuki for being who he is, and for caring so much about Shuurei. I love his "Tamaki-ness" and his maturity, and him putting duty before his personal interests. It's that vulnerability and that strength in him that earns my respect. Shows that you can be weak, and yet strong when your loved ones and country are counting on you. Just the right balance of sensitivity and maturity. :D HAHA. So that's Ryuuki for you. And Ryuuren? OMG. For those of you who know me, I love eccentric, weird and strange stuff. And, well, Ryuuren IS eccentric, weird and strange. Not to mention incredibly hot. I so totally understand why he has to present himself as a lone weirdo. But inside, I know he's just an ordinary guy forced to live up to high expectations and to live under a veil. If ever he reveals his true self, he'd have to assume alot of the Ran family responsibilities, and become enmeshed in power struggles and politics. (Worse still, he'll have to struggle even more because Ran is supposedly a politically-neutral family clan) AHAHAHA. And I love it when he calls Shuurei and Eigetsu his "bosom friends" or "soul friends". LAWL. If you ever asked me what impacted me most about Ryuuren is the phrase he used when Shuurei and Eigetsu drove him out of Brown Province because they didn't want him getting caught up in all the struggles. He said something along the lines of: "But I stayed BECAUSE I wanted to get involved. The only people in the world who can ever take advantage of Ran Ryuuren are my soul friends."
Don't you think he's just too adorable? ^~^
3) Which is today. Went out with the MIRROR queen today. -_-;; Guess who. Bwahahaha. Today was shopping day, haha, and admittedly, we DID shop quite alot. But mostly in the city though, around Jay Jays (bought a Snoopy vintage tee, whee!), Cotton On (bought a long-sleeved top with ribbon, and a white, supersoft scarf), Supre (bought the same short dress as Jess, grey and pink, hontou ni kirei desu!), Deborah K (got three GORGEOUS tops that compliment my broad shoulders, lala~) Jeans West (I said I'd buy that rainbow dress and cute square-collared pink top. And I did. HAHA.) and the socks place in Melbourne Central, where me and mirror"preen"cess bought enough hand socks and a legwarmer to mimick Leslie's style in Terabithia. :D So naughty I know. ;P We bought tickets to Silver Surfer, then ate at Teppansan, where my Teppanyaki noodles WEREN'T AVAILABLE AGAIN. GAH. But we didn't feel like eating big anyway, so ended up eating takoyaki, tempura and yakitori instead.
THOSE OF YOU WHO HAVEN'T WATCHED SILVER SURFER I SAY GO WATCH IT NOW. Or else the Timbuktunian Mafia will come finding you.
Seriously.
The Silver Surfer rocks! <3 I don't know how a bald guy covered in silver manages to look hot. But he IS. Maybe that's because he's, like, in human terms, practically naked? >:O Me and mirrorprincess both hope that there's a Fantastic 4 Part 3. XD AND both of us got high when they started showing the trailer for The Golden Compass. OMGOSHNESS I LOVE THAT PHILLIP PULLMAN SERIES! HAHAHAHA! I DON'T EVEN CARE IF HARRY POTTER ENDS, CUZ THERE WILL STILL BE THE SUBTLE KNIFE AND THE AMBER SPYGLASS! WAhahahhahaha... *maniacal laughter goes on for some time and trails off as people start banging on the door and asking if I need a psychiatrist*
P.S. I told them I didn't.
HAHA. There ends my summary of reasons why I have had no time whatsoever to Maple or be online in general. That makes tomorrow too, because tomorrow is Hana Yori Dango day. :D And Saturday is chores day. So boohoo. I don't think I'll be able to Maple much anyway, considering there's still Blades of Glory to watch, and Transformers and Nancy Drew coming out next Thursday. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH. All the movies I want to watch are coming out in force. And I say...
BRING IT ON, MAN!!!!!!!!!!
...is what I said. Savvy?
10:49 pm
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June 2006