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This blog is about to reach it's third year by May 28. The current blog layout is the ninth version. You'll find information about it on the credits section. =)
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...Credits
All images used in this layout were downloaded from Kiseki-net. The layout features the main character of Tactics, Kantarou. The manga and anime is created by Sakura Kinoshita and Kazuko Higashiyama.
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 All the entries below are written by me. Please do not copy or steal anything from this blog without the permission of the owner. Yes, even the edited main picture. The original image can be downloaded from Kiseki-net anyway. Also, all entries are subjected to my personal bias. If you don't like what you read, you may simply leave.
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Book Fair and MCS Trip
Today was quite an adventure. My sister and I went "manga-hopping" at World Trade Center and Makati Cinema Square. It was surprisingly easy to got to WTC. Thank God for orange jeeps. XD There was just a slight problem getting back. XD Most of the jeeps were full since the jeep stop is at Mall of Asia. ^^Our primary purpose was to visit CCHQ's stall. (Many thanks to Khursten for publicizing it. XD) It was a wise choice to get there early since it's already a closing out sale. There were a lot of good stuffs there. Most of the ones I remember are shoujo. XD If you don't mind Japanese tanks, it's a great bargain. All Japanese tanks for 100 each. XD Just don't expect that the volumes will be complete. The only shoujo ones that I noticed that were complete were Pretear and Fun Fun Factory. I bought all the remaining Hanakimi tanks for my cousin. XD I just had to call her on the spot to ask if she wants to buy it. Never mind that she's at work, it's an "urgent call". XD It was really great buy for her. As for us... not so much. We were looking for mangas to scanlate. End up buying two Kaori Yuki one-volume mangas. I did ask my friend to check the web for me to see if they've been scanlated before. He said it's incomplete so we bought it. When we got home, it turned out that both one-volume titles were scanlated completely. =/ Aww... so much for that. ^^ The owner was very nice. =D I wish CCHQ didn't close down. It was the first time I've been to a CCHQ booth. After a little chat, I found out that they closed down not because of the feasibility of the business but because the owners were moving on. One of them got married and had kids. The rest of the siblings live abroad. And her mother needs her to assist in their family business. It was comforting to know that the animanga industry in the country isn't going down. XD After CCHQ, we visited other bigger stalls such Powerbooks, Fully Booked, NBS and A Different Bookstore. Some of them are having a sale on graphic novels too (especially A Different Bookstore - some licensed stuff costs 195 only. XD). Next stop was Makati Cinema Square. We were rather nervous to go as we've never been there before and Makati isn't our turf. *__* Good thing the manong in the jeepney was nice enough to tell us where to stop and what jeep to take next. XD (Okay, just dropping my notes... So it's from Gil Puyat LRT station, jeep to Chino Roces, get down at the Red Ribbon/Isuzu corner, ride the Mantrade jeep to Makati Cinema Square. XD) When we got inside, it was really confusing. We didn't know where the shop is located. Even as we looked around, we couldn't find the shop. The guards didn't even know about JF Animedia. They told me there's no shop by that name there. Part of me wanted to go home. After all, it didn't seem like a clean and friendly place. On the contrary, it looks... rundown. My dad would probably raise eyebrows if he knew we went there. ^^ Even the Tutuban stores were livelier. But I wasn't ready to give up. After all, we went all the way there like lost kittens. T__T Plus, the fact that we have to spend on transportation too. I don't want to go back without a manga to scanlate. So we asked help from Suoh-san and my cousin. With their directions, we finally found the shop. The reason why we couldn't find it is because the shop has no lights-on. It looked like a closed shop, tucked somewhere near the corner. It didn't have a conspicuous sign either. Turns out the shop had a brown-out that week so we had to browse at the manga shelves with a flashlight. ^^;; It has, by far, the biggest selection of "raw" mangas I've ever seen. (If you know somewhere else, drop me a note. =P) Too bad most of the titles were already scanlated. If not, it doesn't suit our taste. But we did end up with a one-volume manga by Hiromu Muto (the mangaka of Never Give Up!/Gambatte!). I'm not sure if it'll be popular. After all, the lack of bishounens is a huge factor to consider. ^^ Lol. So much for that. If you know other shops that offers recent Chinese and Japanese tankoubons, please drop me a line. =D
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3s... Skating, Sickness, Saiunkoku...
I. Feeling sick. T___TI'm down with a cold and cough. Yesterday, I was hoping I would get better today. Guess my wish didn't come true. Hopefully, with plenty of rest tonight, tomorrow's skating activity won't be a let down. After all, it's been ages since I last skated... or attempted to. I'm determined to learn this time. XD Hmm... how many falls and bruises would we end up with? XD II. Tastebud But in the end, I didn't eat as much as I would normally do in a buffet. Blame the flu for it. I didn't get to enjoy the food much either. At first, I could still taste what I ate. The Yang Chow fried rice was surprisingly delicious that evening. =D Come my second serving, all I sensed from the steamed egg dish was bitterness. Eventually, the chicken didn't taste anything. When I bit on the supposedly "sweet" buchi dessert, I knew something was terribly wrong with me. ^^ It's like having zero tastebuds. XD Okay, don't panic. My tastebuds are normal, save for a impaired olfactory sense due to my runny nose. XD I just found the moment funny since it's the first time I experienced something like that. I never thought having a cold would do something as worst as that. XD III.Saiunkoku Monogatari Side Note
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Last Final Exam Season =P
Finally, the speech is over!! >< I felt I was able to deliver it smoothly but I lack gestures. Kind of stiff. XD But anyway, I couldn't think of any good gestures for my topic. What's my topic? Privatization. XD Such a geeky topic. XDJo was supposed to deliver her speech today but she got cut off since there wasn't enough time. We both wished that her speech was today so it would be over. Finals will be next week... I'll write my own to-do list (And as usual, I don't get to follow this. XD): SAT: SUN: MON: TUE-WED: FINALS SCHEDULE: Darn! I hope this will end well and end soon. ^^
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Ze Gakuen Heaven
Now time for the real update. XD Okay, so it's not so real. XD I'm just waiting for my sister to finish her draft so we could watch Gakuen Heaven Ep.12 together. (I could just imagine Jar's reaction. XD) How do I put it... take an overly shoujo story and just change the gender of the main character to a guy. ^^;; I mean it's screaming shoujo plot if it weren't for the fact that the main chara is the guy. I'm shrugging off the yaoi thing but I like to watch it because:a. The hamster segments at the end of every episode are cute. =3 Now what prompted us to try Gakuen Heaven? XD
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La Mesa Ecopark Trip
Last Saturday (actually it was on July 29th. XD), we went to La Mesa Ecopark for a community service. We were asked to trek the forest trail and pick up plastic and non-biodegradable trash. We were given a black trash bag and the rest is up to us to pick up those muddy plastics. It rained the night before so some parts of the trail were muddy and slippery. The trail was nice. It made me miss camping. XD Compared to the 1998 Christmas camp, the hike was a breeze. XD There was only one area that was challenging but it's nothing like the horrible slopes we hiked before (actually slid. XD). I came out pretty clean. XDWhat irked me is that some guys were acting like brats. We picked up lots of trash but they only managed to pick 1/4 the amount we had, yet they were complaining! Talk about wimpy guys! >< But I admire the group of ladies who managed to accumulate more than we did (though I also wonder if they threw in soil and twigs since some of the branches poked out of their plastic). XD Tsk tsk. Those guys should be ashamed of themselves!! Aside from that, I overheard a group of guys saying how Lasallians can't pick up trash, etc, etc. I don't know if they came from other schools or Ecopark staffs. I'm sure they are referring to the wimpy guys I talked about earlier. But it really pissed me off! I wanted to throw the garbage we collected back to their faces and point out that they had the nerve to mock us when they haven't collected anything! >< Gee, why do they always generalize?! Can't they see that not everyone is like those Wimpy Guys? Anyway, we were dismissed early. The COSCA coordinator urged us to try boating. :D At first, I wasn't in the mood for it since I don't know how to row. But when the other groups tried, it seemed fun. ^_^ Lol. They were also rowing in circles and bumping on each other's boats. XD I thought it didn't matter if we knew how or not, what matter more is to have fun with it. XD After all, we were already there. It's not all the time that we have such an opportunity to go boating. XD After much convincing, Adam finally agreed. XD Since the boat can only handle 4 people and we were 5, we decided to split the group to two boats. I went with the two Jo's, while Adam and Ida shared (sweet~). XD We looked like a bunch of newbies at first but we eventually got the basics of it. XD Moving a bit slow, but at least, we were able to navigate where we want to go. XD A hundred bucks for 30 minutes, yet we stayed there for 45 minutes. XD Not a bad deal~ XD
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